REJECTed B-U packages (was Re: RFC declarative built-using field generation)

2013-02-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klose debian.org> writes: > maybe it's a coincidence, however creduce was formerly rejected for not having > a Built-Using attribute, and gcj-4.8, gnat-4.7 and gnat-4.8 are still in NEW. There’s another REJECT issue in the other direction: Some buildds do not keep their chroots up to d

Re: upstream advise page about circular dependencies (bootstrapping)

2013-02-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Simon McVittie debian.org> writes: > Either GLib or pkg-config should document how you can avoid this cycle >From my BSD ports experience, pkg-config can be built against glib1, which doesn’t need pkg-config. That being said, glib1 needs some patching to even build with more modern compilers th

Re: md5sums for conffiles shipped in the distros

2013-02-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Andreas Beckmann debian.org> writes: > distros. List of conffiles can be generated by > grep ^etc Contents No. * While debhelper automatically adds all files in etc/ to conffiles, this is not a requirement. * Files not under etc/ may also be conffiles. * Conffiles are listed in the control

Re: No native packages?

2013-02-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:41:53AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > (Random data point: I have 14 packages with versions indicating they > > are NMUed native packages installed on my system. Some of them have > > priority standard or higher.) > > I've a similar number on my system, but most of thes

Re: multi-tarball packages in version control

2013-02-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:57:16 +0100 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > The only problem is that svn-buildpackage does not support this. Or > rather: it should have, but a long standing bug (with a partial fix > attached to it, to which the maintainer did not comment. Jan Hauke Rahm did comment on #585658, i

multi-tarball packages in version control

2013-02-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
I'm working on packaging asterisk-extra-sounds (ITP: #571165 , copyright issues finally cleared). The package, as is the existing asterisk-core-sounds, is a combination of multiple upstream tarballs in various formats and languages. In fact, I may want to add (or remove?) new languages / formats a

Bug#700692: ITP: libcrypt-random-seed-perl -- Perl module providing strong randomness for seeding

2013-02-16 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org,d...@debian.org * Package name: libcrypt-random-seed-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Dana A Jacobsen * URL : https://metacpan.or