Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 06:52:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Look at perl for example: > >> Package: perl-base >> Provides: perlapi-5.10.0 > >> I suggest to also provide perlabi-$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) or >> perlabi-5.10.0-$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE). Perl extensions th

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 06:52:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Patches implementing what? I don't see any public discussion of an agreed > > design for the package manager. > Patches for dpkg to accept the Multi-Arch field as a tristate of Yes, > No or missing and for packages to set t

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le mardi 30 juin 2009 à 18:52 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> Please stop confusing ia32-apt-get with multiarch. It clearly is a >> kludge to keep 32bit binaries working till there is multiarch. It is >> not ment as a replacement. > > No, it is not a kludge.

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 06:56:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Mark Brown writes: > > Then bring that up and try to move the discussion forward (as now seems > > to be happening). The approach that's currently being pused seems like > > a blind alley. > People really do seem to confuse

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 30 juin 2009 à 18:52 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > Please stop confusing ia32-apt-get with multiarch. It clearly is a > kludge to keep 32bit binaries working till there is multiarch. It is > not ment as a replacement. No, it is not a kludge. It is a horrible pile of trash. ia32

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mark Brown writes: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:31:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Mark Brown writes: > >> > There seems to be at least some crossover between the people who were >> > looking at multiarch and the people doing this stuff. > >> But not the people blocking the inclusion

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:50:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Raphael Hertzog writes: > >> > There is work going on recently. Steve Langasek drafted a plan that he >> > wants to bring forward in Ubuntu Karmic Koala and it has been reviewed by >> > Guillem Jove

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:31:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Mark Brown writes: > > There seems to be at least some crossover between the people who were > > looking at multiarch and the people doing this stuff. > But not the people blocking the inclusion of patches for multiarch > al

Re: Multiarch (Was: Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get)

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:02:05PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > I've also CC'd Hector and Steve who are listed as owners on that > document because whatever we do to get multiarch working (and I have no > strong views on the right way to do it) we should definitely not do it > differently to Ubu

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: >> I would largely prefer if ia32-* in its actual shape would be released in >> experimental (where, with this level of touching the base of Debian >> repositories handling, it should sit) and version 2.7 uploaded back in >> Sid... > > C

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 05:43:16AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > See the various links on http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch for the work > on multiarch going back to 2004. I reviewed that page prior to the UDS session. It was all but useless (and I had to edit the page to update several lin

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:50:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > There is work going on recently. Steve Langasek drafted a plan that he > > wants to bring forward in Ubuntu Karmic Koala and it has been reviewed by > > Guillem Jover, the dpkg maintainer. Guillem

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yannick writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> There where 3 options: >> >> 1) ia32-libs + ia32-libs-gtk (+ ia32-libs-kde + ia32-libs-qt) >> ftp-master asked us to clean that up basically and >> "it would not pass NEW if it where uploaded now" >> >> 2) ia32-lib* packages in the same schema

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Too bad they did that without involving the people already working on >> multiarch via the alioth project. >> >> They messed up some finer details, broke the existing patches, made >> the whole thing need a full releas

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 21:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> Josselin Mouette writes: >> > No, it is not going to be. The whole design needs work before it can be. >> >> There is a better design. It is called multiarch. But some people are >> blocking that

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 23:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > I would also not merge patches without knowing if the full plan is > credible. This is the precise point that seems to be missing. Goswin, if you have a prototype multiarch system based on unstable that mostly works, with patches fo

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Too bad they did that without involving the people already working on > multiarch via the alioth project. > > They messed up some finer details, broke the existing patches, made > the whole thing need a full release cycle for a transition due to >

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 05:30:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Mehdi Dogguy writes: > Because there where no ideas brought forward to discuss. > There where 3 options: > 1) ia32-libs + ia32-libs-gtk (+ ia32-libs-kde + ia32-libs-qt) >ftp-master asked us to clean that up basically an

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Yannick
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There where 3 options: > > 1) ia32-libs + ia32-libs-gtk (+ ia32-libs-kde + ia32-libs-qt) > ftp-master asked us to clean that up basically and > "it would not pass NEW if it where uploaded now" > > 2) ia32-lib* packages in the same schema as ia32-libs > vetoed by ftp

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Yannick
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Better add the pinings from /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/NEWS.Debian.gz > as well. Goswin, you should put a "debconf warning" to point the apt pining solution to the user. Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Multiarch (Was: Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get)

2009-06-29 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Jun 29 21:50, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > There is work going on recently. Steve Langasek drafted a plan that he > > wants to bring forward in Ubuntu Karmic Koala and it has been reviewed by > > Guillem Jover, the dpkg maintainer. Guillem also has plans to make it a > > reality inside De

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: >> > > Figure out an acceptable option 4. >> > >> > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. >> >> Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug), >> bu

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 21:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > Josselin Mouette writes: > > No, it is not going to be. The whole design needs work before it can be. > > There is a better design. It is called multiarch. But some people are > blocking that. Identify the blockers. Work with

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mark Brown writes: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:12:20PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: > >> > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. > >> Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug), >> but all that "multiarch" blabla an

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 17:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> > consider it as a “releasable” solution? >> >> Going to be. > > No, it is not going to be. The whole design needs work before it can be. There is a better design. It is called multiarc

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Jun 29 20:18, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Figure out an acceptable option 4. > > > > > > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. > > > > Not that I was happy with the original situation (fil

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: > > > Figure out an acceptable option 4. > > > > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. > > Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug), > but all that "multiarch" blabla and n

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:12:20PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: > > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. > Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug), > but all that "multiarch" blabla and nothing is going forward in

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: > > Figure out an acceptable option 4. > > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug), but all that "multiarch" blabla and nothing is going forward in this direction, so this is not a

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 17:30:35 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > So strike option 1 and 2 and what are you left with? > Figure out an acceptable option 4. Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 17:30:35 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There where 3 options: > > 1) ia32-libs + ia32-libs-gtk (+ ia32-libs-kde + ia32-libs-qt) >ftp-master asked us to clean that up basically and >"it would not pass NEW if it where uploaded now" > > 2) ia32-lib* packages i

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane writes: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:57:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Lionel Elie Mamane writes: > >>> While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ >>> happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly >>> aptitude had about 20

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 17:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > consider it as a “releasable” solution? > > Going to be. No, it is not going to be. The whole design needs work before it can be. > > How would aptitude users do now? > > apt-get update; aptitude And how would synaptic

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mehdi Dogguy writes: > Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Hi, >> >> as the topic says, I noticed the new ia32-libs package depends on >> ia32-apt-get. >> > > I searched the list archive and found only one thread[1] related to > ia32-apt-get. Correct me if I'm wrong but it was clear for me, when > read

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > as the topic says, I noticed the new ia32-libs package depends on > ia32-apt-get. > I searched the list archive and found only one thread[1] related to ia32-apt-get. Correct me if I'm wrong but it was clear for me, when reading comments, that the solution was n

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:57:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane writes: >> While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ >> happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly >> aptitude had about 200 package in "upgradable" state that

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Josselin Mouette (29/06/2009): > All existing frontends use the same dependency resolution engine, > except for aptitude. Installing a package with synaptic, apt-get, > adept or gnome-app-install should give the same result. cupt! cupt! cupt! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital sign

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane writes: > While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ > happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly > aptitude had about 200 package in "upgradable" state that were not > upgradable before. ia32-apt-get encodes its own version into t

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 15:33 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich a écrit : > Hmm, o.k., apt-get is working for me, this is o.k., but I ask myself now: > What > is the recommended tool in future? Especially, as the handling of > dependencies > and packages in apt-get, aptitude and synaptic are in each diffe

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Aptitude’s (well-known) brokenness is irrelevant. There are many other > APT frontents, like synaptic, which don’t have broken dependency > management, and which will fail just as well with ia32-apt-get. > > I wonder how you could even think once that diverting apt-get was a good > idea. If you

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly aptitude had about 200 package in "upgradable" state that were not upgradable before. The issue is I don't remember for sure what /etc/apt/sources.list looked like be

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 15:14 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > I never use aptitude and after doing a test upgrade of an older sid to > current with aptitude I'm verry much affirmed on that. The last ~50 > packages I upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" again because the aptitude > interface just

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier Raboud writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: >>> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > Norbert Preining wrote: >> - calling /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list > > Which horribly breaks with anything a

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Didier Raboud
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: Norbert Preining wrote: > - calling /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list Which horribly breaks with anything a little custom (proxies, custom >

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: >>> Norbert Preining wrote: - calling /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list >>> >>> Which horribly breaks with anything a little custom (proxies, custom >>> repositories, ...) and fills y

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: >> Norbert Preining wrote: >>> - calling /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list >> >> Which horribly breaks with anything a little custom (proxies, custom >> repositories, ...) and fills your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with ia32-a

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 11:54 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > The reasons for ia32-apt-get are this: [snip] There are good reasons for ia32-apt-get to exist. But the implementation is so horribly wrong that it gives me headaches only thinking about it. It is nothing but a giant hack on whi

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > Hi, > > Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> This package was already enough of a hack, but at least it worked >>> without fiddling in horrible ways with the packaging system. >>> >>> How can we have a working wine or nsplugin

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > OdyX, who points to multiarch and suggests it is maybe time to go the real > route instead… Not that i am happy with the current status, but at least I managed to get some things working again. Best wishes Norbert --

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> This package was already enough of a hack, but at least it worked >> without fiddling in horrible ways with the packaging system. >> >> How can we have a working wine or nspluginwrapper now? > > Not that I know about n

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > This package was already enough of a hack, but at least it worked > without fiddling in horrible ways with the packaging system. > > How can we have a working wine or nspluginwrapper now? Not that I know about nspluginwrapper, but I got my skype work