On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:48:48 +1200
Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mar 08/07/2003 ? 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a ?crit :
> > > > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > > > item.
> > > >
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:46:49PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > This change wouldn't break the format or anything; it would only add some
> > additional text to the Changes: field. Surely no programs depend on the
> > _content_ of that field, do they?
>
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:11:46PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > I filed a wishlist bug about this quite a long time ago (#95579), but
> > > got no response.
> >
> > Hmm, maybe a library(perl) that gives a
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:11:46PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I filed a wishlist bug about this quite a long time ago (#95579), but
> > got no response.
>
> Hmm, maybe a library(perl) that gives all this information would be
> useful. Modifying the t
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > One nice thing about using standard changelog format is that if someone
> > wants to they could add another format, specialised for news
> > information, and another parser in /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/. Of
> > course apt-listchanges does its own pa
I demand that Branden Robinson may or may not have written...
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
>> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
>> regular changelog entr
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:48:48PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mar 08/07/2003 ? 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a ?crit :
> > > > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > > > item.
> > > >
> > > > Tha
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mar 08/07/2003 ? 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a ?crit :
> > > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > > item.
> > >
> > > That wud be well c00l.
> >
> > As I recall, part of the idea of NEWS.Debian w
Le mar 08/07/2003 à 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> > All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> > item.
> >
> > That wud be well c00l.
>
> As I recall, part of the idea of NEWS.Debian was to prevent having this kind
> of information end up as debconf notes.
But so
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:30:27PM +0100, Paul Hedderly wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> > NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> > regular changelog
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
> to only display
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:01:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Is there any particular reason to keep the "unstable; urgency=low"
> > there? It's duplication of information in the changelog, and nearly
> > every developer will probably forget to change the information
Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Is there any particular reason to keep the "unstable; urgency=low"
> there? It's duplication of information in the changelog, and nearly
> every developer will probably forget to change the information in
> NEWS.Debian when they change the urgency or distribution in ch
On Sun Jul 06, 04:58pm -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > Would this work just as well?
> > > [example without distribution and urgency]
> >
> > It would wo
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Would this work just as well?
> > [example without distribution and urgency]
>
> It would work just as well. The changelog format was used unmodified for
> p
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 06:01, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > The file format is the same as a debian changelog file, but we leave off the
> > asterisks generally, and use bigger paragraphs explaining news items when
> > necessary. It m
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 06:01, Joey Hess wrote:
> The file format is the same as a debian changelog file, but we leave off the
> asterisks generally, and use bigger paragraphs explaining news items when
> necessary. It might be a good idea to run your file through
> dpkg-parsechangelog to check its
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
> to only display
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 04:02 AM, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
wrote:
Just curious: why not NEWS.gz for native packages?
It's prohibitively difficult to detect whether any given file is in
debian changelog format.
NEWS[.gz] exists in many packages already, and is of no particular
format
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
THANK YOU guys! I will add NEWS support to my packages (and backport
apt-listchanges to stable, see people.debi
Thanks a lot, this is great!
On Friday 04 July 2003 10:02, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> Is it reasonable to think about some sort of localizzation support for NEWS
> file? Changes documented there might be worthy of translation.
Not about i18n, really, but please at least specify from
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
> to only display
Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
to only display news, if the user wants (more useful for stable users).
The NEWS.D
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