Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Charles Plessy writes: >> Unfortunately, it seems that with quilt, it is better ot use >> $(QUILT_STAMPFN) in order to avoid a target to become phony. > What's wrong with having a phony target? We already have many of them, > and a standard way of dealing with them: as depe

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:43:37PM +0200, Andreas Metzler a écrit : > > "patch" indeded is the standard way nowadays. See policy 4.9. > > Unfortunately, it seems that with quilt, it is better ot use > $(QUILT_STAMPFN) in order to avoid a target to become phony. What's w

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:43:37PM +0200, Andreas Metzler a écrit : > Rafael Almeida wrote: > > A ``patch'' rule for debian/rules there should always be > > for I'd like to easily apply patches created by me > > Don't worry I don't think of anything too hard > > a simple standarization will ease m

Bug#535429: ITP: xburst-tools -- tools for Ingenic XBurst CPU USB boot and NAND flash access

2009-07-01 Thread Xiangfu Liu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xiangfu Liu * Package name: xburst-tools Version : 0.0+200906 Upstream Author : Xiangfu Liu * URL : http://github.com/xiangfu/xburst-tools * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : tools for Ingenic XBur

Bug#535396: ITP: wrapsrv -- DNS SRV record command line wrapper

2009-07-01 Thread Robert Edmonds
Package: wnpp Owner: "Robert S. Edmonds" Severity: wishlist * Package name: wrapsrv Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. * URL : ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/toolmakers/wrapsrv/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: C Description : DNS

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Frans Pop wrote: > An alternative that is still not pretty, but at least keeps the ugliness > in the packages related to the switch and is fairly straightforward to > implement, would be to make the new dash pre-depend on a new version of > bash and have the maintainer scripts of bash preseed the d

Re: The multiarch conundrum

2009-07-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:53:56PM +0100, Aneurin Price wrote: > I've just been trying to dig through some of the multitude of past discussions > on the planning and implementation of multiarch in Debian (and Ubuntu). > The short version of this for TLDR folks is that nobody seems to have > coher

The multiarch conundrum

2009-07-01 Thread Aneurin Price
Hi, I've just been trying to dig through some of the multitude of past discussions on the planning and implementation of multiarch in Debian (and Ubuntu). The short version of this for TLDR folks is that nobody seems to have coherently written down all the problems in a way that they can be addre

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-07-01 Thread Frans Pop
Raphael Geissert wrote: >> dash currently is optional, so there will be on a lot of existing >> systems on which it is not installed. How is the planned strategy going >> to prevent dash becoming the default shell on existing systems when it >> gets installed for the first time because of its raise

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Frans Pop wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> >> Hum, AFAIK if it [debconf prompt] defaults to yes, it will be changed on >> upgrade for anyone who has not yet seen the question. So that doesn't >> work if your plan is to not change it except for new installations. > > I've not seen any response t

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-07-01 Thread Frans Pop
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Artur R. Czechowski wrote: >> > What about debconf question? >> >> dash already has one, the idea is to make it essential and default to >> yes, so that as soon as it is installed the symlink is changed. If you >> wish to hav

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:43:37PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Rafael Almeida wrote: > > A ``patch'' rule for debian/rules there should always be > > for I'd like to easily apply patches created by me > > Don't worry I don't think of anything too hard > > a simple standarization will ease my h

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
Rafael Almeida wrote: > A ``patch'' rule for debian/rules there should always be > for I'd like to easily apply patches created by me > Don't worry I don't think of anything too hard > a simple standarization will ease my heart > Today ``debian/rules build'' is always a good match > but there's n

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-07-01 Thread Luk Claes
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Giacomo A. Catenazzi] >> Hmm, so a switch to dash it is not because of POSIX, but because >> of "better code" and lighter shell for our scripts? >> >> Which is also a good reason for the change. > > Yes, it is a good change. I would love to switch every installation

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-07-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Goswin von Brederlow] > You only need "apt-get update". The rest works in aptitude or synaptic. I've gotten into the habit of using 'apt-get update' even though I otherwise use aptitude. This was necessary while I was building a custom repository at work, because apt-get's error reporting is fa

Re: libswt and eclipse

2009-07-01 Thread Adrian Perez
Sorry about not posting earlier. I got contact with sjackman and he is willing to review/sponsor the package I've finished already, so I'm working on it. Anyway, since I've uploaded the package to debian-mentors and since every comment is welcome, I could use as many reviews as I can get ;). ht

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Rafael Almeida writes: > A ``patch'' rule for debian/rules there should always be > for I'd like to easily apply patches created by me > Don't worry I don't think of anything too hard > a simple standarization will ease my heart > > Today ``debian/rules build'' is always a good match > but there'

A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Rafael Almeida
A ``patch'' rule for debian/rules there should always be for I'd like to easily apply patches created by me Don't worry I don't think of anything too hard a simple standarization will ease my heart Today ``debian/rules build'' is always a good match but there's no mandatory ``debian/rules patch''

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-07-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Giacomo A. Catenazzi] > Hmm, so a switch to dash it is not because of POSIX, but because > of "better code" and lighter shell for our scripts? > > Which is also a good reason for the change. Yes, it is a good change. I would love to switch every installation to dash as /bin/sh, but believe the p

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > Thank you for the feedback. It made me understood that the format can be even > simplified. First of all, let me clarify that I do not aim at describing the > format of Debian control files, but the proposed format for DEP5, which I > propose for DEP3 as

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-07-01 Thread Yannick
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The choices where > 1) rewrite the old ia32-libs + ia32-libs-gtk for the new libc6-i386 > or > 2) make ia32-apt-get take over (slightly prematurely in hindsight) If it's possible (according to ftp-masters) to have the old ia32-libs packages adapted to the new libc6-

Re: Bug#535233: ITP: collectl -- Initial package request

2009-07-01 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Christopher, On Wednesday 01 July 2009, Simmons, Christopher wrote: > Package: collectl > Version: 3.3.4 > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > I wish to work on creating a debian package for collectl-3.3.4 >

Bug#535256: ITP: libogginfo-ruby -- Ruby library for accessing low-level information on ogg files

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Moerner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Moerner Package name: libogginfo-ruby Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Guillaume Pierronnet URL : http://ruby-ogginfo.rubyforge.org/ License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ruby library f

Re: upload debian package error

2009-07-01 Thread xiangfu
Hi Sandro Tosi Thanks for the reply. I will try my best Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello xiangfu, > this kind of questions are better addressed to debian-mentors mailing > list, adding it, and you also already received a reply [1] there. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/06/msg00573

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-07-01 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:04:38PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Waiting for multi-arch, Goswin's system permits me to use wine (and > > chromium > > browser) on my 64bits Debian. > > A simple chroot will permit you to use this. And is a much saner thing > than anything we have seen until now.

Re: upload debian package error

2009-07-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello xiangfu, this kind of questions are better addressed to debian-mentors mailing list, adding it, and you also already received a reply [1] there. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/06/msg00573.html On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 08:55, xiangfu wrote: > Hi > I try to upload xburst-tools