Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:17:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> The only glaring problem is that Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} needs to be >> added -- but I suppose lintian can be made to check for that. > > Yes (and I think I forgot to document that, but that's a simpl

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2010-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 07:10:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes (and I think I forgot to document that, but that's a simple tweak - > > let me know if you want an updated patch). > > I've checked it into git with documentation of that. Excellent, thanks! (There's a "debi

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2010-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Yes (and I think I forgot to document that, but that's a simple tweak - > let me know if you want an updated patch). I've checked it into git with documentation of that. > I'll file a lintian bug for > that - the check would be useful even without this debhelper change. Ple

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2010-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:17:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > As a strawman, how about something like this? This implementation does > > mean that you can't move conffiles whose names contain spaces; I'm not > > sure if that matters. I just did it in dh_installdeb rather th

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2010-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > I was wondering about this today. I'd like to get to the point where we > can say for a large number of packages that they only contain debhelper > autoscript code; this would make it much quicker to audit those packages > for safety. Along with adding some more operations t

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2010-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 05:29:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > dpkg-maintscript-helper is in dpkg now, so moving or removing > conffiles just involves pasting the same call to it into 3 > maintainer scripts. > > Since to be safe it needs to know the version of the package > in which the conffile mov

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2010-06-23 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi, > dpkg-maintscript-helper is in dpkg now, so moving or removing > conffiles just involves pasting the same call to it into 3 > maintainer scripts. Pasting one same call in 3 maintainer scripts is not a pain, but it becomes a pain when you have to maintain these 3 maintainer scripts in parall

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2010-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
dpkg-maintscript-helper is in dpkg now, so moving or removing conffiles just involves pasting the same call to it into 3 maintainer scripts. Since to be safe it needs to know the version of the package in which the conffile move/removal took place, and since using it means a versioned predependenc