On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Guillem Jover wrote: > First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils,
[...] > Second, I'd like to switch from statically to dynamically linking > against zlib and libbz2, eventually liblzma too (affecting dpkg-deb) > and libselinux (affecting dpkg itself only on Linux). Here's the > arguments I know of against and in favour, with rebuttals: [...] > So if there's no strong reason not to, I'd like to do these changes > for next dpkg 1.15.6 release. Note though that they are not > interdependent, and if we decided so, one could be done while not > the other. I don't have any objections to this, but I'd strongly suggest that this get a run-through experimental with an announcement on -devel-announce to request testing so that any really bad problems are caught before it gets deployed more widely. Don Armstrong -- Who is thinking this? I am. -- Greg Egan _Diaspora_ p38 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100223065155.gd3...@rzlab.ucr.edu
