Re: dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS for no reason

2020-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
severity 971203 important quit > > root (to '/tmp/gap-atlasrep-2.1.0') > > E: Unpack command 'dpkg-source --no-check -x gap-atlasrep_2.1.0-2.dsc' > > failed. > > > > There is no rationale to reject such a symlink which does not point > > _outside_ the source root, but _to_ the source root. > > Th

dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS for no reason

2020-09-27 Thread Bill Allombert
reassign 971203 dpkg-dev severity grave retitle dpkg-source cause gap-atlasrep to FTBFS quit On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:58:00PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Source: gap-atlasrep > Version: 2.1.0-2 > Severity: serious > Justification: FTBFS on amd64 > Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs > Usertags: ftbfs-202

Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2016-01-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:39:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: > > On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for > > >identity or a match. (This poses problem

Re: Bug#680626: Squeeze->Wheezy: dist-upgrade fails, /usr/bin/python unable to load libssl.so.1.0.0

2012-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:22:22AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 14:19:03 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 18:26:50 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > > W/o having looked yet at the details I'd say this *seems* like #671711, > > > which I'm not

Re: [Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > > > dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but > > > 'gcc-4.7-base'

Re: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:14:34AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance: could you explain the rationale for the choice > > that was made for the meaning of "dpkg-query -L " when > > is multiarch:same? > > (Unless of course you wante

Re: [Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:27:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > ping? > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Cron Daemon > Message-ID: <201204030625.q336pfbx002...@zigo.mirbsd.org> > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.00 required=0.90 > To: r...@zigo.mirbsd.org > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012

Re: [Popcon-developers] Bug#659782: does not cope with multiarch packages being installed

2012-02-14 Thread Bill Allombert
reassign 659782 dpkg found 659782 retitle 659782 dpkg -L does not work for multi-arch foreign packages. tags 659782 + experimental quit On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:21:47AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > So are you suggesting that dpkg should

Re: The trigger in your Debian packages

2011-06-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > Russ Allbery >lintian (U) >nvidia-graphics-drivers (U) > > Bill Allombert >gap >menu I do not think this would be a problem for theses two. However in both case, the abil

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-05-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:01:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Thanks, seems to work fine, I have no error/warning at least. > > > > > OK, so you get comparable results. It is very odd that there so much a > >

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 06:45:03PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 07 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Thanks, please find a popularity-contest script that uses dpkg -L by batch. > > The size of the batch is $dpkg_batch_size at the start of the script. > > > &

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:08:51 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > On Wed, Ap

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 04:10:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Bill Allombert wrote: > > > This is not possible: forking dpkg for all installed packages would be way > > to slow and > > resource intensive. We need a better option. > > Bonus po

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > On my system with 1200 packages

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon submitter), > > traditional popcon take 2s. Once patched with the attached patch to use > > dpkg

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:06:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > We deliberately skip .list as we don't guarantee that we're always going > > > to use .list and there's no guaranty that the for

Re: Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I get errors from cron because of popcon: > > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > > > popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/libloui

Re: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-09-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > >> 22:02:40 < rra> jawnsy: I don't think we say that explicitly, but RFC > >> 5322 requires it and I can't imagine ever not enforcing that. > >> Although you sho

Re: Bug#594167: menu update regression, does not recognize entries

2010-08-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:37:49PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Package: menu > Version: 2.1.43 > Severity: normal > > Since some time the menu trigger produces more and more warnings of the > type: > warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/' near line 5 package > 'python-cupshelper

Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

2010-07-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I think we should hopefully be close to a final wording now. > > > Indeed! All I have left are copy-edits (patch below). > > Thanks! Applied to my copy. > > >> @@ -5048,7 +5

Re: dpkg GIT repos does not build [patch]

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:36:41AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 24 May 2010, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Dear Dpkg developers, > > > > There is a small typo in dpkg GIT repository that prevent it to build. > > Please see the attached patch. >

dpkg GIT repos does not build [patch]

2010-05-24 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear Dpkg developers, There is a small typo in dpkg GIT repository that prevent it to build. Please see the attached patch. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here. diff --git a/lib/dpkg/parse.c b/lib/dpkg/parse.c index 325e9a1..c439a7f 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/parse.c +++ b/lib/dpkg/par

dpkg git does not build due to broken l10n

2009-09-05 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear Dpkg developers and Christian, dpkg git repository does not build due to a problem with one of the translations: debuild ... po4a --no-backups --variable srcdir=../../man \ ../../man/po/po4a.cfg ../../man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1:238: (po4a::man) Unbalanced '<' and '>' in font modifi

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:50:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > So there's several options that come to mind for that: > > > > > > * We don't care, and expect users might miss docs on the dir file in

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 05:30:39AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 04:26:02 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 22:24:43 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > > >

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Sat, 16 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Does Lenny includes this trigger ? > > No. > > > Did you consider what will when a partial lenny to squeeze update is made ? > >

dpkg git repo does not build

2009-03-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, I am trying to build dpkg from git source but that fails. 1) origins/Makefile should be removed from configure.ac 2) ChangeLog is not generated, and dh_installchangelogs -a ChangeLog ChangeLog.old fails. 3) Maybe a build-dep on git-core is warranted, due to the use of git log. Chee

Re: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:36:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I have to say i verry rarely do not use debuild. And 99% of the > > > exceptions are calling debian/rules clean. > > > > Precisely, debuild does no

Re: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:03:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > >>> I like to say

Re: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:22:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think we're already on that path for quite some time. If your package > > uses DEB_(BUILD|HOST)_* variables, you rely on dpkg-buildpackage setting > > them for you (with dpkg-archite

Re: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-07-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:19:16PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > El 10/07/08 18:02 Raphael Hertzog escribió: > > Hello, > > > > in order to fix #229357 I decided to add a new Build-Options field. > > I modified Dpkg::BuildOptions to parse this field and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. > > And I added support f

Re: Packages rename and conffiles

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:28:34AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Packages rename and conffiles"): > > What position do you think we should take on this issue? If there's no > > known solution that avoids conffile prompts with both the old and new > > versions, and given t

Re: Packages rename and conffiles

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:03:06PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > So we have to take a position on this issue. I can provide the list > of affected packages. There is at least openssh, vim and openoffice. The following packages trigger useless confile handling, but there are others:

Packages rename and conffiles

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Release and DPKG teams, A fair number of conffiles have changed of packages. The issue: dpkg handling of this situation has changed between Sarge and Etch, see bug#346282. However, unless we ask the user to upgrade dpkg before anything else, there is a fair chance half of the system is up

Bug#229357: dpkg-buildpackage: support for Build-Options: build-arch

2004-01-24 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.18 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello dpkg developers, As discussed in #218893, here a patch that implement support in dpkg-buildpackage for `Build-Options: build-arch' in debian/control as defined in the matching patch to debian-policy. When a package specify the B

Bug#148932: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should try build-arch target

2003-04-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:59:25PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:03:18PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > Firstly, a test to see if something is a makefile can be as simple as > > > > reading the first line of the file -- does it contain #!/

Bug#148932: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should try build-arch target

2003-04-07 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.9 Followup-For: Bug #148932 Wichert wrote: > Previously Duncan Findlay wrote: > > Firstly, a test to see if something is a makefile can be as simple as > > reading the first line of the file -- does it contain #!/usr/bin/make > > -f (as policy dictates in 5.2) > >

Re: on merulo: dpkg-deb a b -->SEGV

2002-10-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:07:33AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Allombert) writes: > > > merulo% dpkg-deb a b > > zsh: segmentation fault dpkg-deb a b > > Filed a bug against dpkg yet? The latest build log on buildd.debian.org shows > a numbe

Bug#111562: #111562: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: incorrect parsing of empty Build-Depends

2002-05-26 Thread Bill Allombert
reopen 115562 thanks, On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:00:58PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > This was fixed in dpkg 1.9.8, which was uploaded on June 2, 2001. > > == > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/mine/dpkg/HEAD/cvs$ dpkg-checkbuilddeps ; echo $? > 0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/mine/dpkg/HEAD/cvs$ grep -i

Bug#137351: dpkg -l cut versions and make false bug report info

2002-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:00:38PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Bill Allombert wrote: > > If you really want dpkg -l to cut important fields like package name or > > version number, please use a ">" terminator to make it clear it is not > > finishe

Bug#137351: dpkg -l cut versions and make false bug report info

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.19 Severity: normal Hello dpkg developers, The way dpkg -l cut columns may generated wrong versions in bug reports: An example yellowpig% COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l libopenal0 | grep libopenal0 ii libopenal0 0.2001061600-2 OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatiali So