Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

2016-09-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 01:59:10 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > But I've found some quirks and issues that while not unsurmountable, > might need to be looked at first and perhaps fixed or workarounds found > to avoid "regressions", and I'm not sure which ones Rus

Re: Intent to commit craziness - source package unpacking

2016-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 15:37:19 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > tl;dr: > > * dpkg developers, please tell me whether I am making assumptions >that are likely to become false. Particularly, on the behaviour of >successive runs of dpkg-source --before-build with successively >longer se

Enquiry about libdpkg-perl alternatives

2016-09-28 Thread Guillem Jover
[ Module maintainers and users CCed for lists, and BCCed for people (where I've omitted those I suspect (?) read the maintainer lists). Please follow-up on d-dpkg and your maintainer list if relevant. ] Hi! I was checking for perl implementations of things provided now by libdpkg-perl and I s

Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

2016-10-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 16:46:58 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 04:21:31PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 01:59:10 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > But I've found some quirks and issues that while not unsurmountable,

Re: multi threaded support for xz

2016-10-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 22:00:26 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > xz-utils 5.2.2 with threading support for the compressor is currently > in the deferred queue for another 24 hours [0]. > Once this version has been built a binNMU of dpkg will pick up the > threading support. Please do

Re: dpkg_1.18.10~bpo8+1_amd64.changes is NEW

2016-10-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-10-16 at 06:18:40 +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > binary:dpkg is NEW. > binary:dpkg-dev is NEW. > binary:dselect is NEW. > binary:libdpkg-dev is NEW. > binary:libdpkg-perl is NEW. > source:dpkg is NEW. > > Your package has been put into the NEW queue, which requires manual act

Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

2016-10-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 12:55:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > Can use B(N) instead of L. Which might be needed anyway > > to reduce the amount of fuzzy strings. The same to using I<> instead > > of the more semantic F<>. > >

Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

2016-10-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 12:54:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > Using raw UTF-8 in the roff source is not portable, and some (most?) > > implementations might not be happy about that. But using the escape > > sequences should always be safe(?). (

Heads-up: Switching internal dpkg arch representation to quadruplets

2016-10-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! Currently dpkg represents architectures internally as Debian triplets, which have the inverse order as GNU triplets. One problem is that the first element of the triplet encodes the ABI and the libc used, so we have no way to wildcard one or the other, and this is becoming more relevant with n

Accepted dpkg 1.18.11 (source) into unstable

2016-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:09:02 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Accepted dpkg 1.18.12 (source) into unstable

2016-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:36:20 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: Problems with man/po/de.po in the repository?

2016-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-11-06 at 06:32:45 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > you updated man/po/de.po in the repository: > git diff -r 53392da21859b4df51cb19b6c880f2f06135eca7 de.po > > -"POT-Creation-Date: 2016-11-05 18:00+0100\n" > +"POT-Creation-Date: 2016-10-16 22:55+0200\n" > > -#: deb.man deb822.ma

Re: dpkg-buildpackage test suite failure

2016-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 10:57:27 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-10-30 10:12 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > I'm getting the following error when running the test suite: > > > > , > > | dpkg_buildpackage.t: error: > > | /usr/local/src/dpkg/build-tree/scripts/../../scripts/dpkg-buildpacka

Re: [dpkg] 85/130: test: Add an initial functional test suite for dpkg-deb and dpkg-split

2016-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 18:15:09 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-10-30 11:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2016-10-30 05:46 +, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> +AT_CHECK([ > >> +# Test non-uniform data.tar/control.tar member compression > >> +ar

Re: [dpkg] 50/130: debian: Use perl:Depends via dh_perl instead of a hardcoded perl

2016-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 22:25:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-10-30 05:46 +0000, Guillem Jover wrote: > > diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules > > index d57fa22..212a5a8 100755 > > --- a/debian/rules > > +++ b/debian/rules > > @@ -138,

Accepted dpkg 1.18.13 (source) into unstable

2016-11-06 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 03:28:42 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: [MBF] Obsoleting bzip2 compression in .deb packages

2016-11-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 13:47:49 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 03:19:40 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I'd like to obsolete bzip2 (and lzma) as .deb compressors when building > > binary packages. dpkg-deb currently emits warnings, this would turn them

Re: Bug#843791: ghc: builds fail on hurd-i386: /usr/bin/ld: -r and -pie may not be used together

2016-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 01:21:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Clint Adams, on Wed 09 Nov 2016 17:08:23 +, wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 05:47:13PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > It seems the latest ghc has troubles building packages on hurd-i386: > > > > > > [ 1 of 18] Compilin

Accepted dpkg 1.18.14 (source) into unstable

2016-11-10 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:26:08 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: Fw: PATCH: dpkg: Check for gzip --rsyncable

2016-11-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! [ Although I saw your earlier direct mail to me, I wanted to get the current releases out of the door first. In any case sending to the mailing list is in general the right thing do to anyway, so thanks. :) ] On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 11:02:40 +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > dpkg 1.18.11 inclu

Moving towards a deb-buildinfo(5) Format 1.0

2016-11-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've noticed several things with the current .buildinfo format, even after the cleanup pre-merge, that I'd like to fix or change so that we can hopefully reach Format 1.0. Some of the issues, that bother me: * .buildinfo files are not currently signed I just n

Re: Moving towards a deb-buildinfo(5) Format 1.0

2016-11-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 14:21:45 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Also see: > > https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/BuildinfoFiles#Semantics > > I've heard many upstream developers who were initially very much against > purging the timestamp when the build was done from their build arti

Accepted dpkg 1.18.15 (source) into unstable

2016-11-15 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 03:28:05 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.15 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: Bug#845193: dpkg: recent -specs PIE changes break openssl

2016-11-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 14:52:33 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > clone 845193 -1 > reassign -1 dpkg > retitle -1 dpkg: please do not add -specs= flags only on some architectures > thanks I'm afraid I'll have to wontfix this because it is not really implementable. See belo

Re: symbolic link size

2016-11-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 13:58:10 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > as you know dpkg checks if st_size in structure stat equals the return value > for readlink() and if not issues the error message "symbolic link '' size > has changed from X to Y". Why is this check in there? It turns out that there

Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

2016-11-29 Thread Guillem Jover
[ Colin CCed for some input on groff vs minus situation. ] On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 17:10:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > For the current conversion in dpkg, I've taken most of the common > > symbols from groff_char(7) and created a very simple

Re: Intent to commit craziness - source package unpacking

2016-11-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 10:50:49 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Intent to commit craziness - source package > unpacking"): > > On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 15:37:19 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > * dpkg developers, please tell me whether I am makin

Accepted dpkg 1.18.16 (source) into unstable

2016-12-16 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:25:53 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.16 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: PATCH: dpkg: allow missing /etc/dpkg/dpkg.d directory

2016-12-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 07:41:17 -0800, Anders Oleson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Certainly this patch is entirely wrong. Before treating an error as > > "thing does not exist, carry on", programs should indeed check errno. > > If the manpage scandir(3) is a

Re: [dpkg] 01/04: debian: Do not insert a perl:Depends for libdpkg-perl

2016-12-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 13:45:07 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-12-18 11:40 +0000, Guillem Jover wrote: > > commit f27865fad257cfc29511b01ba810466b40c994a1 > > Author: Guillem Jover > > Date: Fri Dec 16 22:39:25 2016 +0100 > > > > debian: Do not

Accepted dpkg 1.18.17 (source) into unstable

2016-12-18 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 02:43:10 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.17 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: Bug#836525: debootstrap: doesn't support arch-qualified dependencies

2016-12-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 13:59:51 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > > On 12/19/2016 10:58 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Control: severity -1 serious > > > > On 2016-11-12 20:32 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2016-09-04 19:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>> The atta

Re: Bug#836525: debootstrap: doesn't support arch-qualified dependencies

2016-12-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 10:47:42 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On 12/19/2016 02:41 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 13:59:51 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> I think that needs to be reverted in dpkg, we really want to be able to > >> cre

Accepted dpkg 1.18.18 (source) into unstable

2016-12-20 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:53:12 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.18 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I'm interested in what things people still find so off-putting to the point of not wanting to use the new 3.0 source formats, or what makes people use them in anger and similar (if people would state which one of these apply that would be helpful). All these including objective and subjective

Accepted dpkg 1.18.19 (source) into unstable

2017-01-26 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:43:36 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.19 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Accepted dpkg 1.18.20 (source) into unstable

2017-01-27 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 06:32:53 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.20 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: Accepted dpkg 1.18.19 (source) into unstable

2017-01-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 16:07:32 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Hi, Guillem. I'm afraid I find myself writing a critical email. Fair enough. > Guillem Jover writes ("Accepted dpkg 1.18.19 (source) into unstable"): > > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:43:36 +0100 > &

Accepted dpkg 1.18.21 (source) into unstable

2017-01-29 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:29:58 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.21 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Accepted dpkg 1.18.22 (source) into unstable

2017-01-31 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 05:48:58 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.22 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: Bug#854512: ftpcopy: FTBFS: dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot read «BUILDDIR»/debian/ftpcopy/usr/bin/ftpcp

2017-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 libdpkg-perl Control: retitle -2 Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Cope more gracefully with non-ELF files Control: severity -2 important Hi! On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 23:08:23 +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > Control: tag -1 + patch > > dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot

Re: Moving towards a deb-buildinfo(5) Format 1.0

2017-02-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 19:04:53 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've noticed several things with the > current .buildinfo format, even after the cleanup pre-merge, that > I'd like to fix or change so that we can hopefully reach Format 1.0.

Re: Moving towards a deb-buildinfo(5) Format 1.0

2017-02-19 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 11:39:28 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2017-02-19, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> * .buildinfo files are not generated when creating source-only uploads > > > > Fixed. Now always generated. > > On a related note, is it currently possible to c

Accepted dpkg 1.18.23 (source) into unstable

2017-03-05 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:41:11 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.23 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover

Re: on quilt, dpkg, dgit and symlinks.

2017-03-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 02:04:08 +, peter green wrote: > dgit claimed I was creating a new symlink and that creation of a new > symlink could not be represented by 3.0 (quilt). So I removed the > symlink, dpkg-source called by dgit then warned about "deletion" of > said symlink. Furthermore

Re: Moving towards a deb-buildinfo(5) Format 1.0

2017-03-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi again! [ I just had this drafted around, and though I just update and send it out as a status update. ] On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 18:52:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 19:04:53 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've noticed

Re: Line ending issue when "Reading database"

2017-03-28 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 15:57:33 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sven Joachim writes ("Re: Line ending issue when "Reading database""): > > One problem here is that there is currently no option for dpkg to > > suppress the output entirely, see bug #539617[1]. The other one is that > > apt always ru

Re: RFC: Unified package metadata format

2017-04-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 16:22:58 -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote: > I'm looking at implementing support for IMA file signatures inside > dpkg. The previous patches posted for this > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850340) did so > using extended PAX metadata, but people didn't se

Re: RFC: Unified package metadata format

2017-04-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 07:20:00 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Guillem Jover: > > I don't think this is correct. Initial whitespace gets ignored (this is > > not clear from mtree(5), but that's what the various implementations do). > > The subset of type of lines

Re: [PATCH] fields.c: Avoid unnecessary translations for error messages

2017-04-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 13:43:00 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Attached patch reduces the "start up" time of dpkg-query by 10% to 20% > (depending on whether you run it under C-locale or not). On a system > with about ~1.4k packages installed (and a non-C locale), this is the > difference betwe

Re: dpkg updates for DilOS

2017-04-23 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 15:31:22 +0300, Igor Kozhukhov wrote: > i have platfrom DilOS (http://www.dilow.org ) > it is illumos based plarform, but it is not illumos as is. > illumos - it is fork from OpenSolaris. I know, :) I've got it tracked as one of dpkg downstreams, w

Re: Ping the list

2006-01-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:42:16AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > OK, first attempt. There's already a list for dpkg development so we > probably don't need something else. Just checking that me, Frank, > Brendan and Guillem are actually subscribed. > Please pong. Pong. regards, guillem

Re: Create a project on Alioth and choose a RCS?

2006-01-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:38:57AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Brendan O'Dea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 07:33:56AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >-import the current sources in the trunk of this SVN > > > > I take it that this could be done in such a

Re: Create a project on Alioth and choose a RCS?

2006-01-16 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:00:01AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:45:34AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I suggest we go with it if nothig is found very quickly. The worst > > case would be nothing being done for weeks with everyonen waiting for > > everybody to d

Re: The way to the next dpkg release

2006-01-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:16:10AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > One of the difficulties that I see with dpkg at the moment is that it has > > a very large bug list. Many of those bugs are very old, the use of tags > > is sometimes different from bug to bug, and the database could proba

Re: SVN snapshot of last night doesn't build

2006-01-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:05:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > I tried today a build of dpkg so that the D-I people working on the > graphical installer can benefit the recent patch for #345475. > > However, the build (done on my local sid system, no pbuilder) failed > with: > gcc -std

Re: Remaining issues before upload

2006-01-23 Thread Guillem Jover
tag 337942 pending thanks Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:15:58PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > As I said last week (and nobody objected to that), we should use the > next days for testing and not commit any more patches so that we can > upload a package at the end of the week. I will still co

Re: Plan for uploading to unstable

2006-01-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:39:03AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I plan to make a dpkg upload to unstable either Friday or Saturday. > Unless someone commits big changes to the trunk in SVN until then > I plan to use it and not the version in experimental. Does anyone mind if I remove the

Re: Create a project on Alioth and choose a RCS?

2006-02-01 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:45:32AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:17:31PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:38:57AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > So (shouting out loud), who knows how to import an Arch archive

Re: typo in manpage update-alternatives.8

2006-02-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:48:04AM +0100, Philippe Batailler wrote: > please remove "C." in that line of trunk/man/C/update-alternatives.8: > > C.\" update\-alternatives.8 Ah right, saw that some weeks ago, but forgot to commit, thanks for the reminder. Fixed now. And it's only the 'C' char,

Re: r91 - in trunk: . debian m4

2006-02-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:52:38AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.81), libncurses5-dev | libncurses-dev, > > zlib1g-dev (>= 1:1.1.3-19.1), libbz2-dev, libsepol1-dev [!hurd-i386 > > !kfreebsd-i386], libselinux1-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386], po4a > > +Build

Re: r91 - in trunk: . debian m4

2006-02-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:59:06PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > This has had problems in the past with buildds, also the correct fix > > now that dpkg has arch alias support would be "libselinux1-dev [linux-any]", > However, he suggested this would need a versioned Build dependency on > dep

Re: r162 - in trunk: . debian scripts

2006-02-23 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:19:08PM +, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > Author: djpig > Date: 2006-02-18 18:19:06 + (Sat, 18 Feb 2006) > New Revision: 162 > > Modified: >trunk/ChangeLog >trunk/debian/changelog >trunk/scripts/dpkg-gencontrol.pl > Log: > Handle architectures in all

Next upload

2006-03-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I plan to upload a new dpkg version to unstable this week. I'll be reverting the architecture alias expansion, so probably wait until shadow does not use it anymore. There has not been major changes in until now so this should be quiet safe. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Accepted dpkg 1.13.17 (source i386 all)

2006-03-19 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:33:03 +0200 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.17 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

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2006-04-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I plan to upload a new dpkg version to sid on friday (more or less :). regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted dpkg 1.13.18 (source i386 all)

2006-04-09 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:40:22 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.18 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

Re: Policy amendment to permit multi-line fields in debian/control

2006-04-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:04:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I have proposed a modification for Policy that will permit wrapping in the > following fields in debian/control: > > Depends Recommends Suggests Enhances Pre-Depends Conflicts > Provides Replaces Build-Depends Build-Depends-I

Next upload

2006-04-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I'll be uploading a new dpkg to sid at the end of next weekend. I wanted to introduce the new arch name for arm EABI but I think it needs a bit more thinking in the implementation side. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Accepted dpkg 1.13.19 (source i386 all)

2006-05-04 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:05:21 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.19 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

Re: Working on dpkg during Debconf

2006-05-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 11:35:51 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I will be there from Monday (May, 8th) and will probably able to invest > up to 50% of my time in dpkg (the other half hopefully going to > packages.d.o). I'll not be there, but I plan to hack on it from home, and irc and mail i

Re: Working on dpkg during Debconf

2006-05-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:30:51 -0500, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:49:19PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:35:51AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > > Other: > > > - Etch release plan. We have essentially 3 months left until the base > > >

Preliminary dpkg armel architecture support

2006-05-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, As part of the EABI move we are doing at Nokia for the 770 I've implemented a proof of concept patch for dpkg which implements support for a debian triplet (used internally by dpkg-architecture) which would get mapped from and to the gnu triplet and then converted to the appropriate final arch

Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info

2006-05-23 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:14:32 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > It's wrong on two counts: > 1/ The visual format of the dir file is used for collecting the sections. > This has all the robustness of, say, grepping for text in a Postscript file. > > 2/ Since no record is kept of the individual additio

Next upload 2006-05-31

2006-05-28 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I'll be preparing an upload to get into the dinstall run on 2006-05-31. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted dpkg 1.13.20 (source i386 all)

2006-05-30 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:43:16 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.20 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

Re: Please improve the wording of the translatable messages

2006-06-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 18:19:54 +0300, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > On 6/4/06, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, indeed, this is a mail regarding the recurrent problem of badly > > written error messages in dpkg. Sure, I wanted to do a pass over the new strings, but have had no tim

Accepted dpkg 1.13.21 (source i386 all)

2006-06-04 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:02:44 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.21 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

Re: is dpkg new architecture specifications going to be fixed and documented?

2006-06-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 18 May 2006 03:39:24 -0500, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:46:49PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > I was discussing with Christian Perrier at dinner and he mentioned > > that the new-style architecture specifications (Build-Depends: XXX > > [linux-any] etc.) may have

Re: is dpkg new architecture specifications going to be fixed and documented?

2006-06-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 09:17:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > The descriptions for the following are very vague. > I suggest you reword them to: Ok, I'll reword them somehow using your suggestions. > Some examples would be nice too. There are some examples in the TERMS section about "Archit

Re: Please improve the wording of the translatable messages

2006-06-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 07:22:00 +0300, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > There is also a typo in dpkg/po: > #: scripts/update-alternatives.pl:51 > #, perl-format > "...add a group of alternativse" > > Should this thread be turned into a bug report? I've been fixing mostly all the strings, I just ha

Re: dpkg.org wiki data

2006-06-17 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:19:29 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:31:15PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:34:15PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > I have obtained a copy of the data from Scott's dpkg.org wiki. It's > > > in Moin format.

Re: Bug#374029: Fixing inconsisten and unusefull Build-Depends/Conflicts definition

2006-06-18 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:10:36 +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > [Side note: Buildds/dpkg-buildpackage has no robust way of telling if > the optional build-arch field exists and must call build. This is > wastefull for both build dependencies and build ti

Accepted dpkg 1.13.22 (source i386 all)

2006-06-21 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:03:29 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.22 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

Re: Working on dpkg during Debconf

2006-06-21 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:08:09 -0500, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 04:47:03AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I'll write more tomorrow about what are my plans... (now I'm too > > tired). > > Any chance of doing that? Better late than never.

Re: [patch] add support for .tar.lzma

2006-09-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 02:50:14 +0200, Christian Leber wrote: > this patch adds lzma support to dpkg, it just adds 4 files and does very > minor changes, just like 10 lines. > The 4 files are directly from the 7zip SDK, only 1 is slightly modified, > the license is GPL. > As you can see it's

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 23:33:48 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > How is dpkg development going atm? I know it's not necessarily a good > indicator of activity, but I've not seen much happening on this > list. Kind of frozen right now, I had a list of stuff I wanted to get done for etch, but due

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 21:13:23 +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting > > Ian's Breaks support merged in, especially since in my limited > > understanding it's already prese

Re: dpkg devel cycle

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:01:56 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > Now Testing appears to have everything it needs to allow for a freeze on > Unstable->Testing migrations and independent updates to Testing... > which should allow development to continue in Unstable without > affecting the version in Test

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 04:23:00 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > So I've unblocked it after reviewing the changelog. Thanks. > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:09:26PM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I've created a diff[2] with the new commited stuff and removed all > > au

Re: SVN on Alioth?

2006-09-28 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:58:24 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Mon September 25 2006 23:51, Christian Perrier wrote: > > The repository has been moved back to a SVN repository on Alioth, > > mostly because most of us felt more comfortable with centralized > > development, at least for the time things

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-28 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:51:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:59:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Since "Breaks field" here means "doesn't complain about the Breaks field", > > > rather than "honors the Breaks field", these changes look ok. Ar

Next upload 2006-10-06

2006-10-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I'll upload the current release to unstable on 2006-10-06, with what we agree with the RMs (we have to clarify r541 first though). I'll be checking the changelogs before the upload, as there have been several commits missing those. Also there's going to be at least another upload before the r

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:35:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Carry on :-) Ok, there has been one last commit to svn, and I'd like approval before the planned upload for today. Attached the diff. And here's both changelogs entries. debian/changelog: * Require POSIX inside subprocerr in con

Re: Dpkg sources: where?

2006-10-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 21:13:01 +0100, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote: > Where are dpkg sources stored right now? It's in SVN, right? Is this > the correct URL? > > svn://svn.debian.org/dpkg/trunk Right. > I'm trying "automake -a" and "autoconf", but lots of errors appear, > and it co

Accepted dpkg 1.13.23 (source i386 all)

2006-10-11 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:56:09 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.23 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

Upload of dpkg 1.13.23 (Was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:58:39 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:35:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Carry on :-) > > Ok, there has been one last commit to svn, and I'd like approval > before the planned upload for today. Attached the diff. And h

Accepted dpkg 1.13.24 (source i386 all)

2006-10-13 Thread Guillem Jover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:34:39 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.13.24 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem

Re: should po4a be checked for?

2006-10-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:33:30 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/dpkg-1.13.24$ ./debian/rules binary > <...> > Making all in po4a > make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/dpkg-1.13.24/build-tree/man/po4a' > for man in $(cd ../../../man/po4a && ls -d *.[158]); do \ > p

Re: dpkg l10n upload?

2006-10-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 19:48:36 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > The D-I string freeze has ended yesterday. Many translators did send > updates for packages we consider as being part of D-I "levels". > dpkg is among those and I think that we should think > about a dedicated l10n upload, provided t

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