Re: DebDelta Package Broken by Python3.9

2020-12-12 Thread Calum McConnell
gt; to > > fix it. > You can prepare a NMU yourself and ask for sponsorship as usual. I have an NMU ready for review: could you or someone else take a look at it? It is located at https://mentors.debian.net/package/debdelta/. This is my first NMU, so I don't know if everythi

Re: DebDelta Package Broken by Python3.9

2020-12-09 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 12:52:30PM -0500, Calum McConnell wrote: > Hi all, > I just wanted to note the breakage, and ask for an NMU. I have prepared > and uploaded a patch, both to Salsa and to the BTS, and it has been a few > days without any response. The patch is very simple: just replace all

DebDelta Package Broken by Python3.9

2020-12-09 Thread Calum McConnell
Hi all, I just wanted to note the breakage, and ask for an NMU. I have prepared and uploaded a patch, both to Salsa and to the BTS, and it has been a few days without any response. The patch is very simple: just replace all occurences of isAlive() with is_alive(), and the package works.  I am not

new debdelta gpg key

2012-08-25 Thread A Mennucc
dear all, sorry, I had completely forgotten that the debdelta signing key was to expire on 20th August; I have issued a new one; to import it, save it from attachment and issue, as root # gpg --home /etc/debdelta/gnupg/ --import 2012_signed.key I will upload a new 'debdelta' package

debdelta forensic

2011-12-06 Thread A Mennucc
dear all, I just uploaded 'debdelta' version 0.45, that has a better implementation of error logs , and a provision for (automatically) sending them to the main server (where I will be able to look at them) . Brief explanation. A 'forensic file' is a file listing the content

Re: OK, Re: need a server for debdelta repository

2011-05-09 Thread A Mennucc
am writing documentation, it is at http://debdelta.debian.net/html/index.html (it is still work in progress); I just added a section 3.9 that may be of interest; I sent an email debian-dak@l.d.o . There will also be a session at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-o-debdelta/ i

new experimental debdelta feature --format=unzipped

2011-05-04 Thread A Mennucc
Dear all, I just uploaded into experimental a new version 0.42exp of debdelta ( you may find some binaries also in [3] ). This version adds an experimental feature : if you call 'debdelta-upgrade' with the option '--format=unzipped' , then in the recreated deb the data.

Re: OK, Re: need a server for debdelta repository

2011-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 06:03:42PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > The debdelta repository 'debdeltas.debian.net' has a new home! I thank > a lot 'md' for hosting it in ftp.linux.it; and also 'ansgar' , > 'formorer' for offering a host. > > With

OK, Re: need a server for debdelta repository

2011-05-03 Thread A Mennucc
The debdelta repository 'debdeltas.debian.net' has a new home! I thank a lot 'md' for hosting it in ftp.linux.it; and also 'ansgar' , 'formorer' for offering a host. With a new server, the service should also be better: deltas should be available no more

Re: need a server for debdelta repository

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Wirt
A Mennucc schrieb am Tuesday, den 03. May 2011: Hi, > the debdelta service is experiencing some problems. > > There are two hosts involved: the first creates the deltas, and the > second is a public http server 'bononia' that serves them (under a >

need a server for debdelta repository

2011-05-03 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi there, the debdelta service is experiencing some problems. There are two hosts involved: the first creates the deltas, and the second is a public http server 'bononia' that serves them (under a virtual host by the CNAME debdeltas.

Re: debdelta back online

2010-09-23 Thread A Mennucc
, so it will be back >> online as soon as it generates all needed deltas. > > Question: How much space does debdelta take? (per architecture?) currently I am creating deltas for amd64 and i386, and for lenny squeeze sid experimental ; there are ~14000 deltas , the total size of de

not yet, Re: debdelta back online

2010-09-23 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22/09/2010 22:46, A Mennucc ha scritto: > due to my PC running out of disk space, no deltas were generated in the > last week It seems that there was another problem: there is broken pdiff in amd64/experimental, so that debmirror was not updating m

Re: debdelta back online

2010-09-23 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 22 September 2010 22:46, A Mennucc wrote: > due to my PC running out of disk space, no deltas were generated in the > last week (while I was absent); I found more space, so it will be back > online as soon as it generates all needed deltas. Question: How much space does debdelta t

debdelta back online

2010-09-22 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dear all, due to my PC running out of disk space, no deltas were generated in the last week (while I was absent); I found more space, so it will be back online as soon as it generates all needed deltas. If you do not know what debdelta is , see http

Re: debdelta, Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Die, 04 Sep 2007, Florent Rougon wrote: >> > Sorry, I can't remember the name of the package. >> >> That must be cm-super. > Yup, cm-super does this trick. I once wanted to undo this and ship the > font files directly, but got quite a lot of requ

Re: debdelta, Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-09-04 Thread Norbert Preining
On Die, 04 Sep 2007, Florent Rougon wrote: > > Sorry, I can't remember the name of the package. > > That must be cm-super. Yup, cm-super does this trick. I once wanted to undo this and ship the font files directly, but got quite a lot of requests why the packages has gotten soo big. >From the ru

Re: debdelta, Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-09-04 Thread Florent Rougon
Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I can't remember the name of the package. That must be cm-super. -- Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debdelta, Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-09-03 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> BTW, I also encountered a strange "bug" : sometimes the md5sums file >> contains MD5 of files that are not shipped. This is printed as a warning >> in my server. If MD5 will become a release goal, this sh

Re: debdelta, Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I also encountered a strange "bug" : sometimes the md5sums file > contains MD5 of files that are not shipped. This is printed as a warning > in my server. If MD5 will become a release goal, this should be > corrected as well : in case, I will send bug r

debdelta, Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-27 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi just for the record : "debdelta" uses md5sums (when available) as a way to speed up delta creation, to rapidly detect if there are any identical files in the archives. So , yes, I (*) would be happy if md5sums where always available

Re: debdelta service back on track

2007-07-20 Thread A Mennucc
> reconstructed by "debpatch" would be different with the original in 2 >> bytes. > > Two bytes? a .deb file is an "ar" archive containing both a control.tar.gz and a data.tar.gz BTW: let me remind that one goal of debdelta is to obtain "perfect reconstruction&qu

Re: debdelta service back on track

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Brown
1g, this changed the .deb files. So a file > reconstructed by "debpatch" would be different with the original in 2 > bytes. Two bytes? > I have added a workaround for that problem in 'debdelta' version 0.21 , > and I have installed it in the server that prepare

debdelta service back on track

2007-07-17 Thread A Mennucc
hi all, about two weeks ago 'debdelta-upgrade' started failing. Unfortunately I was away with (almost) no Internet access. Today I could finally fix the problem. The problem was due to a subtle change in zlib1g: in newer versions, the compressed output has 0x02 instead of 0x00 at the

Re: debdelta

2006-06-09 Thread A Mennucc
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: The command 'debdelta-upgrade' is meant to be run between 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade'; it downloads .debdelta files and recreate the new .deb files from them; always using the *installed* old version of the .deb, and not

Re: debdelta

2006-06-01 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> The command 'debdelta-upgrade' is meant to be run between 'apt-get > update' and 'apt-get upgrade'; it downloads .debdelta files and > recreate the new .deb files from them; always using the *installed* old > version of the .deb, and not the old .deb

Re: debdelta

2006-05-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.31.1706 +0200]: > I have completed a reasonably working version of 'debdelta', a package > suite to compute differences between Debian packages. Nice. I assume you saw http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg02676.h

debdelta

2006-05-31 Thread A Mennucc
Dear Debian people, I have completed a reasonably working version of 'debdelta', a package suite to compute differences between Debian packages. For sake of clarity, let's call '.debdelta' a file that encodes the differences between Debian packages, and '.deb&#

debdelta , Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-20 Thread A Mennucc1
hi I recollected my earlier experiments on computing package diffs, and prepared a package called 'debdelta'. It is available at http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mennucc1/debdelta and also uploaded into experimental. This package contains both a command 'debdelta', to comp