Bug#660712: [Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > > > dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but > > > 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' wit

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonathan Nieder dixit: >The above does not seem to take into account the request to use one >merged paragraph per package. It will hide things like the fact that this machine has amd64, i386 and m68k packages installed (which is something I’d definitively want popcon to reflect). bye, //mirabilo

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Guillem Jover wrote: > The API is preserved as long as no multiarch is enabled. With > multiarch enabled any sane behaviour implies an interface change. > Outputting multiple paragraphs per package set would imply you need > to know which paragraph belongs to which package instance, it would > als

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 20:29:46 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:27:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > From: Cron Daemon > > To: r...@zigo.mirbsd.org > > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 06:25:41 GMT > > Subject: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > > --rep

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Forgive my ignorance: could you explain the rationale for the choice > that was made for the meaning of "dpkg-query -L " when > is multiarch:same? The choice was not made for "dpkg -L" only, it was made in general for all the package names that dpkg t

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:14:34AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance: could you explain the rationale for the choice > > that was made for the meaning of "dpkg-query -L " when > > is multiarch:same? > > (Unless of course you wante

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > I ask because Bill's request makes a lot of sense in light of the > explanation Russ gave on debian-devel of multiarch, where there is one > package being installed and the list of architectures is just a detail > of how it is installed. It's important to note that Guil

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It's not going to happen. This interface choice has been discussed at > length. I don't want to rehash the discussion. Forgive my ignorance: could you explain the rationale for the choice that was made for the meaning of "dpkg-query -L " when is multiarch:same? If the e

Bug#660712: [Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Bill Allombert wrote: > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > > dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but > > 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' with more than > > one installed instance > > I think dpkg should just report

Bug#660712: [Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:27:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > ping? > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Cron Daemon > Message-ID: <201204030625.q336pfbx002...@zigo.mirbsd.org> > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.00 required=0.90 > To: r...@zigo.mirbsd.org > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012

Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

2012-04-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
ping? //mirabilos -- “Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.” -- Edward Burr -- Forwarded message -- From: Cron Daemon Message-ID: <201204030625.q336pfbx002...@zigo.