Re: Debian CVS: in boot-floppies:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:46:22PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > Actually, what I am going to do is take over this script, and have it
> > installed with libc6-pic. It will then be guranteed to work with that
> > version. Then boot-floppies can work with this however it wants to. I'll
> > accept and fix whatever bug reports come about.
>
> Have you talked with Marcus? He had agreed to make a standalone package
> of it. Not that I are what package it goes in; I just want to see it in
> a package, asap, so I can stop bothering with it. :-)
>
> However putting it in libc6-pic won't solve all the problems, since it
> has similar fragile code for the pic slang libraries, and more could
> conceivably be added for other libraries.
I'll check to see if there is some way around this. Perhaps each -pic
library should be held responsible for it's own quirks and oddities.
There may be a way to have a main script in it's own package, and each
-pic library would have a "plugin" for this package.
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