Re: [PATCH 4/6] Hook conffile database into dpkg unpack/configure/remove stages

2009-11-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sean, I finally got around to reviewing your patch to maintain the conffile database during unpack/configure/remove stages. I am still worried that the “commit” operation does not seem to be atomic like it should be. Could you look at my description of your patch and let me know where I go

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Goswin von Brederlow | Remove 3.0 (qit) format completly. A full history bloats the source | and a cut down history has no advantage over a plain source. I think this would be a mistake. I'm increasingly considering a full git clone the source of

Re: [PATCH 4/6] Hook conffile database into dpkg unpack/configure/remove stages

2009-11-04 Thread sean finney
hi jonathan, thanks for your feedback on this and the previous patches. before going any further, i'd like to point out that i'm still waiting for feedback from guillem, and i don't plan on doing any further work on this until i hear at least something from him indicating that he's interested

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: I think this would be a mistake. I'm increasingly considering a full git clone the source of my software (in the «preferred form of modification») and so having dpkg able to natively consume and produce

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-04 Thread Joey Hess
I support changing 3.0 (git) to use a bundle. Besides closing the bugs mentioned in this thread, a bundle consists of a simple header + a standard git pack. Since git packs are used as a wire format, this provides better assurance that future versions of git will retain compatability with the

Bug#554488: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source should support -su or -sn for 3.0 format packages

2009-11-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.25 Severity: normal libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl is a package that aggregates several Perl modules from CPAN (each of these is distributed upstream as a .tar.gz) What I currently do is to include these modules within in a tarballs subdirectory