Simon Richter s...@debian.org writes:
Hi,
I think that we should be aiming towards descriptive domain-specific
languages rather than imperative catch-all ones wherever possible. In
the old days before debhelper, the rules file would explicitly move
files around, and I think .install files
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove
files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files):
No. The files must be legal to be included. They are distributed in the
tarball after all. So deleting or not deleting
Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove
files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files):
That was my point. Legally we CAN use those files. But we don't WANT to
use them for DFSG reasons.
I think we are in vigorous agreement, but your tone makes me hesitate.
Let
On Wed, Aug 25 2010, Ian Jackson wrote:
Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove
files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files):
That was my point. Legally we CAN use those files. But we don't WANT to
use them for DFSG reasons.
I think we are in vigorous
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@ieee.org writes:
On Wed, Aug 25 2010, Ian Jackson wrote:
Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove
files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files):
That was my point. Legally we CAN use those files. But we don't WANT to
use them
David Claughton d...@eclecticdave.com writes:
On 18/08/10 09:29, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
David Claughton d...@eclecticdave.com writes:
On 13/08/10 17:58, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to
Hi,
I think that we should be aiming towards descriptive domain-specific
languages rather than imperative catch-all ones wherever possible. In
the old days before debhelper, the rules file would explicitly move
files around, and I think .install files are a huge step forward. I'd
also like to see
Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove
files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files):
No. The files must be legal to be included. They are distributed in the
tarball after all. So deleting or not deleting makes absolutely no
difference to ftp-master. This only
On 19/08/10 07:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
David Claughton d...@eclecticdave.com writes:
Legally that should be the same. And practically you would have the
useless files on the initial source unpack but they would be gone when
debian/rules is invoked the first time. dpkg-source -x could
* David Claughton [2010-08-15 01:33 +0100]:
Another use-case might be to remove convenience copies of system
libraries. Might be useful (e.g. for security reasons) to be able to
guarantee that this code isn't being accidentally used by a build (in
a way that can be easily checked by a
David Claughton d...@eclecticdave.com writes:
On 13/08/10 17:58, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
files from our
On 18/08/10 09:29, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
David Claughton d...@eclecticdave.com writes:
On 13/08/10 17:58, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:01:34PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:58:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
files from our users without stripping them from the
On 13/08/10 17:58, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
files from our users without stripping them from the original
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.15.8
Severity: wishlist
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
files from our users without stripping them from the original tarball.
I also prefer this
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
files from our users without stripping them from the original tarball.
I also prefer this approach over
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:58:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
files from our users without stripping them
Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have
a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free
files from our users without stripping them from the original tarball.
I also
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