dpkg_1.14.7_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2007-10-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: dpkg_1.14.7_amd64.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.7_amd64.deb dselect_1.14.7_amd64.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.7_amd64.deb Override entries for your package: dpkg_1.14.7_amd64.deb - required admin dselect_1.14.7_amd64.deb - required admin Thank you for your contributi

dpkg_1.14.7_powerpc.changes ACCEPTED

2007-10-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: dpkg_1.14.7_powerpc.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.7_powerpc.deb dselect_1.14.7_powerpc.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.7_powerpc.deb Override entries for your package: dpkg_1.14.7_powerpc.deb - required admin dselect_1.14.7_powerpc.deb - required admin Thank you for you

dpkg_1.14.7_alpha.changes ACCEPTED

2007-10-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: dpkg_1.14.7_alpha.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.7_alpha.deb dselect_1.14.7_alpha.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.7_alpha.deb Override entries for your package: dpkg_1.14.7_alpha.deb - required admin dselect_1.14.7_alpha.deb - required admin Thank you for your contributi

Accepted dpkg 1.14.7 (source i386 all)

2007-10-07 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:31:34 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.14.7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[E

Re: Next upload 2007-09-30 (dpkg 1.14.7)

2007-10-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 07:06:59 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > We talked about uploading next version soon, so that we can proceed > with the dpkg-shlibdeps rewrite Raphael has been working on. So I'll > commit some minor pending issues, try to merge the dpkg-cross stuff, > and upload late this

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:45:20AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > So the logic there would be: > > if there's an upstream tag, then > > generate an .orig.tgz > > if there's a pristine-tar info, > > hax0r it to be pristine > >

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:55:37 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:24:15PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 22:04:21 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > bzr and git always ship the complete repository with each wo

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:24:15PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 22:04:21 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > bzr and git always ship the complete repository with each working > > directory. This is why they are called "distributed". Arch seems to be > >

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 22:04:21 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:16:12PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:33:58 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:49:48AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava w

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:49:55 -0400, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:19:36PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:24:46 -0400, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> I presume you could ship all the "normal" files in one tarball, the >>>

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:16:12PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:33:58 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:49:48AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > You probably mean source package here and not .deb. Also the original > >

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:19:36PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Err, and why am I doing this? Why am I not shipping my working > directory as a tarball, complete instead of breaking it up > (apparently arbitrarily) into three parts? As opposed to an .orig.tar.gz and all the debian/,

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How is git reconstituting the files if there is no network > access? Are they shipping all the bits needed to get a full working > dir without any network access? As I understand it, yes, that's the basic idea. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PR

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:14:39 -0400, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:52:45AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> What does this mean in non-git context? > I think truncating the patch-log history is unimportant for Arch, but > any ++pristine-trees should definitely

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:24:46 -0400, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:10:41AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hmm. If I have just the ./{arch} directory, and none of the files, >> then arch thinks the files have just been deleted; and you can't just >> check out

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:33:58 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:49:48AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> OK, commenting on this with my "I use arch" hat on. If I understand >> correctly, we are proposing shipping a working directory in the .deb; >> and

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:49:48AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > OK, commenting on this with my "I use arch" hat on. If I > understand correctly, we are proposing shipping a working directory in > the .deb; and not shipping an orig.tar.gz nor a diff.gz file. I like You probably mean s

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:10:41AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm. If I have just the ./{arch} directory, and none of the > files, then arch thinks the files have just been deleted; and you can't > just check out stuff, since the tree is up to date. Ah. Baz undo > restores all the

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:52:45AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > What does this mean in non-git context? I think truncating the patch-log history is unimportant for Arch, but any ++pristine-trees should definitely be nuked prior to packing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:44:47 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:16:13 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > I've been working on making dpkg-source support a new source >> > package fo

Re: Triggers status?

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 10:13:45 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Colin Watson wrote: >> I have a change to man-db that uses triggers to update the manual >> page database automatically, fixing my second oldest remaining >> bug. I'd love to upload this. While it doesn't break with a >> non

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:54:39 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Anthony Towns wrote: >> Oh, one question that comes to mind: how does this affect checking >> for non-free stuff in past revisions? If 3.1-4 had some non-free >> files that get reimplemented for 3.2-1, do we (a) expect the >

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, OK, commenting on this with my "I use arch" hat on. If I understand correctly, we are proposing shipping a working directory in the .deb; and not shipping an orig.tar.gz nor a diff.gz file. I like the idea; and I think I can support nested arch packages (submodules in .git speak),

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:16:13 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I've been working on making dpkg-source support a new source package > > format based upon git. The idea is that a source package has only a > > .dsc and a

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:25:00PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > (Sorry, everything is still a bit blur in my mind and while I was > preparing myself to maybe hack on wig&pen as my next dpkg related project, > this discussion took me by surprise :-)) Btw, if someone has too much free time and d

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > (It might be just me, but I'm getting the feeling that implementing > > Wig&Pen via this v3 format is probably easier than implementing it via > > the v2 format...) > > Could you please explain what the difference between "Wig&Pen" and v2 > format

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:16:13 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > My implementation adds a new 3.0 version source format. A 3.0 format > > debian source package can consist of any files allowed by formats 1 > > and 2, but

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:16:13 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've been working on making dpkg-source support a new source package > format based upon git. The idea is that a source package has only a > .dsc and a .git.tar.gz, which is just a git repo. > My implementation adds a new 3

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:18:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:45:08AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm quite attached to being able to peek inside source packages > > quickly by sshing over to the local mirror I keep at home which > > grabs everything overnight so th

Re: [PATCH/RFC] dpkg-source.pl: Support a subset of wig&pen on build

2007-10-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 03:17:49 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:09:21PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Use .orig.tar.(bz2|lzma) if they are available > > and no .gz can be found. Also let the user specify > > via -C(gz|bz2|lzma) how files that need to be > > generat

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:05:08AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > FWIW, I was thinking much more of native packages here; non-native > > packages already tend to just import the upstream tarball which usually > > contains generated files, which is probably why this hasn't been a

Re: Manual pages and POD format

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > Maybe pod has a minor issue regarding translations, which is that the > title (the last argument to the .TH command) must be specified on the > pod2man command line and is thus harder to translate. But I would not > complain if it

Re: Triggers status?

2007-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > I have a change to man-db that uses triggers to update the manual page > database automatically, fixing my second oldest remaining bug. I'd love > to upload this. While it doesn't break with a non-triggers-supporting > dpkg, I'd rather wait until triggers are merged in case th

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > FWIW, I was thinking much more of native packages here; non-native > packages already tend to just import the upstream tarball which usually > contains generated files, which is probably why this hasn't been a > problem for things like git-buildpackage. If nothing else, there

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Florian Weimer wrote: > What about empty directories? Do you mean empty directories under .git or empty directories stored *in* git (can't be done, use a .gitignore in the directory) > I really think you need to work off a clone (or a cleaned-up cp -al'ed > copy). For instance, you do not necess

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > Oh, one question that comes to mind: how does this affect checking for > non-free stuff in past revisions? If 3.1-4 had some non-free files that > get reimplemented for 3.2-1, do we (a) expect the maintainer to do a > no-history upload for 3.2-1; (b) check that this happens s

Triggers status?

2007-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
Hi, I was wondering what the status of merging Ian's triggers work is; I can't find any comments by the dpkg maintainers on it. I have a change to man-db that uses triggers to update the manual page database automatically, fixing my second oldest remaining bug. I'd love to upload this. While it d

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Maybe providing a feature on packages.debian.org (or similar) to download > > > sources in simple, non-VC, tarball format would make this a complete > > > non-issue though? > > pristine-tar could be used for this, it would just need source packages > > to put the delta so

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:18:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:45:08AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm > > quite attached to being able to peek inside source packages quickly by > > sshing over to the local mirror I keep at home which grabs everything > > overnight s

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:45:08AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I'm > quite attached to being able to peek inside source packages quickly by > sshing over to the local mirror I keep at home which grabs everything > overnight so that I don't have to wait for it to download; particularly > so for lar

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:55:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Of course, a number of packages accidentally ship .svn directories and > so on anyway, though I suppose there's a difference between "officially > blessed by dpkg" and "warned against by lintian" ... That has to be the understatement

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:09:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > (So, FWIW, I'm not sold on git. Not sold at all yet. But it was a good > choice for this implementation for several reasons.) (I don't think bzr is perfect either, of course; the lack of shallow branches (see below

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joey Hess: > I have a sourcev3 branch with my changes at , > and have also attached a diff to this mail. I feel that this is ready > for review and hopefully merging into dpkg now. Looking forward to your > comments. What about empty directories? I really think you need to work off a clone (or

Re: [PATCH] proposed v3 source format using .git.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:56:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:37:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > The second possibility seems to me to be more flexible, though, and > > probably not all that hard to implement: build both a .tar.gz > > (containing the working tree)