Hi,
Raphaël Hertzog writes:
> We should thus modify the policy to say:
> [...]
> 3/ that programs that want to retrieve the changelog and/or copyright
>file of a .deb file should use dpkg-deb -I
>" (or look for the changelog/copyright file in
>the directory extracted with dpkg-deb -e
Raphaël Hertzog (12/07/2012):
> Additionnaly it also solves a problem that we have with multi-arch
> same packages and bin-nmu. Such a bin-nmu means that the changelog
> on the bin-nmued architecture will be different from the other
> arches and the package is thus no longer co-installable.
When
Guillem Jover writes:
> Also although my initial motivation was to solve the binNMU+multiarch
> case, I consider it now it's a worthwhile change by itself, regardless
> of how the binNMU+multiarch problem ends up being solved.
I'm inclined to agree, particularly with an eye to the whole doc dire
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 23:29:48 +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> * Raphael Hertzog [2012-07-13 09:00 +0200]:
> > Guillem introduced the --control-list and --control-show interfaces …
> >
> > If … , we should IMO create a new package that will hook into dpkg
> > --post-invoke and …
> >
> > … should create
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:00:59 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> In any case, I believe we should create dpkg --changelog
> and dpkg --copyright as the canonical end-user interface.
I've mentioned this several times now, I've something similar to that
alreadyd implemented locally. I just didn't incl
Le Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 08:46:03AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog a écrit :
> We should thus modify the policy to say:
>
> 1/ that the changelog and copyright files ought to be installed in the
>DEBIAN directory along with the other control files
>
>(this will require changes in dh_installdocs an
* Raphael Hertzog [2012-07-13 09:00 +0200]:
> Guillem introduced the --control-list and --control-show interfaces …
>
> If … , we should IMO create a new package that will hook into dpkg
> --post-invoke and …
>
> … should create dpkg --changelog and dpkg --copyright …
[epoch:]upstream_version[-deb
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
> HOWEVER, I think putting those files in a clear place on the file system
> so that they can be easily read via a pager by the end user without using
> dpkg-query commands is not only mandatory for the transition period but
> mandatory permanently. I would
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>Hi,
>
> * Raphaël Hertzog [2012-07-12 08:46:03 CEST]:
> > Both the changelog and the copyright files are stored with a package's
> > normal data (within data.tar in the .deb) but they are really package
> > metadata (that should be part of control.t
Hello,
Gerfried Fuchs (12/07/2012):
> Well, that's debian-release, not debian-devel. Thanks for the pointer
> though!
dd@ and dr@ got most of those mails. I count 32 of them to dd@. (One can
see dd@ in To on the link Thomas gave.)
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* Thomas Preud'homme [2012-07-12 17:59:19 CEST]:
> Le jeudi 12 juillet 2012 17:09:46, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit :
> > Did I miss a thread on debian-devel about this?
>
> There was a thread indeed. See this one:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/06/msg00232.html
Well, that's debian-rel
Le jeudi 12 juillet 2012 17:09:46, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit :
>
> Did I miss a thread on debian-devel about this?
There was a thread indeed. See this one:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/06/msg00232.html
Best regards,
Thomas Preud'homme
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Raphaël Hertzog writes:
> We should thus modify the policy to say:
> 1/ that the changelog and copyright files ought to be installed in the
>DEBIAN directory along with the other control files
>(this will require changes in dh_installdocs and dh_installchangelogs)
> 2/ that programs th
Hi,
* Raphaël Hertzog [2012-07-12 08:46:03 CEST]:
> Both the changelog and the copyright files are stored with a package's
> normal data (within data.tar in the .deb) but they are really package
> metadata (that should be part of control.tar in the .deb).
Are they? I consider them documenta
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Both the changelog and the copyright files are stored with a package's
normal data (within data.tar in the .deb) but they are really package
metadata (that should be part of control.tar in the .deb).
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