Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Up to now the only options for pulling patches from distributions derived from Debian have been Ubuntu's Debian patches repository[1] and manual downloads of source packages from derivatives. In my estimation a more general way to do this would be desirable. 1. http://patches.ubuntu.

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:22:05AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > The results of that build seem unlikely to ever be seriously tested > > currently, which makes me a little dubious that it's worth making a rule > > about it. > > I would wager th

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:50:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be > to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and > enhance it for this purpose. This will necessarily include mechanisms to > mark patches a

Bug#646569: ITP: python-pywebsocket -- python Websocket server library

2011-10-25 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-pywebsocket Version : 0.6b6 Upstream Author : Google Inc. * URL or Web page : http://code.google.com/p/pywebsocket/ * License : BSD-3 Description : python Websocket server library The py

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, sean finney wrote: > I think it's also worth some consideration about if/how it could be > integrated with the Debian patch-tracker service (or perhaps supercede said > service if it made more sense). > > Without thinking super hard on it it seems like it could hav

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 12:10 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: [...] > One example from the archive: firmware-free. Source code for the > embedded software blobs is present but at least one of them no longer > builds or never did. [...] I've been working on that specific case... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings DNRC

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 12:10 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > [...] >> One example from the archive: firmware-free. Source code for the >> embedded software blobs is present but at least one of them no longer >> builds or never did. > [...] > > I've b

http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/automake/ ?

2011-10-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Adam Borowski writes: […] > GNU's and the inventor of AM_MAINTAINER_MODE's stance: > http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/automake/maintainer_002dmode.html BTW, this URI seems to me like a thing to be reported to GNU webmasters (Cc:'ed.) The Automake manual should be (and

Bug#646574: ITP: libunix-mknod-perl -- Perl extension for mknod, major, minor, and makedev

2011-10-25 Thread roucaries bastien
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org I plan to package in order to update libfuse-perl the following package. Package name: libunix-mknod-perl Version: 0.04 Upstream Author: Jim Pirzyk, URL: http://search.cpan.org/~pirzyk/Unix-Mknod-0.04/lib/Unix/Mknod.pm

zfs-fuse in debian

2011-10-25 Thread József Dániel
Hello, Quick question. I see you maintain zfs-fuse. 0.7.0 is out since March, but it's not even in Sid. Is there some deep reason to this, or just lack of time? Since zfs-fuse upstream is under extremely heavy development, I have the feeling that any risks created by adopting the latest stable r

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: > > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be > to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and > enhance it for this purpose. This will necessarily include mechanisms > to mark patches as having been dealt wit

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Adam Borowski wrote: > If they use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and it's "disabled" [1], there's no way to > check if they aren't in DFSG and/or GPL violation by shipping sourceless > code. Forbidding it would at least deal with patching autotools output > rather than source. As a rule

Re: zfs-fuse in debian

2011-10-25 Thread Aron Xu
Hi Dániel, 2011/10/25 József Dániel : > Hello, > Quick question. I see you maintain zfs-fuse. > 0.7.0 is out since March, but it's not even in Sid. Is there some deep > reason to this, or just lack of time? > Since zfs-fuse upstream is under extremely heavy development, I have the > feeling that a

Re: zfs-fuse in debian

2011-10-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:38:11PM +0200, József Dániel wrote: > Hello, > > Quick question. I see you maintain zfs-fuse. > > 0.7.0 is out since March, but it's not even in Sid. Is there some deep > reason to this, or just lack of time? The latter. It's on mentors, I need to go through the packag

Re: zfs-fuse in debian

2011-10-25 Thread Asias He
2011/10/25 Aron Xu : > Hi Dániel, > > 2011/10/25 József Dániel : >> Hello, >> Quick question. I see you maintain zfs-fuse. >> 0.7.0 is out since March, but it's not even in Sid. Is there some deep >> reason to this, or just lack of time? >> Since zfs-fuse upstream is under extremely heavy developme

Re: zfs-fuse in debian

2011-10-25 Thread Asias He
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:38:11PM +0200, József Dániel wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Quick question. I see you maintain zfs-fuse. >> >> 0.7.0 is out since March, but it's not even in Sid. Is there some deep >> reason to this, or just lack of time? >

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [111025 14:28]: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Adam Borowski wrote: > > If they use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and it's "disabled" [1], there's no way to > > check if they aren't in DFSG and/or GPL violation by shipping sourceless > > code. Forbidding it would at least deal with pat

Bug#646607: ITP: atheme-services -- modular IRC services daemon

2011-10-25 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Antoine Beaupré" * Package name: atheme-services Version : 6.0.0 Upstream Author : William Pitcock and others * URL : http://www.atheme.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : modular IRC services

Bug#620133: Sometimes can't connect, or undergoes severe downturns with wlan

2011-10-25 Thread Benjamin
Package: general Followup-For: Bug #620133 Dear Maintainer, sometimes the connection to the Internet is very slowed or turned off, but this happened only since I use wheezy (no problem with debian stable or others os). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing-pro

Processed: reassign 646622 to general

2011-10-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 646622 general Bug #646622 [debian-maintainers] debian-maintainers: Changelog for new upstream release should include summary of upstream changelog Bug reassigned from package 'debian-maintainers' to 'general'. > thanks Stopping processi

Bug#646623: ITP: libtap-formatter-html-perl -- TAP Test Harness output delegate for html output

2011-10-25 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtap-formatter-html-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Steve Purkis * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Forma

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 15:50:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > Up to now the only options for pulling patches from distributions > derived from Debian have been Ubuntu's Debian patches repository[1] and > manual downloads of source packages from derivatives. In my estimation a > more gene

Promoção Fim de Ano

2011-10-25 Thread CM Balões e Decorações
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Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach > > might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise > > it and enhance it for this purpose. This will necessar

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 08:49 +1100 schrieb Karl Goetz: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 > Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > > > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach > > > might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastruc

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > If they use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and it's "disabled" [1], there's no way > to check if they aren't in DFSG and/or GPL violation by shipping > sourceless code. Forbidding it would at least deal with patching > autotools output rather than source. While I like the idea of re

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Is there a reason to restrict this to derivatives?  I find patches from > fedora rather more interesting than ubuntu's. Fedora don't use Debian source packages so we don't have anything to debdiff against. But I guess you mean patches agai

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > I'm glad you liked it. ubuntudiff¹ was made exactly to show this kind of > data. Currently, all ubuntudiff needs to produce html pages in some file > listing source package names and associated patches. So, nothing is really > bound to patches

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > I'm glad you liked it. ubuntudiff¹ was made exactly to show this kind of > data. Currently, all ubuntudiff needs to produce html pages in some file > listing source package names and associated patches. So, nothing is really > bound to patches

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > While I like the idea of rebuilding everything from scratch, adding > Makefile rules to do so is horrible.  Automake bungles this miserably and > it produces all sorts of random unnecessary bugs.  With my upstream hat > on, I will *always* use

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> While I like the idea of rebuilding everything from scratch, adding >> Makefile rules to do so is horrible.  Automake bungles this miserably >> and it produces all sorts of random unnecessary bugs.  With my upstream >> ha