On Mon, May 04 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I'll try to summarize the discussion (althought it might be biased to
> my preferred option) and some facts, so that we can get to a conclusion:
+1
I agree with almost everything said in this email.
manoj
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What use is your matted ha
Thank you all, I should read changelogs..
regards
-r
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 07:35 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage
> > and the policy do not match fully.
...
> So I think for next dpkg upload we should make dpkg-
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Guillem Jover wrote:
> [ BCCed debian-dpkg for the proposed dpkg changes. ]
> * Lots of packages (roughly around 4k) do not honour env vars for build
> flags, as they follow the examples from policy (or dh-make and similar)
> and thus are setting them unconditionally, which env vars do not
>
On Mon, 04 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> env var should not be set either, and we should work on getting a
> dpkg-vendor instead, before people try to start using the variable.
FYI, I already started this.
> start fixing packages to include that makefile. The files could look
> something like:
On Fri, 01 May 2009, Jiří Paleček wrote:
>> should
>> almost never happen (except diversion) and the result when it happens is
>
> Should I read it as "the only legal situation where it returns multiple
> packages are diversions (the rest are errors)" or "the majority of
> situations ... are di
On Fri, 01 May 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Please let one central developers-reference package built the various
> languages. Which means this should be just another binary package of
> developers-reference and not something own.
That's already the case. Leandro, if you want to contribute a spani
On 2009-05-04 Josselin Mouette wrote:
[...]
> The appropriate change would be to create a default-mta virtual package
> that is always provided by only one MTA at a time, so you might want to
> work on this solution instead of breaking important packages.
FWIW as previously discussed on debian-de
On Mon, May 04 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> ,-- debian/rules
>> -include /usr/share/dpkg/build-options.mk
>>
>> # package overrides
>> FOO := pkg
>> `--
>
> Probably without the leading "-", otherwise we have a risk to not have
> any sane default at
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:13:39PM -, Jiri Palecek wrote:
> I'd like to package the selinux tests from the ltp test suite. The tests
> need a special selinux policy to be loaded and some files to be relabeled.
> I haven't found any standard way of packaging this, so I made an
> experiment
If we're doing something that ultimately requires modification of
every debian/rules file *anyway*, can we please make
build-arch/build-indep mandatory targets, so that dpkg-buildpackage -B
can *finally* (eight years later!) be changed to call build-arch?
zw
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On Monday 04 May 2009 08:35:18 Guillem Jover wrote:
I like this proposal. A small nit:
> ,-- /usr/share/dpkg/build-options.mk
> # distro defaults
> FOO := distro
Please be sure to use
FOO = bar
instead of ":=", unless you have determined that you really wanted ":=". In
most cases it won't m
I demand that Noah Slater may or may not have written...
[snip; in reply to Brett Parker]
> Considering that we're discussing on a mailing list, it's reasonable to
> assume that the common case is replying to the list. Why optimise for, what
> is surely by definition, the uncommon case?
Why *brea
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On Mon, May 04 2009, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Monday 04 May 2009 08:35:18 Guillem Jover wrote:
>
> I like this proposal. A small nit:
>
>> ,-- /usr/share/dpkg/build-options.mk
>> # distro defaults
>> FOO := distro
>
> Please be sure to use
>
> FOO = bar
>
> instead of ":=", unless you have de
On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:45:45 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: David Paleino
>
> * Package name: claws-mail-debian-spam-plugin
> Version : 0.0.1
> Upstream Author : David Paleino
> * URL : to be defined yet :)
Ok, my ITPs are b
On Monday 04 May 2009 23:53:15 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, May 04 2009, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Please be sure to use
> >
> > FOO = bar
> >
> > instead of ":=", unless you have determined that you really wanted ":=".
> > In most cases it won't make a difference, but in some it does, and
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Owner: Jonathan Yu
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Programming Lang: Perl
Description : An implementation of the TT800
[moving debian-rele...@l.d.o to Bcc, continuing discussion in bug log]
also sprach Andreas Metzler [2009.05.04.1856
+0200]:
> FWIW as previously discussed on debian-devel starting with the
> lastest upload (4.69-10) exim4-daemon-light provides default-mta.
Excellent. If there are no objections,
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