Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Monday 19 December 2005 17:11, Marco d'Itri wrote: > The real lesson in this is that object names should be choosed > carefully. AFAIK, the namespace is part of the object name, an thus should be chosen carefully too. -- Felipe Sateler pgpHMa4cCTsTl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Felipe Sateler
ead of finding a sponsor for my package, I'd have the chance to talk directly to a group related to my package, and (ideally) get a quicker response. -- Felipe Sateler pgpzQwa1hNB8T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#345160: ITP: libgpod -- a library to read and write songs and artwork to an iPod

2005-12-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
There is already a libgpod0 package on Christian Marillat's archive, so I guess there must be an issue regarding this package's relation with debian. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920

2006-01-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
to http://bugs.kde.org whatever. if you have a > debian-specific packaging issue (installation problem, missing > files, conflict etc.), please continue". This seems like a nice idea. File a whishlist bug against reportbug ;) -- Felipe Sateler pgp4c5syhD22Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: One non-DD's thoughts on dfsg-freeness and firmware

2006-08-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
Marco d'Itri wrote: > So you clearly show to not understand the issue: almost every piece of > hardware uses a non-free firmware. Either uploaded after power-on or > semi-permanently stored on it. But then again, Debian doesn't ship that hardware. -- Felipe Sateler -- To

Re: List of packages with problems wrt release

2006-12-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > checkinstall: in unstable (1.6.1-1) but not in testing. This package had an RC bug until 1.6.1-1, which was uploaded on Dec 7th. I am at least waiting for the regular 10 days in unstable before requesting a hi

Re: Name of a binary package according to sonames

2006-12-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
and they told me that a lintian override was needed in that case. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 14, 2006

2006-04-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
, and a bit annoying (I confess I've checked the RFH for gtkpod several times now, to only find help isn't really needed anymore). Shouldn't package maintainers close these bugs when they have received help? As an informational note, of the 20 RFH of this month, only 5 are newer than 50 day

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 14, 2006

2006-04-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
others because either there were no help responses or the responses were somewhat new. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-23 Thread Felipe Sateler
gregor herrmann wrote: > IIRC lintian does this already. And devscripts contains a 'checkbashishms' tool -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sim package naming

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
ame for kde version and 'sim-qt' > for qt-only version. > Is it ok? It seems to me the best would be to have sim-kde and sim-qt, and a sim metapackage which depends on whatever package you want to be the default. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#338092: ITP: kompile -- KDE automatic installer for source packages

2005-11-07 Thread Felipe Sateler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kompile Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Tommaso Frazzetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=30223 * License

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-28 Thread Felipe Sateler
ut policy says this target should leave the tarball in the current directory, not accommodate svn-buildpackage. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Standard to indicate repacking in version numbers?

2008-01-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
urce gives the steps used to repack it, it does not give the rationale behind those steps. A text explanation of why you repacked is still necessary. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#465689: ITP: cinebench -- CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing

2008-02-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
se : GPL - LGPL - MIT OSI (a BSD-like license) CinePaint > * contains code that is a mix of open source licenses > Programming Lang: C > Description : CinePaint is a collection of free open source software > tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing

Re: Bug#465689: ITP: cinebench -- CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing

2008-02-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
So an email should have reached etorix. I forgot to add the bug address, though. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QUESTION: Debian Policy: Manual pages

2008-02-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
.tar.gz -> a.deb > 2) b.tar.gz -> b.deb > 3) c.tar.gz -> c.deb > > c.tar.gz contains only documentation, including man pages for > binaries/scripts in a.tar.gz and b.tar.gz. > What is the recommended way to deal with this scenario? If the three tarballs are released in sync

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
lanations at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority I have not filed any bugs because I don't know if optional/extra make any sense anymore. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> I was bored the other day and created a script that checks for this. a >> dd-list of them is available at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority.dd-list, >> and the explanations at felipe.sateler.com/wron

Re: analyzing popcon data for bogus recommends

2008-05-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
t there is no way to tell if package B wasn't needed on it's own. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Felipe Sateler
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Then you are voting for mercurial if you participated in popcon. > > vote: number of people who use this package regularly; Note that the vote is not that reliable either: it needs atime, which is getting less and less used. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UN

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
aptitude search '?section(^libs) ?recommends(!?section(libs) !?section(doc) !?section(python) !?section(perl) !?section(doc) !?section(libdevel) )' | wc -l 139 -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 3)

2008-06-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
e from the debian/ directory. AFAIK, dpkg-buildpackage calls clean before build unless explicitly told not to, so you could delete them on clean. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
ncourages using glib types, there is no problem while gtk itself uses glib types, as far as I can see. Or is there something I'm missing? Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
Russ Allbery wrote: > Felipe Sateler writes: > >> But: >> % objdump -p /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5 | grep glib >> NEEDED libglib-2.0.so.0 > >> If gkt+ encourages using glib types, there is no problem while gtk itself >> uses glib

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-26 Thread Felipe Sateler
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:08:40AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> But this will cause trouble anyway. Imagine this case: glib changes >> SONAME, both app and library depend on glib. app is recompiled, gtk isn't >> yet.So then app NEEDED li

Re: Debian P2P Team

2009-08-30 Thread Felipe Sateler
ams also make sense when most team members are active users of most of the applications they co-maintain. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-09-01 Thread Felipe Sateler
I can't produce with git > format-patch and feed to git send-email / git am since that feels like > busy work; in particular the Author and Description fields are not > needed given there's From and Subject with the same information. But random joe will not see those in your p

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
tle breakage. > > Reading again your mail, I think we are discussing a inexistent problem. > > You say that "some programs which use HAL may do" use /usr/share. Hal also lives on /usr, so I don't see the problem either. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
> it so n...@bugs.debian.org is an address that *does* cc: the submitter, and > for messages not to the submitter we should use -maintonly or something > like it. A lot has been said about CCing submitters, but what about other contributors? Is there any reason someone would want to

Re: DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE: is it popular and should we document it?

2009-09-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
But then you cannot automatically check if maintainer mode did it's thing correctly. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Faster boot by running init.d scripts in parallel

2009-10-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
rent booting is enabled? > It is not printed when I test. Is CONCURRENCY set in /etc/init.d/rc ? I used to have it set there. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Felipe Sateler
t-orig-source that doesn't comply with running from any directory). -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction

2009-10-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 21:35 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > (The source packages needed the format 3.0 (quilt), > for which good news are expected soon.) Already: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457345 -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Can linux-any arch and friends be used?

2009-10-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
list all arches? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction

2009-10-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
k at some other file which contains the real > debian/rules. Not true. If you were not familiar with the special script, you would have to read that entire script to understand what it does. OTOH, in the make-only approach it is easier to discard the contents of alternate-debian-rules.mk en

Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction

2009-10-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
ong opinion on that). But the point that was being raised was that it was easier to read, and I pointed out where it wasn't true. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Archive section in debian/control (was Re: Lintian based autorejects)

2009-11-01 Thread Felipe Sateler
the case of a package with a > pre-existing section override in the archive. What's the sense of > that? > Let the maintainer get the nag mail after the fact telling them to > reconcile > the section, instead.) What's the point of having the maintainer specify it in the f

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
It can be considered bad design, ugly and whatnot, but it is irrelevant if nobody ever uses other platforms. Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Felipe Sateler
ke sense to a user when the detail does not? > > Why add yet another layer? > > 'Model' seems to be a completely misleading use of terminology. Why was > it chosen? > > debhelper is a build time package, why use it dh_ styles for an > installation based system? dh_ is used at build time. It sets up .config and postinst, like other dh_ commands. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:56 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:29:28 -0300 > Felipe Sateler wrote: > > > > Where is the Model? > > > > > > Who designs the Model? > > > > You (or hopefully someone else who had the same config f

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread Felipe Sateler
and leave the metapackage installed* - what > purpose would that serve? In this particular case, none. But in the general case there are reasons to keep the metapackage installed. For example, I want to try out gnome. So I install the gnome metapackage. I do not want (say) brasero. But I s

Re: localisation in system wide daemons

2007-01-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
onary&va=hindoo -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-10 Thread Felipe Sateler
le 6 yet, which was released on 1999, which gives you the first 8 of the minimum 10 required by Jean-Christoph. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Felipe Sateler
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00250.html . It it not > known to me that the situation has changed since then. Colons are only allowed if there is an epoch (policy 5.6.12). In your mailman upload of that message, there is no epoch but there is a colon, so it is an illegal ve

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion

2007-04-17 Thread Felipe Sateler
Steve Greenland wrote: > On 17-Apr-07, 13:25 (CDT), Glenn Moeller-Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> *If I want or need command xxzz, which packages can give me that? > > You'll need to explore the packages website. or use apt-file -- Felipe Sateler -- To UN

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-23 Thread Felipe Sateler
nor the Debian Reference, which I assume are the 2 most important user documents. Maybe a note should be added? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-09 Thread Felipe Sateler
Doesn't the PTS also use this information to inform of vcs commits to the suscribed users? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-15 Thread Felipe Sateler
d to fix the problem there as > well. What if it's a NMU? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> >> > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluated to be less than the >> > empty string. If a package is the target of a security

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-17 Thread Felipe Sateler
commends/Suggests aren't only for stuff required for specific scripts inside a package, and it's not always that obvious that a script or program may require extra libs. For example, I still wonder why the hell openoffice.org-core recommends nfs-common. -- Felipe Sateler -- To U

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
I just know that debconf-utils would be useful in case of malfunction. Since malfunction costs more than bandwidth and disk space, I'll install it. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-19 Thread Felipe Sateler
the relation isn't obvious, and a hint would be helpful. OTOH, I'm not going to implement any of this, so I'll just shut up, and apologise for the noise. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-05 Thread Felipe Sateler
ady does the first, and a new check could be added for the second. There should be no need to complicate Raphaël's proposal when there is already a tool specifically designed for tests of this sort. What you want may be achieved by enforcing the use of lintian, but I don't know how that can b

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-05 Thread Felipe Sateler
Russ Allbery wrote: > Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What you want may be achieved by enforcing the use of lintian, but I >> don't know how that can be done. > > The primary barrier to enforcing the use of lintian is #243976. lintia

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-05 Thread Felipe Sateler
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 04:47:07PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> > Throwing a sensible error at build-time if the soname has changed >> > without a package name change is also something that needs to be done, >> > as well as throwing

Re: aptitude removals (was Re: APT 0.7 for sid)

2007-06-10 Thread Felipe Sateler
t sure it's even possible in > principle). I fail to see the difference between "aptitude install X Y Z" and going into the visual mode and then marking X Y Z for installation. Where is the extra information? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
ition too. [1] http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/number.htm [2] http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=bill%F3n -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
nt way of doing that. And no, more people using testing won't fix this issue either. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
Luis Matos wrote: > Qua, 2007-06-13 às 18:09 -0400, Felipe Sateler escreveu: >> Installing a newer kernel is not an upgrade, in a sense. You are >> installing new software alongside the old one. Thus the usual >> expectations don't hold. > > the usual expectation

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
Felipe Sateler wrote: > That would live everyone waiting for the every module to be ready, of > which they may not be using some. That is leave, of course -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
say would happen. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
e-grub doesn't update the default kernel. This means that if you had a default 0, and the new kernel gets at the top of the list (which is usually the case), it will get booted next time -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testers needed: aptitude 0.4.5.2

2007-06-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
new /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates is enough for the first. How to ckeck for the third one? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not stopping daemons, where are we?

2008-08-07 Thread Felipe Sateler
d within 2-3 seconds. I still don't understand why a SIGTERM is needed. If proper cleanup is not needed, why not just SIGKILL and be done with it? Is there a real reason? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the target used by buildd?

2008-08-08 Thread Felipe Sateler
a buildd/sbuild/wanna-peruse bug? See bug 229357. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
ted the actions of another >> developper years before. >> >> Have a nice day, > > But will the comments be copied into the debian/package/DEBIAN/ dir? I > doubt that. > > User would need those comments in the deb. Could they be added as XB-Comment:? I use XS-Co

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:02:02PM -0400, Felipe Sateler a écrit : >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> Could they be added as XB-Comment:? I use XS-Comment and it appears in the >> dsc, I don't know if XB-* appear in the deb or elsewhere.

Re: Should selinux be standard?

2008-09-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
for some basic functionality doesn't belong in a standard install. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >gem This was fixed by an NMU, but can't transition to testing due to dependency on libquicktime 2:1.0.3+debian-2. What to do in cases like this? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Britney error with the gossip package?

2008-10-07 Thread Felipe Sateler
ould > appear to be a problem waiting to happen. Wasn't dpkg supposed to use max(shlibs, build-depends)? The rationale, IIRC, is because a particular program might rely on a specific bugfix in a given version of the library. Since bugfixes don't cause shlibs bumps, this was a way for t

Re: Rejuvenated kernel-package uploaded to unstable, please test

2008-10-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
have different kernel and firmware versions, there could be things your hardware can do, the kernel supports it, but the firmware doesn't or the other way around. In that case, I only care about having the latest firmware around. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
xplain what the issues are, then. The firmware blob has to be generated *somehow*. There is a tool that generates the blob. Which data does the tool need to generate it? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-22 Thread Felipe Sateler
random file names > will not really work here or do I miss something? How about using $HOME/.arb/pids_${ARB_PID} and cleaning it up on exit? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#511631: ITP: qutecsound -- frontend for the csound sound processor

2009-01-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Felipe Sateler * Package name: qutecsound Version : 0.4~rc1 Upstream Author : Andrés Cabrera * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/qutecsound * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : frontend for

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Felipe Sateler
ll anything. Recommends can be removed/not installed. Automatically installing them goes with the spirit of what it means: software you would normally install alongside the one you are installing. If you are not installing it is because you know what you are doing. - -- Felipe Sateler -BEGIN PG

format not recognized

2007-08-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
ce and apparently it can't parse the file because it doesn't have a SONAME, but my perl knowledge is very close to zero so I can't be sure (lines 197-210 of dpkg-shlibdeps). -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: format not recognized

2007-08-17 Thread Felipe Sateler
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:41:31AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> I'm getting this warning when building csound: > >> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of 'NEEDED libcsnd.so' not recognized > >> What does it mean and how ca

Re: On bz2 compression in debs

2007-08-19 Thread Felipe Sateler
uot;you need a newer dpkg" (for some reason a > major version increase is needed for this to happen). -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-08-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
ackage with a very old sysvinit, and thus without > invoke-rc.d But oldstable has 2.86.ds1-1. I thought that only direct upgrades were supported. I guess the conditional is indeed redundant. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
would like to note that my local apt cache has a diversity of packages, ranging from small dummy packages like amarok-engines to relatively large ones like texlive-latex-base or openoffice.org-core. Thus the approximation is not that bad I think. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
efox will benefit from the competition with >> other players in the same niche. > > Again, I don't see what's preventing people from using that software > if they want to. Maybe a significant amount of sites that only work with IE (unavailable on linux, at least without wine)

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ben Finney wrote: > Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ben Finney wrote: >> > Again, I don't see what's preventing people from using [other web >> > browser] software if they want to. >> >> Maybe a significant amount of

Re: using "Breaks:", or how to replace it?

2007-09-23 Thread Felipe Sateler
ers won't have your packages installed. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-10-02 Thread Felipe Sateler
utomake's functionality redundant. If you are going to require automake, autoconf and libtool installed, why then generate the intermediate steps (configure and Makefile's)? Plus it defeats another goal of autotools: only developers should have it installed, not end users. If you go down

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-10-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
Joey Hess wrote: > Felipe Sateler wrote: >> That defeats the purpose of autoconf, and makes much of automake's >> functionality redundant. If you are going to require automake, autoconf >> and libtool installed, why then generate the intermediate steps >> (co

Re: Bits from Tcl/Tk team

2007-10-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
pkgIndex.tcl still required? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SE Linux packages

2007-10-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
s? Apparently there's at least the executable stack problem: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/10/10/lintian-and-executable-stacks/ http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/10/07/executable-stack-and-shared-objects/ -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: how to find out the sponsor of an upload?

2007-10-20 Thread Felipe Sateler
ing by whole fingerprint, not > key ID. > > > thanks > Hamish -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
tem? AFAICT, non-us was still debian, and so this non-pat thing should be too. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Long-term mass bug filing for crossbuild support

2007-11-07 Thread Felipe Sateler
s do clever things when the architecture is > detected as "i686" instead of "i386". -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pbuilder loads a lot of texlive fonts

2007-11-07 Thread Felipe Sateler
Andreas Tille wrote: > I would like to stop this overkill because it is a pure waste of > bandwidth but I have not even an idea why this happens, because > I do not find these packages in the list of Recommens. You might find debtree useful: http://alioth.debian.org/~fjp/debtree/ --

Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

2007-11-08 Thread Felipe Sateler
sily detectable by checking the dependencies or debtags. There are already far too many descriptions that include the language of development for no good reason. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#450701: ITP: serverstats -- a simple tool for creating graphs using rrdtool

2007-11-09 Thread Felipe Sateler
ions. I shouldn't need to see another package's description to understand what this package does (unless of course it's a suite), and I don't need implementation details either. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Andreas Metzler [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:32:47 +0100]: >> I thought Breaks was not yet handled by dpkg/apt and was therefore >> pointless? > > apt supports it since 0.7.0. I thought we weren't supposed to use it until apt 0.7.0 reaches stab

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Felipe Sateler
rafted or unmaintained build scripts tend to be quite ugly). -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
rectory is usually some attempt at helping Debian _users_, not maintainers. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-02 Thread Felipe Sateler
M and KILL enough to cleanly shutdown *all* running services at the same time? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-05 Thread Felipe Sateler
them instead of directly KILLing them? -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
of doing so isn't that bad. Why go through the hassle of creating a git format when patching dak to import a VCS-signed tag (which may be mor difficult, I agree) is much more efficient? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

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