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Some NMU questions



Hi.

I tried the haskell-pkg-debcheck script (the updated one is the one
written in Haskell, is it?). Maybe we should put a warning about the
large memory consumption, the first time it froze my system! :-)

Then, I'd like to know more about the output it produces, that I'm
attaching to this email. I'm ok with the first two lines, obviously (in
fact, I'd like Joachim to actually apply them, as haskell-hsx is
uninstallable in my system right now and I need it to finish happstack).

Then, what do all the other dw lines do? They're there just to be sure
that next build won't be done against old dependencies, or are there
other reasons?

BTW, I never found an answer to this question: is it nowadays acceptable
in cases like this (I want to install a package that needs to be
rebuilt) for a DD to build the package and then manually binNMU it? I
don't think I wouldn't do either (I prefer when official packages are
built under clean buildd and logs are publicly kept for reference), just
out of curiosity. In my understanding, when there were no buildd around
all the porting work was done just like this.

Thanks, Giovanni.
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Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Pisa, Italy

Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani
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