Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, you are the expert, i said this, because the > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule script i use in mkvmlinuz and recomended by > debconf-devel says : > > # Redirect standard output to standard error. This prevents common > # mistakes by mak

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > > scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no > > ? > > No, that won't

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > > scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no > > My impression is that t

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > > scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no > > ? > > No, that won't

Bug#344707: ITP: ispell-et -- Estonian dictionaries for ispell, aspell, myspell

2005-12-24 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name : ispell-et Version : 20030606 URL : http://www.meso.ee/~jjpp/speller/ aspell-et - Estonian dictionary for aspell iestonian - Estonian dictio

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > It would require some buildd hacking to get it to use gzip only for > those few debs so more human power. debs are created by debian/rules. So, only dependencies of dpkg would have to be modified. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#344675: ITP: libreturn-value-perl -- Polymorphic Return Values

2005-12-24 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak
Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libreturn-value-perl Version : 1.30 Upstream Authors: Casey West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo Signes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: Bug#344626: ITP: svn2cl -- Convert Subversion logs to GNU-style ChangeLogs

2005-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this tool somehow related to [0]gnuify-changelog.pl in the subversion > package? What can it do more? > 0. /usr/share/doc/subversion/examples/gnuify-changelog.pl.gz It's completely different and has some additional functionaly, most notably actual

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > scripts writing to stdout only need to redirect their output to &3, no > ? No, that won't work; if you send something to fd 3, it will go to the debconf frontend an

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:19:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > In the recent 10.X series, kernel package has started > producing image packages whose maintainer scripts use debconf for > user interaction. Unfortunately, this meant that any hook scripts > called in the main

Bug#344675: ITP: libreturn-value-perl -- Polymorphic Return Values

2005-12-24 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libreturn-value-perl Version : 1.30 Upstream Authors: Casey West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo Signes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 25 December 2005 00:55, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:35, Goswin von Brederlow > > > >> Basicaly everything that needs /run doesn't use /var/run anyway, > >> e.g. mount. And one could link /

Priority=important: elvis-tiny & nano-tiny / Priority=optional: nvi, vim-tiny, nano, elvis, vim

2005-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:13:25PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 14:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Sarge installer installs nano and nvi. I thought it was sort of > > overlooked bug of installer. nano and nvi are in /usr/bin. > > s/installer/debootstrap/ Yes, thast is more p

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:35, Goswin von Brederlow >> Basicaly everything that needs /run doesn't use /var/run anyway, >> e.g. mount. And one could link /var/run to /run on both / and /var and >> then nothing needs to change even if it uses /var/r

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-24 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Frank Küster wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Instead, why not propose a Responsible-For: header for control that lists a person inside the project who the buck s

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi? -> which editor should be standard?

2005-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 24 December 2005 14:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Sarge installer installs nano and nvi. I thought it was sort of > overlooked bug of installer. nano and nvi are in /usr/bin. s/installer/debootstrap/ And debootstrap just installs the base system based on package characteristics (mainly p

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi? -> which editor should be standard?

2005-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Since I have not seem posting from Miquel... For this discussion of "Which editor should be installed as default on` the each Debian system?", I think more technical discussion should be done. This is old topic. We can always install nano, nvi or vim-* later as you wish by "sudo aptitude ins

Re: Bug#344626: ITP: svn2cl -- Convert Subversion logs to GNU-style ChangeLogs

2005-12-24 Thread Florian Ragwitz
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:15:29PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > svn2cl generates a text GNU-style ChangeLog from a Subversion repository > log by transforming the output of svn log. It also has preliminary > support for generating HTML ChangeLog files. For CVS users, it is roughly > equivalent to

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-24 Thread Frank Küster
Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > >>On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: >> >>> Instead, why not propose a Responsible-For: header for control that >>> lists a person inside the project who the buck stops with in the >>> case