Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Bruce Sass wrote: > Would once be fine, or should contrib/non-free users need to make an explicit > choice every first time a package outside of Main is an installation > candidate? s/first// but yes. As a user of contrib/non-free I specifically only want package

Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Mike Mestnik wrote: > Members of the task force should be considerate of all different types of > proxies.  http(caching and non-caching); http-connect(both port filtered and > not port filtered); socks(in all it's glorious iterations); plus anything > else that fa

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On September 20, 2011 02:24:33 PM Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:12:37PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > tl;dr - what do you think, is a "Depends: foo-contrib | foo" acceptable > > > > for packages in main or should it be "Depends: foo | foo-contrib" > > instead? > > I t

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Hardening build flags release goal"): > > > we're not very far from having hardening build flags set by default by > > > dpkg-buildflags (waiting on some documentation update that Kees

Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-21 Thread Mike Mestnik
Hello, ASYMK there are a number of different proxies technologies and it's not impossible to be in a position where there use is mandatory. I've recently looked into a number of bugs against Canonical's Ubuntu: [1]479630 [2]370924 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479630 2. https://bugs.l

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Hardening build flags release goal"): > > we're not very far from having hardening build flags set by default by > > dpkg-buildflags (waiting on some documentation update that Kees should > > take care of). > > Can you please point

Bug#642344: ITP: percona-toolkit -- Collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of complex MySQL and system tasks

2011-09-21 Thread Dario Minnucci
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dario Minnucci -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 percona-toolkit (wich includes 'maatkit') is a replacement [0] for 'maatkit' package currently available in Debian. * Package name: percona-toolkit Version : 1.0.1 Upstream A

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Kyle Willmon writes ("Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?"): > So, if you think it's ok to leave out the words "Depends" and > "Recommends", the logical idea would be to use "Build-Stage1" (though I > do not think this is the correct route. I, personally, am in favor of > "Build-

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Hardening build flags release goal"): > we're not very far from having hardening build flags set by default by > dpkg-buildflags (waiting on some documentation update that Kees should > take care of). Can you please point us to the draft interface documentation that specif

Bug#642319: ITP: fcitx-handwrite -- an GTK+ frontend, zinnia based handwrite input method for fcitx

2011-09-21 Thread YunQiang Su
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: fcitx-handwrite Version: 0.1.1 Upstream Author : chenfc2...@gmail.com, wen...@gmail.com, dream.liuguobiao URL: http://code.google.com/p/fcitx-handwriting/ License: GPLv3 Programming Lang: c Description

Bug#642311: ITP: ipdb -- IPython-based pdb replacement

2011-09-21 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrey Rahmatullin * Package name: ipdb Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Godefroid Chapelle * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipdb * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : IPython-based pdb replace

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/09/11 06:24 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > In my intended case I believe they always end up with foo from main, > only if they choose foo-contrib will they get it, which is how I think > it should be. main should not reference packages from contrib/non-free > in any way. If that's how it works, then

Re: Could the multiarch wiki page be explicit about pkgconfig files?

2011-09-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 21/09/2011 09:13, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> dpkg-architecture can convert Debian arch to triplet (DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) >> and multiarchdir (DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) >> >> Is there an easy way to convert triplet to multiarchdir ? (which is >> what is neede

Re: Could the multiarch wiki page be explicit about pkgconfig files?

2011-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Vincent Danjean wrote: > dpkg-architecture can convert Debian arch to triplet (DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) > and multiarchdir (DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) > > Is there an easy way to convert triplet to multiarchdir ? (which is > what is needed for pkg-config-crosswrapper) $ dpkg-architectur