Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:19:46PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > It's quite obvious now, wrt this bug and bug#84067, that policy is not > right on symlinks; absolute symlinks should be allowed, because otherwise > people with different filesystem hierarchies will have things break, > and other boundary

Re: NMU??

2001-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Please help me clarify one thing. > if name in changelog != name in control file: > upload is NMU Which one should be the name of real "Maintainer"? changelog name in .dsc file. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:19:46PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > It's quite obvious now, wrt this bug and bug#84067, that policy is not > right on symlinks; absolute symlinks should be allowed, because otherwise > people with different filesystem hierarchies will have things break, > and other boundary

Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:13:44PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote: > I think I must maintain relative symlinks (otherwise I would be against > debian policy 11.5), however skilled feedback would be wellcomed. [...] > The files in /usr/share/glade/gnome are symlinks to corresponding files in > /usr

Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
Hi, I've just received this bug. I think I must maintain relative symlinks (otherwise I would be against debian policy 11.5), however skilled feedback would be wellcomed. Thanks in advance, - Forwarded message from Martin Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:11:36 +

Feedback on hfsplus package

2001-03-18 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I've packaged hfsplus, a set of tools to access volumes containing Apple Computer's file system HFS+, and would very much appreciate constructive criticism on what I've done. The package can be found at deb-src http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main Thanks in advance

Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:13:44PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote: > I think I must maintain relative symlinks (otherwise I would be against > debian policy 11.5), however skilled feedback would be wellcomed. [...] > The files in /usr/share/glade/gnome are symlinks to corresponding files in > /us

Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
Hi, I've just received this bug. I think I must maintain relative symlinks (otherwise I would be against debian policy 11.5), however skilled feedback would be wellcomed. Thanks in advance, - Forwarded message from Martin Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:11:36

Re: finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Chris Danis
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:11:47 +0100 Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote: [...] > > So I wondered if I could somehow find out if the user is upgrading > > from a version before this upstream version, and issue a message > >

Feedback on hfsplus package

2001-03-18 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I've packaged hfsplus, a set of tools to access volumes containing Apple Computer's file system HFS+, and would very much appreciate constructive criticism on what I've done. The package can be found at deb-src http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main Thanks in advance

Re: finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version > of a package was from postinst? > > What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream > version, and they replaced a good deal of config

finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Hi, I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version of a package was from postinst? What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream version, and they replaced a good deal of configuration options with different ones. It is both impossible to automatically c

Re: finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Chris Danis
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:11:47 +0100 Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote: [...] > > So I wondered if I could somehow find out if the user is upgrading > > from a version before this upstream version, and issue a message >

Re: finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version > of a package was from postinst? > > What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream > version, and they replaced a good deal of confi

finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Hi, I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version of a package was from postinst? What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream version, and they replaced a good deal of configuration options with different ones. It is both impossible to automatically