Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by accident? What constitutes empty?

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:17:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly where), you could essentially have the following code: { local $/; open FILELIST, $base/index; my $filelist = FILELIST; if

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still complain? Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error recovery to move it back should the install fail), and

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable breaks other packages on the missing architecture(s)). If it's out of

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? If it doesn't exist on purpose (like the mbr package, which only makes sense on i386), no problem. If it doesn't compile, it won't get into

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable ok If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. what does out of date mean in this contest? Cheers -- Stefano Zack Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. what does out of date mean in this contest? It means that the most recent source version (in unstable) has not been built for all

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by accident? What constitutes empty?

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly where), you could essentially have the following code: { local $/; open FILELIST, $base/index; my $filelist = FILELIST; if ($filelist eq ./\n) { print W: no files in binary package $pkg\n;

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:17:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly where), you could essentially have the following code: { local $/; open FILELIST, $base/index; my $filelist = FILELIST; if

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still complain? Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error recovery to move it back should the install fail), and dpkg

arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? Tnx, cheers. -- Stefano Zack Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate student of Computer Science @ University of

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable breaks other packages on the missing architecture(s)). If it's out of

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? If it doesn't exist on purpose (like the mbr package, which only makes sense on i386), no problem. If it doesn't compile, it won't get into

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable ok If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. what does out of date mean in this contest? Cheers -- Stefano Zack Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. what does out of date mean in this contest? It means that the most recent source version (in unstable) has not been built for all

Re: control file question

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: Hi Julian! The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: