Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)"): > Well, I don't want to interrupt your guys thrilling discussion > about indentation of source code and I can not really imagine > that you are not aware of > apt-cache show indent Running indent on an exist

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-13 Thread Ian Jackson
John Goerzen writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)"): > I think both you and Ian are making a mountain out of a molehill here. So > what if the history isn't pretty? It won't impact anybody running dpkg. It > likely won't even impact the people hacking on dpkg. In f

Suggested improvements for handling Architecture independent packages

2008-03-13 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear readers: I would like to suggest two major improvements related to packages which are "Architecture: all". The first thing I want to suggest is the handling of dependencies. When building a package, you can use "Depends: package [arch1 arch2]" which means that it depends on package only on t

Re: Suggested improvements for handling Architecture independent packages

2008-03-13 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:20:28PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > I would like to suggest two major improvements related to packages > which are "Architecture: all". > > The first thing I want to suggest is the handling of dependencies. > When building a package, you can use "Depends: pa

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mike Bird | Please recall that Ian wrote dpkg (replacing Murdock's earlier | PERL dpkg). Ian knows dpkg better than any of the current team. Ian had one upload of dpkg after September 1996, which was in 1998 before he suddenly regained interest in it about a year or so ago. I'm not questionin

Typos in dpkg man pages

2008-03-13 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, while updating the German translation I noticed the following errors in the man pages. Please do not update the German translation afterwards. #:../../man/dpkg-buildpackage.1:145 -(for example by using B as I) +(for example by calling B to build the package) #: ../../man/dpkg-buildpackage

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-13 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 10:01:35 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, > triggers)"): > > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Against the wishes of, afaict, Guillem and Raphael, Ian's made applying > > > his trig

Re: Typos in dpkg man pages

2008-03-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Helge, On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:34:28 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > while updating the German translation I noticed the following errors > in the man pages. Please do not update the German translation > afterwards. > > #:../../man/dpkg-buildpackage.1:145 > -(for example by using B as > I)

Re: Typos in dpkg man pages

2008-03-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> #:../../man/dpkg-buildpackage.1:145 >> -(for example by using B as >> I) >> +(for example by calling B to build the >> package) > > I don't think this change is correct, as here it's referring to it as > an argument to a command line option. For what