On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 09:17:44 +, Simon Huggins wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
On the other hand
http://packages.debian.org/sid/ht
is perfectly formatted on the web pages. It seems to be according
to the fact that parts of the
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:08:23 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:46:03 -0500, David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This argument assumes that dpkg-source -x will apply that patch stack
automatically as well, which has been discussed elsewhere.
Currently
Hi,
I'd like to clarify few more things, which have been brough up the past
few days. Even if I don't usually accept open invitations to flamefests
(re the OP).
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:38:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
On
Hi Michel,
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:51:15 +0100, BRIAND, Michel (EKITO) wrote:
dpkg ported to Solaris, has problems with obstack and strlen.
Please use debian-dpkg or preferibly the BTS to discuss this kind of
thing, debian-devel is not the appropriate forum. If you could file a
bug report we
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 10:01:35 +, Ian Jackson wrote:
Guillem Jover writes (Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also,
triggers)):
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Against the wishes of, afaict, Guillem and Raphael, Ian's made applying
his triggers patch
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:21:14 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I also have to wonder that if we have something like this as default,
why -Bsymbolic-functions would be a good default, and not -Bsymbolic.
It's also worth noting that the original
Hi,
As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to
dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after
lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb package
compressed that way.
For a lengthier discussion, please check:
Hi,
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to
dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after
lenny w/o having to add
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:49:25 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
That would work, although it does... well, not double, but at least
increase the work for any branch that also has a submission branch, since
any upstream merge conflicts have to be resolved on both branches. Or is
there some way to
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 06:11:46 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
even though it's just a command line utility. Who knows what
weird, unexpected side effects there might be from running such an
app within a tight bash loop.
none*. And not cleaning up
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 21:37:28 +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote:
I suggest to modify dpkg so it refuse to install package, unless the
option --insecure is specified. Such option's manpage description
would be :
That'd be mostly just annoying for no actual benefit. It would break
existing
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 14:32:00 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
I tried to debckechout zlib and it failed:
anx159tmp$ debcheckout zlib
declared bzr repository at http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-zlib/zlib/debian
bzr branch
Hi,
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:47:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I think being LSB compliant is good for Debian.
The LSB init script specification *is a specification for the init scripts
of LSB packages*. It has NOTHING to do with LSB compliance of LSB
implementations. Debian is an LSB
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:47:26 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
Am I correct in assuming that the prerm script is never called with
option purge?
Yes.
regards,
guillem
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compression, which are not relevant to this particular decision.
So, I'd like to ask the Release Team, if it would be fine with you to
add such Pre-Depends for the next dpkg upload targetting lenny.
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 06:18:36 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16 +1000, Anthony
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 00:52:44 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
The only perl scripts provided by Essential packages are
/usr/bin/scriptreplay
This one comes from bsdutils, and it's fairly short (around 30 lines
with comments).
/usr/bin/chkdupexe
And this one is a bit longer, but still short
Hi!
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 01:41:38 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[brian m. carlson]
IIRC, the reason md5sums of conffiles are shipped is to determine
whether they have been changed by the administrator so that dpkg
knows whether to automatically replace them with newer versions or
not.
Hi!
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:33:10 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
Since there is no support for auto-building arch-independent binaries
I would hope that throwing away developer built debs would also apply
to
Hi!
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 13:15:47 +, Philipp Kern wrote:
On 2011-02-11, Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp wrote:
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:20:02 +0100
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote:
I have not seen any word about XZ support.
When you deployed support for new source package
Hi!
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 08:39:21 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Guillem Jover wrote:
Using Build-Architecture would be a workaround, it should not be
needed once multiarch is in place and those packages are built for
their respective architectures.
While
Hi!
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 16:59:58 +, David Banks wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: David Banks amoe...@gmail.com
* Package name: quakespasm
Version : 0.85.3
Upstream Author : David Banks amoe...@gmail.com
* URL :
Hi!
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 14:45:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Carsten Hey wrote:
* Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-02 15:06 +0100]:
In general parsing the status file should not be done, instead you
should use dpkg-query.
Is there any reason for this, except
Hi!
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:06:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Here's what might create troubles:
3/ Any program that assumes the current layout of control files
(/var/lib/dpkg/info/package.something) will be broken (at least for
some packages) since the layout will change to support
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
And the status file is not a public interface. It's a file used by dpkg.
If tomorrow dpkg supports an optional SQLite internal database through a
plugin,
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:20:01 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained
in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields
explicitly (using --show
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:49:44 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Phillip Susi wrote:
It would be much better to use aio to queue up all of the syncs at once,
so that the elevator can coalesce and reorder them for optimal writing.
I'm not convinced it would help. You're
Package: login
Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi!
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 10:16:35 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:04:20PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
What do others think of moving bash to important (required and important
are part of the base
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 01:08:19 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
This appears to open up any accounts that have been deliberately
disabled by setting their shell to a nonexistent path. I know that's a
dumb way to disable an account, but that doesn't make this any less of a
security hole.
How
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:06:41 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Wed, 04 May 2011, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
So how do you plan to detect bugs if you never enable a feature?
Really abort()ing is not a nice behaviour, it would be way better to print
a warning and fallback to a correct behaviour.
Hi!
As I'd like to change a Pre-Depends in dpkg, I'm bringing this up here
for discussion, as per policy §3.5 and given dpkg “Essential: yes”
nature.
As mentioned in [0] some time ago, I'd like to switch the Pre-Depends
from the current xz-utils commands to use the liblzma shared library,
(with
Hi!
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:35:00 +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
We should now be in the phase where we pretend it's done, wait for the
complaints, and fix the problems as they are reported.
The project web sites do not seem to work anymore, for example:
http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/
Hi!
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 09:29:44 +0200, Jeroen Schot wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jeroen Schot sc...@a-eskwadraat.nl
* Package name: bmake
Version : 20110505
Upstream Author : Simon J. Gerraty s...@crufty.net
* URL :
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:51:50 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org writes:
When a binary package is renamed or split, as well as if several packages
are
merged under a new name, transitional packages are normally created, which
depend on the new
with it and
blatantly violate policy), I think important is the right severity.
http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/owned_files_after_purge_error.html shows which
packages need to remove owned files after purge, see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org
Hi!
There's some packages which rely on HOME existing and often being
writtable. This is broken behaviour as the package does not have any
businesss verifying if it exists or writting outside of its build dir
(or /tmp).
Some of our buildds try to detect by setting HOME to something like
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 00:12:24 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
I've done a small research against maintainer scripts from all binary packages
from sid distribution and discovered that some parameters which are passed to
maintainer scripts are not used at all, specifically:
- in-favour
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:39:37 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
That list was taken from the secure-testing tracker's embedded code
copies list, which is hard to keep up to date and accurate. It could
use some more care and better maintaining; but code copies are
plentiful, making it very
Hi!
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 18:33:12 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
I have a package which contains a code like following:
#include stdio.h
FILE *file_handle;
int foo(int something, const char *fmt, ...)
{
// some statements
va_list ap;
Seems you are missing a
Hi!
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14:00:23 +, Alan Jenkins wrote:
On 9/5/09, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote:
change the init.d script
handling to treat upstart jobs as init.d scripts, to provide an
alternative for architectures lacking upstart support
I read this as a euphemism
Hi!
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 22:22:52 +, Neil Williams wrote:
On Sun, 15, Nov, 2009 at 02:37:56PM -0500, Joey Hess spoke thus..
Note that debootstrap does not support data.tar.bz2.
debootstrap-1.0.20/functions: extract
progress $p $# EXTRACTPKGS Extracting packages
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:28:39 -0800, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote:
Part of my usual workflow with the 1.0 format is to do an interdiff on
the .diff.gz from the previous version to the one I intend to upload,
to check that the changes correspond to what my vcs says they are. Now
that the
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:25:59 +, Neil Williams wrote:
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:01:06 +0100
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:
Well, IMO any program implementing .deb extraction w/o using something
like --fsys-tarfile, --extract or --control from dpkg-deb (until we
have the upcoming
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 22:31:29 +, Neil Williams wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:25:31 +0100 Guillem Jover wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:25:59 +, Neil Williams wrote:
I'll update deb-gview for its next release, although I'll need some
real packages using data.tar.bz2 before I can
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:23:41 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
CVE-2009-3736[0]:
| ltdl.c in libltdl in GNU Libtool 1.5.x, and 2.2.6 before 2.2.6b,
| attempts to open a .la file in the current working directory, which
| allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 08:31:26 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Joey Hess wrote:
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Because the postinst is called by dpkg-reconfigure (of debconf) and it
doesn't set the same environment variables that dpkg does set when
it calls the postinst
Hi!
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:47:00 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
In the Debian Med and Science teams, we are looking for efficient ways to
document slow-changing metadata relevant to our packages, in particular:
Alternatives will be much easier to build if we manage to centralise the
Hi!
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 02:27:44 +0100, Steffen Möller wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Steffen Möller steffen_moel...@gmx.de
* Package name: librt-java
Version : 4.7
* URL :
Hi!
I'd like to know if people would strongly miss being able to
background dpkg on the conffile prompt (‘Z’), instead of starting a
new subshell. The latter is the default with most modern frontends
(APT based).
I personally find the background support annoying and confusing when
one is used to
Hi!
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:15:30 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
Please keep in mind the OOM killer will only influence watchdog if it happens
to kill it. If you happen to run out of memory though, you can tell watchdog
to
test if enough free mem is available.
The OOM killer can be disabled
Hi!
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:32:01 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc
* Package name: python-xdgapp
Version : 1.1
Upstream Author : Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com
* URL :
Hi!
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:36:03 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:52, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote
What does this provide that python-xdg does not?
It's depended on by https://launchpad.net/groundcontrol, and
provides a wrapper around some xdg functions.
Ah
Hi!
As I'd like to change some Pre-Depends in dpkg, I'm bringing this up
here for discussion, as per policy §3.5 and given dpkg “Essential: yes”
nature.
First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils,
the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 172 KiB; xz-utils 504 KiB,
160
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:07:45 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:15:10AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
Second, I'd like to switch from statically to dynamically linking
against zlib and libbz2, eventually liblzma too (affecting dpkg-deb)
and libselinux (affecting
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 00:15:10 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils,
the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 172 KiB; xz-utils 504 KiB,
160 KiB in share/doc/ and liblzma2 304 KiB, 124 KiB in share/doc/)
Regarding xz-utils' size, I
Hi!
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 17:14:00 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 05:20 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
I don't think this would be worth it, as Marco has also said, if the
system is hosed but you can still get to the point of obtaining a
package to install you might
Hi!
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 04:49:06 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
I'd like to know if people would strongly miss being able to
background dpkg on the conffile prompt (‘Z’), instead of starting a
new subshell. The latter is the default with most modern frontends
(APT based).
I personally find
Hi!
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 22:51:55 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
I don't have any objections to this, but I'd strongly suggest that
this get a run-through experimental with an announcement on
-devel-announce to request testing so that any really bad problems are
caught before it gets deployed
Hi!
As no opposing arguments were brought up I went ahead and now both
changes are in dpkg's git tree.
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 00:15:10 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils,
the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 172 KiB; xz-utils 504
Hi!
I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to
work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect
someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice
GSoC project, and not necessarily too complex. As I've my plate already
full,
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 23:10:04 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
On 2006-08-14 22:33:49, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
Do you plan to support other system than linux in a fork? If no, there
is
Well, the software is already prepared to support *BSD, Solaris and
Linux, but I only intent to support
As complement to what Wouter and Michael have replied...
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 23:24:49 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
What I have made is a generic package which just does not concerns
itself with other arches than for GNU/Linux. If people wants to compile
for *BSD or Solaris they can get
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:27:43 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Aug 28, Guillem Jover wrote:
Just yesterday night dato raised the issue on #d-release, and I was
telling about the virtual package, and that we could move to it now,
and worry later about a possible transition to that new update
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 14:22:07 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Aug 30, Guillem Jover wrote:
I'm not convinced that duplicating update-inetd in most of the
inetd providing packages is a good idea, even if this would allow
xinetd to be able to replace a normal inetd easily. I'd prefer
Hi,
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 09:43:03 +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: lsjk (source package name)
Could you please use the X-Debbugs-CC header when sending the ITPs
instead of CCing directly debian-devel? Otherwise we don't get to see
the bug
Hi,
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:05:55 +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
Package: wnpp
Owner: Arnaud Fontaine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: bzr-plugin-webserve
Version : web interface for bazaar-ng
Upstream Author : Goffredo Baroncelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
debconf notes:
-
Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fbset -- config:16 fbset/create_framebuffer_devices
As Mark Brown, I did that following the policy. I don't have any
problem removing it, but would be nice to get the policy fixed.
xfstt -- config:13
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 20:27:26 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
I would like to experiment with a little new plan for having tags flow
again from the web submissions[1] to the Packages file.
The plan goes as this:
0) Download http://people.debian.org/~enrico/2006-09/debtags-updatecontrol
1)
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 01:46:42 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
FWIW, I cannot build it in a clean and updated-to-latest-sid pbuilder
(complete script available on request, 10K gzipped):
Script started on Tue 26 Sep 2006 01:38:35 AM CEST
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ sudo pbuilder build
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:00:03 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Loic Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: mach
Version : 0.9.0.2
It's unfortunate that they chose the same name as the microkernel.
regards,
guillem
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On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:40:21 +1100, Brian May wrote:
We really need a constant way of dealing with this in package updates.
It seems to boil down to:
* should packages disable inetd config entries on removal and in
preparation for upgrade, and then reenable the entries after upgrade
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:39:39 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
ATM I don't really see any reason to create a separate package just
for tf-tool, because libthinkfinger + tf-tool (binary and manpage)
should generate a package around less than 50K in size. In case new
tools will be added, we can
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:25:38 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Neil Williams wrote:
Now all I need is for dpkg to accept that the absence of
debian/source/format is declarative of source format 1.0.
That's the case _for now_.
packages don't need to be changed
Hi!
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 18:38:26 -0500, Chris Silva wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Silva rac...@makeworld.com
* Package name: png2ico
Version : 12.08.02-1
Upstream Author : Matthias S. Benkmann matth...@winterdrache.de
* URL :
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 14:18:57 +, Clint Adams wrote:
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:57:56PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Was this request ever actually made to the kfreebsd porters? I'm not sure
that it was, in which case it's rather unfair to say that they've had
enough
time
Hi!
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:00:23 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:27:35AM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote:
[skipped]
BTW, mutt seems to incorrectly fill the References: header when I
reply to your mail.
Just a second test. Please ignore...
That's because
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:48:44 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]
Since Debian-Policy 3.9.0 architecture wild cards are allowed so this
dependency would become
libudev-dev (= 0.139) [linux-any]
and the type-handling aliases (which are hack according to
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:33:52 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:28:54PM -0600, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
It seems that after installation of dict-wn, there's a process that is still
running, so destroying the chroot fails.
I'm quoting the relevant part of dict-wn postinst
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 22:36:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-11-17 22:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
It's restarting (instead of stoppping) on remove/purge.
Could you elaborate? Surely a dictionary package should not stop the
dictionary server when it is being removed, should it?
Err
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:52:54 -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Just to sum up what dpkg --unpack does in 1.15.8.6:
1/ set the package status as half-installed/reinst-required
2/ extract all the new files as *.dpkg-new
3/ for all
Hi!
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:09:10 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
How about dpkg doesn't care, like it used to, *except* for really
important packages (say, essential ones, or priority important, or
whatever). Since apparently the whole avoid empty files thing is much
more important for libc than
Hi Ted!
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 23:11:52 -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
I did some experimenting, and I figured out what was going on. You're
right, (c) doesn't quite work, because delayed allocation meant that
the writeout didn't take place until the fsync() for each file
happened. I didn't see this
Hi!
One of the main motivations when creating the libbsd library was to
ease porting source code with strong BSD origins by needing to patch
them less, and to reduce code duplication in other projects. So if
there are functions, macros or declarations commonly found on the BSDs
that your packages
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 20:56:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 21:15 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
vasks has the copy of the repositories.
wagner NFS mounts the repositories read-only.
vasks is {git,svn,…}.debian.org (so ssh://git.d.o/ continues working),
making
Hi!
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 11:20:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
The main decision which needs to be made is whether, as a project, we
want source only uploads or to throw away DD built non-all debs.
There's not
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:03:00 +, Philipp Kern wrote:
On 2011-06-06, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:
I think this was mentioned in some previous incarnation of this
discussion, but throwing away debs unconditionally, or at least w/o
having a way to specify they must
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 14:24:52 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Guillem Jover dixit:
pkg-config --cflags libbsd-overlay
pkg-config is a GNU abomination and not used by BSD projects.
I disagree with the abomination part, but in any case do you have a
better alternative with equivalent
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:38:03 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
Are you saying they cannot be bootstrapped with older versions (which
are already in the archive)??!
By definition if they need to be manually bootstrapped it's because
their build dependencies are not available. The usual cases for that
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On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 00:38:13 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: apt-clone
Version : 0.7.9nexenta28
* URL : see below
* License : CDDL
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : ZFS integrated APT package
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On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 13:28:36 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
During bootstraping a new architecture, there are sometimes ugly
build-dependency-loops (usually involving generating documentation
for the core build utilities means you need to have the architecture
already available; same with
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On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 22:33:55 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote:
As for the future: I still believe dpatch is a temporary solution, and
that better tools exist now. Therefore, it is my long-term plan to
slowly deprecate dpatch, and eventually make
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 19:55:12 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:33:48 +0100, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote:
On the other hand, many computers now have an SSD drive, for speed,
which is relatively small. Further, most users will likely need files in
/usr/share/doc rarely, if
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 20:02:16 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
Couldn't dpkg figure out from tar --version whether it can add the
option?
Well it could, but then I'd rather remove the warning suppression (or
the equivalent of postponing adding the option until after wheezy) than
doing something
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 22:28:00 +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: David Weinehall t...@debian.org
* Package name: susv4
Version : 7
Upstream Author : N/A
* URL : N/A
* License : Public Domain
Programming Lang:
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On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 22:08:55 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
Package: wnpp
Owner: Nicholas Bamber nicho...@periapt.co.uk
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org
* Package name: libdebian-copyright-perl
Version : 0.1
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 18:50:35 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Guillem Jover wrote:
$ sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
[...]
tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp'
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar
Hi!
First of all, thanks for packaging this so fast. :)
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 14:32:25 -0500, Julián Moreno Patiño wrote:
Package: wnpp
Owner: Julián Moreno Patiño darkju...@gmail.com
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC:
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On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 22:42:11 +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
The i386 architecture was the first in Linux and in Debian, but we have
long since dropped support for the original i386-compatible processors
and now require a minimum of a 486-class processor.
I think it is time to increase
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:34:34 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I am not really looking forward to keep reverting these changes in my
package, and since Red Hat controls most Linux infrastructure now other
packages will face the same problem.
I might be missing something but given the link your
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:43:19 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Roger Leigh wrote:
I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not
disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs.
This would permit older installs to continue to use /usr, but
the files would end up
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On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:26:13 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Theoretically, there is no interesting binary package produced from this
source package and it seems that the policy does not explicitly require
that a source package produces binary packages... but I am certain that
this is an
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