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[Jim Nutt]

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Why not package the savannah themes separately?=20

jim

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:37:28 +0100
Roland Mas <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ryan T. Sammartino (2003-02-14 11:29:25 -0800) :
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> > Uhm...
> >
> > why? :(
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> The Debian packaging system works like this.  A "source package" is
> composed of an "upstream" tarball, the one that's released by the
> upstream development team, and a Debian-specific patch.  That
> Debian-specific patch cannot contain changes made to binary files
> (that includes the addition of such binary files).  Since the Gforge
> tarball released by Tim did not contain all the images (it only
> contained the ones for the Gforge theme, not for the other themes),
> the Debian-specific patch had to re-add these images.  Binary files
> are forbidden, so the work-around is to uuencode the files, so that
> the patch only concerns text files.  The real fix for this problem
> would be that future releases do not forget themes other than the
> Gforge one.
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> > A CVS update has toasted all my .png files.  And my old utility
> > script for converting the .uu files is gone.
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>   You can use "deb-specific/manage-uufiles.sh decode".  This script is
> used when building the Debian binary package, so that it contains the
> real image files.
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> > Could we go back to the way things were before this change?
> > Resubmit the .pngs? Please?
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>   If future releases don't leave them out, sure :-)
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> Roland.
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> Roland Mas
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> Sauvez les castors, tuez les b=FBcherons.
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