Bug#535138: dpkg: upgrading dpkg to 1.15.3 fails

2009-07-01 Thread Craig Sanders
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Craig Sanders wrote: >> upgrading dpkg fails with "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 38: read: >> read error: 0: Is a directory" > > What do you have in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/ ? > > Please give the output of "ls -alR /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/".

Bug#535355: dpkg-dev: dpkg-gencontrol -DPackage=foo -pfoo fails if foo isn't in debian/control

2009-07-01 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.3 Severity: wishlist Hiya, I'm implementing automatic creation of debug packages, and to generate their binary control file I'm using dpkg-gencontrol. The debug package are not listed in debian/control, and thus when calling dpkg-gencontrol I get something like: $

Bug#535353: dpkg-dev: Document limitations of substvars

2009-07-01 Thread Nathan Summers
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.24ubuntu1 Severity: normal The current wording of the deb-substvars manpage implies that substvars can be used for any field; however the existence of bug #5210 (marked wontfix) implies that this is not the case. The documentation needs to be fixed to be in confo

Bug#535327: marked as pending

2009-07-01 Thread Christian Perrier
tag 535327 pending thanks Hello, Bug #535327 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6aaa8c1 --- commit 6aaa8c10678d5af3dd6e2026c0a48ac9cb1da789 Aut

Processed: Bug#535327 marked as pending

2009-07-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 535327 pending Bug#535327: [INTL:ast] Asturian dpkg updated translation Tags were: l10n patch Tags added: pending > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (admini

Bug#455501: new architecture wishlist

2009-07-01 Thread Ron
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:29:08PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > a few days ago I asked on #debian-dpkg whether it was possible to get a > mechanism for adding new architectures to dpkg by dropping extra tables > into a specific directory. I've cc'd #455501 on this, as that is still an open thread