Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Christian Perrier
> >> In a few weeks, we'll start filing RC bugs against the remaining > >> packages. > > RC bug? What the heck are you talking about? > > No RC Bug, normal severity. If its a dummy out of an (now) empty source I also agree with the severity to be normal. Which could, btw, have been said in a m

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Don Armstrong] > All that needs to happen is that GPLed packages without an OpenSSL > linking exception either need to: > > 1) Get a linking exception. > 2) Stop linking with OpenSSL. 3) For indirect dependencies: make sure you're only using the bits of the (for example) libcurl

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20050716T195244-0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> That's a far cry different from someone wanting to enforce a >> requirement. > > Who, in this thread, is this hypothetical someone? Right. Manoj asked: why should we have a requirement? S

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:42:44 +0200, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > What's with the recent push to get every little things written > >down into policy, so the developer no longer is req

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:38:20 +0200, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi *, What kind of discussion is this? This is a discussion about project quality. > We can't effort more bureaucrazy (typo intended) in the project. Let > the people doing the work do the work instead o

Re: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:54:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > In addition, please verify that the library you're uploading hasn't > already been transitioned by the maintainer, by checking both the NEW > queue on ftp-master[2] and the status of any new versions in unstable > before uploading.

NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
Below is a list of libraries which appear to be blocking other packages that need to go through the C++ transition[1] and which are themselves ready to go through the ABI transition. These packages should be uploaded ASAP, either by maintainer upload or NMU; even though no bugs have been filed, th

Re: is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:55:48AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:46:03PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> If your examples are like B1 is a console program and B2 an X program > >> and P doesn't want to pull in

Re: is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:46:03PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> If your examples are like B1 is a console program and B2 an X program >> and P doesn't want to pull in X for console users then splitting is >> the right thing to do. isdnutils wou

Re: is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:46:03PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > If your examples are like B1 is a console program and B2 an X program > and P doesn't want to pull in X for console users then splitting is > the right thing to do. isdnutils would be example of having split due > to this in th

Re: linuxsampler/libgig: intent to hijack

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi Matt, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:18:52AM +1000, Matt Flax wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I am currently deep in the tail end of my PhD at the moment. I would > really appreciate co-developer ownership, where I can return to duty > with you on these packages once I have a little more time. Probably >

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote: > > >> we need to remove > >> from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. > > No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy > > packages, as they are also woody-to-etc

Re: Alioth upgrade

2005-07-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le dimanche 17 juillet 2005 à 13:13 +0200, Santiago Vila a écrit : > PLEASE, if you have something important to say to most developers, > use debian-devel-announce, not a message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > with no special headers. That's dangerously near to being spam. > > Yes, I know this ra

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote: >> we need to remove >> from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. > No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy > packages, as they are also woody-to-etch dummy packages. We do not support that. No. So yes,

Re: is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Suppose package P contains files /usr/bin/B1 and /usr/bin/B2. B1 >is the important program, and B2 is not as important. Is it OK >for the declared package dependencies to not satisfy all the >run-time shared library dependencies of B2? What if they are >list

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > Hello Debian mainainers, > > In accordance with the Etch wishlist^wTODOList[1], Do not confuse a personal wishlist with a real todo list. > we need to remove > from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. No, that's n

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005, Adeodato Simó wrote: > This two pages are asking for authentification. I guess this is not > intended? Oops! It should be fixed ;-) Thanks. PS: I read the list. -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Mohammed Adnène Trojette [Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:46:19 +0200]: > Hello Debian mainainers, Hi! > [2] http://adn.diwi.org/wiki/index.php/DummyPackagesList > [3] http://adn.diwi.org/wiki/index.php/DummyPackagesStatus This two pages are asking for authentification. I guess this is not intende

debconf5 - videos of the talks and BOFs available

2005-07-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, "the mighty video team", in boring alphabetical order (but you who where there know who they are), Andrew McMillan, Chris Halls, Erik Johansson, Henning Sprang, Herman Robak, Holger Levsen, Javier Candeira, John Lightsey, Kalle Boess, Martin Langhoff, Noel Koethe, Peter de Schrijver, Tore S

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 17, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I already did this for discover1, but did this in a way to make it use > lsb-base only if it is installed. I can't see the point. The package is tiny, so if it should be used then everybody should install it. -- ciao, Marco signature.

Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-17 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Hello Debian mainainers, In accordance with the Etch wishlist^wTODOList[1], we need to remove from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages. This is why Clément Stenac and I have tried to establish a list of the packages to be removed[2]. This[3] page also explains how the lis

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > apt-get remove --purge libssl0.9.7 gives me tons of packages. Just > an estimation: We need to repack half of all packages then? NO.[1] All that needs to happen is that GPLed packages without an OpenSSL linking exception either need to: 1) Get a

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Hood] > The package is only 20 kbytes installed. Let's just start Depending on it. I agree. We should start using the LSB, not just talk about trying to be LSB conforming. :) But I made the use optional for discover1 because someone complained and said it was just a fancy way to get col

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:33:40 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I used this code to make lsb-base optional, and used the lsb functions > for output: > > if [ -f /lib/lsb/init-functions ]; then > . /lib/lsb/init-functions > else > log_begin_msg() { echo "$@"; } > log_success_msg(

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 the mental interface of sean finney told: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:21:00PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > I don't see a gpl'd alternative to curl for internet streaming. I am > > thinking about to build moc --without-curl then :( > > or you could always contact the a

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-17 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:04:57PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Why not building curl --without-sssl and --with-gnutls=/usr? Maybe a > NMU? this is definitely NOT a reason to NMU libcurl. remember that it is your package that is "broken". of course you could still file a wishlist bug again

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 the mental interface of sean finney told: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:21:00PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > I don't see a gpl'd alternative to curl for internet streaming. I am > > thinking about to build moc --without-curl then :( > > or you could always contact the a

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-17 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:21:00PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I don't see a gpl'd alternative to curl for internet streaming. I am > thinking about to build moc --without-curl then :( or you could always contact the author and inform them of their self-inflicted license violation. in my e

Re: is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2005/7/17, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Suppose package P contains files /usr/bin/B1 and /usr/bin/B2. B1 >> > is the important program, and B2 is not as important. Is it OK >> > fo

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] > I am considering switching the init scripts of my packages to > lsb-base (which means that it will have to be promoted to important > priority, at least). > If anybody has objections please voice them now. I already did this for discover1, but did this in a way to make it use lsb-

Re: is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
2005/7/17, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Suppose package P contains files /usr/bin/B1 and /usr/bin/B2. B1 > > is the important program, and B2 is not as important. Is it OK > > for the declared package dependencies to not satisfy all the

Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Marco d'Itri told: > On Jul 17, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > comfortable to build curl against gnutls in general? Any hints? > Upstream developers should get a clue and either properly license their > software, stop using libcurl

Re: linuxsampler/libgig: intent to hijack

2005-07-17 Thread Matt Flax
Hi Paul, I am currently deep in the tail end of my PhD at the moment. I would really appreciate co-developer ownership, where I can return to duty with you on these packages once I have a little more time. Probably about next year some time. I still have a few others to maintain as well as the

Re: aspell dictionary packages fail to build

2005-07-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:34:05PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > Howdy, > > The aspell dictionary packages build-depend on aspell-bin (>> 0.60). > aspell-bin is now a virtual package provided by aspell, but virtual > packages cannot be versioned, so these build-dependency cannot be > satisfied. > >

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:35:14 +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 20050717T025707-0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> A little reading comprehension on your part would help a bit >> here. Hint: dict policy would help. >> >> The discussion started wuth a wuestion of _policy_

lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
I am considering switching the init scripts of my packages to lsb-base (which means that it will have to be promoted to important priority, at least). If anybody has objections please voice them now. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed

2005-07-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 17, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > comfortable to build curl against gnutls in general? Any hints? Upstream developers should get a clue and either properly license their software, stop using libcurl or adding gnutls support to it. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descripti

linuxsampler/libgig: intent to hijack

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi, linuxsampler has been FTBFS since its first upload, is now uninstallable, and requires a rebuild against the latest g++. Matt, are you still interested in maintaining this package? and libgig? if not, i would be interested to adopt them. cheers, piem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I know, but as written before, IMHO the abi version number should > not be encoded in the package name. Usually you just get a new > abi, but no new functionality, so why introduce a new name? Just > to work around the limitations of

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> >>>But I can follow your argument. Dpkg should allow installing >>>different C++ abis on the same machine. Only within each >>>dependency chain the abi version number must b

Re: Reformatted Ubuntu Patches Repository

2005-07-17 Thread Javier Candeira
Joachim, for the record: YOU ROCK!!! -- javier Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > brought to you by the Utnubu team (that is me, still waiting for more > members, hint hint :-)), is the a newly formatted repository of Ubuntu > patches. > > On http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/by_maint/ y

libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed

2005-07-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, I am currently maintaining moc, a _m_usic _o_n _c_onsole player: http://moc.daper.net apt-cache show moc The new version 2.3.0 needs libcurl-dev, 'cause streaming is possible now. Start using libcurl, which depends on libssl, and since GPL is incompatible with OpenSSL license, the package wa

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >>But I can follow your argument. Dpkg should allow installing >>different C++ abis on the same machine. Only within each >>dependency chain the abi version number must be unique, so >>it should become some kind of packag

Reformatted Ubuntu Patches Repository

2005-07-17 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, brought to you by the Utnubu team (that is me, still waiting for more members, hint hint :-)), is the a newly formatted repository of Ubuntu patches. On http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/by_maint/ you will find a directory for each maintainer with modified packages, inside directories

Alioth upgrade

2005-07-17 Thread Santiago Vila
PLEASE, if you have something important to say to most developers, use debian-devel-announce, not a message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with no special headers. That's dangerously near to being spam. Yes, I know this rant is not new (I remember a similar one from Branden) but apparently past rants ab

Re: is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Suppose package P contains files /usr/bin/B1 and /usr/bin/B2. B1 > is the important program, and B2 is not as important. Is it OK > for the declared package dependencies to not satisfy all the > run-time shared library dependencies of B2? What if they are

Re: FTBFS problems caused by texi2html changes

2005-07-17 Thread Clint Adams
> texi2html's behavior changed recently: if it is invoked with > -split=chapter, old versions place the HTML files in the same > directory as the documentation source, whereas new versions place the > generated files in a subdirectory. To get the old behavior, one can use --output . --split=chap

Gutenprint entering unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Gutenprint (the new name for Gimp-Print 5.0) will enter unstable today, and a number of changes come with it. I have made a great deal of effort to ensure smooth upgrades, and it was uploaded to experimental two weeks ago for further testin

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050717T025707-0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > A little reading comprehension on your part would help a bit > here. Hint: dict policy would help. > > The discussion started wuth a wuestion of _policy_. Once you > comprehend what that word means, you'll see what Thomas meant.

is it a bug to not depend on a library package needed for some binary?

2005-07-17 Thread Karl Chen
Suppose package P contains files /usr/bin/B1 and /usr/bin/B2. B1 is the important program, and B2 is not as important. Is it OK for the declared package dependencies to not satisfy all the run-time shared library dependencies of B2? What if they are listed in Suggests? I have found many such p

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:11:34 +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 20050716T195244-0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> That's a far cry different from someone wanting to enforce a >> requirement. > Who, in this thread, is this hypothetical someone? > As far as I can tell

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050716T195244-0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > That's a far cry different from someone wanting to enforce a > requirement. Who, in this thread, is this hypothetical someone? As far as I can tell, this thread started with a simple question: is there a policy for a certain thing? There were