Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-20T09:39:42+0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 11:00:20 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The former. You'll never see a C library interface manpage with > > double-colons in the name, and C++ programmers never write manpages > > because

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-09T03:57:01+0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 19:27:55 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > The implementation in dpkg-dev already supports all of this > > >

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-03-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > The implementation in dpkg-dev already supports all of this > (see man Dpkg::Changelog::Debian), including: Section 3 manpages for Perl modules? Will wonders never cease? ;-) Thanks--I was utterly unaware of this. > So I guess yo

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-03-23 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.23 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz I believe that, as a general rule, all human-readable, human-editable, machine-parseable file formats should support a comment syntax. Debian changelogs meet these criteria. My use case is simply t

Bug#153305: Info received (was [DPKG] doesn't pass --admindir and --root to dpkg-query)

2006-01-24 Thread Branden Robinson
Sigh. Patch really attached this time. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C | 72E8 0F42 191A 9C0B CBFB Index: dpkg/branches/dpkg-opensolaris/src

Bug#153305: [DPKG] doesn't pass --admindir and --root to dpkg-query

2006-01-24 Thread Branden Robinson
easier reading. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to further improve this patch. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C | 72E8 0F42 191A 9