[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-14 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വെള്ളി 13 ജനുവരി 2017 04:44 വൈകു, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Indeed, that is a good point. It may be that it is worth keeping it > in testing for the time being but not letting it go into the upcoming > stable, at least unless all of the security bugs can be fixed (which > includes upgrading to

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 02:44:24PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On വെള്ളി 13 ജനുവരി 2017 01:39 വൈകു, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > I think that in its current state, the diaspora packages should be > > kept out of testing/stretch, as they are quite a long way from being > > usable. > > Its a

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:05:49AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > Thanks! It doesn't solve the configuration issue - it still gets > > stuck on the postgres stuff for some reason - but at least it doesn't > > leave a package in a very broken state. > > I will try to upload the fix today. I

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-13 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ഞായര്‍ 08 ജനുവരി 2017 07:15 വൈകു, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 06:27:07PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >>> No, it didn't get anywhere near that far. It broke on the preinst, >>> and then broke on the prerm (or was it the postrm?) when trying to >>> unwind because of the same

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi Pirate, Thanks for the quick response! On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 07:03:30AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > > On ഞായര്‍ 08 ജനുവരി 2017 06:49 രാവിലെ, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > This is not the correct syntax for the dir_to_symlink command: it > > should be > >

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 07:03:30AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > I don't think the dir_to_symlink bug warrants grave severity. Oh, now I've got this, when trying to remove diaspora: Performing actions... dpkg: error processing package diaspora (--remove):

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-07 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ഞായര്‍ 08 ജനുവരി 2017 07:22 രാവിലെ, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 07:03:30AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> Control: severity -1 important > >> I don't think the dir_to_symlink bug warrants grave severity. > > Oh, now I've got this, when trying to remove diaspora: > >

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-07 Thread Pirate Praveen
Control: severity -1 important On ഞായര്‍ 08 ജനുവരി 2017 06:49 രാവിലെ, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Package: diaspora > Version: 0.6.0.0+debian-7 > Severity: grave > > In the debian/maintscript file, you have: > dir_to_symlink /usr/share/diaspora/config 0.5.9.1+debian3 diaspora-common > > This is not

[DRE-maint] Bug#850575: diaspora: cannot install because broken maintscript line in preinst and missing gem files

2017-01-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: diaspora Version: 0.6.0.0+debian-7 Severity: grave In the debian/maintscript file, you have: dir_to_symlink /usr/share/diaspora/config 0.5.9.1+debian3 diaspora-common This is not the correct syntax for the dir_to_symlink command: it should be dir_to_symlink pathname new-target