Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:06:56 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote: > > Well, perhaps I shouldn't (and indeed I'd like us to get to a point > > where we don't), but currently, in practice, non-native builds need > > other things setting in the environment anyway so even

Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Miller
Hi Folks, I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I can't just use the tests in the glibc sources. Can anyone suggest projects that I should look at? -- Regards Pet

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Russ Allbery, le Thu 29 Mar 2012 23:41:40 -0700, a écrit : > systemd's goal wasn't to become a standard that supported things > people were already doing. There must be a misunderstanding somewhere, then, and that needs further explanation: the feature comparison page produced by Lenhart says exac

Re: gconftool

2012-03-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/30/2012 03:38 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:13:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 03/24/2012 07:17 AM, Michael Banck wrote: >>> This is a development list, please discuss user support issues or >>> general usage questions on debian-user. >> I don't see his rant aga

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-29 13:07:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, it seems like you should file bugs if you can, because a lot of > these are not universal problems and therefore probably aren't known > issues. I did several months ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637267 http://b

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-29 23:23:52 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Thursday, March 29, 2012 04:09:57, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Well, wicd has its own bugs, such as preventing a laptop from > > suspending. > > Hmm. That sucks. I'd like to debug why you're running into this. However > I've been using wic

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-30 08:39:38 +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Well, wicd has its own bugs, such as preventing a laptop from > > suspending. > are you talking about a bug from 2008 that has been fixed for ages? > https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/306210 No, this is not the same bug (in my case, wicd

Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over

2012-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Ma, 27 mar 12, 08:36:58, David Banks wrote: >> >> In the specific case of mosh, I have posted three RFS messages to >> debian-mentors since filing the ITP, in addition to the creation of the >> RFS bug after the sponsorship-requests procedure was announced, so the >>

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Jean-Christophe Dubacq writes: >> What about a dev. script that would be run in debian/ and would parse >> debian/control and send the ITP? I can write that! Yes please. > The Perl group already has a script that does this: examples/get-itp > in git.debian.org:/git/p

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jon Dowland writes: > On 27/03/12 17:09, Filipus Klutiero wrote: >> So what do others think? > > I think that we need to separate the notion of a debian desktop from > the GNOME or KDE desktops. Synaptic is probably quite rightly not > part of either, but I agree that a "default desktop" via ins

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wookey writes: > +++ Raphael Hertzog [2012-03-29 21:06 +0200]: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote: >> > Anyone know when this happened and what if any, the limitations are? >> > It's certainly true in wheezy, squeeze, precise and oineiric. >> >> This has always been the case ever s

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:30:37PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Shouldn't there rather be a base-desktop that both KDE-desktop and > GNOME-desktop depend on? A meta package that depends on everything any > desktop should have. I'm not sure if that's the right direction of dependency, conce

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:58:41PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 19:10:05 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > Should a package depending on this behaviour build-dep on a particular > > dpkg version? As it already works in build-essential in stable do the > > same rules apply as ess

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread James McCoy
On Mar 30, 2012 8:40 AM, "Goswin von Brederlow" wrote: > > Hopefully dpkg-buildpackage will stop setting those varibales at some > point so sources that wrongfully depend on the variables being set > actualy break. Already happened in version 1.16.1 (#560070).

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Neil Williams wrote: > > Honestly I have never seen anyone doing cross-builds and calling > > debian/rules manually. > > ... only because it *always* fails > > I have longed for such support myself at times. It is incredibly > frustrating to see a cross-build fail 90% of

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Wookey
+++ peter green [2012-03-29 20:06 +0100]: > >Now, you can build packages without using dpkg-buildpackage by calling > >rules directly, and in that case the rules file would need to call > >dpkg-architecture, but someone would have to convince me that that was > >an interface worth supporting for no

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Samuel Thibault > > The maintenance of systemd is actually quite the opposite of a standard. > > That sentence is quite frightening. Is it? It's not like the maintenance of the kernel, KDE or GNOME is done in the manner you maintain a standard. Heck, probably just about no software in Debia

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Neil Williams [2012-03-26 09:17 +0100]: > Therefore packaging takes no time at all, it is always fully complete > before the code itself is even worth evaluating as useful to Debian. > The packaging is part of my test harness. You are only looking at this from the upstream's point of view. Mos

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:39:17PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > If an ITP remains open without comment for > > more than a month, the chances that there will ever be an upload to > > close it are close to zero. > > That may be true in an 'averages' sense, but there are old open ITPs > with a lot of w

Bug#666410: ITP: sdic-inline-el -- Emacs inline interface for Japanese dictionary

2012-03-30 Thread YOSHIDA Tomohiro
Package: wnpp Owner: YOSHIDA Tomohiro Severity: wishlist * Package name: sdic-inline-el Version : 0.4.5.1 Upstream Author : khiker * URL or Web page : http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/sdic-inline.el * License : GPL3 Description : Emacs inline interface for Japanese di

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/12 08:18, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > >> > On 20/03/12 07:14, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >>> > > FWIW, I have a proposal for a GSoC task this year to write a >>> > > systemd-to-initscript converter, >>> > > http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects#SysV-in

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > Russ Allbery, le Thu 29 Mar 2012 23:41:40 -0700, a écrit : >> It's focused on being clean, supportable, and fully integrated with >> Linux capabilities, *not* to solving everyone's use case, even to the >> detriment of being universal. > So that directly conflicts with

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd

2012-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/12 12:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I don't know what's going on exactly, but from the logs, it seems > that when suspending, the connection is ended (as expected), but > then, wicd tries to reconnect, and this may interrupt the suspend. Check that you don't have GLAN/WLAN or something lik

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2012-03-29 13:07:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Well, it seems like you should file bugs if you can, because a lot of >> these are not universal problems and therefore probably aren't known >> issues. > I did several months ago: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez Hi, > What you think about extending this GSoC project to also implement the > translation from systemd unit files to upstart ones? it is worth ? My interest in translating systemd units to sysvinit scripts is because it'll enable us to have higher-quality init scr

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

2012-03-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:08:33 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Would there not be some advantage to making dpkg-buildpackge the > interface for building? (Not dropping the debian/rules interface, > of course.) This would permit the automatic setting of all the > host- and build-related variables w

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wookey writes: > +++ Neil Williams [2012-03-26 09:17 +0100]: >> Therefore packaging takes no time at all, it is always fully complete >> before the code itself is even worth evaluating as useful to Debian. >> The packaging is part of my test harness. > > You are only looking at this from the upst

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jon Dowland writes: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:30:37PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Shouldn't there rather be a base-desktop that both KDE-desktop and >> GNOME-desktop depend on? A meta package that depends on everything any >> desktop should have. > > I'm not sure if that's the right

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tollef Fog Heen, le Fri 30 Mar 2012 15:40:55 +0200, a écrit : > > > The maintenance of systemd is actually quite the opposite of a standard. > > > > That sentence is quite frightening. > > Is it? It's not like the maintenance of the kernel, KDE or GNOME is > done in the manner you maintain a stan

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Russ Allbery, le Fri 30 Mar 2012 10:41:05 -0700, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Russ Allbery, le Thu 29 Mar 2012 23:41:40 -0700, a écrit : > > >> It's focused on being clean, supportable, and fully integrated with > >> Linux capabilities, *not* to solving everyone's use case, even to the

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18:20AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > If it's *not* for solving everyone's use case, then it's not good for > making it a default init implementation. You cannot ever solve everyone's use cases. What systemd (and upstart) aim to do is to solve all use cases that sysvi

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > It is apparently trying to be a *Linux* standard, being adopted by all > distributions. That's not at all clear to me. It seems more to be trying to be a good init system used by Fedora, and beyond that it's left to people to make up their own minds, although of course

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-30 19:43:48 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 30/03/12 12:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I don't know what's going on exactly, but from the logs, it seems > > that when suspending, the connection is ended (as expected), but > > then, wicd tries to reconnect, and this may inte

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-30 10:44:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2012-03-29 13:07:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Well, it seems like you should file bugs if you can, because a lot of > >> these are not universal problems and therefore probably aren't known > >> issues. >

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Hi I'm not a DD but ... I thought on Gnu site if you get and compile the compiler it already has a test suite, for C anyway (i have not tried it personally). Peter Miller wrote: Hi Folks, I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer an open source one, preferably

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-31 01:16:42 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-03-30 10:44:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I don't think your diagnosis of this is correct, in that I don't think > > wicd is what's doing this. I was getting things like that with Network > > Manager as well, and usually rebooting

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:17 PM, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell < johnandsa...@cox.net> wrote: > I thought on Gnu site if you get and compile the compiler it already has a > test suite, for C anyway (i have not tried it personally). > He mentions in the message that he's looking for

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd

2012-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 31/03/12 01:03, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-03-30 19:43:48 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 30/03/12 12:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> I don't know what's going on exactly, but from the logs, it seems >>> that when suspending, the connection is ended (as expected), but >>> the

Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2012-03-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've just orphaned svgalib by uploading 1.4.x and 1.9.x packages with pending changes to unstable and experimental. I recently contacted upstream to send patches back, but was offered taking over upstream maintainership instead because he is not interested in it anym

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Miller
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 20:02 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer > an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, > e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I can't just use the tests in the glibc > sources. newlib, used by