[PATCH] Fix formatting error in documentation

2010-04-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Signed-off-by: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org --- The man page includes the following line $v =item $v-as_string() as there is no empty line before the =item statement. Just using a comma instead of multiple =items is done a few lines before as well. Regards, Ansgar scripts/Dpkg

Re: Bug #340306: Specification draft for signed debs

2012-06-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 06/11/2012 11:26 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: Archive support --- The FTP masters have requested that all signatures are stored in a single ar member of the deb. That member should then contain a flat directory (ie no sub-directories) of signature files, [...]

Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, with wheezy released and development on jessie started the problem with binNMUs for multiarch-enabled packages is back: binNMU'ed packages have different changelog entries and upgrades fail (for example [1]). [1] http://bugs.debian.org/708097 It's quite annoying as the problem is only

Re: Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, [ dropped -release and -wb-team, added 681289@bugs.d.o ] Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 17:04:51 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: The real problem is that these changelog files are primarily intended for human beings. They should live in /usr/share/doc, and their

Re: Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, [ dropped -release and -wb-team ] Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: One problem that that doesn't solve is what to do when a package would be able to borrow its /doc/package directory from another package (using a symlink) but for the changelog and copyright (which gets even

Bug#619131: dpkg: new field in .dsc

2011-03-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
For the override file we also need to know which binaries are udeb's. I suggest using udeb:package in this case (analogous to src:package). Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#653575: dpkg-query: add virtual field for source package and version

2011-12-29 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if dpkg-query could show the source package and source version for a binary, for example for use in the Built-Using field: Built-Using: foo-source (= 1.2) Maybe something like dpkg-query -f='${show:Source-Package} (=

Bug#653575: dpkg-query: add virtual field for source package and version

2012-01-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 17:36:35 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Maybe something like dpkg-query -f='${show:Source-Package} (= ${show:Source-Version})' -W foo-binary I suggested this to Ansgar on IRC

Bug#694630: dpkg-architecture -iany-armel does not work as expected

2012-11-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.9 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture dpkg-archtecture -iany-armel does not work as expected, ie. it returns false on armel: % dpkg-architecture -aarmel -iarmel; echo $? 0 % dpkg-architecture -aarmel -iany-armel; echo $? 1 But returns true for

Bug#694630: dpkg-architecture -iany-armel does not work as expected

2012-11-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 11/28/2012 05:25 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: Precisely because it's the cpu and not the arch, as can be seen from «dpkg-architecture -aarmel -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU». I can well concede that though, that this might not seem intuitive, but then lots of things in dpkg architecture names aren't

Bug#695919: dpkg-source --require-valid-signature can be tricked

2012-12-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.9 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source dpkg-source --require-valid-signature -x gnupg_1.4.12-6.dsc with the attached dsc file will process the gnupg part of the dsc. This is however not covered by the signature. This happens as Dpkg::Control::Hash skips

Bug#695919: dpkg-source --require-valid-signature can be tricked

2012-12-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Meh, forgot the attachment... Ansgar -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 3.0 (native) Source: dpkg Binary: libdpkg-dev, dpkg, dpkg-dev, libdpkg-perl, dselect Architecture: any all Version: 1.16.9 Origin: debian Maintainer: Dpkg Developers debian-d...@lists.debian.org

Bug#695919: dpkg-source --require-valid-signature can be tricked

2012-12-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 12/14/2012 02:51 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: This happens as Dpkg::Control::Hash skips until an empty line: 145 } elsif (m/^-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE/) { 146 $expect_pgp_sig = 1; 147 if ($$self-{'allow_pgp'}) { 148

Bug#756526: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source -x can fail if SIGPIPE is ignored

2014-07-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.10 Severity: normal Hi, dpkg-source -x will fail on certain archives if SIGPIPE is ignored as can happen is some non-interactive uses. The archives need trailing zeroes so that tar exits, but the compressor still has data to write to the pipe. An example can be

Re: reproducible .buildinfo inclusion in the archive and output by dpkg

2015-08-29 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes: together with Lunar we four sad together on the last Saturday of DebConf15 in Heidelberg and discussed the next steps forward to achieve the inclusion of .buildinfo inclusion in the Debian archive and output by dpkg. On the ftpmaster side we

Bug#799046: dpkg-architecture: please mention "target machine" applies to cross-compilers only

2015-09-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.25 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture Hi, I was wondering what the difference between "host machine" and "target machine" is. Clearly the compiler has to build binaries for the target machine. >From dpkg's changelog I understand that "target

Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2017-07-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.24 Severity: important source-only uploads sometimes include a _amd64.buildinfo (or other architecture). This sometimes causes problems as the amd64 buildd upload will include a file using the same name. In particular, it breaks any uploads going to policy queues

Bug#869236: dpkg: include binNMU version in .buildinfo file name

2017-07-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.24 Severity: important For similar reasons as given in #869184, please also include the binNMU version in generated .buildinfo files (as already done in .changes). We recently had a samba upload to security which also got binNMUed as it was built in an unclean

Bug#863350: dupload: please use ftp.security.upload.debian.org for security uploads

2017-05-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dupload Version: 2.8.2 Some time ago we moved the upload queues away from ftp-master.d.o to ftp.upload.d.o. This allowed us to no longer run ftpd directly on ftp-master. The same will hopefully happen to security-master: eventually security-master will no longer run a ftpd, but uploads

Bug#876900: dupload: option to not set permissions for uploads via rsync

2017-09-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dupload Version: 2.8.4 Severity: normal dupload 2.8.4 and 2.9.0 currently use the following rsync options: rsync --partial -zave ssh $options -x -a implies quite a lot: -r: recursive; not wanted -l: copy-symlinks-as-symlinks; not wanted, opposite is needed -p: copy

Re: Bug#839046: debootstrap: enable --merged-usr by default

2018-02-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Guillem Jover writes: > In any case, I looked the other day into implementing the > --map-pathname option for dpkg-query, and I've got most of the code > ready. The problem is that this requires adding support for config > files and config fragments to dpkg-query, which has the additional >

Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2019-06-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 13:12 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > This behaviour is really causing issues for the security-archive so in > > one way or the other there needs to be a solution. Regularly we need > > to fetch the buildd changes and build binary packages, resign them and > > reupload

Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2019-06-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Mattia Rizzolo writes: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 06:29:12PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> The .buildinfo files are referred to in the .changes files; renaming >> them would require updating the .changes file. The .changes files are >> used to upload the security

Bug#930788: creating /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: apt,dselect Severity: normal Hi, [ X-Debbugs-Cc'ed -boot@ for debootstrap ] today I learned that debootstrap as special code to create the file /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt (contents: "apt apt"); this is the function setup_dselect_method in functions. It seems wrong that debootstrap has