Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 13 août 2009 à 00:51 -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > If there are people not managing their Standards Versions fields > like they are supposed to, and are too lazy or incompetent to keep > track of a simple version, I suggest we start thinking about removing > DD status from

Re: What's the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> I do not have a strong opinion about this, apart from the fact > >> that it must be present in the sources when someone is looking to > >> update the package, an

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > If there are people not managing their Standards Versions fields > like they are supposed to, and are too lazy or incompetent to keep > track of a simple version, I suggest we start thinking about removing > DD status from people based on a

Re: What???s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > track of a simple version, I suggest we start thinking about removing > DD status from people based on a track record of incompetence. Yes please. But looking at S-V as a primary factor here is not the right thing. More like "frequently introduces rc b

Re: What's the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Raphael Hertzog writes: >> BTW also Maintainer and Uploader fiels are uselessly exported. > > Same here, they are used. While in stable the info might not be up-to-date, > in sid it does and those infos are used by the PTS. What about exposing them in the Source file for /unstable/ *only*, and l

Bug#541310: ITP: minbif -- Use libraries from the Pidgin project to provide an IRC-to-other-IM-networks gateway

2009-08-13 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond * Package name: minbif Version : 1.0alpha~git20090813 Upstream Author : Romain Bignong * URL : http://symlink.me/projects/show/minbif * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Use lib

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-08-13 11:32:17 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Not having anything to do with Ubuntu, I don't know anything about the > details, but they have had automatic debug packages and automated > crash report stuff for quite a while, a couple of years IIRC. The > specs for that are here: > > https://lau

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:22:45PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > ? I just use zless on that file and stop reading when I get to the > current Standards-Version of the package, but that would automate it. > > This is, indeed, exactly the use of the Standards-Version field that both > Manoj an

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Russ Allbery wrote: > Hm, that's interesting, but I suspect that few enough of our users will be > able to use such a thing that we shouldn't let that influence any other > design choices. Most shares are not going to be able to be mounted > through firewalls, for example, so that form of the debu

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Ah, and it looks like the automated crash reporting offers to download the >> -dbgsym packages and install them. > Reading the spec, it seems to me that the primary motivation was > for users to provide crash dumps with bug reports, and not much s

Re: Is Ayman Negm MIA?

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Prokop
[Cc-ing Ayman] Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:46, Rince wrote: >> Ayman Negm is the maintainer of, among others, the gddrescue package. >> The package hasn't been touched by him since 2006, and several bugs >> about it have required NMUs by other people. > Ayman is been tracked

Re: Is Ayman Negm MIA?

2009-08-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all, I'm going to orphan Ayman's packages. If and when he'll come back he can upload the package closing the O bugs, and/or ask comaintainershp for the packages that someone else would have taken. Regards, Sandro On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 13:38, Michael Prokop wrote: > [Cc-ing Ayman] > > Sandro

Re: What's the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:15:37 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > BTW also Maintainer and Uploader fiels are uselessly exported. > > > > Same here, they are used. While in stable the info might not be up-to-date, > > in sid it does and those infos are used by the P

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > >> There will still be a repository with all the .ddebs. > > And aptitude and dpkg will know how to install ddebs, somehow? > and synaptic, etc? Yes, dpkg, apt-get, aptitude and synaptic all work perfectly

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:58:45 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > >> If that bothers you, you can use the share we plan to provide. >> > I'd like to still be able to debug offline, thank you very much. So far > you've avoided answering the question, though: why one d

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:58:45AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Roger Leigh wrote: >>> This fails to address the rather valid concern brought up about >>> having different versions of libraries and binaries installed >>> from the same source package. Having one .dde

Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 13 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> If there are people not managing their Standards Versions fields >> like they are supposed to, and are too lazy or incompetent to keep >> track of a simple version, I suggest we start thinking a

Re: What???s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 13 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-08-13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> track of a simple version, I suggest we start thinking about removing >> DD status from people based on a track record of incompetence. > > Yes please. > > But looking at S-V as a primary factor here is not the

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello thread! /me puts on a package manager developer hat. Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread, it's huge. I think that diversion of debug packages out of current deb format is a completely wrong direction. Do you want to teach all tools that get some info about Debian packages that there is n

Siebel customer lists

2009-08-13 Thread news
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Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello thread! /me puts on a package manager developer hat. > > Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread, it's huge. > > I think that diversion of debug packages out of current deb format is a > completely wrong direction. Do you want to teach all tools that get some inf

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 13 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Yes, dpkg, apt-get, aptitude and synaptic all work perfectly fine. The debug command addresses my concerns here. > As I've said, there will still be a debug archive. I don't see what's > the problem with providing *both* an archive an

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Russ Allbery wrote: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptElfDebugSymbols is the specification. It does > use *.ddeb. There isn't any clear statement about how *.ddeb packages > differ from *.deb packages. It looks like, by and large, they don't, > except they may not need to contain the same set of thin

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Romain Beauxis (13/08/2009): > Le jeudi 13 août 2009 00:09:09, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > > Romain Beauxis (12/08/2009): > > > Is it foolish to propose this as a lintian check ? "Hey, standards > > > version is outdated, here are the changes that ought to be done" > > > > checks/standards-vers

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Hello thread! /me puts on a package manager developer hat. >> >> Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread, it's huge. >> >> I think that diversion of debug packages out of current deb format is a >> completely wrong direction. Do you want

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > And I have to agree with Emilio that I don't see the point of a 1:1 > relationship of ddeb to binary package just for the sake of library > transitions. I wonder if we could just unpack the debugging build-id > objects to some other location than globally and point gdb to

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptElfDebugSymbols is the specification. It >> does use *.ddeb. There isn't any clear statement about how *.ddeb >> packages differ from *.deb packages. It looks like, by and large, they >> don't, except they may n

can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'

2009-08-13 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
hello dd. 1- can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'? 2- is required use 'piuparts' in order to upload a package? i'm not sure .. waiting ;) signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Bug#541364: ITP: libtest-script-run-perl -- Perl module for testing scripts as subprocesses

2009-08-13 Thread Christine Spang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christine Spang * Package name: libtest-script-run-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : sunnavy * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Script-Run/ * License : Perl (GPL-1+ | Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Re: can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'

2009-08-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Leinier Cruz Salfran wrote: > hello dd. > > 1- can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'? You should be able to, but I guess it takes *way* tooo much time to be useful. Have a look at the pbuilder hook examples in /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples - they do some minimal testing and are what I definit

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > If you think one should address content, and specific actions, > not personalities, your message does tend to inject personalities into > the discussion. Please cease doing so. Well, why are mentioning the topic of removing DD status to inco

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:04:31AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:10:43AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 12 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:22:17 -0500 > >> > Manoj Srivastava

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-13, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Maybe you should spend some time and read the thread before stating such >> things. > Really? So, they are already first-class deb packages? Maybe you should spend some time and read the thread before stating such things. > What percent of their (and

Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 13 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> If you think one should address content, and specific actions, >> not personalities, your message does tend to inject personalities into >> the discussion. Please cease doing so. > > Well, why a

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-08-13, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>> Maybe you should spend some time and read the thread before stating such >>> things. >> Really? So, they are already first-class deb packages? > > Maybe you should spend some time and read the thread before stating such > thing

Re: maybe ITP of lib DomainKeys

2009-08-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On torsdagen den 30 juli 2009, Russell Coker wrote: > http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/license/softwarelicense1-1.html > > I've packaged libdomainkeys for internal use and am considering adding a > package that depends on it to Debian/Unstable. Is the domainkeys license > suitable for inclusion i

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > retitle 485330 Allow context diff in debian/patches/ in 3.0 (quilt) format > thanks > > On Thu, 06 Aug 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > That said, yes, using non-unified diff is as laughable as using RCS or > > SCCS nowadays. Thoug

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: > I've been playing with WebDAV, which is an extension to HTTP. So I guess > that will work with firewalls? Yes, it should. The only lingering concern that I have about a share is how it plays with the files installed on your system via package. Can gdb be pointe

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:08:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: > > > I've been playing with WebDAV, which is an extension to HTTP. So I guess > > that will work with firewalls? > > Yes, it should. > > The only lingering concern that I have about a share is how it

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Russ Allbery wrote: > The only lingering concern that I have about a share is how it plays with > the files installed on your system via package. Can gdb be pointed to > multiple different debug information stores at different paths? Mounting > a remote share over top of /usr/lib/debug obviously

Re: can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: 2009/8/12 Leinier Cruz Salfran : > hello dd. > > 1- can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'? For what it's worth, Ryan Niebur (Ryan52) -- NM and DD candidate -- has managed to hack piuparts to run inside a sbuild chroot. It runs fairly slow (takes a few minutes) but isn't totally intolerable. I

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:17:55PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > First, the naming: > It is indeed us Ftpmasters who want them named .ddeb. For two reasons - > a simple one is that it makes the handling much easier, if you can match > on *.ddeb$. Another one is that they aren't "real" debs like .de

Re: can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'

2009-08-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 06:53:04PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > 2009/8/12 Leinier Cruz Salfran : > > hello dd. > > > > 1- can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'? > For what it's worth, Ryan Niebur (Ryan52) -- NM and DD candidate -- > has managed to hack piuparts to run inside a sbuild chroot. Sound

Work-needing packages report for Aug 14, 2009

2009-08-13 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: 443 (new: 81) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 127 (new: 5) Total number of packages reques

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > Hmm. As my memory serves me, the statement was: > > Message-Id: <125014.23574.10.ca...@shizuru> > Fine. It's been several years now that managing the standards > version has been an unconditional bump for

Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 13 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : >> Hmm. As my memory serves me, the statement was: >> >> Message-Id: <125014.23574.10.ca...@shizuru> >> Fine. It's been several years now that managing the standards

Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 13 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : >> Hmm. As my memory serves me, the statement was: >> >> Message-Id: <125014.23574.10.ca...@shizuru> >> Fine. It's been several years now that managing the standards

An apology to the mailing list and Charles Plessey

2009-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Inadvertently, a draft copy of an email written in anger, and not meant to be actually sent, was sent to the mailing list, instead of a more reasoned response. For that I apologize. You may see from the second response what I meant to be public response, and the first emai

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