Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > How does this compare with projects like icheck or abicheck? icheck is fairly unmaintained, since upstream is a former Debian developer. No idea about abicheck, perhaps you could compare them Andrey? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/P

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

2009-08-07 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:45:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > 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

Bug#540319: ITP: python-ampqlib -- Simple non-threaded Python AMQP client library

2009-08-07 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mikhail Gusarov * Package name: python-ampqlib Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Barry Pederson * URL : http://barryp.org/software/py-amqplib/ * License : LGPL 2.1+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Simple non

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

2009-08-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jonas, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Jonas Meurer wrote: > at least for zope2.1[01]-sandbox, i don't know how to fix that issue. > invoking the initscript at postinst/prerm of the -sandbox packages will > cause _all_ zope instances on the system to be restarted, and that isn't > an option at a

Bug#540327: ITP: akonadi-googledata -- Google calendar and contacts resource for Akonadi

2009-08-07 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: akonadi-googledata Version: 1.0 Upstream Author: Adenilson Cavalcanti URL: http://code.google.com/p/libgcal/ License: LGPL3 Description: Google calendar and contacts resource for Akonadi It provides an ea

Bug#540332: ITP: at-spi2-core -- Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (Core) - dbus

2009-08-07 Thread Ray Wang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ray Wang * Package name: at-spi2-core Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Mike Gorse Mark Doffman * URL : https://projects.codethink.co.uk/index.php/p/at-spi2 * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#540333: RFH: emdebian-tools -- emdebian crossbuilding tool set

2009-08-07 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the emdebian-tools package. For my reasons, see: http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/178-Why-I-missed-DebConf9.html For background, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2009/08/msg5.html

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

2009-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:45:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Giving a standard interface to reviewers is a laudable goal, but I do not see > reviewers except in elaborate scenarios about security. Therefore I will not > trade a real benefit for a hypothetical one, even if both are neglectible.

piuparts-MBF: overwriting other packages files

2009-08-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as announced yesterday, I will now continue starting threads about different bug categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree on mass filing bugs with a sensible severity. Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the piuparts test because the package tries to

Bug#540336: ITP: at-spi2-atk -- Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (ATK) - dbus

2009-08-07 Thread Ray Wang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ray Wang * Package name: at-spi2-atk Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Mike Gorse Mark Doffman * URL : https://projects.codethink.co.uk/index.php/p/at-spi2 * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C D

Re: Bug#540332: ITP: at-spi2-core -- Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (Core) - dbus

2009-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ray Wang (07/08/2009): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ray Wang > > > * Package name: at-spi2-core > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : Mike Gorse > Mark Doffman > * URL : https://projects.codethink.co.uk/index.php/p/at-spi2 > * L

Bug#540341: RFH: apt-cross -- retrieve, build and install libraries for cross-compiling

2009-08-07 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the apt-cross package. For my reasons, see: http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/178-Why-I-missed-DebConf9.html For background, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2009/08/msg5.html and f

Re: Bug#540341: RFH: apt-cross -- retrieve, build and install libraries for cross-compiling

2009-08-07 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:04 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > The package description is: > apt-cross is intended to make it easier to locate, download, install and > update your cross-compiling libraries, directly from the Debian archives. I'm interested to help on this, but I'm still waiting for

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 14:21:54 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Banck (05/08/2009): > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them > > > apart that unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Guillem Jover wrote: > 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 c

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:57:38PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > 2) icheck was intended for the same purposes as an > ABI-compliance-checker, but icheck has many drawbacks: [...] > c) icheck contains 467 files and 61 sub-folders; > ABI-compliance-checker is a single file. I am concerne

Bug#540356: ITP: python-lamson -- A pure Python SMTP server

2009-08-07 Thread David Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Watson X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-lamson Version : 1.0pre1 Upstream Author : Zed Shaw * URL : http://lamsonproject.org/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Descrip

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

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Küster
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:45:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> 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 wh

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

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Küster
Neil McGovern wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:45:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Giving a standard interface to reviewers is a laudable goal, but I do not see >> reviewers except in elaborate scenarios about security. Therefore I will not >> trade a real benefit for a hypothetical one, e

Bug#540365: ITP: turnin-ng -- Assignment submitter and manager

2009-08-07 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ryan Kavanagh * Package name: turnin-ng Version : 1.0~rc1 Upstream Author : Ryan Kavanagh * URL : http://github.com/ryanakca/Turnin-NG/tree/master * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Assign

Bug#540372: ITP: python-mock -- Mocking and Testing Library

2009-08-07 Thread David Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Watson X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-mock Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Michael Foord * URL : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Py

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-07 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:57:38PM +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > >> 2) icheck was intended for the same purposes as an >> ABI-compliance-checker, but icheck has many drawbacks: >> > > [...] > > >> c) icheck contains 467 files and 61 sub-folders; >> ABI-c

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

2009-08-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 06 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > This said, if there were a project-wide momentum for standardising on one > patch > format, I would not oppose. This would probably be a release goal, a > preparation for a Policy change, or a demand from the security team to the > package manintainer

Re: piuparts-MBF: overwriting other packages files

2009-08-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Aug 07 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the piuparts > test because the package tries to overwrite another packages files without > declaring a conflict or replaces relation. See policy 7.4 and 7.6 at > http://www.debian.org/doc

Re: piuparts-MBF: overwriting other packages files

2009-08-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Manoj, On Freitag, 7. August 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the > > piuparts test because the package tries to overwrite another packages > > files without declaring a conflict or replac

Re: waf into NEW, please test it with your packages

2009-08-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 26 juillet 2009 à 13:51 +0200, Luca Falavigna a écrit : > waf preferred design is to provide a self-unpacking Python script to be > installed into projects' root directories and then executed from there, > we adjusted it to be available system-wide, so everyone can use it, no > matter i

Bug#540453: ITP: samtools -- processing sequence alignments in SAM and BAM formats

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: samtools Version : 0.1.5c-1 Upstream Author : Heng Li, Bob Handsaker, Jue Ruan, Colin Hercus. URL : http://samtools.sourceforge.net/ License : MIT and NetBSD Programming Lang: C, Perl