One of the template NM questions is about how to minimize the
downtime of a daemon during package upgrade (in maintainer scripts).
ssh does an /etc/init.d/ssh restart in postinstall, which (with
luck) means that there will be *no* downtime. This doesn't seem to be
necessary for allowing ssh
It is common for daemons to be stopped in pre{inst,rm}. This makes
sense, but I wonder what the motivation is.
I see two possible explanations:
1. Both postinst and prerm can often abstain from checking their
arguments. prerm is called with any of:
remove [in-favour]
[failed-]upgrade
Package upgrades skipping a stable release are advertised as not
guaranteed to work, which allows maintainers to drop support for
upgrades from versions earlier than oldstable in their uploads to
unstable. However I've never heard a requirement that package
versions earlier than the most recent
-common packages are used to reduce the size of the archive; arch
independant data need not be included in each of the 10+ arch-specific
binary packages; only one package is needed.
As expected, most of the contents of the -common packages are in
/usr/share:
time zgrep -Ff (apt-cache search -n
Apparently dpkg was initially written/prototyped in perl; does there
exist somewhere a copy of that implementation?
Please Cc: me,
Justin
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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:36:05AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:01:52AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
Package: developers-reference
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IMO it is a best-practice to set usertags when filing lots of bugs for
a given problem,
Good
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:28:27PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Hello World,
As many of you undoubtedly know, experimental is autobuilt these days.
...
However, it will only work if the build-dependencies are fully
specified; i.e., if a package 'foo' in experimental requires another
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:23:13PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:15:30AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
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I'd like to see a /u/s/d/devscripts/examples/dev-best-practices script
which runs things like `rcalert
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Description:
stardict - International dictionary for GNOME 2
stardict-common - International dictionary for GNOME 2 - data files
stardict-tools - The dictionary conversion tools of stardict
Closes: 347109
Changes:
stardict (2.4.5-1.1) unstable
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On Sat, 3 Dec, 2005 at 17:15:58 +, Colin Watson wrote:
yaclc provides this.
I also have bug #316385: [process.in] allow for process.in commands
to restrict themselves to a specific package (like service.in).
Presently the BTS doesn't seem to have this functionality, but it
would probably not
It is my understanding that an urgency='low' upload defines a 10 day
delay in testing propogation, unless overridden by hints.
However, yesterday's gtk+2.0 upload indications only a 5 day delay.
Why?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtk+2.0.html
Please Cc me.
Justin
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On 2005-11-14, I filed grave bug #339056: Library package fails
to include shlibs file [0] on package tktable-dev [1] , on which my
package saods9 build-depends. I'm concerned about this bug because 1)
its RC; 2) I haven't heard back in a month, despite pinging the
maintainer last week; 3) My
Package: wnpp
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* Package name: libwcs
Version : 4.2
Upstream Author : Mark R. Calabretta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/
* License : GPL
Description : FITS world coordinate system support library
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I am including a list of 73 packages which happened to be installed on
my laptop which contain a maintscript with the fragment:
# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
# generated by other debhelper scripts.
Maybe this is a
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:57:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This refers to the #DEBHELPER# token.
OH. Maybe I understand. The maintscripts of the packages in my list
were probably initially dh_make templates, and the maintainers didn't
remove
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:12:02PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Justin Pryzby]
In which case, should the shared libraries go into a separate package?
I wouldn't bother unless there are multiple binary packages already
which will require the library, and they don't already depend on each
here can provide insight, otherwise I guess I will try on -devel.
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone else
After doing a recent dist-upgrade, I see:
$ fg
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Setting up libgphoto2-2 (2.1.5-6) ...
Setting up libgphoto2-port0 (2.1.5-6) ...
Setting up libxv-dev (4.3.0.dfsg.1-13) ...
Setting up libxi-dev (4.3.0.dfsg.1-13) ...
Setting up g++-3.3 (3.3.5-13) ...
Setting up g++-3.4
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It seems that /usr/bin/update-menus now runs in the background. I ran
sudo apt-et install glade, and after it finished, I ran ps -ef |tail
-5, and the last commands running were update-menus.real, and
install-menu.
Is it supposed to be a background job, and, if so, why?
Thanks, please Cc: me,
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
I occasionally install a program and need to know how to use it as
quickly as possible; for example, while reading through bug reports.
So, I run foo --help. Sometimes, the help screen is more than 25
lines long, and it scrolls on past. So, I run foo --help
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:12:05AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz?
Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning
is a potential problem. But lintian
Package: wnpp
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* Package name: libncar-graphics
Version : 4.4.0 and counting, quickly
Upstream Author : UCAR, C/O Mary Haley
* URL : http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ng/
* License : GPL2
Description : scientific visualization suite from UCAR
Package: wnpp
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* Package name: saods9
Version : 3.0.3
Upstream Author : William Joye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/
* License : GPL2
Description : astronomical image tool
DS9 is an application for
Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz?
Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning
is a potential problem. But lintian (and others: apt-file) could
depend on this package (say, debian-dist-contents).
Justin
Greetings,
I mailed the list recently regarding my ITP AIPS: Astronomical Image
Processing System. For anyone who might have considered sponsoring,
here is some more info regarding its size.
Source tar.gz: 67MB
Initial .deb Size: 148MB
Current .deb Size: 16MB arch dependent, 52MB arch
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: aips
Version : 20041029
Upstream Author : NRAO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/
* License : GPL
Description : Astronomical Image Processing System from NRAO
The Astronomical Image
Has anybody ever considered the possibility of a 0-reboot
installation?
It seems that this should be possible with (or without?) kexec.
I think the reason the installer presently reboots is to load the
*real* kernel (which will be used during normal runtime) rather than
the installer kernel.
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