Re: dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper

2011-11-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011, Colin Watson wrote: > What I think we settled on as the least bad option is to refine the > dpkg-buildpackage workaround so that it does not export environment > variables if the package it's building is using debhelper compat level 9 > or above, and to manually review all such

Re: Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

2011-07-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Martin, On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Martin Pitt wrote: > sorry for the very late reply, this got lost in my mailbox. Heh, I see that didrocks did not forget to ping you :-) > Raphael Hertzog [2011-05-01 9:24 +0200]: > > Introducing a work-around in the already released appor

Re: Bug#628481: debclean: please respect the option 'unapply-patches' in debian/source/local-options

2011-07-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Naturally, I've forwarded that change to debian and got the following > response. If someone objects to the change I've implemented, please tell > so me and I'll revert it. Otherwise, I'll follow what change James will > implement in debian and replace

Re: Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

2011-05-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 02 May 2011, Brian Murray wrote: > This particular bug report was reported during a distribution upgrade of > Ubuntu from Maverick to Natty. This is recognizable by the attachments > named 'VarLogDistupgrade'. The call to apport was actually made by > update-manager, in DistUpgradeView.py

Re: Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

2011-05-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 02 May 2011, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > whenever an upgrade fails early in the unpack (either broken preinst, > > corrupted archive, etc.), APT still tries to configure it and > > it results in a suppl

Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

2011-05-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, whenever an upgrade fails early in the unpack (either broken preinst, corrupted archive, etc.), APT still tries to configure it and it results in a supplementary error in the upgrade log that looks like this: dpkg: error processing onboard (--configure): package onboard is already installe

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011, Dave Morley wrote: > We now have the blue Ubuntu indicator when an application requires > viewing so I don't particularly see not having an indicator as an issue > as long as the application icon shows up in the app launcher. If we > went with gnome 3.0 people would have the s

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, sean finney wrote: > so i didn't exactly leave in a huff, but i did signal that i had > no further intention of wasting my time until i had some idea > that it would actually go anywhere. I'm sorry for all this. The problem is that Guillem is a single point of failure in

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Daniel Holbach wrote: > The general plan looks like this: > 1. decide on a toolkit I would highly suggest that you give a try to publican. It's already available in Ubuntu and I co-maintain it in Debian. It's docbook based but it generates good looking documentation, an