Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
exist) so that we have to help them by generating work for many people and potentially new upgrade problems for everyone – or if we declare them, existing or not, a non-issue at least for the upgrade to trixie. And on a sidenote: I would advise to reconsider interacting with dpkg too casually – but luck is probably on your side in any case. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
able is known to exhibit the required setup). (I will write another mail in another subthread about the finer details of what interacting with dpkg in an upgrade means and what might be problematic if you aren't careful – in general, not just with aliasing) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#990126: unblock: apt-transport-tor/0.5

2021-06-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
anything about it in src:apt code wise, but I think we should at least fix the documentation to give users a helping hand with these transitions. Thanks for considering: unblock apt-transport-tor/0.5 Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ I would offer points regardless, but I don't want

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#863367: libecryptfs-dev: unable to install because of unmet dependency

2017-05-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
y, I guess 'domain knowledge' is involved as we wouldn't be talking if libssl-dev would be a new mail-transport-agent. It would be perfectly clear that it must conflict with the others even if there is no technical reason for it given that the other mail-transport-agents already confli

Bug#854381: unblock: apt/1.4~rc1

2017-02-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
tter to get that huge diff out of the way first and deal with these minor things later. We^WJulian will do as you prefer. ;P Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#782131: (pre-approval) unblock: apt/1.0.9.8

2015-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
h it is kinda unrelated to be honest). The patch is attached there and as one-liney and 'safe' as the rest of this bundle is supposed to be… Thanks and best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#782131: (pre-approval) unblock: apt/1.0.9.8

2015-04-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
.git/log/?h=debian/jessie Thanks for considering an: unblock apt/1.0.9.8 and best regards David Kalnischkies (for the APT team) commit d5cf8851753dde4f45bfd3b48fcdf34247a8752a Author: David Kalnischkies Date: Tue Apr 7 22:34:34 2015 +0200 keyids in "apt-key del" should be case

Bug#775039: pre-approval: apt/1.0.9.6

2015-01-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
kins runs) even through it managed to stay below the radar for months. The regression potential is again non-existent, mostly because this fixes a regression and back then this behaviour worked, it worked for ages. Attached as usual 'git log -p' of the involved commits. Best regards

Bug#773848: unblock: apt/1.0.9.5

2014-12-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
pe for being a bit quicker on the response side again, too, in case you have any concerns; otherwise I hope you enjoy the upload as much as I do (thanks Michael!) and honor us with a: unblock apt/1.0.9.5 Best regards & happy package management days David Kalnischkies commit e5ef23145f0dc6

Bug#769308: pre-approval: apt/1.0.9.4

2014-12-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
or everyone following along looking for a diff, the final diff of 1.0.9.3 -> 1.0.9.4 is probably best viewed in chunks via git, e.g.: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/log/ Thanks & best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#769308: pre-approval: apt/1.0.9.4

2014-11-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
to 1.0.9.5 for now – just so you know. Best regards David Kalnischkies commit d94082d5b98cdc10f9bc71377229bb57489ffaab Author: David Kalnischkies Date: Mon Nov 10 17:21:57 2014 +0100 change codenames to jessie as stable POV in docs diff --git a/doc/apt-verbatim.ent b/doc/apt-verbatim.ent index

Re: apt for jessie

2014-11-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
the backlog. It wouldn't be secret if it could be easily found. In the end, it might just be an euphemism for "a release assistant tried to blackmail me, so I thought it is just to return the favor". ;) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt for jessie

2014-10-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
p! (picture the sweet 16th year old apt with big wet eyes saying that) Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] I don't want to sound bitter or throw dirt, but it feels kinda ironic that apt is punished for providing a workinprogress shared library for its dependencies while other tools do

Bug#692036: unlock apt/0.9.7.6

2012-11-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
s to unreleased packages) So far from me about the current episode. Another episode is in production, so if you are a fan of the show you can soon enjoy another one … (sorry about that for the rest, but I get the impression it is better to have multiple "small" compared to one giant blob). unblock apt/0.9.7.6 Thanks for watching & best regards David Kalnischkies apt-unblock-0.9.7.6.diff Description: Binary data

Bug#687492: unblock: aptitude/0.6.8.2-1 (pre-approve)

2012-10-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
has already said is that derivatives can override this option with a configuration file which e.g. Ubuntu does already. (They don't ship [complete?] changelog files anymore as far as I know, so the command is a bit more useful for them than it is for us here) Best regards David Kalnischkies

Re: Bug#678227: Bug#641967: Apt downloads all description translations

2012-09-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > David Kalnischkies, le Thu 30 Aug 2012 19:43:21 +0200, a écrit : >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> > We could add a switch to apt-cdrom to copy all configured locales for >> &

Re: Bug#678227: Bug#641967: Apt downloads all description translations

2012-08-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
hing "acquire::languages set" is a bit flaky through, so maybe just if LANG != "C" OR files in /var/lib/apt/lists (and "C.UTF-8" and "POSIX", right?) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Bug#641967: Apt downloads all description translations

2012-08-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
en't in any way less supported than before by this. The very same config option used since ever to disable the download of Translation files is still supported. In a way, it is even better supported as you have the option of getting right of -en, too, saving even more MB. Best regards Dav

Re: Bug#685192: apt: redirection handling changes in 0.9.4 may break aptitude

2012-08-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
lf as essential), so the solution we arrive at is more or less the same - good to know that at least sometimes theory isn't disproved by the implementation. :) Scheduled for 0.9.7.5 ETA: After we know what will happen with 0.9.7.4 (#685155) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNS

Re: Bug#685192: apt: redirection handling changes in 0.9.4 may break aptitude

2012-08-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
work access to get packages from somewhere else… Same case if s/he prefers to disable installation of recommends. And with this back to the initial topic: Adding a recommends, okay? Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caaz6_fbarunnd6olmrleamds95sujrtm5v9vavk3vsgr3ro...@mail.gmail.com

Bug#685155: unblock: apt/0.9.7.4

2012-08-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
n a row by a backup-file, which is a bit silly … Attached is a more complete diff (but still without translations), but if you want the complete diff or if you have any additional questions feel free to ask of course (just keep deity@ cc'ed please). unblock apt/0.9.7.4 Thanks for your work & best regards David Kalnischkies unblock-apt-0.9.7.4.diff Description: Binary data

Bug#682307: unblock: apt/0.9.7.2

2012-07-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
of the suite is potentially dangerous] and while we have a central place to switch the names we would need to know them first …) Thanks for your work & best regards David Kalnischkies unblock-apt-0.9.7.1--0.9.7.2.diff Description: Binary data

debian-archive-keyring/experimental: fragments instead of symlinks?

2011-10-31 Thread David Kalnischkies
o far and it includes two fixmes, so it's more of a proof of concept to get the ball rolling… Best regards David Kalnischkies, who wanted to send that months ago… P.S.: I am not subscribed to release-lists, so feel free to cc me. Thanks. diff -ru debian-archive-keyring-2011.10.23/debian/ch

Re: pu: package apt/0.8.10.3+squeeze1

2011-04-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
ected is the Acquire::GzipIndexes option (don't uncompress Packages files and co but use them directly: Saves space, decreases performance). Further more the method is used to check that the size of a file is not zero in various places, so we have just luck that zero is the same everywhere… Best r

Bug#611117: unblock: apt/0.8.10.3

2011-01-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 21:07, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 19:58 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> Potential in this regard as it is save as long as only one section >> is worked on in the apt-ftparchive generate run but as soon as >> multiple sec

Bug#611117: unblock: apt/0.8.10.3

2011-01-29 Thread David Kalnischkies
he issue with mutt and debconf translations). In the es case the translator fixed also two fuzzy strings - we could remove this, but as one of the strings is the usage message of apt-get (which had only a line-addition) we figured that it should be okay to fix this as well, but we can revert this if y

Re: Bug#592900: Updating system-config-printer

2010-09-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/9/13 Michael Biebl : > On 06.09.2010 22:54, David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> A question which i have in mind since i read that the mentioned >> packages are not compatible as they are in different namespaces: >> Is this breaks just here to remove the package from the sys

Re: Re: Bug#592900: Updating system-config-printer

2010-09-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi all, 2010/9/6 Julien Cristau : > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 14:35:39 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> As for hal-cups-utils, I’ve uploaded the fixed meta-gnome2, which has >> been sitting in the SVN all the while. >> > Looks like that helped, I now get: [snip] (Julien and I had discussed it a

Re: Bug#591881: vlc-nox: package fails to upgrade properly from lenny

2010-08-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/8/27 Reinhard Tartler : > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:29:43 (CEST), David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> 2010/8/26 Reinhard Tartler : >>> I'm still waiting for an answer on this question. Is this issue solved >>> with the latest upload, or do you prefer me t

Re: Bug#591881: vlc-nox: package fails to upgrade properly from lenny

2010-08-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
safely place bets on the possibility that it will break…) We can consider this after squeeze then we have ~2 years of testing before shipping it… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Bug#579795: apt transition

2010-08-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
nd at least part of the "problem"… Fixing it would mean that debian-archive-keyring doesn't need gpg to install the keyring in APT and APT just needs gpgv for apt-secure dropping gnupg from important (at least in APTs dependency chain)… Best regards, David Kalnischkies P.S.:

Re: Please help a apt ABI break by providing bin-NMUs

2010-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
/suggestion is welcomed) I also want to emphasis that this is an ABI break - not an API break, so in an ideal world all rdepends just need to be rebuild. I tried this in the past weeks a few times with the bigger users² and so far everything builds and works as expected. Best regards / Mit

Re: Please help a apt ABI break by providing bin-NMUs

2010-03-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
t is more likely that it will eat your kids in an unwatched moment… but it is hopefully possible to get at least the overall idea. Best regads / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Please help a apt ABI break by providing bin-NMUs

2010-03-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
e todo to give it a renewal) Comments are obviously still welcomed. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David Kalnischkies [0] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~donkult/apt/sid/annotate/head%3A/README.MultiArch [1] http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/apt/debian-sid/revision/1875.1.47 [2] http://l