Bug#674664: OK to help handling these BR but need info on git branches

2012-05-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 27 May 2012 14:49, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: Hello Daniel and other aptitude devels; I'm fine with helping to deal with these localization and English usage bugs reports, but I need help in properly handling git commits to avoid screwing your workflow. When a

Bug#674664: [INTL: it] Italian translation of aptitude documentation

2012-05-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello Beatrice Thank you (and the Italian team) for your large efforts in translating the document :-) We will definitely include this with the next release. I did translate safety-cost-level-diagram, though not with a vector image program because I don't know how to use one; so I used Gimp.

Bug#674826: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#674826: must still purge configuration files by hand

2012-05-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
package aptitude merge 568876 674826 severity 674826 normal retitle 568876 aptitude: problem resolver ignores Purge-Unused thanks On 28 May 2012 10:02, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Even though I have set APT::Cache::AllVersions false; APT::Clean-Installed false; APT::Get::Purge true; [This

Bug#674045: aptitude: German translation says #Broken but shows no number

2012-05-23 Thread Daniel Hartwig
tags 674045 + pending thanks On 23 May 2012 12:59, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: Quoting Andreas Kloeckner (inf...@tiker.net): The German translation of aptitude, when encountering broken packages, shows (the German equivalent of) #Broken in the header, but does not show a

Bug#673521: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

2012-05-22 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 21 May 2012 23:51, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote: As for other people having the same (or similar looking) problem, please see the following threads: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/1042f6677c741126#

Bug#673521: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

2012-05-21 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 20 May 2012 18:03, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote: If I remove the security line from sources: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy non-free I could not reproduce this problem even using these sources.

Bug#673521: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

2012-05-20 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 19 May 2012 18:48, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.7-1 At what version is libapt-pkg4.12 on this system? Fetched 3 B in 1s (2 B/s) W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en: 404   Not Found [IP:

Bug#673521: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

2012-05-20 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 20 May 2012 17:23, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote: I usually use only aptitude. Apt was used only for the purpose of identifying the problem. It's my understanding that other people are having this (or similar looking) problem as well. The apt-get output you provided was using a different

Bug#673065: rred segfaults during apt-get update

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 16 May 2012 04:09, Paul Menzel pm.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: on Saturday,  APT was upgraded from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3. But I saw a segfault from rred just today.        /var/log/syslog:May 15 4:30:26 hostname kernel: [11212.643812] rred[27456]: segfault at 822884c ip b73cad52 sp bfdf6c98

Bug#669328: Further problems with updating to fix this bug

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 16 May 2012 22:46, Kitty PC kittyin...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if this should be a new bug I am unsure, I am seeing aptitude hold back version 0.9.3 of apt due to it having a marked conflict with python-gtk Conflicts: python-apt ( 0.7.93.2~). This prevents me from updating to fix this bug

Bug#555632: aptitude does not run in background

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Hartwig
reassign 555632 libapt-pkg4.10,libapt-pkg4.12 affects 555632 = aptitude apt-utils retitle 555632 background tasks stop on SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU thanks Running something like aptitude --assume-yes do-something aptitude.log 21 will hang after downloading packages. Just bringing aptitude in the

Bug#669322: aptitude: Method http has died unexpectedly with zh_CN.utf8 locale

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hi E: Write error - write (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Method http has died unexpectedly! If I set LANG to C, the error does not occur any more. This was caused by a regression in libapt-pkg4.12 that is fixed in 0.9.3. The next release of aptitude will require at least that

Bug#672603: libapt-pkg4.12: encapsulate arch specification strings, matching

2012-05-12 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Package: libapt-pkg4.12 Severity: wishlist Hello I notice today that deblistparser.cc(ParseDepends) has some internal logic for matching against architecture specification strings. This may be useful to other functions, not to mention frontends (searching by arch wildcard -- nice :-)) if it

Bug#672467: [L10N, DE] aptitude: updated german program translation

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 11 May 2012 17:46, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: Hi, attached you get the updated german program translation for aptitude, version 0.6.6-1. Please include it in your package. Thanks for your i18n issues. Hello Thanks for your updated translation, and nice to see it

Bug#672467: [L10N, DE] aptitude: updated german program translation

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello On 11 May 2012 18:57, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Is it common in your locale to have periods there? Definitely. It's likely the reason why I would expect to have periods there in English, too. :-) In english locale many programs intentionally do not have those, In German

Bug#672467: [L10N, DE] aptitude: updated german program translation

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello On 11 May 2012 18:57, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Is it common in your locale to have periods there? Definitely. It's likely the reason why I would expect to have periods there in English, too. :-) In english locale many programs intentionally do not have those, In German

Bug#672467: [L10N, DE] aptitude: updated german program translation

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 11 May 2012 19:47, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Even for error messages? Why not? I've never heard of any orthography exception for error messages. (Until now for English. :-) Not sure why but I see many programs do it, and in log files also. It may have to do with errors being

Bug#588032: Please group by archive component before archive section

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
tags 588032 + wontfix thanks Hello Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback to aptitude. I have some comments about your suggestion: After I reverted to using grouping by default (instead of a flat list, which seemed more practical at the time) I got a bit annoyed by the grouping by

Bug#561957: reinstall gives internal error if package is upgradeable

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hi -devel Just had a look at this: One gets this internal error, (with bad grammar (locate file)) # aptitude reinstall asterisk The following packages will be REINSTALLED: asterisk 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of

Bug#670479: 'aptitude update' stucks at communication with /usr/lib/apt/methods/http

2012-05-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hi Recently upgrading both package, I find 'aptitude update' seem to hang up. It seems that there are some problems of communication between aptitude and /usr/lib/apt/method/http. Using strace command,both aptitude and /usr/lib/apt/method/http stuck at select(1,[0],NULL,NULL...). They seems

Bug#671721: libapt-pkg4.12: pkgAcquire::Worker::OutFdReady() fails after write() fails with EAGAIN

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 6 May 2012 17:57, YOSHINO Yoshihito yy.y.ja...@gmail.com wrote: By bisecting changes in the bzr repository I found this problem is caused by a commit revision 2129.55.33 use a static FileFd::Write overload to reduce duplication of write()-retry code. More specifically, replacing the loop

Bug#672340: aptitude: Dependency solver always uninstalls all foreign-architecture packages

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel Hartwig
user multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 672340 + multiarch severity 672340 important thanks On 10 May 2012 18:40, Ralf Jung p...@ralfj.de wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the dependency solver of aptitude always wants to uninstall

Bug#671930: RFS: distcc/3.1-5 [RC] [ITA] -- simple distributed compiler client and server

2012-05-08 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Hi mentors Looking for a sponsor for my package distcc: http://mentors.debian.net/package/distcc http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/distcc/distcc_3.1-5.dsc It has not been actively maintained for some time and the maintainer has

Bug#587404: aptitude: keeps running forever on nonassisted script

2012-05-03 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Daniel Franganillo dfrangani...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, at work we have quite a few debian stable servers updated daily with this script via cron jobs: [snip] The line: yes Y | aptitude -d safe-upgrade /dev/null sometimes keeps running forever, so we have to kill the process, and other

Bug#671439: aptitude have unmet dependencies on libapt-pkg4.10 on alpha and other archs

2012-05-03 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 4 May 2012 11:48, Witold Baryluk bary...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  aptitude : Depends: libapt-pkg4.10 but it is not installable            Depends: libept1 but it is not going to be installed            Recommends: aptitude-doc-en but it is not

Bug#670403: aptitude: FTBFS: configure: error: Can't figure out where Google Mock lives

2012-05-03 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 4 May 2012 03:18, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: Is there an ETA for an upload containing the fix?  aptitude is currently part of the apt/libept transitions and the mipsel build is failing due to this bug. The next couple of days. I was delaying to fix some other, quite

Bug#670403: aptitude: FTBFS: configure: error: Can't figure out where Google Mock lives

2012-05-01 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 2 May 2012 06:05, Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 06:27:03PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: configure: error: Can't figure out where Google Mock lives; either install the google-mock package or place the library in the link path Fix already committed

Bug#666383: [proposed] distcc: diff for NMU version 3.1-4.3

2012-04-30 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 29 April 2012 21:28, Salvatore Bonaccorso car...@debian.org wrote: tags 666383 + patch thanks Hi This FTBFS seems to be build-arch target related. I have prepared a NMU for distcc (versioned as 3.1-4.3) but not yet uploaded. Patch is attached. Regards, Salvatore Hello Thanks for

Bug#670822: aptitude dist-upgrade -d goes into infinite loop

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Hartwig
forcemerge 629266 670822 thanks On 29 April 2012 19:35, Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de wrote: $ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade -d The following packages will be upgraded:  kbd libnewt0.52 whiptail The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:  libfribidi0 3 packages

Bug#669322: aptitude: Method http has died unexpectedly with zh_CN.utf8 locale

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 29 April 2012 11:31, Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu saw this bug when changing to updated apt (= 0.8.16~exp5) and it appeared here when compiled with 0.9.0 so I believe this is caused by a change in apt Ignore that remark. I was actually thinking of #669569 about

Bug#669322: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#669322: aptitude: Method http has died unexpectedly with zh_CN.utf8 locale

2012-04-28 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 28 April 2012 16:07, Guanhao Yin yinguan...@gmail.com wrote: I tried the latest version in the above git repository, with or without setting CXXFLAGS to -g -O0. I'm afraid the problem still exits, with zh_CN.utf8. Thanks. I also rebuilt apt with those flags. I will keep looking at it.

Bug#670697: debtags: update tags db after apt update

2012-04-28 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Package: debtags Severity: wishlist Hello Aptitude previously included a rather unsightly kludge to call 'debtags update --local' after updating the packages list. As of 0.6.7 this will be removed. Attached is an apt.conf.d fragment equivalent to the old behaviour but much more elegant.

Bug#669322: aptitude: Method http has died unexpectedly with zh_CN.utf8 locale

2012-04-28 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 29 April 2012 03:51, Wolodja Wentland deb...@babilen5.org wrote: Hello, thank you Daniel for looking into this. I'd like to start by providing a few more details as this might help to triage this bug. The bug is related to parsing/handling of aptitude-defaults and manifests itself when

Bug#666130: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#666130: aptitude: locks dpkg status while running APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success

2012-04-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 29 March 2012 06:53, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.6-1 Hello, thanks for fixing #476399. Unfortunately there seems to be a semantic difference between apt and aptitude: While apt releases all locks before running

Bug#478970: Bug#479870: aptitude should update dpkg available information on updates

2012-04-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
retitle 479870 apt updates should update dpkg/available reassign 479870 apt,dctrl-tools thanks /var/lib/dpkg/available is not created|updated complete with 'aptitude update', like 'dselect update' does. If anything, all apt interfaces should do this and dctrl-tools provides the means.

Bug#669322: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#669322: aptitude: Method http has died unexpectedly with zh_CN.utf8 locale

2012-04-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 19 April 2012 09:59, Guanhao Yin yinguan...@gmail.com wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.6-1+b1 Severity: important In the curses interface, when I try to update the package list, I get an error message saying: E: 写出错 - write (11: 资源暂时不可用) E: Method http has died unexpectedly!

Bug#670403: aptitude: FTBFS: configure: error: Can't figure out where Google Mock lives

2012-04-25 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Source: aptitude Version: 0.6.6-1 Severity: serious Tags: pending configure: error: Can't figure out where Google Mock lives; either install the google-mock package or place the library in the link path Fix already committed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#669631: aptitude: Hash sum mismatch

2012-04-25 Thread Daniel Hartwig
reassign 669631 libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.1 retitle 669631 Hash Sum mismatch on local repo Packages thanks On 20 April 2012 23:51, Gilles Crevecoeur gilles.creveco...@gmail.com wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.6-1+b1 Severity: important Hi, I have this message only with my local repositry on

Bug#670222: E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 24 April 2012 16:55, Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com wrote: the command aptitude -d upgrade hang up for an hour or more and then issue the error in subject. Downgrade to 0.6.6-1 solve this problem Did the program hang after downloading the package files? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#670222: E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 24 April 2012 17:20, Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 05:08:39PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Did the program hang after downloading the package files? Yes, here is examples of output: Fetched 114 MB in 2min 38s (718 kB/s) E: Failed to write

Bug#670222: E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 24 April 2012 18:12, Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 05:42:56PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: that will be released shortly.  In the meantime could you try the patch there and report if it solves this problem also? After downloading source package

Bug#670222: E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 24 April 2012 21:40, Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:10:11PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: The file config.log will contain details of why the test failed. The only relevant message I can see is /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgtest, but both packages

Bug#668912: aptitude marks random packages are manually installed.

2012-04-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello On 16 April 2012 11:09, dE . de.tec...@gmail.com wrote: There's no specific pattern in which this happens, an aptitude run just for searching a package may mark packages manually installed. How did you determine that 'aptitude search' changed the state, rather than 'update' or 'upgrade'?

Bug#668515: aptitude resolver is nuts

2012-04-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 16 April 2012 21:41, Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: If you skip through the available solutions is this eventually in the list? Hinting the resolver may get you there faster. No, this can be resolved only manually afaict. I have no idea how to hint the resolver. This

Bug#629266: aptitude hangs in endless loop

2012-04-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
fc33717e721954088ed14913af5002f0ef9d2d1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:46:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Avoid dpkg and infinite loop in download-only mode * src/generic/apt/download_install_manager.cc: When in download_only mode: - report download errors; - post_dpkg save

Bug#668875: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#668875: aptitude: typos in help

2012-04-15 Thread Daniel Hartwig
retitle 668875 aptitude: [INTL:de] typos in help thanks On 15 April 2012 16:59, Torbjörn Klatt opensou...@torbjoern-klatt.de wrote:   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or     ineffective)?     typed `aptitude help` in the terminal   * What was the outcome of this

Bug#643335: aptitude silently loses changes when run as non-root

2012-04-14 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 14 April 2012 16:17, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2012-04-14 12:30:28 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: A warning is displayed on the first change with instructions on becoming root, though this can be disabled. What is the value of 'aptitude::Suppress-Read-Only-Warning' in your

Bug#643335: aptitude silently loses changes when run as non-root

2012-04-14 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 15 April 2012 00:38, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2012-04-14 22:08:20 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: This is set if you previously selected Never display this message again when presented with the warning. I don't think I had ever selected this (on two machines, it would

Bug#668544: aptitude hangs with full cpu load.

2012-04-13 Thread Daniel Hartwig
2012/4/13 Raúl Sánchez rasas...@gmail.com: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.6-1 Severity: normal  Hello:  I've lately experienced a 100% cpu load by aptitude. I wouldn't be able to point a specific cause, but it seems the conflict resolver is involved. Does the program eventually continue,

Bug#668515: aptitude resolver is nuts

2012-04-13 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 12 April 2012 20:29, Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.6-1 Severity: important Hello, I tried aptitude update ; aptitude safe-upgrade aptitude said no solution exists and --full-resolver might help. --full-resolver offers to remove tons

Bug#649267: aptitude: safe-upgrade does not install all updates, full-upgrade required almost every time

2012-04-13 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Dear Maintainer, I can’t remember what led up to this situation, but I have put up with it for a long time. I know it’s a problem because it doesn’t do it on my other Debian system. I’m using testing, so I have updates everyday. When I safe-upgrade, it usually misses a few packages, and then

Bug#643335: aptitude silently loses changes when run as non-root

2012-04-13 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.4-1 Severity: normal When I run aptitude as non-root, do changes (such as marking packages as forbidden) and quit aptitude, these changes are silently lost. Aptitude should propose to become root, either at the first

Bug#468897: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#468897: aptitude: please implement build-dep and source actions from APT

2012-04-10 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 9 April 2012 12:08, Brendan Byrd sineswi...@gmail.com wrote:  Surely this is a simple matter of merging code from apt-get into aptitude, right? Such duplication has been a source of problems with aptitude. Ignoring that 'apt-get source' is quite usable, if other frontends are to use this

Bug#468897: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#468897: aptitude: please implement build-dep and source actions from APT

2012-04-10 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 10 April 2012 16:46, Brendan Byrd sineswi...@gmail.com wrote:  There's no point in having two development teams working on essentially the same thing. The development of apt and aptitude does not significantly overlap. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#664576: don't ask if there is nothing to do

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Hartwig
severity 664576 normal merge 587671 664576 thanks On 19 March 2012 07:40, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I wanted to make a script that would not bother me if there was noting to do. And if there was, then prompt as usual. I have got what I want -- but not without a price: # aptitude purge

Bug#665661: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665661: forbid-version lack of feedback makes it look like aptitude has a mind of its own

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Hartwig
merge 595888 665661 thanks On 25 March 2012 15:19, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Thanks. Anyway, we are used to aptitude saying 1 to install 4 to remove, etc. so it should say 1 to forbid always too if forbidding. I think that forbidden packages are counted as N not upgraded. -- To

Bug#665661: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665661: forbid-version lack of feedback makes it look like aptitude has a mind of its own

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 29 March 2012 13:05, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: DH == Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com writes: DH I think that forbidden packages are counted as N not upgraded. No fair. That is just a side effect. And also lumps them in with other different cases. I.e., they still should be listed

Bug#665822: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665822: introduce user own marker on installed packages

2012-03-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 27 March 2012 05:51, William r...@libertysurf.fr wrote: Thanks a lot for your answer. The given command gives 1225 packages : $ aptitude search '~i!~M' In my case, such a list is clearly not manageable! The ubuntu command : aptitude search

Bug#665822: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665822: introduce user own marker on installed packages

2012-03-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 27 March 2012 16:07, Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com wrote: The old style tasks have been phased out and replaced by meta-packages with names beginning with task-.  As a result of this it is now possible to have the dependencies of a task marked as automatically installed and thus most

Bug#665824: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665824: possibility for the user to mark installed packages with some kind of text

2012-03-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 27 March 2012 06:25, William r...@libertysurf.fr wrote: Hello, and many thanks for this very interesting comment. Hi My answers will be to-the-point so as to be clear. There a couple of interesting suggestions here but others which can not be used. Clearly, that would be interesting

Bug#665824: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665824: possibility for the user to mark installed packages with some kind of text

2012-03-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 28 March 2012 06:18, William r...@libertysurf.fr wrote: Hi, thanks for your answer. $ : non root prompt # : root prompt - Problem using add-user-tag : the following command does not complain (in non root prompt). I have no special multi-arch system (AFAIK) : $ aptitude add-user-tag

Bug#665822: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665822: introduce user own marker on installed packages

2012-03-26 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 26 March 2012 20:38, r...@libertysurf.fr wrote: Package: aptitude Version:0.6.3-3.2 Hello, I think aptitude lacks a feature : being able to tell the user what he has installed already (in order to let him do clean up). I think of a feature such as in windows (control panel / add or

Bug#665661: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665661: forbid-version lack of feedback makes it look like aptitude has a mind of its own

2012-03-25 Thread Daniel Hartwig
merge 595888 638841 648687 thanks On 25 March 2012 09:40, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: You really should have some feedback to the user for forbid-version, so he can tell that you are not just doing some other unrelated task. Hi As is quite common for Unix programs, if the command does not

Bug#655590: apt: [multiarch] apt-get update update only one (foreign) architecture

2012-03-22 Thread Daniel Hartwig
user multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 655590 + multiarch tags 655590 + patch -- On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:53 David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 17:01, Vincent Danjean vdanj...@debian.org wrote: I'm trying to use apt-get in a multiarch

Bug#665212: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665212: aptitude: Forgets hold states if packages from multiple archs are installed

2012-03-22 Thread Daniel Hartwig
merge 661744 665212 thanks On 23 March 2012 00:02, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.5-1 Severity: normal User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: multiarch Putting an upgradeable package on hold, quitting aptitude with q and starting it again lets

Bug#411338: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#411338: marked as done (segfault in aptitude in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends)

2012-03-21 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 21 March 2012 20:29, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com wrote: So more than 5 years ago, one user reports that aptitude crashes when doing anything (like install foo) while parsing data, followed by a very detailed bug report, and concludes that a file is perhaps

Bug#312920: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#312920: marked as done (writes when nothing should be written)

2012-03-21 Thread Daniel Hartwig
reopen 312920 thanks On 21 March 2012 18:36, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com wrote: I put the emphasis on the title of the bug report, writes when nothing should be written.  The comment about taking long to execute for me is secondary, a subproduct, a side-comment.

Bug#317054: please add script to turn distcc on/off

2012-03-20 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Bastian Venthur expires-2...@venthur.de wrote: Is it possible to include a small script in the distcc package, that allows the user to turn distributed compiling easily on and off? My solution would be something like: distcc-off: removes all symlinks in /usr/local/bin which point to distcc

Bug#312920: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#312920: marked as done (writes when nothing should be written)

2012-03-20 Thread Daniel Hartwig
The following command takes a long time to execute. It should read very little, compute very little, and write absolutely nothing. # aptitude install some-package-that-does-not-exist Reading Package Lists... Done -- Forwarded message -- From: Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo

Bug#411338: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#411338: marked as done (segfault in aptitude in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends)

2012-03-20 Thread Daniel Hartwig
-- Forwarded message -- From: LimCore DebianBug debian...@limcore.pl To: sub...@bugs.debian.org aptitude crashes when doing anything (like install foo) while parsing data. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1212254528 (LWP 21019)]

Bug#526812: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#526812: aptitude: Qt interface for aptitude

2012-03-19 Thread Daniel Hartwig
As a further note: Kai Wasserbäch deb...@carbon-project.org wrote: I saw code (thanks to GSoC) appear in aptitude's Git repository, but it doesn't seem to get build so far. What is the status of that code? What is missing? Maybe I can help out. Run configure with the --enable-qt option.

Bug#325015: aptitude: ... option to select upgradable packages with urgency=smth

2012-03-17 Thread Daniel Hartwig
tags 325015 + wontfix thanks Urgency is mainly intended for the archive maintainence software. It is not presently made available to APT, only in the .changes file. The urgency affects how quickly a package will be considered for inclusion into the testing distribution and gives an indication

Bug#629995: keep ~aremove broken

2012-03-17 Thread Daniel Hartwig
tags 629995 + confirmed thanks # aptitude search -F%p ~aremove | tee marked debian-el dict dpkg-dev-el emacs emacs-goodies-el libmaa3 librecode0 recode # aptitude keep ~aremove No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 474 not

Bug#663910: distcc: won't install + activate

2012-03-17 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 17 March 2012 22:29, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Daniel Hartwig wrote: - manually invoking distccd as non-root also works. Was it the distccd non-root user you had in mind, or another? Hi I mean that any user can run /usr/bin

Bug#497539: [applied] aptitude: fails to build with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

2012-03-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
tags 497539 + pending thanks commit f8191add22b781b4453b95d2c02c890214f1f57a Author: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Date: Fri Mar 16 16:56:35 2012 +0800 Apply patch from Ubuntu to build -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 errors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#663910: distcc: won't install + activate

2012-03-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
severity 663910 normal thanks Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dropping severity, package is quite usable: - problem only affects libpam-tmpdir users, mainly at the time of install; - daemon starts fine on reboot; - manually invoking distccd as non-root also works.

Bug#664209: apt_preferences: package of higher prio not choosen?!

2012-03-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 17 March 2012 05:54, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net wrote: Hi David. On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 18:54 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: I would recommend to avoid the practice of rebuilding with the same version- number through. It's harder to find out if its an official or a

Bug#603862: applied: Fix ?action(upgrade) and others

2012-03-15 Thread Daniel Hartwig
tags 603862 + pending thanks commit 26b1b0ef9dced41811e2e1e8b297a26f110aa430 Author: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Date: Thu Mar 15 14:11:19 2012 +0800 Fix '?action(upgrade)' and others Searches for an action of 'reinstall', 'upgrade', 'downgrade' were matching incorrectly

Bug#662624: Fwd: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#662624: a couple more

2012-03-15 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello Russian team Thanks to Yuri for his quick response last time. Aleksej has identified a couple more translations which may need improvement. Would you please take a look at these also. Regards -- Forwarded message -- From: Aleksej Serdjukov deletesoftw...@yandex.ru

Bug#663910: distcc: won't install + activate

2012-03-15 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 16 March 2012 01:43, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com wrote: Yeah, there was something there [/var/log/distccd.log]: distccd[20344] (main) ERROR: failed to chdir to /tmp/user/0: Permission denied The location is read from TMPDIR. That seems to be related to the

Bug#580308: [PATCH] move python modules to private path

2012-03-12 Thread Daniel Hartwig
tags 580308 + patch thanks The attached patch fixes this issue by moving python modules to a private path. The modules are for the distcc-pump include server. This includes a compiled extension (.so). To keep things simple all the modules are installed to /usr/lib/distcc-pump. Rational for

Bug#638258: NMU on mentors

2012-03-12 Thread Daniel Hartwig
NMU on mentors.d.n has been updated to include the fix for #638258 also. http://mentors.debian.net/package/distcc * Move distcc-pump python modules to private path (/usr/lib/distcc-pump) - 04_fix_pumps_include_server_path.dpatch: update for private path, removes hardcoded python

Bug#663134: aptitude: safe-upgrade fails on libgcc1 version skew

2012-03-10 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 10 March 2012 18:00, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2012-03-10 04:17 +0100, Daniel Hartwig wrote: However, the output of the programs does differ.  Aptitude safe-upgrade reports that it can not resolve the dependency problems (correct), and that the user should try using the full

Bug#663134: aptitude: safe-upgrade fails on libgcc1 version skew

2012-03-10 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 10 March 2012 22:17, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2012-03-10 14:53 +0100, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Your original report only had the two out-of-sync gcc packages available, which, of course, can not be upgraded. Right, because I made the mistake of running aptitude --full

Bug#580308: update: distcc-pump: hardcoded python version in paths

2012-03-10 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Effectively the situation involves these factors: - distcc-pump ships python modules (.py) and extensions (.so) - the extensions are only compiled for one python version - installed using distutils - distcc-pump is a bash script which calls the modules directly ('python

Bug#663201: libept1.4.12: built against libapt-pkg4.12 only on alpha, amd64

2012-03-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Package: libept1.4.12 Version: 1.0.6~exp1 Hi --- libept (1.0.6~exp1) experimental; urgency=low * build against libapt in experimental --- This has only been effective for alpha, amd64 binaries: $ dpkg-deb -f libept1.4.12_1.0.6~exp1_amd64.deb depends libapt-pkg4.12 (= 0.8.16~exp12), libc6 (=

Bug#663134: aptitude: safe-upgrade fails on libgcc1 version skew

2012-03-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 10 March 2012 00:39, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: You can record the state using aptitude-create-state-bundle. Of course, silly me. That will contain enough info to reproduce it at a later date. Hopefully it does, the experience in #655483 was not so great.  Would you be

Bug#663134: aptitude: safe-upgrade fails on libgcc1 version skew

2012-03-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 10 March 2012 00:42, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:  Would be interesting to see what apt-get does if the dist-upgrade does not require removing essential packages. I have included output from apt-get in this situation.[1] It seems that both programs do the same thing here: 1. mark

Bug#662983: Pre-Install-Pkgs breaks interactive programs (was: Bug#662983: When called by aptitude, apt-listbugs crash and precludes the package upgrade)

2012-03-08 Thread Daniel Hartwig
[added deity@ as it concerns APT protocols] On 9 March 2012 01:59, Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:50:44 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: On 8 March 2012 10:49, Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com wrote: Apt-listbugs could try harder to avoid directly reading

Bug#663134: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#663134: aptitude: safe-upgrade fails on libgcc1 version skew

2012-03-08 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 9 March 2012 03:09, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.5-1 User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: multiarch A few days ago there was a situation where libgcc1:amd64 was at a newer version than libgcc1:i386, and aptitude was unable to

Bug#663134: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#663134: aptitude: safe-upgrade fails on libgcc1 version skew

2012-03-08 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 9 March 2012 11:16, Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 March 2012 03:09, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.5-1 User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: multiarch A few days ago there was a situation where libgcc1:amd64

Bug#661678: aptitude: Command-line install conflicts cause stupid resolution attempts

2012-03-07 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 5 March 2012 01:16, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: IMHO the 99% solution to this problem is to prevent this condition in the first place: if installing a (single) package FOO, any solution which does not in fact install FOO is by definition wrong and should be blocked before

Bug#662983: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#662983: When called by aptitude, apt-listbugs crash and precludes the package upgrade

2012-03-07 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 8 March 2012 07:01, Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:31:18 +0100 Nicolas DEGAND wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 21:11:43 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:17:19 +0100 Nicolas DEGAND wrote: I try to upgrade packages with aptitude. When

Bug#662983: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#662983: When called by aptitude, apt-listbugs crash and precludes the package upgrade

2012-03-07 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 8 March 2012 10:49, Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com wrote: Apt-listbugs could try harder to avoid directly reading from /dev/tty Of course, here I am refering to reading from stdin instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#663019: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#663019: aptitude purge package recursively REMOVES BUT DOES NOT PURGE reverse dependencies either

2012-03-07 Thread Daniel Hartwig
merge 568876 663019 thanks Hi Thanks for another detailed report. Enough information to see what is going on and what the issues are. I have found the two points you mention already in the BTS. Merging this report with the first of those as it appears you consider that the main issue. No ETA

Bug#661678: aptitude: Command-line install conflicts cause stupid resolution attempts

2012-03-04 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 29 February 2012 16:36, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.5-1 Severity: minor On a long-not-updated system where installation requires a Perl update: $ aptitude install smurf-kde ## my metapackage which simply depends on a bunch of KDE stuff [

Bug#661699: packages left behind

2012-03-02 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 29 February 2012 22:05, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.5-1 Severity: minor We see one package is left behind: # aptitude install gdb The following NEW packages will be installed:  gdb  gdbserver{a} (D: gdb) (for gdb) 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed,

Bug#659079: Bug#661744: aptitude: multiarch-related bugs

2012-03-02 Thread Daniel Hartwig
the CLI and curses interface. The issue with the new state is fixed in the commit below. #661744 aptitude forbid-version doesn't work in multiarch setup This one is also solved in that same commit, to be release shortly: commit e823140847cff74fe97c0a95c727d1a0fe883750 Author: Daniel Hartwig mand

Bug#661699: packages left behind

2012-03-02 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 2 March 2012 20:47, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: DH == Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com writes: DH Is gdbserver removed if you run just: DH # aptitude install As a matter of fact yes. Ok. I think this has been reported before. Some quirks that the autoremove system has in some situations

Bug#661188: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#661188: aptitude purge package recursively REMOVES BUT DOES NOT PURGE the unneeded dependencies of package

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel Hartwig
retitle 661188 aptitude: recursive remove (like pacman -Rs) severity 661188 wishlist thanks 2012/2/29 Georgiy Treyvus georgiytrey...@gmail.com: @Daniel: The way Arch does it is actually pretty elegant. Autoremoving is cool don't get me wrong but there are times that you just want a

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