Bug#504880: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > retitle 530832 maintainer scripts created by tex-common may not assume > tex-common to be present in "postrm remove" > thanks > > ia64, I assume that you have moved the broken remains of texlive-base > away manually? He's called Lamont btw... oh right, that's the bugsubmitt

Bug#504880: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
retitle 530832 maintainer scripts created by tex-common may not assume tex-common to be present in "postrm remove" thanks ia64, I assume that you have moved the broken remains of texlive-base away manually? Agustin Martin wrote: > Frank, your package honours current Debian policy about that, b

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-05 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:16:06PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > So printf is slightly unwiedly to use and it can create > > format string attack. > > It does, however, have the advantage of working if BAR contains "-E". > (This isn't a contrived example, it's why I recently changed the parsin