[Bug 550582] Review Request: dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian Linux

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--- Comment #14 from Matt Taggart <taggart at debian.org> 2010-01-28 16:40:34 EST ---
I was talking to one of the dpkg developers on IRC. He doesn't have a bugzilla
account and so asked that I forward these comments on.

<guillem> re dpkg in fedora I don't have an account on their bugzilla but you
might wanna comment to maybe speed up the review
<guillem> install-info is not really needed at all if they are using the one
from GNU texinfo
<guillem> update-alternatives I thought they have their own implentation (but I
might be wrong)
<guillem> I see in their spec file they are working around a problem now fixed
in the latest released version about selinux linking
<guillem> the LDFLAGS='-lselinux' should be unnecessary
<guillem> I don't know how they requires stuff gets generated but I suspect the
perl requires involving dpkg-gettext.pl and controllib.pl is not needed anymore
<guillem> re licensing I did an audit that might be useful to them:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2009/11/msg00043.html
<guillem> cpio should not be needed by the devel package
<guillem> I've not checked the patch they are applying but I'd gladly fix
anything that causes them to need to patch it
<guillem> there's also been reports on the list about it building fine with
recentish git on fedora
<guillem> I think that's mostly it
<guillem> and thanks for fwding the info :)
<guillem> oh and re the linker optimization they can use
--disable-linker-optimisations
<guillem> and dselect needs dpkg yes
<guillem> anyway dinner time for me, poke if you need more info!

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