Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action "replace" may be insufficient

Hi Raphaël, On 23-12-17 09:04, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It looks good. I uploaded a new version with your patch. Thanks. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action "replace" may be insufficient

Hi, On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Paul Gevers wrote: > Please find attached my attempt (tested in so far that the produced > dependencies are as expected for both embed and embed-weakdep) to > achieve it. It is the first time ever that I change Perl code, so please > check. It looks good. I uploaded a

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action "replace" may be insufficient

Control: tag -1 patch Hi Raphaël, On 20-12-17 08:50, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Sorry, but I no longer have any special interest in dh-linktree (I wrote > it for wordpress which I no longer maintain). Ack. > I will happily apply a patch or give up the package to someone else > but don't expect

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action "replace" may be insufficient

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Paul Gevers wrote: > I now have an RC bug against my package cacti because the depends got > updated (and nothing except a manual bug told me what was going on). > autopkgtests started failed, but didn't notified me that the versions > added by dh_linktree were the problem. To

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action "replace" may be insufficient

On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:08:56 +0100 Paul Gevers wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2015 09:19:21 +0200 Raphael Hertzog > wrote: > > Given your answer about "embed-weakdep", I think that it would make sense > > to fix "replace" to behave like the documentation says and

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action "replace" may be insufficient

On Sat, 2 May 2015 09:19:21 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Given your answer about "embed-weakdep", I think that it would make sense > to fix "replace" to behave like the documentation says and to introduce > the other variant of embed. I would indeed like an embeb-weakdep

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action replace may be insufficient

On Sat, 02 May 2015, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: It appears to me that fixing action replace would actually break it, at least for existing packages. Since this behaviour was already introduced, we can only fix documentation to reflect reality and then avoid dramatic changes that can break

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action replace may be insufficient

On Fri, 01 May 2015, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Yes, positive. dh_linktree adds files to destination and this is very useful behaviour that I rely upon. [...] If embed doesn't do what you want, we might consider a new action but I'm not convinced yet that it's needed. Possibly an embed-weakdep

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action replace may be insufficient

On Sat, 2 May 2015 09:19:21 Raphael Hertzog wrote: Given your answer about embed-weakdep, I think that it would make sense to fix replace to behave like the documentation says and to introduce the other variant of embed. It appears to me that fixing action replace would actually break it, at

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action replace may be insufficient

Package: dh-linktree Version: 0.4 Severity: normal Action replace creates links to missing files in destination but ignores missing folders. replace action is meant to ensure compatibility with future versions of replaced libraries but its counter-intuitive implementation sometimes produces

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action replace may be insufficient

Hi, On Fri, 01 May 2015, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Action replace creates links to missing files in destination but ignores missing folders. Are you sure of this? “The deduplicate action will not create new files” [...] “The replace action is like deduplicate except that it does replace existing

Bug#783906: dh-linktree: action replace may be insufficient

On Fri, 1 May 2015 14:34:16 Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Fri, 01 May 2015, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Action replace creates links to missing files in destination but ignores missing folders. Are you sure of this? Yes, positive. dh_linktree adds files to destination and this is very useful