Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think there is any requirement to have any upstream contact > information whatsoever in order to be able to distribute a package. This seems to be the point of disagreement. I think this should be required, in order that Debian users can have m

[VAC] a few days (I hope). Bretagne, France.

Hi, Today, I'll travel to France to pursuit my Master studies in human-computer interaction at the ENST-Bretagne and Université de Bretagne Sud. grep has a RC bug right now [1], any help to solve it will be appreciated. Just contact anibal. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/181378 I hope I'll be

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

to, 2007-09-27 kello 10:21 +1000, Ben Finney kirjoitti: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However if an upstream author of a package wishes to conceal their > > address, I think we should honour that. > > This is at odds with "always have correct contact information for the > copyri

Re: RFC: "autobuilder" pseudo-package

Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:25, Simon Richter wrote: >> inspired by the "how to detect if inside a buildd chroot" thread: would >> it make sense to have an (empty) package "autobuilder" that all packages >> that are not supposed to be install

Teaching assembly (Re: Bug#443370: ITP: asmutils -- coreutils replacement written in i386 assembler)

23-09-2007, Bernd Zeimetz: > Some more context for compilers: >> I can confirm that it is not faster since I tested it once, I think 'wc' it >> was. And it is definitely not portable to other platforms either :-) >> Nevertheless the package

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:59:16AM +0200, David Anderson wrote: [how best to package a stub for which the cross-compiler isn't in Debian] [possible solution 1] > 1) Ship a built copy of the code in the package's .diff.gz, and DTRT > at package creation time to move the .bin from debian/ to the rig

Re: Changing name of source package

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > I just want to double check that changing the name of a source package > can be done as I anticipate it. > I would like to change the name of the source package php4-ps into > php-ps. php4-ps creates two binary packages php4-ps and p

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On 9/27/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The other possibility that was mentioned was to split the firmware out > > into a separate source package that produces an Arch: all package and > > then ensure that it is built on arm. > > > People in the channel had no idea if this would

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:43:17PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I think that perhaps Paul meant to say an arch any package. If the code > must always be compiled for a particular flavor of ARM processor, > regardless of the host architecture of the machine which will be > controlling th

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:38:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:11:40AM +1000, Paul Wise wrote: > > On 9/27/07, David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Possible solutions that we came up with on #debian-mentors: > > > The other possibility that was mentioned

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:11:40AM +1000, Paul Wise wrote: > On 9/27/07, David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Possible solutions that we came up with on #debian-mentors: > The other possibility that was mentioned was to split the firmware out > into a separate source package that produce

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

> 4) Give up and stay away from the Debian main repositories, just put > the package up on a private package repository. Please don't choose this way to solve the problem. Lego Mindstorms are used a lot for education, including universities, as it is just very easy to build objects with Lego bric

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On 9/27/07, David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Possible solutions that we came up with on #debian-mentors: The other possibility that was mentioned was to split the firmware out into a separate source package that produces an Arch: all package and then ensure that it is built on arm. Pe

Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

[I've only just subscribed, please forgive me if I got something horribly wrong] Hello, I was redirected here for advice from #debian-mentors, following a packaging question I have. The short summary: I'd like to package a library which requires a tiny blob of cross-compiled code to run, and don'

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However if an upstream author of a package wishes to conceal their > address, I think we should honour that. This is at odds with "always have correct contact information for the copyright holder at the time of packaging", which I think Debian should stri

Re: New adzapper package with Konqueror AdBlocK support

Peter Samuelson schrieb: > [Ludovic Drolez] >> Just import the file /var/lib/adzapper/konqueror.txt in the adblock >> panel. >> >> Feel free to send me any suggestion. > > Uh, wouldn't that belong in /usr/share? If it's downloaded from the internet or autogenerated in some way then I'd say /var/l

ITH: libxmlrpc-c

hey folks, this package is getting waaay out of date. as the current maintainer has stated in the BR (which has been open for over 2 years), he doesn't really have the time/interest in continuing to maintain it and has offerred to give it up to those in the BR, but nothing has happened. als

Bug#444221: ITP: python-pysizer -- memory profiiler for Python

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pysizer Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Authors: Nick Smallbone * URL : http://pysizer.8325.org/ * License : BSD-like Progra

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

ke, 2007-09-26 kello 13:49 -0700, Tyler MacDonald kirjoitti: > Yep... but I still find it a bit annoying that I have to override > binaries > like start-stop-daemon or invoke-rc.d when building a chroot. I wish there > was a way to just set a flag that means "dpkg, don't start/stop any > services

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > chroot without any admin intervention. If it's not appropriate to run > > inside a chroot, then the init script should IMHO detect that and not > > start/restart/stop the service. > > The fact is, not all chroot are buildd chroots, and many chroots > act

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:31:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It is all explained in > > /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d > > > > It seems that all you need to do is to create inside your chroot a > > simple shell script /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is all explained in > /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d > > It seems that all you need to do is to create inside your chroot a > simple shell script /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d that just does an 'exit 101' I would very much prefer that all packages wo

Bug#444199: ITP: freecol -- freecol: an open version of Colonization

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: freecol Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.freecol.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: java Description : freecol: an open

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

Don Armstrong wrote: That's actually backwards from what I've said. My argument is not that DDs should be trusted, but that DDs are in a position where they can Well, but actually it does not work without a level of trust. And as a community that tries to build up a good, reliable and univers

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > The work of those DD's is constantly reviewed and checked by other DD's > > - during mass bug filing, NMU's, bug triage etc.etc. > > And the work of non-DD contributors isn't? Not in the same way, no. Most non-DD contributi

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

2007/9/26, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think we could communicate better if you read the patch, not just > > statistics about it. By the way, the patch itself does not contain the > > real source data - the Olson database. I understand that it might be > > will that cause dfsg pro

Bug#444189: ITP: libtap-parser-perl -- Perl module for parsing TAP output

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libtap-parser-perl Version : 0.54 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Parser/ * License

Re: New adzapper package with Konqueror AdBlocK support

[Ludovic Drolez] > Just import the file /var/lib/adzapper/konqueror.txt in the adblock > panel. > > Feel free to send me any suggestion. Uh, wouldn't that belong in /usr/share? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/

New adzapper package with Konqueror AdBlocK support

Hi ! I've uploaded a new adzapper package (20070317-2), which generates a file compatible with Konqueror's adblock feature. Just import the file /var/lib/adzapper/konqueror.txt in the adblock panel. Feel free to send me any suggestion. Cheers, -- Ludovic Drolez. http://www.palmopensource.com

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

Neil Williams wrote: > The work of those DD's is constantly reviewed and checked by other DD's > - during mass bug filing, NMU's, bug triage etc.etc. And the work of non-DD contributors isn't? Come on, you know that I don't speak against how it is currently, but against the /argumentation/. It is

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

hi It is all explained in /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d It seems that all you need to do is to create inside your chroot a simple shell script /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d that just does an 'exit 101' for example with these two simple commands $ echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexit 101' > /usr/sbin/p

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:17:52 +0200 Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But OTOH you say: Hey, those Debian Developers that have /not/ been > checked have proven their qualification on their own, without anyone > ever checking this like you do with a NM-application. The work of those D

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

Don Armstrong schrieb: > If you're saying that it can't be evaluated at all, I disagree. No. Don't get me wrong, because that is /absolutely/ not what I wanted to say. But you said (as far as I have understood) that those Debian Developers that have /not/ gone through the NM process has proven tha

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:20:09PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > I'd bet at least a small sum of money that "not beyond > human recognition" and "impede machine parsing" are, at > this point, non-intersecting sets. It's not even like they > have to get it right on the first try -- just generate a

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

Hi, On Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 14:46:16 +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > 2007/9/26, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Accepted now. > > Thank you very much. > > > For the future: i would have been much easier, if you would have said: > > be warned, the patch is huge, but if you don't look

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > Those Developers who haven't gone through the NM process for the most > > part have been checked by a far more rigorous procedure: they've > > actually contributed and done the work. [Indeed, all developers are > > continuall

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

Piotr Roszatycki wrote: 2007/9/26, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Accepted now. Thank you very much. For the future: i would have been much easier, if you would have said: be warned, the patch is huge, but if you don't look at the compiled version of it, it is these number of lines.

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

Don Armstrong wrote: > Those Developers who haven't gone through the NM process for the most > part have been checked by a far more rigorous procedure: they've > actually contributed and done the work. [Indeed, all developers are > continually being "rechecked" by this metric.] Eh.. i agree with m

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

2007/9/26, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Accepted now. Thank you very much. > For the future: i would have been much easier, if you would have said: > be warned, the patch is huge, but if you don't look at the compiled > version of it, it is these number of lines... > > Both of us wou

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > Why just new maintainers are checked so precisely? The old Debian > developers also can make a threat for Debian Project. It's logical, > that everybody should be checked, especially the old developers > which didn't be check so paranoid in the past.

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

Hi, On Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 00:20:10 +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > You made a subtle mistake. You checked the source package for tzdata > and the changes are really small. Then you checked the differences for > libdatetime-timezone-perl package, but this source package is already > compiled. Yo

Bug#444115: general: network interface (eth0) gets undetected after restrat checked using ifconfig -a

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 13:33:09 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 26 septembre 2007 à 12:49 +0530, Antano Solar a écrit : > > When the cmos battery is removed and power unplugged and the system > > booted . I press f2(load defaults) in the cmos screen and the syetm boots > > very slowly

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > Why just new maintainers are checked so precisely? The old Debian Because the old Debian developers should have been checked already. > developers also can make a threat for Debian Project. It's logical, Yeah, off course *can* they do this. But it is impossible to check

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

2007/9/26, Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > The reason why maintainers may be checked far more thoroughly is > > because the average employee of Google or Microsoft can't make changes > > to any piece of software company wide, nor do they vote on the > > direction

/usr/share/man/man8/ld.so.8.gz does not document the $ORIGIN, $PLATFORM and $LIB feature

Package: libc6 Version: 2.6.1-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch File: /usr/share/man/man8/ld.so.8.gz Raphael Hertzog noticed in [1] that the openoffice.org package is using the undocumented $ORIGIN feature of the linux ld.so. See [2] for a documentation of that feature. [1] http://thread.gmane.

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:57:52AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > > I suppose that everyone are busy today, so do I. I'm a little tired > > with sponsoring his packages and I know he could to upload his > > packages by his own. > > > > I really don't u

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

> libswui680lp.so has an RPATH set to $ORIGIN ... which is an environment > variable apparently defined by the openoffice startup script/program No. $ORIGIN is dynamic linker feature, it is expanded to the directory where executable resides. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

Don Armstrong wrote: > The reason why maintainers may be checked far more thoroughly is > because the average employee of Google or Microsoft can't make changes > to any piece of software company wide, nor do they vote on the > direction of the entire company. [It's also far easier to fire someone

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:36:18AM +, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > libswui680lp.so has an RPATH set to $ORIGIN ... which is an environment > > variable apparently defined by the openoffice startup script/program. > > This variable is not set a bu

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:25:02AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:45:09 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > >> > No. I would trust the binaries if there are *no mails* from other > >> > >> Ah, security through blissful ignorance :) You do not actually

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 00:26 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:10:52 -0400, Edward Allcutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Perhaps because the specific compiler needed depends on what the > > current kernel was compiled with? I thought that was the reason > > linux-headers de

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > _rene_ reported me a failure with openoffice and the new dpkg-shlibdeps. > > > Scanning > debian/openoffice.org-writer/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libswui680lp.so > (for Depends field) > dpkg-s

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > libswui680lp.so has an RPATH set to $ORIGIN ... which is an environment > variable apparently defined by the openoffice startup script/program. > This variable is not set a build time (and the code wasn't expecting > variables at that place anyway).

Re: Maintainer of package joystick may be missing

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:24:14PM +0200, laszlo kajan wrote: >Please show me the way I can have my patch included in jscal.c of the >joystick package. I believe it is useful and I immediately wanted to >share it with others. Please file a bug report (including the patch) against the joystick pack

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:56:39AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On the other hand, maybe I should just be less picky for shared objects > > without SONAME... I'm not sure about it. > > > > I would suggest that, there a

Re: semi-virtual packages?

On Tue September 25 2007 09:22:02 am Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:36:24 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Sun September 23 2007 03:08:59 pm Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:26:29 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [I've cut a lot of

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On the other hand, maybe I should just be less picky for shared objects > without SONAME... I'm not sure about it. > I would suggest that, there are a few programs out there which use many internal use shlibs without a soname and

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > I suppose that everyone are busy today, so do I. I'm a little tired > with sponsoring his packages and I know he could to upload his > packages by his own. > > I really don't undestand why new developers are checked so precisely. > I think it is much

dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

Hello, _rene_ reported me a failure with openoffice and the new dpkg-shlibdeps. Scanning debian/openoffice.org-writer/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libswui680lp.so (for Depends field) dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libsw680lp.so (note: only packages with 'shlibs' files are look

Bug#444115: general: network interface (eth0) gets undetected after restrat checked using ifconfig -a

Le mercredi 26 septembre 2007 à 12:49 +0530, Antano Solar a écrit : > When the cmos battery is removed and power unplugged and the system booted . > I press f2(load defaults) in the cmos screen and the syetm boots very slowly > and detects my lan card. i.e ifconfig -a lists eth0. > But after this

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

Bastian Blank wrote: > You already built the kernel and therefor have a compiler installed. But m-a would install all the clutter anyways, wouldn't it? Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

Romain Beauxis wrote: > Let's say that it's the quantitative approach. Other approaches are just > chatty chatty. Well, quantitative must not always be the best thing. And if it should be an argument one should create *proper* stats. > (This search is not adequate, it matches non-module packages

Bug#444115: general: network interface (eth0) gets undetected after restrat checked using ifconfig -a

Package: general Severity: important When the cmos battery is removed and power unplugged and the system booted . I press f2(load defaults) in the cmos screen and the syetm boots very slowly and detects my lan card. i.e ifconfig -a lists eth0. But after this if I shut down the computer and start

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:25:19PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Not good enough. What if I am using m-a with kernel.org kernel > sources? I won't have a kernel-headers package installed (I don't). If > you need something, depend upon it. You already built the kernel and therefor ha

Bug#444108: ITP: verilog-mode -- Emacs mode for editing Verilog HDL

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: verilog-mode Version : 357 Upstream Author : Michael McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.verilog.com * License : GPL Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp Descriptio