Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060610 03:11]: > * Margarita Manterola [Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:35:54 -0300]: > > > So, in any case, I'd encourage you to patch dpkg to handle a new > > "Homepage" field, and submit the patch. Once this is being used by a > > big number of packages, you might brin

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Margarita Manterola [Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:35:54 -0300]: > So, in any case, I'd encourage you to patch dpkg to handle a new > "Homepage" field, and submit the patch. Once this is being used by a > big number of packages, you might bring this up again. > I'd really like to have the Homepage field

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pe, 2006-06-09 kello 22:04 +0200, Bill Allombert kirjoitti: >> Sometimes, the changelog will tell you the package was last changed 3 >> month ago while actually it was changed yesterday and build and uploaded >> today. This can lead you to go on a wild-

Bug#372522: debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character" should be "'.' character"

2006-06-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.0 Severity: normal In section 9.1.1 under the second (2) bullet there is a typo regarding dot files. It reads: "such files start with the '..' character" and should read: "such files start with the '.' character" -- System Information: Debian Release: te

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-06-09 kello 22:04 +0200, Bill Allombert kirjoitti: > Sometimes, the changelog will tell you the package was last changed 3 > month ago while actually it was changed yesterday and build and uploaded > today. This can lead you to go on a wild-goose chase if you do not know > about the proble

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:50:37PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: >> > > Date: [...] Talk to the dpkg maintainers-- >> > >

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:50:37PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > > Date: [...] Talk to the dpkg maintainers-- > > > they're free to implement this feature if they wan

Bug#372497: debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53

2006-06-09 Thread Jordà Polo
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.0 Severity: minor There is a minor typo in footnote 53[1] (or section 10.2, footnote 1). -Position independent code may have s performance penalty +Position independent code may have a performance penalty 1. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footno

Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

2006-06-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Kai Hendry wrote: > I have two ideas that I would like to see in Debian. > > Two extra fields that show up in /var/lib/dpkg/available That won't be accepted. There are many other fields which I would like to have but which won't be integrated. That's why we need that: http:/