The deadline for proposing GSOC projects is close!

Hi! Next Monday, the submission of student proposals opens for this year's GSOC. >From Debian we are expecting to have something like 10 students working, so we are still missing proposals. Most of students are reviewing this weekend the different websites of the participating organizations to dec

Re: ddebs

On 25/03/11 23:13, Philipp Kern wrote: > Are there dependencies from the -ddeb to the binary? Because you'd want to > update/upgrade your ddeb when you update the library, otherwise it becomes > useless. I imagine there can't be given that the binaries of our source > package might not be co-inst

Re: ddebs

On 2011-03-25, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 25/03/11 22:24, Torsten Werner wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort >> wrote: >>> http://people.debian.org/~pochu/debhelper_8.1.2+nmu1_all.deb >> Thanks. The name of the ddeb for gzip is gzip-ddeb. Can we rely on >> t

Re: ddebs

On 25/03/11 22:24, Torsten Werner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort > wrote: >> http://people.debian.org/~pochu/debhelper_8.1.2+nmu1_all.deb > > Thanks. The name of the ddeb for gzip is gzip-ddeb. Can we rely on > that schema or is there another way to find the nam

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>Why's that? Isn't UDF widely supported? >> > >> > Implementations often widely differ in their limitations - see the >> > Wikipedia page for more details. The suggested way to make

Re: ddebs

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~pochu/debhelper_8.1.2+nmu1_all.deb Thanks. The name of the ddeb for gzip is gzip-ddeb. Can we rely on that schema or is there another way to find the name of a deb package from its ddeb package? Rationale:

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) >> using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. > >If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about >filename l

Re: ddebs

On 25/03/11 21:46, Torsten Werner wrote: > Thanks for the explaination. > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort > wrote: >> Apply the attached patch to debhelper (applies cleanly on debhelper 8.1.2). > > May I download a pre-built debhelper from somewhere? http://people.deb

Re: ddebs

Thanks for the explaination. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Apply the attached patch to debhelper (applies cleanly on debhelper 8.1.2). May I download a pre-built debhelper from somewhere? Thanks, Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Re: ddebs

On 25/03/11 18:22, Torsten Werner wrote: > are there any example packages that build ddebs? That we can use for > testing dak? It should happen automatically if you patch debhelper (and CDBS to automatically get .ddebs out of CDBS-using packages) with my patches. I have just refreshed my debhelper

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Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Hi, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:48:15PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:09:54PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:27:57PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > The longest is: > > > > > > libreoffice-presentation-minimizer_1.0.3+LibO3.3.

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:09:54PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:27:57PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > The longest is: > > > > libreoffice-presentation-minimizer_1.0.3+LibO3.3.1-1_kfreebsd-amd64.deb > > > > at 71. > > Good, then any bug against openoffice.

ddebs (was: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting)

Hi Josselin, Am -10.01.-28163 20:59, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Would it be possible to add support for ddebs? are there any example packages that build ddebs? That we can use for testing dak? Cheers, Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>Why's that? Isn't UDF widely supported? > > > > Implementations often widely differ in their limitations - see the > > Wikipedia page for more details. The suggested way to make a safe UDF > > DVD is often along

Re: Bug#619396: ITP: geant321 -- Particle detector description and simulation tool

Hi, (sorry to break the thread, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel) Original CERNLIB maintainer here, the debian/copyright files for the original CERNLIB packages (for now, still available in oldstable) may be useful to answer some of Mika's and others' questions regarding licensing issues. http

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On 2011-03-25, Joey Hess wrote: >> >Is it possible to provide Joliet filenames for only a subset of files? >> It is, yes. But not something I'd like to do if we can avoid it. > One approach then would be to omit joliet filenames for the few long > packages. This would not even impact your use case

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>Why's that? Isn't UDF widely supported? > > Implementations often widely differ in their limitations - see the > Wikipedia page for more details. The suggested way to make a safe UDF > DVD is often along the lines of "use the ISO9660 bridge

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:13:03PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>64 is quite low. Is there no way to use longer filenames that still >>>works on all required platforms? >> >> To do that, we'll have to switch to a different filesystem. Th

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Steve McIntyre wrote: > There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) > using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about filename lengths, I'd choose the latter. > >Is it possible to provide Joli

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 04:48:12PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> users. The problem is that Joliet has a limit for filename length (64 >> characters), and technically we're already past that length. From >> genisoimage.1: > >64 is quite

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:52:35AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I've noticed a problem recently in the archive when building CDs, >> aggravated to a certain extent by the newer source formats. Some of >> the filenames in the archive are getting *very* long, and this is >> causi

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>64 is quite low. Is there no way to use longer filenames that still >>works on all required platforms? > > To do that, we'll have to switch to a different filesystem. That's a > possibility (maybe UDF), but there's probably even more of a ch

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Hi, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:27:57PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > The longest is: > > libreoffice-presentation-minimizer_1.0.3+LibO3.3.1-1_kfreebsd-amd64.deb > > at 71. Good, then any bug against openoffice.org is not needed, as that obviously will be + wontfix wheezy-ignore, because it sim

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Steve McIntyre wrote: > I've noticed a problem recently in the archive when building CDs, > aggravated to a certain extent by the newer source formats. Some of > the filenames in the archive are getting *very* long, and this is > causing issues. As a matter of course, we build CDs with RockRidge an

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > users. The problem is that Joliet has a limit for filename length (64 > characters), and technically we're already past that length. From > genisoimage.1: 64 is quite low. Is there no way to use longer filenames that still works on all requ

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:50:32PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: >Hi, > >On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Debian LibreOffice Maintainers >>openoffice.org > >Dead. Any anything there is just transitional packages you need tor >squeeze->wheezy upgrades, so need t

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Hi, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Debian LibreOffice Maintainers >openoffice.org Dead. Any anything there is just transitional packages you need tor squeeze->wheezy upgrades, so need to stay. Is libreoffice also affected? >From your list it appears not...

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey folks, > >I've noticed a problem recently in the archive when building CDs, >aggravated to a certain extent by the newer source formats. Some of >the filenames in the archive are getting *very* long, and this is >causing issues. A

MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Hey folks, I've noticed a problem recently in the archive when building CDs, aggravated to a certain extent by the newer source formats. Some of the filenames in the archive are getting *very* long, and this is causing issues. As a matter of course, we build CDs with RockRidge and Joliet support s

Bug#619593: ITP: lv2-extensions-good -- LV2 extensions from the "good" set

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: lv2-extensions-good Version : 1 Upstream Author : David Robillard and others * URL : http://lv2plug.in/docs/index.php?title=External_Extensions * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Desc

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Re: enable/disable support in /usr/sbin/service

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:54:05AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> At present there *is* no reliable sysadmin interface for enabling/disabling >> services.  update-rc.d is not it; many admins have been using 'update-rc.d >> -f remove' fo

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Bug#619586: apt: [apt-transport-mirror] what(): std::bad_alloc (was: Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?)

Package: apt Version: 0.8.13 Severity: normal Hi there! The discussion started on debian-devel@l.d.o, specifically: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:55:47 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22:29AM +01

Processed: Re: Processed: reassign 619520 to general

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Bug#619520: linux-image-2.6.37-2-amd64: some Ethernet cables are not detected

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