Re: Missing Country: Côte d'Ivoire

2013-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Didier Depri (02/05/2013): > i'm sure you get busy but i would like to know why Côte d'Ivoire is > not in the list of countries when we are installing Debian. If you picked “French” as a language, you just have to select “Autre” instead of the default “Europe”, then “Afrique”, and there you go.

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (02/05/2013): > On Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > People do this all the time: upload packages built against local > > packages, experimental or even on Ubuntu to Debian sid. > > /me shivers. This hurts. There is no reason not to rebuild in sane > environments.

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Schepler (12/05/2013): > Maybe we could have a release goal of dropping as many lib32* and > lib64* packages as possible in favor of multi-arch. (And also as > many package dependencies on libc6-[i386|amd64] as possible, which > would in addition mean limiting some packages to arch:i386 if

Re: Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Goswin von Brederlow (13/05/2013): > Please don't. That just eats up developer time to implement, more time > to un-implement when the real solution comes and probably delays the > real solution because nobody wants to break the temporary fix. No. What eats up user and developer time is useless d

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-11-16): > I have yet to see someone who does. I'm a long-time emacs user and so > are many of other developers I work together with and everyone I know > of who uses emacs as their primary editor doesn't use X11 support, you > just don't need it in most cases. emacs

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-11-16): > > And, rather more to the point, what the hell business is it of > > yours? Other Debian Developers don't have to justify their > > priorities and the disposition of their time to you. I think this > > sort of grilling is quite demoralizing and frustrati

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wouter Verhelst (2013-12-02): > It will revert to throwaway chroots the minute LVM gets unbroken in > stable. What's the bug report for the issue you're mentioning? In the meanwhile, I think tarball-based chroots are an alternative as far as sbuild/schroot are concerned. How are the other power

Re: Bits from ARM porters

2013-12-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Dmitrijs Ledkovs (2013-12-03): > On 2 December 2013 23:08, Hector Oron wrote: > > 5 arm64 Debian port support > > ═══ > > > > If Debian is unable to find ARM 64-bit hardware before Jessie gets > > frozen, it likely won't be Jessie supported. > > > > > > What is the op

Re: Bug#731349: ITP: sparse -- Semantic parser for C

2013-12-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Mark, Mark Brown (2013-12-04): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mark Brown > > * Package name: sparse > Version : 0.4.5 > Upstream Author : Christopher Li > * URL : https://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page > * License : MIT > Prog

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Dimitri John Ledkov (2013-12-22): > On 28 November 2013 20:04, Niels Thykier wrote: > > * Architecture Status > >* ia64 in danger > >* sparc/ppc/mips/kfreebsd at risk > >* s390 dropped from testing > > Is "ppc" - powerpc or ppc64? powerpc. (For ppc64, same answer as below.) > Is p

Re: MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona Call for Proposals

2013-12-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Pau Garcia i Quiles (2013-12-27): > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Mònica Ramírez wrote: > > === > > MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona Call for Proposals > > === > > > > Debian Women is proud to announce that it

Re: Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
shawn wilson (2014-01-13): > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:25 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file > > > > Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link.

Re: Transition from ttf-* fonts to fonts-* for Debian-IN Team

2014-01-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ -boot@ added to cc. ] Vasudev Kamath (2014-01-15): > [I've set myself in reply-to so I won't loose the replies please > consider ccing me even though I'm subscribed to d-d] > > Hi, > > As per the change in font naming convention, all (most) fonts are > renamed from ttf-*-fonts to fonts-* and

Re: Bug #739874 - procps doesn't build on i386

2014-02-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Craig Small (2014-02-25): > I got a bug report stating that there is no i386 build for procps. > First I'm not really sure that's how bug reports work, but anyhow. #739874 should have been called a failure to build from source (FTBFS), and could have linked to [1], but anyhow. 1. https://buildd

Re: Bug #739874 - procps doesn't build on i386

2014-02-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jakub Wilk (2014-02-24): > I just hope you didn't mean to say that only perfect bug reports are > welcome these days, and those merely good are somehow frowned upon. No, I wasn't sure what Craig was not sure about, that's why I tried to connect the dots with the usual FTBFS bug reports developers

Re: Lintian autoreject tag changes

2014-03-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Joerg Jaspert (2014-02-09): > Lets see, the following license-problem-* sound interesting beside the > json-evil we already have: > > license-problem-font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment (14 packages, 3032 tags, plus > 3539 overrides) > license-problem-font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment-no-credit (7 pac

Re: anonscm seems to be broken for SVN

2014-03-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Tille (2014-03-01): > which used to work previously as well. I opened a ticket this morning > at rt.debian.org but I think this might interest people here on this > list as well. ticket in rt for alioth? I think you want to check this: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Maintenance Mraw,

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Marc Haber (2014-03-25): > They renew their certificates only in the last (two?) weeks of the > lifetime. Correct, two weeks. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
brian m. carlson (2014-04-05): > I just realized my statement was unclear. I believe some people had > stated that GNOME had regressed in accessibility support at the time, > and XFCE was a better choice in this regard. I can't say more because I > don't have enough knowledge on the subject. Ma

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2014-04-07): > On 04/07/2014 08:24 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > That's what I'm using yes. Probably you should have read my message > > up to its end, where I wrote: "I'm also unsure all my KVM over IPs > > support images for DVDs rather than simply CD." > > No need to

Re: tests/test-suite.log build failures

2014-04-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Xavier Roche (2014-04-13): > > See tests/test-suite.log > > Would it be relevant to emit to stderr the tests/test-suite.log content > in this case to ease debugging (or to keep it somehow) ? That's a good idea, yeah. Th

Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports

2014-04-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Wookey, Wookey (2014-04-20): > You may or may not have noticed that 'arm64' is coming. This a 64-bit > arm architecture also known as 'aarch64' and implemented in the ARM > CPU architecture 'v8'. Apart from iphones there is no publically > available 64-bit silicon yet, but that'll be changing

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl (2014-05-09): > Am 09.05.2014 18:22, schrieb Russ Allbery: > > I think we need some sort of critical debconf prompt here for the jessie > > release, similar to how we handled the change of /bin/sh to dash and how > > we handled the switch to startpar. Probably in systemd-sysv, which

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Marc Haber (2014-05-11): > Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init > script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from > an init script? start-stop-daemon has: -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description:

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thibaut Paumard (2014-05-13): > Le 13/05/2014 17:36, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Right, which I've been arguing for already in this thread. I don't think > > we should force this on upgrades. There should be a prompt and an > > opportunity to not change init systems. > > Instead of or in additio

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thorsten Glaser (2014-05-13): > (But it was nice to have a published list of those people who maybe > could accidentally be hit by a tactical small-bus…) That's absolutely shocking and intolerable. KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: edos.debian.net is back as qa.debian.org/dose

2014-05-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Ralf, Ralf Treinen (2014-05-22): > Hello, > > the analysis of not-installable packages due to dependency issues that > we did since 2006 under the name edos.debian.net is now operating again > at [1]. What is new: […] > > [1] qa.debian.org/dose great news! I'd suggest two things: - maybe

Re: [RFH] BOINC fails to compile on kfreebsd-i386

2011-03-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Steffen Möller (24/03/2011): > Dear kfreebsd users, this is -devel@; cc-ing -bsd@… > amd64 is fine, but i386 does not build the BOINC package. The only other > platofrm making difficulties is hurd, but this is something very > different and will most likely be already fixed with the next up

Re: Bug#620018: ITP: nova -- open source software for building reliable cloud infrastructure

2011-03-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (29/03/2011): > Description : open source software for building reliable cloud > infrastructure Please drop “open source software”, that's what Debian is about, no need to mention it in package descriptions (both short and long btw). KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz (29/03/2011): > And as you have to test-build your packages anyway the only reason I > see why you wouldn't be able to upload them is a very slow > connection to the rest of the world. One can test-build in her own, non-chroot environment, and still be cautious about what changed in

Re: Dropping HAL? [Was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy]

2011-03-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (31/03/2011): > Michael Biebl, le Thu 31 Mar 2011 14:30:06 +0200, a écrit : > > As you can see, xserver-xorg still uses hal on kfreebsd, but iirc > > KiBi did some work in that regard. > > AFAIK, it was agreed that hal is needed for now. FreeBSD's devd > should be a long-term repl

Re: dh_shlibdeps warnings concerning undefined OpenMP symbols

2011-03-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Dmitry Katsubo (31/03/2011): > The mentioned symbols are exported from libgomp (a part of gcc-4.4 > package), which is correctly linked to the SO: > > # ldd ./src/libosra_java.so | grep gomp > libgomp.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 (0xb68df000) you may want to check through objdump

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

2011-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
g I have no useful idea to share about the practical implementation, but for the general idea: Acked-by: Cyril Brulebois KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2011-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl (04/04/2011): > I might be mistaken, but I think Steve's meant something more along > the lines of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586082 I guess I could have been more specific, and quoted Steve a bit further: | Once that's made its way through the archive, we coul

Re: Back to technical discussion

2011-04-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Josselin Mouette (04/04/2011): > I think squeeze already does a lot better, but there is still work > to do, especially with the installation process. > > On my personal wishlist for wheezy is d-i actually calling NM behind > the scenes to configure the network, instead of ifupdown. I’ll > d

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luk Claes (04/04/2011): > The most obvious reason to not degrade bash to Priority: important > is obviously that one needs to declare a dependency on bash when > it's used in a package. Which means quite some packages will need to > be changed. What is the most obvious reason to degrade bash to P

Re: Bug#623601: ITP: aspcud -- a solver for CUDF instances based on answer set programming

2011-04-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ralf Treinen (21/04/2011): > * Package name: aspcud > Version : 2011.03.17 > Upstream Author : Roland Kaminski > * URL : http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/wv/aspcud/ > * License : GPL3+ > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : a CUDF solver based on answer se

Re: Bug#623656: ITP: xml_marshaller -- Converting Python objects to XML and back again

2011-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Arnaud Fontaine (22/04/2011): > * Package name: xml_marshaller not a valid package name. :) > Version : 0.9.7 > Upstream Author : Nicolas Delaby > * URL : http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/xml-sig/ > * License : Python License (CNRI Python Lic

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (23/04/2011): > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in > versions. They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly > which commit the snapshot was can be included in the changelog. I'll be happy to second any wording you could come up with on that topi

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jon Dowland (27/04/2011): > ~ sorts after ., so "0~110427" will be considered newer than "0.1". > Therefore, the 0 in 0~YYMMDD is meaningless, and would be no better > than ~YYMMDD (which would still sort after 0.1, and require an > epoch). $ dpkg --compare-versions 0~110427 '<<' 0.1 && echo "Jon

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz (29/04/2011): > Instead of Martin's project you might want to look into ipcfg by > Wouter Verhelst, which is in experimental already. You may want not to. Last I checked (#dd yesterday, but not quoting without permission), the idea was to scratch everything and start over. Mraw, Ki

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, (not a gcc maintainer) Charles Plessy (04/05/2011): > I just got a bug from you explaining some changes (= more FTBFS) > about 4.6.1. Will there be similar 4.6.x changes in the future ? my reading of it is that to prevent too many FTBFSes while introducing 4.6 in Debian, some changes were

Re: Procedure for re-activating my DD status?

2011-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Mark Johnson (03/05/2011): > However, I wasn't able to find any info on how to rejoin the > organization in the standard documents. Do I simply go through the > New Maintainer application process as I did initially? might be that it's a bit uncommon, and maybe under-documented; anyway, I had

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, (you already know, but let's state that on dd@ too) Josselin Mouette (04/05/2011): > during the recent discussions about rolling, a proposal was made in > a blog comment, and after giving it some quick thoughts, most people > I’ve talked with seem to think it is a good idea, so it’s time for

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonathan Nieder (05/05/2011): > I personally don't think uploading packages to experimental before > it is time for them to participate in transitions to testing and > integrate with the rest of the next stable distribution is abuse at > all. In fact I wish people would do it more often. Being a

Re: New Packages generator

2011-05-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Joerg Jaspert (07/05/2011): > As we have received no notice of errors and as we also do not see > anything bad ourself, I just activated the new generator for the > archive. Starting with the next dinstall run in a few minutes all > Packages and Sources files[2] will be generated using the ne

Re: New Packages generator

2011-05-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again, Cyril Brulebois (08/05/2011): > is that a related breakage? > > [Can't debootstrap] > > Same happens with ftp{.fr,.uk,.de,}.debian.org; with i386 and amd64. Also, ftp.ch.d.o exhibited the infamous Hash Sum mismatches for the kfreebsd-i386 sid chroot on io.debi

Re: Bug#627114: ITP: libdevel-dprof-perl -- a deprecated Perl code profier

2011-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Dominic Hargreaves (17/05/2011): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Dominic Hargreaves > > * Package name: libdevel-dprof-perl > Version : 20110228.00 > Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-DProf/ > * License

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Roland Mas (23/05/2011): > We should now be in the phase where we pretend it's done, wait for > the complaints, and fix the problems as they are reported (or laugh > them off when they come from the too-common expectation that Alioth > can be used to run any random stuff by anyone). sorry,

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Raphael Hertzog (29/05/2011): > from time to time I hear some rumblings about how "3.0 (quilt)" > mixes badly with VCS. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the format > was to not require prior knowledge of the patch system to be able to > modify a package. thanks for trying to improve the s

Re: openvg.h not found

2011-06-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Philip Ashmore (06/06/2011): > While trying to build QT 4.8.0 technology preview I had occasion to > search for openvg.h. while it would be nice to have a functional packages.debian.org, I probably should be sharing that (at least in the meanwhile): # apt-get install apt-file $ apt-file

Re: wiki.debian.org/GitSrc

2011-06-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Zed Pobre (08/06/2011): > What's involved in editing wiki.debian.org? My debian.org password > doesn't seem to apply […] That's a separate login system, not reserved to DD only. Create an account, log in, and enjoy. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#630809: ITP: wayland-demos -- sample compositor and demo clients for Wayland

2011-06-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois A while ago wayland was split into two separate repositories, wayland and wayland-demos. I'll keep #611400 for the former, and this is the ITP bug for the latter. I'll post descriptions for #611400 later on. (http://cgit.freed

Re: Bug#611400: ITP: wayland -- new generation compositor

2011-06-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Here's a tiny update, and below, the descriptions. Cyril Brulebois (28/01/2011): > * Package name: wayland > Version : git > Upstream Author : Kristian Høgsberg and others > * URL : http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ > * License

Re: kernel module i915 - 3d-acceleration missing after update

2011-06-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi. Hans-J. Ullrich (18/06/2011): > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i915_dri.so > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so > > Solution: > As "apt-file search i386-linux-gnu" did not show any package with this > content, > I added the directories manually and created some symlinks to i915_dri.so

Re: kernel module i915 - 3d-acceleration missing after update

2011-06-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hans-J. Ullrich (18/06/2011): > Well, I thought the problem is not related to i915, as this is part of > the kernel, and I did not change the kernel. Just to clarify: You mentioned a .so, not a .ko; there are i915 bits in the kernel, and in userspace; in this case, this is about userspace. Mraw,

Re: kernel module i915 - 3d-acceleration missing after update

2011-06-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hans-J. Ullrich (18/06/2011): > Yes, it is userspace. Pity I don't have the logs any more (Xorg.log.0), where > the error was shown. It showed me, that the *_dri.so could not found (so GLX > could not be started). They originally reside below /usr/lib/dri/, but the > driver search them below /u

Re: Why hasn't libtasn1-3 migrated to testing?

2011-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Johan Walles (13/07/2011): > Build log says "Maybe successful": > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?arch=powerpc&pkg=libtasn1-3&ver=2.9-4 > > What does "maybe" mean in this case? Is it the "Maybe" that's holding > the package back? What does it take to get from "Maybe successful" to > "

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (18/07/2011): > The upstart maintainers have expressed considerably more willingness > to date to work with Debian on meeting our project's goals and > incorporating those changes into the upstream release. For reference, that would likely be: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/200

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Meskes (19/07/2011): > could anyone tell me what the difference between scribus and scribus-ng is? > According to the description scribus-ng is the development branch but scribus > itself is a later rc than -ng. Besides it appears to me that the package(s) > could need a little bit of love

Conciliating systemd and GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-07-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi all. (Putting -bsd@ in the loop, since I believe not everyone there reads -devel@. The (very long) thread starts at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00269.html) Josselin Mouette (20/07/2011): > You are both framing the discussion through a fallacy: that the only > choice

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > 1) What's the proper way to address this issue in squeeze? >a) Build a i386 package with broken symlink? >b) Build whatever-arch package with working symlink? Stop using basename on what's in /lib, and do that on what's under debian/tmp. > 2) How can we ma

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (22/08/2011): > Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > > 1) What's the proper way to address this issue in squeeze? > >a) Build a i386 package with broken symlink? > >b) Build whatever-arch package with working symlink? > > Stop using basename o

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > * Adam D. Barratt [Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 07:11:08PM +0100]: > > Looking at the procps source package in unstable, it appears to have the > > same issue. If that's the case, then I'm afraid your question should > > really have been "what's the proper way to address thi

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastien ROUCARIES (23/08/2011): > And for middle ages dog (not oldtimer) they are the ssh -X root@localhost > trick or: sudo XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority wireshark Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#639420: ITP: xpra -- tool to detach/reattach running X programs

2011-08-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Miguel Landaeta (26/08/2011): > * URL : http://winswitch.org/documentation/protocols/xpra.html (there's no such thing as X windows, first line of General Information) > Programming Lang: C, Python > Description : tool to detach/reattach running X programs What's the sta

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (29/08/2011): > Does this work now? Previously, setting the architecture list didn't > do anything useful if the source package built at least one arch: all > package. Since arch: all as per-arch (…) now, I guess that limitation is gone. And yes, arch restrictions have been working

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Tille (30/08/2011): > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:40:30PM +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > is there a specific reason why metapackages depend rather then > > recommend packages they are meant to pull in? > > The statement that metapackages depend from packages is not true in > general.

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wolodja Wentland (30/08/2011): > It is my impression that the problems mentioned in my initial mail can > be solved by changing metapackages (like those mentioned by Cyril in > his reply) to use Recommends instead of Depends. > > I am, however, not entirely sure if there are any g

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (31/08/2011): > hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 are probably too > experimental to be used on production systems. For kfreebsd, my main > problem (with my Ruby hat) is the linuxthreads-based thread library, but > there might be other problems. http://lists.debian.org/87

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Raphael Hertzog (05/09/2011): > I would like to find one or two persons to lead a new release goal > centered around hardening. The big goal is to have the maximum number of > packages using hardening by the time Wheezy is released but it could > include more specific sub-goals like "all packages

Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2011-09-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bill Allombert (03/09/2011): > I would like to thanks all the developpers that have worked toward > removing circular dependencies, and especially the X Strike Force and > the Debian Java maintainers. The X Strike Force would like to thank David Kalnischkies for his hints about getting X packages

Re: Multiarch in Debian unstable

2011-09-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve Langasek (27/06/2011): > But when can I use it? > == > > As noted above, support for the multiarch filesystem layout solves only one > of the two problems preventing side-by-side installation of packages from > multiple architectures. The other problem, package manager

Re: Bug#640721: ITP: xf86-video-omap -- X.Org X server -- OMAP display driver

2011-09-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Sebastian Reichel (06/09/2011): > Description : X.Org X server -- OMAP display driver FWIW: http://x.debian.net/reference/dependencies.html Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#640721: ITP: xf86-video-omap -- X.Org X server -- OMAP display driver

2011-09-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sebastian Reichel (07/09/2011): > I would be glad if you can give the package (available from [0]) a > quick review before I upload it to experimental. You can change > Architecture to any if you want to build it on a x86 system for > testing purposes (OMAP chips are ARM based, but the code can be

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): > August 8th, Debian began supporting¹ choice among several init systems. > August 21st, Debian changed² default init. > > To me, flexibility is an important feature of Debian. I am excited that > Debian extends its flexibility to cover several init systems. > >

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 18:31:33) > > I'm not sure why people seem to believe that broadcasting a call for > > tests through their blog, Planet Debian, various Debian mailing > > lists, etc. is going to change anything here.

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-26): > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 19:50:48) > > Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): > >> Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 18:31:33) > >>> I'm not sure why people seem to believe that broadcasting a call for > >>> t

Re: Bug#771687: debootstrap: Please add support for the Tanglu derivative

2014-12-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Why on earth is that landing on debian-devel@? Thorsten Glaser (2014-12-02): > On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > Could you please add support for the Tanglu[1] Debian derivative? > > > Without having looked at it yet: thanks. > > > Yes, plea

Re: Can/should we have an efi/efi-any platform architecture?

2014-12-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Leif Lindholm (2014-12-11): > The point is, when we add support for another architecture which > supports UEFI, there are a number of packages that you will want to > enable for that architecture. Currently, this means trawling through > all of the packages and explicitly adding entries for > If

Re: Package upload stopped?

2015-02-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ole Streicher (2015-02-09): > Hi, > > some days ago, I uploaded a package (python-astropy_1.0~rc1-3); however > the package never reached incoming. I got a confirmation about the upload: > > 8< > python-astropy_1

Re: automake : include

2015-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jerome BENOIT (2015-04-03): > Hello List, > > does anyone have in mind a working sample for the automake include feature > [1] ? > > Thanks in advance, > Jerome > > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Include.html#Include You may want to ask https://codesearch.debian

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jeff Epler (2015-04-15): > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:06:53AM +1000, Riley Baird wrote: > > What if that website goes down one day? > > Hmm. I thought a Debian package should not require an internet > connection to be built from source, but in quickly scanning the debian > policy manual and the

Re: Python 2, Python 3, Stretch & Buster

2015-04-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Tagliamonte (2015-04-16): > Background > == > > Python 2 is scheduled to be EOL'd upstream officially and for good in 2020. > We're in 2015 now (wow, that went quickly), and keeping our release cadence up > (3 years a pop) puts Stretch up in 2018, and Buster in 2021. Wheezy was firs

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Guillem Jover (2015-04-18): > General News > > > * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description:

Re: Debian Archive architecture removals

2015-05-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (2015-05-04): > I'm wondering if we could find a way to accomodate those architectures > in an official way, while still limiting the impact on ftpmasters and > other teams. I'm not entirely clear on the status of debian-ports.org, > and of what the current downsides of using debian

Re: Debian Jessie netinst does not boot from grub/iso

2015-05-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Norbert, Norbert Preining (2015-05-14): > Hi everyone > > (please Cc) > > I recently switched from a pre-release of the installer images > .../sid_d-i/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > (taken sometime about a year ago, or so) > > to the final version > ... firmware-

Re: httpredir.debian.org, your mirrors redirector

2015-05-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Arnaud Fontaine (2015-05-14): > I tried to use http.debian.net instead of my local mirror, namely > http://ftp.jp.debian.org, last year and it was redirecting me to much > mirrors not in Japan (Taiwan or Korea). I sent 2 emails to you about > that but never got any reply so not sure

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

2015-05-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Christian PERRIER (2015-05-25): > Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): > > Hi, > > > > On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Improvements in this release of the installer > > >

Re: Bits from the Stable Release Managers

2015-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wouter Verhelst (2015-05-27): > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 08:47:43PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 19:42:48 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > > > On 25/05/15 18:24, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > > > On Sunday 24 May 2015 21:27:47 Adam D. Barratt wrote: >

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, mudongliang (2015-05-29): > First , when does debian8.1 come? dda@ → https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg5.html → https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2015/05/msg00605.html > Second, I know the development of debian big version (for Debian 7 -> 8). > > oldstabl

Re: Upstream and packaging

2015-06-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Geert Stappers (2015-06-07): > What about creating a guide line where upstream creates a directory > Packaging where sub directories are like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, > Redhat, CentOS, Suse and such? > > So Upstream can ship their tar-balls / git repositories with > the package stuff ( Spec files, d

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Niels Thykier (2015-06-15): > On 2015-06-15 08:04, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 13:26:26 -0700 > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >> Simon McVittie writes: > >> > >>> This is a recurring (anti-)pattern: > >> > >>> * an ABI-stable, high-level library, say libhigh0, links to a > >>>

Re: Proposed MBF: rcS init scripts with no equivalent systemd service file

2015-07-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl (2015-07-19): > Am 17.07.2015 um 19:17 schrieb Felipe Sateler: > > [tag] > > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/systemd-no-service-for-init-rcS-script.html > > , but there are some false positives in this list. > > .. > > > dd-list of affected packages: > > This list seems to be inc

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-07-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt (2015-05-05): > [ Please send replies only to boot@ ] > > I would like to re-evaluate what we change by default for Stretch, that > is the list of packages with priorities required, important and > standard. In general my plan involves installing less, taking into > conside

Re: Bug#794468: general: no watchdog support in installer kernel

2015-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: reassign -1 src:debian-installer Hi, Dominik George (2015-08-03): > The Debian installer images for jessie apparently do not have watchdog > support enabled in the kernel, so they do not send heartbeats to the > BIOS. > > This results in the installer system aborting and the machine re

Re: a script to help maintainers with renames for gcc packages

2015-08-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek (2015-08-12): > At Matthias's suggestion, I'm attaching here a script that I've been > using in Ubuntu to trigger library package transitions for the g++5 > ABI change. It needs a bit of tuning to be usable in Debian (for > instance, you probably don't want to pull the s

Re: a script to help maintainers with renames for gcc packages

2015-08-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve Langasek (2015-08-12): > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:14:18AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Thanks! Does the hazardous sed call touching debian/rules now account > > for the dh_makeshlibs call(s) that might have been missed previously? > > I don't know

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Chris Bannister (2015-08-30): > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > > > Besides, what causes the system to make those package downloads before? > > > I may be behind a slow or expensive line and don't

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jakub Wilk (2015-08-30): > * Cyril Brulebois , 2015-08-30, 05:38: > >>JFTR, what is g-s-d? gnome-software-? > > > >kibi@arya:~$ apt-file search /usr/bin/g*-s*-d* > >gnome-settings-daemon: /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon > > To clarify: it only worked because yo

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