Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends

2008-02-22 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Feb 23 12:02, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > So, I want to build against the reference lapack and blas, and then, > if the user chooses, then I want the alternatives system to enable the > use of atlas. Now, the new dpkg-source reordering installs atlas as > well during build, which causes the "smar

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Christian Perrier
> Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pytrainer > Version : 1.5 > Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/ > * License : GPLv2 > Description : Free Sport Training Center > > Pytrainer is

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 23/02/2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: > In the gFortran transition we have come across some cases where this > happens, depending on the order specified for depends you either get a > specialist (requested) package, or if you don't care which maths lib for > example is used by the package then yo

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:19:50PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez, 2008-02-22 08:33:17 -0500 : > > [...] > > > Now, if I could run an 'apt-get source -t unstable foo' and create > > my patch against the resulting source package, and be sure that the > > maintainer won't reject it o

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:50:37PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > "Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Then having a unique, well-defined order of packages in Depends is a > > > good idea. If packages are

Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

2008-02-22 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eficas Version : 1.13.0 Upstream Author : EDF / R&D * URL : http://www.code-aster.org/ * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (Python) Description : ASter Command F

Re: ITP: ASTK -- Code_Aster build/control system and front-end

2008-02-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:45 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:07:20PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Package name: astk > > Why is it called astk? I can't find an astk tarball on the > www.code-aster.org site. astk is one of the tarballs in the aster-full-src-9.2.0-2.

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> In some cases, particularly when the Depends can be satisfied by >> different sets of alternatives, this change could have the effect of >> changing the packages actually pulled

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Be sure that somebody looks at new bugs. The fundamental problem here that people are trying to express is that, given our absence of paid staff who are willing to do anything they're assigned to do, it is impossible to "be sure" that anyone in Debian does any specific

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: >> Raphael, >> >> What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies >> and leaving everyone on tenterhooks as to whether it will change >> installation outcomes? (If this has already been explained I apologize >> f

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread jidanni
Be sure that somebody looks at new bugs. As days pass, the test conditions in the report e.g., URLs, deteriorate. As weeks pass, the user may have removed the package for another. As months pass, the user may no longer be working on related projects. As years pass, the user himself might have passe

Re: custom package dependencies not installing

2008-02-22 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:47:49 -0800, William Francis wrote: > I admit this is my first custom .deb project but I think I've done > everything correctly but I must be missing something that's causing > the missing dependencies to install? You did not. Dpkg searches for local files only. If you had

custom package dependencies not installing

2008-02-22 Thread William Francis
I have a binary style package that I've created. The control file has a large number of Depends entries in it which all install fine by themselves. When I attempt to install the package (via dpkg -i) , it lists all of the Depends and it helpfully tells me that they are not installed (which is true)

triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance

2008-02-22 Thread Ian Jackson
I would like to ask current official dpkg maintainers what they plan to do about triggers, and about my status with respect to the dpkg team. Triggers are IMO an important and very useful new dpkg feature. They were first proposed many many years ago and discussed between Wichert and myself. A d

Re: ITP: ASTK -- Code_Aster build/control system and front-end

2008-02-22 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:07:20PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Package name: astk Why is it called astk? I can't find an astk tarball on the www.code-aster.org site. > Version: 1.5.5 > Author: EDF (Electricite de France) R&D > License: GPL > URL: http://www.code-aster.org/ > Description: Co

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What might work quite well, however, is to have "bug janitors" (a la > kernel janitors) who look at new bugs that have received no attention > for, say, two weeks. If a bug gets reported against a package, and the > package maintainer doesn't react to i

ITP: ASTK -- Code_Aster build/control system and front-end

2008-02-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: astk Version: 1.5.5 Author: EDF (Electricite de France) R&D License: GPL URL: http://www.code-aster.org/ Description: Code_Aster build/control system and front-end ASTK is a client-server front-end for the Code_Aster finite element software (a.k.a. a

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri February 22 2008 12:55:31 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies > > and leaving everyone on tenterhooks as to whether it will change > > installation outcomes? (If this has already been explained I apologize > > for overlooking it.) >

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??"): > You're speaking of something that you have not understood. The order > of packages listed in an OR has not changed... I am (of course) aware > that the order has a meaning in that case. The point

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:55:31PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > > > causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. > > Raphael, > > What please is the benefit

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > > causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. > > Raphael, > > What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies > and leaving everyone on

Re: Bug#466669: ITP: squirrelmail-gpg -- GnuPG plugin for SquirrelMail

2008-02-22 Thread Wolf Wiegand
Hi, Don Armstrong wrote: > [...] > so I'd strongly suggest that this package have the key-uploading and > other secret-key requiring bits disabled by default, > [...] afaik horde/imp4 supports uploading of gpg-keys as well. How does this package handle this issue? Cheers, Wolf -- "Plug and P

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:49:32PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:48 +0100 > Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > > > Otavio Salvador <[EMA

Bug#467074: ITP: pppd-ldap -- plugin for pppd to enable LDAP lookup

2008-02-22 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pppd-ldap Version : 0.12b Upstream Author : Grigoriy Sitkarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pppd-ldap/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang:

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri February 22 2008 11:50:37 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > As I said, it's a know issue and we need to fix it however it would be > > nice to not get the problem worse changing the package dependencies > > ordering at build time, at least for now. > >

Bug#467067: ITP: java-wrappers -- wrappers for java executables

2008-02-22 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: java-wrappers Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Shell Description : wrappers for java executables Wr

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > "Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then having a unique, well-defined order of packages in Depends is a > > good idea. If packages aren't sorted their order is undefined (not all > > of the dependencies are added by hands, many of them com

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pytrainer > Version : 1.5 > Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/ > * License : GPLv2 > Description : Free S

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Minor correction for my example 2: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Note that liblapack.so.3 (both > versions) requires libblas.so.3; but liblapack.so.3 from lapack3 can use > either version of libblas, while liblapack.so.3 from atlas3-base needs > the libblas.so.3 from atlas3-base-dev.

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:26:15 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11303 March 1977, David Paleino wrote: > > > Ehm... using a better wording? > > I wont. Its an RFP, and I just copied the text from upstreams > homepage. Whoever packages it might take whatever they want. Oops, sorry. I believed it w

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, first let me apologize to Norbert that my original email was unclear: it is indeed true, as Raphael notes, that dpkg-deb (or whatever) is NOT changing the order of individual packages within an OR'ed set, only of the packages (or OR'ed sets of packages) separated by commas. Raphael Hertzog wr

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11303 March 1977, David Paleino wrote: > Ehm... using a better wording? I wont. Its an RFP, and I just copied the text from upstreams homepage. Whoever packages it might take whatever they want. -- bye Joerg And mind you, I have always been respectful to every debian developer EXC

Re: Bug#466939: ITP: hex2bin -- Converts Motorola and Intel Hex files to binary

2008-02-22 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag 22 Februar 2008 schrieb Uwe Hermann: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:11:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > What might work quite well, however, is to have "bug janitors" (a la > kernel janitors) who look at new bugs that have received no attention > for, say, two weeks. If a bug gets reported against a package, and the > package maintainer doesn't react to it, then the janitors can look at >

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:47:10 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pytrainer > Version : 1.5 > Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/ > * License : GPLv2 > Descripti

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 22/02/2008, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Do you think that there is a chance we find a group of people who > really like mentoring/training others? If so, we could maybe set up > kind of a bug-frontdesk taking over _all_ new bug reports for a > moment and checking them for a the bit of informatio

Bug#467039: RFP: garmintools -- A Linux interface to the Garmin Forerunner GPS units

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: garmintools Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Dave Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://code.google.com/p/garmintools/ * License : GPLv2 Description : A Linux interface to the Garmin Forerunner GPS units

Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pytrainer Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/ * License : GPLv2 Description : Free Sport Training Center Pytrainer is a tool to log your sp

Re: Bug#466939: ITP: hex2bin -- Converts Motorola and Intel Hex files to binary

2008-02-22 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:11:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: hex2bin > > Version : 1.0.6 > > Upstream Author

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On pe, 2008-02-22 at 07:48 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Do you think that there is a chance we find a group of people who really like > mentoring/training others? If so, we could maybe set up kind of a > bug-frontdesk > taking over _all_ new bug reports for a moment and checking them for a t

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:48 +0100 Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > > As I said, for APT, the order has mea

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2008-02-21 at 22:34 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > But the same it true the other way around. Imho it's also not ok to > insult DDs publically in the way jidanni did. We are all volunteers > after all and ranting on a public mailing list doesn't help to improve > the motivation (and doesn't m

Re: avoid conf file overwrite message?

2008-02-22 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Yes Both option does work. Thanks On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:43:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote: > > > *** apache.

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Roland Mas
Roberto C. Sánchez, 2008-02-22 08:33:17 -0500 : [...] > Now, if I could run an 'apt-get source -t unstable foo' and create > my patch against the resulting source package, and be sure that the > maintainer won't reject it on the grounds of the patch not being > against the head (or latest, or wha

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 08:33 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > Now, if I could run an 'apt-get source -t unstable foo' and create my > patch against the resulting source package, and be sure that the > maintainer won't reject it on the grounds of the patch not being against > the head (o

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > > > apt-get install foo bar > > > > Is compl

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:53:20PM -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed February 20 2008 3:43:18 pm Ben Finney wrote: > > Who other than the bug reporter would you suggest should try > > reproducing the bug? > > > > Suggesting "put that effort into fixing the bugs" is

Re: avoid conf file overwrite message?

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:43:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote: > > *** apache.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y > > Installing new version of config file /etc/twiki/apache.conf ... > > > Is there a

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2/22/08, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. >> >> apt-get install foo bar >> >> Is completely different of >> >> apt-get install bar foo > > Then having a unique, well-defined ord

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:20:49 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.20.1722 > +0100]: >> I have to take care of it manually once. That is the first time I >> setup the integration branch that merges in changes from the >> over

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:23:10 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.21.0020 +0100]: >> The difference here being that feature branches are, in my >> experience, changes against the pristine upstream source. The >> merging of differe

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:09:03 +0100, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > i think this discussion is in part to propose a system that can serve > as a layer of abstraction between $developer's $scm implementation and > some common format/methodology, so that when $otherdeveloper comes > along a

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > > > apt-get install foo bar > > > > Is completely different of > > > > apt-

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, David Nusinow wrote: > > We could deal with this problem if we were better at training and > > recruiting people to work on such things. We've been lucky in the > > XSF lately in getting enough hands to get the work done, but I don't

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > apt-get install foo bar > > Is completely different of > > apt-get install bar foo Could you please elaborate on this? I know for sure that Pre-D

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Sergei Golovan
On 2/22/08, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. > > apt-get install foo bar > > Is completely different of > > apt-get install bar foo Then having a unique, well-defined order of packages in Depends is a good idea. If packages aren'

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Please, revert this change. > > No. I don't see any good reason for that: > > 1/ I have yet to see a major breakage due to that, the worst has > been changed dependencies on a built package due to choices

Erlang on UltraSparc III (again)

2008-02-22 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi! It looks like Erlang still routinely fails to build on lebrun buildd (sparc architecture, dual UltraSparc III). Though the were some changes because instead of bus error (http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=erlang&ver=1%3A12.b.1-dfsg-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1202857177&file=log) it reported inte

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:51:42AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 21 février 2008 à 23:31 -0600, John Goerzen a écrit : > > > 1) Large projects using $DVCS and making it easy for people that aren't > > familiar with $DVCS to learn how to participate in that project. > > How is this re

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > I can understand it might change the list of packages pulled, but both set >> > are supposed to work since that what dependencies are expressing. If you >>

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 21 Feb 2008, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > But jidanni did not actually insult anyone, but just made a statement on the > current situation (possibly also expression his personal frustration). Our By his own admission he will go ahead and post duplicate bug reports, because he doesn't have

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 21 février 2008 à 23:31 -0600, John Goerzen a écrit : > On Thursday 21 February 2008 8:22:49 pm Don Armstrong wrote: > > I think it's going to be in our long term interest to identify some > > more of these packages that could use help and figure out what changes > > (if any) need to be ma

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-22 Thread Florian Lohoff
Just to followup ... On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Ryan and me have been communicating on a hardware mod on rem - one of > the mipsel buildds. Basically the machine is running on a PIO based ATA > disk because of the fundamentally broken design of the IDE inter

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Raphael, On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > You're speaking of something that you have not understood. The order > of packages listed in an OR has not changed... I am (of course) aware > that the order has a meaning in that case. That is what could be easily understood of the previou

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I can understand it might change the list of packages pulled, but both set > > are supposed to work since that what dependencies are expressing. If you > > I disagree. Sometimes alternatives are something

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I can understand it might change the list of packages pulled, but both set > are supposed to work since that what dependencies are expressing. If you I disagree. Sometimes alternatives are something we put in to help transition. We have ... texl

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I've just noticed that packages I've built recently have had the list of > Depends reorganized into ASCIIbetical order in the generated binary > .debs. I guess this was the next logical step after having dpkg-dev > re-order Build-Depends internal