Re: Original sources, or not

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:01:46AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > many packages seem to contain .orig.tar.gz files which may or may not be > directly related to the files actually available from upstream. That is > unfortunate. > > I think that it would make sense to add a requirement

Re: Original sources, or not

2003-09-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:40:12 +0200, Matthias Urlichs > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Uhh, if you can't create the identical file, how can you get > one with the same md5sum? Have you cracked md5sum? What am I > missing? > (A) run md5sum across all files in

Re: Bug#211622: propose new virtual package: libxaw-dev

2003-09-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Craig P. Steffen wrote: > However, reading the debian policy manual sections 3.6 and 7.4, it seems to > me to be a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  The real packages libxaw6-dev > and libxaw7-dev exist, and are listed as Providing libxaw-dev. The problem is that there's no way for the autobu