Bug#595954: dpkg-source: allow (new|modified) symlinks in upstream files to be stored in debian.tar.gz

Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.4 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if the debian.tar.gz tarball of a 3.0 (quilt) source package could contain symlinks setup in the uptsream files. A useful case would be for example to provide a non-versioned name when a supplementary tarball embeds a version

Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

Hello, I would like to second this patch as ARM porter. Cheers, -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- Day DVB-T stop working nicely Video flare: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100510.html sig

Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

Hi all, I really would like to know the stance of the dpkg maintainers regarding the armhf dpkg patch. I have a ton of armhf patches that I'm waiting to file as bug reports, but without the dpkg patch, those patches would be useless, so I'm holding back, but that in the meantime increases the