On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 08:04:24AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'd like to request a hint for dpkg 1.13.24,
Hint added. > Regarding the next and supposedly last dpkg upload before the release, > I'd like to ask for permission to include two patches, in addition to > the l10n and documentation fixes. > The first patch is the one from Brendan O'Dea, that I reverted prior > to uploading .23. > * Require POSIX inside subprocerr in controllib.pl. Closes: #390636 > The other one is to add lzma uncompressing support to dpkg and dpkg-dev, > so that the archive can start accepting this kind of packages for lenny, > otherwise we'd have to wait until lenny+1. I've been reluctant to > add this, as the lzma's CLI was not compatible with gzip, which is now > fixed and because supposedly the file format was going to change and > it was not clear if backwards compatibility would be preserved, > upstream clarified to me that the new versions are going to be able > to extract the old format. > * Support extracting lzma compressed source and binary packages, > and add a Suggests on package lzma. Closes: #347715 > I've produced a patch for apt as well. Michael, would you accept it? > and RMs would an apt upload be fine as well for this? This doesn't sound disruptive to me, so that should be fine. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
