Bug#559414: general: Strange keyboard problem

2009-12-04 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Package: general Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Heyho! Quite an annoying bug and no idea where to start looking... On this Atom (AOA 150; kernel, hal, udev, X mostly from sid or at least squeeze), I have now twice (both times after several suspend/wakeup cycles)

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 01:56:50 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > When it came to evaluating the same for Debian, his technical opinion > won (e.g. the problem with setup.py changes mentioned some time ago) for > the time being, and now that python2.6 would be ready to upload, > Matthias turned ill (

Re: Debian as open project

2009-12-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2009-12-04 at 07:54 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Sorry, but trying to have a constructive discussion in between > complaints, hijack scenarios and ill informed suggestions does not look > very tempting to me and quite frankly I don't know how to make such a > discussion constructive. The thi

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:14:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > The right thing, I think, is to do it in the open. IMHO the best thing to do would be to maintain the policy document in a reasonable VCS and commit frequently. People who are really interested will drain the needed in

dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello The last version of libconfig-model-perl (640-3) is now shipped with dh_config_model_upgrade. The aim of dh_config_model_upgrade is to provide an easy way for a debian developer to add better configuration upgrade to the packages they maintain. Let's assume that Joe, debian developer, wa

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 19:28 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : > There is currently discussion ongoing about how to move forward, though > due to the complex nature of the current situation (where also lots of > FUD etc is on the lists), it is being dealt in private. This is absolute bullshit. The

Processed: Re: Bug#559414: general: Strange keyboard problem

2009-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 559414 linux-2.6 Bug #559414 [general] general: Strange keyboard problem Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'linux-2.6'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system admin

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 22:46 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : > > Many still seem to think that Ubuntu is sufficiently close to Debian > > that work done in it should be easily transferrable. If this is not the > > case, maybe we need to start treating Ubuntu more like we do Fedora. > > Because it

Re: FOSDEM 2010

2009-12-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:10:41AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 15:50:37 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > For those of you who were waiting for a call for talks from me on this > > subject, it's not really coming. However, if you think your talk may be > > of some interes

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Bjørn Mork
Luk Claes writes: > This discussion on -devel is quite useless and contra productive for > everyone involved. > > There is currently discussion ongoing about how to move forward, though > due to the complex nature of the current situation (where also lots of > FUD etc is on the lists), it is bein

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:08:03AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > The last version of libconfig-model-perl (640-3) is now shipped with > dh_config_model_upgrade. Cool, thanks for the update. > The end user may have to answer a medium debconf question asking him > whether to upgrade foobar pack

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:08:03 +0100 Dominique Dumont wrote: > The last version of libconfig-model-perl (640-3) is now shipped with > dh_config_model_upgrade. The package version doesn't sound like a new project, who is using it (and why?). (FYI the upstream CPAN description doesn't answer any of

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:57:51 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:08:03AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > The end user may have to answer a medium debconf question asking him > > whether to upgrade foobar package with Config::Model. Hopefully, > > that's all the end user

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:35:30AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:08:03AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > The end user may have to answer a medium debconf question asking him > > > whether to upgrade foobar package with Config::Model. Hopefully, > > > that's all the

Re: Debian as open project

2009-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 07:54:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > First of all an objection to the basic principle: the fact that the > > project "does not seem" to be able to have constructive discussion is > > not an argument for not having them. I believe that given you

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:18:46 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > For more informations, see http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade > Which describes the technical minutiae of the codebase without > explaining the "big picture" benefits of using the model or how the > model proposes to "fix" the (

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:45:53 +0100 gregor herrmann wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:18:46 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > For more informations, see > > > http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade > > Which describes the technical minutiae of the codebase without > > explaining the "big pict

rfkill (was: Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?)

2009-12-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Henrique de Moraes Holschuh may or may not have written... > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: [snip] >> My program allows exactely that, and uses either DBus/HAL interface >> of /dev/rfkill. > Just keep in mind that /dev/rfkill manipulates radios of a given _type_ as > a

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:04 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:45:53 +0100 > gregor herrmann wrote: > > > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:18:46 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > > For more informations, see > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade > > > Which describes the

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 04 December 2009 11:18:46 Neil Williams wrote: > The package version doesn't sound like a new project, who is using it > (and why?). Sorry, that's a typo. The version is 0.640-3. The project is new. > (FYI the upstream CPAN description doesn't answer any of my questions > below either.

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ reordering some quoted text ] On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:04:04PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > So it claims but that still doesn't make sense. Merely repeating the > statement without supporting the assertion doesn't help. Well, reading your posts I understand there is in fact a misunderstandin

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:29:28 -0300 Felipe Sateler wrote: > > Where is the Model? > > > > Who designs the Model? > > You (or hopefully someone else who had the same config file syntax). Then it's a config file parser, not a modeller? > > Is the model package specific or system-wide? > > File

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:48:00 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:04:04PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > So it claims but that still doesn't make sense. Merely repeating the > > statement without supporting the assertion doesn't help. > > Well, reading your posts I unders

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 22:46 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : >>> Many still seem to think that Ubuntu is sufficiently close to Debian >>> that work done in it should be easily transferrable. If this is not the >>> case, maybe we need to start treating Ubuntu more like we

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Michael Banck wrote: > When it came to evaluating the same for Debian, his technical opinion > won (e.g. the problem with setup.py changes mentioned some time ago) for > the time being, and now that python2.6 would be ready to upload, > Matthias turned ill (or was distracted by other real life stu

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 10:57:51, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > I wonder why the detail about how the conf file is being upgraded should > be relevant to the final user at all. As you observe on the wiki page, > most lusers barely know of the existence of /etc, why should they care > about Con

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:56 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:29:28 -0300 > Felipe Sateler wrote: > > > > Where is the Model? > > > > > > Who designs the Model? > > > > You (or hopefully someone else who had the same config file syntax). > > Then it's a config file parser, n

Bug#559476: ITP: libpdl-netcdf-perl -- netcdf IO support for pdl (perl data language)

2009-12-04 Thread Henning Glawe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Henning Glawe * Package name: libpdl-netcdf-perl Version : 4.02 Upstream Author : Doug Hunt * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~dhunt/PDL-NetCDF-4.02/ * License : Same terms as Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:10:20 +0100 Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Friday 04 December 2009 11:18:46 Neil Williams wrote: > > (FYI the upstream CPAN description doesn't answer any of my > > questions below either. At no point is a Config Model explained or > > described or is any attempt made to expla

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Schultz
The recent thread "RFC: organising focused BSPs" should have gotten this much attention. Debian is "behind" in many ways when it comes to the latest whatever, but I guess people will complain. I think Debian is amazing and will persevere. Thank you to those working so hard to make it so. Pete

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:32:13 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Configuration file `/etc/sensors3.conf' > > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > >What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > > Y or I :

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 19:00:55, Felipe Sateler a écrit : > Well, there is an abstract model of the config file. So yes, basically > it parses the file into an internal model. I believe the idea is to be > able to migrate automagically from one version to the next without user > intervention.

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:25:54 +0100 gregor herrmann wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:32:13 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > Configuration file `/etc/sensors3.conf' > > > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > > > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > > >Wh

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:54:56PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > The idea was to offer the user a possibility to bail out since > config-model is still experimental. But I'm beginning to wonder if > this is a good idea... IMO it is not, in the sense that it is quite pointless to put this choice

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:38:19 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > * Or more generally: I want to preserve my locally modified values > > and at the same time update the rest which I haven't touched. > That's a user change, I thought the point of this was that changes *not > done by users* are causing

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:46:04 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Oh, well, I should probably > just study Config::Model! Since you speak French you might be interested in Dominique's presentation at some French Perl meeting: http://fpw2009.ubicast.eu/videos/free/64/ Cheers, gregor -- .''`. h

Re: mercurial-buildpackage, now with pristine-tar support

2009-12-04 Thread Jens Peter Secher
2009/12/3 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > Does it support 3.0 (quilt) Yes. > and puts them into mercurial queues? No support for Mercurial Queues at the moment; see discussion a couple of weeks ago [1]. Instead it uses dpkg-source, that is, the dpkg-source built-in patch handler or Quilt if it is installe

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > From an embedded perspective, we certainly don't want every > configurable package depending on perl at package installation / > upgrade time - that's why we have cdebconf. And if that argument had been used when debconf was being written, we might currently have neither deb

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 13:01:39, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > My reading of the above quoted test, is that Config::Model is not > seeking to replace debconf; it is going to use it as other packages do > for interacting with the user. Or, to be more precise, my understanding > is that the pac

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 19:28 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : >> There is currently discussion ongoing about how to move forward, though >> due to the complex nature of the current situation (where also lots of >> FUD etc is on the lists), it is being dealt in private. >

Re: Debian as open project

2009-12-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:07:22 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >Heck, during the past months I know that you (again, as in DPL+2IC) have >been doing stuff, quite a lot of very good stuff in fact, but nobody >knows that, beside who has spoken to you via some private media (I'm one >of them). Well sa

How to use binutils-gold

2009-12-04 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, I got some FTBFS with binutils-gold bug reports. How can I build my packages using binutils-gold? What do I have to change for that? -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachricht

Re: How to use binutils-gold

2009-12-04 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Benjamin Drung wrote: > Hi, > > I got some FTBFS with binutils-gold bug reports. How can I build my > packages using binutils-gold? What do I have to change for that? Just install it and then build your package (it diverts the linker so you just need to install it). Cheers, Emilio signature.a

Re: How to use binutils-gold

2009-12-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Benjamin Drung (05/12/2009): > I got some FTBFS with binutils-gold bug reports. How can I build my > packages using binutils-gold? What do I have to change for that? As for using it, given its postinst, I guess you only have to install it to use it. Didn't check, though. http://wiki.debian.org/q

Bug#559524: ITP: libleocharre-perl -- Bundle of several modules in the LEOCHARRE:: namespace

2009-12-04 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu I hate the idea of this, but I have to do this because two LEOCHARRE modules are required by the new version of Wordpress::XMLRPC (already packaged; its upgrade has been blocked for a long time because of this) * Package name: libleocharre