Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:05:42PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Taken together, this guarantees the newer libs would always be found before >> > the older libs, so there's no need to do extra special-casing for those >> > libs >> > that were previously availab

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-14 Thread Raphael Geissert
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > My impression is that people become lazy > since uscan and similar tools exist and are not enough in contact with > their upstreams anymore. I may be wrong, though... > Watch files are nice to have, but nothing more. > But there are cases where any attempt of contact with u

Re: One-time cron output?

2009-03-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 11:28 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to gather some opinions on this matter. I’ve recently applied > to the mlocate package a patch I received to skip running the daily > update of the database if the system is running on batteries. [...] I think such a po

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-14 Thread Raphael Geissert
Just for the sake of the discussion: A post-download command can be specified directly in the watch file, which can be either uupdate, debian/rules get-orig-source, debian/dfsg.sh, or whatever you want to call. >From uscan(1): > Finally, if a third parameter (an action) is given in the watchfile l

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-14 Thread Raphael Geissert
Ben Finney wrote: > On 12-Mar-2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > The best way to get the exact sources for the current >> > version probably should be a new watch file >> > (watch-current) which has a static version number in the >> > regexp > > I don't se

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Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:05:42PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > - multiarch will supersede all previous biarch implementations > > - multiarch will be before biarch in the search path > Is that even true? /lib32 and /usr/lib32 are system library paths > while the multiarch dirs are custo

Re: HD TV as Monitor

2009-03-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 mars 2009 à 16:04 -0400, Dale Scheetz a écrit : > I have a Samsung 42" HD TV. > Does anyone have any idea what the mode line should look like for these > devices? There are a few issues with getting such devices work with X, but it is possible. 1. You probably need a DVI→HDMI ada

Re: Bug#518752: update-exim4.conf: line 38: $@: unbound variable

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-03-08 Alban browaeys wrote: > >From \amethyst on freenode #bash (Neil Moore) : > <\amethyst> it is a bug I think > <\amethyst> that you still get the error even with $...@-foo} > <\amethyst> but $...@+"$@"} probably shouldn't error out > <\amethyst> since ${foo+bar} does not > <\amethys

Re: One-time cron output?

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Adeodato Simó wrote: > I wanted to gather some opinions on this matter. I've recently applied > to the mlocate package a patch I received to skip running the daily > update of the database if the system is running on batteries. > When that happens, the daily cron script emits a warning like "Syst

Bug#519697: ITP: kio-gopher -- gopher KIO slave for KDE4

2009-03-14 Thread Pino Toscano
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pino Toscano * Package name: kio-gopher Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Albert Astals Cid * URL : http://www.kde.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : gopher KIO slave for KDE4 Provides supp

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said: > [ Bcced to -devel and -dpkg, discussion should happen on -policy ] > > Hello, > > we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage > and the policy do not match fully. > > I tried to summarize the problem here: > http:/

Re: Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-14 Thread Vincent Danjean
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > 2009/3/14 Adeodato Simó > >> Hello, Jean-Yves. >> >> Please mail your questions about packaging to >> debian-ment...@lists.debian.org. >> >> -- >> - Are you sure we're good? >> - Always. >>-- Rory and Lorelai >> >> > I'm not sure I like to classify as "newbie"

One-time cron output?

2009-03-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, I wanted to gather some opinions on this matter. I’ve recently applied to the mlocate package a patch I received to skip running the daily update of the database if the system is running on batteries. When that happens, the daily cron script emits a warning like “System on battery power, n

Re: BDF Considered Harmful?

2009-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 05:36:27PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > >> A BDF file can contain any number of properties describing the font > >> in the header, for example CAP_HEIGHT and X_HEIGHT.  Maybe there's > >> no harm in losing this information through format conversion.  I > > > > This is a precis

Re: Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-14 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
2009/3/14 Adeodato Simó > Hello, Jean-Yves. > > Please mail your questions about packaging to > debian-ment...@lists.debian.org. > > -- > - Are you sure we're good? > - Always. >-- Rory and Lorelai > > I'm not sure I like to classify as "newbie"

Re: Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, Jean-Yves. Please mail your questions about packaging to debian-ment...@lists.debian.org. -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-14 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Hi. I'm trying to build a package so it depends on a specific version of a library. I carefully read http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/index.en.html but didn't get the answer I was looking for. In my debian/control file I have for a given package: Depends: ${misc-depends} Which will instal

Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Goswin von Brederlow | Is that even true? /lib32 and /usr/lib32 are system library paths | while the multiarch dirs are custom paths added via | /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu.conf. I think they come last. While I haven't investigated the load order, my /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 seems to

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:30:59AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > STRIP += -s > LDFLAGS += -s > INT_INSTALL_TARGET = install > else > INT_INSTALL_TARGET = install > endif I doubt dpkg-buildpackage sets LDFLAGS to -s. That would mean

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Mar 13 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > There are several things I dislike about the first option. > 1. I do not like that policy would turn around 15 years of convention > and suddenly outlaw $(MAKE) -f debian/rules foo. This will break > many of my packages; and I do