Relying on glib to publish gettext linker flags

2010-02-10 Thread Daniel Macks
Coming here for wider input from gnome bugzilla Bug #606977 (and now I'm rethinking the much older Bug #500137), which seems to center on the line in glib-2.0.pc.in: Libs: -L${libdir} -lglib-2.0 @INTLLIBS@ The @INTLLIBS@ AC/AM variable is a standard one set by the gettext autoconf chunks. It ma

init script verbosity

2010-02-10 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
Hello I am using the /etc/init.d/skeleton (from unstable) file to write my package init scripts. but it seems that the lsb-base default behaviour is to have VERBOSE=no so there is no output. Is it ok with the debian-policy 9.4 Console messages from init.d scripts they say : "This section desc

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:55:07 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Beauty of different timezones :) Atsuhito had already sent me the file when > I got up this morning. > > There were two issues: a) the file was really two files with the \eof marker > denoting the end [ but R doesn't have a

Re: debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-02-10 21:37 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Sven Joachim writes: >> >>> On 2010-02-10 19:02 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> I often see sources where debian/rules clean aborts claiming it needs to be run as root. So then I run it with faker

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 February 2010 at 22:26, Asheesh Laroia wrote: | yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: | >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: | >>> I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 | >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 10 February 2010 at 22:26, Asheesh Laroia wrote: | yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: | >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: | >>> I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it

Re: debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-10 21:37 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2010-02-10 19:02 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >>> I often see sources where debian/rules clean aborts claiming it needs to >>> be run as root. So then I run it with fakeroot. But if the source was >>> p

Re: wizard development for debian package

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brett Parker writes: > On 10 Feb 13:50, saurabh a wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to create debian package for my application which should run as >> daemon. >> This application need to be able to configured at the time of installation >> through some gui wizard. >> >> Does debian has provision f

Re: debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-02-10 19:02 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> I often see sources where debian/rules clean aborts claiming it needs to >> be run as root. So then I run it with fakeroot. But if the source was >> previously build as root then running fakeroot debian/rules clean

Re: Bug#569079: ITP: python-xdgapp -- Python XDG application library

2010-02-10 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:52, Guillem Jover wrote What does this provide that python-xdg does not? It's depended on by https://launchpad.net/groundcontrol, and provides a wrapper around some xdg functions. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-10 19:02 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I often see sources where debian/rules clean aborts claiming it needs to > be run as root. So then I run it with fakeroot. But if the source was > previously build as root then running fakeroot debian/rules clean might > not be enough. I thi

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-10 18:48 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:14:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Actually, libjpeg62-dev is needed to build LSB compliant software that use >> libjpeg, so losing that would not be very nice. > > But depending on the software this will be practical

Bug#569203: ITP: parti -- an experimental window manager, a WM library, and screen for X

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Schutte
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Schutte * Package name: parti Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Michael Schutte * URL : http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/ * License : GPL ≥ 2 Programming Lang: Python Description : window manager library

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:14:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-02-10 17:03 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > This is the list of packages that Depends on libjpeg62-dev *and* cause > > conflicts when building package that build-depends on libjpeg-dev. > > > > libcupsimage2-dev > > libdire

debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I often see sources where debian/rules clean aborts claiming it needs to be run as root. So then I run it with fakeroot. But if the source was previously build as root then running fakeroot debian/rules clean might not be enough. I think the existing dh_testroot helper is insufficient and anoy

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:14:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Actually, libjpeg62-dev is needed to build LSB compliant software that use > libjpeg, so losing that would not be very nice. But depending on the software this will be practically impossible (at least for all gtk apps) as gtk wan

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-10 17:03 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > This is the list of packages that Depends on libjpeg62-dev *and* cause > conflicts when building package that build-depends on libjpeg-dev. > > libcupsimage2-dev > libdirectfb-dev > libdjvulibre-dev > libgd2-noxpm-dev > libgdal1-dev > libhdf5-seri

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:57:43AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > [Sorry for duplicate] > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >  libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed >  libtiff4-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed >

Bug#569173: ITP: shiboken -- python bindings generator that uses apiextractor and outputs CPython code

2010-02-10 Thread Didier Raboud
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Didier Raboud * Package name: shiboken Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Nokia and OpenBossa Anderson Lizardo (lizardo) Bruno Araujo (baraujo) Hugo Parente Lima (hlima) Lauro

Bug#569171: ITP: pinta -- a simple Gtk drawing/painting program

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Lane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian CLI Applications team * Package name: pinta Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jonathan Pobst * URL : http://pinta-project.com * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C# Description : a simple Gtk drawing/paintin

Re: Bug#569079: ITP: python-xdgapp -- Python XDG application library

2010-02-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:32:01 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luke Faraone > > * Package name: python-xdgapp > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Martin Owens > * URL : http://launchpad.net/python-xdgapp > * License

Re: correct/ideal way to obtain root from a shell script

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:45:20AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:37:57PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Simply depends on the menu package which provide su-to-root > > We've determined that su-to-root in it's current state > doesn't handle the disabled-root case anyway,

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-10 13:23 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > >>> Does it make sense that I report this issue to the above packages >>> (libqt3-mt-dev and libtiff4-dev) ? They should Build-Dep on the >>> virtual package libjpeg-dev right ? > > How can a binary package build-depend on s

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:57:43AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Does it make sense that I report this issue to the above packages > > (libqt3-mt-dev and libtiff4-dev) ? They should Build-Dep on the > > virtual package libjpeg-

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Bill Allombert wrote: >> Does it make sense that I report this issue to the above packages >> (libqt3-mt-dev and libtiff4-dev) ? They should Build-Dep on the >> virtual package libjpeg-dev right ? How can a binary package build-depend on something? Their source obviously depends on libjpeg-dev, o

Re: correct/ideal way to obtain root from a shell script

2010-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:09:58AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > So what you are looking for is not a way to run something > as root, but a way to install a package as a user, which > is different. In my specific case, yes. > Something like apt-daemon is probably what you are looking > for. Thanks

Bug#569153: ITP: libhkl -- diffractometer computation control library

2010-02-10 Thread Picca Frederic-Emmanuel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Picca Frederic-Emmanuel" * Package name: libhkl Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel * URL : http://repo.or.cz/w/hkl.git * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (C) Description : diffractomete

Re: wizard development for debian package

2010-02-10 Thread Brett Parker
On 10 Feb 13:50, saurabh a wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create debian package for my application which should run as > daemon. > This application need to be able to configured at the time of installation > through some gui wizard. > > Does debian has provision for creating such wizard? or which

Re: correct/ideal way to obtain root from a shell script

2010-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:42:07PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > That sounds sensible. Is there anything I can do to help? I'm planning to try and summarize the current situation on a wiki-page, then I will hopefully have a better idea of how to proceed. I might consider trying to exercise the DEP

Re: correct/ideal way to obtain root from a shell script

2010-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:37:57PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Simply depends on the menu package which provide su-to-root We've determined that su-to-root in it's current state doesn't handle the disabled-root case anyway, so this wouldn't win me anything. -- Jon Dowland signature.asc Des

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 04.02.2010 11:01, schrieb Rene Engelhard: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:13:40AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I file wishlist bugs against the affec

wizard development for debian package

2010-02-10 Thread saurabh a
Hi, I'm trying to create debian package for my application which should run as daemon. This application need to be able to configured at the time of installation through some gui wizard. Does debian has provision for creating such wizard? or which language is used for creating such gui in order t

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:57:43AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > [Sorry for duplicate] > > Hi there, > >  I am struggling to rebuild my package. I am thinking there is an > issue with libvtk-java. So I tried in my pbuilder env the following: > > # apt-get build-dep vtk > Reading package list

libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
[Sorry for duplicate] Hi there,  I am struggling to rebuild my package. I am thinking there is an issue with libvtk-java. So I tried in my pbuilder env the following: # apt-get build-dep vtk Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting