Bug#646560: ITP: ruby-rr -- Ruby test double framework

2011-10-24 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-rr Version : Upstream Author : * URL or Web page : * License : Description : Ruby test double framework RR (Double Ruby) is a test double framework that features a rich selection of do

Bug#646558: ITP: ruby-gir-ffi -- Ruby bindings for GNOME using the GObject Introspection Repository.

2011-10-24 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-gir-ffi Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Matijs van Zuijlen * URL or Web page : https://github.com/mvz/ruby-gir-ffi * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : Ruby bindings for GNOME using the GOb

Bug#646556: ITP: phantomjs -- minimalistic headless WebKit-based with JavaScript API

2011-10-24 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: phantomjs Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Ariya Hidayat * URL or Web page : http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/ * License : BSD-3-clause Description : minimalistic headless WebKit-based with

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Or do you mean that *if* someone uses this target, then a simple package > build will test it?  Hm, maybe.  There are a lot of failures that will be > caught that way, but some that won't (Autotools failures can just mean not > finding suppor

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The results of that build seem unlikely to ever be seriously tested >> currently, which makes me a little dubious that it's worth making a >> rule about it. > I would wager that majority of such results would be tested

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The results of that build seem unlikely to ever be seriously tested > currently, which makes me a little dubious that it's worth making a rule > about it. I would wager that majority of such results would be tested during the build process.

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Ben Hutchings writes: > On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 22:12 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> BTW, does the root=UUID= variant require udev as well? > Yes, currently the kernel filesystem code does not probe for filesystem > UUIDs. (However, it does support partition UUIDs as used in GPT.

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > Since Debian does not require everything to be built from source (such > as autotools build systems, firmware and so on), would it be a good idea > to codify in policy that every package shipping files not built from > source should have a way to completely rebuild everything

A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Since Debian does not require everything to be built from source (such as autotools build systems, firmware and so on), would it be a good idea to codify in policy that every package shipping files not built from source should have a way to completely rebuild everything from source? In thi

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 22:12 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: > > Ivan Shmakov writes: > > >> And what the initramfs-tools package has to do with consistent > >> devices' filenames? > > > Initramfs runs udev. This allows you to use e.g. > > > root=/dev/di

Bug#646525: ITP: sizzle -- Pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine designed to be easily dropped in to a host library

2011-10-24 Thread Rebecca Fischbach
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rebecca Fischbach Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropiate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this a

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:08:33 +0700 Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Anyway, I think that if you want to learn how udev works then you > > should send your questions to an users support mailing > > list/newsgroup/forum/etc. > > Well, seems like there're little specific to Debian in how udev >

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:20:01 +0700 Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Neil Williams writes: > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:19:08 +0700 Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > > udev isn't just for pluggable devices, packages can provide udev > > rules to ensure that devices appear with a consistent name, > >

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Marco d'Itri writes: > On Oct 24, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> So, the kernel won't try to autoload a module when the corresponding >> device gets accessed? > Not for *hardware* drivers, since it cannot know which driver is > needed. Not even via modprobe.conf(5)? >> I've nev

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 24, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > So, the kernel won't try to autoload a module when the > corresponding device gets accessed? Not for *hardware* drivers, since it cannot know which driver is needed. > I've never heard of that (and Googling for “linux equiv” doesn't > seem

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: > Ivan Shmakov writes: >> And what the initramfs-tools package has to do with consistent >> devices' filenames? > Initramfs runs udev. This allows you to use e.g. > root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65B4A0_WD-WMAT13954017-part1 > instead of

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Marco d'Itri writes: > On Oct 24, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> It doesn't seem like a good reason for the aforementioned >> dependency, does it? > There are many other reasons, you can find them in /lib/udev/. ACK, thanks. >> And what the initramfs-tools package has to do with

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ivan Shmakov writes: > And what the initramfs-tools package has to do with consistent > devices' filenames? Initramfs runs udev. This allows you to use e.g. root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65B4A0_WD-WMAT13954017-part1 instead of root=/dev/sda1 to specify where your root fi

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 24, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > It doesn't seem like a good reason for the aforementioned > dependency, does it? There are many other reasons, you can find them in /lib/udev/. > And what the initramfs-tools package has to do with consistent > devices' filenames? udev is

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Neil Williams writes: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:19:08 +0700 Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> I've found that a few packages, contrary to my expectations, have >> Depends: on udev. I'm primarily concerned with alsa-base and >> initramfs-tools, but also wonder about libcomedi0, dkopp, >> python

Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:19:08 +0700 Ivan Shmakov wrote: > I've found that a few packages, contrary to my expectations, > have Depends: on udev. I'm primarily concerned with alsa-base > and initramfs-tools, but also wonder about libcomedi0, dkopp, > python-expeyes, libnjb5,

udev: what does it used for in Debian?

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
I've found that a few packages, contrary to my expectations, have Depends: on udev. I'm primarily concerned with alsa-base and initramfs-tools, but also wonder about libcomedi0, dkopp, python-expeyes, libnjb5, media-player-info, pulseaudio, ukopp, xserver-xo

Bug#646433: ITP: gadap -- GrADS support package for access to OpenDAP station data

2011-10-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: gadap Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) * URL : http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++