Bug#726520: dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory

2013-11-21 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Guillem, Am Mittwoch, den 16.10.2013, 14:24 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover: However, the missing debian/files file isn't even the cause for the error, it is just another symptom. The actual cause is that *there is no binary package to be built on Arch: amd64* andI would appreciate if

Bug#726520: dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory

2013-10-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.12 Severity: minor Dear dpkg devs, dpkg-genchanges gives a rather unhelpful error message if a package is attempted to be built on a non-supported arch. See what happens when I want to build zsnes, which is Architecture: any-i386, on amd64: $ LANG=C

Bug#726520: Acknowledgement (dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory)

2013-10-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Apparently, I am not the only one who finds this error message unhelpful: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2013-October/027974.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#714609: dpkg and xz compression

2013-07-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Boris, Am Montag, den 01.07.2013, 17:13 +0300 schrieb Boris Pek: Sorry, it is my fault. I have just remembered that tar is used in astromenace.postinst. as far as I understand the issue, xz support has been added to dpkg. That means that dpkg can now extract deb packages that have been

Bug#682659: dpkg-buildflags: Please add -Wall to CFLAGS

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.4.3 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-buildflags Hi, please add -Wall to the CFLAGS returned by dpkg-buildflags. Showing compiler warnings does not hurt, some of them may even reveal serious programming errors and the others are easily ignored. - Fabian

Bug#462361: idea: allow package combinations as alternatives, e.g. a | b + c

2010-05-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 21.05.2010 16:56, schrieb Raphael Hertzog: Such a syntax change would require lots of changes in many places, I really think it's not worth the effort currently. Yes, most probably you are right. Thanks for your response anyway! Cheers, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#562155: dpkg-dev: Format 3.0 (quilt): Strange behaviour when debian/patches/series points to a file in one of the orig-$foo tarballs

2009-12-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.5.5 Severity: normal Hi, consider I am trying to package some software test using the new 3.0 (quilt) package format. Beside the original 'test_1.orig.tar.gz' tarball I want to add another tarball 'test_1.orig-foo.tar.gz' that among others holds a patch against

Bug#462361: idea: allow package combinations as alternatives, e.g. a | b + c

2008-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
if you allready have both xv and ghostscript installed. Yes, I know there's a meta-package for this situation so you might simply depend on 'ghostview | postscript-viewer'. I hope I made my point nevertheless. ;) -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für