Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

Hi! On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 15:31:55 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 at 13:32:27 +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote: > > C, or C.UTF-8 is not a universal locale which works > > for all. > > Sure, and I don't think anyone is arguing that you or anyone else should > set the locale for you

Re: Enabling some -Werror=format* by default?

Hi! On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 16:06:13 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 07:48:59AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > We recently increased the time_t size on certain architectures and some > > > packages started failing to build because they were using a format > > > specifi

Re: Enabling some -Werror=format* by default?

Hi! On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 20:09:21 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 04:24:54PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > Do you think it makes sense to add this a flag that enables -Werror=format > > > to dpkg-buildflags(1), before, or after a test rebu

Re: Enabling some -Werror=format* by default?

Hi! On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 18:01:58 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Ideally, we'd not just do a rebuild with the flags, but also do a > rebuild without and then compare the binary .debs. In the event that we > misguide configure, we expect the .debs to differ and otherwise to equal > due to the work

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

Hi! On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 09:32:21 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Simon McVittie writes: > > Persisting a container root filesystem between multiple operations comes > > with some serious correctness issues if there are "hooks" that can modify > > it destructively on each operation: see

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

Hi! On Tue, 2024-07-02 at 00:54:13 +0100, Wookey wrote: > On 2024-07-01 23:59 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > > But this is not about third parties, it's about upstream which publishes PPA > > packages. So far these are by far the most used Linux packages. > > > > I also hesitate to add an epoch, aft

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

ounter to l10n work, or perhaps to switch to a subset of the locale settings. Niels? Thanks, Guillem From 94c2540fe290ffaa70680d21725e3541642ab2f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillem Jover Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:34:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dpkg-buildpackage: Require an UTF-8 (or ASCII) locale

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

Hi! On Tue, 2024-07-02 at 09:52:05 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 at 03:47:29 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 15:40:07 +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > > > Maybe a compromise would be to at least mandate some UTF-8 locale. > &g

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

Hi! On Tue, 2024-07-02 at 03:32:53 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2024-07-02 at 00:54:13 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > Quite. People are quite resistant to spoiling neat version numbers > > with epochs, and no-one likes them, but they don't do any actual harm > > (exce

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

Hi! [ Mostly trying to clarify some of my earlier comments. ] On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 17:20:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 at 14:32:14 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I'm a non-native speaker, who has been involved > > in l10n for a long time, while a

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

Hi! On Sat, 2024-07-06 at 13:13:48 +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > Le mar. 2 juil. 2024 à 14:37, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > On Tue, 2024-07-02 at 09:52:05 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 at 03:47:29 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > >

Bug#1080349: ITP: golang-github-victoriametrics-easyproto -- simple building blocks for protobuf marshaling and unmarshaling

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover * Package name: golang-github-victoriametrics-easyproto Version : 0.1.4-1 Upstream Author : VictoriaMetrics * URL : https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/easyproto * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1080351: ITP: golang-github-bboreham-go-loser -- Loser Tree data structure, for fast k-way merge

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover * Package name: golang-github-bboreham-go-loser Version : 0.0~git20230920.fcc2c21-1 Upstream Author : Bryan Boreham * URL : https://github.com/bboreham/go-loser * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1080354: ITP: golang-opentelemetry-collector -- OpenTelemetry Collector (library)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover * Package name: golang-opentelemetry-collector Version : 0.108.1-1 Upstream Author : OpenTelemetry - CNCF * URL : https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#1080428: ITP: golang-github-go-viper-mapstructure -- decode generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover * Package name: golang-github-go-viper-mapstructure Version : 2.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Viper * URL : https://github.com/go-viper/mapstructure * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1080429: ITP: golang-github-mostynb-go-grpc-compression -- Go gRPC encoding wrappers for compression algorithms missing from google.golang.org/grpc

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover * Package name: golang-github-mostynb-go-grpc-compression Version : 1.2.3-1 Upstream Author : Mostyn Bramley-Moore * URL : https://github.com/mostynb/go-grpc-compression * License : Apache-2.0 Programming

Re: Should OpenSSL/ libssl3 depend on brotli?

Hi! On Sat, 2024-09-07 at 00:12:58 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > Is it okay for libssl3 do depend on libbrotli? It would increase minimal > installs by ~900KiB on amd64. > tl;dr > coreutils build-depends on libssl-dev which makes libssl essential. > libssl already supports compression

Re: Question about library package splitting

Hi! On Fri, 2024-09-06 at 11:32:55 +0200, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > Here comes the problem: libmodsecurity3 has two types of collection stores: > in-memory and LMDB. It's VERY important: you MUST decide the type of > choosed backend in compilation time, later you can't change it in runtime! I think

Re: svn.debian.org

Hi, On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:51:03AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > It took me a while to get SVN access to some projects at svn.debian.org. > > It will be nice if someone can update web page contents of > svn.debian.org. Done. > Of couse, svn+ssh with absolute path /svn/pkg-ime/ worked but this

Re: Bug#280534: ITP: kernel-patch-linuxabi -- Runs programs written for different Unix's under Linux

Hi Russell, On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:28:25AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: kernel-patch-linuxabi > Version : 20040724 > Upstream Author : Various > * URL : > http://www.lubemobile.com.au/ras/debian/sarge/ker

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

; Openfirmware emulator/replacement(?), powerpc specific, needs update: > >Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > openhackwareBuild-Depends-Indep: gcc-2.95 I'll allocate some time to upgrade this to latest gcc. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Requesting pistachio removal in a week

Hi, Initially I packaged pistachio because it was supposed to be the next microkernel to be used by the Hurd. That's questionable now. Also the package suffers some problems that I don't want to spend time fixing, like it not building on all supposedly supported arches, upstream not being much act

Bug#303488: ITP: openhackware -- OpenFirmware emulator

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: openhackware Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Jocelyn Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/> * License :

Bug#303489: ITP: proll -- JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible replacement

Package: wnpp Owner: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: proll Version : 18 Upstream Author : Pete A. Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : <http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/> * License : GPL Description

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

Hi, On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:03:32PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > * Package name: apt-history > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Vittorio Palmisano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://redclay.altervista.org/archivio/python/apt-history/ > * License : GPL > De

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:00:19PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I guess you would have to divert apt-get and aptitude for that and log > the invocations. > > Actualy with aptitude taking the list of non automatic packages should > give you exactly the install list. aptitude has had such k

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 23:10:04 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On 2006-08-14 22:33:49, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Do you plan to support other system than linux in a fork? If no, there > > is > Well, the software is already prepared to support *BSD, Solaris and > Linux, but I only intent to supp

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

As complement to what Wouter and Michael have replied... On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 23:24:49 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > What I have made is a generic package which just does not concerns > itself with other arches than for GNU/Linux. If people wants to compile > for *BSD or Solaris they can get

Re: inet-superserver virtual package

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:27:43 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 28, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Just yesterday night dato raised the issue on #d-release, and I was > > telling about the virtual package, and that we could move to it now, > > and worry later about a possi

Re: inet-superserver virtual package

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 14:22:07 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 30, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I'm not convinced that duplicating update-inetd in most of the > > inetd providing packages is a good idea, even if this would allow > > xinetd to be able to replace a

Re: ITP: lsjk -- development files for arbitrary-precision numeric evaluation

Hi, On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 09:43:03 +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: lsjk (source package name) Could you please use the X-Debbugs-CC header when sending the ITPs instead of CCing directly debian-devel? Otherwise we don't get to see the bug

Re: ITP: bzr-plugin-webserve -- web interface for bazaar-ng

Hi, On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:05:55 +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Arnaud Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: bzr-plugin-webserve > Version : web interface for bazaar-ng > Upstream Author : Goffredo Baroncelli <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: (proposed) Mass bug fil ing for debcon f "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

low priority debconf notes: > ----- > > Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > fbset -- config:16 fbset/create_framebuffer_devices As Mark Brown, I did that following the policy. I don't have any problem removing it, but would be nice

Re: Volunteers needed to experiment with tags in debian/control

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 20:27:26 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > I would like to experiment with a little new plan for having tags flow > again from the web submissions[1] to the Packages file. > The plan goes as this: > > 0) Download http://people.debian.org/~enrico/2006-09/debtags-updatecontrol > 1

Re: new mplayer

Hi, On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 01:46:42 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > FWIW, I cannot build it in a clean and updated-to-latest-sid pbuilder > (complete script available on request, 10K gzipped): > Script started on Tue 26 Sep 2006 01:38:35 AM CEST > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ sudo pbuilder build mplayer

Re: Bug#396611: ITP: mach -- make a chroot of a rpm-based distribution

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:00:03 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: mach > Version : 0.9.0.2 It's unfortunate that they chose the same name as the microkernel. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: update-inetd

Hi, On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:40:21 +1100, Brian May wrote: > We really need a constant way of dealing with this in package updates. > > It seems to boil down to: > > * should packages disable inetd config entries on removal and in > preparation for upgrade, and then reenable the entries after up

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 09:44:50 -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > because non-glibc Debian architectures does exists (i.e. > FreeBSD,Solaris,Darwin), and it is time to consider them and accept > their existence. Those core architectures are open sourced and their > communities will only grow over time. I

Re: Bug#363486: dpkg: [update-alternatives] New categories for: WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc.

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 03:06:09 +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: > I don't see real obstacle here. Granted that the alternatives system > should be extended to look for > > $HOME/debian/alternatives > > Before checking > > /etc/laternatives > > Perhaps I should file a wishlist for it.

Re: Bug#374029: Fixing inconsisten and unusefull Build-Depends/Conflicts definition

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:10:36 +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > [Side note: Buildds/dpkg-buildpackage has no robust way of telling if > the optional build-arch field exists and must call build. This is > wastefull for both build dependencies and build ti

Re: Bug#200163: ITP: png2ico -- command-line PNG to ICO converter

Hi, On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:45:53PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > * Package name: png2ico > Version : 20021208 > Upstream Author : Matthias Benkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ > * License : GPL > Description

Re: Format of Release file and tools to create

Hi, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:39:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > where can I find the "official" definition for the Release > file (http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release), > e.g. a BNF or an informal description? > > Which is the tool (of choice) to create the files? > > Ho

Re: architecture alias and disto rebuild

Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bill Allombert [Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:39:36 +0200]: > > So I propose a alternate solution: > > > If the distro foobar rebuild packages on i386, they could use > > i386foobar as architecture name instead of i386, this way every

Re: Build-Depend'ing on libasound2-dev just for Linux

Hi, On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:09:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 16 septembre 2005 à 00:33 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > > It is maybe a crazy idea, but it is the only one that work. What you > > suggest simply doesn't work, as not+linux is a provided package, and the > >

Proposal: Start wrapping source control file fields

Hi, A while ago bug 90989 was submitted, it was asking to extend the definition of source control file fields to be all (physical not logical) multi-line. I think it makes sense as we are supposedly using RFC822, and more given some really long and obscene fields in packages from d-i or xorg. As

Bug#461985: ITP: libbsd -- BSD compatibility library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libbsd Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : The FreeBSD project * URL : http://www.freebsd.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : BSD compati

Re: Wrong Architecture for openhackware

tags 339870 wontfix thanks Hi, On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:47:53 +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > >* Error out if the toolchain used to build is not powerpc-linux-gnu. > > (Closes: #322300, #339870) > > Again, I don't agree here (backed by p2): The package

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:11:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > For 12.) and 28.), I'd file a wishlist bug providing a config file > snippet for /etc/rsyslog.d/ Can we please use /etc/syslog.d/ instead? this way we don't get locked in any specific implementation. I'm preparing a patch for inetut

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 05:30:47 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:11:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > For 12.) and 28.), I'd file a wishlist bug providing a config file > > > snippet for /etc/rsyslog.d/ > &g

Re: Automatic mirror selection

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 21:09:24 +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > Adam Borowski wrote: > > Uhm, and how exactly do you get the arch? At DNS time you don't have > > anything but the requester's or his ISP's IP. > > This would have to be placed inside sources.list at some point, then I > figure th

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:54:11 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Of course, that would mean that the few debian/rules (hi Manoj) in > Debian not being makefiles [...] You were probably thinking about Josip (and now the VDR team):

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 20:23:37 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 06/02/2008 Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I'm not sure whether this is an issue with dpkg or rather with lintian, > > > but if I check the cryptsetup deb+udeb packages after building them, > > > lintian reports that udebs don't allow th

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:23:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Except it will only work if the package uses 'Package-Type' and not > 'X*-Package-Type'. X*B*-Package-Type should work as well. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Bug#465402: O: directfb -- direct frame buffer graphics

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Now that the library transition is over, and all major bugs should be fixed, I've been able to finally orphan the directfb suite of packages. It might make sense for whoever takes over, to adopt the whole suite (directfb, dfb++ and fusionsound), they have been maint

Re: Bug#465402: O: directfb -- direct frame buffer graphics

Hi, On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 16:03:04 +0100, Fathi Boudra wrote: > Otavio Salvador, Luis Mondesi and me would like to adopt directfb and > friends. Sure, I've transferred the alioth project now (you sort out the project perms). Something I forgot to say before about latest upstream release, I didn'

Re: How to express bullet lists

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 09:17:44 +, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On the other hand > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/ht > > > is perfectly formatted on the web pages. It seems to be according > > to the fact that parts of the d

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:08:23 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:46:03 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > This argument assumes that dpkg-source -x will apply that patch stack > > automatically as well, which has been discussed elsewhere. > > Currentl

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

Hi, I'd like to clarify few more things, which have been brough up the past few days. Even if I don't usually accept open invitations to flamefests (re the OP). On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:38:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 09-

Re: dpkg compilation on Solaris

Hi Michel, On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:51:15 +0100, BRIAND, Michel (EKITO) wrote: > dpkg ported to Solaris, has problems with obstack and strlen. Please use debian-dpkg or preferibly the BTS to discuss this kind of thing, debian-devel is not the appropriate forum. If you could file a bug report we c

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 10:01:35 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, > triggers)"): > > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Against the wishes of, afaict, Guillem and Raphael

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

Hi, On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:21:14 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I also have to wonder that if we have something like this as default, > > why -Bsymbolic-functions would be a good default, and not -Bsymbolic. > > It's also worth noting that the origi

Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Hi, As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb package compressed that way. For a lengthier discussion, please check:

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packa

Re: How to handle Debian patches

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:49:25 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > That would work, although it does... well, not double, but at least > increase the work for any branch that also has a submission branch, since > any upstream merge conflicts have to be resolved on both branches. Or is > there some way to

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 06:11:46 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > even though it's "just" a command line utility. Who knows what > > weird, unexpected side effects there might be from running such an > > app within a tight bash loop. > > none*. And not c

Re: Handling of removed packages

Hi, On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 21:37:28 +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: > I suggest to modify dpkg so it refuse to install package, unless the > option "--insecure" is specified. Such option's manpage description > would be : That'd be mostly just annoying for no actual benefit. It would break existing so

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

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 14:32:00 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I tried to debckechout zlib and it failed: > > > > anx159tmp$ debcheckout zlib > > declared bzr repository at http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-zlib/zlib/debian > > bzr branch htt

Re: Bug#426877: dpkg: Option "--oknodo" should be the default behaviour for "start-stop-daemon" (LSB specs)

Hi, On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:47:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I think being LSB compliant is good for Debian. > > The LSB init script specification *is a specification for the init scripts > of LSB packages*. It has NOTHING to do with LSB compliance of LSB > implementations. Debian is an

Re: Bug#534507: ITP: kalternatives -- graphical alternatives system configuration tool

Hi! On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:32:23 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > Few days ago, I had a nice talk with Guillem, and he told me that dpkg > developers are working for cleaning up update-alternatives' code, and > planning > to convert it to C (along with provide a dpkg library); since the previous

Re: multiarch and maintainer scripts

Hi! On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 13:58:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: > > what can be done if the maintainer scripts of a package must behave > > differently when unpacking the i386 deb on i386 or the i386 deb on > > amd64? We discussed this with Steve some days ago. My in

Re: Bug#536888: ITP: tlock -- Terminal locker

Hi! On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:28:53 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ryan Kavanagh (14/07/2009): > > This package will also provide the library packages librpass0 and > > librpass0-dev, > > with long description: > > > > Static library installed with tlock, it provides a function readpass() that

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System > Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free > lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of > shared C/C++ lib

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

Hi! On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 13:03:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Open questions: > * Can we require a one-to-one correspondance between binary package names > and debug package names that provide symbols for that binary package? I > think we should; I think it would make the system more strai

Re: Bug#540365: ITP: turnin-ng -- Assignment submitter and manager

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:40:44 -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:23:43PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I hope the packages uploaded won't have a «project» binary in the > > PATH? > > At the moment yes, Turnin-NG provides /usr/bin/project since

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

Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:15:37 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > BTW also Maintainer and Uploader fiels are uselessly exported. > > > > Same here, they are used. While in stable the info might not be up-to-date, > > in sid it does and those infos are used by the P

Re: Override changes

Hi! On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 23:49:52 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > if you need to request an override change for your package, please use > the BTS in future, no longer reply to the override disparity mail you > will receive from the archive. What about mass override change suggestions? Should thos

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

Hi! On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 22:06:23 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:02:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:54:19PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > > * document that local policy will live in /etc/inetd.conf.d/ and any > > > manual > > > ch

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 13:59:48 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:40:51PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > There are many obvious examples of update-foo scripts which behave in > > this manner. The requirement to run a script to update the working > > configuration is nothing n

Re: Bug#545795: ITP: libbind -- standard resolver library

Hi! On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:20:57 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Ondřej Surý" > * Package name: libbind > Version : 6.0 > Upstream Author : Internet Systems Consortium > * URL : https://www.isc.org/software/libbind > * Licens

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:51:50 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Magnus Holmgren writes: > > When a binary package is renamed or split, as well as if several packages > > are > > merged under a new name, transitional packages are normally created, which > > depend on the new packages, which

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

lity promise with it and > blatantly violate policy), I think "important" is the right severity. > > http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/owned_files_after_purge_error.html shows which > packages need to remove owned files after purge, see > http://www.debian.org/doc/deb

Packages relying on HOME when building

Hi! There's some packages which rely on HOME existing and often being writtable. This is broken behaviour as the package does not have any businesss verifying if it exists or writting outside of its build dir (or /tmp). Some of our buildds try to detect by setting HOME to something like /non-exis

Re: unused parameters passed to maintainer scripts

Hi! On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 00:12:24 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > I've done a small research against maintainer scripts from all binary packages > from sid distribution and discovered that some parameters which are passed to > maintainer scripts are not used at all, specifically: > > - in-fa

Re: Proposed mass prototypejs bug filing for multiple security issues

Hi! On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:39:37 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > That list was taken from the secure-testing tracker's embedded code > copies list, which is hard to keep up to date and accurate. It could > use some more care and better maintaining; but code copies are > plentiful, making it ver

Re: ReBuild-Depends?

Hi! On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 18:33:12 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > I have a package which contains a code like following: > > #include > > FILE *file_handle; > > int foo(int something, const char *fmt, ...) > { > // some statements > > va_list ap; Seems you are missing a v

Re: Upstart on kFreeBSD? [was: The future of the boot system in Debian]

Hi! On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14:00:23 +, Alan Jenkins wrote: > On 9/5/09, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > change the init.d script > > handling to treat upstart jobs as init.d scripts, to provide an > > alternative for architectures lacking upstart support > I read this as a euphemism for non-li

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

Hi! On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 22:22:52 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 15, Nov, 2009 at 02:37:56PM -0500, Joey Hess spoke thus.. > > Note that debootstrap does not support data.tar.bz2. > > debootstrap-1.0.20/functions: extract > > progress "$p" "$#" EXTRACTPKGS "Extracting packa

Re: Tool suggestions for new formats?

Hi! On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:28:39 -0800, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: > Part of my usual workflow with the 1.0 format is to do an interdiff on > the .diff.gz from the previous version to the one I intend to upload, > to check that the changes correspond to what my vcs says they are. Now > that the cha

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:25:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:01:06 +0100 > Guillem Jover wrote: > > Well, IMO any program implementing .deb extraction w/o using something > > like --fsys-tarfile, --extract or --control from dpkg-deb (until we > > h

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 22:31:29 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:25:31 +0100 Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:25:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > I'll update deb-gview for its next release, although I'll need some > >

Re: Bug#559802: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

Hi! On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:23:41 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > CVE-2009-3736[0]: > > | ltdl.c in libltdl in GNU Libtool 1.5.x, and 2.2.6 before 2.2.6b, > > | attempts to open a .la file in the current working directory, which > > | allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse fil

Re: dpkg-trigger complains at dpkg-reconfigure time

Hi! On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 08:31:26 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Because the postinst is called by dpkg-reconfigure (of debconf) and it > > > doesn't set the same environment variables that dpkg does set when > > > it calls t

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

Hi! On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:47:00 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > In the Debian Med and Science teams, we are looking for efficient ways to > document slow-changing metadata relevant to our packages, in particular: > Alternatives will be much easier to build if we manage to centralise the > infor

Re: Bug#409563: ITP: thinkfinger -- library and utility for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader

Hi, On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:39:39 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > ATM I don't really see any reason to create a separate package just > for tf-tool, because libthinkfinger + tf-tool (binary and manpage) > should generate a package around less than 50K in size. In case new > tools will be added, we

Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:51:17 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Binary-only NMUs are a necessary evil. The implementation kind of > sucks, but I'm not sure how a better approach would look like. It's > not just the dependencies problem, it's also quite confusing that > you've got a source package w

Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 19:13:09 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Guillem Jover: > > The resulting .changes will get a field like this: > > > > Source: bacula (1.38.11-7) > > > > which can be used to track back from which source this binary > > originated. &

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 10:28:34 -0600, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > It is really this simple to do using mutt. > > 1. To encrypt the vote you need to have the key. It could be accomplished in > several ways. They way I did it was by copying > > from the call for votes email into a file such as fo

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:12:00 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Do we have plans for lenny to enable the use of bzip2 instead of gzip > for the upstream orig.tar source tarballs? Does dpkg/apt support this > already or has this already been thought about? As other people have replied etch's dpkg supp

Re: Bug#420344: ITP: swingx -- Extensions to the Swing GUI toolkit

Hi, On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 20:00:10 +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: swingx > Version : 20070415 Take into account that if upstream later on changes the version to something not date bas

Re: Inactive maintainer (package: libguichan0)

Hi, On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 09:17:43 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Now I have complained an offical report at the dbd about it: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421859 > But without any answer. This bug report has only been filed 3 days ago... regards, guillem -- To UN

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