Re: binutils-gold and symbols files

2009-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:44:31AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > As I received a couple of bug reports today about packages FTBFS, I > > installed > > binutils-gold and tried to compile a few of my packages with it. > > > > What I noticed is, that every

Re: binutils-gold and symbols files

2009-11-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:44:31AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > As I received a couple of bug reports today about packages FTBFS, I installed > binutils-gold and tried to compile a few of my packages with it. > > What I noticed is, that every package with symbols file, produced a lintian > error,

Re: Bug#554694: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-05 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
reassign 554694 qt4-qmake retitle 554694 qt4-qmake generates a makefile which is incompatible with binutils-gold thanks Hi, Peter. Goldendict are built by qt4-qmake. I think that You should report about such projects in qt4-qmake package, because just qt4-qmake generates linker call command. I t

Work-needing packages report for Nov 6, 2009

2009-11-05 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 670 (new: 64) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 154 (new: 4) Total number of packages reques

binutils-gold and symbols files

2009-11-05 Thread Michael Biebl
As I received a couple of bug reports today about packages FTBFS, I installed binutils-gold and tried to compile a few of my packages with it. What I noticed is, that every package with symbols file, produced a lintian error, as binutils-gold added new symbols, the most common one was e...@base W

Re: dep3 nit-picks

2009-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I assume the goal is to imply both "i've read it" and "i approve it" > with a single header, right? Yes. > Since i know of no single word for this, i'd be fine with explicitly > stating that is the intent in DEP-3 description of the Reviewed-By >

Re: dep3 nit-picks

2009-11-05 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [ moving to -devel from a private discussion to have more feedback ] > > Daniel was asking me how several unstructured paragraphs are supposed to > be treated for the Description field. I told him that the description is > the concatenation

Re: dep3 nit-picks

2009-11-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/05/2009 04:44 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It has an implicit meaning of approval yes. If the review was negative, it > should not be added or it should be clarified in the Description what the > reviewer's comments were (always a good idea). > > Proposition of patches welcome. Please search

Re: dep3 nit-picks

2009-11-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ moving to -devel from a private discussion to have more feedback ] Daniel was asking me how several unstructured paragraphs are supposed to be treated for the Description field. I told him that the description is the concatenation of all of them. Do other people agree with Daniel that the points

Re: please test with tiff 4.0.0~beta4 from experimental

2009-11-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> Jay Berkenbilt wrote: >>> If you maintain a debian package that directly uses libtiff or if you >>> maintain software that uses libtiff, it would be a great help if you >>> could test your packages against the version of libtiff in experime

Re: please test with tiff 4.0.0~beta4 from experimental

2009-11-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > Jay Berkenbilt wrote: >> If you maintain a debian package that directly uses libtiff or if you >> maintain software that uses libtiff, it would be a great help if you >> could test your packages against the version of libtiff in experimental, >> 4.0.0~beta4. If you find a