Re: Typos in dpkg man pages

2008-03-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Guillem, On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:05:02AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 17:42:54 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 06:36:35AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:34:28 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > > #:../../man/dp

Re: sourcev3 branch - quilt based source package

2008-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > We're approaching a state where it could be merged. What's left is: > - update entirely the dpkg-source manual page > - copy upstream tarballs in the extraction directory for > all formats (and take it the relevant part out of the Format: 1.0 cod

Re: [PATCH] initial implementation of debconf frontend for conffile conflicts

2008-03-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Sean Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > +Template: dpkg/promptconfaction > +Type: select > +_Choices: Install the package maintainer's version, Keep the currently > installed version, Show the differences between the current and new versions, > Invoke a shell to investigate Could this be spl

[PATCH] add package name and centralize "reason" printing in promptconfaction()

2008-03-16 Thread Sean Finney
the promptconfaction() function now takes a first parameter of the package name. in a future debconf interface, it may be helpful to have this (if we decide to register the questions per package/conffile). at the least, it can provide a little more information to the user via debconf, where the p

[PATCH] initial implementation of debconf frontend for conffile conflicts

2008-03-16 Thread Sean Finney
when available, dpkg will now spawn a debconf-based frontend (which can be found in /usr/share/dpkg/dpkg-promptconf.sh) for resolving conffile conflict see TODO.debconf for a list of open questions and/or possible issues. --- TODO.debconf | 70 +++ debi

dpkg with debconf support for conffile conflicts

2008-03-16 Thread sean finney
hey everyone, (please continue to cc me) yet another itch i've been wanting to scratch for a while... having debconf support in dpkg. i've made a proof of concept[1], the patches for which i'll be posting to this thread shortly. there are still some open questions and issues with the impleme

Re: Typos in dpkg man pages

2008-03-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-03-16 05:05 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 17:42:54 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: >> > > #: ../../man/start-stop-daemon.8:192 >> > > -"specify a group by appending a B<:>, then the group or gid in the same >> > > way " >> > > +"specify a group by appending a B<:>, th

Re: sourcev3 branch - quilt based source package

2008-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >I pushed the last (functional) changes that I wanted to have in the > >sourcev3 branch: a module handling a format named "3.0 (quilt)" which > >is wig&pen based. I made the choice to directly use qu