Hi.
(Overriding M-F-T since I'm not sure you read this list, apologies if
that was set on purpose; on another note: fixing the Subject.)
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org> (11/04/2012):
> In order to make netselect-apt functional for Squeeze users (see bugs #667985
> and #665876) I would like to upload a new netselect package to stable.
AFAICS that doesn't look too bad, even though it's almost 4am and I
shouldn't be reading debdiffs for stable; so you may want to wait until
somebody else checks this diff too.
> Please find attached a proposed diff (generated using interdiff) with the
> fixes that would be included in the new package. The code is also available
> in the Squeeze branch of netselect's SVN repository at svn.debian.org [1]
Minor nits below.
> The changes are already available in the Sid distribution and have been
> tested in a Squeeze chroot and dot not seem to introduce any new bugs.
Thanks for that.
> +.BR netselect-apt
> +is also unable to work in environments where HTTP or FTP network connections have to be
> +done through a proxy host, as it relies in being able to test the validity of the
^^
on?
> +For Debian GNU/Linux it is recommended that users review the official mirror
> +list in http://www.debian.org/mirror/official, as well as the mirror checker
^^ ^
at? bonus points if you kill that comma, which can break copy/paste
> diff -u netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog
> --- netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog
> +++ netselect-0.3.ds1/debian/changelog
> @@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
> +netselect (0.3.ds1-14+squeeze1) stable; urgency=medium
> +
> + * Backport fixes and documentation to Squeeze to fix grave bugs.
> + * netselect-apt:
> + - modify regular expression to to parse newest mirrors list with
^^ -to
> + rel="nofollow" in href links. Thanks to "Nameless" for the patch
> + (Closes: #667985, #665876)
> + - Make the script more robust by having it check and detect some common
> + issues when running netselect:
> + * No hosts are found to use with netselect, due to an incorrect file
> + being provided or an error when downloading the mirror list
> + Now the script will at least abort with a (hopefully useful) error
> + message instead of writting a useless sources.list (Closes: 238888)
^ ^
-t (optionally:) +#
Mraw,
KiBi.
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