Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

1996-10-01 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Imagine a real source package where the maintainer made a mistake > packing the .orig.tar.gz. Unce uploaded there's no way to notify > others about a new packed .orig.tar.gz (unless check all your already > downloaded sources agains the md5sums r

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

1996-09-30 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Michael Meskes wrote: : : Heiko Schlittermann writes: : > Hm .., .orig.tar.gz isn't really empty. It would contain the unmodified : > binaries (i386, m68k) and _no_ debian files. : But then these aren't sources. Thats why I called 'em `pseudo' sources. : > Perhaps the .dsc file could include a

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
David Frey wrote: : : [about xforms_0.81...] : >xforms_0.81.tar.gz : >xforms_0.81.dsc : > : >For the first 4 files it's ok. But the latter? Would somebody mind, : >if I'd remove the debian/ from xforms_0.81.tar.gz and create a : >xforms_0.81.orig.tar.gz and then the diffs for the d

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

1996-09-21 Thread David Frey
[about xforms_0.81...] >xforms_0.81.tar.gz >xforms_0.81.dsc > >For the first 4 files it's ok. But the latter? Would somebody mind, if >I'd remove the debian/ from xforms_0.81.tar.gz and create a >xforms_0.81.orig.tar.gz and then the diffs for the debian changes only? I'm really a

proposal: pseudo source packages

1996-09-21 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hello, what about releasing pseudo source packages? What do I mean? I got the maintainance for the xforms package. Real source code isn't available, so the binaries (libs and a form designer) are stuffed together. An .orig.tar.gz isn't created. So every time I changed some debian related stuf