Bug#799903: ITP: golang-bitbucket-pkg-inflect -- Go library to transform words from singular to plural

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-bitbucket-pkg-inflect Version : 0.0~hg20130829.20.8961c37-1 Upstream Author : Chris Farmiloe, David Heinemeier Hansson * URL : https://bitbucket.org/pkg/inflect * License : Expat Progr

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 08:17:44PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > And DKMS... oh, dear. Did they eventually manage to fix it, to not > blindly rely on /lib/modules/.../source (or build) symlinks as the > one and only source of information? Not having those links is like a > normal case with kernel+he

Re: Status of the src:lsb package

On 2015-09-23 14:21, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Nikolaus, > > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 09.27:56 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > > On Sep 17 2015, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 08.46:24 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > > >> I don't know about formal LSB compatibility,

Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds

On 23 September 2015 at 00:16, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; > sleep Has anyone mentioned git? Jeff

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

Hallo, * Marc Haber [Wed, Sep 23 2015, 07:55:58PM]: > [module-assistant] > > On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:24:54 +0200, Gianfranco Costamagna > wrote: > >Hi, confirmed: it is still there. > > The Question is: Is it still supported? I just typed "m-a a-i virtualbox" and it got me all modules installed

Re: Status of the src:lsb package

On Sep 23 2015, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Nikolaus, > > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 09.27:56 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : >> On Sep 17 2015, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 08.46:24 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : >> >> I don't know about formal LSB compatibility, but the

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

[module-assistant] On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:24:54 +0200, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >Hi, confirmed: it is still there. The Question is: Is it still supported? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

* Ritesh Raj Sarraf [150923 12:54]: > > Each call to dpkg will cause the triggers to be run, so if > > apt(itude) happens to separate the vbox and vbox-dkms installations > > into separate runs of dpkg, vbox might be restarted the first time > > with the wrong module, but it will be corrected in a

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 08:18 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > If I understand correctly how dpkg triggers work, this could cause a > restart of vbox before the module is installed, but then it should > also > cause a second restart after it is installed. (I.e. you could get a > spurious failing restar

Re: Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

Hi, confirmed: it is still there. cheers, Gianfranco

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

[please do not CC me; I am subscribed] * Ritesh Raj Sarraf [150923 11:50]: > Okay!! But, btw, can someone enlighten the use case for Pre-Depends ?? If you need to use something from another package in your preinst script, you will need a Pre-Depends. For example, cron Pre-Depends: dpkg because

Re: tyr-quake both quake1 & quakewolrd close to conservative engine stable-based

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:30:55AM -0430, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote: > There's any consensus around quakeworld packagin? I don't hold a clue. Also you removed debian-devel@ from CC, so it's quite improbable somebody will reply to you. re-added here, maybe wait and se... > i can see some politic

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:14:13 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 15:02 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Do we now require DKMS, which requires a fully-blown build system on >> the target box? Wouldn't it be much better to be able to build a >> virtualbox-modules-$KERNELFLAVOUR.deb? W

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 08:07 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > Also, the same has been discussed in following bug reports. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798979 > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798527 > > The logs (that I snipped) were from an installation

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 08:18 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > * Marvin Renich [150923 07:52]: > > What might work, ..., and then use dpkg triggers to start the > > vbox service after all packages in the dpkg installation run have > been > > configured. > > If I understand correctly how dpkg triggers

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 15:02 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Do we now require DKMS, which requires a fully-blown build system on > the target box? Wouldn't it be much better to be able to build a > virtualbox-modules-$KERNELFLAVOUR.deb? What was so bad with > module-assistant? I think it is still there

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:31:22 +0200, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >well, in that case you can download the source package, build the dkms >module and then install virtualbox, right? > >if you run a custom kernel you should know how to build a dkms module. Do we now require DKMS, which requires a f

Re: tyr-quake both quake1 & quakewolrd close to conservative engine stable-based

For the reference, this is bug #799829, added in CC now. Please keep it in replies (i.e., don't reply to the other mail but to this one). (this is another "erorr" you did, CCing debian-devel@ this way don't propagate the number bug and I had to look it up manually) On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:51:1

Re: tyr-quake both quake1 & quakewolrd close to conservative engine stable-based

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:39:25PM -0430, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote: > package: wnpp > severity: wishlist > > Version 0.62 (0.61+git) > Upstream Author : Kevin Shanahan http://disenchant.net/about/ > URL : http://disenchant.net/tyrquake/ > License : GPLv2 > Description

Re: Status of the src:lsb package

Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 23.00:51 Michael Biebl a écrit : > Am 17.09.2015 um 14:56 schrieb Didier 'OdyX' Raboud: > > After the discussion [0] about these changes back in July (on both > > debian-lsb@ and debian-devel@), I have uploaded src:lsb 9.20150826 > > to > > unstable, building no LSB com

Bug#799864: RFH: cyrus-sasl2

Package: wnpp Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, cyrus-sasl2 needs you! The most (all) of the members of packaging team are dormant, and the cyrus-sasl2 feels neglected, we need a new blood who will love and care about cyrus-sasl2. There are not much upstream

Re: Status of the src:lsb package

Hi Nikolaus, Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 09.27:56 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > On Sep 17 2015, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 08.46:24 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > >> I don't know about formal LSB compatibility, but there are several > >> proprietary applications that req

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

* Marvin Renich [150923 07:52]: > What might work, ..., and then use dpkg triggers to start the > vbox service after all packages in the dpkg installation run have been > configured. If I understand correctly how dpkg triggers work, this could cause a restart of vbox before the module is installe

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

* Ritesh Raj Sarraf [150923 07:47]: > On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 13:23 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > Gianfranco Costamagna writes: > > > the problem actually is that virtualbox-dkms should be configured > > > *before* configuring virtualbox > > > > Why should this need Pre-Depends instead of Dep

Bug#799862: ITP: golang-github-eknkc-amber -- Elegant templating engine for Go, inspired from HAML and Jade

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-eknkc-amber Version : 0.0~git20150829.0.144da19-1 Upstream Author : Ekin Koc * URL : https://github.com/eknkc/amber * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description : Eleg

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

* Ritesh Raj Sarraf [150923 04:06]: > Adding Moritz from the DSA. > > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 19:59 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 15:00:35 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > > > > As shown in policy 7.2 > > > > > > "You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 13:23 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Gianfranco Costamagna writes: > > the problem actually is that virtualbox-dkms should be configured > > *before* configuring virtualbox > > Why should this need Pre-Depends instead of Depends assuming > virtualbox > depends on the -dkms

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

Gianfranco Costamagna writes: > the problem actually is that virtualbox-dkms should be configured > *before* configuring virtualbox Why should this need Pre-Depends instead of Depends assuming virtualbox depends on the -dkms package? Ansgar

Re: Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

well, in that case you can download the source package, build the dkms module and then install virtualbox, right? if you run a custom kernel you should know how to build a dkms module. cheers, G.

Re: Command-line tool for programmers: which value for “Section” field?

* Ben Finney , 2015-09-23, 18:11: Does a package, whose primary purpose is to install an application that is a development tool for some specific programming language, belong in “Section: ”, in “Section: devel”, or some other section? Policy says you can find section definition at

Bug#799850: ITP: golang-github-dchest-cssmin -- Go package to minify CSS

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-dchest-cssmin Version : 0.0~git20131223.0.a22e1d8-1 Upstream Author : Dmitry Chestnykh * URL : https://github.com/dchest/cssmin * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go D

Bug#799847: ITP: golang-github-puerkitobio-purell -- tiny Go library to normalize URLs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-puerkitobio-purell Version : 0.1.0+git20150218.23.d69616f-1 Upstream Author : Martin Angers * URL : https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell * License : BSD-3-clause Programming La

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 01:35:21PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > A pre-depends is very much the wrong hammer here, userspace can't > > usefully rely on a kernel package or module through package > > dependencies. > > Can you please elaborate here ? > > > Problem is: virtualbox is picky abo

Re: binNMU or reproducible builds (choose only one)

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Yes, but that would push complexity to the client side for no > particularly good reason. The “client” here is dak, and the info could be pushed to UDD, if it isn’t already (didn’t check). That’s a one-off thing. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions

Command-line tool for programmers: which value for “Section” field?

Howdy all, Does a package, whose primary purpose is to install an application that is a development tool for some specific programming language, belong in “Section: ”, in “Section: devel”, or some other section? The recently-added Lintian tags ‘library-package-name-for-application’ and ‘applicat

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

Adding Moritz from the DSA. On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 19:59 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 15:00:35 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > > As shown in policy 7.2 > > > > "You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before > this has been discussed on the debia