Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 06 Feb 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > (The long description could make more scary noises about bumping, > however.) And include an explanation of when it's appropriate or not, and of ways to avoid it altogether... Please someone do it and add that to the auto-reject list. And also add a

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 10:19:25PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:28:54PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 08:37:44AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I disagree - reusing file names with different contents in a > > > Debian-format archive is IMO alw

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Raphael, > [..] Could you please file bugs for these issues? Many thanks. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Standards 4.1.3 and apt-cacher

2018-02-07 Thread Mark Hindley
Hello, I am trying to upgrade apt-cacher to Standards version 4.1.3. In particular using DISABLED=yes|no in /etc/defaults is now prohibited. apt-cacher can be run as a daemon or from /etc/inetd.conf and this configuration is set in response to a debconf question. I have a working version of the

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 07 Feb 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > Could you please file bugs for these issues? Many thanks. Done: - https://bugs.debian.org/889814 Improve long description of epoch-change-without-comment => Additional suggestions to put in the long description are welcome. - https://bugs.debia

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:18:03AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 10:19:25PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:28:54PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 08:37:44AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I disagree - reusing file names wit

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 07 Feb 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Could you please file bugs for these issues? Many thanks. > > Done: > > - https://bugs.debian.org/889814 > Improve long description of epoch-change-without-comment >

Re: Standards 4.1.3 and apt-cacher

2018-02-07 Thread Felipe Sateler
Hi, On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:14:15 +, Mark Hindley wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to upgrade apt-cacher to Standards version 4.1.3. In > particular using DISABLED=yes|no in /etc/defaults is now prohibited. Thanks for fixing this. > > apt-cacher can be run as a daemon or from /etc/inetd.con

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Christian T. Steigies writes ("Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped"): > This should be documented somewhere where a regular DD can easily learn > about these restrictions. Looking at the debian-policy, I still do not see > what I did wrong with my recent upload: > > https://w

Re: Auto-update for sid? Auto-backport?

2018-02-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/11/17 at 16:43 +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > Hello, > > my QA page or our blend's task page (like > https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio-ngs) regularly informs me about > updates that should be performed to packages I alone maintain or (more > likely) with the help of my blend. The updat

Bug#889826: ITP: vmdb2 -- create disk images with Debian installed

2018-02-07 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: vmdb2 Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius * URL : https://github.com/larswirzenius/vmdb2 * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : create disk images with

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:57:03PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I did not know that I can upload an orig.tar.* with a debian-version > >1, nor did I know that I was supposed to workaround bugs in Ubuntu or > filesystems that can not handle epochs. Once again, I dispute that this is a bug

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:18:03AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > You can't put a : in a filename on a FAT filesystem. Interestingly enough, you *can* put a : in a filename on an NTFS filesystem, if you do it with ntfs-3g. Windows won't like it, though. Yes, I found that out the hard way ;-) (

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-07 Thread Seth Arnold
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 10:19:25PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Do you happen to know what was the reason somebody way back in time > > decided to not consider the epoch in the filenames? > > My understanding is that it would have caused some kind of problems for > common operations at the time