Bug#474489: ITP: libjss-java -- Java bindings for Network Security Services

2008-04-05 Thread Gerardo Curiel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libjss-java Version: 4.2.6 Upstream Author: The Mozilla Foundation URL: http://www.mozilla.org/directory/javasdk.html License: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 Description: Java bi

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > | The foo package's build dependencies are only relevant when building > | the foo package. For someone who develops software based on libbar, > | it is not obvious that foo's build dependencies are required. > Whoever develops software based on libbar will have to have a call to > pkg-conf

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Sunday 06 April 2008 00:08:43 Roger Leigh, vous avez écrit : > > The foo package's build dependencies are only relevant when building the > > foo package. For someone who develops software based on libbar, it is > > not obvious that foo's build dependencies are required. > > As an upstream, I in

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Roger Leigh
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and >> uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar. > >> Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to provide >> the dependency on pkg-config? > >

Bug#474466: ITP: librose-datetime-perl -- DateTime helper functions and objects

2008-04-05 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: librose-datetime-perl Version : 0.532 Upstream Author : John C. Siracusa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rose-DateTime/ * License :

Bug#474443: ITP: praytimes -- Firefox extension that displays Islamic daily prayer times

2008-04-05 Thread mderakhs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: praytimes Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4270 * License : GPL Programming Lang: JavaScrip

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 15:30 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > I think it is safe to say that Debian supports passing the > appropriate > command line arguments without using pkg-config, even if upstream > does > not. At least that seems to be my experience. Yes, but people depending on this

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-05 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: [...] > I strongly recommend not to use lzma on embedded architectures. I suppose that depends on how it's used, but Wikipedia's article on the algorithm even goes so far as to state: "Small code size and relatively low memor

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080405 16:53]: > That depends on the library you are linking against. I, as an library > author is free to say «the only supported way to use my gargleblaster > library is through the I_CAN_HAS_GARGELBLASTER autoconf macro» (which > then proceeds to set GARGL

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 04:52:29PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: That depends on the library you are linking against. I, as an library author is free to say «the only supported way to use my gargleblaster library is through the I_CAN_HAS_GARGELBLASTER autoconf macro» (which then proceeds to set

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Hendrik Sattler | Am Samstag 05 April 2008 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: | > Whoever develops software based on libbar will have to have a call to | > pkg-config somewhere in their build process so they should depend on | > pkg-config. | | _If_ they do. Please consider the possibility that an appli

Bug#474398: ITP: libfile-pid-perl -- Perl module for pid file manipulation

2008-04-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfile-pid-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Casey West, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Pid/ * License : GPL-1+ | Artistic Programmin

Bug#474392: ITP: celt -- The CELT low-latency audio codec

2008-04-05 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: celt Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Christopher Montgomery, Jean-Marc Valin, Timothy Terriberry, CSIRO, and other contributors URL : http://www.celt-codec.org Lice

experimental builders

2008-04-05 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Does experimental builders infrastructure works ? I'm waiting to try iceweasel 3.0 on i386. According to [1], 3.0~b4-2 has been successfully built for i386 but never reaches the debian pool (see [2] or [3]). For 3.0~b5-1, we can see the same thing (successfully built but not uploaded)

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:13:59AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : > > > > Given how much uproar there is about Microsoft's desire to retire > > Windows XP while many people would rather stick with it that go to > > Vista, perhaps

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:29:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:44:56AM +1300, Chris Bannister a écrit : > > > > Unfortunately, many people new to Debian/Linux get the impression that > > testing is perfectly suitable for a desktop system. > > Maybe because they have

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:31:44PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 02 April 2008 schrieb Chris Bannister: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:16:48PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 > > > > > > Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think that

Re: Bug#402010: How to deal with #402010?

2008-04-05 Thread sean finney
hi, On Saturday 05 April 2008 11:26:14 am Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > The problem is that these aspects are not packagable as some kind of > "fire and forget" installation. I'd prefer the way Roland proposed, > using some kind of option 3 could work out of the box, though it just requires more initi

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag 05 April 2008 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > Whoever develops software based on libbar will have to have a call to > pkg-config somewhere in their build process so they should depend on > pkg-config. _If_ they do. Please consider the possibility that an application developer links to libba

Re: Bug#402010: How to deal with #402010?

2008-04-05 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
The problem is that these aspects are not packagable as some kind of "fire and forget" installation. I'd prefer the way Roland proposed, using some kind of # cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/gosa.conf Alias /gosa /usr/share/gosa/html include /etc/gosa/gosa.secrets # cat /etc/gosa/gosa.secre

Re: Bug#402010: How to deal with #402010?

2008-04-05 Thread sean finney
hi, a few more ideas for you to think about: - create a user specific to the package, and 1: use a setuid wrapper binary for doing all ldap communications or 2: use some kind of user-restricted fastcgi type setup instead of standard apache mod_php/python/whatever or 3: run a seperate instan

Re: Bug#474230: ITP: compiz-switch -- Easily switch Compiz off and on

2008-04-05 Thread sean finney
hi, On Friday 04 April 2008 01:46:03 pm Alessio Gaeta wrote: > The package (not the software inside it! :) ) is quite trivial, but I > think it is very useful (and if you have an ATI with Compiz and fglrx, > is mandatory, to watch your videos easily...) what, if anything, makes it better than fu

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Simon Richter | Hi, | | > Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev | > and uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for | > libbar. | | > Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to | > provide the dependency on pkg-config? | | Disag