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Package: dpkg-repack
Version: 1.8
Severity: wishlist
dpkg-repack is a fantastic tool! Thanks a lot for providing it.
I think it suffers from one major problem though -- it does not
update the version number and is thus limited to very small-scale
distribution, and not suitable for automatic updates.
You are already adding a note to the package description, which is
good. Could you also make it bump up the version number? I suggest
by appending something like ".${IDSTR}.1" to the version number, or
increasing the last digit, if the version number already contains
the ${IDSTR}. I would make IDSTR=repacked the default. The
corresponding changelog entry could then state something similar to
the package description, or even list the changed files if the
package contains a md5sums file.
Thanks for your consideration.
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Hi!
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:12:19 -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> martin f krafft wrote:
> > dpkg-repack is a fantastic tool! Thanks a lot for providing it.
> > I think it suffers from one major problem though -- it does not
> > update the version number and is thus limited to very small-scale
> > distribution, and not suitable for automatic updates.
> >
> > You are already adding a note to the package description, which is
> > good. Could you also make it bump up the version number? I suggest
> > by appending something like ".${IDSTR}.1" to the version number, or
> > increasing the last digit, if the version number already contains
> > the ${IDSTR}. I would make IDSTR=repacked the default. The
> > corresponding changelog entry could then state something similar to
> > the package description, or even list the changed files if the
> > package contains a md5sums file.
>
> Changing the version number could procude prolems in the
> case where the package was a tightly versioned dependency.
>
> I don't know what you're trying to do with dpkg-repack, but I suspect
> it's not what it was designed for.
Indeed, I don't think this is a good idea. In any case dpkg-repack has
the --generate option that can be used to do any mangling desired
before running dpkg-deb. So I don't see the need to extend it further.
Closing this now.
Thanks,
Guillem
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