Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news"): > * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. Raphael, I want to thank you for all your hard work, and your contributions to dpkg, some of which have been very important to the whole of Debian. Regards, Ian.

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 15:01:48 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 18/04/2015 21:27, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > Portability in dpkg is very important, to be able to support downstreams > > and people who use it on other systems, or even package it in other > > (non-GNU/Linux) distributio

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Possibly stating the obvious, but a you aware that fink (a package > management system for Mac OS X/Darwin) is based on a dpkg fork? There is also Cydia for Apple iOS systems, it uses APT, presumably dpkg too: http://cydia.saurik.com/ htt

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 18/04/2015 21:27, Guillem Jover a écrit : > Portability in dpkg is very important, to be able to support downstreams > and people who use it on other systems, or even package it in other > (non-GNU/Linux) distributions. But for many such systems I'm currently > porting purely throu

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-20 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Le 2015-04-19 10:25, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Guillem Jover (2015-04-18): General News * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaë

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Guillem Jover (2015-04-18): > > General News > > > > > > * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. > > It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: > Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, > Raphaël

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
*Thanks* :) -- “I don’t think security can solve problems. We need to teach greater respect.” Oslo Mayor Stang when asked whether Oslo needs greater security after the attacks in Norway, 07/2011. Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 19 avril 2015, 12:25:28 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 10.25:11 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > > Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, > > Raphaël! > > Indeed, thank you buxy! > > OdyX +1. Thanks a lot Raphaël. Cheers, Thomas sig

Re: dose3 support for versioned provides (was: Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news)

2015-04-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 18.04.2015, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer: > for source packages that require versioned virtual packages, dose3 support for > this is needed because otherwise the affected source packages will remain > bd-uninstallable. But right now dose3 can only parse versioned provi

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Guillem Jover [Sat, Apr 18 2015, 09:27:26PM]: > * Add support for versioned Provides [!]: > - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will > be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing. That's great news! This will make a lot of evil kludg

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 10.25:11 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, > Raphaël! Indeed, thank you buxy! OdyX signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Guillem Jover (2015-04-18): > General News > > > * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description:

dose3 support for versioned provides (was: Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news)

2015-04-18 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Joachim Breitner (2015-04-18 22:24:20) > is great. I assume that support for this needs to be added to more tools > and infrastructure. Any estimate as to when can we start using this > feature in packages uploaded to Debian unstable? for source packages that require versioned virtual

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-18 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, this: Am Samstag, den 18.04.2015, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover: > * Add support for versioned Provides [!]: > - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will > be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing. > - Non-versioned virtual packag