Bug#257505: dpkg: patch to fix the wrong output of dpkg-query --list in UTF-8 locales

2012-06-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, I saw this old bug report yesterday whilst looking for the convention for bug subjects used in dpkg. * Changwoo Ryu [2004-07-04 06:57 +0900]: In my ko_KR.UTF-8 locale and with the new Korean translation added (#254590), dpkg-query --list prints each fields in wrong columns (see attached

Bug#675918: dpkg: [S-S-D]: write_pidfile() should not follow symlinks

2012-06-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thanks for applying and extending the patch that fast! * Guillem Jover [2012-06-05 11:12 +0200]: (a configure script would ease testing patches) I'm not sure what you mean with this? I did not write what I meant ;) What I meant is that it is not obvious without looking into the

Bug#675918: dpkg: [S-S-D]: write_pidfile() should not follow symlinks

2012-06-04 Thread Carsten Hey
From: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:27:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] s-s-d: Do not follow symlinks when creating pidfiles --- utils/start-stop-daemon.c |8 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c b/utils/start-stop

Bug#675918: dpkg: [S-S-D]: write_pidfile() should not follow symlinks

2012-06-04 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2012-06-04 09:36 +0200]: start-stop-daemon should not follow symlinks: # ls -l /etc/shadow /var/run/foo.pid -rw-r- 1 root shadow 662 Apr 10 12:20 /etc/shadow lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 11 Jun 4 06:00 /var/run/foo.pid - /etc/shadow # start-stop-daemon --start

Bug#673190: dpkg-query: --list should add arch suffix to all foreign arch packages

2012-05-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.3 Severity: wishlist dpkg-query --list should add arch suffix to all foreign arch packages. # dpkg --print-architecture amd64 # dpkg -l sc | grep ' sc' | tr -s ' ' ii sc 7.16-3 Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings # apt-get remove sc ...

Bug#673190: dpkg-query: --list should add arch suffix to all foreign arch packages

2012-05-16 Thread Carsten Hey
* Guillem Jover [2012-05-16 22:46 +0200]: As long as the user enabled a foreign architecture, and the dependencies are fulfilled, I don't see why the fact that it's foreign or not is really important. There are cases where knowing that a package is installed from arch foo is interesting,

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 14:55 -0800]: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org writes: There are still files that differ that do not need to be fixed, for example documentation that contains it's build date. Every file that differs has to be fixed in the current multi-arch plan. Documentation

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-17 17:20 +0100]: Why would it be intuitive to add a specific value for the arch attribute with apt-get install foo # arch |= native but remove all values of the attribute with apt-get remove foo# arch = ~all-architectures ? We had a similar discussion

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-16 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-16 03:59 +0100]: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 00:39, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:   it needs to find and remove foo:* foo:all (or foo:any) instead of foo:* would save the need to quote it. Actually, why would that be the behavior?  Why would dpkg --purge foo

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-16 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 10:43 -0800]: * Users who want to co-install separate architectures will immediately encounter a dpkg error saying that the files aren't consistent. This means they won't be able to co-install the packages, but dpkg will prevent any actual harm from happening.

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-11 Thread Carsten Hey
* Aron Xu [2012-02-09 01:22 +0800]: Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if endianness were not something to care about. ... Debian Policy, begin of section 5.6.8: | Depending on context and the