Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match is: re_taint_free = re.compile(r^[-+~/\.\w]+$); You probably

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Manoj Srivastava: Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The primary purpose of policy is

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As other people have pointed out later in the thread, my point was that I was _not_ having an epoch with dots in it; my version string was 0:1.2.7:1.2.8-1, which is explicitly allowed by policy (if there is an epoch, then the upstream version can

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 14 Apr 2006, Florian Weimer spake thusly: * Manoj Srivastava: Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The primary purpose of policy is to

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As other people have pointed out later in the thread, my point was that I was _not_ having an epoch with dots in it; my version string was 0:1.2.7:1.2.8-1, which is explicitly

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apt on the other hand (wrongfully) tracks explicitly if you have not epoch or an epoch of 0. Crap. :-( I forgot to remove the explicit zero epoch from my next upload. Are you telling me that if I leave no epoch in my following upload, apt won't

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060413 06:05]: A colon is explicitly allowed if the version contains an epoch. In this case, the build generate file names which contain a colon, too, and I'd expect them to be rejected in the same manner (they look essentially the same because the

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 14 Apr 2006, Bernhard R. Link stated: * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060413 06:05]: A colon is explicitly allowed if the version contains an epoch. In this case, the build generate file names which contain a colon, too, and I'd expect them to be rejected in the same manner (they

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Technically, this is not a dpkg-source but because dpkg (and APT) do not validate version numbers. Some ISVs rely on this and they use forbidden characters in version strings ('_' seems to be quite common, for example). And I suspect that there are

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060414 14:55]: Policy has (besides other things) the job of documentating current practice. Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable technical options

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Manoj Srivastava: Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The primary purpose of policy is to ensure that diverse packages under

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. Wrong place where you asked. The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match is: re_taint_free =

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match is:

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. The

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: Which uses debian/changelog ... the : is used to indicate a period, period can be used to use smaller upstream version if you increased it by error (or if you really need to use an older upstream version). The period should be a single digit in

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raphael Hertzog: Edit debian/changelog, and change the : by + and you're probably done. Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Frank Küster
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Raphael Hertzog: Edit debian/changelog, and change the : by + and you're probably done. Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? Which part? 5.6.12 already talks about that. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy,

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Raphael Hertzog: Edit debian/changelog, and change the : by + and you're probably done. Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? Which part? 5.6.12 already talks about that. A colon is explicitly allowed if the version

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Frank Küster: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Raphael Hertzog: Edit debian/changelog, and change the : by + and you're probably done. Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? Which part? 5.6.12 already talks about that. A colon

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 12 Apr 2006, Russ Allbery said: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Frank Küster: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Raphael Hertzog: Edit debian/changelog, and change the : by + and you're probably done. Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? Which part? 5.6.12

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:10:39AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. I'm uploading the exact packages at http://people.debian.org/~lmamane/mailman/ with dput to the

Upload getting lost

2006-04-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. I'm uploading the exact packages at http://people.debian.org/~lmamane/mailman/ with dput to the anonymous queue on ftp-master. The upload goes well, I see them if I ftp