Debian Developers - Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

This is Interesting: Free IT Magazines  
Home > Archive > Debian Developers > August 2005 > Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link





You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread. To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to this thread please [click here]

Author Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link
Kevin Mark

2005-08-31, 6:01 pm

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:55:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> The following is a list by maintainer of the 497 packages that still
> contain code in their postinst to create links in /usr/doc/. That's been
> a bug since 2002, and most of these packages have probably not been
> updated since then, since recompiling most of them with a current
> debhelper will remove the link code.
>
> Please fix your packages. Filing bugs on nearly 500 packages is
> something I'd prefer not to do, but it might come to that. We've been
> working on this transition for 5 or 6 years now, and it's about time to
> finish it.


> michael d. ivey <ivey@debian.org>
> id3ren
>
> --
> see shy jo

Hi DD's,
just a thought. If during a transition it became necessary to do X as a
workaround for package Y, why not make a bug which is marked as non-RC
during the transition and then upgraded to RC after the transition. This
way each packages that has this workaround does not have to be checked
by hand and then simply by changing the bug status, all packages are
upgraded to have the RC bug. This may already have been done, I reading
these emails offline.
Cheers,
Kev
--
counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted!
`$' $'
$ $ _
,d$$$g$ ,d$$$b. $,d$$$b`$' g$$$$$b $,d$$b
,$P' `$ ,$P' `Y$ $$' `$ $ "' `$ $$' `$
$$ $ $$ggggg$ $ $ $ ,$P"" $ $ $
`$g. ,$$ `$$._ _. $ _,g$P $ `$b. ,$$ $ $
`Y$$P'$. `Y$$$$P $$$P"' ,$. `Y$$P'$ $. ,$.

Sponsored Links






Free braindumps | Software forum | Database administration forum

Copyright 2003 - 2008 webservertalk.com