Bug#748544: dpkg: cron.daily/dpkg complains when alternative was removed

2014-05-18 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > Nah, the --warning=none and the alternatives backup was only added > very recently. But in any case I think tar should honor its own > options, so I'll be filing a bug against it, regardless of ignoring > its output for now in this case. Sounds plausible. Thanks for the fast and helpful rea

Bug#748544: dpkg: cron.daily/dpkg complains when alternative was removed

2014-05-18 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > Hmm, bother. When I added the --warning=none, I checked the tar source > code to see if such warnings would be silenced but it, and it seemed > so, I guess I either missed some codepaths or missread some of the > code. In any case I'll just send stderr to /dev/null for 1.17.10. This is only

Bug#748544: dpkg: cron.daily/dpkg complains when alternative was removed

2014-05-18 Thread Ralf Jung
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, each time an alternative is removed, I get an email from cron next day because the "dpkg" job in cron.daily produces output. For example, I just got an email after updating mime-support yesterday (which removed the "view" alternative

Bug#731530: rsyslog init script breaks after package upgrade

2014-05-04 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 10:10:29 +0100, Ralf Jung wrote: >> To be honest, the behaviour of OpenVZ seems to make more sense than >> upstream Linux. I mean, what if a file called "/usr/sbin/rsyslogd >> (deleted)" actually exists? There is no way to distingu

Bug#731530: rsyslog init script breaks after package upgrade

2014-03-20 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > In which case I'm inclined to say this is a bogus kernel, which > prepends “ (deleted)” instead of appending it. You should report this > to the server provider. And I'm in principle going to just close this > bug report (instead of adding a workaround to s-s-d), as this might > break other

Bug#731530: rsyslog init script breaks after package upgrade

2014-03-19 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > This seems also suspiciously similar to Chris' kernel: > > ,--- > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-042stab081.5 (SMP w/20 CPU cores) > `--- > > In which case I'm inclined to say this is a bogus kernel, which > prepends “ (deleted)” instead of appending it. You should report this > to the server provid

Bug#731530: rsyslog init script breaks after package upgrade

2014-03-19 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi Guillem, > If --exec is supposedly broken then this would affect any daemon using > it, which I find a bit perplexing, and I'd have expected a ton of bug > reports on dpkg due to broken upgrades. I've rechecked it on current > unstable, and it still works here. That's surprising me, too. It wor

Bug#684776: Re: Bug#684776: dpkg incorrectly complains about conffile contents being different for MA packages

2012-09-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi again, (sorry if you got this mail twice, my email program is acting strange) >> Yeah, reproduced here, and looking into it right now. I have a >> hunch I've already fixed this in my 1.17.x branch, though. > > Ok, I fixed this locally and been running some tests, will do some > more tests and

Bug#684776: dpkg incorrectly complains about conffile contents being different for MA packages

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > > Yeah, reproduced here, and looking into it right now. I have a hunch > > I've already fixed this in my 1.17.x branch, though. > > Ok, I fixed this locally and been running some tests, will do some > more tests and ponder a bit about the implications of the fix before > pushing to master.

Bug#684776: dpkg incorrectly complains about conffile contents being different for MA packages

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Jung
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.4.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, when an MA: same package contains a conffile, re-installing it causes dpkg to error out, complaining that the content of the conffile differs between the architectures - even though it does not. To reproduce (on current testing):