Bug#673828: debian-changes should get .patch extension

2012-05-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.3 Severity: wishlist It would be nicer if the debian-changes or debian-changes-version files that are created by dpkg-source automatically had a .patch (or .diff?) extension, so that editors and other tools knew how to deal with them automatically. It's generally

Bug#664964: redundant format security flags

2012-03-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.1.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch The format security flags offered by dpkg-buildflags are CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS=-Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security But -Werror=format-security already implies -Wformat-security, so using both adds nothing but bloats up the

Bug#656496: dpkg-shlibdeps: message improvement

2012-01-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
-1.16.1.2+nmu1/debian/changelog --- dpkg-1.16.1.2/debian/changelog +++ dpkg-1.16.1.2+nmu1/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +dpkg (1.16.1.2+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Improve message of dpkg-shlibdeps about useless libraries + + -- Peter Eisentraut pet...@debian.org Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:00

Bug#476530: control field to tell that cross-building is not possible

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.16.6 Severity: wishlist There are some sporadic bug reports around like #315935 that basically say that the package cannot be cross-compiled. I think it would be useful to have a control field that told dpkg-buildpackage that cross-compiling won't work for the

Bug#363323: #363323 dpkg-gencontrol: support multiple -T options

2008-04-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 4. April 2008 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: On Fri, 04 Apr 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Um, well, sorry. The use case is that some of the substitution variables are manually maintained, some are created during the build by the package, and some are created by debhelper. It's

Bug#463398: dpkg-dev: missing space in translation

2008-01-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.15 Severity: minor Tags: patch In scripts/po/de.po: #: scripts/dpkg-checkbuilddeps.pl:77 #, perl-format msgid %s: Unmet build dependencies: msgstr %s: Nicht erfüllte Bauabhängigkeiten: Add a space after the colon in the msgstr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#422979: dpkg: update-alternatives doesn't create the symlink

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
severity 422979 critical stop This appears to break pretty much any interesting package using alternatives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]