On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:57:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> > The dpkg-iasearch package used to contain a program called dpkg-query.
> > When the dpkg maintainers added a program with the same name, the
> > dpkg-iasearch maintainer renamed his file, without worrying about
> > 'seniority'. I t
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 05:47:23PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > Anyway, this discussion is superfluous too, as the dpkg maintainers have
> > already decided to move over to the C, GNU version in the future. (See
> > debian-dpkg list archives for details.)
>
> We have?
I remember you saying so you
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Anyway, this discussion is superfluous too, as the dpkg maintainers have
> already decided to move over to the C, GNU version in the future. (See
> debian-dpkg list archives for details.)
We have?
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:57:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Anyway, this discussion is superfluous too, as the dpkg maintainers have
> already decided to move over to the C, GNU version in the future. (See
> debian-dpkg list archives for details.)
I am pleased to hear this.
-M-
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:40:02PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> > As it has been pointed out hundreds of times, it is GNU that distributes a
> > program under then name 'install-info' which is incompatible with the dpkg
> > version. :)
> >
> > (The version in dpkg has seniority.)
>
> It's no
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:19:26PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> As it has been pointed out hundreds of times, it is GNU that distributes a
> program under then name 'install-info' which is incompatible with the dpkg
> version. :)
>
> (The version in dpkg has seniority.)
It's not a matter of senior
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> > I am wondering if we aren't violating the spirit if not the letter of
> > LSB by using a non-standard version of install-info.
>
> While of course the LSB says nothing about install-info, the fact that
> Debian distributes a pr
> I am wondering if we aren't violating the spirit if not the letter of
> LSB by using a non-standard version of install-info.
While of course the LSB says nothing about install-info, the fact that
Debian distributes a program under the name 'install-info' which is
incompatible with the GNU versio
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Has there ever been any discussion of the binary
> /usr/sbin/install-info in terms of the Linux Standard
> Base? I ask because dpkg is providing a perl based
> version of this utility whereas all other distros
> appear to be using binary only version.
Has there ever been any discussion of the binary
/usr/sbin/install-info in terms of the Linux Standard
Base? I ask because dpkg is providing a perl based
version of this utility whereas all other distros
appear to be using binary only version. This came up
because the regex in perl 5.80 is bugg
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