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

2009-12-28 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
mple: debuild unapply > My .quiltrc includes this: > > QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches > > So it uses the right directory. I have found this info at the beginning inside the first dpkg package with format 3.0 support. Final: I can work with the new format - but not with quilt

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

2009-12-28 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Joey Hess wrote: > Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > > I still use CDBS and I use "simple-patches" - but now without CDBS > > support. My minor change is the file "patches/series" which let > > dpkg-buildpackages know that there are patches. This seems very simpl

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

2009-12-29 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > The only missing item for me is: there are no simple command to unapply > the patches with dpkg-buildpackages (or debuild). For example: > >debuild unapply Even though there are some newer Mails this question seems to not be solved. Is it

Conditions to existing packages for transition into squeeze/stable

2010-01-10 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
(which is the usual case)? Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#565544: ITP: duply -- easy to use frontend to duplicity

2010-01-16 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Wiedorn * Package name: duply Version : 1.5.1.4 Upstream Author : Edgar Soldin * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftplicity/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Bash Description : easy to use

Re: Bug#565544: ITP: duply -- easy to use frontend to duplicity

2010-01-16 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
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Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2010-01-22 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
start with debuild, then dpkg-source works with the unpatched sources - it doesn't apply the patches as in format 1.0. Is there a chance that dpkg-source see the patches and can recognize that they must be applied before run further? Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
had this case with the package d4x: upstream homepage is deleted, there is no more upstream development. My wish: A string like "upstream dead" in debian/watch can say DEHS, the watch file is o.k. while there is no link. Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-25 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
l that all patches are applied. But this is one point. All other points are advancements. So let us discuss factually about single points, but without generally speak evil of the new format 3.0. Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Popcon disabled?

2010-04-04 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, since some days I noticed that the 'Popularity contest statistics' of packages are not updated. For example for the package "xfe" the last value of 'popcon' comes from 2010-04-01. Does anyone know why? Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: document meaning of transition?

2010-04-13 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
omething that would be worth to be written down? You need the New-Maintainer (NM) process to become DD. Details can be found here: http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
l use LiLO for all my systems, I could support the maintaining of LiLO. Would this a way for you, William? Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
eam development. Everyone is invited to join in this development. I'm working on LiLO version 23. Shortly with more informations ... Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Ben Hutchings wrote on 2010-06-19 03:55: > However, given that route B is present in both lenny and squeeze (and > even in etch, I think) there is no good reason for packages not to rely > on it now. (Well, except lack of documentation.) All boot loader > packages that fall into case 1

New LILO upstream development

2010-06-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, After the long silence about the popular bootloader LILO the development was started again. The new Homepage can be found here: http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ For the development of the bootloader I have started an Alioth project with Git repository and Mailinglist: http://alioth.debian.

Re: Bootloaders BoF at DebConf?

2010-06-21 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Colin Watson wrote on 2010-06-21 22:22: > There've been several bootloader-related threads here of late, and > grub2, lilo, and syslinux all seem to have fairly active work happening > on them. (For all I know the same may be true of some of the > bootloaders specific to non-x86 architectures to

Re: Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-27 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-06-18 23:48: > we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a > solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is > expected to fix many longstanding problems. It would be great if we > could receive feedback from testers. > > The

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello William, perhaps you have read the recent email from Ben (see below). It would be important to update the lilo package to support these recent requirements to prepare LILO for Squeeze before it will get stable. Do you have the intention to update the lilo package to integrate some scripts f

Re: New LILO upstream version 23.0

2010-07-03 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, the first version of the new LILO is released as version 23.0. The most patches (especially from Debian/OpenSuse/Fedora packages) are included, which fixes some problems. The links can be found in the mail below. Have a nice day, Joachim (Germany) Joachim Wiedorn wrote on 2010-06-19

Re: Bootloaders BoF at DebConf?

2010-07-18 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Colin Watson wrote on 2010-06-21 22:22: > There've been several bootloader-related threads here of late, and > grub2, lilo, and syslinux all seem to have fairly active work happening > on them. (For all I know the same may be true of some of the > bootloaders specific to non-x86 architec

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Lucas Nussbaum wrote on 2010-12-03 10:36: > No, sorry. I must admit that I didn't spend any time investigating the > failures. However, my irssi backlog says the two major changes in Ubuntu > that could cause failures are: > - --as-needed is now used by default by the linker > - python2.7 Many p

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-05 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Anders Kaseorg wrote on 2011-03-05 04:05: > I see 4 packages currently in squeeze that declare ‘Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= > 1.15.7.2)’ (cron e16-data ntp ntpdate) and 9 in sid (apticron ccal cron > lilo midori mozplugger ntp ntpdate usb-modeswitch), but I can’t find any > discussion about this on

Re: Lintian warning hardening-no-stackprotector although compiled with hardening options

2012-05-17 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello Daniel, [the appended logfile wasn't complete!] Daniel Leidert wrote on 2012-05-17 17:25: > So why does lintian give me those warnings and how can it be fixed? I had the same problem with fox1.6. Please check your build log file wether "-fstack-protector" is really inside. I had found th

Re: Bug#680539: ITP: hmmer2 -- profile hidden Markov models for protein sequence analysis (version 2)

2012-07-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Laszlo Kajan wrote on 2012-07-06 18:47: > HMMER is an implementation of profile hidden Markov model methods for > sensitive searches of biological sequence databases using multiple sequence > alignments as queries. Which software/packages do you use together with this package? Is ther

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy / removal messages without reason

2011-10-07 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
David Prévot wrote on 2011-10-06 21:26: > Sure: “All developers are expected to be subscribed to this list.” [0], > but Oliver was referring to “users”. On the other hand, his example mail > (To: duplic...@packages.debian.org) is obviously sent to developers, so > I'd guess no harm is done for ou

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy / removal messages without reason

2011-10-07 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Ben Finney wrote on 2011-10-08 07:34: > Why did it take so long? Aptitude shows immediately that ‘duply’ was to > be removed because ‘duplicity’ was to be removed; and looking one step Usually I use Debian Stable as productive system. So aptitude would be not a help. I looked on packages.qa.debia

Re: Bug#645895: ftp.debian.org: epoch should be part of the .deb file name

2011-10-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Tollef Fog Heen wrote on 2011-10-19 15:49: > Yes, that's somewhat ugly. You already have to handle % encoded links > for anything pointing to packages with version numbers including ~ > though, so this won't make any difference there. And it would be more difficult for reading - at least for me

Re: Packaging MATE for Debian

2012-12-03 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Jeremy Bicha wrote on 2012-12-03 15:39: > What's so bad about evince that you need to use a forked version > anyway? Or gnome-icon-theme, gnome-keyring, gnome-terminal, etc. And in the same way: why mdm instead of gdm ? I have created some updates of gdm with the same patches as mdm, but without

Support for SMACK security framework

2011-03-30 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, since kernel 2.6.25 SMACK is inside the official kernel as alternative to the large SELinux framework. But until now there are no userspace tools packaged in Debian to administrate SMACK. And also there are no additional patches made for system tools (coreutils, ssh, busybox ...). How is t

Re: Support for SMACK security framework

2011-03-31 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Russell Coker wrote on 2011-03-30 22:45: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > > How is the opinion about support for this alternative security framework? > > I think it would be good to have it. O.k. > > Does some Debian developer want to add userspac

Re: Support for SMACK security framework

2011-04-01 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello Russell and Christian, Russell Coker wrote on 2011-04-01 10:19: > > If you need some tips then I will be happy to offer some. I can also host > some developer resources if you need it (we can discuss that off-list). Thank you for your offer for tips and resources. > But you really have

Re: Bug#622922: ITP: apparmor -- AppArmor Mandatory Access Control system userspace tools

2011-04-16 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Ben Hutchings wrote on 2011-04-16 16:11: > I'm (slowly) working on a way to build in all LSMs and then free memory > for those that aren't used. That is a good news because I am on the way to package smack tools for Debian. --- Have a nice day. Joachim (Germany) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian x86 32-bits built for i586 !?

2011-05-16 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Drake Wilson wrote on 2011-05-15 18:57: > FWIW, I'm using Debian on a Soekris box with an AMD Geode. ISTR being > | model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi For clarification. There were some different Geode CPUs on the market: CPUs of the old company National Semico

Bug#801643: RFA: fox1.6 -- FOX C++ GUI Toolkit

2015-10-12 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org I request an adopter for the fox1.6 package, as I don't have enough time anymore. The package description is: FOX is a C++ based Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide c