aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]

2003-06-20 Thread David A. Greene
Matt Zimmerman wrote: If you had wanted to find out the answer before sending this to debian-devel, you would not have had to look very far. bugs.debian.org/python-apt has the answer three times over. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193566 That's not particularly helpful.

Re: aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]

2003-06-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:27:14AM -0400, David A. Greene wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: If you had wanted to find out the answer before sending this to debian-devel, you would not have had to look very far. bugs.debian.org/python-apt has the answer three times over.

Re: aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]

2003-06-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
David A. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: guarantee it will work because it seems as though apt thinks apt-listchanges is still installed. This is a matter of configuration files; try purging apt-listchanges, and if that doesn't work remove /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges yourself. --

Re: aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]

2003-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
Have you tried dpkg --remove apt-listchanges or dpkg --purge apt-listchanges? Daniel -- / Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\ | You see, I've already stolen the spork of wisdom | |and the spork of courage..

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 10:50 US/Eastern, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:22:54AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Yep. That's the point of my proposal. They would be. When you changed a package to use the new c103 (or whatever the next ABI is), you'd change the library

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 16:43 US/Eastern, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:46:13PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Now, if we changed sarge to use g++-c102 (as I briefly suggested), would that prevent this problem in sarge+1 or sarge+2 or whenever the ABI changes again? no,

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:22:54AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Yep. That's the point of my proposal. They would be. When you changed a package to use the new c103 (or whatever the next ABI is), you'd change the library dependencies to the c103 versions. This will work, but it will stop

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That could be. Somehow, the C++ ABI would have to be added to the Build-Dependency information. Either that, or C++ packages would have to use a specific C++ ABI compiler, e.g., (control) Build-Depends: c102, ... [...]

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:50:59AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Build-Depends: g++ (= 3:3.2.2-0) Many transitioned packages use(d) this to guarantee that the correct compiler was used. Which, of course, does not help with the situation he originally reported (building a woody package on

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:04:17AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Which, of course, does not help with the situation he originally reported (building a woody package on testing with a newer compiler than was originally used). Time travel is still required there. :-) it works in this case if you

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 02:50 US/Eastern, Andreas Metzler wrote: Build-Depends: g++ (= 3:3.2.2-0) Many transitioned packages use(d) this to guarantee that the correct compiler was used. That doesn't guarantee the correct compiler. It could, for example, use gcc 3.4 which could have yet

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 14:59 US/Eastern, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: it works in this case if you build all the packages your package depends on, like the build is doing, because in that case apt wopuld habe been new abi, too. Yeah, but then again, its quite superfluous in that situation, too.

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 11:04 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Which, of course, does not help with the situation he originally reported (building a woody package on testing with a newer compiler than was originally used). Time travel is still required there. :-) Agreed. To fix Woody

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:46:13PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Now, if we changed sarge to use g++-c102 (as I briefly suggested), would that prevent this problem in sarge+1 or sarge+2 or whenever the ABI changes again? no, because we WANT the packages beeing build with the new abi. We