Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I think that this would be more suitable for the Upstream Guide > (https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide). The Debian Policy focuses on how to > integrate works in Debian, so if being XDG-compliant or not does not make a > difference, then

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher) writes: > Lars Wirzenius writes: >> Having Debian versions of the programs differ in this from everyone >> else would create a lot of confusion, and needlessly cause everyone >> more support burden than is needed. > Isn't that the same case with the FHS?

Re: automake transition breakages

2013-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: automake transition breakages"): >> Well, the simple answer is that we avoid having to maintain local >> patches against the upstream source to remove -Werror, since generally >> it's not something over which we have a choice without patching the >>

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:04:57PM +0200, Olе Streicher a écrit : > > I don't mean it as a strong requirement (yet); but couldn't this be > included in the policy as recommendation and/or goal? Hi Olе, I think that this would be more suitable for the Upstream Guide (https://wiki.debian.org/Upstr

Re: pidof changing from sysvinit-devel to procps

2013-10-11 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:28:47AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 01:39:20PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I also wonder whether it would not be more sensible to split procps into > > essential and non-essential binary packages. Aside from pidof, I bet > > there are lots of

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:55:34PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I'm not sure, but launchpad is running 64-bit machines even when > compiling for the i386 architecture, and then launchpad supports PAE > only and thus can get >4GB of address space. A 32-bit process can still only address 32-bits

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 11 October 2013 22:34, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:55:34PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > [...] >> I'm not sure, but launchpad is running 64-bit machines even when >> compiling for the i386 architecture, and then launchpad supports PAE >> only and thus can get >4GB of ad

Re: automake transition breakages

2013-10-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2013-09-30): > That's nice for well maintained packages. Not so nice when packages > start FTBFSing in the middle of a transition because of an automake > update, and maintainers are otherwise busy or MIA. FWIW it took me less than 10 days after I wrote this to actually hit this

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:55:34PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: [...] > I'm not sure, but launchpad is running 64-bit machines even when > compiling for the i386 architecture, and then launchpad supports PAE > only and thus can get >4GB of address space. [...] Which bit of 'Physical Address Exte

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 11 October 2013 20:32, Steve Langasek wrote: > severity 726009 serious > thanks > > This remains a serious bug. Your package, which previously built on > multiple architectures, is now failing to build due to memory exhaustion. > While in some circumstances it is permissible to remove the old

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:32:27PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > severity 726009 serious > thanks > > This remains a serious bug. Your package, which previously built on > multiple architectures, is now failing to build due to memory exhaustion. > While in some circumstances it is permissible t

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:04:57PM +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > > Having Debian versions of the programs differ in this from everyone > > else would create a lot of confusion, and needlessly cause everyone > > more support burden than is needed. > > Isn't that the same c

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 726009 serious thanks This remains a serious bug. Your package, which previously built on multiple architectures, is now failing to build due to memory exhaustion. While in some circumstances it is permissible to remove the old binaries and drop support for an architecture, this remains

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Olе Streicher
Lars Wirzenius writes: > Having Debian versions of the programs differ in this from everyone > else would create a lot of confusion, and needlessly cause everyone > more support burden than is needed. Isn't that the same case with the FHS? To bring an example here from my ongoing packaging proje

Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Anton Gladky
severity 726009 wishlist retitle 726009 Yade requires too much RAM for building thanks Hello, thanks for bug-report. The problem is, that all build-failures are due to insufficient RAM on build-machines [1]. I do not really know how to "fix" that except of backlisting of some machines, as was sug

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Wookey
+++ Lars Wirzenius [2013-10-11 18:48 +0100]: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:17:32PM +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > > What are the status, the pros and cons here? Is there an attempt to get > > the XDG somehow into the Debian policy? > > There is no active Debian effort to make all our packages to con

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:17:32PM +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > What are the status, the pros and cons here? Is there an attempt to get > the XDG somehow into the Debian policy? There is no active Debian effort to make all our packages to conform to the XDG directory spec. It is my understanding

Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Olе Streicher
Hi, for one of my packages (astropy), I am currently in discussion with upstream on whether the XDG rules shoule be applied [1]. I am arguing there that for a new software, it would be better to follow this standard. The XDG basedir specification [2] basically defines where user specific configur

Re: automake transition breakages

2013-10-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: automake transition breakages"): > Cyril Brulebois writes: > > Meaning one needs to get a fix once; a random NMUer might need to chase > > upstream patches (never a pleasure when fixing unrelated issues). Given > > what you wrote, I'm not sure what it buys us to keep -Wer

Bug#726042: ITP: libconvert-ascii85-perl -- Encoding and decoding of ascii85/base85 strings

2013-10-11 Thread Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libconvert-ascii85-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Lukas Mai * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Conve

Bug#726026: ITP: libtypes-path-tiny-perl -- Path::Tiny types and coercions for Moose and Moo

2013-10-11 Thread Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtypes-path-tiny-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/T

Bug#726025: ITP: tigris -- Stream-based JSON string escaping for Clojure

2013-10-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
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