Hi,
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 13:29:29 +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> Christian Perrier:
> > More seriously, I would appreciate if someone could write a small
> > README on "how to easily update PO(T) files from the repository",
> > without going though all the painful process of whatever magic is
> >
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Hi,
This is mostly directed at translators (BCCed, but coordinate on your
teams as there might be repeated entries per language).
We are going to upload 1.14.19 in a week, so please send to the BTS or
commit your translation updates. We might do some other final upload(s)
before the release with
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:05:51 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-29 06:07 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>
> > If you have a cloned repo w/o pending commits, just do:
> >
> > $ git co -b lenny origin/lenny
>
> That should read "checkout" instead of &q
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 07:07:23 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> We are going to upload 1.14.19 in a week, so please send to the BTS or
> commit your translation updates. We might do some other final upload(s)
> before the release with translation updates, but I don't think we&#x
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 12:49:31 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On April 26, joeyh wrote:
> > start-stop-daemon behaves as I described when -exec is used, as
> > documented on its man page. At least 1/3 of init scripts run it that
> > way, and would all instantly fail if debhelper were changed. (
Hi,
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:54:47 +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> as you probably already know, britney (the testing migration script) is
> using a local customized dpkg source to test the installability of a
> package while updating the testing distribution.
Just for reference, britney sourc
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 20:36:00 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> > The test on <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471060#37>
> > seems bogus to me, as the original file would have been removed at
> > "postinst configure" time
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 04:24:31 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 20:36:00 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > The test on <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471060#37>
> > > seems bogus to me, as the origina
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:03:37 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> If you actually try to make a package that uses -exec and restarts its
> deamon in the postinst, it doesn't work. Example:
>
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/dictd_1.10.11.dfsg-2_i386.deb
> All good so far, but now try reinstalling:
[...]
>
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:13:01 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-29 07:15 +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> > As to the manual page translation that I have had some problems with
> > before (the matching of "<"s and ">"s), I've taken care to
> > double-check all my changes now. I still am unable
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:12:06 +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> It seems like the update for Portuguese
> (91443b577ce55f9ac7e1b46cd773ac9048650fd8) was committed to the wrong
> branch, and should be cherry-picked over to lenny:
>
> git checkout lenny #if you have the branch already
> git che
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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 13:25:42 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-05-08 01:52 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > I guess the build problem is due to the © symbol on the deb-version.5
> > man page. We could fix that in the lenny branch and unfuzzy the
> > strings.
>
> I&
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:33:20 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> The dpkg manpage lacks information about the debugging option for
> triggers. Here is a patch to fix that:
[...]
> Should this go into lenny, or are dpkg strings frozen?
Yes lenny is fine, just committed it. Thanks!
regards,
guillem
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 19:42:23 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> The manpage of dpkg mentions the option --force-breaks in the section of
> forcing options, but it is not listed in dpkg --force-help. Should it
> be added for lenny, making all translations fuzzy? Or is it better left
> alone, since no
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 21:37:28 +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote:
> I suggest to modify dpkg so it refuse to install package, unless the
> option "--insecure" is specified. Such option's manpage description
> would be :
That'd be mostly just annoying for no actual benefit. It would break
existing so
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 10:53:18 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I recently finished off the merge of dpkg 1.14.18 into Ubuntu (yes, I
> know, I should also merge 1.14.19, but I was already part-way through
> this and it was easier to do that as a separate step). I went through
> the entire merge l
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:25:00 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > I've had the thought a few times that it could make sense to store a
> > repo's files in a git hierarchy, rather than in a package pool.
> >
> > As in, raw files, with package description files which lookup
Hi,
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:09:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bug#163666 against debian-policy points out that arch-specific build
> dependencies are unclearly specified in Policy currently in the presence
> of alternatives. The current wording says:
>
> All fields that specify build-time
Hi,
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 10:05:09 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Do you guys think that the lenny branch can trigger a translation
> upload ?
Yes, just a normal upload, but there's few things to fix first. There's
some regressions introduced by the triggers code, and some other minor
stuff.
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clone 374195 -1
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severity -1 normal
thanks
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 23:14:05 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Does current dpkg strip newlines from the status pipe as proposed by
> Michael Vogt in [1] ?
It does not curre
Hi,
So, with the RC and some important bugs fixed now, we'll be preparing a
release targetting this next monday.
For translators:
I'm sorry but I had to add a new string due to the RC bug. On the other
hand it should rarely be seen so it's not that important if you cannot
make it. In case the up
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:22:34 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> For translators:
>
> I'm sorry but I had to add a new string due to the RC bug. On the other
> hand it should rarely be seen so it's not that important if you cannot
> make it. In case the upload is too soon
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Hi,
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 17:55:12 +0100, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> In the php5 package, the current situation is that /etc/php5/cgi/conf.d
> is a symlink to /etc/php5/conf.d; By failing to know that, we in a local
> package installed a file under /etc/php5/cgi/conf.d/admin.ini, which
> went on wi
[ Adding now debian-dpkg@ to CC, as I forgot initially, sorry! ]
Hi,
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 20:13:35 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:04:30AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > There's been an RC bug reported recently against dpkg (not filed as RC
> > back
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Hi!
As this might be the last dpkg upload before the lenny release,
translators might want use this opportunity to send a last batch of
updates. I've included the current translation status inline. [0]
This is coming with short notice, though, but we want to make sure we
don't miss the deep freez
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Hi!
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 07:22:51 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org):
> > The following commit has been merged in the lenny branch:
> > commit f16b39cc949ef24535858112b84e0e48c129f565
> > Author: Miguel Figueiredo
> > Date
Hi!
Just to let people that might not be following the commit list (and
might be interested in triaging) know, that I've updated the currently
used usertags [0], to help with the bug triaging I've been doing.
Probably we need more to be able to classify the remaining bugs, feel
free to propose ch
Hi!
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 15:20:02 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I finally found some time to write new proposed wording for the section in
> Policy on handling architecture-restricted dependencies. Could you review
> this change and be sure that I'm correctly describing the situation? I
> added
Hi!
Some days ago I committed the beginnings of a C unit test suite (I was
not really satisfied with any of the existing frameworks), and will be
working on making it more thorough, by continuing to refactor the code
and making it unit testable.
I've also created a new (private) repo for dpkg fu
Hi!
Sorry for the short notice, but given the current state of the freeze,
I guess this is better than nothing.
There were some missed translations in the last upload, so those get
included now, if you still have some updates, you'll have to hurry up.
Asked the release team on IRC and Adeodato a
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Hi!
[ Context: In bug 514106, there was some discussion about were to commit
next translation updates from now on. ]
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 18:08:55 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org):
> > Both branches. We're not going to resync lenny into master from
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:41:01 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Asked the release team on IRC and Adeodato approved the fixes for 513863
> > and 513857. I'll commit the fix for 513857 tomorrow, once I've verified
>
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:53:53 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Hello dpkg folks, where can I find actual documentation for correct
> meanings of words in 'Status: ...' lines in /var/lib/dpkg/status, and
> the info which triads are possible and which are not?
Part of this is documented in
Hi,
Ok, this has been going on for some time now, let's discuss and get a
conclusion. But first some background:
When dpkg got handed-over to us, we switched it to svn, for which GNU
ChangeLogs are good (maybe just a bit less than for CVS, though) as
«svn log» is pretty slow and needs to be onlin
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 06:58:37 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org):
> > Regarding switching the pointers for translators, we have been talking
> > about doing some major cleanup of strings, in the C and perl code,
> > to remove dupes
Hi!
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:44:30 +, Neil Williams wrote:
> dpkg-cross 2.4.0 is now in unstable and has had a lot of outdated
> cruft removed during the Lenny freeze. I'd like to start the process of
> removing dpkg-cross itself and providing all functionality via
> dpkg/dpkg-dev.
To refresh
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 20:53:47 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:
> Reading the files database can take a while on machines with slow disks
> and an empty cache. To make the wait more tolerable and if stdout is a
> terminal, display a progress indicator (going to some lengths to avoid
> updating
Hi!
Ok, so now that unstable has been thawing for a bit, let's start the
1.15.x development series. The major topics for this series in my mind
are:
* Continue cleaning up the code base and the exported APIs by
refactoring, modularizing, etc.
* Merge back functionality from upper layers or
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 17:37:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> While working on the German dpkg translation, I noticed that there are
> at least two files with translatable strings that are not listed in
> po/POTFILES.in, namely lib/subproc.c and src/pkg-show.c. As a
> consequence, strings in these f
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 21:41:31 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> I think there is a typo:
> "The path of the currently selected alternative. It can also take the magic "
> "values B. It is used if the link doesn't exist."
>
> s/values/value/
>
> Shall I correct this?
Thanks, done so already.
Hi!
Been meaning to ask Nicolas and you for the status of the install-info
transition. But here it is now, so moving to debian-dpkg where it
belongs.
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:04:41 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On So, 08 Mär 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > We already wanted that for lenny but
i, 11 Mär 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > + Changes in texinfo
> > >- a new install-info package replaces dpkg's install-info
> >
> > Given that we have other info viewers, that seems better than bundling
> > it in the info or texinfo packages.
>
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:40:46 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Ok, here is a package, crude, nothing tested, but it is there:
> deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ i-i/
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ i-i/
Sorry, I've not yet had the time to take look, maybe
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 12:13:47 +, Neil Williams wrote:
> What I really need, in order to test properly, is a package that can
> trigger install-info. I admit, I'm a bit unfamiliar with triggers still
> - what do I need to change in a package (say coreutils) that currently
> contains an info doc
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:34:41 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Do, 12 Mär 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > - can you prepare a dpkg experimental package that does not ship ii but
> > > depends on install-info?
> >
> > As per the transition plan dpkg wi
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:18:03 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> That looks almost right. I hope Guillem can confirm that it's ok for him
> as well.
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > We will have 3 different install-info:
> >
> > 1) /usr/sbin/install-info from dpkg
> > this
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 01:45:22 +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:49:53PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Time line:
> > - inform the maintainers of info-browsers about the fact that they
> > should now depend on install-info
> > - upload texinfo with the install-info
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,
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
Hi Sven and Helge,
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 22:06:24 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> while working on the German dpkg translation I noticed a typo in
> src/filesdb.c and three examples of clumsy/slightly incorrect English in
> scripts/update-alternatives.pl. Not being a native speaker nor terribly
> fa
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 08:35:43 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > this way it might be possible to reuse this as the wrapper for the
> > install-info package.
Sorry, I should have added "in case we actually want to reuse the
code&quo
> However, *dpkg* v1.14 doesn't compile so smoothly on Arch Linux, perhaps due
> to the following changes:
> 2008-03-30 Guillem Jover
> * dselect/main.cc: Use instead of .
> * dselect/dselect.h: Use instead of .
> * dselect/Makefile.am (curkeys.h): Likewise.
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 20:35:55 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> while updating the German translation, I noted a place where I think
> an update was overlooked:
>
> msgid "B<--auto> I"
> msgstr "B<--auto> I"
>
> # type: Plain text
> #: ../../man/update-alternatives.8:283
> msgid ""
> "Switch
Hi!
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 12:03:09 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > If you're going to standardize a prefix that's purely for private,
> > internal use and will never, ever be standardized in any fashion, could I
> > convince you (and Nils) to use a pref
Hi!
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 11:26:25 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Kern
> ---
> scripts/po/de.po |4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/po/de.po b/scripts/po/de.po
> index ea998cc..c50381c 100644
> --- a/scripts/po/de.po
> ++
[ BCCed debian-dpkg for the proposed dpkg changes. ]
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage
> and the policy do not match fully.
Ok, had finally the time to read and think about this. I've to say
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 11:49:33 -0500, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
> There is a bug in dpkg's autotools scripts that cause `make install` to
> install start-stop-daemon.8 man pages (English and translated ones)
> even when dpkg was configured with "--without-start-stop-daemon" flag.
Thanks, I've fi
Hi!
While checking the remaining stuff to be done prior to the next release,
I thought we could do a round of removals before the 1.15 series hit
unstable.
So if no one sees any problem, I'll remove the following from the
items listed on README.feature-removal-schedule:
* 822-date (all filed b
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 12:11:04 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Another option could be to add a new modifier, like P(rivate) or
> > U(ser), to be used like XPBS-Field: which would preserve the X-. But
> > then you need a new enoug
Hi!
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 21:39:51 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > This means that if I fix this bug and upload right now the jed package to
> > unstable, it will fail to install the info files. Am I missing something
> > or have the regarding p
Hi!
Just in case this was not clear from the bug report, and as exmplained
on bug 528877, for now the info files should just get the missing info
dir entry added. Once the new install-info and dpkg packages have
migrated to testing maintainers should be able to start dropping the
direct calls to i
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 09:08:16 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Also the same logic we apply for the removal of the substvar support
> > could be applied to most of the “Build options” as well, as those do
> > not make sense in
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 04:26:02 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 22:24:43 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > On Sat, 16 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > Do
Hi!
So here's the list of things I consider blockers for next 1.15.1 release
targetting unstable, or that at least we should discuss here if you
think otherwise. The main reason for this is that those are either new
interfaces which should not be exposed to avoid users starting to use
them. Or old
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 16:20:41 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > * dpkg vendor env settings.
> >
> > Now that Raphaël has implemented the dpkg-vendor program, those vars
> > can be disabled w/o any problem.
>
>
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:20:07 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Well, to me the main reason is that those packages are already broken
> > per policy, and this is just to avoid even more breakage.
>
> Well, there's "broke
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:14:20 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
> > Also changed the percent printing to right-align on 3
> > characters.
>
> Okay, I had decided against it because it makes the line less
> balanced (one space behind '...'
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Hi!
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 21:29:07 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> dselect 1.15.1 shows wrong package priorities in the package selection
> screen. This is because dselect/pkgdisplay.cc has not been updated to
> reflect the removal of the "Recommended" and "Contrib" priorities in
> commit c8d3938be1
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Hi!
We are planning to do the next upload this weekend, and are
tentatively targetting friday. The main reason for the rush is the
fixups do the alternatives db, so that other packages can properly
install w/o need to make all of them cleanup the mess.
regards,
guillem
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Hi Pino!
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:02:12 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Pino Toscano
>
> * Package name: kalternatives
> Version : 0.12
> Upstream Author : Pino Toscano
> * URL :
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kaltern
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Hi!
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:32:23 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Few days ago, I had a nice talk with Guillem, and he told me that dpkg
> developers are working for cleaning up update-alternatives' code, and
> planning
> to convert it to C (along with provide a dpkg library); since the previous
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Hi!
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 17:28:01 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The attached patch is meant to use the "--previous" version of po4a
> (implemented in po4a 0.31) when (re)generating PO files for manpages.
>
> That would allow translators to more easily figure out what changed in
> a strings w
Hi!
[ CCing you as I'm not sure if you are subscribed. ]
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 18:35:14 +0200, Sjors Gielen wrote:
> The problem I'm facing is this. Our version of dpkg requires gettext.
> Currently, the package builds gettext along with itself, so it can be
> "built from scratch", I'm trying to
Hi!
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 20:59:20 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> AFAIS all the info-browsers now have a dependency on install-info,
> so we should be ready to upload the new dpkg.
Ideally not until all info-browsers have migrated to testing, to not
tie them and create a monster transition.
re
Hi!
While adding support for DEB_(HOST|BUILD)_ARCH_(BITS|ENDIAN) [0], I
noticed that the regex for the sparc architecture in cputable was
matching sparc64 in the GNU triplet, which is wrong as the mapping
from GNU triplets to Debian architectures should be 1:1 when the ABI
is not compatible.
I've
Hi!
Now again with time on my hands, and with the excuse of the release team
asking for our plans, I'm sending (after having it been sitting on my
computer for some time already) what I'm planning to work on or
what I'd like to see done in the near future, ideally during the 1.15.x
series which wi
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 00:47:17 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 17:28:01 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > The attached patch is meant to use the "--previous" version of po4a
> > (implemented in po4a 0.31) when (re)generating PO files for manpages.
Hi!
Thanks for the patch! Mostly comments about style issues. Also could
you document the options in the man page? :)
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 13:25:55 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Two new options to dpkg, needed for multiarch:
>
> --foreign-architecture lets you specify that packages for the na
[ CCing debian-release for the install-info transition part. ]
Hi!
Ok, long time since last upload, and lots of changes have piled up since,
time for an upload. There's the normal assortment of refactoring, bug
fixes, some new features including the first changes needed for
multiarch, and our sid
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Hi Bastian!
On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 09:42:35 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Currently there are packages showing up that include this as dependency:
> | dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
>
> cdebootstrap, which uses a rather primitive dependency r
Hi!
I've just removed Adam Heath and Brendan O'Dea (both CCed) from the
project users, which were listed as admins, but have not been involved
for a long time.
regards,
guillem
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dpkg
Hi!
Knew had forgotten some stuff. And added comments on some of the
previous items.
Will probably add the items from this thread to the TODO list or a
wiki page.
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 08:20:35 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> The “merge back” development series 1.1
Hi!
Sorry for the massive delay.
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:41:15 +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote:
> Do you have any big changes planned? How much time would they take, and
> what consequences are there for the rest of the project?
There's a thread [0] on debian-dpkg with more detailed changes of w
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:29:47 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:48:36AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Better foreign_arches, well sounds that way to me, but then I'm not a
> > native speaker. :)
>
> I see that this has been used consistently t
Hi Sean!
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 20:22:29 +0200, sean finney wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > - Merge back apt-exttracttemplates.
> > - Finish to draft the spec for the debconf integration:
> > <http://wiki.debian.or
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 17:21:41 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > * Clean up dpkg namespace:
> >
> >- Rename dpkg-ftp as dselect-ftp.
>
> I'm the maintainer of this one. Maybe it could be merged in dselect
> i
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