Bug#426877: dpkg: Option --oknodo should be the default behaviour for start-stop-daemon (LSB specs)

2008-07-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:40:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The option --oknodo changes the behaviour to the LSB recomendations but many services in Debian don't use this option and return 1 in the case I've quotted. This is very problematic for me when I try to use a Debian service

Processed (with 2 errors): Clarify what sensible behaviour is for init scripts

2008-07-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Reply-To: Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. reassign 426877 debian-policy 3.8.0.1 Bug#426877: dpkg: Option --oknodo should be the default behaviour

Bug#426877: Clarify what sensible behaviour is for init scripts

2008-07-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reassign 426877 debian-policy 3.8.0.1 retitle 426877 Clarify what sensible behaviour is for init scripts thanks Ok, this confirms my initial feeling. Changing this in dpkg would require a wide-scale testing and much effort for little gains since the

Processed: reassign 489238 to dpkg-dev

2008-07-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.33 reassign 489238 dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Bug#489238: Cryptic message when using | in Conflicts Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg-dev'. End of message, stopping processing here.

Bug#489238: Cryptic message when using | in Conflicts

2008-07-04 Thread Loïc Minier
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.20 Severity: wishlist Hi, I accidentally used a | in conflicts (instead of depends) in a build and this resulter in: dpkg-gencontrol: internal error: The method merge_union() is only valid for Dpkg::Deps::Simple As discussed on IRC with Raphaël, this is a

Processed: setting package to dselect dpkg-dev dpkg, tagging 488903, tagging 143307

2008-07-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#21659: setting package to dselect dpkg-dev dpkg, tagging 21659

2008-07-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.33 # via tagpending # # dpkg (1.15.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * Use description of installed package as fallback in dselect. #Based on a patch from Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Closes: #21659 # package dselect dpkg-dev

Processed: setting package to dselect dpkg-dev dpkg, tagging 21659

2008-07-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#291320: patch submission

2008-07-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Sergei Ivanov wrote: Could you drop me a note on whether the feature is worth considering for inclusion to dpkg, at some point in the future? (I don't know, maybe I'm the only one who finds fakeroot inconvenient.) At first sight, it looks reasonable. I updated your patch

Bug#302079: dpkg: [PATCH] setting ulimit from start-stop-daemon

2008-07-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Carlo, sorry for the delay in getting back to you but dpkg has many open bugs... On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Carlo Contavalli wrote: I'm a DD too, and if there is any chance for it to be included in the ``upstream'' dpkg, I'd be willing to work on writing documentation, verify it works under

Bug#476899: dpkg: Leaves new conffiles as file.dpkg-new if the conffile is diverted

2008-07-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: While I realize that using dpkg-divert on conffiles is an uncommon practice, the current behavior is clearly wrong. I've attached a simple git patch against