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Re: About new fields in debian/control for bug reporting.



On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:23:58PM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> I'm putting together an "origin" package.  It'll consist of
> origin-base and origin-debian.  Origin-base will have a utility which
> does roughly:

[...]

> Origin-debian will contain a *conffile* /etc/origin/Debian with a
> template for filling in the last 3 items shown (and maybe others).
> 
> I think this is close to your suggestion, except that every
> distribution provides their own origin-* package, and that these
> templates are conffiles in /etc/origin (not related to dpkg).
> 
> I've just started on this, so please make some useful comments (like a
> better name for the executable than "origin").

That sounds like an excellent suggestion Itai. The /etc/origin-type
scheme was just what I was thinking.


Regards,
Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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