Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Zimmerman writes: > This reduces the list by 10, to 126. (There are more false positives as > noted in the sibling subthread, but currently I don't know what to do > about those). > To reduce the spamminess, the latest output is here: > http://primate.net/~itz/docpkg.txt http://lintian.de

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Stephen Gran: Stephen> adduser Stephen> False positive. Stephen> st...@varinia:~$ dpkg -L adduser | grep -i htm Stephen> /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/skel.other/index.html Stephen> I'd suggest getting rid of things under examples/ Ok, have_doc() { local pk

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Stefan Fritsch: Stefan> This version produces false positives. I suspect it's because Stefan> you look at all file names and not just those under Stefan> /usr/share/doc Stefan> apache2.2-common Stefan> This does not contain any docs (but it contains html files). The Stefan> docs are in apache2-

Bug#592287: ITP: php-testing-selenium -- PHP Client for the Selenium Remote Control test tool

2010-08-08 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Package: wnpp Owner: Mark A. Hershberger Severity: wishlist * Package name: php-testing-selenium Version : 0.4.3 Upstream Author : Bjoern Schotte, Shin Ohno * URL or Web page : http://pear.php.net/package/Testing_Selenium/ * License : Apache 2 Description : PHP Clien

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:37:07AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Steve> non-desktop systems, I don't think we install a doc-base browser > Steve> by default, and I have never seen a text-mode browser for > Steve> doc-base documentation that I found worth using because browsing > Steve> to /usr/sha

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Thomas Goirand: Thomas> But as it stands, each time I run lintian with the -Ii flags, Thomas> and that it complains about the lack of doc-base registration, I Thomas> feel like it should have been more easy to deal with. I try to Thomas> be a good Debian citizen, so I still do it. But if we had o

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/08/2010 10:53 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Russ> possible/wishlist means that it's an info-level tag. Lintian > Russ> doesn't display info-level tags by default, intentionally, to > Russ> encourage more people to use it who don't want to see things that > Russ> aren't required. > > Russ> I

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Russ> possible/wishlist means that it's an info-level tag. Lintian Russ> doesn't display info-level tags by default, intentionally, to Russ> encourage more people to use it who don't want to see things that Russ> aren't required. Russ> I think wishlist is the correct severity for this. For the

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Zimmerman writes: > If there is already a lintian check for this (as Vincent Bernat writes a > bit down the thread), does that mean the warning gets ignored or > overridden in all these cases? windlord:~> lintian-info -t possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration N: possible-documen

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > After years and years of waiting for packages to register their > documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all > -- I am not jidani, LOL) of those that didn't register, I am quite > frustrated. Maybe if things were more automated and less painful, t

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Steve Langasek: Steve> non-desktop systems, I don't think we install a doc-base browser Steve> by default, and I have never seen a text-mode browser for Steve> doc-base documentation that I found worth using because browsing Steve> to /usr/share/doc/$package is always quicker. Unless you find a

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ian Zimmerman said: > adduser False positive. st...@varinia:~$ dpkg -L adduser | grep -i htm /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/skel.other/index.html I'd suggest getting rid of things under examples/ Cheers, --

Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-08 Thread vincent carmona
2010/8/8, Niels Thykier : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2010-08-08 15:45, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: >> I need to generate a Debian package for a library >> As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . >> I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz >> > > Hi, >

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du dimanche 08 août 2010, vers 16:32, Osamu Aoki disait : >> > So, out of 273 doc-containing packages on this system, just 70 bothered. >> > I feel a strong urge to put the commands in a script that will auto-file >> > a bug against any package in the output of

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:49:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > After years and years of waiting for packages to register their > > documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all > > -- I am not jid

Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-08-08 15:45, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I need to generate a Debian package for a library > As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . > I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz > Hi, Thanks for your interest in Debian,

Bug#592231: ITP: auto-multiple-choice -- multiple choice papers management

2010-08-08 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: auto-multiple-choice Version : 0.297 Upstream Author : Alexis Bienvenüe * URL : http://home.gna.org/auto-qcm/ * License : GPL licence version 3. Programming Lang: C, Perl Descriptio

.deb package for a library generation

2010-08-08 Thread Zvi Dubitzky
I need to generate a Debian package for a library As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz For the library package I followed the Ubuntu instructions at : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic (I first generated a .deb f

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Jeremy> Have it generate the list of packages that don't > Jeremy> register with doc-base... If any of them are mine I'll get > Jeremy> them added though I don't know if the updates would make > Jeremy> it into squeeze at this point but at lea

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > After years and years of waiting for packages to register their > documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all > -- I am not jidani, LOL) of those that didn't register, I am quite > frustrated: > [41]matic