why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf contains this comment, but why? # watchdog drivers should be loaded only if a watchdog daemon is installed I maintain the package providing it, but I fear it is the result of cargo cult sysadmining. A driver will not engage the watchdog anyway until /dev/watchdog

Re: upload lost ???

2010-02-04 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 04 Feb 2010, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > /maildir-utils_0.6-1_amd64.changes is already present on target host: > > maildir-utils_0.6-1_amd64.deb > > Either you already uploaded it, or someone else came first. > > Job maildir-utils_0.6-1_amd64.changes removed. > > > So *how* am I supposed to cl

Bug#568472: ITP: mercurial-keyring -- mercurial_keyring is a Mercurial extension used to securely save HTTP and SMTP authentication passwords in password databases.

2010-02-04 Thread Carl Chenet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Chenet * Package name: mercurial-keyring Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Marcin Kasperski * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mercurial_keyring * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Mercu

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:25:40PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >> I am using git with no debian/patches (quilt/dpatch) to manage the cdpr >> package. > > I am doing the same, for the very simple reason that every other > approach I've seen violates the KISS (Keep It Simple,

Work-needing packages report for Feb 5, 2010

2010-02-04 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: 544 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 128 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-04 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 21:43:21 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > ]] Hendrik Sattler > > | Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 16:14:27 schrieb Simon McVittie: > | > However, this would also require that pkg-config itself was multiarch > | > or otherwise supported cross-compilation > | > (/usr/bin/i486-linu

Re: upload lost ???

2010-02-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12015 March 1977, Norbert Preining wrote: > /maildir-utils_0.6-1_amd64.changes is already present on target host: > maildir-utils_0.6-1_amd64.deb > Either you already uploaded it, or someone else came first. > Job maildir-utils_0.6-1_amd64.changes removed. > So *how* am I supposed to clean up

Bug#568424: ITP: hlbrw -- assistant to help make new rules to HLBR

2010-02-04 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho * Package name: hlbrw Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Joao Eriberto Mota Filho * URL : http://hlbr.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Bash Description : assistant to help make new

schroot not automatically bind-mounting /home

2010-02-04 Thread Kevin Coyner
I've recently installed debootstrap and schroot on a squeeze setup so that I can build packages in sid. I've got it more or less working except for being able to get /home/ to automatically bind-mount my real /home. When I run schroot, I get: kosuke$ schroot --debug=critical W: Failed to change

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Goswin von Brederlow | But how would -dev packages signal that they need support for this? They | do not depend on pkg-config as they are usable without. Should they | Breaks: pkg-config (<< ver)? Seems too strong. Breaks sounds fine to me. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's jus

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:25:40PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > I am using git with no debian/patches (quilt/dpatch) to manage the cdpr > package. I am doing the same, for the very simple reason that every other approach I've seen violates the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle. My Debian

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Matt Zagrabelny [100203 23:26]: > I read through the git-buildpackage docs and also a HOWTO by Russ > Allbery [1] regarding git and Debian packaging. I am wondering if those > who use git to manage their source package development are also using > the debian/patches mechanism for modifying the u

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson writes: > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> But how would -dev packages signal that they need support for this? >> They do not depend on pkg-config as they are usable without. Should >> they Breaks: pkg-config (<< ver)? Seems too strong. > > Alternatively, create a symlink into /usr/lib/p

Bug#568411: ITP: catcodec -- tool to decode/encode the sample catalogue for OpenTTD

2010-02-04 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthijs Kooijman * Package name: catcodec Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Remko Bijker * URL : http://www.openttd.org/download-catcodec * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : tool to decode/encode

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 03/02/2010 07:14, Mike Hommey wrote: > I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. > > Speaking of plugins, I see there are several plugin packages that put > plugins in various places. Here is a breaking news: the canonical place > for plugins is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Nowhere else. > > Why ? Be

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Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:48:13PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > > Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: > > > I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. > > > > Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: > > I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. > > Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I file > wishlist bugs against the affected packages? What's the opinion o

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 16:25 -0600 schrieb Matt Zagrabelny: > I read through the git-buildpackage docs and also a HOWTO by Russ > Allbery [1] regarding git and Debian packaging. I am wondering if those > who use git to manage their source package development are also using > the debian/p

Re: common maintainer mailing list for low-level burning apps and libs

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Huggins
[debburn-devel cc'd since readers there probably want to know. Hence whole mail left; please trim] On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 03:26:43PM +0200, George Danchev wrote: > Hereby I would like to propose usage of common mailing list > (debburn-devel) for all the packages involved in low-level burning and

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:13:40AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: >> I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. > > Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I file > wishlist bugs against the affected packages? What's the opinion

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I file wishlist bugs against the affected packages? What's the opinion of the affected packages' maintainers? - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread sean finney
hi! On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:25:40PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Allbery [1] regarding git and Debian packaging. I am wondering if those > who use git to manage their source package development are also using > the debian/patches mechanism for modifying the upstream tarball. i use git+gbp+q

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:25:40PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > I read through the git-buildpackage docs and also a HOWTO by Russ > Allbery [1] regarding git and Debian packaging. I am wondering if those > who use git to manage their source package development are also using > the debian/patches