Bug#620636: problems with dpkg 1.16.0

2011-04-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Craig Sanders wrote: any chance of dpkg being less spammy about it? i guess some kind of notification is required but it's not a major problem, so doesn't need a couple of lines of output per package. perhaps a single summary line mentioning the problem and listing the

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

2011-04-04 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 03.04.11 Gordon Haverland (ghave...@materialisations.com) wrote: Hi, I normally compile my own kernels. dpkg-query is giving errors on these self-compiled kernels. (newmain.1 and newmain.2) are the specific strings causing problems. This could be an intended change: dpkg (1.16.0)

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

2011-04-04 Thread Gordon Haverland
Hello. On April 4, 2011, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 03.04.11 Gordon Haverland (ghave...@materialisations.com) wrote: I normally compile my own kernels. dpkg-query is giving errors on these self-compiled kernels. (newmain.1 and newmain.2) are the specific strings causing problems. This

Processed: reassign 597689 to dpkg-dev

2011-04-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: # dpkg-parsechangelog fails reassign 597689 dpkg-dev Bug #597689 [libparse-debianchangelog-perl] Build fails on new 5.12.2 perl build Bug reassigned from package 'libparse-debianchangelog-perl' to 'dpkg-dev'. Bug No longer marked as found in

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

2011-04-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Gordon Haverland wrote: In terms of the kernels I compiled myself, they were named according to the instructions that were present at one time for kernel-package. The README.gz in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package still shows version strings that are not strictly numeric.

Processed: found 604241 in 1.16.0

2011-04-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: found 604241 1.16.0 Bug #604241 [dpkg] dpkg complains on missing architecture entries for removed packages of oldoldoldstable Bug Marked as found in versions dpkg/1.16.0. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#604241: missing architecture warnings

2011-04-04 Thread jidanni
I did do dpkg --clear-avail But still for _installed obsolete packages_: # aptitude purge libexempi3 The following packages will be REMOVED: libexempi3{ap} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1,040 kB will be freed.

Bug#604241: missing architecture warnings

2011-04-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: What do you want me to do, remove my precious obsolete mysql-doc package? That or face the rest of my life with those warnings? Yes. Or get that documentation properly packaged. (Or edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to add the missing field if you

Bug#604241: missing architecture warnings

2011-04-04 Thread jidanni
RH == Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: RH On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: What do you want me to do, remove my precious obsolete mysql-doc package? That or face the rest of my life with those warnings? RH Yes. Or get that documentation properly packaged. It is an

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

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Gordon Haverland wrote: None of those packages are official Debian packages. I suggest you get in touch with the providers of those packages so that they update them accordingly. As noted, it's not a bug but a deliberate change. Wait a second. I'm not up to speed on the exact design, but

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

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Gordon Haverland wrote: Sorry, sloppy of me. The quoted text is by Raphaƫl, not Gordon, for those who were wondering what had happened to the world. :). None of those packages are official Debian packages. I suggest you get in touch with the providers of those packages

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

2011-04-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Wait a second. I'm not up to speed on the exact design, but such widelands versions really _were_ in the archive once (according to snapshot.debian.org). And this is about dpkg-query looking through the available file, not dpkg -i. Are you sure

Bug#620880: --unpack: error setting timestamps of `/usr/lib/libperl.so.dpkg-new': Function not implemented

2011-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.0 Severity: important In a sid chroot, just now: tg@frozenfish:~ $ sudo apt-get --purge dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:

Processed: Re: --unpack: error setting timestamps of `/usr/lib/libperl.so.dpkg-new': Function not implemented

2011-04-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 620679 important Bug #620679 [dpkg] dpkg 1.16.0 depends on linux kernel =2.6.22 Severity set to 'important' from 'normal' forcemerge 620679 620880 Bug#620679: dpkg 1.16.0 depends on linux kernel =2.6.22 Bug#620880: --unpack: error

Bug#620880: --unpack: error setting timestamps of `/usr/lib/libperl.so.dpkg-new': Function not implemented

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 620679 important forcemerge 620679 620880 quit Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Glaser wrote: In a sid chroot, just now: tg@frozenfish:~ $ sudo apt-get --purge dist-upgrade [...] Unpacking replacement libperl-dev ... dpkg: error processing

Processed: severity of 620880 is serious

2011-04-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 620880 serious Bug #620880 [dpkg] --unpack: error setting timestamps of `/usr/lib/libperl.so.dpkg-new': Function not implemented Bug #620679 [dpkg] dpkg 1.16.0 depends on linux kernel =2.6.22 Severity set to 'serious' from 'important'

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

2011-04-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 23:57:39 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: He's using dselect apparently, so it's probably dpkg-query --predep which is spitting out those warnings (it's the only dpkg-query command that parses the available file). Actually, there's other query

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

2011-04-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: The strict parser should only take effect on anything that's not the status or the available files and --compare-versions. Not sure I parse your sentence correctly, but --compare-versions uses the strict parser: $ dpkg --compare-versions foo2 eq foo2

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

2011-04-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 23:57:39 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I'd be happy to work on a fix to this that fits nicely with dpkg's design and is agreeable to people. Any hints or pointers? Sorry, I guess I don't follow, a fix for what? We are talking about just