Re: Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Following up on my previous post. > How about adding simpler versioned depends (no pre-depends) with pre-rm > script? I am talking about tricks using the "dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir ..." command. Any thought? Osamu On Thu, 2025-04-17 at 20:40 +0900, Osamu

Re: Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I now see this as a bug. I think this was caused by my post-bookworm change in debian-reference (2.109) on Mon, 18 Dec 2023. If I remember correctly, the intent of this change was to move all HTML/PDF/Plain_Text document to a path under /usr/share/doc/ for better policy compliance. This r

Bug#1020274: ITP: dual-function-keys -- interception plugin for generic dual function keys

2022-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: dual-function-keys Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Alexander Courtis * URL : https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/dual-function-keys.git

Bug#1019967: ITP: caps2esc -- Filter for dual function Ctrl and Esc key at CapsLock

2022-09-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: caps2esc Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Francisco Lopes * URL : https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/caps2esc * License : MIT

Bug#1011749: ITP: interception-tools -- minimal composable infrastructure on top of libudev and libevdev

2022-05-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Ethan Djeric , Francisco Lopes * Package name: interception-tools Version : 0.6.8 Upstream Author : Francisco Lopes * URL : https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools

Re: debian-faq in NEW - or: remove documentation from the archive at all

2022-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, FYI: FAQ is published automatically upon uploading the package using cron script which unpack deb package to www.debian.org pages. So I think we can simply drop by hand if we put short static file in package archive mirror containing something like: --- For help, please see: * https://www.d

Re: Why? "Marked for autoremoval on 24 March due to xdelta3: #965883"

2022-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Thanks -Original Message- From: Simon McVittie ... If anyone has a better wording for the autoremoval message, that can express this message as clearly and concisely as possible: - the package you maintain does not have a RC bug itself - but it (recursively) (build-)depends on xdelta3, w

Why? "Marked for autoremoval on 24 March due to xdelta3: #965883"

2022-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I favor moving away from pre-dh7 packages and I support people pushing for it. But I am in intriguing situation with this effort. Can someone help me. At: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi I see: Osamu Aoki debian-history: buggy deps xdelta3, flagged for removal in

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:54:32PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-12-27 02:56:07) > > I created an amount of NEW packages as a DD, and reviewed an amount of > > NEW packages in the NEW queue as FTP trainee. > > Great. Also because your experience as FTP trainee sheds

Re: Apt-secure and upgrading to bullseye

2019-07-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:31:51PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Hooray, buster's released! Congrats to all! > > So I tried upgrading my machine to bullseye today, and > aptitude/apt-get update don't like this, giving me errors such as: > > E: Repository 'http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:07:19AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > Dear -devel list, > > > > (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists > > that > > this email would suit in better.) > > > > I noticed th

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:37:58AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > Hi Boyuan, > > On 27.06.19 21:38, Boyuan Yang wrote: > [I'm also not sure what's the best mailing list for discussing this, devel, > doc, mentors?] > > > I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a s

Re: Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 09:27:42AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Osamu, > > On 2019-06-09 13:48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Let's think in a bit different perspective. ... ... (I have some explanation for GPL-contamination concern later) ... > Let me emphasize this again: Don

Re: Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Let's think in a bit different perspective. What is the outcome of "Deep Lerning". That's "knowledge". If the dictionary of "knowledge" is expressed in a freely usable software format with free license, isn't it enough? If you want more for your package, that's fine. Please promote such p

Re: Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi Mo, On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 10:07:13PM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Osamu, > > On 2019-06-08 18:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> This draft is conservative and overkilling, and currently > >> only focus on software freedom. That's exactly where we > >> start,

Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:11:14AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi people, I see your good intention but this is basically changing status-quo for the main requirement. > https://salsa.debian.org/lumin/deeplearning-policy > (issue tracker is enabled) I read it ;-) > This draft is conservati

Adding translation and freeze

2019-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I just uploaded "Source: maint-guide" to the archive. Problem is I added Vietnamese translation as a part of active build contents. This created an extra binary package maint-guide-vi which got stack in the NEW queue. Should I wait quietly hoping fr the best or do I have things to do to get

ibus debian/control recommends best practice

2019-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, The Intelligent Input Bus (IBus, pronounced as I-Bus) is an input method (IM) framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating-systems. The ibus package can work via XIM but it is non-optimal. For GTK or QT applications, it is desirable to have corresponding libraries installed and en

Bug#920810: ITP: imediff -- interactive full screen 2/3-way merge tool

2019-01-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: imediff Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Osamu Aoki * URL : https://github.com/osamuaoki/imediff * License : GPL 2+ Programming Lang: Python3, shell Description : interactive full

Re: SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:51:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:20:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > All this gives sgml-base impressive popcon numbers, but the actual usage > is likely pretty limited. I'm sure we have users who still need tooling &

Re: SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:07:44PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 10:52:29PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > Since we have developer ML as debian-s...@lists.debian.org, why not use > > it as group mail address. Then we already have well supported stab

Re: SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, FYI: Now sgml-data is listed in https://salsa.debian.org/xml-sgml-team On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 06:38:38PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:20:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I am wondering what is happening with XML/SGML packages. > > The group is

SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wondering what is happening with XML/SGML packages. I am doing SALSA migration and I realized I need to RFA or Orphan some of my packages. Specifically: sgml-data debiandoc-sgml debiandoc-sgml-doc debiandoc-sgml-pt-br All debiandoc-sgml* packages can be almost safely set to Orphan

Re: salsa group and DD access

2018-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:11:23AM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Osamu Aoki 于2018年7月5日周四 下午11:46写道: ... > > Point to to the right HOWTO. I mean "Point me to the right HOWTO." > > I want that the https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team VCS to be all > > a

salsa group and DD access

2018-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Point to to the right HOWTO. I want that the https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team VCS to be all accessible by any DDs like https://salsa.debian.org/debian as the maintainer. How can I do it? Having a project specific group for write access is good feature of input-method-team. Moving

alioth -> salsa: closing alioth services and redirecting

2018-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Moving repo to salsa and starting an alternative ML have been done. I am now wondering what is the best practice for closing alioth service when occasional diverse committers are involved. * How can I easily set up redirection service for incoming mails to an aioth ML forwarded to a new l

build 2 similar binary packages from one source tree

2017-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, maildrop source tree can be build with different build option to produce maildrop program in 2 ways for each arch. * set GID mail without restricted caller (maildrop) * set UID root with restricted caller for courier-mta (maildrop-courier) -- This is now missing in archive but we used to

Re: changing source and binary package names

2017-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, thanks folks On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:24:08PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, December 18, 2017 02:39:20 PM James Cowgill wrote: ... > a binary from another source package, but still don't ask for removal. Once > getmail4 doesn't produce the current version of any binaries anymo

changing source and binary package names

2017-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, When changing only the binary package name, it is easy to do it. All I have to do is package an empty transitional package with the old binary package name in its new source package with proper dependencies and upload it :-) But what is needed when changing both the source and binary package

Bug#877326: ITP: emoji-data -- The associated data files for emoji characters

2017-09-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: emoji-data Version : 5.0 Upstream Author : 1991-2017 Unicode, Inc. * URL : http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/ * License : UNICODE, INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT - DATA FILES AND SOFTWARE

Why small "Uncompressed Size: 2,048" for ssmtp

2017-09-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wondering what makes aptitude screen to print: Compressed Size: 54.2 k Uncompressed Size: 2,048 Source Package: ssmtp for ssmtp package. Uncompressed size is usually bigger than compressed Size. Am I missing something. INFO file in the ssmtp deb package has: new debian package,

Re: Bug#833585: lintian: Check presence of upstream signature if signing key available

2017-08-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (This is RFH) On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:43:13AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:30:41AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > ❦ 15 juillet 2017 23:06 +0100, Chris Lamb  : ... > > Integration with uscan is not done either. The stretch uscan has download and verification inc

Re: what should I do if I want to adopt one orphaned package?

2017-08-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 06:32:18AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Aug 13 2017, Wookey wrote: > > > The policy document and debian-mentors mailing list can help you with > > packaging queries. When you have a new upload prepared you will need > > to get a sponsor to upload by aski

Hello: https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/uscan

2016-12-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I know the problem is gone but: > The URL https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/uscan Did you find that reading this extremely long document in manpage is not what you want? You'd rather read it in html? (Yes, I wrote it into this length) I find it difficult to read long manpages, sometimes.

Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!

2016-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
> debian-reference-common_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-de_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-en_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-fr_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-it_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-ja_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-pt_2.58_all/postinst Hmmm... it's a

Re: Doxygen has 3 RC bugs preventing packages to build - is droping documentation a sensible option?

2016-10-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 01:09:46PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I really want to update cimg since a long time, missing several upstream > releases but I cimg does not build due to #836168. In the bug report it > was also suggested to use sphinx as doxygen replacement but I'm not su

Re: Mass bug filing: use and misuse of dbus-launch (dbus-x11)

2016-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi from im-config maintainer. > Osamu Aoki >im-config On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm about to do a mass-bug-filing against packages that mention > dbus-x11 in their dependencies, or dbus-launch in their code, asking > maintai

Re: using whiptail and translated strings from arbitrary scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:29:19PM +, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Debian translators just translate packaging texts. Everything else is done by > upstream (which can be the same people, but it is not organized by Debian > AFAIK). I am not sure but my impression is that the i18n team seems to tra

Re: using whiptail and translated strings from arbitrary scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:28:22PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 27/04/16 14:00, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:32:02PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> > >> It is well documented how developers should create po files for > >> i18n support in their debconf con

Re: Bug#807868: ITP: zjump -- Jump to frequent directories matching regex

2015-12-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 07:00:40PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Osamu Aoki , 2015-12-14, 21:36: > >>>The package should actually be called 'Z', but according to reportbug > >>>hat is not a valid package name. > >> > >>reportbug is

Re: Bug#807868: ITP: zjump -- Jump to frequent directories matching regex

2015-12-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:34:53AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Thomas Ross , 2015-12-13, 16:57: > >The package should actually be called 'Z', but according to reportbug > >that is not a valid package name. > > reportbug is right. As per Policy §5.6.1, package names “must be at > least two ch

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:51:11AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: ... > It is important to list all copyright holders; this is not something that > it's "easy enough" to look up in the source, because many of these free > software licenses require that you reproduce the copyright statement > whe

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:34:11PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:51:11 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: > [...] > > And we should have better tools to generate debian/copyright files - this > > shouldn't be an inten

Re: [CTTE #741573] Debian Menu System

2015-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am happy to hear this but this reminds me to think again ... On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 08:34:14PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > The technical committee was asked in #741573 to decide an issue of > Debian technical policy regarding menu regarding the menu system. > > RESOLUTION ...

Re: Script to generate common license texts

2015-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Here is another suggestion ... use debmake! On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:08:20PM +0530, Balasankar C wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any script which takes abbreviation of a license (like > GPL-3+) as input and generates the license text that can be used in > debian/copyright (80 character wrapped,

Re: How to update control file time stamps

2015-08-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 07:37:11PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 16.08.2015 um 19:00 schrieb Paul Wise: > > > > Sounds like removing the timestamps is the right thing to do here. No. > That's a creative way to deal with it :-) > > The footers were created by dh_make (see > https://www.deb

Re: Debian books (Was: Bits from the DPL - July)

2015-07-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Excuse my umbiguous statements. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:26:30PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > But that section can be split in to 2 sentions. FREE and NON-FREE, > > with FREE on the top. > > It is alread

Re: Debian books (Was: Bits from the DPL - July)

2015-07-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 01:11:08PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/07/15 at 19:37 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Press and articles > > -- > > Quite a bit of press and general Debian outreach in the last few weeks: > > * Debian Jessie book preface [0] > > > > [0] http://

GID collab-maint or scm_collab-maint on alioth git

2015-06-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I noticed that the alioth collab-maint repositories have GID collab-maint (older projects) scm_collab-maint (recent projects) depending on the project when a person complained to me that he can not accesss one with scm_collab-maint. drwxrwsr-x+ 7 osamu scm_collab-maint 4096 Jun 9 11

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 06:18:16PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > ... > Currently, the instructions[2] say to do the following: > - Download and install an "eid-archive" package, which contains the GPG > keys and generates a sources.list.d file for the repository; > - Run "apt-get up

Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-05-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi Daniel, Thanks a lot for maintaining these in good shape. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:24:17PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > x-post > > Hi everybody, > > I was part of the Debian XML/SGML team [1] for quite some time and it > was fun maintaining the whole DocBook toolchain. Unfortunately I'm

Bug#786702: ITP: debmake-doc -- Guide for Debian Maintainers

2015-05-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: debmake-doc Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Osamu Aoki * URL : http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debmake-doc.git * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: docbook with Shell, C, Python

Re: manual in sgml

2015-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:17:53PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > the manual of my package is written in SGML language. > I guess that it may be translate into a more readable format: > What is the best Debian way to convert it in HTML and/or PDF (via LaTeX) ? If it is linuxdo

Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT

2015-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:32:32PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: ... > It should be noted for those who seems to accuse me of bad faith, that > I, personally, use a custom keymapping anyway,... so I don't care much > whether it's left as is or not. Just for the record, I am not accusing y

Bug#637232: BTS #637232: Multiarch breaks support for non-multiarch toolchain

2014-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, My condolences for "too many non-bug bug-reports" :-) I have no objection to have some mention for the multiarch in release-notes. But relaistically, users who do not read NEWS.Debian (very long) will likely not to read long release-notes :-( So documenting here will have minimal impact for

Re: free choice in installer?

2014-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:51:50PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Jonas Smedegaard: > > If we had the *option* of init system choice at install time (even if > > completely hidden from default UI only activated by a commandline > > option), I believe that would radically limit complain

Jessie Freeze -> What is the next release name? (jessie+1)

2014-11-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:56:49PM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > The release team is pleased to announce that Debian 8.0 "Jessie" is frozen. > Further updates to this release will be restricted to bug fixes only. ... I thought usually this type of announcement comes with next release nam

Re: customization of the kernel command line

2014-11-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 01:11:51PM +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > Hello, > > I am preparing a package for a scientific camera andor3. This package > contain a kernel module for the video grabber. > > >From the constructor documentation, I need to add the nopat option to > >the linu

Re: dgit and git-dpm (was Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories)

2014-10-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:54:41AM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:32:04PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:06:59PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("Re: dgit and git-dpm (was Re: > > > Standardizing the layout o

Re: post-jessie: header only C++ library package (static?)

2014-10-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 09:23:56PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Hello, > On 18 October 2014 17:19, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > This is about packaging around a header only C++ library package. ... > > "header only C++ library package" seems to be

post-jessie: header only C++ library package (static?)

2014-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This is about packaging around a header only C++ library package. As I understand, Debian does not usually ship static libraries based on policy "8.3 Static libraries". At the same time, Debian does not impose any systematic way to let us trace upload of the static library and alike. http

locale choices: , C, C.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8 and availability

2014-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This post is about Debian packaging. (Not about user configuration) As I understand for the locale value: LANG = , or C System can always be set to this way and the system acts 100% POSIX manner. No locale data generation is required. Non-ASCII characters may not be processed as UTF-8 en

Re: importing in git the history of a Debian package

2014-07-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 03:24:38AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > This script shows how to import in git the complete history of a Debian > package. It creates a structure of a properly merged upstream tree and > Debian changes. > > http://www.linux.it/~md/software/import-inn2.sh Interesting

Re: How to build-depend on a C++11-capable compiler?

2014-07-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I do not know about your case. FYI: I uploaded c++11 depending package as a sponsor since it compiled nicely on my amd64. Than got bug report from arm people. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:35:17AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Well, since g++-4.9 now c++11 feature complete (with one exce

multiarch: arch dependent header file path choice

2014-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, The path for the arch dependent header file seems to have several options. 1) /usr/include//*.h 2) /usr/include///*.h 3) /usr/lib///include/*.h I would like to know rationale for each choice, especially between 2 and 3. I am sure they all are functioning choice but intriguing to see choi

Re: what to do with wayland, python3, gdm3/systemd, ...

2014-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 02:44:39PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > you are not writing which packages you are talking about ... ibus source package > Am 28.04.2014 12:16, schrieb Osamu Aoki: > > python3 support or not (Are we moving too?) /usr/bin/ibus-setup command in the

what to do with wayland, python3, gdm3/systemd, ...

2014-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Questions are how Debian Jessie packages should be packaged with regards to configuration choices etc.: wayland support or not (I am skipping ones using libwayland-dev now) python3 support or not (Are we moving too?) X session autostart scripts under systemd Here are the backgrounds: The

uscan problem for release without normal tarball

2014-04-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I was using pages such as: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-ime-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org to track the upstream version of my Debian packages. The upstrean version comes from uscan i.e. tarball. Recent a friendly "FTBFS on amd64" bug report gave me a wake up call. https:/

Re: debian/copyright: how extensive ...

2014-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:29:31PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 13507 March 1977, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Is there any rules in place written somewhere? > > If one takes it all the way to the end, then each and every file ought > to be documented. This, however

debian/copyright: how extensive ...

2014-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, While refining my debmake command and sponsoring libkkc package as my test case, I came to questions on practical aspect of debian/copyright file. How far we need to document in debian/copyright for auto-generated and what to do with files with explicit text. I want to know this to re

what about PTS (Re: libunwind and ia64)

2014-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, It seems I got good answers then I have another practical question : Can I upload ibus-qt package with warnings on PTS as below. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 05:57:38PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 01:06:07 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > libunwind seems t

libunwind and ia64

2014-01-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, libunwind seems to be holding off many packages to be uploaded to unstable now. https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-libunwind.html But problem seems to be just ia64 and 87 days old. http://packages.qa.debian.org/libu/libunwind.html I do not understand what is holding off so

Re: Apt-get question

2014-01-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:34:27PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if there is a manual how to install/port apt-get to another distro. It is a non-trivial task you are talking ... but it is not impossible task as I understand if you can figure out which functionality of a

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 03:10:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:48:06PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Is there any easy ways to get latest PO files from Ubuntu? > > It may need a bit of massaging, but I seem to recall > https://launchpad.net/lp-

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:56:58PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 09/01/14 13:48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > PS: I also wonder if there is some generic script to update *.desktop > > files using PO files. > > GNOME uses intltool for this. Look at how gnome-terminal gen

translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, == Short version == I want to update PO files with Ubuntu site data. So far no luck. Help needed. == Long story == One of my packages got a translation bug report pointing me to: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/im-config/+pots/im-config FYI: * I am the solo upstr

half the size, ... but this is true for almost all binary packages

2013-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:14:28PM +0100, Joshuah Hurst wrote: ... > - Despite being much more powerful, the binary package should be half > the size of the current 'unstable' Debian package size Yes. But this phenomenon is true for almost all binary packages. I initially thought I broke the

Re: link with -L/usr/lib

2013-09-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Now I see he really filed many similar bugs ... I saw it for libucimf: http://bugs.debian.org/722802 It did not make sense to me. This libucimf package was not multiarch. So use of -L/usr/lib/ made sense. I took it as a wishlist request to convert package to multiarch. So I made it as mu

Bug#723062: ITP: ibus-kkc -- libkkc engine for IBus

2013-09-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: ibus-kkc Version : 1.5.18 Upstream Author : Daiki Ueno * URL : https://gitorious.org/libkkc/ibus-kkc/ https://bitbucket.org/libkkc/ibus-kkc/downloads * License : GPL-2

the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1; Debian Reference updated.

2013-08-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 01:08:28PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > > /etc/hosts like these per default: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > 127.0.1.1 . > > As also described in the Debian reference[2]. > That's not entirely accurate. Wheezy and Ubuntu Desktop install > an /etc/hosts like the following, w

Re: UTF-8 in jessie (debhelper and BOM)

2013-08-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, UTF-8 is a good goal indeed as principle. (I agree but I am struggling to update package documentation since Japanese are known to be tough (JIS 2022/EUCJP/SHIFT-JIS/... are used) EUC/SHIFT-JIS mixed case can be confused with LATIN-1 easily. ) But I do not understand goal #5. Why "MUST"?

SONAME migration: should the symbols file be continued?

2013-07-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, As I understand, when a library generated from a foo source packge moves to a new SONAME, we change its library package name: library file:libfoo.so.1 -> libfoo.so.2 library package: libfoo1 -> libfoo2 But what should we do with the symbols file as the BEST PRACTICE? Should we st

Re: "Blacklists" in BTS (stopping the trolls and bug machines)

2013-06-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I was thinking a name just after I read the title ... On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:43:43AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: ... > AFAIK there's one for php5 (at least it lists the modules), but it's > useless since Dan Jacobson doesn't use reportbug. Bingo!!! I was right L

Bug#710421: ITP: pxe-pdhcp -- ProxyDHCP server for the non-DHCP server host

2013-05-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: pxe-pdhcp Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : FURUHASHI Sadayuki * URL : http://svn.coderepos.org/share/lang/c/pxe-pdhcp/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : ProxyDHCP server

Re: Bug#707601: ITP: debmake -- helper script to make the Debian source package

2013-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:31:43PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 21:06 +0900 schrieb Osamu Aoki: > > This may be still buggy and may needs some more work. I was thinking to > > update maint-guide using this so I need to be less wordy and the debm

Re: Bug#707601: ITP: debmake -- helper script to make the Debian source package

2013-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:43:59AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:52:17PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote: > > Also, is there any relation between this and the old 'debmake' package > > or they just happen to have the same name? > > My first thought upon seeing

Re: Bug#707601: ITP: debmake -- helper script to make the Debian source package

2013-05-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:40:39AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > This package helps you to convert a upstream source package (or VCS > > contents) into the Debian package by adding files required for the

Bug#707601: ITP: debmake -- helper script to make the Debian source package

2013-05-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: debmake Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Osamu Aoki * URL : * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python3 Description : helper script to make the Debian source package This package

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:32:52AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > >> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the > >> dependencies > >> satisfactorily the first

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, > Le Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0300, Eugene Lychauka a écrit : > > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html#pkgmgmt > > > > Here we can read: > > > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > > terminal is aptitude. For a no

Re: Bug#704124: codename 'rc-buggy' not handled correctly

2013-03-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 07:38:16AM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > Just as unstable has "sid", experimental is "rc-buggy", the rc car > from toy story. > > Hilarious joke :) > T Yes indeed funny. I like it. But not well documented. If it stays this way, I should think documenting it

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable

2013-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Osamu Aoki > > > We as DD have shell access to people.debian.org. Also many people have > > shell access to alioth.debian.org. Both seems to have packages needed > > to set up PPA like archive[1].

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable

2013-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 01:54:34PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Neil, > > I agree on all what you said (eg: difficulties in doing such a maintenance, > the fact we don't have unlimited manpower, etc.), but I'm still convince it > would be worth a try. > > On 01/06/2013 04:39 AM, Neil William

Re: [debian-devel:18459] Bug#697421: ITP: unidic-mecab -- free Japanese Dictionaries for mecab

2013-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I thought about this package at one point but I did not since its real upstream Japanese government agency had very restrictive license. http://www.tokuteicorpus.jp/ (Japanese pages) http://www.tokuteicorpus.jp/dist/ Version 1.3.12 http://www.tokuteicorpus.jp/dist/modules/system/m

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:38:54AM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > $ man debian-distro-info > > Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in? That was my initial reaction. Then I found it on my system... ??? This was because ubuntu-dev-tools

discrepancy: rc_policy.txt and policy

2012-10-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am a bit confused on discrepancy between policy and "Release Critical Issues for Wheezy". http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt Is this discrepancy of requirements for main on "Recommends:" intended one or some ty

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:25:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Hols

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:32:30AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 8. August 2012, Michael Stummvoll wrote: > > what exactly is the actually reason that a default normal user has ip in > > his PATH but not ifconfig (also route)? > > hysteric raisins. Funny expression :-) > ("ip a" c

Re: debian wiki BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... > > i18n/l10n: Moin is not great at supporting these for page content. We > have proposed solutions to make this better: > > Proposal #1 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/I18n > > Proposal #2 http://wiki.debian.org/De

Bug#681725: ITP: gccintro -- An Introduction to GCC by Brian J. Gough

2012-07-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: gccintro Version : 1.0 with 1.1 patch applied Upstream Author : Brian Gough * URL : http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/ http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/src

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