Debian Bug report logs - #1685
dpkg-split: Non GNU handling of long options

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Message #25 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Engel <david@sw.ods.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#1685: dpkg-split --msdos not correct

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:45:51 -0600

From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
> This is a really stupid feature of the GNU implementation of getopt,
> which we should disable.
> 
> I'm reassigning this bug to the libc package.

My personal opinion is that the default behavior of getopt should be
POSIX conforming, however, I have decided not change this and deviate
from the "standard" Linux/glibc behavior for something this subjective
just for Debian.  As a result, I am going to reassign this bug back to
the original package.  The appropriate maintainer should either close
the bug or change their package accordingly.  

If you do not like this decision, you have two choices.  Either
convince the upstream authors to change libc (not likely, IMO) or
convince the Debian developer community to add the appropriate
environment variable in a system wide manner.

David
-- 
David Engel                        ODS Networks
david@sw.ods.com                   1001 E. Arapaho Road
(972) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081

Message #32 received at done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Engel <david@sw.ods.com>

To: done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#911: libc causes rsh to fail on commands with option arguments

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:55:06 -0600

From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
> Having every user define _POSIX_OPTION_ORDER in their environment is
> not an option.  (Note that an environment variable to set to get the
> nonstandard behaviour wouldn't work, because it would be inherited by
> shell scripts that might expect the standard behaviour.)

My personal opinion is that the default behavior of getopt should be
POSIX conforming, however, I have decided not to change this and
deviate from the "standard" Linux/glibc behavior for something this
subjective just for Debian.

If you do not like this decision, you have two choices.  Either
convince the upstream authors to change libc (not likely, IMO) or
convince the Debian developer community to add the appropriate
environment variable in a system wide manner.

David
-- 
David Engel                        ODS Networks
david@sw.ods.com                   1001 E. Arapaho Road
(972) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081

Message #39 received at 1685@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: rjs@lloke.dna.fi (Riku Saikkonen)

To: 1685@bugs.debian.org

Subject: An old bug

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:35:50 +0300

What is the current situation regarding this bug? Can someone do something
about it? :)

It seems to me that a simple fix for the particular dpkg --msdos bug would
be to call mv as "mv -- foo bar".

--
-=- Rjs -=- rjs@spider.compart.fi, rjs@lloke.dna.fi

Message #44 received at 1685-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 1685-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:59:54 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

Message #49 received at 1685@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

To: 1685@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug Fixed

Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 18:56:15 +0200

	This bug is fixed.  I'll close it in a couple of days if noone
objects.

From: Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.0.5-0
> 
> Command executed:
> # dpkg-split -s emacs-19.29-4.deb --msdos
>                                   ~~~~~~~
> Transcript:
> Splitting package emacs into 11 parts: 1 mv: unrecognized \
> option `--msdos.1of11.deb'
> Try `mv --help' for more information.
> 
> Command executed:
> # dpkg-split --msdos -s emacs-19.29-4.deb
>              ~~~~~~~
> Transcript:
> Splitting package emacs into 11 parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 done


-- 
Juan Cespedes

Message #54 received at 1685@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>

To: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

Cc: 1685@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#1685: Bug Fixed

Date: 06 Apr 1998 14:59:58 +0100

Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> writes:

> This bug is fixed.  I'll close it in a couple of days if noone
> objects.

I object.  a) the "fixed" status of this bug is debatable.  b) you are
not the maintainer.
 
-- 
James

Message #63 received at 1685-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

To: 1685-done@bugs.debian.org, 16217-done@bugs.debian.org, 10263-done@bugs.debian.org, 4074-done@bugs.debian.org, 1037-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: some dpkg bug maintainence with permission from wichert

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 02:14:10 -0400

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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