Removing cleanup-info

2008-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
According to README.feature-removal-schedule, cleanup-info should be removed in lenny. Given that it's been non-functional since etch (it uses the nonexistent /usr/info directory instead of /usr/share/info, see #378614) and nobody complained about that, it would be a good to get rid of it ASAP, if

Britney(2) and dpkg

2008-05-02 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hello all, as you probably already know, britney (the testing migration script) is using a local customized dpkg source to test the installability of a package while updating the testing distribution. This is not really easy to manage, and in fact the code is quite complex to maintain and debug.