Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:11:07AM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote: > 2009/9/16 Russ Allbery : > > > If there were a document of how to do automated module builds using > > triggers or a kernel hook, I'd be happy to try that as well. > > I tried to set up a kernel hook with the script I attached before

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Michael S Gilbert
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:19:12 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 16:41:50 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > the answer to the real problem is education. if a user didn't submit > > sufficient details in their report, politely ask them for more. show > > them a guide for strac

Bug#546832: ITP: netemul -- program for simulating computer networks

2009-09-15 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" * Package name: netemul Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : Semenov Pavel and Omilaeva Anastasia * URL : http://netemul.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Desc

Bug#546831: ITP: perdition-pbs -- POP / IMAP Before SMTP Tool

2009-09-15 Thread Horms
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Horms * Package name: perdition-pbs Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Simon Horman * URL : http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/pbs.shtml * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : POP / IMAP Before SM

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/16 Russ Allbery : > If there were a document of how to do automated module builds using > triggers or a kernel hook, I'd be happy to try that as well. I tried to set up a kernel hook with the script I attached before, but failed. If run by the kernel package postinst, m-a can't get the loc

Bug#546821: ITP: libjavascript-packer-perl -- A pure Perl JavaScript cleanup library

2009-09-15 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libjavascript-packer-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Merten Falk * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/JavaScript-Packer/ * License : GPL, Artistic Programming Lang

Bug#546820: ITP: libcss-packer-perl -- A fast pure Perl CSS cleaner

2009-09-15 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libcss-packer-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Merten Falk * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CSS-Packer/ * License : GPL, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Bug#546818: ITP: libhtml-packer-perl -- An HTML code cleaner and compressor

2009-09-15 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libhtml-packer-perl Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Merten Falk * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Packer * License : GPL, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Descr

Bug#546816: ITP: libmei -- Code_Saturne Mathematical Expression Interpreter

2009-09-15 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru * Package name: libmei Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Alexandre Douce * URL : http://www.code-saturne.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C & Python Description : Code_Saturne Mathematical

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> That gets the new kernel installs, but I don't think it gets the >> updates to the kernel module source package. Although I suppose we >> could duplicate that with a postinst call to module-assistant. > Or us

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:57:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Every time either the openafs-modules-dkms package or the kernel ABI > >> changes, a new module is automatically built. It does mean that y

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Every time either the openafs-modules-dkms package or the kernel ABI >> changes, a new module is automatically built. It does mean that you >> have to wait for the compile process during aptitude upgrade, but

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:49:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered > >> the archive and love it. It's far more convenient than > >> modu

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I've been shipping an openafs-modules-dkms package since DKMS entered >> the archive and love it. It's far more convenient than >> module-assistant, and I hope all of the other out-of-source kernel >> module m

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > > Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > >> [Hans-J. Ullrich] > > >>> DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and > >>> a good help. But what with non-kernel- mod

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
"Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: >> [Hans-J. Ullrich] >>> DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and >>> a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? >> Can you give an example? > No, sorry, I cannot. I looked at the

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 16:41:50 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > the answer to the real problem is education. if a user didn't submit > sufficient details in their report, politely ask them for more. show > them a guide for strace, or bug writing guides, or debian > documentation, or whatever may

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 22:41, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:46:31 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it >> > possible to differentiate between softwar

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Michael Gilbert wrote: > if you want to add something useful to reportbug, i would recommend > kind opening and closing remarks. for example, i've noticed that a bug > starting with 'hi' seems a lot friendlier and gets attention more > quickly than one with a 'hello', which seems more drawn

Re: Bug#545275: priority important package depending on optional one.

2009-09-15 Thread Vincent Danjean
Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 18:59 +0200 schrieb Julien Cristau: >> it seems to me you >> could just demote the hkp helper's dependencies to Recommends >> (exclude it when running dh_shlibdeps, and then run dpkg-shlibdeps >> -dRecommends on the helper? This doesn't require

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:46:31 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it > > possible to differentiate between software bugs, documentation bugs > > and plan simple user expectat

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-15 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
[apologies for the late response] On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:35:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote [edited]: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:13:45AM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:59:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote [edited]: > > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:40:51PM +01

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-15 Thread jidanni
LB> Prey tell, what is wrong with maintainers of for example iptables, LB> providing a conffile with samples (which may even be commented out) LB> which they can reference to in their documentation, where they LB> comment on the different settings? LB> This is what we do with /etc/sysctl.conf toda

Bug#546792: ITP: trac-tags -- tags plugin for the Trac web application

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: trac-tags Version : 0.6.0+r6552 Upstream Author : Alec Thomas * URL : http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TagsPlugin * License : BSD Programm

Re: Bug#545275: priority important package depending on optional one.

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 18:59 +0200 schrieb Julien Cristau: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:55:27 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:> > > Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 09:47 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: (JFTR: I saw your report against libcurl) [..] > > > You could perhapsr build gnupg > > > twice (

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Guillem Jover | The other one I can offer is update-exim4.conf, which is the default | from several ways to handle the exim4 configuration. But something I've | always found pretty confusing and always switched my boxes to use the | monolithic configuration file in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf. I'd w

Re: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#545275: priority important package depending on optional one.

2009-09-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:55:27 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > CCing d-devel to get some more feedback (@David, this is mostly FYI - > please comment if I'm wrong) > > Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 09:47 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > > > the new gnupg now *depends* on libcurl3-gnutls. gnupg is

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Hans-J. Ullrich] > > > DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and > > a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? > > Can you give an example? > Hello Peter! No, sorry, I cannot. I looked at the documentati

Bug#546769: ITP: libjboss-nxio-java -- simplified low-level I/O layer

2009-09-15 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner * Package name: libjboss-nxio-java Version : 1.2.1.GA Upstream Author : JBoss Community * URL : http://jboss.org/xnio/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : simplified low-level I/O

Re: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#545275: priority important package depending on optional one.

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Leidert
CCing d-devel to get some more feedback (@David, this is mostly FYI - please comment if I'm wrong) Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 09:47 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > the new gnupg now *depends* on libcurl3-gnutls. gnupg is priority > important and a part of base system since debian-archive-keyrin

Bug#546768: ITP: libjboss-marshalling-java -- alternative serialization API

2009-09-15 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner * Package name: libjboss-marshalling-java Version : 1.1.3.GA Upstream Author : JBoss Community * URL : http://jboss.org/jbossmarshalling/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : altern

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-15 Thread Lars Bahner
2009/9/15 Marco d'Itri : > On Sep 15, Lars Bahner wrote: > >> Prey tell, what is wrong with maintainers of for example iptables, >> providing a conffile >> with samples (which may even be commented out) which they can >> reference to in their documentation, where they comment on the >> different s

Bug#546754: ITP: numru-units -- Class library handling units of physical quantities

2009-09-15 Thread Youhei SASAKI
Package: wnpp Owner: Youhei SASAKI Severity: wishlist * Package name: numru-units Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Eizi Toyoda, Takeshi Horinouchi * URL or Web page : http://ruby.gfd-dennou.org/products/numru-units/ * License : GLP2 or later Description : Class librar

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 15, Lars Bahner wrote: > Prey tell, what is wrong with maintainers of for example iptables, > providing a conffile > with samples (which may even be commented out) which they can > reference to in their documentation, where they comment on the > different settings? That it duplicates the s

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Hans-J. Ullrich] > DKMS seems only be made for kernel modules. It is greart anyway, and > a good help. But what with non-kernel- modules? Can you give an example? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/15 Hans-J. Ullrich : > Hi Luca, > > just to make it clear: It is not the problem, how I can solve this problem! > This problem I can easy solve with a little shell script. But there are lots > of unexperienced users, which are not able to script themselve. They are just > users. For those p

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-15 Thread Lars Bahner
2009/9/15 Marco d'Itri : > On Sep 14, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > >> LB> You could file this a a wishlist bug report against the iptables >> LB> package, and see if the  maintainer wish to add this file (or a larger >> LB> /etc/sysctl.d/iptables.conf with some sane defaults). > What makes you beli

Bug#546752: ITP: igraph -- A library for creating and manipulating graphs

2009-09-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: igraph Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Gabor Csardi, Tamas Nepusz * URL : http://igraph.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A library for creat

Bug#546748: ITP: ruby-fftw3 -- Ruby interface to the FFTW Ver.3

2009-09-15 Thread Youhei SASAKI
Package: wnpp Owner: Youhei SASAKI Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-fftw3 Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Takeshi Horinouchi, GFD Dennou Club * URL or Web page : http://ruby.gfd-dennou.org/products/ruby-fftw3/ * License : GPL2 or later Description : Ruby inter

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 14, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > LB> You could file this a a wishlist bug report against the iptables > LB> package, and see if the maintainer wish to add this file (or a larger > LB> /etc/sysctl.d/iptables.conf with some sane defaults). What makes you believe that the kernel defaults are

Re: DEP-5: an example parser, choice of syntax for Files:

2009-09-15 Thread Jon Dowland
[ brief response, I hope to respond in more detail to much of this thread soon ] On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:54:05AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I think that DEP 5 still needs some work, so I hope that > you will not be too annoyed if some changes during the > discussions on the draft will break

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 11:57 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich a écrit : > Well, of course, there is DKMS, but DKMS seems only be made for kernel > modules. It is greart anyway, and a good help. But what with non-kernel- > modules? Fortunately there is not too much software with an ABI as badly main

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 schrieb Luca Niccoli: > Luca > > P.S. > > For the sake of clarity I attached the modified script, it's very short. > I didn't try it though. > Hi Luca, just to make it clear: It is not the problem, how I can solve this problem! This problem I can easy solve wit

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: Perl 5.10.1 breaks 'make install PREFIX=$(TMP)/usr'

2009-09-15 Thread Niko Tyni
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:39:40AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 13, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > 246 packages failed to build with 'Error 13' at the end of the log, > It's a big number. Can you add a temporary workaround for a few > months until most packages are fixed? Uh, it turns out I can i

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:46:31PM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it > > possible to differentiate between software bugs, documentation bugs > > and plan simple user e

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it > possible to differentiate between software bugs, documentation bugs > and plan simple user expectation issues. May be 'reportbug' can give more template options l

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Dan Jacobson] > Gentlemen, I shall be delivering my talk, > "Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter" > http://jidanni.org/comp/bug_reporter.html Interesting topic. I had a look at your outline, and one particular thing I found missing was good instructions on what to include in a bug repo

Re: Discussion: New feature for source packages

2009-09-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/9/14 Hans-J. Ullrich : > Problem: Whenever I upgrade to a new kernelversion, or there are new versions > of kernel-modules or other packages, which are only available in source-code, > it is necessary to build the new versions manually. This is rather annoying > and it might be a problem for