Bug#521246: ITP: ttf-konatuplus-light -- Japanese gothic font based on Konatu and M+fonts

2009-03-25 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Package name: ttf-konatuplus-light Version: 20070104-1 Upstream Author: UTUMI Hirosi URL: http://www.geocities.jp/ep3797/modified_fonts_01.html Descri

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Mar 24 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > >> On Tue, Mar 24 2009, Ben Finney wrote: >> >> If the spec is being bruited under the understanding that >> the flaws do not matter > > Who's doing that? Of course the flaws matter. > >> So answering criticism

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-25 Thread sean finney
hi mike, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:29:59PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > You don't need to do that on initial import. You can use a grafts file > to create the history you like from these 2 unrelated branches, and > you can then use git filter-branch to rewrite the master branch to > have the commi

Re: New quilt source format

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Is there any information on how the typical package is supposed to use this > new format, See the dpkg-source manual page and this wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 > (I'm a little confused on this) is it even in pla

Re: Bug#466550: Clarify or remove the get-orig-source target specification

2009-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
On 25-Mar-2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think where we're at (with get-orig-source) right now is that > uscan has a feature to run a script after downloading the upstream > source. That seems like usually the right way of providing > repackaging for new upstream source releases and I think we shou

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> Brainwave: no need to add a second public key to CRDA itself, the >> wireless-regdb could install the public key corresponding to the >> private key it was built with. > > Can you elaborate on what you mean? Do you mean for wireless-reg

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> When we do, just adding a second public key to the CRDA  pubkeys dir >> and using the corresponding private key (from outside the package) >> during the build process of wireless-regdb would

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > When we do, just adding a second public key to the CRDA  pubkeys dir > and using the corresponding private key (from outside the package) > during the build process of wireless-regdb would be just fine. This > would mean the maintainer of crda w

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Dickinson writes: > I kind of got lost in this discussion. Is there a summary and debian > policy and debian reference patch so that those of us who are just > looking to do what we're supposed to do know what we are supposed to do > and how to do it? I think where we're at (with get-ori

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process [rescinded]

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:42:40PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello developers, > > I am hereby proposing the amendement below to the General resolution > entitled "Enhance requirements for General resolutions". > > PROPOSAL START >

Re: Keeping track of best practises / policy changes with tracking -devel

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:18:51 -0400 Daniel Dickinson wrote: > I'm finding that I can't keep up with devel but I would like to be able > to see a summary of consensuses (consensii?) that result from the > discussions, as well a final summaries of best practices (and changes > to them. Also a neat

New quilt source format

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Is there any information on how the typical package is supposed to use this new format, or (I'm a little confused on this) is it even in place yet? If it's not in place how do we prepare for it? Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I ha

This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
I kind of got lost in this discussion. Is there a summary and debian policy and debian reference patch so that those of us who are just looking to do what we're supposed to do know what we are supposed to do and how to do it? Thanks, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it ou

Re: Keeping track of best practises / policy changes with tracking -devel

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
(Sending a personal copy because you said that you weren't following debian-devel easily. Apologies if this was a mistake.) Daniel Dickinson writes: > I'm finding that I can't keep up with devel but I would like to be able > to see a summary of consensuses (consensii?) that result from the > di

Keeping track of best practises / policy changes with tracking -devel

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hi, I'm finding that I can't keep up with devel but I would like to be able to see a summary of consensuses (consensii?) that result from the discussions, as well a final summaries of best practices (and changes to them. Also a neat changelog of policy changes I should be aware of. Basically I w

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Kurt Roeckx [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:52:22 +0100]: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'd also like to complain about the title text of the initial GR. It is > > clearly manipulative, as it pretends to be merely describing the proposed > > changes when in fact it

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 25. März 2009, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs/ArchchitectureTags > I'm not sure renaming-and-redirecting is possible on the wiki; if it is, > someone please do so (and sorry for this mess). done :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Nothing against this but I used the term menu in a different than this technical meaning. I hope this became clear in my mail. That was clear, but it bumped up a old idea I had in my head ;) Please take that idea serious... To whom do you targeti

Bug#521219: ITP: ttf-umeplus -- Japanese gothic font based on umefont and M+ fonts

2009-03-25 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Package name: ttf-umeplus Version: 20090209-1 Upstream Author: UTUMI Hirosi URL: http://www.geocities.jp/ep3797/modified_fonts_01.html Description: De

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-25 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Grammostola Rosea writes: > Could you comment on this? I think it's the best when Ardour will hit > Lenny. New packages are not in scope of the update policy of released debian versions. So this is not going to happen. > Second option is as a Lenny backport. That's more likely. However only p

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Reinhard Tartler wrote: Grammostola Rosea writes: Could you comment on this? I think it's the best when Ardour will hit Lenny. New packages are not in scope of the update policy of released debian versions. So this is not going to happen. Second option is as a Lenny backport.

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Grammostola Rosea wrote: taste they need to be informed what to choose from. It's like a restaurant where you choose from a menu. Currently we are lacking a complete multimedia "menu" in Debian. An menu entry for multimedia sounds good to me (Ubunt

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create architecture > > tags in the BTS. I've always felt that such a thing would be useful, > > because often porters are unaware of architecture-specific bugs,

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59:25AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 05:30:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I made a short overview of this on the wiki, at > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs/ArchchitectureTags > > Got an extra ch in there? That was pointed out on IR

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Grammostola Rosea wrote: taste they need to be informed what to choose from. It's like a restaurant where you choose from a menu. Currently we are lacking a complete multimedia "menu" in Debian. An menu entry for multimedia sounds good to me (Ubuntu has an menu entry fo

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Actually technically it could be a different person. I maintain crda > upstream and John maintains wireless-regdb upstream, for example. I > just need John's pubkey file which is non-binary. CRDA just reads the > regulatory.bin which wir

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kel Modderman wrote: > >> The DFSG seems to suggest that the source code to the regulatory database >> should be modifiable and the derived work distributed under the same license. > > It is my understanding tha

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:43:51 +0100 Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Btw. why doesn't Ardour from unstable hit testing? This is normal for > packages in Sid after some time right? Now there is no Ardour in stable > AND testing. All the information is available via the PTS for ardour: Testing status

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
taste they need to be informed what to choose from. It's like a restaurant where you choose from a menu. Currently we are lacking a complete multimedia "menu" in Debian. An menu entry for multimedia sounds good to me (Ubuntu has an menu entry for 'multimedia production:

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Vincent Danjean wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: I read this on the Debian multimedia mailinglist: Unfortunately lenny was already freezed by that time, and although both of the above updates were really safe (IMO) and despite all the efforts I and especially Reinhard put into convincing

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > debian-volatile isn't an appropriate place for this because many > stable users don't use volatile and it is fairly important they are > kept up to date with this, kinda like the timezone database. AFAIK, volatile.d.o _is_ the proper way to keep the timezone

Re: packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
Russ Allbery wrote: > debconf-devel(7): > > The config script should not need to modify the filesystem at all. It > just examines the state of the system, and asks questions, and debconf > stores the answers to be acted on later by the postinst script. > Conversely, the postinst script should alm

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:45:30AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:39:03 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > Last time I poked them it seemed it was not easy to figure out how to > > > deal with, if at all, the optio

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:32:19PM -0400, Mike O'Connor wrote: > I cannot. I can say that I opened RC bugs and made sure others from the > FTP team and from Release and Stable Release were aware of exactly what > was happening. The uploader was upstream, so upstream was being made > aware as well

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kel Modderman wrote: > The DFSG seems to suggest that the source code to the regulatory database > should be modifiable and the derived work distributed under the same license. It is my understanding that: Debian probably won't need to build the regdb from sourc

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Luk Claes wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi > >> I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had >> just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry >> about that. >> >> Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Ar

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Kel Modderman
On Thursday 26 March 2009 03:41:30 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Kel Modderman wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:51:41 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > >> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Paul

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Luk Claes wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> Hi, >> Hi >> >>> I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had >>> just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry >>> about that. >>> >>> Now

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:57:49PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:44:19AM -0400, Mike O'Connor wrote: > > yes, usually it should. It doesn't always. I have tried to file bugs > > when I find them in the archive. The citadel related packages are a > > recent example of thi

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luk Claes (25/03/2009): > Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> And while the new package is kept out, the package currently in the > >> archive might not be suitable at all. In the case of a single binary

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 03:37 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > > And as its probably best to coordinate with Ubuntu, they have a > > wireless-crda package which combines both into one package. Its > > shipping for Jaunty. > > And that's the only way to sanely package it (by combining the two pieces >

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, Hi > I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had > just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry > about that. > > Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create architecture > tags in the BTS. I've always

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Kel Modderman
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:51:41 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Last time I poked them it seemed it was

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): >>> Yes, there have definately been times when packages are rejected from >>> NEW that only got there becuase of a package addition. I'd say its >> ... >> And while the new pack

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Kel Modderman
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:39:03 Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > Last time I poked them it seemed it was not easy to figure out how to > > deal with, if at all, the optional but recommended RSA signature stuff > > [1] with the DFSG. > > > > [1

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Kel Modderman wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:51:41 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez >

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 05:30:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had > just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry > about that. > > Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create arch

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 25/03/09 at 09:06 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> There was a clear need for a clarification. Why we had to vote on the >> clarification after Ganneff made it clear that it wasn't his intent to >> implement prior to consensus is still highly perplexing to me. > Joerg J

Re: packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:50:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Personally, my first instinct would be to call that an RC bug, but I may > be missing some case where config needs to modify the file system. Given that one of the original goals of all this was to allow the config to be done on a di

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): > > Yes, there have definately been times when packages are rejected from > > NEW that only got there becuase of a package addition. I'd say its > ... > And while the new package is kept out, the packag

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/03/09 at 09:06 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Romain Beauxis writes: > > For 2008_002 in particular, there was a clear need of such a decision, > > since the previous announce had been made as if it was about to happen > > while there was apprently no consensus for it. > > There was a clear n

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): > [...] we are having trouble keeping up with the NEW queue wihtout > doing all of the source checks of packages not in the queue as you > seem to be suggesting we should possibly be doing. Actually, that's not what I meant to suggest. :) I've been wondering for a whil

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Romain Beauxis writes: > Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:45:59 Russ Allbery, vous avez écrit : >> FWIW, it is not at all clear to me that there was any need for either >> of those GRs (particularly 2008_002, which did indeed strike me as a >> waste of the GR process). > Well, even if I would agree

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Changwoo Ryu
2009-03-25 (수), 11:13 -0400, Mike O'Connor: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:18:00PM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > > OTH, do we really need a manual check for SONAME bump? Was there any > > upload rejection in the past on new binary package addition cases? > > Yes, there have definately been times wh

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:44:19AM -0400, Mike O'Connor wrote: > yes, usually it should. It doesn't always. I have tried to file bugs > when I find them in the archive. The citadel related packages are a > recent example of this. Unfortunately they don't always get filed. In > my mind it would

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:45:59 Russ Allbery, vous avez écrit : > > There was clearly a need for those GR, so raisong the number of > > seconders would just have the consequence to prevent us from voting on > > important topics. > > FWIW, it is not at all clear to me that there was any need for

Re: packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Palfrader writes: > This raises some questions: > - should config scripts be allowed to create/touch/modify files >(I think the answer here is no) debconf-devel(7): The config script should not need to modify the filesystem at all. It just examines the state of the system, a

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Romain Beauxis writes: > Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 04:57:39 Gunnar Wolf, vous avez écrit : >> This proposal does not come from an abuse to the GR process, but to >> generalized frustration about the way 2008_002 and specially 2008_003 >> were handled. > I understand the furstration about them,

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): > > Yes, there have definately been times when packages are rejected from > > NEW that only got there becuase of a package addition. I'd say its > > common, even. If a package passes through new, then

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-25, Mike O'Connor wrote: > As a hint. When this happens, respond to the REJECT email you get when > you re-upload so that we know that there is a package we have already > checked, so that we know you are re-uploading and addressing our > concerns. If you want this, please be more pu

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:18:46 Mike O'Connor, vous avez écrit : > > I have several very small ocaml packages waiting in NEW for several weeks > > now. I am upstream on these packages, and, honnestly, it takes few > > minutes to check them (only 3 files of code in tarball). > > Of course, keep

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): > Yes, there have definately been times when packages are rejected from > NEW that only got there becuase of a package addition. I'd say its > common, even. If a package passes through new, then the maintainer > uploads without really paying attention to what they ar

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:32:23PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > > I have several very small ocaml packages waiting in NEW for several weeks now. > I am upstream on these packages, and, honnestly, it takes few minutes to > check > them (only 3 files of code in tarball). Of course, keep in mind

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:18:00PM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > 2009-03-25 (???), 16:55 +0800, Deng Xiyue: > > > IMHO, except package with just SONAME bump, packages in NEW queue are > > better processed in a FIFO manner. Just my two cents. > > OTH, do we really need a manual check for SONAME bu

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > What about: > General Resolution sponsorship requirements sounds like package sponsorship requirements to me. therefore i suggest to be extra clear and change it to 'Requirements for General Resolution Sponsorship'. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4

Re: packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:18:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > This raises some questions: It might also explain why someone found sbuild-createchroot was running apt-get upgrade on the host system. > - should config scripts be allowed to create/touch/modify files >(I think the answer he

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:13:42PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:44:55PM +0100, sean finney wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > > > > find . -type f -name 'foo*.dsc' | sort (or similar tools, make sure > > > > they're > > > > sorted

Bug#521182: ITP: dans-gdal-scripts -- GINA contributed GDAL tools

2009-03-25 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine * Package name: dans-gdal-scripts Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Dan Stahlke * URL : http://www.gina.alaska.edu/projects/gina-tools * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:39:12PM +0300, Kalle Kivimaa a écrit : > > Most of the REJECTs are very trivial, so any peer review helps to spot > them. I'd say that 90% of the REJECTs are simple "the package contains > license X files but X isn't listed in debian/copyright." Spotting > these before t

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:44:55PM +0100, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > > > find . -type f -name 'foo*.dsc' | sort (or similar tools, make sure > > > they're > > > sorted in a way as dpkg would sort the versions) | while read i; do > > > git-

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-25 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:37:37PM +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > > >> Why only in 64studio and not in plain Debian? > > What's good for Debian is good for us :-) but the Debian project may > > not want to tweak the kernel or the FireWire stack just for the > > benefit of FFADO users. In the

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing? (was Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

2009-03-25 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/25 Julien Cristau > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:58 +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > > > Why is such a core app and also beautiful app as Ardour is, not even in > > Debian stable or testing? This is a big problem imo and it should be > > solved as soon as possible. I can't imagine that there

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing? (was Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

2009-03-25 Thread Vincent Danjean
Grammostola Rosea wrote: > I read this on the Debian multimedia mailinglist: >> Unfortunately lenny was already freezed by that time, and although >> both of the above updates were really safe (IMO) and despite all the >> efforts I and especially Reinhard put into convincing the release >> managers

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sven Luther dijo [Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:01:17AM +0100]: > > This proposal does not come from an abuse to the GR process, but to > > generalized frustration about the way 2008_002 and specially 2008_003 > > were handled. > > But the reason for this are in no way related with the number of > secon

Re: packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > dpkg-preconfigure is part of the debconf package, and gets called using > the following configuration setting: > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf: > DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";}; You can probably just remove this

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Mar 25 2009, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ke, 2009-03-25 kello 01:32 +, Noah Slater kirjoitti: >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:39:46AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > I'm curious... What do you think *is* the "Debian way of doing things >> > like this" ? >> >> Manoj's email strongly implie

Re: packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
>    o Is the fact that the config script is run on the host a bug in >      apt-get, dpkg, debconf, or apt-utils? dpkg-preconfigure is part of the debconf package, and gets called using the following configuration setting: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf: DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-pr

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I was requested to forward the following mail by Sven Luther: - Forwarded message from Sven Luther - From: Sven Luther To: Gunnar Wolf , listmas...@debian.org Cc: Romain Beauxis , debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-v...@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:01:17 +0100 S

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:32 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > My personal experience is not consistent with this. > > I have several very small ocaml packages waiting in NEW for several weeks now. > I am upstream on these packages, and, honnestly, it takes few minutes to > check > them (only 3 file

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Felipe Sateler wrote: Could you elaborate a bit? From what I gather (after reading the docs and skipping through the pages you have referenced), all I see are tasks (enhanced with metapackages with Recommends), and a nice web frontend. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something h

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-25 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Grammostola Rosea writes: > Shouldn't plain Debian also support those Pro audio Firewire devices, > the ones the FFADO team are making drivers for? Debian as a whole probably not. However interested contributors are strongly encouraged to help the debian kernel maintainers to integrate that patc

Re: #520646: binNMU oprofile

2009-03-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Paul Wise [Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:29:10 +0900]: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > I’m told libbfd.so is a private/internal library of binutils that should > > not be dynamically linked against. A static version exists (libbfd.a), > > and packages should be using that AFAI

Re: #520646: binNMU oprofile

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote: > I’m told libbfd.so is a private/internal library of binutils that should > not be dynamically linked against. A static version exists (libbfd.a), > and packages should be using that AFAIK. > > Cc'ing -devel in case there’s a reason it should

packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, part of the debconf stuff in our packages is the config script. This script's purpose is to ask the sysadmin questions via debconf. The action should then happen in the postinst maintainer script. The way our buildds work right now is that the host apt and host dpkg are asked to install the

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing? (was Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

2009-03-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:58 +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Why is such a core app and also beautiful app as Ardour is, not even in > Debian stable or testing? This is a big problem imo and it should be > solved as soon as possible. I can't imagine that there is a real > problem, cause I know

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Romain Beauxis writes: > I have several very small ocaml packages waiting in NEW for several > weeks now. I am upstream on these packages, and, honnestly, it takes > few minutes to check them (only 3 files of code in tarball). There are currently 46 packages in NEW which have been there for more

why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing? (was Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, Now we're talking about improving Debian for multimedia, realtime kernels and the like, I thought let's make some work on more things to overcome some dissadvantages of Debian for audio production compared to other distro's. Why is such a core app and also beautiful app as Ardour is, not

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, nescivi wrote: Given that there are several audio oriented distributions based on Debian (e.g. 64studio and pure:dyne) that would benefit from this, and I am sure their teams may be interested in helping to support it too. IMHO it makes perfectly se

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 11:08:28 Stefano Zacchiroli, vous avez écrit : > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:11:03AM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > > Most of the time this is the case. But, if you upload a large, complex > > > package, that might get passed by for a while so that several small, > > > eas

Re: #520646: binNMU oprofile

2009-03-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, > Looks like oprofile needs a rebuild . > $ opreport > opreport: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > $ dpkg -L binutils | grep libbfd- > /usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.1.so I’m told libbfd.so is a private

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
Andreas Tille wrote: >> After reading the documentation, I still don't know if a blend is useful for >> us. Blends seem to be some kind of cooler tasks, is that true? > > Well, the terminology was taken over from tasksel at some former point > in time - but it is a little bit more. Could you ela

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:11:03AM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > Most of the time this is the case. But, if you upload a large, complex > > package, that might get passed by for a while so that several small, > > easy packages might be processed in the same time. > > Obviously this is causing sta

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 25. März 2009, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Munin ... does not > support alerting It does. Directly or via nagios. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Is the NEW queue going to get processed any time soon?  There are 215 > packages waiting [1] about half of which have been there 3 or more > weeks. It might be worthwhile reflecting upon what purpose the queue has. In a simple model, if

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Jonathan Wiltshire writes: > I enquired previously about whether we might have some developers > assist the ftpmasters by pre-assessing packages and reporting > appropriately, which might ease the process. I don't know if this would > actually help them or just duplicate work, since they need to b

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:11:03AM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Obviously this is causing starvation. Maybe one ftpmaster should always work > from the back of the queue, or they should make sure to always process one > package from the back of the queue for every three from the front? That's not

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Changwoo Ryu
2009-03-25 (수), 16:55 +0800, Deng Xiyue: > IMHO, except package with just SONAME bump, packages in NEW queue are > better processed in a FIFO manner. Just my two cents. OTH, do we really need a manual check for SONAME bump? Was there any upload rejection in the past on new binary package additio

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 04:57:39 Gunnar Wolf, vous avez écrit : > > I agree. I fail to see where the GR process was abused. Since that seems > > the main argument in favour of this change, I fail to see the motivation > > for it. > > This proposal does not come from an abuse to the GR process, b

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:02:18PM +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > IMHO, except package with just SONAME bump, packages in NEW queue are > > better processed in a FIFO manner. Just my two cents. > > Most of the time this is the case. But, if you upload a large, complex > package, that might get

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Deng Xiyue writes: > IMHO, except package with just SONAME bump, packages in NEW queue are > better processed in a FIFO manner. Just my two cents. Most of the time this is the case. But, if you upload a large, complex package, that might get passed by for a while so that several small, easy pack

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