On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:53:25PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote:
> *Personally*, I like the idea of Javier Fern??ndez-Sanguino expressed in
> the mail linked above of keeping debian_version as is, and introducing
> /etc/lsb-release with detailed information like:
> DISTRIB_ID=Debian
> DISTRIB_RE
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi,
Hi
> i would like to propose that we change /etc/debian_version with
> beginning of lenny to also show which revision of a release is
> installed.
Ack.
> Rational: We do regular updates to stable releases (called point
> releases) from time to time but you can't
* Martin Zobel-Helas [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:33:17 +0100]:
> Hi,
Hi.
I personally have nothing against. However, remembering the thread at
[1], I'm not sure what the base-files maintainer will think of that.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01138.html
*Personally*, I like th
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Hi,
i would like to propose that we change /etc/debian_version with
beginning of lenny to also show which revision of a release is
installed.
Rational: We do regular updates to stable releases (called point
releases) from time to time but you can't tell from installed files
which revision (point
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* Miriam Ruiz [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:47:52 +0100]:
> (I personally prefer to
> do that in configure, and to remove config.{sub,guess,log,status} in
> clean, so that diff files are cleaner,
I wish everybody did it that way. I'm also happy to see that it's now
how dh-make will do it, good.
Cheers,
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:23:32 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Oh, I agree. I was only talking about a situation in which the Debian
>> maintainer of a given package is the very same person as the upstream
>> developer.
> E
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I used to come across this intermittently - usually when trying to copy
> and paste examples from a manpage. However, the situation appears solved
> in a Unicode environment:
>
> This perldoc code:
> Only print the list, do not call 'sudo dpkg -P'
> beco
2007/12/26, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This the issue, but I think it could be more widespread. It turns out
> that the package in question (tar) was last uploaded before the
> autotools were finalized for etch, so the copying is not a no-op in this
> particular case (but I hope that th
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Luca Brivio wrote:
> BTW, I don't know what's with the "Collaborative Repository of
> Meta-Informations"[1]. Maybe Raphael can provide some useful insights to the
> debate.
Well, CRMI is still a concept, we got mole implemented by Jeroen which
helps a lot in archive-wide sca
* Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Florian Weimer]
>> It has come to my attention that a number of packages edit source files
>> (i.e. non-generated files in the source directory tree) in the "clean"
>> target of debian/rules.
>
> Do you have any example packages to mention? I've seen some updating
> of t
[Florian Weimer]
> It has come to my attention that a number of packages edit source files
> (i.e. non-generated files in the source directory tree) in the "clean"
> target of debian/rules.
Do you have any example packages to mention? I've seen some updating
of the config.* files in the clean ta
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> 1. Get wx2.4 out of the archive _soon_. There's a list in wiki.d.o about
> the status of the last applications using wx2.4, if I remember right.
> Their maintainers had more than enough time to et them migrated to 2.6
> (or 2.8, if th
It has come to my attention that a number of packages edit source files
(i.e. non-generated files in the source directory tree) in the "clean"
target of debian/rules.
Policy is mostly silent on this issue. There's a requirement that
"build, clean" is a no-op, but dpkg-buildpackage actually execut
mer 26 dicembre 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli ha scritto:
> I see two ways of serving it that seem to me much more useful: provide a
> centralized, archive-wide place, where we serve all the DOAPs of Debian
> packages. The more obvious places to me seem packages.d.o and/or the
> PTS.
BTW, I don't know
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 14:23 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> > I'd just add:
> > * it isn't in the spirit of free software to make it hard for others to
> > use the code - making a package Debian-native when it could work on any
> > GN
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:23:32 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Oh, I agree. I was only talking about a situation in which the Debian
> maintainer of a given package is the very same person as the upstream
> developer.
Even in this case, I think one should consider making
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 14:54 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> In Unix/Linux shells the Ascii apostrophe (') is used as single
> quotation mark. The grave accent (`) is used as command substitution
> mark. In many man pages these are displayed wrong because they have
> different meaning in groff code.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 10:11:18AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 02:50:32AM +0100, Luca Brivio wrote:
> > 1) Should we include DOAP files from upstream in packages? (always?)
> Why not :)
I'd like too.
> I see two ways of serving it that seem to me much more useful:
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Monday December 24 2007 12:34:07 Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> On Dec 24, Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
>>> I have Postfix crash more often on my home machine (~ 10
>>> mails / 24h - using an smarthost) than Qmail do on my main
>>> mailservers (~ 10k mails /
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 03:16:36PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Anyone who wants to package your source for something else than Debian
> > is then free to completely and utterly ignore your debian/ directory...
>
> I'm trying to package two softwares where upstream
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Anyone who wants to package your source for something else than Debian
> is then free to completely and utterly ignore your debian/ directory...
I'm trying to package two softwares where upstream
1) puts its debian/ directory in their releases (X.Y.Z)
2) provides non-nat
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 20:12 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:55:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:44:19 -0800
> > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > But *nothing* here guarantees that the version of libbar the application
> > > is
>
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
>> Luk Claes wrote:
>>> Neil Williams wrote:
i.e. native should be a last resort - used only when it is all but
impossible for the package to be used outside Debian or some distro
fundamentally ba
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:35:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> tags 457353 + wontfix
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:20:57PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > You're missing a .diff.gz, which means that this is a native package. This
> > package is in no way specific to Debian, w
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
> > Neil Williams wrote:
> >> i.e. native should be a last resort - used only when it is all but
> >> impossible for the package to be used outside Debian or some distro
> >> fundamentally based on Debian like Ubuntu.
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The last few days I have made an effort to fix a few bugs in the boot
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 02:50:32AM +0100, Luca Brivio wrote:
> 1) Should we include DOAP files from upstream in packages? (always?)
Why not :)
> 2) If so, where? (usr/share/doc sounds OK if they are only provided for sake
> of completeness, while IMVHO if we want them to be globally parsed and/o
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