Re: Sources of dak ?

Hi, On Sun Jan 27, 2008 at 16:53:59 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear Developpers, > > I wanted to check if dak was case-sensitive when parsing the > DM-Upload-Allowed field, but I did not find this string in the sources > that I got from `apt-get source dak'. I then checked debian/copyright,

Is the DM-Upload-Allowed case-sensitive ?

Le Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:08:44AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > On Sun Jan 27, 2008 at 16:53:59 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I wanted to check if dak was case-sensitive when parsing the > > DM-Upload-Allowed field, but I did not find this string in the sources > > that I got from `apt-

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:37:10PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > This was a really usefull bit of information, thanks. Thou > get-orig-source of madwifi pulls the source to ../tarballs so some manual > work is still required. > Maybe debcheckout could run get-orig-source if only debian/ directory >

Re: Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

> Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > To make the dialign-t package, I removed the documentation from the > > upstream tarball, that I use for a dialign-t-doc package, in the > > non-free section as the their LaTeX sources are not provided. > > > > Now, I was informed that the reason is

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

On sam, 2008-01-26 at 22:37 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:37:54PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > If I were you I would have tried "fakeroot debian/rules > > get-orig-source", which is the policy mandated target to retrieve > > orig.tar.gz. I haven't tried, but lookin

Re: debian-installer and software RAID

[Russell Coker] > If the mdadm command that was used for the Debian installer had "-b > internal" appended then the bitmap feature would be used and > recovery from some failure conditions would be much faster. Why not just enable it by default in the mdadm package? It would make sure those usin

Re: manpage : documenting /etc/default/foobar

Hello Colin, On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 00:10 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:06:01PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > I'm writing some manpages, and I wonder what's the current practice for > > documenting a file like in /etc/default/foobar. > > > > On my laptop [1], only /etc/

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On sam, 2008-01-26 at 23:39 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I'm not sure we aren't mixing two different issues. There is the > exchange format used for source packages, and there is the question of > where DDs put all their work to generate those source packages. > > I'm less and less sure tha

Re: Sources of dak ?

On 27/01/2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > I wanted to check if dak was case-sensitive when parsing the > DM-Upload-Allowed field […] What about checking the archive itself? $ for i in yes Yes YES ; do grep Dm-Upload-Allowed /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources | grep $i$ | wc -l ; done 129 16 0 Cheers, --

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > And in taht sense, wig&pen that allow you to put multiple diffs rather > than a single .diff.gz with your orig tarball is quite enough. > debian/control is already here for the rest, and we just need some more > Vcs-* like headers, or some new resour

Re: Is the DM-Upload-Allowed case-sensitive ?

On 27/01/2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > Thanks a lot! I am affraid that I did not manage to find the answer by > myself. Does anybody know if the DM-Upload-Allowed is case-sensitive, > i.e if 'Yes' is not a correct value to enable DM uploads ? It's not, comparing the packages having such a “Yes” va

Re: debian-installer and software RAID

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:10:17PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > A recent feature of Linux software RAID is a "write intent bitmap". The > purpose of this is that before writing to a section of disk the bitmap is > altered to mark it as dirty. Then if the machine experiences a power failure >

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:23:45AM +, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > And in taht sense, wig&pen that allow you to put multiple diffs rather > > than a single .diff.gz with your orig tarball is quite enough. > > debian/control is already here for the rest

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On fredagen den 25 januari 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:55:02AM +, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:13:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > The only sad thing is that quilt only deals with patches (i.e. diffs), > > > whereas dpatch

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:25:49PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On fredagen den 25 januari 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:55:02AM +, Jon Dowland > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:13:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > The only sad thin

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

On Friday den 25 January 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 25/01/2008, Frank Küster wrote: > > I don't think these bugs should be closed without considering the type > > of the removed package. If it's just gotten useless or uninteresting, > > no problem. But if there's some kind of successor (like

Bug#462791: ITP: libgtkstylus -- stylus tap support for Gtk+

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgtkstylus Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#462792: ITP: failmalloc -- demonstrate what really happens if memory allocation fails

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I want to package "failmalloc" library that leads interesting function for making robust program, made by GNU GRUB author. Package name: failmalloc Version: 1.0 Upstream Author: Yoshinori K. Okuji

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

On la, 2008-01-26 at 20:37 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:58:27PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > > I just tried this on madwifi, and it only pulled me contents of debian/ > > directory. Now I can't use that to anything, since there is no matching > > upstream sources ava

Re: Bug#462740: ITP: demac -- A decoder for Monkey's Audio (APE) lossless files

William Pitcock wrote: > demac has some bugs with v3.97 format files. I would recommend merging > in patches from ffmpeg and making a seperate product. Or rather avoid packaging demac at all and link the application in question against libavcodec. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

On 27/01/2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Roberto already pointed out that get-orig-source is optional, not > mandatory, but I'm wondering about the fakeroot. Why should the > get-orig-source target be run as root, or even as a fake root? I guess it only comes from an habit, when one is testing/hacki

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:49:43PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On sam, jan 26, 2008 at 06:51:01 +, Mike Hommey wrote: > > FWIW, dpatch has a patch edition facility (and I think it's been there > > since near the beginning), but it was a PITA to use on big source trees. > > I don't know if t

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:37:10PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > > Many people correctly pointed out that get-orig-source is only suggested > by the policy and that, as a best practice, it is recommended only when > repacking is needed. Fair enough. Can we either change i

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Note that the get-orig-source target isn't really mandated, but optional > (Policy 4.9), and usually implemented when a repack is needed (Devref > 6.7.8.2). Whether a repack happened is easily detected by looking at the > Debian changelog (through the presence of a “dfsg

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

On 25/01/2008, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done two rebuilds of sid on i386. [...] > - one in a chroot, where as many build-dependancies as impossible were > installed (take the Sources file, extract the build-deps for all > packages, and install as many packages as possib

ITP: spooles -- SParse Object Oriented Linear Equations Solver

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: spooles Version: 2.2 Author: Cleve Ashcraft et al., Boeing Phantom Works License: Public Domain Description: SParse Object Oriented Linear Equations Solver Homepage: http://www.netlib.org/linalg/spooles/ SPOOLES is a library for solving sparse real a

Bug#462879: ITP: python-cssutils -- CSS Cascading Style Sheets parser and builder

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-cssutils Version : 0.9.5a2 Upstream Author : Christof Hoeke * URL : http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : CSS

changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

Hi, Debian Edu will be switching its syslog for Lenny and as we want to differ the least possible from Debian, we are wondering, what the default syslog will be in Lenny. The main reason is that we need/want to configure syslogd via debconf (or any other policy complient way) for remote loggi

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

On 11278 March 1977, Holger Levsen wrote: > So we decided to switch to syslog-ng for now. > On the #debian-release channel some people claimed, that syslog-ng is not a > drop-in replacement, while other said so. I don't know :) Please explain > here. Other options would be rsyslog (which Fedor

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11278 March 1977, Holger Levsen wrote: So we decided to switch to syslog-ng for now. On the #debian-release channel some people claimed, that syslog-ng is not a drop-in replacement, while other said so. I don't know :) Please explain here. Other options would be rsys

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 01:55 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 11278 March 1977, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > >> So we decided to switch to syslog-ng for now. > > > >> On the #debian-release channel some people claimed, that syslog-ng is not > >> a > >> drop-in replac

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

Le Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:37:25PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:23:45AM +, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > And in taht sense, wig&pen that allow you to put multiple diffs rather > > > than a single .diff.gz with your o

Re: Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

"Charles Plessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Le Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:35:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : Unless the pdf is exceptionally complicated, it's not all that difficult to resurect LaTeX that does a similar job; it'd probably be ideal to do this a

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:39:32PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I'm less and less sure that a git-based format is a brilliant idea. I > like git more than a lot, but it's a poor idea to base source packages > on them. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be able one day to upload a > signed git

Re: preparing sid/lenny to build with GCC-4.3

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:53:59PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > (...) so that we have > the chance to drop gcc-4.2 for the next release (together with > gcc-3.4/g++-3.4/gcc-4.0). Except if you want to remove qemu and kvm from the archive, there are currently no chances of removing gcc-3.4. Mike

Re: announcing new tools

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, John Goerzen wrote: Isn't this what debian-devel-announce is for? I think so. I personally do not understand the restraint to post to d-d-a. I can not imagine that 5-10 mails more per month on this low volume list might worry anybody. Kind regards Andreas. --

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Joey Hess wrote: The competing vcs situation has its problems, but no matter what vcs is used for a package, you can check out the source to the package using apt-get source. This allows examination and modification of the source to any package, without needing to know the v

Re: [rfc] mass-mod old ita/itp bugs back to rfa/rfp?

Andreas Tille wrote: A further enhancement would be to not list merged bugs because both bugs are mentioned on your page. fixed. a project with two bugs now is shown as project [1][2] instead of project project before. try this query to see it in action: http://wnpp.debian.net/?pro