Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:51:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > just for the record, this proposition looks very similar to another > proposition about « conditional recommends » in May this year. > > https://lists.debian.org/1305977099.4715.47.camel@tomoyo Here is the correct URL: http

Re: Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org) [110820 14:39]: > > Yes. And we can easily maintain a current one for Debian-packaged software, > > although the initial build of such a blacklist will take some work. > > Actually, the existing interface

Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:19:09AM +0200, Harald Dunkel a écrit : > > would it be possible to support combined dependencies, > e.g. if package A and B are installed, then package C(A) > has to be installed, too? > > That might be helpful for dkms packages, for example. > A would be the kernel, B

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
2011/8/20 Reinhard Tartler : >> kFreeBSD has (preliminar) v4l support (I suggest linux-any kfreebsd-any). > > Is this v4l1, which AFAIUI has been removed from Linux upstream AFAIUI, > or v4l2? Both. See: sys/compat/linux/linux_videodev2.h sys/compat/linux/linux_videodev2_compat.h sys/compat/linu

Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-20 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Michael, On 08/20/11 08:55, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > What event would induce installation of C(A)?! Let's assume neither A nor B > are installed. > > apt-get install A (no point installing C(A)) apt-get install B (B does not > depend on C(

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-20 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Adam Borowski may or may not have written... [snip] > There's a patch in #572228 (and at least one fool just wrote a duplicate > before checking for existing ones), but the patch is rotting in the BTS. I'd forgotten that I'd written that patch. It's still sufficiently cleanly applic

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-20 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that James Vega may or may not have written... > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 01:06:34PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Chris Knadle wrote: [snip; *zless] >>> Right now these functions are spread across 4 different binaries, each of >>> which is in a different package. >>

Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures.

Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-20 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:31:11PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: The semantics are pretty obvious to me, it's the number of corner cases and complexity that this brings what stops dpkg/apt/aptitude/100-other-tools maintainers from implementing that. What is the use case for

Re: Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 16:17 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org) [110820 14:39]: > > Yes. And we can easily maintain a current one for Debian-packaged software, > > although the initial build of such a blacklist will take some work. > > Actually, the exist

Bug#638653: ITP: yafaray -- free open-source raytracing engine

2011-08-20 Thread Matteo F. Vescovi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Matteo F. Vescovi" * Package name : yafaray Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Authors : Bert Buchholz Michele Castigliego Rodrigo Placencia Vázquez * URL : http://www.yafaray.org/ * License

Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:31:11PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > The semantics are pretty obvious to me, it's the number of corner cases and > complexity that this brings what stops dpkg/apt/aptitude/100-other-tools > maintainers from implementing that. What is the use case for this? (If I missed

Bug#638650: ITP: subtle -- grid-based manual tiling window manager

2011-08-20 Thread Alexander Wirt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Wirt Package name: subtle Version : 0.10.3008-nu Upstream Author : Christoph Kappel URL : http://http://subforge.org/projects/subtle/wiki License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C, Ruby Description : gri

Re: Bug#638554: ITP: news -- GTK-based highly configurable RSS Ticker

2011-08-20 Thread Walter Cruz
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > On 08/20/2011 11:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:59:49PM +0200, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > >> * Package name: news > >> Version : 0.5.3 > >> Upstream Author : Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin >

Package for OpenAxiom

2011-08-20 Thread Игорь Пашев
I have prepared packages for OpenAxiom: https://github.com/ip1981/open-axiom-debian OpenAxiom is a descendent of the AXIOM computer algebra system. >From home page http://www.open-axiom.org/ : OpenAxiom is an open source platform for symbolic, algebraic, and numerical computations. It offers an

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
2011/8/20 Adam Borowski : >> Daniel Baumann >>    btrfs-tools > > Can be used via fuse.  There is no direct module, but you can get read only > support via grub-mount, or rw via some uml thingy whose name eludes me and > my 120-second google-fu. Does btrfs-tools actually create a file system, or

Re: Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org) [110820 14:39]: > Yes. And we can easily maintain a current one for Debian-packaged software, > although the initial build of such a blacklist will take some work. Actually, the existing interface net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range seems to work quite wel

Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:36 +0100, Edward Allcutt wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:39:16PM +0200, Jan Möbius wrote: > >> sometimes rpc.statd binds to port 631 udp which is used by cups. Therefore > >> cups is unable to bind to its port and no printe

Re: anyone interested in adopting ICU?

2011-08-20 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Please reply to me directly (or CC me on replies) as I am not currently subscribed to debian-devel. Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Jay Berkenbilt schrieb: >> I'm looking for someone who might like to take over the icu package. >> This is ICU4C (C/C++), not to be confused with ICU4J (Java), which is

Bug#638634: ITP: xul-ext-toogle-proxy -- Toggle Proxy adds a status bar icon to toggle between two proxy settings

2011-08-20 Thread Sascha Girrulat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Girrulat * Package name: xul-ext-toogle-proxy Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : trigano * URL : http://www.quirkyquipu.co.uk/firefox/ * License : MPL 1.1 Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Toggle Pro

Re: Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > It seems to me that the only problem is if you run multiple instances of > > > a daemon on different ports and don't use /etc/bindresvport.blacklist, > > > SE Linux, or some other method of telling bindresv

"make bootable" tools for different architectures (was: Please use Architecture: linux-any)

2011-08-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:27:40PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Steve Langasek > >aboot > > Why this one? The Architecture: any parts are generic tools used to create > alpha boot blocks to images in an architecture-independent manner (e.g., > when generating bootable CD images from a ma

Re: Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Adam Borowski wrote: > > It seems to me that the only problem is if you run multiple instances of > > a daemon on different ports and don't use /etc/bindresvport.blacklist, > > SE Linux, or some other method of telling bindresvport() to leave your > > port alone. That wouldn'

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Robert Millan, le Sat 20 Aug 2011 12:19:41 +0200, a écrit : > > Debian Perl Group > >   libvideo-capture-v4l-perl > > kFreeBSD has (preliminar) v4l support (I suggest linux-any kfreebsd-any). Ah. A few packages were included in the list due to v4l. If kFreeBSD grows a v4l interface, then that ch

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aron Xu, le Sat 20 Aug 2011 13:18:12 +0800, a écrit : > > Debian Chinese Team > >   zhcon > > > > zhcon works on FreeBSD 7.x, Oh!? I wouldn't even have expected that, it's a good surprise to me! > and before 8.x is out the upstream was > dead. I tried to port it to kfreebsd with some progress,

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:11:40AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Just a heads-up about Architecture: linux-any. The dd-list below is > a (non-exhaustive!) list of packages that kfreebsd/hurd maintainers > believe are candidates for using it in their debian/control file, > because they

Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:55:10AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi Harri, > > > would it be possible to support combined dependencies, > > e.g. if package A and B are installed, then package C(A) > > has to be installed, too? > > > > That might be helpful for dkms packages, for example. > >

Re: Bug#638554: ITP: news -- GTK-based highly configurable RSS Ticker

2011-08-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:32:55 +0200 Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > On 08/20/2011 11:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:59:49PM +0200, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > >> * Package name: news > >> Version : 0.5.3 > >> Upstream Author : Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin

Re: Bug#638554: ITP: news -- GTK-based highly configurable RSS Ticker

2011-08-20 Thread Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin
On 08/20/2011 11:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:59:49PM +0200, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: >> * Package name: news >> Version : 0.5.3 >> Upstream Author : Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin >> * URL : http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/news >> * License

Bug#638627: ITP: libstax2-api-java -- Extension to StAX API for parsing XML documents

2011-08-20 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libstax2-api-java Version: 3.1.1 Upstream Author: Tatu Saloranta URL: http://woodstox.codehaus.org/ License: LGPL-2.1+ or Apache-2.0 Description: Extension to StAX API for

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
2011/8/20 Samuel Thibault : >   ntfs-3g This is FUSE-based, no reason it can't be ported to GNU/kFreeBSD AFAICT (I suggest linux-any kfreebsd-any untill Hurd has FUSE). > Debian Perl Group >   libvideo-capture-v4l-perl kFreeBSD has (preliminar) v4l support (I suggest linux-any kfreebsd-any). >

Re: Bug#638554: ITP: news -- GTK-based highly configurable RSS Ticker

2011-08-20 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 20.08.2011 11:25, Colin Watson wrote: > This is an awfully generic name for a Debian package. How about calling > it 'newsrssticker' or 'news-rss-ticker' instead? for reference, the package is already going through the mentors process, where

Re: Bug#638554: ITP: news -- GTK-based highly configurable RSS Ticker

2011-08-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:59:49PM +0200, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > * Package name: news > Version : 0.5.3 > Upstream Author : Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin > * URL : http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/news > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > Description