How can I know which deb-multimedia packages I have installed?

Hi, I have installed vuze on my Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy) system. My sources.list is: deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src ...

Message posted on the February 24th, 2013 - 3:30 PM ET

Bug#672954: git-buildpackage: Move spawn_dch from gbp.scripts.dch to gbp.deb.changelog.ChangeLog

Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.6.0~git20120419 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Here is my first proposal of moving some gbp.scripts.dch functions to reusable places. Included is a pull request and a patch for review. Regards. The ...

Message posted on the May 14th, 2012 - 06:40 pm ET

Bug#660782: [deb-reversion] cannot use whitespace in hook names: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''

Package: devscripts Version: 2.11.4 User: devscripts@packages.debian.org Usertags: deb-reversion According to the manual page, -k argument "must be in quotes if it is more than one (shell) word." I'm not sure whether this a comment on how ...

Message posted on the February 21st, 2012 - 03:10 pm ET

Bug#674711: dpkg-deb -b: allow compression strategy (-S) to be unset by later parameters

Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.3 Severity: important Justification: http://bugs.debian.org/673283 Hi, In debhelper 9.20120513 and later, dh_builddeb passes the options -z1 -Zxz -Sextreme to dpkg-deb when building udebs. Unfortunately this means ...

Message posted on the May 26th, 2012 - 05:10 pm ET

Bug#557296: debootstrap: Use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available

Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.21 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi! Here's two patches to use dpkg-deb if available instead of manually handling the deb files with ar. This will make the code future-proof in case the format would change, say ...

Message posted on the November 20th, 2009 - 08:40 pm ET

Bug#617299: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.4.3 Followup-For: Bug #617299 I also encounter the same bug when trying to build kernel 3.2.21 from upstream tarball: $ LOCALVERSION=-git-686-pae make deb-pkg [...] dpkg-deb: building package `firmware-linux' in ...

Message posted on the July 13th, 2012 - 02:30 am ET

Bug#702332: dpkg-deb: please add warning or forbid when extract package to /tmp directory

package: dpkg version: 1.16.9 severity: wishlist Hello, This morning after booting my computer, I couldn't login into my desktop. In .xsession-errors file appeared: openConnection: connect: No existe el fichero o el directorio cannot connect to ...

Message posted on the March 05th, 2013 - 06:30 am ET

The curious case of openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.1-3_amd64.deb in d7.01alpha

Hi all, I have been trying to use jigdo to download DVD 1 and keep getting stuck at one file in the download. In fact the download on this isn't smooth in anyway . Here's what I get when I try to download it via jigdo :- 100 files not found in ...

Message posted on the May 15th, 2012 - 02:30 pm ET

How to create a i386 deb from rpm on an amd64 system

I want to convert iscan rpm (an Epson scanner driver) to a deb. This driver only works on i386 systems. I have installed multiarch on my system but it seems that there is no alien that can do the job on my system. Alternatively, I have an old ...

Message posted on the April 26th, 2013 - 01:40 pm ET

Absolute symlinks in deb-packages

Hi. I hope this question is sent to the right mailing-list. We're using debian-packages (wheezy) for building our cross-toolchain at work. One issue we're having is that the symlinks added in deb-packages are absolute symlinks. For example the ...

Message posted on the November 27th, 2012 - 09:50 am ET

Question about deb versioning

Hi guys, I'm trying to install a custom deb package that depends on libapache2-mod-passenger (>= 2.2.3) on a fresh debian squeeze, but apt is reporting errors. I found that the current version of the package on squeeze is 2.2.11debian-2, what ...

Message posted on the November 22nd, 2012 - 03:20 pm ET

Embedding one .deb inside another

Hi, I'm having an issue with distributing a .deb package that has a dependency on another .deb package that might not be in an available repository (or the target may not have a network connection at the time of installation). What I'd like to do, ...

Message posted on the November 26th, 2009 - 04:20 pm ET

[PATCH v4 0/4] deb-pkg: bring it a little bit closer to debian packaging

These little fixes should bring debian packaging closer to the way it's done in debian: Changes since: v2: - only build debug packages when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y - build debug package last. - more verbose debug package description - put package in ...

Message posted on the May 07th, 2013 - 11:50 am ET

mini-dinstall possibly leading to lots of 'Failed to fetch http://xyx/abd_1.2-3.deb Size mismatch'

We are running a service that automatically converts the 2300+ R packages from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org) into Debian binaries for both amd64 and i386 on testing. This is joint work with Charles Blundell (CC'ed), which we started when it was ...

Message posted on the May 24th, 2010 - 11:50 pm ET

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