Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-29 Thread Ove Kaaven
Den 29. mai 2010 17:51, skrev Julien Cristau: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 16:09:25 +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: Den 23. mai 2010 15:47, skrev Ove Kaaven: Is it okay if I go ahead and do such a NMU? Well, since there have been no objections for a week, I guess I'll go ahead. I had been read

Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-29 Thread Ove Kaaven
Den 23. mai 2010 15:47, skrev Ove Kaaven: Is it okay if I go ahead and do such a NMU? Well, since there have been no objections for a week, I guess I'll go ahead. I had been ready for some feedback from the mingw32 maintainers like "we're working on an updated mingw32, just

Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-23 Thread Ove Kaaven
The lack of a suitable (i.e. non-buggy) mingw32 cross-compiler has blocked Wine updates for half a year now. Both the mingw32 package (gcc 4.2.1) and the gcc-mingw32 package (gcc 4.4.2) have a bug which was fixed in upstream gcc 4.4.3. At least one of these should be updated, if we want a fully

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-23 Thread Ove Kaaven
Stefano Zacchiroli skrev: Since apparently there are quite cases like that, what is the reason for forbidding arch-specific dependencies in control? Can we reconsider that? What is the problem with arch-specific dependencies in control? I've used them just fine (in wine, see libwine-dev) for a

Bug#487388: RFH: flightgear -- Flight Gear Flight Simulator

2008-06-21 Thread Ove Kaaven
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Flight Gear is a free and highly sophisticated flight simulator. Since my time may be limited in the future, I am seeking comaintainers for the Flight Gear packages in Debian. I have created a project for this on alioth.debian.org. I've loaded the current packaging

Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

2008-06-04 Thread Ove Kaaven
Andrea Bolognani skrev: When you have a lot of software installed on your system, it might get difficult to trace exactly which configuration files you need and which ones you don't need. Now imagine the following situation: a package's maintainer can declare the per-user configuration/cache fil

Re: Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Ove Kaaven
Joerg Jaspert skrev: - Packages in main need to be installable and not cause their (indirect) reverse build-depends to FTBFS in the absence of data.debian.org. If the data is necessary for the package to work and there is a small dataset (like 5 to 10 MB) that can be reasonably substitu

Re: db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-16 Thread Ove Kaaven
Peter Palfrader skrev: On Thu, 15 May 2008, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 15 Mai 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: I beg to differ. This particular mail is important enough to be sent to d-d-a instead of d-i-a. I agree, dia is not what I would be subscribed to under normal circumstances, and with all

Bug#479659: RFH: wine -- Windows API implementation

2008-05-05 Thread Ove Kaaven
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Since my time may be limited in the future, I am seeking comaintainers for the Wine package in Debian, at least to ensure that new Wine releases may continue to be uploaded in a timely fashion, and to keep the package's bug count down. (And given that pretty much hal

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-15 Thread Ove Kaaven
Andreas Barth skrev: * Lennart Sorensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080415 22:26]: I suspect by the time a fully working multiarch is done, x86 won't need it anymore because everything will be fully 64bit. :) As Wine maintainer, I'd disagree with that. People, we want to release soon. Anyone is wel

Re: Plib, shared libraries issue.

2008-04-15 Thread Ove Kaaven
Mike Hommey skrev: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:36:17PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: Bradley Smith skrev: 1. Should these shared libraries be built, or should it just stick to static libraries as upstream intended? There are advantages and disadvantages with either... I don't really have a s

Re: Plib, shared libraries issue.

2008-04-15 Thread Ove Kaaven
Bradley Smith skrev: 1. Should these shared libraries be built, or should it just stick to static libraries as upstream intended? There are advantages and disadvantages with either... I don't really have a strong opinion myself (as long as the result works). But if I had to choose, I'd probab

Conditional dependency

2008-04-14 Thread Ove Kaaven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wine on amd64 has a problem with bug #430845. If libnss-mdns is installed, Wine won't work properly without lib32nss-mdns, but works if neither is installed. Since I haven't seen any signs of the nss-mdns guys being in a hurry to fix the problem, I w

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-20 Thread Ove Kaaven
PETER EASTHOPE skrev: I have these 5 bytes of machine code to disassemble. b8 12 00 cd 10 I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they need a complete object file. What tool can disassemble this string? If all else fails, decode it with your head, maybe? I probably would... You're gi

***SPAM*** Re: Accepted wine 0.9.21-1 (source i386)

2006-11-15 Thread Ove Kaaven
ons, 15,.11.2006 kl. 18.39 +0100, skrev Paul Seelig: > This version is already rather ancient according to upstream's release > schedule. It was released on September 13, 2006, closely followed by > version 0.9.22 on September 28, 2006 and version 0.9.23 on October 25, > 2006. The current version 0