Hi David, First of all, apologies for the tone of my initial report - I was too tired and frustrated and that shouldn't have tainted my words. :-(
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:03:08PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: >On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:26, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: >> I've just added support for translated description files into >> debian-cd, creating Translation-$LANG.bz2 on CDs to match the >> archive. A problem report from a user shortly afterwards described >> apt-cdrom issues using a DVD generated with this new code. [1] I've >> dug through the code in cdrom.cc and tagfile.cc and I've found that >> apt simply does not support .bz2 versions of the Translation files >> *from CD*. AFAICS it *does* support them in the main archive via HTTP >> etc. That's a bit of a surprise, to say the least. > >I am not that surprised, given that apt-cdrom is touched only once >in a blue moon - last serious change is from 2009 (udev), the one >before that is adding Translation support in 2007, the 2005 change >is imported from the previous vcs… You get the pattern. >All in all its properly save to say that the code you looked at mostly >comes straight from the last millennium (literally speaking!)… Ouch, OK. >My personal excuse is that i haven't used it a single time, so i am >properly not the best one to hack on it, but i fear the rest of the >(lets count optimistic) trio seems to have the same excuse… > >So after this little rant^Whistory lesson (which hopefully prevents you >from expecting a response after 4 days next time as i could write more >of these stories otherwise ;) ) i am willing to promise to try to have a >look at it this week(end), if nobody else wants of course, >but we need testers either way - volunteers? > > >> As it is, on CDs/DVDs we're stuck with only using gzip for various of >> the index files now until wheezy+1. That means we're going to be >> wasting (maybe a lot) more space on CDs than necessary. > >You could ask stable managers for permission for a stable-upgrade. >+squeeze1 already adds some xz parts (for apt-utils tools). >Note though that squeeze doesn't support xz for index files >downloadable from the net, as i implemented it only in 0.8.12 after >hearing it the first time on debian-devel. OK, that will help I guess. I could maybe find the time to help with more generic compressed files support, and I've got the infrastructure available to be able to test CDs easily at least. I can't promise much with my rusty C++, but... >Not that it had ever reached deity@ or even the bts. As it is usually for >deities, they are expected to know everything and also before people even >think about it… :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org