Bug report template for missing md5sums file (was: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages)

2007-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With more than 600 issues, it's a bit early to make it a release > goal IMHO. Though making maintainers aware by upgrading the lintian > check to a warning and discussion on debian-devel about which > exceptions are warranted (and possible mass bug filing) w

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:15:51PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > It looks like you have not read all the thread, other's have made some > > good points as to why it's good. Just in case I'm going to voice my opinion > > here again and see if I can convicen you (and other's listening) :) >

Re: On bz2 compression in debs

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
I'm not sure if I really want to get into the bz2-vs-gz argument again but there is a question here that's easy to answer: Romain Francoise writes ("On bz2 compression in debs"): > 2) Doesn't the disappearance of 'data.tar.gz' warrant a bump of the > binary version number, from 2.0 to, say, 3

FYI: uae and e-uae packages in collab-maint

2007-08-24 Thread Stephan Suerken
Hi interested parties, > On 26-Apr-2007 15:24.21 (BST), Stephan Suerken wrote: > > Generally speaking about packaging, my intend was to drop "uae" in > > favour of "e-uae" in post-etch, and I would also like a practical > > setup to allow group-maintaining (considering the time restrictions >

Re: Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-08-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
Juan Céspedes wrote: > On 8/24/07, David Claughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Amaya wrote: >> > >> > if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then >> > invoke-rc.d package >> > else >> > /etc/init.d/package >> > fi >> >> I don't want to be a pest (given I'm no

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-24 Thread Romain Francoise
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/08/debian-packages-without-md5sums.html: > "Random testing of my local Debian mirror shows that 644 binary packages out > of 20774 (3.1%) are missing the DEBIAN/md5sums control file." As of today my c

Re: to start up as a developer

2007-08-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 24/08/07, suren M wrote: > through the Debian developers corner also. I would like to how exactly to > start, rather if there is some beginners documentation or something like > that. http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ is the document. Also, you can help out in translation into your (our) l

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:16:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I fail to see any reason to HAVE a md5sums file. > > It looks like you have not read all the thread, other's have made some > good points as to why it's good. Just

Re: Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-08-24 Thread Juan Céspedes
On 8/24/07, David Claughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amaya wrote: > > > > if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then > > invoke-rc.d package > > else > > /etc/init.d/package > > fi > > I don't want to be a pest (given I'm not a developer or maintainer), but

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-24 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:16:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I fail to see any reason to HAVE a md5sums file. It looks like you have not read all the thread, other's have made some good points as to why it's good. Just in case I'm going to voice my opinion here again and see if I can co

Re: Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-08-24 Thread David Claughton
Amaya wrote: In most cases the fix should be simple, replace this: /etc/init.d/package with this: if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then invoke-rc.d package else /etc/init.d/package fi Hi, I don't want to be a pest (given I'm not

Re: On bz2 compression in debs

2007-08-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my questions are: > > 1) If deb(5) is authoritative, am I right in thinking that bz2 > compression is a policy violation at the moment? Yes and no. deb(5) is authorative but out of sync with the implementation imho. > 2) Doesn't the disappe

Re: summary from the irc meeting 2007-08-23

2007-08-24 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Freitag, 24. August 2007 13:07:02 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > > What about when we sit and work on a package to fix something, eg. > > during a gathering, and want to test if the fix work ? > > I'm not sure whether I understand the problem? Is there

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [ fully quoting my original request, for the sake of context >> preservation ] > > Thanks for initiating the discussion! :-) > >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:04:13AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >>> >>>

Re: summary from the irc meeting 2007-08-23

2007-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Patrick Winnertz wrote: Mh... I think this was from debian-edu ;-) ^^ reply to it in order to get this answer into the correct ML. Ups, sorry Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

to start up as a developer

2007-08-24 Thread suren M
hello ! I am Suren, third year ,Electrical engineering from India . I am an active member of GLUG-T - GNU/Linux User group Trichy. I have good linux experience as an user and web admin for the past one year. I would like to learn more and be an active developer for Debian. I went through the Debian

Re: packages built without optimization

2007-08-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:28:13AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Due to upstream bugs and/or packaging mistakes some Debian packages like > > Abiword [1] or Wireshark [2] are currently unintentionally built without > > any compiler optimization [3]. > > > > This results in pr

Re: summary from the irc meeting 2007-08-23

2007-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: What about when we sit and work on a package to fix something, eg. during a gathering, and want to test if the fix work ? I'm not sure whether I understand the problem? Is there any difference between work in gatherings and otherwise? Do you thi

Bug#439332: ITP: flvtool2 -- a manipulation tool for flash video files

2007-08-24 Thread Todd Troxell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Todd Troxell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: flvtool2 Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Norman Timmler * URL : http://www.inlet-media.de/flvtool2 * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : a manipulat

Re: packages built without optimization

2007-08-24 Thread Joey Schulze
Adrian Bunk wrote: > Due to upstream bugs and/or packaging mistakes some Debian packages like > Abiword [1] or Wireshark [2] are currently unintentionally built without > any compiler optimization [3]. > > This results in programs being both significantely bigger and > significantely slower than