Re: Evaluation of bundling .buildinfo in .deb proposal

Hi Guillem (& others), On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 03:38:27AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Holger proposed to bundle the .buildinfo files into .deb archives > during the DebConf talk. I've mentioned to Holger that I'm not seeing > this as being feasible and mentioned various reasons why, but I'm also

Re: Evaluation of bundling .buildinfo in .deb proposal

Hi Holger, > > (As an obiter dictum, are we sure it was Holger who was proposing this > > idea in the talk, rather than mentioning it? I think he has previously > > echoed my view on the "no special tools" principle, hence this minor > > remark. Am willing to be corrected either way.) > > yes, it

Re: Evaluation of bundling .buildinfo in .deb proposal

Hi! On Mon, 2020-08-31 at 12:39:07 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:02:03PM -, Chris Lamb wrote: > > (As an obiter dictum, are we sure it was Holger who was proposing this > > idea in the talk, rather than mentioning it? I think he has previously > > echoed my view on t

Re: Evaluation of bundling .buildinfo in .deb proposal

Dear Chris, On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:02:03PM -, Chris Lamb wrote: > (As an obiter dictum, are we sure it was Holger who was proposing this > idea in the talk, rather than mentioning it? I think he has previously > echoed my view on the "no special tools" principle, hence this minor > remark.

Re: Evaluation of bundling .buildinfo in .deb proposal

[adding rb-general to CC] Hi Guillem, > Holger proposed to bundle the .buildinfo files into .deb archives > during the DebConf talk. I've mentioned to Holger that I'm not seeing > this as being feasible and mentioned various reasons why, but I'm also > still open to explore this possibility. So I

Evaluation of bundling .buildinfo in .deb proposal

Hi! Holger proposed to bundle the .buildinfo files into .deb archives during the DebConf talk. I've mentioned to Holger that I'm not seeing this as being feasible and mentioned various reasons why, but I'm also still open to explore this possibility. So I've added these in a wiki page: