Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:41:54 +0100 Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:14:18 +0100 > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > No it does not work like you said. We know the matrix structure, not > > > the kernel. We map and unmap manually. Doing as you said is > > > inneficient an

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 07:41:54AM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:14:18 +0100 > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > This is getting insane. Please learn how to use madvise and > > posix_fadvise and let the kernel deal with paging. The kernel knows > > everything about the underlying

Re: Want to become a DM and co-maintainer

2011-11-15 Thread olivier sallou
2011/11/12 Svante Signell > Hi, > > Where/how to apply to become a co-maintainer and a maintainer? The > packages I'm interested into start with are: gnuradio and octave. > Additionally, I have not found any package for USRP yet. > At first, you will have to maintain package via a sponsor or a t

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:48:57AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > > > Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both > > projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that > > shouldn't be viewed in terms of "look

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Joey Hess writes: > AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update > download size by 3.6 MB. > > Also, it seems unlikely this will ever allow apt to skip downloading the > English files, unless translations somehow get to, and stay at 100% Switching to xz compressi

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread Aneurin Price
On 15 November 2011 08:17, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:41:54 +0100 > Andrew Shadura wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:14:18 +0100 >> Josselin Mouette wrote: >> >> > > No it does not work like you said. We know the matrix structure, not >> > > the kernel. We map an

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ansgar wrote: >Joey Hess writes: >> AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update >> download size by 3.6 MB. >> >> Also, it seems unlikely this will ever allow apt to skip downloading the >> English files, unless translations somehow get to, and stay at 100% > >Swi

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle"): > I agree. One possiblity when packages A and B conflict for a program name > would be to rename, but in addition to provide a wrapper that executes the > program from A when only A is installed, from B when only B is ins

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Wise writes: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > >> Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both >> projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that >> shouldn't be viewed in terms of "look at what those meanies in Debian >> are making

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 03:33:02PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Furthermore, packages in Debian are - to the best of my knowledge - > adapted already to use /usr/bin/nodejs, packages outside can still work > unmodified, if the user makes a simple symlink. Document this, and all's > well. I don't t

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 13:34, Ian Jackson wrote: > Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle"): > > I agree. One possiblity when packages A and B conflict for a program name > > would be to rename, but in addition to provide a wrapper that executes the > > program fr

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Pennace wrote: > Clearly, the nodejs community would not be pleased. On the other hand, > the AX25 community would not be pleased about being forced to rename > if it fell on them. So the real question is which community should > bear the costs of resolving this conflict? > > At this stage, i

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:34:03 +, Aneurin Price wrote: ... > I think this discussion needs a sanity check. > > Please remember, the topic of conversation is whether an application > can reasonably make the assumption that the system defined tmp > directory is a suitable place to store temporar

Re: Is anyone maintaining (the ham radio tool) node?

2011-11-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-11-09 at 08:33am, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-11-08, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > > I hope to avoid any issues with breaking old boxes with the eventual > > resolution of the issue. > > I don't know what's wrong with Jonathan Nieder's advise in [0] about > helping users with the conversio

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2011-11-15 Thread Richard
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Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] sean finney | export PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:$PATH | | and problem solved, right? PATH isn't considered for #! lines, so not really. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Aneurin Price wrote: > I think this discussion needs a sanity check. > > Please remember, the topic of conversation is whether an application > can reasonably make the assumption that the system defined tmp > directory is a suitable place to store temporary data. /tmp in RAM

Using Qt debug libraries without configure and qmake

2011-11-15 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, I need your advise on how to deal with the way Debian packages the debug version of Qt libraries. I'm trying to package an existing software that includes a small Qt application. The software is not using autotools or qmake but fixed Makefiles. Building the release version is accomplished by

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yaroslav Halchenko writes: > Thank you John for extending my argument with adequate references which > I have swallowed while composing my question email. > > And if we are after reading FHS /usr/lib section: > > /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that > are

libconfig9 for Wheezy?

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan McCrohan
Hi, libconfig [1] has not been updated since Squeeze, and is lagging upstream by a major version. Packaging the upstream release is not a problem, but an ABI change will require a transition from libconfig8 to libconfig9. The maintainer is aware of the problem, and this has been tracked as wishl

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joerg Jaspert writes: > I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without > the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now > written into a new file, the "English Translation" file in > "main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2". They thus appear alongside all other

Re: libconfig9 for Wheezy?

2011-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 06:15:48PM +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: > Hi, > > libconfig [1] has not been updated since Squeeze, and is lagging > upstream by a major version. > > Packaging the upstream release is not a problem, but an ABI change will > require a transition from libconfig8 to libcon

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] sean finney > > | export PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:$PATH > | > | and problem solved, right? > > PATH isn't considered for #! lines, so not really. It is if you use #!/usr/bin/env node -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org

Re: Sharing data between maintainer scripts and debian/rules

2011-11-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams writes: > We've a few native packages which handle data in package-specific > directories under /var/lib/. It would be convenient to specify the name > of this directory in debian/rules as a -D define to the compiler > (because it's native) and then pass that into the relevant maint

Re: Using Qt debug libraries without configure and qmake

2011-11-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:12:10 +0100 Malte Forkel wrote: > I need your advise on how to deal with the way Debian packages the debug > version of Qt libraries. Debugging symbols exist in the libqt4-dbg package. When building your own code, it is just a case of ensuring that the flags are passed to

Re: Using Qt debug libraries without configure and qmake

2011-11-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 at 19:02:48 +, Neil Williams wrote: > Fix the rest of the flags. In most cases, what you're thinking of as > the "release" build may actually contain debug symbols which dh_strip > would then put into a dbg package. What matters (the only thing > which matters) is exactly wh

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread bastien ROUCARIES
Le Monday 14 November 2011 00:14:18, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > Le dimanche 13 novembre 2011 à 23:20 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit : > > No it does not work like you said. We know the matrix structure, not > > the kernel. We map and unmap manually. Doing as you said is > > inneficient and tras

Processed: Re: /usr/include/features.h(323): catastrophic error: could not open source file "bits/predefs.h"

2011-11-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # affects most development libraries, not just libc > reassign 648889 general Bug #648889 [libc6-dev] /usr/include/features.h(323): catastrophic error: could not open source file "bits/predefs.h" Bug reassigned from package 'libc6-dev' to 'genera

Bug#648896: ITP: kup -- kernel.org upload tool

2011-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings * Package name: kup Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : H. Peter Anvin * URL : git://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/kup/kup.git * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : kernel.org upload tool T

Re: libconfig9 for Wheezy?

2011-11-15 Thread Jose Luis Tallón
El 15/11/11 19:29, Ben Hutchings escribió: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 06:15:48PM +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: Hi, libconfig [1] has not been updated since Squeeze, and is lagging upstream by a major version. Packaging the upstream release is not a problem, but an ABI change will require a tran

perl transition underway; breakage with libjson-pp-perl

2011-11-15 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:59:19PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > As per #637809, I plan to upload perl 5.14 to unstable soon (maybe today, > depending on how some last bits of testing go). Like last time, this > will mean that a large number (~ 470) of packages will need to be binNMUed > by th

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
I still think that is disagreeing with thought using /tmp is a bad idea is a good idea and agree with the people who are against. debian-devel@lists.debian.orgAneurin Price wrote: On 15 November 2011 08:17, Neil Williams wrote: Do not cripple all platforms with the sins of the weakest. M

Bug#648909: ITP: phlipple -- reduce 3D shapes to a single square

2011-11-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz * Package name: phlipple Version : 0.8.2 Upstream Author : Remigiusz Dybka * URL : http://phuzzboxmedia.com/games/phlipple * License : GPL 3.0 or above Programming Lang: C Description : reduce 3D sha

Bug#648889: /usr/include/features.h(323): catastrophic error: could not open source file "bits/predefs.h"

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Wolfgang Tichy wrote: > Thanks for your answer. I think the intel compiler does support the -B > and -I options. So I think your suggestion would work. However, I am > not sure if I like this solution. It's only a workaround. A fix would involve contacting the Intel developers to get icc to sear

Re: libconfig9 for Wheezy?

2011-11-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
CC'ing mentors, as this issue seems to be blocked by a missing sponsor. On Mi, Nov 16, 2011 at 00:20:16 (CET), Jose Luis Tallón wrote: > El 15/11/11 19:29, Ben Hutchings escribió: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 06:15:48PM +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> libconfig [1] has not been upda

Re: Bug#648896: ITP: kup -- kernel.org upload tool

2011-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 06:53 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Mi, Nov 16, 2011 at 00:05:58 (CET), Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Ben Hutchings > > > > * Package name: kup > > Version : 0.2 > > Upstream Author : H. Peter Anvin > > * UR

Re: Bug#648896: ITP: kup -- kernel.org upload tool

2011-11-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mi, Nov 16, 2011 at 00:05:58 (CET), Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ben Hutchings > > * Package name: kup > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : H. Peter Anvin > * URL : git://git.zytor.com/users/hpa/kup/kup.git The URL is not a web