Re: Upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload

2012-02-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Guillem Jover wrote: Despite the circumstances, I've still managed to find some motivation to work on finishing reviewing and fixing code. Thanks for this! Last week I got the bulk of the stuff done, input interfaces, correct in-core db layout, cross-grading working

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal (was: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match)

2012-02-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 16:41:21 +, Ian Jackson wrote: Guillem Jover writes (Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal (was: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match)): [...] But trying to workaround this by coming up with stacks of hacked up solutions

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:43:53 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I was thinking more about this, and I was finally able to put a finger on why I don't like package splitting as a solution. We know from prior experience with splitting packages for large arch-independent data that one of the more

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:43:53 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I was thinking more about this, and I was finally able to put a finger on why I don't like package splitting as a solution. We know from prior experience with splitting packages for large

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 16:32:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: If packages have to be split anyway to cope with the other cases, then the number of new packages which might not be needed otherwise will be even smaller than the predicted amount, at which