Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2012-08-28 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 27 août 2012 19.21:22, Andrew Shadura a écrit : > Hello, > > (As a Tcler I have to comment on this.) > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:36:43 +0200 Didier Raboud wrote: (Do you really have to comment on a 10-months old dead thread?) > > 1) "Forget about jimtcl, rely on existing tcl interpreter

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10:18PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > In DebConf12, I talked about xz compression for Debian packages(*). > Now I'll talk about next step, suggestion for use xz with with result > from some experiment. >

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10:18PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > We know some packages are better to use gzip, but it's an exception. Using xz > is best choice for rest 99.99% of packages. We can deal with such exception > by specifying gzip for that (e.g. openclipart-png). Or even no compressi

modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Package: modemmanager Version: 0.5.2.0-1 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 18.10.2011 21:16, schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: >> ]] Didier Raboud > >> | >> | usb-modeswitch being mostly useful for 3G USB dongles, I don't understand >> | where you want the s/Recommends/Suggests/.

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source"): > On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 09:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > There are a fair number > > of email clients out there that, rightly or wrongly, will not display > > inline attachments of type application/

Bug#686077: ITP: libsnappy1.0.3-java -- Fast Java compressor/decompressor, port of Snappy

2012-08-28 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: libsnappy1.0.3-java Version : 1.0.3-rc3 Upstream Author : Xerial.org * URL : https://code.google.com/p/snappy-java/downloads/list?can=4&q=&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+ReleaseDate+Size+Downloa

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-28 04:32:18 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 11:03 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-08-26 19:55:49 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > Now obviously there's a small border; I guess IETF's idea is: > > > "Can it be exectued/interpreted direc

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
The Wanderer writes ("Restoring the removed e16 package"): > I'm not positive whether this properly belongs here; if it would be more > appropriate on another mailing list, just let me know which one. ... > As e17 does not constitute a suitable replacement for e16 for my > purposes, I have an inter

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-28 12:05:26 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10:18PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > We know some packages are better to use gzip, but it's an > > exception. Using xz is best choice for rest 99.99% of packages. > > We can deal with such exception by specifying

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Minified javascript files"): > The problem I see with it, is that it adds complexity to the judgement > of whether something is suitable for a source package or not (on all > actors involved: maintainer, ftp-masters, QA, bug reporters, etc.). With > something like th

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-28 11:43:32 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and > text/x-php-source"): > > On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 09:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > There are a fair number > > > of email clients out there that, rightly or wrongly, w

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Vincent Lefevre writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source"): > On 2012-08-28 11:43:32 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > But the clients aren't broken. They simply haven't been taught about > > every possible programming language. That is not a bug. There will > > always be

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Vincent Lefevre writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source"): > On 2012-08-28 04:32:18 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 11:03 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2012-08-26 19:55:49 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > > Now obvio

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source"): > This is the wrong way to think of it. The right way is "is it > intended by the sender to be executed by the recipient _as part of > display of the message_" ? Oh and I should draw the obvious conclusion about P

Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > (Dropping -devel) > > Hi Reinhard, > > Le mardi, 28 août 2012 12.18:31, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : >> Package: modemmanager >> Version: 0.5.2.0-1 >> >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> > Am 18.10.2011 21:16, s

Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Biebl
On 28.08.2012 14:07, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> (Dropping -devel) >> >> Hi Reinhard, >> >> Le mardi, 28 août 2012 12.18:31, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : >>> Package: modemmanager >>> Version: 0.5.2.0-1 >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:

Re: Bug#684726: ITP: check_v46 -- Icinga / Nagios plugin for dual stacked (IPv4 / IPv6) hosts

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/13/2012 06:13 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 15:41 +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: >> Would it make sense to included it in nagios-plugins-contrib? > Actually I'd prefer to have nagios-contrib split up... I mean I think > that's to some extent a general Debian probl

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/10/2012 10:55 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 10, Philip Hands wrote: > >> Now that they've done the bulk of the effort, do you really expect them >> to simply discard their work because you tell them to? > I really do not care about what the openrc developers will do, my > interest is in

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Ian,... Again, AFAIU, IETF nor the RFCs do consider the MIME types as way to determine what the sender/creator intends the recipient to do with it. So any assumptions you made about files attached to emails, etc. do IMHO simply not fit. And actually that's the way we already have; the clients giv

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/10/2012 09:25 AM, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Josselin Mouette [2012-08-09 23:15]: > >> And no, choice between multiple broken implementation is NOT added >> value. Linux is not about choice. > > Luckily that is not everyones opinion. Strong ack. I'm using open source software because I wa

Re: Bug#684726: ITP: check_v46 -- Icinga / Nagios plugin for dual stacked (IPv4 / IPv6) hosts

2012-08-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Bernd. On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:44 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > Actually I'd prefer to have nagios-contrib split up... I mean I think > > that's to some extent a general Debian problem, that there are such > > package collections, with a high number of deps (via > > recommends/suggests), and

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-28 12:36:22 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and > text/x-php-source"): > > Now, the sender could also provide a charset with > > application/*, in which case the recipient client should know > > that this is necessarily text. >

Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
.oO(I thought I had explicitely dropped -devel, meh). Le mardi, 28 août 2012 14.07:40, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : > I'd suggest to signal the situation properly to the user. This would > make the situation less hard to identify. > > Ideally, the user is presented some dialog box that instructs hi

Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 28, Michael Biebl wrote: > We don't have the infrastructure though, to do such hardware based > installation requests, i.e. a system service which constantly monitors > newly plugged in devices, has a database of devices mapping to packages, > and a service running in the user session whic

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-28 14:49:53 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Ian,... > > Again, AFAIU, IETF nor the RFCs do consider the MIME types as way to > determine what the sender/creator intends the recipient to do with it. Perhaps it would be more clear like that: one may want to consider a script as

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 15:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Perhaps it would be more clear like that: one may want to consider > a script as a program/application that can be executed, in which > case application/* should be used; but one may also want to regard > it as text, in which case text/pla

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-28 15:53:51 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 15:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Perhaps it would be more clear like that: one may want to consider > > a script as a program/application that can be executed, in which > > case application/* should be used

Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Biebl
On 28.08.2012 14:49, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 28, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> We don't have the infrastructure though, to do such hardware based >> installation requests, i.e. a system service which constantly monitors >> newly plugged in devices, has a database of devices mapping to packages,

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 08/28/2012 06:51 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: The Wanderer writes ("Restoring the removed e16 package"): I'm not positive whether this properly belongs here; if it would be more appropriate on another mailing list, just let me know which one. On this point, I've already been advised (by Bart Ma

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 16:05 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > It doesn't break anything. Well one should usually not add any "personal" interpretations to standards,... because eventually this will cause troubles. > If the goal is to read the file as text, > then text/plain is fine. Ah... I guess I

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-28 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10:18PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > -- > conclusion (rest) > -- > I recommend to use xz ***by default*** (with approp

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Vincent Lefevre writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source"): > Then if there is a charset parameter, with a value that refers to > some known text character set, I think that one can assume that > the contents are encoded with this charset, thus can be displayed > as text

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source"): > On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 16:05 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > You misread what I've said. text/javascript and text/ecmascript > > (which were used for execution -- this is what this RFC is about) > >

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
The Wanderer writes ("Re: Restoring the removed e16 package"): > On this point, I've already been advised (by Bart Martens, in > off-list mail) that debian-mentors would probably be a more > appropriate venue. Fair enough. I'll try to keep my response here to one point which I think is probably o

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 15:41 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > You misread what I've said. text/javascript and text/ecmascript > > > (which were used for execution -- this is what this RFC is about) > > > are obsolete, but not text/plain. > I think this is probably a mistake by the IETF. Well, I doubt

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes ("Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source"): > I think it already is when you use e.g. application/javascript. > And I think, that MIME types are intended to hint the client of what > kind content is, but not what to do with it. I think that's a

Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, This summer, during the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), we have been working to provide a way to rebuild the archive with a non-gcc compiler (in our case: clang). Our project's intent is not to change the default compiler, just use a secondary compiler to generate more errors or warnings fo

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, I love the gcc and fully support it. Not only should we support different gcc options but of course other compilers like the llvm. There are also things like profile feedback that could be interesting to collect on a project wide basis. mike On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Sylvestre Led

Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:05:46PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 28.08.2012 14:49, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Aug 28, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> We don't have the infrastructure though, to do such hardware based > >> installation requests, i.e. a system service which constantly monitors > >> ne

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:18:48PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Hello, Hi, > Currently, it is the case that some packages are expecting gcc and g++ > to be the default and (almost) only C and C++ compilers. While it has > been the case for the early days of the project, this assumption causes

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:46:50PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:18:48PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > Hello, > > Hi, > > > Currently, it is the case that some packages are expecting gcc and g++ > > to be the default and (almost) only C and C++ compilers. While

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Salut, On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > During our work, we have found a few interesting issues, and would like > to push for some package policy changes for Jessie. +1 > We would like to propose the same approach for Fortran and Objective-C, > but it seems that it is n

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Salut, > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> During our work, we have found a few interesting issues, and would like >> to push for some package policy changes for Jessie. > > +1 > >> We would like to propose the

Re: Bug#684726: ITP: check_v46 -- Icinga / Nagios plugin for dual stacked (IPv4 / IPv6) hosts

2012-08-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well but many people disable this, because otherwise you get "tons" of > stuff you don't need nor want. People who disable recommends get to deal with any breakage they generate by doing so. Promoting things which should be recommends to depen

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 28/08/2012 17:46, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:18:48PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Hello, Hi, Currently, it is the case that some packages are expecting gcc and g++ to be the default and (almost) only C and C++ compilers. While it has been the case for the early d

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 15:37 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Then if there is a charset parameter, with a value that refers to > > some known text character set, I think that one can assume that > > the contents are encoded with this charset, thus can be displayed > > as text. > I don't think that fol

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 17:18 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Hello, > > This summer, during the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), we have been > working to provide a way to rebuild the archive with a non-gcc compiler > (in our case: clang). > > Our project's intent is not to change the default compile

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:27:23AM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 17:18 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This summer, during the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), we have been > > working to provide a way to rebuild the archive with a non-gcc compiler > > (in our c

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 28/08/2012 18:27, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 17:18 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Hello, This summer, during the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), we have been working to provide a way to rebuild the archive with a non-gcc compiler (in our case: clang). Our project's intent is no

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 28 août 2012 18:27:23, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > Are all alternate compilers expected to implement gcc extensions? Must > the code be changed to use appropriate '#ifdef __GNUC__' guards? (And > what happens the next time gcc adds a new extension...?) I maintain tcc and it clearly doe

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Tagliamonte writes: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:27:23AM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Are all alternate compilers expected to implement gcc extensions? Must >> the code be changed to use appropriate '#ifdef __GNUC__' guards? (And >> what happens the next time gcc adds a new extension...?

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
> > > Find someone (preferably a team) to be the maintainers, prepare a > > > suitable package, get someone to sponsor it, and reopen all the > > > bugs which were closed by the removal. I volunteer to help with the packaging work. I'm not a Debian Developer, so we would need sponsors anyway, but

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> If a package fails to build with an alternate compiler (that is, it >> correctly *uses* the compiler, but the compiler reports a fatal error), >> is that considered a bug, and what severity does it have? > > I'd not consider a FTBFS with

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:43:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > >> If a package fails to build with an alternate compiler (that is, it > >> correctly *uses* the compiler, but the compiler reports a fatal error), > >> is that considered

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-28 16:19:29 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > *.php files should be recognised as text/x-php or text/x-php-source by > our mime types file. > > If Apache (or some other webserver) wants to automatically execute > *.php files (whether the url referring to foo.php is is > http://example.com/foo

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Serge
2012/8/28 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Just curious, do you have a list of such packages? > > No, I've not built up such a list. I've seen it enough for me to recall > this edge-case. Most packages with a lone Makefile usually have: > > CC=gcc Notabug. :) I guess this is how it's supposed to be b

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:56:53AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Minified javascript files"): > > The problem I see with it, is that it adds complexity to the judgement > > of whether something is suitable for a source package or not (on all > > actors involved: mainta

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-28 Thread Serge
2012/8/20 Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Have you all minded that there are several *different* use cases? > > * Laptop user going here and there, sometimes with Wireless, sometimes > with cable, sometimes with USB stick > * Desktop user with home ADSL > * Server with several connections > > Each

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:27:18PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/8/28 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > >> Just curious, do you have a list of such packages? > > > > No, I've not built up such a list. I've seen it enough for me to recall > > this edge-case. Most packages with a lone Makefile usually have:

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Clearly, some upstreams (such as GNU projects, I'm guessing) wouldn't be > receptive to such changes, and I don't think it's right to try to > enforce this on them. Those quite often use automake for the build system. Automake is supposed to be compi

Archive-wide rebuilds using scan-build (was: Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic)

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > This summer, during the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), we have been > working to provide a way to rebuild the archive with a non-gcc compiler > (in our case: clang). > > Our project's intent is not to change the default compiler, just use a > secondary compiler to generate more errors or war

Re: Archive-wide rebuilds using scan-build

2012-08-28 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le 28/08/2012 21:51, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Hi, > >> This summer, during the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), we have been >> working to provide a way to rebuild the archive with a non-gcc compiler >> (in our case: clang). >> >> Our project's intent is not to change the default compiler, just use a

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 22:41 +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/8/20 Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > > Have you all minded that there are several *different* use cases? > > > > * Laptop user going here and there, sometimes with Wireless, sometimes > > with cable, sometimes with USB stick > > * Desktop us

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:56:47PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Before wondering whether PNG files should have an additional > compression level, is there any reason why a better PNG compression > isn't used in the first place? For instance, "optipng -o9" tries > various parameters and keeps the

Re: [b-d][falla] acl2

2012-08-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Camm Maguire wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Camm Maguire wrote: > > > >> Greetings! This is to build by hand in order to work around an > >> unreproducible fault on fasch. Installed. Note that packages that do not build on our autobuilders are probably RC-buggy. You can u

Re: [php-maint] Bug#670945: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Ondřej and everybody, I would like to keep separate the two following issues. 1) Whether or not to give a private media type to PHP files in Debian, and if yes, which one. 2) Provide a smooth upgrade to our users who use Apache's mod_negociation in a way that is different to what

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
Sounds good, but I've a concern about the technical implementation of this: We explicitly moved away from having debian/rules depend on environment variables for compiler flags, shouldn't we be doing the same for compiler choice also? Perhaps we could use this instead: dpkg-buildflags --get CC dp

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:26:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paul Tagliamonte writes: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:27:23AM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >> Are all alternate compilers expected to implement gcc extensions? Must > >> the code be changed to use appropriate '#ifdef __GNUC__'

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
"brian m. carlson" writes: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:26:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> "Fairly OK" is a good way of putting it. It's not reached the level of >> "good," but it's probably workable for most practical purposes. You >> will get spurious warnings about some things, such as so

Processed: Re: Please revert original bug title

2012-08-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > unmerge 652011 Bug #652011 [debian-policy] consider dropping the separation between /bin and /usr/bin, and /lib and /usr/lib Bug #686143 [debian-policy] debian-policy: FHS requirements on "essential" binaries cannot be well, defined at distro le

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/29/2012 03:40 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The point here is whether having non-free material, which is in > distributed tarballs but hidden by dpkg-source, would constitute > inclusion of non-free material in what we call Debian. (Of course we're > talking about "main" here.) > > Personal

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 29/08/2012 06:33, Russ Allbery a écrit : > /* > * LLVM and Clang pretend to be GCC but don't support all of the __attribute__ > * settings that GCC does. For them, suppress warnings about unknown > * attributes on declarations. This unfortunately will affect the entire > * compilation cont

usacn enhancement take 2: --repack-compression (Was: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default)

2012-08-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you might have noticed I implemented some way to teach uscan excluding certain files from upstream tarball to make it dfsg compatible (see bug #685787). In the previous discussion about this also the topic of compression came up[1]. I have the following proposal: Add an option --repa

uscan enhancement take 3: script hook

2012-08-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you might have noticed I implemented some way to teach uscan excluding certain files from upstream tarball to make it dfsg compatible (see bug #685787). When trying to get rid of some get-orig-source scripts I noticed that besided some file removals I need to execute some extra code. This