Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One has to prove they can follow the current standard, before attempting to > change. I got the impression that what you say here is exactly the problem: It is impossible to follow the current standards, because the Hurd is different. Requireing Debian GNU/H

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope you aren't tarring everyone with the same brush. Some of us are > quite happy to take good patches no matter where they come from, and try > to cooperate as best we can with people who are following different > interests within Debian. I'm sure there

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > I hope you aren't tarring everyone with the same brush. Some of us are > quite happy to take good patches no matter where they come from, and try > to cooperate as best we can with people who are following different > interests within Debian. I'm sure the

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:24:39AM +0200, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hurd does not exist alone in the universe, it exists alongside debian. > > True. But for most people in Debian, the Hurd doesn't exist at all and > they "don't feel like caring about the

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 18 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > True. But for most people in Debian, the Hurd doesn't exist at all and > they "don't feel like caring about the Hurd". That is not only my > subjective impression, but also what Debian developers said in the past > (and some did behave a

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hurd does not exist alone in the universe, it exists alongside debian. True. But for most people in Debian, the Hurd doesn't exist at all and they "don't feel like caring about the Hurd". That is not only my subjective impression, but also what Debian develo

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:51:02PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > A few weeks ago I uploaded new packes to ftp-master, i.e. horde2, turba and > > imp3. They were accepted into the archive but tagged as new. They still do > > not show up although the

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:51:02PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > A few weeks ago I uploaded new packes to ftp-master, i.e. horde2, turba and > imp3. They were accepted into the archive but tagged as new. They still do > not show up although the confirmation message I got say the override file > w

Re: tar converts simlinks to directories

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:13:42PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > You could try -k. > Thanks, I'll use -k to untar manualy. Still don't figure out how does dpkg to untar well, since it doesn't use -k (or at least it doesn't seem to me) but it doesn't matter since the problem was dpkg crashing so