Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Hendrik Sattler writes: > Am 18. Juni 2015 03:54:56 MESZ, schrieb Russ Allbery : >> Shared library symbol versioning makes the problem go away. Package >> dependencies try to solve the problem at the wrong level. > The problem is rather that the package dependency system doesn't look at > speci

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am 18. Juni 2015 03:54:56 MESZ, schrieb Russ Allbery : >Vincent Lefevre >Shared library symbol versioning makes the problem go away. Package >dependencies try to solve the problem at the wrong level. The problem is rather that the package dependency system doesn't look at specific package dep

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:58:55AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > From where I'm sitting it all pretty much looks like a self-inflicted > problem. Upstream does not believe in releasing source tarballs (so > each user has to generate them from git-archive, which should be > considered inherently non

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2015-06-16 09:12:36 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> There are a lot of really complex things you can do with versioning and >> cases where that version number is meaningful, but for the vast >> majority of libraries, I recommend not worrying about it and just >> always

Lintian auto-reject changes

2015-06-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, we got one more lintian auto-reject active on ftp-master, in dak.git commit e0364a10b4a8ab37dd6527bbd1ba67a2f43da9cc Everything hitting "empty-binary-package" is a *nonfatal* reject now. Thanks to Jakub Wilk. Eventual tarring and feathering too please, but for common amusement do it where t

Re: Xen PVUSB - Debian 8

2015-06-17 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 16.06.2015 um 11:19 schrieb pietrop: > Hi all, > > I am trying to setup a Debian 8 machine running XEN, which I've > installed from the package manager, to use the USB passthrough. > > It looks like I need to use the module xen-usbfront and xen-usbback, > which I can't find in the /lib/modules

Re: preparing for GCC 5, especially libstdc++6

2015-06-17 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 16 June 2015 23:37:41 Matthias Klose wrote: > Hi, > > it's time to prepare for GCC 5 as the default compiler in unstable. > Compared to earlier version bumps, the switch to GCC 5 is a bit more > complicated because libstdc++6 sees a few ABI incompatibilities, partially > depending on t

Bug #789081: ITP: coyote -- GDL library from D.Fannings IDL courses

2015-06-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Owner: Ole Streicher Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org,debian-scie...@lists.debian.org * Package name: coyote Version : Upstream Author : David Fanning * URL : http://www.idlcoyote.com * License

Bug#789061: ITP: scala-parser-combinators -- Scala Standard Parser Combinator Library

2015-06-17 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: scala-parser-combinators Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Typesafe, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/scala/scala-parser-combinators * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Scala Descr

Bug#789043: ITP: egctl -- control state of EnerGenie Programmable surge protector

2015-06-17 Thread Hector Oron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hector Oron * Package name: egctl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Vitaly Sinilin * URL : https://github.com/unterwulf/egctl * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : control state of EnerGenie Programma

Bug#789041: ITP: lqa -- LAVA QA Tool

2015-06-17 Thread Hector Oron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hector Oron * Package name: lqa Version : 20150520.0 * URL : https://git.collabora.com/cgit/singularity/tools/lqa.git/ * License : LGPL2.1+ Programming Lang: Python Description : LAVA QA Tool This package contain

Re: Invoking ‘init’ from an init.d script (Wheezy)

2015-06-17 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:49:36PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt debian.org> writes: > > > Please be aware that --force-yes makes apt ignore invalid signatures for > > Ouch. Oh, how disingenuous these apt developers are! I wonder, what got you: The friendly, very peaceful an