Timeline for uploads to unstable?
Dear Masters of dpkg, Would you mind giving an update on the timeline for dpkg as far as uploads to unstable are concerned? In [1] it was announced that an upload to unstable would happen sometime before March 29th, if I parse "end of the weekend" correctly. That's two weeks ago, so could we get an update? I'm just curious because I'll either have to drop symbol files from the diagnostics package or wait for the subst-support to appear in unstable's dpkg-gensymbols. Thanks in advance, Michael pgpVamlaTpQvK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Timeline for uploads to unstable?
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Would you mind giving an update on the timeline for dpkg as far as uploads to > unstable are concerned? In [1] it was announced that an upload to unstable > would > happen sometime before March 29th, if I parse "end of the weekend" correctly. > That's two weeks ago, so could we get an update? It should still be coming soon. Guillem moved and had very few time recently. I wanted to finish dpkg-buildflags before the upload. And the btrfs bug also took some of our attention. My part is now mostly done and we should be able to upload soon. Will check with Guillem. I hope it will happen in the next few days. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- 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/20100412081203.gb31...@rivendell
Re: Timeline for uploads to unstable?
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Would you mind giving an update on the timeline for dpkg as far as uploads > > to > > unstable are concerned? In [1] it was announced that an upload to unstable > > would > > happen sometime before March 29th, if I parse "end of the weekend" > > correctly. > > That's two weeks ago, so could we get an update? > > It should still be coming soon. Guillem moved and had very few time > recently. I wanted to finish dpkg-buildflags before the upload. And the > btrfs bug also took some of our attention. > > My part is now mostly done and we should be able to upload soon. Will > check with Guillem. I hope it will happen in the next few days. > Ok, thanks a lot for the quick info! Let's hope the finishing touches work out well :-) Best, Michael pgpa4ypLueqxn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Definitions of all sections in the Control file
Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file? Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm, database, devel, debug, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, graphics, gnu-r, gnustep, hamradio, haskell, httpd, interpreters, java, kde, kernel, libs, libdevel, lisp, localization, mail, math, misc, net, news, ocaml, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, php, python, ruby, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, vcs, video, web, x11, xfce, zope. thx! Xuan. Debpack.net | Discover one debian package at a time __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/957006.96695...@web45212.mail.sp1.yahoo.com
Review wanted for conffile handling functions in dpkg
Hi, On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > So, I wrote a patch to dpkg in 2008 to add a dpkg-conffile command, > that handles renaming and removal of conffiles. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/01/msg00143.html Based on that work and on http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling I prepared a shell library (conffile-hacks.sh currently, I might rename it before merge) integrated in dpkg that is meant to be used from maintainer scripts. I would be glad if people could test, review and comment. It's here: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/hertzog/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/conffile-hacks I have put some corresponding tests in pkg-tests.git (pkg-conffile-obsolete and pkg-conffile-rename): http://git.debian.org/?p=users/hertzog/pkg-tests.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/conffile-hacks Attached is the script, it's self-documented but it requires a change to dpkg that is only in the branch pu/conffile-hacks (the export of the variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME with the name of the maintainer script). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ conffile-hacks.sh Description: Bourne shell script
Simplify conflicts/replaces?
Hello,
I noticed that some conflicts/replaces are satisfied even in
oldstable, is there some rule when dpkg drops them? (Does the general
rule apply, that upgrades over stable version are not supported?).
So maybe the following could be applied:
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 519a729..b9b749a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ Architecture: any
Essential: yes
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, coreutils (>= 5.93-1), xz-utils
Depends: ${misc:Depends}
-Conflicts: sysvinit (<< 2.82-1), dpkg-iasearch (<< 0.11),
+Conflicts: dpkg-iasearch (<< 0.11),
dpkg-dev (<< 1.14.16), apt (<< 0.7.7), aptitude (<< 0.4.7-1)
-Replaces: manpages-de (<= 0.4-3), manpages-pl (<= 20051117-1)
+Replaces:
# install-info transition
# see http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo
Breaks: jed (<< 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-13), xjed (<< 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-13),
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ Depends: libdpkg-perl (= ${source:Version}), bzip2, xz-utils,
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler, build-essential, fakeroot, gnupg, gpgv
Suggests: debian-keyring
Conflicts: dpkg-cross (<< 2.0.0), devscripts (<< 2.10.26)
-Replaces: manpages-pl (<= 20051117-1)
Description: Debian package development tools
This package provides the development tools (including dpkg-source)
required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.
@@ -105,7 +104,7 @@ Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, dpkg (>= 1.13.1), ${misc:Depends}
Suggests: perl
Conflicts: dpkg-ftp, dpkg-multicd
-Replaces: dpkg (<< 1.10.3), dpkg-ftp, dpkg-multicd
+Replaces: dpkg-ftp, dpkg-multicd
Description: Debian package management front-end
dselect is a high-level interface for managing the installation and
removal of Debian software packages.
(Note: I did not look at unversioned packages nor at those I could not
find in the archive, like dpkg-iasearch).
Greetings
Helge
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Re: Definitions of all sections in the Control file
Xuan Ngo (12/04/2010): > Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections (Keeping you in Cc, not sure you're subscribed since you didn't know about that info's being documented in Policy.) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
