Re: Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-03-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:15:17PM +0100, Julien BLACHE a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > He doesn't have to use unstable. He can use pinning for this specific > package. Sure, and he can also use dpkg -i. The question is: why should we ask hi

Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS buildd backlog.

2008-03-02 Thread Charles Plessy
n mips or mipsel until the buildd problem is fixed? I would not expect this to impair the work of the MIPS porters (CC'ed so that they can tell if I am wrong), while it would help to propagate bugfixes from Sid to Lenny. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Sai

Re: Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS buildd backlog.

2008-03-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:09:06PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Would it be possible to allow the migration in testing of the package > > that are waiting for being build on mips or mipsel until the buildd

Re: Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS buildd backlog.

2008-03-02 Thread Charles Plessy
eel instulted if you think I insinuate things, because I do not. English is not my mother tongue, so feel free to ask me for correction when I am unclear. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Timeline for normal buildd operation on MIPS ?

2008-03-09 Thread Charles Plessy
orgainze themselves, can you publish a timeline of your works and goals for the MIPS infrastructure? It has been more than three months that the backlog is there; this is more than half the time left before the freeze. Please be assured of the sympathy I have for your project, -- Charles Plessy Debian

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-16 Thread Charles Plessy
lacing, "sarge", "etch" and "lenny" by "debian3.1", "debian4.0" and "debian5.0" would solve the problem permanently :) By the way, is it necessary that the NMUs would not simply increase the version number just as regular maintainer uplads wo

Installation of suggested packages: recursive or not?

2008-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Joe Smith a écrit : > >On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> > >>apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. > I will say the following. I fully agree that "--install-suggests" should > exist, and should do the right thing. H

Re: Installation of suggested packages: recursive or not?

2008-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
task for the users of the packages I mentioned earlier (med-bio, t-coffee, bioperl). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello, Le Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > > Debian is losing users and relevance. This does not match the results of the "popcon" survey. It could be that Debian would gain users slower than other distributions, but this claim would need to be backed by a serious stu

Re: Installation of suggested packages: recursive or not?

2008-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
at's directly suggested by "package". > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:21:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Do you think that there could be an option > > that does the same except that the package would be flagged "auto

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-02 Thread Charles Plessy
ckages by hand, but this requires skill. - Using backports.org, but it is unofficial. - Using Testing or Sid. If Debian wants to issue stronger warnings for those using Testing on the desktop, maybe mentionning that it is also a development tool and it is not inteded for normal use would do th

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Charles Plessy
the question, "Is Testing suitable for the Desktop", will probably come by the next innovations to come from Debian, be it the officialisation of backports, the adoption of Joey Hess' CUT (Constantly Usable Testing) concept, and/or the Stable-and-a-half releases. Have a nice day,

Bug#475335: ITP: libbio-mage-perl -- Container module for classes in the MAGE package: MAGE

2008-04-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libbio-mage-perl Version : 20030502.3 Upstream Author : © 2001-2006 The MicroArray Gene Expression Database Society (MGED) URL : http://mged.sourceforge.net/ L

Are Sha* checksums accepted by dak ?

2008-04-10 Thread Charles Plessy
introduced by dpkg. Are they cause of dropping ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are Sha* checksums accepted by dak ?

2008-04-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > Yesterday Joerg told us to go ahead with the dpkg upload as he > planned to fix dak in the evening. He did so but his patch is not yet > applied live on ftp-master... we're waiting for a full ftpmaster to > apply his patch. >

Bug#476202: ITP: libbio-mage-utils-perl -- Extra modules for classes in the MAGE package: MAGE

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libbio-mage-utils-perl Version : 20030502.0 Upstream Author : The MAGE-Perl Hackers URL : http://mged.sourceforge.net/ License : MIT/X Programming Lang

Bug#476209: ITP: mage2tab -- MAGE-MLv1 converter and visualiser

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: mage2tab Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Junmin Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), John Brestelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL : https://www.cbil.upenn.edu/magewiki/index.php/ma

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
or a Policy update? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Charles Plessy
elds. Should dpkg-dev conflict with devscripts < 2.10.25, then ? This would not solve all problems, but at least some of them. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-20 Thread Charles Plessy
y is that when enough time passed with no anwer, sticking to the rules might not help. (alternatively, it could be that the rules need to define a timeout...) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Bug#427697: sbackup uses a non-existent group.

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Plessy
this message, could he forward it to him ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#427697: sbackup uses a non-existent group.

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:13:27PM +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 22:39 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > unmaintained? On what grounds? It's been three days since the severity > was bumped. Hi Neil, I would rather say that the severity of the bug is

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
one optional and the others extra, which means potentially difficult decisions. Of course, an other possibility would be to suppress the extra priority if nothing relies on it. As said above, using overrides this would not make packages buggy. Maybe the people using the 'extra' priority for so

Bug#478251: ITP: libdata-stag-perl -- Structured Tags datastructures

2008-04-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libdata-stag-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Chris Mungall URL : http://stag.sourceforge.net License : Artistic | GPL-1+ (same terms as perl

Is sbackup maintained? If not, what to do?

2008-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
fix other bugs than the ones of sbackup. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#427697: Is sbackup maintained? If not, what to do?

2008-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:22:12AM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs a écrit : > > The upstream situation is not as clear cut - I've been making every > effort to a new and enthusiastic developer (Ouattara Oumar Aziz) take > over the upstream development of SBackup peacefully. > I am discussing the future o

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-16 Thread Charles Plessy
, shipping them in /usr/share/doc/package/patches. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > On 17/05/2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Other idea: when the package is produced through a workflow that uses > > debian/patches, shipping them in /usr/share/doc/package/patches. > > Do

Re: Is sbackup maintained? If not, what to do?

2008-05-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:25:19AM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo a écrit : > sbackup has been merged and superseded by nssbackup, which is not yet > in Debian. I will see if I can get a version properly suited to be > packaged in Debian, and I will ask sbackup to be removed from archive. Hi Jose,

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Charles Plessy
lib_h.patch" > ... time passes, new upstream release made... > $ dch -a --closes 1234 > > Simple. I like it :) Have nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Patch license

2008-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 19, 2008 at 07:12:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > Take a bug #111, severity:serious, affecting unstable,testing,stable. > The maintainer fixes the bug in unstable using a Debian patch. Following > your process, the bug is now downgraded to wishlist. Meaning that RC > #111 bug in

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
to generate a new patch that is not a contiguous extract of the original diff.gz. This is how I understand - and agree with - the claim that patches are "hidden" in the diff.gz. Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#482555: ITP: patman -- DNA pattern matcher for short sequences

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: patman Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Kay Pruefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Udo Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://bioinf.eva.mpg.de/patman/ Licen

Patch peer review.

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
the offer. Of course, the best reviewer should be Upstream himself. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:18:01PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > Basic Problem: "What to do with large data packages?" > > That already has a problem: How to define "large"? One way, which we > chose for now, is simply "everything > 50MB". (...) > - It is an own archive, so it needs full sou

Re: Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 26, 2008 at 02:02:52AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > On 11397 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I have a question about the sources: for big datasets, would it be > > acceptable that the source package does not contain the data itself but > > only

Re: Bug#484009: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:31:22AM -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > > (2) To a user who wishes to use a working feature of an imperfect > package, Debian is better with the imperfect package than > without: MISSING PACKAGE < IMPERFECT PACKAGE < PERFECT PACKAGE. > This is true even if the

Anything wrong with bzr.debian.org or debcheckout ?

2008-06-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, I tried to debckechout zlib and it failed: anx159tmp$ debcheckout zlib declared bzr repository at http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-zlib/zlib/debian bzr branch http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-zlib/zlib/debian zlib ... bzr: ERROR: Transport error: Server refuses to fullfil the request checkout

Bug#487026: ITP: velvet -- Sequence assembler for very short reads

2008-06-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: velvet Version : 0.6.03 Upstream Author : Daniel Zerbino URL : http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/velvet/ License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Descr

Re: Anything wrong with bzr.debian.org or debcheckout ?

2008-06-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:01:22PM +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 14:32:00 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I tried to debckechout zlib and it failed: > > > > > > anx159tmp$

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
ore triggers? Is triggers a verb or a noun? What is the analogy between the triggers of dpkg and those of databasees or firearms? Maybe "Processing triggers" could be replaced by a 2-3 word summary of what the trigger is really doing? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanaga

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
>> Maybe "Processing triggers" could be replaced by a 2-3 word summary of >> what the trigger is really doing? > What about "Processing delayed configuration"? Well, I was originally thinking about someting specific for each trigger, but your proposition is probably sufficient and simpler to impl

Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

2008-07-05 Thread Charles Plessy
uld suppress the need for maintaining two files in parallel in many cases. Let's use standards when possible. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
of the time this information is available in the VCS where the source package is stored. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:49:21AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > > * “The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822 compliant > > fields.” > > > > RFC-2822 distinguishes between “unstructured” a

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
must be escaped by following it by a space. The line that contains that space is called a continuation line. - Lines that are not continuation lines and do not start a new field are plain comments. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
t; it seems to work for most packages, though > [...] > > "patch" indeded is the standard way nowadays. See policy 4.9. Unfortunately, it seems that with quilt, it is better ot use $(QUILT_STAMPFN) in order to avoid a target to become phony. I do not know for other systems. I just u

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
345 Note that for Sourceforge, it seems that more than one number is required. For instance, for the bug 1215086, only the second of the below URLs work: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1215086 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1215086&group_id=133157&

Re: mail server broken: are debian reject messages logged ?

2009-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
e, how about sending them to the package's ITP bug when available? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#537204: ITP: embassy-domsearch -- Extra EMBOSS commands to search for protein domains

2009-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Dear all, 15th of July is the traditional EMBOSS release (EMBOSS is a set of command line tools for molecular biologists). Two satellite packages are already present in Debian and here is the ITP for a third. Package structure is trivial

Re: mail server broken: are debian reject messages logged ?

2009-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
bugs is not practicable, how about CCing an archived public mailing list? That is the core of my suggestion: maye the rejection emails publically available in a central place so that other developers can learn form them. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-17 Thread Charles Plessy
catching at upload time. Automatic rejection of packages with errors not justified by overrides is of course a good idea, but can we get to a compromise where the maintainer is free to take the responsibility to override errors? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUB

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-18 Thread Charles Plessy
n archive contains 265 packages, some of them waiting for one month or more. I disagree with their decision to self-appoint themselves with a new duty while they are already lacking time for the current one they volunteered for. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UN

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
which our current experience already expose a flaw: think about changes in names of binary packages that trigger copyright checks by the FTP team. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: RFC round 4: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:14:16AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > * Charles Plessy wanted to specify more precisely the format instead > of saying "RFC-2822 compliant fields". The discussion went nowhere > and nobody else expressed support for such a change. Hi Raphaë

Re: RFC round 4: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-24 Thread Charles Plessy
e first line. A strictly RFC-2822 parser can not parse Debian control files nor DEP 3 patch headers, as it will not preserve CRLF characters. What I am simply asking, is that if DEP 3 is not RFC-2822 compliant, it is not written that it is RFC-2822 compliant. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

Thoughts about a machine-readable license summary.

2009-07-24 Thread Charles Plessy
. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
romise to support upgrades from Lenny? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to check why a package is in contrib

2009-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
r’. If this format gets popular, a Lintian check will be trivial to write, to ensure that contrib and non-free packages include the statement recommended by the Policy. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
nd finding them is delegated to the menu system itself, be it in Debian or FreeDesktop standard. I think that what you propose is more their task than the one of the packaging system. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Installation of packages in home directories.

2009-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
es), this could be a real plus to become the OS of choice on that type of machines. This said, it only represents a small fraction of our user base… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Why YAML is not a good choice for Debian control files.

2009-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
le example based on a debian/control file for the seaview package: Source: seaview Section: non-free/science Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team DM-Upload-Allowed: yes Uploaders: Charles Plessy Build-Depends: debhelper ( >= 7 ), libfltk1.1-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libpng1

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
.0 (quilt)’, it is not possible. Do you think it would be possible to change this behavior or at least to disable the auto-patching facilities? It would be of course easy to convert the patch, but I would really prefer to stay as identical to upstream's materials as possible. Have a nice sunday

What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
places like the Ultimate Debian Database and to keep the information up-to-date, which will be at best limited to the packages relevant to our projects. I am therefore seeking comments and insights to better manage our packages metadata. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:03:11AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: About zip support: > > But actually, among the programs that are not distributed upstream in a > > tar.gz > > format, we in the Debian Med team have as many z

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
brings some improvements that are much welcome in addition to the patch management, that I think goes in the wrong direction. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Can you (re)confirm that packages re-uploaded to NEW are processed according to the date of their first upload?

2009-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
on the wiki page? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
n that is liberal in what it accepts. (Hence the proposition to accept upstream ‘zip’ archives). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
re for which we would like to provide registration and bibliographic information) are mostly stored in a Svn, that may not be a blocker for making a poof of principle… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

Non-unified patches and dpkg sou rce format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
$_ = strip_ts($_); if ($_ eq '/dev/null' or s{^(\./)?[^/]+/}{$destdir/}) { $fn2 = $_; Why not just applying the patches and catch errors if there are, instead of writing a new patch parser from scratch just to check that it looks like being in the unified form

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
only reason it fails is that there is a political decision to reject non-unified diffs. I have moved the patches from debian/patches to debian/patch, which circumvents the problem, since there is no will to compromise on either side. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, ht

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
am to the package manintainers. Something with a motivation, a plan, some facts and some volunteers to get things done. I have reassigned the bug of my package to dpkg-dev. It is holiday season, so let's wait for a while and see the answer of the dpkg developers. Have a nice day, -- Cha

Bug#540453: ITP: samtools -- processing sequence alignments in SAM and BAM formats

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: samtools Version : 0.1.5c-1 Upstream Author : Heng Li, Bob Handsaker, Jue Ruan, Colin Hercus. URL : http://samtools.sourceforge.net/ License : MIT and NetBSD Programming Lang: C, Perl

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
perl -MYAML -e '$/=""; my($fields) = Load(); print $fields->{'DOI'}' < samtools/debian/upstream-metadata.yaml 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352 I am unsure if it is a good idea to manage multi-line upstream meta-data anyway. Are there other opinions on this

Debian packaging license (was: Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines).

2009-08-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:33:58AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > The dh_make template for debian/copyright induces many developers to put > > their > > packaging work under the GPL, and I have already seen packag

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-10 Thread Charles Plessy
ecommend that the other ‘leaf’ teams to do the same. That is probably the most work-efficient for everybody. Leafs are what give trees their nice colors :) -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
other meta-data like the VSC, Homepage, Section and Description fields, the Debtags, etc. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
proposed to be extended to developer-oriented metadata. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
added noise with a conversation like ‘Are you sure you do your work correctly? Yes, I am sure, thank you’. This would have saved us your digressions about lies and expulsions. Please consider that this list is high traffic and try to limit your messages in quantity. It may even help you to have a n

Re: Debian packaging license (was: Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines).

2009-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:58:04AM -0400, Jonathan Yu a écrit : > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > we just had a case in the Debian Med packaging team where the upstream > > author > > of software licensed under terms similar to the B

Bug#543488: ITP: libbio-samtools-perl -- Read SAM/BAM database files

2009-08-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: libbio-samtools-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Lincoln Stein URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bio-SamTools/ License : Artistic version 2, or GNU GPL version 1 or later

Compiling libbam.a from libbam-dev with -fPIC?

2009-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
; let's all cooperate to reduce the traffic on this list). Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Compiling libbam.a from libbam-dev with -fPIC?

2009-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:06:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > as per Policy § 10.2, I would like to know if everybody agrees if I change > > the > > libbam-dev package to compile libbam.a with -

Re: Compiling libbam.a from libbam-dev with -fPIC?

2009-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:23:39AM +0100, Stephen Gran a écrit : > This one time, at band camp, Charles Plessy said: > > Le Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:06:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > >

Re: Compiling libbam.a from libbam-dev with -fPIC?

2009-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 11:21:37AM +0200, Vincent Danjean a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 09:49 +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > >> I started to write a message about to ask upstream why they do not make a > >> shared version

Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.

2009-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
t to Debian, it is for sure a good thing, but in the case when the package maintainer sits on the translations, like for sbackup, this is clearly a problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:

2009-09-12 Thread Charles Plessy
rise. Nevertheless, I am much in favor of enhancements DEP 5 that allow a relaxed syntax. I am actually working other changes that follow this goal (http://git.debian.org/?p=users/plessy/license-summary.git), and would be very interested to see the patch you proposed to write. Have a nice day,

Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:

2009-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
ince I am subscribed to -devel with the digest option, I will patiently wait for the next digest to arrive before answering to your other email.] -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
made helped to re-gain the momentum that led this bug to be closed. So from the point of view of this experience, I definitely support the idea of having a mechanism to contact all the contributors to a bug, although I am unsure if it would be a good default. Have a nice day, -- Charles Pl

Re: DEP-5: an example parser, choice of syntax for Files:

2009-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
EP repo, to all Alioth guests as well. Everybody is welcome to contribute! Everybody is also welcome to add their name to the Drivers field if they see themselves as drivers, in the spirit of DEP 0. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

[DEP-5] Short license names (was: Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:)

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
work behind the scene to address that issue in a way that fits their function (display, statistics, checking, …) Have a nice day, PS: please notify me in private if you think I am using the wrong list for this discussion, or if you think that I should keep on posting on -devel even if others think I

Re: Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.

2009-09-17 Thread Charles Plessy
at. Maybe the problem could simply solved by renaming one of the two concepts? Native format could be called ‘direct’, or native packages could be called ’original’, for instance. This would help the Project to keep track of what programs it is upstream for. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsu

Automatic ITP closing.

2009-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
is that I am editing a documentation that mentions the automatic WNPP closings, and I wonder if I should delete this part or not. (CC to -devel as it may be of general interest.) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
; > Maybe that's something that could be taken on board by dpkg > maintainers? Hi Javier, it is an interesting idea to define a set of criteria that data package must follow, but I think it will be much easier for everybody to have this enforced by a policy rather than by tools. Have a nice day,

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-27 Thread Charles Plessy
y packages build in a controlled environment http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2009/msg00010.html Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE: is it popular and should we document it?

2009-09-27 Thread Charles Plessy
that is detected in debian/rules. I was just wondering if other people were using something similar and if there would be ground for standardisation. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Bug#548719: ITP: bwa -- Burrows-Wheeler Aligner

2009-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: bwa Version : 0.5.3 Upstream Author : Heng Li and others, see: http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/bwa.shtml URL : http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net License : GPL Programming Lang: C

DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 versus DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=network.

2009-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
ult in source packages that are different from standard builds with no options. In the case I presented here, the goal is to help the maintainer to make tests that are not possible on our build network. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-m

Policy §10.4 as a diver gence from usptrea m (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
including extension in program names upstream, but in my opinion removing them before upstream creates more problems than it solves… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 versus DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=network.

2009-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:12:14PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 28 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > >> in my first experimentations I used DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, but this leads > >> to t

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