Raphael,
Thanks for the feedback.
However I have to say that Debian as a whole cannot have it both
ways. Either ftp-master lifts the restriction on
small modules or there has to be decent support for "components". I have
started work on this
(http://github.com/periapt/pkg-components/blo
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >CCing -devel and Joey Hess to have some input on this idea. Do you think
> >it would be useful ? Do you have comments and suggestions ?
>
> I'm uncomfortable with the idea of (even more?) build-time package
> settings being hidden away outside of debia
Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
>
>Every time that debhelper needs to adjust a dependency it provides a new
>substvar and the maintainer needs to put it in the right field. I was
>thinking that we could avoid the second half if some specific substvars
>was added at the end of every field.
>
>dpkg-gencontro
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, David Bremner wrote:
> Well, OK, I see your point. But what should we do about e.g. tiny perl
> modules. My/our impression was that ftp-master was not keen on having
> many small packages. For example, libcatalyst-modules-perl has installed
> size of 1468k, but bundles 81 modul
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:55:07PM +0200, Alessandro Frigeri wrote:
> * Package name: zoo
> Description : a Web Processing Service (WPS) framework
[~]$ apt-cache show zoo
Package: zoo
Description: manipulate zoo archives
Sorry, the name is already taken.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alessandro Frigeri
* Package name: zoo
Version : none yet, developments on svn/trunk
Upstream Author : the ZOO Tribal Council, see project's website
* URL : http://www.zoo-project.org/
* License : MIT/X
Programming Lan
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "أحمد المحمودي"
* Package name: amiri
Version : 0.001
Upstream Author : Khaled Hosny
* URL : http://naskh.sf.net
* License : OFL
Programming Lang: N/A
Description : Naskh style, typographically oriented font, ma
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:35:03PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 à 16:47 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit :
> > > The infamous maintainer mode *is the default* when you don’t set the
> > > macro.
> >
> > You need to either remove AM_MAINTAINER_MODE from configure.ac o
On Domingo 19 Septiembre 2010 13:03:04 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
escribió:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, please first note there is an informal policy for Stars data
> catalogues which is available in the 'stardata-common' package (more info
> at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/stardata-common/)
On Sun, 19, Sep, 2010 at 04:45:12PM +0100, Ben Hutchings spoke thus..
> 16:25 < mhy> we accidently lost the NotAutomatic: true field out of the
> experimental Release file
> 16:25 < mhy> so you'll get the whole of experimental if you apt-get
> upgrade; we're fixing it now
Should be fixed now - sor
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 17:38 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Am 19.09.2010 17:17, schrieb Jérémy Lal:
> > Suddenly apt wants to upgrade packages to experimental !
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release
>
> Hu?
>
> m...@gnu:~$ wget -q ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experiment
Am 19.09.2010 17:17, schrieb Jérémy Lal:
> Suddenly apt wants to upgrade packages to experimental !
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release
Hu?
m...@gnu:~$ wget -q ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release
-O /dev/stdout|grep ^NotAutomatic:
NotAutomatic: yes
m...@gnu
Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 à 16:47 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit :
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:07:10PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > You must be mistaken by automake’s counter-intuitiveness.
> >
> > The infamous maintainer mode *is the default* when you don’t set the
> > macro. Setting AM
Suddenly apt wants to upgrade packages to experimental !
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release
Cheers,
Jérémy.
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:07:10PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > The only "benefit" that AM_MAINTAINER_MODE can bring is cleaner deb diffs,
> > which can be obtained just as well by removing the modified generated files
> > in "debian/rules clean".
> >
> > In fact, it would be nice to have a
]] "Bernhard R. Link"
| > * Debian -- building things from the actual source is one of the core rules
|
| Especially for Debian maintainer mode is a big win. While it's nice if
| the maintainer regulary checks that those files still work with the
| current tools and submitts patches to upstream
Hi,
First of all, please first note there is an informal policy for Stars data
catalogues which is available in the 'stardata-common' package (more info at
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/stardata-common/). We already provide some
star data catalogues (Gliese and Yale which are both non-free) i
* Adam Borowski [100919 10:43]:
> Uhm, no. AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is bad for:
> * upstream -- it forces manual rebuilds
I do not understand this.
> * non-distro users -- another issue to watch for while hacking on the
>program. As long as they don't modify the autotoolage, they
>
Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 à 10:43 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit :
> Uhm, no. AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is bad for:
> * upstream -- it forces manual rebuilds
> * non-distro users -- another issue to watch for while hacking on the
>program. As long as they don't modify the autotoolage, the
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Carl Chenet
* Package name: python-distutils2
Version : 1.0a2
Upstream Author : Tarek Ziade
* URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distutils2
* License : PSF
Programming Lang: Python
Description : the new version t
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* Package name: pidgin-gmchess
Version : 0.02
Upstream Author : lerosua
* URL : http://code.google.com/p/gmchess/
* Licenses: GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description :
pidgin-g
Hi Michel,
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Michel wrote:
> I have upgrade my Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze and I don't know if it's
> only on my case but Imust upgrade grub, linux-image (2.6.26 to 2.6.32) and
> udev in this order.
> grub before linux-image because linux-image-2.6.32 do
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> As for automake, you should strongly recommend AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.
> Packages without this macro are a real pain to patch.
>
> If upstream wants maintainer mode by default (as you have without the
> macro set), they just need to s
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:12:29PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 06:33 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> >>> IMO, you should try to get yourself better acquinted with quilt before
> >>> using it, or you can end up with a mess.
> >>
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 10:40 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit :
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make
> distro maintainer's life much easier:
>
> http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html
>
> Free feel to comment on it :
Russ Allbery writes:
[...]
> No. I don't believe it's very important or at all necessary, and since
> I don't use pkg-config myself and don't plan to start, it's not
> particularly important. While I'll probably do something about it
> eventually when I have some free time, it's very low on my
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