Re: Mass bugs filing: bogus debian/watch files

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Raphael Geissert]
> Is there any objection for not letting my scripts fill bug reports?
> Comments? Suggestions? or any other kind of feedback? :)

No objection, but I would recommend including a URL to a page
explaining with examples how to fill the watch file with working
values for at least sourceforge and gnu.org sources.  I would like to
include working watch files in my package, but do not want to spend
much time figuring out how to write the files.  Because of this, I
would love simple working examples.

I found the uscan manual page slightly confusing, but perhaps it is
just me. :)

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Re: Mass bugs filing: bogus debian/watch files

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Raphael Geissert]
>> Is there any objection for not letting my scripts fill bug reports?
>> Comments? Suggestions? or any other kind of feedback? :)
> 
> No objection, but I would recommend including a URL to a page
> explaining with examples how to fill the watch file with working
> values for at least sourceforge and gnu.org sources. 

look at the watch.ex from dh-make, there's at least a sf.net redirector
example.
For gnu.org it's trivial - here an example for bash:

version=3
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-(.*).tar.gz

> I found the uscan manual page slightly confusing, but perhaps it is
> just me. :)

It's you :P

Cheers,

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Re: dh_installinit

[Sylvain Garcia]

Russ Allbery wrote:

Sylvain Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Thanks for your anwswer



How verify if the the program start by init script wait an entry on
standard input; because when use init y hand this script work perfectly.


Ah, hm.  This may be a different problem, then.  Some daemons don't close
file descriptors, and Debian maintainer scripts sometimes have other file
descriptors open.  This can create a situation where the maintainer script
waits for the daemon to close the file descriptor and hence hangs.

Often adding:

# Make sure we don't leave file descriptors open.
exec 3>/dev/null
exec 

Thanks all for your answer, It's work.

I have modify my init script with [pathToTheScriptDaemon] 3>  /dev/null


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Re: Mandatory support for -nocheck in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007, Ian Jackson wrote:
> What you mean is that you don't want binaries generated at one point
> being executed later during the build.  I think it would be better to
> invent an option `cross' which covered this requirement.

 Do we really need a new option?  Why not infer this requirement when
 the build and host arches differ?

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Bug#450619: ITP: libgruff-ruby -- Library to create graphs and charts with Ruby

[Gunnar Wolf]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: libgruff-ruby
  Version : 0.2.9
  Upstream Author : Geoffrey Grosenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/gruff
* License : MIT/X
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description : Library to create graphs and charts with Ruby

This library makes it effortless to create very good-looking graphs
and charts dynamically from Ruby programs


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Bug#450616: ITP: libjboss-web-services1-java -- JBoss Web Services (JBossWS)

[Varun Hiremath]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Varun Hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: libjboss-web-services1-java
  Version : 1.2.1.GA
  Upstream Author : JBoss Inc.
* URL or Web page : http://labs.jboss.com/jbossws/
* License : LGPL
  Description : JBoss Web Services (JBossWS)

 JBossWS is a JAX-WS compliant web service stack developed to be part
 of JBoss' Java EE5 offering. JAX-WS brings to web services what EJB3
 brings to EJB. With its greatly simplified programming model and
 functional enhancements it is desigend to take the place of previous
 JAX-RPC web service implementations.

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Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

[Varun Hiremath]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Varun Hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: opennms
  Version : 1.2.9
  Upstream Author : The OpenNMS Group, Inc.
* URL or Web page : http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page
* License : GPL
  Description : Open-source Network Management

 OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management
 platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a
 community supported open-source project as well as a commercial
 services, training, and support organization.

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Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:38:27PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote:
>  OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management
>  platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a

Sorry, but I don't buy the "world's first ..." and as such I wouldn't
like to see it in the long description.

What does it means? First under what criteria?

Sounds more like an advertisement than a useful information for the
sysadm that need to choose whether to install it or not.

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Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

[Varun Hiremath]

On Thu, 08 Nov, 2007 at 05:57:25PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:38:27PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote:
> >  OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management
> >  platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a
> 
> Sorry, but I don't buy the "world's first ..." and as such I wouldn't
> like to see it in the long description.
> 
> What does it means? First under what criteria?
> 
> Sounds more like an advertisement than a useful information for the
> sysadm that need to choose whether to install it or not.
  
 I agree, that wasn't a very good description of the package. Sorry.
 How about this one?

 OpenNMS is a highly-customizable network management platform. It
 provides three main functional areas:
  * Service Polling: the system monitors services on the network and
 reports on their "service level".
  * Performance: data is collected from the remote systems via SNMP in
 order to measure the performance of the network.
  * Event Management and Notifications: OpenNMS includes a robust
 notification system, including escalations, that can be generated by
 network events.

Regards
Varun

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Re: XS-Vcs-*, XS-X-Vcs-* and friends

[Luca Capello]

Hello!

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:39:23 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:
> BUT! you may be interested in the following packages, which use
> XS-X-Vcs-* headers and are also easy to catch:
[...]
> Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>arnesi
>fiveam
>parenscript
>qbook
>s-xml
>trivial-sockets
>yaclml

These have been corrected in the corresponding Debian VCSs [1] ;-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://cl-debian.alioth.debian.org/repository/lcapello/


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Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

[Felipe Sateler]

Bernd Zeimetz wrote:

> I'd like to see the programming language in the description, too.
> There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in
> a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can
> handle

That should be easily detectable by checking the dependencies or debtags.
There are already far too many descriptions that include the language of
development for no good reason.


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Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

[Varun Hiremath]

Hi,

On Thu, 08 Nov, 2007 at 07:37:35PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> 
> >  OpenNMS is a highly-customizable network management platform. It
> >  provides three main functional areas:
> >   * Service Polling: the system monitors services on the network and
> >  reports on their "service level".
> >   * Performance: data is collected from the remote systems via SNMP in
> >  order to measure the performance of the network.
> >   * Event Management and Notifications: OpenNMS includes a robust
> >  notification system, including escalations, that can be generated by
> >  network events.
> 
> much better.
> I'd like to see the programming language in the description, too.
> There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in
> a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can
> handle

Sure, I shall include the language (java) in the description. Thanks
for the suggestion.

Regards
Varun

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Re: dupload failed

[SZALAY Attila]

Thanks to all!

Now I'm subsribed into that list too.


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Re: dupload failed

[Christoph Haas]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote:
> I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload
> because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22.

ftp-master is temporarily out of service. See
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Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote:


That should be easily detectable by checking the dependencies or debtags.


Definitely.


There are already far too many descriptions that include the language of
development for no good reason.


+1 vote against mentioning the language in the description if there is
no explicite need for this information.

Kind regards

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Re: Long-term mass bug filing for crossbuild support

[Thiemo Seufer]

Neil Williams wrote:
[snip]
> As noted elsewhere in this thread, --build can be specified alone but is
> usually only used for specialist builds for i686 on i386 etc. I fail to
> see the merit of proposing that packages add --build to the normal
> Debian build for no reason.

One reason is that a guess via "uname" will lead to e.g. a mips64-linux
build attempt on a 32 bit userland, just because the kernel is 64 bit.

Generally speaking, such guesses are unreliable in multi-ABI
environments.


Thiemo


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Re: dupload failed

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload
> because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22.
> 
> May I missed something?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg1.html

Mike


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dupload failed

[SZALAY Attila]

Hi All!

I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload
because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22.

May I missed something?

Uploading (ftp) to anonymous-ftp-master (ftp-master.debian.org)
dupload fatal error:  at /usr/bin/dupload line 819



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Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

[Bernd Zeimetz]

>  OpenNMS is a highly-customizable network management platform. It
>  provides three main functional areas:
>   * Service Polling: the system monitors services on the network and
>  reports on their "service level".
>   * Performance: data is collected from the remote systems via SNMP in
>  order to measure the performance of the network.
>   * Event Management and Notifications: OpenNMS includes a robust
>  notification system, including escalations, that can be generated by
>  network events.

much better.
I'd like to see the programming language in the description, too.
There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in
a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can
handle


Cheers,

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LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

ser2net, a small daemon in a package maintained by me, cannot write
its own pidfile. Since it forks and detaches by default,
start-stop-daemon's --make-pidfile option is of no use as well, since
the daemon that ends up running has a different pid than s-s-d's
child.

Before, I started that daemon with
s-s-d --background --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- -n,
with -n being its option for "do not fork and background yourself".

While I do not find this particularly elegant (is there any better
way?), it precludes me from using /lib/lsb/init-function's
start_daemon function as start_daemon is not able to pass arbitrary
options to s-s-d, and there is no option to invoke --background
--make-pidfile.

How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok
to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I need other
workarounds?

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Re: dupload failed

[Cyril Brulebois]

SZALAY Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (08/11/2007):
> May I missed something?

Possibly:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg1.html

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Re: dupload failed

[Kevin Mark]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:08:30PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote:
> > I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload
> > because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22.
> 
> ftp-master is temporarily out of service. See
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>  Christoph
  
There is a new list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where something like this would be listed, also, in the future.
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Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> ser2net, a small daemon in a package maintained by me, cannot write
> its own pidfile. Since it forks and detaches by default,
> start-stop-daemon's --make-pidfile option is of no use as well, since
> the daemon that ends up running has a different pid than s-s-d's
> child.
> 
[..]
> 
> How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok
> to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I need other
> workarounds?

Perhaps you could patch the daemon to add pidfile writing?

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Bug#450677: ITP: photo-uploader -- Command line photo uploader

[Michal Čihař]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Michal Čihař" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

* Package name: photo-uploader
  Version : 0.4
  Upstream Author : Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://cihar.com/software/photo-uploader/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Command line photo uploader

Photo uploader is a command line utility (and Python module) for
uploading photos to minilabs for printing or to any service for image
hosting. It currently supports only a few minilab services in Czechia 
and some hosting services like ImageShack, but can be easily extended 
to support others.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHM+Vw3DVS6DbnVgQRAguDAJ9ueP5Ta6rpIGnPkRb8u1K0AEbY+gCfZm1T
6FmEXND072/P8jW3RAN4PAc=
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Work-needing packages report for Nov 9, 2007

[wnpp]

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.

Total number of orphaned packages: 333 (new: 12)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 4)
Total number of packages requested help for: 33 (new: 0)

Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.



The following packages have been orphaned:

   connect.app (#450487), orphaned yesterday
 Description: Frontend to pppd for GNUstep
 Installations reported by Popcon: 17

   dphys-kernel-packages (#449511), orphaned 2 days ago
 Description: Generate many variants of kernel packages and modules
 Installations reported by Popcon: 213

   etoile (#450493), orphaned yesterday
 Description: etoile project: dictionaryreader.app, wildmenus.app..
 Reverse Depends: camaelon.app
 Installations reported by Popcon: 18

   gnuwash.app (#450492), orphaned yesterday
 Description: Configurable timer with alarm for GNUstep
 Installations reported by Popcon: 202

   mailscanner (#449140), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: spam/virusfilter
 Installations reported by Popcon: 263

   plopfolio.app (#450488), orphaned yesterday
 Description: Clone of Serence's excellent KlipFolio for GNUstep
 Installations reported by Popcon: 180

   poe.app (#450489), orphaned yesterday
 Description: Vorbis comment editor
 Installations reported by Popcon: 186

   quake2-data (#449452), orphaned 3 days ago
 Reverse Depends: quake2
 Installations reported by Popcon: 332

   remotedesk (#450491), orphaned yesterday
 Description: Remote Windows access tool for GNUstep
 Installations reported by Popcon: 51

   ttf-summersby (#449485), orphaned 3 days ago
 Description: Free TrueType typeface font
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1509

   wrapperfactory.app (#449514), orphaned 2 days ago
 Description: Application wrappers configuration tool for GNUstep
 Installations reported by Popcon: 228

   zatacka (#449484), orphaned 3 days ago
 Description: Arcade multiplayer game like nibbles
 Installations reported by Popcon: 55

321 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.



The following packages have been given up for adoption:

   bookmarks (#450622), offered today
 Description: Debian bookmark collection
 Installations reported by Popcon: 266

   qa-assistant (#449105), offered 6 days ago
 Description: checklist assistant
 Installations reported by Popcon: 69

   reaim (#449283), offered 4 days ago
 Description: Enable AIM and MSN file transfer on Linux iptables
   based NAT
 Installations reported by Popcon: 26

   shfs (#449435), offered 3 days ago
 Installations reported by Popcon: 432

83 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list.



For the following packages help is requested:

   aboot (#315592), requested 868 days ago
 Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
 Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client-core
 Installations reported by Popcon: 117

   apt-build (#365427), requested 558 days ago
 Description: Need new developer(s)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 894

   apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 457 days ago
 Description: lists available package versions with distribution
 Installations reported by Popcon: 3066

   athcool (#278442), requested 1108 days ago
 Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
 Installations reported by Popcon: 290

   cvs (#354176), requested 623 days ago
 Description: Concurrent Versions System
 Reverse Depends: bonsai crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage
   cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta (15
   more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 21572

   dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 12 days ago
 Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
   information
 Reverse Depends: debian-goodies dlocate feta hg-buildpackage mlmmj
   sbuild simple-cdd
 Installations reported by Popcon: 5753

   dpkg (#282283), requested 1083 days ago
 Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
 Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
   backuppc build-essential bzr-builddeb clamsmtp crosshurd (89 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 68253

   elvis (#432298), requested 122 days ago
 Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
   support)
 Reverse Depends: elvi

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ser2net, a small daemon in a package maintained by me, cannot write
> its own pidfile. Since it forks and detaches by default,
> start-stop-daemon's --make-pidfile option is of no use as well, since
> the daemon that ends up running has a different pid than s-s-d's
> child.
> 
> Before, I started that daemon with
> s-s-d --background --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- -n,
> with -n being its option for "do not fork and background yourself".
> 
> While I do not find this particularly elegant (is there any better
> way?),

As Hamish said: patch the source. Writing a PID file is not particularly
hard. From nbd-server:

pidf=fopen(pidfname, "w");
if(pidf) {
fprintf(pidf, "%d\n", (int)getpid());
fclose(pidf);
} else {
/* error handling; if not running as root, probably a
 * permission issue or so */
}

and that's really it. Of course, you should add this after the daemon()
or fork() call in your program, otherwise it won't really help ;-)

> it precludes me from using /lib/lsb/init-function's
> start_daemon function as start_daemon is not able to pass arbitrary
> options to s-s-d, and there is no option to invoke --background
> --make-pidfile.
> 
> How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok
> to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I need other
> workarounds?

Reading through init-functions:

log_daemon_msg "Starting Foo Daemon" "foo"
start-stop-daemon --whatever --you --want --here
log_end_msg 0

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Re: dupload failed

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:13:50PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote:
> Thanks to all!
> 
> Now I'm subsribed into that list too.

Uhm. This is the one and only must-subscribe list for Debian Developers.
Please do not unsubscribe from it. Ever.

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