Bug#112090: fw: Bug#112090: [PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time]

2001-09-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > This "hack" will be fixed as boot-floppies is deprecated with the post > > woody release. What's the point of putting it into policy? > > Only reason is that this is something we obviously needed to do in the > past, so it is reasonable to expect

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time]

2001-09-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Sep-01, 13:47 (CDT), David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see that we have a situation where we have created some specialized > handling of certain packages. If we can find a way to generalize that > handling so that it will be useful to more people I'd call that a win. > That is wha

Bug#112090: fw: Bug#112090: [PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time]

2001-09-17 Thread David Kimdon
> > This "hack" will be fixed as boot-floppies is deprecated with the post > woody release. What's the point of putting it into policy? Only reason is that this is something we obviously needed to do in the past, so it is reasonable to expect the need in the future. Better to have a clean way o