Re: Bundling

2021-09-26 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi Jonas, On 26/09/2021 14:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-26 12:16:00) On 26/09/2021 11:08, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-26 10:05:04) Thanks for taking time to try to sort this out! On 25/09/2021 18:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Tight depend

Re: binutils-m68hc1x: Repackage as a native package

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Vincent! > It is suggested to use a native package structure to package binutils > for a less common target. The way this package should be packaged is > described in https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingLessCommonBinutilsTargets > > Please update the packaging to follow the above suggestions.

Bug#995121: ITP: dioptas -- Python based GUI-Program for integration and exploration of 2D x-ray diffraction images

2021-09-26 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Mas X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: dioptas Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Clemens Prescher * URL : https://github.com/Dioptas/Dioptas * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On 26.09.21 10:50, Adam Borowski wrote: My biggest worry personally (aside from the realpolitik of getting this change through) regards the automated partitioning language available through the preseed system. Trying to emulate this bug-for-bug is a non-starter, I think, both from a technical and

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread Nick Black
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz left as an exercise for the reader: > So, you are not using libparted then? i am not. > Yes, it is important as we're supporting these architectures in Debian Ports > and I invested quite some time to get Atari partition support added [1], > for example. I'd be delighte

Re: Bundling

2021-09-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-26 12:16:00) > On 26/09/2021 11:08, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-26 10:05:04) > >> Thanks for taking time to try to sort this out! > >> > >> On 25/09/2021 18:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > >> Tight dependencies should be fine. This is C++,

Re: Bug#980889: RFP: binutils-sh-elf -- cross binary utilities for SuperH bare-metal systems

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi John! > This package would provide GNU Binutils suited for embedded targets, and > would be suited for both SH-1 and SH-2 hardware at least [1]. This is needed > to build carl9170, the libre wireless firmware for AR9170 devices that's > currently in firmware-linux-free. That will require GCC an

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 26 Sept 2021 at 10:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello Nick! > > On 9/26/21 00:49, Nick Black wrote: > > It supports MBR, GPT, and APM: > > > > https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/blob/master/src/ptable.c#L51-L123 > > > > (sorry for the gmail-style top posting; i can't fin

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 9/26/21 12:40, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Does libparted support the discoverable partitions spec? I'm not sure, this thread is the first time I have heard about discoverable partitions. I have read up first what the motivations for these are and how useful they would be for Debian. Also,

Re: Bundling

2021-09-26 Thread Wookey
On 2021-09-26 12:16 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > > See https://wiki.debian.org/PkgKde/DhSymbolsFile > > After some tries in this area I have leaned to Russ Allberry's post > https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-02/001.html. Is this outdated? That KDE tool does help a lot but for large C++ pa

Re: No processing/acceptance from dak for some packages?

2021-09-26 Thread Ansgar
Nilesh Patra writes: > This looks just... weird. Would someone know why this happens? Someone uploaded a broken .changes file that had different sizes for the same file: +--- | Checksums-Sha256: | [...] | 209dda5709e1a67eab2762013136adc7c3b6977a17a7e3d8a12f5b2c27569875 156580 [...] | Files: |

Re: Bundling

2021-09-26 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi Jonas, On 26/09/2021 11:08, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-26 10:05:04) Hi Jonas, Thanks for taking time to try to sort this out! On 25/09/2021 18:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Tight dependencies should be fine. This is C++, so library symbols is bit convoluted. S

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread nick black
Adam Borowski left as an exercise for the reader: > I do have a different wish, though. Could you please purge any references > to drivemakers' units (stuff like MiB = million bytes, which current > partitioner maliciously[1] swaps around with proper MB of 1048576B)? this really probably belongs

Re: Bundling

2021-09-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-26 10:05:04) > Hi Jonas, > > > Thanks for taking time to try to sort this out! > > On 25/09/2021 18:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-25 18:23:42) > >> On 25/09/2021 18:04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >>> Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-25 17:47

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Nick! On 9/26/21 00:49, Nick Black wrote: > It supports MBR, GPT, and APM: > > https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/blob/master/src/ptable.c#L51-L123 > > (sorry for the gmail-style top posting; i can't find your mail in my mbox > for whatever reason) > > Any other partition schemes o

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

2021-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 09:18:34 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I noticed that sometimes Debian's choice of upstream source for > packaging can be suboptimal. This is especially apparent for the > different per-language upstream packaging ecosystems[1], where the > upstream packaging differs from the upstr

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:41:18AM -0400, nick black wrote: > Marco d'Itri left as an exercise for the reader: > > And the preseeding syntax is as powerful as it is inconvenient. > > Implementing support for more partition formats, if missing, should be > > rather easy. > > But which ones do we n

Re: Bundling

2021-09-26 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi Jonas, Thanks for taking time to try to sort this out! On 25/09/2021 18:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-25 18:23:42) On 25/09/2021 18:04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Alec Leamas (2021-09-25 17:47:04) So, the question: would it be acceptable to bundle the wxW

No processing/acceptance from dak for some packages?

2021-09-26 Thread Nilesh Patra
Hi, I have been trying to upload yaggo 1.5.10-5 for more than 12 hours by now. And I have done this several times by now[look here] It gets to the ftp upload server, sits there for a while, and vanishes eventually. There is however no further processing, neither accept, nor reject. I however, t