Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) multiarch has a problem with changelogs in library packages. It must be possible to insall libc6:i386 and

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-10 Thread Matthias Julius
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) multiarch has a problem with changelogs in library packages. It must be possible to insall libc6:i386 and libc6:amd64. If both contain

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1/2/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-09 Thread Matthias Julius
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) multiarch has a problem with changelogs in library packages. It must be possible to insall libc6:i386 and libc6:amd64. If both contain /usr/share/doc/libc6/changelog then that gives a file conflict in dpkg. Having the changelog in libc6-common

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) multiarch has a problem with changelogs in library packages. It must be possible to insall libc6:i386 and libc6:amd64. If both contain /usr/share/doc/libc6/changelog then that gives a file conflict in

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/2/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not have an extra /usr/share/doc/$source-name directory

Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not have symlinks in place of these and perhaps an extra /usr/share/doc directory named the same as the source package in case a binary package of the same name

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not have symlinks in place of these and perhaps an extra /usr/share/doc directory named

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not have symlinks in place of these and perhaps

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not have symlinks in place of these

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and upstream) in binary

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not have an extra /usr/share/doc/$source-name directory in case a binary package of the same name doesn't exist or