Re: Evaluation (Re: Proposal: A new approach to differential debs)

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:21:09AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > firefox (size & performance): > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jak jak 2.3M Aug 15 20:59 firefox_55.0-1_55.0-2_amd64.debdelta > -rw-r--r-- 1 jak jak 2.4M Aug 15 22:13 firefox_55.0-1_55.0-2_amd64.pdeb > -rw-r--r-- 1 jak jak 7.4M Aug 15 22:36

Re: A radically different proposal for differential updates

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:26:24AM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I've come to believe that binary diff packages are not the best way of > > solving this issue. Intead I'd like to propse a radically differ

Providing polkit policy for update-alternatives?

[ Please CC me and/or CC galternati...@packages.debian.org, thanks ] Hello dpkg people, I am currently working on Debian package "galternatives" [1], the graphical front-end to the update-alternatives program which is shipped by dpkg package. It seems that some actions in /usr/bin/update-altern

Re: Upstream Tarball Signature Files

Guillem, On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 20:26:41 -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > > Also, where signature files are desired, I think it would be beneficial > to > > also accept binary ".sig" files... > > There is no need for that, you can convert f