On 09/20/2012 12:25 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
I've never seen somebody starting to use "conffile" when he really meant
"configuration file".
I've never seen it either.
But I've seen many instances of the following:
- A knowledgeable DD write about "conffiles"
- a newbie writing "yes but my config
> Thomas Goirand writes:
[…]
> BTW, "conffiles" is a pretty bad name. It's confusing, as you can
> see once more.
> I thought about calling it "dpkg-conffiles" which has the advantage
> of underlying that we leave the handling of the file to the
> responsibility of dpkg, keeps the sam
On 2012-09-20 19:20, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> A binNMU would just paper over the actual bug. guile-1.6 debian/rules
> has this:
>
> dh_md5sums
> sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" `find $(CURDIR)/debian/ -name
> '*.la'`
> dh_builddeb
Thanks for looking into the source. I skipped this af
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:41:05AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> I just sponsored the ninja-build package. I realize now that I may
> have missed one point: does it need to conflict with package ninja ?
> ninja-build will provide usr/bin/ninja, while ninja provides
> usr/sbin/ninja.
>
> Th
On 2012-09-18 09:53, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> mirror_2.9-62
>> /usr/share/doc/mirror/mirror.txt.gz
>> /usr/share/doc/mirror/html/mirror-ref.html
>> /usr/share/mirror/mirror.pl
>> /usr/share/mirror/dateconv.pl
>> /usr/share/mirror/lchat.pl
>> /usr/share/mirror/lsparse.pl
>> /usr/shar
On 2012-09-16 18:36, Bart Martens wrote:
>> I'm offering help, but only for part of the work : I could write a perl
>> script
>> that periodically scans the logfiles and submits additional bugs.
>
> I have written that script, and I think it's ready for use.
Thanks a lot for filing these bugs! W
* Andreas Beckmann , 2012-09-21, 14:30:
mirror_2.9-62
/usr/share/doc/mirror/mirror.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/mirror/html/mirror-ref.html
/usr/share/mirror/mirror.pl
/usr/share/mirror/dateconv.pl
/usr/share/mirror/lchat.pl
/usr/share/mirror/lsparse.pl
/usr/share/mirror/ftp.pl
/usr/bin/
On 09/20/2012 01:58 AM, superuserlaptop wrote:
This to me is a form of sabotage.
It turns out that "superuserlaptop" is using a Squeeze system,
half upgraded, with a MATE Wheezy unofficial repository, both
Stable, Wheezy and SID repositories in his sources.list but
without doing a dist-upgrade,
That's not really of any interest to -devel, and I guess you're quoting
info from private mail here. Please let's keep this list useful.
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Joey Hess writes ("Re: Debian Policy 3.9.4.0 released"):
> That would include large numbers of haskell libraries and binaries that
> statically link other haskell libraries. Even though most such
> libraries actually have no source license requirements.
The requirement to ship the source for the b
* Jakub Wilk , 2012-08-06, 15:37:
The following package pairs:
1) are co-installable,
2) both ship binaries with the same name, but in different
directories within $PATH (e.g. one in /usr/bin, another in
/usr/sbin):
There's a few more if you take alternatives into account:
boom: alliance prb
Jakub Wilk writes:
> Really? I didn't read the license, but either it's not neccessary, or
> it's a DFSG§4 violation: “The license must explicitly permit
> distribution of software built from modified source code.”
I'm not sure why mirror is still doing this, given the correspondence
recorded in
Jakub Wilk writes:
> There's a few more if you take alternatives into account:
> tf: tf tf5
(Speaking with my tf5 maintainer hat on.) The current arrangement of
these packages is weird, but I'm not sure how much trouble it's causing.
tf ships /usr/games/tf and tf5 ships /usr/bin/tf5. Both of
While working on debian one thing I have not managed to find is
documentation on what packages can and can't assume about the build
environment. Does such documentation exist and if not should it be created.
Some specific cases i'm wondering about:
I just discovered that on my beagleboard XM (
peter green wrote:
Some time ago I found that a package (I think it was openjdk but I
don't remember for sure) which relied on uname -r
sorry I meam -m not -r
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:26:24PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> While working on debian one thing I have not managed to find is
> documentation on what packages can and can't assume about the build
> environment. Does such documentation exist and if not should it be
> created.
>
> Some specific cas
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 09:07:57PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:26:24PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> > Some time ago I found that a package (I think it was openjdk but I
> > don't remember for sure) which relied on uname -r such that linux32
> > had to be used to build it
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:26:24PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> I just discovered that on my beagleboard XM (under armhf sid) nacl
> (which previously build on a debian experimental armhf buildd but
> not a debian unstable armhf buildd) will build if /sys is mounted
> but will not build if it is not
Package: wnpp
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 02:35:40PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2012-09-16 18:36, Bart Martens wrote:
> >> I'm offering help, but only for part of the work : I could write a perl
> >> script
> >> that periodically scans the logfiles and submits additional bugs.
> >
> > I have written that
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:26:24PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> While working on debian one thing I have not managed to find is
> documentation on what packages can and can't assume about the build
> environment. Does such documentation exist and if not should it be
> created.
One thing that is at
* peter green [120921 21:26]:
> I just discovered that on my beagleboard XM (under armhf sid) nacl
> (which previously build on a debian experimental armhf buildd but
> not a debian unstable armhf buildd) will build if /sys is mounted
> but will not build if it is not mounted. Can packages assume
Hi,
I want to use python-twitter package [1], but this package is old and
it's not able to be used [2]. The current maintainer said he will
update it in the following days, but it has never updated for one and
a half years. I think he is not active now [3].
Can I take over this package?
[1] http
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Koichi Akabe
* Package name: glogic
Version : 2.4
Upstream Author : Koichi Akabe
* URL : https://launchpad.net/glogic
* License : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: Python
Description : logic circuit simulator for students
Le Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:38:06AM +0900, Koichi Akabe a écrit :
>
> I want to use python-twitter package [1], but this package is old and
> it's not able to be used [2]. The current maintainer said he will
> update it in the following days, but it has never updated for one and
> a half years. I t
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Le Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:23:36AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit :
>
> I think it would also be a good idea to have this documented in
> policy if it's not already.
I totally agree. I created a
Hi,
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:16:16 +0900
Charles Plessy wrote:
> this is a team-maintained package, so the best place to ask is the team's
> mailing list (debian-python in that case).
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam/
Okay, I forwarded it to:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 01:25 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * peter green [120921 21:26]:
> > I just discovered that on my beagleboard XM (under armhf sid) nacl
> > (which previously build on a debian experimental armhf buildd but
> > not a debian unstable armhf buildd) will build if /sys is moun
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 23:06 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 09:07:57PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:26:24PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> > > Some time ago I found that a package (I think it was openjdk but I
> > > don't remember for sure) which rel
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
* Package name: erlang-bear
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