Re: How to provide support for -i386 utilities within -amd64 packages?

2014-05-23 Thread Carl Worth
Christopher James Halse Rogers writes: > For apitrace we ended up using the $LIB dynamic expansion to let the > dynamic loader handle this itself > (https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/pull/177). > > That's presumably applicable to fips and vogl also. Yes, that $LIB thing is really convenient f

How to provide support for -i386 utilities within -amd64 packages?

2014-05-21 Thread Carl Worth
I'm interested in packaging (or helping to package) several programs and libraries related to OpenGL, (such as apitrace, vogl, fips, and waffle). For each of these packages I have a question about best practices related to supporting 32-bit libraries and binaries within a 64-bit system. Imagine a

Re: Fwd: alioth back online, some ssh keys changed

2014-02-28 Thread Carl Worth
Holger Levsen writes: > FTWwonder why alioth seems to be hacked now... ... > this mail forwarding is inspired by two different mails wondering why the > "alioth" ssh host keys have changed Holger, Thanks for forwarding this mail. I'm rather late to the game and only now discovered the change in

Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-03 Thread Carl Worth
Ian Jackson writes: > And my final question: what should it be called ? I'm terrible at > names. I don't think there are many processes in computer programming as challenging, frustrating, valuable, and rewarding as inventing names. My one suggestion is "strop". Rationale: * It's a weak acr

Bug#734643: ITP: waffle -- Library for selecting OpenGL API and window system at runtime

2014-01-08 Thread Carl Worth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jordan Justen * Package name: waffle Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Chad Versace * URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~chadversary/waffle * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Library for selectin

Re: trayer_1.1_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-09-04 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Jens Peter Secher's message of Fri Sep 04 11:12:47 -0700 2009: > FWIW, I wrote this answer (but did not send it): Funny, because I received it. :-) > There is no point pretending there is an upstream when there clearly > isn't. Pretending there is an upstream just forces me put eve

developers-reference: Improve "Getting started" to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: wishlist Excerpts from gregor herrmann's message of Thu Aug 20 11:53:56 -0700 2009: > Wow, cool, thanks a lot! No problem. > Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK > the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from gregor herrmann's message of Thu Aug 20 02:25:09 -0700 2009: > There's a central place for teams in Debian: > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams That's an excellent resource, yes. > The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams; > some thoughts from DebConf can be fou