Re: New maintainer's packaging - bewildering variety of information

1998-08-18 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
ed 'withecho', nicked from dpkg-buildpackage revision 1.2 date: 1997/09/23 23:14:26; author: cpb4; state: Exp; lines: +2 -3 removed dud get-orig-source entry in help text ------------ revision 1.1 date: 1997/09/23 23:10:40; author: cpb4; state: Exp; Initial revision =

Re: Definition: "Gold CD"

1998-07-17 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
r the audiophiles, they just -have- to spend their time tweaking their sound systems to get better reproduction (a bit like what most of us do with our Debian systems). Now that most audio reproduction has gone digital and is essentially perfect, they're having to invent things to tweak. Che

Skeleton maintainer scripts (revised)

1998-04-08 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
ackage over the top of the same version of itself, or when downgrading. -- #! /bin/sh # preinst.skeleton # Skeleton maintainer script showing all the possible cases. # Written by Charles Briscoe-Smith, March 1998. Public Domain. # Abort if any comm

Re: Skeleton maintainer scripts

1998-04-06 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
you're right. > Was your intention to use something that is guaranteed to bomb > so the maintainer is forced to think at these points? I would > (still) use comments like > # your code here No, my intention was to have something that -works-. Believe me, if there are

Skeleton maintainer scripts

1998-04-02 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
they are of any use, and if you have ideas as to how I could improve them! -- #! /bin/sh # preinst.skeleton # Skeleton maintainer script showing all the possible cases. # Written by Charles Briscoe-Smith, March 1998. Public