Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
[Whoops, forgot to send on list] On 15/01/2013 15:48, Paul Johnson wrote: > To create the shlibs dependency, I think dpkg-shlibdeps is reading > files in /var/lib/dpkg/info. I can't find any "2.7" associated with > libc6-amd in there. > > And, if libc6-amd is really the i386 version of the C libr

Bug#698209: ITP: librarian-puppet -- a bundler for your puppet infrastructure

2013-01-15 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stig Sandbeck Mathisen * Package name: librarian-puppet Version : 0.9.7 Upstream Author : Tim Sharpe * URL : https://github.com/rodjek/librarian-puppet * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : a bundl

Bug#698210: ITP: ruby-librarian -- a framework for writing bundlers

2013-01-15 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stig Sandbeck Mathisen * Package name: ruby-librarian Version : 0.0.26 Upstream Author : Jay Feldblum * URL : https://github.com/yfeldblum/librarian * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : a framewor

Bug#698212: ITP: gnomediaicons -- network icons scheme for Dia

2013-01-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: gnomediaicons Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Thiago Ribeiro ribeiro.it at gmail * URL : http://sf.net/projects/gnomediaicons * License : GPL Programming Lang: other Description :

Re: Retrieving source package from repository without touching sources.list?

2013-01-15 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 15 January 2013 04:46, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > # fancy-dget http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental mypackage > > would download the newest mypackage source from experimental. Bonus > points if messing with the system wide sources.list is avoided entirely > and no root privileges are require

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Holger Levsen] > Hi Andreas, > > On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from > > the .md5sums file: > > > > gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/.gacl > > gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5S

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 13:10:24 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > this I'd probably file as serious, not having checksums for files in /usr > seems worse. But then, the same reasoning as for the above bugs applies, so > maybe important is better after all. > There's no requirement for md5sums file

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-01-15 10:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If there is no md5sums file, dpkg (as of version 1.16.3) creates it at unpack time. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: idea -- apt-based init daemon

2013-01-15 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-01-15 10:49, hhm wrote: > Hope this helps! http://m.mediapost.com/publications/13/No-Cookies-A22.jpg (this is one of the most obvious cases of "please show the code" I have seen to date) - -- brother http://sis.bthstudent.se -BEGIN P

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff > should be minor IMO. If a package is shipping no .md5sum at all, it will be created by dpkg at installation

Re: Retrieving source package from repository without touching sources.list?

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > It's called pull-debian-source Sounds like something that should be moved into devscripts. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: package.debian.org

2013-01-15 Thread lochd
Hi, I still have problem with debbugs mail server, i could not test report bug via email. Any body can help me setting mail server of debbugs, please :( And how to check if the setting is succeed or not. Thank you very much and best regards, lochd On 1/9/2013 6:10 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:

Re: Retrieving source package from repository without touching sources.list?

2013-01-15 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Paul (2013.01.15_12:42:54_+0200) > > It's called pull-debian-source > Sounds like something that should be moved into devscripts. It uses Launchpad to authenticate packages without having to fetch and read Packages and InRelease itself, so it probably couldn't go into devscripts as-is. SR --

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:19:36 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I'm pretty sure modifying *any* shipped files in the maintainer scripts > should be forbidden, although I didn't find a policy reference for this > (this is made explicit for conffiles, what about "normal" files?). > Packages violat

Re: idea -- apt-based init daemon

2013-01-15 Thread Mario Lang
hhm writes: > As is well known, init daemons in distros the distro-world over are > replacing sysvinit. > > As far as I can tell, among the reasons for this phenomena is: > 1) to take advantage of parallel processing > 2) to work better with event-based systems (linux kernel etc.) > > Sysvinit wa

Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, the following is an email written by Wookey and myself. 0. Introduction === The Debian bootstrap build ordering tool Google Summer of Code project [1] was continued even after the summer ended and recently reached a new milestone by being able to create a final build order from a

Bug#698233: ITP: pajeng -- visualization tool for the analysis of parallel applications

2013-01-15 Thread Martin Quinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Quinson * Package name: pajeng Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Lucas Schnorr * URL : https://github.com/schnorr/pajeng * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : visualization tool for the anal

Re: Bug#698212: ITP: gnomediaicons -- network icons scheme for Dia

2013-01-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Mathieu, On Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > The purpose of this project is generate beauty icons to Dia program and > provide a raise in its utilization against MS Visio. whoot! really about time! thanks for your work on this! cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: idea -- apt-based init daemon

2013-01-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:19:30AM +0100, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On 2013-01-15 10:49, hhm wrote: > > Hope this helps! > http://m.mediapost.com/publications/13/No-Cookies-A22.jpg > (this is one of the most obvious cases of "please show the code" I > have seen to date) When you show the c

Bug#698238: ITP: viva -- Trace Visualization Tool

2013-01-15 Thread Martin Quinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Quinson * Package name: viva Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Lucas Schnorr * URL : https://github.com/schnorr/pajeng * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Trace Visualization Tool Viva

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Andreas Beckmann [130115 11:20]: > On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: > > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff > > should be minor IMO. > > If a package is shipping no .md5sum at

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > [Whoops, forgot to send on list] > > On 15/01/2013 15:48, Paul Johnson wrote: >> To create the shlibs dependency, I think dpkg-shlibdeps is reading >> files in /var/lib/dpkg/info. I can't find any "2.7" associated with >> libc6-amd in there.

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:46:46 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-01-15 10:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? > > If there is no md5sums file, dpkg (as of version 1.16

Package version numbers

2013-01-15 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi, Neither my AM (Christian Perrier) nor myself are sure about the answer to this one, so he suggested I ask -devel for advice (and I'm throwing -mentors into the mix too). I've prepared an update for calibre, to fix a few issues in the package which is currently in Wheezy (see #686547 for detai

Re: Package version numbers

2013-01-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Stephen Kitt , 2013-01-15, 23:27: The version of calibre in Wheezy is 0.8.51+dfsg-1; what should the update's version be? I'm purposefully not mentioning our ideas (one of them is obvious from the exchanges in the bug report, but is in all likelihood incorrect). I would paint the bikeshed t

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Johannes Schauer , 2013-01-15, 19:18: Build profiles extend the Build-Depends format with a syntax similar to architecture restrictions but using < and > instead. Build-Depends: huge (>= 1.0) [i386 arm] , tiny [...] The drawback of this syntax is that Build-Dep parsing tools need to be

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 07:18:40PM +0100, Johannes Schauer a écrit : > > The build profile format was proposed by Guillem Jover together with > other solutions he presented in this document [7] as part of bug#661538. > Build profiles extend the Build-Depends format with a syntax similar to > archi

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Charles Plessy wrote: >Le Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 07:18:40PM +0100, Johannes Schauer a écrit : >> >> The build profile format was proposed by Guillem Jover together with >> other solutions he presented in this document [7] as part of bug#661538. >> Build profiles extend the Build-Depends format with

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:58:06AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 07:18:40PM +0100, Johannes Schauer a écrit : > > The build profile format was proposed by Guillem Jover together with > > other solutions he presented in this document [7] as part of bug#661538. > > Build pro

Bug#698256: ITP: lz4 -- Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library

2013-01-15 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu * Package name: lz4 Version : 0.0.0 (svn r88) Upstream Author : Yann Collet * URL : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/ * License : BSD 2-Clause License Programming Lang: C Description : Extremely Fas

Bug#698258: ITP: python-charade -- universal encoding detector for Python 2 and Python 3

2013-01-15 Thread Daniele Tricoli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniele Tricoli * Package name: python-charade Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Ian Cordasco * URL : https://github.com/sigmavirus24/charade * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : universal enco

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
The version difference is probably due to symbols stuff, read deb-symbols(5), dpkg-shlibdeps(1), dpkg-gensymbols(1) and this wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps No idea about the other stuff, you appear to have four copies of the C library installed and are maybe atte

Re: Bug#698256: ITP: lz4 -- Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > * Package name: lz4 > Description : Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library > > LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm. Is it faster than lzop? How does it compare to lzop, gzip, lzip, xz, bzip2 in terms of comp

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
Thanks a lot for your work on this! and to everyone else who worked on or shaped the proposal. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > - should Debian be bootstrappable in a fully automated fashion? We >created the algorithms that can allow this to happen, we just need >

Re: Retrieving source package from repository without touching sources.list?

2013-01-15 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Paul Wise writes: > Sounds like you are looking for chdist: [...] I knew someone must have done the work already :-). Both chdist and pull-debian-source seem to do exactly what I need, thanks! Now there's just the difficult decision which one to use.. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies lik

Re: Bug#698256: ITP: lz4 -- Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library

2013-01-15 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Hi, On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > >> * Package name: lz4 >> Description : Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library >> >> LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm. > > Is it faster than lzop?

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Wookey
+++ Paul Wise [2013-01-16 11:52 +0800]: > That sounds useful, so yes. arm64 is on the way, it would be a nice > test case but I guess wookey/Sledge are onto that. I intend to send an update mail on the state of this later this week. > If you think this might be interesting to announce more wide

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 16/01/2013 06:16, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > >> > I believe that dpkg-shlibdeps checks in these places: >> > - /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs >> > - /etc/dpkg/shlibs.{default,override} >> > >> > Could you grep libc6-amd64 in these places? That should provide a hint as >> > to >> > where this depen

Re: Package version numbers

2013-01-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jakub Wilk (jw...@debian.org): > * Stephen Kitt , 2013-01-15, 23:27: > >The version of calibre in Wheezy is 0.8.51+dfsg-1; what should the > >update's version be? I'm purposefully not mentioning our ideas > >(one of them is obvious from the exchanges in the bug report, but > >is in all like

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Wookey wrote: > I intend to send an update mail on the state of this later this week. Excellent. > Does asking d-devel for feedback count as news? Having this > functionality available for packagers would count as news... But I > agree that telling people about

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:26:53 +0100 Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Johannes Schauer , 2013-01-15, 19:18: > >Build profiles extend the Build-Depends format with a syntax similar to > >architecture restrictions but using < and > instead. > > > > Build-Depends: huge (>= 1.0) [i386 arm] , tiny > > > >The dra