Re: Assumptions when processing triggers (was [pkg-mono-group] Bug#671711: monodoc-browser: fails to upgrade) from 'testing'

2012-06-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:12:14 +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:37:53AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > […] > > > > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from > > 'testing'. > > It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' fail

Work-needing packages report for Jun 8, 2012

2012-06-07 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 455 (new: 11) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 150 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, Stephen Powell wrote: > I'm not questioning anyone's competency, but parted is way out of > date; and no-one seems to be doing anything about it. http://bugs.debian.org/646130 seems to indicate that the primary reason why we haven't yet switched to a newer version is due to th

Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:52:52 -0400 (EDT), Joey Hess wrote: > > ... > This bug is a textbook example of making the perfect the enemy of the good. > It's disconcerting that we, or our users, are willing to put up with this. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. Another example is GNU parted

Bug#676579: ITP: libmath-vector-real-kdtree-perl -- This module implements a kd-Tree data structure in Perl and some related algorithms.

2012-06-07 Thread Shen Wei
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shen Wei * Package name: libmath-vector-real-kdtree-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Salvador Fandiño * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Math-Vector-Real-kdTree-0.02/lib/Math/Vector/Real/kdTree.pm * License : A

Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

2012-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi, If you're using unstable and you're using static boot ordering with sysv-rc, you might have run into #676463/#676520. We've been using dynamic dependency-based boot ordering by default for quite some time now. However, if you had a lenny (or earlier) system, prior to sysv-rc 2.88dsf-23, user

Bug#676571: ITP: libfile-find-wanted-perl -- more obvious wrapper around File::Find

2012-06-07 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libfile-find-wanted-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Andy Lester * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Find-Wanted/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Descr

Bug#676570: ITP: libmath-vector-real-perl -- A simple pure perl module to manipulate vectors of any dimension.

2012-06-07 Thread Shen Wei
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shen Wei * Package name: libmath-vector-real-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Salvador Fandiño * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Math-Vector-Real-0.08/lib/Math/Vector/Real.pm * License : Artistic Programming

Bug#676567: ITP: libdata-rmap-perl -- Perl module implementing a recursive map, applying a block to a data structure

2012-06-07 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libdata-rmap-perl Version : 0.62 Upstream Author : Brad Bowman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Rmap/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:28:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The point of the symlink tree is that you can easily switch between > using the embedded version (when the packaged version is incompatible) > and the packaged version (through the symlink tree). If you used a > top-level symlink, y

Bug#676565: ITP: libmasonx-processdir-perl -- Perl module to process a directory of Mason 2 templates

2012-06-07 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libmasonx-processdir-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MasonX-ProcessDir/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#676564: ITP: libany-template-processdir-perl -- Perl module for processing a directory of templates

2012-06-07 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libany-template-processdir-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Any-Template-ProcessDir/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Raphael Hertzog] > > It the next upstream version of your javascript library provides new > > files, they will not be in the symlink tree that you built in your > > package. So at runtime, it will fail because of the missing file. > > Forgive me

Incorrect use of /run

2012-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
Apologies for using -announce, but it's become apparent that there are some packages mis-using /run, and this will break squeeze to wheezy upgrades, and it's clear that some maintainers are not aware of this. mysql-5.5 is the package I'm aware of, but there may be others, and this needs fixing or

Bug#676552: ITP: libcrypt-random-source-perl -- get weak or strong random data from pluggable sources

2012-06-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libcrypt-random-source-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-Random-Source/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programmi

Bug#676537: ITP: libdata-guid-perl -- globally unique identifiers

2012-06-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libdata-guid-perl Version : 0.046 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-GUID/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 07 juin 2012 à 15:48 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > There's no need to be a dick about it. Because this discussion was all about not being a dick to begin with, of course. Remind me who, in absence of consensus, explained that if tmpfs was enabled by default, he would forcefully make

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst (wou...@debian.org) [120607 16:06]: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +0300, Serge wrote: > > 2012/6/1 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > So tmpfs would basically never be used despite the benefits. > > > > Well, nobody named the benefits yet. > > - It speeds things up, especi

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 09:37 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 06 juin 2012 à 19:56 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > A lot of people came down on the pro-tmpfs side in this thread. You have > > some good reasons to want to make it available to users. I just wanted > > to invite you to make

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +0300, Serge wrote: Well, nobody named the benefits yet. - You could mount your mail spool there, and make things go blazingly fast [1] If I remember Wietse’s opinion correctly he will jump on

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Raphael Hertzog] > It the next upstream version of your javascript library provides new > files, they will not be in the symlink tree that you built in your > package. So at runtime, it will fail because of the missing file. Forgive me if I'm missing something basic here, but this sounds like a

Bug#676518: ITP: libcrypt-util-perl -- lightweight Crypt/Digest convenience API

2012-06-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libcrypt-util-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Ann Barcomb, יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-Util/ * License : Expat Program

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/1 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > So tmpfs would basically never be used despite the benefits. > > Well, nobody named the benefits yet. - You could mount your mail spool there, and make things go blazingly fast [1] - It speeds thin

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:10:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Yes, and if a future version of *any* library will change its ABI it > > will fail as well and we do not force the strict dependency anyway. So > > my question is rather, in how far such dh_linktree-ed JS libraries > > deserve th

Bug#676506: ITP: libtext-hunspell-perl -- Perl interface to the GNU Hunspell library

2012-06-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtext-hunspell-perl Version : 2.03 Upstream Author : Cosimo Streppone * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Hunspell

Bug#676504: ITP: pocl -- Portable OpenCL

2012-06-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean * Package name: pocl Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Carlos Sánchez de La Lama and others * URL : https://launchpad.net/pocl * License : Some kind of BSD Programming Lang: C/llvm Description : Port

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 12:24:35PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > It the next upstream version of your javascript library provides new > > files, they will not be in the symlink tree that you built in your > > package. So at runtime, it will fail becau

Re: Bug#676384: ITP: libsort-key-top-perl -- select and sort top nelements

2012-06-07 Thread Salvador Fandiño
The license for this package is wrong. It says "Perl Artistic" but it can be distributed as Perl itself under GPL-1+ or Artistic. Regards, - Salvador -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 12:24:35PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > It the next upstream version of your javascript library provides new > files, they will not be in the symlink tree that you built in your > package. So at runtime, it will fail because of the missing file. Yes, and if a future v

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > > dh-linktree generates strong dependencies on purpose because the set of > > embedded files can evolve and you want to be sure that you regenerate the > > binary package when the upstream version of your dependency changes. > > In how far is this differ

Re: Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-07 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
> Why not reverse the two commands: > override_dh_installman: > /somepath/create-a-man-page > debian/packagename.1 > dh_installman -- > Let dh_installman install the generated manpage. To my mind this violates modularity, in that *building* the man page is happening during what

Bug#676479: ITP: libcatalyst-authentication-credential-http-perl -- HTTP Basic and Digest authentication for Catalyst

2012-06-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libcatalyst-authentication-credential-http-perl Version : 1.014 Upstream Author : Jess Robinson, Sascha Kiefer , Yuval Kogman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Aut

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 06 juin 2012 à 19:56 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > A lot of people came down on the pro-tmpfs side in this thread. You have > some good reasons to want to make it available to users. I just wanted > to invite you to make it easier for users to enable tmpfs where > appropriate -- d-i's p

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:15:55AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I suspect something is broken here with the dependency resulution. Any > > hint? Any more affected packages? > > dh-linktree uses the version of the package on the build system to inject > a (usually strong) dependency in ${mis

Re: ${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > yesterday I uploaded the latest gnumed package including gnumed-doc > which resulted in an uninstallable package in sid. The broken verisons > were injected by > > Build-Depends: ... dh-linktree, libjs-jquery, libjs-jquery-livequery > > Depend

${misc:Depends} injects broken versioned depends (Was: Bug#676455: gnumed-doc: uninstallable in sid: depends on outdated libjs-jquery-livequery)

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, yesterday I uploaded the latest gnumed package including gnumed-doc which resulted in an uninstallable package in sid. The broken verisons were injected by Build-Depends: ... dh-linktree, libjs-jquery, libjs-jquery-livequery Depends: ${misc:Depends} I suspect something is broken here w