Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
TL;DR: I think that we should have a discussion about the respective roles & responsibilities of maintainers and porters with regard to porting. Release team, there's a question for you regarding ruby1.9.1 in the last paragraph. Hi, First, I'd like to say that I'm very proud of the

Re: dar-static build failure

2011-08-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Brian May wrote: > On 27 August 2011 06:38, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > And I do think it is at least a serious bug for libgpg-error-dev to drop its > > static lib when there are rdepends that require it (dar).  But I am not sure > > about this one. > > The documen

Re: dar-static build failure

2011-08-28 Thread Brian May
On 27 August 2011 06:38, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > And I do think it is at least a serious bug for libgpg-error-dev to drop its > static lib when there are rdepends that require it (dar).  But I am not sure > about this one. The documentation says "makes unrelated software on the syste

Re: gclcvs: Should this package be orphaned (or removed)?

2011-08-28 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Niels Thykier writes: > If no one picks this package up soon (within 14 days give or take) I > will push for its removal on the grounds that it is unmaintained and RC > buggy. Fortunately there's a good alternative here as this is a snapshotting package for software actually maintained wel

Re: autopkgtest-devel list (DEP8 etc.)

2011-08-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:38:05PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The new autopkgtest-devel list is now open for business at >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autopkgtest-devel > If you're interested in autopkgtest please subscribe to it. > I'm going to stop sending emails

Re: gclcvs: Should this package be orphaned (or removed)?

2011-08-28 Thread Niels Thykier
reassign 637058 wnpp severity 637058 normal retitle 637058 O: gclcvs -- GNU Common Lisp compiler, CVS snapshot thanks Hi, Since the original maintainer has not argued against this and is not (to my knowledge) on vacation, I am hereby orphaning gclcvs (and gclcvs-doc). The full description of the

Re: autopkgtest-devel list (DEP8 etc.)

2011-08-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thank you Ian, could you make it world rX (so it would appear on http://git. and becomes available through git://), and add me to the group just in case: $> cd /git/autopkgtest/ -bash: cd: /git/autopkgtest/: Permission denied total 20 4 0001-addressing-the-rename-of-matlab-into-matlab-support.pat

Re: Bug#639420: ITP: xpra -- tool to detach/reattach running X programs

2011-08-28 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Miguel Landaeta writes: >> You could check at http://vasks.debian.org/~nomadium-guest/debian/unstable/, > > should I ask Antoine (from upstream) to link to these packages or is it > too early? They work for me between two workstation

Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Michael Tautschnig [2011-08-24 14:31 +0200]: > > Its not any header package: dkms needs the _appropriate_ header > > package matching the installed kernel package. If > > linux-image-2.6.39-1-amd64 is installed, then dkms needs > > linux-headers-2.6.39-1-amd64. If linux-image-3.0-1-amd64 is > >

Re: getting permission denied with shmat() as non-root

2011-08-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Timothy Stotts wrote: > on the Debian system the shmat() function returns -1 with an error code of > EACCES, indicating permission denied. The embedded system does not have > shm_open(), otherwise I would use that. Other folks in this thread provided bett

Re: OS for Mobile phones.

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Suresh Ramanujam wrote: > I am looking to make OS for mobile phones on Linux platform. Can Debian be > of any use? A Debian derivative (Maemo) has been shipped by Nokia on the N900 phone, the N950 phone (developer only) and will probably be shipped on the N9 when

Re: OS for Mobile phones.

2011-08-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:20:17 +0530 Suresh Ramanujam wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to make OS for mobile phones on Linux platform. Can Debian be > of any use? Don't see why not but it depends on the amount of storage available on device and what functionality needs to be supported with software

OS for Mobile phones.

2011-08-28 Thread Suresh Ramanujam
Hi, I am looking to make OS for mobile phones on Linux platform. Can Debian be of any use? Regards, Suresh.R

Bug#639583: ITP: herbstluftwm -- manual tiling window manager for X11

2011-08-28 Thread Christoph Egger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Egger * Package name: herbstluftwm Version : 0.0~git Upstream Author : Thosten Wißmann thorsten-wissmann.de> * URL : http://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/~re06huxa/herbstluftwm/ * License : Simplified BSD Programming Lang:

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:11:40AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >ntfs-3g I was under the impression that ntfs-3g was a FUSE implementation, which should in theory work on kFreeBSD too. But don't take my word for it :-) -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by

Re: getting permission denied with shmat() as non-root

2011-08-28 Thread Peter Miller
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 20:44 -0400, Timothy Stotts wrote: > I am using ftok(), shmget(), shmat() to obtain a small quantity of > shared memory for the application. As root, the shmat() function > succeeds on the embedded system. However, on the Debian system the > shmat() function returns -1 with an

Re: getting permission denied with shmat() as non-root

2011-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Timothy Stotts wrote: > /proc/config.gz reveals that SYSVIPC is indeed compiled into the Linux > kernel of the Debian system. The Debian kernels don't include support for /proc/config.gz. > How can I diagnose the program on the Debian system? strace. Als

Re: Bug#639535: ITP: libdebian-copyright-perl -- perl module to parse, merge and write Debian copyright files

2011-08-28 Thread Nicholas Bamber
CPAN bug: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70544 On 28/08/11 06:19, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:08:55PM +0100, Nicholas Bamber a écrit : >> >> * Package name: libdebian-copyright-perl >> Version : 0.1 >> Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber >> * URL