Bug#846514: Catalan (ca) translation for po://apt/po/ca.po

2016-12-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
màticament i ja no és necessari:\n" aka: "ŀl" changed to "l·l". Is that intended? Attached is the file (compressed) as it came out of our 'make update-po' which additionally re-wrapped some lines, so you can see what I mean with the plurals (which end up being marked as f

Bug#846464: apt: Please drop B-D on googletest on unsupported architectures

2016-12-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
aluating and moving to other testing frameworks, which is time better spent on other bugs if we can help it… Beside, even if you decide not care that would still need to be expressed in the metadata, so reassign the bug as to be handled by you. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#845280: apt: useless path given in failed install messages

2016-11-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
dpkg::install::recursive "false"; dpkg::install::recursive::force "true"; So, lets let everyone pick his/her preferred poison and we will see who dies last in this vote… (cc'ed dpkg as they are as involved in it as apt is). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#845507: closed by Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#845507: having gnupg as Recommends instead of Depends breaks apt-key and tools that use apt-key)

2016-11-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
' user – and 99% of users will never need it (or at least shouldn't be forced by 6+ years outdated advice to use it). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#845563: apt-get update which ends up in grub-probe loops near Stack.pm uninitialized value

2016-11-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
he manpage advice and append the label of the repository to the option to have it not effect all your sources, but just those with that label (l= in apt policy output). btw: In stretch you are able to just mark the sources line(s) for your local mirror(s) directly with those options. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

2016-11-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
haven't looked closely, but apt tries to not explore solutions caused by M-A:same version screw – aptitude seems way more willing to suggest such solutions; that is okay I guess as it is way more interactive, too. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#844724: apt: Does not seem to support new GnuPG keybox keyring format

2016-11-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
for that format to not be changed and text-based formats tend to be easier to work with for humans. I have a patch for this mostly done which I am going to merge if I don't hear people complain bigtime about it and would consider this report +wontfix then. Any comments? Best regards David Kalnisch

Bug#636871: provide a command-line switch to prefer IPv6 or IPv4

2016-11-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
the idea], so that should absolutely be doable if someone wants to work on implementing it. If someone wants to try feel free to contact us on deity@/#debian-apt! Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ and it isn't clear if we do change to something else at some point as the dependency chain

Bug#844721: libgtest-dev isn't replacing dir with symlink on upgrade

2016-11-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:06:17PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:29:07PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > You should also update your README.Debian and the descriptions with the > > new paths and the transitional package as [...] >

Bug#844392: vlc refuses to install with debian backports enabled

2016-11-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
elpful messages. Other solvers have a lot more liberty of course: I haven't tried but aptitude or apt with --solver aspcud (or another) likely solves this specific situation – but they have other drawbacks in exchange. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#844476: apt: "apt autoremove --purge" reports different status (# of pkgs to upgrade) than "apt upgrade"

2016-11-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 07:20:47AM +0900, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Wed 2016-11-16 22:42:04 +0900, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:40:59PM +0900, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> weird that it says "1 not upgraded" in response to

Bug#844721: libgtest-dev isn't replacing dir with symlink on upgrade

2016-11-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
ace period the better… btw: Upstream seems to have retired their remark on compiling googletest on your own as I can't find it any longer on their website and e.g. in the RPM/BSD worlds you get a binary only. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#844476: apt: "apt autoremove --purge" reports different status (# of pkgs to upgrade) than "apt upgrade"

2016-11-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
ll relevant information of system state for the resolver in one still big but at least highly compressed file I might want to have later if my guess from above is completely wrong. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#838441: apt-get update fails with "Hash Sum mismatch", mixes hashes between tar.gz and tar file

2016-11-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
ring questions on q tend to be in the very vocal "no idea, but I get points for posting stuff anyhow" group. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#439121: Add a .pc file for libapt-pkt

2016-11-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
test shouldn't be hard (at least I hope so) & could provide some confidence that the pkg-config files actually work (and will continue to work in the future) – and that the libraries aren't completely broken either of course. :) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#272557: provide NotAutomatic option

2016-11-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi, looks good, applies cleanly & works, but let me be picky and ask for some more changes anyhow: On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:05:52PM +, James Clarke wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:31:02PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > e.g. APT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin. The

Bug#598235: regression: synaptic no longer preserves "auto" flag on upgrade

2016-11-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
ted from /var/backups if need be) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#843789: aptitude: please support Build-Depends/Conflicts-Arch

2016-11-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
ts-Arch packages as Build-Depends which means it is going to install those packages… not really what we want it to do (apt unpatched + libapt support would do the same btw). Thanks for consideration & Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#272557: provide NotAutomatic option

2016-11-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
e field via sed at the moment. It shouldn't be hard to change it to use the new setting instead. No need to come up with a new testcase here to be able to confidently say "well tested". :) Thanks again for working on that issue! Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#842877: apt: does not set HOME before invoking gnupg

2016-11-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
th my pillow with those questions already… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#841969: /usr/share/man/de/man8/apt-get.8.gz: German man page confusion in apt-get source subcommand

2016-10-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
to the responsible translator (Chris Leick) instead as he will know best what the "state of the union" is. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

2016-10-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
Especially in the first one every keypress can count, so perhaps you want to expand on what you do – but aptitude people will know better than me what to do (of course, in the event that this is a libapt regression feel free to hand it back). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#840268: apt-get update combined with dns problem is destroying filesystem.

2016-10-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
e? If a bug effects central parts of the infrastructure its always more problematic than a bug in leaf package… the hope is that such bugs are unlikely enough that we don't have to base our bugreporting system on handwritten notes and carrier pigeons. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#840584: apt-key doesn't report the key id and fingerprint on systems with gnupg 2.1

2016-10-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
f your troubles. :) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#807443: Better error message for incorrect apt sources?

2016-10-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
larily better than this without guessing and overriding Tors choices. So I would strongly advice to not make typos I guess… ;) Do you have any specific ideas? Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#749611: apt-transport-tor: Leaks locale information

2016-10-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
1). This example and reading the manpage will also help you configure apt to download additional translation files it isn't going to use later on if you really want to pursue this venue instead/too. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#754242: feature request: support http://asdfasdf.onion without tor://

2016-10-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
on address with http only: Err:1 http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/ Direct connection to .onion domains is blocked by default. If you meant to use Tor remember to use tor+http instead of http. Disclaimer: This response pre-depends on the recently uploaded 0.3 version in combination with apt 1.3. B

Bug#838779: Release.gpg not downloaded unless Release is deleted

2016-09-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
henticated pattern even if you want to). (keep the URI http:// through as a https:// one needs the optional -https transport your users might or might not have installed) If you think that process could be streamlined you are probably right, but nobody designed and implemented it yet. Best regar

Bug#836567: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#836567: aptitude: [PATCH] aborts on encountering new DepCompareOp flags

2016-09-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
will not be subsumed in most (= I would say all, but if you are an 'evil' maintainer you can do it. Practical use is subzero through) cases even if you would allow it anyhow. Hope that adding some context helps here. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#837970: Apt simulation improvements

2016-09-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
install -s awesome apt-doc+ dpkg-dev- This installs (or upgrades) 'awesome' and 'apt-doc' and removes 'dpkg-dev'. Is that what you are asking for? Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#837395: apt-get build-dep ignores Build-Depends-Arch

2016-09-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
23910. I am going to write a patch for apt later, but I guess that can't be considered a bugfix and hence might not be 1.3 material (depending on how big or not that might turn out to be). Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-1.html#f55 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#836899: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#836899: aptitude: dpkg - found unknown packages; this might mean the available database is outdated

2016-09-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
n: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id=70ff288b98a7aae2c2808112015d34f76f2d5114 Feel free to ignore the warning until apt transitions to testing as it is perfectly harmless – no need to upgrade apt out of line to fix this. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#836598:

2016-09-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
This seems to be documented e.g. in "BINARY SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION" of apt.conf manpage. Have you just not found this, was the text unclear or what do you think we should be doing to resolve this bug? Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#836265: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#836265: aptitude: keeps reselecting sysvinit

2016-09-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:10:14PM +0200, ydir...@free.fr wrote: > > >> I don't see sysvinit being Essential anymore in unstable: > > >> > > >> → apt-cache show sysvinit | fgrep -i Essential > > >> This package depends on init, which is an essential package that > > >> → > > >> > > >> Any chance

Bug#836125: https-everywhere: please package new upstream release

2016-08-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
https-everywhere (and many other extensions) in Debian to have it just one apt call away! :) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#835128: Mergeback of apt-transport-tor into apt?

2016-08-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 09:29:37AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Anyway, as I proposed this mergeback I will see if I can come up with > the relevant packaging changes now instead of just imagining things. So, here we go: My proposal in code instead of text (tmp location):

Bug#835128: Mergeback of apt-transport-tor into apt?

2016-08-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi, On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 09:17:19AM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > On 21 August 2016 at 22:36, David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> wrote: > >> So, assuming we can agree on that this is in general a good idea, this > >> would leave apt-transport-tor relatively e

Bug#834973: apt update in sid chroot exits with "repository is not signed"

2016-08-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
(and would explain Timos "fix"). So, perhaps you can redo your tests, but as _apt e.g. with: su _apt -s /bin/sh -c 'apt-key list' Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#835195: apt: "apt-get update" segfaults in pkgAcquire::Queue::Cycle() with specific apt-line.

2016-08-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
dex files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#835128: Mergeback of apt-transport-tor into apt?

2016-08-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
, 2016 at 06:08:26PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > back in 2014 then apt-transport-tor was introduced it started as > a pretty straight copy of apt-transport-https with the reasoning of > being able to backport it (#745259). > > It is two years later now with an eye on the upcom

Bug#674523: apt-get manpage: please document option --solver

2016-08-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
today, too. Flaming about their software without any sort of details is how most developers are motivated to work on it after all. Best regards^W^WBye David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#834565: apt-key: no keyid listed

2016-08-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
last hex-digit. True, it wasn't very friendly to copy the fingerprint as you needed to remove the spaces, but I implemented automatic space-removal for the lazy just today, so that shouldn't be a problem either. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#833656: cme fails with dpkg error

2016-08-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
t; being run. Not sure where, perhaps there is another use of AptPkg in cme? The first is correct, the later indicates that $_config->init was never called as Dir couldn't be empty in that case (and that Dir::State gets its default value here is actually an unattended but harmless side effect of the dpkg/status finding code in its current form). Given that the error message has a '/' in front I lean towards assuming that the configuration is eventually initialized, just too late. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#833656: cme fails with dpkg error

2016-08-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
g into initializing apt in the right order or you will eventually will run again into issues with config options not having the option set they are supposed to have, which is why I leave this bug here – unsure if its a cme or libapt-pkg-perl problem, I am just not enough of a perler to know… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#833891: apt does not respect listchanges.conf as put in /etc/apt

2016-08-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
Control: reassign -1 apt-listchanges APT isn't respecting this file because it isn't its file and knows nothing about it nor has any functionality which would use it. It is the file of a hookscript, hence reassigning to that, full-quoting the initial mail for reassigning benefit. On Tue, Aug

Bug#832113: apt: "Hash sum mismatch" since apt(1.2.14, 1.3~pre2) behind proxy => mixed-up deb filenames

2016-07-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
returning 404 for files which should be there… switch to another perhaps? Based on this report and #831762 I made a bunch of commits which for this report I am not entirely sure will fix the problem, but I at least have some hope for it. We will see with the next upload I guess. In the meantime: Thanks for

Bug#832972: dpkg: support for multi-instance M-A:same to arch:all "crossgrade"

2016-07-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
orry for the moment), so I aim low and treat it as a feature request rather than a bug. Not sure how non-apt-based frontends like dselect behave through, so for them that might be one… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#832808: RFS: cdist/4.2.2-1

2016-07-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
rce-only upload failed, so beside the need to fix this build-failure the package (which I see you claim to have done already in your newest version) will also have to pass binary-NEW now. So, you should be preparing and asking for sponsorship of 4.2.2-2 (just answering the question, /me not vol

Bug#832960: apt-get won't continue broken downloads, it restarts them

2016-07-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
btw – actually LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8 is enough. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#832901: apt: "apt upgrade -s" tries to remove a file

2016-07-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
s. Its also not for state keeping (/var/lib) and not a cache (/var/cache) as its never read. It does log the current state of the system through which is why I placed it in /var/log. Its not ideal that this is root-only, but as mentioned I really don't like ~/. Do you have a better suggestion for a location? Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#832503: apt: foo:any dependency is not handled correctly when foo is not Multi-Arch: allowed

2016-07-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
to discuss this – nor is my existance exorbitantly interested in 'chairing' such a discussion at the moment as there are other things I should be working on, which is also why I only think in private that this might be a topic which should end up on d-d@ as it effects at least the big virtual packages. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#831762: apt data corrupts with MergeList

2016-07-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
ter (a successful) apt call a broken file has slipped in creating errors. The attached log shows apt behaving as intended – well, perhaps apt should be clever enough to remove broken files from its lists/ directory but thats a wishlist as it shouldn't end up in a situation in which it has broken files there in the first place… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#831762: apt data corrupts with MergeList

2016-07-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
ore obvious if we know how the file came to be – and as we do run afresh, lets add a few debug options to have the most "fun" with it (beware, lots of output): -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Worker=1 -o Debug::Acquire::http=1 Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#832176: dpkg-maintscript-helper: please support DPKG_ROOT

2016-07-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
shlist, that report would have it… Best regards David Kalnischkies From bae1b41a7d450e9be895edee4220fe34bbe99946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:07:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [INCOMPLETE] dpkg-maintscript-helper: support DPKG

Bug#832113: apt: "Hash sum mismatch" since apt(1.2.14, 1.3~pre2) behind proxy => mixed-up deb filenames

2016-07-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
can't really happen… Anyway, I would suggest dropping the entire configuration file from above and run apt with the following debug options (lots of output): -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Worker=1 -o Debug::Acquire::http=1 Then we have a chance to know what apt/proxy/server are up to. Best regards David Kalni

Bug#832044: apt-get doesn't remember a partial download of a package

2016-07-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
you can't provide a detailed step by step guide on how to reproduce this I fear this report isn't actionable. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#727799: apt-get not marking manual correctly and apt-mark showmanual also wrong

2016-07-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
else on your "behalf" even without your explicit knowledge) runs 'apt install libutf8proc1' – even if that ends up doing "nothing". Either way, without you telling us what "you" did this remains as unactionable as before. Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: In the m

Bug#831762: apt data corrupts with MergeList

2016-07-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
is just who messed up: If Pdiff we would have potentially ed-artifacts in the file, otherwise it could be the write-buffered implementation or perhaps its the downloader picking up a partial file incorrectly, ……… Hard to say without details. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#829595: m-a: please mark packages on install as auto-installed

2016-07-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
st regards David Kalnischkies [0] That could be improved upon by now, but that requires a recent apt, so in the interest of backports I will leave that slide for the moment – and it doesn't change the manual vs auto part discussed here anyhow. From fbb1d6e1d19496c52b208fe155fa6eb3bebbaab5 Mon Sep 1

Bug#796913: gbp-dch: --no-git-author does not seem to have an effect

2016-07-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
merging and co, but suggests that the trailer actually must be modified in the --no-git-author case (which is the default ATM). Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/git-buildpackage/commit/?id=c3258c19c6cfa291c8bebac1dae230f6e3ccca36 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#828011: requested traces attached

2016-06-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
MERIC=C.UTF-8 as a workaround should keep the l10n intact. As I said the last two times already: How hard can date parsing be… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#828011: apt 1.3~exp3 is broken

2016-06-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:24:18AM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > On 06/24/2016 09:40 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > All http sources broken with malformed header lines… that sounds a lot > > like a proxy running amok. The "

Bug#827915:

2016-06-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
dvise against using!) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#828011: apt 1.3~exp3 is broken

2016-06-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
placement is bugfree… In unrelated news: I would strongly suggest to switch to http for the debian sources. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#827757: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#827757: apt-get upgrade doesn't want to upgrade packages in need of an upgrade

2016-06-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:15:14AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 23:35 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > I guess the nagios check shouldn't use 'apt-get upgrade', but that > > > depend

Bug#827757: apt-get upgrade doesn't want to upgrade packages in need of an upgrade

2016-06-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
't use 'apt-get upgrade', but that depends on what it is supposed to show (aka what its users expect) and what it actually uses (based on "critical updates" I guess it is using its own code, perhaps a binding…) but both I don't know hence reassigning. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#826783: libapt-pkg5.0: aptitude aborts due to a fd leak

2016-06-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
than letting me wade through aptitude code on my own… (as the lz4 leak is by far the biggest eater of fds in your case this bug could be closed with it, but we gonna catch them all…) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#826043: apt: gpg validation fails on hurd

2016-06-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
some huge Baader-Meinhof bias… [2] (and I am bit surprised we had nobody on non-hurd complain about 'strange' messages being emitted while using apt-key – but perhaps that just means nobody is using apt-key anymore… if only that were true…) Best regards David Kalnischkies [1] The mai

Bug#825897: horrible infinite loop upon apt-get upgrade

2016-05-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
te_8h_source.html > │ ├─dpkg-query -L imagemagick:all > │ └─grep -F -q -x > /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/www/api/MagickCore/utility-private_8h_source.html Well, that looks like a maintainerscript running amok as apt doesn't call dpkg-query. As that loop seems to be produced by dpkg-maintscript-helper itself, reassigning to dpkg (and keeping a clone), but perhaps its also imagemagick calling it wrong as imagemagick is only newly 'all', it used to be 'any'… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#492432: aptitude: fetch and display copyright (like changelog)

2016-05-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
titude people hang out together)! Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#825467: apt: `apt-get install ./foo.deb` succeeds `dpkg -i ./foo.deb && apt-get install -yf` fails

2016-05-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
hat this bug is a > duplicate of #815650; I'm filing a separate bug since that's just > a hunch. Red hering; completely unrelated as yours is a problem in the resolver while this one is with the interaction between APT↔dpkg which in the resolver failing cases isn't even part of the execution path. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#825384: aptitude: thousands' grouping characters in port numbers

2016-05-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
it turns out to be hard feel free to merge back. (Lets see how hard that is going to be in libapt…) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 01:32:20PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 21-May-2016, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > As an example, your changes in the context of gpgv are incorrect as > > the official term in rfc2440 for the "key-value pairs" is "Armor > > Heade

Bug#824908: apt: inconsistent “header” terminology throughout documentation, comments, messages

2016-05-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
llection of header fields is not named > ‘headers’, or that an individual field is not named ‘header’). Well, as usual, we can't easily change public API so I would like to avoid that for the moment… we could look into it after stretch. If it is non-public like in methods/ you could run wild… Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#824441: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#824441: Bug#824441: aptitude segfaults when marking texlive-generic-extra as auto-installed

2016-05-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
tential of hiding bugs (at the expense of opening some like here). Either way, that needs more thought than I can shell out at the moment & adapting the call site should be easy. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#824774: pkg-config: please support DPKG_ROOT in dpkghook script

2016-05-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
port 'crazy' DPKG_ROOT values like directories containing spaces and magic shell characters. Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] run e.g. as autopkgtest, but pkg-config isn't in the (build-) dependencies of apt so far, so that effects 'just' developer machines. [1] some info on the why and

Bug#824456: please clarify --show-upgraded and Apt::Get::Show-Upgraded

2016-05-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
of apt-get. What we probably should do is deprecate "-u" (as that doesn't deserve a short option, but not sure) and document the "--no-" version as we do with install-recommends, download and a few more. btw: As every commandline option is backed by a configuration option you have even more ways of changing the value… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#823918: apt-get --solver dump doesn't add Preferences field to edsp file

2016-05-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:25:23PM +0200, Pietro Abate wrote: > On 10/05/16 15:09, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > 'APT::Solver::aspcud::Preferences=-removed,-changed,-new,-count(solution,APT-Release:=/experimental/)' > > ^^ > > > > The

Bug#823945: apt: support for PAX extended header and Linux extended attributes

2016-05-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
bread-and-butter thing for dpkg and gets hence a much better look from someone who actually works with tar much. So: please go ahead with extending dpkg – apt will follow suit then! Best regards David Kalnischkies From 8bab10645097198f8f527c2b9e7737068bab879a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: St

Bug#823918: apt-get --solver dump doesn't add Preferences field to edsp file

2016-05-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
equested 'dump' to resolve it, but the preferences string is for 'aspcud'. So, seems to work as intended, doesn't it – or did I miss anything? Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#823534: apt-get remove is unhelpful for virtual packages

2016-05-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
electing 'libfontconfig1-dev' instead of 'libfontconfig-dev'" as response to "apt purge libfontconfig-dev", but does nothing anyhow. > I noticed that the 'Virtual packages ...' line vanishes if stdout is > piped through, e.g., cat and wonder if this is done deliberately. Yeah (although

Bug#673193: apt-get: should remove foreign arch packages even if arch suffix is missing

2016-05-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
foo recommends bar | bar:i386". Anyway, please split it off (cloning feels a bit wrong as it isn't overly related to the other long messages in this report) to a new bug for record keeping. Perhaps I even have some time later this week to look into implementing this… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#823339: apt fails from the last three days saying Clearsigned file isn't valid

2016-05-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
ease'? If you download it with wget/curl? In any case, I don't see much potential for improvement from the apt side here as "garbage in, garbage out", but perhaps if you can shine some light on what is going on there might be something so I am not closing downright… but I am damn close. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#703932: Certificate problem =?= package integrity problem?

2016-05-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
ext of apt]. After all, if you don't want apt to do that, why are you using https… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
sentials are far from common. (well, the super real solution is to write a better resolver, which has an easier time reverting its own decisions) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
it got the mksh idea from. (That is probably a lot of output, so redirecting to a file and attaching it here is adviceable) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#624122: Hash Sum mismatch

2016-04-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
getting the right message across in 'update' commands which should already bug you about these repositories… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#820126: wrong filenames in apt snippet used for flat repositories

2016-04-05 Thread David Kalnischkies
Instead of fixing these flat-entries you could also consider dropping them as these flat (or "one directory") repositories are a bit unlikely to have dep11 support in the first place… Or as the documentation words it: "Support for these flat repositories exists mainly for legacy pur

Bug#344980: please provide an package source filename search

2016-03-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
org anymore – "ftp.debian.org" would, but: The Release file of at least the current releases have a Contents-source file (for each Component), which looks like it includes the requested data, so instead of cloning I am just dropping the block. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#818582: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#818582: aptitude cannot deal with often changing IP

2016-03-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
sorts of problems with it… for example: I couldn't survive without ssh and mosh gets you only so far…, but I digress. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#818582: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#818582: aptitude cannot deal with often changing IP

2016-03-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
nd the same name ftp.debian.org, so with the IP we have a chance to figure out which mirror of the many in the rotation is it your machine was talking to (aka: its not your IP or otherwise a secret). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#817803: please specify metadata-by-hash

2016-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
r twenty old versions is arbitrary indeed, apt-ftparchive picked 2 olds (probably at semi-random) but any other number would work. Any time-based requirement would work, too. For some values of A and B at least. Perhaps the spec shouldn't require anything and just leave this to be figured out by the

Bug#817931: Bug#817803: please specify metadata-by-hash

2016-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
feel free to reopen/ask. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#818950: apt: [INTL:ja] Japanese translation of po4a apt documentation update

2016-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
notes. :) Feel free to translate this inline in a reply instead of rolling a complete po if that is easier for you. Thanks again & Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#818912: apt-cudf shouldn't exit non-zero if it isn't crashing

2016-03-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
ing --criteria-plain Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#818405: apt: Google Chrome repository unusable because of weak digest

2016-03-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
s on it… This might also be the right time for users to reconsider if they really need all these third-party repositories they have configured over the years. Debian has an evergrowing archive of software after all – and if it isn't in the archive yet, consider adding it! Best regards David K

Bug#817240: mirrors: errors with ftp.fr.debian.org

2016-03-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
ists before you do this in case this isn't always reproducible (if you get the "wrong" mirror for example). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#812251: fixed in apt 1.2.1

2016-02-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:21:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:11:57PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > Zip up the lists/ directory + your /etc/apt. DO NOT run update again > > before doing that. Upload that somewhere. > > http://q.bofh.de/~mh/

Bug#815464: apt: options and arguments don't have consistent behavior

2016-02-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
or do they change default behaviour.¹ "apt" is just another binary which comes with a slightly different set of default options we deem more reasonable for interactive usage, but uses the very same code as apt-get and co. So if you have a script, please continue to use 'apt-get update --pri

Bug#812251: fixed in apt 1.2.1

2016-02-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
ll debug packages (copy back the buggy lists/ directory after that) and provide a stacktrace. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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