Re: using testing/stable/unstable names with cdebootstrap

2007-10-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a reason to not use stable/testing/unstable as the names in > config/suites file ? > Currently it only has code names like etch/lenny/sid. Code names are stable over time, but "testing" refers to a different distribution now than it did two

Re: Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

2007-10-06 Thread Brian May
> "Kevin" == Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> How is this different from 'nohup' or screen? Answer is on the website, quoted: === cut === When Slashdot found out about detach, ScriptedReplay asked why one would use detach, instead of nohup, which comes with the system. The

Re: Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:38:12AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Package name: detach > Version: 0.2.3-1 > Upstream Author: Robbert Haarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL: http://inglorion.net/software

Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

2007-10-06 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: detach Version: 0.2.3-1 Upstream Author: Robbert Haarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://inglorion.net/software/detach/ Description: This command forks a new process, detaches it from the terminal

using testing/stable/unstable names with cdebootstrap

2007-10-06 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, Is there a reason to not use stable/testing/unstable as the names in config/suites file ? Currently it only has code names like etch/lenny/sid. Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a

dpkg-substvars

2007-10-06 Thread Magnus Holmgren
If I'm not mistaken, there is no standard way of getting the value of just a single arbitrary substitution variable, such as ${source:Upstream-Version}. Consequently, countless of debian/rules and other scripts reinvent the wheel using dpkg-parsechangelog together with slightly varying sed progr

Re: Bug#444021: ITP/RFP: sugar

2007-10-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 02 October 2007 13:32, Xavier Oswald wrote: > I will help you to co-maintain this package. Great. > Otherwise, I have asked to open an OLPC project on alioth and thus we could > use it for maintaining OLPC related packages together.. I was actually more thinking about using the d

Re: pristine tarball generator

2007-10-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:38:54PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > There's also --rsyncable which is appears mostly (if not only) on Debian > > and unfortunately can't be figured out from the headers. > > > Multipart gzips would also not

Re: pristine tarball generator

2007-10-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:38:54PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > There's also --rsyncable which is appears mostly (if not only) on Debian > and unfortunately can't be figured out from the headers. > Multipart gzips would also not work even though I haven't yet find any. Both these are cases wh