Bug#356408: Addition

2006-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Jiří Paleček wrote: I forgot to describe the testcase: Try installing it, then remove, then delete /etc/test/test.conf, then install again. This has always been a feature. An administrator can remove a conffile and dpkg should respect this local change (a removal is

Bug#338863: failure: ... died from signal 11. Compiling eclipse and using make-jpkg

2006-05-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 09 May 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made more test. The failure only happens when I execute dpkg-buildpackage inside fakeroot. As root all works fine. Please give the version of fakeroot that you're using. But this bug should most probably be reassigned to fakeroot. Please

Bug#375749: tar: -: file name read contains nul character

2006-06-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Bob Tanner wrote: On Tuesday 27 June 2006 17:04, you wrote: dpkg-1.13.22$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -sa snip dh_builddeb -a dpkg-deb: building package `dpkg' in `../dpkg_1.13.22_i386.deb'. tar: -: file name read contains nul character dpkg-deb: building package

Bug#378340: dpkg-dev: no support for XB-Python-Version yet?

2006-07-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, On Sun, 16.07.2006 at 19:06:58 +1000, Brendan O'Dea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:19:45PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field `Xb-Python-Version' in input data in package's

Bug#428507: dpkg: The error in package upgrading if the old version contains symlinks.

2007-06-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
severity 428507 normal thanks On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: grave Please don't inflate the severity without good reasons. If the old version of the package contains symlink, and the new version tries to save a directory into the

Bug#430367: Integrate support of a newer dpkg-shlibdeps working at the symbol level

2007-06-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
$packagebuilddir = 'debian/tmp'; + +my $sourceversion; +my $stdout; +my $oppackage; +my $compare = 1; # Bail on missing symbols by default +my $output; +my $debug = 0; + +sub version { +printf _g(Debian %s version %s.\n), $progname, $version; + +printf _g( +Copyright (C) 2007 Raphael Hertzog

Bug#430958: dpkg should call fsync() before rename()

2007-06-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Russell Coker wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: normal Below is part of the output of stracing dpkg when installing a package. As you can see it opens the file without O_SYNC and renames it without calling fsync() first. This means that a reboot during

Bug#430367: Integrate support of a newer dpkg-shlibdeps working at the symbol level

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
= 1; # Bail on missing symbols by default +my $output; +my $debug = 0; + +sub version { +printf _g(Debian %s version %s.\n), $progname, $version; + +printf _g( +Copyright (C) 2007 Raphael Hertzog. +); + +printf _g( +This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2

Bug#430367: Integrate support of a newer dpkg-shlibdeps working at the symbol level

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: I would give Raphael commit rights to the repository with the understanding that he limits himself to the branch integrating his work for now (I really see no need for technical measures enforcing that, we are all grown-ups, right?) Sure, I have

Bug#431597: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't parse include in ld.so.conf

2007-07-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: FWIW, this is fixed in the new dpkg-shlibdeps that I'm preparing (which supports per-symbol dependencies). The code is in a branch on SVN: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dpkg/branches/dpkg-shlibdeps-buxy/scripts/?rev=0sc=0 So wait a bit until

Bug#435126: dpkg-source please ignore vcs dirs for native packages too

2007-08-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
repository. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ From 854f7973ba2ca50123b64ddc60adac04c61bde43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:18:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dpkg

Bug#281057: Ping!

2007-08-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Egmont, On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Egmont Koblinger wrote: During these 2 years no valuable comments arrived from any Debian/Dpkg developers. I wonder why... Isn't there anyone caring about this bug? (Is there anyone caring about Dpkg at all?) Or you simply lack developer resources? (Well,

Bug#432893: Processed: severity of 432893 is important

2007-08-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Kurt Roeckx wrote: severity 432893 serious thanks On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:42:03AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.7 severity 432893

Bug#432893: Processed: severity of 432893 is important

2007-09-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Filipus Klutiero wrote: I don't see why I should not change the severity of a report against a package I'm not maintaining if the severity looks incorrect and the maintainance team didn't state anything about the severity. If you were basing that on something, please

Bug#441904: dpkg: [update-alternatives]: Please add a machine-readable variant of --display

2007-09-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Frank Küster wrote: We had to fix some older alternatives breakage from a package we took over, and used update-alternatives --display to see whether we needed to do anything. Unfortunately, # [EMAIL PROTECTED] update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin xdvi.bin -

Bug#423679: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps fails when libraries of multiple architectures are in the path

2007-09-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 13 May 2007, Sam Hartman wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.25 Severity: normal I have an i386 system with both i386 and amd64 libraries in /etc/ld.so.conf. This is useful because it makes it easier to run amd64 binaries. Modern ld.so will just skip libraries of architecture

Bug#445852: dpkg-buildpackage: fails with perl errors

2007-10-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: All'incirca Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:16:21 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] sembrerebbe aver scritto: These don't look like perl errors, but like shell errors. Somehow the perl script gets executed as shell script. Do you have dpkg-cross

Bug#440841: dpkg-dev: source package gpg verification doesn't restrict valid keys to debian-keyring

2007-10-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Sami Liedes wrote: However, it still fails to do what you describe: The .dsc can be signed by *anyone* whose key I happen to have in my keyring, not only by the person in the Maintainer: field, without giving any clue to whose signature the .dsc has. I can't think what

Bug#440841: dpkg-dev: source package gpg verification doesn't restrict valid keys to debian-keyring

2007-10-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Sami Liedes wrote: Sorry, signature is about making sure you can identify who is the author of the source package. It's written nowhere than only DD should be able to sign source packages. No, but it fails to do that either. It doesn't verify that it's signed by the

Bug#20471: patch to check rdepends on unpack

2007-10-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Ian Jackson wrote: tags 20471 + patch thanks I have prepared and tested a change that fixes this problem. It's available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/git/dpkg/dpkg.bugfixes/ as the branch bug20471 Please either attach a copy of the patch or use

Bug#432893: Bug#443334: policy: postinst abort-remove state.

2007-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (policy: postinst abort-remove state.): prerm remove can be called only from unpacked, config-failed and installed. So Kurt is correct to say that policy is wrong to say it remains installed since the package might not be

Bug#20471: patch to check rdepends on unpack

2007-11-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Ian Jackson wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#20471: patch to check rdepends on unpack): I just did that locally and attached is the corresponding patch (created by git-format-patch for easy inclusion). I adjusted the commit log, the changelog and fixed some

Bug#452013: Bug#452012: Path.pm exits subroutine via last

2007-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Exiting subroutine via last at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Path.pm line 52. On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Joey Hess wrote: dpkg-gencontrol -plibaa-bin -ldebian/changelog -isp -Tdebian/libaa-bin.substvars -Pdebian/libaa-bin dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
severity 452022 wishlist thanks On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.8 Severity: serious Huh ?! I know it's important for you, but that doesn't make it RC. problem: it potentially breaks all unofficial architectures, as the symbols for those

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Even if it is not important for you that doesn't give you the right to ignore the problem as you did until now. We've had only one unconclusive IRC discussion, that's not really ignoring the problem. And I still believe, you're over exagerating the

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Though it's worth asking ourselves if it would make sense to have an intermediary fallback between debian/*.symbols.arch and debian/*.symbols that would be debian/*.symbols.kernel. While it will fixes the problem due to the variation of the

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The issue is that some supplementary symbols are exported due to libtool working differently with C++ libs for apparently no good reasons. It is not really armel-specific (except for the fact that armel generated supplementary symbols that should

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Please read the bug log again. The supplementary symbols are not the same on the different architectures, which causes some architectures to have missing symbols compared to some others. In which case it doesn't make sense to have a common

Bug#452226: dpkg-dev: new dpkg-shlibdeps breaks kdebase/experimental

2007-11-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
reassign 452226 kdebase 4:3.96.0-1 retitle 452226 FTFBS due to missing dependency information thanks Hi, On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, brian m. carlson wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.9 Severity: serious File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps Justification: breaks unrelated packages (through

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: On armel architecture, the symbol differences have usually been inlined softfloat symbols being exported. Which is additional symbols and would thus not break symbol checking (if I understood correctly). Yes. What is more worrying is the lack of

Bug#452022: dpkg-dev: please ignore symbols differences on non-official architectures

2007-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Unfortunately I don't really like this idea because sbuild doesn't keep environment variables, and I don't really want to patch sbuild every time I want to update it instead of using the .deb package directly from debian-admin. This is surely

Bug#452262: dpkg-shlibdeps: Undefined subroutine main::capit.

2007-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Sebastian Harl wrote: When running dpkg-shlibdeps (with the -d command line option) from debian/rules of one of my packages, it aborts with the following error message: Undefined subroutine main::capit called at /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps line 62. Thanks for the report,

Bug#452318: dpkg-dev: new dpkg-shlibdeps spews insane amount of warnings

2007-11-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Sune Vuorela wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.9 Severity: normal When building kdebase - after using quite some time to get --ignore-missing-info to go thru the build system, I now get a insane unreadable amount of warnings. The only thing it does is cluttering

Bug#452339: dpkg-dev: fails to parse some shlibs files

2007-11-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.9 Severity: serious From my build log: dh_compress -pkzenexplorer -X .dcl -X .docbook -X -license -X .tag -X .sty -X .el dh_fixperms -pkzenexplorer dh_makeshlibs -pkzenexplorer dh_installdeb -pkzenexplorer

Bug#452339: dpkg-dev: fails to parse some shlibs files

2007-11-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: No associated package found for /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4 dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: No dependency information found for libusb-0.1.so.4 (used by debian/kzenexplorer/usr/bin/kzenexplorer). Looking up shlibs dependency of libusb-0.1.so.4 provided by ''

Bug#452511: About dpkg-shlibdeps checks

2007-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ CCing #452511 as I provide an explanation of why we shouldn't change back to --ignore-missing-info by default without careful consideration ] On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Damn I wanted to answer to that, and forgot: I don't think anyone wants a revert. I'd expect you to make

Bug#452577: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps no longer optimizes dpkg --search usage

2007-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: dpkg-shlibdeps's latest incarnation (as of 1.14.8 and its experimental predecessors) introduces a performance regression: it runs dpkg --search once per executable or library being examined, rather than caching its results any fashion. As each call

Bug#439979: dpkg-dev: Please support removal of dpkg-cross diversions

2007-11-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
user [EMAIL PROTECTED] clone 439979 -1 reassign 439979 dpkg-dev 1.14.5 reassign -1 dpkg-dev 1.14.5 retile 439979 dpkg-buildpackage: support cross-building by setting up the environment usertag 439979 dpkg-buildpackage retitle -1 dpkg-shlibdeps: support cross-building by scanning required

Bug#453267: Bug#439979: dpkg-dev: Please support removal of dpkg-cross diversions

2007-11-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Neil Williams wrote: I thought Guillem wanted to review the use of /usr/arm-linux-gnu/lib and /usr/arm-linux-gnu/include ? I do have perl code that solves the problem (used it to cross build GPE for Emdebian) involving adding search directories to LD_LIBRARY_PATH but I

Bug#454057: please move dpkg-architecture

2007-12-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Robert Millan wrote: Please could you move dpkg-architecture from dpkg-dev to dpkg ? It seems that because of this, it turns out that having the xorg meta-package installed requires dpkg-dev and hence binutils (because of type-handling). dpkg-architecture is perl and the

Bug#453885: dpkg-shlibdeps changes can't track symlinks (/usr/lib, /usr/lib64)

2007-12-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Matthias Klose wrote: The gcj-4.X packages fail to build with this version of dpkg: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for /usr/lib64/libgcj_bc.so.1 (used by debian/gcj-4.3/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3/ecj1). dh_shlibdeps: command

Bug#453267: tested patch

2007-12-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: +my @shlibdeps=(); +# ARCH for some awkward builds +my $crossprefix = Dpkg::Arch::debarch_to_gnutriplet($ENV{ARCH}) if ($ENV{ARCH}); What's the role of $ARCH ? And why shall we consider that we're crossbuilding only because this variable is set ?

Bug#453885: dpkg-shlibdeps changes can't track symlinks (/usr/lib, /usr/lib64)

2007-12-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007, Matthias Klose wrote: Hum, /usr/lib64 is scanned after /usr/lib so it means that debian/gcj-4.3/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3/ecj1 has a RPATH pointing to /usr/lib64 ... Is that true ? Is there a good reason for this ? maybe not; but this kind of thing is

Bug#453267: tested patch

2007-12-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 00:01:22 +0100 Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: +my @shlibdeps=(); +# ARCH for some awkward builds +my $crossprefix = Dpkg::Arch::debarch_to_gnutriplet($ENV{ARCH

Bug#454379: Processed: Re: Bug#454379: libzvbi0 -- Doesn't purge all files after piuparts Install+Upgrade+Purge test

2007-12-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
retitle 454379 obsolete conffiles are not deleted on purge thanks Hi, On Wed, 05 Dec 2007, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: reassign 454379 dpkg Bug#454379: libzvbi0 -- Doesn't purge all files after piuparts Install+Upgrade+Purge test Bug reassigned from package `libzvbi0' to `dpkg'.

Bug#453267: tested patch

2007-12-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 00:01:22 +0100 Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: +my @shlibdeps=(); +# ARCH for some awkward builds +my

Bug#454616: dpkg-dev: g++ links -lm by default, and dpkg-shlibdeps complains

2007-12-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007, Colin Watson wrote: Perhaps dpkg-shlibdeps should ignore libm.so.6 for binaries also linked against libstdc++.so.*? Yeah, I agree. A fix has been committed to the git repo. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch :

Bug#453267: tested patch

2007-12-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: I'm ok with a supplementary specific check for building of a cross-compiler, but not with a generic check like testing the ARCH environment variable. OK, I have a solution for that - replace $ARCH with $GCC_TARGET. I've tested with this change

Bug#455520: dpkg-dev: sort before in dependencies

2007-12-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: I can see how the recent change of sorting the Depends field can be useful. However, I would very much like to ask that if a package: Depends: foo (= 1.1), foo ( 1.2) that the final order is kept like that, because reading sequentially:

Bug#457151: dpkg-dev -- should not reorder Build-Depends

2007-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Fine by me. But do you think this calls for a bug against those packages which unnecessarily depend on atlas due to this change? I can file wishlists against those, and they surely should not need atlas, as they have been without it earlier. It makes

Bug#457371: dpkg: please add the DEB_VARIANT build environment variable

2007-12-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Simon Richter wrote: the attached patch adds a new variable DEB_VARIANT to the build environment, which can be used to build different binary packages out of the same source package in different circumstances. I like the idea of standardizing on a variable name to detect

Bug#457739: /usr/bin/dpkg-gensymbols: dpkg-gensymbols doesn't grok #DEPRECATED ...# versions properly

2007-12-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: -#DEPRECATED: 1.1.6# [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.1.3 -#DEPRECATED: 1.1.6# [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.1.3 +#DEPRECATED: 1.1.6-1# [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.1.3 +#DEPRECATED: 1.1.6-1# [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.1.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.1.3

Bug#457784: dpkg-source: fails to build source package with -sp/-sk

2007-12-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
-effects to this change. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ commit e1cc494b6e8811fd4fc9fed2a7d458ae8849ccdd Author: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Dec 26 14:47:50 2007 +0100 dpkg-source: fix

Bug#457833: dpkg-shlibdeps: Doesn't find 32 bit libraries on amd64.

2007-12-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
forcemerge 453885 457833 thanks On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Kurt Roeckx wrote: When building wine on amd64 we get the following error: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for /usr/lib32/libxml2.so.2 (used by debian/libwine/usr/lib/wine/msxml3.dll.so). The problem is that

Bug#457964: please add common symbols for armel

2007-12-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: __exidx_end and __exidx_start are arm eabi internal symbols from libgcc. I suggest blacklisting them in SymbolFile.pm: Thanks I added those symbols to the blacklist. Will be in dpkg-dev 1.14.15. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à

Bug#458276: 'man dpkg-gensymbols dpkg-shlibdeps dpkg-source deb-symbols' typos: explicitely, overriden, versionned, neccessary, mininal and unversionned

2007-12-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, A. Costa wrote: Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-gensymbols.1.gz', '/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-shlibdeps.1.gz', '/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-source.1.gz', and '/usr/share/man/man5/deb-symbols.5.gz',

Bug#363323: dpkg-gencontrol: support multiple -T options

2008-01-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Peter Eisentraut wrote: It would be useful in some cases if dpkg-gencontrol could read substitution variables from multiple files. So letting -T options accumulate rather than overwrite each other would be nice. What is this use case precisely? Given that you can add

Bug#454036: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps misses symbols and thus outputs false warnings

2008-01-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, a long mail with some IRC discussion of the problem. On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Bernhard R. Link wrote: dpkg-shlibdeps misses some symbols and thus prints warnings about not using symbols from a library even when doing so. [...] Thus those symbols are actually needed. (They are variables with

Bug#459359: dpkg-gensymbols: Provide a way to rely on symbol versioning when generating symbols files

2008-01-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.14 Severity: wishlist User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: dpkg-gensymbols Matthias Klose suggested me to support wildcards in symbols files. The idea is that the maintainer could then create the symbols files this way: libc.so.6 libc6 #MINVER# [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.0

Bug#459359: dpkg-gensymbols: Provide a way to rely on symbol versioning when generating symbols files

2008-01-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2 [...] Perhaps to limit the possibilities of abuse, wildcards should only be supported in symbol names if there's an accompanying symbol version (with no wildcard expansion)? What do you mean exactly ? I don't plan to allow

Bug#205011: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source fails on NFS

2008-01-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Peter Karlsson wrote: Don't use 'soft'. It's broken. Removing it makes no difference. The build still fails. To ensure it wasn't something weird with the build paths, I copied the files to another directory (still NFS), and the build still fails. If I copy the files

Bug#31352: Should be marked as wontfix?

2008-01-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: Package: dpkg Followup-For: Bug #31352 Since the Debian project apparently intends to continue distributing non-free software, should this bug be marked as wontfix? Added to this is the fact that an APT frontend generally makes no assumptions

Bug#31352: Should be marked as wontfix?

2008-01-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: Since the Debian project apparently intends to continue distributing non-free software, should this bug be marked as wontfix? The point is not even wanting to distribute non-free software or not. Even if Debian wasn't distributing non-free

Bug#460037: Upgrade to dpkg 1.14.15 breaks dpkg-dev 1.14.14 but doesn't conflict

2008-01-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
forcemerge 459815 460037 thanks On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Devin Carraway wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.15 Severity: normal On upgrading to dpkg 1.14.15 without upgrading dpkg-dev (APT held it back because of the implied install of lzma), package builds began failing thusly:

Bug#433477: dpkg-gencontrol -v fails to set ${binary:Version}

2008-01-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Stephen Gildea wrote: When using the -v flag of dpkg-gencontrol to set the version number of the binary package being built, the subst variable binary:Version fails to be set correctly. Instead of getting the value specified with the -v, it gets the version of the source.

Bug#457741: Bug#460158: zsh-doc would not install

2008-01-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Clint Adams wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:35:57AM +0100, arno renevier wrote: zsh-doc upgrade did not work today. I tried to uninstall, and reinstall, and it looks like package is uninstallable. Here is the output I get with aptitude install zsh-doc: This is bug

Bug#460435: dpkg-parsechangelog man page is out of date

2008-01-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: dpkg-dev User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: dpkg-parsechangelog The merge of the parsechangelog branch has added several features to the program (see its usage screen) but they are not yet documented in dpkg-parsechangelog(1). It's even more needed since one of the option refer to the

Bug#459359: dpkg-gensymbols: Provide a way to rely on symbol versioning when generating symbols files

2008-01-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: afaiu the rationale for having symbols files was to get smoother dependency information for shared libraries. This still can be done with the wildcard approach. The check of dropped symbols could be done by maintaining a database of symbol files for

Bug#433290: dpkg: /usr/bin/man not found

2008-01-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/editor non-packaged symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor: /usr/bin/editor non-packaged symlink to /usr/bin/vim: /etc/alternatives/editor non-packaged symlink to /etc/alternatives/vim: /usr/bin/vim non-packaged symlink to /usr

Bug#461247: dpkg: update-alternatives --test doesn't work as advertised

2008-01-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Toby Speight wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.7 Severity: important File: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives /[ update-alternatives --help ] | Options: | --test don't do anything, just demonstrate. \ But when I tried using --test

Bug#454628: Processed: forcibly merging 330256 454628

2008-01-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.13 forcemerge 330256 454628 Bug#330256: delete obsolescent not-locally-changed conffiles Bug#454628: obsolete conffiles are

Bug#281057: Rebased patches

2008-01-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, FWIW I rebased the patchs. Please find them attached. It looks like 2 pretty minor bugfixes that should be safe to apply. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ From

Bug#20471: Rebased patch

2008-01-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
FWIW, I just rebased Ian's patch and fixed the small conflict. It only needs some further tweaking for the 0 = NULL changes in theory. (But I did no tests by myself) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ From

Bug#445552: dpkg-buildpackage should systematically check build-deps before calling clean

2008-01-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: Per policy 7.6, build-deps must be available for clean; pbuilder calls dpkg-buildpackage -S to generate a source suitable to be copied into the build environment; by default, this

Bug#354999: setting package to dpkg dpkg-dev dselect, tagging 354999

2008-01-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:38:03AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: tags 354999 + pending What change are you making? I just checked (after realizing that my

Bug#461327: important priority too high for dselect

2008-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Package: dselect Version: 1.14.7 Severity: normal Tags: d-i dselect's priority was recently dropped from required to important (#452652), but important is still a much-inflated priority (so is standard -- optional would be ok). dselect is not the kind

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

2008-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: 1) Build-Options field As pointed out this doesn't scale very well and there is no real way to make it default behaviour one day. This would be the way to go though if it only needs to be specified for few packages (either because we think that

Bug#355654: dpkg-buildpackage to be able to override /usr/bin/make -f in debian/rules

2008-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
-buildpackage anyway) Frank, any comments or is it safe to commit? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ From 1b77732a7ab316ca7d71f8db62b5079aa5915adc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

Bug#114774: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: patch for new features

2008-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
2001 From: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:55:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dpkg-checkbuilddeps: add -d and -c options to override build-depends/conflicts * scripts/dpkg-checkbuilddeps.pl: Add support of options -d and -c to use build dependencies/conflicts given

Bug#355654: dpkg-buildpackage to be able to override /usr/bin/make -f in debian/rules

2008-01-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: We have the -j command now, so it's much less useful. Still I have created another patch that implements what I explained above: it offers a -R option to replace debian/rules by whatever you want. (the other patches were meant for the old

Bug#114774: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: patch for new features

2008-01-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:07:20PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Though I think that -d and -c can be interesting, so I wrote a new patch to support them (it's attached). I'll apply it for dpkg 1.14.17. You really should add a option to set

Bug#456332: dpkg could use an elevated pre-depends or depends on lzma

2008-01-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes (Bug#456332: dpkg could use an elevated pre-depends or depends on lzma): On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Ian Jackson wrote: IMO the lzma binary package should Provide a new virtual package name, lzma-deb-support or some such. Packages

Bug#462172: dpkg-dev: Undefined subroutine Dpkg::Cdata::capit called at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Cdata.pm

2008-01-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Tino Keitel wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.15 Severity: normal Hi, recent versions of dpkg-dev cause failures with dpkg-buildpackage. With 1.14.15 it works fine. It if works with 1.14.15 don't report the bug against 1.14.15 as you did. Take care to put the

Bug#462216: start-stop-daemon with --retry hangs on

2008-01-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Patrick Matthäi wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.16.2 Severity: critical Hello, since the last updates on the dpkg package, I noticed that all start scripts which are using the start-stop-daemon with the '--retry 60' option no longer works on stopping them.

Bug#462225: start-stop-deamon: select() failed for pause: Invalid argument

2008-01-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Andreas Påhlsson wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: important Tags: patch Lighttpd often dies when rotating the logs. Trying to reproduce the error manually I got the following error. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/lighttpd reload * Reloading web

Bug#462318: dpkg-dev: symbols to blacklist for armel

2008-01-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Aurelien Jarno wrote: libvorbis does not build on armel: | dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some new symbols appeared in the symbols file. | dpkg-gensymbols: warning: debian/libvorbisfile3/DEBIAN/symbols doesn't match completely debian/libvorbisfile3.symbols | | ---

Bug#462413: dpkg-shlibdeps: please special-case libgcj_bc.so.1

2008-01-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: Currently dpkg-shlibdeps emits wrong-leading warnings for packages linked against libgcj_bc.so: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/ecj-gcj/usr/bin/ecj-gcj shouldn't be linked with libgcj_bc.so.1 (it uses none of its symbols). dpkg-shlibdeps:

Bug#456332: dpkg could use an elevated pre-depends or depends on lzma

2008-01-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: Yes, but if the decompressor packages are reorganised at all, or we decide to change again how it is implemented in dpkg, all of those packages will become broken. Given that this will be a pre-depends and will be in a large number of packages, I

Bug#456332: dpkg could use an elevated pre-depends or depends on lzma

2008-01-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: How do we expect to choose which packages will use which compressors ? Right now, maintainers choose that by adding the right -Z option in the dh_builddeb call (which forwards the option to dpkg-deb -b). So they put it directly in the rules file. Ideally

Bug#456332: dpkg could use an elevated pre-depends or depends on lzma

2008-01-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes (Bug#456332: dpkg could use an elevated pre-depends or depends on lzma): The debian/control field is the only viable option IMO. It would be somewhat similar to the Package-Type: header which has no real use except influencing

Bug#445552: dpkg-buildpackage should systematically check build-deps before calling clean

2008-01-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:02:56PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Alternatively, we could make it display a warning and not actually exit. And this warning can itself warn that in the future it might fail at that point if -d is not passed

Bug#462318: symbols to blacklist for arme

2008-02-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Riku Voipio wrote: Is there a easy way to generate .symbols files for all library packages for a selected arch? I presume mole has some code to do that but the sources hide from me. This would make it possible to do a exhaustive search of arch-specific symbols.

Bug#462413: dpkg-shlibdeps: please special-case libgcj_bc.so.1

2008-02-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: Currently dpkg-shlibdeps emits wrong-leading warnings for packages linked against libgcj_bc.so: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/ecj-gcj/usr/bin/ecj-gcj shouldn't be linked with libgcj_bc.so.1

Bug#464907: dpkg seems not to check for broken versioned dependencies when upgrading

2008-02-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008, Joey Hess wrote: libzlui-gtk depends on libzlcore (= 0.8.12-3). I have both installed. If I tell dpkg to upgrade to a new 0.8.13 version of libzlcore, it does so, leaving libzlui-gtk with a broken dependency. At no point does dpkg complain about that dependency being

Bug#464907: [jo...@debian.org: Re: Bug#464907: dpkg seems not to check for broken versioned dependencies when upgrading]

2008-02-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Ian, since you wrote the patch that Joey has been testing, can you look what's wrong with it ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ ---BeginMessage--- I haven't checked, but this sounds very similar to

Bug#465340: dpkg: Broken call to open in Dpkg/Control.pm

2008-02-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:39:21AM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:25:13AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Granted my perl-fu is not that strong, and looking at the documentation, I might have exaggerated the extent of this

Bug#465651: Dpkg/Version.pm needs to use Dpkg::Gettext

2008-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Adam Heath wrote: Undefined subroutine Dpkg::Version::_g called at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Version.pm line 204. If I use Dpkg::Gettext, the problem goes away. Thanks for spotting this, the fix has been committed. It will be in 1.14.17. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le

Bug#466957: dpkg tests check installed dpkg rather than newly compiled

2008-02-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.16.6 Severity: normal The check target in scripts/Makefile.am does not tweak PATH which means when it executes `dpkg`, it grabs it from PATH instead of src/dpkg in the build directory. This patch should fix things:

Bug#466971: dpkg [dpkg] lists output of option -L in alphabetical order

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
user [EMAIL PROTECTED] usertag 466971 dpkg-query severity 466971 wishlist retitle 466971 dpkg-query -L should sort the file list thanks On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Jari Aalto wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.16.6 Severity: minor Please adjust the option -L so that the listing is presented

Bug#452806: [debchange] dch -a shouldn't modify existing entries

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 00:07 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit : On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:47:21PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: debchange simply parses the output of dpkg-parsechangelog(1) in order to derive the changes. dpkg-pc is

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