Re: watch-1.0-2
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: watch-1.0-2"):
> Gunzip will choke on a zero-length compressed file, so I've been
> gzipping a file which contains a single newline to provide a .diff.gz
> file in this situation (legally gzipped, and legally empty of diffs).
Wibble.
> Could whoever owns the packaging guidelines please clarify this?
> Is the .diff.gz file required, even if not strictly needed?
No, it's not required (as you could tell from the dpkg release
announcements, for example).
> Personally, I'd consider this a reasonable requirement, since lack of
> diffs tends to break things (e.g., Ian Jackson's recent proposal for a
> new packaging format).
No, it doesn't break that either. *sigh*
> If diffs are optional, I'll modify dchanges(1) to consider them optional.
Please do so.
Ian.
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