Bug#910377: System-critical package management

2023-09-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 18.09.23 19:38, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I'm not sure how that works because you'd need to respawn yourself with systemd-inhibit, whereas the API essentially gives you a file descriptor over dbus that you keep open until it is safe to reboot. popen("systemd-inhibit ... cat",

Bug#951479: [files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline] [debian buster 10.3]

2020-02-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 04:49:44PM +0100, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote: > >Could you attach the old base-passwd.list file? > yes, in attached file. That file has a sensible size, but consists of only zeroes. This typically happens with file systems that have metadata only journaling after a

Bug#951479: [files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline] [debian buster 10.3]

2020-02-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:31:25AM +0100, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote: > dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: > files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) That file is generated by dpkg on installation, so

Bug#846405: dpkg-shlibdeps: scales badly for many binaries

2016-11-30 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.15 Severity: minor Hi, when building the piglit package, the dpkg-shlibdeps invocations take upwards of 30 minutes (on an i7, building inside a tmpfs). Most of the time seems to be spent spawning several thousand instances of dpkg-query. Is there a way to speed this

Bug#840308: dpkg: extraction of additional orig archives into nested subdirectory

2016-10-10 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.10 Severity: wishlist Hi, I have several packages that use additional .orig archives for program modules, but these are almost always expected in a nested subdirectory for the package build, e.g. "modules/foo". It would be nice if there was a way to ship this as a

Bug#591522: dpkg-shlibdeps still fails when cross-compiling

2010-08-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:01:48PM -0400, Loïc Minier wrote: I wonder whether it makes sense to look into /usr/lib at all when cross-building? Not really, I think. If that's not an option, I think the routine checking the format of executable could run the cross-objdump and if it

Bug#591522: dpkg-shlibdeps still fails when cross-compiling

2010-08-03 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.2 Severity: normal Hi, while using the target objdump is a Good Thing(tm), it uncovered another bug: for dependent libraries, the host's version is passed to the target objdump. While this looks like a regression as builds that used to work now fail, it isn't,

Bug#558095: dpkg: please accept :native multiarch qualifier in build dependencies

2009-11-26 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.2 Severity: wishlist User: debian-embed...@lists.debian.org Usertags: multiarch-cross Hi, We would like to allow people to prepare their packages for cross-compiling. Most functionality is already in place, however we are still lacking a way to distinguish between

Bug#539038: please add support for ad-hoc architecture definitions

2009-10-12 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Severity: normal Hi, any news on this? Simon -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8,

Bug#533916: C++ symbol mangling difference between arches

2009-06-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 09:23:29AM +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: While it is a good idea worth consideration but I think demangled symbol names are somewhat too ambiguous to be used in general. See below: [Examples] Not a problem IMO -- we need a new package name anyway if gcc's ABI

Bug#534831: wrong quotation marks in German translation

2009-06-27 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.2 Severity: minor Tags: l10n Hi, dpkg occasionally prints the warning dpkg: Warnung: veraltete Option »--print-installation-architecture, bitte verwenden Sie »--print-architecture« stattdessen.« The correct quotation marks for German are „quote“ or «quote», the

Bug#457371: dpkg: please add the DEB_VARIANT build environment variable

2007-12-21 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.12 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, the attached patch adds a new variable DEB_VARIANT to the build environment, which can be used to build different binary packages out of the same source package in different circumstances. The most obvious application would be

Bug#398625: adapted patch against current dpkg

2007-11-04 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.7 Followup-For: Bug #398625 Hi, I have written a new implementation of the patch proposed earlier, against the current shell script. This patch tries to address all the concerns raised so far, however it introduces some ugliness in doing so: behaviour depends on the

Bug#440094: dpkg-dev: allow specifying the source version explicitly

2007-08-31 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Guillem Jover wrote: What you describe is a binNMU but with a different suffix. Maybe we could come up with a generic syntax for binNMU-style versions, which could include backports and the like. That would be difficult. For example, for my cross-toolchain backports I use ~debian4.0+b1

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

2007-07-02 Thread Simon Richter
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 being able to reliably detect whether the target

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

2007-07-02 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The seconds part requires that tools like sbuild and pbuilder know beforehand if build or build-arch will be used. For packages that do not implement build-arch, it is acceptable to call the build target with only B-D installed, because that is the way the