Bug#670048: dpkg-dev: gensymbols, please clarify if arch-wildcards are allowed

2012-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, In dpkg-gensymbols(1), it is explained that it is possible to mark symbols as architecture specific (under Standard symbol tags). While it says the format of architecture list is the same as Build-Depends, it was (to me) not immediately

Bug#670081: dpkg: dpkg-source: expected [ +-] at start of line

2012-04-22 Thread Jari Aalto
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2 Severity: normal This is strange message: dpkg-source: error: expected [ +-] at start of line 14 of diff `bcrypt.git/debian/patches/20-makefile.patch' Both quilt and plain patch -p1 accept the file as is without any messages. Files below. DEFAULTS =

Bug#670081: dpkg: dpkg-source: expected [ +-] at start of line

2012-04-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 22:20:03 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2 Severity: normal This is strange message: dpkg-source: error: expected [ +-] at start of line 14 of diff `bcrypt.git/debian/patches/20-makefile.patch' Both quilt and plain patch -p1 accept

Bug#670048: dpkg-dev: gensymbols, please clarify if arch-wildcards are allowed

2012-04-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 17:03:59 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.2 Severity: wishlist In dpkg-gensymbols(1), it is explained that it is possible to mark symbols as architecture specific (under Standard symbol tags). While it says the format of architecture list

Bug#670048: dpkg-dev: gensymbols, please clarify if arch-wildcards are allowed

2012-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-04-22 21:57, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 17:03:59 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.2 Severity: wishlist In dpkg-gensymbols(1), it is explained that it is possible to mark symbols as architecture specific (under Standard symbol tags).

Bug#670081: dpkg: dpkg-source: expected [ +-] at start of line

2012-04-22 Thread jaalto
On 2012-04-22 21:52, Guillem Jover wrote: | dpkg-source: error: expected [ +-] at start of line 14 of diff | `bcrypt.git/debian/patches/20-makefile.patch' | | Both quilt and plain patch -p1 accept the file as is without any | messages. Files below. | | Hmm, well quilt just makes use

Bug#670081: dpkg-source: expected [ +-] at start of line

2012-04-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
jaalto wrote: On 2012-04-22 21:52, Guillem Jover wrote: | but it seems | to me those are just somewhat bogus anyway, did you manually create | that patch or maybe it was extracted from a mail client that mangles | the body (evolution for example)? It was straight diff from git 1.7.10: