Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-22 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:54:52AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > But then again a bug in webim-sendmail would keep webmin-postfix out > of testing. But that shouldn't be a problem if you fix RC bugs > quickly. True. Especially since sendmail has a history of security problems... The exact

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:21:55PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > No, it is based on the assumption that a buildd will only install > > things listed in the Build-Depends, which means it will catch > > stuff that only builds on the maintainers workstation b

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Brian May wrote: > > > You obviously did not understand my scheme then. > > > > webmin-postfix and webmin-sendmail would still get built as > > seperate *.deb packages. > > > > They just share the one source package. > > > > Oh

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Cheney
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:21:55PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > No, it is based on the assumption that a buildd will only install things > listed in the Build-Depends, which means it will catch stuff that only > builds on the maintainers workstation because they aren't building > inside a chroot and

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-22 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:39:52PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Well for now I'm going to solve the immediate policy violation by reducing > webmin.orig.tar.gz. I'll implement your scheme when the new release comes GREAT! > out in the next couple of weeks. (Perhps you'd like to file a wishli

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-21 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Brian May wrote: > You obviously did not understand my scheme then. > > webmin-postfix and webmin-sendmail would still get built as seperate > *.deb packages. > > They just share the one source package. > Oh yeah alright. Now I get it. > A user who installs webmin-postfix.de

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:26:19PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > For whom? For instance under your scheme, a user of webmin-postfix will > also get webmin-sendmail depite the fact he is unlikely to need it. Think You obviously did not understand my scheme then. webmin-postfix and webmin-sendma

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-21 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Brian May wrote: > > #1: One source code package by module is an overkill. > For whom? For instance under your scheme, a user of webmin-postfix will also get webmin-sendmail depite the fact he is unlikely to need it. Think of Webmin modules like Perl CPAN modules. It doesn'

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > As I understand it, there is an script that does the > separation for you when you package the .debs. Is there a reason a > similar script can't be invoked by debian/rules to create the > multiple debs from the same source

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > > > > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy, > >

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:20:42PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > As for the problem with the source file containing non-free code, > if you have prestine source code, this is something that > really needs to get fixed upstream :-(, eg. split into two > files. Looking at the other messages in the thr

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:04:40AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Ok. Lets leave aside for a moment the .debs which would go into contrib > or non-free so would have to be built seperately. What happens if > webmin-squid has an RC bug? As Goswin said, all the webmin-* packages > will be held ba

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:40:18 -0400 (EDT), Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Since the source goes into Debian main, keeping the sources >> together means that we are distributing non-free material in Debian >> main, which not only violates

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Since the source goes into Debian main, keeping the sources > together means that we are distributing non-free material in Debian > main, which not only violates the social contract, it may well be > illegal (or have people who distribute deb

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:03:15 -0400 (EDT), Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It has source for all the modules including the non-free ones. > However the binary packages for those modules are built from > seperate source packages not this one. > The only reason for having the webmin.ori

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy, > > > i.e. build from source as they should. > > > > > > > The qu

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy, > i.e. build from source as they should. > The question remains is simply removing all the extra source from webmin-n.orig.tar.gz except that which is necessary to build the w

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy, > > i.e. build from source as they should. > > > > The question remains is simply removing all the extra source from > web

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:04:40 -0400 (EDT), Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ok. Lets leave aside for a moment the .debs which would go into > contrib or non-free so would have to be built seperately. What Whoa there. Are you telling me that webmin's orig.tar.gz that is in ma

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok. Lets leave aside for a moment the .debs which would go into contrib > or non-free so would have to be built seperately. What happens if > webmin-squid has an RC bug? As Goswin said, all the webmin-* packages > will be held back from testing.

Re: Binaryless uploads

2003-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:16:10 -0400 (EDT), Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Then the source should be split in a way that the normal >> debian/rules files work and common files (like headers) stuffed >> into a -dev package you can buil

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: > Yep. And given that upstream offers webmin as an all-in-one solution to > web-based management needs, I don't really see any reason why they > shouldn't be kept lock-step with one another. As Debian developers our goal is to make an integrated OS whic

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Brian May wrote: > When Jaldhar takes about dependancies, I assume he means normal > "Depends", not "Build-Depends"??? > Correct. [...] > Source package has the following files (note: this is called a "source > package" not a "binary package"): > > webmin_1.100.orig.tar.gz

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-20 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:16:03AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:10PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > > > If they get hit by a bus, reassigned by their job to Outer Mongolia, or > > just plain get bored with doing it, we lose that benefit entirely, as > > things stand

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:20:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Source package has the following files (note: this is called a "source > > package" not a "binary package"): > > > > webmin_1.100.orig.tar.gz > > webmin_1.100-2.diff.gz > > webmin_1

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

2003-08-19 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Brian May wrote: > Effectively Jaldhar just needs to merge the source packages together, > and keep the binary packages split. > > However, Jaldhar continues to respond with "we need the binary packages > split.". /me mutters chewbacca under his breath.