Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2012-12-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > $ man debian-distro-info > > Debian OS provides API to query such information. > In addition, stable alias names are also provided (stable, testing, > unstable, experimental). > As a last resort you can also scrape archive mirrors dists (e

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/31/2012 08:03 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > Or it could simply use the names which don't change: oldstable, stable, > testing, unstable, experimental. That's what multistrap does. That's > why the archive *has* names which don't change. Then we release a new stable, and these names have a dif

Re: Uscan enhancements revitalised (Was: let uscan exclude some upstream files)

2012-12-31 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
Hello. An implementation selecting removed upstream files via a fake license in debian/copyright can be found at [1]. The perl script runs some tests based on the sample/ directory, but the effective code may easily be pasted into uscan if ever accepted. Feel free to experiment, comment and subm

Bug#697072: ITP: pulseview -- GUI for the sigrok signal analysis suite

2012-12-31 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Uwe Hermann * Package name: pulseview Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Joel Holdsworth * URL : http://sigrok.org/wiki/PulseView * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : GUI for the sigrok signal analy

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:38:54AM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > $ man debian-distro-info > > Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in? That was my initial reaction. Then I found it on my system... ??? This was because ubuntu-dev-tools

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2012-12-31 10:38:54 -0500 (-0500), Kris Deugau wrote: > Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is > it in? [...] It's introduced in Wheezy and available in backports for Squeeze: http://packages.debian.org/distro-info http://bugs.debian.org/559761 -- { WHOIS( STANL3

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:38:54 -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > $ man debian-distro-info > Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in? > I don't seem to have it available by default on any Debian system at > hand, from etch through wheezy... % a

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Kris Deugau
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > $ man debian-distro-info Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in? I don't seem to have it available by default on any Debian system at hand, from etch through wheezy... > Debian OS provides API to query such information. Second serious

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:23:56 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > Let's say you have a software that somehow, installs Debian. I use a lot of those and wrote one of them. > Then it might require the user to select which name of the > release to install. Or it could simply use the names which don't ch

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2012-12-31 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 30 December 2012 19:23, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/30/2012 04:26 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> Would it be an idea to publish the list of version numbers and associated >> code names a few releases ahead, say the upcoming three releases? Of >> course the prerogative of deciding on the names

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/31/2012 05:47 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:28:04PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 12/31/2012 04:16 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> Please don't. -devel is not a popularity contest. >> I'm stunted by the complexity of your argumentation. >> It for sure helps in the d

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:28:04PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/31/2012 04:16 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Please don't. -devel is not a popularity contest. > I'm stunted by the complexity of your argumentation. > It for sure helps in the debate. Doing '+1' on an argument doesn't exactly he

Bug#697050: ITP: libbssolv-perl -- package dependency solver for OpenSUSE Build Service

2012-12-31 Thread 李健秋
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Andrew Lee (李健秋)" * Package name: libbssolv-perl Version : 0.18.0 Upstream Author : http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE * URL : SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany. * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#697049: ITP: libsocket-msghdr-perl -- sendmsg, recvmsg and ancillary data operations

2012-12-31 Thread 李健秋
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Andrew Lee (李健秋)" * Package name: libsocket-msghdr-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : 2003, 2010 Michael J. Pomraning * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Socket-MsgHdr/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl