Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-06-16 09:12:36 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > There are a lot of really complex things you can do with versioning and > cases where that version number is meaningful, but for the vast majority > of libraries, I recommend not worrying about it and just always using some > simple transform of t

Bug#789002: ITP: scala-xml -- Standard Scala XML library

2015-06-16 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: scala-xml Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Typesafe, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/scala/scala-xml * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Scala Description : Standard Scala XM

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-16 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 14:08:24 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/14/2015 05:46 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Well if you want reproducible output, then use the same tool version. > > That's not possible: Jessie, Sid and Trusty don't have the same version, > and we need to generate the orig.tar f

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/16/2015 04:26 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > And AFAIK, the request is not to drop xz support, just to add lzip > support (though the "instead of" in the subject could be ambiguous). Correct. I never thought lzip should replace xz completely, just an option "instead" of xz... :) Thomas --

preparing for GCC 5, especially libstdc++6

2015-06-16 Thread Matthias Klose
Hi, it's time to prepare for GCC 5 as the default compiler in unstable. Compared to earlier version bumps, the switch to GCC 5 is a bit more complicated because libstdc++6 sees a few ABI incompatibilities, partially depending on the C++ standard version used for the builds. libstdc++6 will suppo

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-06-15 18:56:47 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> No, it should not have been filed, since the same bug had been filed 5 >> times already. > No, this is *not* the same bug that was filed. The bugs that were > filed are claimed to be fixed in gnutls28/3.3.15-5,

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat writes: > In libbsd, I see that you started with LIBBSD_0.0. Does this mean libbsd > has always used symbol versioning? Otherwise, the start point would be > to use the previous SONAME (computed from the previous -version-info), > right? There are a lot of really complex things yo

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Robert Edmonds
Guillem Jover wrote: > In any case, barring better documentation or guides, using example > implementations simpler than glibc might be useful to people. So I > offer libbsd, but I'm sure there are many others. We could perhaps > even create a wiki page listing some of those pointers. libabc is a

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-06-16 Thread Wookey
+++ Thorsten Glaser [2015-06-16 13:39 +]: > There are two coëxisting sets of nomenclature for cross-compiling around. > Both are “correct” and have their merits, but they come from different > cultures and have different goals. > > Unfortunately, variables like HOSTCC, TARGET_CC, CC_FOR_BUILD

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-06-15 20:52:25 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > But libgnutls-deb0-28 technically doesn't break libnettle4, nor does > libnettle6. It's only certain combinations of three or more packages > that are broken, something the dependency system can't handle. Then either the dependency system shou

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-06-15 18:56:47 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > [...] > >(Bug 788710 shouldn't have been closed, but changed to something > >like what bug 788735 says.) > [...] > > No, it should not have been filed, since the same bug had been filed 5 > times already. No,

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-06-15 05:04:46 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 16:48:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > (this example is a postfix mail log) and uses much less memory for > > compression: > > > > $ sh -c 'ulimit -v 20; lzip -9 < mail.log > /dev/null' > > $ sh -c 'ulimit -v 80

Re: source for pdftohtml

2015-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Peter Easthope wrote: > What pdftohtml source is appropriate for jessie? apt-cache search suggests it is in poppler-utils now: https://sources.debian.net/src/poppler/jessie/utils/pdftohtml.cc -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

source for pdftohtml

2015-06-16 Thread peter
Hi, There is no poppler-utils-dev package. https://sources.debian.net/src/pdftohtml/ refers to etch and sarge, which are somewhat outdated. What pdftohtml source is appropriate for jessie? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 16 juin 2015 15:50 +0200, Guillem Jover  : > In any case, barring better documentation or guides, using example > implementations simpler than glibc might be useful to people. So I > offer libbsd, but I'm sure there are many others. We could perhaps > even create a wiki page listing some of tho

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 09:18:34 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > There is not a lot of documentation about how to handle that from an > upstream point of view. There is the info page (section VERSION) of ld > about -version-script. That's true, there's lots of information spread all over the pla

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-06-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Guillem Jover debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 01:34:08 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 05/10/2015 03:32 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc Plus, what Wookey said. > > the above mentioned wiki pages still talk about HOSTCC and BUILDCC. Please > > clarify when to us

Re: Copyright format “License” field: grant of license, license text?

2015-06-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonas Smedegaard jones.dk> writes: > Standard approach in The Perl team seems to be to skip the license > granting statement (i.e. verbatim-from-license-issuer text) and include > only license boilerplates (i.e. verbatim-from-license-author texts), That is rather… interesting… as the licence

Re: please use signed git commits (and tags)

2015-06-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dimitri John Ledkov debian.org> writes: > somebody else did a bad rebase, and then people started to query why I You should just not accept rebase, *ever*. [receive] denyNonFastforwards = true denyDeletes = true This is the standard config of all Evolvis (FusionForge inhouse va

Re: Proposal, a Build-Depends-Optional field

2015-06-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonas Smedegaard jones.dk> writes: > What I do is add a custom build target that rewrites debian/control > based on rmadison query resolving current archs for a given package. Please don’t forget the debian-ports architectures for this. (I think this is a point where not-even-on-dpo new archite

Re: Invoking ‘init’ from an init.d script (Wheezy)

2015-06-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ansgar Burchardt debian.org> writes: > Please be aware that --force-yes makes apt ignore invalid signatures for Ouch. What is the equivalent of --force-yes with*out* --allow-unauthenticated, then? This scenario (scheduled non-interactive upgrades) is common… Thanks, //mirabilos

Xen PVUSB - Debian 8

2015-06-16 Thread pietrop
Hi all, I am trying to setup a Debian 8 machine running XEN, which I've installed from the package manager, to use the USB passthrough. It looks like I need to use the module xen-usbfront and xen-usbback, which I can't find in the /lib/modules/(my kern)/* Are there ways to get around this ? Th

Re: Xen PVUSB - Debian 8

2015-06-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 18:25 +0100, pietrop wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to setup a Debian 8 machine running XEN, which I've > installed from the package manager, to use the USB passthrough. > > It looks like I need to use the module xen-usbfront and xen-usbback, > which I can't find in the /l

Bug#788918: ITP: python-rencode -- Python encoding library similar to bittorrent's bencode

2015-06-16 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: python-rencode Version: 1.0.3 Upstream Author: 2010 Andrew Resch License: GPL-3+ URL: https://github.com/aresch/rencode Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-

Bug#788914: ITP: ocropy -- Python OCR engine using recurrent neural networks

2015-06-16 Thread Daniel Stender
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Stender * Package name: ocropy Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Breuel * URL : https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Python OCR engine using r

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 15 juin 2015 20:20 -0700, Russ Allbery  : >>> To avoid confusing myself further, Russ and Neil, are you both talking >>> about the "debian/symbols" files? I thought Russ might have been >>> talking about "versioned symbols at DSO level" (e.g. symbol@LOW0 vs >>> symbol@LOW1). > >> I'm pretty su