Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 11:23:37 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm planning on starting to file bug reports for the source packages below (BCCed). Here's the current status. I've filed bugs now with patches, or just uploaded for orphaned ones. Sources list (via codesearch.d.o)

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le 18 nov. 2014 17:29, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org a écrit : Hi! On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 11:23:37 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm planning on starting to file bug reports for the source packages below (BCCed). Here's the current status. I've filed bugs now with patches, or just

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 22:20:48 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2014-11-03 11:23, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm planning on starting to file bug reports for the source packages below (BCCed). I've not checked (yet) how severe the dpkg-statoverride ones are, but if most of them do not get

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 21:21:05 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: So, yes, given the above, I'll reinstate the compat symlinks for dpkg 1.17.22. It would be nice though, if as many of the fixes for the remaining callers could be accepted for jessie, if possible? The cost of keeping symlinks

Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I was notified by Emmanuel Bourg that there are still packages making use of the old compat paths for u-a, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride in /usr/sbin. Those compat symlinks got removed in dpkg 1.17.0: ,--- * Remove update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:23:37AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org man-db openssh (U) Thanks, I hadn't realised these paths had changed; I'm fairly sure that maintainer script code dates from a time when dpkg-statoverride was new and it wasn't safe to assume

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-11-03 11:23, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! [...] I'm planning on starting to file bug reports for the source packages below (BCCed). I've not checked (yet) how severe the dpkg-statoverride ones are, but if most of them do not get fixed, I might consider reintroducing the compat symlink