On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:36:45PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> again.. what was the reject reason and could you please try again
> getting a (probably fixed) package in?
The reason was that ftp-master did not like that I split out
command-not-found-data into a seperate source package (it's
very small), in order to make life easier for downstream (e.g.
Ubuntu [which is also more or less software upstream]).
Ubuntu's version of command-not-found includes lists of files
creating by scanning a mirror. My version currently reads
the Contents-*.gz files (because I have no complete mirror). One
of the main disadvantages is that it can't support alternatives.
- Both are done prior to building the source package (i.e. manually by
the maintainer)
Proposed plan:
- Rebase everything on latest Ubuntu release
- Remove command-not-found-data and provide an update command
to fetch information from Contents-ARCH.gz
- Add a cron job || run after apt-get/aptitude update
This has the following effect:
- There will be only one package (in terms of source and binary)
- The installation may not work on the first run
- We will have command-not-found in Debian
- In contrast to Ubuntu, we have no support for alternatives
=> But the package could ship a list of known alternatives,
which would be merged by the update script.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
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