On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:48:48 +1200
Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mar 08/07/2003 ? 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a ?crit :
> > > > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > > > item.
> > > >
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:46:49PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > This change wouldn't break the format or anything; it would only add some
> > additional text to the Changes: field. Surely no programs depend on the
> > _content_ of that field, do they?
>
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:11:46PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > I filed a wishlist bug about this quite a long time ago (#95579), but
> > > got no response.
> >
> > Hmm, maybe a library(perl) that gives a
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:11:46PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I filed a wishlist bug about this quite a long time ago (#95579), but
> > got no response.
>
> Hmm, maybe a library(perl) that gives all this information would be
> useful. Modifying the t
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > One nice thing about using standard changelog format is that if someone
> > wants to they could add another format, specialised for news
> > information, and another parser in /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/. Of
> > course apt-listchanges does its own pa
I demand that Branden Robinson may or may not have written...
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
>> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
>> regular changelog entr
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:48:48PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mar 08/07/2003 ? 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a ?crit :
> > > > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > > > item.
> > > >
> > > > Tha
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mar 08/07/2003 ? 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a ?crit :
> > > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > > item.
> > >
> > > That wud be well c00l.
> >
> > As I recall, part of the idea of NEWS.Debian w
Le mar 08/07/2003 à 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > item.
> >
> > That wud be well c00l.
>
> As I recall, part of the idea of NEWS.Debian was to prevent having this kind
> of information end up as debconf notes.
But so
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:30:27PM +0100, Paul Hedderly wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> > NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> > regular changelog
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
> to only display
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:01:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Is there any particular reason to keep the "unstable; urgency=low"
> > there? It's duplication of information in the changelog, and nearly
> > every developer will probably forget to change the information
Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Is there any particular reason to keep the "unstable; urgency=low"
> there? It's duplication of information in the changelog, and nearly
> every developer will probably forget to change the information in
> NEWS.Debian when they change the urgency or distribution in ch
On Sun Jul 06, 04:58pm -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > Would this work just as well?
> > > [example without distribution and urgency]
> >
> > It would wo
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Would this work just as well?
> > [example without distribution and urgency]
>
> It would work just as well. The changelog format was used unmodified for
> p
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 06:01, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > The file format is the same as a debian changelog file, but we leave off the
> > asterisks generally, and use bigger paragraphs explaining news items when
> > necessary. It m
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 06:01, Joey Hess wrote:
> The file format is the same as a debian changelog file, but we leave off the
> asterisks generally, and use bigger paragraphs explaining news items when
> necessary. It might be a good idea to run your file through
> dpkg-parsechangelog to check its
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
> to only display
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 04:02 AM, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
wrote:
Just curious: why not NEWS.gz for native packages?
It's prohibitively difficult to detect whether any given file is in
debian changelog format.
NEWS[.gz] exists in many packages already, and is of no particular
format
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
THANK YOU guys! I will add NEWS support to my packages (and backport
apt-listchanges to stable, see people.debi
Thanks a lot, this is great!
On Friday 04 July 2003 10:02, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> Is it reasonable to think about some sort of localizzation support for NEWS
> file? Changes documented there might be worthy of translation.
Not about i18n, really, but please at least specify from
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
> to only display
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