Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-11 Thread Carsten Hey
* Aron Xu [2012-02-09 01:22 +0800]: Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if endianness were not something to care about. ... Debian Policy, begin of section 5.6.8: | Depending on context and the

Bug#659505: Switching to identical package for other arch treated as disappearance

2012-02-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2~wipmultiarch Severity: normal I usually build linux-2.6 on amd64, but also test the binaries on an i386 installation. I've been installing with --force-architecture up until now. APT would basically ignore the foreign package; dpkg was also happy to do this

Bug#659506: dpkg.log does not record architecture of affected package

2012-02-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2~wipmultiarch Severity: normal /var/log/dpkg.log identifies packages by name and version, but these are no longer sufficient to distinguish packages on a single system. The architecture must also be included. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

Bug#659506: dpkg.log does not record architecture of affected package

2012-02-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 17:08:49 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2~wipmultiarch Severity: normal /var/log/dpkg.log identifies packages by name and version, but these are no longer sufficient to distinguish packages on a single system. The architecture must also be

Bug#645157: handling of symlinks to external files in dpkg-dev

2012-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 16:37 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I don't see the immediate need for this. It does this with temporary files/dirs that it uses for example when it builds a package. But I don't see why it should do this for non-temporary files... Well, either that or delete the unsafe