[PATCH] no longer allower upper case or unterscore characters in package names

2024-07-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Without this patch The C function pkg_name_is_illegal still allows upper case characters und underscores in packages names. This especially causes dpkg-deb to still be able to create packages with upper case characters in them. (underscores are already impossible because check_control_file checks

Re: Idea: sbuild/pbuilder "--dgit" option

2016-12-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
x27; time behaviour). Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC

Re: Idea: sbuild/pbuilder "--dgit" option

2016-12-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ring .gitignore as dpkg-source does by default is the only sane thing to do. (I only wished it would by default also ignore debian/.git* and thus include the debian/.git-dpm in the default ignore list). I might be wrong, but having issues with .gitignore in the generated source package is a dgit-onl

Re: dpkg-source --commit fails to find local changes

2014-08-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ulprits now. This also effects the normal dpkg-source --build run: It silently ignores unrecorded changes and just creates a source package without them. Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lis

Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2014-06-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
out-of-archive packaging and > infrastructure, etc. So I'm not sure this seems appealing… but I'll > make a note of at least checking it. At least I'd suggest to not allow it in the Debian archive yet. Not everything dpkg supports must be allowed by policy. (Like upper case

Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2014-06-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
hat already knows those architectures.). Something like a "any-FOO" matching any debian architecture "*-FOO" and "FOO" would be something simple. Having magic like any-arm also matching armhf means it cannot be processed without having special knowledge of the architect

Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2014-05-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Really? This is far too complicated for most programs to implement properly. I'd suggest to rather fix dpkg (and also fix policy. The footnote describes absolutely nothing currently, and having such important fields a meaning that you cannot calculate without knowing what architectures the system fi

[PATCH v2] Dpkg::Version, Dpkg::Source::Package: move version-without-epoch outputting to the Version module

2013-02-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on.pm| 14 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) * Guillem Jover [130209 18:43]: > On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 15:18:04 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 15:03:31 +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > Instead of doing the magic

[PATCH] Dpkg::Version, Dpkg::Source::Package: move version-without-epoch outputting to the Version module

2013-02-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Instead of doing the magic of generating a version string without epoch and revision and a version string without epoch in Dpkg::Source::Package, extend Dpkg::Version's as_string function to support generating that string. --- scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package.pm |6 +- scripts/Dpkg/Version.pm

Re: Bug#571776: document symbols

2012-03-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ses. Only stylistics: How about not using "flawed"? Something like "Also the way library SONAMEs are represented in shlibs files makes it difficult to use them in some unusual corner cases."? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@l

Re: Some upcoming dpkg changes, test and feedback welcome

2011-09-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
cause not the distribution field is different. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110922150745.ga26...@server.brlink.eu

Re: Some upcoming dpkg changes, test and feedback welcome

2011-09-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
r again joining in late in the distribution, but what is the use case of this field exactly? Currently I can only see possible abuses but no proper uses for it, so unless there is something I miss, I'd rather request that variable to be removed, as it can only harm. Bernhard R. Link --

Re: dpkg-buildflags and makefile snippet

2011-08-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [110801 08:58]: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > While I wholeheartly welcome adding such a script, I am surprised why > > it is made so complicated and hard to read. > > > > Is there a reason for dpkg_late_eval? > > Performan

Re: dpkg-buildflags and makefile snippet

2011-07-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
mply CFLAGS := $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS) and so on in buildflags.mk and DEB_HOST_ARCH := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH) and so on in architecture.mk? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: [PATCH/RFC] dpkg-shlibdeps: ignore shell scripts

2010-04-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t at hand. I personally would prefer to at least have an option to error out when getting something without symbols) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
h information, as it is not hard to see what belongs together and what changes there are. Once those collects more than 1 or 2 different modifications that may also be in the same files I do not think that scales very well. (Just as having only a single .diff.gz would not scale that well). Hochachtun

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
e cannot tell upstream or some other project to just cherry-pick a specific commit to get the fix. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100329115521.ga...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [100328 11:44]: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > I'm guess this discussiong is slowly leaving debian-dpkg@ topic, > > though... > > Definitely not. I plan to integrate VCS knowledge in dpkg-dev at some > point and I like those disc

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ed stuff usually is, while something merged and merged again is usually nothing upstream will want to pull. My solution against the "rebasing published branches" is thus to not publish it as branch, but only as tag and as part of the history of the debian branch (and of course as t

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
m is just a rebase of a patched branch to a new upstream. That means if the patches are stored as commits those commits can be rebased and one has the changes and information to create the updated patches from created by the same resolution. Perhaps something like that is possible with bzr, too. Ho

Re: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=n work not as expected

2009-12-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
at the same time, causing 27 processes running simultanously. That's why submakes do not get -j3, but instead get told to interact with the parent make, so that all possible submakes together process 3 things at the same time, but still being able to do so in multiple subdirectories (if th

Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
yed), do not make me too afraid of using MD5. Actually I think that might even rather be a job for something like crc32, md5 already looks like overhead, and sha256 feels like being longer than the description itself. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature

2007-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ncilliary data. I think the idempotency is not that much of a trouble (if a package cannot guarantee to have it idempotent if only stuff in the specified packages changed, it can just ignore the information). The storage of the information might be a bit more of a hassle. (Especially as it

Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature

2007-01-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ing all information. To avoid being something like that impossible by design, having a way to specify a trigger happened and the names of the packages (or other free-form data given to a explicit trigger call) handed to the trigger processor. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- &qu

Re: additions to dpkg-architecture

2006-06-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
pto.so.0.9.7 | usr/lib/v8/libssl.so.0.9.7 | usr/lib/v9/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 | usr/lib/v9/libssl.so.0.9.7 | usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.7/changelog.Debian.gz | usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.7/changelog.gz | usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.7/copyright In other words: Problem solved since sarge. Hochachtungsvoll,

Re: debian package installation

2006-03-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
aware application is already able to install a .deb when executing it. (Like many do when you double click on them). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt problem

2005-09-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
aps you need to also get initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 from woody before that. (Or installing both at once). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/alternatives master list

2003-11-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
tc/alternatives name. > How do maintainers keep coordinated on this sort of thing? I think image-viewers are preferably handled by the mime database, i.e. registering there and calling it by see(1). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve

Bug#200351: dpkg-issue then...

2003-09-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030912 17:50]: > > wrong. The following patch resolves the problem for me: > > Please regenerate this patch, using -u, and attach it to the email, instead of > including it inline. Hmpf, I guess there has to be something I forget with anything... diff -r -u dpkg-

Bug#200351: dpkg-issue then...

2003-09-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
following patch resolves the problem for me: diff -r dpkg-1.10.10.old/debian/changelog dpkg-1.10.10/debian/changelog 0a1,6 > dpkg (1.10.10-0.1) local; urgency=low > > * Fix setjmp bug in standard_startup > > -- Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fry, 12 Sep 2003 14:09:00 +0

Bug#200351: set/longjump issue?

2003-09-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
I never looked into set/longjmp and am not able to read mips-assembler, but I guess the following means that set/longjmp is broken. Branden, could you test the program on necrotic to verify this might be the cause there, too? The following is what I think dpkg is doing there without anything unrel

Bug#200351: This bug is also triggered by no command-line options at all.

2003-09-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s problem is most likely caused by an invalid program counter or stack pointer. However, if you think GDB should simply search farther back from 0x2ad09570 for code which looks like the beginning of a function, you can increase the range of the search using the `set heuristic-fence-post' command.