Re: Upload of dpkg 1.13.23 (Was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Guillem Jover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061012 03:29]: On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:58:39 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:35:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Carry on :-) Ok, there has been one last commit to svn, and I'd like approval before the planned upload for today.

Upload of dpkg 1.13.23 (Was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:58:39 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:35:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Carry on :-) Ok, there has been one last commit to svn, and I'd like approval before the planned upload for today. Attached the diff. And here's both changelogs entries.

Re: Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Esteban Manchado Velázquez writes (Re: Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)): On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:36:16PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: Is the testsuite intended to be run at build time, or manually? My initial idea was manually, mostly because it fits

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes (Re: How are things going?): On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:35:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Carry on :-) Ok, there has been one last commit to svn, and I'd like approval before the planned upload for today. Attached the diff. And here's both changelogs entries. I'm

Re: Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-09 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Hi Nicolas! On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:36:16PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: Hi Esteban, I had a look at the testsuite. It basically fulfill my requirements: * I'm able to read the results of the testsuite * I'm able to write tests Great :-) Just a few things (not really

Re: Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-08 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Esteban, I had a look at the testsuite. It basically fulfill my requirements: * I'm able to read the results of the testsuite * I'm able to write tests Just a few things (not really related to the test environment, but more on the current tests) * can you mention the dependencies of

Re: Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-07 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Hi, On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: [...] I bet for lack of time... all the dpkg developers that I know are reasonable and wouldn't want to throw away the work of someone else if he has taken care to ask for regular review of his work. OK, thanks for your

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:35:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Carry on :-) Ok, there has been one last commit to svn, and I'd like approval before the planned upload for today. Attached the diff. And here's both changelogs entries. debian/changelog: * Require POSIX inside subprocerr in

Re: Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote: Hi people! [...] As I was the one who talked to Steve, I think I should say something :-) The thing that worried me the most was the silence after my proposals or questions on the testing framework. I assume that we mostly agree

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Nicolas François writes (Re: How are things going?): The first patches were applied in the dpkg's repository. This means that the svn version should support packages using Breaks (I mean not reject them, but they will not use the content of these fields). I need to check that the final version

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Re: How are things going?): Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brendan O'Dea writes (Re: How are things going?): Merging changes to dpkg from Ubuntu to Debian seems daft. Why have two repositories? Debian and Ubuntu sometimes have different views about things

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Matt Taggart writes (Re: How are things going? ): Maybe it's time that dpkg become a separate upstream project? I think Debian should continue to regard itself as dpkg upstream. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think overall, Debian needs a proper conversation about revision control systems and source package formats. I think Debian is going to continue using a wide variety of different revision control systems as fit the feelings of individual developers and

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve McIntyre writes (Re: How are things going?): Christian Perrier wrote: There has also been, IIRC, some exchanges with Ian Jackson. Probably more could be done here. OK... Ian, do you have any comments/suggestions to make at this point? Well, I've become more interested in dpkg recently

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Brendan O'Dea writes (Re: How are things going?): Merging changes to dpkg from Ubuntu to Debian seems daft. Why have two repositories? Debian and Ubuntu sometimes have different views about things and I don't think either would be happy necessarily using the same branch. But I agree

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brendan O'Dea writes (Re: How are things going?): Merging changes to dpkg from Ubuntu to Debian seems daft. Why have two repositories? Debian and Ubuntu sometimes have different views about things and I don't think either would be happy necessarily

Re: How are things going?

2006-10-02 Thread Matt Taggart
Ian Jackson writes... Brendan O'Dea writes (Re: How are things going?): Merging changes to dpkg from Ubuntu to Debian seems daft. Why have two repositories? Debian and Ubuntu sometimes have different views about things and I don't think either would be happy necessarily using the same

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:40:07AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:51:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:59:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Since Breaks field here means doesn't complain about the Breaks field,

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-29 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:44AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting Ian's Breaks support merged in, [...] Merging changes to dpkg from Ubuntu to Debian seems daft. Why

Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-09-29 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Hi people! On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:40:55AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: thanks for the interest, *grin* I was just a little worried things had gone quiet; I've been watching the list for a while. But you all seem happy enough with where things are at the moment, and that's cool. I'd

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: Since Breaks field here means doesn't complain about the Breaks field, rather than honors the Breaks field, these changes look ok. As far as *implementing* Breaks, I don't think a new feature of that level should be introduced during a freeze. Couldn't it be

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:59:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Since Breaks field here means doesn't complain about the Breaks field, rather than honors the Breaks field, these changes look ok. As far as *implementing* Breaks, I don't think a new feature of that level

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-28 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:51:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:59:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Since Breaks field here means doesn't complain about the Breaks field, rather than honors the Breaks field, these changes look ok. Argh, I should

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 23:33:48 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: How is dpkg development going atm? I know it's not necessarily a good indicator of activity, but I've not seen much happening on this list. Kind of frozen right now, I had a list of stuff I wanted to get done for etch, but due to

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 21:13:23 +0200, Nicolas François wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting Ian's Breaks support merged in, especially since in my limited understanding it's already present in

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:13:23PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting Ian's Breaks support merged in, especially since in my limited understanding it's already present in Ubuntu and presumably being used there. That doesn't

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:51:26AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: When Scott decided to lower his involvment in March or April, he handed the maintenance to a couple of DD's who, at some moment, involved themselves in dpkg maintenance: -Frank Lichtenheld -Guillem Jover -Brendan O'Dea -myself I

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting Ian's Breaks support merged in, [...] Merging changes to dpkg from Ubuntu to Debian seems daft. Why have two repositories? Pick one, either Debian's or Ubuntu's, I

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Christian Perrier wrote: When Scott decided to lower his involvment in March or April, he handed the maintenance to a couple of DD's who, at some moment, involved themselves in dpkg maintenance: -Frank Lichtenheld -Guillem Jover -Brendan O'Dea -myself Speaking for myself, I was mostly handling

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 23:33:48 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: While I was in Tenerife last week, I met up with Esteban Manchado Velazquez and he told me about his ideas for a testing framework for dpkg. To me as a rank outsider, this sounds like a cool idea, but he was

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 04:23:00 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So I've unblocked it after reviewing the changelog. Thanks. On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:09:26PM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: I've created a diff[2] with the new commited stuff and removed all autogenerated things (I've not removed

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:23:00AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: BTW, with the changes to scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl, does something fix the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir paths when installing this script? Yes, the Makefile fixes all the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir variables during the build. Some

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-26 Thread Christian Perrier
So, I have a couple of questions: Who (if anybody) is working on dpkg at the moment? Is more help needed at the moment? When Scott decided to lower his involvment in March or April, he handed the maintenance to a couple of DD's who, at some moment, involved themselves in dpkg maintenance:

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-26 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: There has also been, IIRC, some exchanges with Ian Jackson. Probably more could be done here. I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting Ian's Breaks support merged in, especially since in my limited understanding it's already present in Ubuntu

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-26 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Christian Perrier wrote: There has also been, IIRC, some exchanges with Ian Jackson. Probably more could be done here. I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting Ian's Breaks support merged in,