Re: Repeated Upgrade of Package

2016-08-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:10:54PM -0700, pdbo...@cernu.us wrote: > On top my problem- The situation we're encountering is that apt-get (and > aptitude, fwiw) continuously want to upgrade an installed package that we > maintain, even when the version, hash, etc., is not changed. This output > de

Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?

2016-08-22 Thread Josh Triplett
Simon Richter wrote: > On 21.08.2016 11:03, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Mechanisms like shlibdeps, dh_perl, and other substvars allow packages > > to compute their Depends at build time. This avoids hard-coding > > dependencies, simplifies upgrading the package to new versions, and > > makes transiti

Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?

2016-08-22 Thread Josh Triplett
Paul Wise wrote: > This would be incredibly useful for moving towards a world of > automatic packaging based on whatever metadata upstream is already > providing for other package management formats. > > https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/25/debdry-debian-dont-repeat-yourself/ > http://me

Re: PIE + bindnow for Stretch?(Re: Time to reevaluate the cost of -fPIC?)

2016-08-22 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi All, 2016-05-28 23:16 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey : > Hi, > > 2016-05-18 2:21 GMT+02:00 Guillem Jover : >> On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 12:08:09 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> I'm not a fan myself for turning on hardening flags in the compiler itself, >>> but if you do that, then dpkg issues like https:

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-22 Thread Balint Reczey
On 08/22/2016 07:12 PM, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Hi Guillem, > > 2016-08-21 14:02 GMT+02:00 Guillem Jover : >> Hi! >> >> On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 10:24:42 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: >>> I'm testing a set of patches [2] for gcc and dpkg which enable bindnow for >>> all >>> arches and PIE for amd64, pp

Repeated Upgrade of Package

2016-08-22 Thread pdbogen
Howdy! First off, the usual- if this is not the correct list for an inquiry like this, I sincerely apologize, and would greatly appreciate a pointer to the correct list. On top my problem- The situation we're encountering is that apt-get (and aptitude, fwiw) continuously want to upgrade an ins

Re: Mount namespaces

2016-08-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 13:26 +0100, Wookey wrote: > I recently noticed that schroot could no longer tidy up chroots it had > finished with. Much investigation with the help of debian Bug #749897 > revealed that there is a problem with the combination of schroot, > systemd and demons that use the 'pr

Re: How to distinguish .udeb files from regular .deb files?

2016-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Cc's welcome.) Hi, Philipp Hahn (2016-08-19): > Looking inside dpkg-name, it tries to evaluate "Package-Type" [1], but > that is not contained in the control file of the binary package, so > always evaluates to "deb": > > 123 my $type = $fields->{'Package-Type'} || 'deb'; This field is onl

Bug#835135: ITP: r-bioc-metagenomeseq -- GNU R statistical analysis for sparse high-throughput sequencing

2016-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-metagenomeseq Version : 1.14.2 Upstream Author : Joseph N. Paulson * URL : http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/metagenomeSeq.html * License : Artistic-2.0 Progra

Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?

2016-08-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 21.08.2016 11:03, Josh Triplett wrote: > Mechanisms like shlibdeps, dh_perl, and other substvars allow packages > to compute their Depends at build time. This avoids hard-coding > dependencies, simplifies upgrading the package to new versions, and > makes transitions much easier. Package

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-22 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Guillem, 2016-08-21 14:02 GMT+02:00 Guillem Jover : > Hi! > > On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 10:24:42 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> I'm testing a set of patches [2] for gcc and dpkg which enable bindnow for >> all >> arches and PIE for amd64, ppc64el and s390x in sync with Ubuntu. >> >> My assumption

Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?

2016-08-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 08:10:40PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > You're effectively asking for the interface to a Debian source package > > to be redefined so that every package must be built twice: once to > > discover its control file, and then

Re: We cannot always know which source package to build to satisfy a given dependency (was: Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?)

2016-08-22 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Johannes Schauer (2016-08-22 14:58:36) > Quoting Ian Jackson (2016-08-22 12:55:48) > > But even worse is that it would no longer be possible to sensibly > > compute build orders without pre-building every package in a source > > archive, because it would not be possible to statically d

We cannot always know which source package to build to satisfy a given dependency (was: Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?)

2016-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Johannes Schauer writes ("We cannot always know which source package to build to satisfy a given dependency (was: Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?)"): > since you are talking about computing build orders and avoiding > having to pre-build every sour

Bug#835099: ITP: skales -- Boot image creation tools for qualcomm boards

2016-08-22 Thread Riku Voipio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riku Voipio * Package name: skales Version : 0.20160202 Upstream Author : Stephen Boyd * URL : git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/skales * License : BSD (3 clause) Programming Lang: Python and POSIX shel Description

We cannot always know which source package to build to satisfy a given dependency (was: Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?)

2016-08-22 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Ian Jackson (2016-08-22 12:55:48) > But even worse is that it would no longer be possible to sensibly > compute build orders without pre-building every package in a source > archive, because it would not be possible to statically determine > which binary packages are supposed to come f

Mount namespaces

2016-08-22 Thread Wookey
I recently noticed that schroot could no longer tidy up chroots it had finished with. Much investigation with the help of debian Bug #749897 revealed that there is a problem with the combination of schroot, systemd and demons that use the 'private mount namespace' feature. (PrivateTmp=yes in the s

Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?

2016-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > You're effectively asking for the interface to a Debian source package > to be redefined so that every package must be built twice: once to > discover its control file, and then again to actually build the > binaries. This would be incredibly

Re: How to distinguish .udeb files from regular .deb files?

2016-08-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:47:15PM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Is there some other (preferred) way to identify .udeb packages? > > 1. "Section: debian-installer"? > > 2. Some pages use the suffix "-udeb" or "-di" in their package names. > > 3. If the control file contains a "isinstallable" scr

Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?

2016-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?"): > If you want to catch failures of the maintainer to do the update, you > can run your autogenerator in some kind of checking mode during > debian/rules. The result will be that your package F

Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?

2016-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Josh Triplett writes ("Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?"): > Christoph Egger wrote: > > Several packages create their control file from control.in during > > maintainer build. You can have debian/control as a make dependency for > > the package build

Bug#835087: ITP: r-cran-cairo -- GNU R graphics device using cairo graphics library

2016-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-cairo Version : 1.5-9 Upstream Author : Simon Urbanek * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Cairo * License : GPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU R graphics