Re: Bug#594636: general: vlc_1.1.2.orig.tar.bz2. FAIL to make the .deb packages (source and binary)

2010-08-27 Thread Neil Williams
severity 594636 minor tag 594636 - patch thanks On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:09:26 +0200 hoareau jean pierre wrote: > Package: general > Severity: serious > Tags: patch > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in > the past) It appears that you are trying to build the debia

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 05:23:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:08:11AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Could you please either start reporting (wishlist) bugs asking to make > >> these scripts more robust against strange administrative pract

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:08:11AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Could you please either start reporting (wishlist) bugs asking to make >> these scripts more robust against strange administrative practices or >> get tired of all this a little bit faster? > While being rob

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:08:11AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could you please either start reporting (wishlist) bugs asking to make > these scripts more robust against strange administrative practices or get > tired of all this a little bit faster? While being robust against "/etc/rcS.d/S50foo

Processed: Re: Bug#594636: general: vlc_1.1.2.orig.tar.bz2. FAIL to make the .deb packages (source and binary)

2010-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 594636 vlc Bug #594636 [general] general: vlc_1.1.2.orig.tar.bz2. FAIL to make the .deb packages (source and binary) Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'vlc'. > kthxbye Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assis

Re: Bug#594636: general: vlc_1.1.2.orig.tar.bz2. FAIL to make the .deb packages (source and binary)

2010-08-27 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
reassign 594636 vlc kthxbye -- Jonathan Wiltshire 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 -- 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

Bug#594636: general: vlc_1.1.2.orig.tar.bz2. FAIL to make the .deb packages (source and binary)

2010-08-27 Thread hoareau jean pierre
Package: general Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) soleil:/usr/src# uname -a Linux soleil 2.6.32-3-ieee1394 #1 SMP Mon Jun 7 13:44:44 CEST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux I run DEBIAN squeeze updated this week. Steps to reproduce: aft

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Russ Allbery wrote: > Could you please either start reporting (wishlist) bugs asking to make > these scripts more robust against strange administrative practices or get > tired of all this a little bit faster? A large thread in debian-devel > with no concrete actionable reports is basically useles

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:36:52AM +0200, posion bit wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Given that he hasn't bothered to present a single definitively broken script > > in /etc but instead seems to think that his prowess with grep entitles him > > to leave this mo

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could you please either start reporting (wishlist) bugs asking to make > these scripts more robust against strange administrative practices or get > tired of all this a little bit faster?  A large thread in debian-devel > with no concrete acti

Re: c'toi le 38...

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting posion bit (poison...@gmail.com): > >> I'm not going to fill a lot of little bugs for this, I expect debian >> scripts to be designed following some simple bash best practices. > > By what miracle do you expect this to happen (ass

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
posion bit writes: > I showed one case in /etc/profile > I've just fast looked and show another case in /etc/init.d/rc > I'm getting tired of all this Could you please either start reporting (wishlist) bugs asking to make these scripts more robust against strange administrative practices or get

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-27 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 04:29:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > In this regard, I don't believe it is being treated specially. I expect > the DDPO maintainers would be happy to add links to other distributions' > bug trackers if they have per-package information. My understanding is > that Ubunt

c'toi le 38...

2010-08-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting posion bit (poison...@gmail.com): > I'm not going to fill a lot of little bugs for this, I expect debian > scripts to be designed following some simple bash best practices. By what miracle do you expect this to happen (assuming you have a point somewhere) if you don't file bugs? Do you e

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:53:12PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 27 août 2010 à 07:14 +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > > It was indeed really interesting to see (at DebConf) the funny way > > that all talks about such topics were mentioning "the Debian > > derivatives" when, inde

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 27 Aug 2010, posion bit wrote: >> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls > > Thanks, nice reading. > > Best wishes I haven't write a line of that enlightened wiki :-) Just sharing information sources with best wishes to all debi

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 27 Aug 2010, posion bit wrote: > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls Thanks, nice reading. Best wishes Norbert Norbert Preiningprein...@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 27, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> Not if I have a "/etc/rc2.d/K03my damn daemon" > True, but then you deserve all the pain you will receive. Hi again, Marco and all. I would love to invite to community to take a read to common document

Bug#594587: ITP: ttf-washera-fonts -- A collection of unicode fonts for the Ethiopic script

2010-08-27 Thread Eremit7
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eremit7 * Package name: ttf-washera-fonts Version : 4.1 Upstream Author : Abass Alamnehe * URL : http://www.senamirmir.org/projects/typography/washra.html * License : SIL Open Font License, Verison 1.1 Programming Lang

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 août 2010 à 07:14 +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > It was indeed really interesting to see (at DebConf) the funny way > that all talks about such topics were mentioning "the Debian > derivatives" when, indeed, all that they were talking about was > Ubuntu. As I told to Matt Zimme

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 27, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Not if I have a "/etc/rc2.d/K03my damn daemon" True, but then you deserve all the pain you will receive. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

38 and some POSIX news about filenames [Was: Re: 38]

2010-08-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 27.08.2010 12:29, posion bit wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 27 août 2010 à 11:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Not if I have a "/etc/rc2.d/K03my damn daemon" Which is again the debian rules and the LSB rules about naming the init.d scripts.

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Back to the original subject for what concerns DDPO. I apologize for having mixed a (not so) brief review of my DPL whereabouts on derivatives with a personal opinion on the DDPO technical issue; I was just too lazy to send 2 separate mails, shame on me ! ] On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:39:45

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 27 août 2010 à 11:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit : >> > >Not if I have a "/etc/rc2.d/K03my damn daemon" >> > >> > Which is again the debian rules and the LSB rules about >> > naming the init.d scripts. >> >> Debian rules an

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 août 2010 à 11:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > >Not if I have a "/etc/rc2.d/K03my damn daemon" > > > > Which is again the debian rules and the LSB rules about > > naming the init.d scripts. > > Debian rules and LSB won't prevent users (even root) from doing that. And if ro

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:36:11 +0200, a écrit : > On 27.08.2010 10:27, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:21:06 +0200, a écrit : > >>On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: > >>>look one so simple in /etc/init.d/rc > >>> > >>>

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-27 Thread Steffen Möller
On 08/26/2010 11:20 PM, Thomas Weber wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:42:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> I don't see what a discussion on -devel@ would bring. We are unlikely to >> come up with a better choice of solutions than what we already have >> (keep it on by default, revert the cha

Re: on the role of debian among its derivatives

2010-08-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/08/10 at 10:43 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [ Agreed with everything you wrote before that ] > > I don't see handling Ubuntu in some special way in DDPO (as proposed > > in this discussion) as such an horrendous thing. Couldn't we simply > > ack the fact that having a bug report rate th

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 27.08.2010 10:27, Samuel Thibault wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:21:06 +0200, a écrit : On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: look one so simple in /etc/init.d/rc for i in /etc/rc$runlevel.d/K$level* do

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 27.08.2010 10:34, posion bit wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:21:06 +0200, a écrit : On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: look one so simple in /etc/init.d/rc for i in /etc/rc$runlevel.d/

on the role of debian among its derivatives

2010-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ oops, this mail came out longer than I expected, sorry ] On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 07:14:19AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > As a side comment: we should maybe some day stop faking ourselves by > just seeing Ubuntu as "Yet Another Derivative". It is by two or even > more orders of magnitude the

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:58:22AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:30:07AM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:22:08AM +0200, posion bit wrote: > > > There are 38 unquoted $i in /etc in i386 installing base+laptop+standar > > > > > > There are

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Given that he hasn't bothered to present a single definitively broken script > in /etc but instead seems to think that his prowess with grep entitles him > to leave this most basic proof as an exercise for the reader, I'm pretty > sure the

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:21:06 +0200, a écrit : >> On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: >> >look one so simple in /etc/init.d/rc >> > >> >                         for i in /etc/rc$runlevel.d/K$level* >> >              

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:21:06 +0200, a écrit : > On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: > >look one so simple in /etc/init.d/rc > > > > for i in /etc/rc$runlevel.d/K$level* > > do > > # Check if the

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:58:22AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > While many of these are false alarms (numbers, fixed names, ...), the > problem is real. Sometimes you even have a proper and improper usage on the > same or on subsequent lines: > (/etc/mc/mc.menu) > case "$i" in >

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:30:07AM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:22:08AM +0200, posion bit wrote: There are 38 unquoted $i in /etc in i386 installing base+laptop+standar

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:09:49AM +0200, posion bit wrote: > > (/etc/mc/mc.menu) > >          case "$i" in > >            *.tar.gz)  D="`basename $i .tar.gz`";; > > In that case, name-spaced filenames should work, because the > string is a _quoted_ multi-word string. i="cat's meow.tar.gz"

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
posion bit, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:09:49 +0200, a écrit : > > (/etc/mc/mc.menu) > >          case "$i" in > >            *.tar.gz)  D="`basename $i .tar.gz`";; > > > In that case, name-spaced filenames should work, because the > string is a _quoted_ multi-word string. Not in the basename cal

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 27.08.2010 08:30, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:22:08AM +0200, posion bit wrote: I've just started my love history again with squeeze. There are 38 unquoted $i in /etc in i386 installing base+laptop+standar There are 172 "$i" (maching without spaces around) 38 of the

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread posion bit
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:30:07AM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:22:08AM +0200, posion bit wrote: >> > There are 38 unquoted $i in /etc in i386 installing base+laptop+standar >> > >> > There are 172 "$i" (mac

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:30:07AM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:22:08AM +0200, posion bit wrote: > > There are 38 unquoted $i in /etc in i386 installing base+laptop+standar > > > > There are 172 "$i" (maching without spaces around) 38 of them matches > > whit spac