Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Joey Hess has done some work to allow debhelper to handle the case of files > >> under debian/ that should be ignored (sinc

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Joey Hess has done some work to allow debhelper to handle the case of files >> under debian/ that should be ignored (since they can't be deleted as part of >> a diff); I'm afr

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:00:17AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > > > > It is okay to have the debian directory in your tarball but, if you go > > > down > > > this road, it will be des

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > Joey Hess has done some work to allow debhelper to handle the case of files > under debian/ that should be ignored (since they can't be deleted as part of > a diff); I'm afraid I don't know the current state of this work and haven't > heard of it being m

Re: Getting resolvconf back into testing

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:58:11PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > On 15 June the resolvconf package was removed from testing due to an RC bug. > > > A fixed version of the package has been uploaded and is now in unstable. > > > I would like to request t

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > /me coughs in the direction of devscripts' Uploaders field (I'm assuming > you'd noticed, but just in case :-) :-) > Assuming "not-POSIX-but-supported-by-policy" checkbashisms already has a > flag to indicate whether "echo -n" sho

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
Steve Langasek wrote: >> It is okay to have the debian directory in your tarball but, if you go down >> this road, it will be desirable that the Debian maintainer/sponsor for your >> package has commit access to the SVN repository. > > Even if this is the case, it is still annoying for NMUers to

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:00:17AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > > It is okay to have the debian directory in your tarball but, if you go down > > this road, it will be desirable that the Debian maintainer/sponsor for your > > packa

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:19:54 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Well I was told that this is also a bad idea, and a maintainer should > not include those debian specific file directly in the upstream > source. > [Aim] > So my question is: is this correct ? > [Fire] > If

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:00:17AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > It is okay to have the debian directory in your tarball but, if you go down > this road, it will be desirable that the Debian maintainer/sponsor for your > package has commit access to the SVN repository. Even if this is the ca

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-24 23:19]: > In take 3, I implemented entirely by hand all the proper debian files, > as can be found here: > > http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gdcm/trunk/debian/ > > [Ready] > > Well I was told that this is also a bad idea, and a main

Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello there, long time ! [Take 2 of 'Generating debian package using cmake' has been rated PJ-13-crude language, so let's try to make a clean sequel] In take 1, I was generating debian using cmake internal implementation of debian package, which as most of you know, was doomed to failure In tak

Italian HackMeeting '08

2008-06-24 Thread David Paleino
(sorry, most links below are in Italian :() Hello all [1], this year's Italian HackMeeting[2] (also known as HackIT), will be held in Palermo [3]. This would be a great opportunity to me to have some signatures on my GPG key, better if from some DD. As you might already know, from previous mails t

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

2008-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
"Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 3. I was suggested libopensync for cmake/debian package start. >>> 3.1 where is the internal name 'libopensync1exp3' co

Re: Getting resolvconf back into testing

2008-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:58:11PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On 15 June the resolvconf package was removed from testing due to an RC bug. > A fixed version of the package has been uploaded and is now in unstable. > I would like to request that the resolvconf package be re-admitted to testing. >

Re: Getting resolvconf back into testing

2008-06-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Hood] > I would like to request that the resolvconf package be re-admitted to > testing. $ grep-excuses resolvconf resolvconf (- to 1.41) Maintainer: resolvconf maintainers Too young, only 6 of 10 days old Ignoring high urgency setting for NEW package

Re: inotify and symlinks in /etc/udev/rules.d/

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: I was approached by the maintainer of libmtp in Ubuntu regarding a fix for LP#197968 [1]. The bug reporter cites the file /etc/udev/rules.d/README (which does not exist in Debian), that says: The udev daemon watches this directory with inotify so that changes to

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:34 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Supporting "local x" would be relatively simple; suggestions for a > >> reliable regex to catch use of -a/-o welcome... :) > > > > There was a fairly good

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Supporting "local x" would be relatively simple; suggestions for a > > reliable regex to catch use of -a/-o welcome... :) > > There was a fairly good one in Lintian that I took out once Po

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:19:49 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Francesco Poli [...] > | If you modify a GPG public key, you obtain something that no longer > | corresponds to the original private key (obviously). > > No, the most common modification done to a GPG public key is adding a > signatur

Re: ITP: hatools -- The halockrun program provides a simple way to implement locking in shell scripts.

2008-06-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Igshaan Mesias | Hi | | > | On Jun 18, Igshaan Mesias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | | > | > Description : The halockrun program provides a simple way to | > | > implement locking in shell scripts. | > | | > | What does this offer over lockfile (procmail package) or dotlockfile | > |

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Francesco Poli | On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:54:09 -0600 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: | | [...] | > Actually, how are debian-keyring and debian-archive-keyring free-software, | > anyway? Do I get source code for the all GPG keys they contain? | | The most widely accepted definition of source code is

Getting resolvconf back into testing

2008-06-24 Thread Thomas Hood
On 15 June the resolvconf package was removed from testing due to an RC bug. A fixed version of the package has been uploaded and is now in unstable. I would like to request that the resolvconf package be re-admitted to testing. Unfortunately I haven't received any responses to this request from

Bug#487852: ITP: gmlive -- live video for linux

2008-06-24 Thread LI Daobing (李道兵)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: gmlive Version: 0.20.2 Upstream Author: lerosua, xihels, yetist, septeman URL: http://code.google.com/p/gmlive/ License: GPLv2 De

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Geissert
brian m. carlson wrote: > > As far as I'm aware, there are three shells in Debian that can be used > as /bin/sh: bash, dash, and posh[0]. > {{b,d}a,{,pd,m}k,z,po}sh, with the 'only' 'problem' that ksh doesn't support the local keyword, which is mandated by policy. Of course I don't think anyon

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Supporting "local x" would be relatively simple; suggestions for a >> reliable regex to catch use of -a/-o welcome... :) > > There was a fairly good one in Lintian that I took out once Policy blessed > it, or at least we di

Bug#487840: ITP: buffycli -- Buffycli is a command line alternative to Buffy

2008-06-24 Thread Penny Leach
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Penny Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: buffycli Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Penny Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : Buffycli is a command line alte

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2008-06-24 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, packages are available through http://smarden.org/pape/Debian/sid.html Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Package: type-handling > Well, that's the good-old type-handling, something we hoped we wouldn't > need in 2008 anymore. > > > Michael I thought so too but I can't find any of the type-handling magic for install time depends in dpkg. Only the buildti

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

2008-06-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 juin 2008 à 00:20 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : > > Stop. Don't even try to go further. This is NOT the right way. Your > > brand new wheels are going to drive you straight into a wall after way > > too much effort. > > Please give such real world examples of failure (if they are

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:36:09PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > It probably should if all of the software or at least most (plus all of > > the package installation software) supports them properly. Does it? > > No. The only support that dpkg has is that those arch-limitations are used > by

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

2008-06-24 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 00:20 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> > Stop. Don't even try to go further. This is NOT the right way. Your >> > brand new wheels are going to drive you straight into a wall after way >> > too much