Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-20 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Saturday 20 June 2009 03:16:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joseph Rawson writes: > > On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Or have a proxy that adds packages that are requested. > > > > When I woke up this morning, I was thinking that it might be interesting > > to

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: > All I see here is that the tools should be able to extract the information > from the changelog, which often includes a bug number and other bits of > information. I would say the opposite. Once you have created your patch you should be able to do ˝dc

Re: default gfortran in debian

2009-06-20 Thread Matthias Klose
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi schrieb: > [I posted this on debian-gcc before. I have not gotten any reply there. So I > am trying my luck here] > > Currently the default gfortran in Debian Sid points to 4:4.3.3-9 . The > gfortran-4.4 is already available, quite stable. Is there any reason why > gfortran 4

Re: Bug#533642: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps fails on symbols exported by libgcc_s

2009-06-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
clone 533642 -1 reassign -1 libgcc1 1:4.4.0-7 retitle -1 Ensure __aeabi_* symbols are listed in libgcc1.symbols for armel severity -1 important thanks On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I think that to properly resolve my issue I have to allow you to export > those blacklisted symbols i

Re: Bug#533642: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps fails on symbols exported by libgcc_s

2009-06-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Under normal curcumstances, I'd expect every shared library and application > > to > > require __aeabi_* from libgcc. Under normal circumstances these will come > > from > > libgcc_s.so, but if you link with --static-libgcc then you'll get your ow

Bug#533838: ITP: rabbitsign -- free implementation of TI's application signing system

2009-06-20 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Krzysztof Burghardt * Package name: rabbitsign Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Benjamin Moody * URL : http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/383/38392.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description :

Re: dpkg: error processing gawk (--configure)

2009-06-20 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-06-19 17:38] Raphael Hertzog > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, markus schnalke wrote: > > > > during the installation of `geda' on sid, I received following output: > > > > [...] > > Setting up gawk (1:3.1.6.dfsg-3) ... > > update-alternatives: error: alternative nawk can't be slave of awk: it is a

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:44:12PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * debian/patches/fix_typo.patch: > Fix typo in the main menu: s/setings/settings > I would actually be duplicating the description (the patch name being the > short description, and the changelog entry

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-20 Thread Raphael Geissert
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Have you tried to write the field for your cases? The spec is relatively > light-weight even if it tries to support the more complicated case too. Yes, and the examples I mentioned are/were real cases. > > Description: Fix typo > Origin: vendor > Forwarded: yes The t

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread Russ Allbery
David Paleino writes: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:04:32 +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: >> Also, going back to the note about reputation; There's no reason >> reputation can't be associated with a pseudonym or with a GPG key >> attached to a pseudonym. > > How do you sign such a key? You'd break the w

OT:Need to locate Debianistas that are TIVO hackers

2009-06-20 Thread John W Foster
Any of you who are TIVO hackers & Debianistas; please contact me via e-mail off the lists. If you reply on the list I will not see it as freakin GMail scrubs the replies with my name in the header. That's a whole other issue. I am starting a personal project to design a process for using Debian to

Bug#533819: ITP: xfpt -- generate XML from plain text

2009-06-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xfpt Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Philip Hazel License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: C Description : generate XML from plain text xfpt is a program that reads a file of plain text that contains relatively simple m

Tell Mee How to Talk Dirty to My Boyfriiend

2009-06-20 Thread Bascetta
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Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:21:04AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti: > > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname? > > Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and > tends to be explicitly reco

piuparts output wishlist?

2009-06-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Hi, I'm thinking about changing the way piuparts outputs results. At the moment it outputs a log file that contains everything it does, and buried deep in that is the test results. This tends to work badly. I have some ideas for how things should work, but before I start working on them, I'd like

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Jun 20 10:19, David Paleino wrote: > > Also, going back to the note about reputation; There's no reason > > reputation can't be associated with a pseudonym or with a GPG key > > attached to a pseudonym. > > How do you sign such a key? You'd break the web of trust, if you don't check > at >

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:04:32 +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Sat Jun 20 09:28, David Paleino wrote: > > Now that I read Ben's mail again, I see that his concern is also about the > > Maintainer field. I suppose that should be a real name too then? Or is it ok > > having a pseudonym because it's

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Or have a proxy that adds packages that are requested. > When I woke up this morning, I was thinking that it might be interesting to > have an apt method that talks directly to reprepro. It's just a vague ide

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: > I mean, often the patch name already says enough about it, at times patches > are just trivial (a typo fix doesn't need four or five lines to be > described), at times they are forwarded as soon as the new package is > uploaded, at times they are $VCS

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Jun 20 09:28, David Paleino wrote: > Now that I read Ben's mail again, I see that his concern is also about the > Maintainer field. I suppose that should be a real name too then? Or is it ok > having a pseudonym because it's the sponsor taking responsibility for > the upload? (given that usi

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > Merging all those ideas, I suggest we drop Status/Commit/Patch and use > > the following format: > > > > Origin: : > > I'd still suggest having the extra information optional in the case of > anything but “other”: > >

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:21:04 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti: > > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname? > > Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and > tends to be explicitly recognize

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti: > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname? Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and tends to be explicitly recognized by copyright laws. The history of literature is full of people wri