Re: Bug#867104: wanna-build issue with src:perl versioned Provides

2017-07-05 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hi everybody, On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 03:01:10AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 23:30:37 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 10:18:08PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 10:29:35PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 04,

Re: Bug#867104: wanna-build issue with src:perl versioned Provides

2017-07-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:30:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: >... > I guess I am not the only one who does not understand the consequences > of versionend provides, and what they mean exaxtly. Part of the problem > is of course that policy is still at the state of unversionend provides > only. I t

Re: Bug#867104: wanna-build issue with src:perl versioned Provides

2017-07-05 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 11:02:52PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 6) > > Package: a > Depends: p (>= 1), p (<< 2) > > Package: b > Provides: p (=1) > > Package: c > Provides: p (=2) > > When a and b are installed, can c be installed without removing a? Excellent. The fact that real packages can

Re: start-stop-daemon mishandles usernames starting with digits

2017-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 15:16:20 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Guillem, thanks for fixing the bug promptly. Do we want to push that > out in a stable update ? Although I doubt this affects any Debian package, given the default allowed pattern in adduser/addgroup for user names, and going from memory

Re: Bug#867104: wanna-build issue with src:perl versioned Provides

2017-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 23:02:52 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:30:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > I guess I am not the only one who does not understand the consequences > > of versionend provides, and what they mean exaxtly. Part of the problem > > is of course that polic