Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:24 PM, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:02:59AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:03 AM, John Goerzen wrote: >> >> > 1. workstation running sid >> >> I used that until DebConf9 when I reinstalled and switched from i386 to >> amd64. >>

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Luke L wrote: > Philosophical question: When does this sort of thing get taken care > of? In twenty years, will Debian (if it's still going) have myriad > misnamed libraries? I know one can > > Shouldn't housecleaning like this be of higher priority, especially >

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
James Westby writes: > The unpacked source package has no format, it's a directory on disk > with certain properties. You could take that directory and produce a > source package in any number of formats. > > The debian/source/format is then not a declaration of what format the > directory is in,

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Sven Mueller wrote: > Julien BLACHE schrieb: > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > >> I expect this to be of particular interest when we'll have VCS-powered > >> source formats (say "3.0 (git2quilt)") that generate source packages that > >> are plain "3.0 (quilt)" based on the git

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >>   Description     : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after >> the build >> >> Package: dh-autoreconf I'd suggest just putting this into debhelper rather than making it a separate package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-30 Thread Micah Anderson
Clint Adams writes: > [Adding and M-F-T-ing -project] > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:04:58AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> I want to point out that Luk's mail was not in any way discussed in the >> release team. I think it is horrible. >> >> I welcome everyone to critize the release te

Re: Hardware trouble ries.debian.org - ftpmaster.debian.org / release.d.o services disabled

2010-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12065 March 1977, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> ries.debian.org, the host behind ftp-master.debian.org, has hardware >> trouble, a failed memory module keeps resetting the machine at random >> intervals. > >> Will send a notice when service is

Bug#575988: ITP: libdate-iso8601-perl -- Perl handling of the three ISO 8601 numerical calendars

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libdate-iso8601-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-ISO8601/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl De

Bug#575987: ITP: libdate-jd-perl -- Conversion between flavours of Julian Date

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libdate-jd-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-JD/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#575981: ITP: libdatetime-format-epoch-perl -- Convert DateTimes to/from epoch seconds

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libdatetime-format-epoch-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Eugene van der Pijll * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-Epoch/ * License : Perl Programmin

Bug#575986: ITP: libdatetime-timezone-systemv-perl -- Perl handling of System V and POSIX timezone strings

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libdatetime-timezone-systemv-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone-SystemV/ * License : Perl P

Bug#575982: ITP: libindirect-perl -- Lexically warn about using the indirect object syntax.

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libindirect-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Vincent Pit, , http://www.profvince.com * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/indirect/ * License : Perl Programming Lang:

Bug#575984: ITP: libtaint-util-perl -- Test for and flip the taint flag without regex matches or eval

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libtaint-util-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Avar Arnfjoro Bjarmason * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Taint-Util/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Desc

Bug#575983: ITP: libhash-merge-simple-perl -- Recursively merge two or more hashes, simply

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libhash-merge-simple-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Robert Krimen, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Hash-Merge-Simple/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#575979: ITP: libautobox-dump-perl -- human/perl readable strings from the results of an EXPR

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libautobox-dump-perl Version : 20090426.1746 Upstream Author : Chas. J Owens IV, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/autobox-dump/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#575980: ITP: libdatetime-timezone-tzfile-perl -- Perl handling of tzfile (zoneinfo) timezone files

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libdatetime-timezone-tzfile-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone-Tzfile * License : Perl Prog

Bug#575977: ITP: libautovivification-perl -- Lexically disable autovivification.

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libautovivification-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Vincent Pit, , http://www.profvince.com * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/autovivification/ * License : Perl P

Bug#575976: ITP: libmodern-perl-perl -- Enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one command

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libmodern-perl-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : chromatic, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Modern-Perl/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#575975: ITP: libperl6-caller-perl -- Perl6-like OO caller() interface for perl5

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libperl6-caller-perl Version : 0.100 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Caller/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Desc

Bug#575974: ITP: libtime-y2038-perl -- Versions of Perl's time functions which work beyond 2038

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libtime-y2038-perl Version : 20100225 Upstream Author : Michael G Schwern * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Time-y2038/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Bug#575973: ITP: libperl5i-perl -- Fix as much of Perl 5 as possible in one pragma

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libperl5i-perl Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Michael G Schwern * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl5i/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:29:01 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Specifically, a behaviour of *recognising* that a package is in source > format 1.0. That's a fact of that package in that state, that shouldn't > change just because time has passed. > > In other words, a source package left as it was from

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
Sven Mueller writes: > Ben Finney schrieb: > > Any future formats will be unambiguously distinguishable. Those > > format-undeclared source packages can't be eradicated from the earth > > entirely. So why not simply declare that they are source format 1.0, > > as is without changes, and will alwa

Bug#575964: ITP: portlet-api-2.0-spec -- Java Portlet Specification V2.0

2010-03-30 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" * Package name: portlet-api-2.0-spec Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://portals.apache.org/portlet-spec/portlet-api-2.0/ * License

Re: md5sums files... and beyond

2010-03-30 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, In case anyone wonders about the status of replacing md5sums with something stronger _in_ the binary packages, this should be considered to be suspended until the next development cycle. (at least, from my PoV). It have been pointed out that those current checksum aren't sufficient to validat

Bug#575953: ITP: gmock -- Google's framework for writing and using C++ mock classes

2010-03-30 Thread Fredrik Hallenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fredrik Hallenberg Owner: Fredrik Hallenberg * Package name: gmock Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Zhanyong Wan * URL : http://code.google.com/p/googlemock * License : Google (SEE BELOW) Programming Lang: C++ Desc

Re: German Debian

2010-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
I'm a bit late but... Marc Haber wrote: > Unfortunately, all of Debian. Translating technical texts from English > to German is controversial at its best, and the Debian translators > have taken my least favorite approach of eliminating all English, > leading to barbarities like "SMTP-Sendezentr

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-30 Thread Luke L
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > Ansgar Burchardt writes: > >> the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be >> named libfoo-bar-perl [1].  Some packages do not adhere to this scheme: >> > [...] >> >> Unless there are objections I will f

Bug#575950: ITP: libperl-prereqscanner-perl -- module for extracting prerequisites from Perl code

2010-03-30 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libperl-prereqscanner-perl Version : 0.100830 Upstream Author : Jerome Quelin * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Prere

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > X-Debbugs-Cc and a script should be more than enough, you can > certainly parse the pseudo-headers to find out the packages and the > version. And when you report the bug, you can add a custom > pseudo-header "Arch" that the BTS would ignore but that yo

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen writes: > One other potential problem with having my build environment be the same > as my workstation: I sometimes have non-Debian packages installed > (MythTV, nvidia drivers, other stuff I'm working on, etc.) that I > occasionally worry could cause dependency issues. To date I ha

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:15:26PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Julian Andres Klode > > * Package name: dh-autoreconf > Version : 1 > Upstream Author : Julian Andres Klode > * License : GPL-2 > Programming Lang: Perl >

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt writes: > the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be > named libfoo-bar-perl [1]. Some packages do not adhere to this scheme: > [...] > > Unless there are objections I will file bugs of severity "normal" in a > few days for these packages. The b

Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode * Package name: dh-autoreconf Version : 1 Upstream Author : Julian Andres Klode * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build Pa

Re: Hardware trouble ries.debian.org - ftpmaster.debian.org / release.d.o services disabled

2010-03-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12065 March 1977, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > ries.debian.org, the host behind ftp-master.debian.org, has hardware > trouble, a failed memory module keeps resetting the machine at random > intervals. > Will send a notice when service is back to normal. And another update for you all out there, wait

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
Sven Mueller wrote: > (for example in changing silently to native package format if the > orig.tar.gz is missing) That's not true is it? At least, if I use 'debuild' I get a pretty big warning if the orig.tar.gz is missing. $ apt-get source acct $ rm acct_6.5.1.orig.tar.gz $ debuild This packag

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:02:59AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:03 AM, John Goerzen wrote: > > > 1. workstation running sid > > I used that until DebConf9 when I reinstalled and switched from i386 to amd64. > > > 2. workstation running squeeze or lenny > > At the moment

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:43:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > John Goerzen writes: > I use a combination of the two of these except with testing on my primary > workstation (the one that I can't afford to have go down), but list and > deprioritize sid in sources.list on the workstation running t

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread Sven Mueller
Julien BLACHE schrieb: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> I expect this to be of particular interest when we'll have VCS-powered >> source formats (say "3.0 (git2quilt)") that generate source packages that >> are plain "3.0 (quilt)" based on the git repository information. > > This is becoming crazy,

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-30 Thread Sven Mueller
Ben Finney schrieb: > Raphael Hertzog writes: >> There's a default value currently and it's "1.0", and I want to remove >> the existence of a default value in the long term because it does not >> make sense to have a default value corresponding to a source format >> that is no longer recommended.

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread John Goerzen
Paul Wise wrote: >> So I am concerned about this approach for security reasons as well. > > Could you detail your concerns here? That was a braino. I meant to say *performance* reasons. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi Holger. Excerpts from Holger Levsen's message of Ter Mar 30 09:56:34 -0300 2010: (...) > On Dienstag, 30. März 2010, John Goerzen wrote: > > The ability to easily rebuild a chroot is appealing. However, I do not > > have a fast mirror at home; my "broadband" connection is just barely > > broad

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi John, On Dienstag, 30. März 2010, John Goerzen wrote: > The ability to easily rebuild a chroot is appealing. However, I do not > have a fast mirror at home; my "broadband" connection is just barely > broadband. pbuilder highly recommends a local or a fast mirror. So I > am concerned about th

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:51:54PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to > work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect > someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice > GSoC

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > You always have to wait for the BTS confirmation first. > > Perhaps it would be nice to talk to the debbugs maintainers and work out > a way in which the BTS can inform wanna-build of a bug number without > buildd admin intervention? Maybe this could

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 07:03:00PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to solicit comments on what people are using for development > environments and how well it's working. Here are some situations I > imagine are common: > > 1. workstation running sid > > I've followed this

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:53:56AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-28, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > With old buildd, it was always possible to add this bug # after the > > fact. I don't know what the case is with new buildd/new wanna-build, but > > it might be a good idea to look into that..