GNOME category exists now?
Reini Urban
rurban@x-ray.at
Wed Oct 27 23:21:00 GMT 2004
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:38:18PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>>
>>>The. Cygwin packages are based on Debian categories.
>>
>>I'll patch upset to ignore packages completely with Categories not in
>>Debian. With a fatal, not just a warning. Ok?
>
> No. It is not worth the effort. I don't want to add a dependency
> on me to remember to update upset whenever there is an addition to
> the Category.
>
> upset is intended to be used to create a setup.ini from the setup.hint
> files on sourceware.org. The fact that it is retrievable via CVS is a
> side-effect of the fact that that's how most of the admin tools on
> sourceware.org are managed.
>
> I'm not interested in turning it into a general purpose tool and I'm not
> interested in bug reports, patches, augmentations, etc.
>
> A simple "package lint" tool would be easily doable and it would not
> require all of the extra stuff that upset does. Someone should write
> one of those.
>
> Some of the above is also. A recording.
Ok. So I will not bug you any further with updates, but keep my forked
version at my site. I find it useful to die on invalid categories.
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Reini Urban
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