Bug#511769: dpkg: don't put 'Essential' before 'Status' in /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.24 Severity: wishlist The format of dpkg's /var/lib/dpkg/status is similar to format that Packages uses, with one change: 'Status:' line just after 'Package:' line. However, there is an exception from this rule: when package version has 'Essential: yes' line, it's written before the 'Status' line. My wish is remove this exception and put 'Essential: yes' line after 'Status:' line as dpkg does for all other package entry lines. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc7jackyf (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lzma 4.43-14Compression method of 7z format in dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.20 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511769: dpkg: don't put 'Essential' before 'Status' in /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.24 Severity: wishlist The format of dpkg's /var/lib/dpkg/status is similar to format that Packages uses, with one change: 'Status:' line just after 'Package:' line. However, there is an exception from this rule: when package version has 'Essential: yes' line, it's written before the 'Status' line. My wish is remove this exception and put 'Essential: yes' line after 'Status:' line as dpkg does for all other package entry lines. And what is the rationale for this change? (Such a change needs a rationale, it won't be done just to please you) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511769: dpkg: don't put 'Essential' before 'Status' in /var/lib/dpkg/status
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: My wish is remove this exception and put 'Essential: yes' line after 'Status:' line as dpkg does for all other package entry lines. And what is the rationale for this change? (Such a change needs a rationale, it won't be done just to please you) It may (may, not essentially will) simplify some code that parse /var/lib/dpkg/status. Now one can't rely that it will be always 'Status' line after 'Package' entry. And, not related to previous, removing exception from some rule usually leads to cleaner understandings and cleaner and smaller code. If it's not the case, or such a change may break anything, then the change is undesirable. This is only a wish, after all. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#511769: dpkg: don't put 'Essential' before 'Status' in /var/lib/dpkg/status
Hi! On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:19:45 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: My wish is remove this exception and put 'Essential: yes' line after 'Status:' line as dpkg does for all other package entry lines. Hmm, I don't see any exception here, dpkg is always outputting the Essential field (if it has a 'yes' value) just after the Package field. And what is the rationale for this change? (Such a change needs a rationale, it won't be done just to please you) It may (may, not essentially will) simplify some code that parse /var/lib/dpkg/status. Well arguably, no one except dpkg should be parsing the status file. I know this might be tricky right now as dpkg does not provide a nicer way to access the whole data, which for example apt might need. But I hope to fix this during squeeze with the introduction of a libdpkg. Now one can't rely that it will be always 'Status' line after 'Package' entry. And one shouldn't! And, not related to previous, removing exception from some rule usually leads to cleaner understandings and cleaner and smaller code. If it's not the case, or such a change may break anything, then the change is undesirable. This is only a wish, after all. Again, I don't see the exception, for example dpkg will not care at all about the ordering of the fields, and will happily parse all fields from a reshuffled stanza w/o problems. So, I'm not sure I see the point in this bug report. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
