Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Hommey wrote: > Surely, any license text, be it DFSG free or not, can be reformatted. I rather not speculate on that, or on how this license might be interpreted legally. This is the beginning of my license. The License Text is all text from the first "This" in the sentence above to

Lina and BTS News

2007-08-05 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Hi Here's the latest activity in the BTS: http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/bts/ If someone can think of other interesting, useful ways to do things with a mirrored BTS (about 23 GB of data) please send me software, patches, scripts to run against the data. I'm not sure how useful lina is, but i

Trivial file needed by two packages

2007-08-05 Thread Torsten Marek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, with the new upload of python-qt4, it seems I have outsmarted myself. Here's an outline of the problem: python-qt4 contains the Python package PyQt4 (in /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/PyQt4) with all kinds of extension modules and some pure P

www.lebspy.com

2007-08-05 Thread LebTech
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Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-05 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > * Others have mentioned the ordering problem that puts the main license > last. Seems that Packaging-Copyright at the top is another case of > this problem (see you've now removed that special case name, but the > debian/* data would still go there). "

Re: Trivial file needed by two packages

2007-08-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 05 août 2007 à 10:12 +0200, Torsten Marek a écrit : > python-qt4-dev does not depend on python-qt4, and the point is of course to > make > the build-dependencies a bit lighter. Now the problem is that __init__.py is > in > python-qt4, but also needed if python-qt4-dev is installed wit

Re: Lina and BTS News

2007-08-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:16:03 +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > I'm not sure how useful lina is, but it's basicallly run > some random program against all files in Debian (binary as > well as source packages): > http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/lina/ > Any comments? Could you poolize the checks s

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sam Hocevar] >And there is more to come. The GPL version 3 is compatible with > the CDDL, but the GPL version 2 isn???t. Which means that in the near > future, GPLv2-only software cannot be distributed as part of a CDDL > operating system such as Nexenta. That's a rather delicate way of sayi

Bug#436106: ITP: cl-ltk -- A Common Lisp binding to the Tk toolkit

2007-08-05 Thread Oleg Belozeorov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oleg Belozeorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cl-ltk Version : 0.90 Upstream Author : Peter Herth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk * License : LLGPL Programming Lang: Common Lisp Descri

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-05 Thread Kevin Locke
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 19:17 +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > >I therefore would like your opinions about this proposal, its > shortcomings, and a strategy to implement it quickly and as widely as > possible. This is great! One possible short

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:41:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > Do you strip the "well known symbols" you've seen on each arch so that > > > one only has to specify the other symbols? > > > No, becaus

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:39:11PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: > Yes, but you cannot exploit the power of more than one CPU without > multithreading. This is wrong. Note that "multithreading" is a different concept from spawning many processes (ie. the traditional UNIX fork() model). /* Steinar *

Re: Bug#435838: ITP: cpm -- Console Password Manager

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> The software uses CDK (ncurses) to handle the user > John> interface, libxml2 to store the information, the zlib > John> library to compress the data and the library GpgMe to > Jo

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 22:39 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > Your system admins sound rather odd. Lots of software is high performance > without ever using threads at all. Yes, but you cannot exploit the power of more than one CPU without multithreading. Of course it's an other que

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 17:43 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > This is wrong. Note that "multithreading" is a different concept from > spawning many processes (ie. the traditional UNIX fork() model). You are right, but (I think) it's not harder to write a program which is multithread than whi

Bug#436138: ITP: libtemplate-plugin-xml-perl -- XML plugin for the Template Toolkit

2007-08-05 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtemplate-plugin-xml-perl Version : 2.17 Upstream Author : Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-XML/ * License : Dual GPL/Ar

New PAM in experimental needs testing

2007-08-05 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, A new version of PAM (0.99.7.1-1) has been packaged and uploaded to experimental. This is intended to replace 0.79-4. However, because there have been quite a number of upstream changes, and all the Debian-specific patches against the old one were painstakingly re-diffed and updated by

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 06:02:11PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: >> This is wrong. Note that "multithreading" is a different concept from >> spawning many processes (ie. the traditional UNIX fork() model). > You are right, but (I think) it's not harder to write a program which is > multithread than w

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/07 10:39, SZALAY Attila wrote: > Hi All! > > On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 22:39 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >> Your system admins sound rather odd. Lots of software is high performance >> without ever using threads at all. > > Yes, but you c

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Sam Hocevar wrote: >ACK. I edited the wiki to reflect your and Zack's view which seems to > be the preferred way. > >For the sake of simplicity, I interpreted "most specific" as "matches > the fewer files". It has the drawback of possibly changing with the > contents of the source tree, bu

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sam Hocevar: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> It's probably better to use a separate file. If there's a syntax >> error, you can't be sure if the file is in the old format, or if its a >> genuine error. > >But the information must be in debian/copyright. Why? I don't thi

rpath and library

2007-08-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hi ! lintian and linda are issuing a warning when a library contains an rpath statement. However, lintian accepts rpath being /usr/lib/package while lindian does not do this test. Here is the lintian warning: 8<--- Info: The b

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 19:55 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > This is also wrong. All threads in a program share address space, which means > that all variables are shared by default, which means that every single > non-local variable access has the potential of a race condition. Mul

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 13:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Are you saying that Apache 1.x only ever used 1 CPU? I protest for multithread/process applications agains singlethread ones. I doesn't care which paralellization is used i just want to say that it's not too bad to write a multiX

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:34:03PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: > Hi All! > > On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 13:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Are you saying that Apache 1.x only ever used 1 CPU? > > I protest for multithread/process applications agains singlethread ones. > > I doesn't care which p

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:11:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:41:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > > Do you strip the "well known symbols" you've seen on each arch so

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 23:07 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Why ? Do you need 4 CPU to soak your hard drive ? There is usually one > partition for every logs on the machine, so you don't get a lot writing > many log files at a time. And if you're that concerned with performance, > the

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:25:34PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: > And yes, I know that the choosen method is depend on the function. But I > think that this function is better to implement with multithread than > multiprocess, because: > > 1. Reading a log message and write it to a file is highly p

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:49:12PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: > Hi All! please don't CC me, I read the list, and my M-F-T specifically ask you not to do so[0]. > On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 23:07 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Why ? Do you need 4 CPU to soak your hard drive ? There is usually o

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:15:58AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:25:34PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: > > And I think that the real question is that there is place in Debian for > > a multithread/process system logging daemon (against the singlethread > > ones) or not. An

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > To scare people away. But maybe the ability to log into mysql was > enough. No kidding, that's a great feature of the Description, it says > to every clever sysadmin: don't use me. Well, I don't know if you or me or Debian will use it but Fedora is going to switch to it a

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11102 March 1977, Sam Hocevar wrote: > License: GPLv2+ (/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2) | MPL | LGPLv2.1 > (/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1) >The drawback is that the lines can now become very long, and wrapping > them means it's no longer possible to say "first line is license list,

Re: rpath and library

2007-08-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 05, Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lintian and linda are issuing a warning when a library contains an rpath > statement. However, lintian accepts rpath being /usr/lib/package while > lindian does not do this test. > Whos is right here ? lintian or linda ? lintian. -- ciao,

ITA: anthy

2007-08-05 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
At Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:11:51 +0900, Masahito Omote wrote: > I intend to orphan the anthy package. Because I cannot take enough time > to catching up anthy's release and because no one take over or become a > co-maintainer of this package in [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll take it, b