Re: Bug#641207: ITP: ordereddict -- drop-in substitute for collections found in Python 2.7

2011-09-11 Thread James Vega
mming Lang: Python > Description : drop-in substitute for collections found in Python 2.7 There was already an ITP for this (#637849) and it was cancelled due to the planned removal of Python 2.6. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread James Vega
each of which is in a different package. > > Probably the best thing to do would be to just incorporate the functionality > in the less package. You mean like lesspipe(1)? Seems like it might need to be updated to handle *.xz, but other than that looks like it fits the bill. -- Ja

Re: hgweb on alioth

2011-06-24 Thread James Vega
's not > really that hard). Feel free to post a (link to a) patch on above URL or in #alioth@OFTC. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread James Vega
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:23:49PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 25/05/2011 13:20, James Vega wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:46:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> On 05/24/2011 01:00 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> Am 23.05.2011 22:35, schrieb Roland Mas

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread James Vega
that look like > >> http://anonscm.debian.org/$scm/$project for $scm in arch bzr darcs git > >> hg; > > Please provide a proper gitweb instance or at least a proxy at that url > to the anonscm gitweb instanace. The old URLs now redirect to the new ones, so nothing should be broke

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-26 Thread James Vega
; without epoch. But this is not documented anywhere. Why assume the first version will be >= 1.x? It's not uncommon to use 0.x. Using 0~YYMMDD seems a safer option to reduce the chance of needing an epoch if/when upstream starts using actual version numbers. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/6

Re: (Vcs-Upstream-)Git support for uscan?

2011-04-19 Thread James Vega
) which simplifies making watch files for github projects. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-14 Thread James Vega
f you "apt-get update" while the mirror is in the middle of a sync. Once the mirror has finished the sync, you'll be able to use it normally, but the real fix would be for the mirror to update their script. [0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2011/02/msg00055.html -- Jame

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-11 Thread James Vega
n order to compute the hash sum for comparison? [0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2011/02/msg00055.html -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
keep them in ubuntu-dev-tools? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- 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/AANLkTinJC2AHouG=prenzbpod0ls4dxzmygvbmrwo...@mail.gmail.com

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
contribute. One generally tries to work with a project, not write a lot of code in a language the project isn't using and then come back later to try and push that code into the project. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread James Vega
rt. This is currently Perl and shell. So yes, IMO, accepting scripts written in Python (or any other language) is too heavy. Not for a "_development_ machine", but for a maintenance team. If people choose to ignore our requirement and develop scripts in other languages, then they can

Re: Bug#615002: ITP: libjson-pp-perl -- yet another json package

2011-02-24 Thread James Vega
erl >  Description     : yet another json package Isn't this what the libjson-perl package already in the archive is? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > James Vega writes: >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: >>> My claim is that packages like unattended-upgrades and pm-utils are >>> completely unrelated to each other, and that a hook in >>&

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread James Vega
7;t be able to recover. The proper fix is to configure the unattended upgrade not to upgrade kernels, if possible. [0]: See /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/000kernel-change -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-21 Thread James Vega
if yes, what exactly would you propose? dict-wn is what started dictd. The problem is that dict-wn's postinst in Lenny didn't use invoke-rc.d to restart dictd, so it didn't honor policy-rc.d. This isn't a problem in Squeeze since the postinst is using invoke-rc.d. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-18 Thread James Vega
user input here, correct? >> >> Yes, but you shouldn't, since the file installed in lenny was not modified, >> so it's a bug somewhere. > > Well I'm fairly new to the maintainance of this package but I would guess the > postinst of lenny modifies ip

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-17 Thread James Vega
uld be prime for triggers instead of having the various database-providing package worry about what the server needs to do. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- 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/aanlktin_jitezhmv0ufotxfde77hc6ocarisbfw5z...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread James Vega
kms.  The other is building stuff with > module-assistant, usually in -source packages as in > openafs-modules-source. > > The suffix makes it clear what kind of package this is. Sure, but that's a distinction for the names of the binary packages not that of the source package. --

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread James Vega
what it was -- maybe it doesn't exist anymore. This used to be available as source.debian.net. According to the wiki[0], there appears to be work starting on a replacement. [0]: http://wiki.debian.org/source.debian.org -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-25 Thread James Vega
"build". You can work around it, as has been pointed out in this thread, by moving arch:all stuff outside of the build target to something which the binary-indep target has a pre-requisite on, but then you're building as root. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: scanlite / scangui - what is the difference?

2010-09-05 Thread James Vega
7th-june-2007 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-03 Thread James Vega
download and install > variousredistributable runtime libraries Do we really need a package for a single file? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread James Vega
oad. > > That gives a 404. source.debian.net doesn't, but gives you a page with > as full contents the eight characters 'hallo...' According to <http://wiki.debian.org/source.debian.org> it's still in the idea/planning phase. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D

Re: question: startscripts

2010-07-21 Thread James Vega
http://bugs.debian.org/583336 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- 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/aanlktilzor8zd1o9z0skwucltbcsctfyxxlxyt6i4...@mail.gmail.com

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread James Vega
release needs to be configured first. 3.5 is an overview. 7.2 has the details: Depends This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be configured unless all of the packages listed in its Depends field have been correctly configured. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 20

vim-tiny in base (was Re: Priority dependence)

2010-07-19 Thread James Vega
change among my fellow Vim maintainers. I think the vim-tiny package has ended up being more work than it's worth. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-29 Thread James Vega
of a stable release. This is not the case with the Mozilla-related packages, as new version updates (other than the security fixes already being handled) are a nicety, not a requirement. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread James Vega
rovide a standard implementation of actions like this. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- 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/aanlktikux_6xkwud9ppo8h-_w7zn_nxnypx63gqox...@mail.gmail.com

Re: vim transition to python 2.6

2010-06-14 Thread James Vega
version. If you want to help achieve that, take a look at the bug list for that transition: http://tinyurl.com/Py26Transition -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A Look In the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers

2010-06-05 Thread James Vega
s.debian.org/487753dc.5020...@cox.net -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-29 Thread James Vega
urce format. That's not going to change overnight and the Dpkg developers have already stated that the deprecation of an implied source format is a long term goal (likely Squeeze+2). -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread James Vega
source version in Lenny and Squeeze. 746 when comparing Etch and Squeeze. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-19 Thread James Vega
the only member, then you do a "newgrp > bar" for foo, foo is no longer in a UPG situation, so his umask should > be 0022 at that point. Except /etc/profile won't be sourced again unless "newgrp - " is used, right? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 Jam

Re: /usr/bin/mail policy

2010-05-07 Thread James Vega
to require $DEBEMAIL or $EMAIL to be set, then I have no problem removing our use of the mail command. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: /usr/bin/mail policy

2010-05-07 Thread James Vega
header and the User-Agent header was only added in response to #493884. While the User-Agent header is useful, I could see backing out this change so bts doesn't require the non-standard -a flag. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins

2010-04-26 Thread James Vega
Therefore, there is no reason to have a specific browser name in the package name and should instead use a common naming convention. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread James Vega
From /usr/share/lintian/checks/binaries: if ($info->field('source') ne 'zlib' and $info->field('source') ne 'klibc' and $strings =~ /(?:in|de)flate (?:\d[ \w.\-]{1,20}[\w.\-])/m) { tag "embedded-zlib", $file; } -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-31 Thread James Vega
y this: it > > generates a "3.0 (quilt)" source package using a VCS repository as input. > > I guess what we should have is additional line in it or additional file > to record vcs used for packaging which will not interface with the basic > operation of other tools.

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2010-03-18 Thread James Vega
time, I can add it to my list of things to look at when I next have some time to work on devscripts. I'm hoping to get some soon, but things have been a bit hectic lately. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread James Vega
MOAOLTDR, by which I mean > "simply a matter of adding one line to debian/rules". You make the mistake of assuming everyone use debhelper. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-03 Thread James Vega
Lintian tags that you don't consider useful if you use this option.” In other words, if you think the tag is useful then fix it, otherwise ignore it. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team

2010-02-01 Thread James Vega
gh the current package forces icedove usage. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-01-26 Thread James Vega
ke ftp-master didn't take to that. Or they're waiting for other items to be implemented before moving forward, just like the text you quoted says. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: iceweasel and facebook photos

2010-01-15 Thread James Vega
being affected by Java's brokenness with bindv6only (c.f., http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056)? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: desktop-command-not-in-package: link to an arch-dependent package in a arch-independent package

2010-01-10 Thread James Vega
, will update B later > - remove A > - installing new A, but already exist > ==> FAIL Package: A Depends: B Conflicts: B (<< newversion) Replaces: B (<< newversion) -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#545782: imagemagick-dbg: missing README.Debian to explain how programs are used

2009-12-28 Thread James Vega
DME.source is supposed to refer back to the patch system's documentation instead of duplicating it. [0] - http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: QA pages and epochs: problem?

2009-12-23 Thread James Vega
Julien is correct. See #559863 and merged bugs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-17 Thread James Vega
figuration file is left as is. > > # testing perl is required to avoid problem in embedded environments > if [[ -e /usr/bin/perl ]] '[[' for testing is a bashism. This should be if [ -e /usr/bin/perl ] or more accurately if [ -x /usr/bin/perl ] -- James GPG Key: 1024D/6132

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: >> I think it *is* material in this instance: >> >> Versions of python-defaults in Debian: >> unstable: 2.5.4-2 >> experimental: 2.5.4-3 >> >> Version of package in Ubuntu: >> Version: 2.6.4-0ubuntu1 (karmic) >> Uploaded by: Matth

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-24 Thread James Vega
e zack meant debsign, given some extra context that got snipped, "Still the check for unsigned .changes is in dput and it's pretty damn useful." -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: SoundJuicer Package Adoption

2009-11-12 Thread James Vega
gt; RFA'd?  In fact it just had an upload on 10/31. I'd guess that was a misinterpretation of Ross Burton's idle request for someone to adopt it upstream. http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/postr/new-maintainer-2009-11-12-10-49 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:12 AM, John Goerzen wrote: > It would be *great* if this could be fixed before sarge comes out. Sarge shipped with firefox, so no worries there. ;) Squeeze, on the other hand, might need some work. SCNR. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James V

Re: dep3 nit-picks

2009-11-05 Thread James Vega
's comments were (always a good idea). Right. I'd think that if there were a negative review, the proposer of the patch would go back to work on it further before resubmitting. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ReBuild-Depends?

2009-10-29 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Could we add 'ReBuild-Depends' statement into debian/control to > rebuild like packages when depends rebuild? But such kind of depends > require some changes in buildd system. This is only needed when the dependencies change something

Re: Switch on compiler hardening defaults

2009-10-25 Thread James Vega
tch for #346409, but there appears to be issues with it as noted in the bug log. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat

2009-10-23 Thread James Vega
by another arch-dependent package. Many of those either Recommend the relevant package or declare no relationship at all. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-14 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:27:25 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> On mer, 2009-10-14 at 16:23 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> > the key litmus test is: does the application depend solely on non-free >> > information to function properly. th

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM, George Danchev wrote: > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control files > (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different fields [1] used > in > testing and unstable, which basically fall into these groups: > > 1) listed

Re: lintian error weak-library-dev-dependency

2009-09-24 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Now we have >        libkpathsea-dev depends libkpathsea4 (= 2007.dfsg.2-7) > and I still get these errors. libkpathsea-dev is at version 2007.dfsg.2-7. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547773 Fixed in Lintian 2.2.17 -

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> And people know that the package is built automatically. All users I >> know especially opted in to using the package instead of freshclam for >> some-or-other reason. > > WHERE is that

Re: RFC: Providing vi when /usr isn't mounted

2009-09-10 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:19:25AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:02 -0400, James Vega wrote: > > tag 528494 help > > thanks > > > > #528494 raised the idea of having vim-tiny (the default vi-like editor > > on a base install) pr

RFC: Providing vi when /usr isn't mounted

2009-09-09 Thread James Vega
iners vim Pierre Habouzit vim (U) Teruyuki Morimura jvim Jan Christoph Nordholz nvi Brendan O'Dea vile (U) Miquel van Smoornburg elvis-tiny Paul van Tilburg vile James Vega vim (U) Colin Watson vigor Paweł Więcek e3 [1] - See debi

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:08:26PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Hi James: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, James Vega wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> Better yet, if we could periodically run it on all of the modules in >

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread James Vega
ner/p/pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org.html -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Should we improve our (internal) communication?

2009-07-16 Thread James Vega
might be appropriate in some cases). But there > was no announcement in this case. Which Sandro mentioned in his email. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread James Vega
t; it seems to work for most packages, though > [...] > > "patch" indeded is the standard way nowadays. See policy 4.9. I think you mean “recommended”, although not using that could be a reason to have a README.source explaining how the package is handled. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-10 Thread James Vega
s probably one of the reasons why the per-file Copyright field is listed as option in the DEP. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#527328: ITP: python-django-south -- Intelligent schema migrations for django apps

2009-05-06 Thread James Vega
together on the package? [0] http://bugs.debian.org/526348 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > James Vega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > >> James Vega wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > James Vega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >> I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. > > > > man uscan > > >

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. man uscan -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread James Vega
type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-27 Thread James Vega
deed look better. > > Please have a look at garlic-doc. It does not look right. It's using `o' as the bullet character which is not supported by Markdown/rST. This has already been identified as a case that will need to be fixed by the individual packages (or pre-processed into some other character). -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-16 Thread James Vega
vironment") endif ifeq "$(origin FOO)" "file" $(info "FOO was set in the Makefile") endif -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debhelper >= 7.2.3, doc-base, and lintian

2009-03-11 Thread James Vega
elog: + Removed - description-synopsis-has-leading-spaces - postinst-does-not-call-installdocs - prerm-does-not-call-installdocs So, you're just using outdated tools. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-02 Thread James Vega
words as > possible, is the impediment? Read the CDDL section under the FSF's list of GPL incompatible licenses. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-08 Thread James Vega
hose files/directories a command gets run. They're supposed to make it so that only one package (the one providing the command that needs to be run) has to know that the command needs to be run. This is far less error-prone than relying on every developer to remember which commands to run in

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-15 Thread James Vega
has been discussed various times in the past on this list, is difficult to determine. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#508644: general: installing mdadm pulls in citadel-server as depedency

2008-12-13 Thread James Vega
(U) Gerrit Pape bcron raccess4vbox3 KELEMEN Péter arpwatch Nick Rusnov nmh Santiago Vila smartlist -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem with bts2ldap and therefore bts.turmzimmer.net ?

2008-12-11 Thread James Vega
hings in Debian, not really missing it for a > specific need. Looks like that wasn't moved to ravel when people.debian.org changed hosts. It's still accessible, for now, if you use oldpeople.d.o instead. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-05 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:06:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Jon Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >e16menuedit > => we don’t ship E16 anymore packages.debian.org says otherwise. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread James Vega
he energy of finalizing the proposal > > (most likely via a DEP), so that is stops being an ever changing wiki > > page. > > Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before > installing the package, can you? It's linked from the packages.d.o and PTS page for the package. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Correct way to move /etc config files

2008-10-21 Thread James Vega
ki [4]. > > Use Replaces:, just as for other files that move between packages. As I understand it, you should also remove the conffile[0] from the original package according. If you do not, you'll run into bugs like #499451. [0] - http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling -

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-06 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:28:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >vim (U) Working on a tpu upload to fix issues for Lenny. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-27 Thread James Vega
ment but both seem to be dead in the water. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-25 Thread James Vega
;t find that thread in the list archives... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> were the two previous discussions. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: "glib too old" OR "Lenny broken by default?"

2008-07-23 Thread James Vega
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Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread James Vega
as little involvement as you like. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2008-07-11 Thread James Vega
kernel config? I brought up what seems to be the same (or at least closely related) problem 4 years ago on lkml[0]. [0] - http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/4/5/209 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

2008-07-06 Thread James Vega
those had "NoDisplay=true" as one of the fields[0]. While there may be a drive to add .desktop files to packaging, there's a similar (sometimes overzealous, IME) drive to have them not displayed by default. [0] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPackagingChanges?highlight=%28NoDisplay

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-28 Thread James Vega
ove scenarios is the use of alternatives. There is the problem which brian brought up[0] about using diversions when you can't rely on having alternatives setup already but that would be obviated if dpkg internally handled both diversions and alternatives. [0] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James GP

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-27 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 07:34:53PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > James Vega writes ("Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives > handling"): > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 06:40:23PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > What should happen when severa

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-27 Thread James Vega
or specific circumstances and the diverted/diverting packages should be closely related (if not from the source). Alternatives are the better solution when there are myriad, non-conflicting sources which may provide the same file. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [security] Incorrect file permissions due to (now fixed) perl 5.10 issue

2008-06-26 Thread James Vega
t, you could go to threads.html and easily find the post about the perl vulnerability. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-25 Thread James Vega
Even better would be programs using a library like enchant which provides a front-end to the myriad other spell libraries. This allows the user/application to use the library backend that works best for their use case/language. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Veg

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread James Vega
not POSIX. The "local" keyword is an explicitly supported extension. These are discussed in Section 10.4 of policy. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread James Vega
ian.org/477240 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Triggers in menu

2008-06-04 Thread James Vega
ipts as well as having the triggered call to update-menus occur. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread James Vega
titude will now list packages that are newly obsolete. This doesn't work when a source is removed and all its packages become obsolete, for technical reasons. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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