Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
[Copy sent to maintainers of mime-support, shared-mime-info, file and php5, as an invitation to participate to the discussion.] Le Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 01:27:51PM -0700, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 19:55 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > > With things like SVG it's

Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:48:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > That's the reason why people are pursuing generating the metamail-style > database *from* the XDG MIME specification so that we can use a richer > specification in as many places as possible but fall back on the previous > standa

Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
re advanced solutions. I hope that the recent upload of mime-support to experimental is a clear enough message. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

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

2012-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
leave. And yes, this is one of the cases where it is good to underline loudly that your opinion does not matter because you are not a a member of the Debian project. And please do not answer. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Discussion of uscan enhancement 1 (Was: uscan enhancement take 3: script hook)

2012-09-04 Thread Charles Plessy
ut a warning when finding them, or rejecting the whole file as invalid. If this is unclear in the current specification, it can be clarified in the next revision. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Files-Excluded field and security implications of uscan and debian/copyright.

2012-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
some shell commands. However, I wonder if it would not be better to keep it as declarative as possible. What do you think ? -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Files-Excluded field and security implications of uscan and debian/copyright.

2012-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:44:36AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > in the case of the Files-Excluded field, the contents of the field are > directly > executed. I mean: the contents are transferred to an expression that is directly executed. Sorry for the noise, -- Char

Re: Files-Excluded field and security implications of uscan and debian/copyright.

2012-09-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:04:44PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 03:15:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Files-Excluded field and security implications > > of uscan and debian/copyright."): > > > Le Fri

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:35:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:30:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > For the packages that I started and on which I am still a major > > contributor, I > > would like Upstream to include a

"X-" Prefixes deprecated by RFC 6648.

2012-09-12 Thread Charles Plessy
recates the convention for newly defined parameters with textual (as opposed to numerical) names in application protocols. Full text available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: python-twitter is not maintained

2012-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
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/ Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Bug#688363: Document assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
. I created a bug (see the number in the title) to track this suggestion. Any volunteer ? -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
angelog line passed as parameter, and uploads signed it with a trusted key ? Cheers, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130513224408.ga30...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
y with the licenses. I use the machine-readable format because I feel that it makes my work simpler as a maintainer. If it makes your work harder, then by all means do not use it. It is just as simple as this. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Upcoming libgd2-{xpm, noxpm}-dev -> libgd2-dev transition

2013-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:34:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý a écrit : > > 1. I have dropped the {xpm,noxpm} dichotomy and there's only >libgd2-dev now. There are transitional packages which are ment >to help with the move to libgd2-dev, so you don't have to make >any changes right now - the

Time to summarise the discussion on epoch ?

2013-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, would there be a volunteer to summarise this discussion as a patch to the Developers's Reference ? You do not need to be an expert: reading and understanding this thread is enough. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Switching packages to non-awaiting triggers

2013-05-16 Thread Charles Plessy
noawait in most cases). 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130516232324.ga10...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
sers (uid >= 1000) to 002? > > +1. It would be a useful default. See also: http://wiki.debian.org/umask http://wiki.debian.org/Debate Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: simplifying running piuparts (was: Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay))

2013-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
into > the ftp-master/buildd side will take a much longer way. Hi Andreas, it is not fully related to your original question, but do you think that piuparts could support running Autopkgtests as well ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med

Re: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-25 Thread Charles Plessy
ackage can use it, but it is not part of the upstream source (which is not Amazon), so I really would prefer to ship the certificate somewhere else. I proposed ca-certificates earlier, but the result was inconclusive. http://bugs.debian.org/573857 Would there be a volunteer to maintai

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
sting. Thanks a lot. Please do not hesitate to remove leaf packages like mira in an automated manner. Cheers, -- 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

Re: Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:15:14PM +0200, "Steffen Möller" a écrit : > > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 09:37:54AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Le Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:06:26PM +0200, Niels Thykier a écrit : > > > > > > > > Our automated tool

Re: On accepting pre-generated doc from upstream

2013-06-07 Thread Charles Plessy
tion with autopkgtest (DEP 8) for instance ? Have a nice week-end, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
urce packages are maintained. http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/table/contact In some cases, it is a valid email address. Perhaps you can give it a priority ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Charles Plessy
bian copyright files is optional, and the whole format is optional too. I recommend to use debian/upstream instead, especially because the whole point of this file is to provide a way to update metadata without uploading the package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Charles Plessy
licy being relaxed on that point (http://bugs.debian.org/678607#10). Have a nice week-end, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130629025227.gb4...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
d name the original authors" by "should provide contact information for license questions" ? I think that there is value to correct this point even if we can not define precisely what should or must be in the Debian copyright file as a whole. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsur

Re: Bug#678607: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:06:59AM +, Bart Martens a écrit : > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 08:24:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > How about simply replacing "should name the original authors" by "should > > provide contact information for license questions&quo

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
oud-final 121 sysvinit/cloud-init 121 sysvinit/cloud-init-local Doesn't that underline that "classical" init scripts are a big waste of time for maintainers, and a workload that can not be shared between distributions ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -

[OT] Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ter ? Bets are funnier if there is a concrete consequence with both outcomes. How about triaging 100 bugs of your choice for instance ? The problem is that, if it is too cheap to predict bad things on that list and be wrong, then the proportion of relevant messages on this list will decrease... C

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
greetings and more "advices"... In summary, I welcome the goal of increasing new contributions to Debian, but recommend to pick a more casual name for your project. Cheers, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130730220407.ga18...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
ome of the new pakcages that need to be introduced, which added a long waiting period to the process. When they will be accepted in Debian, ggplot2 will be updated a soon as possile. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kan

We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
s decision and stick to it. But I warn that it may have the consequence of moving most of them to non-free, despite the data in binaryformat is freely modifiable or exportable to text format with R, which is a Free software that we distribute. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med pac

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
so that we can better decide if we undertake the work at all. Currently, my take would be to move packages to non-free. This would also allow us to ship the PDF documentation that we currently delete. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-me

A transition plan for R data in binary format ?

2013-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 08:29:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > While writing this answer, I also read Don's email advocating for Debian to > take the lead and change the current practice in the R community, that prefers > to ditribute data as R binary objects in the sourc

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
a (much simpler) work on line at http://clonotyper.branchable.com/ Cheers, -- 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 "unsubscr

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Plessy
k that it is even better to implement a versionned R API number. 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-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > I would like to propose full UTF-8 support. I don't mean here full > support for all of Unicode's finer points, merely complete eradication of > mojibake. Hi Adam, this is a great goal. Here are two comments. There is a rel

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
characters that are not in ASCII. See http://bugs.debian.org/701081 for further discussion. 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130812235702.gb9...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:12:24AM +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > > > About display by GUIs, I think that we should have a system to install all > > the > > fonts necessary to display languages that we support at the in

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Cheers, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2013082440.ga25...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-22 Thread Charles Plessy
In some cases I found it quite useful. Have you considered integrating logs in dgit ? In a somehow similar goal (finding difference between builds), have you also considered committing the contents of the unpacked binary packages in other branches ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian

Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Debian copyright file, please note that a quick inspection of the package could have shown you that replacing the current content of the Files field by "*" would have solved the problem entirely. I will re-upload "when I have time". Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Gr

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ery important to have at least a clear separation between the blocking issues and the personal comments. In the case of pv-grub-menu, I am left with the questions "What else shall I do that I have not tried yet ? How many weeks or monthes shall I try before giving up", which will waste time on

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-10 Thread Charles Plessy
it as such in your rejection message. Otherwise, a policy about small packages would have been helpful. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
ing like "when the combination of licenses requires to keep all the sources", plus a footnote informing that the case of the libc and libgcc are being investigated, and that the current practice is to consider that we can benefit form their exception to the GPL. Please let us know your thou

Re: Status of dgit (good for NMUs and fast-forwarding Debian branches)

2013-09-17 Thread Charles Plessy
bian.org/dgit-repos/repos/pv-grub-menu.git’ gives ‘warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.’ Do you think it is problems that are possible to solve ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ploader, please feel free to delete them from our archive. Cheers, -- 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 "unsubscribe".

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ree and move to something else. Have a nice Sunday, -- 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 "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ics on the top of the list, to not do so in a misleading way. Have a nice day, Charles -- 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 "unsubsc

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
tag 688251 patch thanks Le Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:57:34AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I would like to make the short-term clarification for the next revision of the > Policy. In its simplest form, it could be the addition of something like > "when > the com

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:56:28AM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > do you think that the attached patch would solve the problem ? > > There are more reasons for using Built-Using than licenses, for example: > > Re

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
riting something clear. If my patch is a good start, could somebody improve it ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >From e61b6e81b923d4d39b5089e87e9cad02140d5cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:21:25 +0900 Subject: [PATCH

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
, it makes the work easier for some and harder for others; let's see in a couple of years what it means for Debian in terms of being a good platform for R users. You already got a hint from one of Dirk's email: there is some excellent work that is done outside Debian. Have a nice week-e

Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
side. https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries#Parallel_between_Menu_and_Desktop_entries 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

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-10-06 Thread Charles Plessy
later version. It also explains that the Debian archive uses the Built-Using field to retain source packages. What do you think about it ? Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >From ee6c716663bbd8652b96e7e53743bf0e1e276003 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Ple

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Charles Plessy
removals (and the automated "autopkg" testing) are a big step forward. Let me take this opportunity to thank to the Release team for this ! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
everybody's help to pick one and resolve it is more than welcome ! Have a nice week-end, -- 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.or

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:30:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > The attached patch is a third attempt, which underlines that the Built-Using > field is particularly useful when a given package, contributing contents > included in another package, can not be replaced by a later

skipping bioinformatics on some architectures ? (was Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression)

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
th the Field::Biology tag. If you are interested I would be willing to inspect the corner cases (such as mencal ?), in order to devise a better filter for listing the packages related to biology and bioinformatics to skip on m68k, and other low-power architectures if their porters are intersted.

Re: a stupid suggestion for dpkg?

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
i-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582109#209 I plan a Policy update by the end of October, and my gut feeling is that if by that time, peple stay silent on the issue, the work will go straight in the dust bin. I am of course happy to delay a bit the update if one needs more time to review the patches. Cheer

Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
en a bug on the Policy. Cheers, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131023222431.gb28...@falafel.plessy.net

Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
ke it a lot, and would be extremely disapointed if in the future I can not have it anymore because regular fingerpointing and accusation would be driving out people who undertake a such a heavy task as maintaining a destkop environment. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSU

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Charles Plessy
have been avoided, etc. If on the other hand it wins to all other options, you will have learned for yourself, at the expense of the other developers, that your understanding of the situation was wrong, which is still less bad than being left with "further discussion" only. Currentl

Re: Proposal: s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Charles Plessy
I also think that it is premature to make a decision without seeing the final implementations working. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Bug#727754: New "security-aware-resolver" virtual package.

2013-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
C services. Dear all, are there Debian Developers seconding or objecting to this new virtual package name ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Proposal: s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Saturday, October 26, 2013 10:45:55 Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Conflict of interest is not a judgement on a person. It is a judgement > > about a situation, and a recommendation on how systematically react, > > without making exceptions. Le Fri, Oct 25, 2013

Re: .py suffixed scripts to /usr/bin/

2013-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
lintian > override? The solution is to the change Policy :) See http://bugs.debian.org/190753 for more discussion. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
allation time. So, how would the merge in /usr would be implemented in practice ? Cheers, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111013230915.ge20...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: DEP-5 for Upstream

2011-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ou use an unversionned URL, it will be fine. The URL chosen in #640737 will probably available by the next upload of the Policy, but that upload is decided taking other factors than the DEP into account, so I can not give a timeline, as I am not a maintainer of the Policy. Have a nice day, -- C

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
this is the main message here – we could reach it considering all the packages that are part of the same release, by using the dpkg source format 3.0 (git), which would be an efficient way to distribute past source versions and point at the preferred one at the same time. Have a nice day, -- Ch

Re: Advocating the use of RDF for Debian's published metadata - Was: Re: Proposal for additional metadata in Debian archives (DEP-11)

2011-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
tion from Debian to the the rest of the Free software ecosystem. 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 Archive: h

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
alternative path names when both A and B are installed. The wrappers for all names could be provided by a third package. 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

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
omy of supporting multiple namespaces. If the policy on the main namespace is draconian and creates incompatiblities between Debian and the rest of the world, then we need easy mechanisms for our users to switch namespaces. Perhaps the Debian Pure Blends are a good tool for this… Have a nice day, --

Re: many packages fail to build twice in a row again

2011-12-21 Thread Charles Plessy
r our archive, I have not seen direct evidence that it is unsuitable, see http://bugs.debian.org/642801. 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 list

Re: Source package without a binary

2012-01-05 Thread Charles Plessy
him, a binary packages could be useful in the context of automatic as-installed package testing, see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
debcheckout track all the branches by default; requested in http://bugs.debian.org/625940. But this does not completely solve the problem, as when working on the master branch, ‘git pull’ will not automatically fast-forward the pristine-tar branch. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
e format are of course possible, as a new DEP (taking as inspiration the RFCs 822, 2822 and then 5322), or outside the DEP process. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Enhancement Process team, http://dep.debian.net Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Using debian/upstream to document things about Upstream with “umegaya”.

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
/upstream for this purpose, it will make it unavailable for other current or planned purposes. Can we take ‘upstream’ in the ‘debian/’ namespace ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Using debian/upstream to document things about Upstream with “umegaya”.

2012-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
ry files; and this has the advantage that is a good mechanism to share the metadata between distributions by sending patches upstream. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: status of DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (was: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status)

2012-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
cument requirements for copyright file.”). 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
idea of you like it. http://wiki.debian.org/PackageReview 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120117235414.gb26...@merveille.plessy.net

Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
? Cheers, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120118004925.gc26...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
-machine-readable-copyrights 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120118113113.gd26...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Releasing DEP 5 in two weeks in the absence of blocking bugs.

2012-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
s make sure it happens. 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120119005013.gb11...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-19 Thread Charles Plessy
blem is more stalling than accepting them too early. I admit that as DEP admins, we have not done a good job at pinging DEP drivers. Because of the current confusion of roles on DEP 5, that I push as a driver, I am waiting for its completion before pinging other DEPs as admin. Cheers, -- Charles

Re: Releasing DEP 5 in two weeks in the absence of blocking bugs.

2012-01-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 06:13:05PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > I do not intend to push a document on which persons disagree, so please, > > if you think that there are serious problems with the current wording > > DEP 5, or if you found

Bug#657825: ITP: umegaya -- Umegaya is a MEtadata GAtherer using YAml

2012-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: umegaya Version : 0 Upstream Author : Charles Plessy URL : http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/ License : BOLA-1.1 Programming Lang: Perl Description : Umegaya is a MEtadata

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-02-01 Thread Charles Plessy
please let me suggest that the best way to close the debate is to finish that work. Cheers, -- 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 A

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-01 Thread Charles Plessy
scope of the version 1.0 that we are preparing. What I propose, if you think it is worth, is to open a bug, to track that request for the next revision. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:50:09AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > 1) DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00155.html) > > My summary is that the participants were quite divided on whether separating > the list of

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Charles Plessy
g > the only way previously to effect a version change. Hi, I think that it is important for maintainers that who decided the binNMU and the reason for it are recorded in the changelog, because often these changes are not triggred or coordinated by the maintainers themselves. Have a nice da

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
ved in a future version if there is a solution that satisfies both the developers who write the files and the developers who write the parsers. Have a nice week-end, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120211030650.gf19...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
resolve difficult cases, and for the next revision, I encourage to propose more in-depth changes as a bug to the debian-policy package. But let's go ahead with the examples as they are now. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-de

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
the spec, please raise your hand and make concrete and comprehensive propositions. I intend to mark this DEP accepted this week (Japan time; some timezones are still on week-end) unless critical problems are reported or delays are asked with a timeline. Have a nice day, -- Charle

Bug#659689: ITP: permute -- R functions for generating restricted permutations of data

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: permute Version : 0.6-3 Upstream Author : Gavin L. Simpson URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/permute/ License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: R Description : R functions

Bug#659863: ITP: vegan -- Community Ecology Package for R

2012-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: vegan Version : 2.0-2 Upstream Author : Jari Oksanen, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Roeland Kindt, Pierre Legendre, Peter R. Minchin, R. B. O'Hara, Gavin L. Simpson, Peter Solymos, M. Henry H. Stevens, H

Re: Bug#659863: ITP: vegan -- Community Ecology Package for R

2012-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:35:57AM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Package name: vegan > > New R packages shouldn't be added with a source name that does not > match the single binary package that they produce. Please

Source package names for R libraries (and Perl, Python, Java, …).

2012-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
nse to have a common one (drafted as a DEP ?). PS: for the new debian-cran prepository, please consider using the magic tilde in the version numbers. -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-15 Thread Charles Plessy
yles, even if one is inferior or typograhpically illogical. 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120215235503.ga14...@falafel.plessy.net

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >