ACK: [PATCH 0/3] [precise] package description cleanups

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/15/2012 11:14 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Inspired by a patch for LP#593107 I did a quick review of the worst abuses
> in our package descriptions.  The worse anomoly seems to be the lack of a
> sane human readable description of the target architectures for x86 and
> x6_64 wherein we most often end up describing an architecture specific
> binary package as being for 'x86/x86_64', where the package clearly can
> only be for one of them.  The powerpc architecture has a much saner naming
> approach and I am using that influence in this patch set.
>
> The following patch series introduces the concept of a human readable
> description of the architecture this is really for.  This is then combined
> with the flavour specific modifiers to generate proper descriptions for
> the target for each package.  This also allows the architecture common
> packages to also have the same description.
>
> Additionally I have cleaned up the generic flavour description which
> was plain wrong as it now exists on both 32 and 64 bit.  Finally it
> reimplements the intent of the original patch in the new scheme.
>
> There are some clearer examples of the new names and new description in
> the first patch so I will refrain from repeating them here.
>
> Proposing for Precise.
>
> -apw
>
> Andy Whitcroft (3):
>    UBUNTU: [Config] clean up the human consumable package descriptions
>    UBUNTU: [Config] fix generic flavour description
>    UBUNTU: [Config] clean up linux-tools package descriptions
>
>   debian.master/control.d/vars.generic     |    4 ++--
>   debian.master/control.d/vars.generic-pae |    4 ++--
>   debian.master/control.d/vars.omap        |    2 +-
>   debian.master/control.d/vars.virtual     |    2 +-
>   debian.master/control.stub.in            |   12 +++++++-----
>   debian.master/rules.d/amd64.mk           |    1 +
>   debian.master/rules.d/armel.mk           |    1 +
>   debian.master/rules.d/armhf.mk           |    1 +
>   debian.master/rules.d/i386.mk            |    1 +
>   debian.master/rules.d/powerpc.mk         |    1 +
>   debian.master/rules.d/ppc64.mk           |    1 +
>   debian/rules                             |    2 ++
>   12 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>


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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com