Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Hutchings: > You can disagree all you like, but I believe that the FTP team will > currently reject any new packages that use source code from their build- > dependencies. Surely this is not true because that would rule out many programs written in C++. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: segmentation fault with libcrypto.so (but not libcrypto.a)

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[N N] > #include > #include > > int main(int argc, char** argv) { > unsigned char foo[10] = "boo"; > printf("%s\n", SHA1(foo, 3, 0)); > } Don't use printf("%s") on binary data that is not null-terminated. What you probably want is to convert each byte to 2 hex digits and print it that way.

Re: transitioning from a single to split package

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:56 AM, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:15:35 +0100, Penny Leach wrote: > >> Well, that's logically equivalent to installing multiple versions of the >> same package.  At the moment,  there's one moodle installation, which has >> code that lives in /usr/shar

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
"John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Surely the answer to that question is obvious: fix the bugs Lintian is >> finding that prevent upload. They're the equivalent of RC bugs (not >> precisely the same, but similar), which if you're already doing an NMU >> are certainly fair ga

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > In addition, some important questions are left unanswered. I reproduce > > here the one from Brian May, which I think is very relevant and was > > asked in many different ways, and always ignored: > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/msgid-sea

segmentation fault with libcrypto.so (but not libcrypto.a)

2009-11-02 Thread N N
Apologies if this is the wrong list. If so, please direct me to the appropriate one. Consider the following C code: include #include int main(int argc, char** argv) { unsigned char foo[10] = "boo"; printf("%s\n", SHA1(foo, 3, 0)); } in file test-hmac.c. gcc -static test-hmac.c -lcrypto;

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > In addition, some important questions are left unanswered. I reproduce > here the one from Brian May, which I think is very relevant and was > asked in many different ways, and always ignored: > > http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20091102084201.ga15...@microcoma

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:49:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > I'm not seeing where he's doing any significant harm By killing the discusssion with a flood of emails. Here are the top posters for this month in this thread: 3 Charles Plessy (+1 with this one) 3 Michael Banck

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/11/09 at 12:10 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I'm fine with letting ftpmasters take that decision. However, they > > should consult the project before adding new tags (mail to -devel: "We > > are thinking of adding those new tags to our list, comments?" instead of

Bug#554045: ITP: libctapimkt -- Read German Krankenversichertenkarte and eGK

2009-11-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: libctapimkt Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Claudia Neumann * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctapi-mkt * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Read German Krankenv

Bug#554048: ITP: python-mhash -- Python bindings for libmhash

2009-11-02 Thread Soren Hansen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Hansen * Package name: python-mhash Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer * URL : http://labix.org/python-mhash * License : LGPL 2.1+ Programming Lang: C, Python Description : Python bindings fo

Re: /lib32 -> emul/ia32-linux/lib ?

2009-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams writes: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:11:42 +0100 > Vincent Danjean wrote: > >> Neil Williams wrote: >> >> /lib64 -> /lib >> > >> > That should be: >> > /lib64 -> lib >> >> On my system (amd64), this is currently /lib64 -> /lib >> Which package manages this symlink ? > > libc6 > >> >

CTTE deciding technical policy [Re: Lintian based autorejects]

2009-11-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > By my interpretation, I don't think that the TC has any authority > here since the ftp-masters are DPL delegates and not individual > maintainers. The intersection of §5.1.1 (DPL delegation) and §6.1.1 (CTTE decides technical policy) is kind of unchar

ITP: ofono-phonesim -- Modem emulator used by the oFono mobile telephony stack

2009-11-02 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: wnpp Owner: Andres Salomon Severity: wishlist * Package name: ofono-phonesim Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : various * URL : http://www.ofono.org/ * License : GPL 2 Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Modem emulator used by the oFono mobile

Re: transitioning from a single to split package

2009-11-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:15:35 +0100, Penny Leach wrote: > Well, that's logically equivalent to installing multiple versions of the > same package. At the moment, there's one moodle installation, which has > code that lives in /usr/share/moodle, and connects to one database. This > is determined

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Tom Feiner said: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen > wrote: > > Tom Feiner writes: > > > >> Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content > >> is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-generated from the rrd > >> da

Bug#554033: ITP: luajit -- Just in time compiler for Lua 5.1

2009-11-02 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Enrico Tassi * Package name: luajit Version : 2.0.0beta1 Upstream Author : Mike Pall * URL : http://luajit.org * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C, ASM, Lua Description : Just in time compiler for Lua 5.1 -

Re: /lib32 -> emul/ia32-linux/lib ?

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:11:42 +0100 Vincent Danjean wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > >> /lib64 -> /lib > > > > That should be: > > /lib64 -> lib > > On my system (amd64), this is currently /lib64 -> /lib > Which package manages this symlink ? libc6 > > Having a link to /lib causes problems with

Re: usplash-theme-debian uploaded to sid

2009-11-02 Thread The Fungi
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:31:43AM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > FWIW, my 24" LCD has 1920x1080 (16:9 HD). In fact, more and more computers these days are being connected to digital inputs on HDTVs which only grok a limited number of ATSC video modes. For example, my Sony HDTV's HDMI inputs sup

Re: /lib32 -> emul/ia32-linux/lib ?

2009-11-02 Thread Vincent Danjean
Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:07 +0100 > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> The expected layout in squeeze/sid is (at least it is here) >> >> /lib >> /lib32 >> /lib64 -> /lib > > That should be: > /lib64 -> lib On my system (amd64), this is currently /lib64 -> /lib Which packag

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Mark Hymers
On Mon, 02, Nov, 2009 at 12:43:42PM +, Philipp Kern spoke thus.. > Of course it is a sane approach but very special care needs to be taken when > releasing to ensure GPL compliance. So what we should get is support in the > toolchain to declare against what source package the upload was built

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes writes: > Exactly, I have only a limited amount of time and don't want to spend it > on demotivating discussions with Manoj about why he uses two standards. I really think the best solution to this is to stop having demotivating discussions with Manoj, particularly in this case where I

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > I was splitting the issues in two sub-issues actually: (1) being sure > that lintian "E:" messages are only those coming from violated "must" > requirements, (2) deciding which among them are upload blockers. > I confess I was pretty much assuming that lintian mainta

Re: /lib32 -> emul/ia32-linux/lib ?

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:07 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The expected layout in squeeze/sid is (at least it is here) > > /lib > /lib32 > /lib64 -> /lib That should be: /lib64 -> lib (or to be clearer: ./lib64 -> ./lib ) Having a link to /lib causes problems with debootstrap, cdebootst

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hector Oron writes: > Hello, > > I would like to do a little explanation on the ITP I have filled for > {linux,binutils,eglibc,gcc-4.3,gcc-4.4,gdb}-armel. > > These set of packages provide a cross toolchain for armel targets to > be built on i386 and amd64 platforms (maybe ppc could be added)

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 23:14 +0100, Hector Oron wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to do a little explanation on the ITP I have filled for >> {linux,binutils,eglibc,gcc-4.3,gcc-4.4,gdb}-armel. >> >> These set of packages provide a cross toolchain for armel targets to

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread sean finney
hi stig, On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Tom Feiner writes: > > > Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content > > is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-generated from the rrd > > databases every 5 minutes. So even if s

Re: /lib32 -> emul/ia32-linux/lib ?

2009-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Matthias Hahn writes: > Hello, > > I'm running "Debian sid" on "x86_64" and tried to build a "google-earth" > package today, which failed with > dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for > /emul/ia32-linux/lib/libm.so.6 (used by ../usr/lib/googleearth/liblayer.so).

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Nov 02 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > Exactly, I have only a limited amount of time and don't want to spend it > on demotivating discussions with Manoj about why he uses two standards. > Though just ignoring these is also of no help, so in general I just > point out when he does it (probably no

Re: Should I close and old RC bug?

2009-11-02 Thread Rafal Czlonka
Steve Langasek wrote: > Where did you see this bug appearing as "RC"? It's closed now, but it > should not have shown up on any list of bugs that are release-critical for > squeeze, since the package is not in squeeze. Sorry, that's my fault. I've been searching for Release Critical bugs using th

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Tom Feiner writes: > Sorry for the newbie question (I'm not that familiar with debconf). > Will debconf be able to manage upgrade from current munin version? > Changing the current 'htmldir /var/www/munin' to the new user > specified one? Debconf asks questions and stores them. However, with th

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Neil McGovern writes: > Have a read of > http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ch-httpd.html Useful, thanks. :) -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen pgph88QZYVl0o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Fritzsche
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/11/09 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > > About the usertags? Is there a special format in which they should be? > > And a maintainer asked for a wiki entry at > > http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS but I am not allowed to change > > that patch - and I a

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Fritzsche
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > What is a MBF? > > mass bug filing. thanks > > I am not sure but do you think that it is a good way to link against a > > library without specify that you link against it? > > The question is not about what I think. The question is whether it's > reasonable to expect A

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sune Vuorela] > the major difference is: > your app uses both libfoo and libbar. libbar uses libfoo. with ld, it > is sufficient to do -lbar, and with gold you need -lfoo -lbar. > in both cases, your app will have NEEDED entries for both libfoo and > libbar. If you want symbol versioning to wor

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/11/09 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > About the usertags? Is there a special format in which they should be? And a > maintainer asked for a wiki entry at > http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS but I am not allowed to change > that > patch - and I am sure that I shouldn't be

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Feiner
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Tom Feiner writes: > >> Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content >> is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-generated from the rrd >> databases every 5 minutes. So even if someone did delete the >

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Should the web configuration be enabled by default? Assume apache2, and > add configuration to /etc/apache2/conf.d/munin.conf? > Have a read of http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ch-httpd.html Neil -- aut

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Mike Hommey writes: > * /usr/share/munin. Would not work well for variable data, I think. The graphs and HTML is updated every 5 minutes. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Tom Feiner writes: > Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content > is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-generated from the rrd > databases every 5 minutes. So even if someone did delete the > directory, it'll just be recreated up to 5 minutes later. Apart fro

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/11/09 at 13:50 +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I thought people were supposed to discuss it on -devel@ before starting > > a MBF? > What is a MBF? mass bug filing. > > Anyway, ways you could have made it better: > > - provide a step by step guide to reproduce the p

sync installer-i386

2009-11-02 Thread anthony berger

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:27:16PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:30:37PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > > > > As I mentioned on IRC, look at trac. The trick is put configuration > > > files in /etc/munin/, and symlink it back into /v

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Feiner
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > All munin needs is a place to write static html and png files. > > * /var/lib/munin is already used as top level for munin's data files. > If we add a web root there, it may cause collisions. > Right. > * /var/cache may not be the

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2009-11-02 Thread anthony berger

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:30:37PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > > As I mentioned on IRC, look at trac. The trick is put configuration > > files in /etc/munin/, and symlink it back into /var/lib/munin if munin > > needs that. > > All munin needs is a place t

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Manoj Srivastava writes: > As I mentioned on IRC, look at trac. The trick is put configuration > files in /etc/munin/, and symlink it back into /var/lib/munin if munin > needs that. All munin needs is a place to write static html and png files. * /var/lib/munin is already used as top level for

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Fritzsche
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I thought people were supposed to discuss it on -devel@ before starting > a MBF? What is a MBF? > Anyway, ways you could have made it better: > - provide a step by step guide to reproduce the problem > - use a usertag to follow all the bugs > - provide a link to a wiki page

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Luk Claes
Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Mon Nov 02 11:40, Luk Claes wrote: >> For the actual matter at hand I think it's very wrong to do a MBF >> without going through d-devel for several reasons: > >> > > Otoh, this is a slightly special case, since they are things which are > causing the package to becom

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/11/09 at 12:12 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> >> Binutils-gold is not the default. It is a bit 'stricter' in how it >> works, but it is notably faster. > I was talking about not making --no-add-needed the default in > binutils-gold. then you are effec

Bug#553975: ITP: pgtune -- Optimize parameters in postgresql.conf file

2009-11-02 Thread Rodolphe Quiédeville
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Rodolphe Quiédeville" * Package name: pgtune Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Greg Smith * URL : http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgtune/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Optimize parameters

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-11-02, Hector Oron wrote: > 2009/11/2 Mike Hommey : >> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:25:16PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> So if that is a problem - why not enhance the gcc packaging to build the >>> cross-compiler packages? >> Combinatorial explosion ? > We took this approach, and we have

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2009/11/2 Mike Hommey : > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:25:16PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> So if that is a problem - why not enhance the gcc packaging to build the >> cross-compiler packages? > > Combinatorial explosion ? We took this approach, and we have been building this way. Binutils, G

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Nov 02 11:40, Luk Claes wrote: > For the actual matter at hand I think it's very wrong to do a MBF > without going through d-devel for several reasons: > Otoh, this is a slightly special case, since they are things which are causing the package to become non-uploadable. In this case the c

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/11/09 at 12:12 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-11-02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > >> Tried to build your package and it fails to build with GNU binutils-gold. > >> The > >> important difference is that --no-add-needed is the default behavior of of > >> GNU > >> binutils-gold. Please p

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:25:16PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > You can disagree all you like, but I believe that the FTP team will > > currently reject any new packages that use source code from their build- > > dependencies. It would likely be a waste of Hector's tim

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> Tried to build your package and it fails to build with GNU binutils-gold. The >> important difference is that --no-add-needed is the default behavior of of >> GNU >> binutils-gold. Please provide all needed libraries to the linker when >> building >> you

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I thought people were supposed to discuss it on -devel@ before starting a MBF? Anyway, ways you could have made it better: - provide a step by step guide to reproduce the problem - use a usertag to follow all the bugs - provide a link to a wiki page where you would have put more info about

Bug#553942: ITP: libsexp-processor-ruby -- brings all the generic sexp processing tools to ruby

2009-11-02 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond * Package name: libsexp-processor-ruby Version : 3.0.3 Upstream Author : Ryan Davis (Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Ryan Davis, Zen Spider Software) * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree * License

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Matthias Klose
On 02.11.2009 03:19, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 02:34 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: On 02.11.2009 00:00, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 23:14 +0100, Hector Oron wrote: Hello, I would like to do a little explanation on the ITP I have filled for {linux,binutils,eg

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Ben Hutchings wrote: > You can disagree all you like, but I believe that the FTP team will > currently reject any new packages that use source code from their build- > dependencies. It would likely be a waste of Hector's time to continue > with this approach. So if that is a problem - why not en

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Luk Claes
Russ Allbery wrote: > Luk Claes writes: > >> As before Manoj seems to interpret things and word things so they fit >> the way he can use them at the moment he needs them. As long as that >> continues I'm not going to even try to get the Debian Policy and RC bug >> policy consistent and the Debian

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm fine with letting ftpmasters take that decision. However, they > should consult the project before adding new tags (mail to -devel: "We > are thinking of adding those new tags to our list, comments?" instead of > a mail to -devel saying "We just blocked the following tag

Re: Bug#553760: replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev

2009-11-02 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > There is not bug here. Perhaps the scripts or tests you use need > to be tightened? > > The build dependency line reads (in part) > libreadline-dev | libreadline6-dev | libreadline5-dev, Just for record (I got the same 'bug' in one of my packag

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:22:28AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > I'd recommend that others do likewise, to get an appropriately large set of > eyeballs on this change. Question: (apologies if this has already been addressed and I missed it) I want to perform a NMU upload on a package, say to fi

Re: transitioning from a single to split package

2009-11-02 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:25:51PM +0100, Penny Leach wrote: > The problem we've come across is how to handle migrations. If we have a > moodle package, that depends on moodle-mysql | moodle-pgsql, then package > managers that just install the first dependency, could cause a situation, > for examp

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/11/09 at 15:31 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Adding -qa to Cc ] > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:22:28AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > For future handling: If we are adding tags to the list that will hit > > > more than a few packages we will send a notice to the d-d-a list. > > >

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 04:13:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 03:31:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > So, I revamp a proposal I made in a corner of this thread: > > Let the QA team decide upon the non overridable lintian errors. > > My only concern is that the

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 05:51:26PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > /var/lib/munin/www is wrong (FHS says: "Users must never need to modify files > in /var/lib to configure a package's operation." since users might want to > modify the css files) IMHO that's not different from some user wanting to

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > My only concern is that the ftp archive checks not be used to force changes > in Policy. > > If the set of tags being drawn from is limited to those that are recognized > as violations of Policy "must" requirements, then I have no opinion on who > shoul