On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:01:47 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:09:19AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> So, I suspsect that I crafted the modemu changelog manually and had >> either a braino or a typo. > Common in those days, ISTR. It predates dch (from devscripts); I think > the only alternative was the changelog mode for emacs. > It's amazing how little things like dch (and all of devscripts in > fact) make maintaining packages so much easier. Our newer maintainers > might be horrified to hear that we didn't have build-depends back > then; the dpkg changelog shows they were added Christmas day (!) > 1999. And apt was only created in 1998. Actually, debian/changelog was not a requirement when I first created packages for Debian. There was also no requirement for submitting a key into the keyring. And not dpkg-buldpackage. manoj -- "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." A member of the Algonquin Round Table Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]