doc-base, menu, and policy (Re: Debian Policy 3.7.3.0 uploaded)

2007-12-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:15:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > * Substantial reorganization and renaming of sections in the Debian > menu structure. Packages with menu entries should be reviewed to > see if the menu section has been renamed or if one of the new >

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 02, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally got through the test builds of all the source packages in sid for > i386 using dpkg-buildpackage -j3 on a dual core machine. The results as > before are at http://people.debian.org/~schepler/build-logs/bymaint.html . Can you e

Re: Draft new policy document format

2007-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:34:28 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:29:28AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> At Debconf earlier this year, I gave a talk about the benefits >> Comments appreciated. > As a general comment, before seeing an actual XML-like

Re: doc-base, menu, and policy (Re: Debian Policy 3.7.3.0 uploaded)

2007-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:24:06PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > according to the doc-base manual (2.3.2.1): > > _Section_ > Section where the document belongs; this should follow the > sections outlined in The Debian Menu sub-policy > > (http://www.debian.org/

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2 Dec 2007, at 2:21 am, Daniel Schepler wrote: I finally got through the test builds of all the source packages in sid for i386 using dpkg-buildpackage -j3 on a dual core machine. The results as before are at http://people.debian.org/~schepl

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071203 09:53]: > Can you explain the meaning of this failure and how it should be fixed? > > make[2]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make > rule. That usually means a new make is started without the calling make realizing it is s

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071202 20:43]: > Relevant parts for detox are: > /usr/bin/install -c -d /tmp/buildd/detox-1.1.1/debian/tmp/etc > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file > `/tmp/buildd/detox-1.1.1/debian/tmp/etc/detoxrc.sample': No such file or > directory > > So I as

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I finally got through the test builds of all the source packages in sid for > i386 using dpkg-buildpackage -j3 on a dual core machine. The results as > before are at http://people.debian.org/~schepler/build-logs/bymaint.html . Which said: shishi

Bug#454138: ITP: libdbix-class-htmlwidget-perl -- Like FromForm but with DBIx::Class and HTML::Widget

2007-12-03 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdbix-class-htmlwidget-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~andremar/DBIx-Class-HTMLWidget/ * License

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Monday 03 December 2007 05:11:35 am Tim Cutts wrote: > Well, am-utils lists as building broken packages, but when I looked at > the log, it was just that the parallel build had produced the multiple > binary packages in a different order from the serial build. At least, > that's my interpretati

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 Dec 2007, at 12:43 pm, Daniel Schepler wrote: Control files of package am-utils: lines which differ (wdiff format) Depends: libamu4 (= 6.1.5-7), portmap, {+libamu4,+} libc6 (

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Bernhard, On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:21:45PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The problem is in upstream's Makefile.in: thanks for the good explanation. Also to Daniel whose hint already pointed me in the right direction. Its already fixed in latest upload. Thanks, Best Regards Patrick --

Views on bounties in Open Software Development wanted

2007-12-03 Thread Martin Nilsson
Dear Reader, We are two students at the University of Lund, Sweden, currently writing our bachelor thesis. The focus for this study is the use of bounties in Open Source Software Development. If you are an Open Source developer with views on the matter, or if you have experience from bounties

Re: Bug#451799: new evince cannot display Japanese characters correctly

2007-12-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:22:49PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > However I don't think there is anything copyrightable in these files; > > they only contain series of numbers that describe the mappings. Do you > > people think it could be suitable for main? > > (Please follow-up on -legal only for

Re: Draft new policy document format

2007-12-03 Thread Eric Cooper
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:34:28PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > In addition to that, just some tiny nitpicking below. > [...] I had the same initial reaction, but when I re-read Manoj's introduction, I think he suggests that this docbook format should be the *output* of an XSLT tool; the va

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-03 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > I think there is a problem using build dependencies for that purpose: > There are dozens of reasons why you want to build-depend on libfoo-dev > >= version that do NOT involve working around bugs in the library at > runtime. There are so many that it would

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 17:11 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit : > An idea that came up is to use a per-dependent package information > provided by the maintainer such as the build-deps version [2]. It > would require a map from deps to build-deps and could typically be > combined with t

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 19:35 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > I think there is a problem using build dependencies for that purpose: > There are dozens of reasons why you want to build-depend on libfoo-dev > >= version that do NOT involve working around bugs in the library at > runtime. There

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 3, 2007 at 17:33:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Every successful call to pkg-config would fill in a file, let’s say > debian/pkgconfig.deps, that would in the end contain: > > # pkgconfig_file required_version dev_package shared_package > version > x11 1.

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:36:43PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 19:35 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > I think there is a problem using build dependencies for that purpose: > > There are dozens of reasons why you want to build-depend on libfoo-dev > > >= version t

Re: Draft new policy document format

2007-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Manoj, On Saturday 01 December 2007 07:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > At Debconf earlier this year, I gave a talk about the benefits > of creating language for a lintian/linda check whenever we introduce a > new policy rule (when appropriate, and feasible, of course)... I've completly

Bug#454189: ITP: brad -- Blender based user interface for Radiance

2007-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: brad Version : 0.2_2007-01-08 Upstream Author : Francesco Anselmo * URL : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/brad/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Re: Draft new policy document format

2007-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:21:10 -0500, Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:34:28PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> In addition to that, just some tiny nitpicking below. [...] > I had the same initial reaction, but when I re-read Manoj's > introduction, I think he

Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

2007-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, well, waiting more than five weeks for an answer to a question that at least I would regard as urgent seems to show enough patience. The only conclulsion I could draw is that menu is not really maintained any more. I'm particularly interested in this question because if this is the case I s

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 02, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I finally got through the test builds of all the source packages in sid for >> i386 using dpkg-buildpackage -j3 on a dual core machine. The results as >> before are at http://people.debia

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

2007-12-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:24:42PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > well, waiting more than five weeks for an answer to a question > that at least I would regard as urgent seems to show enough > patience. The only conclulsion I could draw is that menu is > not really maintained any more. I'

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

2007-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: Indeed another conclusion you just drawn was that I never actually received your email. I am not subscribed to debian-devel, and I did not post to that list. Instead I posted to debian-devel-announce. My email ended in debian-devel for reasons I did not

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

2007-12-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > My problem is that after 8 years the first menu file that is > actually using it broke a script in cdd-common and I have no > idea how to fix this because there is no description of this > format. > > >I don't see how it is relevant

ftp.debian.org removal bugs

2007-12-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi as I just modified parts of my code generating the removals overview page to deal with more kinds of broken bug titles for removal bugs, a small mail about it: Please use a bug title format of ($PACKAGE is the source package) RM: $PACKAGE -- REASON for a full removal request or RM: $PACKAGE [$

Doc-base section hierarchy (was: Re: doc-base, menu, and policy (Re: Debian Policy 3.7.3.0 uploaded))

2007-12-03 Thread Robert Luberda
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: Hi, On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:24:06PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/ch2.html#s2.1). Required field. >> >> I am wondering if when a .doc-base file is not updated, it makes the doc-base 0.8

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:28:08PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > On 3 Dec 2007, at 12:43 pm, Daniel Schepler wrote: >> Control files of package am-utils: lines which differ (wdiff format) >> >> Dep

Should download managers offer some virtual package?

2007-12-03 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
It's been brought to my attention that liferea, while being able to use wget, curl, gwget and kget to download feed attachments, does not Recommend or Suggest any of them, or their alternatives. Since I'd rather not maintain a long list of possible file downloaders, I tried but failed to find some

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

2007-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: The menu entry format is not documented in the menu policy, so this discard #447389. Well, you are right that policy should not _describe_ the menu format, but policy should definitely _mention_ that there are at least two formats and should give an _a

Re: Is menu orphaned?

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: >> The menu entry format is not documented in the menu policy, so this >> discard #447389. > Well, you are right that policy should not _describe_ the menu format, > but policy should definitely _mention_ that t

Re: Is menu orphaned?

2007-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
[Full quote because Bill was not in your CC list.] On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: The menu entry format is not documented in the menu policy, so this discard #447389. Well, you are right that pol