Re: Multiarch interfaces

2011-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:38:01AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >> > > Except for things like possibly firmware, which AFAIR there seemed to >> > > be consensus should be kept as arch:all for now (otherwise they'd >> > > require Packages file for lots of architectures), th

Re: Multiarch support in dpkg really in time for wheezy?

2011-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Hi, > > I'll try to share some news with the release team. > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: >> What I'll do though, when I get back home tomorrow from my current >> trip, is to push already reviewed stuff and keep pushing incrementally, >> instead of my usua

Re: Improving pre checkin requirements for man page translations?

2011-11-28 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Raphaël, On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:07:20PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 06 Nov 2011, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 01:21:49PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Sun, 06 Nov 2011, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > > > If that's true, it's strange that none of

Konvention für Spaces in Options

2011-11-28 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, while updating the German translation I noticed (due to a fuzzy string) that sometimes a space is used in the following contruct, sometimes not: msgid "B<-a >I" (and similar for other options, for this case compare dpkg-checkbuilddeps.1:33 and dpkg-buildpackage.1:105) Please unfuzzy transl

Re: Konvention für Spaces in Options

2011-11-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > while updating the German translation I noticed (due to a fuzzy > string) that sometimes a space is used in the following contruct, > sometimes not: > msgid "B<-a >I" > > (and similar for other options, for this case compare > dpkg-check

Re: Improving pre checkin requirements for man page translations?

2011-11-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > We will need the help of the Alioth admin (CCed). Dear Alioth admins, > I have modified the translator role of the dpkg project on Alioth to grant > them "commit rights" in the hope to have them added to group "scm_dpkg" > but this did not work. >

Only preserve a few conf files.

2011-11-28 Thread dE .
By default, when overwriting config files, dpkg will ask about it and the default action will be no. On Desktop systems with inexperienced users, the default action may not be a good idea (for .e.g. when updating sudoers). So is there a way to preserve only some conf files and overwrite the r

Re: Konvention für Spaces in Options

2011-11-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (deb...@helgefjell.de): > Please unfuzzy translations when fixing otherwise Christian P. gets > mad ;-)) [He's still recovering from the previous formatting > cleanups in the manpages] Oh, I'm lagging far away when it comes at dpkg manpages.:-) signature.asc Desc

Re: Only preserve a few conf files.

2011-11-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, dE . wrote: > By default, when overwriting config files, dpkg will ask about it > and the default action will be no. On Desktop systems with > inexperienced users, the default action may not be a good idea (for > .e.g. when updating sudoers). > > So is there a way to p

Re: Only preserve a few conf files.

2011-11-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:22:13PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, dE . wrote: >> By default, when overwriting config files, dpkg will ask about it >> and the default action will be no. On Desktop systems with >> inexperienced users, the default action may not be a good i