On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:13:53PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > I just tested on ubuntu breezy and I've the following comments: > > 1. s/gawk/awk/g #gawk name not present on ubuntu breezy at least > Ubuntu is broken then ... gawk should be installed and awk should be a symlink > to it. unless Ubunutu is installing a slimmed down awk that matches POSIX > and expects gawk as an addition (which it should force as part of its > system). > > you cant just go around doing s/gawk/awk/g without actually checking the code > to see if it contains GNU-isms ... What it actually means is that util-linux should build-depend: gawk. (or we just don't run tests...) Also, breezy became unsupported about 3 months ago... > > 3. The configure script indicated correctly that > > I needed to install the libblkid-dev package, but not the uuid-dev package. > > that's distro specific ... i dont think we want to go encoding every > dependency that random $distro needs ... And debian/control is where those would go. Note that I plan to upload 2.13 to Ubuntu's gutsy release at the same time I upload it to Debian sid. (There are some differences caused by dealing with the hardware clock differently, so it will be two uploads.) lamont - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
