Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-26 08:03 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> It also seems that repositories hosted in public_git don't show up on >> gitweb anymore. Example: >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/lucas/packaging-tutorial.git >> I agree that most of them

Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Jeroen Schot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeroen Schot * Package name: bmake Version : 20110505 Upstream Author : Simon J. Gerraty * URL : http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Portable version of Ne

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/25/2011 03:04 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > How about posting those rewrites here or, even better, helping out the > Alioth admins to deploy them? I guess they could use some helping hands > more than a "bug report" sent to -devel. They are well documented in /usr/share/doc/gitweb/README

Please reconsider public vcs naming on alioth

2011-05-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
If I have to guess what git.someorg.tld is, I'd guess one of the following (in this order): - a host offering git:// protocoll - a host offering public access to git repositories over http:// - a host offering a web view of git repositories. With the new alioth setup all those three are the same

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 26 May 2011 at 08:47:06 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the > remaining dependency_libs fields! :-) Am I right in thinking that this is the process people should follow? if depended-on: if dependency_libs: clear the depe

Re: Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:29:44 +0200 Jeroen Schot wrote: > * Package name: bmake > Version : 20110505 > Upstream Author : Simon J. Gerraty > * URL : http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html > * License : BSD > Programming Lang: C > Description

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: > But the Vcs-Browser field from debian/control still does not work, links > on packages.qa.debian.org lead to a 404: > > The requested URL /gitweb/gitweb.cgi was not found on this server. That was a temporary glitch, it's fixed now. Cheers, -- Raphaël H

Re: Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Jeroen Schot
Hi, On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:58:49AM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > Alexey Cheusov and me are already working on creation of the package > for bmake, so you can join our team instead of doing this on your own. Good to hear. I've already had contact with Alexey. I'm more than happy to work t

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hi, > sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" > "$(CURDIR)/debian//usr/lib/" > > Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the > remaining dependency_libs fields! :-) gnome-pkg-tools package is already providing a cdbs makefile snippet that does the same thing on all .la files

Re: Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Thu, 26 May 2011 11:09:27 +0200 Jeroen Schot wrote: > > Alexey Cheusov and me are already working on creation of the package > > for bmake, so you can join our team instead of doing this on your > > own. > Good to hear. I've already had contact with Alexey. I'm more than > happy to wo

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.05.2011 10:46, schrieb Simon McVittie: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 at 08:47:06 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the >> remaining dependency_libs fields! :-) > > Am I right in thinking that this is the process people should follow? > > if de

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-05-26 at 11:16am, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Hi, > > > sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" > > "$(CURDIR)/debian//usr/lib/" > > > > Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the > > remaining dependency_libs fields! :-) > > gnome-pkg-tools package is already providi

Re: Getting good bug reports

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Getting good bug reports"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > The reason why there is a problem with an http submission interface is > > that suddenly every idiot will think "oh I must write a cool ui for > > this". > > But with the tunneling suggested below the cool UI

Re: Getting good bug reports

2011-05-26 Thread Russell Coker
There are plenty of cgi-bin scripts that send email via a web interface. I'm sure that it wouldn't be difficult to install one of them on a web server for the purpose of forwarding Debian bug reports. So really anyone who is good at running web servers can setup a HTTP submission method if the

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Roland Mas (23/05/2011): > We should now be in the phase where we pretend it's done, wait for > the complaints, and fix the problems as they are reported (or laugh > them off when they come from the too-common expectation that Alioth > can be used to run any random stuff by anyone). sorry,

Re: Getting good bug reports

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Russell Coker writes ("Re: Getting good bug reports"): > Would someone who wants to write a HTTP client bug reporting tool really be > prevented because they have to setup their own server too? That would just result in their mail server being blocked by DSA or owner@bugs. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Getting good bug reports

2011-05-26 Thread Patrick Strasser
schrieb Ian Jackson am 2011-05-25 13:46: > I wrote: >> Brian May writes ("Re: Getting good bug reports"): >>> [ explanation of how reportbug is broken right now ] >> >> We could solve this if we can avoid the slippery slope problem. >> >> Or to put it another way, I would have no objection to an ht

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 12:26 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Do anyone perhaps have an opinion on Peter's suggestion in that > bugreport?: > > > I think in order of preference, this should be fixed by patching > > libtool, or by a debhelper tool, and only then maybe in cdbs. This > > way

Re: Getting good bug reports

2011-05-26 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote: [...] > Why not use some simple non-HTTP-protocol on port 80? That tends to break transparent proxying. If port 80 is the only one you have open, chances are you're behind a transparent proxy as well. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#628016: ITP: python-coverage-test-runner -- fail Python program unit tests unless they test everything

2011-05-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius This package is in oldstable, but not in squeeze and later. It was removed on my request because nothing in Debian required it, and I wanted to retire. I am now preparing to upload some software that uses this to run unit tests at build time,

Bug#628017: ITP: python-cliapp -- Python framework for Unix command line programs

2011-05-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: python-cliapp Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius * URL : http://liw.fi/cliapp/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python framework for Unix comman

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Scott Kitterman may or may not have written... > On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 08:17:51 AM Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Carsten Hey may or may not have written... >> [snip] >>> The third example with indirections would have advantages if one l10n >>> package contains the translat

650.000/m2 đất sổ đỏ cạnh Sân Golf, Khu nghỉ dưỡng 5sao HànQuốc- ChươngMỹ, HàNội

2011-05-26 Thread Anh Dung Nguyen
650.000/m2 đất sổ đỏ cạnh Sân Golf, Khu nghỉ dưỡng 5sao HànQuốc- ChươngMỹ, HàNội *Cần bán** **11.000m2 đất thổ cư sổ đỏ chỉ 650.000/m2 ngay cạnh Sân Golf 36 lỗ và Khu nghỉ dưỡng 5 sao SKY LAKE Hàn Quốc - Hồ Vân Sơn, huyện Chương Mỹ, Hà Nội. * * * *Có thể bán toàn bộ hoặc bán lẻ mỗi mảnh 1000m2

Bug#628034: ITP: uwsgi -- a fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-friendly application container server

2011-05-26 Thread Xu ZhiXiang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xu ZhiXiang * Package name: uwsgi Version : 0.9.7.2 Upstream Author : Unbit * URL : http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C Description : a fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael Biebl] > Clearing the dependency_libs is always safe, afaics, so I'd rather say it is > something like > > if depended-on > clear dependency_libs > else > remove *.la files Seems like the following would work instead: remove *.la files if depended-on request

When create base.tgz with pbuilder , occured a error

2011-05-26 Thread YunQiang Su
I am using unstable/experimental, and when pbuilder create When it nearly success, an error occoured : I: mounting /proc filesystem mount: /proc already mounted or /media/tmpfs/pbuilder/4079/proc busy mount: according to mtab, /proc is mounted on /proc W: Aborting with an error I: cleaning the b

When create base.tgz with pbuilder , occured a error

2011-05-26 Thread YunQiang Su
I am using unstable/experimental, and when pbuilder create When it nearly success, an error occoured : I: mounting /proc filesystem mount: /proc already mounted or /media/tmpfs/pbuilder/4079/proc busy mount: according to mtab, /proc is mounted on /proc W: Aborting with an error I: cleaning the b

Bug#628062: RFH: freeipmi -- GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol

2011-05-26 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am seeking for help with FreeIPMI. Project is really nice, upstream is very knowledgeable, nice, and I even had them as an exemplar CVS gurus (Just see http://www.onerussian.com/Linux/misc/freeipmi-big-picture.pdf for the development tree after it got cvsimported

packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, A few days ago, we had a discussion in Ubuntu about a packaging-dev meta package. The problem is that users have to install a bunch of packages if they want to dive into packaging. Even some packagers get annoyed when they need to turn a newly installed system into a packaging environment. The

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Hi, > > A few days ago, we had a discussion in Ubuntu about a packaging-dev meta > package. The problem is that users have to install a bunch of packages > if they want to dive into packaging. Even some packagers get annoyed > when they need

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 17:25 -0300 schrieb Fernando Lemos: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A few days ago, we had a discussion in Ubuntu about a packaging-dev meta > > package. The problem is that users have to install a bunch of packages > > if the

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 17:25 -0300 schrieb Fernando Lemos: >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > A few days ago, we had a discussion in Ubuntu about a packaging-dev meta >> > package. The probl

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 May 2011 22:29:11 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Isn't apt-get build-dep enough? Users can always use equivs for > > something more specific. > apt-get build-dep gets the build dependency for a specific package, but > it wont give you devscripts for example. Maybe the idea was build-

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 16:33 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 17:25 -0300 schrieb Fernando Lemos: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > A few days ago,

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 May 2011 22:05:42 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > As a starting point packaging-dev would depend on > > build-essential > quilt > debhelper > cmake > autoconf > cdbs > bzr-builddeb > apt-file > ubuntu-dev-tools (only on Ubuntu systems) > > Do you like the idea or not? Do you have a bet

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > As a starting point packaging-dev would depend on > > build-essential > quilt > debhelper > cmake > autoconf > cdbs > bzr-builddeb > apt-file > ubuntu-dev-tools (only on Ubuntu systems) > > Do you like the idea or not? Do you have a better n

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > Keep vcs specific tools (git-buildpackage, bzr-builddeb, > svn-buildpackage) in the Recommends field so they are not hard > dependencies. The current version of the control field I've got sitting here has build-essential in Depends

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 22:40 +0200 schrieb gregor herrmann: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 22:05:42 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > As a starting point packaging-dev would depend on > > > > build-essential > > quilt > > debhelper > > cmake > > autoconf > > cdbs > > bzr-builddeb > > apt-file > >

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 16:46 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio > wrote: > > Keep vcs specific tools (git-buildpackage, bzr-builddeb, > > svn-buildpackage) in the Recommends field so they are not hard > > dependencies. > > The curren

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Recommends or Suggests: > cdbs > cmake My reasoning on these two was that some people probably aren't interested in switching from cdbs to quilt, so coming across packages still using it will be common for a while. CMake is a corollary to

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio writes: > This could be useful. A couple of suggestions: > Keep vcs specific tools (git-buildpackage, bzr-builddeb, > svn-buildpackage) in the Recommends field so they are not hard > dependencies. A fancier thing to do would be to build separate packaging-dev- packages f

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Mackenzie Morgan writes: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: >> Recommends or Suggests: >> cdbs >> cmake > My reasoning on these two was that some people probably aren't > interested in switching from cdbs to quilt, You mean from cdbs to using debhelper directly? cdbs and

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 22:40 +0200 schrieb gregor herrmann: > > I tentatively think the idea is good; I don't really care about the > > name :) ACK (on both). > > The problem might be that the set of packages is not > > tri

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 25.05.2011, 14:49 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 23:51 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 21.05.2011, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > > > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:26 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > I tentatively think the idea is good; I don't really care about the > > name :) > > The problem might be that the set of packages is not > > trivial/uncontroversial; I'm not sure I need cdbs (or cmake), I've > > never heard about

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/26/2011 11:55 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 26.05.2011 10:46, schrieb Simon McVittie: >> On Thu, 26 May 2011 at 08:47:06 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the >>> remaining dependency_libs fields! :-) >> >> Am I right in thinking that t

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Recommends or Suggests: > > cdbs > > cmake > My reasoning on these two was that some people probably aren't > interested in switching from cdbs to quilt, so coming across

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mackenzie Morgan writes: >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > >>> Recommends or Suggests: >>> cdbs >>> cmake > >> My reasoning on these two was that some people probably aren't >> interested in switching from cdbs to q

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/26/2011 06:04 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Michael Biebl] >> Clearing the dependency_libs is always safe, afaics, so I'd rather say it is >> something like >> >> if depended-on >> clear dependency_libs >> else >> remove *.la files > > Seems like the following would work instead

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Mackenzie Morgan writes: > Sorry, yes. > The push toward Source Format 3 with Quilt and DH7 happened around the > same time that I started doing packaging with any frequency so I'm > somewhat muddled on the "old way." Do I recall correctly that there was > some sort of patch management included

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 17:28 -0400 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Mackenzie Morgan writes: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > >>> Recommends or Suggests: > >>> cdbs > >>> cmake > > > >> My reasoning on t

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Jakub Wilk
Not that I'd consider this package particularly useful, but... * Benjamin Drung , 2011-05-26, 22:49: Here's the starting point for discussion: Depends: build-essential debhelper devscripts gnupg lintian dput | dupload quilt Agreed. pbuilder | cowbuilder Apart from missing initial "sbuild

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Greetings, On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:14:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Mackenzie Morgan writes: > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > >> Recommends or Suggests: > >> cdbs > >> cmake > ... > > so coming across packages still using it will be common for a while. >

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-05-26, Jakub Wilk wrote: >>autoconf > + automake (sadly) > + libtool (even more sadly) should be grouped with cmake (probably all at suggest) >>bzr-builddeb (maybe Depends on Ubuntu) >>svn-buildpackage >>git-buildpackage suggest. >>dh-make > > Seriously? Are you, grown-up developers, u

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.05.2011 23:26, schrieb Luk Claes: > There are some good reasons to keep some specific *.la files around, Just curious: what are these reasons / use case for keeping la files? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-05-26 at 05:28pm, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Mackenzie Morgan writes: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung > >> wrote: > > > >>> Recommends or Suggests: > >>> cdbs > >>> cmake > > > >> My reasoning on these two was th

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-05-26 at 02:20pm, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung > > wrote: > > > Recommends or Suggests: > > > cdbs > > > cmake > > > My reasoning on these two was that some people probably aren

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:45:41AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-05-26 at 02:20pm, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung > > > wrote: > > > > Recommends or Suggests: > > > > cdbs >

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 May 2011 23:16:08 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > The problem might be that the set of packages is not > > > trivial/uncontroversial; I'm not sure I need cdbs (or cmake), I've > > > never heard about bzr-builddeb, I miss cowbuilder (and also > > > svn-buildpackage and git-buildpa

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:05:42PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: [...] > Should something added to or removed from the dependency list? Not so much a vote for or against the main idea of the meta package itself, but a glaring omission in my mind is piuparts, which is great for package QA. -- { IRL

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
The Fungi writes: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:05:42PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > [...] > > Should something added to or removed from the dependency list? > > Not so much a vote for or against the main idea of the meta package > itself, but a glaring omission in my mind is piuparts, which is

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Do you like the idea or not? Seems reasonable. > Do you have a better name for the meta package? How about build-something (keeping with the build-essential naming)? build-depends-common build-recommends build-suggests > Should somethi

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:17:45 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 26.05.2011 23:26, schrieb Luk Claes: > > > There are some good reasons to keep some specific *.la files around, > > Just curious: what are these reasons / use case for keeping la files? Plugins which us libltdl use the .la file but t

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 26 May 2011 23:26:26 +0200 Luk Claes wrote: > On 05/26/2011 11:55 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 26.05.2011 10:46, schrieb Simon McVittie: > >> On Thu, 26 May 2011 at 08:47:06 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > >>> Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the > >>> remaining