Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think debian-policy is the right repository for this.  I think it would > make the most sense to maintain this via a looser update method than the > normal Policy process and to instead just apply any update that ftp-master > says is in place

pbuilder + ccache suddenly fails

I've routinely used pbuilder to build packages for years. Yesterday, I have started to see the following failure: ccache: FATAL: Failed to create /var/cache/pbuilder/ccache/0/f: Permission denied Any idea what's going on? Google found only one other mention of this [1]. Thanks, -Steve [1] ht

Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

On 12836 March 1977, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I would personal tend toward ftp-master to be the authority with reference > implementation being dak, but they have no public mailinglist and dak isn't > used by all derivatives… debian-dak@lists.d.o On 12836 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: > I

Processed: Re: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 671503 debian-policy Bug #671503 [general] general: APT repository format is not documented Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'debian-policy'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #671503 to the same values previously s

Bug#671656: ITP: libmodule-cpanfile-perl -- format for describing CPAN dependencies of Perl applications

Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmodule-cpanfile-perl Version : 0.9007 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-CPA

Bug#671654: ITP: libdist-metadata-perl -- module for getting information about a perl module distribution

Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdist-metadata-perl Version : 0.922 Upstream Author : Randy Stauner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Metadata/ *

Bug#671650: ITP: libfile-spec-native-perl -- module for using native OS implementation of File::Spec from a subclass

Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-spec-native-perl Version : 1.003 Upstream Author : Randy Stauner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Spec-Nati

Bug#671634: ITP: python-roman -- Python module for generating/analyzing Roman numerals

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jakub Wilk * Package name: python-roman Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Mark Pilgrim * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/roman/ * License : Python 2.1.1 license Programming Lang: Python Description : Python modul

Bug#671627: RFH: spice - Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment

Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm looking for co-maintainers of package spice. Current spice embeds celt051, an obsolete version of celt, so we intend to remove celt051 support in spice, but I don't have enought time, sufficient knowledge and nec

Bug#671615: ITP: libgeo-point-perl -- module to simplify handling geographic points

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libgeo-point-perl Version : 0.93 Upstream Author : Mark Overmeer * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-point/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Re: switching from exim to postfix

On Monday 30 April 2012 12:58:18 Carsten Hey wrote: Hi, > The rest of this mail is likely not interesting for most of you since it > only tries to answer the natural follow up question "Why does it need > a cronjob then?" and explains why I don't think anymore that a switch to > incron should be

Re: How often is any package tested for FTBS on main arch ?

On Sat, 5 May 2012 11:34:45 +0200 Dominique Dumont wrote: > > i.e. not rebuild all 400 necessarily but to identify those which of > > those 400 do not already build-depend on the packages you removed and at > > least let the maintainers of the packages know that your change may > > reveal an RC b

Re: Bug#671302: Circular Build Dependencies (was Bug#671302: libav: circular dependency between libav and opencv)

On 04/05/12 21:45, Andres Mejia wrote: > On May 4, 2012 4:43 PM, "Fabian Greffrath" > wrote: >> >> > libav -> x264 -> libav >> >> AFAICT the x264 frontend uses libav whereas libav uses the libx264 shared >> library. So theortically (!) this issue could be solved by two

Re: How often is any package tested for FTBS on main arch ?

Le Friday 4 May 2012 11:09:52, Neil Williams a écrit : > Dominique Dumont wrote: > > We, sdl maintainers, made a recent change in our package by removing > > unnecessary build depends on -dev packages [1]. > > ... at which point you should have looked at the list of reverse > dependencies and don

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

On Fri, 4 May 2012 19:00:10 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: ... > Agreed. That's why my proposal was that *all* of those (Debian, > Fedora, Suse, MacPorts and brew) did the rename, not just us (Debian). > It's certainly not nice to push upstream to do something they don't > want to do, but when