[no subject]

2002-02-18 Thread DR.MRS MIRIAM ABACHA
FROM: MRS. MARIAM ABACHA C/O SHEWU ABACHA LAGOS - NIGERIA. 19TH FEB,2002 Fax: 234-1-759-0900 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTN:PRESIDENT/CEO, I am Mrs. Mariam Abacha, the widow of late Gen. Sani Abacha. Former Nigeria military head of state who died mysteriouly as a result of cardiac arres

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:31:49PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: > OK, I am clearly not going to persuade you how wrong-headed ;-) you are, > so proceed. > > Please use the debconf model. If there are enough clear benefits, both > packagers and administrators will want to use your system. [... snip

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Jim Penny
OK, I am clearly not going to persuade you how wrong-headed ;-) you are, so proceed. Please use the debconf model. If there are enough clear benefits, both packagers and administrators will want to use your system. Here is something that would make this enormously more palatable to me. Event:

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: > Objection 1: Autocompilation can result in progams that compile but > do not work as expected. > Examples: scope rule changes. Inheritance Changes. Arithmetic Changes. This has nothing to do with the organization of the

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Jim Penny
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:33:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > On 17/02/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > and this one package with one set of install/remove scripts supports > > > emacs20, emacs21, xemacs21. When a new emacs

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:02:02PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Good plan; why not do that for python? How about a > > > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --install > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --remove > > Look at http://peopl

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Good plan; why not do that for python? How about a > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --install > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --remove Look at http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/ Should we have a vote for the binary name? Cu

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:33:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 17/02/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > and this one package with one set of install/remove scripts supports > > emacs20, emacs21, xemacs21. When a new emacs is installed, the > > installed elisp packages are byte-compiled for it, a