On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:51:05PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > WTF has this to do with Sven now? Maybe because Sven and I worked on a solution for this problem. > However, I have been told that it is no > longer allowed to upload binary packages that do not appear in control > files of the source package that are claimed to be the source of the > uploaded binary package. It was never allowed. > So or so, the mentioned limitation sucks. I wish FTP management to > accept packages of this kind again. However I realize that it would add > a lot of additional work adding them to the archive because packages > with new names may appear and disappear all the time. Therefore we need > a way to tell FTP management: packages of that kind are okay and they > shall be removed when the following package disappears: ... Maybe a new > field? Eg. > > GenPkgBaseName: unionfs-module- How should that work? It needs the information which packages are built and which are not. Which this proposal you will end with many not-longer-built packages. > Having the meaning: packages matching /^unionfs-module-(.*)/ and declaring the > mentioned source package as source are installed automaticaly, and are > removed automaticaly from the archive when the package linux-image-$1 > is removed. Forget it. The archive only have equal matches. > Any better ideas? Yes, let us finish our work. Bastian -- Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing. -- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6
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