Re: RFC: packages that can be installed by the user but not used as build dependencies

2024-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, le lun. 19 août 2024 20:17:08 -0300, a ecrit: > But users would love to have something like 'qt6-full-dev'. And the > reason we never provided them with this meta-package is that package > maintainers would use it almost everywhere, dragging the whole Q

Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, In buildd logs, I could find several test.c:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'f' warnings This can be very problematic on 64bits architectures such as AMD64: test.c: #include int main(void) { printf("%p\n",f(-1)); return 0; } test2.c: #include void *f(long a) {

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Fri 20 Jan 2006 23:15:11 +0100, a écrit : > Maybe the debian policy should require > -Werror-implicit-function-declaration in CFLAGS so as to avoid such > issue? Or buildds could check for "implicit declaration of function" warnings. Regards, Samuel

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kurt Roeckx, le Fri 20 Jan 2006 23:56:22 +0100, a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:19:58PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Samuel Thibault, le Fri 20 Jan 2006 23:15:11 +0100, a écrit : > > > Maybe the debian policy should require > > > -Werror-implicit-function-dec

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-09 Thread Samuel . Thibault
Hi, Ah, good. But your script misses some warnings: oss.c:83: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strdu because of "incompatible" and "built-in". Please fix ;) Regards, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
dann frazier, le Fri 10 Mar 2006 15:46:58 -0700, a écrit : > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 00:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ah, good. But your script misses some warnings: > > > > oss.c:83: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function > > 'strdu > > > > because o

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Mosberger-Tang, le Fri 10 Mar 2006 17:06:22 -0700, a écrit : > I'm inclined to treat this as a gcc-4 bug. It is not. > $ cat t.c > char * > foo (char *str) > { > return strdup(str); > } > $ gcc-3.3 -c -g -O -Wall t.c > t.c: In function `foo': > t.c:4: warning: implicit declaration of func

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 11 Mar 2006 01:43:34 +0100, a écrit : > > $ gcc-3.3 -c -g -O -Wall t.c > > t.c: In function `foo': > > t.c:4: warning: implicit declaration of function `strdup' > > t.c:4: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast > >

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, David Mosberger-Tang, le Fri 10 Mar 2006 19:47:10 -0700, a écrit : > Its purposes is not to "grep for warnings" but instead to > look for pairs of warnings that are *guaranteed* to cause crashes on > 64-bit machines. I did understand that. And my abs() example shows that gcc-4.0 doesn't comp

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthew R. Dempsky, le Sun 12 Mar 2006 14:09:54 -0600, a écrit : > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 11:21:40AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:43:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > This is a warning and not an error, because using one's own strdup

Bug#384693: Debian traduction team should work on Xt applications localization too

2006-08-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: general Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n Hi, Xt applications (like xfig, gv, xterm, ...) are currently not localized, while software support is already there, the traduction team just needs to work on translating labels in /etc/X11/app-defaults. For instance, the attached files are the one

Re: Help needed: People willing to help co-maintain debian accessibility packages

2005-11-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, It's been a long time since you asked for help, and apparently not many people showed up. Although I don't have any hardware synthesizer, I might help for packaging speakup and the debian installer. BTW, The current status of kernel-image-speakup-i386 is not good: it isn't in etch because of

Bug#534989: ITP: console-braille -- Fonts and keymaps for reading/typing unicode braille

2009-06-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: console-braille Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Samuel Thibault * URL : http://brl.thefreecat.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Fonts and keymaps for reading

Bug#535615: ITP: libtopology -- Hierarchical view of the machine

2009-07-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: libtopology Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : libtopology team * URL : http://libtopology.gforge.inria.fr/ * License : CeCILL-B Programming Lang: C Description : Hierarchical view

remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Some a11y people asked how to very easily remaster ISOs so as to append parameters to the kernel command line, to e.g. setup the braille configuration once for good before burning a CD. I've prepared a small crude script to do that on http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/remaster-append.sh

Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
I just noticed moreutils version 0.36 now contains a parallel command too. I haven't tested it yet. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vincent Danjean, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 11:55:08 +0200, a écrit : > Being able to change the lilo/grub/syslinux... configuration file would > also be interesting. Well, I'm not sure such modifications would be easy to automate. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vincent Danjean, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 11:55:08 +0200, a écrit : > I needed it to boot on a PC with no screen. It had only a terminal (an > old french Minitel 1B) on its serial line. > I did it by using the USB key boot methods and changing the correct files > (I do not remember exactly what I did).

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Klaus Knopper, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 19:52:20 +0200, a écrit : > [Start of] discussion: > Changes to isolinux.cfg inside a .iso image must not exceed or even > change the space allocated by the file inside the image. Yes, and that makes things quite ugly. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 18:01:31 +0200, a écrit : > On Jul 06, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Some a11y people asked how to very easily remaster ISOs so as to append > > parameters to the kernel command line, to e.g. setup the braille > > configuration once for good

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Sat 11 Jul 2009 15:39:06 +0200, a écrit : > I'm sorry if I'm not an expert, but you can try with "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" > boot parameter, to install using the serial port. The question is: how do you type this with a PC that has no screen or keyboard, just a USB plug? Samuel -- To UNS

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Sat 11 Jul 2009 18:21:16 +0200, a écrit : > The PC have a RJ-45 connector? Can be that a "net plu"g is a serial console > too. It could not have. My question is about rs-232 console. > I have installed Debian in SunFire V120 (Sparc maquine with RJ-45 connector > "serial console") throug

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Wed 15 Jul 2009 22:40:28 +0200, a écrit : > 2009/7/15 Samuel Thibault > > > I have installed Debian in SunFire V120 (Sparc maquine with RJ-45 > > connector > > > "serial console") through hyperterminal with the standard Debian > > install

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Thu 16 Jul 2009 08:13:24 +0200, a écrit : > • live-magic > • debian-cd > • simple-cdd > • live-helper I don't want to rebuild a whole CD from scratch, I want to just patch an existing debian installer image that I have downloaded (our bought and ripped), doing exactly what you men

Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Wed 29 Jul 2009 19:01:57 +0200, a écrit : > the only requirement is that any files shipped there are identical > between packages of the same version for multiple architectures. That's however not true for .mo files, for endianness, typically. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Wed 29 Jul 2009 19:09:59 +0200, a écrit : > sthiba...@debian.org writes: > > >> My first thought was "Err. Won't moving all the shared libs into a > >> different location kinda screw things up?" And then I looked, and found > >> > >> | ==> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-li

Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Peter Samuelson, le Wed 29 Jul 2009 13:41:20 -0500, a écrit : > > > Steve Langasek, le Wed 29 Jul 2009 19:01:57 +0200, a écrit : > > > the only requirement is that any files shipped there are identical > > > between packages of the same version for multiple architect

Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Charles Plessy, le Thu 30 Jul 2009 13:13:59 +0900, a écrit : > 1) What is the advantage of adding a new field over simply using something > like >‘Arch: multi’? Err, I believe it makes sense to mark an i386/amd64-only library as multiarch-capable. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hendrik Sattler, le Thu 30 Jul 2009 10:35:38 +0200, a écrit : > Zitat von sthiba...@debian.org: > > >>My first thought was "Err. Won't moving all the shared libs into a > >>different location kinda screw things up?" And then I looked, and found > >> > >> | ==> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-g

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-07-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Thu 30 Jul 2009 19:41:42 +0200, a écrit : > > Architectures > > = > > > > As some of you might have noticed, we added the architectures > > kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 to testing. This is not a promise > > that they will be part of Squeeze, but we consider it r

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Harald Braumann, le Tue 11 Aug 2009 01:33:58 +0200, a écrit : > Or do you mean the user pays the price, because if the encoding is set > to UTF-8 then performance would suffer? In that case, I'd love to see > some real life numbers. I doubt the difference would be noticeable. Google utf-8 grep pe

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gunnar Wolf, le Tue 11 Aug 2009 13:28:08 -0500, a écrit : > while length(str) in any language up to the 1990s was a mere > substraction, now we must go through the string checking each byte to > see if it is a Unicode marker and substract the appropriate number of > bytes. Not necessarily. Any sa

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bernd Eckenfels, le Tue 11 Aug 2009 21:40:35 +0200, a écrit : > In article <20090811183800.ge5...@const.famille.thibault.fr> you wrote: > > Not necessarily. Any sane implementation should just use wchar_t > > Which could be UTF16 and therefore still has complicatd length semantics. ?? wchar_t

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Wed 12 Aug 2009 07:54:33 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Gunnar Wolf, le Tue 11 Aug 2009 13:28:08 -0500, a écrit : > >> while length(str) in any language up to the 1990s was a mere > >> substraction, now we must go through the s

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Wed 12 Aug 2009 08:03:30 +0200, a écrit : > Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:40:35PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > >> In article <20090811183800.ge5...@const.famille.thibault.fr> you wrote: > >>> Not necessarily. Any sane implementation should just use

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Wed 12 Aug 2009 11:30:50 +0100, a écrit : > > > The default is UTF-32 or UTF-16, whichever corresponds to the width of > > > wchar_t. > > > > This documentation is bogus BTW. It should read "UCS-4 or UCS-2". > > It's "strictly" correct according to the standard. > http://en.wikip

Bug#544546: ITP: libfop-java -- Print formatter driven by formatting objects (XSL-FO)

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: libfop-java Version : 0.95 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation. * URL : http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ * License : ASL 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description

Bug#544547: ITP: libjing-java -- RELAX NG validator

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: libjing-java Version : 20081028 Upstream Author : James Clark * URL : http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : RELAX NG

Bug#544551: ITP: jodconverter -- Office formats converter

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: jodconverter Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : Mirko Nasato * URL : http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description

Bug#544556: ITP: libisorelax-java -- Public interface for applications to support RELAX Core

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: libisorelax-java Version : 2004 Upstream Author : ASAMI Tomoharu, Daisuke Okajima, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, and MURATA Makoto * URL : http://iso-relax.sourceforge.net/ * License : MIT

Bug#544612: ITP: jodconverter-cli -- Office formats converter - Command line interface

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: jodconverter-cli Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : Mirko Nasato * URL : http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description

Bug#544637: ITP: joptsimple -- Command line parsing java library

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: joptsimple Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Paul R. Holser * URL : http://jopt-simple.sourceforge.net/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : Command line parsing

Bug#544640: ITP: jaxe -- JAva Xml Editor

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: jaxe Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, dami...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://jaxe.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Russ Allbery, le Thu 03 Sep 2009 13:32:46 -0700, a écrit : > In specific, our information security office (rightfully) considers > the relationship between system and list of installed packages to > be confidential data because of the potential use of such data in > determining which systems to att

Re: State of developers-reference

2009-09-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 07 Sep 2009 18:28:11 +0200, a écrit : > We could simply decide that it's deprecated, and use a set of wiki > pages to document our procedures. I would like to raise the fact that Internet is not available everywhere, so at least an easy way to get an offline copy of these wo

Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I'd like to remind maintainers that in order to reach bug reporters to ask for tests etc. you _need_ to explicitely Cc the bug reporter, else he won't receive the mail and of course not do the tests etc. It's now quite a few times that I have received a "you didn't answer" mail... Samuel

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Leo costela Antunes, le Thu 10 Sep 2009 16:52:43 +0200, a écrit : > Why not include a pseudo-header to subscribe to bugreports on submit? I thought about that too, but that doesn't solve the original problem: clueless reporters won't enable it and absent-minded maintainers will forget to Cc them.

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-10-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wesley W. Terpstra, le Wed 21 Oct 2009 13:02:37 +0200, a écrit : > What do other people think? Should this be possible? Should this be required? I confirm that usually not having the i386 or amd64 log is often a problem. One idea that was floating around was to have buildd always recompile the pa

Re: Switch on compiler hardening defaults

2009-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kees Cook, le Tue 27 Oct 2009 14:11:43 -0700, a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:14:25AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:55:25AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > I would like to propose enabling[1] the GCC hardening patches that Ubuntu > > > uses[2]. > > > > How do they

Re: Can linux-any arch and friends be used?

2009-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Felipe Sateler, le Thu 29 Oct 2009 12:12:33 -0300, a écrit : > I need to build-depend on a version of libc. Since they have different > names in different architectures, I used linux-any kfreebsd-any and > hurd-any to avoid spelling the entire list. That won't work for ia64 and alpha which have li

Re: ReBuild-Depends?

2009-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dmitry E. Oboukhov, le Thu 29 Oct 2009 18:33:12 +0300, a écrit : > I have a package which contains a code like following: > > > > This code works fine by libc wouldn't be rebuilt (new versions, or new > gcc - this moment is ambiguous to me). > Then this code begins segfaulting into this place. >

Re: Switch on compiler hardening defaults

2009-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 01 Nov 2009 19:06:59 +, a écrit : > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 19:53 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 25.10.2009 19:55, Kees Cook wrote: > [...] > > > - makes more work for dealing with warnings. > > > Rebuttal: those warnings are there for a reason -- they can

Re: RFC: RelaxNG and XML schema schemes packaged for Debian

2009-11-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Helloo, Daniel Leidert, le Wed 11 Nov 2009 17:36:05 +0100, a écrit : > A question: I'm currently working with relaxNG and found, that we > (Debian) AFAIK don't have the schemes for RNG [1] or XSD [2] packaged. I don't know very much about relaxNG, but I guess you could be interested in the isorel

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Sat 14 Nov 2009 15:45:11 +0100, a écrit : > * I don’t think we need more than 2 of these. They are still > useful for servers or when some disaster happens in the GUI, but > who opens 6 console sessions nowadays? Blind people and crazy people who always

Re: Debian means 'closer to Windows'?

2009-11-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marek Artur Penther, le Sun 15 Nov 2009 16:53:45 +, a écrit : > I want to use Debian, because I love this OS, but developers cutting this > love > by abadoning i386 arch. Do you mean the i386 processor? It's been abandonned by most OSes since quite some time already. Do you really still us

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 11:07:52 +0100, a écrit : > * Opens all /dev/tty1 to tty6 and display a d-i-like “press enter > to activate this console” in them. > * Provide a very simple interface to reserve a VT, that can be > queried by the display manager. A

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
I believe it would be useful to be able to configure preallocated VTs. I know a few people whose first action at boot is starting something like a monitoring application on VT6, dynamic allocation would break this habit. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Bug#560088: ITP: python-portio -- low level port I/O for Linux

2009-12-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ron Johnson, le Wed 09 Dec 2009 01:28:26 -0600, a écrit : > On 2009-12-08 17:42, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >2009/12/8 Ben Hutchings : > >I'm working on a parallel LCD interface with my custom PCB and I > >wanted interactive way to use parallel port. Found this decided to > >package it for myself an

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gunnar Wolf, le Wed 16 Jul 2008 07:42:37 -0500, a écrit : > > I could live with the I/O slowdown but nothing will make hardware > > magically appear. > > Please explain further on this. Do you mean that xen can run > paravirtualized hosts without the hardware features (i.e. the lesser > CPUs sold

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michelle Konzack, le Mon 11 Aug 2008 20:09:23 +0200, a écrit : > Hmmm, this mean, "loadlin.exe" would be removed too? loadlin is used for the win9x support too. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Casadevall wrote > kfreebsd-* is pretty close to releasable; they've got the archive > built in the high 80s, and are keeping up). BTW, it may be worth noting that a bunch of packages still include headers: in the Failed part of hurd-i386, 178 packages out of 1320 fail at least because of

Re: html2text with utf8 support: please test

2008-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Utility html2text, version 1.3.2a-6, with "utf8" patch was just > uploaded to experimental. The patch allows to process UTF-8 files > when '-utf8' option supplied. Input should be in UTF-8 and output will > be in UTF-8 too. > > Please test this functionality - I believ

Bug#496771: Deb AMD64 eats huge amounts of memory (and babies?) because of badly built libs

2008-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gustaf Räntilä, le Wed 27 Aug 2008 12:50:45 +0200, a écrit : > I haven't seen many discussions about this in debian, and just 1 about ubuntu > [1]. It could be that I have gotten things completely the wrong way (then > please tell me so), but it could also be that this has been overseen for too

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Weimer, le Sat 13 Sep 2008 10:43:40 +0200, a écrit : > This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. > What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? >From a Debian GNU/Hurd point of view, it is well known that /proc is needed for quite a few packages (and that used

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
> win32-loader Waiting for loadlin, waiting for yasm, for which a patch just got commited upstream. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminal emulators and command line arguments (again!)

2008-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sune Vuorela, le Mon 13 Oct 2008 05:34:25 +, a écrit : > On 2008-10-12, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sune wrote: > >>I dont think supporting title and stuff should be required for providing > >>x-terminal-emulator. I think we could require to handle -e properly, but > >>not muc

Re: /tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joerg Jaspert, le Mon 17 Nov 2008 23:53:33 +0100, a écrit : > And noone complained when I asked about it in August this year, so now > its gone. Uh, I wasn't yet subscribed to debian-devel at the time and thus wasn't aware of that goal. It sure is still useful for blind people booting from a DOS

Re: /tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joerg Jaspert, le Tue 18 Nov 2008 08:47:43 +0100, a écrit : > >> And noone complained when I asked about it in August this year, so now > >> its gone. > > Uh, I wasn't yet subscribed to debian-devel at the time and thus > > wasn't aware of that goal. It sure is still useful for blind people > > bo

Re: Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how?

2008-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
schoappied, le Sat 20 Dec 2008 23:48:32 +0100, a écrit : > Ok... What to do mean by 'fix bugs'? I think I'm able to build packages, > but I'm not a software developer... A lot of bugs are packaging issues. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#509517: ITP: mbrola -- multilingual software speech synthesizer

2008-12-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2008-12-21 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mbrola Version : 3.01h Upstream Author : Dr Thierry Dutoit * URL : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis * License : see the file readme.txt in the source zip: non-free as in

Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Goerzen, le Thu 25 Dec 2008 12:04:43 -0600, a écrit : > Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and > > replaces > > them with hardlinks. > > . > > The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the > > code

Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Goerzen, le Fri 26 Dec 2008 08:54:53 -0600, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > John Goerzen, le Thu 25 Dec 2008 12:04:43 -0600, a écrit : > >> Julian Andres Klode wrote: > >>> Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and > >&g

Bug#510133: ITP: mbrola-en1 -- British English male voice for Mbrola

2008-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2008-12-29 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mbrola-en1 Version : 19980910 Upstream Author : Faculte Polytechnique de Mons - mbrola team * URL : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis * License : see the file readme.txt in t

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 16:07:25 +0100, a écrit : > Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the > > Debian package. Let me explain why: > > > > - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Lin

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 05 Jan 2009 00:20:42 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 23:45:22 +0100, a écrit : > > > It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly > > > going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases.

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ron Johnson, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 17:40:08 -0600, a écrit : > On 01/04/09 17:20, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >Still, it is better to use CPU pinning since you often want finer > >control than that, and that’s especially true in multi-user environments > >where resources can be sub-host. > > Wouldn't i

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 05 Jan 2009 00:47:02 +0100, a écrit : > There is probably a missing piece here. If you start several pigz > processes, the kernel only sees processes starting a lot of threads, and > processes only see a given number of cores. There is no interface that > allows a process t

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jack Grahl, le Sun 11 Jan 2009 19:56:52 +, a écrit : > If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name > as the program, the man page for that command should say which package > the program is part of. Mmm, usually I just run dpkg -S bin/command, or better, dlocate bin

ITP: mbrola-{de6,es1,fr4,us1,us2} -- various voices for Mbrola

2009-01-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is a list of ITPs for various mbrola voices. Samuel Bug#511973 ITP: mbrola-de6 -- German male voice for Mbrola Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2008-01-15 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mbrola-de6 Version : 0.0.20021125-1 Upstream Author : Faculte Polytechni

Re: Bug#512136: Acknowledgement (ITP: nox -- nox -- Meta package)

2009-01-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Moerner, le Sun 18 Jan 2009 10:21:15 -0800, a écrit : > Something I don't quite understand is the target audience: most people > who run a command line install will know exactly what they want > installed, and won't need a metapackage to do it or to bring in > extraneous stuff. Actually I'v

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sjors Gielen, le Tue 20 Jan 2009 00:49:29 +0100, a écrit : > I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Ususally ports are hosted by debian-ports.org. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just a comment about the debian-win32 project: I can read from the list archive that the main issue was that the VFS doesn't allow to remove or to overwrite through mv a file in use. IIRC that issue got fixed not so many months ago in cygwin, and I can confirm that it now seems to work: $

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

2009-01-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Otavio Salvador, le Thu 29 Jan 2009 11:19:17 -0200, a écrit : > The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and > I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release. > > The images are available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_bibble/ Eergl, since

Bug#513632: ITP: liblouis -- Braille translation library

2009-01-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: liblouis Version : 1.5.2 Upstream Author : John J. Boyer * URL : http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, Python Description : Braille translation

man-db's cron warns about dangling symlink

2007-08-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Short story: # apt-get install mpich-bin # dpkg -P mpich-bin # symlinks /usr/share/man/man1/ | grep dangling dangling: /usr/share/man/man1/clog2alog.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/clog2alog.1.gz dangling: /usr/share/man/man1/upshot.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/upshot.1.gz dangling: /usr/share/man/ma

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian May, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 16:48:06 +1100, a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > > secure > > > then KVM (or Xen) with Q

Re: hurd and SA_SIGINFO

2010-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Camm Maguire, le Thu 07 Jan 2010 12:00:11 -0500, a écrit : > 1) What is the release candidate status of hurd-i386? It's not ready yet, surely not for Squeeze anyway. > Can I ignore FTBFS errors there for now? Yes, but when it's easy to fix them, please do. > 2) The sigaction flags are not found

Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Leeman, le Sun 17 Jan 2010 22:16:17 +0100, a écrit : > * Package name: pthsem Mmm, could this perhaps rather be just a patch added to the existing pth package? Else you'll have to share the Debian patches. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Martin Koegler, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:27:07 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Marc Leeman, le Sun 17 Jan 2010 22:16:17 +0100, a écrit : > > > * Package name: pthsem > > > > Mmm, could this perhaps rather be just a patch added to the existing pth >

Re: [gmail] Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Cristau, le Wed 20 Jan 2010 22:06:21 +0100, a écrit : > I'm not sure we care if its homepage is at GNU or elsewhere. Agreed, thanks free software :) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Martin Koegler, le Wed 20 Jan 2010 23:04:07 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:06:21PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 21:04:30 +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: > > > > > > I need pthsem, so I only want a working version with all features I > > > > need. > > > > > > A

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, le Fri 26 Feb 2010 02:38:33 +0100, a écrit : > On Feb 25, John Goerzen wrote: > > 3a) What about Linux virtualization on servers that lack hardware > > virtualization support, which Xen supports but KVM doesn't? > Tough luck. > > > 6) Are we communicating this to Debian users in som

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

2010-02-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Klaus Ethgen, le Sun 28 Feb 2010 14:41:27 +0100, a écrit : > Am So den 28. Feb 2010 um 14:24 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > > Yes, and I explained you why your code is wrong. > > A part, which was not related to the bug itself. The bug was not explained at all except the output of a buggy program :)

Re: sensible-mailer

2010-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Harald Braumann, le Fri 05 Mar 2010 15:06:28 +0100, a écrit : > I'd like to propose a `sensible-mailer' command. Well, there is /etc/alternatives/mailx Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: sensible-mailer

2010-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Harald Braumann, le Fri 05 Mar 2010 15:47:02 +0100, a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:10:26PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Harald Braumann, le Fri 05 Mar 2010 15:06:28 +0100, a écrit : > > > I'd like to propose a `sensible-mailer' command. > > > >

Re: Bug#547079: login: Should set the iutf8 tty c_iflag if the locale is utf8

2010-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petter Reinholdtsen, le Tue 23 Mar 2010 15:33:22 +0100, a écrit : > > [Nicolas François] > > As I have no clue about TTY setup, let see if I can get some other > > opinions on debian-devel. > > > > The question raised on http://bugs.debian.org/547079 is who shall be > > responsible for setting up

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Goerzen, le Wed 24 Mar 2010 09:19:24 -0500, a écrit : > I've just noticed that HVM guests (such as Windows) are broken in Xen in > squeeze due to the lack of qemu-dm (see #562703). Any word on plans for > that? Finding somebody that has the time to mentor an upload for Thomas Goirand, see h

Re: Bug#547079: login: Should set the iutf8 tty c_iflag if the locale is utf8

2010-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nicolas François, le Tue 23 Mar 2010 23:59:29 +0100, a écrit : > Is it an issue to set the utf8 flag too often? > (does it break something?, It has the converse effect as forgetting it, cf the original bug report: “ATM, if one runs cat from a VT with a UTF-8 locale, type a non-ascii character, ba

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam D. Barratt, le Thu 01 Apr 2010 09:57:12 +0200, a écrit : > * GNU/kFreeBSD-* > The release of these two new architectures looks promising, but they > are still far away from full archive coverage. It seems that much > could be gained by fixing some key packages. What is the target BTW?

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hendrik Sattler, le Thu 08 Apr 2010 12:38:36 +0200, a écrit : > Zitat von Salvo Tomaselli : > >>I also don't really see the issues with bindv6only=0. If you listen on > >>all interfaces, it makes is easier. If you only listen on specific > >>interfaces, it's not in the way. > >The problem is that f

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