pbuilder problem?
Hi all, I guess this is already well-know but if I packaged with pbuilder, which should be normal way, an upload to Debian archives was rejected by failing to "dpkg-source -x". And in fact when I do manually "dpkg-source -x" it failed. What am I doing wrong? Best regards, 2011-6-13(Mon) -- Debian Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613.170503.413955680.ko...@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp
lynx-cur in experimetal
Hi all, I built and uploaded test package of lynx-cur in experimental (2.8.8dev.8-2 and 2.8.8dev.9-1 today). I changed packaging enormously so I'm afraid I made some silly mistakes. If possible, please check and test it. Main changes I made are, dropping lynx-cur-wrapper and so dropping also alternatives. If there is no serious problem I'll uploaded it to unstable. Thanks in advance. Best regards, 2011-6-13(Mon) -- Debian Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613.165820.301837736.ko...@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp
Re: more about Zookeeper
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:07:30 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > Ted Dunning writes: > > >> There has been a bit of talk about Apache Zookeeper recently by Thomas > > >> Koch. He has a bad opinion of Zookeeper and things it is "not good > > >> enough for Debian". > > > > > > Could you please provide a reference? > > > > How about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/06/msg00316.html > > Ah, now I understand the whole deal better. It's making some more sense to me too. > I won't judge zookeeper, but it is pretty clear it is about to be > orphaned, and that it needs a new team maintaining the Debian package if > it is to remain in Debian. > > It *is* too complex a package, it is not the kind of thing to foster on > Debian QA. It will have to be dropped if a new maintainer doesn't step up > eventually. As outlined in Henrique's previous post, the first thing which any new maintainer team (and I do think it needs to be a team) must do is fix the FTBFS bug. "Eventually" isn't good enough IMHO. I agree with Henrique that leaving zookeeper in unstable would be OK IF there was an active maintainer and #626020 was fixed. The package already claims to be team maintained (pkg-java-maintainers) but nobody from that team has spoken up here. (CC'd). #626020 has already been open for a month. If it stays open another month, I will file a bug for removal of zookeeper from testing. I don't see any other option. However, if there is no response from the existing team in the logs for #626020 before that stage and no new team has shown signs of activity on that bug report either, then I will seek removal from unstable because the only real option would be to orphan the package as unmaintained, at which point removal from unstable becomes inevitable. Without active maintenance *and* a fix for #626020, there is already sufficient justification to remove zookeeper from testing and unstable. If #626020 is fixed by someone who is not willing to maintain it long term, it's still less than ideal. If #629856 is fixed without an active team appearing for zookeeper, there is no reason to keep zookeeper around - even in unstable. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpol0n5apKxW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Merging three direcories in postinst
Hi, in the Haskell packaging we have made a mistake that we want to work-around without having to sourcefully upload 230 packages. Eventually, we will have to do these uploads anyways (with the next major ghc release), so the work-around will not be in place forever. Here is the situation: A haskell library consists of a -dev and a -doc package. The -doc package contains a .haddock file which is placed under /usr/lib/ghc-$(GHC_VERSION)/haddock/. The -dev part contains a package description which, among other things, has a reference to the path. So far so good. Now -dev is arc:any and -doc is arch:all. A lot of packages were built with ghc-7.0.2, and, after the upload of ghc-7.0.3, binNMUed. This has the effect that the .haddock file lies in /usr/lib/ghc-7.0.2/haddock but the package registry refers to /usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/haddock and the index is broken. The proper thing that should have been done is to install stuff in a directory not containing the ghc version, e.g. /usr/lib/haddock. This is what we want to do in the future. Nevertheless, we want to be able to use the previous builds. I am considering to do the following: In ghc’s postinst script, I’d do approximately this: for dir in /usr/lib/ghc-7.0.2/haddock /usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/haddock do if test -d $dir then mv $dir/* /usr/lib/haddock rmdir $dir ln -s ../haddock $dir fi done But before doing so, I’d like to get comments as to what can go wrong. Especially, does dpkg mind if I replace something that dpkg thinks is a proper directory by a symbolic link? Will it still cleanly remove files that were installed by libghc-foo-doc into /usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/haddock/ when libghc-foo-doc is removed? Or is there a neater way? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Participation Requested: Survey about Open-Source Software Development
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Proyecto y creación de Anarchy-Gnu/Linux
Saludos compañeras y compañeros, este correo les ha sido enviado para proponerles el desarrollo de una Distribución GNU/Linux llamada «Anarchy-GNU/Linux», con el eslogán «Freedom and solidarity not only in the software, also in the society for a better world without state and capitalism» (Libertad y solidaridad no sólo en el software, sino también en la sociedad para un mundo mejor sin Estado y capitalismo) como propuestas iniciales, ante el valor de la libertad y el sentido de comunidad del Software Libre, su eficiencia técnica y la necesidad de difundir las ideas del Anarquismo ante el contexto actual de la globalización y la tecnología en el mundo. Inicialmente se propone que esta Distribución se caracterice por lo siguiente: Darle un carácter social anarquista al sistema operativo GNU/Linux. Ser una Distro basada en Debian GNU/Linux ante sus principios, su contrato social y su sentido de comunidad. Estar basada en la rama estable de Debian para tener la mejor estabilidad y ofrecer una excelente distribución GNU/Linux. Tener versiones que se puedan instalar en computadoras antiguas o de baja capacidad con los gestores de ventanas Openbox y Fluxbox, así como usar Gnome para la versión predeterminada. Ser un medio de difusión digital de las ideas del anarquismo, así como su realización y práctica en la sociedad. Fomentar el anarquismo social y no individualista. Trabajar en la medida de lo posible para que el diseño de los sitios de internet y la apariencia de la Distribución Anarchy-GNU/Linux, hagan identificarse a gran parte de las personas que tengan interés en conocerla, no adecuando una imagen únicamente con colores negro y rojinegro, o una estética punk, sino diversos diseños de apariencia para llegar al mayor número posible de usuarias y usuarios, no siendo así una Distribución de autoconsumo de anarquistas para anarquistas, punks, skinheads y demás grupos que llegan identificarse con la postura política del Anarquismo, sino un medio para acercar a todas aquellas personas que no lo conocen y por lo tanto que no son necesariamente anarquistas. Desarrollar un live CD con herramienta de instalación y un disco de instalación en modo texto, para computadoras personales y servidores. Crear una comunidad de usuarios, un sitio de internet y contacto de correo electrónico, pudiendo ser www.anarchygnulinux.org y anarchygnuli...@servidor.net (ejemplos). Tener un manifiesto social con planteamientos anarquistas. Poner archivos de texto u otros sobre el Anarquismo predeterminadamente en el escritorio del entorno gráfico de la Distribución, para incitar al usuario a conocerlo. Se propone que sean tres archivos inicialmente: Un texto básico que introduzca al Anarquismo: ¿Qué es el anarquismo? - en documento de texto de LibreOffice FAQ de Anarquismo «Anarchism» - en documento pdf o de texto LibreOffice Algún documento que hable sobre la socialización del conocimiento en pdf o texto de LibreOffice. Ser la Distro más difundida para acercarnos o alcanzar el objetivo de influenciar al mayor número de personas contra la existencia del Estado, el capital, el orden burgués, la democracia, el individualismo, las dictaduras, el autoritarismo, la ignorancia, el socialismo marxista y toda forma de explotación y autoridad del ser humano sobre el ser humano. Contribuir a la transformación radical de la sociedad a través de la utilización de la computadora y la analogía de la forma de funcionar del Software Libre y una sociedad anarquista. Ser una gran comunidad. Poner en práctica los principios del Anarquismo para el desarrollo de esta Distribución y lograr todo lo anterior. Todo lo propuesto arriba son ideas iniciales y por supuesto están abiertas a complementarse. Por favor difundan este correo, publiquen la información en sus blogs, foros, sitios de internet y demás, para que sirva de convocatoria para llamar a más posibles interesadas e interesados en este proyecto. De la misma forma, si no son simpatizantes del Anarquismo como tendencia política pero pueden ayudar en la cuestión técnica o tienen contactos que puedan ayudar al desarrollo de esta Distribución GNU/Linux, apóyennos por favor. Esta es una idea que me ha surgido y probablemente a otras y otros muchos más paralelamente y sin conocernos, así que es un regalo a todas y todos los interesados en ponerla en práctica. Los contactos no fueron enviados como ocultos, ya que considero importante que sepan vosotros a quienes llegó esta información. Así mismo les pido de favor que alguien traduzca el contenido de este correo a inglés y otros idiomas que sean posibles y lo envíe nuevamente en ese idioma o idiomas a los contactos que aparecen para quienes no hablen español. Espero que podamos ser muchas y muchos las y los que participemos en el desarrollo de esta Distribución. No hay luz sin día ni libertad sin anarquía Free as in Anarchy!. !Salud y revolución social! Información y enlaces de interés : http://www.gnu.org/home.es.html http://www.debian
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Re: more about Zookeeper
On Du, 12 iun 11, 21:44:37, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > #602694 needs to stay open and blocking zookeeper from Squeeze until it > has a maintainer team that is confident they will be able to handle the > stable support and also confident that the package is good enough > (actually that it WILL be good enough by the time we freeze Squeeze) for > the next Debian stable. For those not so familiar with Debian, Henrique meant s/squeeze/wheezy/ here ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#630391: ITP: jalv -- tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: jalv Version : 0~svn3395 Upstream Author : David Robillard * URL : http://dev.drobilla.net/browser/trunk/jalv * License : ISC Programming Lang: C Description : tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications jalv is a stand-alone version of lv2jack that supports plugin UIs via libsuil. It allows to run an LV2 plugin as a JACK application. . This package contains a replacement for the lv2jack utility, which was previously provided by the lilv-utils package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613171047.2988.12770.reportbug@localhost6.localdomain6
Re: more about Zookeeper
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 iun 11, 21:44:37, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > #602694 needs to stay open and blocking zookeeper from Squeeze until it > > has a maintainer team that is confident they will be able to handle the > > stable support and also confident that the package is good enough > > (actually that it WILL be good enough by the time we freeze Squeeze) for > > the next Debian stable. > > For those not so familiar with Debian, Henrique meant s/squeeze/wheezy/ > here ;) Woops, sorry about that :-) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613191614.ga29...@khazad-dum.debian.net
Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System
Hi, I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate mailing list for the subject or not. If not, please let me know the right place for this discussion. There are a few features that would probably improve Debian's package Management system (at least based on my needs). And maybe they exist somewhere I don't know about. 1. system-bug-status: This is actually pretty easy to implement. This program should periodically check the bug tracking system for bugs in installed packages and report to the system administrator. * It can prioritize the packages based on there importance, how frequently they are used, possible security risks and manual configurations. * It can be configured to check only for the bugs based on their classifications (serious, important, normal, verified or not, etc.) * For different combinations of these two it can determine the appropriate period to check. 2. The ability to ban certain packages and (possibly) there dependent packages. So that they wouldn't show up in the package manager at all. I would really appreciate any ideas and suggestions. Regards, Eliad -- Eliad Bagherzadegan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Push tag for haskell-safe
Joachim Breitner wrote: > it seems you forgot to push the tag for haskell-safe. Sorry Joachim, It wasn't me. Although I did the last commit, I didn't do the package upload as I am only a DM, not a DD. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110614070051.070038f8.mle...@mega-nerd.com
Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System
Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: > I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate mailing list for the subject or > not. If not, please let me know the right place for this discussion. > > There are a few features that would probably improve Debian's package > Management > system (at least based on my needs). And maybe they exist somewhere I don't > know > about. A better place to send these suggestions is the APT mailing list, de...@lists.debian.org - or wishlist bug reports against the package manager. -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613213636.ge28...@lupin.home.powdarrmonkey.net
Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote:
[...]
> This program should periodically check the bug tracking system for
> bugs in installed packages and report to the system administrator.
[...]
While not necessarily a perfect match for the criteria you mention,
you'll probably want to take a look at these which provide similar
functionality:
http://packages.debian.org/apt-listbugs
http://packages.debian.org/devscripts (man rc-alert)
Perhaps a wishlist bug against one of the above is in order to
request the additional features you think might be useful?
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Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System
Op Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:26:02 +0430 schreef Eliad Bagherzadegan : > 2. The ability to ban certain packages and (possibly) there dependent > packages. So that they wouldn't show up in the package manager at all. You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will refuse to install it. For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to install libfoo: Package: libfoo Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#630422: ITP: pwsafe -- pwsafe is a *nix command-line program that manages encrypted password databases
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francis Russell * Package name: pwsafe Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Nicolas S. Dade * URL : http://nsd.dyndns.org/pwsafe/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : command-line application for managing encrypted passwords pwsafe is a *nix command-line program that manages encrypted password databases. Features: - Pure command-line operation if desired (good for remote access over ssh) or can interact with X11 selection & clipboard. - Portable, endianess-clean, misaligned-access-free C++. - Compatible with CounterPane's PasswordSafe Win32 program versions 2.x and 1.x. pwsafe was in Debian until recently, but removed since it was orphaned. I contacted the current maintainer who was willing to sponsor uploads by a user willing to take of maintenance work. Please see the following bug reports: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601300 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630178 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613224431.22623.32528.reportbug@callisto
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Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:25:29 +0200 Peter De Wachter wrote: > You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a > negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will > refuse to install it. > For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to install > libfoo: > Package: libfoo > Pin: version * > Pin-Priority: -1 Possibly, there should be some kind of automagical interface for this, so one can type apt-... ... libfoo and get that stanza generated? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System
"Andrew O. Shadoura" writes:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:25:29 +0200
> Peter De Wachter wrote:
>
>> You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a
>> negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will
>> refuse to install it.
>
>> For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to install
>> libfoo:
>> Package: libfoo
>> Pin: version *
>> Pin-Priority: -1
>
> Possibly, there should be some kind of automagical interface for this,
> so one can type apt-... ... libfoo and get that stanza generated?
It's actually very easy to write such a tool:
~# cat >/usr/local/sbin/apt-ignore
#! /bin/sh
set -e
ai_usage ()
{
cat <$(tempfile -d /etc/apt/preferences.d/ -p ign-)
^D
~# chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/apt-ignore
There's little error handling, one could add support for --help, write a
manual page and probably a whole lot of other things (like using more
sensible filenames, and warning the user if trying to ignore a package
that does not exist (possibly only when a flag is specified - so one can
ignore packages that are not in the archive yet, but will be)), but I'll
leave that to someone who'd actually use the program.
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Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:44:43 +0200 Gergely Nagy wrote: > >> You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a > >> negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt > >> will refuse to install it. > > > >> For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to install > >> libfoo: > >> Package: libfoo > >> Pin: version * > >> Pin-Priority: -1 > > > > Possibly, there should be some kind of automagical interface for > > this, so one can type apt-... ... libfoo and get that stanza > > generated? > > It's actually very easy to write such a tool: Yes, but when you already know how to do that :) Before that, you need to R the M anyway. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature
