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semi-virtual packages?

2007-09-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat September 22 2007 10:21:43 pm Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:46:26 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Sat September 22 2007 12:16:18 am Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: > >> 21-09-2007, Bruce Sass: > >> > On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wr

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:39:25PM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:36:41 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > I would strongly expect that any user sufficiently concerned about > > these issues to take active steps like those would be willing to use > I think this misunderstan

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-23 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-20 23:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > I would not be against a policy requirement that email addresses > in package metadata should be the literal address without > munging. I would not be against a policy requirement that packagers *ask* third parties before publishing their email addre

Re: First CFV for Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-09-23 Thread Juan Manuel García Molina
El Sunday 23 September 2007 01:50:42 Debian Project Secretary escribió: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > acf05695-2c74-4751-a58a-ab7eb8282300 > [ 1 ] Choice 1: Reduce the length of DPL election process > [ 2 ] Choice 2: As above, but do not change elect

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> - Do you think that this initiative is interesting? Yes, I think this initiative is very interesting, because those are details that I think are the most important, yet it's very difficult to get those from the respective webpages (like debian.org, etc.). I am unable to connect to [1] though, s

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/09/07 at 16:01 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > - Do you think that this initiative is interesting? > > Yes, I think this initiative is very interesting, because those are > details that I think are the most important, yet it's very difficult > to get those from the respective webpages (like

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Up again, but I haven't published the answers yet. I will as soon as > I'll have the "next step" figured out. BTW, I noticed you are a Ubuntu developer, do you use PPA? I would like to have it in Debian, so I am working on it [1], [2], but very slowly, don't have much time. Ondrej [1] http://c

Re: semi-virtual packages?

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:13:41 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat September 22 2007 10:21:43 pm Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:46:26 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > On Sat September 22 2007 12:16:18 am Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: >> > It is not

Re: Bug#443528: ITP: xmms-pulse -- Pulseaudio Output plugin for xmms

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Sep-07, 12:32 (CDT), Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Does it mean that I should try and make it work with xmms2 instead, > > which means open an ITP for xmms2-pulse? > > Hi Thomas, > > please don't upload any xmms packages anymore; but go for xmm2 or >

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-23 Thread Oleg Verych
23-09-2007, Manoj Srivastava: [] >>> It doesn't catch files created by Maintainer scripts? > >> This is the design flaw in those scripts (even in whole package >> management). > > I am not sure you have made your case here. > > Currently, using maintainer scripts, it is indeed possi

Bug#443745: ITP: wxremind -- wxRemind is a graphical front/back-end for Remind and yeaGTD

2007-09-23 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kurt B. Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wxremind Version : 0.9.13 Upstream Author : Daniel Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.duke.edu/~dgraham/wxRemind/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python

Re: Bug#443370: ITP: asmutils -- coreutils replacement written in i386 assembler

2007-09-23 Thread Oleg Verych
22-09-2007, Steinar H. Gunderson: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:44:04AM +1245, Andreas Fleckl wrote: >> It features the smallest possible size and memory requirements, the fastest >> speed, and offers fairly good functionality. > > Size and memory aside, I sort of doubt asmutils' sort is faster than

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:32:18 +0200, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Up again, but I haven't published the answers yet. I will as soon as >> I'll have the "next step" figured out. > BTW, I noticed you are a Ubuntu developer, do you use PPA? I would > like to have it in Debian, so I am

Bug#443747: ITP: yeagtd -- Produce nicely formatted reports of simple GTD project files.

2007-09-23 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kurt B. Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: yeagtd Version : 0.7.11 Upstream Author : Daniel Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.duke.edu/~dgraham/yeaGTD/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Des

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Ken Spath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: Bug#443370: ITP: asmutils -- coreutils replacement written in i386 assembler

2007-09-23 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Sunday 23 September 2007 21:18:48 Oleg Verych wrote: > 22-09-2007, Steinar H. Gunderson: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:44:04AM +1245, Andreas Fleckl wrote: > >> It features the smallest possible size and memory requirements, the > >> fastest speed, and offers fairly good functionality. > > > >

Re: semi-virtual packages?

2007-09-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun September 23 2007 11:00:58 am Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:13:41 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Sat September 22 2007 10:21:43 pm Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:46:26 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> > On Sat Septe

Re: Bug#443370: ITP: asmutils -- coreutils replacement written in i386 assembler

2007-09-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> I can confirm that it is not faster since I tested it once, I think 'wc' it > was. And it is definitely not portable to other platforms either :-) > Nevertheless the package brings with it some spirit that is good to have: > love to assembly as a language. Maybe there are applications of this

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:12:29 + (UTC), Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 23-09-2007, Manoj Srivastava: [] It doesn't catch files created by Maintainer scripts? >> >>> This is the design flaw in those scripts (even in whole package >>> management). >> >> I am not sure you have made

Re: semi-virtual packages?

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:26:29 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun September 23 2007 11:00:58 am Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> We can create any number of dummy packages on the fly, but what is >> the use case we are trying to solve here? Why are we adding a virtual >> package, havin

Re: using "Breaks:", or how to replace it?

2007-09-23 Thread Felipe Sateler
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > * dpkg and apt have support for Breaks in lenny, but this doesn't mean > that we are supposed to use it before lenny+1 (according to > #debian-devel) However neither taktuk nor kanif are in etch, so I don't know if this is really an issue: etch users won't have your pa

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Uecker
Patrick Winnertz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. September 2007 21:12:44 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > > Hmmhh, what do you do about programs etc that encode the build-time in > > > the binary? I mean they obviously will change between builds? > > > > Hopefully they don't encode the build-time in the file

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:32:59 +0200 Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patrick Winnertz wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 18. September 2007 21:12:44 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > > > Hmmhh, what do you do about programs etc that encode the build-time in > > > > the binary? I mean they obviously wil

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
I wrote: > Package: rt2500-source > Version: 1:1.1.0-b4-4 > Severity: serious > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > rt2500-source includes a bzipped tarball which must be unpacked in > order to build modules from it. Therefore it should depend on bzip2. In fact this applies t

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:40 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I wrote: > > > Package: rt2500-source > > > Version: 1:1.1.0-b4-4 > > > Severity: serious > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > rt250

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Uecker
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > > I think it would be really cool if the Debian policy required > > that packages could be rebuild bit-identical from source. > > At the moment, it is impossible to independly verify the > > integricity o

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Any particular reason this seems to be targeted only to svn/git, > and seems to be (based on the name) biased towards svn? It can very > easily be adapted to Arch, as well, and I am sure bzr and darcs should > be easily added. Given that, vcsbuildstat could be a better name. No, we wa

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-23 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:54:58AM +0200, Martin Uecker wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This has been covered before - certain upstream macros are among > > many factors that ensure that this is unlikely. I, for one, use such > > macros upstream to indicate the build time of the ac

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Uecker
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > On 11150 March 1977, Peter Eckersley wrote: > > > > I've seen reports from very large sites indicating that > > > > User-Agent > > > > strings are almost as useful as cookies for tracking their > > > > users. > > > > > > I cant believe th

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:00:25AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:40 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I wouldn't expect rt2500-source to depend on bzip2 any more than I > > expect any package providing a PDF file to depend on a viewer. > > That's different because there ar

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2007-09-20 23:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > I would not be against a policy requirement that email addresses > > in package metadata should be the literal address without > > munging. > > I would not be against a policy requirement that packagers

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:54:58 +0200 Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This has been covered before - certain upstream macros are among > > many factors that ensure that this is unlikely. I, for one, use su

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Uecker
Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:54:58AM +0200, Martin Uecker wrote: > > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This has been covered before - certain upstream macros are among > > > many factors that ensure that this is unlikely. I, for one, use > > > such > > >

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:12:59 +0200, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Try baz get http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/grab/fvwm> A >> simple shell script can then update all the bested projects when it >> is time for the next build. > $ baz get > http://arch.debian.org/arch/pri

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Uecker
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:54:58 +0200 > Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This has been covered before - certain upstream macros are among > > > many factors that ensure that this is unlikely. I, for one, use > > > such macros upstream to ind

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:56:45 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:54:58 +0200 >> Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > > This has been covered before - certain upstream macros are among >> > > many factors tha

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-23 Thread Ben Finney
Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If policy would require the exact reproducability of binaries, then > it would be a policy violation. You seem to be suggesting that policy should require this *before* it becomes common practice. That's not generally how policy is crafted: Debian polic

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Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:13:32 +0200 Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea is not to replace hashes by bit-by-bit comparison, but to > be able to *independendly* reproduce binaries from source code in > a bit-identical way. And what is going to happen when I used gcc-4.2.2007foo and