Re: RFC: debchanges
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:56:02PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 02:24:01AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > - Is this useful to anyone else?
>
> Oh, yes. This is very cool. It'll save me a lot of time chasing down
> changelogs. Thanks. Is there any chance we could see it
> packaged someday?
Yes, I have packaged it already for my own convenience. There is some question
about the final name...someone else in this thread has already pointed out that
it's a little too close to 'debchange' (better known as dch). I would like to
resolve this issue before making a general release. No need to clutter up the
world's status files with a package that will likely be renamed very soon.
I am actively soliciting suggestions for a better name.
Meanwhile, if anyone really wants the current package, it is available from:
deb http://www.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/ ./
deb-src http://www.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/ ./
The maintainer scripts don't do anything fancy; you will have to add the line
to apt.conf yourself. The final version will probably (optionally) take care
of this for you.
> (BTW, to anyone else thinking about trying it, it depends on libnewt-perl,
> which should installed before you add the line to apt.conf.)
Correct. Depends: perl5, libnewt-perl
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- mdz
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