Re: FTP support

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-deity, you wrote:
> I just finished my general testing of a new FTP method, it is in CVS and
> AFAIK works. The man page for the config file needs to be updated to
> reflect the complex proxy configuration but other than that it is done and
> until someone finds some bugs in it I'm not going to touch it :>
> 
> Ben, Can we make a 0.3.2 release into potato in 2 days - after I get the
> man page uptodate? 

Once the newest apt is in potato, there is no need to keep a separate
location for gnome-apt.  My plan is to remove apt from my download
location, but leave up gnome-apt until the override file gets edited
and is put into potato.

> Oh, Mitch, apparently your last release had some problems.. There was a
> broken symlink and something else I can't remember - can you take a
> carefull look at the .deb and make sure it is 100%? 

The broken-symlink problem occurs in libapt-pkg-dev and is the
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so -> libapt-pkg.so.${LIBAPT_MAJOR}

I have set it up so that this link will automatically get updated when
someone (you?) change to major version of libapt-pkg.  The problem
occurs when someone updates apt (and therefore the virtual package
libapt-pkg) but does not update their libapt-pkg-dev.  This potential
breakage will occur everytime the major version of libapt-pkg is bumped
unless someone remembers to manually add a Conflicts: apt (<= 0.3.x)
where x is the rev immediately prior to the libapt-pkg major version bump.

I mentioned this to the list prior to uploading apt 0.3.1, but no one
responded with any suggestions.  I will assume that this is the best
way to handle it and I will add the required Conflicts:, but we have
to remember to update it to avoid future potential problems.

If someone has a better way of doing this, speak now or forever hold your
peace.

The "something else" I think is my failure to warn load enough that the
ftp method was not included.  Shouldn't be a problem now. :-)

I am unaware of any other problems.  Please point out any or they will
probably slip thru unnoticed.  I am also assuming that someone else will
make the upload to potato.  If you want me to do it, give me a shout.

-Mitch