Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:47:25PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > However, I realised that the Ultimate Debian Database, which I thought would > be > a nice place to host the data, works on a retreiving model rather than a > pushing model. Before elaborating a complex workaround involving an > int

Re: Is Christian Meder MIA?

2009-08-06 Thread Walter Franzini
Christian Meder writes: [...] > Now life has slowed down a bit and I intend to return to my aegis > duties. Thank you for preparing the updated Debian package I'll check it > and upload it afterwards. I've just uploaded the package for 4.24.2 on http://aegis.stepbuild.org/debian/aegis it now

Bug#540155: ITP: pdfmod -- simple tool for modifying PDF documents

2009-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: pdfmod Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Gabriel Burt * URL : http://live.gnome.org/pdfmod * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C# Description : simple tool for modifying PDF documen

piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as announced at DebConf9 I'll now (slowly) start threads about different bug categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree on mass filing bugs with the correct severity. Having a piuparts clean archive is again a release goal for squeeze, currently http://piuparts.debian.org/squee

Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

2009-08-06 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 16:12 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > if you have to disable ipv6 to make "the internet connection fast", the > > setup > > at your provider is broken - Debian comes with working out of the box > > support > > for ipv6, if you need to disable it to make the ne

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:22:12PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > According to a quick look at the diff wikipedia page[1], unified diffs > appeared in GNU diff 1.15, released in January 1991. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff > > Time to move on? Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:22:14PM +0

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Holger. Holger Levsen (06/08/2009): > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html and > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html lists > those packages. Identical URLs? And for the sake of archiving for one, and for the sake of people not always on

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (06/08/2009): > So to summarise, you are suggesting me to write upstream that: > > 1) We want to review their patches, > 2) We can not do this with context diffs, > 3) We do want to actively reject non-unified diffs despite our tools work > well with them, Sure. > 4) The rea

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi KiBi, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Holger Levsen (06/08/2009): > > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html and > > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html lists > > those packages. > Identical URLs? Gah. Forgot to s/sq

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (06/08/2009): > But, since we tweak the headers, the check can get added before the > first dereferencement. Of course, there are the fuzzy stuff with patch, > but sounds less likely to happen. Heh, might have left that to the attentive reader, but let's fix the typo: s/before/aft

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (06/08/2009): > Heh, might have left that to the attentive reader, but let's fix the > typo: s/before/after/. :) And given I wasn't even using the right option, I'm going to hide for a while, lalala. (Thanks pusling.) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3. 0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Charles Plessy (06/08/2009): >>  4) The reason why they should adopt a new diff format is because it is new. > > It *was*. 20 years ago. Perhaps it is about time it was made the default :) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
Holger Levsen, 2009-08-06 11:27:34 +0200 : > Hi, > > as announced at DebConf9 I'll now (slowly) start threads about > different bug categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree > on mass filing bugs with the correct severity. Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been to

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ???3.0 (quilt)???.

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:52:08PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > So to summarise, you are suggesting me to write upstream that: Why do you need to write anything to upstream? If they still insist on context diffs (or whatever that is called), I guess there is not much we can do. Debian insists

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Roland, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Roland Mas wrote: > Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been too > frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my > laziness, would you consider doing continuous (or regular) runs of > piuparts on the whole archive,

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts/FAQ > I'm subscribed to > that page and would like to collect questions and answers there, instead of > repeating myself endlessly ;-) That might leave a wrong impression, so let me add: Thanks for asking

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
Holger Levsen, 2009-08-06 14:44:53 +0200 : > Hi Roland, > > On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Roland Mas wrote: >> Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been too >> frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my >> laziness, would you consider doing continuous (o

Bug#540182: ITP: libgctp -- General Cartographic Transformation Package Library

2009-08-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: libgctp Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Abe_Taaheri abe_taah...@raytheon.com * URL : http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/USGS-GCTP.html * License : Mixed public-domain and BSD Programming L

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Oh, if you really need an example, what about the following? We tend to > fix GCC issues. We tweak headers. Some might get added, some might be > removed. We have such a patch. A CVE arrives. A context diff gets > published. It gets applies on the top of the other patche

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:44:53PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been too > > frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my > > laziness, would you consider doing continuous (or regular) runs of > > piuparts on the whole

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 06/08/2009 Holger Levsen wrote: > > And for the sake of archiving for one, and for the sake > > of people not always online, could you please attach a package list / > > dd-list next time? > > Will try to remember... > > The three packages of this are zope2.10-sandbox, zope2.10-sandbox and

backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
So... you all realize, right, that old-style context diffs and unified diffs can be trivially converted into each other? They have the same amount of information. filterdiff --format=unified < context.diff filterdiff --format=context < unified.diff (filterdiff comes with patchutils.) Gi

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:07:02PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > After deleting the following check, my source package builds fine. > > --- a/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Patch.pm > +++ b/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Patch.pm > @@ -325,9 +325,6 @@ sub analyze { > unless (defined($_ = getline($diff_handle))

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:33:28PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Those are actually valid ed scripts IIRC. Okay, sorry, I meant to remove that sentence that is actually wrong... sorry 'bout that. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··Omadco...@debian.org OO

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre Habouzit writes: > FWIW I've read this sub-thread with some kind of consternation, > especially seeing how wrong some arguments are. > > First of all, non-unified diffs are called "context diffs", and can have > ... wait for it ... context. Those are actually valid ed scripts IIRC. > The

Re: Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

2009-08-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Gustavo Noronha Silva said: > While at debconf I was debugging why epiphany-webkit (libsoup, really) > was failing to get to Rhonda's blog, and it seems like DNS was resolving > the name to the ipv6 address as well as the ipv4. It seems like firefox > handles this by fa

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
[CCing you since I presume you are not subscribed to debian-devel] [CCing the Debian release team since they may be interested] On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >    Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System > Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences an

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I think that you asked the key question, and that the answer will help us to > sort out the metadata contents in Debian packages. > > Currently, debian/control contains: > >  - Informations for the package manager (dpkg). For instance, the p

Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: abi-compliance-checker Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Andrey Ponomarenko * URL : http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker * Lice

Bug#540286: ITP: libcatalyst-model-adaptor-perl -- Perl module to use a plain class as a Catalyst model

2009-08-06 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-model-adaptor-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Jonathan Rockway * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Model-Adaptor/ * License

Bug#540295: ITP: libfile-queue-perl -- Perl module providing a FIFO queue

2009-08-06 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-queue-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Jason Lavold * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Queue/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Pro

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > How to split up the Packages/Sources files into more granular pieces > would be nice, but which fields should go into which sets needs > defining, and which set of sets should be the default. For > compatability, it could continue to generate Pac

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Bug#540298: ITP: lua-iconv -- iconv bindings for the Lua programming language

2009-08-06 Thread Jon Bernard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Bernard * Package name: lua-iconv Version : 6 Upstream Author : Alexandre Erwin Ittner * URL : http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-iconv/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : iconv bindings for th

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 06 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > So... you all realize, right, that old-style context diffs and unified > diffs can be trivially converted into each other? They have the same > amount of information. > > filterdiff --format=unified < context.diff > filterdiff --format=context <

Work-needing packages report for Aug 7, 2009

2009-08-06 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 367 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 124 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Bug#540300: ITP: libsub-current-perl -- Perl module to determine the executing subroutine

2009-08-06 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libsub-current-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Rafael Garcia-Suarez * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Current/ * License : Artistic | GP

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System > Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free > lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of > shared C/C++ lib

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:26:02AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > (filterdiff comes with patchutils.) Given that, this seems like a tempest > in a teapot to me. Just convert the diff into whatever format the tool > that you're using expects or the reviewer wants to read. Hi Russ and everybod

Bug#540302: ITP: itaka -- Itaka is a on-demand screen capture server

2009-08-06 Thread Marc E.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marc E." * Package name: itaka Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Marc E. * URL : http://itaka.jardinpresente.com.ar * License : (GPL, CC-BY-SA-2.5) Programming Lang: (Python) Description : On-demand screen captu

Bug#540304: ITP: libtext-reflow-perl -- Perl module for reflowing files using Knuth's algorithm

2009-08-06 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtext-reflow-perl Version : 1.09 Upstream Author : Martin Ward * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Reflow/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming L

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Pierre Habouzit writes: > First of all, non-unified diffs are called "context diffs" Not necessarily. I've been using the term to reply to *any* diff output format that isn't unified-diff format. From my perspective, there is the de facto standard of unified-diff format, used by the vast majorit

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Pierre Habouzit writes: > > > First of all, non-unified diffs are called "context diffs" > > Not necessarily. I've been using the term to reply to *any* diff output > format that isn't unified-diff format. s/reply to/refer to/ -- \ “One seldom discovers a true be

Re: Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread George Danchev
--cut-- > > The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker > > is http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker > > This looks like an extremely useful piece of software (in the past > I've thought "I wish there were a tool to do this" :)). I'll pack

Bug#540311: show something to ponder while filesystem checking

2009-08-06 Thread jidanni
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-2 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh X-debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org I have an idea. Every few days when booting we encounter a file system check, which takes several minutes. We sit there, helpless, unable to issue any command. All we