Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > The problem is that the mentioned lintian warning was fixed in .27 .. so if > testing and unstable are using .28, there should be no problem with just > ignoring the warnings for now and see what my _tests_ on debian will No, that's wrong. *Build* also on Debia

Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070314 07:51]: > I just discovered today that some packages can store pretty huge cache > data in my $HOME, and found that rather problematic. When I backup my > home, I don't want to waste backup space or time to do it, because I > have to check what eats spac

Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070314 07:51]: > > I just discovered today that some packages can store pretty huge cache > > data in my $HOME, and found that rather problematic. When I backup my > > home, I don't want to waste backup space or ti

Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-14 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > I just discovered today that some packages can store pretty huge cache > data in my $HOME, and found that rather problematic. When I backup my > home, I don't want to waste backup space or time to do it, because I > have to check what eats space and te

Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 14 mars 2007 à 09:45 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > Against those grotesque > .fonts.cache-1 files (which are not only cache that should not be in > /home, but also system dependent thus even more do not belong there) > running fc-cache as root on all hosts regulary helps. The sys

Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-14 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 14 mars 2007 à 09:45 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > > Against those grotesque > > .fonts.cache-1 files (which are not only cache that should not be in > > /home, but also system dependent thus even more do not belong there) > >

Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-14 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > In my eyes no program at all should store caches in $HOME. There is > $TMPDIR for that. Even small files can be a big problem, if you have > several hundred users. But if TMPDIR="$HOME/tmp" then you have the same problem. Further

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > Hi, > > Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > > The problem is that the mentioned lintian warning was fixed in .27 .. so > > if testing and unstable are using .28, there should be no problem with > > just ignoring the warnings for now and see what my _te

Bug#414889: ITP: epsilon -- set of Python utility modules commonly used by all Divmod project

2007-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: epsilon Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Divmod Inc. * URL : http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodEpsilon * License : MIT License Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Bug#414892: ITP: python-axiom -- a Python object database

2007-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-axiom Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Divmod Inc. * URL : http://www.divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodAxiom * License : MIT License Programming Lang: Python Des

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Roman Müllenschläder dijo [Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100]: > > The versions for lintian (from packages.qa.debian.org) are: > > > > Stable: 1.23.8 > > Testing:1.23.28 > > Unstable: 1.23.28 > > > > So, why are you using a version that's not the one in testing, nor the > > one in stab

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Roman Müllenschläder dijo [Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:43:56PM +0100]: > > > > So, why are you using a version that's not the one in testing, nor the > > > > one in stable? > > > > > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) > > > > I know I'm stating the obvious here

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Roman Müllenschläder dijo [Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:16:31AM +0100]: > > If you're developing packages for Debian, not Ubuntu, I would > > suggest at a minimum that you do your builds in a Sid chroot > > (pbuilder and/or UML work well for this too, depending on how > > powerful your system is). I do

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:28:31PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Why is every question I'm asking here treated like me beeing a child in > > time, > > not able to do the logical? > > > > Testing a package is useless and senseless ... I know that well! > > HUH!?!? > > Ummmh... If that's how you

packaging python modules with .so files?

2007-03-14 Thread martin f krafft
I am trying to package lightblue.sf.net, which does the following during installation: piper:.> python ./setup.py install --prefix=debian/python-lightblue/usr --no-compile running install running build running build_py running build_ext running install_lib creating debian/python-lig

Re: packaging python modules with .so files?

2007-03-14 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[martin f krafft, 14.03.2007] > As you can see, it installs compiled .so files, making the package > dependent on the python ABI, 2.4 in this case. > > How am I to deal with packages like this? Make sure that you build .so for all supported python versions (`pyversions -s`) and let py{support,cen

Commit hooks to notify BTS

2007-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I thought some of you may be aware that I have developed some commit hooks for Darcs and Mercurial. These hooks look for special strings in your commit logs. You can give a string to notify the bug of the commit, or another to do that plus mark the bug pending. These hooks are based on trac

Re: packaging python modules with .so files?

2007-03-14 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:26:36PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I am trying to package lightblue.sf.net, which does the following > during installation: > > piper:.> python ./setup.py install --prefix=debian/python-lightblue/usr > --no-compile > running install > running build > runnin

Bug#414937: marked as done (general: network connection issues, 90% connection slowdown)

2007-03-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:11:06 -0800 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#414937: Acknowledgement (general: network connection issues, 90% connect has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt w

Bug#414963: ITP: svnbackup -- Script to backup running SVN repositories.

2007-03-14 Thread Dario Minnucci
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dario Minnucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: svnbackup Version : 20070315 Upstream Author : Amir Guindehi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://open.datacore.ch/DCwiki.open/Wiki.jsp?page=SVNbackup * License : GPL (In c

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 20.23:16 Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) > > Maybe I should compile lintian by hand ... tried using sources from > feisty but they need to much dependencies ... If you're building packages for Debian,

Bug#414965: ITP: svnreplicate -- A Hookscript Suite to replicate Subversion

2007-03-14 Thread Dario Minnucci
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dario Minnucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: svnreplicate Version : 20070315 Upstream Author : Amir Guindehi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://open.datacore.ch/DCwiki.open/Wiki.jsp?page=SVNreplicate * License : GP

Bug#414966: ITP: svnmerge -- A merge helper tool for Subversion

2007-03-14 Thread Dario Minnucci
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dario Minnucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: svnmerge Version : 20070315 Upstream Author : Amir Guindehi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://open.datacore.ch/DCwiki.open/Wiki.jsp?page=SVNmerge * License : GPL (In con

Re: Commit hooks to notify BTS

2007-03-14 Thread Christian Perrier
> Feedback appreciated. Apart from "has anyone already done the same thing for the poor users of stone age VCS like Subversion"? During translation handling of several packages, I happen to commit a big bunch of updates, each supposed to fix a l10n bug report and sending a "Committed" mails with

Re: Commit hooks to notify BTS

2007-03-14 Thread sean finney
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 06:45 +0100, Christian Perrier said: > Apart from "has anyone already done the same thing for the poor users > of stone age VCS like Subversion"? > > During translation handling of several packages, I happen to commit a > big bunch of updates, each supposed to fix a l10n bug