Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:16:53PM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > I personally agree. I don't bother munging my email address > at all anymore, as I don't think it helps a great deal in > the mid to long term, and it certainly detracts from the > usefulness of an address. However if an upstream

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 30, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - the first version of the package will build-dep. on the gcc source, > build the compiler and build the firmware. > - all new versions of the package will build-depend on the old package > and just copy the binary blob from it. > > Any object

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-29 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... it was already clear that Ben's requests [for valid contact > information of copyright holders] are pointless. On the contrary, the request has a clearly- and often-stated point: to reduce the risk accepted by the Debian project that a copyright

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:25:51AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > What about the following plan: > > - the first version of the package will build-dep. on the gcc source, > build the compiler and build the firmware. > - all new versions of the package will build-depend on the old package > and just

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > In this case the firmware image distributed as a blob in the source > package can be built using the gcc-4.3-source package to create a > crosscompiler (there is no requirement to have a single-step procedure). What about the following plan: - the first version of the package will build-de

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 28, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 right > > place in the staging tree. The source code for the .bin is in > > .orig.tar.gz, under a free licens

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-09-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:26:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Attached is a patch to dpkg which implements a check for a 'build-arch' > target using 'make -f debian/rules -qn build-arch'. Is there actually a defined semantic for make -qn ? The make info manual states: "It is an error to use m

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

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Piotr Roszatycki] > 2007/9/26, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > will that cause dfsg problems? > > Not at all. The packages was built with pbuilder. It still is not > fully understandable, so I'll try explain: I just downloaded the source package for libdatetime-timezone-perl, and I

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roger Leigh] > But, can you detect it if you are already /inside/ the chroot? > i.e. chroot(2) has been called at some point previously. Yes. It's a consequence of two well-known properties of the chroot call: (1) you can call chroot() even if you are already in a chroot, to chroot yourself fur

Bug#444607: ITP: xavante -- xavante is lua based web server suited for embedded system

2007-09-29 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: xavante Version: 1.3.1 Upstream Author: Javier Guerra, André Carregal, and Fábio Mascarenhas URL: http://keplerproject.org/xavante/ L

Bug#444595: ITP: libhiglayout-java -- An easy-to-use layout manager for Java

2007-09-29 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhiglayout-java Version : 1.0a Upstream Author : Daniel Michalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.autel.cz/dmi/tutorial.html * License : LGPL Programming Lang:

Bug#150555: Failure notice: RE: September 70% OFF

2007-09-29 Thread EasyLink
FAILURE NOTICE Your request received at September 29, 12:29:48 PM GMT from e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be faxed to 15035986653 with a subject of could not be delivered. Reason for failure: Not a registered user The originating address of your e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Sam Leon wrote: > My only complaint is that alot of website traffic analyzer programs pick > up the debian iceweasel browser as "unknown browser" and "unknown > operating system" If they'd do their job right they'd look for the gecko engine and it's version and not on the name of the browser. Co

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

2007-09-29 Thread Roger Leigh
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: >> You can't reliably (or portably) check if you are in a chroot. > Hmm, if you're root you probably can. Something like this (completely > untested; probably doesn't even compile): I agree that this method would work. But, can

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Uecker
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:18:12PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:04:00 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > There is some other thing I do not like about the way Debian packages > > work. Every package I install can actually completely compromise my > > s

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

2007-09-29 Thread Juan Céspedes
On 9/29/07, Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, if you're root you probably can. Something like this (completely > untested; probably doesn't even compile): Yes, it works, and AFAIK it has always done. A shorter program to test it: #include #include #include #include int ma