On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Guillem Jover wrote: > Known deficiency; the code was not being uploaded because the > implementation was not right nor finished, as stated on the changelog...
It would help if you could put your list of "known deficiency" somewhere... on a wiki page, in a regular mail on debian-dpkg, in commit logs if you prefer. But it's pretty disheartening to learn that you know of problems but that you hide them so that only you can fix them :-( > > This is definitely a bug in dpkg (for "dpkg -L mksh"). The default naming > > of foreign non-"multi-arch: same" packages changed and the input side was > > not adapted to cope with it. > > As mentioned on another thread, I worked to correct this, but the current > layout (besides being buggy in some cases) didn't allow for a proper > implementation, so I've been reworking the code to be able to properly > fix this. I would love to see your work in progress on this. I'm glad that you mentionned it too because I was considering to look into fixing the cross-grade case... And what "layout" are you referring to here? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120214155927.ga15...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
