Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lennart Sorensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080415 22:26]: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:03:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080415 20:34]: > > > Description: The toolchain should be ready to handle libraries and > > >inc

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
ce if somebody would grab this up - at least the idea will not just vanish now it is stored somewhere ... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, it is the third time that I've got this type of rejection. I faced it two times with package gnumed-client and now with a different package. Is anybody able to explain this and how can I avoid the problem. I just builded the package with an up to date pbuilder. Puzzled An

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
help. Of course, he and I both became very busy and so it sort of fell by the wayside. However, I have my projects much better in hand this year and I intend to resurrect the idea early this summer. Cool. Really cool. I've changed the contact address Andreas put there into &qu

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
achine and regarded pbuilder as a very nice way to maintain a proper unstable chroot. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
assumption was just wrong and the local devscripts are involved in finally preparing the package. I never have really thought about this ... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP-master & DAM delegations

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
tions to old DPL and new FTP-master / DAM. The new DPL will have a hard time to beat this success - good luck anyway! It's fun to be in Debian these days Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

${devlibs:Depends} results in libstdc++6-4.1-dev

2008-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
idea what went wrong here? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: ${devlibs:Depends} results in libstdc++6-4.1-dev

2008-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
| grep Version Version: 3.4.6-6 I get even at these days 3.4.6 (which is strange anyway) but which gives no explanation for the 4.1 dependency I faced. This is simply strange. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/04/msg00559.html -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
le to understand. I think it is better to explain before such things happen. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
refuse proper communication. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ${devlibs:Depends} results in libstdc++6-4.1-dev

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: I get even at these days 3.4.6 (which is strange anyway) but which gives no explanation for the 4.1 dependency I faced. Hi, I just found out the reason for the problem and most probably it is really the same reason as reported in bug If I apply the

Re: Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
ear your opinion what you regard as the best way to provide the relevant information to the user. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: intend to hijack GnuPG

2008-04-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Clint Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080419 19:00]: > [moving to -devel to make Christian happy] > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:57:44AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > And, BTW, most of us (including me) have a paid dayjob, and are of > > course active on that one for the

Re: intend to hijack GnuPG

2008-04-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Daniel Leidert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080419 17:51]: > x-post, fup2 debian-devel if possible > Am Samstag, den 19.04.2008, 09:57 +0200 schrieb Andreas Barth: > > * Laszlo Boszormenyi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080419 07:42]: > > > I intend to hijack GnuPG[1], but as it builds an

Bug#477699: unreproducible

2008-04-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
that generates /usr/include/GL in its postinst without specifying the mode. cu andreas [1] libdevel/freeglut3-dev libdevel/libglc-dev libdevel/libgle3-dev libdevel/libglew1.5-dev libdevel/libglpng-dev libdevel/libglu1-mesa-dev libdevel/libglw1-mesa-dev libdevel/libosmesa6-dev libdevel/mesa-common-de

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
z 344K/org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.diff/ cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latest sid image is broken?

2008-05-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
many packages would need to be uninstalled. http://wiki.debian.org/Perl5.10Transition cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
and the question was whether the pts only adds the header to e-mails generated by its own scripts or also to stuff received by mail. (I have no idea whether this even a correct dichotomy) cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
oo-daemon before the package is unpacked. I think there is some example code using dpkg-query in wiki.d.o. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Tille
n distributions - which is even worse. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Tille
this color scheme is useful and working. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs.php -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Tille
I rebuild a package but not to what's in .diff.gz only. If I inspect an unknown package I always do zgrep "^+++ " *.diff.gz | grep -v "/debian/" and I wonder whether I should file a bug report against "dpkg-source -x" to do this by default. Kind regards

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Tille
as long as I get a list of patched files brought up to my intention immediately. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deactivated native samba support in mc

2008-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
to join this effort start a "High noon commander" project or whatever you might call it. ;-) There are so many people working with Midnight Commander - I can not really believe that this effort to revitalise development should fail. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
this case, did not checked). Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
are "hidden" anywhere in the upstream code some developers fail to realise this and my suggestion might help noticing this fact. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
call a reasonable habit that might help others. I just wonder why we currently discuss Mailing List netiqette instead of the current issue. I do so as well, but my 'd'-key works perfectly for this kind of subjects ... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBS

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
t your favourite VCS of the day (yes I've also read the hint about bazaar "loom" feature comming soon) if an apt-get source which I regard THE method the obtain a Debian package source gives no better hints about patches in the upstream source. Kind regards Andre

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
ult. Would you regard this as a useful bug report or not? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: ke, 2008-05-21 kello 09:09 +0200, Andreas Tille kirjoitti: Would you regard this as a useful bug report or not? I think that would be a rather excellently useful bug report. OK, so I will go on filing it this way. The only way to improve it

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
s - I just thought that the idea would add some tiny bit to help in the problem we detected. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
are enough threads running and after having filed the bug I turned my idea into the shape I wanted it to be. The dpkg-dev maintainers will decide ... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Bombe
nothing, as the process's whole memory space gets unmapped on exit no matter its contents (including the state of the malloc implementation's allocation management structures). -- Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG key 0x04880A44 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#482921: Bug#482902: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages

2008-05-25 Thread Andreas Barth
upport for 64-bit glibc (while we have a 32 bit port) is a reason to drop the port. Hppa-porters, do you have any opinion on that? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-06-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
ough to be analyzed manually. This does not work if you have got backports.org in sources.list and are using pinning to only pull selected packages from bpo. The above commandline will show any packages available in bpo, since it is upgradeable. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, D

Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

2008-06-03 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 08:58:54PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > Fine. Although it always annoyed me that my $HOME filled up with > spurious dotfiles whose origin I'm not necessarily sure of, and that a > good installer could know to remove them if the package were purged. It's important to di

[Help] Re: Bug#484167: cdd-common: missing directory when installing

2008-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
-menu: line 11: /etc/cdd/cdd.conf: No such file or directory Processing triggers for man-db ... # dpkg --configure --pending Setting up cdd-common (0.5.1) ... Thanks for your input on this issue Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Triggers in menu

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
necessary for every change in /usr/{lib,share}/menu??? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Triggers in menu

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
-menus while only one is really needed (except I'm missing something). Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Triggers in menu

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
) I definitely doubt that because there is no other explanation for #484167. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Triggers in menu

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
it is not what I mean. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Triggers in menu

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
(and to exit 0) or whether there is something seriousely broken (and exit something else than 0). Any hint? Kind regards Andreas. PS: Did anybody made some stats about the amount of time which is wasted by a typical installation when upgrading from Etch to Lenny because of th

Any alternative for snapshot.debian.net?

2008-06-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the time travel device snapshot.debian.net has proven to be very useful. Unfortunately it seem to be not updated any more. Is there any alternative? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Correct way to rename a binary package

2008-06-13 Thread Andreas Tille
this is an alternative solution if there was no such package in any stable release) you should use this conflicts. In addition you should think about Provides: cl-hunchentoot if there are other packages that depend from the former package. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.

RFH: curl, c-ares and ipv6

2008-06-25 Thread Andreas Schuldei
tal[1] and verify that the test mentioned in #481189 works now? Does it fail on other ipv6 (or other NORMAL) operations? /andreas [1] I just uploaded them, it might take them a moment to show up for you. Please come back later. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: RFH: curl, c-ares and ipv6

2008-06-26 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Yves-Alexis Perez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080626 08:42]: > On jeu, 2008-06-26 at 00:28 +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > Hi! > > > > As a solution for "#481189 curl: cannot connect to IPv6 hosts > > anymore" I added a patch to hook curl to c-ares even f

Re: RFH: curl, c-ares and ipv6

2008-06-26 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Luca Bruno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080626 09:57]: > Rebuilt from incoming for i386, it seems to work here too: good. thanks! > I've also seen that -4 doesn't really force ipv4 resolution and connection: great that you thought of testing that, too. It is entirely possible that there are more cases

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
ge installs? Honestly, I think so. Especially new users who are not yet comfortable with the fact that in Debian most things went very smoothly and you do not need to observe continuosely. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
e" as a thrilling enhancement in the release notes of Lenny (at least if until then are no effective means done to prevent running triggers so frequently = #473461 is fixed). In other words in my eyes #473461 should not be wishlist but grave. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fa

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: to, 2008-07-03 kello 08:24 +0200, Andreas Tille kirjoitti: /me as a completely uneducated apt / aptitude user thinks: Triggers have done more harm than good. I haven't been following trigger adoption very much, so I'm ignorant: what

upgrade problems switching from conflictiong to depending packages

2008-07-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
re is lot I *could* to change. The behavior is easy to reproduce: apt-get install lynx-cur=2.8.7dev9-1 ; apt-get install lynx=2.8.6-2.1 dist-upgrade to the packages on http://www.bebt.de/debian/lynx-cur/ thanks, cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends

Re: upgrade problems switching from conflictiong to depending packages

2008-07-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I found this when trying to solve #369386. There seems to be a problem > when trying to go from two conflicting packages to a dummy package and > the prefered one: [...] I seem to have wrongly diagnosed the problem. The ac

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
d'' is always a good match > but there's no mandatory ``debian/rules patch'' > Is the ``build'' rule mandatory? I don't even know > it seems to work for most packages, though [...] "patch" indeded is the standard way nowadays. See po

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
ective entry in policy. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
idl=$(ls /etc/init.d/${service} 2> /dev/null | head -n 1) > + idl="/etc/init.d/${service}" > if [ -n "$idl" ] && [ -x $idl ]; then >services="$service $services" > else Hello, FWIW the $(...) constr

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-06 Thread Andreas Tille
involving an > intermediate place where maintainers could push their meta-data, does anybody > think about an alternative? Andreas Tille suggested me the Package Entropy > Tracker, but it would limit the system to packages hosted in a Subversion > repository. This said, since many of the pac

Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
s is and whether my idea above really makes sense. Kind regards Andreas. PS: Steffen, depending from the answer above the "Enhanced-By" field might become redundant because we can obtain this information from UDD automatically - provided that the packages in question are fea

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
ols that are enabling to install the suggested packages - but out of completeness I would have expected such a switch somehow) and so I will probably even less be able to do apt-get --consider-enhances install or so. Is there any tool that parses the Enhances field and enables any action accoridng

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
on was whether there is a technical implementation of the *Enhances* field. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Ändern! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
we are targeting for in the Blends effort. Besides watching those Enhancing packages in our bugs view we might consider adding a specific lower priority status on the tasks pages but I have not yet made up my mind about this. Please correct me if my considerations are wrong or if my inte

Re: Help needed on mipsel #541706: gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1(mipsel/unstable)

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Moog
es&ver=0.1.7-2+b1 > > Help? The Ubuntu Bug Report https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/415536 deals with the same issue. There is a debdiff attached which regenerates the autoconf files and fixes the FTBFS. Another way to fix this is to have the scripts use /bin/bash as shell (as Dani

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
(followup from -release, text from there is reused, so if you read -release things are not too new for you) Hi, from time to time we have "funny" RC bugs thanks to dependencies hidden in .la-files. Also these files lead to unneeded dependencies between packages (in the case package A needs lib B

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julien BLACHE (jbla...@debian.org) [090823 11:53]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > send a mail to d-d-a with "how to do it" and a list of affected > > packages, and then step-by-step file the appropriate bug reports > > (only for packages which can dump their la-file).

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
n has already thought > about using some > (not necessarily syntactially identical) term or combination of terms, then, > well, sure, > let us use the Debian one(s) and transfer the information into debian/control > or > elsewhere. I don't think we are there, yet. Please ve

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
Which is why Tom has copied their sourcecode into rsa.(h|c). I agree that all this should at least be separared clearly (like gnulib/) in the pdkim distributions, be it just for easy updates. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julien BLACHE (jbla...@debian.org) [090823 11:53]: > Please go ahead with that. It's going to be much much easier to remove > the .la files if we have a coordinated effort and it'll greatly reduce > the potential for breakages. So, I have now a first list of affected packages (see below). This l

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090824 22:25]: > So I'd recommend maintainers of packages with: > > 1. "no flag" to remove the la-file on next occasion > > 2. only "dependency_libs" to remove their la-file RSN, because they >block removal of

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Yves-Alexis Perez (cor...@debian.org) [090825 10:31]: > On lun, 2009-08-24 at 22:25 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > 2. only "dependency_libs" to remove their la-file RSN, because they > >block removal of the la-files on another package (this flag can be > &

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) [090825 10:28]: > Le lundi 24 août 2009 à 22:25 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > gnome-applets: > > This is a false positive. xmodmap.la is about the “la” locale, it’s not > a libtool file. Thanks. I think I'll exclude the directory

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org) [090825 12:18]: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:05:44 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) [090825 10:28]: > > > Le lundi 24 août 2009 à 22:25 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > > > gnome-applets:

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090825 00:46]: > * Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090824 22:25]: > > So I'd recommend maintainers of packages with: > > > > 1. "no flag" to remove the la-file on next occasion > > > > 2. only "

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org) [090825 21:05]: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 20:55:04 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org) [090825 12:18]: > > > You should exclude anything that isn't /usr/lib IMO. > > > > And not /li

Re: Bits from the release team: Release goals, schedule, state of the union

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steffen Joeris (steffen.joe...@skolelinux.de) [090826 08:53]: > For kernel-security support, we have Dann Frazier in the security team, who > is > also working in the kernel team (and of course other kernel team members > might > help on security behind the curtain). So your basic concern is

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-08-29 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On måndagen den 24 augusti 2009, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> On a sidenote, is the cause for this ITP just exim or is general >> interest in this library? > Primarily for Exim. Also because I already maintain a couple of DKIM-relate

Bug#544615: ITP: ikarus -- Native code compiler for R6RS Scheme

2009-09-01 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Rottmann * Package name: ikarus Version : 0.0.3+bzr1851 Upstream Author : Abdulaziz Ghuloum * URL : http://ikarus-scheme.org/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Scheme, C Description : Native code

Manually providing popcon data (Was: Future of the s390 port)

2009-09-03 Thread Andreas Tille
machines with no means to send mails. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Ändern! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [090919 01:08]: > I'll put blocks in my hint file to be sure that both those packages will > migrate in testing together (I'm unsure if britney is clever enough to > block them until all the binNMUs are done, I don't think it is). Then > please ask for binNMU

Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
re not available in stable this would be an interesting thing. 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. Kind

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

2009-09-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:24:46AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > Sounds like you think it's a good idea. Why not do it and let us know > how you get on? One point for you beeing the first raising this killer argument. ;-) Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Änder

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [...] > - Archive section (i.e. Frankie's proposal): would ftp-master (Cc-ed) > be willing to pursue that road? [...] I always thought dummy transitional packages were supposed to be in section oldlibs anyway. cu andre

Re: Policy §10.4 as a d ivergence from usptrea m (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
ebian only have to do > PATH=/usr/share/package/bin:$PATH The problem is: A user has to read the docs before and adding this to the PATH explicitely is as easy as learning about a renamed executable. The goal is to let things work out of the box. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille

What is this rule for? (was: Re: renamings to remove extensions)

2009-09-29 Thread Andreas Tscharner
On 29.09.2009 08:21, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On the other hand, Section 10.4 says only "the script name should not include an extension". So you can leave the extension for What is the intention of this rule anyway? Thank you and best regards Andreas -- Andreas

Re: What is this rule for?

2009-09-29 Thread Andreas Tscharner
n the first place. Best regards Andreas -- Andreas Tscharner starf...@sunrise.ch -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-pr

Re: Policy §10.4 as a d ivergence from usptrea m (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
easons and has to be enhanced. But a way to do this settings for a certain set of users will be implemented sooner or later - so the question if everybody gets this PATH extension should be dealt with in the future. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/09

Re: Policy §10.4 as a d ivergence from usptrea m (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-30 Thread Andreas Tille
ng the policy as Charles proposed might be the alternative. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Release architectures

2009-10-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Carlo Segre (se...@iit.edu) [091008 08:17]: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Andreas Barth wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> since our recent release update, things have been moving a bit. We'd >> like to give you the basic status of all our architectures for >> Squeeze, fo

Re: Bug#550817: ITP: gitolite -- standalone, souped-up version of gitosis

2009-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:50:37AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > * Stefano Zacchiroli [2009-10-13 11:03:00 CEST]: > > What if one has no idea of what "gitosis" is? For such a person, the > > above description will be close to meaningless. I suggest expanding in a > > couple of word

Bug#550954: ITP: alien-hunter -- Interpolated Variable Order Motifs to identify horizontally acquired DNA

2009-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: alien-hunter Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : George Vernikos * URL : http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/alien_hunter/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl, Java Description

Re: Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-17 Thread Andreas Marschke
> I'd like to re-iterate my earlier mail on this subject about splitting > up the Packages file: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00057.html > > I heard a rumor that the Description fields were going to be split out > into Translation-en files and I'd like this trend to continu

Re: perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat

2009-10-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
ence though, many of the packages with a dependency on perl-modules will probably have at least a indirect dependency (not only over perl-modules) on perl, too. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from ti

Re: usplash-theme-debian uploaded to sid

2009-10-24 Thread Andreas Rottmann
out there, plus some 15"-17" > laptops, have 1920x1200 (standard 16:10 HD). > FWIW, my 24" LCD has 1920x1080 (16:9 HD). Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Distro baseada en DEBIAN====Distribuicion basada en DEBIAN === Distro Based DEBIAN

2009-11-01 Thread Andreas Marschke
dicate with the debian locales files they are mostly avaiable and tested. If not ask the KDE developers for their translation files and add them to your own packages if needed. If you are clear off these problems please post a link for testing. Cheers, Andreas Marschke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#554045: ITP: libctapimkt -- Read German Krankenversichertenkarte and eGK

2009-11-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: libctapimkt Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Claudia Neumann * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctapi-mkt * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Read German

SoundJuicer Package Adoption

2009-11-12 Thread Andreas Marschke
opt a package such as soundjuicer. Sincerely, Andreas Marschke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: SoundJuicer Package Adoption

2009-11-12 Thread Andreas Marschke
> > Andreas Marschke wrote: > >> I've recently seen that there are problems with SoundJuicer and open for > >> adoption maybe. > > > > Where did you see that it was up for adoption? It's not listed as > > Orphaned or RFA'd? In fact

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 15 November 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> dpkg v3 source format, compression [...] > Is there a policy for the use of bzip2? > As discussed earlier bzip2 is *much* slower that gzip and really hurts on > slower arches and systems, so I'd suggest that - especially for

Re: Debian means 'closer to Windows'?

2009-11-15 Thread Andreas Marschke
u doing this to me and others? > I dont think Windows actually needs anyones Donation unless its a bit more than bills house in money... Kind regards , Andreas Marschke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Andreas Tille
s. There are issues which allways need the fastest available architecture and there are other needs which are targeting at low power consumption etc. We should probably not put a large effort on a theoretical option which is never used in real live (and I mean a reall *never* not only low ch

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Andreas Tille
reason might be strong enough to make our arguing void. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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