Bug#355643: ITP: xsltsl -- XSLT Standard Library stylesheets

2006-03-06 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xsltsl Version : 1.2.2 Upstream Author : Steve Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Description : XSLT Stan

Bug#305563: ITP: pilotqof -- query Palm PDA data using SQL syntax and write to XML

2005-04-20 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pilotqof Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pilot-qof/ * License : GPL Description

Bug#381221: ITP: dpkg-view -- View the contents of .deb packages without root access

2006-08-02 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dpkg-view Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dpkg-view.alioth.debian.org * License : GPL Program

Bug#387426: ITP: glipper -- A clipboardmanager for GNOME and other window managers

2006-09-14 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: glipper Version : 0.89 Upstream Author : Sven Rech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://glipper.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#397065: ITP: apt-cross -- retrieve, build and install cross-built packages using dpkg-cross

2006-11-04 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: apt-cross Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://buildd.emdebian.org/repos/tools/apt-cross/ * License : GPL Prog

Bug#403802: ITP: gpe-minibrowser -- small web browser with a low memory footprint for GPE

2006-12-19 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-minibrowser Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Philippe De Swert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/gpe-mini-browser.shtml * License

Bug#403979: ITP: gpe-gallery -- GPE image gallery and viewer, with slideshow support

2006-12-20 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-gallery Version : 0.97 Upstream Author : Damien Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/gpe-gallery.shtml * License : GPL

Re: Bug#403979: ITP: gpe-gallery -- GPE image gallery and viewer, with slideshow support

2006-12-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:22:50 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Description : GPE image gallery and viewer, with slideshow support > > A small application for viewing images in GPE. Intended to s

Bug#404030: ITP: gpe-clock -- alarm clock tray applet for GPE

2006-12-21 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-clock Version : 0.25 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/gpe-clock.shtml * License : GPL Prog

Bug#404042: ITP: libgpeschedule -- scheduling library for GPE

2006-12-21 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgpeschedule Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Florian Boor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/ * License : GPL Program

Bug#404059: ITP: gpe-conf -- configuration toolset for GPE

2006-12-21 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-conf Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Florian Boor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/gpe-conf.shtml * License : GPL Program

Bug#404083: ITP: gpe-appmgr -- application manager for GPE desktop

2006-12-21 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-appmgr Version : 2.8 Upstream Author : Robert Mibus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/GPE-appmgr.shtml * License : GPL Prog

Bug#404306: ITP: libxsettings -- Xsettings protocol library for GPE

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libxsettings Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/0.5/ * License : RedHat

Bug#404307: ITP: libxsettings-client -- utility functions for the Xsettings protocol (GPE)

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libxsettings-client Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/0.5/ * License

Bug#404312: ITP: gpe-soundserver-0.4 -- start and stop the GPE sound service

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-soundserver-0.4 Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/GPE-soundbite.shtml * License

Bug#404381: ITP: gpe-mixer -- audio mixer frontend for GPE

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-mixer Version : 0.42 Upstream Author : Nils Faerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : GPL Program

Bug#404380: ITP: gpe-su -- root shell for GPE

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-su Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : GPL Program

Bug#404385: ITP: gpe-shield -- firewall configuration for GPE

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-shield Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Florian Boor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : GPL Program

Bug#404388: ITP: gpe-watch -- a watch for a small screen in GPE

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-watch Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Nils Faerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : GPL Program

Bug#404387: ITP: gpe-what -- A small applet to provide help within GPE

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-what Version : 0.43 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : GPL Program

Bug#404390: ITP: gpe-confd -- configuration daemon for GPE

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-confd Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : GPL Program

Bug#405591: ITP: libtext-vfile-asdata-perl -- generic perl module to read and write vfile files

2007-01-04 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtext-vfile-asdata-perl Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Jay Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-vFile * License : GPL

Bug#405590: ITP: libtext-vcard-perl -- parse, edit and create multiple vCards

2007-01-04 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtext-vcard-perl Version : 2.00 Upstream Author : Leo Lapworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-vCard * License : GPL Prog

Bug#405961: ITP: emdebian-tools -- emdebian crossbuilding tool set

2007-01-07 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: emdebian-tools Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://buildd.emdebian.org/repos/tools/em_make/ * License : GPL

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Neil Williams
an, dpkg-buildpackage and linda can all be prepared for the new behaviour. If lintian functionality isn't restored soon, how can new packages be uploaded safely? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#329676: ITP: CashUtil -- GnuCash command line interface and shell

2005-09-22 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: CashUtil Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/cashutil/ * License : GPL Description

OT: Please vote for EU recognition of those who oppose software patents

2005-10-19 Thread Neil Williams
e will give the prize money to the FFII if he wins. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpfoge2jNwFI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Amarok build-dep failure

2008-01-21 Thread Neil Williams
/minor bug in apt to request a clearer error message but I don't see that it is a bug in amarok. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpzYgfd9EKtF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Williams
Looks OK now - maybe just a delay? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#462306: ITP: gpe-tetris -- tetris game for small screens and embedded devices

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-tetris Version : 0.6.4 Upstream Author : David Necas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/ * License : GPL Program

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Williams
u seeing it as "resolved"? It's still listed as outstanding > on > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=edac-utils;dist=unstable > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=edac-utils -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Bug#462791: ITP: libgtkstylus -- stylus tap support for Gtk+

2008-01-27 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgtkstylus Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : LGPL Program

Re: Proposal: Alternatives: field for debian/control

2008-02-04 Thread Neil Williams
discussions on xmms and audacity. Such "fuzzy" relationships are best done with tags, IMHO. (Also, let's not add yet more lines to the Packages.gz file?) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.

Re: package names for library modules (was: shlibs vs symbols)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Williams
fcashobjects0 ... (with -dev, -dbg etc. as normal) Applications then mix-and-match object libraries (and/or their own objects) at compile time and call routines in libqof1|2 to dynamically load the backend module as requested by the user. The transition is the perfect time to change the names of t

Re: Progress on the mass bug filing for cross build support.

2008-02-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 19:19 +, Neil Williams wrote: One little note on these bugs: 1. All bugs below have patches attached that have been carefully tested with your package to avoid any changes in the Debian packages. As such, the patches can be applied without you needing to worry about

Progress on the mass bug filing for cross build support.

2008-02-11 Thread Neil Williams
451281 newt 465105 openssl465248 pam 284854 popt 282913 procps 451812 psmisc 465226 readline5 465237 rxvt 465214 tcp-wrappers 451854 udev 465156 wget 451285 xdemineur 465117 -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: swfdec0.6 buildd failure

2008-03-03 Thread Neil Williams
is also in experimental and therefore builds of your package try to use this experimental version which then fails because experimental is not a complete distribution. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

Build-Depends-Indep, gtk-doc-tools and buildds

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
l Debian box without implementing sbuild? (This is also holding up my own upstream work which needs a fix in this version of libgda3-3.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This i

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, gtk-doc-tools and buildds

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:06 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > gtk-doc-tools is not being picked up as a build depends during port > > builds, despite it being located during normal debuild, pdebuild and > > pbuilder checks on m

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, gtk-doc-tools and buildds

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:28 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:06 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > > gtk-doc-tools is not being picked up as a build depends during port > > > builds, despite it being lo

Re: [PATCH] debootstrap new options to list and check suite

2008-03-13 Thread Neil Williams
/www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting This isn't the kind of thing that generally needs discussion on debian-devel. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Williams
er possible for all such metadata - maybe even migrate some existing data in debian/control to debtags. This specific request, IMHO, is probably best done via links on the Homepage URL anyway. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:16 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please can this 'trend' be stopped here and now? > > > > The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially

Re: Simple bug left unsolved

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Williams
be done to have at least simple bugs resolved fast. Well, maybe you could help with d-i rather than just point out the negative? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp47Yva2wtZc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Williams
t but it does make life easier and it does solve some problems inherent in other methods. (It brings in one or two problems of its own too.) (In terms of cross-building / debian-xcontrol, Simon, it's a Build-Depends-Tool.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-free

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
-Depends on pkg-config in the source package. Is that suitable as a Policy clause? (probably needs a few tweaks for clarity and examples in clause 1). It may well cause a few packages to depend or build-depend on pkg-config even though another dependency also requires it but duplication of depen

Re: How to manage security issues when the maintainer is not the developer

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
stream are busy with other things, solve the problem yourself and make the upload - ask the security team for help with that side if you are unsure. Solve the problem - if upstream come back to you with a different fix later, you can always migrate to that fix. -- Neil Williams =

Should SONAME bumps always go through NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
ame for NEW anyway, hence I think it should stay as-is. Dropping this merely for the convenience of DM's when the real problem is delays in NM is trying to fix the wrong problem in the wrong place, IMHO. > But I don't > think you will be able to. In fact, most people might w

Re: Should DMs be allowed to upload to NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
ication then I have cause to worry about your ability to maintain a library in Debian in the first place. It doesn't give me any confidence in you or in DMs in general. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:12 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > > > 1. If a library *only supports the retrieval of FOO_LIBS and / or > > FOO_CFLAGS

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 19:15 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > >> What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > >> > >&

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
epend on pkg-config *if* they need that to work with other libraries. (That's the usual case - most applications will end up running pkg-config so most applications will end up with a Build-Depends: pkg-config, ) -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:23 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > First of all, I skipped a large part of this thread, so I'm sorry if > this has come up before. > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > And by this definition, it is the package

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:12 +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:12:45PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > > > &g

Bug#476793: ITP: soci -- C++ Database Access Library

2008-04-19 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: soci Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : Maciej Sobczak, Stephen Hutton, David Courtney, Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski, Rafal Bobrowski, Mateusz Loskot

Bug#477218: ITP: estron -- data-centric development interpreter for GNOME

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: estron Version: 0.7.0 Upstream Authors: Neil Williams, Linas Vepstas URL: http://estron.alioth.debian.org/ License: LGPL

Bug#477699: general: No read permission for /usr/include/GL directory

2008-04-24 Thread Neil Williams
sed and you need to reset the current umask for the root user. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#427697: sbackup uses a non-existent group.

2008-04-24 Thread Neil Williams
lf would show some > sign of activity. Maybe he has a mail configuration problem ? and maybe he's just busy, like many of us. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#477699: general: No read permission for /usr/include/GL directory

2008-04-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:10 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 18:02:28 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > I would suggest that this bug should be closed, it certainly does not > > appear to be a "general" bug because only one package creates that &g

BTS pseudo-package: buildd.emdebian.org ?

2008-05-08 Thread Neil Williams
in/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://www.emdebian.org/bugs.php (parses the same tags) [3] http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianPolicy [4] http://www.emdebian.org/packages/search.php -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#480514: general: buildd.emdebian.org : Need a crossbuilding buildd compliant with Emdebian Policy

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: wishlist This is filed against general in advance of a buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package becoming available. See #480408 Emdebian has a set of prebuilt binary packages which allow an 80% reduction in the total installation size of the final Debian system, acheived thro

Bug#480515: buildd.emdebian.org: gconf unable to be uploaded, libldap-2.4-2 failed to cross build

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully. libldap-2.4.2 fails to cross build: configure: error: crossing compiling: use --with-yielding_select=yes|

Bug#480518: buildd.emdebian.org: libgpewidget needs DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nodocs" support in debhelper

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal libgpewidget includes documentation files required by Debian Policy and is unable to remove these using the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nodocs" option due to a lack of support for this option in debhelper. Documentation needs to be removed when preparing Emdebian packages

Bug#480521: buildd.emdebian.org: gpe-clock inherits wrong configure environment

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal This bug is in preparation for a buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package. This is not a bug in gpe-clock because gpe-clock is doing what is required by CDBS - it is a bug in buildd.emdebian.org because Emdebian needs to be able to build as many packages as possible wi

Bug#480709: buildd.emdebian.org: cupsys fails to cross build, cannot be updated

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully or fail to cross build themselves after an update in Debian. $ emsource --status cu

Bug#480710: buildd.emdebian.org: avahi cannot be updated, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully. $ emsource --status avahi Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. Chec

Bug#480706: buildd.emdebian.org: coreutils fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated because the new version fa

Bug#480711: buildd.emdebian.org: curl cross built but unable to upload, missing dependencies

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully. $ emsource --status curl Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. Check

Bug#480712: buildd.emdebian.org: e2fsprogs fails to cross build, unable to update package

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ emsource --status e2fsprogs Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. W: Unable to locate package libuuid1-udeb W: Unable to locate package libblkid1-udeb W: Unable to locate package e2fsprogs-udeb Checking status of e2fsprogs i

Bug#480715: buildd.emdebian.org: New version of 'file' fails to cross build, unable to update package.

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal $ emsource --status file Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. Checking status of file in /opt/emdebian/trunk/f/file/trunk/ 4 emdebian patch files 0 debian patch files Checking emdebuild status in /opt/emdebian/trunk/f/file/trunk/ build log:

Bug#480716: buildd.emdebian.org: New version of findutils fails to cross build, prevents update in Emdebian

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480717: buildd.emdebian.org: [RM] {arm} (unstable) gcc-4.2 not needed in Emdebian anymore?

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480718: buildd.emdebian.org: Unable to update gnome-vfs, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480722: buildd.emdebian.org: gtk+2.0 fails to update, udeb fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480729: buildd.emdebian.org: ncurses cannot be updated, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal $ emsource --status ncurses Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. W: Unable to locate package lib64ncurses5 W: Unable to locate package lib64ncurses5-dev W: Unable to locate package lib32ncurses5 W: Unable to locate package lib32ncurses5-dev W: Unabl

Bug#480730: buildd.emdebian.org: Unable to update ntp - new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated because the new version fa

Re: Bug#480718: buildd.emdebian.org: Unable to update gnome-vfs, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 22:31 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11382 March 1977, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Package: general > > Severity: normal > > User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing > > Yes

Re: buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package and Emdebian bugs

2008-05-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:47 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > OK, I'm using quiet now so there should be no more CC'd reports to > > -devel with the next batch of reports. Sorry for the noise. > > Why are you f

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
Call it a feature enhancement if you like but it still ends up in a bug tracker of one kind or another so might as well call it a bug IMHO. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
ging bugs for the purposes of tracking forwarded bugs for a long time. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
d in the release phase for Lenny, as a bug submitter I might be a little concerned. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
added upstream (Closes: #1234) Assuming both refer to the same bug report, I personally prefer the Fixes: #1234 approach: foo (0.1.6-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * Remove patch 'patch-file-name' included upstream (Closes: #1234) -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
reason and we get a FTBFS RC bug. Detecting which files are changed as a by-product of a patch isn't always particularly obvious. Incidentally, you can collapse the zgrep into lsdiff -z: $ lsdiff -z *.diff.gz | grep -v debian -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.or

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:43 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, from a bug submitter point of view, I don't think I want to > > see the bug report kept open (tagged divergence) after it has > > actually been cl

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 1 - User reports bug with a patch against upstream code > > [open, patch] > > 2 - maintainer forwards the patch upstream > > [confi

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
d in an upstream release, I still see that the package has bugs that are Fixed but not Closed. bts-link takes care of updating the tags on the Fixed bugs (because they are also forwarded) so that when the upstream release is made, I know which patches are included upstream. I can then remove th

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
ffers) - this sounds like the patches.d.o idea. I'll stick to Problem 1. :-) I think you're right that there are two distinct problems - although I'm still not convinced that Problem 2 is sufficiently common to require a whole new bug/patch tracker. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
ether that > particular point is in the upstream bug tracker or the BTS is > inconsequential. The essential point is that it does exist and it is > linked from both entry points. I'm not sure which bug tracker I was thinking of regarding logins but upstreams that only have private e

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:51 +0100, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > Yes - supported by the use of (Fixed: #1234) in > > debian/changelog, .changes etc. and a revised interface for PTS and DDPO > > to discriminate between Fixed and Clos

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
e list of diversion bugs obtained via SOAP. Lintian doesn't currently do SOAP queries of the BTS but a QA script should be relatively easy to create. Maybe bts-link could be drafted in to provide some leverage over pseudo-headers mapping to an upstream bug tracker. Lintian could check that the pseudo-header exists. -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Generated files and patch systems

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
dsc I won't upload to ftp-master just yet - I do need to do some more tests to ensure that other GPE packages build and function correctly so that I don't inadvertently trigger a transition in over 40 packages. ;-) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Generated files and patch systems

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > So I am running the relevant autotools at build time but I still get the > > warning. > > If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
hat can still be parsed by gettext so that TDebs can read the translation strings from binary .mo files. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Generated files and patch systems

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 14:01 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > So I am running the relevant autotools at build time but I still get the > >

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
ase remember that the packages descriptions go into the dpkg database which is already too big. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
e dpkg database which is already too > > big. > > What's an extra few MB plus parsing overhead when "everyone" has > 250GB HDDs, multi-core 64-bit CPUs and 2+GB RAM? I am going to assume you are not being serious. Try 64Mb Flash, ARM5 CPU and 64Mb RAM. -- Neil Wi

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > >> If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure that the > >> changes which autotools ma

Re: Processed: tagging 480716

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:39 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 14:18:07 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > If it is just that 'quiet' supports what it does because that is all it > > has needed to support so far, I'm fine with that. It just

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:45 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Ignore the CC for #482716 - the CC should be for #471263 [patch-systems]: please no patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:06 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Lots of other packages do this -- one of mine off the top of my head is > >> xml-security-c. &

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