Re: what happened to g77-3.4-doc?

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:43:23 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi >Can someone tell me what happened to the g77-3.4-doc package? GFDL problems, AFAICT. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/g77/Getting-Started.html > Or > better, How can I get a manual page for g77?

what happened to g77-3.4-doc?

2007-07-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi Can someone tell me what happened to the g77-3.4-doc package? Or better, How can I get a manual page for g77? Why I need this:- I was trying to compile refblas3 package with gfortran instead of g77. reflblas3's debian/rules file uses an option "-ff90" which is passed onto g77. I want to know

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-18 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:13:26AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >kbibtex Maybe I did not get the point, but to me the diff in the dependencies just reflects the time between the two compared builds: === START OF kbibtex_0.1.5-5_amd64.deb INFORMA

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:32:28PM +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > > The Debian menu system will generate .desktop files from .menu files if the > > .desktop file does not exist. This is intended solely > > as a temporary compatibility measure. > > This is a very bad idea. It is going to c

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >sident Hm. I don't know best to fix this. The problem is that there's now a libgssapi2 package which provides a generic GSSAPI layer but no actual implementation. S/Ident supports building against any GS

Re: Bug#433555: ITP: cnijfilter -- Canon inkjet printer drivers for CUPS

2007-07-18 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:12:06 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Nikolaus Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * License : partly GPL, partly non-free > > Description : Canon inkjet printer drivers for CUPS > > > > This driver provides prin

Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
(I already wrote this mail once, but have no idea where it went. Apologies if it comes out twice.) In a few days, I'll start filing bugs against packages that build unpredictably when extra build-dependencies are present. (More precisely, packages where the dependency or file list differ between a

Re: Bug#433555: ITP: cnijfilter -- Canon inkjet printer drivers for CUPS

2007-07-18 Thread Roger Leigh
Nikolaus Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * License : partly GPL, partly non-free > Description : Canon inkjet printer drivers for CUPS > > This driver provides printing functions for Canon inkjet printers > operating under the CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) environment. H

Re: RFH: Removals - outstanding bugs need to be analysed

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I don't believe leaving them open is a great idea because bug > submitters should be informed that these packages are no longer > supported. A possibility would be to mark them as wontfix. Or we could close them and mark them as etch, so that

Bug#433684: ITP: gnome-launch-box -- An application launcher for GNOME

2007-07-18 Thread Julien Lavergne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnome-launch-box Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Sven Herzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gnome-launch-box * License : GPL Prog

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 19:44, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Surely any proposal for replacing the menu system with desktop files >> has to involve generating menu files from desktop files for the benefit >> of programs that use the menu system and don't un

Re: RFH: Removals - outstanding bugs need to be analysed

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-18 18:31]: > is it really a good idea to close the bug reports while the packages > are still in stable? Shouldn't they be left open for reference until > etch is at least oldstable? I don't believe leaving them open is a great idea because bug submitt

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 19:44, Russ Allbery wrote: > Surely any proposal for replacing the menu system with desktop files has > to involve generating menu files from desktop files for the benefit of > programs that use the menu system and don't understand desktop files? Eh, correct me if I'm wro

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mercredi 18 juillet 2007 à 12:57 -0400, Joe Smith a écrit : >> The Debian menu system will generate .desktop files from .menu files if >> the .desktop file does not exist. This is intended solely as a >> temporary compatibility measure. > This is

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To formalize this as a proposal: [...] Surely any proposal for replacing the menu system with desktop files has to involve generating menu files from desktop files for the benefit of programs that use the menu system and don't understand desktop files?

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 18 juillet 2007 à 12:57 -0400, Joe Smith a écrit : > Given that .desktop is a standardized file format, and is roughly a superset > of the current .menu format, > the Debian menu system will add support reading .desktop files as source in > addition to the .menu files. This is feasib

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Joe Smith
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So it seems like we should do the following: 1. Make changes to the menu system to use .desktop files in preference to .menu files when they ex

Re: RFH: Removals - outstanding bugs need to be analysed

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > A number of large packages were removed from unstable recently, > including PHP 4, Exim 3, BIND 8, Apache 1, and emacs-snapshot. > We need volunteers to go through the outstanding bugs of these > packages to see whether bugs are specific to

Re: FTBFS if built twice in a row

2007-07-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/07/07 at 11:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [Lucas Nussbaum] > >> The problem is that it isn't required to have exactly the same source > >> tree after "./configure ; make ; make clean". It's just required that > >> "./configure ; mak

Re: Bug#433555: ITP: cnijfilter -- Canon inkjet printer drivers forCUPS

2007-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Schulz
Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:31:29 +0200 Nikolaus Schulz wrote: > > > * Package name: cnijfilter > > Version : 2.70 > > Upstream Author : Canon Inc. > > * URL : http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/bj/other.html > > * License : partly GPL, partly non-f

Bug#433555: Info received (Bug#433555: ITP: cnijfilter -- Canon inkjet printer drivers forCUPS)

2007-07-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nikolaus sc

RFH: Removals - exim

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=exim&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable exim: 36599 39726 59134 77586 83000 85750 85898 86570 94747 95325 95605 96633 96659 97428 99504 101788 102385 106370 110472 115678 116330 121193 123184 124324 126318 129562 129696 130467 133288 143

RFH: Removals - apache

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=apache&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable apache: 43910 45977 70982 75460 83540 83602 92052 99401 106493 117921 126110 134702 135717 140565 142947 147596 156972 157734 164620 167513 185668 191237 192604 199685 204508 212330 215741 233538

RFH: Removals - bind

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=bind&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable bind: 24280 45470 46856 50013 52745 53550 55032 62547 70079 81190 81252 85081 85909 86013 86488 88326 88982 92147 94760 95773 128129 129710 132492 132494 132582 149342 156349 157245 169124 170872 1

RFH: Removals - emacs-snapshot

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=emacs-snapshot&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable emacs-snapshot: 337339 394595 401240 407119 412896 416661 418110 422236 423159 425457 337339: minor: flymake-mode does not find makefiles named "makefile" or "GNUmakefile" 394595: normal:

RFH: Removals - PHP4

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=php4&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable libapache-mod-php4: 301824 317577 319398 321460 330419 419714 301824: normal: libapache-mod-php4: Please Depend on 'apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl' 317577: important: libapache-mod-php4: php_valu

RFH: Removals - outstanding bugs need to be analysed

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
A number of large packages were removed from unstable recently, including PHP 4, Exim 3, BIND 8, Apache 1, and emacs-snapshot. We need volunteers to go through the outstanding bugs of these packages to see whether bugs are specific to the old version of a package and should be closed, or whether th