Bug#888964: architecture.mk: Export variables

2018-01-31 Thread Jack Bates
Package: dpkg-dev Tags: patch The dpkg-architecture(1) manpage claims that architecture.mk "sets and exports all the variables" but in practice this isn't the case. Here's a change that fixes that [1]: > diff --git a/scripts/mk/architecture.mk b/scripts/mk/architecture.mk > index

Bug#440973: dpkg-scanpackages.1.gz: bzip2 vs. gzip

2007-09-05 Thread Jack Bates
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.5 Severity: minor The dpkg-scanpackages manpage notes: Note: If you want to access the generated Packages file with apt you will probably need to compress the file with gzip(1) (generating a Packages.gz file). apt ignores