Re: architecture alias and disto rebuild

2005-09-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO, it's like if you say: "sometimes we move files around packages > but forget to add the proper replaces field; as this annoys our users, > let's make dpkg silently overwrite moved files". > > Cheers, Which is the default for stable: % cat

Re: architecture alias and disto rebuild

2005-09-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Debian developers, > > Some distributions/people rebuild a lot of Debian packages from Debian > source while making no change to the source. While this is technically > a binNMU they seldom bother to bump the version, which lead to two debs > file

Re: architecture alias and disto rebuild

2005-09-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bill Allombert [Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:39:36 +0200]: > > So I propose a alternate solution: > > > If the distro foobar rebuild packages on i386, they could use > > i386foobar as architecture name instead of i386, this way every

Re: architecture alias and disto rebuild

2005-09-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bill Allombert [Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:39:36 +0200]: > Some distributions/people rebuild a lot of Debian packages from Debian > source while making no change to the source. While this is technically > a binNMU they seldom bother to bump the version, which lead to two debs > files with different con

architecture alias and disto rebuild

2005-09-12 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian developers, Some distributions/people rebuild a lot of Debian packages from Debian source while making no change to the source. While this is technically a binNMU they seldom bother to bump the version, which lead to two debs files with different content (if they are built with a diff