Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Apt on the other hand (wrongfully) tracks explicitly if you have not >> epoch or an epoch of 0. > > Crap. :-( I forgot to remove the explicit zero epoch from my next > upload. Are you telling me that if I leave no epoch in my following > upload, ap

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As other people have pointed out later in the thread, my point was >> that I was _not_ having an epoch with dots in it; my version string >> was 0:1.2.7:1.2.8-1, which is expli

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 14 Apr 2006, Florian Weimer spake thusly: > * Manoj Srivastava: > >> Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is >> technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally >> viable technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The >> primary purpose of policy is

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As other people have pointed out later in the thread, my point was > that I was _not_ having an epoch with dots in it; my version string > was 0:1.2.7:1.2.8-1, which is explicitly allowed by policy (if there > is an epoch, then the upstream version

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Manoj Srivastava: > >> Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is >> technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable >> technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The primary >> purpose of

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >>> The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match is: >>> re_taint_free = re.compile(r"^[-+~/\.\w]+$"); >>> Y

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Manoj Srivastava: > Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is > technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable > technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The primary > purpose of policy is to ensure that diverse packages under dif

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060414 14:55]: > > Policy has (besides other things) the job of documentating current > > practice. > > Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is > technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable > technical

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Technically, this is not a dpkg-source but because dpkg (and APT) do > not validate version numbers. Some ISVs rely on this and they use > forbidden characters in version strings ('_' seems to be quite common, > for example). And I suspect that there

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 14 Apr 2006, Bernhard R. Link stated: > * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060413 06:05]: A colon is explicitly allowed if the version contains an epoch. In this case, the build generate file names which contain a colon, too, and I'd expect them to be rejected in the same ma

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060413 06:05]: > >> A colon is explicitly allowed if the version contains an epoch. In > >> this case, the build generate file names which contain a colon, > >> too, and I'd expect them to be rejected in the same manner (they > >> look essentially the same b

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 12 Apr 2006, Russ Allbery said: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Frank Küster: >>> Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Raphael Hertzog: > > Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're > probably done. > Shouldn't policy be updated to re

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Frank Küster: >> Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> * Raphael Hertzog: Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. >>> Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? >> Which part? 5.6.12 already talks a

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> * Raphael Hertzog: >> >>> Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. >> >> Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? > > Which part? 5.6.12 already talks about that. A colon is explicitly allowed

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Frank Küster
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog: > >> Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. > > Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? Which part? 5.6.12 already talks about that. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectrosc

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raphael Hertzog: > Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Which uses debian/changelog ... the ":" is used to indicate a "period", > > period can be used to use smaller upstream version if you increased it by > > error (or if you really need to use an older upstream version). > > > The period should be a sing

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > >> I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is f

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > >> I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing > >> utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. >

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing >> utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. > The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match i

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing > utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. Wrong place where you asked. The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match is: re_taint_free = re.compile(r"^[-+~/\.

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:10:39AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing > utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. > > I'm uploading the exact packages at > http://people.debian.org/~lmamane/mailman/ with "dput

Upload getting lost

2006-04-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. I'm uploading the exact packages at http://people.debian.org/~lmamane/mailman/ with "dput" to the anonymous queue on ftp-master. The upload goes well, I see them if I ftp