Bug#78014: PROPOSAL] dpkg Build Directory

2000-11-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:48:41PM -0500, Eric Gillespie Jr. wrote: > Let me start by saying that i am not in any way attached to this > specific amendment to policy. What i would like is to be able to > cause the files that are normally placed in the parent directory > while building a package to

Bug#78014: [PROPOSAL] dpkg Build Directory

2000-11-25 Thread Eric Gillespie Jr.
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 Severity: normal Let me start by saying that i am not in any way attached to this specific amendment to policy. What i would like is to be able to cause the files that are normally placed in the parent directory while building a package to be placed instead

Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support

2000-11-25 Thread Itai Zukerman
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:28:44 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Origin gives a package a way to indicate where it is coming from. > This can be used to find information about its origin in > /etc/dpkg/origins/. The origin information file there > can list an Bugs field that overri

[PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support

2000-11-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Now that dpkg 1.7 has hit unstable and the first bugreporting tool (reportbug) supports it I figured it was time to get this into policy. The basic idea of this is to have a way for packages to state where they are coming from, and where bugreports for them

Bug#77960: packaging-manual: Origin and Bugs are undocumented

2000-11-25 Thread Chris Lawrence
Package: packaging-manual Version: 3.2.1.0 Severity: normal The headers "Origin" and "Bugs" for binary packages are not documented in the Packaging Manual, or much of anywhere else except in the -devel archives. -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux quango4