Bug#660165: [new check] Source package names for R libraries (and others if appropriate).

2012-02-16 Thread Charles Plessy
patch attached... While, if there is agreement to create this new tag, I will try to implement it, everybody is most welcome to be faster than me on this. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
he uploader. Recenlty, I have uploaded new packages with changelogs like the following. r-cran-proto (0.3-9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * Team upload. [ Carlos Borroto ] * Initial release (Closes: #657994)  -- Charles Plessy   Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:24 +0900 At first I wo

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-19 Thread Charles Plessy
then I think that it is a hint that it should be removed instead. 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: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 08:08:33AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > Charles Plessy dijo [Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:59:34AM +0900]: > > > > r-cran-proto (0.3-9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > > * Team upload. > > > > [ Carlos Borroto ] >

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Charles Plessy
+  * Team upload. + +  [ Carlos Borroto ]    * Initial release (Closes: #657994)   - -- Carlos Borroto   Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:34:31 -0500 + -- Charles Plessy   Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:24 +0900 We prefer that packages that are not uploaded have "UNRELEASED" as distribution n

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:16:03PM +, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:25:31PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Steve McIntyre , 2012-02-28, 16:20: > > >I've just done lots of QA work tracking down build failures while > > >bootstrapping a new architecture, typically in pet pa

Re: Bug#662513: RM: emboss/6.3.1-6

2012-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:51:35AM +, Tim Booth a écrit : > > I'll be up at the EBI in a couple of weeks. Is there anything I can do > to try and persuade them to grant an acceptable license or has this > already been tried? EMBOSS is a software package that I still consider > to be very imp

Re: Bug#662513: RM: emboss/6.3.1-6

2012-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Sorry for the noise, sometimes Mutt is really too powerful. -- Charles -- 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/20120305122649.ga30...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-06 Thread Charles Plessy
LAGS is ignored in upstream's makefile. I understand that the semantics of CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS are not the same, but I also note that a large number of our upstreams are not making the difference and use CFLAGS as a catch-all varible. Would it be possible to pass -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in CFLAGS

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:05:50AM +0100, Arno Töll a écrit : > > On 07.03.2012 00:58, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Would it be possible to pass -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in CFLAGS in > > addition to CPPFLAGS ? > > Actually dpkg did in 1.16.1 which was reverted later (for good

Re: debian/rules VS debian/copyright.

2012-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
r add non-free files without explicitely documenting it. Lastly, you can also contribute by facilitating distribution-wide work on copyright matters, for instance by writing tools that leverage machine-readable copyright formats, or setting up services similar to what source.debian.net provided using

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
k that this extrapolation is hasty, as there are equally good repair stories, for instance booting on a rescue system, which would give a different message. Note also that by running unstable, and by editing a debian-specific configuration file, you already put your scenario on the "expert&q

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
ed layout, and nobody complained about it. Perhaps the template could contain a line explaining that following it is not mandatory ? 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-d

Non-copyrightable work with non-free license.

2012-04-02 Thread Charles Plessy
do not want to remove them: if on my machine I test the pacakge with the full test suites, I can not "unlearn" that the UniProt parsers are working correctly, even if I remove the files and break the test suite before upload. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
ude lines in the changelog to that effect, or later on manually fix-up the versions. http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2012/04/msg00060.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
lines are allowed or disallowed in control data files, I think that we would need to survey what is done in Debian. For instnace, is gnome-pkg-tools an outlier, are there tools tolerating initial empty lines on purpose, what is the situation for other control data files, etc. Have a nice day,

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
expiration date. If within a month there is no reaction of the maintainer, but on the other hand the proposer does not manage to attract support or even positive comments, then it either signals unwritten problems, or it asks the question whether the package should really stay in D

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
file handling. Please let us know if there is something else missing about SHA-1 or SHA-256 checksums. 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: Poll (was: Popularity of bzr-builddeb and dh-make)

2012-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
rm recommending them ? Not to mention that there is no evidence that the people who vote for or against recommending them are really using packaging-dev... Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
he support for Stable is extended of a few years. 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". Trouble? C

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-20 Thread Charles Plessy
at binary packages are functional. (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/) Have a nice Sunday, -- 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/20121021004724.gb23...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-20 Thread Charles Plessy
n stores, and provide a simplified and standardised entry point to our packaging systems, so that the works that do not need the most sophisticated parts of our packaging systems can be maintained in a trans-distribution way. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To U

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
o publish our build logs, it may become unnecessary to implement control procedures in our infrastructure. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
ning of the further work on the package. This said, I agree in advance with the outcome of this second round of discussion. Let's revise the procedure if it does not work well. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-24 Thread Charles Plessy
wer or not, it is about correcting a package's metadata to reflect a fact. 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:

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
en recommendations who are clear to everyone. Have a nice Sunday, -- 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/20121028005158.ga24...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
well. I do it for my own packages and found it valuable. 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

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:28:14PM +, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > > *If* we want to include x32, it's worth describing it and > understanding the potential benefits properly and getting some > benchmarks. Hi all, would it make sense to use the autopkgtest (DEP8) framework to provide benchmark

Bug#693094: RFH: cloud-init -- configuration and customization of cloud instances

2012-11-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the cloud-init package. The package description is: System to handle early initialization of a cloud instance. Cloud-init can for example set a default locale and a host name, generate SSH private host keys, add SSH keys to a

Re: "Do not CC me"

2012-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
mailing lists that would receive the BTS email). 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". Trouble? Co

Re: Ubuntu have done it again,

2012-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
t defined by the off-topic discussions that often take place. This list is about the development of Debian, and the more we discuss off-topic issues here, the more we weaken Debian by weakening one of the points of exchange for its development. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kan

Re: Ubuntu have done it again,

2012-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 07:06:02PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:41:37AM +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > > > > Maybe debian-devel is not the > > correct list, but the decline of Debian users was discussed here and not > > considere

Re: Unexpected result when using "apt-file -a source search"

2012-12-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:44:42AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > Any idea why > >apt-file -a source search > > missed samtools and tabix? Hi Andreas, it is http://bugs.debian.org/676642 Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2013-01-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Thomas and everybody, and « bonne année » ! It seems to me that the main technical arguments advocating predictable or sortable release names have been given, so I think that the next step would be to make sure that they get to the right ears at the right time. While this discussion on -devel

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2013-01-01 Thread Charles Plessy
should have write access to it (svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/dep/web/index.mdwn). In case of problems, do not hesitate to contact the DEP admins (https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/dep-plumbing). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-05 Thread Charles Plessy
necessary for uploads ? Have a nice Sunday, -- 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/201301060

Re: Architecture: all + M-A: foreign

2013-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
reign' to 'Architecture: all' packages. (I ask because it was suggested for mime-support in #695357) Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:12:11AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > we are documenting in the Policy the Package-List field of the Debian source > control files. > > Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from > the source package. The first line of

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
list only binary packages, or can it also list source packages as suggested when the field was proposed ? 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: Continue discussion about uscan enhancement (Was: Uscan enhancements revitalised)

2013-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
information. I would therefore recommend using the Files-Excluded field. Also, I think that keeping all the information in a single header field will ease your development to get popularity and support. By the way, are there differences with the syntax of the Files field ? -- Charles Ples

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
red to specify a license. For the packages I maintain, I now refrain from doing so when the contents of the debian directory are trivial. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Continue discussion about uscan enhancement (Was: Uscan enhancements revitalised)

2013-01-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:36:56AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:00:49AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > By the way, are there differences with the syntax of the Files field ? > > Not any more (hopefully) since I droped the `find -name` appro

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:58:31AM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 07:32:54 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > > Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from > > the source package,

Re: Bug#697433: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, here is a new version trying to addres Simon's and Guillem's comments. By the way, isn't "Package-Type: udeb" completely redundant with "Section: debian-installer" ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles @@ -2671,6 +2671,7 @@ Package: libc6 Description (mandatory) H

Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).

2013-01-12 Thread Charles Plessy
in a separate place. However, as noted by Russ it is a larger effort, and I have no plan to start to work on it in the short term. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
t case, your example could be reduced to: Build-Depends: tiny Build-Recommends: huge (>= 1.0) 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

Re: Continue discussion about uscan enhancement (Was: Uscan enhancements revitalised)

2013-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
> agree with Jonas that discussing the format might be delayed until after > Wheezy release. Hi Andreas, http://bugs.debian.org/685506 is there to receive your proposal when you feel it is the right time. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
t since version 3.9.4, this is also well covered in the Policy's chapter 8. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
k" build option or profile anymore. 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/20130117013503.gc29...@falafel.plessy.net

Regression tests after build time.

2013-01-19 Thread Charles Plessy
> * Charles Plessy , 2013-01-17, 10:35: > > > >for the packages I maintain, I am now replacing the regression > >tests that were ran during the build process by autopkgtest test > >suites. Le Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:12:50AM +0100, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > >

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-26 Thread Charles Plessy
> I guess that #s-sharedlibs-symbols on that page should be referenced by > deb-symbols(5), dpkg-shlibdeps(1) and dpkg-gensymbols(1), could you file a > bug/patch about that on dpkg-dev? Done in #698999. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Suggestion about minor improvements to default bashrc

2013-01-26 Thread Charles Plessy
ds a very high probablity of annoying any of our users by default... But there are countless other ways where you can help Debian. You can have a look at http://www.debian.org/intro/help for a start. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debi

Re: RFC declarative built-using field generation

2013-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
hink that it would be consistent to mark the field recommended when we will update its description, either when following up on the current disucssion in the BTS (#688251), or after this discussion on -devel emerges in an implemented solution. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kan

Re: Bug#700506: ITP: trinity -- A Linux System call fuzz tester

2013-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
t shipped within debian) does not ship any > binary named that way (AFAIK) and their packages have the kde- preffix Dear Gustavo, there is also http://trinityrnaseq.sourceforge.net/, althouth I can not say if it will be packaged for Debian or not in the future. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med pa

Re: Bug#700506: ITP: trinity -- A Linux System call fuzz tester

2013-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:00:33PM -0300, gustavo panizzo a écrit : > On 02/14/2013 08:52 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > there is also http://trinityrnaseq.sourceforge.net/, althouth I can not > > i would call it trinity-rnaseq or trinity-rna Definitely, but pleas

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
other localisation metapackages from tasksel ? 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/20130227002825.gb11...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Unable to find RC bug targets to squash

2013-03-01 Thread Charles Plessy
int is that it provides incentives to solve the bug by leadership when the participant does not have directly the skills. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Bug#702050: tasksel: a meta task to install all language tasks ?

2013-03-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: tasksel Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Le Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:57:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > on these systems, getting all the default fonts and input methods would > > also be a big plus. For

Re: Bug#702607: make source code of all Debian projects visible (on gitweb) [DCS]

2013-03-08 Thread Charles Plessy
odesearch is still not available... 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/20130309021135.gc6...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Bug#702607: make source code of all Debian projects visible (on gitweb) [DCS]

2013-03-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 01:52:09AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : > On 9 March 2013 02:11, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 08:52:43PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit : > >> > >> as for the combined search-engine through all source code (which

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
an-defer;tag=wheezy-will-remove;tag=wheezy-is-blocker;ordering=wheezy-sort If there are other blocking tasks which need help, it would be great to list them somewhere. Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

[OT] Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
this part of the thread is chatting, not focusing on getting something achieved. So please, let's use debian-devel for real attempts at developing Debian, not for chatting, however interseting it may be to those who do not mind reading long threads. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanag

Re: NEW processing.

2013-04-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ntors, the source of the uploaded packages is often easy to find. 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.

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
tion, with the Freeze, many of us had refrained from updating their packages, so this need for rebuilds is a good opportunity for update now that the relase is getting near. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
hout removing or upgrading the R library packages that were built with the old API. Let's discuss the details on #704805 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-

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Charles Plessy
r. Have you considered to propose to the maintainers of the release notes to delete that part completely if you thing it is confusing, since it brings no new information at all ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Legal possibility of more open package reviews.

2013-04-09 Thread Charles Plessy
d links that sometimes are pointing to Fedora-hosted machines. I think that reaching that level of transparency would have a positive impact on our capacity to keep on attracting new contributors. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Legal possibility of more open package reviews.

2013-04-10 Thread Charles Plessy
mentors.debian.net seems to be hosted in Germany, does it mean that developers living in the US should refrain from uploading crypto to it ? How do other distributions solve that problem ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Re: Legal possibility of more open package reviews.

2013-04-10 Thread Charles Plessy
d, if only considering cryptograhpy, the servers could be hosted in other countries, because anyway there will always be a majority of developers who need to cross a border ? Alternatively, doesn't the fact that we seem to be the only ones to self-inflict so many procedures suggest that w

Re: Crypto export

2013-04-11 Thread Charles Plessy
eue to the public ? 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/20130411105615.gd17...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Further Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

2013-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 09:18:05AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > > I would be really terrific if the the debian-med, debian-science, debichem > teams could update some of these packages. > > Charles, failing that, shall we coordinate off-list? Re-building in chroot > takes about a minut

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-16 Thread Charles Plessy
g to override.) > > ...I have to manually/painfully construct the command line... Hi Nikolaus, this is a question that is more appropriate for the debian-mentors mailing list. The tool you are looking for is "mk-build-deps" from the package "devscripts". Cheers,

Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes

2013-04-20 Thread Charles Plessy
would have adapted their software themselves if we had given them a bit more time. 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 "

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Charles Plessy
ements that look like gratuitous accusations. 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/20

Re: Upstream packaging (was Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes)

2013-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
er and > many of the other tools definitely help with this, but we can do > more. Hi Clint, indeed, we do more: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To U

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
statements from the decision makers, I would prefer if personal opinions like yours would be more clearly presented as such. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
any case, please refrain passive-aggressive statements on other people's projects. 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/20130504030409.gc21...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:11:23PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > The fact is that Debian does not make much effort to ensure that we do not > > distribute unredistributable files in our mirrors and installation medi

Git checkout/clean and double-buildability.

2013-05-04 Thread Charles Plessy
e package, I would prefer if we keep the compromise that imperfect "clean" targets are not release-critical problems. 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.

Proposal: a team maintaining packages managing media types (MIME).

2013-05-05 Thread Charles Plessy
does not provide a machine-readable list of media types and file extensions, which makes the maintainance tedious. I think that we would benefit strongly from joining efforts (perhaps using shared-mime-info as a proxy). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --

Re: Proposal: a team maintaining packages managing media types (MIME).

2013-05-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:24:29PM +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > Le lundi 06 mai 2013 à 20:19 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov a écrit : > > > > On Mon, 6 May 2013 18:29:40 Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils are already maintained under the > > > pkg-freedesktop umbr

Re: wheezy postmortem re rc bugfixing

2013-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
ew upstream releases that fix bugs in existing tools, even if they introduce new tools that are not as well tested, because on the other hand these new tools do not have a user base as large as the older ones. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-m

Re: DPA instead of PPA

2013-05-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, May 09, 2013 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > Hi, > > On Wed, 08 May 2013, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I actually really like this idea! (Though I suggest "Debian Personal > > Archive".) > > > > It's really different from what people know as PPAs. > > To be fair, "Personal"

Re: encrypted popcon submissions

2013-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
y cryptography", do you mean GPG or TLS ? 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.d

Bug#729282: ITP: htslib -- C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats

2013-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Hello everybody, I intend to package the HTSlib, that some existing packages (samtools, tabix) will need later. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan Package name: htslib Version : 0.2 Upstream Author

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
oment does not work, therefore a different strategy is needed. 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: h

Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2013-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Debian binary packages would be something like application/vnd.debian.binary or application/vnd.debian.binary-package. Any thoughts, comments, or volunteers ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

How many users for /usr/bin/view ?

2013-11-27 Thread Charles Plessy
triggers bugs such as http://bugs.debian.org/623384. I will most probably remove /usr/bin/view from mime-support, but just in case, I would like to hear if some people are strongly relying on it. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
o the release team for the very nice summary that started this thread, for the auto-removals, and everything else. 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..

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
given goal is still relevant after a release, or if it has eventually been obsoleted. http://dep.debian.net/ 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? Conta

Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-13 Thread Charles Plessy
of the NEW queue, then the only solution is to reduce the input. No need to try to do the impossible. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-14 Thread Charles Plessy
wrong solution. So, FTP team, please take your decision and let's close this story. 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

Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-17 Thread Charles Plessy
uture, I recommend to better organise the work of the FTP team. Have you considered using a public tracking system like in Fedora ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: [Prepare mass bug filling][RFC] New lintian tags: privacy-breach

2013-12-23 Thread Charles Plessy
e donation field in the debian/upstream file (https://wiki.debian.org/debian/upstream), which is quite un-leveraged for the moment but could be an efficient way to lead our users to the Upstream donation pages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel

On building everything from source.

2013-12-26 Thread Charles Plessy
ible is something that is easy to be done. But not if the emails finish by things like "in the meantime, we have deleted your documentation from our packages". Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

[DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? If people like the idea, I can send a patch to dpkg if needed. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-G

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
there is a new member in the FTP team ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France -- 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/20131227214441.ga2...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear FTP team, I would like to help processing the NEW queue. You can see at the following URL some of the reviews that I did in the past as part of my "peer review" proposal. - https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=one-copyright-review;use

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
is type: None. Magic number(s): Files usually start with the following string: ! File extension(s): deb Macintosh file type code(s): None. Object Identifier(s) or OID(s): None. Intended usage: Common Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
ast a few hours to see if members of the relevant team have something original to say ? 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.debia

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