Bug#439085: ITP: [lua-logging] -- logging facilities for lua

2007-08-22 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: lua-logging Version: 1.1.3 Upstream Author: Kepler Project URL: http://keplerproject.org/lualogging License: MIT/X Description:

Re: Package cache

2007-08-22 Thread paddy
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:57:28PM +0100, David Given wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eduard Bloch wrote: > [...] > > If you want to keep the files aside but ie. > > compressed than you should use a compressing filesystem. > > But if you want something working on acces

Bug#439103: ITP: guile-cairo -- Guile bindings for Cairo

2007-08-22 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: guile-cairo Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Andy Wingo * URL : http://home.gna.org/guile-cairo/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, Scheme Description : Gui

Zero Install (was: Package cache)

2007-08-22 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > looks pretty cool, but someone should talk to them about this: > > "The effect of this is that distribution-provided packages are often > more reliable than upstream ones (since upstream don't get to hear about > many

Bug#439107: ITP: xpn -- GTK+ based news reader

2007-08-22 Thread Michael Krauss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Krauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xpn Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Antonio Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: Python D

Re: Zero Install (was: Package cache)

2007-08-22 Thread paddy
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:07:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > looks pretty cool, but someone should talk to them about this: > > > > "The effect of this is that distribution-provided packages are often > > m

Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, following the last post I made changes to my dpkg branch to not include the arch-specific symbols created by gcc on libraries in order to have as many common symbols files as possible. See the current "black list" on top of this file: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=blob;f=scripts/Dpk

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:19:02 +0200 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everything is available in the git branch: > http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=dpkg-shlibdeps-buxy > > I think my work is mostly ready for unstable as it is. The last step is to > convince Guillem Jo

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > I'd appreciate any input you can provide because dpkg-shlibdeps isn't > particularly familiar to me and I purposely left this part of > dpkg-cross until this stage of the rewrite. > > I'd like to be able to not need dpkg-shlibdeps in dpkg-cross but if t

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Javier, Am 2007-08-20 23:30:26, schrieb Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > BTW, NIST provides a very handy information called the National Software > Reference Library (NSRL, http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/) which comes also very > handy for either forensic analysis or setting up a baseline of know

Re: Package cache

2007-08-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-08-21 11:26:26, schrieb Guus Sliepen: > Well, it could be implemented with a FUSE daemon, that you mount over > /usr for example, and which periodically fetches the Contents-.gz > file from a mirror. It the uses the Contents file to generate directory > listings. If some package tries to op

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:19:02PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > 2/ Second example, libconfig0 has a supplementary symbols [...] > _PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ on sparc and alpha. I don't know where it comes > from. > Is this a internal symbols that I missed? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/binu

Re: Re: Debian + pkgsrc

2007-08-22 Thread ciol
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:33:03PM +0200, ciol wrote: Hello, can you provide binaries from pkgsrc current built with debian stable? We don't provide pkgsrc; the NetBSD people do. They put quite some time in making sure it works on most POSIXy environments, so theoretical

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Raphael Hertzog wrote: [snip] > 2/ Second example, libconfig0 has a supplementary symbols > _PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ on sparc and alpha. I don't know where it comes > from. > Is this a internal symbols that I missed? > On powerpc it has _SDA_BASE_ and _SDA2_BASE_. Same question as above. > On amd

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:03:32 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > I don't think it makes sense to have different Homepage fields on the > > binary stanzas, but if someone can think of a case it might be useful > > I could change it to override the source stanza field. > I have

Re: Package cache

2007-08-22 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:52:40PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-08-21 11:26:26, schrieb Guus Sliepen: > > Well, it could be implemented with a FUSE daemon, that you mount over > > /usr for example, and which periodically fetches the Contents-.gz > > file from a mirror. It the uses the

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:19:02PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 5/ Fifth example, it looks like 64 bits ports tend to have differences in > common > like on libneon2.6 where various functions suffixed by "64" disappear on those > arches (ne_get_range64, ne_set_request_body_fd64, > ne_set_requ

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 20:38 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Can anyone explain me why there's randomness in symbol mangling? If I > > compare > > the symbols file of gnunet-qt for example I get differences like this > > between > > i386 and alpha: > > @@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:35:31 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Will it be possible to have more than one homepage listed, comma-separated? Because dpkg does not have any direct use for it, it's not checking for the validity of the values. So technically, yes, you could. The question though is, do we w

Re: Package cache

2007-08-22 Thread Gonsolo
Hi! > What you describe is not a cache and even less a _package_ cache. >From Wikipedia: "In computer science , a *cache* (...)is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch (due to slow access time ) or to c

Re: Package cache

2007-08-22 Thread Gonsolo
Thanks to all, 0install.net is exactly what I am looking for. One thing is that this system is "per user". Having something like that "per computer" would be nice. That is, the admin sets up the computer with _all_ packages and the user can use _all_ packages. (Except that _not_ all packages are i

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:08:16 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Raphael - I'm in the middle of a rewrite of dpkg-cross, including the > diversion of dpkg-shlibdeps: > So far, pre1 is largely complete for dpkg-cross and the > dpkg-buildpackage diversion, barring an unknown number of possible > co