Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn'taccepted: Is it a bug?

2005-12-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
tax of configuration files varies widly from one package to another. Would this kind of tool interest you ? Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
er tools, too. For the record, dependencies are a directed graph by nature. Preventing circular dependencies will get you a directed acyclic graph (DAG) which is, IMHO, easier to handle. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not w

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
g "halt" always works fine. I humbly admit that I did not provide much information, I just hope to give you some more hint about this problem... HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
better solution would be to flag foo-data as "useless alone". (I would love to be able to hide from aptitude all these "useless alone" packages so I could sift faster in the package list). HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people

Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
be called by dh without warnings ? (Note that this should be harmless if no option or specific files are provided to dh-config. dh_config will just exit(0) ) All the best [1] http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving p

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
rnate methods for package config upgrade... I would also need to deliver a matching /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/config_model_upgrade.pm Is this fine or too verbose ? All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
fault Modes or from the list of Modes declated in the same file. (2) Models can contain rules to be able to migrate deprecated configuration paremeters to newer parameters. For instance, old sshd_config parameter 'KeepAlive' could be migrated to new 'TCPKeepAlive' during package

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
eos/free/64/ Unfortunately, this video is available only in French. All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org -- To

Re: Please test krb5-config in experimental

2009-07-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
t's the status on Kerberos model ? All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Re: [config-model-users] Please test krb5-config in experimental

2009-07-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
> The model was pretty much 100% complete and had been well tested on my > box. However, I ran out of free time to work on this, so I never got > around to implementing the suggestions that you made back in September > 2008. Peter, do you have any hope to resume working on it ? Or should I look f

RFC: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-09-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
your packages ? You can either reply to this mail or directly edit the wiki page [1]. All the best [1] http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade (*) Manoj, I have not attempted a model for sendmail... ;-) -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people

Re: RFC: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-09-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
Guy Hulbert writes: > On Thu, 2009-17-09 at 14:11 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: >> The other day, I was upgrading cups and dpkg did ask me the usual way >> if I wanted to keep my cups config file or take the upstream version. > > This email looks very familiar. Did you

Bug#548193: ITP: [PACKAGE] -- graphical configuration editor for approx.conf

2009-09-24 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: libconfig-model-approx-perl Version: 1.001 Upstream Author: Domminique Dumont URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-Approx/

Proposal to improve approx configuration upgrades

2009-10-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello Le jeudi 17 septembre 2009 14:11:01, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > So, I've written a wiki page [1] that explains: > - how configuration upgrade are managed by Config::Model > - how to implement such upgrades with Approx example: > * create a configuration model for appr

Re: Proposal to improve approx configuration upgrades

2009-10-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le mardi 6 octobre 2009 17:09:05, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > The patch for approx is much simpler (See attachment): Ahem, here's the patch in attachment. Sorry. All the best diff -Naur approx-4.0/debian/approx.postinst approx-dev/debian/approx.postinst --- approx-4.0/debian/approx.

Re: Proposal to improve approx configuration upgrades

2009-10-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello Eric Le mercredi 7 octobre 2009 13:09:06, vous avez écrit : > I don't really want to add a dependency on another package for such a > simple task. Simple, but it may be repetitive. Here a real life comment made by one of your users on #debian-perl: (03:02:23 PM) dusty: ddumont1: thanks f

Re: Proposal to improve approx configuration upgrades

2009-10-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le mercredi 7 octobre 2009 21:13:45, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > ucf has a rather crude upgrade strategy: either accept upstream or keep > > your file or use your favorite editor. > > That's not true. ucf supports three-way merges. You're right. But three-way merge still requires the end-user

Re: Proposal to improve approx configuration upgrades

2009-10-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le mercredi 7 octobre 2009 13:09:06, vous avez écrit : > I don't really want to add a dependency on another package for such a > simple task. Anyone deploying a caching proxy server should be able > to read a man page and edit a config file. Ok. Looks like you're not convinced... Could you at le

Re: Using a perl lib from postinst

2009-11-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 20:16:08 Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote: > I would like to use a perl lib included in postgresql-common from a > postinst script. What have I to do ? I assume you want to call this perl lib from a postinst outside of postgresql- common package. > Call directly from the

Re: FOSDEM 2010

2009-11-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 28 November 2009 15:50:37 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > For those of you who were waiting for a call for talks from me on this > subject, it's not really coming. However, if you think your talk may be > of some interest to people working on distributions (Debian or > non-Debian), your talk s

Re: FOSDEM 2010

2009-11-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
Oops, I forgot the link [1] in my previous mail. Sorry. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade Dominique -- http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/ddumont -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello The last version of libconfig-model-perl (640-3) is now shipped with dh_config_model_upgrade. The aim of dh_config_model_upgrade is to provide an easy way for a debian developer to add better configuration upgrade to the packages they maintain. Let's assume that Joe, debian developer, wa

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 04 December 2009 11:18:46 Neil Williams wrote: > The package version doesn't sound like a new project, who is using it > (and why?). Sorry, that's a typo. The version is 0.640-3. The project is new. > (FYI the upstream CPAN description doesn't answer any of my questions > below either.

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 10:57:51, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > I wonder why the detail about how the conf file is being upgraded should > be relevant to the final user at all. As you observe on the wiki page, > most lusers barely know of the existence of /etc, why should they care > about Con

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 19:00:55, Felipe Sateler a écrit : > Well, there is an abstract model of the config file. So yes, basically > it parses the file into an internal model. I believe the idea is to be > able to migrate automagically from one version to the next without user > intervention.

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 13:01:39, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > My reading of the above quoted test, is that Config::Model is not > seeking to replace debconf; it is going to use it as other packages do > for interacting with the user. Or, to be more precise, my understanding > is that the pac

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 19:38:19, Neil Williams a écrit : > That's a user change, I thought the point of this was that changes *not > done by users* are causing problems. Different problem. Currently, debian package will detect correctly if a user (or a script) left the configuration unmodifi

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 20:36:19, Joey Hess a écrit : > But it does seem likely that packages using it could fall back to > current config file handling if Config::Model were not available > in an embedded system. Agreed. That's a reasonable goal. Dominique -- http://config-model.wiki.sourcef

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 20:08:57, gregor herrmann a écrit : > Since you speak French you might be interested in Dominique's > presentation at some French Perl meeting: > http://fpw2009.ubicast.eu/videos/free/64/ Today, I've recorded today an English version of this presentation (with some enh

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 17:48:00, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > Well, reading your posts I understand there is in fact a > misunderstanding. The question mentioned in the reported wiki page has > nothing to do with a debconf question: is the question posed by dpkg > when there is a mismatch be

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 19:46:04, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:54:56PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > The idea was to offer the user a possibility to bail out since > > config-model is still experimental. But I'm beginning to wonder if >

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 17:48:13, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > Can I write my own upgrade script in Perl and have it play with > the models involved in the upgrade (i.e., the old model and the new > model) in the same scripts to migrate from one to the other in some > ad-hoc way?. > Yes. U

More on migration (was Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model)

2009-12-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 08:58:59 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Fair enough. So, in your terminology, a model is the schema. How do you > call instances? Well, I tend to use 3 entities in my doc: - the model (perl data structures loaded in Config::Model object). - Configuration instance (derived

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 12:35:30, Neil Williams a écrit : > Does Config::Model obey DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true ? > > http://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap#Environment Once the debconf question is removed, Config::Model will be used in non- interactive mode (-ui none option) in postinst. Al

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le lundi 7 décembre 2009 04:19:34, Paul Wise a écrit : > It would still be nice if the postinst snippets didn't have to be > patched for EmDebian. I imagine this would simply mean checking for > perl in the postinst and only performing configuration upgrades when > it is available. Paul, during pa

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 17:40:55 Neil Williams wrote: > No. The package should simply exit cleanly with a successful return > value if perl does not exist, letting everything else proceed as before. > The postinst itself needs to check - that way, Emdebian doesn't have to > patch every packag

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 17 December 2009 14:24:48 Dominique Dumont wrote: > Unless somebeody complains, I will add this at the beginning of > dh_config_model_upgrade: > > if ($ENV{DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS} =~ /noconfigmodel/) { > warn "dh_config_model_upgrade: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS specifi

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009 15:38:00, James Vega a écrit : > '[[' for testing is a bashism. This should be > > if [ -e /usr/bin/perl ] > > or more accurately > > if [ -x /usr/bin/perl ] Done. Thanks Dominique -- http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009 16:41:03, Carl Fürstenberg a écrit : > Will there be premade modules for the usual suspects? for example > Apache, INI, perl-hash, JSON, basic shell source, debcontrol/rfc-2822, > xml etc... There's already a generic parser and writer for perl-hash (more accurately perl

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009 20:48:50, Neil Williams a écrit : > DH_NO_ACT still needs debian/rules to be modified or else all debhelper > routines would be disabled; we need an option that is specific to > dh_config_model without having to edit debian/rules. > > I think DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is still us

An English presentation about Config::Model and package upgrades

2009-12-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 20:08:57, gregor herrmann a écrit : > Since you speak French you might be interested in Dominique's > presentation at some French Perl meeting: > http://fpw2009.ubicast.eu/videos/free/64/ For non-french speakers, I've recorded a new session in English. In this presenta

Re: Bug#502543: ITP: confget -- Utility to read variables from a configuration file

2008-10-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
e are already available). Augeas has the ability to read and write INI files (and other files as well) See http://augeas.net for details HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#509598: ITP: libconfig-model-tkui-perl -- Perl/Tk GUI to edit config data through Config::Model

2008-12-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Dumont * Package name: libconfig-model-tkui-perl Version : 1.204-1 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-TkUI/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#509608: ITP: libtk-dirselect-perl -- Perl/Tk cross-platform directory selection widget

2008-12-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Dumont * Package name: libtk-dirselect-perl Version : 1.11-1 Upstream Author : Michael J. Carman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk-DirSelect/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#510723: ITP: libconfig-model-itself-perl -- Graphical *model* editor for Config::Model

2009-01-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Dumont * Package name: libconfig-model-itself-perl Version : 1.208-1 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-Itself/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#510880: ITP: libconfig-model-cursesui-perl -- Curses interface to edit configuration data through Config::Model

2009-01-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Dumont * Package name: libconfig-model-cursesui-perl Version : 1.102-1 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-CursesUI/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#513016: ITP: libconfig-model-backend-augeas-perl -- Read and write configuration data through Augeas

2009-01-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Dumont * Package name: libconfig-model-backend-augeas-perl Version : 0.102-1 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-Backend-Augeas/ * License : LGPL Programming

Bug#576807: ITP: libdevel-perlysense-perl -- Perl IDE backend with Emacs frontend

2010-04-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: libdevel-perlysense-perl Version: 0,0183-1 Upstream Author: Johan Lindström URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-PerlySense/ Licen

ITP: libfile-corresponding-perl -- Find corresponding files in the directory tree

2010-04-28 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-corresponding-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Johan Lindstrom * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Fil

Bug#597613: ITP: libdist-zilla-plugins-cjm-perl -- CJM's plugins for Dist::Zilla

2010-09-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdist-zilla-plugins-cjm-perl Version : 3.01 Upstream Author : Christopher J. Madsen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist

Bug#597618: ITP: libdist-zilla-plugin-prepender-perl -- prepend lines at the top of your perl files

2010-09-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdist-zilla-plugin-prepender-perl Version : 1.101590 Upstream Author : Jerome Quelin * URL : http://search.cpan.org

Re: Renaming a conffile in maintainer scripts

2010-10-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 08 October 2010 15:38:22 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > While this avoids the conffile prompt in all cases, it also means that if > the new conffiguration file has changes compared to the old one, the user > doesn't get to see them... instead they are stored in .dpkg-new without > any prompt.

DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Format-Specification: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=recall&rev=196 Upstream-Maintainer: Dominique Dumont (ddumont at cpan.org) Upstream-Source: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-Backend-Augeas/ Upstream-Name: Config-Model-Backend-Augeas Copyright: 2008-

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 13 January 2011 15:06:56 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > Here the messages I got when checking my guidata package (already in the > new queue) > > picca at grisette:~/Debian/guidata/guidata$ config-edit -application > dpkg-copyright -ui none > You should install Config::Model::TkUI o

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 13 January 2011 16:38:31 Steve Langasek wrote: > Please make your model recognize when a stand-alone license stanza is > present which defines a new license name in the file. DEP5 is not > intended to have an authoritative list of all licenses in use, only the > common ones; Currentl

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 13 January 2011 16:35:06 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > I attached the copyright file Interesting. Your file is formatted according to the spec archived on Debian wiki. Looks like this spec was done before the DEP-5 work begun. Since then, some fields like Debianized-* were dropped

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 13 January 2011 22:27:02 Joey Hess wrote: > Thanks for your work, here are a few things I stumbled on. Thanks for trying and reporting issues :-) > Worst problem: -save *removes* all Comment fields except for one > in the header section. Looks like I messed up the routine that transf

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 13 January 2011 22:48:48 Joey Hess wrote: > Also, it's missing BSD-2-clause etc. ok. Fixed. Unless I remove all these license keyword check... Still thinking ... > The original format from the wiki page uses comma to separate > Files. Might be worth detecting and converting those? D

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 13:48:55, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Given that there are only 9 different fields in the current DEP-5 syntax, I > think that parsers can simply incorporate the full list of them rather than > rely on a X- prefix to determine if a field is in the specification or not. S

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello Frédéric On Thursday 13 January 2011 16:35:06 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > hello, another try :) > > picca@grisette:~/Debian/tango/tango$ config-edit -application > dpkg-copyright -ui none You should install Config::Model::TkUI or > Config::Model::CursesUI for a more friendly user inter

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 13 January 2011 23:54:04 Charles Plessy wrote: > By the way, Dominique, some licence version numbers can contain > alphanumeric characters. For instance the LaTeX project public license, > version 1.3c. Given that License keywords are fuzzy, moving targets. I've dropped any attempt at

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 15 January 2011 17:04:30 Joey Hess wrote: > One more thing, "License: GPL-2+ | Expat" was an old syntax on the wiki, > and it seems the parser only looks for an expansion of the GPL-2+ > license in this case, ignoring the Expat part. That was a bug in the Parse::RecDescent grammar snip

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 20 January 2011 15:33:17 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:27:55PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > On Thursday 13 January 2011 16:35:06 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > > > 16:30:47 Invalid line: Copyright : � 1997-1999 AT&T Labora

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 21 January 2011 14:32:54 Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > 2011/01/13 16:30:47 Invalid line: Copyright : � 2010, The Tango team > > > > Could it be because of the space between Copyright and the colon? Yes. That was not recognized by the Dpkg syntax parser. This is now accepted but correc

New version of DEP-5 parser

2011-01-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello I've fixed upstream [1] most (hopefully all) the issues regarding the DEP5 parser based on Config::Model that were mentioned on these lists or in the BTS. The new version is already (thanks gregoa) available on Debian/Sid in libconfig-model-perl 1.230 I've updated the parser so as to u

Re: New version of DEP-5 parser

2011-01-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011 22:18:18, Steve Langasek a écrit : > Not having looked at the code, I'm wondering: do you apply these > translations to all files regardless of the Format/Format-Specification > field's value, or are you selective about only applying these upgrades to > fields that were

Bug#611189: ITP: libmodule-metadata-perl -- Gather package and POD information from perl module files

2011-01-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmodule-metadata-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : David Golden , Ken Williams

Bug#611651: ITP: libpod-wordlist-hanekomu-perl -- Add words for spell checking POD

2011-01-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpod-wordlist-hanekomu-perl Version : 1.110090 Upstream Author : Marcel Gruenauer * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist

Re: New version of DEP-5 parser

2011-02-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le mardi 22 février 2011 19:06:27, vous avez écrit : > Can't call method "fetch_element" on an undefined value at > /usr/share/perl5/Config/Model/Backend/Debian/Dpkg/Copyright.pm line 121. > > Do you want me to fill a bug report in addition to this email? Yes, please. And also include the copyri

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le dimanche 27 février 2011 16:31:29, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > But then, we have a problem, because: > - ruby-foo need one of (ruby1.8-foo, ruby1.9.1-foo, jruby-foo, > rubinius-foo) installed to work correctly ok > - ruby1.8-foo, ruby1.9.1-foo, jruby-foo, rubinius-foo need ruby-foo > instal

Bug#617937: ITP: libmousex-strictconstructor-perl -- Make your object constructors blow up on unknown attributes

2011-03-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmousex-strictconstructor-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Fuji, Goro (gfx) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist

Who is (co-)maintaining lcdproc package ?

2011-03-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello lcdproc package in Debian is outdated. I've prepared and uploaded in mentors an up-to-date package starting from the last version prepared by Nick (thanks Nick). In this package, lcdproc's maintainer is still Jose and Jonathan is listed as uploaders. Is this still valid ? Jose, so you

Bug#514013: ITP: libconfig-model-openssh-perl -- Graphical editor for OpenSsh sshd_config and ssh_config files

2009-02-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Dumont * Package name: libconfig-model-openssh-perl Version : 1.203 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-OpenSsh/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Perl

Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
upgrade can be done -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
of Value object. See [1] for gory details) More complex value migration scenarios are possible. All the best [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model/lib/Config/Model/ValueComputer.pm -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what th

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
TOH, Config::Model uses the semantic knowledge provided by the model to perform the upgrade. > Config::Model could be useful in addition, but would it support such a > work-flow? Provided I've understood correctly your work-flow, I'd say mostly yes... All the best [1] http://freshm

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
uch better roll-back capability if a config is screwed up by a manual merge. All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org -- T

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
2] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DDUMONT/Config-Model-Xorg-0.513/lib/Config/Model/models/ -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org --

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
she > will be faced with that. ... so maybe we should strive for both? There's may be cases where the merge completes automatically but the end result is wrong. That would be really bad. All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving peo

ucf --three-way (was: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades)

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
ge snippet. At the risk of drifting away from Config::Model, couldn't ucf propose by default the three-way merge if the configurations files are "smallish" ? (with the option for the maintainer to specify --two-way) By "smallish", I mean below a defined number of lines (

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
grades will work correctly for "Config::Model enabled" packages. Later on, the more packages use Config::Model, the easier will be the system maintenance of "most common" users. All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
how the diff between the current state (current file or file + modifications) and the default values from the configuration model. There's no notion of history or diff with previous version of a configuration file. Well, not yet. I'll have to think about this... All the best --

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
:-) For this I need a candidate package with a package maintainer willing to experiment the patch I might send... All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freeno

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-03-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
e > cases). You can still ask the user about confirmation. Agreed. Some user will think before confirming, others will not. All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: d

A plan to provide some patch to improve package configuration upgrades (was: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades)

2009-03-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
on should not move too fast. So this excludes exim, sendmail and xorg. So, do you have a configuration peeve package that fit the criteria above and bothered you during upgrades ? Does anyone want to participate actively to improve upgrade with Config::Model ? (yes, this is a call for help :-) )

Re: A plan to provide some patch to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-03-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello Sorry for the silence, I had a few thing to wrap up before going on with this proposal. Dominique Dumont writes: > ok. Here's the plan: > > - Identify a "candidate" package to add (as a patch) an upgrade > feature based on Config::Model. I'm goin

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-03-24 Thread Dominique Dumont
update this page regularly. I'll follow the rough plan mentioned in this page. I'll send patches on this list as soon as I have something ready. All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want."

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Tracking the potentially hundreds of files with © notices that > make up the binary or the libraries is not something I am likely to > do. People looking for that information can inspect the sources, or ask > upstream, directly. Or use fossology HTH -- To

Bug#755430: ITP: prettify -- syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page

2014-07-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-javascript-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: prettify Version : 2013.03.04 Upstream Author : mikesam...@gmail.com * URL

Bug#756746: ITP: libtk-objeditor-perl -- A Perl/Tk widget to edit recursively a data structure

2014-08-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtk-objeditor-perl Version : 2.008 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Tk-ObjEditor

Bug#763998: ITP: libopengl-image-perl -- Image loader for OpenGL

2014-10-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libopengl-image-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Bob "grafman" Free - graf...@graphcomp.com * URL

Re: debconf as a registry

2014-10-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 16 October 2014 22:34:15 Bas Wijnen wrote: > Oh yes, and I have some code ready for feedback. I haven't written the > script libraries yet (and I want others to write some of them), but I > have written the debhelper module for using them. For what it's worth, lcdproc package [1] use

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 07 November 2014 17:04:10 Joey Hess wrote: > It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I > originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish > everyone well, but I'm out. I'm very sorry to read this. We'll miss you. All the best -- https://githu

Re: debconf and perl : how to use it ?

2012-04-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 17:01:25 laurent COOPER wrote: > what did I miss ? I've tried to google the Debconf::Client::ConfModule, > I've tried to read the sources, but I didn't find the answer. Any help > would be appreciated. At the risk of beating a dead horse, you may have missed the debconf-

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

2012-04-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Wednesday 28 March 2012 07:31:19, Jean-Christophe Dubacq a écrit : > > The best way to become "hyper-efficient" is to avoid this kind of > > overhead, automate everything, and be prepared to fail quickly and > > iterate. > > What about a dev. script that would be run in debian/ and would parse

Bug#668917: ITP: libio-lcdproc-perl -- Perl extension to connect to a LCD display through lcdproc

2012-04-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org,jcmul...@gmail.com * Package name: libio-lcdproc-perl Version : 0.037 Upstream Author : Juan C. Muller * URL : http://search.cpan.org

Bug#671209: ITP: libmoosex-role-timer-perl -- Role for measuring elapsed time with Time::HiRes

2012-05-02 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org, m...@cpan.org * Package name: libmoosex-role-timer-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Michael Langner (m...@cpan.org) * URL : http

How often is any package tested for FTBS on main arch ?

2012-05-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello We, sdl maintainers, made a recent change in our package by removing unnecessary build depends on -dev packages [1]. Unfortunately, some package did rely on this "extra" dependencies and went ftbs [2]. Now is the question of possible impact (FTBS) on all packages build-depending on sdl

Re: How often is any package tested for FTBS on main arch ?

2012-05-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Friday 4 May 2012 11:09:52, Neil Williams a écrit : > Dominique Dumont wrote: > > We, sdl maintainers, made a recent change in our package by removing > > unnecessary build depends on -dev packages [1]. > > ... at which point you should have looked at the list of rever

Re: How often is any package tested for FTBS on main arch ?

2012-05-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Saturday 5 May 2012 12:29:03, Neil Williams a écrit : > That would have been fine but the upload had been made without this > check being done. This could have been so much better if the discussion > had preceded the upload. ok. there's a misunderstanding. I do not want to justify the upload th

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