Bug#977240: dpkg-query --showformat='${db-fsys:Files}' incompatible with buster

2020-12-14 Thread Bill Allombert
Control: -1 -moreinfo -unreproducible On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 01:58:54AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible > > Hi! > > On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 00:27:39 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.2

Bug#977240: dpkg-query --showformat='${db-fsys:Files}' incompatible with buster

2020-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.5 Severity: important Hello DPKG maintainers, The command dpkg-query --show --showformat='${db-fsys:Files} displays an extra spurious first line: (Reading database ... 134656 files and directories currently installed.) which breaks compatibiity with buster (which

Bug#971203: dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS for no reason

2020-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
severity 971203 important quit > > root (to '/tmp/gap-atlasrep-2.1.0') > > E: Unpack command 'dpkg-source --no-check -x gap-atlasrep_2.1.0-2.dsc' > > failed. > > > > There is no rationale to reject such a symlink which does not point > > _outside_ the source root, but _to_ the source root. > >

Re: dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS for no reason

2020-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
severity 971203 important quit > > root (to '/tmp/gap-atlasrep-2.1.0') > > E: Unpack command 'dpkg-source --no-check -x gap-atlasrep_2.1.0-2.dsc' > > failed. > > > > There is no rationale to reject such a symlink which does not point > > _outside_ the source root, but _to_ the source root. > >

Bug#971203: dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS for no reason

2020-09-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:19:33AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 22:53:13 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:58:00PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed

dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS for no reason

2020-09-27 Thread Bill Allombert
reassign 971203 dpkg-dev severity grave retitle dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS quit On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:58:00PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Source: gap-atlasrep > Version: 2.1.0-2 > Severity: serious > Justification: FTBFS on amd64 > Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs > Usertags:

Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2016-01-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:39:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: > > On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for > > >identity or a match. (This poses

Bug#724621: dpkg-builflags should be versionned

2013-09-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:48:08AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 22:52:08 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.10 Severity: wishlist To be reliable, dpkg-buildflags should provide a versionning system like debhelper does with debian/compat

Bug#724621: dpkg-builflags should be versionned

2013-09-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.10 Severity: wishlist Hello DPKG developers, To be reliable, dpkg-buildflags should provide a versionning system like debhelper does with debian/compat. dpkg-buildflags would defines a interface level (1,2,3,...) that is incremented each time the output of

Re: Bug#680626: Squeeze-Wheezy: dist-upgrade fails, /usr/bin/python unable to load libssl.so.1.0.0

2012-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:22:22AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 14:19:03 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 18:26:50 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: W/o having looked yet at the details I'd say this *seems* like #671711, which I'm not planning on

Re: [Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Bill Allombert wrote: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' with more

Re: [Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:27:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: ping? -- Forwarded message -- From: Cron Daemon r...@zigo.mirbsd.org Message-ID: 201204030625.q336pfbx002...@zigo.mirbsd.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.00 required=0.90 To: r...@zigo.mirbsd.org Date:

Bug#659782: does not cope with multiarch packages being installed

2012-03-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:00:42PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:50:56PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: `dpkg -L libc6-i686:i386' gives me a filelist, without the arch qualifier it fails with the same error as in the cron mail. This appears to be fixed in dpkg

Re: [Popcon-developers] Bug#659782: does not cope with multiarch packages being installed

2012-02-14 Thread Bill Allombert
reassign 659782 dpkg found 659782 retitle 659782 dpkg -L does not work for multi-arch foreign packages. tags 659782 + experimental quit On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:21:47AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: So are you suggesting that dpkg should use

Bug#229357: marked as pending

2012-01-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 07:31:01AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Bill Allombert wrote: Bug #229357 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at: http://git.debian.org/?p

Bug#229357: marked as pending

2012-01-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:12:39AM +, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: tag 229357 pending thanks Hello, Bug #229357 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:

Bug#643746: dpkg has circular Pre-Depends on coreutils

2011-09-29 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1 Severity: important Hello Dpkg maintainers: There is a circular Pre-dependency between dpkg and coreutils: dpkg:Pre-Depends: coreutils (= 5.93-1) coreutils :Depends: dpkg (= 1.15.4) | install-info Maybe coreutils does not need to depend on dpkg

Bug#229357: Bug#604919: dpkg: Please add support for build-arch and build-indep targets

2011-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:17:11AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: Please find a new patch that use the name Build-Features and the module name Dpkg::BuildFeatures. Thanks, here's a short review with a few details to clean. 1/ You're

Bug#229357: Bug#604919: dpkg: Please add support for build-arch and build-indep targets

2011-06-05 Thread Bill Allombert
patch was the one of Bill Allombert in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229357#429 The only thing that changed since my last comments in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229357#401 is that I will accept a comma-separated field. But I won't merge anything without

Re: The trigger in your Debian packages

2011-06-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hello, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org lintian (U) nvidia-graphics-drivers (U) Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org gap menu I do not think this would be a problem for theses two. However in both case, the ability

Bug#560070: dpkg: please stop setting CFLAGS etc. environment variables

2011-05-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:44:28PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 09 May 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: In any scenario, I think debhelper is the place to make the first step. :( Yes. I did not really need a patch to rip out the environment variables, what I need is some assurance

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-05-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:01:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: Thanks, seems to work fine, I have no error/warning at least. OK, so you get comparable results. It is very odd that there so much a difference between batch of 1 package

Bug#560070: dpkg: please stop setting CFLAGS etc. environment variables

2011-05-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:48:35AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: diff --git a/man/dpkg-buildpackage.1 b/man/dpkg-buildpackage.1 index 6460e51..698bff4 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-buildpackage.1 +++ b/man/dpkg-buildpackage.1 @@ -231,15 +231,13 @@ Show the version and exit. Even if

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 06:45:03PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 07 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: Thanks, please find a popularity-contest script that uses dpkg -L by batch. The size of the batch is $dpkg_batch_size at the start of the script. Below are timings on my laptop

Bug#560070: dpkg: please stop setting CFLAGS etc. environment variables

2011-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Dpkg maintainers, Could you fix this issue soon so that it does not interfer with the release of Wheezy ? Thanks, -- Bill. ballo...@debian.org Imagine a large red swirl here. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:08:51 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 04:10:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Bill Allombert wrote: This is not possible: forking dpkg for all installed packages would be way to slow and resource intensive. We need a better option. Bonus points if this interface has an option to point

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:06:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: We deliberately skip .list as we don't guarantee that we're always going to use .list and there's no guaranty that the format of the file won't be extended to store more

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi Bill, On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: I get errors from cron because of popcon: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing That file doesn't exist

Re: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-09-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Jonathan Yu wrote: 22:02:40 rra jawnsy: I don't think we say that explicitly, but RFC 5322 requires it and I can't imagine ever not enforcing that. Although you

Re: Bug#594167: menu update regression, does not recognize entries

2010-08-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:37:49PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.43 Severity: normal Since some time the menu trigger produces more and more warnings of the type: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/' near line 5 package 'python-cupshelpers':

Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate installed for packages

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Russ Allbery wrote: I think we should hopefully be close to a final wording now. Indeed! All I have left are copy-edits (patch below). Thanks! Applied to my copy. @@ -5048,7

Bug#560070: dpkg-buildpackage and LDFLAGS etc.o

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:33:31AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: It would be nice to know what would break if dpkg-dev stopped exporting CFLAGS. Is there someone out there with hardware capable of quickly rebuilding some representative

Bug#560070: Bug#586691: dpkg-buildpackage and LDFLAGS etc.

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:19:27AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#586691: dpkg-buildpackage and LDFLAGS etc.): forcemerge 560070 586691 thanks ... We have dpkg-buildflags nowadays for this. Thanks. I have just read #560070. Can I request that #560070 be

Re: dpkg GIT repos does not build [patch]

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:36:41AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Mon, 24 May 2010, Bill Allombert wrote: Dear Dpkg developers, There is a small typo in dpkg GIT repository that prevent it to build. Please see the attached patch. Thanks applied. I did not notice it because

Bug#229357: Bug#545081: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should UNCONDITIONALLY invoke debian/rules build-arch

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:46:52PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: Good, good, progress at last. Please find a patch that is a port of the old patch.3.0 in the first post of #229357 and implement Build-Options: build-arch as specified therein

Bug#575786: dpkg: refuses to unpack package having conflicts+replaces of virtual package

2010-05-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:12:35PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: severity 575786 important thanks On Sun, 09 May 2010, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Totally tired with having this bug here and there with different packages, I change my mind and bump the severity of this bug to serious, as

Bug#560070: fixed in dpkg 1.15.7

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
currently relying on them but packages should now start using dpkg-buildflags instead. Closes: #560070 So this does not actually fix this bug ? Cheers, Bill. From: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: dpkg: please stop setting CFLAGS etc

Bug#560070: dpkg: please stop setting CFLAGS etc. environment variables

2009-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.5 Hello dpkg developers, dpkg-buildpackages set a bunch of general purpose environment variables before calling debian/rules (CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS, LDFLAGS, MFLAGS, etc.). This cause some packages to build differently with dpkg-buildpackages or with

Bug#556104: dpkg: please provides post-configure triggers

2009-11-13 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5 Severity: wishlist Hello dpkg developers, Please provide a new kind of triggers that are only ran after the triggering packages are configured. This is required for Debian menu at least and generally safer than the standard trigger. Note that this can be emulated

Bug#545081: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should UNCONDITIONALLY invoke debian/rules build-arch

2009-09-06 Thread Bill Allombert
Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux.fr Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:18:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add support for Build-Options: build-arch. Closes: #229357 --- debian/changelog |3 ++- scripts/Dpkg/Fields.pm |2 +- scripts/dpkg

dpkg git does not build due to broken l10n

2009-09-05 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear Dpkg developers and Christian, dpkg git repository does not build due to a problem with one of the translations: debuild ... po4a --no-backups --variable srcdir=../../man \ ../../man/po/po4a.cfg ../../man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1:238: (po4a::man) Unbalanced '' and '' in font

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 05:30:39AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 04:26:02 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 22:24:43 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2009, Bill Allombert

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:50:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: So there's several options that come to mind for that: * We don't care, and expect users might miss docs on the dir file in some cases or need to upgrade dpkg or any

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi Bill, On Sat, 16 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: Does Lenny includes this trigger ? No. Did you consider what will when a partial lenny to squeeze update is made ? Yes. If the new texinfo/install-info is installed

Bug#421389: dpkg: segfault unpacking a short file

2009-03-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:20:10AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 This was from an aborted wget: |$ sudo dpkg -i ./coreutils_5.97-5_i386.deb |(Reading database ... 81656 files and directories currently installed.) |Preparing to replace coreutils 5.97-5.3 (using

dpkg git repo does not build

2009-03-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, I am trying to build dpkg from git source but that fails. 1) origins/Makefile should be removed from configure.ac 2) ChangeLog is not generated, and dh_installchangelogs -a ChangeLog ChangeLog.old fails. 3) Maybe a build-dep on git-core is warranted, due to the use of git log.

Bug#386197: dpkg: strtol checks don't fail when given a null string

2009-03-20 Thread Bill Allombert
tags 386197 patch quit On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:30:56PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.21 Severity: normal $ sudo dpkg --abort-after '' -i / dpkg-split: error reading /: Is a directory dpkg: error processing / (--install): subprocess dpkg-split returned error

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

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 debian

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

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 debian

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

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:22:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we're already on that path for quite some time. If your package uses DEB_(BUILD|HOST)_* variables, you rely on dpkg-buildpackage setting them for you (with dpkg-architecture).

Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)

2008-08-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, forwarded to the popcon-developers, just in case. On Thursday 28 August 2008 01:15, Ian Jackson wrote: Holger Levsen writes (Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)): I'm reassigning this to

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

2008-07-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:19:16PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: El 10/07/08 18:02 Raphael Hertzog escribió: Hello, in order to fix #229357 I decided to add a new Build-Options field. I modified Dpkg::BuildOptions to parse this field and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. And I added support for a

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

2008-07-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:19:16PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: El 10/07/08 18:02 Raphael Hertzog escribió: Hello, in order to fix #229357 I decided to add a new Build-Options field. I modified Dpkg::BuildOptions to parse this field and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. And I added support for a

Bug#229357: Bug #229357: dpkg-buildpackage: support for Build-Options: build-arch

2007-11-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:41:21PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: The package should declare (eg with Build-Options) what the situation is. My patch does that. Ah, yes. Bill, can you give me a reference to what you consider the definitive definition of the behaviour of your proposed

Bug#229357: closed by Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#398625: adapted patch against current dpkg)

2007-11-04 Thread Bill Allombert
reopen 229357 thanks On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 03:45:14PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Simon Richter writes (Bug#398625: adapted patch against current dpkg): I have written a new implementation of the patch proposed earlier, against the current shell script. As discussed on

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 09:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: I think that is just wrong. sbuild should not need to know anything about dpkg-buildpackage's internals and there is no need for change here. The currently used and proven interface is: 1. install Build-Depends for running

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:41:04AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: Obviously the dpkg developers are rather busy at the moment. I think that the right thing to do is to offer to NMU. Errr, what's the rush now to get this fixed? It's something that has been there like forever, the bug report

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:33:26PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Bill Allombert writes (Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?): In 3 years and a half, I had the time to try all of that... So I will try something new: an online petition: If you would like bug #229357 to get

Re: Packages rename and conffiles

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:28:34AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Re: Packages rename and conffiles): What position do you think we should take on this issue? If there's no known solution that avoids conffile prompts with both the old and new versions, and given that

Packages rename and conffiles

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Release and DPKG teams, A fair number of conffiles have changed of packages. The issue: dpkg handling of this situation has changed between Sarge and Etch, see bug#346282. However, unless we ask the user to upgrade dpkg before anything else, there is a fair chance half of the system is

Bug#370508: [DPKG] proposed --force-circular-deps option (defaulting to yes)

2006-06-05 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.20 Severity: wishlist Hello DPKG maintainers, I would like to propose a new --force option, namely --force-circular-deps, that would default to yes. When set to no, dpkg would refuse to break dependencies loop and flag an error. This would make easier to track

Bug#229357: dpkg-buildpackage: support for Build-Options: build-arch

2006-01-19 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello DPKG developers, I am attempting to fix a long standing issue in Debian, which is fully documented in bug #218893, namely the fact that dpkg-buildpackage will call 'debian/rules build' even when called with -B, thus making Build-Depends-Indep nearly useless. For the exact issue please read

Bug#334330: typo in dpkg-architecture(1): dpkg-architetcure

2005-10-17 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.11.0.1 Severity: minor Hello dpkg maintainers, dpkg-architecture(1) has a typo: If you still wish to support versions of dpkg-dev that did not include dpkg-architetcure, the following does the job: I have checked other

Bug#322359: gnats: FTBFS: unpacking fails - Please do not use a version number ending with '-0'

2005-08-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:08:34AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: Andreas Jochens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Policy seems to require that the numbers start with '-1'. Require is hardly true. If I recall correctly, and perhaps I'm a geezer in this respect, policy recommends that debian package

Bug#229357: dpkg-buildpackage: support for Build-Options: build-arch

2004-01-24 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.18 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello dpkg developers, As discussed in #218893, here a patch that implement support in dpkg-buildpackage for `Build-Options: build-arch' in debian/control as defined in the matching patch to debian-policy. When a package specify the

Bug#148932: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should try build-arch target

2003-04-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:59:25PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:03:18PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Firstly, a test to see if something is a makefile can be as simple as reading the first line of the file -- does it contain #!/usr/bin/make -f (as policy

Re: on merulo: dpkg-deb a b --SEGV

2002-10-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:07:33AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Allombert) writes: merulo% dpkg-deb a b zsh: segmentation fault dpkg-deb a b Filed a bug against dpkg yet? The latest build log on buildd.debian.org shows a number of warnings about pointer casts

Bug#111562: #111562: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: incorrect parsing of empty Build-Depends

2002-05-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Build-Depends: debhelper (= 1.1.17),tetex-bin,tetex-extra,libreadline4-dev,xlib s-dev,libncurses5-dev Build-Depends-Indep: Section: math Priority: optional Maintainer: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Standards-Version: 3.5.5.0 This calls for some comments: 1) the bug is against dpkg 1.9.17 and still

Bug#137351: dpkg -l cut versions and make false bug report info

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.19 Severity: normal Hello dpkg developers, The way dpkg -l cut columns may generated wrong versions in bug reports: An example yellowpig% COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l libopenal0 | grep libopenal0 ii libopenal0 0.2001061600-2 OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatiali So