Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-15 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/5/15 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com: The relevant package is libcupt2-0, and I don't think many people read its package description, but that information could go in the cupt description anyway.  How about this? I think that the patch to the source file that you mentioned before

Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-15 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
severity 672804 wishlist reopen 672804 Hi, On 2012-05-14 18:07, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Maybe the package description should mention that you might want a download method if planning to use cupt with a sources.list using protocols other than file:// and copy://. In policy-conforming Debian

Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: On 2012-05-13 14:38, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Depends: libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl | libcupt2-0-downloadmethod These are put to Recommends by intent, because: 1) there are file:// and copy:// built-ins; Yeah, good point. :) The tweak below would have made

Bug#672804: [Cupt-devel] Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, On 2012-05-14 01:55, Jonathan Nieder wrote: The tweak below would have made it harder to forget. Applied for 2.5.4, thanks. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#672804: [Cupt-devel] Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-14 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hello, 2012/5/14 Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org: This. Manuel, you probably switched installing Recommends off which is not a good idea since Recommends is for all but unusual installations. So, install the 'libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl' package, which should have been installed by

Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: And I guess that you can use provides/virtual packages for the case that you mention. If somebody is going to the trouble of writing such a method, creating a virtual package is a minor issue. Maybe the package description should mention that you

Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: +- control: + - [Jonathan Nieder] Suggest installing a download manager in the 'cupt' +package description. Here manager is an odd sort of compromise between 'method' and 'handler'. It should say 'method'. Sorry for the confusion. -- To

Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no download manager is present

2012-05-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Manuel, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: It's the first time that I try to use cupt, and it doesn't seem to be working at all in my system. Any hint? # cupt update Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable Release Fail:1 no download handlers available libcupt2-0 declares that