Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:19:28PM -0400, Matthias Julius a écrit : > > If nothing in the diff.gz touches files outside of debian there is > actually no need for it to be a diff. It could be debian.tar.gz which > would be able to preserve file permissions and symlinks. I think that it would be i

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Matthias, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for >> new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which >> would only touch the debian directory, inst

RFS: dfu-programmer

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Straw
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dfu-programmer". * Package name: dfu-programmer Version : 0.4.0-1 Upstream Author : Weston Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dfu-programmer.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Section : deve

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for > new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which > would only touch the debian directory, instead of containing a mixture > of packaging instructions, code chan

Re: Where to mount a temporary partition in scripts?

2007-03-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 12:49:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> If I were you, I'd document in README.Debian how the administrator can > >> mount the images in /xen (or perhaps /srv/xen) and perhaps provide some > >> configu