Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 23:49 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 14, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Well, in that case we can ship alot more .bin files from qemu > > sources too, and build these on corresponding architecturs like > > already mentioned (to verify the result is still the same). > > Ad

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 14, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Well, in that case we can ship alot more .bin files from qemu > sources too, and build these on corresponding architecturs like > already mentioned (to verify the result is still the same). > Additional x86 ROMs, sparc ROMs, this PPC ROM, ... > > The only prob

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:11:47AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 15.09.2012 01:03, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:51AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> > >> So we have the following options: > >> > >> 1) package just this single file, of 20 bytes long, in a > >>sep

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.09.2012 01:03, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:51AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >> So we have the following options: >> >> 1) package just this single file, of 20 bytes long, in a >>separate Arch:all package, in it's own separate source. >> >> 2) drop ppc support

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:51AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > So we have the following options: > > 1) package just this single file, of 20 bytes long, in a >separate Arch:all package, in it's own separate source. > > 2) drop ppc support where this file is required. 3) Just ship

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.09.2012 00:31, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:51AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> This file is also included in the upstream source in compiled >> form, as pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin. This is because it needs >> ppc assembler to compile, and not every system out there has

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:51AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > This file is also included in the upstream source in compiled > form, as pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin. This is because it needs > ppc assembler to compile, and not every system out there has > this tool ready available. binutils-multiar

packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
In qemu package there's a source file, pc-bios/spapr-rtas/spapr-rtas.S, which is an PPC assembly file with exactly 5 instructions: #define KVMPPC_HCALL_BASE 0xf000 #define KVMPPC_H_RTAS (KVMPPC_HCALL_BASE + 0x0) .globl _start _start: mr 4,3 lis 3,KVMPPC_H

Re: Dyson project (Debian on illumos kernel)

2012-09-14 Thread Игорь Пашев
> Do you have any concrete plan to make > a Debian port out of your project, aiming > full integration into Debian? Full integration into Debian is a big challenge, it could be #3 among these large steps: 1. Make self-hosted distribution with illumos kernel and libc 2. Port glibc 3. Full integrat

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:26:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > game-data-packager, although that one is a bit different: it supports a > relatively large number of game-data packages, and most of the data it > works on is not freely downloadable, so it often has to support building > "the same"

Re: Dyson project (Debian on illumos kernel)

2012-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > We already have one of the former based on OpenSolaris/IllumOS: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/StormOS StormOS is now officially dead and recommending people look at Dyson: http://stormos.org/node/2378 -- bye, pabs http://wiki

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:14:57 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > This has been discussed before within the pkg-multimedia team. There > is even preliminary work available at > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/libdvdcss-installer.git; > a=summary. Thank you, I'm aware of that. Some time ag

Re: "X-" Prefixes deprecated by RFC 6648.

2012-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: "X-" Prefixes deprecated by RFC 6648."): > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:55:04 +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > > Instead of things like > > XBCS-Comment: This field will appear in the changes, binary and > > source control files > > The X gets discarded on output, s

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:09:48 Thomas Koch wrote: > I remember a discussion from somewhere, sometime that it would be a good > thing(tm) to have a common infrastructure (helper script) for this kind of > packages. The common infrastructure should make sure that the downloaded > files are crytographic

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On 14/09/12 13:09, Thomas Koch wrote: > From my head I know these similar packages: flash-installer-nonfree, some > microsoft fonts downloader, java-package (for sun's java), ...? game-data-packager, although that one is a bit different: it supports a relatively large number of game-data packages

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:51:44 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > uscan does absolutely no checking of the resulting tarball so this is > sensitive to DNS MITM (at least). IMHO having a tighter connection between > this libdvdcss-pkg and the upstream tarballs hashsums would be a good idea: > you would ne

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >Package name: libdvdcss-pkg > Version: 1.2.12-1 > Upstream Author: Dmitry Smirnov > License: GPL-3+ > Description: download, build a

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Thomas Koch
> Le vendredi, 14 septembre 2012 13.19:43, Dmitry Smirnov a écrit : > > * Installer is implemented as shell script installed as DPKG post-invoke > >handler. I remember a discussion from somewhere, sometime that it would be a good thing(tm) to have a common infrastructure (helper script) for

Re: Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Dmitry, Le vendredi, 14 septembre 2012 13.19:43, Dmitry Smirnov a écrit : >Package name: libdvdcss-pkg Surprising package. > * Installer is implemented as shell script installed as DPKG post-invoke >handler. > > * Host package version meant to me an exact match of guest package >

Re: versioned dependency on the libhdf5-7 virtual package

2012-09-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
For libhe5-hdfeos0, i'm working on this. One thing I need to check is HDF5 dependencies. he5-hdfeos0 was built and tested against HDF5 1.8.7. Since then HDF5 has a new version 1.8.8 with some significant changes; a new HDFEOS5 upstream was released to use it (5.1.14). HDF5 1.8.8 is in Debian. I ne

Bug#687624: ITP: libdvdcss-pkg -- automated installer for libdvdcss

2012-09-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libdvdcss-pkg Version: 1.2.12-1 Upstream Author: Dmitry Smirnov License: GPL-3+ Description: download, build and install libdvdcss package This package will automatic

Re: "X-" Prefixes deprecated by RFC 6648.

2012-09-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:18 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> What RFCs are you thinking of? The "X-" stuff was removed from e-mail >> standards long time ago, IIRC. > Well I don't have all RFCs in mind,... but weren't there others, that > gave "x-" that meaning