Please sync checkinstall 1.6.1-8 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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checkinstall (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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checkinstall (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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 <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:34:06 -0400
Changed in checkinstall: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in checkinstall: | |
assignee: | nobody → bhavi |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in checkinstall: | |
assignee: | bhavi → nhandler |
status: | Incomplete → In Progress |
affects: | debian → checkinstall (Debian) |
You don't need to include this change "Use quilt for managing patches to upstream sources." in your changelog entry. This was a Debian change, not an Ubuntu change. Also, now that Debian recommends make, there is no reason we need to Depend on make. Recommended packages are installed by default in intrepid.