Bug#513073: Bug #513073 - debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity - please reopen

2009-02-24 Thread Sjors Gielen
Neil Williams schreef: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:07:35 +0100 Sjors Gielen wrote: I'd like to ask you to reopen this bug. I have sent you a patch which fixes debhelper so it can unpack on case insensitive file systems or operating systems. debhelper has in its main directory, next to the regular

Bug#513073: Bug #513073 - debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity - please reopen

2009-02-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Neil Williams (24/02/2009): > > If I'm correct, OS X may work in case insensitive mode too. > > It's been a while since I used OSX but I certainly remember .DS_Store > directories all over the place and various applications using a mix of > capitalised and lower case directory names. See HFS, HF

Bug#513073: Bug #513073 - debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity - please reopen

2009-02-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:07:35 +0100 Sjors Gielen wrote: > I'd like to ask you to reopen this bug. I have sent you a patch which > fixes debhelper so it can unpack on case insensitive file systems or > operating systems. debhelper has in its main directory, next to the > regular debian directory

Bug#513073: Bug #513073 - debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity - please reopen

2009-02-24 Thread Sjors Gielen
Hello Joey and list, I'd like to ask you to reopen this bug. I have sent you a patch which fixes debhelper so it can unpack on case insensitive file systems or operating systems. debhelper has in its main directory, next to the regular debian directory, also a Debian directory which contains P

Bug#513073: closed by Joey Hess (Re: Bug#513073: debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity)

2009-01-26 Thread Sjors Gielen
Joey Hess schreef: You're implicitly asking me to take care to avoid the case of files that differ only in case, which would be an ongoing effort, for no appreciable benefit. I'm asking you to apply this patch to make it possible for users with case-insensitive filesystems to install debhelpe

Bug#513073: closed by Joey Hess (Re: Bug#513073: debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity)

2009-01-25 Thread Joey Hess
Sjors Gielen wrote: > Why? I'm trying to port Debian to Cygwin. It matters here. And I've > already supplied you with a patch, which does not break things anywhere; > removes the uglyness of having two directories with the same name > case-insensitively; and adds Cygwin and Win32 as platform

Bug#513073: closed by Joey Hess (Re: Bug#513073: debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity)

2009-01-25 Thread Sjors Gielen
Debian Bug Tracking System schreef: Sjors Gielen wrote: The debhelper package contains both a 'debian' directory for debian/rules etc and a 'Debian' directory for the Debian/Debhelper/*.pm Perl modules. Therefore, on Win32 (i.e. Cygwin), it is impossible to unpack debhelper - when you try, you

Bug#513073: debhelper impossible to unpack on Win32 due to case insensitivity

2009-01-25 Thread Sjors Gielen
Package: debhelper Version: 7.0.17 Hey all, The debhelper package contains both a 'debian' directory for debian/rules etc and a 'Debian' directory for the Debian/Debhelper/*.pm Perl modules. Therefore, on Win32 (i.e. Cygwin), it is impossible to unpack debhelper - when you try, you get only th