Re: symlink vs. directory "conflicts"

2012-10-05 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 00:29:22 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2012-10-04 11:34, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Nope, dpkg does not currently have enough information (missing > > metadata) to know if a path was shipped in the package as a directory > > or as a symlink, and to be able to distinguish b

Re: library linking problems with multiarch cross-building

2012-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Peter, On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:28:07AM +0100, peter green wrote: > My previous experiments with multiarch cross-building had run into > lots of build-dependency and tool problems and as a result I hadn't > got arround to actually building anything beyond trivial test > programs. > Unfortuna

library linking problems with multiarch cross-building

2012-10-05 Thread peter green
My previous experiments with multiarch cross-building had run into lots of build-dependency and tool problems and as a result I hadn't got arround to actually building anything beyond trivial test programs. Unfortunately I have now discovered that when I try to link against some libraries I g

Re: symlink vs. directory "conflicts"

2012-10-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Just a few examples where something is installed over existing symlinks: /usr/share/php/doc/Net_Ping != /usr/share/doc/php5-common/PEAR/Net_Ping (php-net-ping) /usr/share/texmf/doc/fonts != /usr/share/doc/texmf/fonts (cm-super-minimal) /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex != /usr/share/doc/texmf/late

Re: symlink vs. directory "conflicts"

2012-10-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-10-04 11:34, Guillem Jover wrote: > Nope, dpkg does not currently have enough information (missing > metadata) to know if a path was shipped in the package as a directory > or as a symlink, and to be able to distinguish between admin modified > directory←→symlinks. AFAIR there's already a b

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:35:53PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Andreas Beckmann , 2012-10-05, 23:16: > >I haven't made a detailed analysis, yet, and cannot say how many > >packages would be affected. Right now I have about 100 candidate > >piuparts logs that should cover /var/run and /var/lock, bu

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-10-05 23:35, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Lintian should be able to spot all the buggy ones, shouldn't it? Good point. > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-run.html 0 :-) > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-run.html 28 (6 overridden) > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-05 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Andreas Beckmann , 2012-10-05, 23:16: I haven't made a detailed analysis, yet, and cannot say how many packages would be affected. Right now I have about 100 candidate piuparts logs that should cover /var/run and /var/lock, but I haven't sorted them in "buggy", "depends on buggy", "other prob

possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I haven't made a detailed analysis, yet, and cannot say how many packages would be affected. Right now I have about 100 candidate piuparts logs that should cover /var/run and /var/lock, but I haven't sorted them in "buggy", "depends on buggy", "other problem". I expect the buggy category to be

Bug#689742: ITP: python-doit -- Automation tool to execute any kind of task

2012-10-05 Thread Agustin Henze
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: python-doit Version: 0.17.0-1 Upstream Author: Eduardo Naufel Schettino URL: http://python-doit.sourceforge.net/ License: MIT/X11 Description: Automation tool to execute a

Bug#689741: ITP: libextutils-typemaps-default-perl -- Perl module providing a set of useful typemaps

2012-10-05 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libextutils-typemaps-default-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Steffen Mueller * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-Typemaps-Default/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Program

Bug#689739: ITP: libmodule-build-withxspp-perl -- XS++ enhanced flavour of Module::Build

2012-10-05 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libmodule-build-withxspp-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Steffen Mueller * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Build-WithXSpp/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lan

Bug#689737: ITP: libextutils-cppguess-perl -- Perl build helper to guess C++ compiler and flags

2012-10-05 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libextutils-cppguess-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Mattia Barbon * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-CppGuess/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#689736: ITP: pd-fftease -- live spectral sound processors for Pd

2012-10-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" * Package name: pd-fftease Version : 2.5.2.1 Upstream Author : Eric Lyon and Christopher Penrose * URL : http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~elyon/LyonSoftware/MaxMSP/FFTease/ * License : MIT Program

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Chris Knadle] > However since all DNS servers are generally meant to use port 53, I > think it's unlikely to install more than one DNS server locally, so > I'm not sure if doing this makes sense from a packaging perspective. > [I can see how it does from an administration perspective.] It's actu

Bug#689711: ITP: libarray-iterator-perl -- simple class to provide iterators over Perl arrays

2012-10-05 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: libarray-iterator-perl Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Steven Haryanto * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Array-Iterator

Bug#689694: ITP: openvdb -- Sparse Volume Processing toolkit

2012-10-05 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: openvdb Version : 0.96.0 Upstream Author : DreamWorks Animation LLC * URL : http://www.openvdb.org * License : MPL 2.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Sparse Volume Processing

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:44:10 PM Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:10:01PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Last I looked into this [which has admittedly been a while], Bind 9 was > > the > > only DNS server that had actually implemented DNSSEC, and the others I > > looked at