Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:55:05PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2007-11-23 17:17]:
>>> With the upload of debian-maintainers version 1.3, the following
>>> changes to the keyring have been made:
>>>
>>> dm:kartik.mistry@gmail.com
>>> Full name: Kartik Mistry
>> I don't know if that was such a good idea, see #452464
>
> Wow, the linhdd package is *special*. Based on initial analysis of
> this package, please remove:
Hi,
linHDD is special, really. I'm talking to upstream regarding this issue.
It contains source of util-linux and fdisk.
After analyse, I realise that Its better to remove this package rather
than having copy of second fdisk with modifications.
..
> * the package itself
I am doing RM request.
> "linhdd also has binary called 'abs_fdisk' which is used for linhdd
> working correctly. util-linux is provided for its source.
>
> "To save archive space, the package is set to Architecture:
> all. Please do not report this as a bug on the mentioned
> architectures."
>
> * a lintian.override file to suppress errors about it
>
> * "changed" source files that claim to be used in fdisk and abs_fdisk
Between 0.3 and 0.4 the upstream used this wired way, and there is my
fault also.
> I expect a *much* higher standard of packages in our archive, and I
> hope I'm not alone here.
Sure.
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