Carbon TODO

sleekmason · Yesterday 11:45:30

@johnraff, This is the only notice I have seen. This one through the common kernel dev packages. They give the user the mirror address in the dialog, so easy to fix. Currently running 17.4 with zero issues.

Mine is really kind of an edge case. I haven't installed any other tools than this, but they do encompass a pretty decent range overall. No issues with anything else.

Maybe a simple notice about development and changing to deb822? If this is the only case (pbuilder), then not really much of a concern, unless someone's using a script to run through a series of commands including the package installation. One example anyway. Pretty far out there really. Eh...

bc
bison
dh-make
pbuilder
build-essential
fakeroot
flex
libelf-dev
libncurses5-dev
libssl-dev
autoconf
libparse-debcontrol-perl
automake
autopoint
autotools-dev
debhelper
dh-autoreconf
dpkg-dev
devscripts
dh-strip-nondeterminism
dwz
gettext
intltool-debian
libarchive-zip-perl
libfl-dev
libdebhelper-perl
libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl
libsub-override-perl
libtool
po-debconf

And of course these drag in another 50 or so dependencies as well.

johnraff · Today 00:53:42

^Ah pbuilder. I use it to build the BL packages. I don't recall seeing that popup, but it might be because I've already configured MIRRORSITE in ~/.pbuilderrc. My first guess is that it checks /etc/apt/sources.list and uses the Debian url it finds there as the mirror, if nothing else has been configured. Maybe it can't read the modernized sources.

But I don't think that's a serious issue - a user who's about to use pbuilder can reasonably be expected to know what to fill in that dialog (and they give an example). The url is the same regardless of apt sources format. Some people might want to set a proxy or some kind of data caching software there.

Thanks for bringing it up though.

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Re: Carbon TODO

#22 Today 00:53:42

Re: Carbon TODO

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