Package branch freshness

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Wed Jul 20 02:58:09 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:34:09 pm Martin Pool wrote:
> On 20 July 2011 12:21, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 08:00:00 PM Martin Pool wrote:
> >> It would be good to get that rmadison into lptools or ubuntu-dev-tools
> >> - even a moderately hacky state would be useful.
> >> 
> >> In general any feature that might conceivably have bad consequences or
> >> not be what people want probably ought to be behind a configuration
> >> option, and I think this is in that class.
> > 
> > We already have an rmadison in devscripts that supports both Debian and
> > Ubuntu.  Please, if you're going to add another script, call it something
> > else.
> 
> I was imprecise: I meant "that rmadison-like-tool".  If it's
> technically feasible and will not break existing uses perhaps this
> could be merged into rmadison itself, otherwise perhaps it could be
> 'urmadison' or some other name.

Integrated into rmadison as -u lp or something would be reasonable.

Scott K



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