Re: Some upcoming dpkg changes, test and feedback welcome

2011-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > > +# DEB_SOURCE_PACKAGE: the source package name > > Why DEB_SOURCE_PACKAGE instead of say, DEB_SOURCE? I guess it depends if > we want to map to field names or to more descriptive (although probably > redundant) variable names. Yeah, for me the importa

Re: Hardening patch

2011-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > I took the commit out from my push because this was still under > discussion, that does not mean I've changed my mind though and I > still do not really feel comfortable uploading a dpkg defaulting > to bind now. [...] > I've written some of this in some

Re: Some upcoming dpkg changes, test and feedback welcome

2011-09-21 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 09:02:39 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > +# DEB_DISTRIBUTION: the first distribution of the current entry in > > > debian/changelog > > > > Why only the first, what makes it special? If there's multiple filter > > can always be

Re: dpkg build under Mac OS X failed

2011-09-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 22:12:36 -0700, stu...@zulazon.com wrote: > I tried to build dpkg from source under Mac OS X 10.6.8, and succeeded > only by > > altering dpkg-linker.m4 to remove the -O1 flag the Apple linker ld didn't > understand getting newer versions of autotools using the -i flag

Re: Some upcoming dpkg changes, test and feedback welcome

2011-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > So returning all the values is fine, and would be useful for other > derivatives where more than one is actually allowed, and for Debian > using equality should also be just fine (although using filter would > be more correct, would avoid archive checks a

Re: Next upload 2011-09-11 (dpkg 1.16.1)

2011-09-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 08:00:08 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 06:18:06 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I still have some changed to push, which I'll be doing during today, > > and a second push tomorrow or so, to give time for some more testing > > before the upload. I'll