Debian Bug report logs - #4074
problems with 1.1 release

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

From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>

To: Debian bugs submission address <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: problems with 1.1 release

Date: Thu, 8 Aug 96 15:04 BST

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.1

Scott Barker writes ("Re: problems with 1.1 release"):
...
> ok. Although, I beg to differ about the *.conffiles:
> 
> ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/adduser.conffiles
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.conffiles
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/base.conffiles
> [etc]

Oops, this is a bug.  I'll fix it some time (it's just some wasted
space - there are no real problems with it).

Ian.

Message #10 received at 4074-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 4074-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: An old bug

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 16:03:41 +0300

Have you fixed this bug? If yes, please close it. If not, send a more
detailed report of the bug to debian-devel or something, and perhaps someone
will try to fix it. (I can't make out what the problem is from reading the
bug report...)

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

Message #15 received at 4074-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 4074-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:00:52 +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 #20 received at 4074@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: 4074@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Clarification

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:59:56 +0000 (GMT)

The problem here is that dpkg can (sometimes? always?) leave the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles file around after a package is removed.

Ian.

Message #25 received at 4074-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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