Re: dpkg-source's future and relation with VCS

2008-02-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: However I'm also convinced that: - a source package should be unpackable without a VCS. This means that somehow it should contain a checkout that can be extracted with basic

Re: dpkg-source's future and relation with VCS

2008-02-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Basically, the way to do this is to do the dbs thing, I think. The structure of the .tar.gz file would be: - All content in the .tar.gz file is in a debian subdirectory as packed. - debian/patches contains

Re: dpkg-source's future and relation with VCS

2008-02-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:51:12AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point is precisely that it's *NOT* useful now. No software is useful until it is implemented. wigpen is far from unique in that regard. Right, but the git/bzr stuff _is_ implemented...

Re: dpkg-source's future and relation with VCS

2008-02-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: However I'm also convinced that: - a source package should be unpackable without a VCS. This means that somehow it should contain a checkout that can be extracted with basic tools. [1] I don't think it's feasible to require

Bug#464907: [jo...@debian.org: Re: Bug#464907: dpkg seems not to check for broken versioned dependencies when upgrading]

2008-02-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Ian, since you wrote the patch that Joey has been testing, can you look what's wrong with it ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ ---BeginMessage--- I haven't checked, but this sounds very similar to

Bug#465340: dpkg: Broken call to open in Dpkg/Control.pm

2008-02-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:39:21AM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:25:13AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Granted my perl-fu is not that strong, and looking at the documentation, I might have exaggerated the extent of this bug somewhat. Could you please go into more

Bug#462677: dpkg fails to install on arm

2008-02-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
I'm running oabi on an i.MX27. I see errors with rm when my kernel kernel is built with EABI+OABI. If I build without EABI, things function normally. linux-2.6.22.6-mx kernel (from ltib). Haven't tested with an armel runtime to see if the problem is specific to EABI or EABI+OABI. b.g.

Bug#465340: dpkg: Broken call to open in Dpkg/Control.pm

2008-02-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:44:31PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:39:21AM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:25:13AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Granted my perl-fu is not that strong, and

Bug#465340: dpkg: Broken call to open in Dpkg/Control.pm

2008-02-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:39:21AM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:25:13AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Granted my perl-fu is not that strong, and looking at the documentation, I might have exaggerated the extent of this

Bug#465282: dpkg-dev: Set a set of compiler flags for a build

2008-02-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Frank Lichtenheld writes: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:39:10PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: Content-Description: message body text Package: dpkg-dev Severity: wishlist Please find attached a patch which implements setting a set of compiler flags for a build; this was first announced in

Processed: reassign 311843 dpkg

2008-02-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: package dpkg debsig-verify Ignoring bugs not assigned to: debsig-verify dpkg reassign 311843 dpkg Bug#311843: debsig-verify: Completely breaks installation of standard sarge packages Bug reassigned from package `debsig-verify' to `dpkg'. tags