Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-16 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 19:07:12 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > I just wrote it. I had to do it in C otherwise I couldn't do the check > on how it's called. Cool! > > Why? What would change? info-browsers (see below) should depend on > > install-info,

sbuild version on buildd and bug 471747

2009-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, last year I reported http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471747 against sbuild and we hold off changing dpkg-source's output due to that bug in the (neuro-maintained) sbuild used by buildd. Now I scheduled the output change for dpkg 1.15.2 which will hit unstable in the upcomi

Re: [RFC] [Cross Toolchain] Multiarch and sysrooted toolchain

2009-03-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hector Oron writes: > Hello, > >> The toolchain does not yet look in all the right places. Neither for >> the multiarch nor the corss-compile way of putting the prefix. It is >> in a state where both ways are used and neither is complete enough for >> a full system. > > So, would it be fine to se

Re: sbuild version on buildd and bug 471747

2009-03-16 Thread Philipp Kern
Hallo Raphael, am Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:58:21AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > Do you know if those sbuild use the host dpkg-source or the chroot one? as far as I can see neuro's sbuild only does a chroot for dpkg-buildpackage and some script invocations. > In the former case, there's

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > Actually, if called with an absolute path, the warning should ask the > caller to not use such absolute path (maybe as a side note, explain > the rationale, because it's generally wrong, and in this case because > it will stop working if using /usr/s

Re: sbuild version on buildd and bug 471747

2009-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: > am Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:58:21AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > Do you know if those sbuild use the host dpkg-source or the chroot one? > > as far as I can see neuro's sbuild only does a chroot for dpkg-buildpackage > and some script invo

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-16 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi guys, I am a bit lost ATM what *I* have to do at the moment? On Mo, 16 Mär 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > dictate what's done and the other one is a wrapper. The fact that > the install-info package decided to make it a wrapper too (as opposed to > "patch ginstall-info to have the desired beh

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-16 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 16 Mär 2009, Nicolas François wrote: > > - file bugs against all the info shipping packages with problematic info > > files > > Maybe recommend that install-info should be called without options but the > info files themselves should be updated. > And --section shall be avoided (this is I

Re: Bug#487437: Please include /etc/dpkg/origins/{debian,default}

2009-03-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Santiago, On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Sorry for not answering this before. Is this something that you would > > like to see implemented in lenny? > > It's not required for lenny. The code making use of this is only in dpkg > 1.

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hey! On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 12:34:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I can add print this additionnal information in case there's no > /urs/bin/install-info and we have DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION set. Checking now the new warning, it might also make sense to print the package involved from DPKG_MAINTSCR