Re: control file question

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > Hi Julian! > > > > The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture > > > but > > > different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: > > > > Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: >

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. > >what does "out of date" mean in this contest? It means that the most recent source version (in unstable) has not been built for

Re: control file question

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > Hi Julian! > > > > The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but > > > different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: > > > > Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: > > >

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. > >what does "out of date" mean in this contest? It means that the most recent source version (in unstable) has not been built for

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable ok > If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. what does "out of date" mean in this contest? Cheers -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that > isn't available on a architecture? If it doesn't exist on purpose (like the mbr package, which only makes sense on i386), no problem. If it doesn't compile, it won't get into

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that >isn't available on a architecture? If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable breaks other packages on the missing architecture(s)). If it's out of

arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? Tnx, cheers. -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate student of Computer Science @ University of Bo

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still >> complain? > >Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error recovery to move >it back should the install fail),

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:17:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly > > where), you could essentially have the following code: > > > > { > > local $/; > > open FILELIST, "$base/index"; > > my $filelist = ; > >

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable ok > If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. what does "out of date" mean in this contest? Cheers -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that > isn't available on a architecture? If it doesn't exist on purpose (like the mbr package, which only makes sense on i386), no problem. If it doesn't compile, it won't get int

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that >isn't available on a architecture? If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable breaks other packages on the missing architecture(s)). If it's out of

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly > where), you could essentially have the following code: > > { > local $/; > open FILELIST, "$base/index"; > my $filelist = ; > if ($filelist eq "./\n") { > print "W: no files in binary package $pkg\n"

arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? Tnx, cheers. -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate student of Computer Science @ University of B

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still >> complain? > >Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error recovery to move >it back should the install fail)

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:17:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly > > where), you could essentially have the following code: > > > > { > > local $/; > > open FILELIST, "$base/index"; > > my $filelist = ; > >

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly > where), you could essentially have the following code: > > { > local $/; > open FILELIST, "$base/index"; > my $filelist = ; > if ($filelist eq "./\n") { > print "W: no files in binary package $pkg\n

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by > >> accident? What constitutes em

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by > >> accident? What constitutes e