Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-03-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 08:24:50AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:24:03PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Also worth noting that a couple of days ago, the author wrote on > > #debian-devel that some time ago the patch was presented to the dpkg > > maintainer, who rejected

Re: Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-03-29 Thread Ansgar
On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 08:24 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > That is unfortunate. If I remember correctly, there was some more > concrete criticism that is still entirely unaddressed in the current > form. > > dpkg is both a Debian package and an upstream project used by > multiple distributions with

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-03-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 29/03/2022 00:55, Sean Whitton wrote: On Mon 28 Mar 2022 at 10:35PM +02, Christoph Berg wrote: The problem here is that if ul-extra contains things besides rename, and it conflicts with the perl rename, people will rightfully complain that they can't install /usr/bin/fincore-from-ul-ex

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-03-29 Thread Philip Hands
Christoph Berg writes: > Re: Chris Hofstaedtler >> > * which binary package should contain the util-linux rename? >> >- bsdextrautils >> >- something else >> >> util-linux-extra. Unrelatedly, other non-essential binaries from >> util-linux should also move into this package, but this is

Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-03-29 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 08:24 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Luca, > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:24:03PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Also worth noting that a couple of days ago, the author wrote on > > #debian-devel that some time ago the patch was presented to the dpkg > > maintainer, who re

Bug#1007717: Native source package format with non-native version

2022-03-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Sean, On 28/03/22 at 16:21 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Lucas, > > Many thanks for providing this summary of your position. Let me just > note a point of disagreement: > > On Tue 15 Mar 2022 at 10:06PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > A point that I find important is the following: as

Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Dear committee members, Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know if you can't. Agenda: * Private Jitsi discussion of interpersonal issues * Review of previous meeting AIs * DebConf22 CfP -- what so

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 01:01pm -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding > DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know > if you can't. I think I'm the only person who is somewhere that doesn't observe DST, so we

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Elana Hashman
On 2022-03-29 13:11, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 01:01pm -07, Sean Whitton wrote: Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know if you can't. I think I'm the only person who is

Bug#1007717: Native source package format with non-native version

2022-03-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 04:29:17PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > 1. Declare explicitly that there is nothing wrong with a package with > a native format, but a non-native version number. > 2. Request that the dpkg maintainer relax the restriction which > prevents the use of 3.0 native with

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 29/03/2022 21:11, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 01:01pm -07, Sean Whitton wrote: Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know if you can't. I think I'm the only person who is so

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 29/03/2022 21:01, Sean Whitton wrote: Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know if you can't. I'm afraid I probably can't be there until probably around 19:30 UTC (but I don't want to guara

Bug#1007717: Native source package format with non-native version

2022-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 09:06PM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/03/22 at 16:21 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> >> I don't think it's the preferred method. I believe most of the project >> sees git histories are the preferred tool for achieving the goal you >> state. >> >> If we had only so

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 10:44PM +01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > On 29/03/2022 21:11, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 01:01pm -07, Sean Whitton wrote: >> >>> Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding >>> DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a we

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 10:43PM +01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Hi, > > On 29/03/2022 21:01, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding >> DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know >> if you can't. > > I'm afraid I pr

Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-03-29 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:56:02PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 03:14:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > It would appear that the situation has deteriorated further. dpkg 1.21.2 > > now issues a warning on all merged-usr systems: > > > > Setting up dpkg (1.21.2) ... > >

Re: Next meeting -- one week early, 5th April @ 7pm UTC

2022-03-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sean Whitton dijo [Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 01:11:01PM -0700]: > > Due to both the current interpersonal situation and the impeding > > DebConf22 CfP, can we have our meeting a week early? Please let me know > > if you can't. > > I think I'm the only person who is somewhere that doesn't observe DST,