Re: RFC: 3.0 (git), now with bundles

2010-06-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
to be specified in debian/source somewhere? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Need feedback on dpkg's behaviour with multiarch packages

2011-02-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
pkg --get-selections so that transferring | the selection over to another computer running another architecture | will still work ? I think using the string «native» as a magic alias for what arch this is on would be useful, yes. I'm not convinced it should be used in output by default, it

Re: Declarative Diversions - GSoC Project Update 1

2011-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
2822 style, so something like: Divert-From: /usr/share/foo Divert-To: /usr/share/bar Divert-From: /usr/share/baz Divert-To: /usr/share/coo This makes it easier to figure out what the contents of the file means when you're tired or don't care to check the documentation. Regards, -- Tollef Fo

Re: Declarative Diversions - GSoC Project Update 1

2011-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I'd be fine with it being optional if you really don't care. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Commit mails to debian-dpkg-cvs mailing list dropped somewhere

2013-09-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
only have them in large mboxes with other mails, it would be nice if > someone else could do this. Alioth does not keep a copy of those outgoing mails, so there's no way for us to recreate them, sorry. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages

2004-01-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
benchmark that tests 32 bit and 64 bit | support. That would be hell. We aren't gentoo. Users aren't supposed to do that, but if they do, they should use a chroot. Optimize for the common case. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. U

Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages

2004-01-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Paul Brook I have a Mail-Followup-To set. Please respect it, or at least respect the policy on Debian lists not to Cc the one you are replying to. | On Thursday 15 January 2004 11:48 am, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > | Other could do with conflicting -dev packages. But the majority

Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages

2004-01-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
lid option for glibc, on which just about every debian package | depends. We are talking about development packages, not library packages. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: dpkg metadata: packages which conflict with themselves

2005-03-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
erted to directories or the other way around? (Just guessing.) -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: DPKG proposal

2005-05-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
globally enabled it will | automatically install tls extensions as well. Wenn you install PSI (a | jabber client) it will install the ssl-plugin for it... Sounds a lot like http://www.dpkg.org/FeatureDependencies to me. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: merging dselect bugs resulting from "dpkg -iGROEB"

2006-10-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Florent Rougon | I don't think anyone serious still uses a dselect access method other | than APT; so IMHO, it is OK to merge these bugs and even tag them as | wontfix. I know that Ian Jackson for one uses other access methods. -- Tollef Fog

Re: dpkg.org hosting

2007-11-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Brendan O'Dea | Anyone care to step up and host the MX? I also have a copy of the www | MoinMoin if you're interested in getting that going again. I'll be happy to host this, both the wiki and the MX. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: dpkg.org hosting

2007-11-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t copies of the moin date and the mail setup. I'd like to send a thanks to Brendan O'Dea who has been hosting dpkg.org for so long. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
department, but it seems to work fine for me in my somewhat light testing. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Otavio Salvador | Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I've finally gotten around to fixing up my support for excluding bits | > of packages as they are unpacked. It can be gotten from | > git://git.err.no/dpkg in the master branch (sorry about that, it | &g

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Raphael Hertzog | Hi, | | On Sat, 05 Jan 2008, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > I've finally gotten around to fixing up my support for excluding bits | > of packages as they are unpacked. It can be gotten from | > git://git.err.no/dpkg in the master branch (sorry about that, it | >

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Guillem Jover | On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 11:18:13 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > I've finally gotten around to fixing up my support for excluding bits | > of packages as they are unpacked. It can be gotten from | > git://git.err.no/dpkg in the master branch (sorry about that,

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Frank Lichtenheld | On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:18:13AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > I've finally gotten around to fixing up my support for excluding bits | > of packages as they are unpacked. It can be gotten from | > git://git.err.no/dpkg in the master branch (sorry

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ixes, I'm of course happy to accept those; either mail them to -dpkg or publish a git branch somewhere. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
r review a couple of times, but nothing unreasonable. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
#x27;m not questioning his motives, I am just pointing out that iwj maintained it for about two out of its fourteen-year life. Calling the project Ian's and implying that he has a god-given right to take back dpkg because he first wrote it is just silly. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly,

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
: - Documentation - I believe there might be a bug where the filters code does not respect --root passed to dpkg; I need to test that and possibly fix it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are >From 3eb1d13d1cddcd0af7fe477b09468c5184eb1a50 Mon S

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e about, but it probably makes sense for it to be dpkg, making sure it's root:root 0644). -- Tollef Fog Heen / Linpro ASt: 21 54 41 73 UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: What coding style should be used?

2008-06-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
, but please don't reformat it just for the heck of it (since that's problematic wrt bisecting and such). (Oh, and I disagree with your formatting, but I'm not a dpkg developer, just a patch contributor, so I'm not going to stir that pot, not now at least.) -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
mistake to want to use /usr/lib/i386/ when it is | entirely possible that multiarch users will actually need the full | triplet - think about hurd or kfreebsd as multiarch packages. I don't believe anybody has suggested using just /usr/lib/i386, but rather /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu? -- Tollef Fog

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil Williams (Please respect my Mail-Followup-To and my Mail-Copies-To: never) | On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 08:33 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > How would you then handle libraries that go in /lib? (Apart from the | > fact that I think just using a subdirectory of /usr/lib is much

Re: GNU ChangeLogs, commit logs and commits

2009-02-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Makes it easier to verify for correctness, avoid regressions, etc. | - Makes it easier to revert or cherry-pick if needed. As buxy pointed out: how do you think we should do this wrt larger features? In the past, you've wanted a squashed commit, is this still wanted? -- Tollef Fog He

Re: Roadmap for the 1.15.x series

2009-08-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ckages generate files in their postinst script (e.g. byte-compilation of elisp, python), and being able to query for who owns it using dpkg -S would be useful. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: [PATCH] Use FIBMAP to sort .list files before scanning

2009-10-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ry, I no longer have the exact timings here.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix build when selinux pkg-config is not available

2009-10-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
inux); then This makes it impossible to override the location of pkg-config by setting PKG_CONFIG. Please use the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro (or at least the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro and then call $PKG_CONFIG yourself). (Yes, I know that the old code has the same problem.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
r a random upstream git repository that might not be available. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e included or extending the source package format sounds like a good idea. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Goswin von Brederlow | Tollef Fog Heen writes: | | > ]] Goswin von Brederlow | > | > | Remove 3.0 (qit) format completly. A full history bloats the source | > | and a cut down history has no advantage over a plain source. | > | > I think this would be a mistake.

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Goswin von Brederlow | Tollef Fog Heen writes: | | > ]] Goswin von Brederlow | > | My feeling is that 3.0 (git) format adds bloat to the source packages | > | that hardly anyone ever uses, makes it that much harder for any | > | non-git user to edit the source and is of little

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps to generate a frontend friendly package list

2009-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
kage versions) and `dpkg --compare-versions' (for version | comparisons), which is not a sign of great engineering ;-) Let's not try to parse our own output. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps to generate a frontend friendly package list

2009-12-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
| dummy packages ;-) Actually I don't want to install anything, but to spit a | sensible list of requested build-depens and -conflits. No, pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic does not use a dummy package. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends a

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps to generate a frontend friendly package list

2009-12-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
import AptPkg::System '$_system'; require AptPkg::Cache; require AptPkg::Version; }; if ($@) { die "libapt-pkg-perl not available, can't use -f"; } to do the check at run-time. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friend

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t not without patches to dak). While I'm not an ftp-master, I would be surprised if they were happy to take patches for a 3.0 (simple-patchsys). Quilt isn't that complicated to use and should just replace simple-patchsys, dbs and similar patch systems. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user frie

Bug#246906: [PATCH] Re: BUg #246906 fix update-alternatives test on error value

2005-01-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
s the current value of the C «errno» variable, or in other words, if a system or library call fails, it sets this variable. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: dpkg musings

2004-03-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wichert Akkerman | * N-arch setup / architecture & OS revisions [...] http://raw.no/debian/amd64-multiarch-2 has some thoughts on the issue, and hashes out a possible solution, which is somewhat based on your writing, the meeting in Malaga and discussions on IRC. -- Tollef Fog

Bug#236468: apt: --reinstall should allow to renew configuration files

2004-03-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Michlmayr | BTW, this may be a stupid question, but is there a way to tell apt to | pass some options to dpkg? I needed this the other day and couldn't | easily find it. apt-get -o "DPkg::options=--force-overwrite" install foo should work. --

Bug#236468: apt: --reinstall should allow to renew configuration files

2004-03-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Adam Heath | apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=--first-arg -o Dpkg::Options::=--second-arg | | The apt option key is case insensitive. Note the trailing ::. Then it'll have to be DPkg, not Dpkg, according to apt.conf(5). -- Tollef Fog

Bug#242870: dpkg: updated Polish (pl.po) translation

2004-04-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
-- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#241762: dpkg segfaults with at least -l and -i options

2004-04-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
or status file have become corrupted. Can you send those found in /var/lib/dpkg to the bug so I can have a look? -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#244667: dpkg doesn't wait long enough when (re)starting a service

2004-04-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
g enough... No, the conclusion is that apache should wait a little longer. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#18482: reopen, reassign

2004-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
reopen 18482 reassign 18482 debian-policy thanks Sorry for closing this bug a bit fast; I'm reassigning the bug to policy so the policy process can decide whether this should be changed or not. - tfheen

Bug#248596: Disorderly output of dpkg -S

2004-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
severity 248596 wishlist thanks Victor Porton wrote: $ dpkg -S gettextize gettext: /usr/share/man/man1/gettextize.1.gz po-debconf: /usr/share/man/man1/debconf-gettextize.1.gz gettext: /usr/bin/gettextize libglib2.0-dev: /usr/bin/glib-gettextize po-debconf: /usr/share/man/fr/man1/debconf-gettextize.

Bug#207428: acknowledged by developer (Not a dpkg bug)

2004-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Artur R. Czechowski wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:48:05PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is not a bug in dpkg; if your filesystem doesn't have UNIX semantics, you are on your own and will see spurious errors like this one. I'm closing this bug. I'd only like to say that it is dp