Bug#624122: Bug#743298: apt-get corrupts Sources and Packages files on running unxz

2014-04-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
ke the config options mentioned before that about another issue ending up with that error message as #624122 has no workaround if you get it for "hashsum mismatch" rather than a "code practice vs. theory mismatch" (and I can only break so many apt versions). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#742611: apt-cache: showsrc non-existent returning 0

2014-03-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
n if needed 3. change the default of the option to enabled 4. add the option to all the software forgotten in 2. I would accept a patch for 1. in jessie, so that if all known things in 2. can get fixed (one way or the other) to cope with 3. in jessie+1, but that needs someone who wants t

Bug#740673: apt-cdrom ident started requesting to insert cd even if cd is already mounted

2014-03-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
x27;ident' is "a debugging tool". You will hopefully understand that even if I had anticipated that the commit would cause trouble I would have assumed nobody would use it. (I see now that apt-setup is using it and why, and while the information is in the add output as well it is probably a bit harder to get it from there, point taken, but that this is easy to say after the fact) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#740843: apt: fails to upgrade the fglrx family of packages with multiarch

2014-03-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
kinda a different beast in this regard (remember the temp remove). My guess is that situations in which we would have to look at rev-deps can't happen as these are covered by the pre-order. I at least couldn't produce a situation in which it wasn't sufficient in this regard. "

Bug#739990: Thanks

2014-02-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
ollow the advice of a dumb tool. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#740133: apt: fails to install versioned dependencies

2014-02-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
d it, even if I realize that it was probably not meant that way) Best regards David Kalnischkies, CEO of a computer science student lifeform incorporated signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#738326: Summary of reassigned bug

2014-02-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
. No worries, next time you can send corrections (and errors make even the best people) to the control@ mail address only though as it avoid cluttering the bugreport itself with messages. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#738909: Acknowledgement ([apt] Package System Broken, libc6 etc)

2014-02-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
e (at least) two problems after it… Note also that as you can see here bug reports are not ideal to get input on fixing your system. The support channels like the debian-user mailinglists or IRC are way better in this regard. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#738909: apt: Can not reproduce

2014-02-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
moreinfo tag without any additional info, so "first warning". Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#738909: [apt] Package System Broken, libc6 etc

2014-02-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
l. Downgrades are not supported and usually not a good idea. Trying to downgrade really important stuff like libc6 will not just not work, but explode bigtime. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#738785: aptitude: (remote) changelogs is broken after packages.d.o move to https

2014-02-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
, for me, it basically works out of the box (at least while testing with our own aptwebserver). Anyway: As said, basically nobody has the https method installed, so we either have to force it on everyone or we need the service to continue to provide the changelog over http for apts http client. On the

Bug#738567: uses futimens, which is supported only on linux-any

2014-02-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > David Kalnischkies, le Tue 11 Feb 2014 19:36:59 +0100, a écrit : > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:35:37PM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: > > > The apt 0.9.15.1 started to use futimens instead of previous utime. > &

Bug#624122: hash sums mismatch

2014-02-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
nup disabled. So, the next time you run the update rred will pick up the new as well as the old patches and together they result in a file which isn't correct anymore as it was patched with some patches two times… BOOM! Best regards David Kalnischkies commit 34d6ece7566ea4fcda2286478b3164

Bug#624122: hash sums mismatch

2014-02-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
ry "meta" in a sense that there are a bunch of cases which can result in a hashsum mismatch and only very few are the fault of apt and without a reasonable amount of info hard to reproduce (if at all possible). One day, I will have the mental strength to close it… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#738567: uses futimens, which is supported only on linux-any

2014-02-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
the filename around anyway and it will silence cppcheck (and I don't have to remember to ignore the remark). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#735967: /usr/bin/apt-get: Internal error

2014-02-05 Thread David Kalnischkies
time all other libraries will went through similar changes. Many already did for wheezy, so I am a bit surprised that this bug hasn't happend so far. Best regards David Kalnischkies From 346b042ef1f290fcce0d2d90714061fb0972ec09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Thu, 6 Feb 20

Bug#737085: apt: Apt downloads arch all packages from wrong repo/checks wrong checksum

2014-01-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
t the status file one). See attached demo-patch. Something like that (but tested, this one isn't) could be introduced with the next abi break. It isn't bulletproof either, but a bit better. (I wonder if it would make sense to move the comparison entirely into such an on-demand handli

Bug#717613: systemd-udevd failes to execute /lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event

2014-01-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
et even more. > So I'm also inclined to add the Breaks. Usually I would suggest a transitional package in addition, but in this case I am going a bit further: The error message suggests to me (who has absolutely no idea what he is talking about through) that hal configures udev to send messages to hal. Why not just drop this configuration if it doesn't work anyway… ? Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#732818: apt: Doesn't autoremove kernels

2014-01-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
safety measure as the autoremover has no idea which of the kernels are enhancing the firmware. All of them could potentially work, but the user might depend on a very specific one of those (It makes little sense with kernels of course, but replace kernel with editor and you will hopefully agre

Bug#735967: /usr/bin/apt-get: Internal error

2014-01-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
would be nice if you could attach it as well, so we can see what made the difference. If you can't find a status file to reproduce it we will have no other chance than to close the bugreport as unreproducible as these kind of bugs are highly dependent on the system state. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#733028: apt: Secure apt runs into gpg "resource limit".

2013-12-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
g files, in addition to removing package repositories, in > order to avoid the "NO_PUBKEY" scenario. I did a bunch of changes to apt-key in 0.9.10, so at least this problem of empty keyrings pilling up in trusted.gpg.d shouldn't be one anymore; apt postinst isn't dealing with old cruft at the moment though. Best season's greetings David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#731997: Fix missing /usr/bin/apt for Debian package

2013-12-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi :) On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:25:39PM +0700, Trần Ngọc Quân wrote: > You missing add apt program to Debian package. > Please apply this patch! Thanks for the patch, but this isn't a mistake. The binary is far from complete feature-wise, barely documented and infested with bugs. In short: Not

Bug#731853: apt: "apt-get source -t unstable binutils" selects a wrong version of binutils

2013-12-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
s like different (but related) regression. Seems like Michael broke more than he fixed in an effort to support deb-src without deb entries. Word of the day: Testcase(s) ;) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#727799: gnome-core depends are marked manual

2013-11-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
ve in regards to "no longer needed packages" as 'wasted diskspace' is not as critical as 'no longer usable system') In short: The package gnome-core is in section "metapackages" and this section is set in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections, so the packages gn

Bug#728500: apt-get fails: mkstemp (2: No such file or directory)

2013-11-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
t it doesn't work for you as it does here. Have you done anything extraordinary to /tmp in your chroot? Are other applications acting strange as well? Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#728274: python-apt: apt.conf used from /etc/apt instead of root_dir + etc/apt

2013-10-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
, it depends a bit on what you will do later on which one you have to use – but for most stuff both will work. Rootdir prefixes everything, Dir just relative paths. If you configure files to be 'read' from "/dev/null" for example, that is a difference) Best regards D

Bug#728153: apt-cdrom should succeed if any drive succeeds

2013-10-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
ns failed is: _error->PushToStack() and the reverse _error->MergeWithStack(). If we are patching, there is similar code in DoIdent, so this probably needs to be patched, too. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
[reordered to have the most-important response-part first] On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Fabien Givors (Debian) wrote: > On 27/10/2013 18:54, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Fabien Givors (Debian) >> wrote: > I'm sure you have,

Bug#727799: apt-get not marking manual correctly and apt-mark showmanual also wrong

2013-10-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
#x27;t have (partially) if you still value upgrades a lot. And its a problem you can't solve by just looking what packages you have installed yourself. The packages your distribution installed for you in release A but not in release B (because they prefer something else now) are just a

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Fabien Givors (Debian) wrote: > David Kalnischkies wrote: >> Stepping back for a second and freeing myself from the consequences: >> How about dropping this question altogether? >> >> We have a flag which is (supposed to be) able to ski

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
is: In this particular case, I really hope nobody is doing something as insane as depending on this. [0] What do you two think? Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://xkcd.com/1172/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727799: apt-get not marking manual correctly and apt-mark showmanual also wrong

2013-10-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
on foo will be marked as manually installed. Hopefully the logic is a bit more clear now. In that light, can you rephrase your bugreport to detail which packages you installed exactly? Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#439031: Reproducing #439031

2013-10-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
implementations don't support more advanced request headers like If-Range and co – and even if they do, they usually don't allow a user to get consistently a buggy behavior) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Bug#727120: apt: add name/path to "could not lock the cache file"

2013-10-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
you run exactly and what the complete and exact output of these commands are. (preface them with LANG=C to be sure to get non-translated messages) [ The message you mention here doesn't exist in apt, but a few remotely related do ] Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To

Bug#727082: apt: dist-upgrade says "no longer required" and "will be installed" for the same packages

2013-10-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
Install=1 should print a bunch of stuff telling us what the $REASON is. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#448908: Has it been fixed?

2013-10-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
avior of debconf-apt-progress seems to have changed since precise] Some details on what you mean and how you reproduce it exactly might help. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Bug#726047: Bug#726055: libapt-pkg.so.4.12: segmentation fault in pkgDPkgPM::ProcessDpkgStatusLine

2013-10-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
"suddenly" smells like our front ends are going to hate us… (at least if they parse what they hand to them with this). [The code parsing dpkg status lines is a bloody mess, but I hope I will find some time in-between vintage this weekend to have a closer look] Best regards David Kalni

Bug#725401: libapt-pkg4.12: Crash in pkgCache::DepIterator::IsIgnorable

2013-10-05 Thread David Kalnischkies
u have and the file /var/lib/dpkg/status for later in any case. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#724995: apt: Apt fails in upgrade to jessie when setting up upower (0.9.21-3)

2013-09-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
re really okay to be removed, as its a guess, no a definite knowledge. The stuff deleted by the clean commands on the other hand is really not needed anymore and/or is redownloaded by APT automatically if it needs it. So, I wouldn't run them together as they don't belong together. Best

Bug#724854: apt: incorrect warning about unmet dependencies with virtual package

2013-09-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
not in testing or unstable. (It is also why apt-get is automatically deciding that you mean libjpeg8-dev as it is the only provider, if there would be more, you would need to choose) Also, libjpeg8-dev conflicts with libjpeg62-dev, so they can't co-exist -> your first install request is in

Bug#724744: 'apt-get source' does not stop if signatures can't be checked

2013-09-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
time now to check, just wanted to remove the RC-bug indicator so nobody is scared.) Best regards David Kalnischkies On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.9.7.9 > Severity: grave > Tags: security > > Source packages are s

Bug#724582: message should mention other solutions to 'dpkg was interrupted'

2013-09-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
ebconf question (it can't get much worse). So it is likely that it will be garbled, be it in the middle of another message or completely overridden, if it happens to be printed on a line which is intended to display a progress indicator of some sort. Just forget about the idea of interrup

Bug#617690: [PATCH] Fix #617690 (APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true always

2013-09-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
t the first, as the acquire system can fall back) Nowadays, its really better to just enable [trusted=yes] in the sources.list if you can be sure that the source is trusted (e.g. local mirror) rather than this old workaround (to get pre-0.6 behavior) Best regards David Kalnischkies 0001-pk

Bug#722880: apt: Apt fails to solve some dependencies in a multiarch scenario.

2013-09-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
available for your native architecture) by design. It tends to confuse people, but was needed for transition reasons. (There are discussions ongoing to resolve a few issues with that though.) Best regards David Kalnischkies test-bug-722880 Description: Binary data

Bug#724073: Patch: Fix Typo

2013-09-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
or apt(8). As this binary isn't built/included in the package yet, strings from it aren't in the pot yet. _("That is of course what we intended and planed for") (po/en_TRUTH: "happy accident"). Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-b

Bug#724032: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#724032: Bug#724032: I thought I said install

2013-09-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
formation is the important one varies a lot between runs and users. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#723586: apt thinks :any dependencies are satisfied but dpkg doesn't

2013-09-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
eleases. And its more correct / less confusing, as its not an completely bogus idea to strip :any in single architecture environments. It has no meaning there anyway, right? ;) Best regards David Kalnischkies 0001-don-t-strip-any-from-dependencies-in-single-arch.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#617690: [PATCH] Fix #617690 (APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true always

2013-09-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
cated file:// uris are higher + // priority than authenticated http:// uris – otherwise trusted + // packages can only be downloaded from trusted sources + if (Trusted == true && Index->IsTrusted() == false && + _config->FindB("APT::Get::AllowUnauthent

Bug#723636: [apt] apt segfault in pkgDepCache::SetCandidateVersion(pkgCache::VerIterator) ()

2013-09-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
ted version '2.3.1-10' (Debian:experimental [all]) for 'amule-common' because of 'amule' […] 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. […] As you see, none of those segfault for me. Segfaults could also be caused by damaged binary caches, which would

Bug#723705: apt: Saves some downloaded packages under truncated filenames

2013-09-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
the naming of zlib1g … ;) ). The most interesting part will be writing a testcase for that… (the rest of the commit doesn't look completely bulletproof either, mmh) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#722710: apt: Incorrect error message for missing data.tar.* segment.

2013-09-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
his is not a valid DEB archive, it has no data.tar member." given that there are plans for uncompressed members and its not unlikely we would have the same "lets backport $compressor-support" in the future. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bug

Bug#721818: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#721818: Should allow to install/remove packages even when dependencies are broken

2013-09-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
don't see what we would gain by switch them on. So from an APT point of view: Hell no, wontfix, close. But this bugreport is against aptitude, so feel free to disagree of course. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian

Bug#721723: apt: FTBFS on non-Linux: Testing with HashSums_libapt_test ###FAILED###

2013-09-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: > >> "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" is the md5 of an empty file. >> "89f331147b07a354262948559d430f0b" is the md5 of our test file. >> So the code calculates

Bug#721723: apt: FTBFS on non-Linux: Testing with HashSums_libapt_test ###FAILED###

2013-09-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
omising and that it works for linux makes it even more strange… or maybe I just don't see the elephant in the room. Any ideas? Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commitdiff;h=ca6ab6e37c101f21066d1522c6e9c202856842ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#720853: please sort editors by priority in select-editor

2013-08-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
l and easy to undo). (The patch is written for minimal interference with the current code in "verbose" shell, I guess some shell/sed/awk/perl-wizard could do better) Best regards David Kalnischkies sensible-utils-priority-sort-for-editors.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#720485: /usr/bin/apt-get: apt-get update fails with various messages "400 Bad Request" for http-URLs

2013-08-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
Could it be that you use a proxy? If so, that is probably #717891. You will have to get a newer "apt" package manually in that case. Otherwise, the output of apt-get update -o Debug::pkgAcquire::http=1 might be interesting to see the problem. Best regards David Kalnischkie

Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2013-08-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
after discussing this a bit at DebConf it seems like we could apply the attached patch to APT, which is hopefully fine for everyone. Best regards David Kalnischkies 0001-allow-Pre-Install-Pkgs-hooks-to-get-info-over-an-FD-.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#719263: still affects Wheezy

2013-08-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
akes it unlikely that it will be allowed to be fix in wheezy I guess. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#543966: apt wants to downgrade packages with pin-priority less than 1000

2013-08-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
0 as specific pin, rather than 999) Now that wildcards work this can't be used to disable pins of course, but commenting out or removing them entirely is just as effective… (and defined behavior) Best regards David Kalnischkies 0001-specific-pins-below-1000-cause-downgrades.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#712635: [apt] apt-cache show $packagename spits error on telepathy packages

2013-07-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Thomas Hackert wrote: > Hello David, *, > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:13:20AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Hackert wrote: >> > . When I try this with telepathy-haze (but also with telepathy-gab

Bug#712635: [apt] apt-cache show $packagename spits error on telepathy packages

2013-07-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
have attached config and sources which might help to identify what is going on here. But it would also be nice if you could try current unstable versions as they introduce some changes to the 'show' code, which might have fixed this as a by-product. Best regards David Kalnischkies --

Bug#717891: Apt 0.9.9.3 + Acquire::http::Proxy = 400 Bad Request

2013-07-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
ut attached patch goes back to the old behavior of just sending absolute URIs if a proxy is used just to be sure. Best regards David Kalnischkies 0001-request-absolute-URIs-from-proxies-again-0.9.9.3-reg.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#717665: "file" URI in sources.list: apt-cache show description-en missing.

2013-07-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
T::Update::Post-Invoke-Success "/path/to/your/script"; Also, I haven't tried, but it is usually a more common setup to configure these sources with apt-cdrom, which should be able to deal with this. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#717254: "apt-cache show " shows Description-md5 field twice

2013-07-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
es that it was sorted far more at the top). Attached patch should fix that by skipping over Description fields in the "left-over" of the buffer after the first Description field. (lets see what I did wrong this time, I am starting to get a track record) Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.

Bug#717006: apt-listbugs prevents apt purge

2013-07-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
ed to prevent by writing a testcase in the first place … (see the attached patch "else if" you want to have a laugh) Best regards David Kalnischkies 0001-fix-if-clause-to-generate-hook-info-for-rc-packages.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#716757: libapt-pkg4.12: Something is wrong with apt-get/aptitude update

2013-07-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
dea what could be wrong. (Most of that would have been asked by the bugscript for "apt", really need to work on this so that reporters for other packages are "bugged" too) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.or

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
ule here, why not "just" a big nvidia-kernel-{legacy-{173xx,96xx}}-{dkms,source} or- group (plus whatever ubuntu might call the packages maybe). Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: >> For me personally, its mostly that I can't easily share the modules with >> people who I can't let modules install by themselves (dkms kills the >> module in each kernel vers

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
depending on how its implemented: A package installed from unstable, which migrates to testing – was this installed from unstable or from testing? And if a package is in testing and in unstable, what is the origin? Maybe such an origin field should just include "Debian" and be inserted at

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
So, as this is (at least not without a debian-policy enforced MUST for the support of downgrades in packages) never going to happen: Obviously Closing. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#715494: apt-pkg: out-of-date pkgcache.bin: /var/lib/dpkg/status updated more than once in one second

2013-07-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
"";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/nocache Its the cache combining the data parsed from the sources (called srcpkgcache – so it has nothing to do with source packages!) with the data parsed from the status file. Caches which aren't created can't be out-of-date. ;) Best regard

Bug#262059: apt-get dist-upgrade unnecessary tries to remove packages

2013-07-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
the ESR versions of icedove into stable(/updates). (For the bugreport itself, APT is getting better at it version by version, but catching all cases is hard. And always remember: If you don't like the solution, you can always press 'N'. ;) ) Best regards David Kalnischkies

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: > >> Currently src:bbswitch builds only a bbswitch-dkms package for usage >> with dkms tools. It would be nice if you could add a bbswitch-source >> package for module-assistant so that users

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
for packaging all this stuff to make my hardware work and Best regards David Kalnischkies bbswitch-please-add-a-bbswitch-source.diff Description: Binary data

Bug#705576: [RFR] wml://intro/about.wml

2013-07-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
like a server-farm (possibly in the cloud) and "implement different features" is a really good idea, given that we already have stuff 'implementing the same features' (compared to what?). Oh, and if you grant me a second kill: the Microsoft remark further down the page.) Best

Bug#471102: module-assistant: German translation tells you to press 'J' to install necessary packages, though you must press 'y'

2013-07-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
e: Do you want to continue (type anything to abort; no input means yes)? hell no! Abort. I am not really sure this is actually better (reminds me of the "press ANY-key to continue"-joke somehow) and if we would change it it would be a very very painful transition… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#714877: apt: Please support an apt-get update for a single repository only

2013-07-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
.d/files/"; (or the other way around with just one file; I remember writing a patch for behaving nicely if a directory is /dev/null – not sure what version this is in though currently, but wheezy should have it at least) Feel free to use this for sbuild as it will work in any APT version.

Bug#712116: DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs should receive multiarch-qualified package names

2013-06-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:06:53 +0200 David Kalnischkies wrote: >> as it >> looks like it pins the wrong package if its using v2 currently and I am also >> not really sure if the pin-logic shouldn't be changed drast

Bug#712116: DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs should receive multiarch-qualified package names

2013-06-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
am also not really sure if the pin-logic shouldn't be changed drastically as a bug usually effects all architectures and not just one, but my ruby knowledge is non-existent, so I could be completely wrong on this. Best regards David Kalnischkies 0001-Version-3-for-DPkg-Pre-Install-Pkgs-with-MultiArch-i.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#712481: apt: installing package with terminal gives errors...

2013-06-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
might be wrong on your system and how to fix it (I presume it isn't a bug in the end, but they will know) Downgraded the severity though as a warning itself isn't destroying anything and your transcript shows that indeed the dpkg/APT run was successful. Best regards David Kalnisc

Bug#712435: apt-cache show output changed/broken when translated descriptions used

2013-06-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
ld just sed -i '#^Description-en:#Description:#' and be done. For the APT parsing side we should probably accept "translations" in the Packages file as well instead of just from Translation-* files as there isn't a real reason not to. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#712433: Please add a way to disable the udev code in apt-cdrom

2013-06-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
0f912b3cea220724fd59c83f7;hb=HEAD (and the code "creating" a "CD-ROM" for the test) http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=blob;f=test/integration/framework;h=31b12e8bfb90985310c65f531765c46763456fc4;hb=HEAD#l736 Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#710924: apt: HTTP 406 Not Acceptable with alternates breaks update

2013-06-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
ealWithHeaders to react to 406/416 with a retry without range/accept headers rather than add yet another obscure config option. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#671440: pdiffs

2013-06-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
mplement it, so if someone wants to give it a try … In the meantime: -o APT::List-Cleanup=1 should prevent APT from cleaning up files which do not have a sources.list entry currently. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#706829: apt: there are no pdiffs either for translation or sources

2013-06-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
tation in APT are pretty slow and we should fix that before annoying users (I am personally much in favor of pdiffs, but not everybody is). Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#710520: apt: New /usr/lib/apt/methods/bzip2 (gzip) now incompatible with pbzip2

2013-06-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
assigning and merging with the previous report. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#711456: Acknowledgement (apt: fails to do an update with "Internal Error, No file name for..." using amd64 and i386 dvd media)

2013-06-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
s at all if I think about it now…). That needs someone with more CD-ROM experience to pick it up as this really needs someone who can actually test what she/he is doing. I am happy to help with pointers/answers/reviews/… on the other hand, hence tagged as 'gift' [0]. Best regards David K

Bug#707578: apt: yields dependency problems with "apt-get install --purge libreoffice"

2013-05-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
l keep working for a while. :) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#708831: upgrade-reports: [sid->sid] left system barely unusable (manually fixed with dpkg --install)

2013-05-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 19.05.2013 17:15, schrieb David Kalnischkies: >> The dpkg/status file before the upgrade could be helpful for reproducing. >> You can (hopefully) find it in /var/backup/ >> >> Helpful config options (I case

Bug#708831: upgrade-reports: [sid->sid] left system barely unusable (manually fixed with dpkg --install)

2013-05-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
isn't configured (aka that it behaves like an essential application), but I am not in the mood for bug-ping-pong so just CC'ed python maintainers for now, so they can have a look and comment on it while we will see whats up with APT to decide on this route (did I mention that a dpkg/status

Bug#708340: RFS: module-assistant/0.11.4+nmu1 [NMU] – tool to make module package creation easier

2013-05-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
dn't really find a consensus in this or the other direction here. Disclaimer (just in case): My perl knowledge is nearly non-existent, which in turn means that I am not able to help with maintaining m-a in the long-term. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#707771: symbol rename in libapt-pkg4.12

2013-05-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
the reverse (= making an inline method non-inline) is safe ABI wise, so we can fix that in an upcoming version. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#699759: apt: score computation may prefer obsolete installed packages over their successors

2013-05-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
were very close to require to upgrade all kde packages if you dared to upgrade dpkg. (just prevented by the need to upgrade udev first, which required dpkg, but it might not always be possible to make this work as hoped) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#707578: apt: yields dependency problems with "apt-get install --purge libreoffice"

2013-05-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
es) while having << and >= breaks on the real styles. The unpack of tango should have caused dpkg to auto-deconfigure commons though if I see that right (but I haven't the time to look too closely now). As said, it would be really helpful if you could find the status file. Best r

Bug#645713: fails to upgrade a default GNOME desktop installation from squeeze → sid

2013-04-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
l of them having their own set of downsizes and depending on who the user is (and how the machine looks like) I would suggest a different order for trying them out. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#645713: many squeeze->wheezy upgrades fail with "Could not perform immediate configuration"

2013-04-16 Thread David Kalnischkies
ms of ordering? (aka: Am I crazy yet or what the hell is going on) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#645713: fails to upgrade a default GNOME desktop installation from squeeze → sid

2013-04-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 18:17:46 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> Pictures^Wdpkg-status files or it didn't happen, as I said multiple times >> now. >> > You'll find the (compressed) status file

Bug#704257: missing libgl1-mesa-dri in upgrades

2013-04-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
mpletion: Enhances are not handled) It's just that a user shouldn't really be required to know what those are. (if you digg deaper [usually in non-user facing texts] you will come across "hard", "important", "soft", "negative" and "positive" dependencies to complete the confusion. I will leave it as an exercise for now which subsets are meant with those adjectives) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#704298: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#704298: Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-04-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
sically mean we need to parse those lines while this hashing is used to avoid parsing them without the need to depend on "same version number equals same version" assumption … (this "feature" already wastes quiet a bit of time) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#703375: apt: installing skype 4.1 in multiarch tries to deinstall large portion of system

2013-03-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
t a stable release and buildds prefer tasks from other suites for obvious reasons. I expect a user of experimental to not require hand-holding as usage of the "experimental" archive requires a fair bit of knowledge gained by reading. It's not mine nor the fault of multiarch that yo

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