Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>So how's this:
>
> Task Packages
> -
>
> Any package whose name begins with `task-' is known as a "task
> package". Task packages are intended to help a new user install a set of
> packages which they need to perform a specific task. Since a
I think what you are proposing is too much granularity to be worth the
effort, if that much control is needed, it will be easier to just use
dselect anyway. Remember tasks are geared towards new users installing
for the first time. We don't want them to ultimately need to look at a
task package
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:31:28PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> The packaging-manual description of .orig.tar.gz should be updated to what
> is the de-facto standard packages and tools have been following:
> foo-1.2.3.tar.gz should unpack into a directory bar, where bar is
> preferabily "foo
Yes, this is true. The subject has been raised before, and the
general consensus has always been that it is best, if possible, to
distribute an *unmodified* source tarball, for security reasons. Many
source tarballs come with associated checksums or signatures, and we'd
like our users to be able
> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dirk> Interesting timimg :)
I've noticed it too. I just got back on list, had ideas, and after
reading farther, found other threads about similar topics. Neat.
It's good to be back on debian-devel... that's iff I can keep up w
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> [ObCrossposts: We should decide what list to discuss this on.]
Please do so in debian-policy (reply-to: set). The BTS bug number for this
problem is 79210.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and
[ObCrossposts: We should decide what list to discuss this on.]
> "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Henrique> On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
>> > Should I be filling
Package: packaging-manual
Version: 3.2.1.0
Severity: normal
The packaging manual states that foo-1.2.3.orig.tar.gz must unpack to
foo-1.2.3.orig.
However, not only this is not true (dpkg-source apparently deals well with
the tarball unpacking to just about anything, as long as it is
one-directory
Interesting timimg :)
I finally got a go-ahead from the previous task-science maintainer to adopt
his package, which I found muddled (and buggy where it intersected with some
of my packages). I posted a suggestion for a new one to d-devel last night,
and so far only heard "break it up further i
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