Re: Where to mount a temporary partition in scripts?

2007-03-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 12:49:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: If I were you, I'd document in README.Debian how the administrator can mount the images in /xen (or perhaps /srv/xen) and perhaps provide some configuration that

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which would only touch the debian directory, instead of containing a mixture of packaging instructions, code changes,

RFS: dfu-programmer

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Straw
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dfu-programmer. * Package name: dfu-programmer Version : 0.4.0-1 Upstream Author : Weston Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://dfu-programmer.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Section : devel

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Matthias, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which would only touch the debian directory, instead of

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:19:28PM -0400, Matthias Julius a écrit : If nothing in the diff.gz touches files outside of debian there is actually no need for it to be a diff. It could be debian.tar.gz which would be able to preserve file permissions and symlinks. I think that it would be