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Bug#3991; Package dselect.
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Subject: Bug#3991: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface
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Package: dselect
Version: 1.12.2
dselect is more complicated than it needs to be. Anyone who has used
the package selector for RedHat can understand why people like it so
much. I like having a versatile interface such as the one dselect
offers, but it shouldn't be so incompatible keystroke-wise with other
common interfaces.
1. A consistent key should be chosen for the `quit' function, to exit
the current task. It's `q' here, space there, and enter there.
Space and enter should do something else. In most applications,
such as `dialog' enter selects, it doesn't quit. Space is also
usually a selection or toggle options, but never exit.
It's really bizarre and confusing that space and enter would do
these things.
2. A consistent key(s) should be chosen for the `help'. I suggest F1
and Ctrl-h throughout. (Like DOS or Emacs)
3. Using `/' for search forward makes me want to use `?' to search in
reverse. I hit it often enough to get really frustrated.
(`?' in `less' and `vi')
4. `/' should remember the last search instead of requiring a separate
keystroke, `\'. (`/' in `less' and `vi')
5. The package list browser should not start in help mode. There is a
reason that Emacs has an inhibit-startup-message variable.
6. The EIOM columns are not very intuitive. Remove the short
description (or move it over) since a long one is displayed below
and extend these toggles such that they are understandable.
Acknowledgement sent to quinlan@bucknell.edu:
New bug report received and forwarded.
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From: Daniel Quinlan
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Subject: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface
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Package: dselect
Version: 1.12.2
dselect is more complicated than it needs to be. Anyone who has used
the package selector for RedHat can understand why people like it so
much. I like having a versatile interface such as the one dselect
offers, but it shouldn't be so incompatible keystroke-wise with other
common interfaces.
1. A consistent key should be chosen for the `quit' function, to exit
the current task. It's `q' here, space there, and enter there.
Space and enter should do something else. In most applications,
such as `dialog' enter selects, it doesn't quit. Space is also
usually a selection or toggle options, but never exit.
It's really bizarre and confusing that space and enter would do
these things.
2. A consistent key(s) should be chosen for the `help'. I suggest F1
and Ctrl-h throughout. (Like DOS or Emacs)
3. Using `/' for search forward makes me want to use `?' to search in
reverse. I hit it often enough to get really frustrated.
(`?' in `less' and `vi')
4. `/' should remember the last search instead of requiring a separate
keystroke, `\'. (`/' in `less' and `vi')
5. The package list browser should not start in help mode. There is a
reason that Emacs has an inhibit-startup-message variable.
6. The EIOM columns are not very intuitive. Remove the short
description (or move it over) since a long one is displayed below
and extend these toggles such that they are understandable.
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Bug#3991; Package dselect.
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Subject: Bug#3991: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface
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Daniel Quinlan writes ("Bug#3991: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface"):
> [ complaints about dselect's user interface ]
I am merging this with Bug#1037.
Offers of assistance are welcome.
Ian.
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Daniel Quinlan writes ("Bug#3991: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface"):
> [ complaints about dselect's user interface ]
I am merging this with Bug#1037.
Offers of assistance are welcome.
Ian.
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severity 957 wishlist
severity 1555 wishlist
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From: Daniel Quinlan
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Subject: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface
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Package: dselect
Version: 1.12.2
dselect is more complicated than it needs to be. Anyone who has used
the package selector for RedHat can understand why people like it so
much. I like having a versatile interface such as the one dselect
offers, but it shouldn't be so incompatible keystroke-wise with other
common interfaces.
1. A consistent key should be chosen for the `quit' function, to exit
the current task. It's `q' here, space there, and enter there.
Space and enter should do something else. In most applications,
such as `dialog' enter selects, it doesn't quit. Space is also
usually a selection or toggle options, but never exit.
It's really bizarre and confusing that space and enter would do
these things.
2. A consistent key(s) should be chosen for the `help'. I suggest F1
and Ctrl-h throughout. (Like DOS or Emacs)
3. Using `/' for search forward makes me want to use `?' to search in
reverse. I hit it often enough to get really frustrated.
(`?' in `less' and `vi')
4. `/' should remember the last search instead of requiring a separate
keystroke, `\'. (`/' in `less' and `vi')
5. The package list browser should not start in help mode. There is a
reason that Emacs has an inhibit-startup-message variable.
6. The EIOM columns are not very intuitive. Remove the short
description (or move it over) since a long one is displayed below
and extend these toggles such that they are understandable.
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From: Ben Collins
To: 1685-done@bugs.debian.org, 16217-done@bugs.debian.org,
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Subject: some dpkg bug maintainence with permission from wichert
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1685: dpkg-split command line parsing.
My take on this, the options expected aren't in a compatible format,
so it can't be made GNU style. Also the man page shows that the
complained about format is expected. IMO, if it's documented as such,
then it should be acceptible. GNU is not the endall argument format.
16217: prompting for clearing avail on updates in dselect
dselect doesn't seem to do this anymore
10263: segfaults on upgrade
Very old bug concerning libc5->libc6 upgrades. I don't think we have any
way to really reproduce it, plus the reports show that the cause was
possibly found from some dependencies, but the original poster never
responded back.
4074: conffile's left behind
Not a current problem with dpkg it seems
1037: dselect help screen
Ian said he would fix this in the report when he released the C version of
dpkg, that seems to have occured (bug report is vague on what the actual bug
is, and attempts at clarifying have failed).
Ben....more to come
Notification sent to quinlan@bucknell.edu:
Bug acknowledged by developer.
-t
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Subject: Bug#3991 acknowledged by developer (dselect has confusing and bizarre interface)
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From: Ben Collins
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1685: dpkg-split command line parsing.
My take on this, the options expected aren't in a compatible format,
so it can't be made GNU style. Also the man page shows that the
complained about format is expected. IMO, if it's documented as such,
then it should be acceptible. GNU is not the endall argument format.
16217: prompting for clearing avail on updates in dselect
dselect doesn't seem to do this anymore
10263: segfaults on upgrade
Very old bug concerning libc5->libc6 upgrades. I don't think we have any
way to really reproduce it, plus the reports show that the cause was
possibly found from some dependencies, but the original poster never
responded back.
4074: conffile's left behind
Not a current problem with dpkg it seems
1037: dselect help screen
Ian said he would fix this in the report when he released the C version of
dpkg, that seems to have occured (bug report is vague on what the actual bug
is, and attempts at clarifying have failed).
Ben....more to come
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From: Ben Collins
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Subject: some dpkg bug maintainence with permission from wichert
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1685: dpkg-split command line parsing.
My take on this, the options expected aren't in a compatible format,
so it can't be made GNU style. Also the man page shows that the
complained about format is expected. IMO, if it's documented as such,
then it should be acceptible. GNU is not the endall argument format.
16217: prompting for clearing avail on updates in dselect
dselect doesn't seem to do this anymore
10263: segfaults on upgrade
Very old bug concerning libc5->libc6 upgrades. I don't think we have any
way to really reproduce it, plus the reports show that the cause was
possibly found from some dependencies, but the original poster never
responded back.
4074: conffile's left behind
Not a current problem with dpkg it seems
1037: dselect help screen
Ian said he would fix this in the report when he released the C version of
dpkg, that seems to have occured (bug report is vague on what the actual bug
is, and attempts at clarifying have failed).
Ben....more to come
Bug reopened, originator not changed.
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From: Ben Collins
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Subject: I hate merged bugs
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reopen 3991
thanks
Merged 1037 3991 4449 4451 4474 6394 6709 6757 7093 11868 20659 24365 34942.
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severity 34942 wishlist
merge 1037 34942
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Merged 1037 3991 4449 4451 4474 6394 6709 6757 7093 11868 20659 24365 34942 42061.
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severity 54303 normal
close 53526
retitle 31311 dselect should deal differently with non-free packages
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Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why !
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# Cleaning up my really old bug reports. Mostly fixing orignator address
# to a working email, and also just closing some that are fixed now.
close 5712
reopen 5712 !
close 6394
reopen 6394 !
close 8204
reopen 8204 !
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reopen 10106 !
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reopen 10949 !
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reopen 10950 !
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reopen 7059 jmr@everest.radiology.uiowa.edu (Joe Reinhardt)
close 13580
reopen 13580 !
close 57154
reopen 57154 !
close 57504
reopen 57504 !
close 57153
reopen 57153 !
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Bug reopened, originator set to Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>.
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# Cleaning up my really old bug reports. Mostly fixing orignator address
# to a working email, and also just closing some that are fixed now.
close 5712
reopen 5712 !
close 6394
reopen 6394 !
close 8204
reopen 8204 !
close 10106
reopen 10106 !
close 10949
reopen 10949 !
close 10950
reopen 10950 !
close 10964
reopen 10964 !
close 11047
reopen 11047 !
close 11174
reopen 11174 !
close 12254
reopen 12254 !
close 13116
reopen 13116 !
close 13180
reopen 13180 !
close 13884
reopen 13884 !
close 13985
reopen 13985 !
close 5890
reopen 5890 !
close 5956
reopen 5956 !
close 7059
reopen 7059 jmr@everest.radiology.uiowa.edu (Joe Reinhardt)
close 13580
reopen 13580 !
close 57154
reopen 57154 !
close 57504
reopen 57504 !
close 57153
reopen 57153 !
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Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg-doc'.
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reassign 2531 dpkg-doc
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Bug reassigned from package `dpkg-doc' to `dpkg'.
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Bug reopened, originator not changed.
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Package: dselect
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dselect is more complicated than it needs to be. Anyone who has used
the package selector for RedHat can understand why people like it so
much. I like having a versatile interface such as the one dselect
offers, but it shouldn't be so incompatible keystroke-wise with other
common interfaces.
1. A consistent key should be chosen for the `quit' function, to exit
the current task. It's `q' here, space there, and enter there.
Space and enter should do something else. In most applications,
such as `dialog' enter selects, it doesn't quit. Space is also
usually a selection or toggle options, but never exit.
It's really bizarre and confusing that space and enter would do
these things.
2. A consistent key(s) should be chosen for the `help'. I suggest F1
and Ctrl-h throughout. (Like DOS or Emacs)
3. Using `/' for search forward makes me want to use `?' to search in
reverse. I hit it often enough to get really frustrated.
(`?' in `less' and `vi')
4. `/' should remember the last search instead of requiring a separate
keystroke, `\'. (`/' in `less' and `vi')
5. The package list browser should not start in help mode. There is a
reason that Emacs has an inhibit-startup-message variable.
6. The EIOM columns are not very intuitive. Remove the short
description (or move it over) since a long one is displayed below
and extend these toggles such that they are understandable.
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Subject: Bug#34942: fixed in dpkg 1.10
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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_1.10_all.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.10_all.deb
dpkg-doc_1.10_all.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-doc_1.10_all.deb
dpkg_1.10.dsc
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.dsc
dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
dselect_1.10_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.10_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 34942@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:53:15 +0200
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg-static dselect dpkg-dev dpkg-doc dpkg
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 1.10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Development
Changed-By: Wichert Akkerman
Description:
dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian
dpkg-dev - Package building tools for Debian
dpkg-doc - Dpkg Internals Documentation
dselect - a user tool to manage Debian packages
Closes: 2531 11228 34942 45787 58091 58653 66735 67174 72634 75947 76100 81009 83139 92650 93386 97239 98275 102367 103667 103839 103845 103994 104214 104230 104232 104561 105750 108887 109282 111503 112378 113120 114249 115783 117968 118420 119532 120924 121309 121489 122132 126340 127458 130130 130509 131439 131496 131758 132476 132632 132714 132901 133035 136349 138013 139159 140441 141906 143117 144121 146855 147872 147924
Changes:
dpkg (1.10) unstable; urgency=low
.
* dpkg now reorders symlinks when extracting debs. However, this is also
still done when building debs. After a stable release of Debian has
occurred with this modified dpkg, the reordering when building can be
removed.
* Fixed upper/lowercase problems with package names. Closes: Bug#58091
(and 3 others).
* Add Russian manual pages
* Fix n in dselect package list (performs searchagain now)
* Fix layout problem in dpkg-divert manpage. Closes: Bug#103667
* When a package is set to hold, and a reinstallation is requested,
-E will not properly skip it. Closes: #45787.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps use dpkg-architecture. Closes: Bug#104230
* Improve dpkg-archtecture documentation. Closes: Bug#104232
* Update German translation. Closes: Bug#97239
* Update Polish translation. Closes: Bug#115783
* Update French translation.
* Update Brazilian translation.
* Update Danish translation.
* Update Galician translation.
* Update Portuguese translations.
* Add Catalan translation
* Add German md5sum manpage
* Add Brazilian update-alternatives manpage. Closes: Bug#122132
* Improve dselect manpage. Closes: Bug#103839
* dpkg-name(1) no longer mentions the non-existing dpkg(5) manpage.
Closes: Bug#104214
* Improve handling of Recommends and Suggests in dselect. Closes: Bug#34942
* Add per-user configuration files. Closes: Bug#103845
* Split dselect into its own package. dpkg Pre-Depends on it
to make sure no weird things happen during an upgrade but this
will allow us to make dselect option at some point in the future.
Closes: #114249.
* Make colours in dselect user-configurable. Closes: Bug#103994
* Make Q do an abort in the method selection menu to make things more
consistent with the package list
* Fix test for nice(2) failure in start-stop-daemon. Closes: Bug#104561
* Improve the dselect helpscreen a bit. Closes: Bug#72634
* New version comparison routine that can handle arbitrarily large numbers
and accepts `~' as a low-sorting character. Closes: Bug#93386
* dselect now accepts regular expressions when searching for packages
and can search in package descriptions as well.
Closes: Bug#81009,#83139
* Move query commands into a seperate dpkg-query command. For the old options
(-L,-l,-s,-S) dpkg will still call it for you.
* Add configurable package listing support to dpkg-query
* Handle window resize in dselect main menu. Closes: Bug#98275
* update-rc.d moved to the sysvinit package. Closes: Bug#108887,#109282
* Add --showformat and --show options to dpkg-deb and dpkg-query to
allow one to customize the output format
* several install-info cleanups:
* Move /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir. Closes: #67174.
* If /usr/share/info doesn't exist, print a message saying so,
instead of the confusing "couldn't lock" error. Closes: #2531.
* If /usr/share/info/dir doesn't exist, or is empty, try to copy the
backup from /var/backups/infodir.bak. Closes: #121309.
* Add a --remove-exactly option, and allow for relative filenames.
Closes: #92650.
* Use the section from the .info file if --section is not given.
Closes: #76100.
* Error messages now include the filename being processed.
Closes: #66735
* /usr/share/info/dir now has it's entries formatted to even widths.
Closes: #11228
* --calign|--align|--maxwidth are now ignored.
* strip enoent as well. Closes: Bug#112378
* Fix format error in Dutch translation. Closes: Bug#113120
* When parsing stdin, md5sum now displays '-' as the filename, to match
textutils md5sum. Closes: #121489.
* Apply patch from bug, to give update-alternatives a --list command.
Closes: #120924.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps always check for build-essential.
Closes: Bug#118420.
* Use space seperated output instead of comma seperated in
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
* Update default ignore expression in dpkg-source to also match *~ and
*.swp in subdirs. Closes: Bug#127458
* Handle errors when verifying md5sums. Closes: Bug#102367
* dpkg-source now uses reliable timestamps for changed files.
Closes: Bug#105750
* Fix typo in start-stop-daemon help message. Closes: Bug#131439
* update-alternative exits with a non-zero exit code when displaying
a non-existing alternative. Closes: Bug#131496
* Use gzip -c in install-info. Closes: Bug#131758
* start-stop-daemon works on HP-UX now. Closes: Bug#130130
* Fix dselect spin when run without input. Closes: Bug#132476
* Update-alternatives now correctly restores an alternative to auto mode
when removing a manually selected alternative. Closes: Bug#132632
* Copy bugs and origin information into status file. Closes: Bug#132714
* Improve wording of update-alternatives --config text. Closes: Bug#133035
* Add manpages for dpkg.cfg and dselect.cfg. Closes: Bug#132901
* Improve test for illegal packagename for dpkg-gencontrol -p option
* Fix segfault when getenv("PATH") returns null. Closes: Bug#136349
* Add Large File Summit extensions. Closes: Bug#130509
* Fix typo in dpkg-source manpage. Closes: Bug#141906
* Re-fix handling of multiple blank lines in control. Closes: Bug#143117
* Document --force-confmiss and --force-bad-verify. Closes: Bug#146855
* Drop upgrade compat stuff in dpkg postinst for ancient versions (over
5 years old)
* Always set CLOEXEC on the lock fd. Closes: Bug#147872
* Clean up tmp files when ctrl-c is sent to dpkg-source. Closes:
Bug#58653.
* dpkg-source no longer requires exact case matches for fields in
debian/control. Closes: Bug#139159.
* dpkg-scanpackages now gives proper case for Source and Installed-Size.
Closes: Bug#119532.
* dpkg-architecture: s/build on/built on/; same for 'build for'.
Closes: Bug#140441.
* cl-debian.pl now recognizes emergency as valid in changelogs.
Closes: Bug#138013.
* Properly count recursive expansion of variables, instead of just
counting all variable expansions. Closes: #144121.
* Add -I to dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source, to excludes
files from tar, when building a native package. Closes: Bug#75947.
* Close the old debian/files file, before doing a rename. Closes:
Bug#111503.
* Fix documentation of -v for dpkg-parsechangelog, removing the
requirement that the version has to be in the changelog. Closes:
Bug#117968.
* Fix typo in dpkg-source(1), s/-su/-sU/. Closes: Bug#126340.
* Add dpkg-scansources to dpkg-scanpackages(8). Closes: Bug#147924.
* Change /usr/info into a symlink to /usr/share/info if possible
Files:
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dce6fc650eb8343b03acacfac722b094 1623580 base required dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
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#3991: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface,
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It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
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X-Katie: $Revision: 1.17 $
Subject: Bug#34942: fixed in dpkg 1.10
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:20:44 -0400
Delivered-To: 34942-close@bugs.debian.org
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_1.10_all.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.10_all.deb
dpkg-doc_1.10_all.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-doc_1.10_all.deb
dpkg_1.10.dsc
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.dsc
dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
dselect_1.10_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.10_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 34942@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:53:15 +0200
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg-static dselect dpkg-dev dpkg-doc dpkg
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 1.10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Development
Changed-By: Wichert Akkerman
Description:
dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian
dpkg-dev - Package building tools for Debian
dpkg-doc - Dpkg Internals Documentation
dselect - a user tool to manage Debian packages
Closes: 2531 11228 34942 45787 58091 58653 66735 67174 72634 75947 76100 81009 83139 92650 93386 97239 98275 102367 103667 103839 103845 103994 104214 104230 104232 104561 105750 108887 109282 111503 112378 113120 114249 115783 117968 118420 119532 120924 121309 121489 122132 126340 127458 130130 130509 131439 131496 131758 132476 132632 132714 132901 133035 136349 138013 139159 140441 141906 143117 144121 146855 147872 147924
Changes:
dpkg (1.10) unstable; urgency=low
.
* dpkg now reorders symlinks when extracting debs. However, this is also
still done when building debs. After a stable release of Debian has
occurred with this modified dpkg, the reordering when building can be
removed.
* Fixed upper/lowercase problems with package names. Closes: Bug#58091
(and 3 others).
* Add Russian manual pages
* Fix n in dselect package list (performs searchagain now)
* Fix layout problem in dpkg-divert manpage. Closes: Bug#103667
* When a package is set to hold, and a reinstallation is requested,
-E will not properly skip it. Closes: #45787.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps use dpkg-architecture. Closes: Bug#104230
* Improve dpkg-archtecture documentation. Closes: Bug#104232
* Update German translation. Closes: Bug#97239
* Update Polish translation. Closes: Bug#115783
* Update French translation.
* Update Brazilian translation.
* Update Danish translation.
* Update Galician translation.
* Update Portuguese translations.
* Add Catalan translation
* Add German md5sum manpage
* Add Brazilian update-alternatives manpage. Closes: Bug#122132
* Improve dselect manpage. Closes: Bug#103839
* dpkg-name(1) no longer mentions the non-existing dpkg(5) manpage.
Closes: Bug#104214
* Improve handling of Recommends and Suggests in dselect. Closes: Bug#34942
* Add per-user configuration files. Closes: Bug#103845
* Split dselect into its own package. dpkg Pre-Depends on it
to make sure no weird things happen during an upgrade but this
will allow us to make dselect option at some point in the future.
Closes: #114249.
* Make colours in dselect user-configurable. Closes: Bug#103994
* Make Q do an abort in the method selection menu to make things more
consistent with the package list
* Fix test for nice(2) failure in start-stop-daemon. Closes: Bug#104561
* Improve the dselect helpscreen a bit. Closes: Bug#72634
* New version comparison routine that can handle arbitrarily large numbers
and accepts `~' as a low-sorting character. Closes: Bug#93386
* dselect now accepts regular expressions when searching for packages
and can search in package descriptions as well.
Closes: Bug#81009,#83139
* Move query commands into a seperate dpkg-query command. For the old options
(-L,-l,-s,-S) dpkg will still call it for you.
* Add configurable package listing support to dpkg-query
* Handle window resize in dselect main menu. Closes: Bug#98275
* update-rc.d moved to the sysvinit package. Closes: Bug#108887,#109282
* Add --showformat and --show options to dpkg-deb and dpkg-query to
allow one to customize the output format
* several install-info cleanups:
* Move /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir. Closes: #67174.
* If /usr/share/info doesn't exist, print a message saying so,
instead of the confusing "couldn't lock" error. Closes: #2531.
* If /usr/share/info/dir doesn't exist, or is empty, try to copy the
backup from /var/backups/infodir.bak. Closes: #121309.
* Add a --remove-exactly option, and allow for relative filenames.
Closes: #92650.
* Use the section from the .info file if --section is not given.
Closes: #76100.
* Error messages now include the filename being processed.
Closes: #66735
* /usr/share/info/dir now has it's entries formatted to even widths.
Closes: #11228
* --calign|--align|--maxwidth are now ignored.
* strip enoent as well. Closes: Bug#112378
* Fix format error in Dutch translation. Closes: Bug#113120
* When parsing stdin, md5sum now displays '-' as the filename, to match
textutils md5sum. Closes: #121489.
* Apply patch from bug, to give update-alternatives a --list command.
Closes: #120924.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps always check for build-essential.
Closes: Bug#118420.
* Use space seperated output instead of comma seperated in
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
* Update default ignore expression in dpkg-source to also match *~ and
*.swp in subdirs. Closes: Bug#127458
* Handle errors when verifying md5sums. Closes: Bug#102367
* dpkg-source now uses reliable timestamps for changed files.
Closes: Bug#105750
* Fix typo in start-stop-daemon help message. Closes: Bug#131439
* update-alternative exits with a non-zero exit code when displaying
a non-existing alternative. Closes: Bug#131496
* Use gzip -c in install-info. Closes: Bug#131758
* start-stop-daemon works on HP-UX now. Closes: Bug#130130
* Fix dselect spin when run without input. Closes: Bug#132476
* Update-alternatives now correctly restores an alternative to auto mode
when removing a manually selected alternative. Closes: Bug#132632
* Copy bugs and origin information into status file. Closes: Bug#132714
* Improve wording of update-alternatives --config text. Closes: Bug#133035
* Add manpages for dpkg.cfg and dselect.cfg. Closes: Bug#132901
* Improve test for illegal packagename for dpkg-gencontrol -p option
* Fix segfault when getenv("PATH") returns null. Closes: Bug#136349
* Add Large File Summit extensions. Closes: Bug#130509
* Fix typo in dpkg-source manpage. Closes: Bug#141906
* Re-fix handling of multiple blank lines in control. Closes: Bug#143117
* Document --force-confmiss and --force-bad-verify. Closes: Bug#146855
* Drop upgrade compat stuff in dpkg postinst for ancient versions (over
5 years old)
* Always set CLOEXEC on the lock fd. Closes: Bug#147872
* Clean up tmp files when ctrl-c is sent to dpkg-source. Closes:
Bug#58653.
* dpkg-source no longer requires exact case matches for fields in
debian/control. Closes: Bug#139159.
* dpkg-scanpackages now gives proper case for Source and Installed-Size.
Closes: Bug#119532.
* dpkg-architecture: s/build on/built on/; same for 'build for'.
Closes: Bug#140441.
* cl-debian.pl now recognizes emergency as valid in changelogs.
Closes: Bug#138013.
* Properly count recursive expansion of variables, instead of just
counting all variable expansions. Closes: #144121.
* Add -I to dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source, to excludes
files from tar, when building a native package. Closes: Bug#75947.
* Close the old debian/files file, before doing a rename. Closes:
Bug#111503.
* Fix documentation of -v for dpkg-parsechangelog, removing the
requirement that the version has to be in the changelog. Closes:
Bug#117968.
* Fix typo in dpkg-source(1), s/-su/-sU/. Closes: Bug#126340.
* Add dpkg-scansources to dpkg-scanpackages(8). Closes: Bug#147924.
* Change /usr/info into a symlink to /usr/share/info if possible
Files:
df7d1380dde0d2b980421489e3ae8ea6 1354 base required dpkg_1.10.dsc
dce6fc650eb8343b03acacfac722b094 1623580 base required dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
cd1dbe55ff166971d591c9404e6905f6 1166408 base required dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
5c8a6950c9708044fe4d527e58b4ba18 80244 base required dselect_1.10_i386.deb
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Subject: Bug#34942: fixed in dpkg 1.10
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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
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dpkg-dev_1.10_all.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.10_all.deb
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to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-doc_1.10_all.deb
dpkg_1.10.dsc
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.dsc
dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
dselect_1.10_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.10_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:53:15 +0200
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg-static dselect dpkg-dev dpkg-doc dpkg
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 1.10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Development
Changed-By: Wichert Akkerman
Description:
dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian
dpkg-dev - Package building tools for Debian
dpkg-doc - Dpkg Internals Documentation
dselect - a user tool to manage Debian packages
Closes: 2531 11228 34942 45787 58091 58653 66735 67174 72634 75947 76100 81009 83139 92650 93386 97239 98275 102367 103667 103839 103845 103994 104214 104230 104232 104561 105750 108887 109282 111503 112378 113120 114249 115783 117968 118420 119532 120924 121309 121489 122132 126340 127458 130130 130509 131439 131496 131758 132476 132632 132714 132901 133035 136349 138013 139159 140441 141906 143117 144121 146855 147872 147924
Changes:
dpkg (1.10) unstable; urgency=low
.
* dpkg now reorders symlinks when extracting debs. However, this is also
still done when building debs. After a stable release of Debian has
occurred with this modified dpkg, the reordering when building can be
removed.
* Fixed upper/lowercase problems with package names. Closes: Bug#58091
(and 3 others).
* Add Russian manual pages
* Fix n in dselect package list (performs searchagain now)
* Fix layout problem in dpkg-divert manpage. Closes: Bug#103667
* When a package is set to hold, and a reinstallation is requested,
-E will not properly skip it. Closes: #45787.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps use dpkg-architecture. Closes: Bug#104230
* Improve dpkg-archtecture documentation. Closes: Bug#104232
* Update German translation. Closes: Bug#97239
* Update Polish translation. Closes: Bug#115783
* Update French translation.
* Update Brazilian translation.
* Update Danish translation.
* Update Galician translation.
* Update Portuguese translations.
* Add Catalan translation
* Add German md5sum manpage
* Add Brazilian update-alternatives manpage. Closes: Bug#122132
* Improve dselect manpage. Closes: Bug#103839
* dpkg-name(1) no longer mentions the non-existing dpkg(5) manpage.
Closes: Bug#104214
* Improve handling of Recommends and Suggests in dselect. Closes: Bug#34942
* Add per-user configuration files. Closes: Bug#103845
* Split dselect into its own package. dpkg Pre-Depends on it
to make sure no weird things happen during an upgrade but this
will allow us to make dselect option at some point in the future.
Closes: #114249.
* Make colours in dselect user-configurable. Closes: Bug#103994
* Make Q do an abort in the method selection menu to make things more
consistent with the package list
* Fix test for nice(2) failure in start-stop-daemon. Closes: Bug#104561
* Improve the dselect helpscreen a bit. Closes: Bug#72634
* New version comparison routine that can handle arbitrarily large numbers
and accepts `~' as a low-sorting character. Closes: Bug#93386
* dselect now accepts regular expressions when searching for packages
and can search in package descriptions as well.
Closes: Bug#81009,#83139
* Move query commands into a seperate dpkg-query command. For the old options
(-L,-l,-s,-S) dpkg will still call it for you.
* Add configurable package listing support to dpkg-query
* Handle window resize in dselect main menu. Closes: Bug#98275
* update-rc.d moved to the sysvinit package. Closes: Bug#108887,#109282
* Add --showformat and --show options to dpkg-deb and dpkg-query to
allow one to customize the output format
* several install-info cleanups:
* Move /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir. Closes: #67174.
* If /usr/share/info doesn't exist, print a message saying so,
instead of the confusing "couldn't lock" error. Closes: #2531.
* If /usr/share/info/dir doesn't exist, or is empty, try to copy the
backup from /var/backups/infodir.bak. Closes: #121309.
* Add a --remove-exactly option, and allow for relative filenames.
Closes: #92650.
* Use the section from the .info file if --section is not given.
Closes: #76100.
* Error messages now include the filename being processed.
Closes: #66735
* /usr/share/info/dir now has it's entries formatted to even widths.
Closes: #11228
* --calign|--align|--maxwidth are now ignored.
* strip enoent as well. Closes: Bug#112378
* Fix format error in Dutch translation. Closes: Bug#113120
* When parsing stdin, md5sum now displays '-' as the filename, to match
textutils md5sum. Closes: #121489.
* Apply patch from bug, to give update-alternatives a --list command.
Closes: #120924.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps always check for build-essential.
Closes: Bug#118420.
* Use space seperated output instead of comma seperated in
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
* Update default ignore expression in dpkg-source to also match *~ and
*.swp in subdirs. Closes: Bug#127458
* Handle errors when verifying md5sums. Closes: Bug#102367
* dpkg-source now uses reliable timestamps for changed files.
Closes: Bug#105750
* Fix typo in start-stop-daemon help message. Closes: Bug#131439
* update-alternative exits with a non-zero exit code when displaying
a non-existing alternative. Closes: Bug#131496
* Use gzip -c in install-info. Closes: Bug#131758
* start-stop-daemon works on HP-UX now. Closes: Bug#130130
* Fix dselect spin when run without input. Closes: Bug#132476
* Update-alternatives now correctly restores an alternative to auto mode
when removing a manually selected alternative. Closes: Bug#132632
* Copy bugs and origin information into status file. Closes: Bug#132714
* Improve wording of update-alternatives --config text. Closes: Bug#133035
* Add manpages for dpkg.cfg and dselect.cfg. Closes: Bug#132901
* Improve test for illegal packagename for dpkg-gencontrol -p option
* Fix segfault when getenv("PATH") returns null. Closes: Bug#136349
* Add Large File Summit extensions. Closes: Bug#130509
* Fix typo in dpkg-source manpage. Closes: Bug#141906
* Re-fix handling of multiple blank lines in control. Closes: Bug#143117
* Document --force-confmiss and --force-bad-verify. Closes: Bug#146855
* Drop upgrade compat stuff in dpkg postinst for ancient versions (over
5 years old)
* Always set CLOEXEC on the lock fd. Closes: Bug#147872
* Clean up tmp files when ctrl-c is sent to dpkg-source. Closes:
Bug#58653.
* dpkg-source no longer requires exact case matches for fields in
debian/control. Closes: Bug#139159.
* dpkg-scanpackages now gives proper case for Source and Installed-Size.
Closes: Bug#119532.
* dpkg-architecture: s/build on/built on/; same for 'build for'.
Closes: Bug#140441.
* cl-debian.pl now recognizes emergency as valid in changelogs.
Closes: Bug#138013.
* Properly count recursive expansion of variables, instead of just
counting all variable expansions. Closes: #144121.
* Add -I to dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source, to excludes
files from tar, when building a native package. Closes: Bug#75947.
* Close the old debian/files file, before doing a rename. Closes:
Bug#111503.
* Fix documentation of -v for dpkg-parsechangelog, removing the
requirement that the version has to be in the changelog. Closes:
Bug#117968.
* Fix typo in dpkg-source(1), s/-su/-sU/. Closes: Bug#126340.
* Add dpkg-scansources to dpkg-scanpackages(8). Closes: Bug#147924.
* Change /usr/info into a symlink to /usr/share/info if possible
Files:
df7d1380dde0d2b980421489e3ae8ea6 1354 base required dpkg_1.10.dsc
dce6fc650eb8343b03acacfac722b094 1623580 base required dpkg_1.10.tar.gz
cd1dbe55ff166971d591c9404e6905f6 1166408 base required dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
5c8a6950c9708044fe4d527e58b4ba18 80244 base required dselect_1.10_i386.deb
c8dab8d95d390d0d485e00db3c846c0f 1155281 byhand - dpkg-1.10_i386.nondebbin.tar.gz
f78567b6a153a00b24551fb1d9d24b9e 1321299 byhand - dpkg-1.10_i386-static.nondebbin.tar.gz
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0fcdf112e49159b1128054603a895cd9 10718 doc optional dpkg-doc_1.10_all.deb
dce6fc650eb8343b03acacfac722b094 1623580 byhand - dpkg-1.10.tar.gz
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