Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Gregor Jasny writes: > Does this sound reasonable? Yes. Please also read the earlier thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00356.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:50:35PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > I quite not agree with both "solutions" to use debian/README.source > or debian/upstream. Here's why. > > 1/ Packaging workflow with upstream Git repository > ... I agree that debian/README.source is no solution because it is no

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:50:35PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > When using Git, it's quite a common practice to only store the debian > branch on Alioth, then have the master branch stored ... upstream. > See for example: > > http://openstack.alioth.debian.org/ How common? I've never seen it do

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/15/2012 01:50 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > While having a standardized way would be useful, there's just so many > workflows, that you can't possibly cover all of them with a single > syntax, and in the end, you'd end up with having to call > package-specific scripts in the source. > > We alread

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 06/15/2012 11:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Yeah, a hook of any sorts is ok for me. The get-vcs-source in debian/rules > seems quite ok to me. Should debcheckout be modified to call it? It's part > of devscript, do you think it's ok if I submit a wishlist bug report against > devscript to ask f

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:37:18AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: Learning not to use /tmp to place large files. Setting TMPDIR=/home/tmp /tmp is for temporary files, and I expect to place files there as large as the partition is. I am not interested in analysing the files in what tempo

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Gergely Nagy
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > On 06/15/2012 11:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Yeah, a hook of any sorts is ok for me. The get-vcs-source in debian/rules >> seems quite ok to me. Should debcheckout be modified to call it? It's part >> of devscript, do you think it's ok if I submit a wishlist bug rep

Re: multiarch, required packages, and multiarch-support

2012-06-15 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:22:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Theodore Ts'o" writes: > > > If a required package (such as e2fslibs, which is required by e2fsprogs) > > provides multiarch support, then Lintian requires that the package have > > a dependency on the package "multiarch-support"[1]

Clarification on the Origin: field in the Patch Tagging Guidelines?

2012-06-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi, I'm trying to understand a better way of using the Origin: field as specified by DEP-3. I'm currently using something like this: Origin: http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f00911a21 f4e95de84c60e09cc4df173e5b6701 since DEP-3 seems to strongly encourage a URL. Bu

Re: Clarification on the Origin: field in the Patch Tagging Guidelines?

2012-06-15 Thread Gergely Nagy
"Theodore Ts'o" writes: > P.S. One of the things I'm thinking about doing is writing a script which > automatically generates the debian/patches directory from the git > repository. So when I specify the base release (i.e., v1.42.4), it will > do something like git format-patch, but in a debian/

Re: Clarification on the Origin: field in the Patch Tagging Guidelines?

2012-06-15 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:39:35 +0200, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > From reading the DEP-3, it mentions the use of the Commit: identifier, > but doesn't give any examples of how this would be done. Would > something like this be acceptable instead? > > Origin: upstream, Commit:8f00911a21 This i

Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Irqbalance project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ The current Debian package is back at 0.56 (over 2yrs old) and upstream is now at version 1.0.3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Pitt writes ("Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header"): > Subscribed. Thanks for bouncing it, as I cannot mail Ian directly > (his MTA rejects my mail server). If you send a copy of the bounce to postmaster@chiark I will add an exception entry to my spamfilter. > Stefano Z

Bug#677660: ITP: pycode-browser -- environment to teach with Python code snippets

2012-06-15 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: pycode-browser Version : 20120614+git+b041dd2 Upstream Authors : Vibeesh P , Vimal Joseph , Ajith Kumar * URL : https://github.c

CFC: Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 08:54 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Irqbalance project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ > The current Debian package is back at 0.56 (over 2yrs old) > and upstream is now at version 1.0.3 This is another example (of many) on how old-fashioned the Debian p

Re: Bug#677571: ITP: gwt -- Google Web Toolkit dev and runtime libraries

2012-06-15 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Hi Chris, Le vendredi 15 juin 2012 00:13:41, Chris Halls a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Chris Halls > > Package name: gwt (binaries libgwt-dev-java and libgwt-user-java) > Version : 2.4.0 > Upstream Author : Google Inc > URL : http://googl

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
may be because $> links -dump https://irqbalance.org/download.html | grep -A2 Latest Latest release Source Code: irqbalance-0.56.tar.bz2 (28Kb) ? On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Irqbalance project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ > The current Debian package

Re: Bug#677571: ITP: gwt -- Google Web Toolkit dev and runtime libraries

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:57:02PM +0200, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > There is already a "gwt" package in unstable [1] Sorry I had already realised this and closed this bug report again. One of the other gwt dependencies had been removed completely, and gwt has been removed from testing but not

Re: CFC: Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Svante Signell wrote: > > Irqbalance project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ > > The current Debian package is back at 0.56 (over 2yrs old) > > and upstream is now at version 1.0.3 > This is another example (of many) on how old-fashioned the Debian > package

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 16 juin 2012 00:08 CEST, Yaroslav Halchenko  : > $> links -dump https://irqbalance.org/download.html | grep -A2 Latest > Latest release > >Source Code: irqbalance-0.56.tar.bz2 (28Kb) > > ? The new home is: http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ There was recently a major update which leade

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:08:14 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > may be because > > $> links -dump https://irqbalance.org/download.html | grep -A2 Latest > Latest release > >Source Code: irqbalance-0.56.tar.bz2 (28Kb) > > ? The project home page moved. The old one is out of date. -- To U

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/16/2012 12:34 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:08:14 -0400 > Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > >> may be because >> >> $> links -dump https://irqbalance.org/download.html | grep -A2 Latest >> Latest release >> >>Source Code: irqbalance-0.56.tar.bz2 (28Kb) >> >> ? > > The

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 08:54 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Irqbalance project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ > The current Debian package is back at 0.56 (over 2yrs old) > and upstream is now at version 1.0.3 As someone else pointed out, it would help if the maintainers got t

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-15 Thread Serge
2012/6/15 Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: >>> This is often seen as not a good move to have a user-writable directory >>> on the system partition(s), since this provides for easy DOS >> >> DoS like what? /tmp on disk have a 5% safety limit available for system, >> user can "DoS" only his own process

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
> As someone else pointed out, it would help if the maintainers got > their > act together and made irqbalance.org point to this. It's not as if > they're unassociated with the owner of that domain. Maybe I need to take a trip over and knock on the door... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 08:54:23AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >Irqbalance project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ >The current Debian package is back at 0.56 (over 2yrs old) >and upstream is now at version 1.0.3 Uploaded 1.0.3-1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r