Bug#693191: ITP: ruby-utils -- provides some useful command line utilities

2012-11-13 Thread Praveen Arimbrathodiyil
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Praveen Arimbrathodiyil * Package name: ruby-utils Version : 0.0.60 Upstream Author : Florian Frank * URL : http://github.com/flori/utils * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : ruby gem providing som

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-13 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 14/11/2012 13:43, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > As someone who develops software for Debian I encounter situations where I > have > to specify the same information multiple times, and when that information > changes I have to remember to update it in each of these places. > > Just now

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
I don't know why you think this is relevant to debian-devel, but have fun. (And please don't ask anyone to package anything in this format.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-13 Thread Philip Ashmore
That "sb/tests" directory is in my v3c-storyboard project http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-storyboard/ Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a3

A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-13 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. As someone who develops software for Debian I encounter situations where I have to specify the same information multiple times, and when that information changes I have to remember to update it in each of these places. Just now I had to add a debian/*doc.postrm.in to one of my proje

Bug#693187: marked as done (general: when i use any browser iceweasel, chrome, etc)

2012-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:10:38 + with message-id <1352869838.4867.14.ca...@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> and subject line Re: Bug#693187: general: when i use any browser iceweasel, chrome, etc has caused the Debian Bug report #693187, regarding general: when i use any browser icewe

Bug#693187: general: when i use any browser iceweasel, chrome, etc

2012-11-13 Thread sam
Package: general Severity: normal Tags: lfs browser crashes no matter which one i use -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.11.2012 04:12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I think this is an interesting read: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 So far this seems to be mostly talk and hot air. I'm also wondering how many more forks the gentoo guys want to start [1]. Michael [1] https://fo

Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, I think this is an interesting read: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 The full thread is here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 As Gentoo guys and some major kernel people are protesting about the insanity Kay and Lennart have done to udev, prob

Re: Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-13 13:23:48 +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: > >It would be interesting to know which Debian developers have > >which laptops. Bugs appearing on these laptops might be fixed > >more easily. At least it would allow bugs to be checked and > >possibly reproduced more easily. > > > >I'm wonder

Bug#693167: ITP: gmsl -- GNU Make Standard Library - utility functions for Gnu Make

2012-11-13 Thread Dima Kogan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dima Kogan * Package name: gmsl Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : John Graham-Cumming * URL : http://gmsl.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: GNU Make Description : GNU Make Standard Library - util

Bug#693165: ITP: ruby-tins -- useful tools library in Ruby

2012-11-13 Thread Praveen Arimbrathodiyil
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Praveen Arimbrathodiyil * Package name: ruby-tins Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Florian Frank * URL : https://github.com/flori/tins * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: ruby Description : useful tools librar

Re: History of Debian bootstrapping/porting efforts

2012-11-13 Thread Игорь Пашев
I took OpenIndiana and started to rebuild Debian packages ignoring formal dependencies. Each new package was "install" via "dpkg-deb -x" :-)

Serious problems with Mr. Linux Summary (Was, Re: please change subject / trim accordingly)

2012-11-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:09:58PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > Every post to this thread makes my heart that little bit heavier. > Can participants please > a) consider whether this is on topic to -devel and move to -user if > not; > b) trim quotes appropriately; > c) change Subject: w

History of Debian bootstrapping/porting efforts

2012-11-13 Thread Johannes Schauer
Dear list, I am the student that did the "Port bootstrap build-ordering tool" Google Summer of Code project this summer [1]. I am still continuing that work and will turn it into my Master thesis. The tools I developed are currently in use by wookey for doing the arm64 port [2]. A long list of res

Bug#693156: ITP: flashbench -- identify flash storage properties

2012-11-13 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Package: wnpp Owner: Dmitrijs Ledkovs Severity: wishlist * Package name: flashbench Version : 62 (2012-06-06) Upstream Author : Arnd Bergmann * URL or Web page : http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/arnd/flashbench.git;a=summary * License : GPL-2 Description : ide

Re: Bug#693040: libav: Strange build failure on several archs

2012-11-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
tags 693040 +upstream -help stop On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > I require assistance from a toolchain savy expert. I have uploaded a new > upstream version of libav to experimental. The problem is upstream and has been identified now. Reverting upstream commit 468ea

please change subject / trim accordingly (was Re: major linux problems summary 2012)

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Every post to this thread makes my heart that little bit heavier. Can participants please a) consider whether this is on topic to -devel and move to -user if not; b) trim quotes appropriately; c) change Subject: when the subject under discussion changes Thanks in advance. -- To UNS

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Nikolaus Rath
The Wanderer writes: > On 11/12/2012 03:52 PM, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: > >>> (BTW, I plan to purchase a Lemote YeeLoong 8101B, which has only GNU/Linux >>> support, but haven't had news from the vendor yet.) >> >> I've heard some time ago about Lemote laptops (aka Stallman recommendations!) >> its

Bug#693137: ITP: swift-plugin-s3 -- swift3 (S3 compatibility) middleware plugin for swift

2012-11-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: swift-plugin-s3 Version : 0.0.20121030 Upstream Author : FUJITA Tomonori * URL : https://github.com/fujita/swift3 * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : swift3

Re: Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
It would be interesting to know which Debian developers have which laptops. Bugs appearing on these laptops might be fixed more easily. At least it would allow bugs to be checked and possibly reproduced more easily. I'm wondering whether any Debian developer has a G98/G98M NVIDIA card to confirm

Re: Bug#693040: libav: Strange build failure on several archs

2012-11-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
[CC'ing debian-gcc@ for additional input, libav fails to link on armel, s390, s390x, ia64 and sparc. see bug #693040 for full context] On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:09:57PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> I've tried to reproduce the problem

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:29:04 -0500 The Wanderer wrote: > Or you could try one of the laptops from ZaReason; they specialize in > designing, building, and supporting laptops specifically intended to > run Linux. I haven't used one myself, but they look like a good > outfit from what I can

Re: Bug#656858: libimage-exiftool-perl: new upstream version available

2012-11-13 Thread random . numbers
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:05:30AM -0400, Phil Harvey wrote: > Mari is M.I.A. > > libimage-exiftool-perl needs a new maintainer. > > - Phil Dear all, libimage-exiftool-perl got its last update in July 2011. In the meanwhile, Phil released several new versions of exiftool: Sept. 24,2011 - V

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-12 21:52:41 +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: > >(BTW, I plan to purchase a Lemote YeeLoong 8101B, which has only > >GNU/Linux support, but haven't had news from the vendor yet.) > > I've heard some time ago about Lemote laptops (aka Stallman > recommendations!) its worth attention but the