Re: How to handle packages which build themselves with bazel?

2022-06-09 Thread David Given
ng. > > I'm not following the updates for bazel packaging, but you > may browse the packaging work of the corresponding team > to see whether there is anything you are interested in: > https://salsa.debian.org/bazel-team/bazel > > On Wed, 2022-06-08 at 17:18 +0200, David G

How to handle packages which build themselves with bazel?

2022-06-08 Thread David Given
I'm looking into converting some of my upstream packages to use Google's bazel build system, because it makes life much easier as a developer. Unfortunately, with my other hat on, it makes life much harder as a package maintainer: bazel is very keen on downloading source packages and then building

Re: ColdFire / m68k

2012-11-30 Thread David Given
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] > How much are these instruction set compatible with the classical m68k > processors? Would we be able to have an m68k port of Debian which runs > both on the original m68k CPUs and the ColdFire series? AFAIK the ColdFire is nearly, but not quite, a strict su

Re: Really not about udev, or init sytsems

2012-11-25 Thread David Given
On 25/11/12 19:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] > I've been a vivid Amiga user since 1991* and I still love these > machines and I am supporting the efforts to get Debian back onto > m68k. Yet, I do not think this should happen at all costs. There > haven't been no new 68k processors for

Re: nacl and CPU frequency.

2012-09-22 Thread David Given
On 22/09/12 15:28, peter green wrote: [...] > In order to build successfully nacl needs to determine the CPU frequency > (the CPU frequency determined at build time is not used in the final > binaries afaict but if it's not determined then the build will fail as > it will consider the implementatio

Re: O: ted -- lightweight .DOC editor

2012-08-30 Thread David Given
Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: [...] > There's still no such thing as the "GNU Public License", what the > author seemingly try to refer to is called "GNU General Public > License", that is, the 'G' in "GPL" stands for "General", not for "GNU". IRL that's actually a link to the FSF page, so it seems

Re: O: ted -- lightweight .DOC editor

2012-08-30 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: [...] > The problems described in #501638 would mean that the package would > not be allowed back into Debian unless fixed. It looks like this isn't an issue any more --- the relevant paragraph from the docs is now: Ted is fr

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread David Given
Thomas Goirand wrote: [...] > Exactly what do you need from sbin as a user? I use stuff from sbin as user all the time. A quick glance at /sbin shows these commands that I use on a regular basis: blkid fdisk all the fscks all the mkfss hdparm ifconfig (before this discussion I'd never even *heard

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-05 Thread David Given
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > I would recommend in the meantime to use a versioned URL of your > choosing. As I believe is documented - the specific URL should be only > an example. FWIW, I have recently tried to put together a DEP5 compliant copyright file for a package I'm working on. I say

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-02-27 Thread David Given
e sensitive filenames, inode semantics, etc. While installation is still a bit tortuous, they have a buildd and claim to support a decent number of packages... Is this of interest to anyone? - -- David Given d...@cowlark.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Usi

Re: Leverage in licensing discussions

2008-11-07 Thread David Given
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [...] > Up until 1968 the same reasoning wasused to present people from > connecting anything but phones provided by Bell to the Bell telephone > network. You were not even allowed to connect a modem through an > accustic coupler. If I recall correctly, back in the old days,

Re: Leverage in licensing discussions

2008-11-07 Thread David Given
because most firmware images contain proprietary embedded operating systems and/or proprietary third-party libraries... -- David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-07 Thread David Given
f their software in such environments; do these count as DSFG-free? Is there any such software in Debian? -- David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-05 Thread David Given
so paranoid about reflashing phones. A phone with a maliciously programmed GSM stack would turn into a rather efficient cellphone jammer.) -- David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

2008-06-03 Thread David Given
Andreas Bombe wrote: [...] > The user may have > imported the configuration from some other machine, or intend to use the > configuration elsewhere. The usefulness of user configuration is > therefore not tied to the installed state of the package on this system. Particularly since the user may h

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-31 Thread David Given
Michael Biebl wrote: [...] > Add update-initramfs to that list. It can take quite some time to > regenerate the initramfs. Packages that update the initramfs are e.g. > udev, cryptsetup or uswsusp, splashy/usplash *raises hand* Before it blew up, my old NSLU2 (a 266MHz ARM with 32MB RAM) used to

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread David Given
Lars Wirzenius wrote: [...] I'd really rather see something nicer than an ant as a mascot. :) How about a cockroach? Beautifully engineered, indestructable, and they're *everywhere*... -- David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-20 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Goerzen wrote: [...] > Too crude? That's a simple command, easily found in a relevant manpage. In > true Unix fashion, its output can be easily piped to other commands. What's > crude about it? Well, it doesn't actually tell me what I need t

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [...] > I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about each > program and relevent configuration files. I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of the biggest holes in Debian

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-17 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] > since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like > that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an > owner of a german Enterprise whether it is possibel to port GNU/Linux, >

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Jaspert wrote: [...] > Those that pass NEW for whatever reason are reviewed. Yes, I did reject > lots of such packages for copyright-file brokenness. :) Speaking as someone who has just had a package pass NEW, I would like to thank you for doubl

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-10 Thread David Given
n *cough* tcl/tk, and packaging it looks horribly complicated. -- David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-09 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > It would behoove you to at least put significant effort into > what everyone here agrees would be the best way to get Opera working > well with Debian and other free software operating systems. Mmf. I'd take issue with that

Zero Install (was: Package cache)

2007-08-22 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > looks pretty cool, but someone should talk to them about this: > > "The effect of this is that distribution-provided packages are often > more reliable than upstream ones (since upstream don't get to hear about > many

Re: Package cache

2007-08-21 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduard Bloch wrote: [...] > If you want to keep the files aside but ie. > compressed than you should use a compressing filesystem. > But if you want something working on access, expect it to perform very bad. > Ie. if you want to install the files fro

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh wrote: [...] > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am > not aware of any Japanese support at all except in specially-patched > versions. I

UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-10 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to package a simple tool that wants a Japanese string in its man page. It would appear that currently, man pages use fixed encodings that vary depending on which locale's man page is being looked up; English uses ISO-8859-1, so it's not