Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Norbert Preining
severity 699206 serious thanks Hi Dominik, first of all, please stop including all the email and bottom-posting, this is a pain and against usual netiquette. Then ... On Mo, 30 Sep 2013, Dominik George wrote: > If you accuse everyone else in the community [...] I did not accuse anyone, I ask

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Norbert Preining schrieb: >Hi Dominik, > >> Simply put: Because you made no effort to fix it :). > >Thanks for the very useful comment. > >Yes, I care for RC bugs in my own packages ... and that are quite >a lot. So no time to fix RC bugs of other

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Dominik, > Simply put: Because you made no effort to fix it :). Thanks for the very useful comment. Yes, I care for RC bugs in my own packages ... and that are quite a lot. So no time to fix RC bugs of other maintainers. Norbert --

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Norbert Preining schrieb: >On So, 29 Sep 2013, Stephen Kitt wrote: >> > Uninstall the libc6-amd64:i386 package. >> > See http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2013/03/msg00139.html. >> >> But watch out for http://bugs.debian.org/699206 - make sur

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 29 Sep 2013, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > Uninstall the libc6-amd64:i386 package. > > See http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2013/03/msg00139.html. > > But watch out for http://bugs.debian.org/699206 - make sure you have a root > sash running somewhere so you can relink /lib64/ld-linux-x86-6

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-29 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:58:36 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-09-28 22:18 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > > since a short time when I build a binary package on my running system, > > I cannot install the created .deb anymore because it depends on > > libc-amd64 (>= some.version) which somehow

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-29 Thread Paul Gevers
On 29-09-13 08:40, Norbert Preining wrote: > What is going wrong here? For whatever reason, the amd64 build is picking up i386 paths. I don't know how that happens, except that I expect it is some multi-arch twitch. I recommend you build your packages in a chroot to avoid this (an other) issues. I

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-28 22:18 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > since a short time when I build a binary package on my running system, > I cannot install the created .deb anymore because it depends on > libc-amd64 (>= some.version) which somehow is not what I have although > I am running amd64 sid. Uninstal

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, second try, with more data .. default package texinfo, I am importing a new upstream into my git, no changes to debian/rules or debian/control, rebuild. >From the debian/control: .. Package: info ... Architecture: any Multi-Arch: foreign ... After building the package looks like: i

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-28 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:18:03AM +0400, Norbert Preining wrote: > since a short time when I build a binary package on my running system, I > cannot install the created .deb anymore because it depends on >libc-amd64 (>= some.version) > which somehow is not what I have although I am running am

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:08:33 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Would there not be some advantage to making dpkg-buildpackge the > interface for building? (Not dropping the debian/rules interface, > of course.) This would permit the automatic setting of all the > host- and build-related variables w

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Wookey
+++ peter green [2012-03-29 20:06 +0100]: > >Now, you can build packages without using dpkg-buildpackage by calling > >rules directly, and in that case the rules file would need to call > >dpkg-architecture, but someone would have to convince me that that was > >an interface worth supporting for no

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Neil Williams wrote: > > Honestly I have never seen anyone doing cross-builds and calling > > debian/rules manually. > > ... only because it *always* fails > > I have longed for such support myself at times. It is incredibly > frustrating to see a cross-build fail 90% of

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread James McCoy
On Mar 30, 2012 8:40 AM, "Goswin von Brederlow" wrote: > > Hopefully dpkg-buildpackage will stop setting those varibales at some > point so sources that wrongfully depend on the variables being set > actualy break. Already happened in version 1.16.1 (#560070).

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:58:41PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 19:10:05 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > Should a package depending on this behaviour build-dep on a particular > > dpkg version? As it already works in build-essential in stable do the > > same rules apply as ess

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wookey writes: > +++ Raphael Hertzog [2012-03-29 21:06 +0200]: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote: >> > Anyone know when this happened and what if any, the limitations are? >> > It's certainly true in wheezy, squeeze, precise and oineiric. >> >> This has always been the case ever s

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:06:56 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote: > > Well, perhaps I shouldn't (and indeed I'd like us to get to a point > > where we don't), but currently, in practice, non-native builds need > > other things setting in the environment anyway so even

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote: > > But you should not rely on this because calling debian/rules directly > > must be supported. > > Hmm, but if a package cannot use the variables set by > dpkg-buildpackage and must set them itself, what is the point of > dpkg-buildpackage setting them? To save

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-29 Thread Wookey
+++ Raphael Hertzog [2012-03-29 21:06 +0200]: > Hi, > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote: > > Anyone know when this happened and what if any, the limitations are? > > It's certainly true in wheezy, squeeze, precise and oineiric. > > This has always been the case ever since dpkg-architecture has

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 19:10:05 +0100, Wookey wrote: > Should a package depending on this behaviour build-dep on a particular > dpkg version? As it already works in build-essential in stable do the > same rules apply as essential packages in stable (i.e no explicit > dependency required)? That wo

re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-29 Thread peter green
Now, you can build packages without using dpkg-buildpackage by calling rules directly, and in that case the rules file would need to call dpkg-architecture, but someone would have to convince me that that was an interface worth supporting for non-native builds The big reason it's worth supporting

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote: > Anyone know when this happened and what if any, the limitations are? > It's certainly true in wheezy, squeeze, precise and oineiric. This has always been the case ever since dpkg-architecture has been introduced. But you should not rely on this because c

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Wookey, Wookey wrote: > I recently noticed that when building with dpkg-buildpackage there is > no need for the > > DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) > DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) Don't you mean "?="? [...]

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and new "-indep" debhelper options

2011-12-07 Thread Anton Gladky
Ok, thank you for clarifying. I have subscribed myself to the bug 629385 Anton On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:17:47PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: >> Thank you, Roger, for your extended response. >> >> >  What is preventing you from building the d

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and new "-indep" debhelper options

2011-12-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:17:47PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: > Thank you, Roger, for your extended response. > > > What is preventing you from building the docs in build-indep? > I am trying it to do it now, using new -indep and -arch options. > > > Are you using the latest debhelper? > Yes, 8.

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and new "-indep" debhelper options

2011-12-07 Thread Anton Gladky
Thank you, Roger, for your extended response. > What is preventing you from building the docs in build-indep? I am trying it to do it now, using new -indep and -arch options. > Are you using the latest debhelper? Yes, 8.9.11 I have simplified debian/rules:

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and new "-indep" debhelper options

2011-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:53:55PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an eigen3 package, which uses --before option to escape > DOC-building on all platforms. > debian/rules is looking so now: > > > binary-indep: > dh $@ --buildsystem=cmake

Re: dpkg-buildpackage

2009-04-22 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:32:27AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Just did it on another machine with libgdal1-1.5, but I need this support > for libgdal1-1.4* on another one. > Does gdal-ecw plugin works for previous gdal releases? > No, you need to change a bit patches for that, and anyway if

Re: dpkg-buildpackage

2009-04-22 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2009/4/22 Francesco P. Lovergine > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:18:59AM +0200, cassiel wrote: > > Hi you all, > > > > don't know if this could be regarded as off topic, however it involves > > debian package building system. > > > > I am trying to build gdal libraries with ECW support ( > > http://

Re: dpkg-buildpackage

2009-04-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:18:59AM +0200, cassiel wrote: > Hi you all, > > don't know if this could be regarded as off topic, however it involves > debian package building system. > > I am trying to build gdal libraries with ECW support ( > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW) because this compre

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2/ Otavio was sort of acknowledging it as a good thing but a good thing > that should be delayed for an unknown amount of time waiting for a fix on > apt's side while the lack of fix didn't seem to create important problems > > Under those conditions,

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing > debian/control Dependsfield??"): > > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > > causes severe issues that will

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-24 Thread Joe Smith
"David Paleino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. apt-get install foo bar Is completely different of apt-get install bar f

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??"): > I can certainly change dpkg-shlibdeps to define ${shlibs:Depends} that way. > For other variables, it's more difficult (substition variables do not > always conta

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??"): > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. I think this is the wrong approac

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:23:28PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Would it be possible to only re-order elements that were introduced by > a variable substitution? That would make the list deterministic without > changing what the maintainer wrote. At best you could: (a) sort substvar

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 2/ debdiff uses wdiff to show changes on field values and wdiff gives > spurious differences if the sole difference between both values is > a different order. Thus debdiff output is more useful with ordered Depends > fields. (Probably stating the ob

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends

2008-02-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 23/02/2008, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Sat Feb 23 12:02, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > So, I want to build against the reference lapack and blas, and then, > > if the user chooses, then I want the alternatives system to enable the > > use of atlas. Now, the new dpkg-source reordering installs atl

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:50:37PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > No, Sergei is right. The order of packages within ${shlibs:Depends} is not > > defined, you're not completely avoiding the problem by reverting the > >

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
On ven, 2008-02-22 at 21:55 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies > > and leaving everyone on tenterhooks as to whether it will change > > installation outcomes? (If this has already been explai

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends

2008-02-22 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Feb 23 12:02, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > So, I want to build against the reference lapack and blas, and then, > if the user chooses, then I want the alternatives system to enable the > use of atlas. Now, the new dpkg-source reordering installs atlas as > well during build, which causes the "smar

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 23/02/2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: > In the gFortran transition we have come across some cases where this > happens, depending on the order specified for depends you either get a > specialist (requested) package, or if you don't care which maths lib for > example is used by the package then yo

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:50:37PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > "Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Then having a unique, well-defined order of packages in Depends is a > > > good idea. If packages are

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> In some cases, particularly when the Depends can be satisfied by >> different sets of alternatives, this change could have the effect of >> changing the packages actually pulled

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: >> Raphael, >> >> What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies >> and leaving everyone on tenterhooks as to whether it will change >> installation outcomes? (If this has already been explained I apologize >> f

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri February 22 2008 12:55:31 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies > > and leaving everyone on tenterhooks as to whether it will change > > installation outcomes? (If this has already been explained I apologize > > for overlooking it.) >

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??"): > You're speaking of something that you have not understood. The order > of packages listed in an OR has not changed... I am (of course) aware > that the order has a meaning

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:55:31PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > > > causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. > > Raphael, > > What please is the benefit

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > > causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. > > Raphael, > > What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies > and leaving everyone on

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:49:32PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:48 +0100 > Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > > > Otavio Salvador <[EMA

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri February 22 2008 11:50:37 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > As I said, it's a know issue and we need to fix it however it would be > > nice to not get the problem worse changing the package dependencies > > ordering at build time, at least for now. > >

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > "Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then having a unique, well-defined order of packages in Depends is a > > good idea. If packages aren't sorted their order is undefined (not all > > of the dependencies are added by hands, many of them com

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Minor correction for my example 2: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Note that liblapack.so.3 (both > versions) requires libblas.so.3; but liblapack.so.3 from lapack3 can use > either version of libblas, while liblapack.so.3 from atlas3-base needs > the libblas.so.3 from atlas3-base-dev.

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, first let me apologize to Norbert that my original email was unclear: it is indeed true, as Raphael notes, that dpkg-deb (or whatever) is NOT changing the order of individual packages within an OR'ed set, only of the packages (or OR'ed sets of packages) separated by commas. Raphael Hertzog wr

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:48 +0100 Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > > As I said, for APT, the order has mea

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > > > apt-get install foo bar > > > > Is compl

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2/22/08, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. >> >> apt-get install foo bar >> >> Is completely different of >> >> apt-get install bar foo > > Then having a unique, well-defined ord

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > > > apt-get install foo bar > > > > Is completely different of > > > > apt-

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > apt-get install foo bar > > Is completely different of > > apt-get install bar foo Could you please elaborate on this? I know for sure that Pre-D

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Sergei Golovan
On 2/22/08, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > apt-get install foo bar > > Is completely different of > > apt-get install bar foo Then having a unique, well-defined order of packages in Depends is a good idea. If packages aren'

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Please, revert this change. > > No. I don't see any good reason for that: > > 1/ I have yet to see a major breakage due to that, the worst has > been changed dependencies on a built package due to choices

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > I can understand it might change the list of packages pulled, but both set >> > are supposed to work since that what dependencies are expressing. If you >>

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Raphael, On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > You're speaking of something that you have not understood. The order > of packages listed in an OR has not changed... I am (of course) aware > that the order has a meaning in that case. That is what could be easily understood of the previou

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I can understand it might change the list of packages pulled, but both set > > are supposed to work since that what dependencies are expressing. If you > > I disagree. Sometimes alternatives are something

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I can understand it might change the list of packages pulled, but both set > are supposed to work since that what dependencies are expressing. If you I disagree. Sometimes alternatives are something we put in to help transition. We have ... texl

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I've just noticed that packages I've built recently have had the list of > Depends reorganized into ASCIIbetical order in the generated binary > .debs. I guess this was the next logical step after having dpkg-dev > re-order Build-Depends internal

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In some cases, particularly when the Depends can be satisfied by > different sets of alternatives, this change could have the effect of > changing the packages actually pulled in by apt-get or aptitude. I will > be happy to post a couple such examp

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 07:52:04PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 01:29:19PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:12:25PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > > Rather 'chmod +x /usr/bin/make' according to the error message. Weird. > > > > It is a confusi

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 August 2002 20:03, Paul Cupis wrote: > On Sunday 11 August 2002 18:52, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > % chmod a-x debian/rules > > *Ahem* > > chmod a+x debian/rules Never mind. /me smacks himself Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 11/08/2002 Daniel Kobras wrote: > % chmod a+x debian/rules > % sudo chmod a-x /usr/bin/make First line right, second is moronic. /usr/bin/make is a binary, it must be executable. bye mejo

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 August 2002 18:52, Daniel Kobras wrote: > % chmod a-x debian/rules *Ahem* chmod a+x debian/rules Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9VrUQIzuKV+SHX/kRAuugAJ9rpyEw

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 01:29:19PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:12:25PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > Rather 'chmod +x /usr/bin/make' according to the error message. Weird. > > It is a confusing (confused) error message. The permission problem is with > the script,

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:12:25PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:05:23PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > > > > chmod +x debian/rules > > Rather 'chmod +x /usr/bin/make' according to the error message. Weird. It is a confusing (confused) error message. The permission p

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:54:34PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > Could someone please help me interpret this clisp 2.28 build error: > > $dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is clisp > dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1:2.28-1 > dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot error

2002-08-11 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Bart Schuller, >> sh: debian/rules: /usr/bin/make: bad interpreter: Permission denied > > chmod +x debian/rules Of course! Thanks Bart and Daniel. The resulting diff of debian/rules to compile in POSIX regular expression support for CLISP is below. 28a29 > --with-module=rege

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-21 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Michael Meskes wrote: : : Heiko Schlittermann writes: : > Perhaps someone should release dpkg_1.4.1 ... If there are no : > voluntaries, I'd do it. : : But please name it 1.4.0.1 (as Ian proposed). :-) yea, it was a typo -- I meant 1.4.0.1 :-) : Anyway, there's another nasty problem with dpkg-

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-21 Thread llucius
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > > > @@ -710,6 +710,7 @@ > > "listed by tar as \`$_'"); > > $fn= $filesinarchive[$efix++]; $mode= $1; > > if ($mode =~ m/^l/) { $_ =~ s/ -\> .*//; } > > +if (/

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-21 Thread Dominik Kubla
Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Yes, dpkg-source bails out if tar reports hardlinks: And if tar converts non ascii-characters in file names to octal representation. This happens with the kbd package which has a file with a Unicode-encoded name for demonstration purposes. I have already reported this

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-21 Thread Michael Meskes
Heiko Schlittermann writes: > Perhaps someone should release dpkg_1.4.1 ... If there are no > voluntaries, I'd do it. But please name it 1.4.0.1 (as Ian proposed). :-) Anyway, there's another nasty problem with dpkg-buildpackage, namely that is doesn't quote the commands executed via $rootcomman

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-20 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Michael Meskes wrote: : : > dpkg-source -b joe-2.8 : > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz : > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz : > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected : > object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- roo

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > @@ -710,6 +710,7 @@ > "listed by tar as \`$_'"); > $fn= $filesinarchive[$efix++]; $mode= $1; > if ($mode =~ m/^l/) { $_ =~ s/ -\> .*//; } > +if (/ link to /) { $_ =~ s/ link to .*//; } > substr

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-20 Thread llucius
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > : If you figure out what's going on here can you let me know? I've run > : into the same problem while rebuilding for m68kers and was unable to > : determine the cause. > > Until Ian is back, you'll might use my diff as appended > Heiko Coo

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-20 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
llucius wrote: : : On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: : > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz : > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz : > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected : > object listed by tar as `-rw-r

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: > > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected > > object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- root/users0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 > > joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc link to joe-2.8.orig/.jmacsrc', expected > > `joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc' > > dpkg-

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-20 Thread Michael Meskes
Dale Scheetz writes: > > I am converting the joe package to the new source format and have run into > a strange problem. The first time I run dpkg-buildpackage the .orig tree > is tarred up ok. The second time I run it, it tries to use the tar.gz file > created in the previous run but fails, givin

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I am converting the joe package to the new source format and have run into > > a strange problem. > > What version of tar are you using? tar 1.11.11 is a beta that changes > tar's behavior in all sorts of terr

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-19 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I am converting the joe package to the new source format and have run into > a strange problem. What version of tar are you using? tar 1.11.11 is a beta that changes tar's behavior in all sorts of terrible ways. GNU accidentally released it and then wi

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

1996-09-19 Thread llucius
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > dpkg-source -b joe-2.8 > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected > object listed by tar as `-rw-r-

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions"): > On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If you get this message [deleted] > > you should upgrade your cpio. [...] > > This resolved the problem for me. At least at this point I can unpack &g

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > If you get this message: > > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./exmh_1.6.9.orig.tar.gz' contains object with > newline in its name > (exmh-1.6.9.orig/?exmh-1.6.9.orig/exmh.README?exmh-1.6.9.orig/COPYRIGHT?exmh-1.6.9.orig/e...(rest > of output deleted) > >

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-30 Thread Ian Jackson
If you get this message: dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./exmh_1.6.9.orig.tar.gz' contains object with newline in its name (exmh-1.6.9.orig/?exmh-1.6.9.orig/exmh.README?exmh-1.6.9.orig/COPYRIGHT?exmh-1.6.9.orig/e...(rest of output deleted) You should upgrade your cpio. Unfortunately the (Debian

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Karl Sackett writes ("dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions"): > Regarding the -r option for dpkg-buildpackage, are there any > examples of what's called for here? Is the gain-root-command > something each developer provides for himself, or is there a command > or shell somewhere that performs t