Checklist of package changes for new distribution?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 7 17:55:12 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:35:36PM -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> This should no longer be needed in future releases of bzr-builddeb. I
> committed a change to use python-distro-info instead of having to
> manually fix this every six months. We should really try to use
> distro-info where possible.

Some packages can't though - for example debootstrap needs to be
runnable in contexts where distro-info isn't available (from the
installer, and from other distributions).

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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