Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-02-14 Thread Loïc Minier
a11y for some people? hard to tell > Loic Minier >computertemp (U) >gnome-mag (U) >gnome-netstatus (U) >gnome-utils (U) >netspeed (U) >service-discovery-applet (U) >tsclient (U) The ones not listed above are not very important in my eyes and ar

Re: Fun with libtool and cross-builds

2011-02-10 Thread Loïc Minier
changing libtool and see if the above test passes -- it's not really an isolated test ATM though. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110210112652.gb2...@bee.dooz.org

Re: tcl8.5 breaks dpkg-cross assumptions and multiarch

2011-02-01 Thread Loïc Minier
h all package that the build should depend > on if needed. I might be getting your point wrong, but I certainly see a lot of files in /lib itself which are arch-independent data used for early boot (before /usr is available); PNG files and text files which would be identical on all archit

Re: tcl8.5 breaks dpkg-cross assumptions and multiarch

2011-01-31 Thread Loïc Minier
For this specific tcl issue, there was some discussion in Debian #599206; I didn't comment back on the bug, but I liked Goswin's proposal -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Are you building on ext3 or ext4? ext4 -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010, Loïc Minier wrote: > The apport failure as bugged me for a while, I tried to reproduce it > multiple times in the past and even just understanding the failure from > the source and error message, but couldn't figure it out in the past; Maybe the differ

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
ilt fine) This is using Ubuntu's .tar.bz2 chroots as downloaded from Launchpad and a moderately configured sbuild 0.60.5-1ubuntu2; maybe your chroot is constructed in a specific way? If you have notes on how you create your chroots, these would be interesting -- Loïc Minier apport_1.16

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
Or is it useful to be able to say "if it doesn't check out, it's > certainly corrupt, and if it does check out, it may be corrupt"? Didn't > think so. I use them regularly after laptop crashes; I found some misinstalled packages a couple of times because a cra

Re: Bug#555743: dpkg-gencontrol: add support for Description:-s in the Source package stanza

2010-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
package descriptions wouldn't mean much to non-developers, so it's probably a minor improvement in package managers not worth the effort of changing infrastucture etc. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Fixing lib linkage for plugins/python extensions

2009-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
to resolve these last two cases; perhaps there's a way to tell gold or ld about where the symbols will be available at runtime, but not actually encoding a hard dependency on these binaries? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
ice providing all versions of all sources which have ever been in Debian unless they can't be redistributed is a better way of solving the source compliance problem and it would actually solve it in the cross toolchain case as well. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-re

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
plemented in the toolchain as time permits. I would also prefer relocatable toolchains, but using the cross-compiler locations is fine for now. I'd love to help on this cross-toolchain project for Debian and Ubuntu's uses and will look at discussing it with Matthias and other in

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Loïc Minier
dmins populating their site file with random > settings (or syntax errors?). Full ack, thanks for putting it so clearly -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Build-Depends: foo-dbg ?

2009-05-06 Thread Loïc Minier
tached debugging symbols, but an alternate implementation of the module which will only work with debug versions of python. Because of this ABI difference, if you need to use python-foo to build python-bar, then you need a python-foo-dbg and to bdep on it to build python-bar-dbg. Cheers -- Loïc

Re: DEB_VENDOR and forks

2009-03-18 Thread Loïc Minier
d but I don't think the choice of Debian's behavior for unknown vendors is the right one, I think I'd personally prefer erroring out to raise the issue, but that's only if there's a sane way to handle that properly, which could be your DEB_VENDORS proposal. ] --

Re: DEB_VENDOR and forks

2009-03-18 Thread Loïc Minier
g at DEB_VENDOR at all). Applying the Debian logic is not good enough for e.g. derivatives of Ubuntu as they want to fork the Ubuntu behavior and patches etc. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DEB_VENDOR and forks

2009-03-18 Thread Loïc Minier
t mind using; albeit the name of the field isn't too obvious but I don't have any good idea. I think I'd be fine with either an external tool or environment vars, but in any case the handling of specific vendor and inherited vendors should be similar IMO. Thanks! -- Loïc Minier

DEB_VENDOR and forks

2009-03-18 Thread Loïc Minier
untu). Instead, I think it would be nice if we could express some inheritance concept so that you can have conditional behavior in rules based on either "this distribution and its derivatives" or "only for this exact distribution" and logical combinations such as "deriv

Re: DEP-4: The TDeb specification.

2009-03-17 Thread Loïc Minier
age into the tdeb data? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-03-01 Thread Loïc Minier
is having to list a long number of =${binary:Version} deps in control which would otherwise be computed by dh_shlibdeps. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
tween the two types of symbols and it's not guaranteed to be true in all cases (you might need =binary:version deps even if you're not using more symbols than the public ones). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Loïc Minier
existing assumptions or software? > > Which software would be affected? > dpkg-source -b, for one. You can't put a symlink in the diff.gz. I was wondering what software would break if debian/rules isn't a makefile, not particularly a symlink (I think you can have symlinks

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by > using a debian/rules of: > #!/usr/bin/make -f > %: > dh $@ > without risking breaking any existing assumptions or software? Which software would be a

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Loïc Minier
e argument which is usually the reason for triggers. sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#514244: ITP: 0xffff -- 0pen Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher

2009-02-05 Thread Loïc Minier
ing/unpacking FIASCO firmware format and more. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Loïc Minier
s endianness will change. > Maybe msgfmt should be patched to always generate the same endianness > by default. Agreed. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > Is there any actual evidence of a problem with the current situation? I see two main issues: - the endianess of files in the archive is actually random - I would expect the most common endianess to be the little endian one since maintainers mostly

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Loïc Minier
d5sums to use with e.g. debsums. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Loïc Minier
d data. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Loïc Minier
tually works -- somehow. It's common practice to ship .mo files in arch: all packages, with a random endianess. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Loïc Minier
big-endian or /little-endian first (depending on endianess), then in /usr/share/locales. I'd rather not implement anything specific in epiphany-browser, it would be best to discuss this more widely and come to a generic solution for all arch: all packages. Cheers, -- Loïc Mini

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-devel

2009-01-19 Thread Loïc Minier
terests: desktop, python I wouldn't be surprized if some hundreds of DDs are subscribed to >= 15 Debian lists. (I've been subscribed or am subscribed to ~80 alioth lists BTW and expect it to be the same for a bunch of other DDs as well.) Cheers, [*] Yeah I know -- Loïc Mini

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-devel

2009-01-18 Thread Loïc Minier
Geez instead of spamming every Debian list and making you the top poster in terms of number of Debian lists today, what about announcing this no -project and/or -devel and in the next developer news? I've gotten basically the same template 12 times. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBS

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-30 Thread Loïc Minier
o look at what other distros are doing if we discuss the set of expected commands on a standard installation. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2008-12-29 Thread Loïc Minier
referred for a MIME type (/usr/share/applications/defaults.list and friends). The Shared MIME Info database maps filenames and file contents patterns to MIME types. These are often used together, but are distinct. Bye, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I am sorry. I meant 'some French'. It was not my intention to give the > impression that this applies to all the French. Please accept my apologies. We're almost all humans, thanks for retracting. :-) -- Loïc Minier

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Loïc Minier
rench" => FAIL; thanks. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Loïc Minier
all agreed to honor the social contract anyway. Apart of the noise of choice 1, this ballot doesn't empower us to decide on the 4 different questions. So I understand that we intend to honor all choices which beat NOTA, i.e. not only the highest ranked choice. Bye -- Loïc Minier

Re: ldconfig with a non-standard prefix

2008-12-03 Thread Loïc Minier
can also change the rpath/runpath using > chrpath, if the end result is not the way you want it. Or perhaps a new /etc/ld.so.conf.d/packagname.conf? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-06 Thread Loïc Minier
quot;. Anyway, there's too little traction to suggest changing our foundation documents in an unclear way, so I'll shut up. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-06 Thread Loïc Minier
oint WRT to interfaces: I don't mind interfacing with something non-free when (there's no free replacement and) there's a clear interface. TBH I don't see enough new ideas or arguments in this thread anymore to justify proposing fundamental changes to our core documents, so I'll shut up. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-04 Thread Loïc Minier
d start new projects to free more things up. Google.com is run with software I don't have access to, but I use it daily, as well as my microwave, or my wifi card. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-03 Thread Loïc Minier
mically from $site isn't ok for live CDs, or when you actually try to provide the firmware to get network to work. :-/ -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-03 Thread Loïc Minier
, I don't mind with picking up autogenerated contents to include in Debian if we can maintain it in this form. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-03 Thread Loïc Minier
distribute it in main. The non-free games data I know of is non-free because we may not modify it because the license doesn't explicitely allow it; what specific example did you have in mind? This is IMO different from firmware binaries which we may well be allowed to change, but don't have t

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-03 Thread Loïc Minier
x27;t see Debian as a free harware and computers project. We need to leave some hard problems to others to solve! -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free OS versus free hw

2008-10-29 Thread Loïc Minier
lowed firmwares to come without source code, it wouldn't affect a lot of people. Of course it would still affect some people. If this itch is worth scratching, another project could be started or these people could join one of the "free hardware" projects which are becoming more com

Re: Free OS versus free hw

2008-10-29 Thread Loïc Minier
could be achieved by a separate project while still having an useful and free Debian OS, except for firmware files The size and risks of the task versus it's usefulness makes me think the ghetto will rather be Debian if we can't support common PCs. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Free OS versus free hw

2008-10-28 Thread Loïc Minier
of the lib/firmware blobs. What I'm not sure about is why we couldn't have an equally useful social contract to build an OS, but is worded to allow shipping of utility binary files which enable additional hardware to work with agreed upon APIs. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Free OS versus free hw

2008-10-28 Thread Loïc Minier
this? Is there any contamination of the firmwares when shipped in a free OS which is not possible to prevent? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-21 Thread Loïc Minier
ree drivers > was done. If we did it for drivers, there's no reason we can't suceed for > firmwares. Happy if such a project is started outside of Debian, or within Debian, but not if it affects all current Debian users right now. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-08 Thread Loïc Minier
e can be universal if we take the lowest common denominator of what's permitted in all countries in the world and according to all patents claim. Perhaps this involves getting legal advice, or having a legal team. Trying to divide into components wont work IMO; we wont ever have enough

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-07 Thread Loïc Minier
ical classification, we should simply expose what we know about patents and any other distribution issue in a machine readable way. What a bout a debian/distribution or debian/copyright2 file which would expose patents information? e.g.: Country: fr Patent numbers: 1234, 5678 Distrib

Re: RFC: update-rc.d

2008-09-22 Thread Loïc Minier
uot;enable" rather than reenable. If we can't use the x bit for this for some reason, perhaps we can add a policy-rc.d-alike mechanism in invoke-rc.d to support a list of enabled/disabled service/runlevel combinations? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#496855: ITP: libwpeditor-plus -- WordPad Text Editor library

2008-08-27 Thread Loïc Minier
rs and inserting images. Bye, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-24 Thread Loïc Minier
k of data, and offering to install the missing packages. Exactly as for codecs. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-20 Thread Loïc Minier
cking * it's an upstream design decision that poppler doesn't support xpdf config/data and poppler doesn't aim to be compatible with xpdf's config/data: xpdf-japanese needs to grow compatibility with poppler instead Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-15 Thread Loïc Minier
t that the port supports, but I have no idea whether this is the case. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-27 Thread Loïc Minier
view was a strict split with Moblin providing upstream software (Midbrowser, Moblin Image Creator, Mobile Basic Flash etc.), lpia being a dpkg arch, and UNR a bunch of packages. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-23 Thread Loïc Minier
w services below /srv if they like. The "services" package would provide hook to install / remove services which would abstract away the real location where the admin wants the files to appear and packages would symlink their packaged data into this location. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSU

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Loïc Minier
packages twice, see for instance "dates" versus "dates-hildon". This isn't very practical though. Ideally, packages would provide their UI as runtime plugins split across separate binary packages, but we're far from a perfect world here. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Loïc Minier
ks. moblin software is being packaged in Ubuntu. I'm not sure UNR landed in Ubuntu proper for now. I think current UNR images are only i386 based (not lpia). Ubuntu Mobile / Ubuntu MID images are only lpia. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-22 Thread Loïc Minier
ronment against the Emdebian / Debian archives. > > iii) an Ubuntu arm port might as well exist outside of the Ubuntu > > official mirrors, just like the Nokia one, or might come to life > > later on > > And mips, mipsel, uClibc-arm, and the rest? > emdebian-to

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-22 Thread Loïc Minier
me are interested in > doing. :) Good point -- of course that's still an improvement as it's only once per account instead of being once per (host, browser, account), and removing the need for a LP specific password entirely. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > However, the above bug in the Debian BTS has been archived. Must we > open another bug to ask for the change to be reverted? Perhaps you can use a GreaseMonkey script to remove it for you, or request a cookie / URL parameter to hide it. -- Loïc

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread Loïc Minier
t; install over a Ubuntu base, especially when those packages are the > typical debootstrap selection that have a variety of changes in Ubuntu. i) all the packages you mention (patched packages and tools) are being imported and updated in Ubuntu regularly ii) you might want to build Deb

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread Loïc Minier
r one. I guess OpenID support will come to the rescue here. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glib inconsistencies in testing

2008-07-21 Thread Loïc Minier
.16.4. glib's symbol files will use this build-dep version as a minimum dep version for shlibdeps. But I guess it doesn't make any difference and is just a hardwired upstream test. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of Emdebian {ARM}

2008-07-15 Thread Loïc Minier
rades: if you're running a gtk+/pango debconf frontend, it needs these working at all times -- you can't allow it to break between unpack and new postinst's configure. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-14 Thread Loïc Minier
kernel to support new expensive hardware which you just bought for virtualization might be useful though. (However, I agree that copying over an old kernel to use new a distro userland's with an old kernel for a dom0 doesn't seem too useful.) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

2008-07-06 Thread Loïc Minier
in KDE menus, just like Banshee and I hope the other players as well (Quodlibet, etc.). > - gimp is better than the kde equivalent (released versions of krita) > - kontact and evolution - fits different to different people These don't have an OnlyShowIn here and should show up in KDE menus. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mixing dbconfig and gconf

2008-06-30 Thread Loïc Minier
have in place which provides a nicer override mechanism -- if you're changing only the defaults that is. > There is no user-specific config (That seems quite far from the GConf use case) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mixing dbconfig and gconf

2008-06-30 Thread Loïc Minier
more towards Web2.0 type stuff > rather than compiled programs. Not quite sure why you target using dbconfig; I had the impression it was mostly aimed at setting up packages, not for per-user data. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Loïc Minier
t normalize which sampling rate / sample width is used -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, May 18, 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (This discussion is similar to the one about DEPs vs BTS bugs -- a > discussion on the BTS would always miss a "summary".) I didn't follow this discussion, but it strikes me that many bug trackers have a summary for bugs. --

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Loïc Minier
xtract a stack of patches with descriptions (whatever format is used to store the Debian source), and a command (or debian/rules target) to trigger this output? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Loïc Minier
want bugs for that. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm. Smells a lot like: Yes, it's the same, except eating less screen space; I don't particularly care how it ends up being implemented -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Loïc Minier
Makefile included by all debian/rules (if they are a makefile :) -- ala cdbs, but with a simple documented interface such as documenting that this will set *FLAGS based on deb_build_opts. e.g. /usr/share/dpkg/flags.mk with: CFLAGS += -Wall -g -O$(if $(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)),0,2)

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

2008-03-31 Thread Loïc Minier
I just wondered: is it possible to reverse/disable the effects of -Bsymbolic-functions if LD_PRELOAD is set? Or is it too late already and some information was definitely lost? -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-22 Thread Loïc Minier
nt a > "command-line trashcan", but I'm looking for a way to prevent me from doing > things I should never ask for (like 'rm -rf /usr/lib/'). Should the solution be in rm? What about chattring the tree, or keeping a cp -aled version, or a backup? -- Loïc Minier -

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-03-05 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > May I suggest then that if no dpkg maintainer objects here > within 48 hours that Ian should proceed with his update? May you stop in the next hour giving executive advice when you're not representing anybody whatsoever? -- Loïc Mini

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, gtk-doc-tools and buildds

2008-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
-gtk-docs in > "nodocs" support would help in other areas but would it allow the buildd > runs to complete?) I'd like to easily be able to tell from debian/rules whether this is going to be an arch or an arch + indep build in general; this is not trivial with a common bu

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-26 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > And what if somebody will try to link statically? Your -config binary should gain a --static flag to distinguish between the two uses. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-26 Thread Loïc Minier
ls simply fail). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-23 Thread Loïc Minier
stating the obvious, but this could be fixed at the debdiff level.) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpatch -> quilt

2008-02-17 Thread Loïc Minier
svn-do? I wrote it for pkg-gnome. :) -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2008-02-14 Thread Loïc Minier
Should we have a new "default-flags" package or something which would be the place where these flags are set? Perhaps queryable with: get-default-flags --gcc get-default-flags --ld etc. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-27 Thread Loïc Minier
a separate .diff in the source package? IOW foo.dsc would point to foo.tgz, foo.debian.diff for the Debian packaging, and patch-1.diff, patch-2.diff etc.? This doesn't sound very practical for large patchsets. :-( -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Gnome 2.21???

2008-01-23 Thread Loïc Minier
rimental, mostly platform stuff, lacking the manpower to follow the full set, send bugs upstream etc. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-18 Thread Loïc Minier
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >update-manager-core > > Debian multimedia packages maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >liba52-0.7.4-dev > > Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libglib2.0-dev > > Gustavo R. Montesino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libgnomedb2-dev

Re: Bug#460504: dh_desktop/dh_icons madness

2008-01-13 Thread Loïc Minier
on, which I imagine could be based on triggers. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-03 Thread Loïc Minier
s; no idea why. >system-tools-backends-dev (U) Fixed in SVN; shipped an arch-indep pkg-config file which should be moved from /usr/share to /usr/lib. >vala-doc (U) I filed a bug on this one (I'm mostly sponsor-uploader). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-03 Thread Loïc Minier
harmless ones. I think it's fine to output N: lines in a different or default color color around the not-overriden warnings and errors which stand out in yellow and red. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-10 Thread Loïc Minier
jects and to make the build actually fail on the first incorrect intermediate object (dpkg-shlibdeps will only tell you at the end of the build and only tell you about the installed final objects with missing NEEDED). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-10 Thread Loïc Minier
g incentive to make --as-needed the default or to not make it; distros such as Debian and Gentoo are using it wildly at the moment; it just can point out some surprize bugs in my experience. HTH, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-10 Thread Loïc Minier
eeded. NB: -z defs is the same as --no-undefined. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
a use for honoring build-conflicts -- generating conflicts isn't supported by the shlib/symbol system ATM anyway. So it only leaves dealing with multiple bdeps: I suppose they could all be copied over and will generate the same warning that the duplicate build-dep. -- Loïc Minier -- T

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
)"); }; Concrete advantage over the non-crackful idea? I guess none at the moment, but yours to imagine! -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-06 Thread Loïc Minier
r each of its flavors ("deb" and "udeb"). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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