Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:06:26AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Let's allow maintainers to use make -jX according to their common > > > sense, requiring obeying an env variable to opt out. > > > > Why no

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:36 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for > > users script, ie things not under our control). Good idea, Christian. > In addition, I would suggest we reinstate the previous behaviour, but > display a warning w

Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:09 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > But on the other hand, according to the 'be strict in what you send, > liberal in what you accept' mantra, it makes sense for tar to not create > tarfiles which in the past have caused issues for certain programs while > there's a p

Re: sending debian-private postings to gmail

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:22:45PM +0100, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm one of the small minority of people who have a very negative > > opinion about gmail. I realise I'm a bit of a kook on this subject > > and I'd ideally I'd like to avoid having an enorm

Bug#375903: ITP: libgetopt++ -- C++ wrapper for getopt to allow arbitrary location of options within sources

2006-06-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adeodato Simó" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgetopt++ Version : 0.0.2-p22 Upstream Author : Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.ubuntu.com/~robertc/rbtcollins%40hotmail.com--barch/libgetoptplusplus/

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:40:49PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > In that case just reverting the Debian change isn't the right way. If > you think that the change is wrong, then you should make upstream fix > it: changing behaviour of tar is one thing, but having different > behaviour of a basic

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:50:50PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ke, 2006-06-28 kello 18:43 +0200, Adam Borowski kirjoitti: > > What do you think about going with Don Armstrong's suggestion > > ($CONCURRENCY_LEVEL), while handling the default (no env var) my > > way (decent memory => parallel, lit

problem with root on LVM on RAID (was: RFT: please test mdadm/experimental)

2006-06-28 Thread martin f krafft
Hi, Thank $DEITY for testers. We discovered another issue when root is on LVM is on RAID. If that's your setup, please hold off on using mdadm 2.5 until I managed to fix #375879. Sorry for the inconvenience, and again, thanks to Alec Berryman for his help. He also spotted the last issue. -- Plea

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-06-28 kello 18:43 +0200, Adam Borowski kirjoitti: > What do you think about going with Don Armstrong's suggestion > ($CONCURRENCY_LEVEL), while handling the default (no env var) my > way (decent memory => parallel, little memory => -j 1) instead of > Ingo's (-j 1 unless explicitely set)?

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:42:07PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > SMP buildd systems currently run multiple instances of buildd at > the same time, rather than expecting a package to specify make -j > itself. Having three packages that specify 'make -j 4' on a > multiprocessor buildd host that _al

How to securely read debian-private for sure

2006-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:22:45PM +0100, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm one of the small minority of people who have a very negative > > opinion about gmail. I realise I'm a bit of a kook on this subject > > and I'd ideally I'd like to avoid having an

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards (proposed middle ground)

2006-06-28 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Both sides in this discussion seem to have valid concerns: FOR making --wildcard the default - compatibility with upstream - compatibility with standards - compatibility with other distributions - whatever reasons POSIX had for this were probably sensible - upstream's judgement on

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:01:31PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:06:26AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > This has the disadvantage of not automatically using -j for every > > package and requiring maintainer buy in to see results... but > > presumably those packages where

problem with mdadm 2.5.2-1 / initramfs-tools <<0.65 (was: RFT: please test mdadm/experimental)

2006-06-28 Thread martin f krafft
Hi again, I am sorry, but there is a stupid, minor glitch in the README.experimental file, which may lead to an unbootable system with initramfs-tools << 0.65. The cause of the problem is the sed call: sed -i -e 's,^PREREQ=\"md\"$,PREREQ=\"mdadm\"$,' \ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/lo

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:22:35PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > The benefits on UP are small (~10%), but except for huge working > > sets, non-negative. And the maintainer knows if the package handles > > huge chunks at once o

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Well, make -jX is not everywhere faster on UPs. It depends on other factors > > as well. If you specify -j2 and the second make is causing lots of swapping, > > you won't gain much if anything at all. > Exactly, just like I said:

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:38:51PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > I don't think it's good to define an opt-out variable (*_NON_PARALLEL). > Think positive! So, it would be better to define DEB_MAKE_PARALLEL, but even > better it would be to use something existing: CONCURRENCY_LEVEL as Don > Amst

Re: Is OSS only support to be considered a bug?

2006-06-28 Thread Michal Čihař
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:25:20 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:08:57PM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:35:19 +0200 > > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > No. There is snd-pcm-oss.ko, which provides working OSS sou

Re: [Yaird-devel] RFC: swap on a LVM volume in debian-installer

2006-06-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:46:59 +0200 David Härdeman wrote: > in debian-installer, there is a package - partman-auto-lvm - which > can setup an entire disk to be used for the debian installation with > the use of lvm for most partitions. > > Currently i

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:38:51PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:31:54AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On the other hand, making builds significantly faster is not > > something that you can shake a stick at. Typically make -jX is faster > > even on uniprocessor, a

Re: proposed mozilla-firefox security update, needs testing!

2006-06-28 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:44:50PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:10:45PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:54:47PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Could you send me a copy of your bookmarks.html file privately? > > > > > > > >

Re: proposed mozilla-firefox security update, needs testing!

2006-06-28 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:10:45PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:54:47PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > > > > > Could you send me a copy of your bookmarks.html file privately? > > > > > > Eric, was this reproducible? > > > > Unfortunately it was very reproducible

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:06:26AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Why not just have some ENV variable (CONCURRENCY_LEVEL?) which > specifies the maximum -j; the package maintainer is free to choose any > level equal to or below that. > [...] > This has the disadvantage of not automatically using -

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:31:54AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On the other hand, making builds significantly faster is not > something that you can shake a stick at. Typically make -jX is faster > even on uniprocessor, and I don't need to tell you why it's much > faster on SMP. Well, make -jX

Re: proposed mozilla-firefox security update, needs testing!

2006-06-28 Thread Alexander Sack
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:54:47PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > > > Could you send me a copy of your bookmarks.html file privately? > > > > Eric, was this reproducible? > > Unfortunately it was very reproducible :( I'm not sure how to > proceed. Is anyone else using these patches that mig

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:06:26AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Let's allow maintainers to use make -jX according to their common > > sense, requiring obeying an env variable to opt out. > > Why not just have some ENV variable (CONCURRENCY_LEVEL?) whi

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Adam Borowski wrote: > Let's allow maintainers to use make -jX according to their common > sense, requiring obeying an env variable to opt out. Why not just have some ENV variable (CONCURRENCY_LEVEL?) which specifies the maximum -j; the package maintainer is free to choose any

Bug#375809: ITP: python-chardet -- character encoding auto-detection in Python

2006-06-28 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-chardet Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Mark Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://chardet.feedparser.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Descri

RFT: please test mdadm/experimental

2006-06-28 Thread martin f krafft
Meep. I have done some major work on mdadm in experimental, which is now at version 2.5.2-1. I still have not received enough success reports to make me comfortable enough to upload to unstable, so here's another request for testing (or else etch will ship with 2.4.1). I am 95% confident that it'

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:02:15AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Debian still has to provide an upgrade path for users upgrading from Sarge. > > We cannot blindly break users scripts. > > Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for > users script, ie things not under

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:17:27AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > If package maintainer wants to build it faster on their own machine, I > > would imagine that checking for an environment variable (DEB_MAKE_OPTS > > or something, perhaps?) and using that would be the way to go. By > > default, b

Bug#375797: ITP: zope-compositepack -- allows the Plone Manager to build composite pages

2006-06-28 Thread alex bodnaru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: alex bodnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-compositepack Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Godefroid Chapelle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://plone.org/products/compositepack * License : Zope Public License (Z

Bug#375801: ITP: zope-cmfcompositepage -- visually combine page fragments into complete pages

2006-06-28 Thread alex bodnaru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: alex bodnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-cmfcompositepage Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Shane Hathaway, Zope Corporation, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hathawaymix.org/Software/CompositePage * License

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:17:27AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If package maintainer wants to build it faster on their own machine, I > > would imagine that checking for an environment variable (DEB_MAKE_OPTS > > or something, perhaps?) and usi