Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Lucas Nussbaum schrieb: >That's what we plan to do: for now, ruby1.8 is the default >implementation/version, and will have the highest priority in >alternatives. So switching to say jruby would require manual >intervention. Exactly that will ensure you run into a mess. Don't allow to switch

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/03/11 at 10:02 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > > > Lucas Nussbaum schrieb: > > >That's what we plan to do: for now, ruby1.8 is the default > >implementation/version, and will have the highest priority in > >alternatives. So switching to say jruby would require manual > >intervention.

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:10 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > I prefer the situation where we empower users to make the switch if they > decide to, to the situation where we arbitrarily decide that users > should use Ruby 1.8 with no ability to change this (and get bug reports > for that). No

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 05 mars 2011 à 00:22 +0100, Piotr Ożarowski a écrit : > > Breaks: python (>= 2.8), python (<< 2.5) > > yeah, that's to avoid bug reports when someone will try to use this > package with (default) python 2.4 or python 2.8 (which will NEVER be > released, BTW). dh_python2 will create simi

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/03/11 at 10:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:10 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > I prefer the situation where we empower users to make the switch if they > > decide to, to the situation where we arbitrarily decide that users > > should use Ruby 1.8 with no

Bug#616651: ITP: bool2cnf -- tool for converting a boolean formula into CNF

2011-03-06 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Krennwallner * Package name: bool2cnf Version : 20110304 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya * URL : http://www-ise4.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~t-tutiya/sources/bool2cnf/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Descrip

Using Git to maintain many small packages in a team?

2011-03-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, In the pkg-ruby-extras team, we are considering switching from svn-buildpackage to git. Does someone has feedback on this switch, in the context of teams maintaining many small packages? Specifically, I'm looking for a way to easy track all of the team's repositories, update them all, etc. I

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:58:47AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 06/03/11 at 10:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:10 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > I prefer the situation where we empower users to make the switch if they > > > decide to, to the situatio

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:58 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > You are just going to empower users to shoot themselves in the foot. > > What if users want the ability to shoot themselves in the foot? Currently you’re the one holding the weapon. > Also, you seem to assume that Ruby 1.9 is

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/03/11 at 11:22 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:58 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > You are just going to empower users to shoot themselves in the foot. > > > > What if users want the ability to shoot themselves in the foot? > > Currently you’re the one h

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 11:40 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > Note that, for applications written in Ruby and packaged in Debian, we > will make sure that they work no matter what /usr/bin/ruby points to (if > necessary, by forcing the shebang to ruby1.8, and installing the correct > dependen

Re: Using Git to maintain many small packages in a team?

2011-03-06 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 06/03/2011 11:12, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > In the pkg-ruby-extras team, we are considering switching from > svn-buildpackage to git. > > Does someone has feedback on this switch, in the context of teams > maintaining many small packages? We did that a few years back in the OCaml team, and it

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du dimanche 06 mars 2011, vers 11:40, Lucas Nussbaum disait : > Note that, for applications written in Ruby and packaged in Debian, we > will make sure that they work no matter what /usr/bin/ruby points to (if > necessary, by forcing the shebang to ruby1.

Re: Bug#615056: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-03-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 22:39 +0100 schrieb Michael Goetze: > regardless of the license it may be illegal to distribute this in Germany. I don't think this will be an issue. Installing the wolf4sdl package won't give you the whole game, only the engine. In order to actually play the game you'l

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-06 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 28.02.2011, 19:12 + schrieb Roger Leigh: > Agreed. Note that we now support strict 'first-only' alternatives > handling with the 'apt' and 'aptitude' resolvers. See the notes for > 0.60.0 and 0.60.1 pertaining to resolvers here: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=buildd-tools/s

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I have a bit a bad feeling about not being able to use alternatives in > build-depends. For example at the moment, we are renaming a self-hosting > compiler package from ghc6 to ghc. Previously, the dependency has been > on "ghc6". Now it i

Bug#616678: ITP: liblocale-maketext-simple-perl -- simple interface to Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

2011-03-06 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblocale-maketext-simple-perl Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Audrey Tang * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Make

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-06 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 06.03.2011, 16:41 +0100 schrieb Olaf van der Spek: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I have a bit a bad feeling about not being able to use alternatives in > > build-depends. For example at the moment, we are renaming a self-hosting > > compiler pac

Re: Using Git to maintain many small packages in a team?

2011-03-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Stéphane Glondu (glo...@debian.org): > > Specifically, I'm looking for a way to easy track all of the team's > > repositories, update them all, etc. It seems that the Debian Games team > > uses mr (according to http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS). Are there > > alternatives worth considering

Bug#616690: RFH: nfs-utils -- NFS support files common to client and server

2011-03-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the nfs-utils package. The package description is: Use this package on any machine that uses NFS, either as client or server. Programs included: lockd, statd, showmount, nfsstat, gssd and idmapd. This is co-maintained by An

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 04:22:01PM -0800, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Do you have concrete data to add here, apart from speculation? I > would be interested in such data (as the once and perhaps future > maintainer of fvwm in Debian). I have no idea whether it is pure speculation or wrong

Bug#616698: ITP: PythonQt -- Dynamic Python binding for the Qt framework

2011-03-06 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: PythonQt Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Florian Link * URL : http://pythonqt.sf.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Dynamic Python binding for the Qt fra

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Mar 06 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 04:22:01PM -0800, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Do you have concrete data to add here, apart from speculation? I >> would be interested in such data (as the once and perhaps future >> maintainer of fvwm in Debian). > > I ha

udev keeps device label - BUG?

2011-03-06 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear developers, I got the proble, that a once given label is stored by udev, although the label of the device is deleted by mlabel. Whenever I put it in, the device keeps its first given label, as it is stored in its database (I guess). Is there a way, to configure udev so, that labels (but U

Re: udev keeps device label - BUG?

2011-03-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 18:37 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Dear developers, > > I got the proble, that a once given label is stored by udev, although the > label of the device is deleted by mlabel. > > Whenever I put it in, the device keeps its first given label, as it is stored > in its databa

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
[Dropping the bug cc: again, I don't think that has anything to do with this question] On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:26:27PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > So in this case the pre-dependency > > should *not* be set, as it only serves to complicate the upgrade path. > I think this example might de

Unofficial Debian Monthly Testing Snapshot Release (version 2011.03 final)

2011-03-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi all, I am pleased to announce the very first unofficial Debian monthly testing snapshot release (version 2011.03). It is currently available in two flavors as mini iso images (for i386 and amd64 at 16 MiB each) downloadable from: http://alioth.debian.org/~gilbert-guest/snapshots/2011.03/debian-

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-03-06 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:17:36PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > [Bcc: all maintainers of GNOME applets] > > Hi, > > as it was already mentioned for other reasons, GNOME 3 is just around > the corner, and there are some big changes ahead. DO NOT PANIC: the > current desktop with gnome-panel an

Bug#617197: ITP: fparser -- Library to evaluate strings as mathematical functions

2011-03-06 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: fparser Version : 4.3 Upstream Author : Juha Nieminen (http://iki.fi/warp/), Joel Yliluoma (http://iki.fi/bisqwit/). * URL : http://warp.povusers.org/FunctionParser/ * License : LGPL-3.0+ Pr

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-03-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 18:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If you develop, maintain or use one of those packages, and you don’t > want it to disappear, your options are now: > > 1. Prepare to disable gnome-panel support (that’s for packages > which already have other options, such a

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Matthias, was this MBF announced & coordinated somewhere (and I simply missed that message) as specified in [1]? [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs Cheers, Sandro On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 00:47, Matthias Klose wrote: > Package: src:cssuti

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-06 Thread Anders Kaseorg
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > For packages in wheezy/sid, it's redundant because the versioned dependency > is already satisfied by the version of dpkg in squeeze, i.e., it's met even > before upgrading to wheezy or sid. I note that it’s potentially still relevant for the future Ubun

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 07 Mar 2011, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > > So in this case the pre-dependency should *not* be set, as it only > > serves to complicate the upgrade path. > > If this becomes the consensus of debian-devel, there are two things that > should probably be changed: > > • The section of the d

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.03.2011 07:53, schrieb Anders Kaseorg: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: >> For packages in wheezy/sid, it's redundant because the versioned dependency >> is already satisfied by the version of dpkg in squeeze, i.e., it's met even >> before upgrading to wheezy or sid. > > I note th

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 07 Mar 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello Matthias, > was this MBF announced & coordinated somewhere (and I simply missed > that message) as specified in [1]? He's the maintainer of python-central, he can certainly decide of its fate. While a review on -devel (and in general sharing ne

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/07/2011 07:57 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello Matthias, > was this MBF announced & coordinated somewhere (and I simply missed > that message) as specified in [1]? > > [1] > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs Although i appreciate that python-c

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:25:39AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 03/07/2011 07:57 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Hello Matthias, > > was this MBF announced & coordinated somewhere (and I simply missed > > that message) as specified in [1]? > > [1] > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 01:53:22AM -0500, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > > For packages in wheezy/sid, it's redundant because the versioned dependency > > is already satisfied by the version of dpkg in squeeze, i.e., it's met even > > before upgrading to wheezy