Re: Odd dh_strip failure with some packages

2007-06-18 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looking at build logs on i386, the common problem for many seems to be > variations of: > > dh_strip > strip: unable to copy file > 'debian/libwebauth-perl/usr/lib/perl5/auto/WebAuth/WebAuth.so' reason: > Permission denied > > I can't duplicate this with

Bug#429618: ITP: xcalib -- Tiny monitor calibration loader for Xorg

2007-06-18 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jorge Salamero Sanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: xcalib Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Stefan Döhla * URL : http://www.etg.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/web/doe/xcalib/ * License

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-18 Thread Ivan Jager
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Saturday 16 June 2007 04:43:53 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 ?? 17:36 -0400, Ivan Jager a ??crit : Yes. Any time the unit is bytes. There is even a standard for it. I must have missed that one. Could you point us to this st

lintian.debian.org updated to lintian 1.23.31

2007-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
After one false start (I thought it was hung, but there was a quadratic search in one of the checks that's now been fixed), lintian.debian.org output has been updated to lintian 1.23.31. This should eliminate quite a few false positives. It's a bit behind the current archives at the moment since

Odd dh_strip failure with some packages

2007-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Reviewing the latest lintian findings, there are a surprising number of packages with unstripped binaries, including some that are using debhelper and dh_strip. See: http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tunstripped-binary-or-object.html Looking at build logs on i386, the common problem for many see

Bug#429610: ITP: gbrowse -- The Generic Genome Browser from GMOD

2007-06-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: gbrowse Version : 1.68 Upstream Author : Lincoln Stein & the GMOD team ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL : http://www.gmod.org/wiki/index.php/GBrowse License : Same as Perl, plu

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-18 Thread Ben Finney
Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest that we prepare a wikipage on wiki.debian.org with a > friendly formulated bugreport template. After this template is > mature enough, we can start writing wishlist bugreports on packages > making wrong use SI prefixes (e.g. write KB but mean

Re: One vs. many -src packages for my project?

2007-06-18 Thread Christian Convey
On 6/18/07, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Christian Convey wrote: > I could create Yet Another Source Package, "myproject-common-src.deb", > that contains *only* those files that are in common. I.e., it would > only contain "make-functions

Re: One vs. many -src packages for my project?

2007-06-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Christian Convey wrote: > I could create Yet Another Source Package, "myproject-common-src.deb", > that contains *only* those files that are in common. I.e., it would > only contain "make-functions{1,2}.mk" and perhaps the top-level > Makefile. Then packa

Bug#429583: ITP: dtc -- PowerPC kernel device tree compiler

2007-06-18 Thread Marc Leeman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dtc Version : 20070523 Upstream Author : Jon Loeliger * URL : git://www.jdl.com/software/dtc.git * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : PowerPC kernel devi

Bug#429570: ITP: libws-commons-util-java -- Common utilities from the Apache Web Services Project

2007-06-18 Thread Vladimír Lapáček
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Vladimír Lapáček" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libws-commons-util-java Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://apache.osuosl.org/ws/commons/util/ * License : Apache Lice

Bug#429573: ITP: libacpi -- general purpose ACPI library

2007-06-18 Thread Nico Golde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libacpi Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ngolde.de/libacpi.html * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : ge

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > It's even worse. You're acting as if you were modifying debian/symbols > > without modifying it, saying it's fine because you didn't modify it... > I think this is fine; the resulting "symb

One vs. many -src packages for my project?

2007-06-18 Thread Christian Convey
I have an odd packaging situation, and was hoping someone could tell me the best practice for this situation... I've been asked to take an existing project and package it for use with APT. The project consists of many libraries and applications. I was thinking to produce a different source pack

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:30:55AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely > that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required > instead of being optional. > > The reason for this is that dpkg-buildpackage ca

Re: GSASL Maintainer Missing in Action?

2007-06-18 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
On Thursday 14 June 2007 04:20:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Two weeks ago I've sent an email no Yvan, asking if he was still > interested in maintaining those packages. Both have newer upstream > versions. There is a bug with a patch for libgsasl7 that was not > answered by Yvan. It is dated as of

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:25:38PM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > How about instead requiring something like: the build-arch target must return > successfully or with a status of 2 (the standard make error status > for "target not found"), and in the latter case the build target must return > s

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:40:26PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely > >that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required > >instead of being optional. > Wouldn't looking for the output

Bug#429547: ITP: dominoblast -- physics-based driving/demolition game

2007-06-18 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dominoblast Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Chris Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream Author : Heather Packer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://chrislord.net/blog/Software/my-lost-

Re: Adrian Bridgett, second try

2007-06-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Peter Holm 2007-06-18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > b) Why do you state an invalid adress for the maintainer, even if the > program is in the testing branch? That's what listed in the package. As it looks, Adrian's packages should probably all be orphaned, the address has been bouncing since at lea

Bug#429524: ITP: louie -- Python signal dispatching mechanism

2007-06-18 Thread Loïc Minier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: louie Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Patrick K. O'Brien and contributors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pylouie.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Descrip

Bug#429514: ITP: openoffice.org-ctl-he -- Turns on OO.org CTL support, and sets Hebrew as the default CTL locale

2007-06-18 Thread Lior Kaplan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: openoffice.org-ctl-he Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-hebrew/pkg/openoffice.org-ctl-he * License : Pu

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Monday 18 June 2007 04:30:55 am Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely > that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required > instead of being optional. > > The reason for this is that dpkg-buildpackage can't relia

Adrian Bridgett, second try

2007-06-18 Thread Peter Holm
Hi, Just received following: [...] Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.gmx.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 70.103.162.29_does_not_like_recipient./Remot

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required instead of being optional. Wouldn't looking for the output make: *** No rule to make target `build-arch'. Stop. and then defaulting

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely > that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required > instead of being optional. FWIW, I think that would be a good thing (I remember a discussion with you on

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 18 juin 2007 à 10:08 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > The file in debian is *not* updated, that's precisely the point of this > discussion. Joss wants the maintainer to update it beforehand, I let the > maintainer update it after its final build but it will then be used only > for the ne

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-06-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:09:53AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi DAMs, > I'm wondering what actually happened with this, so flow of questions > follows :) Hi DAMs, ping again on this. Can we have some numbers about at least how many mails have been sent in the first WaT run, if any? Al

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:51:15PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > "Michael Vogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> - automatic removal of unused dependencies moved into libapt so that >> applications like synaptic, python-apt, update-manger etc directly >> benefit from

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > The file in debian is *not* updated, that's precisely the point of this >> > discussion. Joss wants the maintainer to update it beforehand, I let the >> > maintainer update it after its final build

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Loïc Minier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070618 12:04]: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > It's even worse. You're acting as if you were modifying debian/symbols > > without modifying it, saying it's fine because you didn't modify it... > > I think this is fine; the resulting "symbols" file

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070618 11:36]: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > The generated file is updated... and the file in the source package > > > doesn't need to be updated so often. Additionnaly you can avoid having to > > > rebuild once knowing that it will fail... l

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > It's even worse. You're acting as if you were modifying debian/symbols > without modifying it, saying it's fine because you didn't modify it... I have full control on the kind of changes that I allow in the generated symbols file compared to the provided f

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The file in debian is *not* updated, that's precisely the point of this > > discussion. Joss wants the maintainer to update it beforehand, I let the > > maintainer update it after its final build but it will then be used only > > for the next upl

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > As already said elsewhere in this thread, that's exactly the point of > "unattended-upgrades": It detects if manual user interaction is > required, and will not upgrade the package in this case. There might be some manual steps involved. For exampl

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > It's even worse. You're acting as if you were modifying debian/symbols > without modifying it, saying it's fine because you didn't modify it... I think this is fine; the resulting "symbols" file can make strict assumptions. You don't expect dh_makeshl

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-18 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Vogt wrote: >> unattended-upgrades comes with a default configuration that will only >> apply security updates (but it can be configured in any way people >> want) and it will do some careful checking to not upgrade packages >> that require

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:08:36AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > The generated file is updated... and the file in the source package > > > doesn't need to be updated so often. Additionnaly you can avoid having to > > > rebuild onc

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: >> > The generated file is updated... and the file in the source package >> > doesn't need to be updated so often. Additionnaly you can avoid having to >> > rebuild once knowing that it will fail... let the build

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > The generated file is updated... and the file in the source package > > doesn't need to be updated so often. Additionnaly you can avoid having to > > rebuild once knowing that it will fail... let the build update the > > generated file, get the diff from

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:50:48AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 17 juin 2007 à 15:00 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > > - we have different levels of check that can make dpkg-gensymbols fail > > > (w

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 17 juin 2007 à 15:00 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > - we have different levels of check that can make dpkg-gensymbols fail > > (with option -c). By default level 1 is activated, it will fail > > if some symbols disappeared. L

Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required instead of being optional. The reason for this is that dpkg-buildpackage can't reliable detect the existance of the build-arch/indep targets and must call 'bui

Bug#429441: ITP: lemonldap-ng -- lemonldap-ng is a Perl web single-sign-on system usable as Apache module

2007-06-18 Thread Xavier Guimard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Guimard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lemonldap-ng Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Programming Lang: (C,