Re: Bug#56440: lintian: Should check for shlibs that with incorrect package name

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Greg Stark wrote: > I would have to think about the implications of this change. Wouldn't the Xaw* > packages break with this too? Not in any way I can think of. > > Then the proposed lintian check would make sense > > I'm missing the link, how does this follow from your proposal? The proposal

Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Seth R Arnold wrote: > On one of our web servers could be a list of binaries in the traditional > PATH without manpages. People could sign up for working on a manpage for a > binary. (Perhaps `executable' is the correct phrase? :) Such a list has existed for a long time, see the lintain report pag

Re: [RFD]: Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.

2000-02-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Feb 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > __> zgrep /usr/share/apache/icons > /var/spool/mirror/dists/potato/Contents-i386.gz IIRC the contents files do not have leading /'s - particularly now that my patch to remove the ./ has been applied. Jason

Re: [RFD]: Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.

2000-02-02 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:19:26AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Raul> The simple solution to letting the administrator know the > Raul> package which created the file (which you already see in > Raul> place here) is to ensure that the path name has the package > Raul> name clearly embe

Re: [RFD]: Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.

2000-02-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raul> And what about files that "belong" to multiple packages? Raul> [And, how do you ensure the fresh install of a new such Raul> package when the old one has been running for some time?]