Re: compiling packages

On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 06:14:46 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 03:29 +0200, Oliver Block wrote: > > I am not very familiar with the debian developer tools. How to > > recompile a package with debuggin option (gcc -g)? > > 1. Change the Makefile and/or debian/rules as necessary

Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

Hi, I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml upload finally triggered it. Please stop parsing dpkg status file from maintainer scripts. No package should assume its location or format (except for now for package managment frontends and the like, until there's a proper

Re: checklib

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 02:19:33 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2007 20:26:00 +0200, A Mennucc said: > > hi what about http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ ? > > > madcoder mentioned in > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00822.htmlof the > > intention of getting the ch

Re: checklib

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:13:32 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:59:15 +0300, Guillem Jover said: > > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 02:19:33 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Has this been fixed in the latest incantation? > > Please "fix" this

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those > > packages are poking at the status file, please use something like: > >

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 15:22:59 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2007, 07:53 +0300 schrieb Guillem Jover: > > I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml > > upload finally triggered it. > > Well, why didn't you se

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:49:00 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Vogt wrote: > > - support for the new dpkg "Breaks" field (thanks to Ian Jackson for > > his work on this) > > Although dpkg still doesn't have Breaks support, so we still can't use > it, AFAIK.. It will have on 1.14.5. regards,

Re: Bug#428575: ITP: plexus-i18n -- Plexus internationalisation package.

Hi Paul, On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:48:41 +0100, Paul Cager wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: plexus-i18n > Version : 1.0-beta-6 > Upstream Author : Plexus Developers > * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.o

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

Hi, On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:33:26 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for > lenny?"): > > At least, I would feel less alone. > > FWIW, I agree with you. I think the proposed `Build-Options' source > control field is a sensible additio

Re: patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

Hi, On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:28:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I do this in configure.ac: > > dnl If and only if we're on Linux, use a mapfile to do symbol versioning. > dnl We'd like to do this on all platforms, but the syntax is different > dnl everywhere and I don't feel like dealing with the

Re: prerm option purge

Hi, On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:47:26 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that the prerm script is never called with > option "purge"? Yes. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

e lzma compression, which are not relevant to this particular decision. So, I'd like to ask the Release Team, if it would be fine with you to add such Pre-Depends for the next dpkg upload targetting lenny. On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 06:18:36 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

Hi, On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 00:52:44 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > The only perl scripts provided by Essential packages are > > /usr/bin/scriptreplay This one comes from bsdutils, and it's fairly short (around 30 lines with comments). > /usr/bin/chkdupexe And this one is a bit longer, but still shor

Re: [RFC] How should rsyslog handle .0 logfiles from sysklogd

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 12:01:57 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,19.Sep.08, 23:57:54, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Afaics I have the following options. > > 1.) Do nothing and simply document this fact in README.Debian, telling > > the admin that he can safely delete this files if he no longer needs

Re: Who owns /etc/default/locale?

Hi, On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 21:42:34 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 18:43 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > [] > > > I have question which is directly related: shouldn't a package own and > > > declare all the configuration files that it uses, even

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

Hi, On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:04:14 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > So that it doesn't ask to install every driver each time. Actually the > xorg server does that using: > > xserver-video-driver-all | xserver-video-driver-1.0 and each > individual xserver-video-driver-foo provides the latter.

Re: needs=vc as menu field useful and needed?

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:12:20 +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > When looking at the tags it doesn't look like the programs can't run > in an X terminal. I tried worms from bsdgames, cadubi and pinball > (randomly picked) and they all worked flawless in my aterm. Programs using the framebuffer directly,

Re: Lina and BTS News

Hi, On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:16:03 +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > I'm not sure how useful lina is, but it's basicallly run > some random program against all files in Debian (binary as > well as source packages): > http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/lina/ > Any comments? Could you poolize the checks s

Homepage field (was: Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick)

Hi, On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 10:50:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti: > >> Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea. > > > Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with mo

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

Hi, On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 09:43:06 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:05:28PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > I'd opt for dpkg generating the checksums upon _extracting_ the .deb > > file. [...] > Where's the code for that? > > Changing write_filelist_except to update a n

Re: Homepage field

Hi, On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:49:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:17:03AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Ok, just pushed the Homepage field support into dpkg git. Chose Homepage > > as that was what was requested on 142324 and what has mostly been

Re: Homepage field

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:03:32 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > I don't think it makes sense to have different Homepage fields on the > > binary stanzas, but if someone can think of a case it might be useful > > I could change it to override the

Re: Homepage field

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:35:31 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Will it be possible to have more than one homepage listed, comma-separated? Because dpkg does not have any direct use for it, it's not checking for the validity of the values. So technically, yes, you could. The question though is, do we w

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

Hi, On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:08:16 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Raphael - I'm in the middle of a rewrite of dpkg-cross, including the > diversion of dpkg-shlibdeps: > So far, pre1 is largely complete for dpkg-cross and the > dpkg-buildpackage diversion, barring an unknown number of possible > co

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

Hi Raphael, On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:19:02 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I think my work is mostly ready for unstable as it is. The last step is to > convince Guillem Jover, the main dpkg maintainer, to merge that in the > master branch. He believes that supporting odd cases encou

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 00:15:10 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:09:42AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > For libraries with versioned symbols, just checking for the needed > > version nodes should be enough, and I'd say that adding symbols to >

Re: Misc development news

Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:09:09 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:01:22PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Homepage field in debian/control > (...) > > This was implemented in dpkg 1.14.6. > > > > Vcs-* fields in debian/control > (...) > > This was implemented in dpkg 1.1

Testers sought for svgalib on non-i386/amd64

Hi, I've just finished porting svgalib to non-i386/amd64 systems, I think it should build at least on sparc, mips, powerpc. I've not tested on other boxes but except for alpha it should build on mostly everything. I'd appreciate if someone could test on any arch (except alpha and the current supp

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

ctrl and dd-list would probably be a cleaner > approach. I haven't done a thorough comparison to your list but the > results seem to be pretty similar. > > $ grep-dctrl ! -FDepends -e '.' -a ! -FPre-Depends -e '.' \ > -a ! -FArchitecture all -n -sP

Re: Parallel build results

Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:23:01 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/01/08 at 18:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On the other hand, DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=n was ignored by packages > > > that have not been validated by the maintainers, and

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:51:16 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >libdvb-dev (U) > > Only ships static libs; no idea why. That's due to #218387, #226985 and #359697. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 08:55:06 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Currently on dpkg I have 4 N: lines: one per deb + one for the > > > .dsc. That clutters the output a bit too much to my taste. And ideally > > > it should be at the end of the output

Re: List of packages defining a RPATH on amd64 (differs from i386/lintian.d.o)

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 17:01:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Oh, the other challenge with running lintian across multiple architectures > is that, at least in previous days, some things didn't work right unless > the binutils installed corresponded to the package architecture. I wonder > if that's

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:13:43 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > After noticing a few compiled Perl module packages were missing > ${shlibs:Depends} and/or dh_makeshlibdeps, I looked a bit into how > widespread this issue is. > Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libdirectfb-

Re: Bug#568598: ITP: librt-java -- runtime routines for projects of intarsys

Hi! On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 02:27:44 +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Steffen Möller" > > * Package name: librt-java > Version : 4.7 > * URL : > http://opensource.intarsys.de/home/en/index.php?n=JPodRenderer.DevelopersGuide > *

Removing dpkg conffile backgrounding prompt support

Hi! I'd like to know if people would strongly miss being able to background dpkg on the conffile prompt (‘Z’), instead of starting a new subshell. The latter is the default with most modern frontends (APT based). I personally find the background support annoying and confusing when one is used to

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

Hi! On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:15:30 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Please keep in mind the OOM killer will only influence watchdog if it happens > to kill it. If you happen to run out of memory though, you can tell watchdog > to > test if enough free mem is available. The OOM killer can be disabl

Re: Bug#569079: ITP: python-xdgapp -- Python XDG application library

Hi! On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:32:01 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luke Faraone > > * Package name: python-xdgapp > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Martin Owens > * URL : http://launchpad.net/python-xdgapp > * License

Re: Bug#569079: ITP: python-xdgapp -- Python XDG application library

Hi! On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:36:03 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:52, Guillem Jover wrote > >What does this provide that python-xdg does not? > > It's depended on by https://launchpad.net/groundcontrol, and > provides a wrapper around some xdg f

Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

Hi! As I'd like to change some Pre-Depends in dpkg, I'm bringing this up here for discussion, as per policy §3.5 and given dpkg “Essential: yes” nature. First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils, the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 172 KiB; xz-utils 504 KiB, 160 K

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:07:45 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:15:10AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Second, I'd like to switch from statically to dynamically linking > > against zlib and libbz2, eventually liblzma too (affecting dpkg-deb

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 00:15:10 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils, > the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 172 KiB; xz-utils 504 KiB, > 160 KiB in share/doc/ and liblzma2 304 KiB, 124 KiB in share/doc/) Regarding xz-

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

Hi! On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 17:14:00 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 05:20 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I don't think this would be worth it, as Marco has also said, if the > > system is hosed but you can still get to the point of obtaining a > > pa

Re: Removing dpkg conffile backgrounding prompt support

Hi! On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 04:49:06 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'd like to know if people would strongly miss being able to > background dpkg on the conffile prompt (‘Z’), instead of starting a > new subshell. The latter is the default with most modern frontends > (APT based).

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

Hi! On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 22:51:55 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > I don't have any objections to this, but I'd strongly suggest that > this get a run-through experimental with an announcement on > -devel-announce to request testing so that any really bad problems are > caught before it gets deploye

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

Hi! As no opposing arguments were brought up I went ahead and now both changes are in dpkg's git tree. On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 00:15:10 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils, > the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 1

Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

Hi! I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice GSoC project, and not necessarily too complex. As I've my plate already full, I'

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

Hi! On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:25:38 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Neil Williams wrote: > > Now all I need is for dpkg to accept that the absence of > > debian/source/format is declarative of source format 1.0. > > That's the case _for now_. > > > packages don't need to be

Re: Bug#582831: ITP: png2ico -- png2ico converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.

Hi! On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 18:38:26 -0500, Chris Silva wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Chris Silva > > > * Package name: png2ico > Version : 12.08.02-1 > Upstream Author : Matthias S. Benkmann > * URL : http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 14:18:57 +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:57:56PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > Was this request ever actually made to the kfreebsd porters? I'm not sure > > > that it was, in which case it's rather unfair to say that they've had > > > enough

Re: finally: packages to optionally create default collaboration dirs

Hi! On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:00:23 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:27:35AM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > [skipped] > > BTW, mutt seems to incorrectly fill the References: header when I > reply to your mail. > > Just a second test. Please ignore... That's because C

Re: Removal of not+kfreebsd and linux-gnu dependency, bugs already filled

Hi! On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:48:44 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Sebastian Andrzej Siewior] > > Since Debian-Policy 3.9.0 architecture wild cards are allowed so this > > dependency would become > > libudev-dev (>= 0.139) [linux-any] > > and the type-handling aliases (which are hack according t

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:33:52 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:28:54PM -0600, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > It seems that after installation of dict-wn, there's a process that is still > > running, so destroying the chroot fails. > > I'm quoting the relevant part of dict-wn po

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 22:36:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-11-17 22:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > It's restarting (instead of stoppping) on remove/purge. > > Could you elaborate? Surely a dictionary package should not stop the > dictionary server when it is b

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

Hi! On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:52:54 -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Just to sum up what dpkg --unpack does in 1.15.8.6: > > 1/ set the package status as half-installed/reinst-required > > 2/ extract all the new files as *.dpkg-new > > 3/

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

Hi! On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:09:10 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > How about dpkg doesn't care, like it used to, *except* for really > important packages (say, essential ones, or priority important, or > whatever). Since apparently the whole avoid empty files thing is much > more important for libc th

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

Hi Ted! On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 23:11:52 -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > I did some experimenting, and I figured out what was going on. You're > right, (c) doesn't quite work, because delayed allocation meant that > the writeout didn't take place until the fsync() for each file > happened. I didn't see t

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

Hi! On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 01:41:38 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [brian m. carlson] > > IIRC, the reason md5sums of conffiles are shipped is to determine > > whether they have been changed by the administrator so that dpkg > > knows whether to automatically replace them with newer versions or >

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi! On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:33:10 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Since there is no support for auto-building arch-independent binaries > > I would hope that throwing away developer built debs would also apply > to arch-independent packages, I

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi! On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 13:15:47 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-02-11, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:20:02 +0100 > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> I have not seen any word about XZ support. > >> When you deployed support for new source package formats, you forbid > >> lzma

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

Hi! On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 08:39:21 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Using Build-Architecture would be a workaround, it should not be > > needed once multiarch is in place and those packages are built for > > their respective arch

Re: Bug#615090: ITP: quakespasm -- an engine for iD software's Quake

Hi! On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 16:59:58 +, David Banks wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Banks > > * Package name: quakespasm > Version : 0.85.3 > Upstream Author : David Banks > * URL : http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/ > * License :

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

Hi! On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 14:45:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Carsten Hey wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-02 15:06 +0100]: > > >In general parsing the status file should not be done, instead you > > >should use dpkg-query. > > > > Is there any reason for th

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

Hi! On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:06:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Here's what might create troubles: > 3/ Any program that assumes the current layout of control files >(/var/lib/dpkg/info/.) will be broken (at least for >some packages) since the layout will change to support Multi-Arch:

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > And the status file is not a public interface. It's a file used by dpkg. > > If tomorrow dpkg supports an optional SQLite internal database through a > > plugin, dp

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:20:01 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained > > in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields > &

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:49:44 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Phillip Susi wrote: > > It would be much better to use aio to queue up all of the syncs at once, > > so that the elevator can coalesce and reorder them for optimal writing. > > I'm not convinced it would help. You'

Re: testing packages at build

Hi, On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:09:31 +0200, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I see two possibility to implement this proposal: > > 1°) Let maintainers run tests in the build or binary target. > Eventually we add a notest DEBBUILD_OPTION to disable it. > > 2°) We add a test target in debian/ru

Generic init framework (was: Re: faster boot)

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:12:26AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > If we want to introduce a new init system into debian, we should prepare > a generic init framework (like many distributions already have in place) > that allows for > - silent/verbose boot and output redirection > - fancy display o

Re: Changes in t1lib.

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:48:29PM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:35:55PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > If you're renaming them anyway, why not follow Policy 8.1 and > > s/t1lib/libt1-/ (yielding libt1-1, etc.)? > Yes, I thought about it. But there is no strict ru

Re: PearPC Section (contrib or main)

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 08:15:47PM +0200, Ramón Rey Vicente wrote: > Leo "Costela" Antunes wrote: > | PearPC does not need MacOS X or other non-free operating system to be > | fully used, it can be used with Debian/PPC for example, so, does it need > | to stay in contrib? > > And, whats about dose

Re: Bug#156956: ITP: iftop -- iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:37:41PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-16 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: iftop > Version : 0.4 > Upstream Author : Paul Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Lightfoot <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > * URL

Re: Problem with kdenetwork build for unstable

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > I have problems fixing kdenetwork for unstable. With gcc 3 > get/setenv aren't detected through C but through C++ which doesn't > work. That's a bug in automake. It should be fixed with a patch > in the following source: > > http

Re: guaranteed non-interactive installation and upgrades

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:56:47PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > I think we should document this in the policy and force maintainers, > following this simple rule. When DEBIAN_FRONTEND value is Non-Interactive, ^^^ > no question

Re: Problem with kdenetwork build for unstable

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:39:36PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > I'd love to have it work but now the build complains about: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/joey/kdenetwork-2.2.2' > *** Creating acinclude.m4 > make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/joey/kdenetwork-2.2.2' > make[2]: Leaving direc

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

Hi, On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > sabre -- Fighter plane simulator. [#175226] > > * Orphaned 97 days ago > > * 1 RC bugs. > Hmm, would be a shame if noone would care for it. My son likes it and > the bugs on i

Glide co-maintainers request

retitle 189820 ITA: glide -- development files for libglide3 retitle 189952 ITA: device3dfx -- Device driver source for 3Dfx boards for 2.2+ kernels thanks Hi, I'll adopt those packages, and will start triaging all bugs. But I only have a Voodoo3 2000 PCI, so I would like to have one or more co-

Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 08:07:14PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:46:03AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Apr 20, Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How about keeping a whitelist database in which the users can add > > > themselves by sending a mail in certain for

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

Hi! On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:27:14 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, wrote: > > PW> Which date would it contain? > > > > The date the maintainer made the polishing touches on the .deb. > > We don't have that date. We do have: > [...] And the date the .deb was built:

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

Hi! On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 09:30:48 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Introduction of the new fields > == > > - Build-Recommends would list packages that are basically available in > the Debian archive, but are not available on all architectures or for > all kernels. [...

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:37:06 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > What you actually want here is to use architecture wildcards, as in: > > > > libasound2-dev [linux-any] > > > > this is documented in dpkg-architecture(1), and has been

Re: file-roller: Can't open .deb by default (aka should recommend binutils)

Hi! On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:31:14 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > In Bug 515175, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Package: file-roller > > Version: 2.22.4-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > On a default gnome-desktop system (Lenny), .deb files (application/x-deb) > > are associated with file-roller, but it c

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

Hi! On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 20:48:06 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 06:08:17PM +0200, Teodor wrote: > > There is no need to create another standard, FHS is being continued in > > the LSB project at linuxfoundation.org / freestandards.org. FHS was > > the starting point for LSB.

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:32:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > Reiviving the FHS is great! Something that is bothering me a bit, > > though, is that historically it seemed to try to cater to Unix in > > general, not only Linux, even if most of the partici

Re: the files in /etc/modprobe.d/

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:02:18 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:02:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > > Insert the typical winge here about dpkg conffile renaming code > > > being deployed via cut-n-paste from a wiki page

Re: lrmi vs new kernels vs libx86

Hi! On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:49:33 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote: > dear maintainers of packages that contain lrmi.{c,h}, > > today Lucas has reported #518725 - atitvout FTBFS because of missing > *_MASK defines. > Seeing that bug and remembering fun with lrmi myself, I thought I can > have a look ho

Re: autoconf method in ifupdown

Hi! On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:00:14 +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > I was looking a method to just have ipv6 with autoconf network and > found this patch > http://mlblog.osdir.com/linux.debian.devel.ipv6/2005-05/msg00012.shtml This link didn't seem to work, got this instead:

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

Hi! On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 16:23:12 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I don't have the energy to push this any more, but I should probably > at least refer to my previous attempt to standardize bulleted lists: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00531.html > > You might find it u

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

Hi! On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:18:32 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > === And the details: === > > > * Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings * > --- > Student: Jonathan Yu, Ment

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

Hi! On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:26:36 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Michael Banck wrote: > > So it would be great if some numbers could be brought up first (maybe > > Andreas has a rough overview now, because he looked at the different > > kinds of itemizations). > > Well, I had

Re: autoconf method in ifupdown

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 19:14:14 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > I'm ready to do it but I think this makes more sense to submit the bug to the > upstream dev. Unfortunetely I couldn't find the web page of the ifupdown > upstream development. It's not a software specific to debian, isn't it ? Th

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

[ BCCed debian-dpkg for the proposed dpkg changes. ] Hi! On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage > and the policy do not match fully. Ok, had finally the time to read and think about this. I've to say

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

Hi! On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 12:50:03 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Since etch, dpkg has supported architecture wildcards such as "linux-any" and > "any-powerpc", which can, among other things, be used to express Linux-only > build dependencies like this: > > Build-Depends: libcap2-dev [linux-a

Re: Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

Hi! On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:18:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Robert Millan > > * Package name: vsag > Version : 0.0.1 > Upstream Author : Robert Millan > * URL : not yet released > * License : GPL > Programmin

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

Hi Pino! On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:02:12 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Pino Toscano > > * Package name: kalternatives > Version : 0.12 > Upstream Author : Pino Toscano > * URL : > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kaltern

Re: Unicode 7.0 released - some packages contain outdated embedded data copies

On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 20:29:59 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > If your package converts the Unicode data to another format at build > time you should add a Built-Using header to the relevant binary > packages. The fntsample package is an example of how to do this. > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-p

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:01:00 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > … We have decided to use systemd as the default. … s/We have/The tech-ctte has/. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: New project goal: Get rid of Berkeley DB (post jessie)

On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 08:54:12 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Ondřej Surý sury.org> writes: > > Or we can just keep db5.3 forever and wait what will BSD folks do. > > Maybe we will end up with LibreDB (*cough*)... > > We have what essentially became db185 in libc, so there is no > need for that

Re: Heads-up: dpkg-buildflags switching to -fstack-protector-strong

Hi! On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 17:26:31 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > There was a previous discussion about this on the dpkg mailing list, see: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2014/06/msg00031.html > > In preparation of this switch David Suárez did a full archive rebuild on > EC2, the re

Re: Bug#753641: ITP: liblinux-pid-perl -- wrapper around the getpid() and getppid() C functions

Hi! On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 20:37:47 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: gregor herrmann > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: liblinux-pid-perl > Version : 0.04 > Upstream Author : Raf

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