Bug#212676: ITP: ulex -- OCaml lexer generator with Unicode support

2003-09-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-25 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ulex Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Alain Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cduce.org/download/ulex-0.2.tar.gz * License : LGPL Description : OCaml lexe

Bug#213127: ITP: extlib -- extended standard library for OCaml

2003-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: extlib Version : 1.0b Upstream Author : Nicolas Cannasse, Brian Hurt, Yamagata Yoriyuki * URL : http://ocaml-lib.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Description : exte

Re: Bug#213127: ITP: extlib -- extended standard library for OCaml

2003-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:06:55AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > >Actually ExtLib contains modules implementing: enumeration over > >abstract > I suggest striking "actually" Seconded! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EM

Bug#320716: ITP: lablgtksourceview -- OCaml bindings for GtkSourceView

2005-07-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lablgtksourceview Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://helm.cs.unibo.it/software/lablgtksourcevie

"block" feature description

2005-08-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Since the announcemente is still missing, could you please give some references to the blog postings you were referring to? Many thanks in advance. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia

Re: Bug#326919: ITP: libpostscriptbarcode -- A barcode generator written entirely in PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
scription relevant to and/or useful for the debian package? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity

Re: How can I build a package from source that require the source of another (library) package?

2005-09-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
es you have to look for it on snapshot.debian.net -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Univers

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
m not sure. IIRC leafnode complains about "localhost.localdomain" refusing to suck news unless you manually specify a domainname in its configuration file. Maybe you remember that trouble? Still, I've ever considered that an issue with leafnode, not of "localhost.localdomain&q

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
HO is too much to inhibit the use of the program as a whole just to minimize the collision risk, a warning would have been enough. But we are getting OT(hread) here ... -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
o entries in the changelog one for x+1 and for for x+2. Entry x+1 has a closes:#nnn entry. Is this enough for the bts or do I need to mail it as well? Many TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
and it is > now in the BTS as ``Fixed in version 0.9.23-1''. Great, I will do it for a couple of bugs closed erroneously as well. Besides that, does "bts close NN x.y.z" do the correct thing? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Ita

Bug#336971: please order posts to a single bugreport by date/thread

2005-11-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: minor Today bugs.debian.org had some problem in receiving mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] timely. For example, in a discussion I started on #222138, mails reached b.d.o in a non-causal order, making the bug report difficult to follow on the web page. Conversely, read

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
nst removing the obsolete conffile mentioned either on the dh_something command line or in debian/foo.obsoleteconffile or something. Do you want a wishlist bugreport on debhelper for this? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rpose, but that will bloat the dh_namespace. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la d

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
pkg package itself. Would do dpkg maintainers think about it? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit th

dpkg symbol handling: looking for advice on #MISSING symbols

2008-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
it be that something changed in the C++ name handling code or something such? Or something which should have been marked as private has been leaked erroneously in the public ABI? Thanks in advance, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],c

Re: python-apt documentation?

2008-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
are interested. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema\/

Re: dpkg symbol handling: looking for advice on #MISSING symbols

2008-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ew, but I'm not sure whether it is a problem in that those symbols are exported in the first place or not. > ComputerModernShaper seems to be gone. I'll investigate this with upstream. Thanks, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now wh

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ve, but let's start wetting our appetite and see how it goes.) Pretty please, just keep good innovations running! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack

announcing new tools

2008-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
/~zack/blog/posts/2007/08/debcheckout_bits/ [3] http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has

Re: announcing new tools

2008-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:49:46AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > should we have to announce new tools? Maybe DeveloperNews [3] now that > > we have it? > > debian-devel-announce would be a good place, IMO. After all, it's Well, DeveloperNews eventually flows to d-d-a ...

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the maintainer is using which is in your way. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) B

Re: Bits from DEHS

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
bian.org/DeveloperNews, so that it will get announced on d-d-a as well anytime soon? Many thanks for your work on DEHS! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zac

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
exist for packages being worked on and not yet uploaded. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
which does what you are asking for? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no,

Re: announcing new tools

2008-01-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
worry anybody. Yeah, right. But wiki.d.o/DeveloperNews eventually flows to d-d-a, so problem settled, I would say. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo d

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >camlp5 (U) This is a false positive: $ checkbashisms /usr/bin/mkcamlp5 possible bashism in /usr/bin/mkcamlp5 line 43 (let ...): echo "let _ = Dynlink.ad

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-02-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ol system, no matter how we play with the source package format. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hi

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
only 2 that people will be able to guess out of the blue. So please go for patch/unpatch. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one h

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d the pending package upgrades are in place, we can for sure promote again the priority. What do you think? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
#x27; can break things; of course the clean target can depend on Then just make unpatch depends on clean. Anyhow, we were discussing naming here, that is the API for the package maintainer to implement, while you seem to dig into details on how the proposed target names should be internally imple

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
sting your commitment, it's simply good management of open source project: every times people say "I'll do that, I'll do that other", and several times the words are not followed by facts. To be on the safe side one has to trust only facts. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
general consideration on how I think this kind of workflow should be dealt with in our setting. Besides, apparently Manoj has contributed some work in the last few days. Coordinate with them and everything will be fine ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ebs uploaded by DDs and rebuilding them from scratch. SCNR, really. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:5

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
pecially some architecture only because it is the one owned by a DD. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to the persons in charge ? Yes, I think it would definitely be *the* step needed to solve this once and for all, and I think the consensus on allowing source only upload will also be easy to reach among DDs (but of course I might be wrong). I've thought several time of drafting such a GR myself, but

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
badly on the receiver of the insult for those of use just > following the discussion. I urge you to refrain from such behavior. Very well written, thank you for this post. ... and, of course, full ack. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [E

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
of information for bts-link, if the information is available somewhere it would be trivial to add this feature to bts (the commandline tool in devscripts, not the BTS of course). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ebcheckout was most about retrieving the information about where a given package is maintained and use the appropriate tool to check it out. It was not (at least in my mind) to enable a developer not knowing a given $VCS to use it, so I'm a bit scared about this proposal: can't the dev

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
request, possibly marked as wontfix ... ] Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac:

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ly for the developers which want to organize their, well, priorities. > As Don pointed, it is relatively easy to emulate priorities using I agree that is possible to emulate priorities with what we already have. But expressivity does not necessarily make things straightforward. Cheers. --

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
priority tag is that you don't need to set a user, which IMO makes a lot easier to deal with bug reports since you don't risk to forget what the "right" user for the tag/category you're setting is (which frequently happens to me). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
;let's use GSoC for attracting new contributors, not to pay who is already a contributor". > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for FD/DAM to apply > as students. I'm not sure we will be able to reach a consensus on this, but my vote would be for this point.

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
te post, no vote). Please resort to the TC and, in the meantime, revert your changes. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\Al

Re: Debian's use in the Human Genome Project mentioned in the The Guardian

2008-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
.. and in spreading the verb :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo sce

Bug#476465: ITP: dose2 -- OCaml libraries for managing packages and their dependencies

2008-04-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dose2 Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Berke Durak, Jaap Boender * URL : http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/sodiac/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang:

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP-master & DAM delegations

2008-04-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
wered to create and remove developer > > accounts according to the New Maintainer procedure. > >These delegations are effective until revoked by the DPL or by a > > resolution. > Terrific! \o/ go Sam go!!! ... and, of course: go Joerg go :) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*-

Re: Please think and test before setting a mailing list as "Maintainer:"

2008-04-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Alioth documentation pages? It would help a lot. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac:

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
g works, but is it *granted* that there are no differences among mirrors? Would such difference inhibit proper installation due to the apt-secure stuff? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http:

Re: Extending the update-rc.d API to change runlevel and disable scripts?

2008-04-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
won't be needed with dependency based boot system, but in the meantime it still is.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\

Re: New README.source documentation for Debian packages

2008-04-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
es which are currently using debian/README.Debian-source, haven't we? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do

Re: NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
f need, and +nmu informs me that the package is/was experiencing maintenance troubles in the recent past. As such troubles are orthogonal to the distinction between native/non-native I'm in favour of having +nmuX uniformly used for both kind of packages. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in

Re: intend to hijack GnuPG

2008-05-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ch I haven't read, I find really annoying your public blaming behaviour. Either step in and offer help or shut up. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la d

Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: core Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Jane Street Holding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ocaml.janestcapital.com/?q=node/13 * License : LGPL Prog

Bug#479160: ITP: sexplib310 -- automated conversions between OCaml-values and S-expressions

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sexplib310 Version : 3.7.4 Upstream Author : Markus Mottl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.janestcapital.com/ocaml/ * License : LGPL Programming

Re: Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ adding back the Cc to the bug report ] On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:13:50AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > * Package name: core > > This package name is a little bit too generic. Better one may be > ocam

Re: intend to hijack GnuPG

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
that he started the hijack procedure, not somebody else. Then, if you think the work is too much for just him go and help. And quite frankly, starting as you did is probably not the good way to set up the ground for synergistic collaboration: it will just piss off people. Yeah, people -- Stefano Za

Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: res Version : 2.2.5 Upstream Author : Markus Mottl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html * License : LGPL Prog

Re: Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
kage name. No OCaml package has a source name like libFOO-ocaml, they all have *binaries* called libFOO-ocaml-dev. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la

Re: Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
iate name is now rather than later. Ack, I'll rename it to "ocaml-res" (source name). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
we (and others like CDDs and > > derived > > distros) easily could swap default MTA. > > I believe that 2) is the correct option, and can see no reason that it > shouldn't be implemented straight away. AOL -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science .

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ng from Fedora which adds an extra library libcamlrun_shared.so as there is software, like Apache modules, which won't work if -fPIC is left aside -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsi

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e any statistics, this is an empirical analysis from my recent experience: in the past all dpatches I stumbled upon uncommented patches, including packages of mine, my recent experience show the contrary. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
at 10 years from now the free software world will have converged on git, but this is a different story -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
controlled packages lacking the field. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no,

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
o, it wasn't clear to me from the post I'm replying to.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed to finish it up ... -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema\/ri

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s to add +patch or something similar). This + the forthcoming ability above to identify *the* latest patch will give us the ability to automatically extract patches from bug reports. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
mation, well, let's sit down and standardize that. Though note that this will need to be done on a per-Vcs basis, as concepts from one VCS not necessarily apply to other (that's for example why we have $VCS-buildpackage rather than a single vcs-buildpackage). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacc

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
f you buy my statement above) cases can even be beneficial from a social point of view. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hes, I think diff should be extractable, and allowing them to be inlined is a PITA. Maybe this can be overcomed at an API implementation level, with some logics to recognize inlined diffs in messages tagged +patch which are missing attachments? It starts looking complicate though ... Cheers. -

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
he summary (i.e. marking one of the message in the bug log as "current bug state"). Thanks for this developments BTW. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:

Re: Packages using VCS but with no 'Vcs-*' control field

2008-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s to harvest alioth.d.o looking for debian/control-s, but there is quite a lot of room for false positives, probably too much ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:5

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a few days I'm maintaining it on the web, but I've announced it only on planet (though I've also linked it from the Statistics page on wiki.d.o). Here is a link to the graphs (logscale): http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/vcs-usage/ . Note that it only relies on declared Vcs-* fields ATM.

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s and whistles you want (like valgrind :-P). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Ba

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:44:39PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:03:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > So, basically, I welcome your proposal, but IMO its simplest and most > > effective implementation would be: ``packages scoring high in pop

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
being uploaded, but I guess it is a pretty remote case. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:1

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed that using apt entries is the way to go for installing local packages, but out of the box it is just not convenient enough to do that. Comments? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/z

Bug#484280: ITP: ceve -- utility to parse package dependencies as set of constraints

2008-06-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ceve Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Jaap Boender * URL : http://sodiac.gforge.inria.fr/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: OCaml Description : util

Re: Bug#484381: ITP: yaml -- YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C

2008-06-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is that you are packaging. Also, suggesting upstream to rename the tarball to libyaml-x.y.z.tar.gz would be a good idea. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'

where to document $DVCS branch layout

2008-06-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to standardize machine parseable formats for this kind of information, a human readable file would do. And I do think that debian/README.source is the right place, but we should mention it explicitly in policy then. Thoughts? Comments? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ependency syntax would become more consistent and handy for maintainers. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ionships. Should the policy be updated on this? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is s

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to choose this bad, over the bad of having to split a separate -byte package which would pollute Packages files -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SG

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
re work 2) bug the packages which are using the undocumented procedure Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do i

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
choose of course) while scanning lib dirs? I understand that ldconfig is kind of delicate, but the modification is in theory simple and will avoid complicating the declarative diversion specification. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: DPL teams survey summary summary

2008-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ive which has good chances to fulfill the needs you pointed out. Beside that, many thanks for your report/initiative! (from a lazy ass which did not find the time to reply to your survey, shame on me) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EM

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
tation can be as simple as a patch "validator" which parses all fields and complains if some of the mandatory fields are missing. Just my 0.02€, thanks for the initiative! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.or

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ple reading this thread) with half dozen entries in their schroot.conf. Not arguing about the merits of the specific implementation of ia32-apt-get, the approach had the advantage that a, say, synaptic user can use it. A chroot does not enjoy that good property. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchirol

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a chroot, is not that hard" argument is simply bogus since not all our users are power users. We are trying to build the universal operating system here. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>-

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a 32 bit one) they always end up being out of date. I developed the habit of updating them just before building on top of them. For users we really need a way to update them in a semi-automated way that takes care of security upgrades (at least). Maybe unattended-upgrades with a specific

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:35:13PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-07-05, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > 3) How to maintain the chroot. With the chroots that I use (I've 4 of > OTOH the main system is not automatically upgraded neither. Maybe a post- > upgrade hook

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
default run on *all* chroots registered within schroot configuration. How does that sound? ... I notice just now that schroot already supports /etc/schroot/chroot.d/, so the additional chroot instance packages can just drop entries there and have the wrapper scripts work on them out of the box. Pr

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Well, while I guess that most of us already have chroots called "sid", "lenny", and so on, we can go for "sid-instance" or something such to distinguish legacy (i.e., packaged) chroots from the othere. Thanks for this intriguing discussion, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

Bug#535975: ITP: turbogears2-doc -- documentation for the TurboGears2 web framework

2009-07-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli * Package name: turbogears2-doc Version : svn snapshot r6598 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor and contributors * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/2.0/docs/ * License : MIT Programming Lang

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
as "a new duty", precisely because it will be automatic. Actually, it has even chances to reduce the work-load related to processing NEW. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://up

Re: Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ifferent, then apparently we managed to fix quite a lot of bugs since then :-) Please give it another try and report any issue you find. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/za

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ve part of the infrastructure (.ddeb handlings) is pretty independent from .ddeb content, I'm not sure about the helpers, but we can of course provide our own extra helpers. Can you comment on that? Thanks for the initiative! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDo

check to detect non packaged examples from upstream

2009-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
um certainty I'm filing the corresponding wishlist bug report with this post. Thanks for the idea! Cheers. PS we discussed how lintian is one of the best way to push acceptance in Debian, remember? :-) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{ups

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is asked to install a -dbg package to do debugging, size constraints are usually of secondary importance and one package containing debugging info for all libraries doesn't look like a problem in my use cases. Thanks for the feedback. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc

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