debian policy: please discourage overly strict run-time version checks

2011-03-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 528453 debian-policy 3.9.1.0 severity 528453 wishlist retitle 528453 debian policy: please discourage overly strict run-time version checks tags 528453 - wontfix quit Hi, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Jonathan Nieder hat am Fri 01. Jan, 10:42 (+) geschrieben: >> Jörg Sommer wrote: >>> This

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2011-03-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 528453 debian-policy 3.9.1.0 Bug #528453 [jed] [jed] ***Warning: Executable compiled against S-Lang 20104 but linked to 20103 Bug reassigned from package 'jed' to 'debian-policy'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions jed/1:0.99.18+d

New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, ftpmasters requested a new field in the .dsc files to ease their work. I just implemented it and it will be part of dpkg 1.16.0. This has been done on short notice so I wanted to inform policy people so that you can review the discussions and the design in case anyone has objections/sugges

Re: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [110324 15:14]: > ftpmasters requested a new field in the .dsc files to ease their work. > I just implemented it and it will be part of dpkg 1.16.0. > > This has been done on short notice so I wanted to inform policy people > so that you can review the discussions and the design

Re: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > ftpmasters requested a new field in the .dsc files to ease their work. > I just implemented it and it will be part of dpkg 1.16.0. > > This has been done on short notice so I wanted to inform policy people > so that you

Re: Bug#619131: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Do I understand this correction correctly that "dpkg-source -b" will > generate that when generating a source package. Yes. > This is put in the .dsc but everything that makes a Sources out of it > will need to remove it again (or have an unnece

Re: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Package-List: > > src:dpkg admin required > > dpkg admin required > > dpkg-dev utils optional > > libdpkg-dev libdevel optional > > libdpkg-perl perl optional > > udeb:dselect ad

Re: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 16:25:46 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The udeb prefix is added if Package-Type: udeb is set. > Does XC-Package-Type also work? debhelper uses /^(?:X[BC]*-)?Package-Type:\s*(.*)/ to populate the package type. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-

Re: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Julien Cristau wrote: > Does XC-Package-Type also work? debhelper uses > /^(?:X[BC]*-)?Package-Type:\s*(.*)/ to populate the package type. Yes. I was simplifying somewhat. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (Engl

Re: Bug#619131: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> If it really is in the .dsc files then it would be nice if it also >> could include the Architecture: of those packages. That would make it >> easier for things like reprepro to decide if there might be some binary >> packa

Re: Bug#619131: New field Package-List in .dsc

2011-03-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [110324 16:20]: > > If it is only used to give hints to dak, what is the reason that this is > > in .dsc and not in .changes? (Or perhaps even only in .changes that also > > include a source package). > > Because this is information about the source package and not about the > up

Bug#528453: debian policy: please discourage overly strict run-time version checks

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:55:16AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > reassign 528453 debian-policy 3.9.1.0 > severity 528453 wishlist > retitle 528453 debian policy: please discourage overly strict run-time > version checks > tags 528453 - wontfix > quit > > Hi, > > Jörg Sommer wrote: > > Jonathan

Bug#528453: debian policy: please discourage overly strict run-time version checks

2011-03-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(culled cc list) Bill Allombert wrote: > Another similar warning: the dynamic loader sometime output a warning > "symbol xxx size has changed, consider relinking" > when a library is updated to a new minor version. > (It was libreadline in etch IIRC). Right, that sounds like a bug. > While I agr