Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:01:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Theodore Tso: > > > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian > > Social Contract, which I objected to them, and I still object to now. > > If there was a GR which chainged the Debian Social contract

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:11:01AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > As others have pointed out, there is such a distribution, gNewSense; in > fact, if you look at [2], you will find that there are five others, > Ututu (the first fully free GNU/Linux distribution recognized by the > FSF), Dynebolic, Mu

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:16:05PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Mike Hommey: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:01:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer > > wrote: > >> * Theodore Tso: > >> > >> > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 r

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:02:46AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > (moving to -devel with a reply-to) > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > Running the 'file' command on > > '/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/epiphany.mo' reveals a "GNU message > > catalog (little endian), revision 0

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:52:00PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:44:01 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > Personally, I'd add as a condition for this to be a reasonable > > request, the fact that there should be enough packages with enough > > test-only dependencies, w

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:47:59PM +0200, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:40]: > > also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.1828 +0200]: > > > "What are these tools good for? Mainly for controlling large > > > collect

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:57:35PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Parallel scp (pscp) > > > > FYI (and if you don't already know) /usr/bin/pscp is also provided by > > putty-tools. > > > That's something I'm still wondering about - I can't see the advantage > of pscp o

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Marvin Renich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Absolutely *wrong*. > > Gnome and KDE are targeted primarily at desktop users, not servers. If, > as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I *expect* > to see that app in the main menu. The p

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Marvin Renich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Absolutely *wrong*. >

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:50:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25-Jul-07, 13:28 (CDT), Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If an application is used so infrequently, it shouldn't have its place > > in a menu. > > That turns out not to be the case. If I use

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:38:59AM +0200, Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SCNR... > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank> That turns out not to be the case. If I use an app frequently, then it > Frank> goes on the toolbar. The menu is for finding infrequently used apps

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:07:17PM +0200, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 13:35 +0200, Florent Rougon a écrit : > > > Eye candy... oh right, this must be why there are so many people > > > interested in bringing a compositing manager to metacity, rather tha

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:13:13PM +0200, Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Witness: > >> - usable completion in the File Open dialog -> gone > >> - customizable keyboard

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:56:11PM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:50:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 25-Jul-07, 13:28 (CDT

Re: Bug#435058: ITP: smolt -- Fedora hardware profiler

2007-07-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:28:46PM -0400, Ricky Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ricky Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: smolt > Version : 0.9.8.3 > Upstream Author : Mike McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : h

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:23:56PM -0400, Tim Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/29/07, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ciol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > >> Are you aware of backports.org? > > > > > But backports are recompiled packages from test

Re: /bin/sh diversions

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:05:32PM +, Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dixit: > > >OTOH, specifically using something else than /bin/sh for a fast > >POSIX-with-the-extensions-Debian-mandates shell > > No, that will not make sense. People who write #!/

Re: /bin/sh diversions

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:22:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > > > Then he'll be able to move /bin/sh symlink on bash if he wants to. > > > > > Right. Hence that's the point for the user to change /bin/

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:30:33PM +0100, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Policy does not mandate that ALL Recommends: are to be installed. The > new default makes Recommends: disappear completely - there would be no > difference between Depends: and Recommends: just like there is a > p

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:01:22AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS: I'm very fond of the apache (to be removed) Recommends. really. > especially on a notebook, it helps understanding how broken the > recommends chain is right now. I don't know for your case, b

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:19:37PM +, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 02-08-2007, Mike Hommey: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:01:22AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PS: I'm very fond of the apache (to be removed)

Re: /bin/sh diversions

2007-08-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:24:52PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:15:38PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:13:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:54:49AM

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 04:19:29PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > I really like the idea, thanks for this proposal! > > A comment about file patterns

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:13:16PM -0700, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > * Having to munge the license text to fit it in the 822 format is one of > the uglier bits of this proposal, especially since we don't require > that license texts be DFSG free.. Surely, any license text, b

Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

2007-08-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 02:22:25PM -0400, Tim Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > At least with debian.org, it appears the CSS specifies a font of "Arial, > > Helvetica, sans-serif", which means if msttcorefonts isn't installed, it > > falls back to the ugly bitmap Helvetica fonts. Which s

Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

2007-08-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:00:00AM +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to replace > > the MS fonts. > > Have their licensing issues been solved? Which ones ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:09:07AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:10:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > > Roger Leigh wrote: > > [...] > > > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > > > limited (I believe) to the glyphs

Re: Considerations for GTK1 removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:52:45AM +0100, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With apache1 being removed, isn't it the right time to remove gtk1 > (and glib1.2) as well? It's also time to remove libxml1. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: new ICU in experimental

2007-08-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:51:31AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To all users of ICU, and particularly to maintainers of packages that > depend upon ICU, I have uploaded a new ICU to experimental. This is a > "draft" release, as they call it, of ICU 3.8. There are some ne

Re: new ICU in experimental

2007-08-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:52:53PM -0500, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Mike Hommey] > > Frankly, I'm not even sure the bump of soname is necessary on the > > library. > > That's an upstream question, though, right? Keeping an old

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, I would like to gather comments about a proposal I have been > thinking about during the GPLv2/v3 and GPLv2/CDDL discussions. I have > finally written down what I have in mind here, and refined it with the

Bug#436520: There is no policy on HTTP_PROXY variable, can we create one?

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 07:34:51PM -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > HTTP_PROXY, or http_proxy (and ftp_proxy) is used in many > > applications within Debian. > > > > There is a well-known remote attack using HTTP_* variables can be >

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:38:37PM -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed August 29 2007 1:28:32 pm Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:20:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > > >>> /dev

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:23:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > and there's precedent with the netscape communicator packages from the > > pre-mozilla days. These were statically linked against several things > > afaik, motif iirc.

Re: Bug#440938: ITP: xulrunner-l10n -- language packages for xulrunner

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:11:51PM +0200, arno renevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: arno renevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: xulrunner-l10n > Version : 1.8.1-1 > Upstream Author : Mozilla Project and Mozilla Localization

Re: Bug#440938: ITP: xulrunner-l10n -- language packages for xulrunner

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:45:18PM +0200, arno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007, à 17:50:35 +0200, Mike a écrit : > > > > Actually, it *does* allow global extensions, but applications embedding > > libxul or using xulrunner have to initialize the extensions manager by >

Re: Bug#441301: ITP: url2file -- wget a URL into a file an print the filename

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:35:51PM +0200, Loic Dachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Loic Dachary (OuoU) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: url2file > Version : 0.2.0 > Upstream Author : Loic Dachary > * URL or Web page : http://spec

Re: Bug#441301: ITP: url2file -- wget a URL into a file an print the filename

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Loic Dachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:35:51PM +0200, Loic Dachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Package: wnpp >

Re: Bug#441302: ITP: getxpath -- extract a value from a XML file using a XPATH expression

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:34:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> same here, do we really need a package for a wrapper around xsltproc, > >> where the GPL header is larger than the script itself? > > > > Why not to put that script inside the xsltproc p

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:38:35AM +0100, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:07:52 -0700 > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The problem is that some of the services that have to be restarted are > > display managers, and restarting them will kill any

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:51:02AM +1000, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Again, I don't see what's preventing people from using [other web > > > browser] software if they want to. > > > > Maybe a significant amount

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:26:37PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11140 March 1977, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > >> I don't consider it something needing fixing. > >> It is a good way to have the copyright files occasionally reviewed. > > I don't think that old source package

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-09-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:49:26AM +0930, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: gitpkg > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://people.debian.org/~ron/

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:53:34PM +0930, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:42:52AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:49:26AM +0930, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > > > >

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

2007-09-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > _rene_ reported me a failure with openoffice and the new dpkg-shlibdeps. > > > Scanning > debian/openoffice.org-writer/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libswui680lp.so > (for Depends field) > dpkg-s

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

2007-09-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:31:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It is all explained in > > /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d > > > > It seems that all you need to do is to create inside your chroot a > > simple shell script /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

2007-10-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:35PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > While I realise that it is sometimes difficult to deal with hundreds > > of old bug reports, there are other ways of dealing with this kind of > > issue, such as ta

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

2007-10-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:49:47AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Juliusz Chroboczek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Also node that many bugs are sometimes hard to reproduce, because you > > > need a very specific environment that the maintainer not always have > > > (e.g. the issue I have is th

Re: Bug#445105: ITP: fuse-convmvfs -- mirrors a whole filesystem tree from one charset to another

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:48:11AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 03 Oktober 2007 schrieb Stanislav Maslovski: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: fuse-convmvfs > > Version : 0.2.4 > > U

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-10-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:08:33PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > if you just set up .git/gbp.conf correcty (once) - you can certainly > oveerride gbp.conf on the commandline at any time. A bit OT, bit why not use .git/config ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: dh_install vs. dh_movefiles

2007-10-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:32:30PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:32:06PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > dh_movefiles(1) says that "dh_install is a much better program, and you are > > recommended to use it instead". Accordingly, I've changed the packages I've > > adop

Re: Compiling all packages with debug information?

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:16:12AM +0200, Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mhh'k... Archivesize... How many percent of the whole mirrorsize belong to > -dbg > packages? Well, if the whole archive was to have debug packages, they would take a significant amount of space. Mike -- To UNS

Re: dh_install vs. dh_movefiles

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:59:17AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:50:09PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Mike Hommey [Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:28:12 +0200]: > > > > > Now, a bit OT, but i'd appreciate i

Re: dh_install vs. dh_movefiles

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:50:09PM +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey [Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:28:12 +0200]: > > > Now, a bit OT, but i'd appreciate if dh_install would create hardlinks > > instead of copies. > > I'd vote for t

Re: developer access to amd64 system

2007-10-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:36:04PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > So, what am I missing? How do I get access to an amd64 system to fix > this problem? try the sid_amd64_pure chroot ;) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:18:25PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > This is one of the changes sought by Emdebian to support using Debian > on embedded devices where storage space is far from cheap and involves > running counter to the current Debian default of "install everything > that works, every

Re: Long-term mass bug filing for crossbuild support

2007-11-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > This is one of the changes sought by Emdebian to support using Debian > on embedded devices where storage space is far from cheap and involves > running counter to the current Debian default of "install everything > that works, every

Re: Long-term mass bug filing for crossbuild support

2007-11-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:52:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:23:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:35:41 +0100 > > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Ne

Re: Long-term mass bug filing for crossbuild support

2007-11-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:13:58PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:07:54PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > There is no need to specify --host when not cross-compiling, and > > > specifying > > > it will result in autoconf believing that

Re: Long-term mass bug filing for crossbuild support

2007-11-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:43:34AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This is a bad suggestion and was apparently made without referring to > >> the existing Debian instructions for how to handle packages that u

Re: dupload failed

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote: > Hi All! > > I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload > because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22. > > May I missed something? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/

Re: QA needed for insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH in many wrapper scripts

2007-11-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:01:34PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > Hi, > > many wrapper scripts contain things like > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=foo:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > This is bad because if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset, it will expand to > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=foo: > > which is interprete

Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:28:24PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions > sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)"): > > I think you mean that Ian Jackson always recommends upgrading apt and > > aptitude prior to perform

Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed

2007-11-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:20:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > With debhelper 5.0.61, dh_makeshlibs will also call dpkg-gensymbols if it > > finds debian/.symbols (or debian/.symbols.). So > > for packages using debhelper, the only thing to do is to drop the right > > symbo

Re: Misc development news

2007-11-20 Thread Mike Hommey
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 1.14.6. Do these need build dependencies versioning or is it only an end-user is

Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed

2007-11-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 04:22:56PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Some pre-generated symbols files can be downloaded on > http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols/ > > Beware, those files have been auto-generated and should be verified by the > maintainer (check that the version are correct,

Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed

2007-11-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:05:41PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:20:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > With debhelper 5.0.61, dh_makeshlibs will also call dpkg-gensymbols if it > > > finds debian/.symbols (or debi

Re: help on icu bug 451767/451978: extra dependency

2007-11-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:24:47PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > Fellow developers, > > I'm requesting some assistance on bugs 451767 and 451978 (which are > the same). On some 64-bit platforms, the ICU packages create 32-bit > libraries. Unfortunately, the dependencies on the 32-bit library

Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed

2007-11-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 04:22:56PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > since the upload of dpkg 1.14.8 to unstable, it's now possible for > library packages to generate "symbols" control files that will be used by > other packages to get more accurate (and less strict) dependencies. > > As

Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed

2007-11-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:35:50AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > FWIW, I'm testing this on libxml2. I'd have some remarks: > > - The .symbols file in /var/lib/dpkg/info is bigger than all the other > > maintaine

Re: rebuild of lenny

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:30:25PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > FYI, since we discussed this during the QA meeting: I just rebuilt all > packages in lenny. 226 packages are failing to build, which is a lot > better than in unstable. > > I didn't find any particular transition that would

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:11:52PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > What do you think of such a system? Please share your ideas and > comments! I think there is a problem using build dependencies for that purpose: There are dozens of reasons why you want to build-depend on libfoo-dev >= version that

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:36:43PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 19:35 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > I think there is a problem using build dependencies for that purpose: > > There are dozens of reasons why you want to build-depend on libfoo-dev

Re: Bug#451799: new evince cannot display Japanese characters correctly

2007-12-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:13:09PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > Le samedi 01 décembre 2007 à 02:11 -0300, Martín Ferrari a écrit : > > On Nov 27, 2007 3:56 PM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The new poppler version needs some specific files that contain some > >

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

2008-01-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:10:03AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Gabor Gombas > > | On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > | > | > It's fairly common to add a sleep in restart to (try to) deal with > | > issues such as reopening a socket. > | > | But if the listening s

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:53:50PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > As per release goal, gnome 1.x won't be shipped in Lenny. I just started > > a first round of bugs (severity important for now), with user/usertag > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/gnome-1.x-removal so that people

Re: Bug#563109: ITP: e17-modules-svn -- Misc plugins for the e17 window manager

2009-12-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Albin Tonnerre > > > * Package name: e17-modules-svn > Version : 0.16.999.063 > Upstream Author : e17 development team > > * URL : http://www.enlightenment.

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > POSIX says: > > If the AI_CANONNAME flag is specified and the nodename argument is > not null, the function shall attempt to determine the canonical name > corresponding to nodename (for example, if nodename is an alias or >

Re: Debian vs. Ubuntu source control file

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:00:46PM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: > Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > >>What do you, folks, think of this case ? > >I would merge the change even if the package doesn't exist. > > What about lintian crying in the rain ? More seriously, can we > assume that we'll never have pa

Bug#566378: ITP: dehydra -- Scriptable static analysis tool for C++

2010-01-23 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Hommey * Package name: dehydra Version : 0.9.hg20100123 Upstream Author : Mozilla Corporation * URL : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Dehydra * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C, C++, JS, tiny bits of python

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-01-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:24:49PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > I found it interesting that a package like git-core is autobuilt on all > > ports > > since at upload time it only contains the source and > > architecture-independant > > binary

Re: correct/ideal way to obtain root from a shell script

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:42:07PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:14:35AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le samedi 30 janvier 2010 à 22:58 +, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > > I need to run a command as the superuser inside > > > game-data-packager (gdp). Up until now, I

Re: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team

2010-02-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:34:31PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Hi, > > This mail targets all developers, which maintain Mozilla extensions. > > Source package name > === > > The source package name for extension should not contain the name of the > enhanced application. These

Re: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:11:07PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > 2010/2/2 Mike Hommey : > > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:34:31PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This mail targets all developers, which maintain Mozilla exten

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:04PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Hi -devel, > > > The Mozilla extension packaging team decided to use xul-ext- (instead of > > mozilla-, iceweasel-, etc.) as prefix for all Mozilla extensions [1]. > > This will group the extensions visually. There are currently 1

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > add more data (like the RC bugs in stable and the unfixed security > issues)? Or should we instead try to decrease the amount of data (to > increase the signa

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 13/02/10 at 21:09 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > > > add

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:00:19AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Lucas Nussbaum > wrote: > > > However, what could be done is to rewrite DDPO in a more "modern" way, > > leveraging UDD (as DDPO-by-mail does). Since almost all the data is > > already in UDD, it's main

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:52:17AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/02/10 at 20:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > > > > On 15/02/10 at 00:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > I "accept" the mails by deleting them unread. I know where the PTS > > > > is, I don't nee

RFH: Re: Bug#570056: iceweasel: SIGSEGV - nsDOMEvent::AddRef

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:33:19AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Other than that, with your core file, could you at least get (and send) > > the output for disassemble, info registers, and info locals ? > > Attached. There definitely is something weird going on, because according to the value in

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:38:00PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (un...@debian.org): > > There are many packages in debian contain flag images. > > > I think this whole thread answeredsomething that wasn't asked in > your question (is is good or bad to use flags

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 09:03:10AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:51:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog > wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> > * More than 1000 source packages[4] are already using

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:30:34AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > wou...@celtic:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *md5sums|wc -l > > 2340 > > > In this day and age of completely and utterly broken MD5[0], I think we > > should stop providing these files, and maybe pro

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:29:09AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:35:18 +0100 > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:30:34AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > > > The md5 sums isn't to be used in case of a break in, as

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:39:05PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:06:20AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > In this day and age of completely and utterly broken MD5[0], I think we > > should stop providing these files, and maybe provide something else > > instead. Like,

Re: Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:03:05AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Do we agree to mount these filesystems on /dev/ subdirectories? > Fedora[1] uses /dev/hugepages/ for hugetlbfs, and while we had a > discussion on debian-devel@ about where cgroups should be mounted there > was no clear winner. > The u

Re: Bug#572733: support for mounting other kernel filesystems

2010-03-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:51:11AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > /dev/something just feels so wrong. /dev contains block and character > > devices, and almost nothing else (except some udev and initramfs files) > > Why should cgroups control files, which are hardly device files, be > > found under

Re: tdpkg cache wrapper to dpkg

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:55:19PM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote: > Hello, > it's since 2007 that cache for dpkg has been proposed but maintainers never > replied. For this reason I've written a shared library libtdpkg.so to wrap > open/fstat/rename/unlink calls from dpkg for .list files in order to cach

Re: Bug#574881: ITP: freewrl -- VRML browser for 3D contents works also as mozilla plugin

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:08:51PM +0100, Philippe Coval wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Philippe Coval > > > * Package name: freewrl > Version : 1.22.5 > Upstream Author : John Stewart, Sarah Dumoulin ... crc.ca> > * URL : http://freewrl.source

Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt) and new debhelper dh syntax (maint-guide)

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:34:37PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Osamu Aoki [100322 17:27]: > > I am talking about new style debian/rules: > > --- > > %: > > dh --with patch $@ > > --- > > That is missing some > .PHONY: binary binary-arch binary-indep clean bu

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