Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 07:34:46PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > The detection of binary NMUs is currently, among others, using the >> > debian version of a package and

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 07:34:46PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The detection of binary NMUs is currently, among others, using the > > debian version of a package and guessing from its form. What is a > > binary NMU

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Anthony Towns [Thu, 19 May 2005 15:38:11 +1000]: >> Adeodato Simó wrote: >> > As you probably know, entries in the Packages file only have a Source >> > field if the name of the source package is different from the name of >> > the binary package be

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The detection of binary NMUs is currently, among others, using the > debian version of a package and guessing from its form. What is a > binary NMU and what not is not aparent from the Packages file. It has > been suggested to

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Adeodato =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sim=F3?=
* Anthony Towns [Thu, 19 May 2005 15:38:11 +1000]: > Adeodato Simó wrote: > > As you probably know, entries in the Packages file only have a Source > > field if the name of the source package is different from the name of > > the binary package being described. This is an inconsistency that make

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> The detection of binary NMUs is currently, among others, using the >> debian version of a package and guessing from its form. What is a >> binary NMU and what not is not aparent from the Packages file. It has >> been suggested to insert Sourc

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050519T205101+1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Something equivalent to: > > cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | > awk '/^Package:/ {P=$2;V=""} > /^Version:/ {if (V=="") { V=$2; } } > /^Source: .* (.*)/ {V=substr($3,2,length($3)-2)} > /^Source:/ {P=$2} > /^$/ {

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The detection of binary NMUs is currently, among others, using the debian version of a package and guessing from its form. What is a binary NMU and what not is not aparent from the Packages file. It has been suggested to insert Source: entries pointing to the original so

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: As you probably know, entries in the Packages file only have a Source field if the name of the source package is different from the name of the binary package being described. Why not add a patch to grep-dctrl instead? What patch would that be? Something equivalent to:

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > Adeodato Simó wrote: >> As you probably know, entries in the Packages file only have a Source >> field if the name of the source package is different from the name of >> the binary package being described. This is an inconsistency that makes >> it a bit harder to m

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050519T153811+1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Adeodato Simó wrote: > > As you probably know, entries in the Packages file only have a Source > > field if the name of the source package is different from the name of > > the binary package being described. This is an inconsistency that makes > >

Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field

2005-05-18 Thread Anthony Towns
Adeodato Simó wrote: As you probably know, entries in the Packages file only have a Source field if the name of the source package is different from the name of the binary package being described. This is an inconsistency that makes it a bit harder to massage this data, e.g. with grep-dctrl