Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 18/01/2012 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: > Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate > the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? I personally use: $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > debian/copyright And then manually modify debian/copyright t

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Norbert Preining [120118 03:08]: > On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > Wait, are you patching files inside debian/? That won't fly. > > Umpf, and, is that so evil? One of the problems "3.0 (quilt)" solves is upstream tarballs already having a debian/ directory. By having the complete debi

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 18/01/12 03:08, Norbert Preining wrote: On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: Wait, are you patching files inside debian/? That won't fly. Umpf, and, is that so evil? Esp for a NMU this is *very* good as it allows to see what the changes of the NMU are ... You're supposed to send a debdi

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

2012-01-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Monday 16 January 2012 19:15:07, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > Does a DEP-3 parser exist? And why not? config-edit -appli dpkg (soon to become 'cme edit dpkg') is able to parse, modify and save DEP-3 patches ( note that this command also deal with debian/copyright, debian/control and some other debi

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:03:14, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : > I personally use: > $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > > debian/copyright > > And then manually modify debian/copyright to compress entries to > satisfaction. Oooh, that's a good one. I'll probably

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Miller
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 16:03 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > > debian/copyright That is just what I was looking for, although I doubt I'll be editing the output, just adding it to my build system, next to where I build the Debian p

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Miller
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:01 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Peter Miller writes: > > > My understanding is that all project files are covered, although > > wildcards are permitted. > > > Each different copyright x license combination needs its own separate > > entry. > > I don't think this is the

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery writes: >> Note that "Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller" is different than "Copyright >> (C) 2011 Peter Miller" is different than "Copyright (C) 1991, 2012 Peter >> Miller", so the cross product is going to be substantial for long lived >> projects, even when the number of contributors

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Josue Abarca
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:36:07PM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:01 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Peter Miller writes: ... > While I'm banging on about semantics, when you are looking up a file by > name, is it the first file name pattern match that applies, or the last, >

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:03:14PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : > On 18/01/2012 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: > > Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate > > the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? > > I personally use: > $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/lic

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-01-18 at 08:31pm, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:03:14PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : > > On 18/01/2012 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: > > > Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate > > > the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? > > > > I personally

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It would be nice if you could avoid the "flaming tone" in all your mails. > In particular since most of the time it ends up being a mistake of yours. And it would be nice if dpkg-buildpackage gives a decent error message. What is shipped here is plain i

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Norbert (2012.01.18_15:18:27_+0200) > Since we are at quilt 3.0 bashing: Maybe you can give me a rational > why I *ALWAYS* have to type in > export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches > before working with debian source packages? Because you haven't set up a .quiltrc? The maint-guide has a reall

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Because you haven't set up a .quiltrc? The maint-guide has a really nice > example you can steal. Ugg, and call dquilt or quilt --quiltrc=... yeah I will try to remember that, and will forget it as well as I forget setting QUILT_PATCHES Thanks, that was

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Norbert Preining (18/01/2012): > On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > It would be nice if you could avoid the "flaming tone" in all your mails. > > In particular since most of the time it ends up being a mistake of yours. > > And it would be nice if dpkg-buildpackage gives a decent erro

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Norbert Preining , 2012-01-18, 22:18: Since we are at quilt 3.0 bashing: Maybe you can give me a rational why I *ALWAYS* have to type in export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches before working with debian source packages? And when I forget it I get hurt by quilt? dpkg (>= 1.15.8.6) crea

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 12/22/2011 07:07 PM, Russell Coker wrote: >> It seems to me that wanting to have / outside LVM but /usr inside LVM is a >> fairly obscure corner case. > I have about 100 servers setup this way, and my laptops as well. I really > don't see why this would be a corner ca

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > Forty years of pleasant df(1) and mount(1) reading shattered in one day, > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653073 Any update on why the root filesystem is listed by UUID? Is that a problem of busybox mount reporting the long device name to the kernel

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > It would be nice if you could avoid the "flaming tone" in all your mails. > > In particular since most of the time it ends up being a mistake of yours. > > And it would be nice if dpkg-buildpackage gives

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-18 Thread Roger Leigh
clone 653073 -1 retitle -1 df: [patch] Please ignore rootfs in df output reassign -1 coreutils thanks On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > > Forty years of pleasant df(1) and mount(1) reading shattered in one day, > > http://bugs.

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Wait, are you patching files inside debian/? That won't fly. I've personally missed this feature for a package I need to patch outside of Debian. When it was dpkg-source v1 I could just drop in the patches/series and everything would work. Now

Re: bug#10363: /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink affects df(1) output for

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Alan Curry" writes: > jida...@jidanni.org writes: >> >> Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed >> Available Use% Mounted on >> rootfs 1071468 287940 >> 729100 29% / >> /dev/disk/by-uuid/551e44e1-2ca

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ted Ts'o writes: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:13:29PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: >> > Simon McVittie writes: >> > >> > > life's too short to spend time booting in single-user mode and >> > > resizing LVs. >> > >> > Th

Re: Source package without a binary

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joachim Breitner writes: > Dear devel, > > I have an interesting case for a hypothetical „source package without > binary packages“: The haskell compiler comes with an extensive test > suite. This test suite > 1. is distributed separately from the sources, > 2. takes a long time to

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

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Thijs Kinkhorst" writes: > On Mon, January 16, 2012 23:26, Paul Wise wrote: >>> 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 > > My experience until now is that it's ma

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:24:22 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > Wait, are you patching files inside debian/? That won't fly. > > I've personally missed this feature for a package I need to patch > outside of Debian. This is something I'll need to

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Norbert Preining writes: > Hi everyone, > > maybe its just me, but I cannot get the hang of that 3.0 (quilt) > and pre/post applying patches. > > Recently I prepared a NMU for less to finally fix the missing xz(tar.xz) > support, added a new patch, but it is *impossible* for me to build > a packa

Re: Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-18 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Adam Borowski, 07.01.2012 13:02:28 +0100 |=- > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > > * Package name: xul-ext-debianbuttons > > * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/debian-buttons/ > > Description : Buttons for querying Debian-relate

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:35:23PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Norbert Preining , 2012-01-18, 22:18: > >Since we are at quilt 3.0 bashing: Maybe you can give me a > >rational why I *ALWAYS* have to type in > > export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches > >before working with debian source packages?

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements (was: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.)

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Pushing this towards debian-project, which is where the DEP-5 discussion is supposed to happen. Peter Miller writes: > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ > "Files paragraph (Repeatable) > > "The declaration of copyright and license for files is done in > one or mo

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining writes: > On Mi, 18 Jan 2012, Stefano Rivera wrote: >> Because you haven't set up a .quiltrc? The maint-guide has a really >> nice example you can steal. > Ugg, and call dquilt or quilt --quiltrc=... yeah > I will try to remember that, and will forget it as well as I forget > se

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

2012-01-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Dominique Dumont , 2012-01-18, 10:41: Does a DEP-3 parser exist? And why not? config-edit -appli dpkg (soon to become 'cme edit dpkg') is able to parse, modify and save DEP-3 patches ( note that this command also deal with debian/copyright, debian/control and some other debian files). Huh?

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

2012-01-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:05:06AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 16 janvier 2012 à 18:07 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > I think the DPL should appoint a dictator who will rule on when > > consensus has been achieved on a DEP. (I originally interpreted this as being enclosed within t

LEGAL QUEST

2012-01-18 Thread Kaya Mustafa
I pray my mail gets to you this time. I'd write you on two occasions concerning your assistance to help certify a piece of document due to some similarities in location with the supposed care-taker to enable a safe transfer of securities proceeds money out of Turkey. Please let me know if you

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:35:23PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Norbert Preining , 2012-01-18, 22:18: > > >Since we are at quilt 3.0 bashing: Maybe you can give me a > > >rational why I *ALWAYS* have to type in > > > export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/

Re: bug#10363: /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink affects df(1) output for

2012-01-18 Thread Paul Eggert
On 01/18/12 06:25, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > What df should do is automatically skip the entries that are obscured or > generally inaccessible. Isn't this missing some of the larger context? df is just doing what lots of other programs do: finding out what file systems one has, and reporting

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

2012-01-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Wednesday 18 January 2012 18:41:44, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > >config-edit -appli dpkg (soon to become 'cme edit dpkg') is able to > >parse, modify and save DEP-3 patches ( note that this command also deal > >with debian/copyright, debian/control and some other debian files). > > Huh? What has d

Bug#656360: ITP: ruby-ntlm-http -- 1

2012-01-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: ruby-ntlm-http Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Kohei Kajimoto, Kingsley Hendrickse * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyntlm * License : Ruby Programming Lang: Ruby Description

Bug#656362: ITP: ruby-webrobots -- Library for creating robots.txt-aware web robots

2012-01-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: ruby-webrobots Version : 0.0.12 Upstream Author : Akinori MUSHA * URL : https://github.com/knu/webrobots * License : BSD Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Library for creating robot

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

2012-01-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Dominique Dumont , 2012-01-18, 19:37: https://metacpan.org/source/DDUMONT/Config-Model-1.265/lib/Config/Model/Backend/Debian/Dpkg/Patch.pm Judging by a quick look, it doesn't support dpatch patches[0] or pseudo-headers[0][1]. [0] Don't ask what are these "features" good for. But they are

Bug#656370: ITP: ruby-ntlm -- Pure Ruby implementation of Microsoft's NTLM protocol

2012-01-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: ruby-ntlm Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Kohei Kajimoto * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyntlm * License : Ruby Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Pure Ruby implementation

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-18 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > > Forty years of pleasant df(1) and mount(1) reading shattered in one day, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653073 > > Any update on why the root filesystem is listed by UUI

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:02:03PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > > > > Forty years of pleasant df(1) and mount(1) reading shattered in one day, > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor

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

2012-01-18 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Le Wednesday 18 January 2012 18:41:44, Jakub Wilk a écrit : >> And how do I use this parser? I want something as simple as: for a given >> patch, check if the header complies to DEP-3 and if it does, dump it in >> some machine-readable for

Bug#656389: ITP: trustmanager -- Java TrustManager interface with grid features

2012-01-18 Thread Dennis van Dok (Software Engineer)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dennis van Dok (Software Engineer)" * Package name: trustmanager Version : 3.0.5 Upstream Author : Joni Hahkala * URL : https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/TrustManager * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: Ja

Re: Releasing DEP 5 in two weeks in the absence of blocking bugs.

2012-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 07:13:34PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > The above notwithstanding, we can probably learn from this thread that, > for the future, it would help to first announce "I'm about to mark > DEP-$x as ACCEPTED" and then doing that. I personally don't think it is > a big

Re: Releasing DEP 5 in two weeks in the absence of blocking bugs.

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > I do not intend to push a document on which persons disagree, so please, > if you think that there are serious problems with the current wording > DEP 5, or if you found an important bug in its syntax, report it to the > BTS. I reported what I think are problems with the

Bug#656413: ITP: jbigkit -- JBIG-KIT is a library implementing JBIG1 in T.85 & non-T.85 mode

2012-01-18 Thread Michael van der Kolff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael van der Kolff * Package name: jbigkit Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Markus Kuhn * URL : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : JBIG-KIT is a library