Bug#1067767: dpkg-gencontrol: Don't fail on syntax error in removed field

2024-03-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
, so might that be a good suggestion that could be added there? Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: I do consider my sbuild setup reasonably normal/standard, so I spare you the details, but I am happy to add them if it turns out I am more of a unique snowflake here than I am assuming. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1061111: RFS: dpkg-buildenv/1.0.0 [ITP] -- Builds debian packages in a docker container.

2024-01-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
and given that this is something that "just" works with Docker. As explained in the other bug, there is no veto and as you can see its easy to completely ignore me (and anyone else) but I wanted to say it anyhow, so that nobody is surprised later on. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1053705: dpkg-dev: please use a different word than Maintainer from dpkg-parsechangelog

2023-10-09 Thread David Bremner
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.22.0 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The use of Maintainer in the output of dpkg-parsechangelog is confusing, because it suggests that dpkg-parsechangelog is reporting the Maintainer field from debian/control. I suggest Changed-By for

use case for registering dynamic files for removal

2023-09-03 Thread David Bremner
>From an IRC discussion Helmut asked me to mention our use case for dynamic file registration. In emacs addon packages we currently generate byte-compiled .elc files and some symlinks at install time. It would be very useful not to have to track and clean those up in an ad-hoc way.

Re: Install profiles

2023-06-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
ding architecture specific dependencies and not a whole lot of things cared too much. Or its just because they aren't used a whole lot for reasons. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-05-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
ve some "random" files not present on disk. So your system might not even boot or spawns interdimensional portals. You better reinstall…' is not the type of thing you wanna here from support. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Terminology changes for update-alternatives

2023-01-29 Thread David
On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 at 16:01, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'd like to move away from the master/slave terminology used in > update-alternatives for both the external interfaces (CLI options, > output fields) obviously preserving backwards compatibility, docs > and for all the internal code symbols.

Bug#985749: apt: "apt-mark hold" flag lost on package upgrade using --ignore-hold

2021-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
change – resolving this bug might be as "simple" as adding a note that holds will be (potentially) lost if they are ignored. Sorry, as that is probably not what you wanted to hear. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#969472: /etc/cron.daily/dpkg backs up when missing /var/lib/dpkg/arch

2020-09-03 Thread David Rayna
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.25 1st loop in /etc/cron.daily/dpkg treats missing file as a reason to backup. 2nd loop does handle missing files okay. Result is without any arch file, unchanged files are backed up daily which can be critical when the storage medium has limited life. Adding a line

Bug#964475: dpkg breaks apt autopkgtest: dpkg: error: unknown option --foreign-architecture

2020-07-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
y not read /etc/dpkg.cfg.d files from the root system, but that might be an even longer endeavour) Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/3fe1419433f195d57b948b100b218cf14a2841d0 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Stateless OpenPGP command-line interface for package management

2020-02-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 08:00:26PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Quoting David Kalnischkies (2020-02-06 16:43:22) > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:28:28PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > >"I have a keyring I know that I want to use (like > > >/u

Re: Stateless OpenPGP command-line interface for package management

2020-02-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
keys are no problem and the chroot hopefully ends up with the keyring package(s) it needs? (Anyway, different topic) Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] If I ever get back to https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/merge_requests/33 the answer to which keyring is in the trusted set becomes a lot harder and/o

Re: Stateless OpenPGP command-line interface for package management

2020-02-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
ment of the least external dependencies possible). I fear though that we will find at least one user for every feature gnupg currently has, but wrapped in an interface which doesn't lend itself very well to automation and/or additional wrapping. So this could end up being a colossal undertaking… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#944525: dpkg: Should restore root's PATH while spawning shell for conffile handling

2019-11-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
vision it being argued both ways. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#887629: libc6: bad upgrade path: libexpat1 unpacked and python3 called before libc6 unpacked

2018-01-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
say this isn't an apt bug. (Althrough, if we decide on v2, I guess apt needs to change anyhow as that same call thing might be just dumb luck in this case. Not even sure if v1 is in any way "guaranteed" to be perfectly honest…) Can't stop the feeling that we had issues with python begin called from prerm before and the general advice was: "don't – stick to essential". Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#887629: libc6: bad upgrade path: libexpat1 unpacked and python3 called before libc6 unpacked

2018-01-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
say this isn't an apt bug. (Althrough, if we decide on v2, I guess apt needs to change anyhow as that same call thing might be just dumb luck in this case. Not even sure if v1 is in any way "guaranteed" to be perfectly honest…) Can't stop the feeling that we had issues with python begin called from prerm before and the general advice was: "don't – stick to essential". Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: dpkg was interrupted, you must MANUALLY *what*...????

2017-07-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
ould be very strange and completely unexpected). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Line ending issue when "Reading database"

2017-03-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
ng dpkg output is harder for preciously the initial problem). It isn't really targeted for usage by the general public… (Althrough we had it thankfully for the public as temporary workaround at the time pseudo terminal handling ran hovac in the small differences between linux and kfreebsd last tim

Bug#857449: Patch

2017-03-11 Thread David Rabel
Attached please find the patch. I don't know about the general workflow of dpkg-Team, but I think since this is a really small patch, it does not matter. Yours David From 82360734fa130a083d83f579c1bde85cc1ff6929 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rabel <david.ra...@noresoft.com> Dat

Bug#843073: reproducible on amd64 for me

2016-12-11 Thread David Bremner
I have a new stretch/amd64 install created by the alpha 8 installer. Here is my recipe to reproduce % sudo apt-get build-dep notmuch % debcheckout notmuch % cd notmuch % make debian-snapshot This failed for me 4/4 times. It failed once on libc, twice on libz, and once on glib.

Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

2016-12-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 04:13:47AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 18:50:51 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 02:43:35PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > --\ Packages to be upgraded (17) > > […] >

Re: Bug#845280: apt: useless path given in failed install messages

2016-11-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
dpkg::install::recursive "false"; dpkg::install::recursive::force "true"; So, lets let everyone pick his/her preferred poison and we will see who dies last in this vote… (cc'ed dpkg as they are as involved in it as apt is). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

2016-11-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
haven't looked closely, but apt tries to not explore solutions caused by M-A:same version screw – aptitude seems way more willing to suggest such solutions; that is okay I guess as it is way more interactive, too. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#832972: dpkg: support for multi-instance M-A:same to arch:all "crossgrade"

2016-07-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
orry for the moment), so I aim low and treat it as a feature request rather than a bug. Not sure how non-apt-based frontends like dselect behave through, so for them that might be one… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#832503: apt: foo:any dependency is not handled correctly when foo is not Multi-Arch: allowed

2016-07-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
to discuss this – nor is my existance exorbitantly interested in 'chairing' such a discussion at the moment as there are other things I should be working on, which is also why I only think in private that this might be a topic which should end up on d-d@ as it effects at least the big virtual packages. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#832176: dpkg-maintscript-helper: please support DPKG_ROOT

2016-07-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
shlist, that report would have it… Best regards David Kalnischkies From bae1b41a7d450e9be895edee4220fe34bbe99946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:07:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [INCOMPLETE] dpkg-maintscript-helper: support DPKG

Re: Handling Multi-Arch packages that must be installed for every enabled architecture?

2016-06-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
oes OR exist as | then?, is it a versioned relation, keeping API and/or ABI, what if v2 of a package adds/modifies/removes the field, interaction with autoremove……… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Handling Multi-Arch packages that must be installed for every enabled architecture?

2016-06-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
ng with packages. For Multi-Arch itself I managed to hide away most of it behind implicit dependency relations, versioned provides and 'strange' virtual packages for the libapt-based ones which made that transition quite "easy" all things considered, but we can't pretend it will always be that "easy"… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Missing key or invalid release file?

2016-06-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
… I wanna draw attention to the --keyring option of your debootstrap command. debian-user or perhaps the porters would be a better place to ask (and if only because of a quicker reply) such a question through as this question isn't related to dpkg development… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#825897: horrible infinite loop upon apt-get upgrade

2016-05-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
te_8h_source.html > │ ├─dpkg-query -L imagemagick:all > │ └─grep -F -q -x > /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/www/api/MagickCore/utility-private_8h_source.html Well, that looks like a maintainerscript running amok as apt doesn't call dpkg-query. As that loop seems to be produced by dpkg-maintscript-helper itself, reassigning to dpkg (and keeping a clone), but perhaps its also imagemagick calling it wrong as imagemagick is only newly 'all', it used to be 'any'… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2016-01-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
ildcards differently if need be, but I am not going to do it myself mainly because I expect that to have fallout – not in apt, but in things using apt – and I don't have the energy (or the rights) to deal with such things efficiently. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

MultiArch standoff: apt vs dpkg vs deb-control(5)

2015-09-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
intended. -- In my testing I couldn't use dpkg --no-act as this 'happily' segfaults with (the packaged dpkg does as well, just that the stacktrace is useless without debug symbols, so I built my own dpkg from git): Reading symbols from /home/david/Öffentlich/debian/dpkg/build-tree/src/dpkg..

Re: apt-get source symlinks if repository is local ('file:/)?

2015-08-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55ca93a5.3030...@gmail.com - End forwarded message - Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#794694: dpkg: FTBFS on hppa: test failure

2015-08-05 Thread John David Anglin
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.1 Severity: normal The build fails here: ../../scripts/t/merge_changelogs.t . ok make[5]: *** [test] Error 1 # Failed test 'makefile buildflags.mk computes all values correctly' # at ../../scripts/t/mk.t line 41. # Looks like you failed 1 test of 5.

Re: Storing .deb checksums in ADMINDIR/status?

2015-06-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
for already installed packages to an eternal chaos of never being quiet sure if the fields are available… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#786518: Latest dpkg-dev breaks debdiff in some locales

2015-05-22 Thread David Prévot
) Version: [-2.6.9.23~rc2-1-] {+2.6.9.23~rc3-1+} Downgrading dpkg-dev (and libdpkg-perl) to 1.17.25 also fixes the issue. Regards David -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500

Bug#786518: Latest dpkg-dev breaks debdiff in some locales

2015-05-22 Thread David Prévot
Hi Guillem, On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 03:51:25PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 09:34:27 -0400, David Prévot wrote: $ debdiff mozilla-noscript_2.6.9.23~rc{2,3}-1_amd64.changes […] wdiff failed On the other hand, forcing LC_ALL=C allows to workaround the issue

Re: [Multiarch-devel] arch-specific dependencies and M-A: foreign

2015-04-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
would like to avoid happening. I think with the three tools we cover enough ground to get a solid foundation. At least we should try. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: arch-specific dependencies and M-A: foreign

2015-04-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
slightly off-topic here. But for completeness in short: APT has a battery of shellscripts we dubbed integration tests, which can among other things build packages and (try to) install them via apt with dpkg as non-root in a temp directory. Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https

arch-specific dependencies and M-A: foreign

2015-04-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
. Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ referring to apt-get here in particular, but anything using libapt is effected. ² implementation-wise in libapt as it's trying to hide all of multiarch by translating the problem to singlearch with heaps of explicitly created implicit dependencies and (versioned

Re: dpkg transactions

2015-01-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
that we disagree on the first line everything else hopefully just follows suite (or at least makes a bit more sense). On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 18:40:32 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 06:24:16PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: And w/o wanting to get tiresome with this, take

Re: Bug#766758: apt: does not process pending triggers

2014-11-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
ConfigurePending once. Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: I will respond to other parts of the mail/thread in other threads/bugs to keep all reasonably ordered… if that is possible. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg transactions

2014-11-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
of the orders of the day now as well… Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ On an intellectual level I have the same issue with all --pending operations, just that apt is described as going from one good state to another, so I have less problems saying that its okay for it to fix up all the mess currently

Bug#766758: apt: does not process pending triggers

2014-11-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
ConfigurePending once. Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: I will respond to other parts of the mail/thread in other threads/bugs to keep all reasonably ordered… if that is possible. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#766758: apt: does not process pending triggers

2014-11-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
embarrassing that I wanted to do it for 5 years now…) Anyway, we can't enable this option retroactively even if we wanted to… Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ so basically, it would do what my suggestion is above to be done by default, BUT I would expect the call to fail if a pending trigger can't be run

Re: dpkg-source unpack failures

2014-07-05 Thread David Suárez
El Lunes, 30 de junio de 2014 19:10:03 David Suárez escribió: Hi, El Lunes, 30 de junio de 2014 04:29:43 Guillem Jover escribió: David, would it be possible to do a simple dpkg-source unpack run over the stable archive, with the security update (dpkg 1.16.15), to check if there's any

Re: dpkg-source unpack failures

2014-06-30 Thread David Suárez
Hi, El Lunes, 30 de junio de 2014 04:29:43 Guillem Jover escribió: David, would it be possible to do a simple dpkg-source unpack run over the stable archive, with the security update (dpkg 1.16.15), to check if there's any regressions there? Not problem, just give me some time :) Cheers

Re: Bug#747261: apt: Please add support for cross-architecture conflicts

2014-05-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi * ! (hopefully quoting enough for dpkg list to get the context) On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:57:27AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 09:03:50PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:22:00PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: | # apt-cache show libc6:mips

Bug#592839: please consider it anyway, even if useless for non-free files

2013-09-03 Thread David Bremner
It is sometimes convenient to keep files deleted in the integration branch of a version control system even if these files are dfsg free; most recently I did this to facilitate cherry-picking patches from upstream of an embedded library (yes, ick, I know). There is no nice way of representing

Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2013-09-03 Thread David Bremner
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: I don't think I understand this particular use case --- why patch the embedded library instead of just removing it? The embedded library is actually a fork, with tiny but functionally significant changes. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#709991: False Original-maintainer warning

2013-05-27 Thread David Henningsson
-Original-Maintainer, thus we shouldn't warn about it. I thought this was Ubuntu specific, but was told that I should file a bug upstream for inclusion instead. So I'm sending a patch to add Original-Maintainer as a known header field in debian/control. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https

Bug#709991: [PATCH] dpkg-deb: Don't warn on 'Original-Maintainer'

2013-05-27 Thread David Henningsson
A lot of Ubuntu packages have this warning on build: dpkg-deb: warning: 'package/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 'Original-Maintainer' dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warning about the control file(s) This warning should be removed as Original-Maintainer is encouraged in Debian

Re: build profile syntax ideas

2013-04-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Johannes Schauer j.scha...@email.de wrote: Quoting David Kalnischkies (2013-04-28 14:27:12) On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johannes Schauer j.scha...@email.de wrote: My answer: X=~ and Y=. (or anything else expect : really) As this is something you will have

Re: build profile syntax ideas

2013-04-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
regards David Kalnischkies -- 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/caaz6_faqshx6yewt2qzq9xejjjcqzyb5umt18xhrwf--i8o...@mail.gmail.com

Re: dpkg sets SIGHUP to SIG_IGN

2012-11-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463030 A graceful kill happens on SIGINT in apt/wheezy in the sense that we will let dpkg finish whatever it does current (which can be quiet a lot) and stop after that. Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: I don't see why SIGHUP is misused

Bug#693922: dpkg: amd64 dpkg refuses to install i386 package when dependencies are installed

2012-11-21 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.9 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? amd64 system trying to install an i386 package required for multiarch setup of Wine * What exactly did you do (or not do)

Bug#693922: dpkg: amd64 dpkg refuses to install i386 package when dependencies are installed

2012-11-21 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Miércoles, 21 de noviembre de 2012 20:01:17 Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 19:40:38 +, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.9 Severity: important *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up

Re: Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
(as it does some direct dpkg calling on its own as far as I know) and whatever other dpkg front-end assumed that it could arch-qualify everything in a multi-arch universe. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 13:53:47 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: So it would seem to me the arch-qualifying logic in apt is not right, it really

Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com 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

Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
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Re: architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: David Kalnischkies wrote: while playing around with the APT code regarding architecture-specific dependencies I stumbled over the handling of Provides in that context: Package: pkga Status: install ok installed

architecture-specific dependencies on virtual packages

2012-07-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
that a dependency is unsatisfied (same problem with depends if no architecture is specified). Shouldn't provides be limited by the architecture their provider can work on? Or did I miss something here? Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-04 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:11:48 +0200, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Just to confirm that we speak of the same thing... you have all patches applied but you don't have the corresponding quilt metadata in .pc. When you build the source package, dpkg-source tries to apply all the

Re: Explicit arch qualifiers in “Depends” field

2012-04-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
(or specifically: not available for i386), so you either have to hack with [arch] or make it any, both is bad…) See also [0] and [1] in the MultiArch spec which talk about this and a related issue. Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 23:10, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: * 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

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 15:46, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: David Kalnischkies wrote: You generously left out the paragraph describing how APT should detect that the package foo is in fact a library and not, say, a plugin, a dev-package, a dbg-package or a future-coinstallable

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 19:53, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: * David Kalnischkies [2012-02-17 14:15 +0100]: You generously left out the paragraph describing how APT should detect that the package foo is in fact a library ... My impression was that you think very library centric.  All

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
is that i don't have ${source:Version} available currently in the version structure, but we haven't even tried pushing apt's abibreak to sid specifically as i feared last-minute changes…) The question just remains if it is a good idea… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

dpkg behavior while changing a foreign package from arch:any to arch:all (and v.v.)

2012-02-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
be good to have an option in dpkg to tell dpkg what it should consider as native architecture similar to APT::Architecture to easily solve these kind of communication problems. Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: Yes, this was started as a bugreport, but half way though i figured that's a bit too

Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O

2012-01-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
and should be the easiest to implement… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- 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/caaz6_fbj_xhttvh43gl7dyoyjhigvpr12b737nqsynpvoud

Re: libqwt-dev: apt reinstalls the package

2011-12-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
a similar issue with explicit mentioning of the zero epoch in the past. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- 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

Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O

2011-12-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
change APT then, until then it will just work this way in most cases and cries loudly in the essential-case. I just think that we don't need to delay M-A for this essential-crossgrade as it is more or less an add-on. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ

Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O

2011-12-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 20:55, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:19:55AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 18:14:15 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: Beside that i wonder which --force flag this should be, given that it removes packages

Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O

2011-12-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:29, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 18:15:12 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: dpkg --remove libc6 # removing libc6:i386 and libc6:amd64 ? Users will love you for this, given that it is completely inconsistent with what front-ends

Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O

2011-12-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
to be become long already, so i am not going to repeat it here, just let me reiterate that a) it feels strange to have different interfaces in the same context b) requiring different inputs based on the M-A state asks for confusion c) breaking release upgrades should be avoided Best regards David

Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O

2011-12-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
anyway. So implementing this sounds for me a bit like black voodoo… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- 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

Re: Multiarch interfaces: print foreign arches, pkgname I/O

2011-12-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 14:37, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, David Kalnischkies wrote: You talk only about output, but the title is I/O and i think it's unlikely that dpkg has a different understanding of pkgname in output vs input, so, you want to tell us

Bug#620699: dpkg-query: version string does not start with digit

2011-04-16 Thread David Madore
numbers begin with a letter and I find the dpkg source way too confusing to understand what it does. -- David A. Madore ( http://www.madore.org/~david/ ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#620699: dpkg-query: version string does not start with digit

2011-04-16 Thread David Madore
to proceed, so any other suggestion would be very welcome. -- David A. Madore ( http://www.madore.org/~david/ ) diff -rup dpkg-1.16.0.1/lib/dpkg/parsehelp.c dpkg-1.16.0.1dmadore/lib/dpkg/parsehelp.c --- dpkg-1.16.0.1/lib/dpkg/parsehelp.c 2011-04-03 17:33:31.0 +0200 +++ dpkg

Re: Need feedback on dpkg's behaviour with multiarch packages

2011-02-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
as already configured (and maybe configure i386) - fail as not specific enough Best regards David Kalnischkies -- 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

Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-14 Thread David Claughton
checked by a script). Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#591588: dpkg: Please, provide back translated documentation

2010-08-03 Thread David Prévot
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.3 Severity: normal Hi, Translated manual pages are not shipped any more with dpkg. Cheers David -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental

Re: disappearing packages, seamless renames

2010-05-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
disappeared i would assume that newPkg-{client,server} should be marked as manual (if oldPkg was manual) as they seems to be the follow up packages of oldPkg. awk on the other hand seems to be just still a depends to be able to execute maintainerscripts successful. Nothing implicit Best regards, David

Re: [PATCH dpkg 0/3] supporting seemless package renames (dpkg --configure --ignore-not-installed)

2010-05-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
-get call - an example: The following packages disappeared from your system as all files have been overwritten by other packages: apt dpkg Note: This is done automatic and on purpose by dpkg. * (hint hint) 2010/4/10 David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com: b) a) + overload Provides

Re: Bug#574956: dpkg drops zero-epoch in status file

2010-05-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
completely and writing a full-blown version number normalizer just for this small use case seems to be over-engineering… Best regards, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#574956: dpkg drops zero-epoch in status file

2010-04-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
… Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen David Kalnischkies -- 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/p2yc64043e61004300356za77e0adeie1a4b256808a3...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [PATCH dpkg 0/3] supporting seemless package renames (dpkg --configure --ignore-not-installed)

2010-04-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hello (again), 2010/4/10 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com: David Kalnischkies wrote: he needs to install git-core which he does again after noticing that it doesn't work at the first try and face a conflict resolution process now… (or he had git already installed through some dependencies

Re: [PATCH dpkg 0/3] supporting seemless package renames (dpkg --configure --ignore-not-installed)

2010-04-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
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Re: [PATCH dpkg 0/3] supporting seemless package renames (dpkg --configure --ignore-not-installed)

2010-04-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
the simple normal package rename case a bit. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David Kalnischkies -- 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

Bug#526774: dpkg: complains on pre-dependencies in trigger-awaited state

2009-09-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
.) Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David DonKult Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dpkg list-file performance

2009-08-31 Thread David Benjamin
. As you noted, updating the .list files is cheap, so retaining them should not be expensive. As long as we can reliably detect when the database becomes inaccurate (with false positives acceptable), we can regenerate the cache and move on. I think this should not be a difficult problem. David

Re: dpkg list-file performance

2009-08-30 Thread David Benjamin
On 08/30/2009 09:28 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: David Benjamindavid...@mit.edu (29/08/2009): The current list-files are good for the query given a package, what did it install. They also have fairly fast updates. However, they are extremely poorly suited for the query given a file, what package

dpkg list-file performance

2009-08-29 Thread David Benjamin
paths. A tar file may have problems with --delete rewriting the entire file. Thoughts? David Benjamin [1] http://github.com/davidben/dpkg/tree/tarfile-proof-of-concept -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

[PATCH] Refactor: make a separate function to add files

2009-08-29 Thread David Benjamin
of the list. (This is what the original code does, so I have mirrored its behavior.) Signed-off-by: David Benjamin david...@mit.edu --- src/filesdb.c | 77 1 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/filesdb.c b

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
for unstable main [0]) that e.g. the very small cs_CZ file would hide the larger cs file... (btw: Also a suggestion which whitelist should be used would be good, e.g. i think it is unlikely that we get a de_?? in the future...) Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David DonKult Kalnischkies

Bug#533171: Patch

2009-06-24 Thread David Stansby
Here's a patch that fixes this bug lazarus_0.9.26.2-2ubuntu1.debdiff Description: Binary data

Bug#533171: Wrong bug

2009-06-24 Thread David
Sorry guys, I accidentally sent that last message to the wrong bug. Feel free to delete both this message and the previous one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#533171: How to upload the git changes?

2009-06-17 Thread David Stansby
I've downloaded the latest git version, using git clone git://git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git and have changed all the .po files and the files in /src to the correct grammar. How do I upload the changes to git now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#51450: What are your thoughts

2009-01-29 Thread David
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