Package: darcs-buildpackage Version: 0.5.8 Severity: normal After downloading and renaming an upstream tarball I used dbp-importorig to create the 'upstream' repository. Program started with a flurry of disk activity and printed
trader:Packages$ dbp-importorig Io_2006-10-05.orig.tar.gz io 2006-10-05 TLACMD: darcs There followed seven (!) minutes of radio silence with no output to to the console and no disk activity. Ran top and found user near 100%. Finally it printed: LOGTEXT Imported Io-2006-10-05 into Darcs repository The contents of io.upstream look reasonable. Since this is an interactive process, it would be much better if the program printed useful output like most system tools do, e.g. compilers, configure, version control like svn, cvs, etc. I killed dbp-importorig a couple of times thinking it had hung, and even strace -f output hangs. What's it doing all that time? Since the upstream dir is new, all we're really doing is unpacking, initing darcs, and tagging. The tarball is about 5 MB; source for a language. Finally, it left a directory behind: drwx------ 3 kbk kbk 4096 Oct 11 17:31 ,,dbp-importorigtargz-tq3z3R What's that? Looks like an arch leftover? Does it have a purpose or can I erase it? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.21-kbk Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages darcs-buildpackage depends on: ii darcs 1.0.8-1 an advanced revision control syste ii darcs-load-dirs 1.0.31 Import upstream archives into darc ii devscripts 2.9.21 Scripts to make the life of a Debi ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library darcs-buildpackage recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
