Re: Roadmap for the 1.15.x series

2009-08-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Guillem Jover | * Extend conffile support, merge back ucf: | | - Store conffiles at install time. | http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Proposals/ConffileDatabase | - Support registering configuration files. Could we add support for registering arbitrary files? Quite a few packages

Re: Roadmap for the 1.15.x series

2009-08-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: Some of those items should be done for squeeze or we'll need to wait for a new release cycle before being able to use them fully (like multiarch and the conffile support), others could get postponed if squeeze gets an early freeze. So please do

Bug#542149: dpkg: please use “xz --format=lzma” instead of “lzma” when available

2009-08-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! Switching the support from lzma to xz has been on my radar for some time, but given that the tools and library in unstable didn't seem to be ready, and the ones which seemed to were in experimental, I had not yet looked into writting the code. I'm also leaving for the weekend so I'll review