Bug#614137: ITP: libparallel-iterator-perl -- Simple parallel execution

2011-02-19 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: wnpp Owner: Frank Lichtenheld Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libparallel-iterator-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Andy Armstrong * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parallel

Re: libpoppler3 missing in unstable

2009-03-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
a few cases only. 2) Someone improve the cruft report so that I can see how many packages still depend on the package to be removed, so I can try to make my own judgement. I will not be able to indivdually investigate each cruft package for this specific problem. Gruesse, -- Frank Licht

Re: [RFC] How should rsyslog handle .0 logfiles from sysklogd

2008-09-20 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:20:06AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > 3.) Delete the .0 files in postinst. Is this covered by the policy? > I think that deleting logfiles without warning is totally unacceptable. Outside of purge at least. Gruesse, -- Frank

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
not know yet if it reasonable for us to satisfy both needs (effective use of resources for lintian.debian.org and developer access to a full lintian lab). Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-21 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
#x27;s talk has > anything to add, that'd be welcome. If someone could think of anything > even without being at bdale's talk, that's welcome too, of course. http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/high/508_hp.comgodebian.ogg Gruesse, -

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
eneral sentiment, there is really nothing "mysterious" about checking buildd.debian.org (and calling it that is just finding excuses for maintainers that don't spend the time to check the status of their packages). Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-13 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ases of lenny+1 and 6.0rY would > > be stable updates. > > Surely those would be 7.0~ ;-) Sure, that will be endless fun to explain to users :) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-13 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
like this don't really warrant binNMUs, especially if you wind up doing a very large number of them. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.6.25 broke iPod support for me, but who to bug?

2008-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:11:57PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 02:19:58AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Hi. > > > > While testing some updates to my gtkpod/libgpod packages I noticed that > > I couldn't actually play any songs an

Re: Package management unsafe?

2008-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
nse for stable users since our point releases aren't exactly weekly ;) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel 2.6.25 broke iPod support for me, but who to bug?

2008-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ounds like a awful lot of special casing to me. Any ideas? Any other examples of applications broken by this change? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Help] Re: Bug#484167: cdd-common: missing directory when installing

2008-06-04 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
on creation or modification of the triggering file by dpkg, so during unpack or removal. A possible solution might be to change your menu file script to ignore the missing conffile and activate the trigger again manually in your postinst with dpkg-trigger. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PR

Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

2008-06-04 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
purge the logfiles remains and then one disapears every > day. Logfiles would be kept as long as with the software > installed. You just don't get new ones. How will it know that these logfiles are there? The config file for them is gone during the purge... People should just use

Re: Availability of debian changelogs

2008-05-28 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
rroring delays. This really only could be changed by building the changelogs out of incoming. If someone convinces ftp-masters that this is a good idea and implements it, be my guest. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: missing package conflicts

2008-04-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ecent one in the archive? The one with the more active > maintainer? I've done such conflict searches in the past and I've usually filed the bug against both packages so that both maintainers get the chance to comment. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www

Re: mass ITPs

2008-02-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ECTED] instead? > > And/or creating a new mailing list, debian-itp, debian-devel-itp or > whatever might be a good idea. Quite a big number of mails to the > debian-devel mailing list are ITPs. Hrm, or people could just subscribe to debian-wnpp and filter out the stuff they are n

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2008-02-14 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
vidual default flags > per architecture, so that features, which are buggy or not fully > implemented on a given arch can be disabled so that the workarounds > don't need to be done by the maintainers across several rules files? Hmm, I doubt that dpkg-dev should be the place to

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.8

2008-02-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:28:18AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >lineakd Fixed version uploaded. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ing it with some kind of detail (e.g. gnome-, k, g, qt for the desktop environments and toolkits) or better yet choose a name that has nothing to do with its use (e.g. iceweasel). If you want to keep the name close to the library name, you could probably choose something like libtranslate-bin, al

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-02-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
t that is about? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#464182: ITP: librest-application-perl -- framework for building RESTful web-applications

2008-02-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: librest-application-perl Version : 0.992 Upstream Author : Matthew O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/REST-Application/ * Licen

Bug#463643: no i386 and powerpc build daemons available which can run 64bit binaries

2008-02-02 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ges as well. > > > > This currently affects at least gcc-4.X and glibc. > > Hi Matthias, > > Apparently there are ppc64 machines available here: I think he was speaking about _official_ buildds only. Everything else shouldn't really be a problem in any case. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
d making it happen. We've been having this discussion for years, > and so far we've not made a lot of forward progress. :/ Because nobody sat down and wrote some fucking code for it... IME discussing code always works better than discussing specifications. Gruesse, -- Fra

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:25:42PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 25/01/08 at 15:36 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Hmm, the debdiff output is not really helpful in deciding whether my > > packages actually have a problem (doc-linux and libgpod). It just > > reports

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
hether my packages actually have a problem (doc-linux and libgpod). It just reports a different Installed-Size. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp.debian.org update

2007-12-04 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:39:26PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:04:23PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/bash/i386/download which are use in > > > packages.d.o, but they are just for .deb. packages.

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-04 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
hat these macros might be injected into the > build for some non-standard build systems. If we would choose to use the common names without DEB_HOST_ prefix should dpkg-buildpackage then honor them if they are already set in the environment? Probably not as this seems error prone. Gruesse,

Re: ftp.debian.org update

2007-12-04 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
dsc/.diff/... It used to use ftp.d.o but I switched to de since that is a very reliable mirror with very good connection. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with double-word alignment on hppa and sparc

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:29:53PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > Well, is there really no hope for fixing this? This appears to > be a more general problem and maybe somebody has solved it already. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] might know. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld &

Re: Missing uploads?

2007-11-24 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ot be accurate) ftp.debian.org is one of the least reliable .debian.org Debian mirrors, it being out-of-date wouldn't really be a surprise to me. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: gcc compilation error with abs() affects sarge, etch, lenny, sid

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ould be fixed in stable as well. And probably even in > oldstable. > Miscompilation is BAD thing ... You sound like this would be the first miscompilation bug in gcc in a long time. I think we actually have several of them in each gcc version at any time. They are usually not architecture-in

Re: SPARC build failure of texlive-bin

2007-11-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
kely suspect for that since they caused looping, unkillable dpkg-query processes, most often from dpkg-shlibdeps. Should work once the fixed kernels that seem now available are reaching the buildds. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: SPARC build failure of texlive-bin

2007-11-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:07:41PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 15 Nov 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Should work once the fixed kernels that seem now available are reaching > > the buildds. > > Do I have to ping the autobuilder in some way, or will this

Re: Question about vestigial file

2007-11-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
rid myself of the former. Any ideas how > fix this without ugly stuff like 'rm -f /etc/logrotate.d/shorewall' in a > maintainer script? Simply not rename the file? Everything else I could propose will be much worse... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
t > the proper capitalization is 'Vcs-Browser', not 'VCS-Browser'. > Thanks. There is really no such thing as "proper" capitalization, but that is what dpkg will normalise it to, yeah. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.dj

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
e. > Btw, looking at Vcs-* the changelog only says: > * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git fields to debian/control. There is the deb-control(5) page, but that only applies to binary packages. If someone would create a equivalent for source packages... (It is somewhere on my dpkg TODO list) Gruesse,

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-10-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:13:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:49:13PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > No answer? I would like to work on this, but someone would need to > > answer my questions about it... > > > (explicetly sending to vor

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-10-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:26:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Attached is a patch to dpkg which implements a check for a 'build-arch' > > target using 'make -f debian/rules -qn build-arch'

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
7;s solvable by taking the last colon. I don't think > encodings have colons in them. Only if the encoding specification is mandatory, which would require changing alot of packages... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Testing parallel builds

2007-10-08 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ulti-processor buildds more than one sbuild might indeed be better and more robust than using dpkg-buildpackage -j, but for developers' desktops and notebooks I really think it is a nice thing to have. And I fail to see the harm done by filing wishlist bugs about that. Gruesse, -- Frank Li

Re: Testing parallel builds

2007-10-08 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
s supposed to set this variable? i > now know dpkg-buildpackage -jX sets it. what about other switches? It is an environment variable. I think we can expect from linux developers and adminstrators to know what that means and how to use it. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Testing parallel builds

2007-10-08 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
to define it as a comma delimited list. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-09-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
s: "It is an error to use more than one of these three flags [-q, -t, -n] in the same invocation of `make'." Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing name of source package

2007-09-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ed differently either way... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New 'maint' facet for Debtags

2007-09-17 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
because it is too complex, because I don't speak the programming language] and will/can not fix any bugs in it myself". That should probably correlate to a open RFH/RFA bug but there might be reasons it doesn't. This would be a maintainer field. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package lists for (stable) distribution CDs/DVDs (integrating to package.d.o)

2007-09-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
etc. If anybody's interested, I can easily generate package lists from > the CD contents and put them somewhere accessible; just let me know > when/where/what format is best. Almost all data sources for packges.d.o are in Debian control format, so that would probably a safe bet. As for displ

Re: Renaming libraries from upstream

2007-09-09 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:47:50AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > What's the best way forward? > > 5. something else? How about convincing upstream that too generic library names are not a good idea? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://ww

Re: packages.debian.org updated

2007-09-04 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:34:34AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > (Please CC me on replies; thanks.) > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:58:12PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > > packages.debian.org was finally updated to the new code base that > > was already

Re: packages.debian.org updated

2007-09-03 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:55:16PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:58:12PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > - While DDTP translations are used, the translation of all other > >strings is mostly broken currently. Should be fixed someday... > >

Re: Bug#399892: nepenthes_0.2.0-1(hppa/experimental): FTBFS: tries to use static library compiled without -fPIC

2007-08-31 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
> > > Nepenthes has a module (modulehoneytrap.so) linked with libipq (IPQ > > > library for userspace), which is part of iptables-dev. Libipq looks like > > > it only comes in a static form, and hence isn't built PIC. > > > Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
create a comfortable player or > yet another piece of stupid multimedia software? I think this part of the discussion is not really on-topic for debian-devel anymore... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
d just happen to have chosen xmms as their music player of choice. If xmms gets removed before lenny and they upgrade to it I guess they would welcome a hint which new program to switch to. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Any problems with mips/mipsel?

2007-07-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ounce/2006/11/msg00012.html is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing license info in source files - fixed in upstream svn

2007-07-03 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
o lazy to remove the copyright and license statements contained. Which gives people a chance to latter find out where the code came from. If the files have neither statement, good luck with that. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUB

Re: Missing license info in source files - fixed in upstream svn

2007-07-02 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
*release* rather than the head > of svn, so is it OK just to explain the situation in > README.Debian-source (leaving the source files without license > declarations)? Hmm, I would think debian/copyright would be right place to mention the license... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[

Re: GCC 4.2 transition

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ug is reopened as well. Was there a time where this didn't reopen the bug? Since I'm pretty sure I tried that in the past and it didn't reopen the bug. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: GCC 4.2 transition

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
effects of a versioned message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] reopen (I think that also clears the fixed list, don't tried it though, so you might need notfixed, too) The open/done status is independent of the found/fixed lists (which is probably a bug, but that how it is atm). Gruesse, -- Frank

Re: One vs. many -src packages for my project?

2007-06-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
once. You need to increase the version number of every binary package built from the source even though only one of them might really have been changed. So it is generally a good idea to modularize ones source packages (see e.g. X.org) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www

Re: arch-all-package shown with two versions on p.d.o (was: Bug#427859: lmodern fails to configure on upgrade, dpkg error)

2007-06-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
s this a problem in the script > that generates packages.debian.org's information, or elsewhere? It was a stale m68k Packages file lying around plus the fact that I still had m68k in the testing architecture list. Should be fixed now. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: arch-all-package shown with two versions on p.d.o

2007-06-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
for useful > information on the web, for users and for other developers. Who is > responsible for p.d.o? Bugs should be filed against www.debian.org Most pdo pages also have the following footer which might have helped you: "To report a problem with the web site, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]&q

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:54:03PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > >> (Mildly amusing sidenote to this discussion: I'm finally convincing the > >> senior systems guy that Packa

Re: ADV: Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
7;t > even count on a critical dependency being installed via the package > system. ) ? I don't see that beeing said in the thread. Could you point out that for me? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Name of a binary package according to sonames

2006-12-17 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
if so, it may be a sign that upstream doesn't understand the meaning of a soname). Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#402074: ITP: libsearch-xapian-perl -- Perl bindings for the Xapian C++ search library

2006-12-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Subject: ITP: libsearch-xapian-perl -- Perl bindings for the Xapian C++ search library Package: wnpp Owner: Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist (CCed xapian-core maintainer for comments) * Package name: libsearch-xapian-perl Version : 0.9.6.0 Upstream

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
gnucash shortly after the last one this is a big delay in your case.. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:36:40PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Questions? Comments? Seconds? Yet another proposal to solve this problem can be found in #229357 Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-19 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
is there a way to remove packages from Experimental? If the (source) packages have the same names as the packages in unstable they will get removed semi-automatically by the ftp-masters so just wait for it. If they have different names, I think a bug report against ftp.debian.org is needed. Gru

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-30 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ages are: [...] Hmm, I have a package that depends on makedev (pbbuttonsd) and I was wondering why it doesn't show up in your list? Maybe because it is powerpc only? Or is there a "real" reason why I shouldn't add an alternate dependency on udev? Gruesse, -- Frank L

Re: Bug#345160: ITP: libgpod -- a library to read and write songs and artwork to an iPod

2005-12-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
code is already in Debian, in the gtkpod package... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345160: ITP: libgpod -- a library to read and write songs and artwork to an iPod

2005-12-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgpod Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Jorg Schuler (jcsjcs at users dot sourceforge dot net) * URL : http://www.gtkpod.org * License : GPL Description

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:45:20PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used to > be accepted in the past. AFAIK, this is false. Source-only uploads were never allowed in Debian. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL P

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ble to avoid failing the postinst (which of course also means to not break other packages installation as you have pointed out) it should be done. If it is at all possible in the case of tetex I can't tell, though. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpi

Re: Clarification of NMU policy

2005-10-31 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
BTS. The question wether an NMU for a bug that was open for some hours is ok depends on the answer to question 2. There can be made special rules for NMUs for other reasons, see the announcement of the CXX transition for an example. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: ht

Re: Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished forSparc)

2005-09-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:06:53PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > But what is the reason that the sparc version even vanished from stable? What makes you so sure it ever was there? I can't find any prove nor trace of that. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished forSparc)

2005-09-24 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
n if my last upload fixed all the FTBFS (seems not, now it failed on hppa)... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for a SPARC testing machine to solve parted bug

2005-09-19 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:37:41PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:34:26AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> Last week fjp (Frans Pop) identified a regression[1] on last Parted > >>

Re: Looking for a SPARC testing machine to solve parted bug

2005-09-19 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:34:26AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Last week fjp (Frans Pop) identified a regression[1] on last Parted > relese regarting Sparc architecture. Hrmm, there should probably a footnote somewhere that links to the bug? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL

Handling event device files [was: Bug#324604: [Fwd: The bug persists]]

2005-09-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
t himself (e.g. in a README.Debian file). Not really complicated, just some calls to mknod (or an installation of udev), but... Any hints or comments would be welcome. Gruesse, Frank Lichtenheld - Forwarded message from Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject:

Bug#322762: finding the rest..

2005-08-14 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
n.debian.org/reports/Tpostinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link.html Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#319711: RFH: gtkpod -- manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod

2005-07-24 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
share the load with. Non-DDs welcome, sponsoring an upload is way less work than to prepare it :) Gruesse, Frank Lichtenheld -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'sta

Re: [RFC] Auto-Accept libs with just changed SONAME?

2005-07-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
k the new > package even without any upstream change. So better put everything into > NEW and have the ftp masters check. Shared libraries are often a special case as fixing a breakage that occoured in one of them can often mean having to fix lots and lots of packages that depend on them. Gru

Re: G++ transition page revived

2005-07-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:43:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:27:34PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > I think this has proven very helpful so I set up a only slightly > > modified version for the current transition from 3.3 to 4.0. > > Yo

Re: G++ transition page revived

2005-07-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:50:38PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Tuesday 12 July 2005 21:27, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > As many of you might remember, back in 2003 Matthew Wilcox created > > an overview page for the last g++ transition from 2.95 to 3.2/3.3. > > You can stil

G++ transition page revived

2005-07-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
let that number drop very quickly. Expect the next BSP announcements soon... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: depending on itself -- bug?

2005-07-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
hard > for deborphan to detect them as orphaned. Should check lintian on this? It should and it does... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ lintian libgail-common_1.8.4-1_powerpc.deb W: libgail-common: package-relation-with-self depends: libgail-common (>= 1.6.6) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld

Bug#317828: ITP: libarray-iterator-perl -- simple class for iterating over Perl arrays

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libarray-iterator-perl Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : stevan little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STEVAN/Array-I

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
tests should be not a great problem once we have the infrastructure up. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package priorities: optional vs extra

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:21:35PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I have a really hacky tool available that I used to produce such a list > of packages to look at. I even posted it to some list somewhen, one > could probably dig it up using google. I don't seem to have commit

Re: documentation about Wig & Pen source format (dpkg source format 2.0)

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
allowed to use it in the official archive... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package priorities: optional vs extra

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ith diverts... It should easily be possible to combine that with the planned install tests of packages though... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update (I)

2005-07-09 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
r an ftp-master): Don't bother to try that. I see no point in the criteria for updates in a stable release that would justify such a step. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: Meta-Tag for non-free docs bugs?

2005-06-30 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:29:57PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > Include the version number of the license in the tag. For some of > them, we have reason to think that future versions may be free (since > most o

Meta-Tag for non-free docs bugs?

2005-06-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
uesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for June 17, 2005

2005-06-19 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
x27; (it's new name)... Probably still present in the remnants of non-US. There are still a few packages available on the server claiming to be for sarge... Most scripts just ignore them by now. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUB

Bug#314559: ITP: libparse-debianchangelog-perl -- parse changelog files in standard Debian format

2005-06-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libparse-debianchangelog-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : not yet * License : GPL Description : par

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
intainers the chance to adopt it without too much hassle, and as a service to those that use them. But this has to be only a temporary solution. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: Closing bugs tagged "woody"

2005-06-07 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
vent others from reporting them again... If in doubt wait until woody is removed from the archive... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
buildds use sbuild. Most individual developers I know use pbuilder... So nothing complicated here. Just don't talk about the wrong software in the wrong context. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2005-05-06 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
rentiate automatically between packages in categories "1" and "3". AFAICT this isn't currently possible (category "2" can be detected by the version number). This would enable front-ends (like packages.ubuntu.com) to change the displayed information depdending on a packa

Re: Ubuntu and its "appropriation" of Debian maintainers

2005-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
improve the wording on the Ubuntu part, my email adress is in the footer of every page ;) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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