On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:23:08PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > fyi, i've started this list. it can be found at: > > http://cs.swarthmore.edu/~finney/debian/knoppix_packaging.txt and now i've finished it. basically, i ran over everything, got upstream address, version, license, tried to weed out what was by and for knoppix, from what was imported, ran ./debian/rules binary if it existed, and if it built, ran linda and lintian on it. a few of them i even commented on... from what i could tell many of the packages had issues but most of them were relatively minor. but before we dive into really messing around with everything, i think there's quite a bit of package consolidation that could go on with some of these packages, many of which only contain a script or two per-package. how about a "knoppix-util" package for these? we could also have a -data package, since much of this is architecture-independant scripts, and i see this eventually being able to work on arch's besides i386 (at least to varying extents) also, i think some of the packages may be able to be replaced by actual debian-proper packages. for example ash could be replaced by dash (or some other static-linked shell), right? anyway, the floor's open for comments... sean
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