Bug#615940: dpkg-gensymbols: support a #CURVER# substitution to generate strict dependencies

2011-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: wishlist On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog , 2011-02-28, 16:01: > >symbols which should not be used can either be not listed in the > >symbols file (and be auto-added at build time with a strict > >dependency on the latest ver

Fwd: Sound and email

2011-02-28 Thread Ricardo Parra
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ron Johnson Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:39 PM Subject: Re: Sound and email To: Ricardo Parra On 02/28/2011 09:12 PM, Ricardo Parra wrote: > Gentlemen: > I am trying to work with Debian, I need to know what to do to get > sound and video as have i

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:26:56 +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: >On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be >> controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for >> people we should fix that rather t

Bug#615930: ITP: scute -- OpenPGP smartcard plugin for Mozilla Network Security Services

2011-02-28 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NIIBE Yutaka * Package name: scute Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Marcus Brinkmann * URL : http://www.scute.org/ * License : GPLv2+ with exception for Mozilla Programming Lang: C Description : OpenPGP smartca

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Arthur de Jong Hi, | On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be | > controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for | > people we should fix that rather than invent multiple ways of di

Call for Testing: Unofficial Debian Monthly Testing Snapshot Release Candidate (version 2011.03rc1)

2011-02-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hello world, I am pleased to announce the very first unofficial Debian monthly testing snapshot release candidate (version 2011.03rc1). This release is currently available in two flavors, i386 and amd64, as mini iso images (16 MiB each) downloadable from: http://alioth.debian.org/~gilbert-guest/sn

Bug#615925: ITP: libsub-exporter-globexporter-perl -- module for exporting shared globs

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libsub-exporter-globexporter-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Expo

Sound and email

2011-02-28 Thread Ricardo Parra
Gentlemen: I am trying to work with Debian, I need to know what to do to get sound and video as have in my other computers, If you open www.rtve.es they transmit the news as well as other programs I watch that have video and sound. Awaiting you reply, I remain; Sincerely yours; Ricardo J Parra par

Bug#615920: ITP: libncursesada -- Ada binding for the ncurses text user interface library

2011-02-28 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Boulenguez * Package name: libncursesada Version : 5.8-1 Upstream Author : Juergen Pfeifer * URL : http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Ada Description : Ada binding for

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-28 Thread Ben Finney
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > "BF" == Ben Finney writes: > > BF> Why is Auntie Nelda using the unstable repository? Is she > BF> comfortable running an OS from a repository with no promises about > BF> stability? If not, who advised her to do that? > > Let's find out, > http://www.youtube.c

Bug#615908: ITP: colorchooser -- A Swing widget for selecting colors

2011-02-28 Thread Andrew Ross
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ross * Package name: colorchooser Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Tim Boudreau * URL : http://java.net/projects/colorchooser * License : Joint CDDL and GPL V2 with Sun Classpath Exception Programming Lang: Java

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-02-28 Thread Russ Allbery
"Jesús M. Navarro" writes: > En fecha Domingo, 27 de Febrero de 2011, Josselin Mouette escribió: >> Now, maintainers receive a lot of bug reports, and have limited time to >> spare on Debian. Given the choice between: >> 1. packaging a new upstream release that fixes a lot of bugs; >> 2

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-28 Thread jidanni
> "BF" == Ben Finney writes: BF> Why is Auntie Nelda using the unstable repository? Is she comfortable BF> running an OS from a repository with no promises about stability? If BF> not, who advised her to do that? Let's find out, http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=auntie+nelda http:/

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-02-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 27 février 2011, vers 15:33, Josselin Mouette disait : > You seem to forget the very reason bug reports are here. Their point is > not to offer a service to our users - if you want that, you’ll need paid > support. Bug reports are here to he

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-02-28 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Josselin: En fecha Domingo, 27 de Febrero de 2011, Josselin Mouette escribió: [...] > Now, maintainers receive a lot of bug reports, and have limited time to > spare on Debian. Given the choice between: > 1. packaging a new upstream release that fixes a lot of bugs; > 2. fixing a nic

Bug#615898: ITP: libparse-http-useragent-perl -- parser for the HTTP User Agent string

2011-02-28 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libparse-http-useragent-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Burak Gursoy * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-HTTP-UserAgent/ * License : Artistic Programming La

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-28 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be > controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for > people we should fix that rather than invent multiple ways of disabling > daemons, but the curren

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:12:00PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > This was a pain when we changed the default inetd--every package > required updating. For others, e.g. mail-transport-agent, it's even > more painful (I thought an mta-default was proposed, similar to > virtual-policy above, but can't

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:42:32PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > I disagree here. > > > Alternatives in build-* relationships *are* mentioned by policy. In fact

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-28 Thread sergey
> Most software allows this without issues -- just run "./configure > --prefix=$HOME". You need to adjust $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH inside > your shell startup scripts, and you're done. This will not work. Let's imagine that user have installed some program A in $HOME. Then user set $LD_LIBRARY_P

What else needs to know about armhf?

2011-02-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 03:29:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 02:41:32PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > >> If you ask me, I would say that providing a magic for file(1) as I said > > >> on debian-arm[1] would be more

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: >> · concrete|virtual >> libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev >> libglu1-mesa-dev | libglu-dev > The nvidia GL libraries conflict with mesagl. If you use the non-free > nvidia driver, you cannot install libgl1-mesa

Re: Bug#615090: ITP: quakespasm -- an engine for iD software's Quake

2011-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
[ mft set to -games ] On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:59:58PM +, David Banks wrote: > Owner: David Banks > > * Package name: quakespasm Fantastic, I look forward to seeing this! Would you consider joining the Debian Games Team[1] and co-maintaining quakespasm as part of this team? This sho

Re: [DEP9] inet-superserver configuration by maintainer scripts

2011-02-28 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Mon Feb 28, 2011 at 17:53:53 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > [M-F-T set to -devel and my email] > > Hi, > > I claim DEP-9 for a proposal on inetd.conf updates by maintainer scripts. This and > URL: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8 ^ Cheer

[DEP9] inet-superserver configuration by maintainer scripts

2011-02-28 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
[M-F-T set to -devel and my email] Hi, I claim DEP-9 for a proposal on inetd.conf updates by maintainer scripts. This proposal is the evolution of one I've made over a year ago, and takes into account the criticism and suggestions made at the time. FWIW I've contacted privately those that were a

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-02-28 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 28/02/11 15:05, Holger Levsen wrote: > So I think it's also a bug in those packages, of which there are more then > 100 > but less than 200 A dd-list would be nice. Thanks, Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: prepare to fix build failures with new GCC versions

2011-02-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Raphael Hertzog , 2011-02-28, 16:01: symbols which should not be used can either be not listed in the symbols file (and be auto-added at build time with a strict dependency on the latest version) or be referenced in the symbols file but with an alternate dependency (either one that is unsolva

Re: Bug#615090: ITP: quakespasm -- an engine for iD software's Quake

2011-02-28 Thread David Banks
Hi, thanks for your time. On 28 February 2011 03:13, Guillem Jover wrote: > How does this compare to darkplaces, which is already on the archive, > only with a different name (nexuiz, see [0])? Darkplaces is an engine with lots of graphics enhancements that departs significantly from the origina

potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-02-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, piuparts in master-slave mode currently cannot test packages which first alternate depends is not available in main, ie the secvpn package depends on "adduser, bc, ssh, ppp, timeout | coreutils (>= 7.5-1), sudo" and timeout is only available in lenny and etch, thus piuparts cannot test secv

Re: prepare to fix build failures with new GCC versions

2011-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 28.02.2011 08:02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Well, if the mangling changed it means binaries linked against old > > libraries will no longer work so it's rather good that the symbols files > > doesn't match any more because you have to bump the mimimu

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Roger, On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:42:32PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > I disagree here. > > Alternatives in build-* relationships *are* mentioned by policy. In fact, > > there's even an example in section 7.1. > > This is co

Re: prepare to fix build failures with new GCC versions

2011-02-28 Thread Matthias Klose
On 28.02.2011 08:02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Unreflected usage of symbols files for C++ libraries >> - >> >> These seem to be limited to Qt and KDE related libraries. >> >> Apparently g++-4.4 did emi

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 27. Februar 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Or just advise sid users to have testing in their sources.list ;) is that something worth to be put on http://www.debian.org/releases/ or http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ ? It absolutly sounds reasonable to me but I'm not tracking uns

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-02-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, circular dependencies are bad for a variety of reasons already explained here (plus probably some others), but... On Sonntag, 27. Februar 2011, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > - Piuparts is not able to come up with a sensible order to test >packages when there are dependency loops. A work

Re: NMU procedure

2011-02-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Hector Oron [...] | Even more, there is no yet a decision if the architecture is accepted | or not in the "official" archive, we have not requested such thing | (yet) as we do not meet archive criteria for now. But as other | unofficial ports, I guess it is correct to add support for it into

Bug#615839: RFP: linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 -- linux fails when booting

2011-02-28 Thread Pere Nubiola i Radigales
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- when I am booting with de new linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 it hangs. in the console the information is: [0.788804] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init=

Re: NMU procedure

2011-02-28 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/2/28 Tollef Fog Heen : > ]] Hector Oron > | > * Raising the severity doesn't really imply anything > | > | True. Would you suggest some better way to proceed with porter-NMU? > I would think it quite rushed to be pushing NMUs for an archicture not > in Debian and not even in dpkg yet.  

Bug#615825: ITP: libdevel-argnames-perl -- Devel::ArgNames

2011-02-28 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libdevel-argnames-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://searh.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ArgNames/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Devel

Bug#615823: ITP: mactelnet -- Console tools for telneting and pinging via MAC addresses

2011-02-28 Thread Håkon Nessjøen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Håkon Nessjøen" * Package name: mactelnet Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Håkon Nessjøen * URL : https://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Console tools for

How to do an NMU?

2011-02-28 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, After waiting for a long time on updated packages, with patches, to emacs and gdb for GNU/Hurd I think it is time for NMUs. The patches are minor, but crucial for the function on GNU/Hurd! emacs23.2+1-7: #610576 filed 20 Jan 2011. No response from the maintainer. gdb7.1-1: #579834 filed 30 A

Bug#615820: ITP: libsub-prototype-perl -- set a subroutines prototype

2011-02-28 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libsub-prototype-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Prototype/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : set