Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Sigh. On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:59:23PM +, Neil Williams wrote: Using packages to support upstream development is a common problem and this is exactly where things get awkward. No, it is not a *problem*; it is a *method* of doing things. It is not your place (nor mine) to question

Bug#709744: dpkg-source: please document how to make the 3.0 (quilt) format behave (from a maintainer's POV) exactly like the 1.0 non-native format

2013-05-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.10 Severity: wishlist Hi, Before the 3.0 formats came out, there were several patch system thingies that used similar concepts of having a debian/patches directory in which individual patches were stored. I never touched the things, because the packages I

Bug#112325: dpkg-gencontrol: mistakes hurd-i386 for i386

2012-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:24:22 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: (i.e., over a decade ago -- time sure flies). reopen 112325 severity 112325 wishlist On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Wouter

Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:04:00AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi Bernd, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 10:32 +0200 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: I would like to see more flexibility in dpkg-source as to where the effective build depends come from. My use case are (as you might guess)

Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 02:00:04PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, it seems that my idea is not well received; point taken, and I do like the alternative about debian/rules creating debian/control in the clean target. Do. Not. Do. That. Ever. if you do, you risk all kinds of problems,

Bug#557459: dpkg-source: should not fallback to other formats without user intervention

2009-12-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:20:03AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: It has been suggested on IRC that having dpkg-source switch back to native mode if it can't find the .orig tarball was probably a bad idea from the beginning and that it tends to confuse people. However, with the addition of new

Bug#457962: closed by Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#457962: dpkg_1.14.13(m68k/unstable): Missing dependency on IO/String.pm)

2007-12-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 03:27:04PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Yep, this was already known and is the reason of the quick 1.14.14 upload.. Oops -- sorry. -- Lo-lan-do Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#452511: --ignore-missing-info should be the default for now

2007-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.10 Severity: serious Tags: patch Hi, The recent change to check missing shlibdeps files and to error out if not makes some packages insta-buggy where they otherwise wouldn't be. A good example is in libm; there is no shlibdeps file for libm, which makes

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:11:04PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: One of the issue is that tools like sbuild and pbuilder which want to take advantage of the Build-Depends-Indep split needs to know whether dpkg-buildpackage will call debian/rules build or build-arch. It needs to know no such

Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:28:05PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Running debian-rules can always have side effects and can actively rely on them so a --has-target can not be implemented cleanly in make. I am proposing hooking into the logic that ultimately decides that there is no such target