Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:03:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The solution is indeed to have a proper Build-Depends. Also, it is a good idea to disable feature autodetection and enable wanted compile-time features explicitly, like this: ./configure --enable-packager-mode --enable-foo --enable

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:03:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If I understand correctly it is recommended to use pbuilder for > > packaging and I've done so when I updated packages recently. Then I got > > a bug report that a nice feature was suddenly

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, On Wed, September 19, 2007 07:42, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Recently, perhaps mainly due to so many spams, it looks common > to write email address like "foo at some.where" etc. and I wonder if it is > acceptable to use such modified email address in Upstream Author field of > debian/copyright f

Bug#443153: ITP: libemail-send-io-perl -- Send messages using IO operations

2007-09-19 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libemail-send-io-perl Version : 2.200 Upstream Author : Casey West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Ricardo SIGNES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Em

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:57:36PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > One additional question. In case MTA, for example, there are > many candidates including virtual package for Build-Depends. > > I guess "exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent" > will be acceptable. Is this okay? Why would yo

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:16:43 +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:57:36PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > One additional question. In case MTA, for example, there are > > many candidates including virtual package for Build-Depends. > > > > I guess "exim4-daemon-lig

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> It's lynx-cur and it has an ability to mail so it is > necessary to know what MTA is available, I guess. Guessing does not help here, figure it out by reading the configure/Makefile or whatever it is using to build, and patch it so it doesn't rely on an installed MTA. Instead it should assume s

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 18:00:06 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > It's lynx-cur and it has an ability to mail so it is > necessary to know what MTA is available, I guess. > There should be a way to tell it to use /usr/lib/sendmail, without having that installed. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:00:06PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > It's lynx-cur and it has an ability to mail so it is > necessary to know what MTA is available, I guess. Is it not possible to tell it? Something like --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finla

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-19 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:01:45 +0200 (CEST), "Thijs Kinkhorst" wrote: > On Wed, September 19, 2007 07:42, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > Recently, perhaps mainly due to so many spams, it looks common > > to write email address like "foo at some.where" etc. and I wonder if it is > > acceptable to use such

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello David, Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given: > You've got two major tasks ahead of you: > > - - port gcc OK, it seems that parts of gcc went used under Windows... Maybe it will "easy" to port it native to Linux. > - - port the kernel Since it is a All-In-On-Chip, there is not real

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel Bayer
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given: > > For the former, you'll need to write a new gcc backend targeting your > > architecture, and then add support to binutils to allow programs to be > > linked. > > This is not easy. gc

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Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-19 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given: [...] > > Now you have both a compiler and a kernel, you can use your > > compiler to generate a userland --- as set of basic binaries to > > get your system up and running --- and then

Bug#443222: ITP: uriparser -- URI parsing library compliant with RFC 3986

2007-09-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: uriparser Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Weijia Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://uriparser.sourceforge.net * License :

Bug#443225: ITP: libspiff -- library to parse XSPF, the XML Shareable Playlist Format

2007-09-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libspiff Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libspiff.sourceforge.net * License : BS

start-stop-daemon --exec is incorrect on unionfs systems

2007-09-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi Debian Live is a live CD system based on Debian: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Debian-live uses a unionfs system. The root filesystem is squashfs. Let's look at exim4 on such a system. The init.d script seems to misbehave: debian:~# cat /var/run/exim4/exim.pid 5399 debian:~# ls -l /

Re: start-stop-daemon --exec is incorrect on unionfs systems

2007-09-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Forgot to mention: Please CC me your replies, as I don't read the list. On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:49:54PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi > > Debian Live is a live CD system based on Debian: > http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ > > Debian-live uses a unionfs system. The root filesystem is s

Re: start-stop-daemon --exec is incorrect on unionfs systems

2007-09-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed September 19 2007 12:49:54 pm Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Let's look at exim4 on such a system. The init.d script seems to > misbehave: <...> I started running into this (afaict) last fall (see bugs #396944, #440657). > What can be done about this? > > 1. Avoid using --exec . Probably risking s

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:27:12 +0200 Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag 18 September 2007 schrieb Ken Spath: > > If after I install casu or netdiag, I type man casu or man netdiag > > there is nothing. > > > > whereis / find / apt-cache search / apt-file search were necessary

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Ken Spath wrote: > Proposal regarding future packaging: > > Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is > the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a > conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no > binary in a package that is th

Re: Bug#443222: ITP: uriparser -- URI parsing library compliant with RFC 3986

2007-09-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 the mental interface of Adeodato Simó told: [...] > uriparser has the following features: > . > * strictly compliant to RFC 3986, implementing: > + parsing > + reference resolution > + recomposition > + syntax-based normalization > * fast (linear input len

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Ken Spath wrote: >> Proposal regarding future packaging: >> >> Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is >> the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a >> conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is n

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [...] > I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about each > program and relevent configuration files. I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of the biggest holes in Debian

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread John Goerzen
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 5:43:03 pm David Given wrote: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > [...] > > > I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about > > each program and relevent configuration files. > > I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of t

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed September 19 2007 04:53:10 pm John Goerzen wrote: > On Wednesday 19 September 2007 5:43:03 pm David Given wrote: > > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > [...] > > > > > I like this idea, especially if there were a short description > > > about each program and relevent configuration files. > > >

Re: Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:08:40AM +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > > For what it's worth, we don't do that. References I'm aware of: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/05/msg00092.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/05/msg00149.html Hi Anthony, thank for the lin

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There should be a way to tell it to use /usr/lib/sendmail, without > having that installed. /usr/sbin/sendmail, please. I realize that we'll have to keep both essentially forever, but /usr/sbin is the correct FHS location. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PR

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-19 Thread Ben Finney
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently, perhaps mainly due to so many spams, it looks common to > write email address like "foo at some.where" etc. and I wonder if it > is acceptable to use such modified email address in Upstream Author > field of debian/copyright file. IANADD, but

Re: Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-19 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thank for the links. So in the end, am I right to say that, since > the point of view of the FTP team is that RFC are software, > orig.tar.gz files which contain them fail to comply the DFSG and > therefore are not accepted in main? No. Whether or not

GFDL fixed? [Was: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom]

2007-09-19 Thread Drew Parsons
Nathanael Nerode said: > Non-free material is being included in main for the benefit of *precisely > zero* > users. Speaking of non-free material which benefits precisely many users, I've been wanting to ask if there has been any further movement in the fix to the GFDL. Currently bash info docs

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thursday 20 September 2007 04:44, Ben Finney wrote: > Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Recently, perhaps mainly due to so many spams, it looks common to > > write email address like "foo at some.where" etc. and I wonder if it > > is acceptable to use such modified email address in

[RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-19 Thread Christian Perrier
A recent discussion back in August, in -devel, showed that the current common trick of using a "Homepage:" pseudo-field in binary packages' descriptions is not really optimal. In the discussion, it was pointed that dpkg, as of 1.14.6, supports the use of a "Homepage:" field in debian/control. As