Re: dpkg-buildpackage environment export vs. debhelper

2011-11-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011, Colin Watson wrote: What I think we settled on as the least bad option is to refine the dpkg-buildpackage workaround so that it does not export environment variables if the package it's building is using debhelper compat level 9 or above, and to manually review all such

Re: Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

2011-07-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Martin, On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Martin Pitt wrote: sorry for the very late reply, this got lost in my mailbox. Heh, I see that didrocks did not forget to ping you :-) Raphael Hertzog [2011-05-01 9:24 +0200]: Introducing a work-around in the already released apport seems more plausible

Re: Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

2011-05-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 02 May 2011, Brian Murray wrote: This particular bug report was reported during a distribution upgrade of Ubuntu from Maverick to Natty. This is recognizable by the attachments named 'VarLogDistupgrade'. The call to apport was actually made by update-manager, in DistUpgradeView.py

Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

2011-05-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, whenever an upgrade fails early in the unpack (either broken preinst, corrupted archive, etc.), APT still tries to configure it and it results in a supplementary error in the upgrade log that looks like this: dpkg: error processing onboard (--configure): package onboard is already

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011, Dave Morley wrote: We now have the blue Ubuntu indicator when an application requires viewing so I don't particularly see not having an indicator as an issue as long as the application icon shows up in the app launcher. If we went with gnome 3.0 people would have the same

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, sean finney wrote: so i didn't exactly leave in a huff, but i did signal that i had no further intention of wasting my time until i had some idea that it would actually go anywhere. I'm sorry for all this. The problem is that Guillem is a single point of failure in

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Daniel Holbach wrote: The general plan looks like this: 1. decide on a toolkit I would highly suggest that you give a try to publican. It's already available in Ubuntu and I co-maintain it in Debian. It's docbook based but it generates good looking documentation, and