Re: [LONG] Re: "Exec format error" bugs

2010-02-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 05:09 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'd rather fix the problem that's causing those files to be 0 length. > That should generally never happen, I'm assuming they might just need an > fsync on the directory, which we are not doing at all in general, there > might be some fsync

Re: [LONG] Re: "Exec format error" bugs

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 09:15:52 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.15.5.6 > Severity: important > [ For debian-dpkg, see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/512096 for a > description of the problem, basically a configuration script is empty > /broken

Removing dpkg conffile backgrounding prompt support

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
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

Re: License audit on dpkg source tree

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Frank! On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 18:11:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > The remaining issues, which might need asking people around are: > > * lib/dpkg/showpkg.c: GPL-2 only > > Used to be GPL-2+ with all commits © by Wichert Akkerman, until > commit 6e1eb71ebffbbaca2e4bc when it changed to G

Re: License audit on dpkg source tree

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Ian! On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 18:11:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > The remaining issues, which might need asking people around are: > * lib/dpkg/utils.c: GPL-2 only > > This file started as GPL-2 only with commit a4f9322a6417e1683183ea > by Wichert Akkerman, which only included cisdigit()

Re: License audit on dpkg source tree

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Colin! On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 18:11:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > The remaining issues, which might need asking people around are: > * scripts/Dpkg/Vendor/Ubuntu.pm: > > Copyright © 2008 Colin Watson > > This might actually be © Canonical Ltd.? Is that the case? thanks, guillem --

Re: [PATCH 7/7] Track common ancestors of a successful conffiledb merge

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:27:37 +0100, Sean Finney wrote: > When a merge is successful, store the common ancestor of the merge (the > pristine version of the conffile from the previous package version) in > a special location. While this may not have an immediate benefit, it poses > the oppurtu

Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement 'm' option for conffile merging during conflict resolution

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:27:36 +0100, Sean Finney wrote: > The conflict resolution prompt has been updated with a new option for > automatic merging: > > M : attempt to automatically merge the differences > > This functions by performing a 3-way diff using the new conffile, the

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Conffile database handling functions

2010-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Sean! On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:27:32 +0100, Sean Finney wrote: > The layout pattern for the conffile database is: > > /conffiles/// While the implementation resulting from this layout seems more elegant than the previous iteration, I still think that using the layout I described in the