Re: common CLI conventions?

2011-09-20 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 20/09/11 08:57, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : > I wonder, is there a kind of reference of the common command > line interface conventions that the CLI's of the software > included in Debian should adhere to? No. The only requirement is the availability of a manpage. Regards.

Re: common CLI conventions?

2011-09-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:57:54 +0700 Ivan Shmakov wrote: > I wonder, is there a kind of reference of the common command > line interface conventions that the CLI's of the software > included in Debian should adhere to? One which is possible to support in all interpreted languages

Re: common CLI conventions?

2011-09-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:57:54PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > I wonder, is there a kind of reference of the common command > line interface conventions that the CLI's of the software > included in Debian should adhere to? We already have every popular style of command line inte

Bug#642198: ITP: r8168 -- dkms source for the r8168 network driver

2011-09-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Beckmann * Package name: r8168 Version : 8.025.00 Upstream Author : Realtek NIC software team * URL : http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Re: common CLI conventions?

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:43:03 +0100 Lars Wirzenius wrote: > (I'd love for us to mandate GNU command line parsing, but it's not > realistic.) Well, at least we can send patches upstream. I guess that adding --option=... syntax won't break any existing users, for example, as well as adding

alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has been worked around by having the package outside of main as alternative dependency and a package in main offer basic functionality for the package to still

Re: Could the multiarch wiki page be explicit about pkgconfig files?

2011-09-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 19/09/2011 10:24, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Vincent Danjean > > | I already raise (without answer) the question when is not > | (if I recall correctly, this is the case for the i386 > | Debian architecture). > > $triplet really means $multiarchdir in my text. /usr/share/pkg-config-cros

Re: Depends: logrotate (forever and ever and ever)

2011-09-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 20/09/2011 08:42, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Well, there's seems to be a consensus on this issue. What's > next? Should this thread be summarized into a Wiki page? > Should the bug reports be filed against the respective packages? I would say bugs on affected packages and a patch

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Dear Gerfried, Gerfried Fuchs schrieb am 20.09.2011 13:12: > Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on > packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has been > worked around by having the package outside of main as alternative > dependency and a package in m

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >  tl;dr - what do you think, is a "Depends: foo-contrib | foo" acceptable > for packages in main or should it be "Depends: foo | foo-contrib" > instead? I vote: Package: bar Depends: foo Package: foo-contrib Provides: foo -- bye, pabs h

Bug#642208: ITP: opengtl -- Set of library for using transformation algorithms

2011-09-20 Thread Jan Kriho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: opengtl Version: 0.9.15.1 Upstream Author: Cyrille Berger URL: http://opengtl.org License: LGPL Description: library for using t

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/20/2011 08:43 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Package: bar > Depends: foo > > Package: foo-contrib > Provides: foo While that neatly sidesteps the issue, 7.5 says: To specify which of a set of real packages should be the default to

Re: Bug#642198: ITP: r8168 -- dkms source for the r8168 network driver

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Tuesday 20 September 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andreas Beckmann > > * Package name: r8168 > Version : 8.025.00 > Upstream Author : Realtek NIC software team > * URL : > http://www.realtek.com/downloads/download

Re: Bug#642198: ITP: r8168 -- dkms source for the r8168 network driver

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 14:23 +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Tuesday 20 September 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Andreas Beckmann > > > > * Package name: r8168 > > Version : 8.025.00 > > Upstream Author : Realtek

Re: How to coordinate a DVD burn program with udev ?

2011-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i managed to work around the problem - at least on my system. There are at least two oddities involved - If the kernel events happen, then always on open(). But it is quite unpredictable whether they happen at all. xorriso and program "eject" have a higher probability to trigger kernel

Fast track learning of ExtJS - Exclusive Training Online

2011-09-20 Thread Sulabh J
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Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Luk Claes
On 09/20/2011 01:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! Hi > Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on > packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has been > worked around by having the package outside of main as alternative > dependency and a packag

Bug#642244: ITP: libtie-simple-perl -- Tie made easy

2011-09-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtie-simple-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tie-Si

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-09-20 at 07:41pm, Luk Claes wrote: > On 09/20/2011 01:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Hi! > > Hi > > > Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on > > packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has > > been worked around by having the packa

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 07:41:11PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > On 09/20/2011 01:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on > > packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has been > > worked around by having the package outside

packages under the AGPL-3 license

2011-09-20 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Fellow Devs, I am working on packaging the LIO tools [1]. The userspace component is licensed under AGPL-3. As per Debian bug #621462, the license is not part of common-licenses because there aren't many consumers for it, yet. I plan to document the license in the debian/copyright file and

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:12:37PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > tl;dr - what do you think, is a "Depends: foo-contrib | foo" acceptable > for packages in main or should it be "Depends: foo | foo-contrib" > instead? I think the first form above ("foo-contrib | foo") is not acceptable. My argumen

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > While that neatly sidesteps the issue, 7.5 says: > >     To specify which of a set of real packages should be the default to >     satisfy a particular dependency on a virtual package, list the real >     package as an alternative before the

Re: packages under the AGPL-3 license

2011-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:28:26AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >> I am working on packaging the LIO tools [1]. The userspace component is >> licensed under AGPL-3. >> As per Debian bug #621462, the license is not part of common-licenses >> because there aren't ma

Re: packages under the AGPL-3 license

2011-09-20 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 14:25 -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: > I personally consider 1000 packages to be the appropriate level for > considering including something new in common-licenses, but I'm fairly > conservative on that front. The closest (by far) of the licenses not > already listed ther

Re: Bug#642198: ITP: r8168 -- dkms source for the r8168 network driver

2011-09-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-09-20 14:30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 14:23 +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: >> Personally speaking I'd assume this package would create much more >> problems than it would solve, due to the PCI ID overlap with r8169.ko >> shipped by the kernel packages themselves

Re: packages under the AGPL-3 license

2011-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:25:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Actually, based on the surveys I've done of licensing information, I >> think it's unlikely that the AGPL will ever become that popular of a >> license. I doubt it will even pass the GFDL, which we prob

Re: packages under the AGPL-3 license

2011-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Benjamin Drung writes: > Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 14:25 -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> I personally consider 1000 packages to be the appropriate level for >> considering including something new in common-licenses, but I'm fairly >> conservative on that front. The closest (by far) of the lice

Bug#642268: ITP: quickfix -- FIX protocol library

2011-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: quickfix Version : 1.13.3 Upstream Author : Oren Miller * URL : http://www.quickfixengine.org/index.html * License : BSD w/ advertisin

Bug#642282: ITP: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server -- libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server is an Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policies.

2011-09-20 Thread Daniel Kauffman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Packaging Team * Package name: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server Version : 0.0.1 Copyright : Rock Solid Innovations, LLC * URL : http://socketpolicyserver.com * License : Apache License Version 2.0 Progr