Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-09-07 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:34:25PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Gerrit Pape writes (Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs): I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail that was additionally addressed to the debian-c...@lists.debian.org mailing list and got an automatic

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-09-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Gerrit Pape p...@smarden.org: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:34:25PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Gerrit Pape writes (Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs): I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail that was additionally addressed to the debian-c...@lists.debian.org

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-08-31 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:28:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: [ It sucks to have to confirm mails for debian-package-d...@list.smarden.org ] I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail that was additionally addressed to the debian-c...@lists.debian.org mailing list

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/31/2010 02:08 PM, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:28:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: [ It sucks to have to confirm mails for debian-package-d...@list.smarden.org ] I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail that was additionally addressed to

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-08-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 aug 10, 15:23:26, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Obvious fail. The list is read only as the communication has to go trough the BTS. Not according to the description: ,[ http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/ ] | Debian Technical Committee | Public meeting, business and announcements of

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Gerrit Pape writes (Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs): I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail that was additionally addressed to the debian-c...@lists.debian.org mailing list and got an automatic reply telling me that the mail cannot be delivered because I'm

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ It sucks to have to confirm mails for debian-package-d...@list.smarden.org ] On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: What happened to the idea of having /bin/sh - dash hardcoded in the dash package instead ? That's still the plan. The problem is that once dash is the only package

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 28 April 2010 16:08, Gerrit Pape p...@smarden.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:20:12PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On 15 April 2010 12:58, Gerrit Pape p...@smarden.org wrote: I tried to clone your git repository but it 404s, so I can't check what other changes you've made so far and

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24:32AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: [...] A quick workaround to bypass the check, in case you want to upload already, would be to: ddivert=dpkg; ddivert=${ddivert}-divert; $ddivert --remove ... [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/geissert/dash.git;a=summary Why

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Ben, On 29 April 2010 12:15, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24:32AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: [...] A quick workaround to bypass the check, in case you want to upload already, would be to: ddivert=dpkg; ddivert=${ddivert}-divert; $ddivert

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: Any dpkg maintainer reading? Raphaël? Guillem? Yes, but I don't know what you expect from me. That discussion dragged for far too long in too many directions. What happened to the idea of having /bin/sh - dash hardcoded in the dash package instead ?

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 29 April 2010 14:23, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: Any dpkg maintainer reading? Raphaël? Guillem? Yes, but I don't know what you expect from me. That discussion dragged for far too long in too many directions. Hum, ok. That's why I

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes: That's still the plan. The problem is that once dash is the only package shipping /bin/sh, bash would be the one prompting the user whether she/he wants to use bash (so that the diversion is added) it would still break in case the user already

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15 April 2010 12:58, Gerrit Pape p...@smarden.org wrote: Raphael sent a mail rudimentarily stating how to proceed.  I must confess, I don't really understand the plan, or why it should be done this way.  But I might miss information since I was not available when the /bin/sh transition was

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-28 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:20:12PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On 15 April 2010 12:58, Gerrit Pape p...@smarden.org wrote: Raphael sent a mail rudimentarily stating how to proceed.  I must confess, I don't really understand the plan, or why it should be done this way.  But I might miss

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-19 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:41:03PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: Why are you not using alioth for this? It's less work for me, I haven't used alioth before. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-16 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 15/04/2010 19:58, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:13:04PM +0100, Gerrit Pape wrote: I set up a mailing list to coordinate work on the dash package. If you're interested in helping, please subscribe to the debian-package-dash mailing list by sending an email to

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-16 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:59:45PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: On 15/04/2010 19:58, Gerrit Pape wrote: Hi, unfortunately my email didn't attract many contributors, i.e. no one but Raphael subscribed to the list. Is there a way to look at the archive of your ML (the message of Raphael in

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:13:04PM +0100, Gerrit Pape wrote: I set up a mailing list to coordinate work on the dash package. If you're interested in helping, please subscribe to the debian-package-dash mailing list by sending an email to debian-package-dash-subscr...@list.smarden.org, and

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:13:04PM +0100, Gerrit Pape wrote: I'm looking for volunteers that are willing to help with maintaining dash. Most of the work is relaying bug reports to upstream, judging and including prospective fixes if upstream is unresponsive, preparing patches for bugs, and

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-03-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Raphael Geissert geissert at debian.org writes: The shared debconf prompt idea was already discussed and discarded in one of the d-devel threads Ah, okay. Didn’t know that. before the change was made. Which is what Thorsten's idea was all about. Well, I hope you’ve got some better idea

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-03-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thorsten Glaser] JFTR, Clint Adams and I have been working to get posh up to the task of being a /bin/sh as well, so any solution should be able to not only have GNU bash and dash and mksh as /bin/sh but also, eventually, posh and ksh93 (if they add an “alias local=typeset” builtin at

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-03-21 Thread Raphael Geissert
Thorsten Glaser wrote: There’s still • drop dash • just manage the symlink, no diversions The plan is to make dash the only package providing /bin/sh. bash and other pet shells would then divert the symlink upon installation. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org -

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-03-19 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Gerrit, Gerrit Pape wrote: dash has outstanding RC bugs. Some are a left-over from the /bin/sh transition from bash to dash, and still unresolved. IIRC Thorsten Glaser had some ideas on how to proceed, but we never discussed anything in this regard. Luk Claes and Raphael Geissert were