Re: Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-08 Thread Paul Gevers
On 09-10-14 02:17, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 08 Oct 2014, Paul Gevers wrote: >> Thanks for the careful response. And no, as mentioned above, I didn't >> mean to use dpkg-statoverride itself. dbconfig-common uses debconf and >> ufc to manage the configuration files. However, dbcon

Re: Bug#764549: ITP: siril -- Astronomical image processing tool

2014-10-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: owner -1 debian-si...@free-astro.vinvin.tf On Jo, 09 oct 14, 01:22:57, debian-si...@free-astro.vinvin.tf wrote: > Package: siril > Version: 0.9.0b > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: siril > Version : 0.9.0b > Upstream author : Vincent Hourdin > URL : http

Re: Bug#764567: ITP: obs-build -- Build DEB/RPM packages for various distributions inside a chroot

2014-10-08 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hey, On 9 October 2014 05:21, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mike Gabriel > > * Package name: obs-build > Version : Git snapshot (every commit is a release) > Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder (https://github.com/mlschroe) > * URL

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:03:49 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >On that point: It is in poor taste to declare up front that you have no >intention of helping the free software community (which is what it means >to release proprietary software), and then in the same message ask that >same community for help

libpam-script: suggested patch

2014-10-08 Thread Martijn van Brummelen
Hi, I need some help/advice with bug 759559 [0] . Im not sure if the suggested patch is the right one for fixing this problem. Any advice/patches are welcome. Thanks. Regards, Martijn van Brummelen Debian maintainer libpam-script [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759559

Bug#764567: ITP: obs-build -- Build DEB/RPM packages for various distributions inside a chroot

2014-10-08 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: obs-build Version : Git snapshot (every commit is a release) Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder (https://github.com/mlschroe) * URL : https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-build * License : GPL P

Re: Enlightenment DR19 - Maintainers?!

2014-10-08 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Hey Paul, Thanks for your fast reply! On 8 October 2014 00:30, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:26:07AM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > >Hey guys! > > And gals! > Sure! :-D > >I'm wondering here... Where are the E19 packages for Debian?! :-P > > You tell us!

Bug#764560: ITP: txjsonrpc -- Library for creating Twisted JSON-RPC servers and clients

2014-10-08 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Seligmann * Package name: txjsonrpc Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Duncan McGreggor * URL : http://launchpad.net/txjsonrpc * License : BSD / GPL (need to check why PyPI says GPL) Programming Lang: Python De

Re: Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014, Paul Gevers wrote: > Thanks for the careful response. And no, as mentioned above, I didn't > mean to use dpkg-statoverride itself. dbconfig-common uses debconf and > ufc to manage the configuration files. However, dbconfig-common checks > with dpkg-statoverride if the configura

Re: Contact copyright holder / ask for free software license

2014-10-08 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
Contacting copyright holder and asking them to release under GPL or such is not a bad idea. even if they say no they might consider it in the future. They will know there is a real use for it. Else people just buy free-software complying hardware, or better alternative software that is fully fre

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Mathieu Slabbinck wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could point me to the best practice way of doing > this. Best practice would be to contact the copyright holder and ask them to convert the software to FLOSS. If they refuse to do so, then try to find, write or c

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
You should repent your sins Thinking proprietary is a sin in the free software community Making a fully free replacement is a much better way, don't taint your operating system or kernel! Might as well change to windows then, because running non-free isn't that bad eh? The free software moveme

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Ben Finney
Brian May writes: > On 9 October 2014 09:03, Ben Finney wrote: > > > On that point: It is in poor taste to declare up front that you have > > no intention of helping the free software community (which is what > > it means to release proprietary software), and then in the same > > message ask tha

Bug#764543: ITP: python-pyld -- implementation of the JSON-LD API

2014-10-08 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "W. Martin Borgert" * Package name: python-pyld Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Digital Bazaar * URL : http://github.com/digitalbazaar/pyld * License : BSD 3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : implem

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Brian May
On 9 October 2014 09:03, Ben Finney wrote: > On that point: It is in poor taste to declare up front that you have no > intention of helping the free software community (which is what it means > to release proprietary software), and then in the same message ask that > same community for help in do

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Ben Finney
Mathieu Slabbinck writes: > Currently I use dh_make to set everything up, but to have everything > legally compliant, I don't think this is the best choice. What do you mean by “legally compliant”? If you mean “compliant with Debian packaging policy”, then no, proprietary software is incompatib

Minimum ISA

2014-10-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Is there somewhere a list of the minimal ISA for each supported Debian architecture? For example, for armhf, the answer is here: https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort#Minimum_CPU_.26_FPU But I did not find this kind of information for all other Debian architectures. The goals is

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 15:48:22 +0200, Mathieu Slabbinck wrote: >Currently I use dh_make to set everything up, but to have everything >legally compliant, I don't think this is the best choice. Why not? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - M

Bug#764515: ITP: libsys-meminfo-perl -- Perl module to query the total free and used physical memory

2014-10-08 Thread Willi Mann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Willi Mann * Package name: libsys-meminfo-perl Version : 0.98 Upstream Author : Sylvain Cresto > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~scresto/Sys-MemInfo/MemInfo.pm * License : "same as Perl" Programming Lang: Perl, C Desc

Re: Bug#720517: configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride

2014-10-08 Thread Paul Gevers
On 07-10-14 19:56, Paul Gevers wrote: > I am trying to come up with a patch against dpkg-statoverride that sets > the ownership and permissions upon creation, but not upon updates. OOPS, what a stupid mistake to type. I meant dbconfig-common in the line above. @ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Thank

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > I hope you understand the rest of my mail, in which I said or implied: > 1. Even if upstream disagrees, it should be obviously why dgit needs >the dgit git history to have identical contents to the Debian >packages. > 2. This dgit requirement is not difficult to wo

Bug#764497: ITP: eclipse-aether -- Library to handle Java artifact repositories

2014-10-08 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: eclipse-aether Version : 0.9.0.M2 Upstream Author : The Eclipse Foundation * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/aether/ * License : EPL-1.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Library to

Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Mathieu Slabbinck
Hi, I'm creating a .deb installer for Ubuntu which contains a proprietary binary. I was wondering if anyone could point me to the best practice way of doing this. Currently I use dh_make to set everything up, but to have everything legally compliant, I don't think this is the best choice. Any ad

Bug#764475: ITP: singular -- commutative algebra system

2014-10-08 Thread Jerome Benoit
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jerome Benoit * Package name: singular Version : 4.0.1 Upstream Author : SINGULAR Team * URL : http://www.singular.uni-kl.de * License : GPL-2+, GPL-3+, adhoc Programming Lang: C, C++, ... Description : commutati

Re: Pre-Depends changed for dpkg on GNU/kFreeBSD

2014-10-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 08/10/14 11:47, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'm thinking that I could also make the code fallback to linprocfs at > run-time in case the ki_structsize member differs from the size known > at build time, which would give an additional safe guard, in case the > above does not hold true. In that case p

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > On `source code': I think everyone should have the same definition of > > `source code' for git as for tarballs. > > I understand why you feel this way, particularly given the tools that > you're working on, but th

Re: Pre-Depends changed for dpkg on GNU/kFreeBSD

2014-10-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 23:59:25 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 04:45:13 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 22:03:37 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > > No problem. Does that mean you'd happily revert to using linprocfs? > > > > If there's no better option

Re: Inert DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS noopt in debian/rules files

2014-10-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 19:10:47 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 01:55:01 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > Why? > > > Because make does not (yet) pass make variables to $(shell) subshells. > [...] > > Try this: > > > $ make -f debian/rules DEB_BUILD_O

Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 09:11:24PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second beta > release of the installer for Debian 8 "Jessie". > ... thanks for your report and your continuous work on the installer. I wonder what might be the o