Acknowledgement sent to <swift@bu.edu>:
New bug report received and filed, but not forwarded.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: Subject: Bug#9085: Acknowledgement of QUIET report (was: dpkg: bottom status lines confusing) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <199704260315.XAA03170@localhost.bu.edu> References: <199704260315.XAA03170@localhost.bu.edu> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It has not been forwarded to the developers or their mailing list; you should ensure that the developers are aware of the problem you have entered into the system - preferably quoting the bug reference number, #9085. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 9085-quiet@bugs.debian.org (and *not* to quiet@bugs.debian.org). Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, Debian bug tracking system)   Received: (at quiet) by bugs.debian.org; 26 Apr 1997 03:16:52 +0000 Received: (qmail 26540 invoked from network); 26 Apr 1997 03:16:45 -0000 Received: from ppp-87-32.bu.edu (HELO localhost.bu.edu) (128.197.8.244) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 1997 03:16:31 -0000 Received: (from swift@localhost) by localhost.bu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA03170; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:15:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:15:41 -0400 Message-Id: <199704260315.XAA03170@localhost.bu.edu> From: Subject: dpkg: bottom status lines confusing To: quiet@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 2.93 Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.8 Suppose I am looking at the adduser package line. When paging through the various information types with the `i' key, I get the following two status lines: "installed control info for adduser" "available version of control info for adduser" First: either of the following wordings are superior to the second line; I prefer the first below because it is parallel, but it is perhaps harder to understand anyway: "available version control info for adduser" "control info for available version of adduser" Second: when the installed and available versions of adduser are reported to be identical in the top half of the dselect window, then I ought to see the same control info on each of the two bottom panels mentioned. In fact I do not, the "available version" seems to be a superset with a few more fields. -- System Information Debian Release: 1.3 Kernel Version: Linux localhost 2.0.30 #1 Thu Apr 24 13:34:49 EDT 1997 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: libc5 Version: 5.4.23-2 ncurses3.0 Version: 1.9.9e-1   Changed bug title. Request was from Matthew Swift <swift@bu.edu> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 28 Apr 1997 16:05:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 26848 invoked from network); 28 Apr 1997 16:05:18 -0000 Received: from ppp-95-11.bu.edu (HELO localhost.BU.EDU) (128.197.9.171) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 28 Apr 1997 16:05:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.BU.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28384 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:04:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199704281604.MAA28384@localhost.BU.EDU> Reply-to: swift@alum.mit.edu To: control@bugs.debian.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:04:53 -0400 From: Matthew Swift retitle 9085 dpkg: bottom status lines cnfusing   Changed Bug title. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 1 Jul 2002 14:07:00 +0000 From joy@gkvk.hr Mon Jul 01 09:07:00 2002 Return-path: Received: from cibalia.gkvk.hr [161.53.211.3] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 17P1pU-0006u6-00; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:07:00 -0500 Received: from joy by cibalia.gkvk.hr with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17P1qG-0003jx-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:07:48 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:07:48 +0200 To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: the first wave of mass reassigning to dselect Message-ID: <20020701140748.GA12922@cibalia.gkvk.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Josip Rodin Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org reassign 2834 dselect retitle 7056 dselect nfs method does no package ordering reassign 7056 dselect retitle 7181 dselect should install packages ordered by priority reassign 7181 dselect reassign 8340 dselect retitle 8848 does not restore old color in xterm reassign 8848 dselect retitle 9085 bottom status lines confusing reassign 9085 dselect reassign 13303 dselect retitle 16020 "Internal error. No arguments given for -e. Press Return." reassign 16020 dselect retitle 16855 e2fsprogsg listed as obsolete, e2fsprogs's Provides/Replaces/Conflicts ineffective reassign 16855 dselect reassign 21134 dselect retitle 21659 dselect doesn't show descriptions for obsolete packages reassign 21659 dselect reassign 21758 dselect close 23322 reopen 23322 Janos Vegh retitle 23322 absolute path not accepted (dpkg-ftp|http?) reassign 23322 dselect retitle 23839 installed packages info set to reassign 23839 dselect retitle 25836 update methods should ask whether you want to merge to the available file reassign 25836 dselect reassign 27284 dselect reassign 27705 dselect retitle 29939 dpkg partially deleted required libraries for pppd and was unable to replace them retitle 30972 RMS dislikes language of the prompt for non-free CDs reassign 30972 dselect reassign 31569 dselect complained that all files had a wrong size retitle 31878 dselect attempts to enforce Suggests: reassign 31878 dselect reassign 32595 dselect reassign 34575 dselect reassign 35654 dselect reassign 37592 dselect reassign 41196 dpkg-multicd retitle 46749 clear SA_INTERRUPT reassign 46749 dselect retitle 55097 dselect with scan is confused if 2 version of same pkg exist reassign 55097 dselect retitle 58107 dselect: can't change mark of an installed package from purge to remove reassign 58107 dselect retitle 75088 dpkg: parse error in file /var/lib/dpkg/status reassign 87434 dselect severity 107449 wishlist tag 107449 wontfix reassign 107586 dselect retitle 115442 The dividing/bottom line doesn't work if dselect runs in xterm reassign 115442 dselect retitle 115445 Dselect cleans up screen incorrectly reassign 115445 dselect retitle 119326 dselect says: 'dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success' and exits, in screen re-attaching reassign 119326 dselect retitle 120086 there's only only room for 12 characters in the package name on 80x25 severity 120086 minor reassign 120086 dselect retitle 120562 dselect: key bindings have changed but "k" keystrokes screen has not reassign 120562 dselect retitle 121722 Dselect: keys 'o' and 'O' (ordering) don't work in a sub-list page reassign 121722 dselect retitle 130798 dselect loops getting EOF on stdin reassign 130798 dselect severity 130888 minor retitle 87665 dselect has inconsistent background colouring reassign 87665 dselect retitle 106033 dselect: successful search "/" blinks screen, simulates bouncing return key reassign 106033 dselect reassign 108161 dselect reassign 117783 dselect reassign 1555 dselect reassign 4394 dselect reassign 4448 dselect reassign 4989 dselect reassign 6019 dselect retitle 6486 should have a Tk version, mention multiple available versions etc reassign 6486 dselect reassign 6714 dselect reassign 13500 dselect reassign 15531 dselect reassign 16996 dpkg-ftp reassign 25173 dselect reassign 31311 dselect retitle 32489 dselect should pause after remove or config reassign 32489 dselect reassign 32542 dselect reassign 42475 dselect retitle 42962 rsync method would be useful reassign 42962 dselect retitle 46825 dselect unruly with 4000 packages reassign 46825 dselect reassign 53377 dselect retitle 54883 list packages from unstable in a different section reassign 54883 dselect reassign 56924 dselect reassign 78536 dselect retitle 115446 Inconvenient dependency resolution when many packages should be put on hold reassign 115446 dselect severity 122910 minor -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.   Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dselect'. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 1 Jul 2002 14:07:00 +0000 From joy@gkvk.hr Mon Jul 01 09:07:00 2002 Return-path: Received: from cibalia.gkvk.hr [161.53.211.3] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 17P1pU-0006u6-00; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:07:00 -0500 Received: from joy by cibalia.gkvk.hr with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17P1qG-0003jx-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:07:48 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:07:48 +0200 To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: the first wave of mass reassigning to dselect Message-ID: <20020701140748.GA12922@cibalia.gkvk.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Josip Rodin Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org reassign 2834 dselect retitle 7056 dselect nfs method does no package ordering reassign 7056 dselect retitle 7181 dselect should install packages ordered by priority reassign 7181 dselect reassign 8340 dselect retitle 8848 does not restore old color in xterm reassign 8848 dselect retitle 9085 bottom status lines confusing reassign 9085 dselect reassign 13303 dselect retitle 16020 "Internal error. No arguments given for -e. Press Return." reassign 16020 dselect retitle 16855 e2fsprogsg listed as obsolete, e2fsprogs's Provides/Replaces/Conflicts ineffective reassign 16855 dselect reassign 21134 dselect retitle 21659 dselect doesn't show descriptions for obsolete packages reassign 21659 dselect reassign 21758 dselect close 23322 reopen 23322 Janos Vegh retitle 23322 absolute path not accepted (dpkg-ftp|http?) reassign 23322 dselect retitle 23839 installed packages info set to reassign 23839 dselect retitle 25836 update methods should ask whether you want to merge to the available file reassign 25836 dselect reassign 27284 dselect reassign 27705 dselect retitle 29939 dpkg partially deleted required libraries for pppd and was unable to replace them retitle 30972 RMS dislikes language of the prompt for non-free CDs reassign 30972 dselect reassign 31569 dselect complained that all files had a wrong size retitle 31878 dselect attempts to enforce Suggests: reassign 31878 dselect reassign 32595 dselect reassign 34575 dselect reassign 35654 dselect reassign 37592 dselect reassign 41196 dpkg-multicd retitle 46749 clear SA_INTERRUPT reassign 46749 dselect retitle 55097 dselect with scan is confused if 2 version of same pkg exist reassign 55097 dselect retitle 58107 dselect: can't change mark of an installed package from purge to remove reassign 58107 dselect retitle 75088 dpkg: parse error in file /var/lib/dpkg/status reassign 87434 dselect severity 107449 wishlist tag 107449 wontfix reassign 107586 dselect retitle 115442 The dividing/bottom line doesn't work if dselect runs in xterm reassign 115442 dselect retitle 115445 Dselect cleans up screen incorrectly reassign 115445 dselect retitle 119326 dselect says: 'dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success' and exits, in screen re-attaching reassign 119326 dselect retitle 120086 there's only only room for 12 characters in the package name on 80x25 severity 120086 minor reassign 120086 dselect retitle 120562 dselect: key bindings have changed but "k" keystrokes screen has not reassign 120562 dselect retitle 121722 Dselect: keys 'o' and 'O' (ordering) don't work in a sub-list page reassign 121722 dselect retitle 130798 dselect loops getting EOF on stdin reassign 130798 dselect severity 130888 minor retitle 87665 dselect has inconsistent background colouring reassign 87665 dselect retitle 106033 dselect: successful search "/" blinks screen, simulates bouncing return key reassign 106033 dselect reassign 108161 dselect reassign 117783 dselect reassign 1555 dselect reassign 4394 dselect reassign 4448 dselect reassign 4989 dselect reassign 6019 dselect retitle 6486 should have a Tk version, mention multiple available versions etc reassign 6486 dselect reassign 6714 dselect reassign 13500 dselect reassign 15531 dselect reassign 16996 dpkg-ftp reassign 25173 dselect reassign 31311 dselect retitle 32489 dselect should pause after remove or config reassign 32489 dselect reassign 32542 dselect reassign 42475 dselect retitle 42962 rsync method would be useful reassign 42962 dselect retitle 46825 dselect unruly with 4000 packages reassign 46825 dselect reassign 53377 dselect retitle 54883 list packages from unstable in a different section reassign 54883 dselect reassign 56924 dselect reassign 78536 dselect retitle 115446 Inconvenient dependency resolution when many packages should be put on hold reassign 115446 dselect severity 122910 minor -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.   Bug closed, send any further explanations to <swift@bu.edu> Request was from Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 17 Oct 2002 00:52:21 +0000 From swift@alum.mit.edu Wed Oct 16 19:52:20 2002 Return-path: Received: from pool-68-160-53-71.bos.east.verizon.net (beth.swift.xxx) [68.160.53.71] (root) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 181ytf-0005Rt-00; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:52:19 -0500 Received: from beth.swift.xxx (swift@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beth.swift.xxx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) with ESMTP id g9H0qIw0014744 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:52:18 -0400 Received: (from swift@localhost) by beth.swift.xxx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) id g9H0qI62014742; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:52:18 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: beth.swift.xxx: swift set sender to swift@alum.mit.edu using -f To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: changing originator's email From: Matt Swift Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:52:18 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: close 9085 reopen 9085 ! stop I am the originator of this very old report. The originating email address will soon no longer be valid, however, so I am changing it to a current one. In order to accomplish this, I must close and reopen the bug.   Bug reopened, originator set to Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>. Request was from Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 17 Oct 2002 00:52:21 +0000 From swift@alum.mit.edu Wed Oct 16 19:52:20 2002 Return-path: Received: from pool-68-160-53-71.bos.east.verizon.net (beth.swift.xxx) [68.160.53.71] (root) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 181ytf-0005Rt-00; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:52:19 -0500 Received: from beth.swift.xxx (swift@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beth.swift.xxx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) with ESMTP id g9H0qIw0014744 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:52:18 -0400 Received: (from swift@localhost) by beth.swift.xxx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) id g9H0qI62014742; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:52:18 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: beth.swift.xxx: swift set sender to swift@alum.mit.edu using -f To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: changing originator's email From: Matt Swift Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:52:18 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: close 9085 reopen 9085 ! stop I am the originator of this very old report. The originating email address will soon no longer be valid, however, so I am changing it to a current one. In order to accomplish this, I must close and reopen the bug.   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dpkg Development <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>:
Bug#9085; Package dselect.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgDpkg Development  X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#9085: bottom line status confusing Reply-To: Alfie Costa , 9085@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Alfie Costa Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Dpkg Development Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 21:18:12 UTC Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@bugs.debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 9085 X-Debian-PR-Package: dselect X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool by 9085-submit@bugs.debian.org id=B9085.106003149413895 (code B ref 9085); Mon, 04 Aug 2003 21:18:12 UTC Received: (at 9085) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Aug 2003 21:11:34 +0000 Received: from imap.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net) [213.165.64.20] by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 19jmc6-0003bG-00; Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:11:30 -0500 Received: (qmail 21975 invoked by uid 65534); 4 Aug 2003 21:11:27 -0000 Received: from dialup-67.75.25.19.Dial1.Boston1.Level3.net (EHLO gmx.net) (67.75.25.19) by mail.gmx.net (mp025) with SMTP; 04 Aug 2003 23:11:27 +0200 Message-ID: <3F2ECCDC.109@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:15:08 -0400 From: Alfie Costa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030618 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9085@bugs.debian.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: 9085@bugs.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=HAS_PACKAGE,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_07_20 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_07_20 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Wow, this bug is 6 years old... M. Swift suggested replacing this status line: available version of control info for adduser ...for clarity's sake, with one of these two: available version control info for adduser (no "of") control info for available version of adduser (added an "of" and reordered.) Some comments... If, in 'dselect', I hilite 'adduser' (or any package) the bottom line of the screen says: description of adduser -- 52%, press d for more. ...then if I hit the 'i' key, it says: installed control info for adduser -- 34%, press d for more. ...hit 'i' again, it says: available version of control info for adduser -- 33%, press d for more. Putting all three together may show the ugliness better: 1 description of adduser -- 52%, press d for more. 2 installed control info for adduser -- 34%, press d for more. 3 available version of control info for adduser -- 33%, press d for more. Look how the word 'adduser' moves around. In line #1 it's the third word, in line #2 it's the fifth, in line #3 it's the sixth. Same information, but moving it around tires the user. (Even the preposition changes needlessly. Line #1 has "OF adduser", lines #2-3 have "FOR adduser". Is it "of" or "for"? -- pick one or the other and be consistent.) Look how the "%xx, press d for more." moves around too. Suggestions: Move the "%xx, press d for more." to one place and keep it there -- such as the far right of the screen. Note however, that if the user pages down to the bottom, it says: description of adduser -- 100%, press u to go back. Unfortunately the widths don't quite match... 1 press d for more. 2 press u to go back. Therefore to keep those strings from jumping around the bottom right of the screen, string #1 should be left-justified so it always matches string #2. Or both could be combined into one prompt, such as: press d or u for page up/down Next there's the text itself, here it is again, without the page up/down prompts: 1 description of adduser 2 installed control info for adduser 3 available version of control info for adduser And here's what M. Swift suggested: description of adduser installed control info for adduser available version control info for adduser Get rid of the string 'adduser', because it's already on the screen enough. First the user sees 'adduser' on the hi-lit package selection line: *** Imp base adduser 3.50 3.50 Add and remove users and ...second, 'adduser' is on the blue seperator line: adduser installed ; install (was: install). Important ...and third 'adduser' is the first line of the 'info' box, which is either of these two lines: adduser - Add and remove users and groups Package: adduser That's three 'adduser's -- four is too many. I suggest: 1 Description 2 Control info of installed version 3 Control info of available version Now in lines #2-3 the text won't jump around. Furthermore the strings should be slightly indented, so they aren't flush with the info box text. Example of how the bottom half of the screen would look... Before: --------- adduser installed ; install (was: install). Important adduser - Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. o Adduser can create new users and groups and add existing users to existing groups. o Deluser can remove users and groups and remove users from a given group. description of adduser -- 52%, press d for more. --------- After: --------- adduser installed ; install (was: install). Important adduser - Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. o Adduser can create new users and groups and add existing users to existing groups. o Deluser can remove users and groups and remove users from a given group. Description 52%, press d or u for pageup/down --------- M. Swift's second point was that when the installed and available versions are the same, their control info should be the same too -- because, he says, the latter is superset of the former. This is not strictly correct... some of the control info (e.g. "Status: install ok installed") is not in the available info, and vice versa (e.g. " MD5sum: 0aef8e730deadce4464d368972fd771b"). It might be better if those screens were less redundant though. Perhaps when the installed and available versions where the same then the description should only be on the first screen, and the available info shouldn't show anything in the control info. That way the difference would leap right out at the user, rather than requiring the user having to wade through all that redundant info. Examples of how the above changes would look: Description: --------- adduser - Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. [stuff deleted] --------- Installed info: --------- Package: adduser Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: base Installed-Size: 280 Maintainer: Roland Bauerschmidt Version: 3.50 Depends: perl-base (>= 5.6.0), passwd (>= 961025), debconf Suggests: liblocale-gettext-perl, perl-modules Conffiles: /etc/deluser.conf bf73b4e76066381cd3caf80369ce1d0e Description: Add and remove users and groups --------- Available info: --------- Architecture: all Filename: pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.49_all.deb Size: 77474 MD5sum: 0aef8e730deadce4464d368972fd771b --------- Of course the above would be all wrong if the installed and available versions were different, but that could stay the way it is now. (Alas, I'm too tired to think of more changes.) Fatigue aside, hope this helps...   Acknowledgement sent to Alfie Costa <agcosta@gmx.net>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Dpkg Development <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>.   -t  X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Alfie Costa Subject: Bug#9085: Info received (was bottom line status confusing) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3F2ECCDC.109@gmx.net> References: <3F2ECCDC.109@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk X-Debian-PR-Message: ack-info 9085 X-Debian-PR-Package: dselect X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Dpkg Development If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 9085@bugs.debian.org, as before. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)   Received: (at 9085) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Aug 2003 21:11:34 +0000 From agcosta@gmx.net Mon Aug 04 16:11:31 2003 Return-path: Received: from imap.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net) [213.165.64.20] by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 19jmc6-0003bG-00; Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:11:30 -0500 Received: (qmail 21975 invoked by uid 65534); 4 Aug 2003 21:11:27 -0000 Received: from dialup-67.75.25.19.Dial1.Boston1.Level3.net (EHLO gmx.net) (67.75.25.19) by mail.gmx.net (mp025) with SMTP; 04 Aug 2003 23:11:27 +0200 Message-ID: <3F2ECCDC.109@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:15:08 -0400 From: Alfie Costa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030618 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9085@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: bottom line status confusing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: 9085@bugs.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=HAS_PACKAGE,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_07_20 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_07_20 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Wow, this bug is 6 years old... M. Swift suggested replacing this status line: available version of control info for adduser ...for clarity's sake, with one of these two: available version control info for adduser (no "of") control info for available version of adduser (added an "of" and reordered.) Some comments... If, in 'dselect', I hilite 'adduser' (or any package) the bottom line of the screen says: description of adduser -- 52%, press d for more. ...then if I hit the 'i' key, it says: installed control info for adduser -- 34%, press d for more. ...hit 'i' again, it says: available version of control info for adduser -- 33%, press d for more. Putting all three together may show the ugliness better: 1 description of adduser -- 52%, press d for more. 2 installed control info for adduser -- 34%, press d for more. 3 available version of control info for adduser -- 33%, press d for more. Look how the word 'adduser' moves around. In line #1 it's the third word, in line #2 it's the fifth, in line #3 it's the sixth. Same information, but moving it around tires the user. (Even the preposition changes needlessly. Line #1 has "OF adduser", lines #2-3 have "FOR adduser". Is it "of" or "for"? -- pick one or the other and be consistent.) Look how the "%xx, press d for more." moves around too. Suggestions: Move the "%xx, press d for more." to one place and keep it there -- such as the far right of the screen. Note however, that if the user pages down to the bottom, it says: description of adduser -- 100%, press u to go back. Unfortunately the widths don't quite match... 1 press d for more. 2 press u to go back. Therefore to keep those strings from jumping around the bottom right of the screen, string #1 should be left-justified so it always matches string #2. Or both could be combined into one prompt, such as: press d or u for page up/down Next there's the text itself, here it is again, without the page up/down prompts: 1 description of adduser 2 installed control info for adduser 3 available version of control info for adduser And here's what M. Swift suggested: description of adduser installed control info for adduser available version control info for adduser Get rid of the string 'adduser', because it's already on the screen enough. First the user sees 'adduser' on the hi-lit package selection line: *** Imp base adduser 3.50 3.50 Add and remove users and ...second, 'adduser' is on the blue seperator line: adduser installed ; install (was: install). Important ...and third 'adduser' is the first line of the 'info' box, which is either of these two lines: adduser - Add and remove users and groups Package: adduser That's three 'adduser's -- four is too many. I suggest: 1 Description 2 Control info of installed version 3 Control info of available version Now in lines #2-3 the text won't jump around. Furthermore the strings should be slightly indented, so they aren't flush with the info box text. Example of how the bottom half of the screen would look... Before: --------- adduser installed ; install (was: install). Important adduser - Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. o Adduser can create new users and groups and add existing users to existing groups. o Deluser can remove users and groups and remove users from a given group. description of adduser -- 52%, press d for more. --------- After: --------- adduser installed ; install (was: install). Important adduser - Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. o Adduser can create new users and groups and add existing users to existing groups. o Deluser can remove users and groups and remove users from a given group. Description 52%, press d or u for pageup/down --------- M. Swift's second point was that when the installed and available versions are the same, their control info should be the same too -- because, he says, the latter is superset of the former. This is not strictly correct... some of the control info (e.g. "Status: install ok installed") is not in the available info, and vice versa (e.g. " MD5sum: 0aef8e730deadce4464d368972fd771b"). It might be better if those screens were less redundant though. Perhaps when the installed and available versions where the same then the description should only be on the first screen, and the available info shouldn't show anything in the control info. That way the difference would leap right out at the user, rather than requiring the user having to wade through all that redundant info. Examples of how the above changes would look: Description: --------- adduser - Add and remove users and groups This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating and removing users. [stuff deleted] --------- Installed info: --------- Package: adduser Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: base Installed-Size: 280 Maintainer: Roland Bauerschmidt Version: 3.50 Depends: perl-base (>= 5.6.0), passwd (>= 961025), debconf Suggests: liblocale-gettext-perl, perl-modules Conffiles: /etc/deluser.conf bf73b4e76066381cd3caf80369ce1d0e Description: Add and remove users and groups --------- Available info: --------- Architecture: all Filename: pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.49_all.deb Size: 77474 MD5sum: 0aef8e730deadce4464d368972fd771b --------- Of course the above would be all wrong if the installed and available versions were different, but that could stay the way it is now. (Alas, I'm too tired to think of more changes.) Fatigue aside, hope this helps...   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dpkg Developers <team@dpkg.org>:
Bug#9085; Package dselect.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgDpkg Developers  X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#9085: String freeze for dselect Reply-To: Bruce Sass , 9085@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Bruce Sass Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Dpkg Developers Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:06:32 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@bugs.debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 9085 X-Debian-PR-Package: dselect X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Debian-PR-Source: dpkg Received: via spool by 9085-submit@bugs.debian.org id=B9085.116008170127481 (code B ref 9085); Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:06:32 +0000 Received: (at 9085) by bugs.debian.org; 5 Oct 2006 20:55:01 +0000 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10] helo=pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GVaF9-00073T-BM for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:54:59 -0700 Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6O00ID5KR6BNC0@l-daemon> for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:54:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6O00GLFKQ1I1Z0@pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:54:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from bms ([68.151.35.132]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6O00LH3KQ0WT90@l-daemon> for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:54:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from onegee ([192.168.0.102]) by bms with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GVaEA-0000sH-Vb; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:53:58 -0600 Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:53:55 -0600 From: Bruce Sass In-reply-to: <20061005051708.GV27656@djedefre.onera> To: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, 9085@bugs.debian.org Message-id: <200610051453.57340.bmsass@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd" References: <20061005051708.GV27656@djedefre.onera> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_44,FAKE_HELO_SHAW_CA, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 --Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Wed October 4 2006 23:17, Christian Perrier wrote: > Considering the very recent discussions in the maling list, I hereby > consider that translatable strings are now frozen in dpkg. > > That means that I urge you fellow developers to please coordinate > with me in case you plan to introduce changes which change a > translatable string IN ANY WAY. > > I will post a final call for translation updates and I'll open a > special bug report for that to avoid multiple bug reports, one per > language. > > I will also send a call for updates for dselect in case some crazy > dudes absolutely insist to be 100% for that old piece noone really > cares about....:-) I believe the attached diff can be used to close a long standing dselect bug... because some of us do still care. ;-) The more verbose descriptions (made possible by removing the redundant pkg->name) and capitalization of "Available" and "Installed" should result in less confusing status lines. - Bruce --Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset="iso-8859-15"; name="pkginfo.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pkginfo.diff" --- pkginfo.cc 2006-01-18 01:30:03.000000000 -0700 +++ pkginfo-bms.cc 2006-10-05 14:27:22.000000000 -0600 @@ -129,10 +129,9 @@ void packagelist::itd_statuscontrol() { werase(infopad); if (!table[cursorline]->pkg->name) { - severalinfoblurb(_("currently installed control info")); + severalinfoblurb(_("control file information for Installed package")); } else { - whatinfovb(_("installed control info for ")); - whatinfovb(table[cursorline]->pkg->name); + whatinfovb(_("Installed control file information")); varbuf vb; varbufrecord(&vb,table[cursorline]->pkg,&table[cursorline]->pkg->installed); vb.terminate(); @@ -145,10 +144,9 @@ void packagelist::itd_availablecontrol() { werase(infopad); if (!table[cursorline]->pkg->name) { - severalinfoblurb(_("available version of control file info")); + severalinfoblurb(_("control file information for Available package")); } else { - whatinfovb(_("available version of control info for ")); - whatinfovb(table[cursorline]->pkg->name); + whatinfovb(_("Available control file information")); varbuf vb; varbufrecord(&vb,table[cursorline]->pkg,&table[cursorline]->pkg->available); vb.terminate(); --Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd--   Acknowledgement sent to Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>:
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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)   Received: (at 9085) by bugs.debian.org; 5 Oct 2006 20:55:01 +0000 From bmsass@shaw.ca Thu Oct 05 13:54:59 2006 Return-path: Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10] helo=pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GVaF9-00073T-BM for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:54:59 -0700 Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6O00ID5KR6BNC0@l-daemon> for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:54:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6O00GLFKQ1I1Z0@pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:54:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from bms ([68.151.35.132]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6O00LH3KQ0WT90@l-daemon> for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:54:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from onegee ([192.168.0.102]) by bms with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GVaEA-0000sH-Vb; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:53:58 -0600 Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:53:55 -0600 From: Bruce Sass Subject: String freeze for dselect In-reply-to: <20061005051708.GV27656@djedefre.onera> To: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, 9085@bugs.debian.org Message-id: <200610051453.57340.bmsass@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd" References: <20061005051708.GV27656@djedefre.onera> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_44,FAKE_HELO_SHAW_CA, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 --Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Wed October 4 2006 23:17, Christian Perrier wrote: > Considering the very recent discussions in the maling list, I hereby > consider that translatable strings are now frozen in dpkg. > > That means that I urge you fellow developers to please coordinate > with me in case you plan to introduce changes which change a > translatable string IN ANY WAY. > > I will post a final call for translation updates and I'll open a > special bug report for that to avoid multiple bug reports, one per > language. > > I will also send a call for updates for dselect in case some crazy > dudes absolutely insist to be 100% for that old piece noone really > cares about....:-) I believe the attached diff can be used to close a long standing dselect bug... because some of us do still care. ;-) The more verbose descriptions (made possible by removing the redundant pkg->name) and capitalization of "Available" and "Installed" should result in less confusing status lines. - Bruce --Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset="iso-8859-15"; name="pkginfo.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pkginfo.diff" --- pkginfo.cc 2006-01-18 01:30:03.000000000 -0700 +++ pkginfo-bms.cc 2006-10-05 14:27:22.000000000 -0600 @@ -129,10 +129,9 @@ void packagelist::itd_statuscontrol() { werase(infopad); if (!table[cursorline]->pkg->name) { - severalinfoblurb(_("currently installed control info")); + severalinfoblurb(_("control file information for Installed package")); } else { - whatinfovb(_("installed control info for ")); - whatinfovb(table[cursorline]->pkg->name); + whatinfovb(_("Installed control file information")); varbuf vb; varbufrecord(&vb,table[cursorline]->pkg,&table[cursorline]->pkg->installed); vb.terminate(); @@ -145,10 +144,9 @@ void packagelist::itd_availablecontrol() { werase(infopad); if (!table[cursorline]->pkg->name) { - severalinfoblurb(_("available version of control file info")); + severalinfoblurb(_("control file information for Available package")); } else { - whatinfovb(_("available version of control info for ")); - whatinfovb(table[cursorline]->pkg->name); + whatinfovb(_("Available control file information")); varbuf vb; varbufrecord(&vb,table[cursorline]->pkg,&table[cursorline]->pkg->available); vb.terminate(); --Boundary-00=_lDXJFdhpap2hsFd--   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dpkg Developers <team@dpkg.org>:
Bug#9085; Package dselect.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgDpkg Developers  X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#9085: String freeze for dselect Reply-To: Christian Perrier , 9085@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Christian Perrier Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Dpkg Developers Resent-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:33:20 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@bugs.debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 9085 X-Debian-PR-Package: dselect X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Debian-PR-Source: dpkg Received: via spool by 9085-submit@bugs.debian.org id=B9085.116011231210519 (code B ref 9085); Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:33:20 +0000 Received: (at 9085) by bugs.debian.org; 6 Oct 2006 05:25:12 +0000 Received: from onera.onera.fr ([144.204.65.4]) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GViCu-0002hG-6t for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:25:12 -0700 Received: from cc-mykerinos.onera (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by onera.onera.fr with ESMTP id k965P7Gg017197; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:25:07 +0200 (MEST) Received: by cc-mykerinos.onera (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 146C540AC41; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:25:06 +0200 From: Christian Perrier To: Bruce Sass , 9085@bugs.debian.org Message-ID: <20061006052506.GU27656@djedefre.onera> References: <20061005051708.GV27656@djedefre.onera> <200610051453.57340.bmsass@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610051453.57340.bmsass@shaw.ca> X-PTS-Approved: yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 --3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I believe the attached diff can be used to close a long standing dselect= =20 > bug... because some of us do still care. ;-) >=20 > The more verbose descriptions (made possible by removing the redundant=20 > pkg->name) and capitalization of "Available" and "Installed" should=20 > result in less confusing status lines. Well, I'm really sorry as I already called for translation updates to dselect. So, it's like we're in string freeze also for dselect. Bad timing, unfortunately.... But closing a 4-digit bug would be nice, indeed..:) --3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFJeiy1OXtrMAUPS0RAhipAJsHivgvMSIFEKQR2fusDiRiX4GZoACdH6sE 540vj/udJmjiFf28UWyt8VE= =L+VU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3--   Acknowledgement sent to Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>:
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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)   Received: (at 9085) by bugs.debian.org; 6 Oct 2006 05:25:12 +0000 From christian.perrier@onera.fr Thu Oct 05 22:25:12 2006 Return-path: Received: from onera.onera.fr ([144.204.65.4]) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GViCu-0002hG-6t for 9085@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:25:12 -0700 Received: from cc-mykerinos.onera (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by onera.onera.fr with ESMTP id k965P7Gg017197; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:25:07 +0200 (MEST) Received: by cc-mykerinos.onera (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 146C540AC41; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:25:06 +0200 From: Christian Perrier To: Bruce Sass , 9085@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#9085: String freeze for dselect Message-ID: <20061006052506.GU27656@djedefre.onera> References: <20061005051708.GV27656@djedefre.onera> <200610051453.57340.bmsass@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610051453.57340.bmsass@shaw.ca> X-PTS-Approved: yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 --3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I believe the attached diff can be used to close a long standing dselect= =20 > bug... because some of us do still care. ;-) >=20 > The more verbose descriptions (made possible by removing the redundant=20 > pkg->name) and capitalization of "Available" and "Installed" should=20 > result in less confusing status lines. Well, I'm really sorry as I already called for translation updates to dselect. So, it's like we're in string freeze also for dselect. Bad timing, unfortunately.... But closing a 4-digit bug would be nice, indeed..:) --3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFJeiy1OXtrMAUPS0RAhipAJsHivgvMSIFEKQR2fusDiRiX4GZoACdH6sE 540vj/udJmjiFf28UWyt8VE= =L+VU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3YmP+5VLH8KTb3l3--   Tags added: patch Request was from Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> to control@bugs.debian.org.   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Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 11 Feb 2007 01:24:48 +0000 From guillem@zulo.hadrons.org Sat Feb 10 17:24:48 2007 Return-path: Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HG3SS-0004Bo-58 for control@bugs.debian.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:24:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (cs181199092.pp.htv.fi [82.181.199.92]) by smtp4.pp.htv.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id C847B5BC13D for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:24:45 +0200 (EET) Received: from guillem by localhost with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HG3PP-0007sy-P5 for control@bugs.debian.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:21:39 +0200 From: Guillem Jover To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: setting package to dpkg dpkg-dev dselect, tagging 390916, tagging 409566, tagging 9085 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:21:39 +0200 X-BTS-Version: 2.9.27 Message-Id: Sender: Guillem Jover Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROMDEVELOPER, VALID_BTS_CONTROL autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.27 package dpkg dpkg-dev dselect tags 390916 + pending tags 409566 + pending tags 9085 + pending   Reply sent to Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility.   -t  MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.417 (Entity 5.417) X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Guillem Jover Subject: Bug#9085: marked as done (bottom status lines confusing) Message-Id: References: <199704260315.XAA03170@localhost.bu.edu> X-Debian-PR-Message: closed 9085 X-Debian-PR-Package: dselect X-Debian-PR-Keywords: patch X-Debian-PR-Source: dpkg Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1178615599-14350-0" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1178615599-14350-0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Your message dated Tue, 08 May 2007 09:02:06 +0000 with message-id and subject line Bug#9085: fixed in dpkg 1.14.0 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. 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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) ------------=_1178615599-14350-0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at quiet) by bugs.debian.org; 26 Apr 1997 03:16:52 +0000 Received: (qmail 26540 invoked from network); 26 Apr 1997 03:16:45 -0000 Received: from ppp-87-32.bu.edu (HELO localhost.bu.edu) (128.197.8.244) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 1997 03:16:31 -0000 Received: (from swift@localhost) by localhost.bu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA03170; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:15:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:15:41 -0400 Message-Id: <199704260315.XAA03170@localhost.bu.edu> From: Subject: dpkg: bottom status lines confusing To: quiet@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 2.93 Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.8 Suppose I am looking at the adduser package line. When paging through the various information types with the `i' key, I get the following two status lines: "installed control info for adduser" "available version of control info for adduser" First: either of the following wordings are superior to the second line; I prefer the first below because it is parallel, but it is perhaps harder to understand anyway: "available version control info for adduser" "control info for available version of adduser" Second: when the installed and available versions of adduser are reported to be identical in the top half of the dselect window, then I ought to see the same control info on each of the two bottom panels mentioned. In fact I do not, the "available version" seems to be a superset with a few more fields. -- System Information Debian Release: 1.3 Kernel Version: Linux localhost 2.0.30 #1 Thu Apr 24 13:34:49 EDT 1997 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: libc5 Version: 5.4.23-2 ncurses3.0 Version: 1.9.9e-1 ------------=_1178615599-14350-0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 9085-close) by bugs.debian.org; 8 May 2007 09:07:03 +0000 Return-path: Received: from ries.debian.org ([128.148.34.103]) by rietz.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HlLen-0005zZ-2x for 9085-close@bugs.debian.org; Tue, 08 May 2007 09:06:53 +0000 Received: from dak by ries.debian.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1HlLaA-0005pE-2R; Tue, 08 May 2007 09:02:06 +0000 From: Guillem Jover To: 9085-close@bugs.debian.org X-DAK: dak process-unchecked X-Katie: $Revision: 1.65 $ Subject: Bug#9085: fixed in dpkg 1.14.0 Message-Id: Sender: Archive Administrator Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:02:06 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on rietz.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROMDEVELOPER, HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Source: dpkg Source-Version: 1.14.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb dpkg_1.14.0.dsc to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0.dsc dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 9085@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Guillem Jover (supplier of updated dpkg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:11:50 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.14.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover Description: dpkg - package maintenance system for Debian dpkg-dev - package building tools for Debian dselect - user tool to manage Debian packages Closes: 9085 31634 107449 162348 179913 314462 345594 367712 374645 377855 379320 383438 390914 390916 393069 393924 396884 397479 405668 409566 410605 414087 414794 415230 415320 416167 416810 418154 418528 421290 422404 Changes: dpkg (1.14.0) unstable; urgency=low . [ Guillem Jover ] * Make the copyright information in dpkg-deb.1 and dpkg-split.1 match the one in the source. Thanks to Nicolas François. Closes: #379320 * Allow dpkg-buildpackage to properly override '-b' when passed after '-B'. Thanks to Julian Gilbey. Closes: #397479 * Move retrieval of uid and gid information from controllib.pl into a function, so that scripts not needing it do not execute that code. Based on a patch by Riku Voipio. Closes: #396884 * Do not bail out in dpkg when building without start-stop-daemon support, by checking if the macro value is true instead of it being defined. Thanks to Mark Rosenstand. * Make all perl scripts use strict and warnings, to ease catching errors. * Add a missing newline to a warning message in dpkg. Closes: #390914 Thanks to Ian Jackson. * Fix typo in variable name in dpkg-source which was causing it to not create directories when extracting the diff. Closes: #374645 * Fix up and down keystrokes in the dselect help message. Closes: #383438 Thanks to Sven Joachim. * Convert 822-date to be a simple wrapper around 'date -R'. 822-date is now deprecated and should not be used anymore. It might be removed sometime in the future. Closes: #31634, #367712, #314462 Thanks to Frank Lichtenheld. * Add '.gitignore' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #409566 Thanks to Julien Cristau. * Add '.hg' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #414794 * Use l10n-friendlier strings to describe dependencies. Closes: #390916 Thanks to Ian Jackson. * Change priority for dpkg-dev from standard to optional to match the override. * Do not use a build-stamp in debian/rules. * Fix confusing bottom status lines in dselect, unifying them by removing the method or package name and capitalizing. Closes: #9085 * Check proper error value returned by BZ2_bzerror. Closes: #410605 * Exit with an error instead of an assert if a file name is too long when building a .deb package. Closes: #393069 * Exit with an error instead of an assert if the number of conflictors is exceeded. Remove bogus comments. Closes: #377855 * Fix regular expression special-casing Origin, Bugs and Maintainer fields which was making X[SBC]- fields containing such strings to propagate into the .deb control file unprocessed. Thanks to Colin Watson. * Add support for '--admindir' in dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-checkbuilddeps and dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: #162348 * Cleaning and format unification of manual pages. * Make the override-file argument to dpkg-scanpackages optional. * Refactor compression filtering code. * Split override file information from dpkg-scanpackages.1 into deb-override.5 manual page. * Split dpkg-source.1 into independent man pages, namely deb-substvars.5, deb-shlibs.5, dpkg-buildpackage.1, dpkg-distaddfile.1, dpkg-genchanges.1, dpkg-gencontrol.1, dpkg-parsechangelog.1 and dpkg-shlibdeps.1. * Support building binary packages with the member data.tar.lzma compressed with lzma. * Require gettext 0.16.1. * Show the epoch (if present) when displaying package versions. Closes: #107449, #179913, #345594, #393924, #405668 Based on a patch by Jeffrey W. Baker. * Switch from pseudo-tags to usertags, and update the documentation. * Fix typo in German dpkg man page. Closes: #416167 Thanks to Martin Weis. * Properly sort Uploaders field in generated .dsc files. * Reorder a bit the fields in output files. * Speed up dpkg-shlibdeps by avoiding doing a dpkg-query for duped libraries. Thanks to Aaron M. Ucko. Closes: #421290 * Generalize source architecture handling by abstracting it through the new Debian triplet and the new triplettable. * Add armel support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #414087 . [ Updated dpkg translations ] * Dutch (Bart Cornelis). * Estonian added (Ivar Smolin). Closes: #422404 * French (Frédéric Bothamy). * Kurdish added (Erdal Ronahi). Closes: #418154 * Marathi added (Priti Patil). Closes: #416810 * Polish (Robert Luberda). * Romanian (Eddy Petri?or). * Simplified Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415320 * Traditional Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415230 . [ Updated man pages translations ] * German (German l10n team). Closes: #418528 * Polish (Robert Luberda). . [ Updated dselect translations ] * Dutch (Bart Cornelis). * Polish (Robert Luberda). Files: f01351b70772613b929cc540d00956e5 851 admin required dpkg_1.14.0.dsc 01704e19d668058d9db18fcb10a597a1 3846077 admin required dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz 8cbffc6e23ad7cedd9405b76f8457740 672350 admin required dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb 0e50bfd8016c8692fd036b82f7d08cd1 108632 admin required dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb 46296b0f78a546c296f53fb10ad9673c 126806 utils optional dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQDb5uW9ciZ2SjJsRAqs0AKDWVbvSjjOqNlHUOEuiDi7lyoIQ1QCfYW7p +uZIISUFk6/pUR/anA94p2w= =AuQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------=_1178615599-14350-0--   Notification sent to Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>:
Bug acknowledged by developer.   -t  MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.417 (Entity 5.417) X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Matt Swift Subject: Bug#9085 closed by Guillem Jover (Bug#9085: fixed in dpkg 1.14.0) Message-Id: References: <199704260315.XAA03170@localhost.bu.edu> X-Debian-PR-Message: they-closed 9085 X-Debian-PR-Package: dselect X-Debian-PR-Keywords: patch X-Debian-PR-Source: dpkg Reply-To: 9085@bugs.debian.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1178615599-14350-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1178615599-14350-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #9085: bottom status lines confusing, which was filed against the dselect package. It has been closed by Guillem Jover . Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Guillem Jover by replying to this email. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) ------------=_1178615599-14350-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 9085-close) by bugs.debian.org; 8 May 2007 09:07:03 +0000 Return-path: Received: from ries.debian.org ([128.148.34.103]) by rietz.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HlLen-0005zZ-2x for 9085-close@bugs.debian.org; Tue, 08 May 2007 09:06:53 +0000 Received: from dak by ries.debian.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1HlLaA-0005pE-2R; Tue, 08 May 2007 09:02:06 +0000 From: Guillem Jover To: 9085-close@bugs.debian.org X-DAK: dak process-unchecked X-Katie: $Revision: 1.65 $ Subject: Bug#9085: fixed in dpkg 1.14.0 Message-Id: Sender: Archive Administrator Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:02:06 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on rietz.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROMDEVELOPER, HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Source: dpkg Source-Version: 1.14.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb dpkg_1.14.0.dsc to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0.dsc dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 9085@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Guillem Jover (supplier of updated dpkg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:11:50 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.14.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover Description: dpkg - package maintenance system for Debian dpkg-dev - package building tools for Debian dselect - user tool to manage Debian packages Closes: 9085 31634 107449 162348 179913 314462 345594 367712 374645 377855 379320 383438 390914 390916 393069 393924 396884 397479 405668 409566 410605 414087 414794 415230 415320 416167 416810 418154 418528 421290 422404 Changes: dpkg (1.14.0) unstable; urgency=low . [ Guillem Jover ] * Make the copyright information in dpkg-deb.1 and dpkg-split.1 match the one in the source. Thanks to Nicolas François. Closes: #379320 * Allow dpkg-buildpackage to properly override '-b' when passed after '-B'. Thanks to Julian Gilbey. Closes: #397479 * Move retrieval of uid and gid information from controllib.pl into a function, so that scripts not needing it do not execute that code. Based on a patch by Riku Voipio. Closes: #396884 * Do not bail out in dpkg when building without start-stop-daemon support, by checking if the macro value is true instead of it being defined. Thanks to Mark Rosenstand. * Make all perl scripts use strict and warnings, to ease catching errors. * Add a missing newline to a warning message in dpkg. Closes: #390914 Thanks to Ian Jackson. * Fix typo in variable name in dpkg-source which was causing it to not create directories when extracting the diff. Closes: #374645 * Fix up and down keystrokes in the dselect help message. Closes: #383438 Thanks to Sven Joachim. * Convert 822-date to be a simple wrapper around 'date -R'. 822-date is now deprecated and should not be used anymore. It might be removed sometime in the future. Closes: #31634, #367712, #314462 Thanks to Frank Lichtenheld. * Add '.gitignore' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #409566 Thanks to Julien Cristau. * Add '.hg' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #414794 * Use l10n-friendlier strings to describe dependencies. Closes: #390916 Thanks to Ian Jackson. * Change priority for dpkg-dev from standard to optional to match the override. * Do not use a build-stamp in debian/rules. * Fix confusing bottom status lines in dselect, unifying them by removing the method or package name and capitalizing. Closes: #9085 * Check proper error value returned by BZ2_bzerror. Closes: #410605 * Exit with an error instead of an assert if a file name is too long when building a .deb package. Closes: #393069 * Exit with an error instead of an assert if the number of conflictors is exceeded. Remove bogus comments. Closes: #377855 * Fix regular expression special-casing Origin, Bugs and Maintainer fields which was making X[SBC]- fields containing such strings to propagate into the .deb control file unprocessed. Thanks to Colin Watson. * Add support for '--admindir' in dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-checkbuilddeps and dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: #162348 * Cleaning and format unification of manual pages. * Make the override-file argument to dpkg-scanpackages optional. * Refactor compression filtering code. * Split override file information from dpkg-scanpackages.1 into deb-override.5 manual page. * Split dpkg-source.1 into independent man pages, namely deb-substvars.5, deb-shlibs.5, dpkg-buildpackage.1, dpkg-distaddfile.1, dpkg-genchanges.1, dpkg-gencontrol.1, dpkg-parsechangelog.1 and dpkg-shlibdeps.1. * Support building binary packages with the member data.tar.lzma compressed with lzma. * Require gettext 0.16.1. * Show the epoch (if present) when displaying package versions. Closes: #107449, #179913, #345594, #393924, #405668 Based on a patch by Jeffrey W. Baker. * Switch from pseudo-tags to usertags, and update the documentation. * Fix typo in German dpkg man page. Closes: #416167 Thanks to Martin Weis. * Properly sort Uploaders field in generated .dsc files. * Reorder a bit the fields in output files. * Speed up dpkg-shlibdeps by avoiding doing a dpkg-query for duped libraries. Thanks to Aaron M. Ucko. Closes: #421290 * Generalize source architecture handling by abstracting it through the new Debian triplet and the new triplettable. * Add armel support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #414087 . [ Updated dpkg translations ] * Dutch (Bart Cornelis). * Estonian added (Ivar Smolin). Closes: #422404 * French (Frédéric Bothamy). * Kurdish added (Erdal Ronahi). Closes: #418154 * Marathi added (Priti Patil). Closes: #416810 * Polish (Robert Luberda). * Romanian (Eddy Petri?or). * Simplified Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415320 * Traditional Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415230 . [ Updated man pages translations ] * German (German l10n team). Closes: #418528 * Polish (Robert Luberda). . [ Updated dselect translations ] * Dutch (Bart Cornelis). * Polish (Robert Luberda). Files: f01351b70772613b929cc540d00956e5 851 admin required dpkg_1.14.0.dsc 01704e19d668058d9db18fcb10a597a1 3846077 admin required dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz 8cbffc6e23ad7cedd9405b76f8457740 672350 admin required dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb 0e50bfd8016c8692fd036b82f7d08cd1 108632 admin required dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb 46296b0f78a546c296f53fb10ad9673c 126806 utils optional dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQDb5uW9ciZ2SjJsRAqs0AKDWVbvSjjOqNlHUOEuiDi7lyoIQ1QCfYW7p +uZIISUFk6/pUR/anA94p2w= =AuQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------=_1178615599-14350-1--   Received: (at 9085-close) by bugs.debian.org; 8 May 2007 09:07:03 +0000 From dak@ftp-master.debian.org Tue May 08 09:07:03 2007 Return-path: Received: from ries.debian.org ([128.148.34.103]) by rietz.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HlLen-0005zZ-2x for 9085-close@bugs.debian.org; Tue, 08 May 2007 09:06:53 +0000 Received: from dak by ries.debian.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1HlLaA-0005pE-2R; Tue, 08 May 2007 09:02:06 +0000 From: Guillem Jover To: 9085-close@bugs.debian.org X-DAK: dak process-unchecked X-Katie: $Revision: 1.65 $ Subject: Bug#9085: fixed in dpkg 1.14.0 Message-Id: Sender: Archive Administrator Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:02:06 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on rietz.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROMDEVELOPER, HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Source: dpkg Source-Version: 1.14.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb dpkg_1.14.0.dsc to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0.dsc dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 9085@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Guillem Jover (supplier of updated dpkg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:11:50 +0300 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.14.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Changed-By: Guillem Jover Description: dpkg - package maintenance system for Debian dpkg-dev - package building tools for Debian dselect - user tool to manage Debian packages Closes: 9085 31634 107449 162348 179913 314462 345594 367712 374645 377855 379320 383438 390914 390916 393069 393924 396884 397479 405668 409566 410605 414087 414794 415230 415320 416167 416810 418154 418528 421290 422404 Changes: dpkg (1.14.0) unstable; urgency=low . [ Guillem Jover ] * Make the copyright information in dpkg-deb.1 and dpkg-split.1 match the one in the source. Thanks to Nicolas François. Closes: #379320 * Allow dpkg-buildpackage to properly override '-b' when passed after '-B'. Thanks to Julian Gilbey. Closes: #397479 * Move retrieval of uid and gid information from controllib.pl into a function, so that scripts not needing it do not execute that code. Based on a patch by Riku Voipio. Closes: #396884 * Do not bail out in dpkg when building without start-stop-daemon support, by checking if the macro value is true instead of it being defined. Thanks to Mark Rosenstand. * Make all perl scripts use strict and warnings, to ease catching errors. * Add a missing newline to a warning message in dpkg. Closes: #390914 Thanks to Ian Jackson. * Fix typo in variable name in dpkg-source which was causing it to not create directories when extracting the diff. Closes: #374645 * Fix up and down keystrokes in the dselect help message. Closes: #383438 Thanks to Sven Joachim. * Convert 822-date to be a simple wrapper around 'date -R'. 822-date is now deprecated and should not be used anymore. It might be removed sometime in the future. Closes: #31634, #367712, #314462 Thanks to Frank Lichtenheld. * Add '.gitignore' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #409566 Thanks to Julien Cristau. * Add '.hg' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #414794 * Use l10n-friendlier strings to describe dependencies. Closes: #390916 Thanks to Ian Jackson. * Change priority for dpkg-dev from standard to optional to match the override. * Do not use a build-stamp in debian/rules. * Fix confusing bottom status lines in dselect, unifying them by removing the method or package name and capitalizing. Closes: #9085 * Check proper error value returned by BZ2_bzerror. Closes: #410605 * Exit with an error instead of an assert if a file name is too long when building a .deb package. Closes: #393069 * Exit with an error instead of an assert if the number of conflictors is exceeded. Remove bogus comments. Closes: #377855 * Fix regular expression special-casing Origin, Bugs and Maintainer fields which was making X[SBC]- fields containing such strings to propagate into the .deb control file unprocessed. Thanks to Colin Watson. * Add support for '--admindir' in dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-checkbuilddeps and dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: #162348 * Cleaning and format unification of manual pages. * Make the override-file argument to dpkg-scanpackages optional. * Refactor compression filtering code. * Split override file information from dpkg-scanpackages.1 into deb-override.5 manual page. * Split dpkg-source.1 into independent man pages, namely deb-substvars.5, deb-shlibs.5, dpkg-buildpackage.1, dpkg-distaddfile.1, dpkg-genchanges.1, dpkg-gencontrol.1, dpkg-parsechangelog.1 and dpkg-shlibdeps.1. * Support building binary packages with the member data.tar.lzma compressed with lzma. * Require gettext 0.16.1. * Show the epoch (if present) when displaying package versions. Closes: #107449, #179913, #345594, #393924, #405668 Based on a patch by Jeffrey W. Baker. * Switch from pseudo-tags to usertags, and update the documentation. * Fix typo in German dpkg man page. Closes: #416167 Thanks to Martin Weis. * Properly sort Uploaders field in generated .dsc files. * Reorder a bit the fields in output files. * Speed up dpkg-shlibdeps by avoiding doing a dpkg-query for duped libraries. Thanks to Aaron M. Ucko. Closes: #421290 * Generalize source architecture handling by abstracting it through the new Debian triplet and the new triplettable. * Add armel support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #414087 . [ Updated dpkg translations ] * Dutch (Bart Cornelis). * Estonian added (Ivar Smolin). Closes: #422404 * French (Frédéric Bothamy). * Kurdish added (Erdal Ronahi). Closes: #418154 * Marathi added (Priti Patil). Closes: #416810 * Polish (Robert Luberda). * Romanian (Eddy Petri?or). * Simplified Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415320 * Traditional Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415230 . [ Updated man pages translations ] * German (German l10n team). Closes: #418528 * Polish (Robert Luberda). . [ Updated dselect translations ] * Dutch (Bart Cornelis). * Polish (Robert Luberda). Files: f01351b70772613b929cc540d00956e5 851 admin required dpkg_1.14.0.dsc 01704e19d668058d9db18fcb10a597a1 3846077 admin required dpkg_1.14.0.tar.gz 8cbffc6e23ad7cedd9405b76f8457740 672350 admin required dpkg_1.14.0_i386.deb 0e50bfd8016c8692fd036b82f7d08cd1 108632 admin required dselect_1.14.0_i386.deb 46296b0f78a546c296f53fb10ad9673c 126806 utils optional dpkg-dev_1.14.0_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQDb5uW9ciZ2SjJsRAqs0AKDWVbvSjjOqNlHUOEuiDi7lyoIQ1QCfYW7p +uZIISUFk6/pUR/anA94p2w= =AuQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----   Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@bugs.debian.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: Bug archived. 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