distro-info: split to separate source package?
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Howdy,
distro-info is a *phenomenally* useful tool.
We have a couple of packages and tools in Ubuntu Main that could really benefit from the distro-info utility. (Specifically, I'm working on ubuntu-ec2-run in cloud-utils at the moment, but there are several others).
We can't depend on distro-info at the moment since it's in Universe. We couldn't promote the distro-info binary package to Main without MIR'ing the ubuntu-dev-tools source package. I suspect that would be an unpopular decision, as that would move write access to ubuntu-dev-tools from MOTU to Core Dev.
What would you think about splitting distro-info out to a separate source/binary package, for these reasons?
I'm willing to help with the leg work. I'll review and accept the source/binary as an Archive Admin, and write the MIR.
Thanks,
:-Dustin
| summary: |
- distro-info: split to separate package? + distro-info: split to separate source package? |
| Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
Already done in 0.127