Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Yavor Doganov schrieb: > > Switching dependencies which silently enables/disables features is > > a generally bad approach. > > Well, in my very humble experience, an optional dependency is there > precisely to provide an optional feature. No, opposite direction: features are functional requi

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Enrico Weigelt [100918 09:24]: > * Yavor Doganov schrieb: > > > > Switching dependencies which silently enables/disables features is > > > a generally bad approach. > > > > Well, in my very humble experience, an optional dependency is ther > > precisely to provide an optional feature. > > No, o

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bernhard R. Link schrieb: > Well, I doubt one of those POVs is more valid than the other. While > features are an interesting point, the user is often more interested > in "how do I get this to work with the maximum of functionality it > can provide given what I have or can reasonably get". Fro

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Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-18 Thread Secretary - Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:40:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I'm hereby introducing two changes: > > a) dropping the name "Debian Contributor" >(attachment 0001-remove-the-term-Debian-Contributor.patch) > > b) fixing punctuation as suggested by Kumar Appaiah [1], thanks! >(att

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Vincent Bernat writes ("Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages"): > I am not a native English speaker so I fail to see how saying "living in > a narrow-minded world" is rude. I see. I hope I can help by explaining that calling someone narrow-minded is insulting. Telling someone they are "l

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Enrico Weigelt writes ("Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages"): > Ian Jackson schrieb: > > We aren't in a position to dictate to upstream. > > No, we aren't. But we (as downstreams) can define rules on what we > consider a good package engineering - if upstream cannot / doesnt > want to f

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-18 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:55:46 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Agreed (though I've no idea what a UK (?) pound is worth. Yup, UK pound, 1.00 GBP = 1.56323 USD give or take ;) >1920 x 1080 > x 24 bits per pixel x 24 fps = 145MB/sec (not allowing for audio) Yeh, something like that, so with a good

Re: Bug in istallazione di debian

2010-09-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Benedetto Lorello said: > Ciao sono un utente debian, > volevo segnalare un piccolo bug che impedisce a grub di avviare il sistema. > Si ripete anche ad ogni aggiornamento del kernel. > L'errore è nel file di configurazione del grub. > > Se sto parlando con la persona

Re: Libre Kernel .deb -- Looks for a Mentor

2010-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 10:56 +0200, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote: > Hi, > > I have made .deb of the libre kernel 2.6.35.4 from fsfla.org > You can find them at :: http://www.fscorsica.org/kernel-en.html > > I have tried to respect the maint-guide debian to create them. > To offer a free way staying u

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-18 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:58:06AM +0200, Zsombor wrote: > 2010/9/17 Aurélien GÉRÔME : > > > > I miss some physical 64-bit hardware to test it, mainly access to > > pSeries, but I guess people on this list will be able to test d-i > > images before I can submit changes, won't they? > > > >

Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-18 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > Search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an > extension of .txt > for the keyword "xorg": > > grep -r xorg ~/*.txt That looks like a misunderstanding. That command actually causes grep to search (a) files matching *.txt in the home directory. (b) files of ANY name, contai

[LCFC] po-debconf://linux-2.6/pt_BR.po

2010-09-18 Thread Flamarion Jorge
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Bug#595423 closed by Mehdi Dogguy (Re: Bug#595423: unblock: live-build/2.0~a28-1)

2010-09-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the release.debian.org package: #595423: unblock: live-build/2.0~a29-1 It has been closed by Mehdi Dogguy . Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfacto

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à 11:56 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > The Debian project aims at producing the best free operating system. > To that end, the project benefits from various types of contributions, > including, but not limited to: package maintenance, translations, > infrastructu

Re: Printing Long Edge (Standard) with HP DeskJet 990C - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 does not work

2010-09-18 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:43:50 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> The command above lacks the file/document to print? :-? >> > Well, this is what Adobe indicates me as the sent command. I assume it > appends the name of the stuff to print! Oh, okay, you didn't say you were printi

Re: packaging Rivet

2010-09-18 Thread Massimo Manghi
Hi Stefan On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:16:57 +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote > Hi Massimo, > > On Friday 17 September 2010, Massimo Manghi wrote: > > My questions are: > > > > 1) is this list the right audience to seek help for refining and > > amending the scripts needed by deb-buildpackage for an apach

Bug#597275: ITP: collection4 -- web-based front-end for collectd

2010-09-18 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl * Package name: collection4 Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Florian Forster * URL : http://octo.it/c4/ * Licenses: LGPL, GPL, BSDish Programming Lang: C, JavaScript Description : web-based front-

Re: Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > Search all files under the home directory (recursively) with an > > extension of .txt > > for the keyword "xorg": > > > > grep -r xorg ~/*.txt > > That looks like a misunderstanding. That command actually causes grep > to sear

Bug#597283: ITP: lib3to2 -- 3to2 tool and module for backporting Python 3 code

2010-09-18 Thread Per W.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: lib3to2 Version: 1.0~20100824 Upstream Author: Joseph Amenta URL: http://bitbucket.org/amentajo/lib3to2/ License: Apache Description: tool and python-module for backportin

Bug#597295: ITP: libmeegotouch -- application and UI framework library built on top of Qt

2010-09-18 Thread Didier Raboud
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: MeeGo Maintainers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: libmeegotouch Version : 0.20.34 Upstream Author : Nokia Corporation URL : http://meego.com License : LGPL2.1 Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Enrico Weigelt [100918 05:49]: > * Jesús M. Navarro schrieb: > > > Think of the most probable environment where somebody goes with the hassle > > of "compiling new package into old RHEL 2". Do you think such a chore is > > taken out of fun? Or is it an environment where an overworked sysadmin

Bug#597324: ITP: php-crypt-blowfish -- PEAR module to encrypt/decrypt using the Blowfish algorithm

2010-09-18 Thread John Morrissey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Morrissey * Package name: php-crypt-blowfish Version : 1.1.0rc2 * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Crypt_Blowfish * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : PEAR module to encrypt/decrypt using the Bl

Bug#597334: ITP: dpic -- Produces diagrams for LaTeX documents or html pages

2010-09-18 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" * Package name: dpic Version : 2010.08.31 Upstream Author : Dwight Aplevich * URL : http://http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/dpic/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: Bug#597295: ITP: libmeegotouch -- application and UI framework library built on top of Qt

2010-09-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 04:07:36PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > This is the first ITP of a _long_ list of ITPs. The "Debian Meego Maintainers > " intend to package almost everything that > comes out of MeeGo (see http://meego.gitorious.org ). Yay!1!-e^(i*π)!!! It's great to hear that. Ha

Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end of every field

2010-09-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.5 Severity: wishlist Every time that debhelper needs to adjust a dependency it provides a new substvar and the maintainer needs to put it in the right field. I was thinking that we could avoid the second half if some specific substvars was added at the end of ever

Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > I have recently looked into a number of bundle packages. All of them > have different implementations of the debian/rules although the ones > I looked at had clearly once had a common parent. Hence I have been > kept awake at night thinking how this sit

Bug#597344: ITP: python-configobject -- a wrapper to ConfigParser allowing to access sections and options with attribute names

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Chenet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Chenet * Package name: python-configobject Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Gael Pasgrimaud * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ConfigObject * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : a wrapper t

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Vincent Bernat wrote: > I am not a native English speaker so I fail to see how saying > "living in a narrow-minded world" is rude. Wiktionary does not say > that narrow-minded is rude. It says "having restricted or rigid > views" which is exactly what I am expressing here. I sh

Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-18 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:29:29 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In the article, I mentionned that bundling unrelated software is not a > good idea in general (mainly because there's no common software > version to use). > > So I think that we should not create any infrastructure to make it > even e

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ian Jackson schrieb: > "Rules" is just wrong. "Guidelines" might be appropriate, but I would > suggest "Recommendations". In my case it are rules, which are required to get an qm stamp in my company. Actually, it's just the tip of an iceberg of processes, I can't describe in detail right now.

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Enrico Weigelt schrieb: > They don't need to. OSS-QM provides canonical repositories [2], > where everybody can fetch from easily (especially built for > automated systems). Debian changesets are also imported automatically. > (as far as possible) [2] http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/norma

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bernhard R. Link schrieb: > > The sysadmins should run the build through a dedicated build system > > which generates packages for their target(s). > > A dedicated build system is always stricly inferior for a user. It needs > more efford to set it up, efford to get all the build dependencies