Re: TLP package vs. pm-utils

2014-10-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello, Thomas Koch [2014-10-09 20:18 +0200]: > Looking into the current pm-utils package in Debian testing i noticed > that it is kind of inert: nor is pm-powersave called by upowerd – > changed in upower 0.99.1-1 That is a good point. I didn't really notice yet as in Ubuntu we still have the old

Re: TLP package vs. pm-utils

2014-10-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 octobre 2014 20:18 +0200, Thomas Koch  : > Older TLP packages – available via my PPA, not in Debian – depend on > pm-utils (pm-suspend) for being called upon suspend/resume events. The > necessity to depend on (and coexist with) pm-utils is imho gone with > Debian's move to systemd. > > Look

Work-needing packages report for Oct 10, 2014

2014-10-09 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 612 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 138 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Re: MBF: What is the status of /usr/share/texmf/doc ?

2014-10-09 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Vincent, > I will take care of latex-make. I was working on it when I found > this problem. thanks, I have already uploaded a new version of tipa. Norbert PREINING, Norbert http://www.prein

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

2014-10-09 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 04/10/14 22:59, Guillem Jover wrote: > I've also fixed an issue when kvm_getprocs(3) does not find any pid, > which might have also been involved in the errors you where seeing. I've just observed this on kfreebsd-amd64, in 1.17.13 but it is fixed by upgrading to 1.17.16, thanks. Regards, --

Re: MBF: What is the status of /usr/share/texmf/doc ?

2014-10-09 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, On 10/10/2014 01:00, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> So, where is the bug ? In the TeX policy (and, by extension, in all >> packages using /usr/share/doc/texmf)? Or in tex-common > > The TeX Policy hasn't been updated in ages :-( Ok >> In any c

Re: dgit and upstream git repos [and 1 more messages]

2014-10-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 9 October 2014 17:24, Ian Jackson wrote: > Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): >> On 9 October 2014 15:38, Ian Jackson wrote: >> > If I can feed a .pc-less source tree to dpkg-source -b and get >> > roughtly the right output then that would obviously be a big >> > i

Re: MBF: What is the status of /usr/share/texmf/doc ?

2014-10-09 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Vincent, thanks for digging this out!!! On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Looking at 5.5 in Debian-TeX-Policy.txt.gz, I see : Indeed ... that needs updating. > However, on my system, /usr/share/texmf/doc is a directory. > Looking at tex-common preinst and postinst, it seems

MBF: What is the status of /usr/share/texmf/doc ?

2014-10-09 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Looking at 5.5 in Debian-TeX-Policy.txt.gz, I see : Packages should make documentation available to `texdoc'. This can be done be either installing the files below `/usr/share/texmf/doc', or by providing symlinks from subdirectories of that location to the act

Re: TLP package vs. pm-utils

2014-10-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:18:47 +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > i'm the author of the TLP power management tool [1]. I'm a happy user of TLP - thanks for writing it. > Older TLP packages – available via my PPA, not in Debian – depend on > pm-utils (pm-suspend) for being called upon suspend/resume even

TLP package vs. pm-utils

2014-10-09 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi all, i'm the author of the TLP power management tool [1]. With the help of my sponsor Andreas Tille i prepared a Debian package [2] for TLP 0.6. Older TLP packages – available via my PPA, not in Debian – depend on pm-utils (pm-suspend) for being called upon suspend/resume events. The necessit

Re: dgit and upstream git repos [and 1 more messages]

2014-10-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): > On 9 October 2014 15:38, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If I can feed a .pc-less source tree to dpkg-source -b and get > > roughtly the right output then that would obviously be a big > > improvement. > > $ apt-get source sword > $ cd swor

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): > On 9 October 2014 15:49, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I think that means that I can make dgit work directly with the tip > > trees produced by git-dpm which will make some people happy. > > YES!! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 9 October 2014 15:49, Ian Jackson wrote: > Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): >> $ apt-get source sword >> $ cd sword-* >> $ rm -rf .pc >> # a tree with up-to-date debian/patches, all patches are applied (as >> e.g. git-dpm does), .pc directory is gone >> $ dpkg-sou

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): > $ apt-get source sword > $ cd sword-* > $ rm -rf .pc > # a tree with up-to-date debian/patches, all patches are applied (as > e.g. git-dpm does), .pc directory is gone > $ dpkg-source -b . > $ echo $? > 0 Oh excellent. I just teste

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 9 October 2014 15:38, Ian Jackson wrote: > Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): >> Sounds intriguing, can you please share design / intentions there? > > I haven't done the research needed yet. Facts are welcome. > > In particular... > >> git-dpm currently generates

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 10/09/2014 16:38, Ian Jackson wrote: > ... I had thought that the stuff in .pc is necessary for dpkg-source > to be able to build the package, and unpack the result. > > If I can feed a .pc-less source tree to dpkg-source -b and get > roughtly the right output then that would obviously be

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): > Sounds intriguing, can you please share design / intentions there? I haven't done the research needed yet. Facts are welcome. In particular... > git-dpm currently generates debian/patches/* with patches against the > tree applied

Re: Minimum ISA

2014-10-09 Thread Wookey
+++ Vincent Danjean [2014-10-08 23:52 +0200]: > 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 info

Re: Packaging proprietary software, maybe add to clause 5?

2014-10-09 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
I sent the poor guy a link to my bashrc with how to compile debian binary and source packages then noone has to feel bad :-) but true, constructive feedback is much better than flaming just to flame I bet most of us have tried running non-free at some time, and seen several reasons, i.e. adobe fl

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-09 Thread Philip Hands
Ben Finney writes: > 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

Re: Contact copyright holder / ask for free software license

2014-10-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Do we have a wiki page or similar containing this information? It would > be nice to have a page for guiding people (that are unaware, but not > against free software) to make good license choices. https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#Licen

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-09 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 03:48:22PM +0200, Mathieu Slabbinck wrote: > 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. >From the purely technical point of view the license doesn't matt

Re: Contact copyright holder / ask for free software license

2014-10-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 09.10.2014, 10:53 +0200 schrieb Filippo Rusconi: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:51:31AM +0200, Michael Ole Olsen wrote: > >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

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

2014-10-09 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Dimitri, On Do 09 Okt 2014 11:55:00 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: What concerns me most about your upload is the version number. Yeah, I am aware of the crazy version numbering. So I based my version numbers, on the version numbers that are published and used by openSUSE itself in the

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 8 October 2014 12:50, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: dgit and upstream git repos"): >> Ian Jackson writes: > (There is a problem with dgit and .pc/ which I am hoping to fix with a > (perhaps-incompatible) change RSN, but that's not related.) > Sounds intriguing, can you please

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

2014-10-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 9 October 2014 10:42, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Dimitri, > > > On Do 09 Okt 2014 11:18:30 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > >> On 9 October 2014 08:43, Mike Gabriel >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Dimitri, >>> >>> >>> On Do 09 Okt 2014 08:45:17 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >>> Hey, O

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

2014-10-09 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Dimitri, On Do 09 Okt 2014 11:18:30 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: On 9 October 2014 08:43, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Dimitri, On Do 09 Okt 2014 08:45:17 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: Hey, On 9 October 2014 05:21, Mike Gabriel wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mik

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

2014-10-09 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 9 October 2014 08:43, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Dimitri, > > > On Do 09 Okt 2014 08:45:17 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> On 9 October 2014 05:21, Mike Gabriel >> wrote: >>> >>> Package: wnpp >>> Severity: wishlist >>> Owner: Mike Gabriel >>> >>> * Package name: obs-build

Re: Bug#724344: ITP: bdsync -- bdsync is a fast block device synchronizing tool

2014-10-09 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:01:54 maxigas wrote: > bdsync was built to do the only thing rsync isn't able to do: syn‐ > chronize block devices. Actually "rsync" can be taught to synchronise block devises by applying upstream patch "copy-devices.diff" which introduces "--copy-devices" option. Perha

Re: Contact copyright holder / ask for free software license

2014-10-09 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Greetings, On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:51:31AM +0200, Michael Ole Olsen wrote: 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. Even better, in my experience, if the mail introducing the problem

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

2014-10-09 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Dimitri, On Do 09 Okt 2014 08:45:17 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: 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 : M