Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Anthony Towns | In January, Tollef posted about his file exclusion branch, for review. | Guillem did some review and proposed merging it for .17; afaics Ian | couldn't find the git repository at first attempt, then offered to review, | but never did. | |-- http://lists.debian.org/debian-dp

Re: angle brackets in po files

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Ian Jackson: > One of the things I had to do to get 1.15.0 to build was this: > > diff --git a/man/po/sv.po b/man/po/sv.po$ Hmm, yes, I can't seem to ever get those quite right. I have been meaning to figure out why I can't get test building the manual page translations to work locally, but have

Re: angle brackets in po files

2008-03-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:30:25PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > --- a/man/po/sv.po$ > +++ b/man/po/sv.po$ > @@ -11631,7 +11631,7 @@ msgstr ""$ > -"kommandot (IB<:>I utan att "$ > +"kommandot (IB<:>I). Om du anger en anvM-CM-$ndare > utan att "$ > > Now it is definitely the case that the old text w

Re: Dependency based boot sequencing and triggers

2008-03-10 Thread Otavio Salvador
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Otherwise the installer unnecessarily and repetitively globally >> recalculates initscript dependencies for each package installed. > > Actually, it happens every time a init.d script is added to the boot > and shutdown sequence, and I believe it

merging configuration files on update, timeline?

2008-03-10 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, I just saw Ian's mail announcing the triggers support in dpkg[0] which I think is a very nice feature I am wondering if there are any plans to have the possibility to merge configuration files on package updates in lenny? There are lots of patches for this in the BTS and I looking at the n

Re: merging configuration files on update, timeline?

2008-03-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Nico, On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 18:30:34 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > I am wondering if there are any plans to have the possibility to > merge configuration files on package updates in lenny? > > There are lots of patches for this in the BTS and I looking > at the needs of users and package tools o

Re: angle brackets in po files

2008-03-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Peter Karlsson writes ("Re: angle brackets in po files"): > Perhaps it would be possible to set up some kind of automatic nightly > builds that could figure out who last edited the file that fails the > build, and e-mail the contact address (which in this case would be me) > so that it can be corre

Re: angle brackets in po files

2008-03-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Colin Watson writes ("Re: angle brackets in po files"): > A certain amount of syntax is unavoidable here; [...] Fair enough. Thanks for the comprehensive explanation. We do need something to spot these kind of mistakes automatically. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: merging configuration files on update, timeline?

2008-03-10 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Ian and Guillem, * Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-10 21:24]: > Nico Golde writes ("merging configuration files on update, timeline?"): > > I just saw Ian's mail announcing the triggers support in > > dpkg[0] which I think is a very nice feature I am wondering > > if there are any pla

Re: merging configuration files on update, timeline?

2008-03-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Nico Golde writes ("merging configuration files on update, timeline?"): > I just saw Ian's mail announcing the triggers support in > dpkg[0] which I think is a very nice feature I am wondering > if there are any plans to have the possibility to merge > configuration files on package updates in l