knowledge ...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/
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that you switch to PostgreSQL 8.0. I do not intend to
provide several versions of libdbp-pg-perl to support several
PostgreSQL. I'm going to follow the latest stable PostgreSQL as usual.
I may document this situation in the README.Debian however.
Regards,
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Premier livre français
. In that case, please send me the SQL used to
create the database so that I can try here...
Cheers,
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?).
Considering the number of bugs on the package, let me suggest you to
start looking for co-maintainers. I'm ccing debian-qa, maybe someone
else will find some time to help you at least on that specific bug.
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disturbed you with my error.
As for the co-maintainer idea, I've already decided to do it and I'll
be setting up an alioth (svn!) project for cvs later this week to make
it easier...
Great !
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Package: awesome
Version: 3.2.1-1
Severity: normal
When I restart awesome (Mod4 + Ctrl + R), the systray applet in the Gnome
panel is emptied. Even restarting applications like zim or nm-applet
doesn't bring back their icons there.
I have to remove the applet and re-add it to make it work again.
Package: awesome
Version: 3.2.1-1
Severity: normal
I am used to show/hide the Zim window by clicking on its systray
icon. It opens the window fine but it doesn't hide it again. Same for the
skype window.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy:
Package: conduit
Version: 0.3.15-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Starting conduit lead to a segfault. I moved .config/conduit/ away and it
started but it would simply crash further for example when clicking on
the Show me button at the bottom.
[gtkui.UI
Package: awesome
Version: 3.2.1-1
Severity: normal
I use a development version of terminator that sets the urgent hint on
terminal beep. On beep the window appears red in the window list and
in the tag list but Mod4+U doesn't always work.
I get:
rhert...@rivendell:~$ awesome-client
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.3
Severity: normal
Following a discussion on debian-newmaint, I think it's important to
improve the section about the duties to clearly communicate to all package
maintainers (and not DD only) that the bare minimum is what I described
in the pledge below
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
The RSS feed at http://www.debian.org/News/news contains the same
timestamp for 2 news posted the same day.
This is somewhat annoying for tools like feed2omb which rely on the
timestamp of the last article they forwarded to decide whether something
needs
Package: xorriso
Severity: wishlist
xorriso 1.0.0 is available, and it's needed if you want to build Debian CD
like the official one that we just released for Squeeze.
It's a pity that Squeeze doesn't have the required version but better late
than never.
Can you package the latest upstream
Package: postfix
Version: 2.8.0-2
Severity: serious
It looks like the init script is not working here:
$ LANG=C sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for rhertzog:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0
Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
$ tail -n 4 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf
# blacklist snd-via82xx-modem
# Comment this entry in order to load snd-pcsp driver
blacklist snd-pcsp
# Comment this entry in order to load pcspkr driver
$
So there'se a comment
Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.38
Severity: important
File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org
dpkg's internal database will evolve with multiarch and you should not
have to hardcode this knowledge in your program. Instead of accessing
Package: cdebconf
Version: 0.154
Severity: important
File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: multiarch
dpkg's internal database will evolve with multiarch and you should not
have to hardcode this knowledge in your program. Instead of accessing
Package: python-central
Version: 0.6.16+nmu1
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/pycentral
User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: multiarch
dpkg's internal database will evolve with the introduction of multi-arch
and pycentral is likely to be broken.
You should get rid of your
Package: debsums
Version: 2.0.48+nmu3
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/debsums
User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: multiarch
1/ You should not scan /var/lib/dpkg/status yourself to find a list of
installed packages. Use dpkg-query -W instead. With the introduction of
multiarch you
Package: cruft
Version: 0.9.12
Severity: important
With the introduction of multiarch, dpkg's internal database will evolve.
You should not rely on parsing .list files but use dpkg-query -L.
You can supply a list of packages whose files you want:
dpkg-query -W | awk '{print $1}' | xargs
Package: nslcd
Version: 0.7.13
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
nslcd refuses to return group names which contain a tilde. It does this on
the basis that it's not part of the portable filename character set:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_276
I
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc1
Severity: normal
User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: multiarch
While building my multi-arch dpkg I noted this:
I: dpkg: unknown-field-in-control multi-arch
I: dselect: unknown-field-in-control multi-arch
Lintian should learn about this field and not
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc1
Severity: normal
I'm building libapache2-mod-qos_9.54-1.dsc. When I do a full build I get
this:
$ debuild
[...]
Now running lintian...
N: 1 tag overridden (1 error)
Finished running lintian.
When I do a source-only build I get this:
$ debuild -S
[...]
Now
Package: patch
Version: 2.5.9-5
Severity: normal
Patch suffers from a mis-feature, namely that it creates backup files with
000 perms when the patch creates a new file (and thus there's no original
file to backup). It's documented but apparently that behaviour has changed
in patch 2.6.
Package: libpoppler5
Version: 0.12.2-1
Severity: grave
Since I upgraded to libpoppler 0.12.2-1 I could no longer print,
looking at the cups log I found out:
D [30/Nov/2009:09:32:54 +0100] [Job 345] HP-Color-LaserJet-2840: symbol
lookup error: HP-Color-LaserJet-2840: undefined symbol:
Package: schroot
Version: 1.2.3-1+b1
Severity: normal
I run virtualbox-ose in a 64 bit chroot managed by schroot because I run
a 64 bit kernel and want to run 64 bit virtual machine but my machine is
setup as i386. For virtualbox to work properly I need /dev/vboxdrv and
/dev/vboxnetctl in the
Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
I was trying to merge 2 bugs with forcemerge and I got an error because
one was reported against dpkg and the other against dpkg-dev, given that
both packages are part of the same source package, it should allow me to
do it and assume that the first bug
Package: awesome
Version: 3.4.2-3
Severity: normal
I wanted to open 10 PDF documents in order to print them and I did
evince *.pdf from a terminal in a directory with the documents.
All my windows quickly got killed when the screen was full with evince
windows... even the windows displayed only
Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.1
Severity: wishlist
As part of the plan to have the new source formats as the default formats in
Debian I would like lintian to give a warning when debian/source/format
doesn't exist, it could be named missing-debian-source-format.
I suggest this description:
---
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I orphaned the alltray package since Carlos C Soto
cs...@sia-solutions.com has not enough time to properly maintain it.
I'm still willing to sponsor uploads if required. I'm ccing the new
upstream author in case he's interested to maintain the package or maybe
he
Package: simple-cdd
Version: 0.3.11
Severity: normal
debian-cd allows one to build an etch CD using the lenny installer by
using a setup like this:
export CODENAME=etch
export DI_CODENAME=lenny
However if you put that in the simple-cdd config file you will have
troubles and not everything will
Package: simple-cdd
Version: 0.3.11
Severity: wishlist
Currently the CODENAME given is used both to select the distribution to
download from the mirror and the distribution to create in the local
mirror. Given that debian-cd will only do its job properly if the CODENAME
is a well known one, we
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.47
Severity: normal
With the upcoming dpkg 1.15.1 you start getting annoying warnings from the
cron job:
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use
'--print-architecture' instead.
Package: simple-cdd
Version: 0.3.10
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
When DI_CODENAME is set, debian-cd will look into
mirror/dists/$DI_CODENAME/main/installer-$ARCH/ for the installer files
and not into the $CODENAME one.
simple-cdd is copying the custom_installer files into
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.36
Severity: normal
You should not use dpkg --print-installation-architecture otherwise
starting with the upcoming dpkg 1.15.1 you will get annoying warnings like
this:
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please
use
Package: ed
Version: 1.3-3
Severity: serious
Those files are updated by install-info at installation time. They should
not be part of any package.
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APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150,
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.52
Severity: normal
$ bts status file:BUG-LIST
Can't locate object method new via package IO::File at /usr/bin/bts line
1059.
-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput
Package: bison
Version: 1:2.4.1.dfsg-2
Severity: normal
/usr/share/man/man1/yacc.1.gz is part of the bison package but the
postinst register an alternative that is supposed to handle that
manual page... you can't have both !
Currently this leads to some cryptic messages at installation time
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: normal
The policy needs to be updated to take into account the dpkg triggers. At
the very least it needs to document the new invocations of the postinst in
chapter 6 (postinst triggered ...) see
/usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/triggers.txt.gz
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Package: awesome
Version: 3.4.5-1
Severity: important
In tiled mode, when you have too many windows open, awesome will kill all
the applications except the currently focused one.
You can reproduce that with 15 terminals but unfortunately also with
very few windows if some of those windows have
Package: python-desktopcouch
Version: 0.6.1-1
Severity: normal
During installation you'll get many errors like those if you have python 2.4
installed (it applies to both python-desktopcouch and
python-desktopcouch-records):
Compiling /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.4/desktopcouch/__init__.py ...
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.1.5-3
Severity: important
During upgrade today I got this while upgrading the lvm2 package:
Paramétrage de lvm2 (2.02.62-1) ...
Installation de la nouvelle version du fichier de configuration
/etc/lvm/lvm.conf ...
Setting up LVM Volume GroupsFile descriptor 43
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.61
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to have a debreview or debinspect tool that takes a .dsc
as argument and that displays the debian packaging files in a pager view.
Some people were used to review source packages by opening the .diff.gz
file with zless. Now
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.61
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to be able to diff only the debian packaging files and
debian changes when comparing two source packages. Suppose you have a new
upstream version but you only want to review the packaging changes and not
the upstream
Package: dh-make
Version: 0.52
Severity: normal
Since 3.0 (quilt) is now the default source format used by dh_make, the
--quilt option should not have any effect for non-native packages. The
rules files should not have --with quilt on the dh command-line and the
build-depends should not be
Package: dh-buildinfo
Severity: wishlist
I want to be able to do dh --with buildinfo $@ in a debhelper 7 tiny rules
file. See man dh and Sequence Addons: in
/usr/share/doc/debhelper/PROGRAMMING.gz to see how this can be
implemented.
Cheers,
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Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.6
Severity: wishlist
Given that Debian packages are not all built with the same helper in
debian/rules, it's difficult to hook something in the build process of all
packages. debuild offers hooks at various places before/after each
debian/rules call but it might not be
Package: debhelper
Version: 7.4.15
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
it would be nice to be able to enable a dh addon without modifying the
source package. Given this I think the best way is to have an environment
variable where you can list supplementary addons to enable.
I can think of multiple
Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: normal
I just got this warning:
W: dpkg source: timewarp-standards-version (2009-11-17 2010-01-27)
The changelog entry is UNRELEASED and still has the date of when it got
created. But we fixed stuff and in particular we upgraded
Standards-Version to
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: normal
I stumbled upon policy 7.4:
A Conflicts entry should almost never have an earlier than version clause.
This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package which
declared
such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of the
Package: dh-make
Version: 0.50
Severity: normal
Given that we're trying to have the new 3.0 source formats as default
formats, it makes sense for dh-make to create debian/source/format
with 3.0 (quilt) when there's an upstream tarball (and it can support
*.bz2 tarball too) or 3.0 (native) for an
Package: libapache2-mod-php5
Severity: wishlist
I have PHP code that wants to check the return value of pclose() and I
need the pcntl_wifexited() and pcntl_wexitstatus() functions to do
the work in a clean/portable way.
$status = pclose($handle);
if (!pcntl_wifexited($status) ||
Package: whitelister
Version: 0.8-5
Severity: minor
The dynablock.njabl.org RBL should be dropped from
/etc/whitelister.conf since it's not working anymore (see
http://www.njabl.org/use.html). Instead I suggest you add pbl.spamhaus.org
or even zen.spamhaus.org.
-- System Information:
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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock python-django 1.2.3-1
This is a new upstream micro-release, it contains a security fix for
#596205 and many small bugfixes. The debdiff is rather large but
upstream is very
on this idea. Do you think
it would be useful ? Do you have comments and suggestions ?
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Package: debhelper
Version: 8.0.0
Severity: normal
If you build the packages python-django with only python2.6 installed, you
don't get the same result as if you build it when python2.5 and python2.6
are installed... this is because the python buildsystem in debhelper
invokes setup.py once for
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
We made a new dpkg release, it contains:
- the dependency fix for RC bug #596417
http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=4d6c43090715ea4ed74b376bdc7bff73faaa569a
-
Package: openoffice.org-common
Version: 1:3.2.1-7
Severity: wishlist
Hi René,
someone suggested in a blog comment that maybe the official openoffice.org
debian package could provide the debian openoffice.org impress template
that I created.
You can learn more about it and download it from here:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org
* Package name: feed2omb
Version : 0.9
Upstream Author : Ciaran Gultnieks
* URL : http://projects.ciarang.com/p/feed2omb/
* License : GNU Affero General Public License 3
Programming
Package: type-handling
Version: 0.2.23
Severity: normal
In order to avoid the dpkg-dev dependency you can replace the
dpkg-architecture -L invocation with:
perl -MDpkg::Arch -e 'print $_\n foreach Dpkg::Arch::get_valid_arches();'
And then you need only a libdpkg-perl dependency.
Dpkg::Arch has
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.6
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n
Hi, the french translation of explanataion of apt-mark showauto in the
manual page is wrong:
showauto, affiche les paquets installés manuellement, un paquet par
ligne.
This is the exact opposite of the English text:
showauto is used to print
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
I noticed that http://www.debian.org/events/talks and
http://www.debian.org/events/speakers/ are not really up-to-date.
It should be moved to the wiki so that it's easier for everybody to update
the information.
I started a wiki page for this purpose:
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Debian has an official presence on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/debian
It should be documented/promoted on our main website as a way for users to
be informed and stay in touch with us.
It's probably material for the News page.
Package: localepurge
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if localepurge was reimplemented on top of dpkg's new
--path-exclude, --path-include options.
Instead of removing the files by itself, it would create the dpkg
configurations files based on the input of the user.
I had this idea while
Package: couchdb
Version: 0.11.0-2.1
Severity: serious
The chmod -R 0770 /etc/couchdb is just plain wrong in the postinst.
The only file that needs to be read protected is local.ini because it
might contain a password.
The other files should be 664. Directories should be 775.
Please drop this
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.34
Severity: important
I do use the french layout with the bepo variant. I used to have:
XKBMODEL=pc105
XKBLAYOUT=fr
XKBVARIANT=bepo
After upgrade I lost those settings (see #527641, already reported)
and discovered that this file is overwritten by the debconf
Package: memtest86
Version: 3.5-2
Severity: important
rhert...@rivendell:~$ sudo make-memtest86-boot-floppy --floppyimage /dev/sdd
[...]
* Installing GRUB files
Copying menu.lst
/usr/lib/grub/i386/*: No such file or directory
Real files are in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ ... simple fix in the case
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.93.2
Severity: normal
You should not use dpkg --print-installation-architecture otherwise you
will quickly get annoying warnings with dpkg 1.15.1:
Paramétrage de linux-image-2.6.29-2-amd64 (2.6.29-5) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
Package: awesome
Version: 3.3~rc2-1
Severity: normal
As shown on the attached picture, I have empty zones in my systray.
Clicking on them doesn't do anything however when I leave my mouse
over one of them I can see the text of an evolution appointment where I
configured an alarm. So it seems to
menu so that I could try again.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL=hert...@debian.org
EMAIL=raph...@ouaza.com
DEBFULLNAME=Raphael Hertzog
INTERFACE=text
** /home/rhertzog/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version 4.0
mode advanced
ui text
realname Raphaël Hertzog
-- System
/rhertzog/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version 4.0
mode advanced
ui gtk2
realname Raphaël Hertzog
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686-bigmem (SMP w
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: minor
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/Process.html is difficult to read as the text
is grey and the background is another variant of grey.
color: DarkSlateGrey;
background-color: gainsboro;
Please stick to plain black on a white background.
Also
Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.2.0-dfsg-1
Severity: important
Despite the System Information below, this report concerns the same
version of virtualbox running on the same machine with the same kernel
but within an up-to-date amd64 chroot.
┏(sid-amd64) rivendell:~/x/slis/trunk
┗(521)$
Package: base-installer
Version: 1.107
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I have observed in lenny's debian-installer that devices created by
MAKEDEV (called in a postinst of some package) are lost. In most cases
this goes unnoticed because udev is used and devices are created
automatically. After
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.18
Severity: normal
I regularly get this warning on my packages during development because
the latest changelog entry has been created before some other bug-fix only
release of the former stable release that I merged into the current
development release.
Simple case
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.64
Severity: normal
Every time I want to use bts select it's because I need to retrieve a
list of bugs that are usertagged and that are either closed or still
open.
Unfortunately I can never find the proper syntax for this, instead I get:
$ bts select
Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.84
Severity: wishlist
Now that dpkg-dev provides dpkg-buildflags, all packages should start
using it to get the default values mandated by the Debian policy (and
to support flag tweaking by users who want to experiment).
Given that CDBS abstract this for many packages,
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.23.1
Severity: normal
Hi,
Some administrators like to mount /tmp and /var/tmp with the noexec
option. That makes it harder for people to download and execute
malware when they manage to execute commands through a web application
vulnerability for example.
However those
Package: reportbug
Version: 4.7
Severity: minor
Hi,
When I start reportbug I see:
Using 'Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org' as your from address.
When I send my bug I see:
Copies sent to:
=?utf-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Hertzog?= hert...@debian.org
Seeing how my name has been encoded for mail
Package: psmisc
Version: 22.8-1
Severity: wishlist
I regularly have to kill old processes that stalled for some unknown
reason (svnserve on alioth for instance), yet there might be working
svnserve processes started a few minutes ago by users that I don't want to
kill. Currently i play with ps /
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
This package has been merged into dselect 1.15.5 itself, it should be
removed now.
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
This package has been merged into dselect 1.15.5 itself, it should be removed.
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Package: libselinux1-dev
Version: 2.0.88-1
Severity: minor
With the latest lintian, I get this tag on dpkg:
I: dpkg: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/bin/dpkg suport support
Looking closely the problematic string comes from libselinux:
Warning! Module policy version %d cannnot suport permissive
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-19
Severity: important
Tags: patch
As requested by maks on -devel, here's a bug report requesting
ppp support for the -openvz flavor in lenny (stable).
The patch can be grabbed here:
http://bugzilla.openvz.org/attachment.cgi?id=882
It needs a tweak to apply on
Package: hamster-applet
Version: 2.28.0-1
Severity: normal
Same problem here since a few days. What can we do to help you diagnose and
fix this bug?
It's very annoying as the problem also happens in the screen where we
enter previous activities and we don't see what period of the day is
already
Package: coreutils
Version: 7.5-1
Severity: important
With today's upgrade I get this when I do ls:
$ LANG=C ls
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
Vid??os pki-falco
[...]
$ echo $LS_COLORS
Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.20-2
Severity: normal
I tend to mark as read many messages by selecting them all with
T then ~N and then using ;WN.
During that processe all tagged messages are rightfully changed to have a
green background color (or whatever color you configured). However when I
exit
Package: calibre
Version: 0.5.14+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
I keep getting those exceptions (several times in a row):
argument 1 of QAbstractItemModel.createIndex() has an invalid type
Detailed traceback:
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Package: install-info
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-4
During upgrade this morning I saw:
(Lecture de la base de données... 218733 fichiers et répertoires déjà
installés.)
Préparation du remplacement de coreutils 7.5-4 (en utilisant
.../coreutils_7.5-5_i386.deb) ...
Ignoring install-info called from
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
We have some unwritten packaging rules and it would be good to write them
down even if some of them appear to be obvious to most of us. I think in
particular to stuff like:
- a package must at least be upgradable from one stable release
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.2.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494714 I
would like that the policy be updated to allow the Binary field in .dsc and
.changes to span over multiple lines.
Here's a suggested patch:
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.12
Severity: normal
read-in-maintainer-script is tagged severity certain but it can have
false positives... example:
{
read field1
[...]
read field2
} /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/vi
or with a function:
parse_something() {
read foo
}
echo bla |
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org
* Package name: smarty-validate
Version : 2.9
Upstream Author : Monte Ohrt monte _AT_ ohrt _DOT_ com
* URL : http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/SmartyValidate/
* License : LGPL-2.1
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.2.0
Severity: normal
Since the upload of install-info to sid, packages installing info
documentation should no more call install-info in their postinst.
It is now automatically done by the file trigger provided by the
install-info package.
You should however
Package: git-buildpackage
Version: 0.4.59
Severity: normal
When building 3.x source packages, -i and -I are implicit for dpkg-source
however git-buildpackage forces -i\.git and -I.git and thus only .git
is ignored when I really want the default behaviour of dpkg-source.
For instance, I also want
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.55
Severity: normal
I noticed this warning while building with debuild -Zbzip2:
debuild: unknown dpkg-buildpackage/debuild option: -Zbzip2
This option is valid (as is -Zgzip -Zlzma and soon -Zxz), please
get rid of the warning.
-- Package-specific info:
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: normal
I just built and uploaded my first 3.0 (quilt) source package
and aside from unsupported-source-format (#552707) I also get:
W: ftplib source: patch-system-but-no-source-readme
This warning is wrong since with this source format the quilt
patch
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
I would like to integrate some fixes made to dpkg concerning support of
new source formats since the lenny release. I have prepared a branch here:
Package: libconfuse-common
Version: 2.7-2
Severity: serious
Justification: missing breaks/replaces
Today's upgrade lead to this:
Dépaquetage de libconfuse-common (à partir de
.../libconfuse-common_2.7-2_all.deb) ...
dpkg : erreur de traitement de
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.52
Severity: important
I get errors from cron because of popcon:
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing
That file doesn't exist, it's really /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.list
due to the
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.71
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/uscan
In gvfs, I have this watch file:
version=3
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gvfs/([\d\.]+)[02468]/ \
gvfs-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz
And it fails to find the latest upstream... running it in --debug mode
shows that it
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