Re: Bug#528061: ITP: obexd -- OBEX client and server

2009-05-13 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Sattler wrote: > And upcoming kdebluetooth4 uses solid BTW, is anyone working on that? (The RFP is #491580.) Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.m

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Collins writes: > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 08:06 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mercredi 13 mai 2009 à 11:23 +1000, Brian May a écrit : >> > Is this still considered to be a libtool issue? >> >> Yes, but instead of dropping the .la entirely, I’d recommend to simply >> purge it from

architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Since etch, dpkg has supported architecture wildcards such as "linux-any" and "any-powerpc", which can, among other things, be used to express Linux-only build dependencies like this: Build-Depends: libcap2-dev [linux-any] instead of one of the previous approaches: Build-Depends: libcap2-dev |

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-05-13 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
I haven't read the whole long thread, so perhaps this has been mentioned by someone else. Python has recently decided to convert their documentation to reStructuredText [1]. It would make a lot of sense for Debian to use that de-facto standard (or some subset of it) for text typesetting in the long

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-05-13, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Since etch, dpkg has supported architecture wildcards such as "linux-any" and > "any-powerpc", which can, among other things, be used to express Linux-only > build dependencies like this: Which reminds me: could we please get similar possibilities for th

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Peter Eisentraut (13/05/2009): > The latter two approaches have obvious flaws, but it seems that no one is > using > the built-in dpkg approach. Is there anything wrong with it? Are people > just > not aware of it? People might be using the following, which is slightly better than listing e

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (13/05/2009): > dpkg folks haven't been advocating their use, either. Ah, Phil just mentioned what I had troubles remembering: the fact that Build-Depends and Architecture can't be handled in a similar fashion. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-05-13 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hi, >>> I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel in >>> Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice. >>> >> The patch I created that "fits" on Debian's vanilla kernel creates >> conflicts on the sources with the Debian patches. >> I hope to be able to clean that up

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-05-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: I haven't read the whole long thread, so perhaps this has been mentioned by someone else. Python has recently decided to convert their documentation to reStructuredText [1]. It would make a lot of sense for Debian to use that de-facto standard (or so

Bug#528526: ITP: libvideo-fourcc-info-perl -- Retrieve information about a FourCC

2009-05-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libvideo-fourcc-info-perl Version : 1.1.5 Upstream Author : Jonathan Yu * URL : CPAN * License : PD Programming Lang: Perl Description : Retrieve information about a FourCC -- To

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, May 12 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:30:43PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, >> > this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure from the kinds >> > of interfaces we've mandated in Po

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, May 12 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I don't know if there are more blocker. Oh, and /root is a home >> directory; unless we move that, a read only / would affect root >> negatively. > > How so? Only thing I can think of is the bash history. But it is not > like we force a read

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, May 12 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:01:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If they're built by the program, then anyone who wants to properly build >> the software, even if they don't want to go all the way to the package, >> will need to use the program, since p

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 12:50:03 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Since etch, dpkg has supported architecture wildcards such as "linux-any" and > "any-powerpc", which can, among other things, be used to express Linux-only > build dependencies like this: > > Build-Depends: libcap2-dev [linux-a

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 13 mai 2009 à 16:16 +1000, Robert Collins a écrit : > > If the pkg-config files or the headers still reference libdb, you’ll > > need it as a dependency anyway, but otherwise, it can be safely removed > > after you do that. > > Are the following two items correct: > - to link statical

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Guillem Jover (Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:00 +0200): > The wildcards on the binary stanza Architecture fields have also been > supported since the beginning. What wildcards? The "linux-any" and "powerpc-any" ones you mean? AFAIK, Phil was inquiring about good-old Build-Depends expressions like:

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Brian May
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 13 mai 2009 à 11:23 +1000, Brian May a écrit : > > Is this still considered to be a libtool issue? > > Yes, but instead of dropping the .la entirely, I’d recommend to simply > purge it from the dependency libs. > See /

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 14 mai 2009 à 09:05 +1000, Brian May a écrit : > > Yes, but instead of dropping the .la entirely, I’d recommend to simply > > purge it from the dependency libs. > > See /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/clean-la.mk for a way to do it. > > If I do that then I will (presumably) break stati

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:05:14AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mercredi 13 mai 2009 à 11:23 +1000, Brian May a écrit : > > > Is this still considered to be a libtool issue? > > Yes, but instead of dropping the .la entirely, I’d

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:16:57PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > If they are both simultaneously correct then the .la should represent > this, and be doing the right thing. > If its not, it may be a libtool platform bug, or possibly [but unlikely] > we've found a bug in libtools .la format. > I'

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 17:08 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I'd need to check the source, which I don't have time to do > just-now, > > but I thought there was provision for static and shared linking > having > > different needs. > > There is, but libtool itself has a blemish that ensures it w

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava writes: > On Tue, May 12 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > >>> I don't know if there are more blocker. Oh, and /root is a home >>> directory; unless we move that, a read only / would affect root >>> negatively. >> >> How so? Only thing I can think of is the bash history.

Bug#528602: ITP: python-pyftpdlib -- Python FTP server library

2009-05-13 Thread Julián Hernández Gómez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Julián Hernández Gómez" * Package name: python-pyftpdlib Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Giampaolo Rodola' * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Pyt

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Robert, [ I don't read debian-devel, so please Cc: me on or point me to whatever I should read; thanks. ] * Robert Collins wrote on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:31:46AM CEST: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419228 is likely > related. > as is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-13 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, I recently noticed that when I'm packaging software sometimes a i386.changes file gets created, and sometimes a source.changes file gets created. I couldn't find an explanation in the New Maintainer's Guide or in the Policy Manual. I guess its something to do with the setup or type of the pac

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-13 Thread Luk Claes
Malte Forkel wrote: > Hi, > > I recently noticed that when I'm packaging software sometimes a > i386.changes file gets created, and sometimes a source.changes file gets > created. > > I couldn't find an explanation in the New Maintainer's Guide or in the > Policy Manual. I guess its something to

Bug#528612: ITP: python-flickrapi -- Flickr API wrapper for Python

2009-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmidt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Schmidt * Package name: python-flickrapi Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Sybren A. Stüvel * URL : http://stuvel.eu/projects/flickrapi * License : Python license Programming Lang: Python Description : Flick