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.)
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 comp
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
> > > package
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
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".
>
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 wou
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, 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
> > wi
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
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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 supp
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
> d
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, 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,
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
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