Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 23 December 2007, Colin Watson wrote: >> All that's required for that, IMO, is for the new di-utils to propagate >> to testing before any dependent changes are made elsewhere. (Though >> versioned dependencies are a useful record, and don't have a

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 23 December 2007, Colin Watson wrote: > All that's required for that, IMO, is for the new di-utils to propagate > to testing before any dependent changes are made elsewhere. (Though > versioned dependencies are a useful record, and don't have a huge cost; > unlikely to consume more than a

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:50:14AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Colin Watson wrote: > > No, di-utils is already considered as the equivalent of Essential. > > Plenty of stuff already uses it without a dependency (although there are > > a number of dependencies anyway due

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Colin Watson wrote: > No, di-utils is already considered as the equivalent of Essential. > Plenty of stuff already uses it without a dependency (although there are > a number of dependencies anyway due to versioning). If we're willing to explicitly forego the requirem

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:13:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Colin is right of course. I confused lib-di and di-utils :-( > It also has the advantage that a lot of components already declare a > dependency on d-i-utils. > > That is also the one thing I'm not quite sure about though. If we do this

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 06:56:11PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > The second problem is just a practical one: where to put it? > > libdebian-installer seems like the obvious place at first glance, but > > maybe something else is set up earlier? It

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 06:56:11PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > The second problem is just a practical one: where to put it? > libdebian-installer seems like the obvious place at first glance, but > maybe something else is set up earlier? It would only need to be > unpacked on disk relatively earl

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Frans Pop said: > Hi Stephen, > > On Monday 10 December 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: > > So I was looking over the code base last night and wondering about > > exercises to get myself a little more up to speed on it. One thing that > > I noticed going through was that th

Re: Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-10 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Stephen, On Monday 10 December 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: > So I was looking over the code base last night and wondering about > exercises to get myself a little more up to speed on it. One thing that > I noticed going through was that there seems to be quite a lot of > duplicate code spread th

Just a thought, and a few questions

2007-12-10 Thread Stephen Gran
Hi all, So I was looking over the code base last night and wondering about exercises to get myself a little more up to speed on it. One thing that I noticed going through was that there seems to be quite a lot of duplicate code spread through the shell scripts, and it seems like a useful idea to