Re: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?

2005-09-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-09-04 kello 11:32 -0400, Joey Hess kirjoitti: Lars Wirzenius wrote: That's what I wanted to say, but, alas, it doesn't work. debootstrap fails to create an etch or sid chroot for me at the moment. It does if you run it with --resolve-deps. Indeed it does. Mea culpa. I have now

Re: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?

2005-09-04 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:53:35PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Reading piuparts logs en masse is tedious and I would be extremely happy if all developers did it for their own packages. Go ahead, please prevent me from becoming a top ten bug reporter. :) Since you've already run it, are the

Re: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?

2005-09-04 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-09-04 kello 16:25 +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson kirjoitti: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:53:35PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Reading piuparts logs en masse is tedious and I would be extremely happy if all developers did it for their own packages. Go ahead, please prevent me from becoming

Re: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?

2005-09-04 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:19:35AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: su, 2005-09-04 kello 16:25 +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson kirjoitti: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:53:35PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Reading piuparts logs en masse is tedious and I would be extremely happy if all developers did it for

Re: Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1 (was: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?)

2005-09-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Some packages still don't use debconf for prompting, and instead do silly stuff that assumed it is OK to read and write /dev/tty. Actually, the policy explicitly

Re: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?

2005-09-04 Thread Joey Hess
Lars Wirzenius wrote: That's what I wanted to say, but, alas, it doesn't work. debootstrap fails to create an etch or sid chroot for me at the moment. It does if you run it with --resolve-deps. Since this will remain true probably forever except during freezes/releases, people might as well

It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?

2005-09-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I wrote piuparts, a package installation, upgrading, and removal testing tool, in June, and have been running it over etch since. Most packages succeed, and many that fail do so because something they depend on fails. (If piuparts notices a file left behind on the filesystem that dpkg did not know

Re: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?

2005-09-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:53:35PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: * Unconditional use of non-essential packages in postrm when a package is purged (policy, 7.2, description of Depends). One of the most common reasons is because the package uses ucf. Which is because

Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1 (was: It is 23:53, do you know whether your package (un)installs cleanly?)

2005-09-03 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Some packages still don't use debconf for prompting, and instead do silly stuff that assumed it is OK to read and write /dev/tty. Actually, the policy explicitly allows this: | The maintainer scripts are guaranteed to run