Bug#774744: ITP: obs -- Open Broadcast Software

2015-01-06 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Carl Fürstenberg" * Package name: obs Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : Hugh Bailey * URL : https://obsproject.com/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Open Broadcast Software a

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
opcon as node. > I can add that I think there are plenty of people who have been forced to install nodejs from source onto stable systems due to the lack of packages (I had to do that myself for a project recently) -- Carl Fürstenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-27 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
I'm off course biased towards letting nodejs having the "node" binary and let it pass to testing. But we must find a solution to this, as nodejs is getting more and more used, and developers are forced to install nodejs from source to be able to use it instead of install it via the pa

Bug#640263: debian-policy: Clarify policy section 9.9 - Environment variables

2011-09-03 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: normal Per resolution of bug #639997 I would like to ask for clarification of section 9.9 in the polcy regarding environmental variables, and if it implicitly excludes "global" environmental variables like PATH, or if all programs must include them

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-31 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
erhaps it would be time now then to get the source format 3.0 (git) fully up and running. -- Carl Fürstenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#622931: libav: pkg-config files implies possible static linkage

2011-04-17 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 2011-04-17 19:14, Neil Williams wrote: > > Tollef? Any change in that since 2007? > > (I'm not expecting such a change as pkg-config doesn't do this for dynamic > linkage either, that is left to the package build system. As static is not > the default build for most package build systems, it

Static libraries in development packages

2011-04-15 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
er updating the policy to either specify that a development package should provide a static library if possible, or that it shouldn't provide unless there are reasonable reasons for inclusions. -- Carl Fürstenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Bug#597571: nodejs: non common executable name

2010-09-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
2010/9/21 Jérémy Lal : > On 21/09/2010 01:31, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 00:46, Jérémy Lal wrote: >>> On 21/09/2010 00:27, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: >>>> Package: nodejs >>>> Version: 0.2.2-1 >>>> Severity: normal >

Re: Policy 3.9.0.0 released

2010-06-28 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
>          `$Config{version}' if `$Config{debian_abi}' is not set. Might be relevant to point out that dh_perl and ${perl:Depends} should take care of this, so for most it shouldn't be an issue. -- /Carl Fürstenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-17 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
ly defined for the general file format (as above), which can be activated with only a commandline argument to dh_config_config_model, without the need to write perl code/understand what a model is (not all devs can this kind of thingis). -- /Carl Fürstenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: SpamAssassin is run on Alioth, but its results are ignored

2009-12-16 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
lar mail, so it's understandable for me to think so 3. I feel your attitude isn't well suited for an Debian developer. Try be more helpful instead of sounding like a dick. -- /Carl Fürstenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

DEP3 and even more incompatible "RFC-2822" formats

2009-11-23 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
sn't define any limits on what data it can contain, so the content "...as you can see in the following\nbug: blablabla" is ambiguous as best. -- /Carl Fürstenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

2008-12-11 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
ven-archiver is a wrapper for plexus-archiver. > > Cheers, > Torsten > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > And plexus-archiver is? -- /Carl Fürstenberg

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
the ftp-masters; Then the ftp-masters only need to do an full review on packages which has not gotten any reviews on them, and can reject a package quickly by investigating the error found in the report. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: FTBS twice - what is the priority for it?

2008-08-14 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
s must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may have had, except that it should leave alone any output files created in the parent directory by a run of a binary target. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#492419: ITP: squeezecenter -- Streaming Audio Server

2008-07-25 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Carl Fürstenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: squeezecenter Version : 7.0.1 Upstream Author : Logitech/Slim Devices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.slimdevices.com/ * License : GPL,

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
y impossible for distributors to place anything under /srv. > Not putting anything there means it's a fairly daft idea to have a > webroot pointing there and expect anything to work out of the box. I was refering to the use of /var/www, which isn't FHS valid, and no excemption is made in the policy about that. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 16:34, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Carl Fürstenberg said: >> FHS 2.3 specifies in >> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM >> to use /srv for "Data for

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
. > > -- > Tollef Fog Heen > UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I just noticed in section 10.5 that /var/www should be used, so I have filed an bug against the policy that 10.5 contradicts 9.1. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

FHS and /var/www

2008-07-19 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
hat apache2 has support for /srv/www, but it's still defaulting to /var/www. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFC: Removal of user/groups

2008-07-12 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 18:22, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 11/07/2008 Carl Fürstenberg wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 17:25, Stephen Gran wrote: >> > >> > I think it would be helpful to use the previous 400 discussions

Re: RFC: Removal of user/groups

2008-07-11 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
n. Do you have any references to any discussion made the last two years? -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RFC: Removal of user/groups

2008-07-11 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
me ID. What do you think? - -- /Carl Fürstenberg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh3eOIACgkQPJieVlqrawLZQgCfdTkXZK6WPL0LP/CvnDy09FOj hZ8AnA2KXvYJvPserW2E5cRe7epXfGKA =1uQr -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
"unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I was thinking about this field, and "Homepage" sounds a bit ambiguous in my ear. I would suggest changing it to "Upstream" instead. This because not all "upstreams" has a "homepage" per definition of "homepage" in modern sense. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debhelper - docbookxml manpages

2007-08-17 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 8/17/07, Sylvain Le Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17-08-2007, Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/17/07, Sylvain Le Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I just read your script which is quite inter

Re: Debhelper - docbookxml manpages

2007-08-17 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
ut po4a support, then I was asked that it should be a debhelper program instead. After that I got feedback that it shouldn't build and install in the same script (from irc). -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Debhelper - docbookxml manpages

2007-08-16 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
, for example po4a. 3.is the xmllint invocation needed? it will require that the xml file are 100% correct, but are that 100% necissary? 4. is dh_installmandocbookxml a too long name for the file? -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dh_installmandocbookxml Description: Binary data

Bug#437933: ITP: libparse-debcontrol-perl -- Parse::DebControl - Parse debian-style control files (and other colon key-value fields)

2007-08-14 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Carl Fürstenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libparse-debcontrol-perl Version : 2.005 Upstream Author : Jay Bonci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~jaybonci/Parse-DebCo

Re: Considerations for GTK1 removal from Debian

2007-08-14 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 8/14/07, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:57:51 +0200 > "Carl Fürstenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I knew that my list was incomplete, so if you want to regenerate the > > page, use following perl script:

Re: Considerations for GTK1 removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 8/12/07, Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/12/07, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:45:42 + (UTC) > > William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Neil Williams debian.org> wri

Re: Considerations for GTK1 removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
kg->{Source}; $source =~ s/\s\(.*\)//g; $result .= " Debian Page:: \[http://packages.qa.debian.org/$source\]\n";; } if( $pkg->{"HomePage"}) { $result .= " Upstream Page:: $pkg->{HomePage}\n"; } $result .= " Priority:: $pkg->{Priority}\n Section:: $pkg->{Section}\n"; if( $pkg->{"Provides"}) { $result .= " Provides:: $pkg->{Provides}\n"; } $result .= " Description:: $pkg->{Description}\n\n"; print $result; $resvar{$pkg->{Package}} = $result; } foreach my $pkg ( keys %resvar ) { print $resvar{$pkg}; } -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-11 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
7;`. > : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. > `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to > `-our own. Resistance is futile. > > Just because I had nothing to do, I generated a list on the wiki on all pac

Bug#434951: python2.4-doc: File created by latex2html included

2007-07-27 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: python2.4-doc Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.2 the file 'Doc/html/style.css' in python2.4-doc is partially created by LATEX2HTML, and as I have learned, that is a violation of the DFSG. Correct me if I'm wrong. /Carl Fürstenberg -- System Information:

Bug#434390: cdbs: class for generating buildfiles from clean autotool-files

2007-07-23 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
cdbs recommends: ii autotools-dev 20060920.1 Update infrastructure for config.{ ii debhelper 5.0.42 helper programs for debian/rules -- no debconf information # -*- mode: makefile; coding: utf-8 -*- # Copyright © 2007 Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 7/21/07, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:52:07 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > > I > > though, as it had a couple in it's list, that all of them was > > installed, so I choosed icedove, but it then complained and dumped

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 7/21/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, reportbug has the option of responding to a bug report instead of > submitting a new one, but you can send a plain e-mail if you want too. > Whatever is easier for you. > > > Don Armstrong > Is there any kind of commandline option? as I a

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 7/21/07, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please have a look at reportbug-ng, it might fulfill your preferences > better. I tried reportbug-ng, and the interface was good, but I didn't manage to send a report, as I didn't had any mail program installed, I though, as it had a coupl

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Before, after a lot of trials and errors, I did manage to get reportbug working, but I still get angry now and then, especially when I choose a wrong option, as I don't know how to undo it, I must exit the program and begin from scratch again. Other thing I feel cumbersome, is that it's difficult t

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: port 25 blocking may be circumvented using ssl(tls) access to smtp server like one offered by gmail. Read the manpage of reportbug for its command line options. Many ISP now requests to use non-port 25 for outgoing mail. That may be accomodated

Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
ess to an smtp server, and are prohibited to use one by them self by port 25 blocking) using a complicated syntax to be able to send "correct" reports. Perhaps I'm out on deep water here, but just wanted to give a thought. perhaps a web-based solution (with backward compabillity to curre