The way to the next dpkg release

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Hi. I've now committed the current release 1.13.11.1 to svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/dpkg/trunk which we will use as a preparation ground for the next upload. Guillem, Christian, Brendan and I have been added to the Alioth project and should have commit access. I like to point the commit

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Bug#348684: lists.debian.org: debian-dpkg-cvs should not be moderated anymore

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal We would like to use the debian-dpkg-cvs list for the commit messages of the newly set up dpkg SVN repository on svn.debian.org. Please remove the moderation from the list or modify it in a way so these messages get through unmoderated. (Alternatively

Re: The way to the next dpkg release

2006-01-18 Thread Christian Perrier
I intend to commit all translation updates that are lying currently in my archive, which will fix all bugs tagged ad l10n,pending Done in r15. I also commited a few other pending patches for translated man pages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: The way to the next dpkg release

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:07:39PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Fair by me. And thanks for the great work. I intend to commit all translation updates that are lying currently in my archive, which will fix all bugs tagged ad l10n,pending I suggest that someone familiar with dpkg-dev has

Re: The way to the next dpkg release

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:21:09PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: I also commited a few other pending patches for translated man pages. A question about man pages: Is there anything I need to do with the translated man pages when the English original changes? Or should I just wait for the

Re: The way to the next dpkg release

2006-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I propose the following timeline for the next release: Commit patches until Sunday January, 22th (5 days from now). This should give plenty of time to at least work through the backlog some of us have aquired (My own one can be seen at

Re: The way to the next dpkg release

2006-01-18 Thread Christian Perrier
One of the difficulties that I see with dpkg at the moment is that it has a very large bug list. Many of those bugs are very old, the use of tags is sometimes different from bug to bug, and the database could probably use either a good set of usertags or some bug title massaging (or possibly

Bug#92828: marked as done (dpkg-gencontrol does not like empty strings in its comma-separated lists)

2006-01-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#326727: marked as done (dpkg-dev: dpkg-gencontrol reports 'unknown information field `C1 Send-To')

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Processed: retitle 208992 to dselect: help text broken in UTF-8 locales

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Bug#306087: marked as done (dpkg: French man pages updates)

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Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:14:35AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: If we don't use the path information from ldd there are several ways to go: 1) use dpkg --search but only with the library name from objdump, not with the full path. Questions: - Are there cases where the library name

Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

2006-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This isn't quite true I think. The current dpkg-shlibdeps code works like this: 1) use ldd binary to find the paths to the linked libraries 2) use objdump -p binary to actually check which of this libraries are listed as NEEDED (Are there cases

Bug#345475: dpkg-shlibdeps: Please add support for udeb: lines in shlibs files

2006-01-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: dpkg-dev Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i This BR is the formal request to implement the support for parsing an extra line in shlibs files when determining dependencies for udebs. Frank Lichetenheld commited the fix for this in the brand new