On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:13:51 +1000, Anthony Towns
said:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:21:08PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> But instead, what I'm led to wonder is if this is really standing up
> for our beliefs and fighting the good fight, or actually just trying
> to a
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:32:50 +1000, Anthony Towns
said:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:24:04PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> Several distros include non-free software, as long as it's
>> >> distributable.
>> > Debian's one of them -- we jus
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:59:08 +0100, Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-12 20:42:39]:
>> Well, a conference that is not affiliated with Debian, such a
>> requirement is not tenable, that is true. But if such a co
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:43:07 +0100, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Scripsit Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> This is a conference for Debian development. By definition, Debian
>> is 100%free. Am I mistaken in assuming that people contributing to
>
rograms
better.
Every bit of that applies to talks as well (thanks Colin
Walters), and I fail to see why this is also not something we should
strive for.
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ture branches, integration branches, and sloppy branches
while upgrading, and would not want to be forced to regress to a patch
system.
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:00:52 +, Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue Feb 05 00:51, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > If we can't figure out a good and clean way to keep a large stack
>> > of long-lived patches in the vcs then I firmly believe we
then
dump.
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valid test for dynamic motd updating
> - #438706: selinux-doc: Error in doc-base definition
> - #438887: refpolicy: Spurious "+" causes warnings when building
> #modules
> None of these bugs has seen any reaction from the package maintainers.
Mostly fixed.
en see
how to deal with any errors that arise on your machine. This is
where the most help is needed.
If people send in patches, I'll try to maintain a less than
seven day turn around time on them starting this weekend.
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r, and not because
of packaging, but because of the testing that needs to be done with any
change.
> So maybe it would be better to actually get some people involved in
> SELinux again.
That would indeed be nice.
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:10:19 +0100, Václav Ovsík <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:43:54PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I don't think Lenny is in shape for a release either. It took me
>> about a day to get most SELinux packages back up to
d and send me the diffs.
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What is the use case this effort is designed to address? I
have not actually heard NMU/porters express a need for converting
monolithic patches to patch series. Have I missed the need statements?
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:45:06 +0100, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:42:16AM +, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:12:00AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrot
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:24:12 +1100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.05.1751
> +1100]:
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:34:27 -0500, David Nusinow
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...]
>> &g
urrent feature branch C
compares to the second from last revisions of feature branch F.
I find comparing feature branches to each other as useful as
comparing them to upstream, personally.
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on the other hand, a dependent series of
linearized patches; and a change in an earlier feature impacts all
subsequent patches (and quilt is good at automating the handling of
that impact).
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:20:49 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.20.1722
> +0100]:
>> I have to take care of it manually once. That is the first time I
>> setup the integration branch t
tch series except in cases where human intervention is
indispensable anyway. I like that. I am lazy.
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:46:03 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:37:24AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:20:49 +0100, martin f krafft
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > That does not help me d
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:58:01 +0100, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:08:23PM +0000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:46:03 -0500, David Nusinow
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > On Fri, Feb 22,
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:20:55 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:08:23AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Now, you are trying to make me go towards a mechanism I think is
>> inferior (a liner, dependent, and in my opinion, opaque,
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:34:55 +1100, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > No matter what you want to say about your feature branches, you
>> >
se this
> sort of workflow could stick everything in a giant diff like we do
> now, so nothing would be lost.
Or have dpkg understand not just quilt, but git.
I mean, if we are making dpkg understand quilt-as-a-version-control
system, why not also have it grok a modern SCM lik
ature branches, and I
do not want to have to worry about integration all over again at every
upload.
Unless new information comes up on this thread, I am done.
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in. But it was a youthful
> penguin, rebelling against its genetic heritage.
Youthful, but with taste. I thought it gave us a better logo than
the somewhat blah swirl. But I lost that vote
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:04:21 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.22.1627
> +0100]:
>> I am not sure you have understood feature branches. They are
>> independent, no matter what the overl
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:35:13 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.25.0828
> +0100]:
>> I am not opposed to it. If you can somehow magically create a tool
>> that can linearize the feature
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:33:48 +0100, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:37:07AM +0000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:17:10 -0500, David Nusinow
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > On Sun, Feb
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> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:31:10PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:34:55 +1100, Ben Finney
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > Manoj Srivastava <[
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:04:10 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:56:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> No, it does not. If branch A has pi = 2.34567; and branch B has pi =
>> 3.14159;
>>
>> No matter how much quiltin
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:35:30 +1300, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> Feature branches don't magically allow you to avoid merge conflicts
>>> either, so this is a red herring. Once you've resolved the conflict,
>>> th
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:11:48 +1300, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> Yes. Feature branches are effectively forking a particular version
>>> of a project - this is not a problem, and is essential for efficient
>>> developmen
ption.
The downside, of course, is shipping the same patch twice, once
in the diff.gz, and once in ./debian/branches/*.diff.gz.
Comments welcome.
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ome people use quilt. Some of us
do not. Unless there is a way to generate a quilt series for the rest
of us easily, we are not going to have quilt in all source packages.
Why is this so hard to understand?
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:21:03 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.29.2153
> +0100]:
>> 3) I propose ./debian/branches/{TopicA,TopicB,TopicC}.diff.gz
>> files. Each diff, applied to the orig.t
nks
that useless conformity comes close to foolish consistency, and I am
opposed to hobgoblins.
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easier, but since I do not see much of a difficulty with unclean
history, I am not sure I find this argument persuasive.
Now, having bisecability could be useful (I have never used a
bisect); I don't know what the effect of a version that does not
compile or is otherwise buggy would have on the work flow.
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:34:38 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi,
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I am beginning to come back from a deadline crunch on my day job, and
>> start paying attention to my Debian packages again; so hopefully
, that people on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> will fix my ideas how to the Debian-specific changes. :)
Well, you could always file wishlist bugs on Debian packages,
you know.
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e tool capable of backup extended attributes
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454745).
Perhaps a wish list bug is in order?
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verhead of a strict
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ktop, maybe mentionning that it is also a development tool and
> it is not inteded for normal use would do the job…
Well, I guess we could, but then I think we would also be
unnecessarily alarmist.
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On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:21:51 +0200, Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:14:50PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:20:56 +0200, Bernhard R Link
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > Here I have to contradict. N
user interactions in this script happen via
debconf. This script can then eventually be called from the preinst
hook.
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> cdbs-buildpackage ;-)
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linux-dev needs to depend on
pkg-config. Or even recommend it.
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> * Manoj Srivastava
>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:15:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > You are missing the point.
>>
>> > Wh
ponse must have been received (or a paraphrase); what
happens then the response is missing?
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:17:34 +0200, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:44:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during
>> >> > build"?
>> >>
&
, I do not think that is
accurate. Packages licensed under the GFDL are already in Debian, as
long as they do not contain any invariant parts.
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, independently, and easily; this is terribly hard to do with
quilt.
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ream, one audience does not like rebases, the
other thrives on it. See
http://www.golden-gryphon.com/software/misc/packaging.html#sec-5.4
for details on this scheme.
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Following this simple rule is what we normally do.
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rly identified patches* to the upstream source tree.
I find a quilt series to not fit the bill very well. On the
other hand, creating ./debian/topics/foo/ with a git-format-patch
series for each branch in there might be doable -- but then, these
individual patches might not apply cle
On Fri, 16 May 2008 15:49:25 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Create a submission branch. There are two audiences for your work;
>> one is downstream (which includes the integration branch for Debian),
&g
-cover-letter \
-o debian/topics/$branch/ master..$branch
done
I am not yet sure I like the --cover-letter bit, though.
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On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:40:43 +0200, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Le vendredi 16 mai 2008 à 17:08 -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
>> diffing the tips of branches in a SCM has been far more friendly. So
>> I find my old and new SCM's preferable to a
ways for telling end users where to get the development
sources from? We might want to see if we should shipt the VCS-* headers
in the Packages file, but I thought we are trying to standardize
publication of DVCS repositories in Debian now.
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hich is why we can get away with fewer branches
than we can with quilt patches. Or else make our quilt patches less
easy to understand and test.
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not use quilt. Seems like you should
be concerned about changes made to upstream, period, regardless of
whether the changes are recorded in quilt or not.
Am I missing something?
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in this example the conflict
resolution is trivial. Can you demonstrate a tool that will correctly
generate a quilt series from these branches?
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On Mon, 19 May 2008 17:29:13 +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:58:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:42:54 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> Hmm. You say things
On Tue, 20 May 2008 08:00:48 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:42:54 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> Hmm. You say things
On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:44:44 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:58:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> And then you go saying things like that:
>> > It is trivial to generate a quilt format package from
>> > g
dency to feel you are superior to most computers.
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age of Web 2.0,
requiring an intrnet connection is not an anathema; and neither is
shipping the sources in 3.0 (git) format, though I do believe people
disagree.
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conclusions in face of what the
developers tell them makes it their problem.
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:23:52 -0700, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon June 2 2008 18:52:29 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:22:28 -0700, Mike Bird
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > A thing is best characterized by what it does and ho
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:19:16 -0700, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon June 2 2008 20:52:03 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> The version of Debian that is intended for general use is the one we
>> call stable.
>>
>> There are other distribution
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:05:45 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I thought I had answered that. The only version that th project
>> releases for end users is stable.
> Debian has been releasing versions of testing for end users for
one to
the extent of repacking upstream sources to delete the ./debian
directory, though mostly one can get away with overriding some files,
and removing others in the clean target.
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out the issue. I have a few pet peeves with Lintian myself.
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bash anywa, and so far have not needed dash -- so adding dash _adds_ to
the bloat).
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>> what /bin/sh is, that's fine. However, that's not obvious to me.
>
> As long as /bin/sh refuses extensions to posix I agree with you, but
> bashism has been a cuss word for years before 2004.
Source? Policy does not even ban bashims for m
orked. Admittedly, /bin/sh is rather more critical to get right, but I
think we have the ability to craft a solution to do so.
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On Thu, Jul 23 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 21 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>>>
>>> The goal of dropping bash from essential is not to remove bash from the
>>> systems (or from Debian), it is about making pa
On Thu, Jul 23 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I think we can engineer a system where Debian suggests various
>> shells as the default shell, and the user selects one. And only the
>> selected default shell is one that can't be removed from the sy
s the format, I
don't see a difference in accuracy. It is a different proposal, though.
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e ought to have a
more generic approach that allows shells other than dash/bash to be the
default shell, and that the vendor not make the choice.
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On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:10:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > We want everyone to use dash by default.
>
>> Who is we? Why is the sysadmin not the one making the decision?
>> Why is the Vendor making
On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:20:05PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > But well, one of the ideas is to avoid having such extra stuff deeply
>> > tied to the core system, i.e. essential.
>
>> That's it? T
On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:04:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> >> If the answer is that we really do want it everywhere independent of
>> >> what /bin/sh is, that's fine. However, that's not obvious
On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:04:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
>>
>> I do not see an increase of accuracy in going from:
>>a set of RFC-2822 compliant fields
>> to
>>a set of fields simi
inside a Xen fullvirt guest.
This sounds cool. Does it support user-mode-linux as well?
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On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:31:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> I think you are not going far enough. Why should I have dash on
>> the system when my default shell is posh? or (gasp) zsh?
>
> Why would you set yo
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