Unblock request for dpkg 1.14.19

2008-05-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Luk Claes wrote: > > - some bugfixes (example: #476113) > > (we can work with a RM/RA to see if a given bugfix is ok) > > Did see the diff of all the changes in the mean time. This one looks ok > to include in the upload. [...] > > - and one particular design change in t

Remaining triggers changes in Ubuntu

2008-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
I recently finished off the merge of dpkg 1.14.18 into Ubuntu (yes, I know, I should also merge 1.14.19, but I was already part-way through this and it was easier to do that as a separate step). I went through the entire merge line-by-line, with some assistance from Ian on IRC at one point. Here ar

Sentence handling in manual pages

2008-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
I happened to notice this chunk in the diff from 1.14.18 to 1.14.19: -Specifies that the package is interested in the named trigger. -All triggers in which a package is interested must be listed using -this directive in the triggers control file. +Specifies that the package is interested i

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > >> If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure that the > >> changes which autotools makes are reverted in the clean target.

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Lots of other packages do this -- one of mine off the top of my head is >> xml-security-c. > Nope. No mention of aclocal.m4 in debian/rules for that package, > just /usr/share/misc/config.guess a