Re: BinNMU changelog handling for Multi-Arch: same packages

2012-07-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 02:53:19PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > (I'd currently tend to accept it, however I'm not yet sure of all the > > consequences of this change.) > This change in itself should not have any consequence as it should not > affect the normal build if the value is not being use

Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > David Kalnischkies wrote: >> in this example: >> Package: foobar >> Architecture: amd64 >> Depends: package-bar >> that last line is in fact read as: >> Depends: package-bar:amd64 > > Why? I don't think that would help humans any more than rea

Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
David Kalnischkies wrote: > in this example: > Package: foobar > Architecture: amd64 > Depends: package-bar > that last line is in fact read as: > Depends: package-bar:amd64 Why? I don't think that would help humans any more than reading it as Depends: package-b

Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Let me try again. I believe that a dependency like this: > > Depends: package-foo:i386 > > is referring to a specific, concrete, non-virtual package package-foo > and it doesn't make sense to allow this to be satisfied by virtual >

Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> I agree here. If I understand correctly, you are saying that it would >> be best if a dependency >> >> Package: a >> Depends: phonon-backend >> >> should only be satisfied by a package from an

Re: Moving changelog and copyright files to control tarball, or merging?control and data tarballs ?

2012-07-17 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Charles Plessy, 2012-07-14 02:48+0200 (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general): > As the logic applied to the changelog and copyright files can be applied to > most other files produced by the packager, like NEWS.Debian, it looks like the > trend would be to have them installed in /var/lib/dpkg rather th

Re: BinNMU changelog handling for Multi-Arch: same packages

2012-07-17 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 14:25:18 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:07:00AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > I just verified a build in stable and get a bunch of these: > > > > > > dpkg-source --after-build hello-2.6 > > > parsech

Re: BinNMU changelog handling for Multi-Arch: same packages

2012-07-17 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 14:25:18 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:07:00AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > #681292 against sbuild. Feel free to clone it if necessary. > > > I just verified a build in stable and get a bunch of th

Re: BinNMU changelog handling for Multi-Arch: same packages

2012-07-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:07:00AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > #681292 against sbuild. Feel free to clone it if necessary. > > I just verified a build in stable and get a bunch of these: > > > > dpkg-source --after-build hello-2.6 > > parsechange

Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > David Kalnischkies wrote: >> As an example: >> I highly doubt "phonon:amd64" with a dependency on "phonon-backend" will >> work with "phonon-backend-vlc:armel" which provides "phonon-backend". >> >> If phonon-backend would be a normal pack