Re: Version for a returning package

2012-05-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Not yet switched but renewed the old name, advertising new site one only > in words - not technically with 301 redirection (yes, unsupported by APT > but could be put on e.g. front page) The APT http method support redirects since 14. Apr

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:40:10AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get back > below the 1 CD limit at the next Debian stable release. I was under the impression that GNOME3 fit onto one CD with recent Fedora releases, but I am having troubl

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2012-05-14 Thread Hanxue Lee
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Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-14 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 14 mai 2012 01:59:41, Russ Allbery a écrit : > "Thomas Preud'homme" writes: > > Back to the redistribution. In the section 4 (Conveying Verbatim > > Copies), what is discussed is the redistribution of the Program as > > source code form. Every word is part of the same sentence, whose > >

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > It is my impression from my visits in the Fall (although I do not have > any hard data to support it) that in India and Indonesia network access > is generally so slow that even if computers have DVD drives the common > media downloaded and used is CD. This

Re: BTS and qa.debian.org strangeness

2012-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 11:35 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear all, > > is the BTS and QA page undergoing some changes? I am asking because > some things behave strange: > > * bug 670494 filed against ptex-bin, which is currently maintained > by debian-tex-maint mailing list, but the bug rep

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:33:18AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:40:10AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get back > > below the 1 CD limit at the next Debian stable release. > > I was under the impression that GNO

Re: BTS and qa.debian.org strangeness

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Ben, thanks for the answers, but ... On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > * bug 670494 filed against ptex-bin, which is currently maintained > > by debian-tex-maint mailing list, but the bug report was sent > > (long after take over) to the old maintainer, so we missed it > > > >

Re: BTS and qa.debian.org strangeness

2012-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 18:26 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Ben, > > thanks for the answers, but ... > > On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > * bug 670494 filed against ptex-bin, which is currently maintained > > > by debian-tex-maint mailing list, but the bug report was sent > >

Re: Bug#672847: ITP: python-nbxmpp -- Non blocking Jabber/XMPP module

2012-05-14 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 14 mai 2012 11:45:01, Thomas Preud'homme a écrit : > Le lundi 14 mai 2012 07:57:11, Yann Leboulanger a écrit : > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Yann Leboulanger > > > > * Package name: python-nbxmpp > > > > Version : 0.1 > > Upstream Author : Yann Lebo

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2012-05-13 14:54, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Wordpress upstream doesn't seem to be able to support a stable branch > long enough for us (and I don't blame them for that, we do know how > painful it is). This pretty much sounds like the web browse

Bug#672868: ITP: intel-opencl-sdk -- Intel(R) OpenCL SDK

2012-05-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Giuseppe Bilotta * Package name: intel-opencl-sdk Version : 2.0.31360 Upstream Author : Intel Corporation * URL : http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/vcsource-tools/ * License : Intel Copyright 1999-2012 Programmin

Re: Bug#672847: ITP: python-nbxmpp -- Non blocking Jabber/XMPP module

2012-05-14 Thread Yann Leboulanger
On 14/05/2012 11:53, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le lundi 14 mai 2012 11:45:01, Thomas Preud'homme a écrit : Le lundi 14 mai 2012 07:57:11, Yann Leboulanger a écrit : Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Leboulanger * Package name: python-nbxmpp Version : 0.1 Upstream

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-14 at 11:22am, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > It is my impression from my visits in the Fall (although I do not > > have any hard data to support it) that in India and Indonesia > > network access is generally so slow that even if computers have DVD > >

Re: Version for a returning package

2012-05-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-14 at 09:51am, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Not yet switched but renewed the old name, advertising new site one > > only in words - not technically with 301 redirection (yes, > > unsupported by APT but could be put on e.g. fron

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.05.2012 12:30, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Let's keep providing CDs as install medium, because it is still relevant > for some (and, I vaguely feel, not only exotically few) real use cases > to install non-bloated desktop at places with flaky/expensive Internet. Having different default desk

Re: Bug#672797: ITP: webrtc-audio-processing -- AudioProcessing library from the webrtc.org code base

2012-05-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, Not directly related to the bug: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 08:43:39PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sjoerd Simons > > * Package name: webrtc-audio-processing > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Google Inc > * URL : > htt

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.05.2012 03:29, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I haven't tried myself, but gnome3 most probably introduced > non-accessible custom widgets, buttons without labels, etc. For > instance, the alt-F2 widget, used a lot by blind people, is currently > inaccessible... GNOME 3.4 has seen a lot of effort p

Re: Bug#672797: ITP: webrtc-audio-processing -- AudioProcessing library from the webrtc.org code base

2012-05-14 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Hey, On ma, 2012-05-14 at 10:32 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Audio processing library (echo-cancellation, gain control etc) around the > > AudioProcessing module from the WebRTC project > > (http://code.google.com/p/webrtc/) > > Any relation to the original project? see: http://cgit.freede

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Jason White
Michael Biebl wrote: > GNOME 3.4 has seen a lot of effort put into improving accessibility > support, especially gnome-shell. Once we have a complete 3.4 stack, it > would be great if you can give it another try and report any issues. There are a number of us on the debian-accessibility list wh

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 14/05/12 12:39, Michael Biebl a écrit : > On 14.05.2012 12:30, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Let's keep providing CDs as install medium, because it is still relevant >> for some (and, I vaguely feel, not only exotically few) real use cases >> to install non-bloated desktop at places with flaky/ex

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 06:47:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Borowski wrote: > > Could you please mention which ones do not? And if so, how are they > > relevant/are they fixable? > > As one of the maintainers of debootstrap, I am perhaps more aware than > some how broadly it's used. Ok.. >

Re: Version for a returning package

2012-05-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-05-14 at 09:51am, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> > Not yet switched but renewed the old name, advertising new site one >> > only in words - not technically with 301 redirect

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Adam Borowski wrote: > Ie, the problem is not in d-i, but in running debootstrap on foreign > systems. And that's indeed not easily fixable :( Do we actually have an official debootstrap package for foreign systems? We could ship a static busybox with it and solve this and other issue

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Toni Mueller
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:56:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > packaging and security issues and is because we need N independent > installations per server for different groups that can vary separately and That's one reason why packaged versions of web apps are quite often useless at my workpla

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Lun 14 May 2012 07:30:30 Jonas Smedegaard escribió: [snip] > I wish people would collaborate more. > > I wish people would care more about efficient use of resources. Me too :-) > I did not claim that there was great sense behind that usage pattern, > but I do claim that it is reality in some

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:04:20PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > to support in Debian; another is that it is really helpful for web > > applications to be able to give an entirely independent installation to > > each major site rather than trying to share the same code. For another > > Ack. That

openvz, was: Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Toni Mueller
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > This reminds me: is anyone going to bring back vserver or openvz in some I'm for having openvz back, then. Can we have this in a separate thread, please? Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:04:20PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > to support in Debian; another is that it is really helpful for web > > > applications to be able to give an entirely independent installation to > > > each major site

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Toni Mueller
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:53:25PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > This reminds me: is anyone going to bring back vserver or openvz in some > > form? > Ola Lundqvist had plans to do this in an > OpenVZ-hosted repository. Sounds goo

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Toni Mueller wrote: > But in practice, it means that many users have to migrate, or abstain > from upgrading. Or will lxc be completely ready for Wheezy? No way, what is missing is important kernel features. The only hope is that somebody will maintain a decent .deb repackaging of the

Re: openvz, was: Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:37:23PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > This reminds me: is anyone going to bring back vserver or openvz in some > > I'm for having openvz back, then. Are you ready to do the required work? > Can we have this in a separate thread, please? Do we have any practical results

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Marco d'Itri wrote: > Do we actually have an official debootstrap package for foreign systems? > We could ship a static busybox with it and solve this and other issues. We don't really. When you look around, a variety of ad-hoc methods are used to install debootstrap on foreign systems. The simple

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Indeed, I have seen that pattern before, although I think it was because > people are used to get CDs, not DVDs (ie, just a matter of habit). Another reason is that it's more likely for a throwaway USB key to be in the 1-2 gb range than the 5 gb range.

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:26:13PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Dom 13 May 2012 21:40:10 Marco d'Itri escribió: > [snip] > > Does anybody actually know that people routinely try to install desktop > > systems with only a CD and no networking, and why? > > What is the use

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 14.05.2012 12:30, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Let's keep providing CDs as install medium, because it is still relevant >> for some (and, I vaguely feel, not only exotically few) real use cases >> to install non-bloated desktop at places with

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2012/5/14, Marco d'Itri : > On May 14, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> Ie, the problem is not in d-i, but in running debootstrap on foreign >> systems. And that's indeed not easily fixable :( > Do we actually have an official debootstrap package for foreign systems? > We could ship a static busybo

udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I'm very confused about what the status is regarding udeb and data.tar.xz. Are they allowed or not? It seems at the moment that dh_builddeb is creating them by default, and lintian is complaining that this is an error. I've done a search through the web and debian-devel and it looks like things

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-05-14 21:16, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I'm very confused about what the status is regarding udeb and > data.tar.xz. Are they allowed or not? It seems at the moment that > dh_builddeb is creating them by default, and lintian is complaining that > this is an error. > > I've done a search thro

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:51:43PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git > repository[1] I saw a bug report requesting that packages that failed the lintian udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball check should be summarily rejected. Did thi

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 15:16:15 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Can someone tell me what's up, and ideally update the text at: > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball.html > > ... so developers can know what to do? > debhelper switched to xz for udebs yesterday,

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-05-14 22:01, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:51:43PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git >> repository[1] > > I saw a bug report requesting that packages that failed the lintian > udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarb

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 16:01:31 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > I saw a bug report requesting that packages that failed the lintian > udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball check should be summarily rejected. > Did this actually get implemeted on the ftp server? i.e., do I need > to wait until the new version

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Philipp Kern
Ted, am Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:01:31PM -0400 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:51:43PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > > Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git > > repository[1] > > I saw a bug report requesting that packages that fail

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:20:08PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > as soon as we get a hold of an ftp-master the autoreject will be dropped. > We'll certainly don't wait until Lintian is backported. ;-) > Great, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware of http://ftp-master.debian.or

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Hymers
On Mon, 14, May, 2012 at 04:29:09PM -0400, Ted Ts'o spoke thus.. > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:20:08PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > as soon as we get a hold of an ftp-master the autoreject will be dropped. > > We'll certainly don't wait until Lintian is backported. ;-) > > > > Great, thanks

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:30:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 12, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Thus, let's just switch dpkg-deb's default to xz. Lowering bandwidth usage > > is worth the extra build time cost. > Agreed, this looks like a good idea. > > -- > ciao, > Marco The only probl

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:33:34PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > 2012/5/14, Marco d'Itri : > > Do we actually have an official debootstrap package for foreign systems? > > We could ship a static busybox with it and solve this and other issues. > > (I know, not all the world is a VAX, etc... But we

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:33:22PM +0100, Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:30:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On May 12, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > > Thus, let's just switch dpkg-deb's default to xz. Lowering bandwidth > > > usage > > > is worth the extra build tim

problems with quilt and 3.0 (quilt) format again

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, can anyone explain the following: # in a debian pacakge unpacked: $ quilt push -a Applying patch 01-desktop.patch patching file poedit.desktop Hunk #1 succeeded at 15 with fuzz 2 (offset 12 lines). Now at patch 01-desktop.patch $ # ok, that went fine $ quilt pop -a Removing patch 01

Re: problems with quilt and 3.0 (quilt) format again

2012-05-14 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 07:59:38AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > can anyone explain the following: > # in a debian pacakge unpacked: > > $ quilt push -a > Applying patch 01-desktop.patch > patching file poedit.desktop > Hunk #1 succeeded at 15 with fuzz 2 (offset 12 lines). dpkg-source is more

Re: problems with quilt and 3.0 (quilt) format again

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Clint, thanks a lot or the answer. On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Clint Adams wrote: > dpkg-source is more intolerant of fuzz than quilt itself. > Run quilt refresh on the patch and it should be happier. Ar ... is this on purpose? Or by chance? Or to drive developers crazy? No, an answer "it is w

Re: BTS and qa.debian.org strangeness

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear BTS masters, it seems that recently some problems have been introduced in the BTS. The following email exchange explains the two independent problems (one being bug reports sent to the wrong adress, one being that the dev pages are not updated). On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:33:34PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> 2012/5/14, Marco d'Itri : >> > Do we actually have an official debootstrap package for foreign systems? >> > We could ship a static busybox with it and solve this and other is

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:54:53AM +0200, David Kalnischkies a écrit : > > And the fields defining a difference in versions are: > Installed-Size, Depends, Pre-Depends, Conflicts, Breaks and Replaces. > Differences in all other fields are ignored (as they are not guaranteed to > be present - the

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-14 Thread Jose Luis Tallón
El 14/05/12 12:03, Martin Bagge / brother escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2012-05-13 14:54, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Wordpress upstream doesn't seem to be able to support a stable branch long enough for us (and I don't blame them for that, we do know how painful it

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:54:53AM +0200, David Kalnischkies a écrit : >> And the fields defining a difference in versions are: >> Installed-Size, Depends, Pre-Depends, Conflicts, Breaks and Replaces. >> Differences in all other fields are ignored (as they are not guarant

why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi dpkg-* maintainers, I know, it is documented in dpkg-source man page: Contrary to quilt's default behaviour, patches are expected to apply without any fuzz. When that is not the case, you should refresh such patches with quilt, or dpkg-source will error out while t

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-15, Norbert Preining wrote: > Is there a rational behind not allowing any fuzz? I think it makes perfect sense to expect the patches to apply perfectly, so we don't rely on patch & quilt to be able to unfuzz things. Especially when unfuzzing patches are so simple. while quilt push ;

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining writes: > Is there a rational behind not allowing any fuzz? Fuzz indicates that the source file has changed since the patch has been generated, which means that the patch may no longer apply properly. Fuzz is a guess of convenience by the patch program that the result is *proba

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > isn't indicative of an error. A good way to indicate that is to unfuzz > the patch. Or build a source and binary package, do normal testing *as*usual* and upload ... No, I hereby start saying good by to 3.0 Best wishes Norbert -

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, (Caveat: I am not a dpkg-source maintainer.) Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2012-05-15, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Is there a rational behind not allowing any fuzz? > > I think it makes perfect sense to expect the patches to apply perfectly, > so we don't rely on patch & quilt to be able to unfuz

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining writes: > On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: >> isn't indicative of an error. A good way to indicate that is to unfuzz >> the patch. > Or build a source and binary package, do normal testing *as*usual* > and upload ... There was a reason why I added the word "subtle" in f

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Leidert
Russ Allbery wrote: > Norbert Preining writes: > > > Is there a rational behind not allowing any fuzz? > > Fuzz indicates that the source file has changed since the patch has been > generated, which means that the patch may no longer apply properly. Fuzz > is a guess of convenience by the patch

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:17:17PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > > isn't indicative of an error. A good way to indicate that is to unfuzz > > the patch. > > Or build a source and binary package, do normal testing *as*usual* > and upload ... Hmmm, what

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > Of all the things that one has to do with a package, this is pretty minor. If you are talking of a normal small package. Not of 2.6G of packages where even the source packages are *generated*, and unfuzzying is a process that takes quite some time. Best

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining writes: > On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Of all the things that one has to do with a package, this is pretty minor. > If you are talking of a normal small package. Not of 2.6G of packages > where even the source packages are *generated*, and unfuzzying is a > proces

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi, On Di, 15 Mai 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hmmm, what exactly is "normal testing *as*usual*"? Isn't it a duty of Like I have, a test bed testing various upgrade and install scenaria from stable/testing/sid. > the maintainer to inspect critical parts of the code? IMHO existing Not all patc

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > If you don't care about checking the patches, it takes fifteen minutes one > time to write a shell script and then less than ten seconds to run it > before you do an upload. See my other answer. This is conceptually wrong, because you might end up with a *