[Bug 258727] [NEW] Please sync checkinstall 1.6.1-8 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
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Thu Nov 6 01:25:02 GMT 2008
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Please sync checkinstall 1.6.1-8 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).
Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped:
The Ubuntu change of replacing 'which' with '/usr/bin/which' was rejected by the Debian Maintainer.
"I'm not really sure it's checkinstall's job to work around a broken which.
Aliases shouldn't break checkinstall. What would break checkinstall is a
broken which that is present before /usr/bin in $PATH. However, if we care
about this then we should start adding full paths to all programs invoked,
and there lies madness."
Since the Debian Maintainer does not feel that this patch is needed, it
will not be applied upstream. As a result, we will need to maintain this
diff in Ubuntu. By dropping this change, we will be able to finally sync
checkinstall from Debian.
Changelog since current jaunty version 1.6.1-7ubuntu1:
checkinstall (1.6.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Recommend make since it's the most used install tool. (Closes: #487964).
* Use quilt for managing patches to upstream sources.
* Allow Requires to be used in Debian. (Closes: #469639)
* Turn off system translation by default, since it is currently broken.
* Update the Vcs-* tags since we moved to Git.
-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:34:06 -0400
** Affects: checkinstall (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: New
** Tags: sync
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Please sync checkinstall 1.6.1-8 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
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