Bug#1051085: dpkg: dpkg-db-backup.timer stopped after upgrades

2023-09-02 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.22.0 Severity: normal Upgrading dpkg stops the dpkg-db-backup.timer, which seems rather undesirable, as it the timer remains inactive until the next reboot or until it is started manually: , | $ systemctl status dpkg-db-backup.timer | ● dpkg-db-backup.timer - Daily

Bug#1028523: dpkg-dev: No obvious way to include upstream signature in dpkg-genchanges

2023-01-15 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi Helge, Am 15.01.2023 um 08:41 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 10:14:24PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Am 13.01.2023 um 21:50 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: >> > As you can see, "linuxinfo_4.1.2.orig.tar.xz.asc" is contained in the >> > .d

Bug#1028523: dpkg-dev: No obvious way to include upstream signature in dpkg-genchanges

2023-01-13 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 13.01.2023 um 21:50 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: > Hello Sven, > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:36:47PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Am 13.01.2023 um 21:16 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: >> > Maybe we use the tools differently? >> > >> > Since we use source only

Bug#1028523: dpkg-dev: No obvious way to include upstream signature in dpkg-genchanges

2023-01-13 Thread Sven Joachim
Hello Helge, Am 13.01.2023 um 21:16 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: > Hello Sven, > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Am 12.01.2023 um 11:29 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: >> >> > Package: dpkg-dev >> > Version: 1.21.17 >> > Seve

Bug#1028523: dpkg-dev: No obvious way to include upstream signature in dpkg-genchanges

2023-01-13 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi Helge, Am 12.01.2023 um 11:29 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.21.17 > Severity: normal > > I got a linitian error for my package (linuxinfo) that the upstream > signature is missing and should be put alongside the .orig.tar.xz > during the build. > > This worked,

Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop

2022-02-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2022-02-09 00:43 +, Colin Watson wrote: > Control: reassign -1 dpkg > > [For background, the dpkg output from earlier messages in this bug was: > >> # apt-get -f install >> dpkg: Cycle in triggers found: >> Chain of packages, which triggers might be the culprit: >>

Bug#533639: dselect: beeps on window resize

2022-02-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2022-02-08 22:52 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible > > Hi! > > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 16:16:28 +0200, Piotr Engelking wrote: >> Package: dselect >> Version: 1.15.2 >> Severity: minor > >> 'dselect select' beeps when the terminal window is resized. >> >>

Bug#1001198: dpkg: strange update-alternatives warnings

2021-12-06 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.21.0 I have just upgraded a two months old sid chroot and noticed that update-alternatives issued some strange warnings: , | Setting up util-linux (2.37.2-4) ... | update-alternatives: warning: /etc/alternatives/pager has been changed (manually or by a script);

Bug#994903: remove-on-upgrade breaks packages replacing conffiles by non-conffile

2021-09-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-09-23 00:20 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.20.9 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: Niels Thykier > > Hi, > > the new remove-on-upgrade logic from #822462 breaks the use-case of > replacing a conffile by a non-conffile version. Not only that, it also breaks if

Bug#979997: dpkg: Please fall back to rename if making back-up link fails

2021-01-12 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: tags -1 - patch On 2021-01-12 18:46 +0100, наб wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.20.7.1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > When upgrading the kernel on one of my machines I got hit with > Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-5.10.0-1-amd64_5.10.5-1_amd64.deb

Bug#975896: don't pass unrecognized flags for D

2020-11-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-11-26 12:19 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.20.5 > > as seen in > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=dub=amd64=1.22.0-1; > stamp=1596920730=0 > > Running gdc... > + gdc -Wall -obin/dub -fversion=DubUseCurl -Isource >

Bug#974053: dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink leaves dangling symlink

2020-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-11-09 14:20 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.7 > Severity: normal > > It would be nice to clarify the behavior of > dpkg-maintscript-helper/dir_to_symlink with regards to created > symlinks upon purge operation. It does not do anything special. The package

Bug#970545: dpkg FTBFS: KEY_EVENT undeclared

2020-09-19 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 libncurses-dev 6.2+20200912-1 Control: retitle -2 dpkg and zsh FTBFS: KEY_EVENT undeclared Control: severity -1 normal Control: tags -2 - ftbfs On 2020-09-18 19:29 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 18:26:34 +0200, Sven Joachim wr

Bug#970545: dpkg FTBFS: KEY_EVENT undeclared

2020-09-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 18.09.2020 um 13:43 schrieb Helmut Grohne: > Source: dpkg > Version: 1.20.5 > Severity: serious > Tags: ftbfs > > dpkg FTBFS as of today: > > | g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" > | -DADMINDIR=\"/var/lib/dpkg\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/dpkg\" > |

Bug#963844: libdpkg-perl: unclear deprecation warning from get_build_env_whitelist()

2020-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: libdpkg-perl Version: 1.20.2 Severity: normal I have seen the following warning when running sbuild-update: , | use get_build_env_allowed() instead at /usr/share/perl5/Sbuild/Conf.pm line 1486. ` Which gave me absolutely no clue: instead _of what_ (looking at

Bug#939516: dpkg: debian/rules 'configure' rule does not always recreate configure file

2019-09-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: notfound -1 1.20.0 Control: found -1 1.19.7 On 2019-09-05 14:46 -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.20.0 That version does not exist in Debian. > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > The debian/rules file has a manual rule for the 'configure' file, but this >

Bug#931670: apt uses yellow for warnings

2019-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: merge 844298 -1 Am 09.07.2019 um 15:58 schrieb David Kalnischkies: > Control: reassign dpkg 1.19.7 > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 01:52:05AM -0400, Lady Aleena wrote: >> While I was running apt autoremove, I saw a warning. I did not know it was a >> warning at first because I could not

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

2019-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-06-20 18:19 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > 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 >

Bug#909959: dpkg: should break libapt-pkg5.0 rather than apt

2018-09-30 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.1 Severity: minor The latest dpkg upload has added a Breaks on apt (<< 1.7~b) for --status-fd duplicate removals, but the warnings that could be seen with earlier apt versions actually came from libapt-pkg, as I have also seen them in aptitude. Therefore dpkg should

Bug#894441: dpkg-buildpackage: SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH must ignore bin-nmu changelog entries. Breaks M-A:same

2018-03-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-03-30 15:02 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > [adding 894441@ to CC] > > Hi Jean-Michel, > >> Filled as #894441 >> https://bugs.debian.org/894441 > > Thanks for this. I was just briefly wondering whether this is related to: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/05/msg00011.html It

Bug#886389: dpkg: conffile marked as obsolete after being taken over by different package

2018-01-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-01-05 14:04 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 10:55:50 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2018-01-05 10:44 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> > Package: dpkg >> > Version: 1.19.0.4 >> > Severity: normal >> > >> >

Bug#886389: dpkg: conffile marked as obsolete after being taken over by different package

2018-01-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-01-05 10:44 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.0.4 > Severity: normal > > After switching from rxvt-unicode-256color to rxvt-unicode (see > #848284), dpkg-query reports a conffile as obsolete: > > , > | $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Co

Bug#886389: dpkg: conffile marked as obsolete after being taken over by different package

2018-01-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.0.4 Severity: normal After switching from rxvt-unicode-256color to rxvt-unicode (see #848284), dpkg-query reports a conffile as obsolete: , | $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete$ | [...] | /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt

Bug#872146: dpkg: dpkg --verify complains about /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz

2017-08-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-08-14 17:26 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.24 > Severity: normal > > Something strange is happening here: "dpkg --verify" complains about the > file /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz (a symlink shipped in the cpp-doc > package), but

Bug#872146: dpkg: dpkg --verify complains about /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz

2017-08-14 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.24 Severity: normal Something strange is happening here: "dpkg --verify" complains about the file /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz (a symlink shipped in the cpp-doc package), but only if the package containing it is _not_ given on the commandline. , | $ dpkg -S

Bug#868356: dpkg: integer overflow in deb_version_parse()

2017-07-15 Thread Sven Joachim
sage from dpkg-deb, it is desirable to avoid fuzzy translations, I used the following command to produce the second patch: perl -i -p -CS -e 's/%d\.%d(.*)(dpkg-deb)/%u.%u$1$2/' po/*.po* Cheers, Sven >From 63de6bb3ee8b08537c20cde29342e65e1ca07992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Joachim &

Bug#867327: dpkg: Please drop the dpkg-dev and dselect preinst scripts

2017-07-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Source: dpkg Version: 1.18.24 Severity: minor In ancient times, dpkg-dev and dselect used to symlink their /usr/share/doc directory to dpkg. That was not policy compliant (see #452730), and in dpkg 1.14.15 those symlinks were changed to directories. The preinst scripts removing the symlinks are

Bug#861576: new dpkg colourized output doesn't respect /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable

2017-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-04-30 18:47 -0400, Brad Barnett wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.23 > > Newer versions of dpkg have colourized output. > > I can see the usage case for this, and I can see the value for some. > > However, for others, it is a major detractor. > > One of the issues with the recent

Bug#858331: dpkg -S doesn't work properly with usrmerge

2017-03-21 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: forcemerge 134758 -1 On 2017-03-21 12:11 +, Russell Coker wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.23 > Severity: normal > > # dpkg -S /usr/lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-232.so > dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern > /usr/lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-232.so > # dpkg -S

Bug#845436: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage leaves spurious debian/files in source tree

2017-02-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-02-07 14:41 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 12:23:20 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Package: dpkg-dev >> Version: 1.18.15 >> Severity: minor > >> Run: dpkg-buildpackage -S -d -nc >> >> Watch this: >> >> tglase@tglase-nb:~/squirrel-sql $ svn st >> ?

Bug#846624: debconf: invalid version in maintainer script

2016-12-02 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: forcemerge 844701 -1 On 2016-12-02 18:30 +, Colin Watson wrote: > Control: reassign -1 dpkg > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:45:23PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >> debconf seems to have a broken version number, failing in maintainer >> scripts. > > And yet 1.5.58~ is clearly a

Bug#844430: dpkg: dpkg-shlibdeps failing due to /usr/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 symlink

2016-11-15 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: reassign -1 dpkg-dev Control: forcemerge 843073 -1 On 2016-11-15 17:22 +, Wookey wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.10 > Severity: normal > > I built a large package (mythtv) with this recipie: > git clone https://github.com/MythTV/packaging -b fixes/0.28 > cd packaging/deb >

Bug#844298: dpkg: bold yellow is unreadable with light background

2016-11-14 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.14 The "warning" keyword in dpkg and other programs is displayed in bold yellow, which is unreadable with a light background. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')

Bug#843429: dpkg: /usr/share/dpkg/triplettable is missing

2016-11-06 Thread Sven Joachim
v (or more precisely libdpkg-perl) as well. Attached is a patch to forbid the package combinations that you have now and which don't work. Cheers, Sven >From 8a23c2485c919e273dd95fc0c4988ee193a9707c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016

Bug#842004: dpkg: segfaults installing safe-rm

2016-10-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.10 Severity: normal Installing the safe-rm package in a freshly bootstrapped chroot where /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin (the merged-/usr feature implemented in debootstrap 1.0.85) causes dpkg to segfault. , | # apt-get install safe-rm | [...] | Selecting

Bug#829546: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage(1) mentions wrong user configuration file

2016-07-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.8 Severity: minor Tags: patch The dpkg-buildpackage manpage mentions the user configuration file buildflags.conf rather than buildpackage.conf. >From 73ef2abc22c21769776ae7dc37911f57fbb8e049 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>

Bug#829542: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage misses import of Dpkg::Control::Info

2016-07-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: severity -1 grave On 2016-07-04 08:38 +0200, Ferenc Wágner wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.18.8 > Severity: normal > > dpkg-buldpackage -B reports: > > Can't locate object method "new" via package "Dpkg::Control::Info" > (perhaps you forgot to load "Dpkg::Control::Info"?) at >

Bug#827265: dpkg: stopped honoring COLUMNS

2016-06-14 Thread Sven Joachim
e man page > still mentions it. It is supposed to work, but due to a bad check it doesn't. Here is a patch that works for me. Cheers, Sven >From de0f3c1aa5495a961f62fa23aeee08bbfe182e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:

Bug#826334: dget: removes existing dir by default without asking

2016-06-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: notfound -1 1.17.27 Control: tags -1 - unreproducible moreinfo On 2016-06-05 00:49 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo > > Hi! > > On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 17:43:41 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> Control: reassign -1

Bug#821025: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps computes bogus dependency for libtinfo5-udeb

2016-04-14 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.4 Severity: important User: d...@packages.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-shlibdeps When working on a prospective libtinfo5-udeb package (see #819397) we discovered that on architectures which build ncurses multilib libraries, the libtinfo5-udeb packages gains a bogus

Bug#794688: marked as pending

2015-08-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-08-06 04:16 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Control: tag 794688 pending Hi! Bug #794688 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/diff/?id=629f067

Bug#794688: dpkg: documents --predep-packages, but accepts --predep-package

2015-08-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.2 While working on the German translation, I noticed that dpkg documents the --predep-packages option. However, dpkg does not accept this option, rather it wants --predep-package (which is more logical since it outputs information about a single package at most). --

Bug#794693: dpkg --dry-run -i is broken in 1.18.2

2015-08-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: merge 55364 -1 On 2015-08-05 20:27 +0200, Roderich Schupp wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.2 Severity: normal I did this... $ dpkg --no-act -i libkactivities-dev_4.13.3-1_amd64.deb dpkg: could not open log '/var/log/dpkg.log': Permission denied (Reading database ...

Bug#785937: dpkg-dev: spurious dpkg-gensymbols warnings after #PACKAGE# substitution

2015-05-20 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.0 Severity: normal User: d...@packages.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-gensymbols When building ncurses, I noticed quite a few dpkg-gensymbols warnings à la debian/libfoo/DEBIAN/symbols doesn't match completely debian/libfoo.symbols after upgrading dpkg-dev to 1.18.0.

Bug#770301: dpkg: fails to install second arch of Multi-Arch:same packages with Provides/Conflicts/Replaces:virtualpackage

2014-11-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-20 16:51 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 11:43:15 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.21 Severity: important User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: multiarch dpkg fails to configure a second architecture of this package

Bug#766758: partially installed packages (triggers pending) after upgrade

2014-10-27 Thread Sven Joachim
I'm another person observing the problem, after a routine upgrade shared-mime-info and xboard ended up in status triggers-pending and triggers-awaited, respectively. Attached is the part of dpkg.log from the upgrade, as you can see shared-mime-info's trigger never got processed. 2014-10-27

Bug#766311: update-alternatives, german translation: im manueller Modus bereitstellen

2014-10-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-22 19:08 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 18:49:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-10-22 08:46 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 22 oct 14, 08:23:27, Oliver Grimm wrote: Package: update-alternatives Version: dpkg Severity: minor Tags: l10n applying

Bug#746306: dpkg: CVE-2014-0471 fix introduces the vulnerability into squeeze

2014-04-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-29 12:27 +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: On 29 April 2014 08:11, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: [...] 2. Revert the patch and add versioned depdendencies against the working patch package. This might require some dist-upgrade tests, though. 3. Fix the patch to

Bug#746271: Misinterprets dstat's versioned dependency on python:any

2014-04-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-28 17:49 +0200, Andras Korn wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.7 Severity: normal Hi, I tried to install dstat on a relatively recent sid system: What does relatively recent mean? # apt-get -u install dstat [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: dstat 0

Bug#745592: dpkg: cron job complains about missing /var/lib/dpkg/arch

2014-04-23 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.7 Severity: normal I have just received a mail from the daily cron job: , | /etc/cron.daily/dpkg: | cp: der Aufruf von stat für „/var/lib/dpkg/arch“ ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ` In English that would be cp: cannot stat

Bug#731484: dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6

2013-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-05 22:20 +0100, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.3 Severity: normal When building C++ projects using debhelper within an up-to-date sid cowbuilder these days, i often get the following message during dh_shlibdeps: dh_makeshlibs dh_shlibdeps

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-31 14:13 +0200, Nick Black wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.10 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, You can seem some initial details here: https://www.sprezzatech.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=710 Hi there. I have two packages, apt and gir1.2-gtk-3.0, either of which when

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-31 15:26 +0200, Nick Black wrote: Sven Joachim left as an exercise for the reader: What does apt-cache policy apt print? [skynet](0) $ apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.9.7.8-SprezzOS1 Candidate: 0.9.7.8-SprezzOS1 Version table: 0.9.7.8-SprezzOS1 0

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-31 19:18 +0200, Nick Black wrote: Sven Joachim left as an exercise for the reader: Is it possible that the package you installed locally is different from the one on http://www.sprezzatech.com/apt/, despite having the same version number? Compare your output with what I get here

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-31 20:56 +0200, Nick Black wrote: Sven Joachim left as an exercise for the reader: Well, I don't either. If I find time in the next days I may add the SprezzOS repo to my apt sources in a throwaway chroot to try and reproduce this problem, unless somebody beats me

Bug#698869: dpkg-shlibdeps useless dependency message is mistranslated in ru

2013-01-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-01-24 19:41 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: (please keep the -l10n-russian list CC'ed) Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (w...@wrar.name): Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.9 Severity: normal Tags: l10n msgid package could avoid a useless dependency if %s was not linked against %s (it

Bug#698745: dpkg breaks other packages during installation of a package

2013-01-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-01-23 12:35 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 03:40:34 +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.9 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss I doubt this is a problem in dpkg, otherwise this should have shown up early on. From the

Bug#698745: dpkg breaks other packages during installation of a package

2013-01-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-01-23 19:58 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org): I'll check this further and most probably reassign to the other packages. And probably lower the bug severity, as IMHO, grave (or any RC severity) is overflated. Well, serious might be correct,

Bug#681243: dpkg: fails to fail when different packages have same file as directory and symlink

2012-07-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-12 07:25 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:41:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: That's not actually an accurate description; dpkg has no way of knowing which of the packages tcl-dev/stable and tk-tile, if any, ships /usr/include/tcl as a directory. The dpkg

Bug#681243: dpkg: fails to fail when different packages have same file as directory and symlink

2012-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-11 18:53 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.7 The file /usr/include/tcl is a directory or a symbolic link depending on the order of installation of the packages tk-tile 0.8.2-2.2 and tcl-dev 8.5.0-2. See #612264 on that topic. This can be reproduced quite

Bug#681243: dpkg: fails to fail when different packages have same file as directory and symlink

2012-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
retitle 681243 dpkg: warn when different packages have same file as directory and symlink merge 406715 681243 thanks On 2012-07-11 19:07 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-11 18:53 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.7 The file /usr/include/tcl is a directory

Bug#681243: dpkg: fails to fail when different packages have same file as directory and symlink

2012-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-11 21:18 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:07:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-11 18:53 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: In my opinion, regardless of the order in which these two packages are installed, dpkg should fail to install the second package

Bug#681243: dpkg: fails to fail when different packages have same file as directory and symlink

2012-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-11 21:47 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:44:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-11 19:07 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-11 18:53 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: In my opinion, regardless of the order in which these two packages are installed, dpkg

Bug#681243: dpkg: fails to fail when different packages have same file as directory and symlink

2012-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-11 22:57 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: Please have a look at this scenario : apt-get -y -t stable install tcl-dev apt-get -y -t stable install tk-tile apt-get -y -t unstable install tcl-dev The first and second commands succeed. The third command fails with this :

Bug#676822: dpkg: needs error message / help for 'Multi-Arch: allowed' packages on un-multiarched systems

2012-06-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-09 18:39 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote: package: dpkg version: 1.16.4.1 severity: important user: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags: multiarch Hi, wine is now making use of the 'Multi-Arch: allowed' feature to provide i386 dependencies for an amd64 virtual

Bug#676684: dpkg: trigger related changes break update-menus

2012-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.4 The trigger-related changes in 1.16.4 have a rather nasty side effect. Running update-menus in maintainer scripts (as done by dh_installmenu, for instance) no longer processes menu's triggers: , | # dpkg --unpack iceape_2.7.5-1_i386.deb | (Reading database ...

Bug#551323: [SCM] dpkg's main repository branch, master, updated. 1.16.2-81-g3d5278b

2012-04-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-14 09:17 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit a354992c67411ed10499786012701faa33ed8565 Author: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org Date: Sat Apr 14 04:26:52 2012 +0200 dpkg-deb: Add epoch when needed to built package

Bug#668045: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps breaks builds of mplayer2 (at least) in a powerpc system

2012-04-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-08 16:58 +0200, Rogério Brito wrote: , | (...) | dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/mplayer2.subsvars debian/mplayer2/usr/bin/mplayer | dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /lib/libncurses.so.5 (used by debian/mplayer2/usr/bin/mplayer). ` I am not really

Bug#659782: does not cope with multiarch packages being installed

2012-03-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-02-13 19:46 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 07:27:18PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: popcon actually uses: dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} ${package}\n' and dpkg -L $pkg What does that give on your system? dpkg-query with those options does not output

Bug#640852: dpkg: Incorrect wording of advisory message deselected

2011-09-08 Thread Sven Joachim
forcemerge 231089 640852 thanks On 2011-09-08 00:27 +0200, Peter Flynn wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.0~ubuntu7 Severity: minor Tags: l10n The message issued at each package installation says: Selecting previously deselected package packagename The word deselected should read

Bug#638291: dpkg: Hardlinks problem with conffiles

2011-08-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-08-23 15:10 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: Thanks, this was very helpful indeed. After reading that, the only pitfall I fell in was that git does not preserve hardlinks, so I needed to handle that in build-hook/clean-hook targets. Right, I

Bug#638291: dpkg: Hardlinks problem with conffiles

2011-08-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-08-21 22:12 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: Can you also turn your testcase in a patch against pkg-tests.git? Once I have acquainted myself with the testsuite, probably yes. Might take a few days, I have other things to to as well. You

Bug#560070: Fix for #560070 broken by debhelper 8.9.4

2011-08-07 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi folks, with this change from dpkg-dev git: , | * dpkg-buildpackage no longer exports the compiler flags. Closes: #560070 | Packages must directly call dpkg-buildflags to retrieve them. ` and the following from debhelper 8.9.4: , | * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set

Bug#636352: dpkg: no option to deretmine multiarch architecture

2011-08-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-08-03 13:11 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: Excerpts from Jonathan Nieder's message of Wed Aug 03 12:54:12 +0200 2011: Michal Suchanek wrote: It's possible to take some random binary which is likely to be native (eg. /bin/sh), run ldd on it, and parse the output to determine what

Bug#631808: Package fails to upgrade; unable to create `/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo.dpkg-new'

2011-06-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-27 18:29 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:01:20 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-27 13:43 +0200, Roger Broadbent wrote: After a little further investigation, it appears that before upgrade, I had no packages that included messages in LC_MESSAGES

Bug#631299: dpkg: upgrade to multiarch packages removed locally diverted files

2011-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-22 19:56 +0200, Daniel Stone wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.0.3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss I have pretty much the entirety of the X stack diverted through dpkg-divert so I can keep package dependencies, but still run all my own

Bug#631299: dpkg: upgrade to multiarch packages removed locally diverted files

2011-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-22 21:10 +0200, Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:50:40PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: This is bad indeed. However, I am unable to reproduce this behavior. Could you please send your /var/log/dpkg.log (compress it first) and the output of dpkg-divert --list

Bug#630996: dpkg-dev: dpkg-gensymbols.1 should document comment syntax

2011-06-19 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.0.3 Severity: normal It is useful to write comments in symbols files, but the dpkg-gensymbols manpage does not document how to do this. From the code in SymbolFile.pm it can be deduced, but to the naive user it might not be so obvious that the comment marker must

Bug#620312: marked as pending

2011-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
Author: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de Date: Mon May 2 12:14:22 2011 +0200 German dpkg translation update Update to 1016t. Change translation of downgrade messages (Closes: #620312). diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 4136af8..bc414e9 100644 --- a/debian

Bug#620312: (forw) Bug#620312: dpkg: translation DE: deaktualisiert

2011-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 01.05.2011 um 12:29 schrieb Jonas Stein: So my vote is to switch to durch eine ältere Version ersetzt. That sounds well. If it is too long one could think of reducing it to durch ältere Version ersetzt but i think Raphaels suggestion is better. The messages mention the precise

Bug#620312: (forw) Bug#620312: dpkg: translation DE: deaktualisiert

2011-04-01 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 01.04.2011 um 18:57 schrieb Wolfgang Schweer: On Fr, 01 Apr 2011, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: #: src/archives.c:1369 #, c-format msgid downgrading %.250s from %.250s to %.250s. msgstr %.250s wird von %.250s zu %.250s deaktualisiert. #: src/archives.c:1374 #, c-format msgid Will not

Bug#610991: [PATCH] debian/control: add install-info to dpkg Depends

2011-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-25 09:08 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Julien Cristau wrote: In other words, how about something like this patch? I don't think that's a good idea at this point. A year ago, maybe. One issue Sven mentioned on irc is that an unknown number of packages

Bug#610991: apt-get install udev removes emacs

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi, I wonder whether the Breaks against the emacs2[12] packages need to be taken out as well. In a chroot the upgrade process removes emacs and its dependencies: , | # LANG=C apt-get install udev | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state

Bug#610991: [PATCH] debian/control: add install-info to dpkg Depends

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-24 23:38 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Rather than forcing the removal or upgrade of various info browsers before dpkg, let dpkg provide the install-info functionality for another release. Other packages will still depend on install-info directly so the dependency can be dropped

Bug#605719: dpkg-mergechangelogs complains about urgency=low

2010-12-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-02 18:52 +0100, Joey Hess wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.6 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-mergechangelogs j...@gnu:~/src/taskselgit stash apply dpkg-mergechangelogs: warning: .merge_file_qmEqOI(l1365): bad key-value after `;': `urgency=low ' LINE: tasksel

Bug#603906: dpkg: start-stop-daemon not recognizing options when invoked from logrotate

2010-11-18 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 603906 syslog-ng thanks On 2010-11-18 12:18 +0100, Radek Antoniuk wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.5 Severity: normal I get from cron: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option '--no-caps' Try 'start-stop-daemon --help' for more information. error:

Bug#588339: sync/fsync in dpkg

2010-10-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-21 19:14 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Ken Bloom wrote: And what mount options are you using? If you're using defaults, /etc/mtab (and therefore the mount command) won't know what the default values are, but you can check /proc/mounts which will include the data= mount option.

Bug#588339: sync/fsync in dpkg

2010-10-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-21 02:05 +0200, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: The version you're using in Bug #588254 is the first version of dpkg() that uses sync(). What I'd like to establish is whether Linus and friends have fixed fsync() so that it's significantly faster than sync(). It sounded like that was

Bug#598473: dpkg: [INTL:vi] Vietnamese program translation update

2010-09-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-29 12:05 +0200, Clytie Siddall wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.5 Tags: l10n patch Severity: wishlist The updated Vietnamese translation for the program file: translated and submitted by: Clytie Siddall Vietnamese Free-Software Translation Team Some queries: 1.

Bug#591993: litters dpkg-tmp files after unpack error (file conflict)

2010-08-12 Thread Sven Joachim
nothing, and returns a success status. So foo.dpkg-tmp is left on the system and needs to be unlinked. The attached patch seems to work for me. From 1ccac648e7f3a25f20e619beecd1c91f5684a28f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:40:59 +0200 Subject

Bug#590854: dpkg: update-alternatives cycles forever for some packages

2010-07-29 Thread Sven Joachim
severity 590854 grave thanks On 2010-07-29 19:05 +0200, Dietz Proepper wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8 Severity: important Hi, with current dpkg I have a strage problem - during install of some packages i.e. fakeroot or heirloom-mailx, update-alternatives starts to write very large

Bug#544884: E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libgcc1

2010-07-27 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 544884 apt forcemerge 353290 544884 thanks On 2010-07-27 13:15 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: reassign 544884 dpkg thanks afaics the error message comes from dpkg. I can't see anything wrong with the libgcc1 package and cannot reproduce this myself. On 03.09.2009 16:17, Brice

Bug#575891: /var/lib/dpkg/info metadata being eaten.

2010-03-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-30 09:31 +0200, Trent W. Buck wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: important Sometimes files in /var/lib/dpkg/info aren't created when (re)installing packages with aptitude. I became concerned that postinstall scripts weren't being run: first /usr/bin/crontab

Bug#570031: dselect constantly marks libunwind7/-dev for installation for no good reason

2010-02-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-16 00:32 +0100, Zlatko Calusic wrote: Package: dselect Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: normal Although NOTHING depends on libunwind7 and libunwind7-dev, as soon as I run update in dselect, those two packages are silently marked for installation. That is because these packages are

Bug#562799: /usr/bin/dpkg is installed with 000 permission

2009-12-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-28 07:48 +0100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 371824 Dec 23 03:26 /usr/bin/dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i dpkg_1.15.5.5_i386.deb [sudo] password for cameron: (Reading database ... 290683 files and

Bug#408525: marked as pending

2009-12-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-02 19:00 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:53:57 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-11-22 20:53 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=b909dc4 Thanks for improving the messages, but I wonder whether

Bug#408525: marked as pending

2009-12-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-22 20:53 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: tag 408525 pending thanks Hello, Bug #408525 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=b909dc4

Bug#555824: dpkg removed a package when told to upgrade it

2009-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-11 22:46 +0100, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.4 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Hello. I had next packages installed on my system: perl-base, perl, perl-modules, perl-doc (all from current unstable, 5.10.1-7). -8- sudo

Bug#555824: dpkg removed a package when told to upgrade it

2009-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
Could you upload your packages somewhere? I would like to reproduce the problem. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#546577: Set DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME to the script name in maintainer scripts environment

2009-09-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-14 10:38 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.4 Severity: wishlist Please export DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME in the environment of maintainer scripts, it should contain the name of the maintainer script (prerm, postrm, preinst, postinst, config) that is currently

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