Bug#548051: cupt: Fails to parse preferences files
Package: cupt Version: 1.0.0~beta1 Severity: important Hi, cupt fails to parse the following preferences file, rendering the package unusable for me. Package: ndisgtk Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 100 j...@hp:~$ sudo cupt update W: attempt to set wrong option 'apt::get::build-dep-automatic' W: attempt to set wrong option 'apt::periodic::verbose' E: bad config in file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/05etckeeper' W: skipped configuration file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/05etckeeper' E: bad config in file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/dpkg-architecture' W: skipped configuration file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/dpkg-architecture' E: bad condition in release expression at file '/etc/apt/preferences.d/ndisgtk' line 2 E: error while creating package cache -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cupt depends on: ii libcupt-perl 1.0.0~beta1 alternative front-end for dpkg -- ii perl 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sensible-utils 0.0.1 Utilities for sensible alternative cupt recommends no packages. Versions of packages cupt suggests: pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl none (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#548051: cupt: Fails to parse preferences files
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:55:20PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: Package: cupt Version: 1.0.0~beta1 Severity: important Hi, cupt fails to parse the following preferences file, rendering the package unusable for me. Package: ndisgtk Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 100 This is wrong-syntaxed file. This right syntax for the second line is: 'Pin: release a=unstable' Not really, see the apt_preferences manual page: Package: * Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 50 or even: the Version: line names the release version. For example, the packages in the tree might belong to Debian GNU/Linux release version 3.0. Note that there is normally no version number for the testing and unstable distributions because they have not been released yet. Specifying this in the APT preferences file would require one of the following lines. Pin: release v=3.0 Pin: release a=stable, v=3.0 Pin: release 3.0 But I guess we may want to deprecate this in apt, so alternative implementations don't need to implement it (same for the #clear #include in the configuration files). -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#548051: cupt: Fails to parse preferences files
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:07:05PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:55:20PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: Package: cupt Version: 1.0.0~beta1 Severity: important Hi, cupt fails to parse the following preferences file, rendering the package unusable for me. Package: ndisgtk Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 100 This is wrong-syntaxed file. This right syntax for the second line is: 'Pin: release a=unstable' Not really, see the apt_preferences manual page: Package: * Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 50 It also fails at Pin: release o=Debian, a=stable which is clearly documented as well. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#548051: cupt: Fails to parse preferences files
Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:55:20PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hi, cupt fails to parse the following preferences file, rendering the package unusable for me. Package: ndisgtk Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 100 This is wrong-syntaxed file. This right syntax for the second line is: 'Pin: release a=unstable' Not really, see the apt_preferences manual page: Package: * Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 50 It's surely a typo. Even if apt recognizes it right (btw, does it?). These three lines are from 'examples' page, no any other normative sentences allow it. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#548051: cupt: Fails to parse preferences files
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:19:28PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
Julian Andres Klode wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:55:20PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
Julian Andres Klode wrote:
Hi, cupt fails to parse the following preferences file,
rendering the package unusable for me.
Package: ndisgtk
Pin: release unstable
Pin-Priority: 100
This is wrong-syntaxed file. This right syntax for the second line is:
'Pin: release a=unstable'
Not really, see the apt_preferences manual page:
Package: *
Pin: release unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
It's surely a typo. Even if apt recognizes it right (btw, does it?). These
three lines are from 'examples' page, no any other normative sentences allow
it.
Reading versionmatch.cc it seems that specifying
Pin: release unstable
means that either the codename or the archive is unstable. This probably
is not well-documented, but it is there.
Relevant parts are:
ll. 57:
// Are we a simple specification?
string::const_iterator I = Data.begin();
for (; I != Data.end() *I != '='; I++);
if (I == Data.end())
{
// Temporary
if (isdigit(Data[0]))
RelVerStr = Data;
else
RelRelease = Data;
ll. 200:
if (RelRelease.empty() == false)
if ((File-Archive == 0 ||
stringcasecmp(RelRelease,File.Archive()) != 0)
(File-Codename == 0 ||
stringcasecmp(RelRelease,File.Codename()) != 0))
return false;
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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Bug#548051: cupt: Fails to parse preferences files
package cupt libcupt-perl reopen 548051 reassign 548051 libcupt-perl tags 548051 + pending thanks Julian Andres Klode wrote: It also fails at Pin: release o=Debian, a=stable which is clearly documented as well. Ok, this is true positive. Fixed in master. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#548051: cupt: Fails to parse preferences files
Julian Andres Klode wrote: Reading versionmatch.cc it seems that specifying Pin: release unstable means that either the codename or the archive is unstable. This probably is not well-documented, but it is there. Ok. So document it fairly in the next APT release and then ping me on IRC or elsewhere to include the support for it. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
