Re: Compiling libbam.a from libbam-dev with -fPIC?

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > as per Policy § 10.2, I would like to know if everybody agrees if I change the > libbam-dev package to compile libbam.a with -fPIC. Without this it is not > possible to compile on amd64 the Bio::SamTools Perl library which I am > pa

Compiling libbam.a from libbam-dev with -fPIC?

Dear all, as per Policy § 10.2, I would like to know if everybody agrees if I change the libbam-dev package to compile libbam.a with -fPIC. Without this it is not possible to compile on amd64 the Bio::SamTools Perl library which I am packaging (http://bugs.debian.org/543488). This is documented i

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘cop yright’ file of a package?

"Dario Minnucci (midget)" writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > [snip] > > > When I look at the ‘copyright’ file for that package > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-daemon/python-daemon_1.4.6-1/copyright>, > > it doesn't match anything I know. > > It's MPCF implementation (see

Bug#544234: ITP: schleuder -- gpg-enabled mailing list manager with remailer-capabilities

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Bobbio" * Package name: schleuder Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : * URL : http://schleuder.nadir.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : gpg-enabled mailing list manager with remail

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package? (was: python-daemon_1.4.6-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 06:03:28PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > I didn't get a direct response to that message, and I didn't upload > another release of the package. However, a few hours later I then saw > further traffic indicating the package had been uploaded again, > presumably by the sponsor (Da

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 09:13:42PM +0200, Dario Minnucci (midget) wrote: > > What in the world is "MPCF"? That term doesn't appear in DEP5. > My fault! I use to call it MPCF because of the first talk I've heard about > it [0] Ah, ok. > but the correct name for it is 'Machine-readable debian/cop

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ???copyright??? file of a package?

Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:59:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:42:50PM +0200, Dario Minnucci (midget) wrote: When I look at the ???copyright??? file for that package http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-daemon/pytho

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copy right’ file of a package?

Steve Langasek wrote: [snip] > > What in the world is "MPCF"? That term doesn't appear in DEP5. > My fault! I use to call it MPCF because of the first talk I've heard about it [0], but the correct name for it is 'Machine-readable debian/copyright', right? Sorry. [0] http://people.debian.o

Bug#544224: ITP: libopennurbs -- library for reading and writing the 3DM file format

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Євгеній Мещеряков" * Package name: libopennurbs, libopennurbs-dev, opennurbs (source), maybe opennurbs-examples Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : Robert McNeel * URL : http://opennurbs.org/ * License :

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ???copyright??? file of a package?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:59:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:42:50PM +0200, Dario Minnucci (midget) wrote: > > > When I look at the ???copyright??? file for that package > > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-daemon/python-daemon_1.4.6-1/copyr

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

On Saturday 29 August 2009, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > Would the following also work to use an *un*compressed packages file: > > Acquire::CompressionTypes::"" ""; > > A quick test suggest that this would work as a hack, but apt doesn't > like uncompressed files and will print many false-negative

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:42:50PM +0200, Dario Minnucci (midget) wrote: > > When I look at the ‘copyright’ file for that package > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-daemon/python-daemon_1.4.6-1/copyright>, > > it doesn't match anything I know. > It's MPCF implementation (

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster us e for the ‘copyright’ file of a packa ge?

Ben Finney wrote: [snip] > When I look at the ‘copyright’ file for that package > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-daemon/python-daemon_1.4.6-1/copyright>, > it doesn't match anything I know. It's MPCF implementation (see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/) Cheers. -- D

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

> I looked in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz first, but I > could not find it there. Should it be added? Yes, it should be. A few others seems to be missing also... Will be added in the next upload round. >> The description is far from being perfect and a few things are missing >>

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package?

Torsten Werner (29/08/2009): > most is explained in > > and the 2 links within that message. If one is going to “mehhh this is not pointed by any documentation, that's just another dda@ post, please document it!¡!”, check devre

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘cop yright’ file of a package?

Robert Collins writes: > On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 18:03 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > the package as originally uploaded had copyright notices preserved > > in the source, but not duplicated into the ‘copyright’ file. > > Your experience seems to be covered by > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/copyrig

Bug#544182: ITP: libsys-filesystem-perl -- retrieve list of filesystems and their properties

Package: wnpp Owner: Alejandro Garrido Mota Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libsys-filesystem-perl Version : 1.23 Upstream Author : Nicola Worthington * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-F

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

On Saturday 29 August 2009, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:34, Frans Pop wrote: > > Michael Vogt wrote: > >> It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma > >> support for Package file downloads and the option to configure in > >> what order the compression t

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

Hi Frans Pop & debian-devel, > Thanks! David Kalnischkies and I were able to reproduce a crash for > sources that had no Packages file. This is fixed with the 0.7.23.1 For anybody further interested in the bug: Something like a index-out-of-bounce, but libapt didn't access the end (this was checke

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copy right’ file of a package?

Hi Ben, Ben Finney schrieb: > My response was to Chris only (to the ftpmaster address), giving my > understanding that Debian Policy §12.5 requires only the verbatim > copyright *license terms*, not the duplication of copyright *notices*, > to be in the ‘copyright’ file; and asking for clarificati

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

On 2009-08-29 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On måndagen den 24 augusti 2009, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> On a sidenote, is the cause for this ITP just exim or is general >> interest in this library? > Primarily for Exim. Also because I already maintain a couple of DKIM-related > packages. Did you

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package? (was: python-daemon_1.4.6-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 18:03 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy Chris, > > I'm copying this discussion to ‘debian-devel’, since I think it has > direct bearing on the recent discussions about trying to figure out > the actual requirements for the contents of the ‘copyright’ file. > > On 27-Aug-2009,

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

On måndagen den 24 augusti 2009, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2009-08-23 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > On lördagen den 22 augusti 2009, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > >> Magnus Holmgren writes: > >>> * Self-contained, no dependencies (except libc), thanks to code > >>> included from the PolarSSL project.

What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package? (was: python-daemon_1.4.6-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

Howdy Chris, I'm copying this discussion to ‘debian-devel’, since I think it has direct bearing on the recent discussions about trying to figure out the actual requirements for the contents of the ‘copyright’ file. On 27-Aug-2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > I'm rejecting your package from NEW because yo