Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ It sucks to have to confirm mails for debian-package-d...@list.smarden.org ] On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > What happened to the idea of having /bin/sh -> dash hardcoded in the dash > > package instead ? > > That's still the plan. The problem is that once dash is the only > pa

Work-needing packages report for Apr 30, 2010

2010-04-29 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 592 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 140 (new: 9) Total number of packages request

Bug#579692: ITP: libtest-inter-perl -- framework for more readable interactive test scripts

2010-04-29 Thread Chris Butler
Package: wnpp Owner: Chris Butler Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-inter-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Sullivan Beck * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Inter/ * License

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert writes: > That's still the plan. The problem is that once dash is the only package > shipping /bin/sh, bash would be the one prompting the user whether > she/he wants to use bash (so that the diversion is added) it would still > break in case the user already added a local divers

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 29 April 2010 14:23, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Any dpkg maintainer reading? Raphaël? Guillem? > > Yes, but I don't know what you expect from me. That discussion dragged for > far too long in too many directions. Hum, ok. That's why I didn't CC the

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Any dpkg maintainer reading? Raphaël? Guillem? Yes, but I don't know what you expect from me. That discussion dragged for far too long in too many directions. What happened to the idea of having /bin/sh -> dash hardcoded in the dash package instead ?

Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver

2010-04-29 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: goban Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Scott Draves * URL : http://draves.org/goban/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Goban screensaver Replays historical games of go

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Ben, On 29 April 2010 12:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24:32AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > [...] >> A quick workaround to bypass the check, in case you want to upload >> already, would be to: ddivert=dpkg; ddivert="${ddivert}-divert"; >> $ddivert --remove ... >> >>

Re: is BTS down?

2010-04-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Debian BTS seems to be on vacation. For how long? lindberg (one of the machines in the BTS dns rotation) blew up temporarily,[1] and thanks to the work of the DSA, has already been fixed. If this happens in the future, you can always use one of th

Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-29 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 27, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> But you're breaking peoples' systems *now*.  And breaking systems > Which ones? There is only one bug open (gdm) and it has patches. > > Based on this data I believe that the change has been a great suc

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:24:32AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: [...] > A quick workaround to bypass the check, in case you want to upload > already, would be to: ddivert=dpkg; ddivert="${ddivert}-divert"; > $ddivert --remove ... > > [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/geissert/dash.git;a=summary

Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 18:33:58 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > So the question is then if you care about kernels without ipv6 > support. If getaddrinfo() returns an ipv6 address and you > don't go over the list, you have a problem. > gdm first calls getaddrinfo() with hints.ai_family == AF_INET6.

Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 07:46:18PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 18:59:16 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > I didn't look at the source, but if it's already using > > getaddrinfo() and going over all the addresses it returned, > > I don't see why it should be broken with eit

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 28 April 2010 16:08, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:20:12PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> On 15 April 2010 12:58, Gerrit Pape wrote: >> I tried to clone your git repository but it 404s, so I can't check >> what other changes you've made so far and see if there's any confli

Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++

2010-04-29 Thread Cleto Martin Angelina
> > Who said that libpthread will be replaced?  I read it that it interfaces with > libpthread, i.e. it wraps it. > I have taken a look to the source code and for POSIX system uses libpthread and wraps it. Now, I'm developing a distributed application which uses both a pthreaded library and libzth

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

2010-04-29 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, after some days the poll [1] has been a clear result. browser-plugin-* has won with a huge winning margin. [1] http://www.doodle.com/guafbbhipwskzr8a -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital si

Bug#579636: ITP: libdatetime-format-dbi-perl -- Finds a DateTime::Format parser class for a database connection

2010-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" * Package name: libdatetime-format-dbi-perl Version : 0.33 Upstream Author : Claus Faerber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-DBI/ * License : GPL+Artistic Programming Lang: Perl De

Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++

2010-04-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-04-29, Vincent Danjean wrote: > On 29/04/2010 11:13, Cleto Martin Angelina wrote: >>> Especially if it is not compatible with glibc and all other libraries (ie if >>> it does not provide the current libpthread ABI). [I did not check if this is >>> the case or not] >> I don't know what I sh

Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++

2010-04-29 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 29/04/2010 11:13, Cleto Martin Angelina wrote: >> Especially if it is not compatible with glibc and all other libraries (ie if >> it does not provide the current libpthread ABI). [I did not check if this is >> the case or not] > > I don't know what I should to do for checking that issue in the

Re: is BTS down?

2010-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
> Debian BTS seems to be on vacation. For how long? It's not down, but HTTP access is extremely slow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004291147.280

Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Cleto Martin Angelina wrote: >> You're missing the important bit here: >> Version 2.3.2 was released on 03/13/05. > >> What about not packaging *that* at all? > > It is true zthreads library is apparently abandoned by the original > author. But me and my workmates

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Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++

2010-04-29 Thread Cleto Martin Angelina
> * Package name: zthreads > libzthreads? > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Cleto Martin Angelina > Owner: Cleto Martin Angelina > 'zthreads' was the name of the source package I thought for the first time. There is no matter to change it to 'libzthreads'. >> Programming Lang:

Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-29 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:40:53PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 27, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > > reasonable commenter), and now you're saying that Julien Cristau is "the > > peanut gallery". > No, I am not. > > > But you're breaking peoples' systems *now*. And breaking systems > Which

Re: is BTS down?

2010-04-29 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:11:01AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:09, Stanislav Maslovski > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Debian BTS seems to be on vacation. For how long? > > http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bugs.debian.org I can ping it: PING bugs.debian.org (86.59.118.149)

Re: is BTS down?

2010-04-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:09, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Hi, > > Debian BTS seems to be on vacation. For how long? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bugs.debian.org -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debia

is BTS down?

2010-04-29 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hi, Debian BTS seems to be on vacation. For how long? -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100429080919.ga17...@kaiba.homelan

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-29 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:09 PM, James Y Knight wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:32 AM, James Y Knight wrote: >> >> After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across one >> example of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is GPLv2-only, and is >> linked against GPLv3 libread