Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:36:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Done, omitting a reported false positive and a few packages fixed in the > meantime. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org;tag=python2.6 Thanks. Question: why the severity is only "im

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-25 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:36:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Done, omitting a reported false positive and a few packages fixed in the >> meantime. >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org;tag=python2.6 > > Thanks. > >

Fixing the Gobject Introspection mess

2009-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, with an increasing number of packages providing introspection data for Gobject, each one doing things its own way, it’s starting to be a big mess. I’d like to fix this mess before we have a hundred different packages, all behaving differently. Which is why I’m proposing a Gobject-introspectio

Re: Fixing the Gobject Introspection mess

2009-09-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 13:32:54 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 2. Naming scheme > > The package should be named gir1.0-foo-X.Y. For example, the package > containing WebKit-1.0.gir will be named gir1.0-webkit-1.0. > > Giant repositories of dozens of unrelated introspection data should be > av

Re: Fixing the Gobject Introspection mess

2009-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 13:44 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 13:32:54 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > If, alternatively, the introspection data belongs in the same source > > package as the library it references, it can be put in the same binary > > package

Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
[Reply-To set to debian-devel because this topic belongs here.] On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:58:00PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote: > > Yes. I like the idea but we simply can't rebuild everything from the > task pages of these blends since there are also tools from KDE or GNOME > which would mean to ba

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > be buildable inside stable and using an control field to mark the > packages that way. Sh

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > > be buildable inside st

Re: Auto Backporting

2009-09-25 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Tille wrote: > IMHO this problem is not really Debian Science or Blends related and the > idea to handle backports analog to non-free autobuilds sounds quite > reasonable - but in this case we *really* make it analog tp non-free which > works with a debian/control field > > XS-Autobui

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > > > which are candid

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > > be buildable insi

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Mike Hommey [090925 16:06]: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > > be buildable inside stable and using an control fiel

Re: Cmap file are now free: List of package to move to main

2009-09-25 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le jeudi 24 septembre 2009 11:46:54, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit : > Hi, > > According to Paul Wise: > >The Adobe CMap resources are now free software and licensed under the > > > >BSD license. More information about this can be found here: > >>http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2009/09/24/adobe-data-fr

Re: Faster boot by running init.d scripts in parallel

2009-09-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Sep 12 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Michael Biebl] >> Would be interesting to have a before and after bootchart so this >> regression can be investigated. > > Yes, definitely. Would also be interesting to know what kind of > hardware you got (CPU, harddrive), and if you enabled read

Re: Faster boot by running init.d scripts in parallel

2009-09-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Manoj Srivastava] > So, on deeper inspection, I have to recant: setting concurrency to > makefile in /etc/default/rcS does not in fact change the > timing. Which made me wonder why I thought it did, and it might be > that I removed but not purged a package, and that might have made > inserv

Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread George Danchev
Hi, I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control files (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different fields [1] used in testing and unstable, which basically fall into these groups: 1) listed in debian policy and accompanied sub-policies (like Python

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM, George Danchev wrote: > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control files > (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different fields [1] used > in > testing and unstable, which basically fall into these groups: > > 1) listed

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
George Danchev wrote: > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control > files (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different > fields [1] used in testing and unstable, which basically fall into these > groups: Looks like you did not include udebs in your s

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev writes: > So, the question being: from where to start documenting and sorting > these out: policy, dpkg/doc/, devref, wiki, blogs ;-), somewhere else. Standardized fields should be documented in Policy. Patches and contributions are definitely welcome. (And personally, I think

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev wrote: > > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control > > files (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different > > fields [1] used in testing and unstable, which basically fall into these > > groups: > > Looks like you did not include u

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
George Danchev wrote: > You are correct, I missed these either because dpkg-scanpackages has not > been invoked with -tudeb or udebs are not built for the official > archive. They are in the official archive, but in separate sections (with their own Packages files): '.../main/debian-installer/bin

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev wrote: > > You are correct, I missed these either because dpkg-scanpackages has not > > been invoked with -tudeb or udebs are not built for the official > > archive. > > They are in the official archive, but in separate sections (with their own > Packages files): '.../main/debian

Re: Auto Backporting

2009-09-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Frank Küster wrote: > For some teTeX (or older TeXLive?) packages, I've used a > "sarge-backport" (or whatever the stable version was) target in > debian/rules. It added a changelog entry with backport version number, > and it switched some patches and build-deps (in particular, poppler > wasn't a

Re: Fixing the Gobject Introspection mess

2009-09-25 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 13:32 +0200 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > [...] > > 1. Package layout > > GObject-introspection packages provide introspection data > in /usr/share/gir-1.0/Foo-X.Y.gir, and the > optional /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Foo-X.Y.typelib. > > The packages should be architecture