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Re: your mail

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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:

> Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > On 3 Mar 1997, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> > > Wow.  I suspect this makes you the New Dpkg Expert.
> > Hmmm... I must have spent around 20-30 hours looking at the Makefile's...
> > but the sources, I haven't touched, other than checking that #define's are
> > actually used in the correct places (instead of hardcoding
> > Debian-specific dirs, like /var/lib/dpkg).
> 
> Smart move, ducking responsibility like that. :-)
> 
> > Yes - they are only re-built if the manuals-version or the .sgml files
> > have changed. :)
> 
> If I ever have children, I will name _all_ of them after you.

:)

> > > Galen Hazelwood, the gcc maintainer, has a version of dpkg that has
> > > been i18n'd.  This would probably be a great thing to be integrated
> > > into your changes.
> > Thanks. Are his patches still up-to-date and on master.debian.org? (I
> > vaguely remember his original announcement).
> 
> If they are not up to date, it should be in an only minor way---his
> patches were done around 1.4.0.6, and there have been just a handful
> of changes since then, and none I would expect to matter.

OK, I got and included them. I (will) have also mailed Klee Dienes
(current maintainer).

> And yes, I believe he has them in his home dir on master.

> > > I, too, though, would suggest that this be put in 'experimental' or
> > > some such---just to satisfy the paranoid among us.
> > OK... (source only package, of course).
> 
> I apologize, 'paranoid' was very much the wrong word---I *did not*
> mean to suggest you were in any way untrustworthy, or that binaries
> would be suspicious.

Source only because I don't like uploading lots of stuff to master over a
slow PPP connection with clogged up routes :)

> What I meant to say was that it may not be appropriate for it to be in
> unstable, given the imminent code freeze and the relative lack of
> testing---especially if you're able to integrate Galen's i18n'd
> version.

I agree totally. I'm currently trying to i18n-ize the "methods".

> I really should have worked harder at finding something other than
> 'paranoid' to express that---it just carries too much baggage.  Sorry.

OK, fine.

> > OK - you should be able to download from Incoming soon - I'll upload it
> > as a source-only "dpkg-am".
> 
> Cool.

Not so soon... I will try and fix this small bit of i18n first. Then, it's
just tools like dpkg-source, etc., that will need i18n.

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