Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
them by generating work for many people and potentially new upgrade problems for everyone – or if we declare them, existing or not, a non-issue at least for the upgrade to trixie. And on a sidenote: I would advise to reconsider interacting with dpkg too casually – but luck is probably on your side in any case. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
exhibit the required setup). (I will write another mail in another subthread about the finer details of what interacting with dpkg in an upgrade means and what might be problematic if you aren't careful – in general, not just with aliasing) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#990126: unblock: apt-transport-tor/0.5

2021-06-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
nything about it in src:apt code wise, but I think we should at least fix the documentation to give users a helping hand with these transitions. Thanks for considering: unblock apt-transport-tor/0.5 Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ I would offer points regardless, but I don't want t

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#863367: libecryptfs-dev: unable to install because of unmet dependency

2017-05-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
ain knowledge' is involved as we wouldn't be talking if libssl-dev would be a new mail-transport-agent. It would be perfectly clear that it must conflict with the others even if there is no technical reason for it given that the other mail-transport-agents already conflict with it. Best regards Da

Bug#854381: unblock: apt/1.4~rc1

2017-02-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
f out of the way first and deal with these minor things later. We^WJulian will do as you prefer. ;P Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#782131: (pre-approval) unblock: apt/1.0.9.8

2015-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
to be honest). The patch is attached there and as one-liney and 'safe' as the rest of this bundle is supposed to be… Thanks and best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#782131: (pre-approval) unblock: apt/1.0.9.8

2015-04-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
Thanks for considering an: unblock apt/1.0.9.8 and best regards David Kalnischkies (for the APT team) commit d5cf8851753dde4f45bfd3b48fcdf34247a8752a Author: David Kalnischkies da...@kalnischkies.de Date: Tue Apr 7 22:34:34 2015 +0200 keyids in apt-key del should be case-insensitive

Bug#775039: pre-approval: apt/1.0.9.6

2015-01-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
through it managed to stay below the radar for months. The regression potential is again non-existent, mostly because this fixes a regression and back then this behaviour worked, it worked for ages. Attached as usual 'git log -p' of the involved commits. Best regards David Kalnischkies commit

Bug#773848: unblock: apt/1.0.9.5

2014-12-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
on the response side again, too, in case you have any concerns; otherwise I hope you enjoy the upload as much as I do (thanks Michael!) and honor us with a: unblock apt/1.0.9.5 Best regards happy package management days David Kalnischkies commit e5ef23145f0dc6523a5c5321a21407c955777ad2 Author: James

Bug#769308: pre-approval: apt/1.0.9.4

2014-12-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
, e.g.: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/log/ Thanks best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#769308: pre-approval: apt/1.0.9.4

2014-11-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
to the trigger change in dpkg: Nobody commented further, so I feel only half as bad for not having done much about it, but that will surely need quite some changes, so if this isn't magically going forward soon I would post-prune that to 1.0.9.5 for now – just so you know. Best regards David Kalnischkies

Re: apt for jessie

2014-11-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
it is just to return the favor. ;) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt for jessie

2014-10-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
regards David Kalnischkies [0] I don't want to sound bitter or throw dirt, but it feels kinda ironic that apt is punished for providing a workinprogress shared library for its dependencies while other tools do not to be more free in what they can do, while being a pain for their dependencies

Bug#692036: unlock apt/0.9.7.6

2012-11-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
it is better to have multiple small compared to one giant blob). unblock apt/0.9.7.6 Thanks for watching best regards David Kalnischkies apt-unblock-0.9.7.6.diff Description: Binary data

Bug#687492: unblock: aptitude/0.6.8.2-1 (pre-approve)

2012-10-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
anymore as far as I know, so the command is a bit more useful for them than it is for us here) Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: Daniel, I noticed that you haven't CC the unblock requests to the aptitude-devel@ list, you might want to do that so it is easier to follow what is happening

Re: Bug#678227: Bug#641967: Apt downloads all description translations

2012-09-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: David Kalnischkies, le Thu 30 Aug 2012 19:43:21 +0200, a écrit : On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: We could add a switch to apt-cdrom to copy all configured locales for d-i

Re: Bug#678227: Bug#641967: Apt downloads all description translations

2012-08-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
OR files in /var/lib/apt/lists (and C.UTF-8 and POSIX, right?) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAZ6_fA7=mywjygduhnh0

Re: Bug#685192: apt: redirection handling changes in 0.9.4 may break aptitude

2012-08-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
- good to know that at least sometimes theory isn't disproved by the implementation. :) Scheduled for 0.9.7.5 ETA: After we know what will happen with 0.9.7.4 (#685155) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#641967: Apt downloads all description translations

2012-08-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
by this. The very same config option used since ever to disable the download of Translation files is still supported. In a way, it is even better supported as you have the option of getting right of -en, too, saving even more MB. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Bug#685192: apt: redirection handling changes in 0.9.4 may break aptitude

2012-08-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
a recommends, okay? Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caaz6_fbarunnd6olmrleamds95sujrtm5v9vavk3vsgr3ro...@mail.gmail.com

Bug#685155: unblock: apt/0.9.7.4

2012-08-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
of course (just keep deity@ cc'ed please). unblock apt/0.9.7.4 Thanks for your work best regards David Kalnischkies unblock-apt-0.9.7.4.diff Description: Binary data

Bug#682307: unblock: apt/0.9.7.2

2012-07-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
also the problem that the documentation uses in various places the release codenames as examples [as the usage of the suite is potentially dangerous] and while we have a central place to switch the names we would need to know them first …) Thanks for your work best regards David

debian-archive-keyring/experimental: fragments instead of symlinks?

2011-10-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
fixmes, so it's more of a proof of concept to get the ball rolling… Best regards David Kalnischkies, who wanted to send that months ago… P.S.: I am not subscribed to release-lists, so feel free to cc me. Thanks. diff -ru debian-archive-keyring-2011.10.23/debian/changelog debian-archive-keyring

Re: pu: package apt/0.8.10.3+squeeze1

2011-04-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
uncompress Packages files and co but use them directly: Saves space, decreases performance). Further more the method is used to check that the size of a file is not zero in various places, so we have just luck that zero is the same everywhere… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#611117: unblock: apt/0.8.10.3

2011-01-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
strings - we could remove this, but as one of the strings is the usage message of apt-get (which had only a line-addition) we figured that it should be okay to fix this as well, but we can revert this if you want. Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian

Bug#611117: unblock: apt/0.8.10.3

2011-01-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 21:07, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 19:58 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: Potential in this regard as it is save as long as only one section is worked on in the apt-ftparchive generate run but as soon as multiple sections

Re: Bug#592900: Updating system-config-printer

2010-09-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/9/13 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org: On 06.09.2010 22:54, David Kalnischkies wrote: A question which i have in mind since i read that the mentioned packages are not compatible as they are in different namespaces: Is this breaks just here to remove the package from the system? If so

Re: Re: Bug#592900: Updating system-config-printer

2010-09-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi all, 2010/9/6 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 14:35:39 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: As for hal-cups-utils, I’ve uploaded the fixed meta-gnome2, which has been sitting in the SVN all the while. Looks like that helped, I now get: [snip] (Julien and I had

Re: Bug#591881: vlc-nox: package fails to upgrade properly from lenny

2010-08-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/8/27 Reinhard Tartler siret...@tauware.de: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:29:43 (CEST), David Kalnischkies wrote: 2010/8/26 Reinhard Tartler siret...@tauware.de: I'm still waiting for an answer on this question. Is this issue solved with the latest upload, or do you prefer me to upload

Re: Bug#591881: vlc-nox: package fails to upgrade properly from lenny

2010-08-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
place bets on the possibility that it will break…) We can consider this after squeeze then we have ~2 years of testing before shipping it… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#579795: apt transition

2010-08-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
it would mean that debian-archive-keyring doesn't need gpg to install the keyring in APT and APT just needs gpgv for apt-secure dropping gnupg from important (at least in APTs dependency chain)… Best regards, David Kalnischkies P.S.: Michael and I will try to be online at the releaseteam-meeting

Re: Please help a apt ABI break by providing bin-NMUs

2010-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
is welcomed) I also want to emphasis that this is an ABI break - not an API break, so in an ideal world all rdepends just need to be rebuild. I tried this in the past weeks a few times with the bigger users² and so far everything builds and works as expected. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David

Re: Please help a apt ABI break by providing bin-NMUs

2010-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
- it is more likely that it will eat your kids in an unwatched moment… but it is hopefully possible to get at least the overall idea. Best regads / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Please help a apt ABI break by providing bin-NMUs

2010-03-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
are obviously still welcomed. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David Kalnischkies [0] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~donkult/apt/sid/annotate/head%3A/README.MultiArch [1] http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/apt/debian-sid/revision/1875.1.47 [2] http://lists.debian.org/deity/2009/08/msg00112.html