Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE to ACCEPTED. Of course this does not mean that the DEP-3 can't be extended or improved (in particular when it doesn't break backwards compatibili

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Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already > well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE > to ACCEPTED. just because that you didn't get any reports you should not set a status to ACCEPTED. IMHO the driver of a DEP should not do that

Bug#656101: O: stereograph - stereogram generator

2012-01-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hey, I'm letting go of stereograph, a stereogram generator - i.e. the things you might know from _The Magic Eye_ book that was hip several years back, pictures that contain a 3-D image if you squit and it just right. Hasn't had a new upstream release in almost a de

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 03:07:08PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > just because that you didn't get any reports you should not set a status > to ACCEPTED. IMHO the driver of a DEP should not do that at all, at > least not without asking on common lists first. No reaction on your DEP > could just mean

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > just because that you didn't get any reports you should not set a status > to ACCEPTED. IMHO the driver of a DEP should not do that at all, at > least not without asking on common lists first. No reaction on your DEP > could just mean that people con

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2012-01-16 15:02, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Does anyone have further comments about DEP-3? If so, please state them. Otherwise, let's forget about the process details (no matter if they could have been better or not) and rejoice for a nice standard way of adding useful metadata to patches

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Jonathan Wiltshire, 2012-01-16 17:01+0100: > It is only a small thing but I did not realise DEP-3 was still a > candidate or I would have spoken earlier. A CVE field, mandatory if a > CVE has been published for this patch and is the major component of this > patch, would allow easy tracing of pa

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2012-01-16 16:43, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: Jonathan Wiltshire, 2012-01-16 17:01+0100: It is only a small thing but I did not realise DEP-3 was still a candidate or I would have spoken earlier. A CVE field, mandatory if a CVE has been published for this patch and is the major component of this

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already > well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE > to ACCEPTED. > > Of course this does not mean that the DEP-3 can't be extended or

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/16/2012 07:14 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already > well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE > to ACCEPTED. > > Of course this does not mean that the DEP-3 can't be extended or improved

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 16/01/12 18:33, Thomas Goirand wrote: Also, does this mean that you've patched the policy, that lintian would soon more aggressively complain about lacks of patch comments, and that we'll have a new Standard-Version? Lintian already complains when a quilt patch doesn't contain a descriptio

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Raphael Hertzog , 2012-01-16, 12:14: FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE to ACCEPTED. Does a DEP-3 parser exist? And why not? -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Jon Dowland writes ("Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status"): > Who should have that authority, then? The DEP-0 proposers? Since > the whole DEP process itself is still in CANDIDATE, we could end up > in an interesting situation if/when it comes to migrate *that* to > ACCEP

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I'm really not sure what makes you authoritative for it though, > and I'd like to understand (which doesn't conflict with the fact > I'm happy dep3 is in state ACCEPTED, and that you decided to > do it!). I just did it as the DEP driver because I believ

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/17/2012 01:56 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 16/01/12 18:33, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >> Also, does this mean that you've patched the policy, that lintian >> would soon more aggressively complain about lacks of patch comments, >> and that we'll have a new Standard-Version? >> > > Lintian alread

Re: status of DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (was: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status)

2012-01-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/17/2012 01:44 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already >> well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE >> to ACCEPTED. >> >> Of cours

Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-16 Thread Kamal Mostafa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kamal Mostafa * Package name: duff Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Camilla Berglund * URL : http://duff.sourceforge.net/ * License : Zlib Programming Lang: C Description : Duplicate file finder Duff is a comman

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kamal Mostafa, le Mon 16 Jan 2012 12:58:13 -0800, a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Kamal Mostafa > > > * Package name: duff > Version : 0.5 > Upstream Author : Camilla Berglund > * URL : http://duff.sourceforge.net/ > * License : Zlib >

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > * Package name: duff > > Version : 0.5 > > Upstream Author : Camilla Berglund > > * URL : http://duff.sourceforge.net/ > > * License : Zlib > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : Duplicate file finder > > > > Duff is a

How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. BR, Björn. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk8Une4AC

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> What is it the benefit over fdupes, rdfind, ...? > ..., hardlink, ... finddup from perforate > Was thinking about packaging it myself already, so I may also sponsor > Kamal's package when it's ready. You just listed the third duplicate (and me no. 4), and still go blind right on "ohoh, i spon

Re: How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser: > I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. It is not currently accepted by the Debian archive: http://bugs.debian.org/642801 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-16 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 23:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> What is it the benefit over fdupes, rdfind, ...? > > ..., hardlink, ... > finddup from perforate After a quick evaluation of the various "find dupe files" tools, I was attracted to try duff because: 1. It looked easier to use than the o

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already > well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE > to ACCEPTED. > > Of course this does not mean that the DEP-3 can't be extend

Using debian/upstream to document things about Upstream with “umegaya”.

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I have already promoted a couple of times on this list the idea of gathering (meta) data about Upstream in the source package, more precisely in the repository where the source package is developed. http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata There was not much progress in 2011, but work

Re: Using debian/upstream to document things about Upstream with “umegaya”.

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
I would encourage you to merge your efforts with DEP-11 so that the upstream metadata can also be made available via apt. Personally I never understood why you decided to use a file separate to debian/control for this metadata. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > Also, does this mean that you've patched the policy, that lintian would > soon more aggressively complain about lacks of patch comments, and that > we'll have a new Standard-Version? No. DEP-3 is an optional standard. I'm not sure if it should be incorporated into Poli

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Romain Beauxis wrote: > 2012/1/5 Paul Wise : >> In my opinion it is a pretty ugly hack that we should discourage where >> possible. > > There is a trade-off to consider between patching every single webapp, > having no writable location at all and placing files wher

Re: Using debian/upstream to document things about Upstream with “umegaya”.

2012-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:09:25AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I would encourage you to merge your efforts with DEP-11 so that the > upstream metadata can also be made available via apt. > > Personally I never understood why you decided to use a file separate > to debian/control for this metadata.

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kamal Mostafa [2012.01.17.0049 +0100]: > In my humble opinion, that would be an unreasonable pre-condition for > inclusion in Debian. Our standard for inclusion should not be that a > new package must be "vastly better" than other similar packages. That > would deny a new package the

Re: Using debian/upstream to document things about Upstream with “umegaya”.

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:09:25AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > I would encourage you to merge your efforts with DEP-11 so that the > upstream metadata can also be made available via apt. > > Personally I never understood why you decided to use a file separate > to debian/control for this metada