Debian Bug report logs - #13303
dselect disk method still refers to "binary" and "stable" [fixed?]

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Krumme <krumme@ibm.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: main in debian tree

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:23:58 -0500

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.19
Severity: critical

The stable and unstable tree now contain a main directory.
This seems like a good idea, but dpkg should be updated
to reflect this.

Thank you for your time looking into this mater.

Message #12 received at 13303@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mikolaj Konarski <mikon@mimuw.edu.pl>

To: 13303@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg: "disk" method speaks about binary/ and stable/ instead of...

Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 15:35:35 +0200

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.22

The "disk" method speaks about binary/ and stable/ instead of
binary-i386/ and main/ (or maybe dists/stable/main, but better not,
to give people choice of stable or unstable ditstributions).

It says:

---
Last time you said `/hda1/dists', but that doesn't look plausible,
since `/hda1/dists/stable/binary' doesn't seem to exist.
---

and suchlike, moreover it insists, that the main be called stable,
so I have to make links, etc..

This has been reported in #13303, but it's still there.:)

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (frozen)
Kernel Version: Linux bratek 2.0.32 #1 Sun Dec 21 18:01:02 CET 1997 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc6	Version: 2.0.7pre1-4
libstdc++2.8	Version: 2.90.27-0.7
ncurses3.4	Version: 1.9.9g-8

Message #21 received at 13303-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>

To: 13303-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed sometime in the distant past

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:08:44 -0600

Hi,

dselect used to spew out a message like...
---
Last time you said `/hda1/dists', but that doesn't look plausible,
since `/hda1/dists/stable/binary' doesn't seem to exist.
---

...because...

"The "disk" method speaks about binary/ and stable/ instead of
binary-i386/ and main/..."

...but that shouldn't happen anymore because the code generating that 
message now looks like...

[from <dpkg-src>/methods/disk.setup in 1.10.28, 
and <dpkg-src>/dselect/methods/disk/setup in 1.13.22]
			echo "
Last time you said \`$p_hierbase', but that doesn't look plausible,
since \`$p_hierbase/main/binary-$iarch' doesn't seem to exist."
		fi

...so, it appears the report was dealt with but not closed,
doing so now.


- Bruce

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