Bug#619131: dpkg: new field in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> The argument of saving something in terms of sizes is not much >> convincing to me, looking at the usual size of stuff we are dealing with >> anyways. A few more lines of text dont seem to matter, imo. It is also >> easier to work with them in shell scripts. > The size of the individual .dsc is

Bug#619131: dpkg: new field in .dsc

2011-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: normal Heyho, we want a new field to be put into .dsc files please. This should be a list of all "override" entries for this package. That is, a list consisting of every single binary and one line for the source package itself. The list should be handled

Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have > a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free > files from our users without stripping them from the original tarball. This doesnt sound useful for non-free files, at least not if you want your