[gentoo-dev] Re: new partner in crime: Denis Dupeyron (calchan)

2006-04-11 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Hello everybody, SeJo wrote : > I think we should all bow and welcome Denis Dupeyron. Thank you. Any relation with this other bending 'activity' you do with plasmaroo ? I urgently need to re-read the fine prints. > He's a new addition to to the sci-electronics t

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs

2006-05-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
The repository for SDCC has recently moved from CVS to Subversion. From now on, please use dev-embedded/sdcc-svn instead of dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs. dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs will be masked right now, and then removed in a month or so if nobody complains. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs

2006-05-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 5/6/06, Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Denis Dupeyron wrote: > > dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs will be masked right now, and then removed in a month > > or so if nobody complains. > > A pkg move might be wise to do, no? > > -- > Kind Regards, > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that need maintainers

2006-05-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 5/5/06, Daniel Goller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The following packages require a new maintainer, some might just be > absorbed into their herds w/o a direct maintainer leaving them to the > teams maintaining those herds, others might face

Re: [gentoo-dev] eutils.class fix for make_desktop_entry

2006-06-05 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 6/5/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go ahead and do it now. It really shouldn't break anything, as I can't > think of a single thing using make_desktop _entry with a space in the > executable name. What about games-board/gnubg-0.14.3 ? Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs

2006-06-05 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Denis Dupeyron wrote: > dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs will be masked right now, and then removed in a month > or so if nobody complains. dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs is now removed. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Fabio Erculiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [02:31] lxnay: we offer all of our work that you base your > distribution off, and you don't contribute back at all, in any way. > > ^^ This is a really stupid sentence. While I would agree Halcy0n's statement is slig

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Rémi Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - the gnome2 eclass now has a pkg_preinst, if you do multiple > inherits, make sure that gnome2_pkg_preinst is called too. The > _games_eclass_ is one of those. [...] > *Please* review these eclasses because with a simp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses

2008-03-14 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Rémi Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you remove from that list vlc, pidgin and celestia which are false > > positives, that leaves us: > > Why are they false positives? They include the gnome2 eclass and other > stuff, I guess they'll be affected too.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-electronics/lard

2008-03-15 Thread Denis Dupeyron
It finally happened. Last version was 5 years ago or so. From package.mask: # Denis Dupeyron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (15 Mar 2008) # Masked for removal in 30 days. Requires Tcl 8.3 which # isn't in the tree anymore. See bugs 172356 and 173467. sci-electronics/lard -- gentoo-dev@lists

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-libs/libgdgeda

2008-03-22 Thread Denis Dupeyron
# Denis Dupeyron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (22 Mar 2008) # Not needed anymore. Was only used by old versions of # sci-libs/libgeda which were just punted. Will be removed # in 30 days. sci-libs/libgdgeda -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in app-office/homebank: metadata.xml ChangeLog homebank-3.7.ebuild Manifest

2008-04-01 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eautoconf is enough. Sorry about that. Fixed. Denis. ���^�X�����(��&j)b�b�

[gentoo-dev] Return of a developer : Josh Glover (jmglov)

2008-04-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
It's my pleasure to announce the return of Josh Glover (jmglov) as a Gentoo developer. Josh will resume his work on CJK and miscellaneous packages. Josh works as a Software Development Engineer for Amazon, developing the mobile phone version of the retail website. He also serves as Listmaster for

[gentoo-dev] New developer : Chris Henhawke (bunder)

2008-04-26 Thread Denis Dupeyron
It's my pleasure to introduce Chris Henhawke as a new developer among us. He is a forums veteran where he goes under the name of bunder, and has been a moderator there for about 9 months. Chris lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and is a computer operator who does maintenance and support. During the inte

[gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-04-30 Thread Denis Dupeyron
It's my pleasure to introduce Markus Duft (mduft) as a new developer. He will go among us under the name of mduft, and will work in the Gentoo/Alt project porting Gentoo Prefix to Interix. Yes, people, that means Gentoo on Win32. Markus lives with his wife and daughter in Graz, Austria. He seems t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug wrangling

2008-05-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This only occured since we have no full-time > > bug-wrangler anymore. Was anyone successful to contact him, yet? > I am told he should be back sometime soon, like today. Apparently > someone is in contact with him

Re: [gentoo-dev] LaTeX documentation

2008-05-13 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Alexis Ballier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah or maybe they dont need any unusual fonts; its probably sane to > set VARTEXFONTS regardless. Probably it'd be worth adding a latex > eclass that would just contain: > VARTEXFONTS=${T}/fonts > and inherit it fro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think nominations are open. I nominate > rane > welp > zlin Alright. Then I'll nominate all members of the current council. In alphabetical order: amne betelgeuse dberkholz flameeyes jokey lu_zero vapier Denis. -- g

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-08 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Roy Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before the flames start lets consider the Package Manager Specification > (PMS) as an example. For this (very black and white) illustration, > forget the council discussions to date and imagine that representatives > of all t

Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:58:40 +0200 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Usually in this category you put everybody that disagrees with you, >> no matter the topic. > > And what does that tell you about the average

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 - The Long Thread

2008-06-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a lot to be said about being stuck in the "grand design mindset". I > know many Gentoo, Portage, Exherbo, and Paludis developers are clearly > coming to that point in their programming careers based on the comment

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you seriously suggesting that the portage and pkgcore developers > think that they should be able to release a package manager that claims > to support an EAPI when it in fact doesn't? Please stop your incessant and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea behind posting to the list in advance is twofold -- holding > council members accountable for: > > 1) Knowing the relevant information, and > > 2) Participating in the source discussion if they have anything ne

[gentoo-dev] Interesting article from the Times Magazine

2008-08-01 Thread Denis Dupeyron
>From the Times Magazine : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html It mostly doesn't apply to us as a community (hopefully), but one paragraph is especially interesting. << In 1981, [Jon Postel] formulated what's known as Postel's Law: "Be conservative in what you do; be liber

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-10 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They always say that stuff but never bother explaining what the direction > they wish for actually is. As a user I get the impression that there's some > kind of evil Cabal. Most of the Gentoo developer population is

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches

2008-08-14 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Andrew D Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Looks like you counted the number of files in the files/ subdirectories. Not all of these are patches. Also, you probably forgot to count seds, as some of us use sed more than patches. Oh, and like Jeremy was hinting

Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories:

2009-02-03 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:47 AM, George Shapovalov wrote: > Besides, in my opinion, the ability to see "what's there" in at least > minimally categorized way without having to resort to using some special > tools or going to some website is worht something. In this vain I was > proposing going the

Re: [gentoo-dev] sandbox-1.3.x testing for stable

2009-02-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i'm feelin pretty good about the latest sandbox-1.3.x (little stiffy even). "little stiffy" only ? That's OK, you're just getting old. Please come see me for your free prescription and directions for use of the blue pills. > i'd like to ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/5/4 Sérgio Almeida : > Please drop me a line here or at freenode if you have anything to add All I have to add is thanks a lot. I wished other SoC students would also introduce themselves and their project on their list. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Joe ! How are you doing ? I've been meaning to call you but I've been busy as hell due to the move. Do you want to have a beer or lunch sometime ? Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Oops, that was supposed to be sent to him directly. Sorry about that. Denis. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > Joe ! > > How are you doing ? I've been meaning to call you but I've been busy > as hell due to the move. Do you want to have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Can we stop wasting time and bandwidth? (was: The fallacies of GLEP55)

2009-05-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Because the way Gentoo works, any objection to a proposal, valid or not, > whether or not it's already been addressed, has to be answered before a > proposal gets anywhere. Thus, every time people post nonsense about > GLEP 55, every post h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Can we stop wasting time and bandwidth? (was: The fallacies of GLEP55)

2009-05-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Except that at the last Council meeting, there were complaints that > objections *had* been included and discussed in the GLEP, and claims > that including such material made the GLEP less clear. As unfortunate as it is, council members ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 updated

2009-05-17 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/5/17 Piotr Jaroszyński : > I have just updated GLEP 55 [1], hopefully making it a bit clearer. Thanks a lot Piotr. > Just FYI, my order of preference of solutions is: > > 1. EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (obviously) > 2. EAPI in the filename with one-time extension change > 3. Easily fetchable EAPI

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-01 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Wernfried Haas wrote: > I'd like to counter-nominate you Aww... That must hurt. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-03 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/6/1 Dawid Węgliński : > I nominate: [...] > Calchan Thanks Dawid, and also Ferris. I accept. You can find my manifesto at http://dev.gentoo.org/~calchan/manifesto09/manifesto.html Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-03 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Hi Doug, I just got to this thread, so sorry for entering the debate a bit late. I find your propositions very interesting. In my manifesto [1] I have proposed something significantly different which simply consists in spinning the long discussions off the council meetings using more focused group

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > This is not a debate nor is this thread meant to be a launching point > for people to promote their own campaign for being on the council and > I chide you for taking it as such. I was just trying to contribute to the debate, no more. Since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 244436

2009-06-09 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Hi Jean-Marc, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: > Sorry to be a pain but I just wonder if I filled this bug correctly because > nothing happens: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244436 > > I'm not putting any pressure in any way, I just want to know if I did it > right.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for meeting on June 11, 2009

2009-06-19 Thread Denis Dupeyron
[...] This list is for technical discussions only. Also, public mailing-lists are not for discussing your personal issues. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for meeting on June 11, 2009

2009-06-19 Thread Denis Dupeyron
> probably belongs in -project. Not even in -project, it simply wasn't public mailing-list material. For those who haven't understood yet, the -dev and -project mailing lists are not for keeping us informed of your random thought of the day or lamenting about why-oh-why-is-the-whole-world-so-unfai

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-24 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Thanks for the reminder, Doug. Make sure to also check everybody's manifesto here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council-200906-nominees.xml Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > To appoint as proxy for a council meeting someone who has been booted > from Gentoo is a clear lapse of judgement, and would in my eyes > disqualify the involved council member from functioning in that position. As Petteri noted it's not obvio

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
I'll have things to say about this but I'm still in the woods with dialup until monday. So either I can get close to a fatter pipe later today or tomorrow, or I'll do it on monday night from home. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifesto archive

2009-07-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/7/3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto : > Yes, that is another thing I was planning to do. The only reason I > haven't done it yet, is that older manifestos were stored as txt files > and this year the candidates mostly opted for html/xml files. > I'll probably just go ahead, "ignore the looks" and c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug #250853

2009-07-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Hello Robson, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto wrote: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250853 > On bugzilla has the patch to solve the problem The people concerned by this already know about the bug and patch, there is no need to remind us here. They will get t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Perhaps you should consider that it's your behaviour that's the issue here. It's both your behaviors, because they're extremely similar. Except that you seem to have more time available than slong to express your defensive personality on our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recruitment process is moving back to quizzes

2012-07-15 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > Certainly. But it is likely much more interesting work and has > considerably more impact. The mentoring period and the review have considerable impact too. Whether you think one is more important than the other depends on you thinking short

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

2017-07-27 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > TL;DR;TL;DR: > [...] Here's a data point you may, or may not, find relevant. in 16 years of using Gentoo exclusively, the only one time I used stable on one machine for about 2 years it ended up being much more of a pain than unstable.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

2017-07-27 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > When in the last 16 years was this 2 year period of running stable? > The general state of QA has varied quite a bit over that time. > I would say 3 or 4 years ago, roughly. > running unstable systemd has been Running unstable doesn't m

[gentoo-dev] It is GSoC season again

2016-02-09 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Google Summer of Code 2016 is starting. If you are a student please be patient. Your time will come soon, at which point we'll be able to answer all your questions. In this initial phase the audience is project mentors. Note that you do not need to be a Gentoo developer to be a mentor. While we a

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-17 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > developers who did what they cared about and ignored everything and > everyone else. > I don't know if I'm an exception to the rule, but I've always had fruitful interactions with the games team. I never felt they ignored me. > games team

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-17 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:32:53 -0700 > Denis Dupeyron wrote: > > Not true. I've been maintaining games for a decade and have never been > on > > the team. > > Quoting the previous documentation of games.ec

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-17 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > I was stating the apparent state of facts. If people are told they're > supposed to go with games team, use their eclass, follow their > policies, that's how it looks to people. That's an entirely different point from the one I was making.

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-17 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Well, maybe it's because you can talk to Python team, discuss and not > get ignored by them. We've already established the same is true for the games team. I'm a living example of it and I can't imagine I'm the only one. > Unlike games

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are "Copyright 1999-20xx Gentoo Foundation" headers bogus?

2016-10-26 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Matthias Maier wrote: > And I see absolutely no harm in explicitly annotating the actual > copyright in gentoo ebuilds. It seems like a simple and practical enough way to go. However, one of the arguments going for assigning copyright to the Gentoo foundation at t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] please sign your manifests

2013-02-13 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > This information, by the way, has been blogged about thousands of > times. There is a reason people write documentation. Contrary to blog posts, documentation is thought out, reviewed, maintained and corrected when necessary. Blogs are wr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-21 Thread Denis Dupeyron
I'm hoping this kind of immature and abrasive behaviours will not propagate (notice the plural here). Yes, when you see a package being actively maintained by somebody else you should absolutely not touch it without talking to that person or team first. This is probably the single most important ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-21 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > However, if somebody just commits something to your package, and it > causes you headaches, and they aren't committing to long-term > maintenance of the package, then yes, you can revert, etc. That's where you're wrong. You can revert if nece

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2013-04-21 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > When someone asks about changing a package which someone else maintains, I > always suggest reporting a bug about it. Do you think that is generally ok, > or not the proper way to communicate? Exactly. Bugzilla is not a commun

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-19 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:02 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > This is nothing new; the qa team has requested that commit rights be > suspended before. I am just proposing that we actually add the parts of > the old patch to the glep that spell out when and how this can happen. > > Thoughts? Yes, thoug

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-19 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > It is more of a "Do we want QA to delegate this through ComRel or not?". Actually, no. What it is is a "Subject was thoroughly discussed in the past, and a decision was made." More than once, in fact. What basis do you have that would warrant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Thank you

2014-02-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Hi. TL;DR, this is basically just a THANK YOU to the Gentoo devs This is totally unacceptable. I demand you take your thank-yous back. Who do you think you are to thank us like this, even with valid reasons? Good manners will not be to

Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Please do not take this personally. I honestly wonder what all the fuss is about. There are a few games I've helped with over the years and I've never had any trouble at all having my stuff reviewed and accepted. And I'm a lousy ebuild writer. Every time I'd suggest a fix, bump, or new package, an

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

2014-07-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > Last rites cancelled; found a version bump'ed distfile via icculus, so > this one can live a little longer. I have once asked Robin to archive the distfiles for a commercial package which has RESTRICT=mirror. My reasoning at the time was t

Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:11 PM, hasufell wrote: > a) I'm not sure if I want to be in a team where vapier is lead. The only position you don't want vapier in is behind you. He humps. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:10 PM, hasufell wrote: > People often reply aggressively to unrequested reviews People often replay aggressively when they feel aggressed. Food for thought? Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

2014-07-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > Ulrich is right. Abandonware just means orphaned works -- i.e. the > copyright holder hasn't sued anyone yet. Gentoo should not have > anything to do with this. I agree with you and Ulrich. That was a very poor choice of word from my p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: games-fps/postal2mp-demo

2014-07-16 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > So, RESTRICT="mirror" would turn into > RESTRICT="officially-dont-mirror-but-actually-do-just-in-case-distfiles-are-dropped-upstream-but-after-we-still-cant-officially-mirror-them-due-to-license-and-copyright-infringement-anyway" > ? > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/x265: x265-1.0.ebuild ChangeLog x265-1.2.ebuild x265-0.8.ebuild

2014-07-28 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > x265-1.2.ebuild:KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86" > x265-1.3.ebuild:KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86" > x265-.ebuild:KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86" > > As in... You forgot to add ~arm to -.ebuild Wait, what? Live ebuilds are keyworded now? De

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/x265: x265-1.0.ebuild ChangeLog x265-1.2.ebuild x265-0.8.ebuild

2014-07-29 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Alex Xu wrote: > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-libs/x265/x265-.ebuild?revision=1.9&view=markup#l9 Thanks, Alex. This makes more sense now. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/x265: x265-1.0.ebuild ChangeLog x265-1.2.ebuild x265-0.8.ebuild

2014-07-29 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > AFAIK, gentoo policy is that live ebuilds should always be masked so as > never to be automatically pulled in without a deliberate unmasking of the > live ebuild, but whether that's masked due to lack of keywords (ebuild), > or

[gentoo-dev] Birth announcement : sci-electronics

2006-07-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Good news !The sci-electronics herd isn't one day old yet, but it is already diaper free (well, almost).In case you're interested to help, please drop us a message at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. And don't forget to bring your own soldering iron.Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/7/06, Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the Council idea is great. However, I think the Council should be charged with a little bit of direction-setting and leadership as well. [...] 1. The council was (by design?) a reactive force, rather than a pro-active force. [...]

[gentoo-dev] Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-09 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Dear devs, In bug #139412, I ask Paul de Vriese why he thinks python should die on --fast-math instead of just filtering it. Here's his answer : "Denis, quite simple. -ffast-math is broken and short-sighted for a global flag. Filtering gives the shortsighted message that it works globally, while

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-10 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/10/06, Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ebuilds shouldn't die on anything according to the non-interactive portage philosophy. I don't know how official that philosophy is though. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this has nothing to do with being interactive or not. To me, an ebuild that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-15 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/9/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basically, if you're using daft CFLAGS you're on your own. Some ebuilds might filter them, some ebuilds might die and some ebuilds might let them through. Developers are under no obligation to add code to save users from their own stupidity, b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-15 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/11/06, Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Their phrase, not mine. ;) I think the idea is you should be able to emerge -e world and walk away and not have anything interrupt the process thus requiring the user interact with the system. Well yes, but an ebuild that dies, whatever the reas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-30 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/30/06, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another class of packages I wish to discuss (not remove quite yet, just talking ;) ) are older packages with stable markings. By Stable I mean debian stable, IE we stabled it in 2004 and no one has touched it since. Do these packages still work

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 7/31/06, Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thirdly, I know one of the issues with one of the leaders of the project, is the fact that they are not a ebuild developer. I'd like to have them take the second quiz simply to prove that they have the knowledge to be trusted to review the ebu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise contemplations

2006-08-01 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 8/1/06, Jeroen Roovers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # emerge --submit-info * sys-apps/portage generates emerge --info output and uploads it relatively tamper-proof to tickets.g.o, and * returns a ticket to the user, a unique number that he or she can communicate to developers and active users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to be a mediocre distribution? The real world isn't binary. So there's a whole range of alternatives between elitism and mediocrity. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

2006-09-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 9/2/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It might be worth putting together a list of folks interested in doing this on the Gentoo website, under a Third-party Paid Support section. We already have a Support link on the top of www.g.o, it could be on that page. I was thinking about

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to move packages?

2006-10-26 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 10/26/06, Peter Volkov (pva) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of packages I maintain changed its name. What shall be done, so users of the package were aware about package name change and upgraded flawlessly? See : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

2006-10-30 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 10/30/06, Jason Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please triple check what you want to commit and verify that you don't do any of the following (which are punishable by death): 1) remove the last ebuild that is keyworded for a given arch, especially when resulting in broken dependencies.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites : dev-embedded/gpsim-led and dev-embedded/gpsim-logic

2007-02-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
I have p.masked dev-embedded/gpsim-led and dev-embedded/gpsim-logic. Their functionality is now included in all recent versions of gpsim, at least all versions that are currently in portage. Plus, they are suspected of being compilation-challenged (which is hardly surprising), see bug #96578. Wha

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is standard practice for professional standards, and is the Now you talk about this, a standard is, in standard practice, the result of a collaborative effort of representing members of the organization(s) that is (are) supposed to adh

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-20 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 2/20/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You know that real standards aren't a free for all, right? They're usually written by a small group, and then commented on by interested parties when they're already well into being written. Which is exactly what we're doing... You forgot t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 Transition -- remaining packages

2007-02-22 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 2/22/07, Markus Ullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So after peper and myself have been on fixing most stuff related to this topic yesterday, here now is a list with remaining packages and their respective maintainers. http://dev.gentoo.org/~jokey/manifest2/manifest2-20070222.txt I have fixe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing Daniel Robbins (drobbins)

2007-02-27 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 2/27/07, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's my please to introduce to you Daniel "drobbins" Robbins. Daniel is Who's that ? In his dark past Daniel has worked for companies like Microsoft I wish we had higher recruitment standards. He probably doesn't even know bash. Welcome

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/3/07, Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right now, installing Gentoo is a chore, and the many wonderful choices of Gentoo end up making the install rather complicated. So I definitely support ideas to help make our installation process better/streamlined and less confusing. There are

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-03 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/3/07, Josh Saddler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Next time, read the documentation first. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml We've several quickstart/faq-type guides, and an alternate installation howto. Man, I wish more developers would read the documentation, or at least bother to get a g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Well, that was, um, interesting

2007-03-05 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/5/07, Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That said, I'm not necessarily opposed to mandating civility, a la Ubuntu. I do see a minor problem with that approach, though: right now it is not clear that Gentoo has a group of devs who are sufficiently trusted and willing to actually puni

[gentoo-dev] sci-electronics/modelsim

2007-03-06 Thread Denis Dupeyron
sci-electronics/modelsim needs its Manifest to be regenerated in Manifest2 format and I don't have access to the necessary tarballs to do so. Does anybody out here have access to a modelsim license or installation ? I used to, quite some time ago, but not anymore. If you do, please contact me off-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

2007-03-14 Thread Denis Dupeyron
From your draft: (note: most parts shamelessly stolen from Christel) In that case, showing only what differs from Christel's proposal would have been a better way to present yours. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slightly different proposal for a Code of Conduct

2007-03-15 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/15/07, Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that sums the most important differences up, if you need more information, please read post proposals. ;-) It's much clearer like this, now. Thank you. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur)

2007-03-21 Thread Denis Dupeyron
Bernard, Welcome to the French Connection in Gentoo ! And thanks for updating NX. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to publish ebuild

2007-03-21 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/22/07, Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I write several ebuilds for packages which aren't available in the portage currently. I'd like to share them with gentoo community, but I don't know how to publish these ebuilds. And I also don't know by which way a package will be added to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: RE: New developer: Antoine Raillon (cab)

2007-03-22 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/22/07, Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Antoine Raillon (also known as cab), our latest addition joining mcummings perl flock. Antoine is joining us from Cormeilles en Parisis, France (yay, french conspiracy++), where he's currently studying Net

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-24 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 3/24/07, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3. We should ask Google for their opinion on this. They are, after all, running the scheme, PAYING US MONEY, and are the people who decide whether we get to participate in future years. I have asked Alec to inquire about this. This is by far t

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