Re: dpkg flex-based status file parser, for 35% speedup

2007-08-31 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri August 31 2007 07:54:51 am Ian Jackson wrote: addition of libbz2 as pseudo-essential should not be a big deal, it's quite small, and most of the code is duped already due to it being statically linked. Why are we not using external programs for this ? Does anyone know ? So the

Re: start-stop-daemon can't stop process

2007-08-28 Thread Bruce Sass
[for anyone reading this in the BTS, Ian is responding to http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/08/msg00024.html] On Tue August 28 2007 05:27:52 am Ian Jackson wrote: Bruce Sass writes (start-stop-daemon can't stop process): I have an exim4 daemon (bug #396944) which doesn't stop

Re: start-stop-daemon can't stop process

2007-08-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue August 28 2007 04:38:50 pm Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:12:05PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: So, /usr/sbin/exim4 changed on disk prior to the previous (successful, 2007-07-17) upgrade and it survived a reboot. So what I get from this is: 2007-07-14: exim4 4.67-7

start-stop-daemon can't stop process

2007-08-25 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I have an exim4 daemon (bug #396944) which doesn't stop... # ps aux|grep exim4 102 1685 0.0 0.0 5444 396 ?Ss Jul26 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m # start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid --retry 30 --exec /usr/sbin/exim4 No

Bug#426752: Ubuntu-specific Maintainer: field processing, safety check

2007-05-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed May 30 2007 12:42:07 pm you wrote: If you have any comments regarding our approach we'd of course be happy to hear about them. I don't think it is a good idea to hard-code downstream specific bits into the source... How about creating a framework for hooking code into the build

Re: Adding file permissions to /var/lib/dpkg/*.list

2007-05-05 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, On Fri May 4 2007 02:55:31 pm you wrote: On 04/05/07, Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri May 4 2007 11:41:11 am Conrado Buhrer wrote: Hello all, I would probably be a nice feature to have file permissions added to /var/lib/dpkg/*.list files for several reasons

Bug#117783: acknowledged by developer (doesn't appear to be a bug)

2006-12-12 Thread Bruce Sass
to react within a month. Am I supposed to monitor each of the bugs I submit? Ever heard of CC? I did CC you, a few hours later: --- From: Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: lines in dselect are cut off Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:48:08 -0700 Message

Bug#225882: #225882 - dselect: Some packages missing from list

2006-11-08 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, regarding: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=225882 This report brings up some interesting questions. Does Debian support (as in willing to track down bugs resulting from) the use of stable, testing, unstable, and experimental in one sources.list file? The packages

Re: valgrind/dselect questions

2006-10-28 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, On Thu October 26 2006 09:54, Ian wrote: Bruce Sass writes (valgrind/dselect questions): Figuring it would be a good learning experience to try out the recent patch for bug #395140 I applied it, installed the result, did: dpkg and dselect have some custom memory allocation stuff

should po4a be checked for?

2006-10-25 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/dpkg-1.13.24$ ./debian/rules binary ... Making all in po4a make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/dpkg-1.13.24/build-tree/man/po4a' for man in $(cd ../../../man/po4a ls -d *.[158]); do \ po4a --no-backups --variable srcdir=../../../man/po4a \

valgrind/dselect questions

2006-10-25 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Figuring it would be a good learning experience to try out the recent patch for bug #395140 I applied it, installed the result, did: $ valgrind --tool=massif dselect select # which confirmed less mem used $ dselect select # played around a bit (scrolling through the pkg list,

Re: merging dselect bugs resulting from dpkg -iGROEB

2006-10-24 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue October 24 2006 03:30, Florent wrote: OK, I stand corrected. I would find it a bit weird, though, that someone starts working again on access methods other than APT, because that would sound to me as duplicating work. Duplication is good in this instance. APT has broken in Unstable in

Re: merging dselect bugs resulting from dpkg -iGROEB

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon October 23 2006 06:24, Florent Rougon wrote: I don't think anyone serious still uses a dselect access method other than APT; so IMHO, it is OK to merge these bugs and even tag them as wontfix. wontfix is tempting, but I would not want to discourage future dselect access method

merging dselect bugs resulting from dpkg -iGROEB

2006-10-22 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, As part of my effort to clean up dselect's BTS entries so we can better see just how good (or bad, depending on your perspective) shape dselect is in it has become apparent the seven oldest Normal, Unclassified, Outstanding reports: #6039, #7056, #7181, #8340, #10520, #11800, #12667 [see:

Re: Insane amount of spam in dpkg's BTS...:-(

2006-10-18 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue October 17 2006 23:12, Christian Perrier wrote: Is someone aware of actions taken to bring this to a more acceptable level? For instance, the greylist+spam filtering system that works on alioth, thanks to Pierre Habouzit. There are, Send a report that this bug log contains spam links at

String freeze for dselect

2006-10-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed October 4 2006 23:17, Christian Perrier wrote: Considering the very recent discussions in the maling list, I hereby consider that translatable strings are now frozen in dpkg. That means that I urge you fellow developers to please coordinate with me in case you plan to introduce changes

SVN on Alioth?

2006-09-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon September 25 2006 23:51, Christian Perrier wrote: The repository has been moved back to a SVN repository on Alioth, mostly because most of us felt more comfortable with centralized development, at least for the time things could get organized. Why does

Re: SVN on Alioth?

2006-09-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu September 28 2006 17:08, Guillem Jover wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:58:24 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: On Mon September 25 2006 23:51, Christian Perrier wrote: The repository has been moved back to a SVN repository on Alioth, mostly because most of us felt more comfortable

Re: SVN on Alioth?

2006-09-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu September 28 2006 18:14, Russ Allbery wrote: Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu September 28 2006 17:08, Guillem Jover wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:58:24 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: Why does http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dpkg/ not show any released files, Because

dpkg devel cycle

2006-09-27 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Back when I started using Debian testing was a transitory archive which only existed during the freeze before a release, and DD's complained about having to stop development until the release was made. Creating the permanent Testing archive was intended to fix that problem, but failed

Bug#353116: why is this an important dselect bug?

2006-09-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I can see why #351406 was cloned to dselect... Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:53:46 +0100 From: Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gary Koskenmaki [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rhythmbox: No volume slider, does not play radio stations or library

Bug#21400: this bug is obsolete

2006-09-04 Thread Bruce Sass
[runs dselect, chooses access method - disk, no Distribution top level] --- Enter _main_ binary dir. [] ? /var/cache/apt-build/repository Using `/var/cache/apt-build/repository' as main binary dir. Using `/var/cache/apt-build/repository/Packages.gz' for main. --- I am using Unstable