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Re: Please unblock emdebian-tools



On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:13:20 -0300
Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> wrote:

> Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Neil Williams wrote:
> >> Could emdebian-tools be unblocked please so that 1.6.0 can migrate into
> >> testing in a few days time?
> >
> > unblocked
> >
> >> (Is there a different way to do this - iirc it is only because of the
> >> udeb which is not incorporated into d-i directly at this time - it's
> >> only used when d-i is used by Emdebian pre-seeding. I generally upload
> >> a new version of emdebian-tools quite soon after each previous version
> >> migrates into testing. Do I need to put the udeb into a different
> >> source package? It doesn't actually change more than once per release
> >> cycle.)
> >
> > Currently it's the only way, though we're working on changing that.
> 
> Neil, I belive that the udeb could have the own source package so it
> could make your life easier (and our too).
> 
> I second the idea of having it in a specific source package. 

OK, that may be the best way to do it, the keyring packages (the .deb
and the udeb) really don't need to change as often as they have been
and at 12 binaries from one source it probably is worth splitting out
the bits that don't change at the same rate as the rest.

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Neil Williams
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