Bug#780585: Mysterious failure to update/install packages

2015-03-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.23 Severity: normal I had to test something quickly in an older sid chroot (hence the many not updated packages) and updating libgcc1 + libc6 failed without clear reason why. Running dpkg --configure -a configured the 2 packages just fine. I'm unsure what went wrong

Bug#617299: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:46:51PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: 2012/7/13 Martin-Éric Racine martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.4.3 Followup-For: Bug #617299 I also encounter the same bug when trying to build kernel 3.2.21 from upstream tarball: $

Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org writes: Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 11:10 +0200 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: The only problem I see with this is that if the build dependencies can only be calculated after a full build, building source and binaries requires two builds (and a third

Bug#672282: udebs are build with the wrong version

2012-05-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.12 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb Hi, I'm building a backport of cdebootstrap for work and we automatically add +codename to the version of binary packages using dh_gencontrol -- -v$(VERSION) to make it clearer for what release a backport was build.

Bug#21941: dpkg usage of /var

2011-01-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: Even if the /usr/lib location could be interpreted and argued as valid too, I'd not see the point in changing it, given the coding and transition work involved, susceptible to system breakage, and unfortunately also because there are programs out

Bug#21941: dpkg usage of /var

2010-12-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: re usage of /var: ~~ dpkg puts the package data into /var/lib/dpkg/info. This includes the list of files, the list of conffiles, templates, md5sums and also the maintainer scripts of each package. According to FHS: | /var

Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: 3) dpkg is pointlessly slow in such use cases as buildds where *sync() is not important at all. Well, even if the buildd chroot supposedly should be able to be recreated easily, if the zero-lenght file issues appear on it, then it might not be

Bug#596841: dpkg-shlibdeps: do not stop on first error

2010-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: severity 596841 wishlist thanks On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: So the respective library needs to be added and fetched and everything build again, a somewhat lengthy process. You know you can call dpkg-shlibdeps/dh_shlibdeps

Bug#596841: dpkg-shlibdeps: do not stop on first error

2010-09-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.4 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps Hi, when we run dpkg-shlibdeps on ia32-libs* we get an error like this: dpkg-shlibdeps: error: couldn't find library libcanberra.so.0 needed by

Bug#596298: Please add DEB_HOST_ABI / DEB_BUILD_ABI

2010-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture Hi, recent discussions about multiarch, cross-compiling and the increasing number of ABIs used in ports have raised the issue that the GNU tripplet is not sufficiently unique to distinguish between different

Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2010-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:40:13AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: This also causes issue with not being able to have installed two cross-toolchains for say armel and armhf as they share triplet, although you can use the armel toolchain with few options to

Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Claughton d...@eclecticdave.com writes: On 13/08/10 17:58, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free files from our

Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8 Severity: wishlist As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free files from our users without stripping them from

Bug#579408: dpkg-buildpackage could be more robust with 3.0 (quilt) and unapplied patches

2010-04-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.7.1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage Hi, I just run into the problem with the following command sequence: dpkg-source -x foo.dsc cd */ quilt pop edit file quilt refresh dpkg-buildpackage -b I simply forgot to quilt push -a again before

Bug#578872: --auto-deconfigure makes dpkg think a package is unpacked twice

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: normal Hi, bar 2 has Breacks: foo (= 1). Updating bar and foo in the wrong order gives: m...@frosties:~/t% sudo dpkg --auto-deconfigure -i bar_2_all.deb foo_2_all.deb dpkg: considering deconfiguration of foo, which would be broken by installation of

Bug#578783: Requesting config option for multiarch / cross-compile setups

2010-04-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: wishlist Hi, with apt adding the first parts for multiarch support and multiarch debs appearing in the archive I think it is time to think about how multiarch systems should be configured. Since dpkg is the common and lowest point I beliefe the

Bug#555743: dpkg-gencontrol: add support for Description:-s in the Source package stanza

2010-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:05:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: 0) (Starting intuition) most source package have a description per se, intuitively, that is the same description you'd find on the upstream homepage that made you download a

Bug#566837: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}

2010-01-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.5.5 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol Hi, when I build a package I get dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} Since the package builds multiple debs it would be nice to know for which package the

Bug#566249: Missing support for broken SONAME libfoo.so

2010-01-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.4.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps Hi, in the process of packaging the Intel pro c/c++ compiler I run into the problem that their libraries have broken SONAME libfoo.so. They do not have any soversion at all. Because of this dpkg-shlibdeps ignores

Bug#566249: Missing support for broken SONAME libfoo.so

2010-01-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Hi! On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 13:55:00 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.4.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps in the process of packaging the Intel pro c/c++ compiler I run into the problem

Bug#566249: Missing support for broken SONAME libfoo.so

2010-01-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: in the process of packaging the Intel pro c/c++ compiler I run into the problem that their libraries have broken SONAME libfoo.so. They do not have any soversion at all. Because of this dpkg-shlibdeps

Bug#553266: We need more triggers

2009-10-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.3.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, on irc the issue was raised that a package didn't call ldconfig in postinst and I thought to myself: Every library package has a call to ldconfig? That is so stupid. Don't we have dpkg triggers for that sort of thing now? As it turns out

Bug#546731: Fwd: Re: Bug#546731: dpkg: 1.15.4 version pulls kde for upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aleksey Midenkov a...@uezku.kemsu.ru writes: On Tuesday 15 September 2009 17:34:18 Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: Guys! Placing some hints on dpkg about packages that may be broken is wrong. Imagine that count of such packages is infinity, so you will

Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-06-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: dpkg-genchanges should fold lines in the output to a sane length. There is a package in the archive (linux-modules-extra-2.6) which produces a 25k long Binary

Bug#525835: Forgets to remove debian/patches/.dpkg-source-applied

2009-04-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.25 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source Hi, when one builds a 3.0 (quilt) package with local changes then dpkg-source automatically creates a new patch for it and lists it in both debian/patches/series and debian/patches/.dpkg-source-applied. When one

Bug#525854: Add .hgtags to automatically ignored files.

2009-04-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.25a0.mrvn.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, I just noticed that in 3.0 (quilt) format dpkg-source ignores .hg but not .hgtags. The attached patch adds .hgtags to the ignore list. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference between packages that distributions wide default does not make sense. Such change would rather lead

Bug#477916: dpkg-dev: please allow using different targets

2008-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, for policy defined targets the policy defines when root is required and when not. For those dpkg-buildpackage should not need the --with/out)-rootcmd option. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#498380: RFC: Implementing dpkg-vendor and adding vendor handling to dpkg-dev

2008-09-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Goswin von Brederlow] +# dpkg-vendor +# +# Copyright ?? 2004-2005 Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED], +# Copyright ?? 1999 Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Is it really? Cutpaste error. +get_vendor() { +if ! [ -z $DEB_VENDOR

Bug#498355: Preparing Lenny for proper VENDOR handling

2008-09-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
/debian/changelog dpkg-1.14.23/debian/changelog --- dpkg-1.14.22/debian/changelog 2008-09-05 16:55:04.0 +0200 +++ dpkg-1.14.23/debian/changelog 2008-09-09 12:19:54.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +dpkg (1.14.23) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Goswin von Brederlow ] + * Add /usr/share/dpkg

Bug#498355: Patch update

2008-09-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
; urgency=low + + [ Goswin von Brederlow ] + * Add /usr/share/dpkg/Makefile.dpkg for default environment setup. + + -- Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:18:43 +0200 + dpkg (1.14.22) unstable; urgency=low [ Raphael Hertzog ] diff -Nru dpkg-1.14.22/debian/dpkg

Bug#498380: RFC: Implementing dpkg-vendor and adding vendor handling to dpkg-dev

2008-09-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
/debian/changelog --- dpkg-1.14.23/debian/changelog 2008-09-09 16:17:35.0 +0200 +++ dpkg-1.14.24/debian/changelog 2008-09-09 15:06:29.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +dpkg (1.14.24) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Goswin von Brederlow ] + * Add /usr/bin/dpkg-vendor script + * Update /usr/share

Bug#477949: Issues with git source packages

2008-05-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: severity 477954 normal thanks I'm CCing Joey who wrote the initial support for the git source package. He might want to provide his input and maybe even a patch. Release managers agreed to push changes/fixes in lenny for the new source package

Bug#477949: Issues with git source packages

2008-05-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 05 May 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: 'this is instead used'. To me that clearly says dpkg will do the ignoring automatically with -i. A regexp can never say 'uncommited file'. As that is not the case I think this should be changed

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:11:04PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: One of the issue is that tools like sbuild and pbuilder which want to take advantage of the Build-Depends-Indep split needs to know whether dpkg-buildpackage will call debian/rules build

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:28:05PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Running debian-rules can always have side effects and can actively rely on them so a --has-target can not be implemented cleanly in make. I am proposing hooking into the logic that

Bug#431597: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't parse include in ld.so.conf

2007-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.25 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps Hi, it seems that dpkg-shlibdeps is somewhat out of sync with glibc/binutils in regards to the ld.so.conf syntax. There are two things wrong: 1. # Support system library directories. my $ldconfigdir =

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Andreas Metzler wrote: --- Somehow make dpkg-buildpackage -B make use of the build-arch target if present. Either by detecting it automatically or by something like #229357. --- The entire issue circles around not

Bug#428383: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.

2007-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.28 Severity: normal Hi, I'm not sure if this still happens but I found it anoying enough to report it despite the old version: (Reading database ... 69314 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace autofs 4.1.3+4.1.4beta2-10a0.cross.1 (using

Bug#403216: dpkg-shlibdeps: Fails to check /emul/ia32-linux/[usr/]lib

2006-12-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tags 403216 - patch thanks On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 13:26:41 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.24 Severity: critical File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps Tags: patch Er, there's not patch in here... and I think the proposed

Bug#369507: Multiarch support - patch 1

2006-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
parsing $_) unless defined $dep; --- dpkg-1.13.19.orig/debian/changelog +++ dpkg-1.13.19/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ +dpkg (1.13.19-0a0.mrvn.1) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Goswin von Brederlow ] + * debian/rules: remove po/*.gmo and dselect/po/*.gmo on clean + * Introduce Multi-Arch field

Bug#315784: md5sum shouldn't be able to disappear

2006-05-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, After reading the log of #315784 (dpkg: dependencies should ensure md5sum is present), I wonder why adding a Pre-Depends: coreutils (= ...) field to dpkg would break (c)debootstrap. I made a tarball for debootstrap with a modified

Bug#356299: dpkg-genchanges: Allow for multiple archs in debian/files

2006-03-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.28 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges Tags: patch Hi, due to the huge demand of OpenOffice.org for amd64 I finaly spend some time devising a simple way to produce 32 bit amd64 debs. Since building a 32bit OOo on amd64 directly is out of the question

Bug#320380: amd64 dpkg-architecture gives no information

2005-08-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeremy Brand, B.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Goswin, Thus spake Goswin von Brederlow: What does your sources.list look like? They look like this: deb http://mirrors/debian-amd64/ sarge main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors/debian-amd64/ sarge main contrib non-free of which

Bug#320380: amd64 dpkg-architecture gives no information

2005-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeremy Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.28 When I invoke `dpkg-architecture` on Sarge/amd64, the output is seemingly broken: $ uname -a Linux gamera.domain.mars

Bug#318416: Acknowledgement (/usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps: add udeb support)

2005-07-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, talking to joeyh he said that he did a patch for the same thing as well. Comparing the two his is the preferable solution so please ignore this patch and stick with his. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact