Bug#732835: Provide build tools with more information

2013-12-22 Thread Guido Günther
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I't be nice if dpkg-buildpackage would report build information (e.g. things like the name of the generated changes file) to build-tools invoking it. Doing this via a status fd would be nice[1] since we could then implement more nice

Bug#732937: dpkg: fails somewhat regularly on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-12-22 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: src:dpkg severity: important version: 1.17.5 dpkg seems to often fail on kfreebsd-amd64 on unstable (I had not experienced this with wheezy). The error message is E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This is easily recoverable by running the command a second time,

Bug#732937: dpkg: fails somewhat regularly on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-12-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Michael Gilbert wrote: dpkg seems to often fail on kfreebsd-amd64 on unstable (I had not experienced this with wheezy). I can confirm that for kfreebsd-i386. The error message is E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Yeah, and noting else. It's not clear, why there

Bug#732937: dpkg: fails somewhat regularly on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-12-22 Thread Robert Millan
On 22/12/2013 21:53, Axel Beckert wrote: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Yeah, and noting else. It's not clear, why there was an error. This is easily recoverable by running the command a second time, which usually succeeds. Yeah, but it often needs multiple

Bug#732835: Provide build tools with more information

2013-12-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 10:18:32 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: I't be nice if dpkg-buildpackage would report build information (e.g. things like the name of the generated changes file) to build-tools invoking it. Doing this via a status fd would be nice[1] since we could then implement

Bug#732937: dpkg: fails somewhat regularly on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-12-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 21:53:19 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: dpkg seems to often fail on kfreebsd-amd64 on unstable (I had not experienced this with wheezy). I can confirm that for kfreebsd-i386. Ok, this is something new, I had not seen it before, but I can see

Bug#732835: Provide build tools with more information

2013-12-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: Doing this via a status fd would be nice[1] since we could then implement more nice things like progress information (we'd then be able to detect easily which dpkg-buildpackage's steps failed) without parsing the full build output. [1] The

Bug#732937: dpkg: fails somewhat regularly on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-12-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: The problem is that something messes with dpkg's standard output and error, and it fails when doing the fflush() and ferror() check on it in m_output() I think. But this seems to be coming from something lower than dpkg or apt, perhaps a change in