rules: unpatch as dependency (was Bug#351301)

2006-02-10 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Rene, hello debian-devel, Rene Engelhard schrieb am Sat 04. Feb, 10:23 (+0100): > Jörg Sommer wrote: > > # prep-deb-files from module-assistant creates the neccessary debian/ > > files > > -kdist_config: prep-deb-files > > +kdist_config: prep-deb-files patch

Re: Is inability to operate with root read-only (and separate /etc, /dev, etc) a bug or design decision?

2006-08-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Peter, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> Instead move the things in etc that need writing to other places: >> >> 1) link /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and create a dummy /proc/mounts on / >>for when /proc isn't mounted (works with quota in current kern

libslang2 breaks jed

2006-08-16 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I've two problems with libslang2. The first is, the package libslang2 includes a patch that changes the behaviour of a function. But jed expects the function behaviour as given in the original slang2 library. I've reported this bug #369152, 80 days ago, but the maintainer does not react. The u

Re: libslang2 breaks jed

2006-08-18 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Alastair, Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Sommer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've two problems with libslang2. The first is, the package libslang2 >> includes a patch that changes the behaviour of a function. > I apologize for this; I&

Re: Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

2006-10-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Jurij, Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:34:19PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: >> /etc/rc0.d/S30urandom >> /etc/rc0.d/S35networking >> /etc/rc0.d/S36ifupdown >> /etc/rc0.d/S37sendsigs (start action for this one is a no-op) >> /etc/rc0.d/S48cryptdisks >> /etc/

Why are weekly RC bug reports 'unknown-8bit'?

2006-11-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, the weekly send reports about release critical bugs to debian-devel-announce have the Content-Type “unknown-8bit” set. Why this? What is unknown for the encoding of the reports? And why is the sender of the reports not a valid address? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (generated from [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-14 Thread Jörg Sommer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jörg Sommer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xindy Version : 2.2-beta2-1 Upstream Author : Joachim Schrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xindy.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Pro

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Agustin, Agustin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:43:12PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> % export ACLOCAL=/bin/true AMTAR=/bin/true AUTOCONF=/bin/true \ >> AUTOHEADER=/bin/true AUTOMAKE=/bin/true MAKEINFO=/bin/true >> % dpkg-buildpackage ... >> >> but this l

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Frank, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Here comes the usual comment: Please make sure to follow the Debian TeX >>> Policy Draft in /usr/share/tex-common/. >> >> Xindy does not provide any tex, style or class files. > > Aren't there an

Section of -dev packages

2006-05-17 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I ever thought development packages classified by $NAME-dev belong to the Section devel or libdevel, but % apt-cache search -n .\*-dev\$ | sed 's/ -.*//' | \ xargs apt-cache show | grep \^Section: | sort -u Section: admin Section: comm Section: contrib/libdevel Section: devel Section: doc

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Wouter, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> On 5/19/06, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why would they have to work with dash? > > If the difference in speed is indeed that insane, that's nice. > > I

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-25 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Gabor, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 01:58:14AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> Thus, it's bash's start-up which is the slow part, in the terms of >> actual speed, bash is not that far behind. > > It would be interesting to compare something more complex

Re: not running depmod at boot time

2006-05-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Le mardi 23 mai 2006 à 20:52 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : >>> So, does anybody mind if I remove depmod from the module-init-tools init >>> script? >> >> Please go ahead. Anything rely

Re: not running depmod at boot time

2006-05-28 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Eduard, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > * Marco d'Itri [Sat, May 27 2006, 11:29:32AM]: > >> > > This is not a choice, every package which installs modules must run >> > > depmod or they will not be available until a reboot. >> > Yes. But no package (besides maybe module

Re: not running depmod at boot time

2006-06-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Eduard, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > * Jörg Sommer [Sat, May 27 2006, 10:59:39PM]: > >> > No, they don't. At least my packages call it only if `uname -r` == >> > target version. When you drop the depmod run, and someone in

Conflict field for logical conflicts?

2006-06-10 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, should I set in package jed a conflict on a package jed-extra if jed-extra enhances jed, but jed has changed its API and now jed-extra is useless, i.e. it must be updated. jed-extra and jed can be installed at the same time without harm, but jed-extra does not enhance jed anymore, because it's

Re: sim package naming

2006-07-03 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Alexander, Alexander Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/3/06, Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The package is compiled with kde libraries. Users demand to create one >> > more binary package - compiled with qt only. >> > I would like to use 'sim' package name for kde version an

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.8

2008-02-10 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Eric, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >slrn Fixed in experimental. I will soon provide a new version for unstable. Bye, Jörg. -- [dpkg] We are the apt. Resistance is futile. You will be packaged. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Proposed MBF: Debian upstream version higher than watch file-reported upstream version

2008-02-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Raphael, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >jed (U) This is a SVN snapshot. There's no release of it. I fail to see how to point to a changelog file in a SVN repository. How should I handle this situation? Bye,

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Simon, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment >> variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to >> be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags >> and to simplify th

Package with hardening support FTBFS on amd64 and i386

2008-04-27 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I've added [1] the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to debian/rules of my package slrn to enable hardening of the binaries. ifeq (,$(findstring nohardening,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) # http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/01/msg6.html CFLAGS += -fPIC -fPIE -fstack-protector -Wformat=2

Bug#479706: ITP: etcgit -- manage /etc with git

2008-05-06 Thread Jörg Sommer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jörg Sommer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: etcgit Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jo-guest/etcgit.git * License :

Re: Bug#479706: ITP: etcgit -- manage /etc with git

2008-05-06 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Paul, Paul Wise schrieb am Tue 06. May, 18:05 (+0800): > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Package name: etcgit > > Version : 0.1 > > Upstream Author : Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: "cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

2008-06-16 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Bernhard, Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080612 18:04]: >> after many years of calling our CUPS package "cupsys" it has finally >> be renamed to the proper upstream name "cups", including init scripts, >> library packages, etc. This makes us

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:45:49 +0100 Nico Golde wrote: > >> Acpid doesn't load modules, it only listens to events and >> executes programs. > > But the init-script does: > > # As the name says. If the kernel supports modules, it'll try to load > # the

Re: fakechroot - anyone using it, should I consider hijacking it?

2007-03-17 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Mark, Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fakechroot is a great idea for reducing the privileges needed for > pbuilder builds, and thus simplifying developer builds of packages. > > So: > * does anyone else find fakechroot useful and would benefit from the > heavily-repaired version?

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Milan, Milan P. Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:36:34PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: >> > Milan P Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I'd like to discuss problem with regards to bug #372665. >> > Why the racoon should be started in the rcS when e

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Milan, Milan P. Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:05:53PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> Milan P. Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > README says that in the /etc/rcS.d/ should go scripts which are >> > executed once dur

Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk package and installed some X package at the same time. >From dpkg.log: 2008-0

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-08-02 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:27:10AM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote: > >> recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then >> I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections

Re: Bug#500176: This bug is still around and release-critical

2008-10-20 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Pierre, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the problem here is somehow very generic, and that using a > virtual package like proposed in the bug report (#500176) doesn't scale > well. Especially for dns daemons. Packaging two of them myself (nsd3 > that is an authoritativ

Can DMs use ssh.upload.debian.org?

2009-01-07 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I'm a Debian Maintainer and would like to use the upload of packages via scp. Is this service available for Debian Maintainers? Where do I have to place my public ssh‐key? Bye, Jörg. -- Treffen sich zwei Funktionen. Sagt die eine: „Verschwinde oder ich differenzier' dich!“ Erwidert die ander

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-30 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:15:35 +0300, Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>> >> Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE is >>> >> set. >>> Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...? > >> pbuilder and other tools alr

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

2007-09-03 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> BTW, I also encountered a strange "bug" : sometimes the md5sums file >> contains MD5 of files that are not shipped. This is printed as a warning >> in my server. If MD5 will become a release goal, this sh

Re: RFC: dropping Linux capabilities support from pam_limits (bug #440130)

2007-09-03 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a long time, the Debian pam package has been carrying a local patch to > add support for Linux capabilities in pam_limits. While catching up on bug > triage work on the package, I've come to the conclusion that this > functionality is brok

Re: RFC: dropping Linux capabilities support from pam_limits (bug #440130)

2007-09-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:45:12PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote: > >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > For a long time, the Debian pam package has been carrying a local patch to >> > add su

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-24 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some tools use randomization to get out of worst case situations or > general optimization. For example when you look for an optimal > allocation of register usage you can do a search by picking a random > register allocation and repe

Re: seeking: Ian Jackson

2007-10-09 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello martin, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.09.2026 +0100]: >> how about sending mails from master.debian.org with either >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) > > I couldn't sign those messages. Give mutt a new sen

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 02, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I finally got through the test builds of all the source packages in sid for >> i386 using dpkg-buildpackage -j3 on a dual core machine. The results as >> before are at http://people.debia

Re: Please test sysvinit package from experimental

2007-12-27 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last few days I have made an effort to fix a few bugs in the boot > system. The changes need some testing, as I do not have all the > affected hardware to test on. I've tested the changes in qemu, but > that do not test some of the

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

2008-01-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Kurt Roeckx] >> Why is it using -18? Please change that to SIGCONT, it depends on the >> arch what the value should be. See signal(7), which even mentions that >> that is different for ppc/i386. > > Historical reasons and because t

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Hamish, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:43:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Do you know how many .desktop files in Debian use the categories >> Electronics or Engineering? If there are not enough to nicely populate a >> menu, it may be better to patch

Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle 64‐bit kernel structures. In this special case, the stat() return with EOVERFLOW Value too large to be stored in data type. Jed was compiled for a 32‐bit kernel and is run with a 64‐bit kernel. The error can be fixed by compili

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-21 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Manoj, Hi debian-devel, Manoj Srivastava hat am Fri 20. Feb, 12:04 (-0600) geschrieben: > On Fri, Feb 20 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > I'm packaging etcgit [1], a system to manage configuration files in /etc > > with git, similar to etckeeper. Etcgit tracks the

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-21 Thread Jörg Sommer
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> Manoj Srivastava hat am Fri 20. Feb, 12:04 (-0600) geschrieben: >>> On Fri, Feb 20 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >>> >>> > I'm packaging etcgit [1], a system to manage configuration files

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:09:52PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> save_original >> merge_with_current >> export UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD=1 >> ucf.etcgit "$@" > > So this will leave the ucf db with a horribly incorrect vie

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> >> Right, but when I hook into apt-get, I can get the configuration file >> shipped with the packages. But that has nothing to do with ucf. > > What does "hook into apt-get" mean?

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Frank, Frank Küster wrote: > Jörg Sommer wrote: > >> Right, but when I hook into apt-get, I can get the configuration file >> shipped with the packages. > > You cannot, since the very purpose of ucf is to give dpkg-conffile-like > behavior for configuration

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 21 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >>>> >>>> Right, but when I hook into apt-get, I can get the configuration file >>>> shipped

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> Frank Küster wrote: >>> Jörg Sommer wrote: >>> >>>> Right, but when I hook into apt-get, I can get the configuration file >>>> shipped with the packages. >>> &

Re: Making some tags mandatory

2009-02-28 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Enrico, Enrico Zini wrote: > * The proposal > > At the end of this mail is the list that I propose: it's 138 of them, > but grouped as they are, they should be quite clear to grasp. I > consider these groups of tags (debtags calls them facets) to be mature > and uncontroversial enough to be

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-04-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Manoj, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 22 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >>>> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Feb 21 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: >>>>