Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes (Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news): * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. Raphael, I want to thank you for all your hard work, and your contributions to dpkg, some of which have been very important to the whole of Debian. Regards, Ian

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 18/04/2015 21:27, Guillem Jover a écrit : Portability in dpkg is very important, to be able to support downstreams and people who use it on other systems, or even package it in other (non-GNU/Linux) distributions. But for many such systems I'm currently porting purely through

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Possibly stating the obvious, but a you aware that fink (a package management system for Mac OS X/Darwin) is based on a dpkg fork? There is also Cydia for Apple iOS systems, it uses APT, presumably dpkg too: http://cydia.saurik.com/

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Le 2015-04-19 10:25, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org (2015-04-18): General News * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 15:01:48 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le 18/04/2015 21:27, Guillem Jover a écrit : Portability in dpkg is very important, to be able to support downstreams and people who use it on other systems, or even package it in other (non-GNU/Linux) distributions.

Re: dose3 support for versioned provides (was: Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news)

2015-04-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 18.04.2015, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer: for source packages that require versioned virtual packages, dose3 support for this is needed because otherwise the affected source packages will remain bd-uninstallable. But right now dose3 can only parse versioned

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org (2015-04-18): General News * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Mraw, KiBi.

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 10.25:11 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Indeed, thank you buxy! OdyX signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Guillem Jover [Sat, Apr 18 2015, 09:27:26PM]: * Add support for versioned Provides [!]: - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing. That's great news! This will make a lot of evil kludges

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org (2015-04-18): General News * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
*Thanks* :) -- “I don’t think security can solve problems. We need to teach greater respect.” Oslo Mayor Stang when asked whether Oslo needs greater security after the attacks in Norway, 07/2011. Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 19 avril 2015, 12:25:28 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 10.25:11 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Indeed, thank you buxy! OdyX +1. Thanks a lot Raphaël. Cheers, Thomas

dose3 support for versioned provides (was: Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news)

2015-04-18 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Joachim Breitner (2015-04-18 22:24:20) is great. I assume that support for this needs to be added to more tools and infrastructure. Any estimate as to when can we start using this feature in packages uploaded to Debian unstable? for source packages that require versioned virtual

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-18 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, this: Am Samstag, den 18.04.2015, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover: * Add support for versioned Provides [!]: - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing. - Non-versioned virtual packages