Bug#1026319: dpkg-dev: Please mention DEB_BUILD_PROFILES in dpkg-buildflags(1), too.

2022-12-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.21.12 Severity: wishlist Hi, for me it seems "obvious" that the way, in which build profiles are set, is documented in dpkg-buildflags(1). But it isn't. It's only mentioned dpkg-checkbuilddeps(1) and dpkg-buildpackage(1). It would be nice, if dpkg-buildflags(1) would

Bug#1017908: dpkg: Setting to change the diff tool to view conffile difference

2022-08-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.21.9 Severity: wishlist Dear Guillem, it would be nice if there would be a setting (or environment variable or interactive option) to use a different tool than "diff" to view conffile differences. This would add the possibility to e.g. use colorized diffs as provided by

Bug#901127: dpkg: dpkg crashed with segfault and core dump: ../../src/packages.c:245: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.

2018-06-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.0.5+b1 Severity: important Dear Guillem, dpkg just crashed with a segfault during setting up all remaining package after a dist-upgrade (via aptitude) which had some issues with a few packages (namely some emacs plugins which caused emacs' recompilation-trigger to fail

Bug#807264: dpkg: Please allow negative Architecture lists in debian/control

2016-03-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Guillem, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 08:27:32 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > There was a time where gnudatalanguage didn't build on exactly one > > architecture (arm64): See https://bugs.debian.org/803552 and > > https://anonscm.debian.org/

Bug#807264: dpkg: Please allow negative Architecture lists in debian/control

2016-03-07 Thread Axel Beckert
n't have been fixed properly soon afterwards, I'd have had to keep that field uptodate or at least check it everytime a new architectures pops up, e.g. on Debian Ports. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debia

Bug#807264: dpkg: Please allow negative Architecture lists in debian/control

2015-12-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.3 Severity: wishlist Dear Guillem, it's rather tedious to find the correct "Architecture:" value for a binary package -- and also to keep it uptodate with the growing list of architecture -- if only one or two architectures need to be excluded. It would be very conven

Bug#807263: dpkg: Please provide a dpkg-architecture parameter to list all known wildcards

2015-12-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.3 Severity: wishlist Dear Guillem, it's rather tedious to find the correct "Architecture:" value for a binary package if only one or two architectures need to be excluded. As I don't want to list all architectures listed by "dpkg-architecture -L", I had to use dpkg

Bug#775379: dpkg: Documentation of "dpkg-query -S" does not mention the special meaning of the leading slash

2015-01-15 Thread Axel Beckert
uick explanation for your convenience (which > failed anyway as you ended up checking the code :). Well, it's still there as convenience for those who read this bug report after me. Now they won't have to check the code anymore. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. |

Bug#775379: dpkg: Documentation of "dpkg-query -S" does not mention the special meaning of the leading slash

2015-01-14 Thread Axel Beckert
rwise a literal path lookup is performed. It probably should be mentioned that this check is done after the potential adding of asterisks around the pattern as mentioned above, i.e. that those are sequential checks and not either/or. At least that's how I read the code after line 414 of src/queryc

Bug#775379: dpkg: Documentation of "dpkg-query -S" does not mention the special meaning of the leading slash

2015-01-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.23 Severity: minor Dear Dpkg Maintainers, from the dpkg-query(1) man page: -S, --search filename-search-pattern... Search for packages that own files corresponding to the given pattern. Standard shell wildchars can be used in

Bug#766557: dpkg: dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:226: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. Aborted (core dumped)

2014-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
> which makes a metric ton of packages await triggers. > > I was also hit by the bug and "dpkg -r debian-security-support" solved > it for me. Thanks. Seems to solve the issue for me, too. Cc'ing the debian-security-support maintainer to make him aware of this issue.

Bug#766557: dpkg: dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:226: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. Aborted (core dumped)

2014-10-23 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.20 Severity: grave Justification: breaks whole package management Hi, after the upgrade to 1.17.20, dpkg crashes reproducibly with the following error message: dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:226: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. Aborted (core dumped) ap

Bug#765494: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage should allow hooks to be specified via environment variable or configuration file

2014-10-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Me again... Axel Beckert wrote: > > according to dpkg-buildpackage's man page there seems no other way to > > specify hooks as via the --hook-* commandline parameter. > > Of course just after having sent that mail, I likely found the > solution: $DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKA

Bug#765494: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage should allow hooks to be specified via environment variable or configuration file

2014-10-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > according to dpkg-buildpackage's man page there seems no other way to > specify hooks as via the --hook-* commandline parameter. Of course just after having sent that mail, I likely found the solution: $DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS should be a way to specif

Bug#765494: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage should allow hooks to be specified via environment variable or configuration file

2014-10-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.18 Severity: wishlist Hi, according to dpkg-buildpackage's man page there seems no other way to specify hooks as via the --hook-* commandline parameter. If I'm right with that observation, please implement a way to specify hooks environment variable or configurati

Bug#764970: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage should create a build log

2014-10-12 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.17 Severity: wishlist Dear dpkg Maintainers, this is more or a less a partial "reopen" of https://bugs.debian.org/65699, which fixed has been fixed only partially in 1.17.6. What I neither found in the 1.17.6 changelog entry nor in 1.17.17's dpkg-buildpackage's ma

Bug#764965: dpkg-dev: Please add a "Breaks: devscripts (<< $fixed_version)" after #764963 is fixed

2014-10-12 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.17 Control: block -1 by 764963 Dear dpkg Maintainers, the upload of dpkg 1.17.17 broke "debuild" from the devscripts package severly (see https://bugs.debian.org/764963 for details), so please add a "Breaks: devscripts (<< $fixed_version)" to dpkg-dev as soon as #7

Bug#732937: dpkg: fails somewhat regularly on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-12-22 Thread Axel Beckert
such a failure. Cc'ing the kfreebsd porters' list to make them aware of the bug report. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3

Bug#729874: dpkg-dev: Inconsistent behaviour of dpkg-source's -i together with extend-diff-ignore in debian/source/options (likely a documentation issue)

2013-11-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.1 Severity: minor Control: found -1 1.16.12 Control: found -1 1.15.8.13 If I explicitly give a value to dpkg-source's -i option, this value overwrites any extend-diff-ignore setting in debian/source/options as the contents of debian/source/options is prepended. But

Bug#153792: dpkg-query -S doesn't support --showformat

2012-08-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Adam Heath wrote: > Subject: dpkg-query -S doesn't support --showformat Would be nice for "dpkg-query -s package", too, although then it probably makes no more big difference to "dpkg-query -W package". :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel B

Bug#684196: dpkg-parsechangelog: Please support parsing (compressed) changelogs of installed packages

2012-08-07 Thread Axel Beckert
; > the option "-l-" is given (as "-l/dev/stdin" and "-l<(zcat > > changelog.Debian.gz)" both did not work). > > I've fixed this locally now, which will be included in 1.17.x. Thanks, too! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. |

Bug#684196: dpkg-parsechangelog: Please support parsing (compressed) changelogs of installed packages

2012-08-07 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.8 Severity: wishlist Dear Dpkg-Maintainers, it would be nice if dpkg-parsechangelog would support gzip-compressed changelogs as part of every binary package. * What led up to the situation? I wanted to parse a changelog as installed by a package into /usr/shar

Bug#676318: mention package.maintscript file in dpkg-maintscript-helper manpage

2012-06-14 Thread Axel Beckert
f helper tools that would need adding all over the > dpkg documentation, not just this one reference. I'm thus closing > this. :-( Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `.

Bug#674674: dpkg: File name restrictions for /etc/dpkg.cfg.d/ not documented

2012-05-26 Thread Axel Beckert
lot like a common > > run-parts restriction, so if run-parts is used, please refer to > > run-parts(8) in the man page for details of the file name restrictions. > > It uses the same Debian cron script namespace convention which run-parts > implements too, but run-pa

Bug#674674: dpkg: File name restrictions for /etc/dpkg.cfg.d/ not documented

2012-05-26 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.3 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, the man page dpkg(1) does not document that there are restrictions on which filenames in /etc/dpkg.cfg.d/ are considered for parsing and which files are ignored. I added a file "/etc/dpkg.cfg.d/nemo.cfg" and it got ignored by dpkg un

Bug#485365: dpkg-dev: please add .hgignore files to $diff_ignore_default_regexp

2008-06-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.19 Severity: wishlist Currently there are ignore files for CVS, Bazaar and git listed in $diff_ignore_default_regexp. Please add also the .hgignore files for Mercurial. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'test