On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:38:30PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > However, I have been told that it is no > > > longer allowed to upload binary packages that do not appear in control > > > files of the source package that are claimed to be the source of the > > > uploaded binary package. > > > > It was never allowed. > > I am sure it was (a while ago) but since snapshot.debian.net is busted > is is hard to proove that.
No. The policy always disallowed it. But dak don't reject it. > > > a way to tell FTP management: packages of that kind are okay and they > > > shall be removed when the following package disappears: ... Maybe a new > > > field? Eg. > > > > > > GenPkgBaseName: unionfs-module- > > > > How should that work? It needs the information which packages are built > > and which are not. Which this proposal you will end with many > > not-longer-built packages. > > This is the other side of the medal, yes. I cannot see any other > efficient ways now, I guess you do but you don't care to tell. You can't without generating a proper control file. > > > Any better ideas? > > > > Yes, let us finish our work. > > Is that's all? No shit, I miss "STFU and let us alone in our sandbox" > for the perfect satisfaction. :-( You can try to understand the existing code, that is no question. It is located in the kernel repository in /dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/{lib,modules} or in the linux-headers-2.6.1[56] package. Bastian -- If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still tend to protect that child. -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
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