Semantics of symbolic links with files in dpkg

2010-03-28 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Recently, I made some tests regarding the behavior of dpkg with respect to symlinks. This resulted in two bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574656 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574658 Before investigating further in this area (I have other tests in mind)

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I'm guess this discussiong is slowly leaving debian-dpkg@ topic, > though... Definitely not. I plan to integrate VCS knowledge in dpkg-dev at some point and I like those discussions so that I can make up my mind on what's best. Up to know I was rathe

Re: Debian Policy - man deb-shlibs mismatch

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Omar Campagne wrote: > I assume it should be [type: ], yet I'll await a response. No need to CC me > as I've subscribed to the list until I finish the last and final > revision of the po file, in case any more doubts arise. I changed that to "type" in the git repository. Chee

Re: about dpkg-buildflags

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > There should be: > > - the default value provided by dpkg > > - which can be overriden/expanded system-wide with > > /etc/dpkg/buildflags (no .d, I don't think it's wise to let random > > packages modify the build flags for all packages built on

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [100328 11:44]: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > I'm guess this discussiong is slowly leaving debian-dpkg@ topic, > > though... > > Definitely not. I plan to integrate VCS knowledge in dpkg-dev at some > point and I like those discussions so that I can make up m

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I don't think that this would be very useful. VCS usage can vary quite a > bit and more often then not will not contain any usefull information. > (like some branch just always merged with the upstreams has not much > information except the diff to the

Re: problems with 3.0 format

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Krefting
Raphael Hertzog: Up to know I was rather thinking of designing a new tool "vcs-buildpackage" but maybe I simply want to create new source formats "3.0 (git2quilt)" or "3.0 (bzr2quilt)" and extend the dpkg-source integration in dpkg-buildpackage. That only works if you use a rebase workflow in

Re: about dpkg-buildflags

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, Sorry for the late response. Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > let's have the discussion on the list please. Other people can have useful > feedback on the design too. > Okay. > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Yesterday I was writing a plan on how to implement what at the

Re: about dpkg-buildflags

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: > What do you and the other readers think about that use case? You are reinventing pkg-config I think. It's not really needed. > > - which can be overriden/expanded by the user with > > ~/.config/dpkg-buildflags > > (does it make sense to use XDG-com