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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
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> > Okay. So is there a normal way to have the '-v' option during a
> > run set to "include all entries newer than what's currently in
> > Debian"? Or
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
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> >> usually you would remember because you'd debdiff and interdiff
> >> against the .deb and .diff.gz in the archive.
> >
> > How will those help me to ge
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> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:54:04 +1100
> Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Neil Williams writes:
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> > > The maintainer doesn't have to worry about -v [for
> > > ‘dpkg-genchanges’] - the sponsor does that with the final build
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> 2009/1/19 Ben Finney :
> > However, I only upload when I release it, so at that point it's
> > not unreleased any more, and I change the suite (usually to
> > "unstable"). Why would the "UNRELEASED" suite survive to be
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> Is that clearer? If so, I'll suggest a change to debian-policy.
I've filed a bug against debian-policy, with a patch rewording that
paragraph.
http://bugs.debian.org/318214>
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> can express what I want?
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:46:39PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Hopefully it, like so many of the other automatic replies we've
> > been getting here, will also be translated as:
> >
> > I'm too thick to have my
On 27-Jul-2005, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:03:51AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > On 26-Jul-2005, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > > "Recommends: udev (>= 0.060-1)".
> >
> > How does this not express what you want to say? It recommend
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On 15-Aug-2005, Michael Spang wrote:
> Thanks Ben Finney and Nico Golde for the suggestion. I have uploaded
> to mentors.debian.net, so any willing sponsors can find the package
> from there to examine.
Care to toss us a bone and give the URL to the packages? :-)
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> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ben Finney wrote:
> > This has happened at at least a dozen sites recently. I'm getting
> > really sick of this. Is everyone using the same frigging regex to
> > "validate" email addre
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> On 17-Aug-2005, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > http://sponsors.debian.net is now around 90% finished, so I'm
> > looking for people to try and break it :)
> > So, please pop along and register.
>
> I'd love to. It doesn't li
On 19-Aug-2005, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:57:51PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Please don't attempt to validate email addresses before delivering
> > mail to them.
>
> Done.
Thanks, I'm able to register with my crazy Debian-specific email
where the email address is presented for
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> > > [notes on elements of a copyright notice]
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> This isn't so at all. The author of the text has copyright over it
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> I reported his message as spam.
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> > A shebang line is more than documentation: it is a strong
> > indication that the script will be executable from the command
> > line. To have that expectation not be matched by the file
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> > be part of the 'foo_X.Y.orig.tar.gz' tarball
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> > Writing a bunch of 'cp' or 'install' commands in the
> > 'debian/rules' file seems like drudgery and is certainly pro
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> > That sounds like a bug. I was under the impression that the
> > default encoding of everything in lenny was supposed to be UTF-8.
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> The last time I checked, this di
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