Previously Joey Hess wrote: > While your API will allow for things like ucf (or aptitude) to use the > same DB as dpkg does for managing config files, it does not allow dpkg's > conffile prompting interface to be replaced.
Which is an orthogonal issue, but indeed one that should also be addressed. > > + since we can now have an arbitrary number of files for a package > > we can longer distribute it as seperate .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz and > > .dsc but we will have to put it in real package format. This > > should be either files in a ar archive like the deb format, or > > (my preference) a tar file. > > This has the potential to make it impossible for some of us to continue > maintaining certian source packages, because we do not have enormous > amounts of bandwidth. I'm not sure what exactly your problem is. If you maintain sources you will most likely use a source control system (cvs/svn/arch/bk/etc.) instead of downloading packaged sources. If you want to mirror sources you are likely to already have reasonable bandwidth already or you will need a smarter mirror tool. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
