Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: "Someday someone should do this..." --- Sometimes I stumble on interesting or useful ideas on mailingslists, which should be done, but the person having that in mind, doesn't have time to do those. So I came up with ide

Bug#476346: ITP: libmatio -- A library to read and write Matlab MAT files

2008-04-16 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmatio Version : 1.3.2 Upstream Author : Christopher Hulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mati * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:24:09 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The way I understand it, they HAVE been pushing... and pushing... for >> a long time... against a nonresponsive binutils maintainer. This >> thread is just their latest, la

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Hendrik Sattler > > | Am Samstag 05 April 2008 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > | > Whoever develops software based on libbar will have to have a call to > | > pkg-config somewhere in their build process so they should depend on > | > pkg-config. > | > |

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> The way I understand it, they HAVE been pushing... and pushing... for >>> a long time... against a nonresponsive binutils maintainer. This >>> thread is just their latest, last-ditch e

Re: a small program for Fritz!Box owner

2008-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > I wrote a small program for Fritz!Box owners and I was wondering if > anyone would like to maintain it. It is a small tray program that shows > a notificatin on outgoing or incoming phonecalls. It has been written > for GNOME, but also works with KDE. The tool currently runs in English > or

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 09:33 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > That depends on the library you are linking against. I, as an library > > author is free to say «the only supported way to use my gargleblaster > > library is through the I_CAN_HAS

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080415 21:57]: > Now I suppose sparc and others might still like it if they have > performance advantages of 32bit code over 64bit code, in which case > keeping 64bit for only those programs where the extra address space is > worth it would be great. I guess

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment > variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to > be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags > and to simplify the debian/rules files since CFLAGS has the right def

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-04-16, Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't helpful for several reasons: > a) Burying this information in a wiki where people may or may not read > it in time (I just reverted a change already done in SVN). I got the idea of pushing it out when Hertzog was talking about sen

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2008, 22:58 +0200 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > FTFBS on packages build-depending on libqt4-dev > --- > > If your package is build-depending on libqt4-dev and is currently failing > to build from sources, please wait for the next qt

uploading new binary packages from a DM approved source package

2008-04-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed library (for example [1]), it changes the name of the binary package and thus goes to NEW. Last time I asked it wasn't possible for me, as a DM, to upload it and I had to search for a sponsor. Is there some policital reason for

Re: uploading new binary packages from a DM approved source package

2008-04-16 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed > library (for example [1]), it changes the name of the binary package > and thus goes to NEW. > > Last time I asked it wasn't possible for me, as a DM, to upload i

Re: uploading new binary packages from a DM approved source package

2008-04-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed > > library (for example [1]), it changes the name of the binary package > > and

How to manage security issues when the maintainer is not the developer

2008-04-16 Thread Andrea De Iacovo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. How do you think a maintainer should manage security issues when he is not the package developer? Should he/she either work alone to make patches or wait for the upstream patches/relases that solve the bug? Andrea De Iacovo -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: How to manage security issues when the maintainer is not the developer

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:55:51PM +0200, Andrea De Iacovo wrote: > How do you think a maintainer should manage security issues when he is > not the package developer? Should he/she either work alone to make > patches or wait for the upstream patches/relases that solve the bug? As ever, the best

Re: How to manage security issues when the maintainer is not the developer

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:55 +0200, Andrea De Iacovo wrote: > Hi all. > > How do you think a maintainer should manage security issues when he is > not the package developer? Should he/she either work alone to make > patches or wait for the upstream patches/relases that solve the bug? Notify upstre

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2008-04-16 Thread Bright Paul
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Re: Bug#476340: ITP: datapacker -- Tool to pack files into minimum number of CDs/DVDs/etc

2008-04-16 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:50:23PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: datapacker Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://software.complete.org/data

Should SONAME bumps always go through NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:34 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed > > library (for example [1]), it changes the name of the binary package > > and thus goes to NEW. > > > > Last

Re: How to manage security issues when the maintainer is not the developer

2008-04-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2008-04-16 at 13:55 +0200, Andrea De Iacovo wrote: > How do you think a maintainer should manage security issues when he is > not the package developer? Should he/she either work alone to make > patches or wait for the upstream patches/relases that solve the bug? If the package maintainer i

GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Hello, on the 1st of April I wrote an e-mail to James Troup offering my help in hunting down open bugs which are no longer present an thus enabling him to concentrate on packaging GnuPG 1.4.9. But his last action regarding this package is well over an year old and the only updates I can see in the

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:38:16AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > >"Someday someone should do this..." > >--- > > > >Sometimes I stumble on interesting or useful ideas on mailingslists, > >which should be done, but the

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:19:12PM +0200, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: > on the 1st of April I wrote an e-mail to James Troup offering my help in > hunting > down open bugs which are no longer present an thus enabling him to concentrate > on packaging GnuPG 1.4.9. But his last action regarding this packa

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Roberto, On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > This is something that I propsed on January 3, 2007, on debian-devel. > There was a fairly lengthy thread that resulted and Thomas Viehmann even > offered to help. Of course, he and I both became very busy and so it > sort

Re: Should SONAME bumps always go through NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:34 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > > if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed > > > library (for example [1]

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 10:01:53 16.04.2008 UTC+02 when Goswin von Brederlow did gyre and gimble: GvB> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GvB> - 13 month from initial report to raising a minor issue that has no GvB> negative effects on the functionality GvB> - 4 days to fix the issue GvB> - 9

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Darren Salt wrote: > I'd rather that this just got left in debian/rules, where it belongs: > xine-lib, for example, needs more than just -O0 for disabling optimisations. You can keep it there for special cases like this one. But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Hello again, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: > [...] Is there anything I can help (I'm certainly not suitable as a maintainer > for that package myself, because it's too essential to be entrusted to someone > who is unknown to (nearly) all people on this list) with, e.g. by triaging > bugs? I've just seen

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Raphael Hertzog may or may not have written... > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Le Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:58:29PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >>> Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment >>> variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS a

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > 1. If a library *only supports the retrieval of FOO_LIBS and / or > FOO_CFLAGS by the use of pkg-config*, pkg-config becomes part of the API > of that library and the -dev package

Re: Should DMs be allowed to upload to NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 15:59 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Thanks for the reply. As I said, I am not questioning new SONAME bumps > going into NEW. > > The question is, whether the DMs should be allowed to upload SONAME > bumps to NEW by themselves or not. Umm, I would have to say no. Sorry. SONA

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kai Wasserbäch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > on the 1st of April I wrote an e-mail to James Troup offering my help in > hunting You shouldn't have done this on 1st of April as you could then have received an answer. > So my question is: Is James known to be inactive? Are there others c

Re: Should DMs be allowed to upload to NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:44:56 Neil Williams, vous avez écrit : > An upload of a new application is nowhere near as complex as the upload > to start a library SONAME transition. Even uploading a new library never > seen in Debian before is easier than starting a SONAME transition for a > libra

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Goswin von Brederlow | I would go one step further. Imho libraries with *.pc files should say | "the only supported way to use this lib is by using pkg-config". I would not recommend that, as pkg-config upstream. | > | Putting pkg-config on Recommends of Suggests of every -dev packages | > |

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:12 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > > > 1. If a library *only supports the retrieval of FOO_LIBS and / or > > FOO_CFLAGS by the use of pkg-config*, pkg-con

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Bas Wijnen
First of all, I skipped a large part of this thread, so I'm sorry if this has come up before. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > And by this definition, it is the package _invoking_ pkg-config that > > should Build-Depend on it, not the package that happens to ship

Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, it is the third time that I've got this type of rejection. I faced it two times with package gnumed-client and now with a different package. Is anybody able to explain this and how can I avoid the problem. I just builded the package with an up to date pbuilder. Puzzled Andreas.

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This is something that I propsed on January 3, 2007, on debian-devel. Great!! I did not noticed. :-( There was a fairly lengthy thread that resulted and Thomas Viehmann even offered to help

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Apr 16 17:19, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > it is the third time that I've got this type of rejection. I faced > it two times with package gnumed-client and now with a different package. > > Is anybody able to explain this and how can I avoid the problem. I > just builded the package with

Re: Should DMs be allowed to upload to NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Romain Beauxis [Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:53:21 +0100]: > In the mean time, it's still possible for a DM to upload a different soname > in > the same binary package, which would result in an even worse mess, right ? Well, DDs have done this in the past already, so... -- Adeodato Simó

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Raphael Hertzog [Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:20:36 +0200]: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Darren Salt wrote: > > I'd rather that this just got left in debian/rules, where it belongs: > > xine-lib, for example, needs more than just -O0 for disabling optimisations. > You can keep it there for special cases like

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Andreas Tille wrote: it is the third time that I've got this type of rejection. I faced it two times with package gnumed-client and now with a different package. [...] Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed. Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: actual file size (1289) does not match size (1

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Matthew Johnson wrote: do you have updated devscripts? Will this be updated by sudo pbuilder update ? debsign signs the dsc then updates the md5 hash in the changes before signing that. It needs to update the sha checks as well. The latest devscripts does. I fail

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Apr 16 17:47, Andreas Tille wrote: > Do I have to start pdebuild out of an "unstable" system? This > would be a nuisance because I do not want to run unstable on this > machine and regarded pbuilder as a very nice way to maintain a > proper unstable chroot. It depends where you run debsign

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Adam D. Barratt wrote: fwiw, this was mentioned in the recent Misc Development News post to d-d-a. Yes, but I expect an up to date pbuilder to contain everything I need. Thinking about it chances are good that the GPG key is not copied to the building chroot and my assump

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > There are rumours about that, yes. Maybe a package hijack could be > attempted by someone who's lucky enough to have his|her key in the > keyring. > ... and still have it after that upload :-P -- Francesco P. Lovergine --

Bug#476416: ITP: plasma-netgraph -- A plasmoid to display network usage

2008-04-16 Thread Salvatore Ansani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plasma-netgraph Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : John Varouhakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/plasma-netgraph?content=74071 * License

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the place where it belongs. > It looks like cruft/bad design to have the same snippet of code in all > packages. Perhaps this should be fixed in another way then? For example a shared Makefile includ

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2008-04-16 Thread sameer webmaster
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Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:51:48PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > >> fwiw, this was mentioned in the recent Misc Development News post to d-d-a. > > Yes, but I expect an up to date pbuilder to contain everything I > need. Thinking about it chances are g

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080415 21:57]: >> Now I suppose sparc and others might still like it if they have >> performance advantages of 32bit code over 64bit code, in which case >> keeping 64bit for only those programs where the extra

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > >> What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? >> >> 1. If a library *only supports the retrieval of FOO_LIBS and / or >> FOO_CFLAGS by the use of pkg-config*, pkg-config becomes part o

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Loïc Minier may or may not have written... > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the place where it >> belongs. It looks like cruft/bad design to have the same snippet of code >> in all packages. > Perhaps this should be fi

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 19:15 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > >> What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > >> > >> 1. If a library *only supports the retrieval of FOO_LIB

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:15:53PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > You are missing the point. > > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during build"? But the library can't say "foo must come from a Debian package". What if I have my local replacement? Why should I be forced

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Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 19:57 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:15:53PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > You are missing the point. > > > > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during build"? > > But the library can't say "foo must come from a Debian p

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:23 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > First of all, I skipped a large part of this thread, so I'm sorry if > this has come up before. > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > And by this definition, it is the package _invoking_ pkg-config that > > >

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The way I understand it, they HAVE been pushing... and pushing... for a long time... against a nonresponsive binutils maintainer. This thre

Re: Bug#476340: ITP: datapacker -- Tool to pack files into minimum number of CDs/DVDs/etc

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Leonard
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:21:51PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:50:23PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * Package name: datapacker >> Version : 1.0.0 >> Upstream Author :

missing package conflicts

2008-04-16 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hi, The following list contains packages that fail to install at the same time since one package tries to overwrite a file owned by the other package: http://edos.debian.net/missing-conflicts/ In these package pairs, (at least) one of the two packages must declare a conflict with the other pack

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:19:12PM +0200, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: >> on the 1st of April I wrote an e-mail to James Troup offering my help in >> hunting >> down open bugs which are no longer present an thus enabling him to >> concentrate >> on packaging GnuPG 1.4.9. But his l

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/04/08 at 17:08 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > There are rumours about that, yes. Maybe a package hijack could be > > attempted by someone who's lucky enough to have his|her key in the > > keyring. > > ... and stil

Re: missing package conflicts

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 02:58:52 pm Ralf Treinen wrote: > Hi, > > The following list contains packages that fail to install at the same time > since one package tries to overwrite a file owned by the other package: > > http://edos.debian.net/missing-conflicts/ > > In these package pairs, (at lea

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Simon, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment >> variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to >> be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags >> and to simplify th

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Adeodato wrote: > On the other hand, the bit about running `debian/rules build` by hand > seems valid to me. Indeed, that's what my fingers are used to typing if I just want a patched package for local use. I wouldn't be surprised if there were lots of other users who are the same. The various wr

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:33:32PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 16/04/08 at 17:08 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > There are rumours about that, yes. Maybe a package hijack could be > > > attempted by someone who'

Bug#476465: ITP: dose2 -- OCaml libraries for managing packages and their dependencies

2008-04-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dose2 Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Berke Durak, Jaap Boender * URL : http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/sodiac/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: OCaml Descriptio

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 14:19 +0200 schrieb Kai Wasserbäch: > on the 1st of April I wrote an e-mail to James Troup offering my help in > hunting > down open bugs which are no longer present an thus enabling him to concentrate > on packaging GnuPG 1.4.9. But his last action regarding this pac

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:12:45PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > > > 1. If a library *only supports the retrieval of FOO_LIBS and / or > > FOO_CFLAGS by the use of pkg-config*,

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:38:39 +0100, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I demand that Loïc Minier may or may not have written... >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the place where it >>> belongs. It looks like cruft/bad design t

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:15:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You are missing the point. > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during build"? How does the library say that? Why can't I just have gcc -o baz baz.c -lfoo How can the librar

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:12 +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:12:45PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > > > > > 1. If a library *only supports the retrieva

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP-master & DAM delegations

2008-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:32:17AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: >Dear Developers, > >Now that I have your attention, I would like to make the following > delegations: > > 1. Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is appointed FTP-master. > > 2. Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is made

Re: missing package conflicts

2008-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 15:44 -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I'd be interested in seeing how there can be 75 package pairs with shared > file > names which coinstall successfully. In the case of a Replaces making that > possible, I'd say that the package with files being replaced should usually

Re: missing package conflicts

2008-04-16 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:20:21PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 15:44 -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > > I'd be interested in seeing how there can be 75 package pairs with shared > > file > > names which coinstall successfully. In the case of a Replaces making that > >

Bug#476482: ITP: ocamlpam -- OCaml bindings for the PAM library

2008-04-16 Thread Stephane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephane Glondu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocamlpam Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Sharvil Nanavati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sharvil.nanavati.net/projects/ocamlpam/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:48:26 +0200: NMU attempt gets vetoed > > Nope, this is only a patch with a mail subject 'Patch for pending NMU of > binutils' The BTS doesn't show it but it was vetoed. >> Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:01:53 +0200:

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:39:56PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt a écrit : > Andreas Tille wrote: > >Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed. > >Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: actual file size (1289) does not match > >size (1052) in .changes sha1 Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha256 check > >failed. Reje

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good idea. I just added screenshots.debian.org idea that came up on > > some discussion at Chemnitzer LinuxTage in March. It would be nice if > > somebody would grab this up - at least the idea will not just va

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Wed Apr 16 17:19, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it is the third time that I've got this type of rejection. I faced > > it two times with package gnumed-client and now with a different package. > > > > Is anybody able to e

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Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP-master & DAM delegations

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:32:17AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: Dear Developers, Now that I have your attention, I would like to make the following delegations: 1. Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is appointed FTP-master. 2. Joerg Jasp

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:39:56PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt a écrit : >> Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed. >>> Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: actual file size (1289) does not match >>> size (1052) in .changes sha1 Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc:

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Manoj Srivastava | On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:15:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: | | > You are missing the point. | | > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during build"? | | How does the library say that? Why can't I just have | gcc -o baz

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil Williams | That is an example of a library including pkg-config into the library | API. Changing that behaviour (dropping the script) means a SONAME bump. No, changing an API without changing the ABI does not mean a SONAME bump. SONAMEs are for ABIs, not APIs and one can change without t

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > On mar, 2008-04-01 at 01:21 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:57:48PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > I also have to wonder that if we have something like this as default, > > > why -Bsymbolic-functions wo

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP-master & DAM delegations

2008-04-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:35:38AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > 1. Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is appointed FTP-master. > > > > 2. Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is made a full Debian Account > > Manager and is therefore empowered to create and remove developer > >

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:58:44 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Manoj Srivastava >> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:15:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > You are missing the point. >> >> > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during buil