Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-03 Thread James Vega
download and install > variousredistributable runtime libraries Do we really need a package for a single file? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: scanlite / scangui - what is the difference?

2010-09-05 Thread James Vega
7th-june-2007 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-25 Thread James Vega
"build". You can work around it, as has been pointed out in this thread, by moving arch:all stuff outside of the build target to something which the binary-indep target has a pre-requisite on, but then you're building as root. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread James Vega
what it was -- maybe it doesn't exist anymore. This used to be available as source.debian.net. According to the wiki[0], there appears to be work starting on a replacement. [0]: http://wiki.debian.org/source.debian.org -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread James Vega
kms.  The other is building stuff with > module-assistant, usually in -source packages as in > openafs-modules-source. > > The suffix makes it clear what kind of package this is. Sure, but that's a distinction for the names of the binary packages not that of the source package. --

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-17 Thread James Vega
uld be prime for triggers instead of having the various database-providing package worry about what the server needs to do. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin_jitezhmv0ufotxfde77hc6ocarisbfw5z...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-18 Thread James Vega
user input here, correct? >> >> Yes, but you shouldn't, since the file installed in lenny was not modified, >> so it's a bug somewhere. > > Well I'm fairly new to the maintainance of this package but I would guess the > postinst of lenny modifies ip

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-21 Thread James Vega
if yes, what exactly would you propose? dict-wn is what started dictd. The problem is that dict-wn's postinst in Lenny didn't use invoke-rc.d to restart dictd, so it didn't honor policy-rc.d. This isn't a problem in Squeeze since the postinst is using invoke-rc.d. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread James Vega
7;t be able to recover. The proper fix is to configure the unattended upgrade not to upgrade kernels, if possible. [0]: See /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/000kernel-change -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > James Vega writes: >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: >>> My claim is that packages like unattended-upgrades and pm-utils are >>> completely unrelated to each other, and that a hook in >>&

Re: Bug#615002: ITP: libjson-pp-perl -- yet another json package

2011-02-24 Thread James Vega
erl >  Description     : yet another json package Isn't this what the libjson-perl package already in the archive is? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-09 Thread James Vega
rt. This is currently Perl and shell. So yes, IMO, accepting scripts written in Python (or any other language) is too heavy. Not for a "_development_ machine", but for a maintenance team. If people choose to ignore our requirement and develop scripts in other languages, then they can

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
contribute. One generally tries to work with a project, not write a lot of code in a language the project isn't using and then come back later to try and push that code into the project. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread James Vega
keep them in ubuntu-dev-tools? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinJC2AHouG=prenzbpod0ls4dxzmygvbmrwo...@mail.gmail.com

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-11 Thread James Vega
n order to compute the hash sum for comparison? [0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2011/02/msg00055.html -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-14 Thread James Vega
f you "apt-get update" while the mirror is in the middle of a sync. Once the mirror has finished the sync, you'll be able to use it normally, but the real fix would be for the mirror to update their script. [0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2011/02/msg00055.html -- Jame

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-08 Thread James Vega
hose files/directories a command gets run. They're supposed to make it so that only one package (the one providing the command that needs to be run) has to know that the command needs to be run. This is far less error-prone than relying on every developer to remember which commands to run in

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-02 Thread James Vega
words as > possible, is the impediment? Read the CDDL section under the FSF's list of GPL incompatible licenses. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debhelper >= 7.2.3, doc-base, and lintian

2009-03-11 Thread James Vega
elog: + Removed - description-synopsis-has-leading-spaces - postinst-does-not-call-installdocs - prerm-does-not-call-installdocs So, you're just using outdated tools. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2009-03-16 Thread James Vega
vironment") endif ifeq "$(origin FOO)" "file" $(info "FOO was set in the Makefile") endif -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-27 Thread James Vega
deed look better. > > Please have a look at garlic-doc. It does not look right. It's using `o' as the bullet character which is not supported by Markdown/rST. This has already been identified as a case that will need to be fixed by the individual packages (or pre-processed into some other character). -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread James Vega
type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. man uscan -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > James Vega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >> I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. > > > > man uscan > > >

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > James Vega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > >> James Vega wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >

Re: Bug#527328: ITP: python-django-south -- Intelligent schema migrations for django apps

2009-05-06 Thread James Vega
together on the package? [0] http://bugs.debian.org/526348 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-10 Thread James Vega
s probably one of the reasons why the per-file Copyright field is listed as option in the DEP. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: (Vcs-Upstream-)Git support for uscan?

2011-04-19 Thread James Vega
) which simplifies making watch files for github projects. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-26 Thread James Vega
; without epoch. But this is not documented anywhere. Why assume the first version will be >= 1.x? It's not uncommon to use 0.x. Using 0~YYMMDD seems a safer option to reduce the chance of needing an epoch if/when upstream starts using actual version numbers. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/6

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread James Vega
that look like > >> http://anonscm.debian.org/$scm/$project for $scm in arch bzr darcs git > >> hg; > > Please provide a proper gitweb instance or at least a proxy at that url > to the anonscm gitweb instanace. The old URLs now redirect to the new ones, so nothing should be broke

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread James Vega
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:23:49PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 25/05/2011 13:20, James Vega wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:46:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> On 05/24/2011 01:00 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> Am 23.05.2011 22:35, schrieb Roland Mas

Re: hgweb on alioth

2011-06-24 Thread James Vega
's not > really that hard). Feel free to post a (link to a) patch on above URL or in #alioth@OFTC. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread James Vega
each of which is in a different package. > > Probably the best thing to do would be to just incorporate the functionality > in the less package. You mean like lesspipe(1)? Seems like it might need to be updated to handle *.xz, but other than that looks like it fits the bill. -- Ja

Re: Bug#641207: ITP: ordereddict -- drop-in substitute for collections found in Python 2.7

2011-09-11 Thread James Vega
mming Lang: Python > Description : drop-in substitute for collections found in Python 2.7 There was already an ITP for this (#637849) and it was cancelled due to the planned removal of Python 2.6. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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