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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 10:10 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
The basics of the new format are:
* Multiple upstream tarballs are supported:
Hi Scott,
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
It's no harder to backport dpkg-dev than it is debhelper; so I think
it really just comes down to what formats the FTP masters (and dear
katie) are prepared to accept.
Are you pushing for this or just seeing what's
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Historically we always wanted to be able to use all the source in the
archive with the tools available in stable. If that policy is still
true you would be able to use the new features by the time edge releases
with the
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 09:18 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
It's no harder to backport dpkg-dev than it is debhelper; so I think
it really just comes down to what formats the FTP masters (and dear
katie) are prepared to
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:20 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Historically we always wanted to be able to use all the source in the
archive with the tools available in stable. If that policy is still
true you would be
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Yes, that's what we mean. The reason is that for various things (e.g.,
buildd, ftp-mastery, ...), we need to be able to manipulate source
packages with the tools in stable. Note, I said manipulate, not
build.
Why
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:50 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Yes, that's what we mean. The reason is that for various things (e.g.,
buildd, ftp-mastery, ...), we need to be able to manipulate source
packages with the
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:50:43AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Yes, that's what we mean. The reason is that for various things (e.g.,
buildd, ftp-mastery, ...), we need to be able to manipulate source
packages with
Scott James Remnant wrote:
Yes, that's what we mean. The reason is that for various things (e.g.,
buildd, ftp-mastery, ...), we need to be able to manipulate source
packages with the tools in stable. Note, I said manipulate, not
build.
Why can't you just install the unstable ones?
For
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:30:07 +0100, Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
That's sadly totally untrue. Either you mean use all the source in
the archive with the DPKG-DEV available in stable -- or it was
utterly violated by all the packages in the sarge period that used
(e.g.)
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
The basics of the new format are:
* Multiple upstream tarballs are supported:
* The Debian Diff may be replaced by the Debian Tar:
* Bzip2 compression is supported as an alternative to gzip.
As a practical matter, how soon will
ma, 2005-06-13 kello 10:10 +0200, Peter Palfrader kirjoitti:
Historically we always wanted to be able to use all the source in the
archive with the tools available in stable. If that policy is still
true you would be able to use the new features by the time edge releases
with the new dpkg.
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:05:56 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
[...]
* The Debian Diff may be replaced by the Debian Tar:
Instead of placing your changes and Debian directory as a patch against
the upstream tarball in a diff.gz, you may instead ship the Debian
directory
On Sunday 12 June 2005 14:05, Scott James Remnant wrote:
The Wig Pen (Format: 2.0) source format is an evolutionary (rather
than revolutionary) change to the current source package format.
Brendan O'Dea's work on providing _unpack_ support has been integrated
into dpkg-source. Support for
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