Re: How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
Xavier Roche wrote: > swin von Brederlow a écrit : >> If /usr/share/doc/httrack/html is a symlink then you should not have >> any files in it in the deb. > > Correct - and there are definitely files in this directory. > >> You did something seriously wrong there to >> make this happen, like creat

Re: attention kernel module package maintainers: depmod changes

2006-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > module-init-tools and modutils have changed in unstable to not run > modprobe on boot. depmod -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

attention kernel module package maintainers: depmod changes

2006-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
module-init-tools and modutils have changed in unstable to not run modprobe on boot. For packages that contain kernel modules, this change can cause problems if the package is installed on a system not currently running the target kernel. Previously when the target kernel was booted depmod would be

Re: outdated changelog timestamps

2006-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adeodato "=?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow [Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:49:50 +0200]: > >> David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:04:48PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Sometimes, the changelog will tell you the package w

Re: How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > swin von Brederlow a écrit : >>> *BUT* note that /usr/share/doc/httrack/html is actually a simlink to >>> ../../httrack/html (the reason is BUG 362836, which pointed that >> You mean ../../../httrack/html, right? > > No, this is ../../html (jumping two le

Re: Conflict field for logical conflicts?

2006-06-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:39:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > What you want is: > > jed: Provides: jed-abi-23 > jed-extra: Depends: jed-abi-23 > > You should add such a provides in jed now and update the jed-extra > package asap. The next time the ABI changes you bump the provides. If >

Sgt. Robert Greene Writes From Iraq

2006-06-11 Thread Sgt. Robert Greene
Attn: I happen to come across your email address while reading an article on the internet.My name is Sgt. Robert Greene,a U.S.Marine 1st Armored Division,which was deployed to Iraq in the beginning of the war in Iraq.I would like to share some highly personal classified information about my

Sgt. Robert Greene Writes From Iraq

2006-06-11 Thread Sgt. Robert Greene
Attn: I happen to come across your email address while reading an article on the internet.My name is Sgt. Robert Greene,a U.S.Marine 1st Armored Division,which was deployed to Iraq in the beginning of the war in Iraq.I would like to share some highly personal classified information about my

Re: outdated changelog timestamps (was Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields)

2006-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Adeodato Simó wrote: > I've thought about this several times, and I think what'd make me happy > would be, instead of this dist=UNRELEASED stuff to mark work in progress > in VCS, something like: > > package (1.1) unstable; urgency=low > > [ Joe Random ] > * Foo. > > -- UNRELEASED T

Bug#372821: ITP: mmpython -- Media Metadata for Python

2006-06-11 Thread Jeremie Corbier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremie Corbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: mmpython Version : 0.4.9 Upstream Author : Thomas Schueppel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mmpython.sourceforge.net/ * License

outdated changelog timestamps (was Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields)

2006-06-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Goswin von Brederlow [Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:49:50 +0200]: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:04:48PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >>> Sometimes, the changelog will tell you the package was last changed 3 >>> month ago while actually it was changed yesterd

Re: Bug Squashing Party next weekend, June 9 - 11

2006-06-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 6 Juin 2006 08:31, Mohammed Adnène Trojette a écrit : > It will be held from Friday evening to Sunday evening: June 9 - 11. > The main objective will be to make us respect the release schedule > and go under the 300 bugs bar (and even below, if possible). well, the BSP was quite a succe

Re: How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread Xavier Roche
swin von Brederlow a écrit : >> *BUT* note that /usr/share/doc/httrack/html is actually a simlink to >> ../../httrack/html (the reason is BUG 362836, which pointed that > You mean ../../../httrack/html, right? No, this is ../../html (jumping two levels teleports you to /usr/share - the html level

Re: How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> If you see a removal attempt that fails and aborts the upgrading then >> it shouldn't be dpkgs doing. Could it be that one of the maintainer >> scripts attempts to clean up and calls rmdir? > > dpkg: warning - unable to d

Re: How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread Xavier Roche
Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > If you see a removal attempt that fails and aborts the upgrading then > it shouldn't be dpkgs doing. Could it be that one of the maintainer > scripts attempts to clean up and calls rmdir? dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/share/doc/httrack/html/serve

Re: How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > This is probably a louzy and obvious question, but I'm trying to fix > a package error (files moved from a .deb to another one). > > When upgrading two packages (A and B) to the new version, dpkg is > having some troubles, because some files

Re: Conflict field for logical conflicts?

2006-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > should I set in package jed a conflict on a package jed-extra if > jed-extra enhances jed, but jed has changed its API and now jed-extra is > useless, i.e. it must be updated. jed-extra and jed can be installed at > the same time without harm, but

Re: dak changes (names, version control, mail headers)

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:48:02PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Hi, > > I've just updated ftp-master.debian.org to use a new version of dak > which no longer uses the silly names at all. > > This is something I've wanted to do for a long time now (I remember > discussing it with people at least

Re: How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.11.1543 +0200]: > upgrading B.. > removing previous B files > ERROR: can not remove some directories because they are not > empty (added by A installing) This might be a warning message but should not be an error. If it is

Re: dak changes (names, version control, mail headers)

2006-06-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, thanks for the update. James Troup wrote: > merkel (DD accessible mirror of spohr) A propos: The mirroring in /org/ftp.debian.org/ had been reduced/turned off last fall (due to load problems on spohr[1]), is there any chance to turn it back on (possibly with a larger interval for updates or

dak changes (names, version control, mail headers)

2006-06-11 Thread James Troup
Hi, I've just updated ftp-master.debian.org to use a new version of dak which no longer uses the silly names at all. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time now (I remember discussing it with people at least 2-3 years ago), but I never found a contiguous chunk of time to work on it

Bug#372752: ITP: anymeal -- A cookbook database for storing recipes

2006-06-11 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: anymeal Version : 0.29 Upstream Author : Jan Wedekind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/anymeal-api/ * License : GPL Description : A cookbook

How to properly move a file from a .deb to another one ?

2006-06-11 Thread Xavier Roche
Hi folks, This is probably a louzy and obvious question, but I'm trying to fix a package error (files moved from a .deb to another one). When upgrading two packages (A and B) to the new version, dpkg is having some troubles, because some files from the new package A were actually in the old pa

Re: Conflict field for logical conflicts?

2006-06-11 Thread Micha Lenk
Hi, Jörg Sommer wrote: > should I set in package jed a conflict on a package jed-extra if > jed-extra enhances jed, but jed has changed its API and now jed-extra is > useless, i.e. it must be updated. jed-extra and jed can be installed at > the same time without harm, but jed-extra does not enhanc

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-11 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Sonntag, den 11.06.2006, 11:30 +0100 schrieb Mark Brown: > That's a bit different: updating the debhelper compat level is updated > by the maintainer explicitly changing the package rather than by > installing a new version of debhelper. Well, I certainly agree that it is a bug if CDBS changes

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:06:28AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: > Well, how do I know if I have to deviate from the debhelper scripts at > some point in the future? In fact, if I bump up the compat level, I > might very well need to change my scripts. That's a bit different: updating the debhelper

[MEETINGS] Next D-I team meeting on Saturday June 17th 16:00UTC

2006-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
> The next Debian Installer team opened meeting is scheduled for > Saturday June 17th 16:00 UTC. The meeting will be held on #debian-boot on irc.debian.org, that is irc.oftc.net Please note that #debian-boot on freenode is slowly vanishing and no more support or activity will happen there (we st

Re: [MEETINGS] Next D-I team meeting on Saturday June 17th 16:00UTC

2006-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
The next Debian Installer team opened meeting is scheduled for Saturday June 17th 16:00 UTC. This meeting will mostly be centered about the next release schedule, with regards of the general Etch release plans. The Wiki page is opened for the meeting agenda. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstalle

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:00:12AM +0200, Marc Dequènes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past some mistakes were done in debhelper too, even if i don't > recall a specific case to mention. Probably because a change in debhelper is done with a change of compatibility level. And you still can u

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-11 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Samstag, den 10.06.2006, 15:38 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > Oh, I disagree; I think I have a pretty good idea what the benefits are of > CDBS, I just think that many CDBS proponents underemphasize the *downside* > of CDBS. > > So tell me, how do you know a priori whether the software you're