gutenprint maintenance

2010-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
int.git ssh://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/gutenprint.git Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25B

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
PG-signed tags giving you an auditable chain of trust along the path. This makes pulling changes from upstream and downstream trivial since you have a contiguous history from end-to-end and the same applies to pushing changes back e.g. with rebasing and format-patch. This is lost if importing

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Roger Leigh
ion by totally crippling the library to work on a least-common-denominator system by removing all optimisations and threading, it should be actually fixed, probably best if done in collaboration with upstream. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 03:08:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > Essentially, *everything* stays in git from upstream to distributed > > releases to debian work and releases and also to downstreams. There's > > no import of release tarballs becaus

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Roger Leigh
ll only ever change if a translatable string changes in the sources. Score! With this strategy you can keep the po/* files continually up-to-date because they now only change when they actually have genuine changes. All the genuinely pointless churn is gone. Regards, Roger -- .'

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 08:22:01PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Roger Leigh may or may not have written... > > > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:53:02PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > >> I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... > >>> Chur

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-27 Thread Roger Leigh
ernhard suggested. Could you elaborate on why Build-Features seems preferable since this appears to be a simple and easily implementable solution to the problem? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debia

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-29 Thread Roger Leigh
require eliminating the duplication on locale loading. Having the entire UTF-8 table duplicated for each different locale you use is just mad. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printi

testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-09 Thread Roger Leigh
build chroot is fully updated and upgraded prior to testing can avoid false positives! Note: when building packages for upload, set $build_dep_resolver='internal'; (or comment out the line) to use the internal resolver to make sure the same resolver is used as on the buildds. Fe

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. > > This creates a dummy "dependency package" which is installed and > >

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Roger Leigh writes: > > Just to mention in passing, I also wrote an additional "apt"

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 05:17:30PM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: > > Roger Leigh writes: > > > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>> Roger Leigh wri

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:15:54AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > >> There is a solution to this actually. Create a Packages, Release and > >> Release.gpg file for the pseudo package and add them as file:// url to > >> sources.list.d/.

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-11-25 Thread Roger Leigh
now available, filed in #604563 and #604912. Testing on a wider range of packages would be appreciated if anyone has the time. Once we have this dh support in unstable, we'll have ~50% of the archive with support for these rules. (cdbs already supports them.) Regards, Roger -- .'

Bug#605408: [general] volatile.debian.org: one of its IP addresses fails.

2010-11-29 Thread Roger Leigh
ket loss, time 11106ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.753/14.877/15.164/0.142 ms Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG P

Re: Notification escape sequences

2010-12-02 Thread Roger Leigh
nds. APC might be more appropriate--it's a command sent to the device from the application. Or DCS (only process if SRTM is enabled with SM). Would allow turning the facility on and off, though a rogue application could just enable it. Still not sure this is necessarily applicable th

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
-us/articles/performance-tools-for-software-developers-bsymbolic-can-cause-dangerous-side-effects/ Upstreams should not need to rewrite their sources to work with Ubuntu's broken toolchain. Overriding symbols in other libraries is perfectly legitimate practice; that's the whole reason

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
aries are awful for example, due to leaking lots of global resources (GQuarks, type unregistration etc.) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.source

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
ing violation of encapsulation, you will find (e.g. with "nm -C -D") your binary will have boost::system symbols in it which are only satisfied indirectly via libboost_filesystem and which would result in breakage if libboost_filesystem drops that dependency and you don&#x

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:14:05PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Dec 2010 14:08:48 +, a écrit : > > While I do find this a rather annoying violation of encapsulation, > > you will find (e.g. with "nm -C -D") your binary will have > > bo

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu -- sbuild resolver issue???

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
er, the consistency issue is mainly taken care of by always starting with a clean chroot, and now that we're using LVM snapshots, that's taken care of. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:52:12PM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > While I do find this a rather annoying violation of encapsulation, > > you will find (e.g. with "nm -C -D") your binary will have > > boo

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:58:13PM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Hi, Olaf > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Olaf van der Spek > wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> Why?  If you link indirectly today, and later on boost_filesystem

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:54:49PM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Hi Roger, > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > [...] > > btag *does* use boost::system, even though you don't want to use it. > > Right now, with the g++4.5 and/or the gold linker,

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:23:39PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Now, consider what happens if libboost_filesystem drops its > > libboost_system dependency.  NOTE: we're not considering rebuilding > > from so

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
---// #ifndef BOOST_FILESYSTEM_FILESYSTEM_HPP #define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_FILESYSTEM_HPP #include// includes path.hpp #include #endif -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux?

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:09:01PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> The header knows what version it is, so it can use that to link to the > >> correct lib. > > > > The header is just a text file

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:28:32PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:14:05PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Dec 2010 14:08:48 +, a écrit : > > > While I do find this a rather annoying violation of encapsulation, > > > y

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:32:01PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Olaf van der Spek > wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >>> > The header is just a text file.  It doesn't contain any library &g

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:57:59PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> >> These are using proprietary vendor-specific #pragmas.  It's pretty > >> > > >> > True, but IMO the concept seems pre

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:00:24PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> I was wondering why you considered the auto linking stuff to be so > >> horrible. > >> IMO the best solution would be to get auto link supp

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
d /usr is gone. IMHO, there are nowadays few (if any) compelling reasons for having a separate /usr, and hence for having /usr at all other than as a compatibility symlink to /. Have we actually got any reasons for keeping it? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' :

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
dpkg must be considered a unified whole; it does not make any sense to share one part and not another. They must be updated together or else the system will be left in a broken and inconsistent state. A separate /usr is no longer required to boot the system now we have initramfs. In consequenc

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:44:34PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Well, that's the issue at hand.  The reason I mentioned this is > > because I believe that the / and /usr separation is a case where we > > s

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> You're right. Is there a project goal for this yet? > > > > No, that's one of the reasons I've brought it up. > > > > P

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-14 Thread Roger Leigh
onffiles remaining. This has proven to be the case on every system I've migrated so far, and it is a real pain to identify each offending script and then find which package it belonged to and purge it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-14 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:07:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > I've yet to find a single system which upgraded to insserv cleanly. > > This is mostly due to removed packages which need fully purging to > > remove the last traces of old

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-14 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:52:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > Yes, and this is what I did. It's just rather tedious to (IIRC) > > repeatedly run "dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc" and then find out which file > > is offending,

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-15 Thread Roger Leigh
thing different, work with people in Debian to provide > it but you do have to work with people with differing expertise. > > Every great idea is worthless without someone to do the work. Dear Neil, I just wanted to say thanks for your considered and thoughtful reply. I agreed with everythin

Re: ObsoleteConffilesOfInstalledPackages

2011-01-16 Thread Roger Leigh
lly check if the user modified one of the conffiles. An example is attached. Modifying it to automatically purge "safe" packages where the user made no modifications would be fairly trivial. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.

Re: Can insserv made better?

2011-01-16 Thread Roger Leigh
ultitude of deficiencies for decades, and now we have a working solution to that. Your efforts would be best focussed on finding, fixing and reporting any issues which are causing you problems, not griping about decisions which were already taken. It was changed in July 2009 for crying out loud!

Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-06 Thread Roger Leigh
scape, and write this in troff (-ms) and xfig/PIC. It's not too shabby for a nearly 40 year old system, though I am not half as proficient in it as I am with LaTeX.] Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:53:46PM +0100, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > On 2011-02-07 00:40, Roger Leigh wrote: > > http://www.codelibre.net/~rleigh/hashlink.pdf > > Interesting! It seems that it would also be beneficial to > log-structured file systems [1]. > > I s

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:23:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > There are lots of Debian people out there using git, and some of them > > have expressed interest over the years in having the ability to use > > git as a filesystem in its own right (#477942

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
und to bitrot even further? It's not like it's going to cause massive inconvenience--they are long obsolete. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux?

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:46:29PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 11 Feb 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > > XeTeX and XeLaTeX allow native UTF-8 input. Should be made the > > default, IMO, given how obsolete and broken the "standard" TeX > > encodings are. Bei

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:43:38PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 11 Feb 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Um, no need to be rude. > > Well, you started with "throw TeX into the bin!" (cum grano salis) > The only possible answer to that is mine. Or shutting up

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-12 Thread Roger Leigh
nd they will bitrot and potentially cause more problems down the line. The former situation is simple, robust and maintainable. But the latter, it's a virtually intractable problem, and given the lack of concern about it up to now, it's not a major worry for most people, and from a cost/be

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:42:57PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Roger Leigh [110212 21:58]: > Allowing things to build in a non-artificial environment is simply an > important part of being a good free software citizen. We as packagers do > not like it if upstream has an arcane

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-14 Thread Roger Leigh
e would ideally want an equivalent to Dpkg::Deps::reduce_arch() to do the stripping (if reduce_arch wasn't the appropriate place to do it already). This saves us from reimplementing yet another parser, and it getting outdated; we currently use it for stripping dependencies not needed for the build'

Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-14 Thread Roger Leigh
ild logs. It might also be possible to skip some of the archive; we only really need a representative sample to do a realistic test, if time and disc space are issues. If there are any project machines available that could do this, that would be great! Many thanks, Roger -- .'&#

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:53:13PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > However, in order to understand the implications, we need concrete > > data about exactly how they differ, and under what situations. What > > I would like to do is a rebuild of the s

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:28:49PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:52:32PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 01:08:51PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > And although for the most part the roll-out of multiarch is intended to

Bug#613687: general: ipv6 acquitment problem - causes problems in ipv4

2011-02-16 Thread Roger Leigh
onsive connections at times due to this. If it's geninely a problem with networking on Linux, I think you should get in touch with the linux-kernel folks. The netdev list at vger.kernel.org might be a good place to start. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :&#

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Roger Leigh
ly shared systems I use, it's common for home directories to be readable by default, so you can let other people access your data, scripts, git repos, or whatever. I can see that in some circumstances you might well want total control over who can see your files, but unless you're dealing with

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Roger Leigh
x group:www-data:--x mask::r-x other::r-x # file: home/rleigh/public_html # owner: rleigh # group: rleigh user::rwx group::r-x group:www-data:r-x mask::r-x other::r-x Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > In general, I think it's fair to say that the average Debian > > installation does not require Fort Knox levels of security.  Simply > > allowin

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-19 Thread Roger Leigh
this. The Nautilus emblems idea is, I think, a fairly straightforward exercise should we wish to do this. I already puts "no entry" emblems on folders you don't have permission to enter, so it's not a big change to additionally flag up folders which other have read and write acces

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:36:55PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > sbuild, which does the job of building binary packages on our buildds, > uses a built-in build-dependency resolver ("internal") to work out > what packages need installing/removing in order to satisfy a package&#x

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:42:32PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hi everyone, Roger, > > Roger Leigh has filed a few bug reports related to how the buildd's resolver > (either internal or any of the new ones: apt{,itude}) and I'm not sure I > quiet agree. > Let'

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:21:17PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Roger Leigh writes ("Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps"): > > Taking one of php5's dependencies as an example: > > > > libdb-dev (>= 4.7) | libdb4.8-dev | libdb

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:13:19PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:08:18 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > · Standard alternative use in the form "concrete|virtual", as used for > > normal deps on virtual packages. Is this sensible? > > ·

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:21:24PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 06:49:21PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Roger Leigh writes ("Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps"): > > > I agree that these do serve a useful purpose

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:05:28AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 22:40:52 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild > >

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild > > r

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Roger Leigh
of foo a bit vulnerable against random decisions by the maintainers of > bar-dev? Very much so. This is why library transitions need coordination, since they have distribution-wide impact. This is also a good example of why we should aim to only have one major version of each library in use a

Re: What's up with buildd logs?

2011-02-26 Thread Roger Leigh
;m not involved with the CGI scripts, but I /think/ that one is an older version. These two do show me the current version: https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=insighttoolkit https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=insighttoolkit&suite=sid Regards, Roger -- .''`. Rog

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:42:32PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > I disagree here. > > > Alternatives in build-* relationships *a

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-02 Thread Roger Leigh
need addressing to make it robust enough to handle simultaneous creation and removal of many snapshots. It would be great if there was a solution to this problem; is anyone running Btrfs as a root filesystem who has any suggestions? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : De

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-08 Thread Roger Leigh
vscripts? > > Most of the script are written in Python. Rewriting them to get them > included in devscripts is too much work without benefit. devscripts > would depend on python then. Most of the scripts are short. Rewriting would be fairly simple, and may be beneficial in removing th

Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-10 Thread Roger Leigh
people have it installed, and < 10 have ever used it. Would migrating to wanna-build.git be realistic for these users? Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing o

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 05:24:25PM +, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello Roger, > > 2011/3/10 Roger Leigh : > > > This mail is really just to find out: is anyone actually using the > > wanna-build package in the archive?  popcon indicates that a few > > people have it

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-10 Thread Roger Leigh
preciated. It's not the nicest codebase in the world, but I think we've improved it significantly in recent years. sbuild at least is now usable by mortals, though it could still be easier to set up; documentation is the main lacking here. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:07:19AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 0

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 08:31:13AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > just as a reminder: > > Roger Leigh (16/03/2011): > > OK. I think this is the only known discrepancy between the two > > resolvers. Given that we now routinely build using minimal clean >

Looking for Greg Hookey

2003-11-06 Thread Roger Leigh
SQL issue. I've fixed three bugs in the NMUs. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-19 Thread Roger Leigh
of operations, etc. Further to that... would it be acceptable to upload the new stable libpqxx release (2.0.0) built against 7.4 once 7.4 has entered unstable. It would be fantastic to have the new libpqxx in sarge, too. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-pri

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
t build unless the same version was also installed (due to a shlibs problem requiring the just-built library to be installed for shlibdeps to be computed). This sort of automated source building is a very good idea--it will root out a lot of build bugs, and will improve the quality of Deb

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> In late 2001, I spent several weekends hand-building quite a large >> chunk of woody (over 200 source packages). I found quite a number of >> serious bug in several packages, inc

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> apt-fu installs binary packages of build-depends first to avoid circular >> >> build-depen

Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?

2003-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
limit, any user can kill the system by creating a huge file in there. It's much nicer to get ENOSPC than a kernel panic. The installer could pick a sensible limit based on, for example, 20% of the combined core+swap size. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Roger Leigh
name, or otherwise. Which to people of several religions are > _not_ cute. Thanks for raising this point. I'm very interested in the Debian GNU/*BSD efforts, but if named as such I would never consider using them (the BSD daemon is, to my mind, only borderline acceptable as it is). I&#x

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
FÃanor that might also qualify. However, there may well be copyright issues. "Slink", "Woody", "Potato" and "Bo" etc. aren't exactly unique, but you would be hard pushed to find another book with "ManwÃ", "OromÃ", etc. in it. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [I am not subscribed to debian -bsd.] > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:30:48PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I'm not opposed to anything else you've said. I do

Re: PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82; bug #235522?

2004-10-07 Thread Roger Leigh
nstallation and reinstall it again to ensure it's working correctly--if you've done a lot of tinkering, you'll start in a known good state. If you can't get the basic Gimp-Print CUPS driver going as above, please file a bug report against cupsys-driver-gimpprint. Regards,

Re: NMU for libpaper

2004-10-22 Thread Roger Leigh
def $(srcdir)/printers.xml ../printdef/printdef < $(srcdir)/printers.xml > print-printers.c CLEANFILES = print-printers.c Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

keysigning in atlanta, ga, usa

2002-08-14 Thread Roger Ward
I need at least one official debian developer in the Atlanta area to sign my key. Please let me know if we can find some time in the next week or two to meet. -iridium pgpHb5urhPPbi.pgp Description: PGP signature

ITA: netspades

2002-08-28 Thread Roger Ward
nitial changes won't simply be the open description bug, but will contain any improvements necessary to fix any bugs encountered. -Roger GPG Keyid: 6E4410F9 Fingerprint: 2E95 0506 F05E 8A65 8D75 78AC B0DC 0894 6E44 10F9

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Roger Leigh
e "non-existent" documentation... There is some documentation for using it, but is there any for the initial setup? I certainly have read the docs from CVS, but I'm stuck at the installation stage. I can see what installs where from the debian/* packaging, but what I need to do to setu

Re: NOTICE: libcupsys2 splitting

2003-04-21 Thread Roger Leigh
or owners of HP inkjet printers until > cupsys-driver-gimpprint and foomatic-bin are re-built. I'll be uploading new cupsys-driver-gimpprint packages in a few days, once I've rebuilt and fully tested it. In the mean-time, installing libcupsimage2 should make it work again. Regard

Autobuilder locale setup

2003-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset. Can the autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is only C available? Thanks, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? h

Re: Autobuilder locale setup

2003-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
g to be excessively painful > for slower architectures and it'd be nice if it wasn't done unless > absolutely necessary. That's fine--I can just generate those that I really need (~20). Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-27 Thread Roger Leigh
d handle it, but it'd be one way around it... Couldn't this be solved by using Marcus Brinkmann's architectures-as-dependencies plan? Would this not allow to have several packages, each targetted for different processors? -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Roger So
esn't even come close to solving this > problem, so there is no point in including it by default. Can you please explain why? Or do you have another solution to this problem? Roger

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Roger So
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:06:21AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:29:43PM +1000, Roger So wrote: > > A "universal OS" (which we claim on our website), with dysfunctional > > support for the language which the user speaks natively, even during the &

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Roger So
hey hate number format in slovak locale. Why not create a proper en_SK.iso8859-2 locale, with the desired date and number formats? Many people in Hong Kong, for example, are actually also more comfortable with English rather than Chinese in the UI; therefore, I created a custom en_HK.big5hkscs locale for them. Roger

Bug#141476: ITP: ijs-dev -- IJS raster image transport protocol

2002-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
to it. Hopefully upstream will apply these patches. Regards, Roger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-14 Thread Roger Leigh
ete, but what I have done so far is available from http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rl117/buildd/ (source and i386 debs). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:52:48AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > Does anyone who uses buildd/wanna-build/rbuilder have any comments? I > > don't yet have a big enough HDD to run an autobuilder offline, s

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:40:32AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > On 14 Apr 2002, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > I have added autoconf/make support, and repackaged it using debhelper. > > Whoa. I tried the same two years ago, and failed. That's why I started a > rewrite i

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