Re: [rfc] mass-mod old ita/itp bugs back to rfa/rfp?

2008-01-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Sebastian Pipping wrote: hm, if we have ITA/ITPs with more than 300 days of no activity than we need a fix here i guess :-) i added a "dust" column showing the number of days without activity. also the cron job updates existing entries finally. this query shows some very o

Re: [rfc] mass-mod old ita/itp bugs back to rfa/rfp?

2008-01-20 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Luk Claes wrote: There is already a process that does that, though it takes into account any follow-up on the bug report to reset the timer which you clearly don't... hm, if we have ITA/ITPs with more than 300 days of no activity than we need a fix here i guess :-) i added a "dust" column show

Re: [rfc] mass-mod old ita/itp bugs back to rfa/rfp?

2008-01-20 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: This web page is great. It would be good to also show the submitter of the bug in a column. added. sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:54:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Why are we copying shell functions off of wikis and embedding them into > our maintainer scripts instead of adding the code to Debian once in a > utility? > > (I've considered putting this code in debhelper, but the way it's used > is no

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Michael Biebl] > Why do you think, debhelper is not the correct place to handle this? > Imho it would be fairly easy to write a debhelper command for this. > Another way would be, to make dpkg smarter about such cases. As you > want to write a special utility for this, how would you hook this up

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> Regarding the list above I would guess that what you want is something >> like the following: >> * glib -> GLib > * Glib -> GLib glib is a regular English word, so I'll lea

Re: Removal of xmms and its reverse-dependancies - what is the status?

2008-01-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Luk Claes wrote: > It would probably better to focus on one of the alternatives of xmms > like audacious, xmm2 or bmpx... whereas audacious is imho the only worth one. > snapshot.debian.net might help if you really want to stick with xmms... or http://daniel.debian.net/packages/xmms/ as much as

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Joey Hess wrote: Why are we copying shell functions off of wikis and embedding them into our maintainer scripts instead of adding the code to Debian once in a utility? I'm all for this! The sad truth is, that currently a lot of maintainers simply forget to handle conffiles removals/moves. So h

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-20 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Jan 17, 2008 9:35 PM, Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >mathomatic-primes Fixed, sent to sponsor to upload. Thanks! Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:44:34PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > In summary, `run-parts` is safe wrt .dpkg-bak, `run-parts --lsbsysinit` > is not. Easy enough to fix if need be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I just noticed that when I rewrote the conffile removal code in > initscripts recently, I copied code from > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling and accidently replaced > the code that created *.dpkg-old files with code that would create > *.dpkg-bak. I will ch

Bug#461757: ITP: ttf-ume -- Japanese TrueType font, Ume-font family

2008-01-20 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: ttf-ume Version: 382-1 Upstream Author: Wataru Horai URL: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ume-font/wiki/FrontPage License: Wada Laboratory (BSD-like licence. It is same as koch

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Roger Leigh [Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:30:43 +]: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:10:38PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Regarding run-parts: There is no problem afaik. I quickly tried this: > > # mkdir test > > # touch test/foo > > # touch test/foo.dpkg-old > > # touch test/foo.dpkg-bak > > # run-p

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:10:38PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I noticed earlier today that many packages are creating copies of >> conffiles in their maintainer scripts with the extension ".dpkg-bak", >> which is not an extension used or removed by dpkg: > >

Re: Removal of xmms and its reverse-dependancies - what is the status?

2008-01-20 Thread Luk Claes
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> xmms removal was decided some time ago. > > i am working on a project partly depending > on parts of xmms. in case it is removed > i will need at least backups of all > related package sources so i can still > have the packages at my place. It would

Re: Removal of xmms and its reverse-dependancies - what is the status?

2008-01-20 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Luk Claes wrote: xmms removal was decided some time ago. i am working on a project partly depending on parts of xmms. in case it is removed i will need at least backups of all related package sources so i can still have the packages at my place. where can i find more information about this?

Bug#461751: ITP: contextfree -- image generator based on context-free grammars

2008-01-20 Thread Bram Senders
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bram Senders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: contextfree Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Chris Coyne, John Horigan and Mark Lentczner * URL : http://contextfreeart.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Descri

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Roger Leigh wrote: Hi folks, I noticed earlier today that many packages are creating copies of conffiles in their maintainer scripts with the extension ".dpkg-bak", which is not an extension used or removed by dpkg: Say you name the file /etc/foo.dpkg-old instead of /etc/foo.dpkg-bak. dpkg won

Re: hot to build i386 on amd64 using pbuilder?

2008-01-20 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > > Logging into the chroot reveals /dev/null is 644, not 666 as I would expect. > > > > How can I fix the permissions of /dev/null under the chroot? > > > > Are my problems likely to be cause by the fact that my machine is > > running as a vserver? > > Actually /dev/null is not even a charact

Re: Removal of xmms and its reverse-dependancies - what is the status?

2008-01-20 Thread Luk Claes
Marcin Owsiany wrote: > An xmms rev-dep I maintain (xmms-xf86audio) is useless without xmms, and > not really portable to any of its replacements. Therefore I agree it > should be removed if xmms is removed. However: > > - the reporter said to ask for removal after xmms is removed > - the ftpmas

Removal of xmms and its reverse-dependancies - what is the status?

2008-01-20 Thread Marcin Owsiany
An xmms rev-dep I maintain (xmms-xf86audio) is useless without xmms, and not really portable to any of its replacements. Therefore I agree it should be removed if xmms is removed. However: - the reporter said to ask for removal after xmms is removed - the ftpmaster removal wiki page says reverse

Bug#461734: ITP: enthought-chaco2 -- interactive plotting application toolkit

2008-01-20 Thread Varun Hiremath
Package: wnpp Owner: Varun Hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: enthought-chaco2 Version : 2.0.1b1 Upstream Author : Enthought, Inc. * URL or Web page : http://code.enthought.com/chaco/ * License : BSD-style Description : interactive plottin

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Roger Leigh] > A lot of scripts are copying the rm_conffile script from > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling which adds a .dpkg-bak > suffix to old conffiles. > > Are such names allowed? Why can't .dpkg-old be used instead? I just noticed that when I rewrote the conffile removal code i