Re: Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-05-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> On 7 May 1998, Falk Hueffner wrote: Dale> Whithout meaning to sound too negative, I want to caution Dale> against such patch and fill design. Ian J. worked very hard (and Dale> was very successful in my opinion) to design the current

Re: Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-05-07 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, May 7, 1998 10:38 am -0400 "Dale Scheetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WRT [Falk's] suggestion above, I don't think that developers can/should edit > the .dsc file (its check sum is computed by dpkg and provided in the > changes file for dinstall to verify the components). > > The corr

Re: Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-05-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 7 May 1998, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It would be a great idea to have source dependencies. I compile all > > sources on my debian mirror and most fail because of missing > > files. One then has to search the package and install that before > > compilin

Re: Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-05-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be a great idea to have source dependencies. I compile all > sources on my debian mirror and most fail because of missing > files. One then has to search the package and install that before > compiling again. A very simple way to improve in this ar

Re: Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-05-07 Thread Brederlow
Here are my thoughts: "Jules Bean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 1:57 pm -0400 "Dale Scheetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Keep source in Source Format and use the .deb files for what they were > > intended, the distribution of "binary" components. > > I have little d

Re: Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)

1998-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > [ ... ] > Any thoughts? Very nice... but *not for hamm*, as I said in my first mail. I was just talking about *hamm*, the distribution that will not change anymore once it will be released soon. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE