Bug#288778: Me too :-)

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
I'd like to second this request. With the release of lenny, I've been seeing a lot of people posting messages about how their upgrades failed and they don't know why. Inevitably, they attach a long typescript of hundreds of irrelevant dpkg messages, with the one line that actually made it fail

Bug#498438: patch to mitigate (if not fix) this issue

2009-02-16 Thread Russell Coker
The attached patch fixes at least one aspect of this problem. If dpkg is not going to abort on an error (not sure when/why this happens) such that ohshit() doesn't abort, then we still have a problem. I experimented with modifying the ohshit() function, but that meant that dpkg-query needed to

Bug#515540: ignores .swp, but not .swo, etc

2009-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I can add .swo but I don't think it's safe/interesting to ignore .sw[a-p]. > Is that enough for you? > Flash file are .swf for examples and it would be annoying to lose them > because we were too generous in the default ignore list. Is it not possible to ignore `.*.sw?`

Bug#515540: ignores .swp, but not .swo, etc

2009-02-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > The default ignores includes vi .swp files, but vim will also create > .swo, .swn, etc if the same file is being edited by two or more vims > at once. I can add .swo but I don't think it's safe/interesting to ignore .sw[a-p]. Is that enough for you? Fl