Re: Package of non-development scripts?
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:40:30PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Is anyone currently maintaining a package of Debian-specific scripts that
> > are not packaging-related (i.e., not devscripts)? Quite a few useful
> > tidbits pass through this list, and it would be nice to collect all of
> > those small scripts into one package. If nobody is collecting these, I'll
> > likely start doing it, and package the result.
>
> Dennis (dennis@debian.org) and I are planning sth like this for a while. Just
> now, we have two scripts to build and publish Debian packages and
> apt-show-source which is already a Debian package. The intended name for the
> package is debaux. We would be happy to add more Debian tidbits.
Any scripts having to do with packaging should go in devscripts. I'm looking
for the scripts and shell functions that many people have rewritten many times,
like dpkg-hold/unhold, which are useful to non-developers as well.
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- mdz
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