Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Luca Bruno
Stephen Kitt scrisse: > Would it be acceptable to introduce an exception to policy allowing > this? Something along the lines of > > An exception is granted for `Architecture: all' packages > containing libraries targeting platforms for which there is no Debian > architecture. Su

limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, In order to manage package file name length below 90 and to have sane screen for package management, may I suggest to recommend some limits (for lintian check etc.): * package name string should be less than 40 characters. * version name string should be less than 30 characters. (securit

Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Adam Borowski wrote: > Such dirs cannot include the compiler's name, since there are multiple > compilers for the architecture. Binaries compiled with > i586-mingw32msvc-gcc, i686-w64-mingw32-gcc and MSVC share the same ABI. > > Even specific models of CPUs are no good: on i386, gcc -dumpmac

Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stephen Kitt writes: > Hello, > > Now that multiarch is here, I've been wondering whether and how it applies to > cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures, for example Microsoft > Windows (I'm the new maintainer of mingw-w64). As I understand it, multiarch > wasn't intended for non-D

Re: MBF Re: Bug#621277: ggz-grubby: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 19:13:43 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2011-04-06 codeh...@debian.org wrote: > > Package: ggz-grubby > > Severity: normal > > User: codeh...@debian.org > > Usertags: la-file-removal > > > To finish an old release goal from Squeeze, to comply with Policy > > 10.2 and t

Bug#623825: ITP: libmoosex-chainedaccessors-perl -- accessor class for chained accessors with Moose

2011-04-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt * Package name: libmoosex-chainedaccessors-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Moritz Onken * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-ChainedAccessors/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ (like Perl) Pro

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 18:31 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] > === version, strings longer than 30 (unique ones) === > 0.9.15+post20100705+gitb3aa806-2 > 0.0.0+git20091215.9ec1da8a-2+b2 > 1.0.0~alpha3~git20090817.r1.349dba6-2 > 1:2.5.0~alpha4+svn20091009-1+b2 > 2.1.14+2.6.32.13-201005151340-1 > 1:2.2

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (23/04/2011): > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in > versions. They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly > which commit the snapshot was can be included in the changelog. I'll be happy to second any wording you could come up with on that topi

Bug#623832: ITP: libfile-type-webimages-perl -- tool for determining web image file types using magic

2011-04-23 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-type-webimages-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Mark Stosberg * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Type-W

Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 05:05:33AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Such dirs cannot include the compiler's name, since there are multiple > > compilers for the architecture. Binaries compiled with > > i586-mingw32msvc-gcc, i686-w64-mingw32-gcc and MSVC share th

Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:29:39PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Stephen Kitt writes: > > Now that multiarch is here, I've been wondering whether and how it applies > > to > > cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures. [...] > > It seems to me though that it would be nice to fo

howto modify dependencies?

2011-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, as I have trouble with the package ppp since version 2.4.5-*, and no one cared although I filed a bugreport, I set the package to hold (version 2.4.4-rel-10.1 is working fine!) But as newer packages require higher versions of ppp, I cannot install them. besides, all packages which are

Bug#623847: ITP: rescan-scsi-bus -- tool for reliable scsi hotplugging in linux

2011-04-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf * Package name: rescan-scsi-bus Version : 1.48 Upstream Author : Kurt Garloff * URL : http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Bash Description : tool for reliable scs

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ben Hutchings (23/04/2011): > > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in > > versions. They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly > > which commit the snapshot was can be included in the changelog. > > I'll be happy t

Re: Bug#623847: ITP: rescan-scsi-bus -- tool for reliable scsi hotplugging in linux

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hello, On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:53:39 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > This package is just one single shell script. But an important one. The > rescan-scsi-bus.sh script helps a lot in the SAN space where there could > be targets with sporadic connecitons. Is it okay to package a single > shell s

Re: howto modify dependencies?

2011-04-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Hans! At first: This is a support question and properly better suited for debian-user@ or its local off-springs. A german one is available, too! debian-devel is for (suprise suprise) development discussions. (and i have cc'ed you in this mail, which is against CoC…) On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 18

MBF: packages using deprecated GnuTLS functions

2011-04-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I am currently trying to rebuild GnuTLS rdeps against GnuTLS 2.12, this offers the perfect opportunity for a MBF. ;-) The newer version of GnuTLS marks a couple of interfaces as deprecated, i.e. they will be removed in future versions of GnuTLS. Some of these are used in many packages. In

Re: Bug#623847: ITP: rescan-scsi-bus -- tool for reliable scsi hotplugging in linux

2011-04-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Stephen Kitt] > This is already packaged in scsitools! Huh, I occasionally wondered whatever happened to 'scsiadd'. Guess its functionality was subsumed into scsitools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Bug#623857: ITP: python-tracing -- Python debug tracing helper

2011-04-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: python-tracing Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius * URL : http://liw.fi/tracing/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python debug tracing helper P

Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:51:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:29:39PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I would rather add a new architecture to dpkg for this. This does not > > mean that debian has to create a new port or that the packages have to > > stop being arch:

Re: Bug#623847: ITP: rescan-scsi-bus -- tool for reliable scsi hotplugging in linux

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:59:38 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Stephen Kitt] > > This is already packaged in scsitools! > > Huh, I occasionally wondered whatever happened to 'scsiadd'. > Guess its functionality was subsumed into scsitools. Effectively, yes, although "subsumed" isn't quite appropr

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2011-04-23 Thread C.Y Ling
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Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:38:57 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 05:05:33AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > IIUC then the GNU triplet includes the choice of C library because > > binaries (e.g., libraries) compiled against mingw32 and mingw-w64 > > cannot be linked (i.e., they

Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Stephen, On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:04:59PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Unfortunately this appears to go against policy 9.1.1, which forbids packages > installing files into triplet-based directories under /usr/lib other > than /usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH). Since the fil

Re: Multiarch, policy and cross-compiler libraries for non-Debian architectures

2011-04-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:19:24PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:51:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:29:39PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > I would rather add a new architecture to dpkg for this. This does not > > > mean that debian has

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in versions. > They aren't ordered, This seems like an odd reason to forbid them; should one also forbid strings such as 'pre', 'rc', 'lenny', 'squeeze' in version numbers al

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in versions. > They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly which commit the > snapshot was can be included in the changelog. If you use "git describe", removing ha

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 02:31 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in versions. > > They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly which commit the > > snapshot was can be in

Re: MBF: packages using deprecated GnuTLS functions

2011-04-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/23/2011 08:07 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Instead of invoking a couple of functions to set connection parameters > (gnutls_protocol_set_priority gnutls_cipher_set_priority > gnutls_compression_set_priority gnutls_kx_set_priority > gnutls_mac_set_priority etc.) a combined priority string > (g