Re: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:03:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference between packages that

Re: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Sep 18 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Setting the environment on a distribution wide level is ugly and fragile. Too many users will reset the environment in their .bashrc. Instead the idea was to have a vendor (set in

Re: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I have to say i verry rarely do not use debuild. And 99% of the exceptions are calling debian/rules clean. Precisely, debuild does not use dpkg-buildpackage, but call debian/rules directly. This has been fixed already. It calls dpkg-buildpackage

Re: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Plus a note in policy clarifying that debian/rules is only an interface for dpkg-buildpackage but not users. Right. If you want to make this a rule, then we should discuss it, reach a consensus, document and publicize the change, and so forth.

Re: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:36:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I have to say i verry rarely do not use debuild. And 99% of the exceptions are calling debian/rules clean. Precisely, debuild does not use dpkg-buildpackage, but call

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference between packages that distributions wide default does not make sense. Such change would rather lead

Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:03:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference between packages that

Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I have to say i verry rarely do not use debuild. And 99% of the exceptions are calling debian/rules clean. Precisely, debuild does not use dpkg-buildpackage, but call debian/rules directly. This has been fixed already. It calls dpkg-buildpackage

Bug#499070: dpkg leaves system in unusable state after running out of diskspace

2008-09-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hey, On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:14:04 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: So I think there's two things to fix here, one is that the fseek() in createimptmp() should be done just before the fwrite() in modstatdb_note_core() to guarantee that we are going to be always at the beginning, and we make

Bug#497893: marked as done (dpkg: [INTL:vi] Vietnamese program translation update)

2008-09-18 Thread Guillem Jover
notfixed apt/0.7.15~exp1 thanks Hi Michael, On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 22:10:16 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: [...] Package: dpkg Tags: l10n patch Severity: wishlist The updated Vietnamese translation for the program file: dpkg translated and submitted by: Clytie Siddall

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Plus a note in policy clarifying that debian/rules is only an interface for dpkg-buildpackage but not users. Right. If you want to make this a rule, then we should discuss it, reach a consensus, document and publicize the change, and so forth.

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:36:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I have to say i verry rarely do not use debuild. And 99% of the exceptions are calling debian/rules clean. Precisely, debuild does not use dpkg-buildpackage, but call