Re: Python 2.6? A Python transition?

2009-08-28 Thread Luca Falavigna
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Russ Allbery ha scritto:
>> First, the installation path changed from site-packages to
>> dist-packages. This means that most Python packages will need two
>> changes:
> 
>>   * passing --install-layout=deb to setup.py 
> 
> Okay, that's easy enough.  I assume that doesn't break builds for Python
> 2.5 (or 2.4, to the extent it's still supported)?

- --install-layout option has been implemented (as a no-op) both in
python2.5 (>= 2.5.3-1~exp1) and python2.4 (>= 2.4.6-2~exp1).

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about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Harsha s.v. Banavasi
dear sir/madam 
  
 
I am Harsha, i have written device driver pgm(1553 communication device) in 
redhat linux 2.4 kernel which is running fine.  Now My boss asked me to change 
the OS to Debian 5.0  with 2.6 kernel. But now my
 device driver pgm is not working, it's giving lots of errors. Most of the 
Errors in system header files only.   For Eg: After installing Debian Operating 
system and linux headers.   In the directory: 
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6-2.66/include/linux.  we will get huge linux headers 
files.  In which sched.h is one of them.  After compiling my device driver pgm( 
I am using  )  lots of errors is there in sched.h file, which is 
system header file. Why i am getting errors in system header file. 

But in Red hat linux 2.4 kernel, i didn't get any errors in system header 
file.  Why erros in debian.  After changing the operating system, older device 
driver pgm which is running in redhat linux 2.4 kernel successfully will not 
work. what's the reason.  

And most important i am getting erros in system header files.  
For eg: In directory
 /usr/src/linux-source-2.6/2.66/asm,  processor.h is there, the device driver 
pgm is using that header file.  But i am getting erros in that  
.

Please answer to my question.  Because i don't have idea how to overcome this 
problem.

 
 Thank you.
 


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Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi

Harsha s.v. Banavasi wrote:

dear sir/madam
   

I am Harsha, i have written device driver pgm(1553 communication device) 
in redhat linux 2.4 kernel which is running fine.  Now My boss asked me 
to change the OS to Debian 5.0  with 2.6 kernel. But now my device 
driver pgm is not working, it's giving lots of errors. Most of the 
Errors in system header files only.   For Eg: After installing Debian 
Operating system and linux headers.   In the directory: 
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6-2.66/include/linux.  we will get huge linux 
headers files.  In which sched.h is one of them.  After compiling my 
device driver pgm( I am using  )  lots of errors is there 
in sched.h file, which is system header file. Why i am getting errors in 
system header file.


But in Red hat linux 2.4 kernel, i didn't get any errors in system 
header file.  Why erros in debian.  After changing the operating system, 
older device driver pgm which is running in redhat linux 2.4 kernel 
successfully will not work. what's the reason. 

And most important i am getting erros in system header files.  
For eg: In directory /usr/src/linux-source-2.6/2.66/asm,  processor.h is 
there, the device driver pgm is using that header file.  But i am 
getting erros in that  .


I assume that you wrote a kernel driver, thus the problem is in your code:
you cannot assume the same internal kernel interface between different kernel
version. In particular between 2.4 and 2.6 linux kernel there was huge changes
in kernel (and its internal interface).

Thus you should look some modern kernel API documentation, and adapt your
driver.

ciao
cate


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Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:28:56 +0530 (IST)
"Harsha s.v. Banavasi"  wrote:

[Problems compiling a driver for linux 2.4 against linux 2.6]

The main issue is, that the 2.6 kernel-series has a completely different
driver API then 2.4 series. More than that, linux 2.6.0 was
released in December 2003, which is now nearly 6 years in the past, and
in this time, the driver API has been changed more than one time. To
solve your problem, you need a documentation about the driver-API (in
lenny, it's 2.6.26) and you need to figure out how to rewrite
your driver. I assume you know the lkml.
Good luck!

Dirk.


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Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> I assume that you wrote a kernel driver, thus the problem is in your code:

also, please note that this list is for development *of* debian, not for
development *on* debian, so this is not really the proper forum for this
type of question/problem.

best regards,
sean


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Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Harsha s.v. Banavasi
 wrote:

> I am Harsha, i have written device driver pgm(1553 communication device) in
> redhat linux 2.4 kernel which is running fine.  Now My boss asked me to
> change the OS to Debian 5.0  with 2.6 kernel. But now my device driver pgm

Your problem is with the Linux kernel, not with Debian. You should
have contacted the Linux kernel mailing lists instead of the Debian
mailing lists.

I think the following article is relevant to your situation:

http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

Please submit your driver to the Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) for
inclusion into Linux so all distributors can benefit from it and you
get free updates and peer review. You can get help preparing for that
here:

http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/

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Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Hi,

due to lack of resources I ask for someone who can take over
maintainership. I am willing to sponsor uploads if needed. The package
is currently using alioth's collab-maint svn repo.

Cheers,
Torsten


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Re: Double /dev/disk/by-id Vision

2009-08-28 Thread jidanni
> "FZ" == Felix Zielcke  writes:

FZ> I'm also running the udev in experimental 146-1 and have the same, but
FZ> it affects only my IDE disk not my SATA ones even though they have an
FZ> ata-* link too:

FZ> $ ls -1 /dev/disk/by-id/
FZ> ata-SAMSUNG_SP1213N_SAMSUNG_SP1213N_S00UJ10X203399
FZ> ata-SAMSUNG_SP1213N_SAMSUNG_SP1213N_S00UJ10X203399-part1
FZ> ata-SAMSUNG_SP1213N_SAMSUNG_SP1213N_S00UJ10X203399-part2
FZ> ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0ECJH
FZ> ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0ECJH-part1
FZ> ata-ST3808110AS_5LR0ECVK
FZ> dm-name-nvidia_cediideh
FZ> dm-name-nvidia_cediideh1
FZ> dm-uuid-DMRAID-nvidia_cediideh
FZ> dm-uuid-DMRAID-nvidia_cediideh1
FZ> scsi-1ATA_ST3808110AS_5LR0ECJH
FZ> scsi-1ATA_ST3808110AS_5LR0ECJH-part1
FZ> scsi-1ATA_ST3808110AS_5LR0ECVK

OK, now we are getting somewhere. Can somebody reassign this bug to the
proper package? Thanks.


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Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello.

This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is
GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named
/usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before.

Some packages using automake have a Makefile.in like this:

install-info-am:
[...]
@if (install-info --version && \
 install-info --version 2>&1 | sed 1q | grep -i -v debian) 
>/dev/null 2>&1; then \
[... code which uses install-info ... ]

As "install-info --version" does not contain the string "debian"
anymore, the test is true and the install-info part is actually
executed. As a result, some packages ship /usr/share/info/dir.gz
if the new install-info is present during the build.

I'm going to fix my packages by patching Makefile.in so that it reads
"@if false; then \", which is simple and effective, and avoids a
"Build-Conflicts: install-info", but I believe this is actually a
problem in automake, see Bug#543992 for details.

Thanks.


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Bug#544047: ITP: Galet -- Peer-to-peer program aiming to provide easy to setup VPN

2009-08-28 Thread Andrea Neroni
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andrea Neroni 

* Package name: Galet
  Version : 0.3.1
  Upstream Author : Jean Krohn 
* URL : http://galet.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C++/Qt
  Description : Galet is a peer-to-peer program aiming to provide easy to 
setup, secure communications between the computers of persons who already know 
and trust each other.

Galet is a peer-to-peer application, which primarily aims to provide easy
to setup secure communication channels between the computers of people who
know and trust each other. Its secondary goal is to create a public network
based on these channels. No direct connection occur between two nodes that
has not been explicitly accepted by the users of theses nodes. This makes
the network very difficult to censor, as an attacker's direct access to the
network is limited.

As Galet features tunneling, it can also be used as a very easy to set-up VPN.



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Bug#544045: ITP: nfoview -- a simple viewer for NFO files

2009-08-28 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alessio Treglia 

* Package name: nfoview
  Version : 1.6
  Upstream Author : Osmo Salomaa 
* URL : http://home.gna.org/nfoview/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : a simple viewer for NFO files

 NFO Viewer is a simple viewer for NFO files, which are "ASCII" art in
 the CP437 codepage. The advantages of using NFO Viewer instead of a
 text editor are preset font and encoding settings, automatic window
 size and clickable hyperlinks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers jaunty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 
'jaunty-backports'), (500, 'jaunty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)



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Re: Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi,

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote:
> This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is
> GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named
> /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before.

Note that lintian catches that:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-contains-info-dir-file.html

And hopefully ftpmasters will use this tag once they start auto-rejecting
packages based on (some) lintian checks.

> I'm going to fix my packages by patching Makefile.in so that it reads
> "@if false; then \", which is simple and effective, and avoids a
> "Build-Conflicts: install-info", but I believe this is actually a
> problem in automake, see Bug#543992 for details.

Why don't you simply remove the file in debian/rules?

Note that this file removal could be done by some helper tools (like
say dh_installinfo even if it's not used to install the files...).

Cheers,
-- 
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Bug#544051: ITP: divxenc -- shell script to encode DVDs to FMP4/DivX

2009-08-28 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alessio Treglia 

* Package name: divxenc
  Version : 1.4.2
  Upstream Author : Grozdan Nikolov 
* URL : http://divxenc.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: Bash
  Description : shell script to encode DVDs to FMP4/DivX

 A shell script which makes it easy to encode DVDs, (S)VCDs or video files
 to the FMP4/DivX video format using MEncoder from the MPlayer project. 
 Here you can find more information about divxenc and the features it
 supports as well as a FAQ on various issues.
 .
 divxenc has a total of 8 video quality presets ranging from Normal Quality
 to Insane High Quality.  It further has the ability to auto-detect a lot of
 stuff, like DVD titles, chapters, subtitles, audio streams, and it supports
 frequently used video filters like scale, crop, dering, deblock, noise,
 denoise, (un)sharp mask/gaussian blur, deinterlace, interlace, inverse
 telecine/pullup and hard telecine/3:2 pulldown.

-- System Information:
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  APT prefers jaunty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)



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Bug#544062: ITP: xcfa -- X Convert File Audio

2009-08-28 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alessio Treglia 

* Package name: xcfa
  Version : 3.4.9
  Upstream Author : Claude Bulin 
* URL : http://www.xcfa.tuxfamily.org/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : X Convert File Audio

 Extraction of Audio-CD and musical file conversion to flac, wav, mp3,
 ogg, m4a, mpc, ape, wavpack formats.
 .
 Features:
  * Decompression of wma and shorten formats to flac, wav, mp3, ogg, m4a,
mpc, ape, and wavpack.
  * Handling of frequency, track and bits.
  * Handling of files shared volume before a recording.
  * Web retrieval of Audio-CD informations during treatment.
  * Small cover creation for your CDs.

-- System Information:
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  APT prefers jaunty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 
'jaunty-backports'), (500, 'jaunty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)



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APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Today: apt0.7.23 and bang:
$ apt-get update 
...
99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for 
headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped)


WARNING to everyone.

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x7fdea4ad8d6d in pkgAcqIndex::Failed(std::string, 
pkgAcquire::MethodConfig*) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8

Best wishes

Norbert

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Bug#544071: ITP: svgtune -- tool to generate a set of .svg files out of a single .svg file

2009-08-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko 


* Package name: svgtune
  Version : 0.0.2
  Upstream Author : Yaroslav Halchenko 
* URL : http://github.com/yarikoptic/svgtune
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : tool to generate a set of .svg files out of a single .svg 
file

 svgtune is just a little helper to generate a set of .svg files out
 of a single .svg file, by tuning respective groups/layers visibility,
 transparency or anything else.
 .
 It might come very handy for generation of incremental figures to be
 embedded into the presentation in any format which inkscape could
 render using original .svg file (e.g. pdf, png).



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Re: Debian P2P Team

2009-08-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi,

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:10:28AM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:

> since some time I'm wondering why there is *not* a Debian-p2p team
> active already. We have several p2p-related packages in the archive and
> it looks like they are maintained individually and not by a specific
> team.

Is there a specific problem you are trying to solve?

> Of course, the first thing we should focus on is creating a good
> collaboration between all maintainers, that should agree moving their
> work to a team-like way.

I don't think people "should" change their workflow if there is no visible
need.

   Simon


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Re: Debian P2P Team

2009-08-28 Thread Andrea Veri
Simon Richter ha scritto:
> Is there a specific problem you are trying to solve?

Actually there isn't a specific problem, I just think working as a team
might improve the quality of packages when, for istance, a MIA
maintainer leaves his package orphaned for long time without having no
one looking at it. This way the fact to have a team behind all packages
might reassure users about having their problems fixed without any
consistent delay.


> 
> I don't think people "should" change their workflow if there is no visible
> need.


Well, I don't think we should call this a true 'workflow' change,
operating as a team can make things easier for everyone, above all for
maintainers who are pretty busy and unable to provide new revisions in a
small period of time.



Andrea


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Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:55:26PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Today: apt0.7.23 and bang:
> $ apt-get update 
> ..
> 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for 
> headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> 
> WARNING to everyone.

Thanks for your warning.
 
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x7fdea4ad8d6d in pkgAcqIndex::Failed(std::string, 
> pkgAcquire::MethodConfig*) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8

It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma support
for Package file downloads and the option to configure in what order
the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this
failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the
architecture you are using?

Thanks,
 Michael

> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
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Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote:
> the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this
> failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the
> architecture you are using?

amd64, sources.list attached, but some of the repositories are local
on my disc.

I checked that downgrading made it work again.

Best wishes

Norbert

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# 
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
# marillat video
deb http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/debian-multimedia sid main
deb-src http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/debian-multimedia sid main
# google stuff
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free
# texlive
deb file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ tex-gyre/
deb-src file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ tex-gyre/
deb file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ cjk/
deb-src file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ cjk/


Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Leinier Cruz Salfran 

* Package name: libsockets
  Version : 2.3.6
  Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom 
* URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : C++ Sockets Library

 This is a C++ class library wrapping the berkeley
 sockets C API, and therefore works on most unixes
 and also win32. The library is in use in a number
 of real world applications, both commercial and
 open source.
 
 Features include, but are not limited to:
   - TCP and UDP sockets (client and server)
   - HTTP protocol (client and server)
   - IPv6 support
   - SSL support
   - XML support
   - Highly customizable error handling
   - Threaded model (can create threads too)
 
 Testing has been done on Linux and Windows 2000,
 and to some part on Solaris and Mac OS X.
 
 The source code is released under the terms of the GNU
 GPL, but is also available under an alternative license
 (http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/ for further details).


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Re: Debian P2P Team

2009-08-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi,

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:14:57PM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:

> Actually there isn't a specific problem, I just think working as a team
> might improve the quality of packages when, for istance, a MIA
> maintainer leaves his package orphaned for long time without having no
> one looking at it.

I think it decreases the quality of packages if a MIA maintainer leaves his
package orphaned and everyone, including the maintainer, assumes that the
team will step in.

I also have found that for team-maintained packages, I felt less and less
responsible for packages after receiving mails that told me that they had
"fixed" some deliberate choice I made. The same people hell-bent on having
every package team-maintained will not stand idly by if a stanza for a
shared library package is commented out because the ABI is unstable.

> This way the fact to have a team behind all packages
> might reassure users about having their problems fixed without any
> consistent delay.

Please let's not forget that users running unstable are expected to be able
to diagnose and work around problems themselves. There is no value in
adding quick hacks to get rid of bug reports.

Teams make sense if most of the packages in the group follow the same
structure, for example perl packages, and maintainers are essentially
exchangeable because one does not need to understand how the software in
question actually works. Grouping packages by "field" does not work so
well, because there is overlap between fields, and individual packages
within a group are fundamentally different. In fact, I find that having
distinct maintainers for packages that integrate with each other is a
definite advantage because it requires people to actually communicate to
each other about interfaces and transition strategies.

> Well, I don't think we should call this a true 'workflow' change,

Yes, it is. I need to switch to the team maintenance tool of the month when
otherwise I could just call dpkg-buildpackage.

> operating as a team can make things easier for everyone, above all for
> maintainers who are pretty busy and unable to provide new revisions in a
> small period of time.

New revisions are not always good. I'd rather see a maintainer skip a
revision because they did not manage to find the time to test it than have
bleeding edge software that has not been looked at by anyone who actually
uses it.

   Simon


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Re: Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is
> > GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named
> > /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before.
> 
> Note that lintian catches that:
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-contains-info-dir-file.html

Yes, I've used that page to send three patches today.

> And hopefully ftpmasters will use this tag once they start auto-rejecting
> packages based on (some) lintian checks.
> 
> > I'm going to fix my packages by patching Makefile.in so that it reads
> > "@if false; then \", which is simple and effective, and avoids a
> > "Build-Conflicts: install-info", but I believe this is actually a
> > problem in automake, see Bug#543992 for details.
> 
> Why don't you simply remove the file in debian/rules?

Because I feel the file should not be there to begin with.


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Re: Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Hola Leinier,

2009-08-28, Leinier Cruz Salfran:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Leinier Cruz Salfran 
> 
> * Package name: libsockets
>   Version : 2.3.6
>   Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom 
> * URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/
> * License : GPL
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description : C++ Sockets Library
> 

What happened with #539568 [0]


[0] http://bugs.debian.org/539568

Saludos,
Mauro

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Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Vogt wrote:
> It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma support
> for Package file downloads and the option to configure in what order
> the compression types should be used.

That last is really excellent news! I have some slow systems where using 
gzip will be *much* faster than bzip2 is.

But I missed the change (or at least its importance) during my normal 
quick scan of the changelog. Could you possibly add a NEWS.Debian item 
announcing the new config option (including an example maybe), and also 
mentioning the new preference order?

TIA,
FJP

P.S. The new apt runs fine in my amd64-sid chroot, using my local mirror.


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Re: Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
#539568 was my first ITP, unfortunatelly, I made some mistakes I fixed
in #544074 and the new package .. the main change:

- the library name comply with the upstream library name
  upstream: Sockets
  library: sockets

in #539568 I set the library name to 'sockets++' in order to make
available space to other related project (e.g. 'sockets' [C]) but I
understood that I can not change the upstream things

I dont' know how to delete #539568, so I suppose it will be there some
time .. if you know how to delete it let me know, please


El vie, 28-08-2009 a las 13:27 -0300, Mauro Lizaur escribió:
> Hola Leinier,
> 
> 2009-08-28, Leinier Cruz Salfran:
> 
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Leinier Cruz Salfran 
> > 
> > * Package name: libsockets
> >   Version : 2.3.6
> >   Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom 
> > * URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/
> > * License : GPL
> >   Programming Lang: C++
> >   Description : C++ Sockets Library
> > 
> 
> What happened with #539568 [0]
> 
> 
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/539568
> 
> Saludos,
> Mauro
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Re: Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Hi,

2009/8/28 Leinier Cruz Salfran :
> #539568 was my first ITP, unfortunatelly, I made some mistakes I fixed
> in #544074 and the new package .. the main change:
>
> - the library name comply with the upstream library name
>  upstream: Sockets
>  library: sockets
>
> in #539568 I set the library name to 'sockets++' in order to make
> available space to other related project (e.g. 'sockets' [C]) but I
> understood that I can not change the upstream things
>

I understand why you proceed as you did, but it wasn't necessary to
file another bug for it. It would have been enough to just add the new
information to the existent bug report. Remember that an ITP is a way
to let others now that you are working in a package. I wouldn't like
to be misunderstood, it is good you care about filling information
correctly, but creating another ITP report wasn't necessary.

> I dont' know how to delete #539568, so I suppose it will be there some
> time .. if you know how to delete it let me know, please

You can "delete" it if you close [0] it (if you do so, please explain
the reason why you are doing it).  Another thing you can do is to
merge[1] both reports.

Regards,

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Re: Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread David Bremner

Can anyone explain if/why stlport is still useful?  Given the low
popcon, and small number of rdepends, could this be a candidate for
removal?

all the best,

David


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Re: Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi,

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:33:44PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Can anyone explain if/why stlport is still useful?  Given the low
> popcon, and small number of rdepends, could this be a candidate for
> removal?

libstlport4.6 has to be kept on i386 for ABI issues. For the rest[1],
yes I agree. unless there's some other non-obvious need for it

Grüße/Regards,

Rene

[1] stlport5.1 doesn't even have any rdep and stlport5.2 only two
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Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:41:23PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this
> > failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the
> > architecture you are using?
> 
> amd64, sources.list attached, but some of the repositories are local
> on my disc.
> 
> I checked that downgrading made it work again.
[..]

Thanks! David Kalnischkies and I were able to reproduce a crash for
sources that had no Packages file. This is fixed with the 0.7.23.1
upload. Sorry for the trouble, please let me know if that fixes your
issue. 

Cheers,
 Michael


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Maintainer for ‘python-dogtail’ MIA? (was: Automated testing for GUI programs)

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise  writes:

> Please ping the maintainer [of ‘python-dogtail’] and report them as
> MIA if they do not respond:
>
> http://www.debian.de/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa

That instructs me to use ‘mia-query’, but AFAICT that command is
available only for those with shell access to ‘qa.debian.org’.

Can someone with that access please report the results of an MIA query
for “Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo ”?

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Re: Maintainer for ‘python-dogtail’ MIA?

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney  writes:

> Can someone with that access please report the results of an MIA query
> for “Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo ”?

Answered on ‘#debian-devel’:

13:43 < womble> bignose: jsogo was last seen in April, according to mia-query

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