Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 23:10 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > It is my opinion that we would be better off dumping this > whole shell specification thing in policy, standardizing on bash, and > let it go. I agree completely, for the reasons you indicate. Thomas signature.asc Descript

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:55:57 -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:52:06 +, Stephen Gran >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> >>> > It would be nice if we could support all sorts of forms of >>> > rebuilds, but in practice, what we tend to take seriously i

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:55:57PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I'm not arguing for being opaque, or eliding real problems in favor > > of a fast release. I am just mentioning in passing that redoing > > your build system on the fly mid-build can be expected to have a few > > hiccups. We fr

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:41:40 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> This flows from the Release policy. Not specifying /bin/bash in >>> scripts is not considered a RC bug. >> I can try to propo

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:52:06 +, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: >> >> > It would be nice if we could support all sorts of forms of >> > rebuilds, but in practice, what we tend to take seriously is the >> > sort of FTBFS bugs that will affect the autobuilders. Since they >> > bui

RFC: behaviour of "bts show" command with new BTS default behaviour

2006-11-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi all! Thinking of changing the default behaviour of the devscripts "bts show" (aka "bts bugs") command, and want to ask for opinions before I do so. The BTS behaviour of http://bugs.debian.org/ has recently changed. It used to resolve to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg= whi

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: One final note, I sopke to upstream and he indicated that "SIXpack" would his prefered name. And so it is now. As I mentioned previously, the package name will remain "sixpack". Hopefully this is satisfactory for you Charles. Carlo On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, gregor herrmann wrote:

Re: apt-file: Looking for a sponsor for NMU (#397381)

2006-11-11 Thread Kevin Glynn
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo writes: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:36:08AM -0600, Kevin Glynn wrote: > > > Is anyone interested in apt-file? I have a proposed NMU that fixes > > severity important bug #397381 and I am looking for a sponsor. > > > > There is also a more detailed patch that clo

Bug#398093: ITP: umlet -- simple, text driven UML drawing tool

2006-11-11 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Mesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: umlet Version : 7.0 Upstream Author : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.umlet.com * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description : simple, text driven U

Bug#398092: ITP: dot2tex -- Graphviz to LaTeX converter

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Collingbourne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Collingbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dot2tex Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Kjell Magne Fauske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.fauskes.net/code/dot2tex/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Pyt

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
["Followup-To:" header set to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general.] On 2006-11-11, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In all of the following discussion, no one has ever said > anything about *WHY* policy states that clean must undo what build > does. Unless we are clear on the r

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Manoj Srivastava said: > Hi, > > > In all of the following discussion, no one has ever said > anything about *WHY* policy states that clean must undo what build > does. Unless we are clear on the rationale for dictum, trying to > resolve the issue is like

Re: Bug#397917: gsynaptics - lists s390 as supported

2006-11-11 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 02:11:24PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:59:07PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > ... > > > Option 3) > > > * Set "Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel > > > powerpc sparc" > > > * Ask ftp-master for removal of pac

Bug#398057: ITP: PDF-smp -- A service menu for KDE that handles PDF Documents

2006-11-11 Thread Giuseppe Benigno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Giuseppe Benigno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: PDF-smp Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Giuseppe Benigno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.egregorion.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: bash Description

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, In all of the following discussion, no one has ever said anything about *WHY* policy states that clean must undo what build does. Unless we are clear on the rationale for dictum, trying to resolve the issue is like playing blind man's bluff. There are several reasons for

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy (was: First draft of review of policy must usage)

2006-11-11 Thread Clint Adams
> Here's a proposed patch. What do people think about this approach? I > know there was an inconclusive Policy discussion a while back about how > best to deal with this issue. As you can tell from this patch, I favor > the approach of documenting the specific features that we require and > assu

Re: Accepted update-manager 0.42.2ubuntu22-6 (source all)

2006-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:33:10AM -0800, Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-6 > Why do we need ubuntu version numbers in debian ? Ubuntu is upstream for this package afaict from debian/copyright. And 0.42.2ubunt

Re: Accepted update-manager 0.42.2ubuntu22-6 (source all)

2006-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:33:10AM -0800, Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-6 Why do we need ubuntu version numbers in debian ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#397917: gsynaptics - lists s390 as supported

2006-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:55:07AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:04 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Architecture: !s390 > > No, this syntax is not supported. > What is needed to finally support it? It's been wanted for years now > and is clearly better than not

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Firstly, should we be pointing to the SuS instead of POSIX > (there is work going on a new version of the SUS), since it is open, > and readily available on th 'net, and people can readily see it (as > opposed

Bug#398029: ITP: bouml -- UML2 tool box to specify and generate code

2006-11-11 Thread Thomas Girard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bouml Version : 2.19.1 Upstream Author : Bruno Pagès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bouml.free.fr * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : UML2 tool

Re: apt-file: Looking for a sponsor for NMU (#397381)

2006-11-11 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:36:08AM -0600, Kevin Glynn wrote: > Is anyone interested in apt-file? I have a proposed NMU that fixes > severity important bug #397381 and I am looking for a sponsor. > > There is also a more detailed patch that closes another four bugs and > (I think) makes apt-file

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:45:31 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: > I would prefer, however, to keep the package name as "sixpack" rather than > change it. Just FYI: There is a package called 'sixpack' containing a BibTeX editor [0] but it's only 1) in my private repository and 2) in Ubuntu. I never trie

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: If there is no technical concern, I would suggest that your binary would be named SixPACK, to match what is used on upstream's website. I would be rather reluctant to rename the sixpack binary of EMBOSS, as it is a software suite which is very command

Re: Bug#397917: gsynaptics - lists s390 as supported

2006-11-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:04 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Architecture: !s390 > > No, this syntax is not supported. What is needed to finally support it? It's been wanted for years now and is clearly better than not having it. Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sign