Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues

2021-09-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2021-09-11 Simon McVittie wrote: [...] > GLib uses a generated postinst where #MULTIARCH# gets replaced > by the multiarch tuple of the package. As far as I know, this > is going to be necessary for any multiarch library that will use > my clean-up-unmanaged-libraries script, because dpkg

Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues

2021-09-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Control: block 984884 by 949395 On 2020-01-20 Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.7 > Severity: normal > Tags: unreproducible > Maintainers have seen bugs in various packages where an old file (one > that was shipped in an old .deb, but not under the same name in a new > .deb)

Bug#921557: start-stop-daemon: behavior change on "matching only on non-root pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid is insecure" not fully documented

2019-02-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2019-02-12 Brian May wrote: > Andreas Metzler writes: [...] >> For exim I am now passing --exec >> /path/to/daemon as argument to s-s-d [...] >> Alternatively (or additionally) setting --user should also work. > OK, thanks for this. I hadn't realized you could

Bug#921557: start-stop-daemon: behavior change on "matching only on non-root pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid is insecure" not fully documented

2019-02-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2019-02-12 Brian May wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 06:53:18PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >>> I was planning a new upload during this week (the version in sid, will >>> not migrate as is due to a regression in dgit's autopkgtests), but can >>> postpone it a

Bug#921557: start-stop-daemon: behavior change on "matching only on non-root pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid is insecure" not fully documented

2019-02-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2019-02-07 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 19:58:52 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> dpkg's changelog.Debian says: >> * start-stop-daemon: Check whether standalone --pidfile use is secure. >> Prompted by Michael Orlitzky . >> the regula

Bug#921557: start-stop-daemon: behavior change on "matching only on non-root pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid is insecure" not fully documented

2019-02-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.3 Severity: important With 1.19.3 the following command stopped working: /sbin/start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 5 --quiet --pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid /sbin/start-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid is insecure Afaict this broke exim

Bug#749397: dpkg-dev: Does not fail on applying a patch included upstream

2014-05-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.9 Severity: normal Hello, --- (SID)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/TASN/dpkg-bug/testing/libtasn1-3.6$ find -name .pc (SID)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/TASN/dpkg-bug/testing/libtasn1-3.6$ cat debian/patches/series 20_off-by-one-error.patch

Bug#722122: dpkg-dev: warn about syntax errors in debian/control (folded items)

2013-09-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.1 Hello, I have made an uploaded with folded Architecture line in debian/control. I have since learned from debian policy that Architecture may not be folded. dpkg-dev simply ignored anything but the first line. I wish it had erred out and told me that the files

Bug#637564: dpkg-dev: dpkg-gencontrol simplification of Breaks is broken, simply keeps first found version

2011-08-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.11 Severity: important (SID)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls-2.12.7$ grep sipsak debian/control Breaks: sipsak (= 0.9.6-2.1), sipsak (= 0.9.6-2.2) (SID)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls-2.12.7$ dpkg-gencontrol \ -plibgnutls26

Bug#535797: dpkg-dev: Does not support orig.tar.bz2 anymore

2009-07-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.25 Severity: normal dpkg-source cannot unpack old style ssource packages using orig.tar.bz2 anymore, it seems to have been briken when introducing v3. LANG=C dpkg-source -x libgcrypt11_1.4.4-4.dsc dpkg-source: warning: extracting unsigned source package

Bug#382673: Does not work in 1.15.3

2009-07-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
reopen 382673 found 382673 1.14.25 found 382673 1.15.3 thanks Hello, since I have been waiting for the possibiltiy to upload orig.tar.bz2 to the archive I occasionaly check whether it actually works. Well currently it does not: (SID)ametz...@argenau:/tmp/GCR/libgcrypt-1.4.4$ dpkg-parsechangelog

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 09:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: I think that is just wrong. sbuild should not need to know anything about dpkg-buildpackage's internals and there is no need for change here. The currently used and proven interface is: 1. install Build

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general) you wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:41:04AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: [...] I've been pondering on what's the cleanest way to fix it for some time, and I tend to agree with Steve about using the make options to test for the

Bug#382673: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage should support building against foo_0.42.orig.tar.bz2

2006-08-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2006-08-18 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.bugs as well. Thanks for that courtesy. On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:03:42 +0200, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said

Bug#382673: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage should support building against foo_0.42.orig.tar.bz2

2006-08-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.22 Severity: wishlist Hej, dpkg-source in sid supports unpacking packages using bz2 compression, i.e. foo_0.5.9-1.diff.gz foo_0.5.9-1.dsc foo_0.5.9.orig.tar.bz2 It would nice if dpkg-buildpackage also supported producing these packages. I would appreciate this a

Bug#366351: dpkg-dev: ${source:Upstream-Version} seems to be useless without epoch

2006-05-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.19 Hello, dpkg-dev 1.13.19 includes a a couple of new substvars, e.g. the long wanted ${source:Version}. - Thanks. However I fail to see a usage scenario[1] for ${source:Upstream-Version}. - As it does not include the epoch it cannot be used in Dependency fields.