Timeline for uploads to unstable?

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Dear Masters of dpkg, Would you mind giving an update on the timeline for dpkg as far as uploads to unstable are concerned? In [1] it was announced that an upload to unstable would happen sometime before March 29th, if I parse "end of the weekend" correctly. That's two weeks ago, so could we get a

Re: Timeline for uploads to unstable?

2010-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Would you mind giving an update on the timeline for dpkg as far as uploads to > unstable are concerned? In [1] it was announced that an upload to unstable > would > happen sometime before March 29th, if I parse "end of the weekend" correctly. > That

Re: Timeline for uploads to unstable?

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Would you mind giving an update on the timeline for dpkg as far as uploads > > to > > unstable are concerned? In [1] it was announced that an upload to unstable > > would > > happen sometime before March 29th, if I parse "end of the weekend" >

Definitions of all sections in the Control file

2010-04-12 Thread Xuan Ngo
Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file? Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm, database, devel, debug, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, graphics, gnu-r, gnustep, hamradio, haskell, httpd, interpreters, java, kde, kernel, libs, libdevel

Review wanted for conffile handling functions in dpkg

2010-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > So, I wrote a patch to dpkg in 2008 to add a dpkg-conffile command, > that handles renaming and removal of conffiles. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/01/msg00143.html Based on that work and on http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling I

Simplify conflicts/replaces?

2010-04-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, I noticed that some conflicts/replaces are satisfied even in oldstable, is there some rule when dpkg drops them? (Does the general rule apply, that upgrades over stable version are not supported?). So maybe the following could be applied: diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index

Re: Definitions of all sections in the Control file

2010-04-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Xuan Ngo (12/04/2010): > Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections (Keeping you in Cc, not sure you're subscribed since you didn't know about that info's being documented in Policy.) Mraw, KiBi.