Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Sorry for the late reply. On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:29:58 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Determining a file's type from its extension is weak and specific? I'd say generally, yes. But it also depends on the

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-04-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:29:58 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Determining a file's type from its extension is weak and specific? I'd say generally, yes. But it also depends on the type of file. Tell that to /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.p*. Those are just

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-04-12 Thread Frans Pop
Now that the dust around the major changes in dpkg has settled a bit, I hope that you can find time to take another look at this issue. The blocking issue for us (D-I team) at this point for switching from XC-Package-Type: udeb to Package-Type: udeb is that it increases the size of the control

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-01-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 01:24:33 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008, you wrote: Joey, I don't think that that the Package-Type field ending up in the binary package can be qualified as bloat given that except the filename and the origin of the file, udeb can't be identified as

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-01-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:29:40 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Your continual closusre of this bug report Sorry, but the closure was not intentional, just what was on the Reply-To, and didn't see Frans reopen until later. Also notice you also replyed with the -done CCed. and refusal to listen to us is

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Guillem Jover wrote: Well then there's also the argument that there's no point in having it in the source control either, it could be inferred from the section. But those seem quite weak and specific ways to do so. Determining a file's type from its extension is weak and specific? Tell that to

Processed: Re: Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Reopening as Joey closed it accidentally by using reply-to-all. reopen 452273 Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item Bug reopened, originator not changed. End of message, stopping

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Guillem Jover wrote: There's 278 udebs in the current main Packages file. Each Package-Type field takes 19 bytes, so 5282 bytes of bloat. In comparison the Description field takes 49416 bytes. If you are really concerned about bloat, maybe you could trim those down instead. We are constantly

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 11 January 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Your continual closusre of this bug report [...] That's not correct. I'm afraid you closed it yourself the last time by using reply-to-all and thus including -done. Guillem only replied to your reply and probably also didn't notice -done was still in

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2008-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 452273 thanks On Friday 11 January 2008, you wrote: Given the rationale, I'm closing this bug. Joey, I don't think that that the Package-Type field ending up in the binary package can be qualified as bloat given that except the filename and the origin of the file, udeb can't be

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2007-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.9 Severity: normal Tags: d-i During a build of debian-installer-utils, I got the following warnings: dh_gencontrol -i dpkg-gencontrol: warning: deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item dpkg-gencontrol: warning: deb package with udeb specific field

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2007-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Should we start converting to use Package-Type? Note that doing so now would _add_ the Package-Type header in control files, which I do not think is desired. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2007-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
The actual problem seems to be that XC-Package-Type is not included in %f. Maybe because of the XC- prefix? From a debugging session: %f = ( 'Architecture' = 'all' 'Depends' = 'cdebconf-udeb, di-utils (= 1.18)' 'Description' = 'Execute a shell' 'Installer-Menu-Item' = 95000

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2007-11-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 17:10:39 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: The actual problem seems to be that XC-Package-Type is not included in %f. Maybe because of the XC- prefix? From a debugging session: %f = ( 'Architecture' = 'all' 'Depends' = 'cdebconf-udeb, di-utils (= 1.18)'

Bug#452273: dpkg-gencontrol: incorrect warning deb package with udeb specific field Installer-Menu-Item

2007-11-21 Thread Joey Hess
Guillem Jover wrote: It's not included and has never been, because only the ones with B are. But now it's explicit given that dpkg-gencontrol supports the field. Package-Type should have been XB- from the beginning. That information is pertinent to the binary package and not to the changes