Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t had appealed to constitution §4.2.2 (provided one can find a decision to be put on hold), but this is not the case. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grand

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
h is not something we can currently grant on top of APT. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ould also enable to address needs such as the reported one: wishlist bug report, marked with some RC-severity in the override. I'm not claiming it would be a clean solution, I just got surprised that the very same tool can address both needs. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:57:09AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > problems in a recent paper [1] (last paragraph of section > upgrading of cluster of machines all together) [2]. What they have in Dangling references: [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/hotswup-p

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ey do, I'd be happy about not having the package priority Standard, but tasksel installing them. If someone stops the installation before the tasksel step then it's too bad, we cannot decide the dictionary for her. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostD

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ill some "interesting" finger-based services out there. Yes, all of them are disappearing, but I suggest we keep finger for Lenny and then demote it to non-standard for Lenny+1. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jus

Re: "Semantic" shell? (for lack of better name)

2009-01-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ppened yet, so I'm posting to ask specifically-- > > (1) Has this been proposed before? Can anyone give me names, links, > addresses, or what went wrong? > > (2) Anything better than MIME for these purposes? > > (3) Search terms other than 'semantic shell', anyone?

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d. Reviewing that page, and adding a link to it from http://www.debian.org/intro/organization seems to me time better spent than a renaming. Then, if you want, we can of course do both :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,p

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
output of the tools it monitor, a convergence at least on the surface syntaxes would be nice to ease future maintenance. (And yes, patches are always welcome :-)) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:40:13AM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > Did you mean "The bts-link is polluted", above ? No, I did mean the PTS. I've no idea whether that is true also for bts-link :) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris

Re: Modifying debian/changelog entries

2009-01-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
entries? (as in "dpkg-buildpackage -vXXX") Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tut

Re: DDPortfolio service available

2009-01-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
train in a few minutes!) I also have a question: how do you plan to keep your service up to date with the future links which are going to be added (or removed FWIW) to the wiki page? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr

Re: Bug#512658: ITP: coccinelle -- semantic patching tool for C

2009-01-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a git repo under the hood of the collaborative package maintenance. Also, please read the OCaml policy, et al. :) Thanks for your interest in packaging that! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http:/

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
y package dependencies, they might be: - larger: due to the need of test framework which are not needed at runtime - smaller: due to part of the source code for which there are no tests Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.

Bug#512834: ITP: ocaml-autoconf -- autoconf macros for OCaml

2009-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli * Package name: ocaml-autoconf Upstream Author : Richard Jones, Stefano Zacchiroli, et al. * URL : http://ocaml-autoconf.forge.ocamlcore.org/ * License : BSD (3-clauses) Programming Lang: m4 Description

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gh test-only dependencies, which I'm not convinced it is the case. If they are rare enough, debian/control.in + README.Debian-source is the way to go. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>-

Re: is it a DFSG breach or not?

2009-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a subjective matter, and even in the latter case I will not file the serious bug reports against the other packages. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ich scenario you might want to skip test suite to build faster, ... and I don't think buildds match that scenario. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un gr

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
andidate to be uniformed, doesn't it? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
end an email from their webmail (I assume that they don't have Something is being done to enlarge the amount of access channel to the BTS, one example is: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/bts-webui/ . Thanks for your feedback, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ..

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
raising this issue and for giving us a user opinion, which is often missing in our developer discussions. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la d

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
he exceptions). Similarly, it might be useful to have Vim-like '**'-patterns to match arbitrarily deep subdirectories, thought not really required. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://w

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
thought not really required. >Right. Maybe I could formalise that into saying "pattern is > what `find -wholename */' will match". That will do too, fine for me. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.or

Bug#436982: ITP: ulex0.8 -- OCaml lexer generator with Unicode support - CamlP5 version

2007-08-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ulex0.8 Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Alain Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cduce.org/download.html * License : LGPL Programming

Re: Debhelper - docbookxml manpages

2007-08-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
elper and discuss the issue with Joey, the debhelper maintainer. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ fully quoting my original request, for the sake of context preservation ] On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:04:13AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> [ Assuming is not too late to propose release goals of course ] >> Hi, a long time ago we were wondering to have

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
dbs invokes it). I consider it to be one of the "new" packaging best practice which fails to distribute "back in time" to old packages. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bonon

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n the whole archive, since we haven't yet had a lot of large use case report about it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gain having them outside control.tar.gz is that you can extract such information via plain ar ... what's for? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
's great, and surprisingly fast. It scans the mirror (sid, all > sections, amd64+all) in about 25 seconds on my desktop machine. Wow, I'm impressed by those numbers as well! Thanks for your feedback. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ...

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ons is that once we have the support in dpkg it would be easy to change dh_md5sums to nop, and just changing a bit of code in one place will delegate the task to dpkg from there on. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,b

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 05:25:17PM +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > Updated daily at http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/md5sums-check/ Wonderful, thanks! Small feature request, can you please invoke dd-list passing -u ? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ...

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ave hard time providing the corresponding information available on the web interface. Having it both on the source and package records would do. See #433469. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bo

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ul as XBS-Homepage. Namely: it's the URL of what? An URL is just a way to point to the location of something, it doesn't tell what we will be pointing to. XBS-Homepage tells what it is pointing to and uses a URL to do that. Please people, let's push XBS-Homepage. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*-

Re: Homepage field (was: Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick)

2007-08-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n/control or in the various binary stanzas? - probably not dpkg's business, but will the field flow to the Packages files of the archive? What about the Sources? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
more far away from the goal which can be obtained fixing the buggy package. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is

Re: menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

2007-08-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
on If possible we would like to avoid reinventing the wheel, and doc-base seems to be the right tool; it's just to restrictive: why should its categories be tight to the menu categories? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to be isntalled by default) And can also be easily patched (I bet). Also, as a makepasswd user, I often have to invoke it as "makepasswd --minchars 8" since several passwords I have to generate require a minimum of 8 characters anyway. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Compute

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-09-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
proposal. I guess the next 2 steps would then be: - discuss a policy change on -policy - implement a lintian check (a warning for the moment or even less) which points maintainers to the above wiki page and invite them to implement the format in their debian/copyrights Anything else? -- Stef

Re: menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

2007-09-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hat will be definitely useful. Also, maybe if we are two teams interested in that, we can take over doc-base maintenance or help who is in need of manpower for that ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it}

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
bugging all package without a Homepage field will not work because not all package probably have an Homepage; I agree that the false negatives would be only a few, but that's not a valid reason for bugging non-bugged packages. Other ideas? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Sci

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
pseudo Homepage field in the description, asking the maintainers to convert it in the new one. That's of course trivial (and still welcome). I was thinking about how to bug packages to actually include an Homepage field where is actually missing ... -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Compu

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
always have some URL (at least in packages generated in the last 5(?) years with dh_make), but it's hard to tell if it's a homepage rather than an apache directory listing or some version control system or something like that .. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science

Bug#446651: ITP: ocaml-syck -- OCaml bindings for Syck, a YAML parser kit

2007-10-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-syck/trunk/ Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
other languages; for sure in Debian we also have Python and Perl syck bindings ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:29:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, question, do you want to have reports also of missing pieces of > statically linked code snippets in that list? On request of Steffen Joeris I'm following up here with a chat log between we two: (15:34:40

Re: VCSs on Alioth and personal repositories

2007-10-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
#x27;t really be needed; if they are they can be setup on people.debian.org and we won't need to discuss which URL scheme we need: happy anarchy to everyone :) Seriously, I don't see the need to prescribe the structure of personal repositories ... -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Comp

Bug#447984: ITP: galax -- optimized implementation of W3C's XQuery 1.0 with static typing

2007-10-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: galax Version : 0.9.9 Upstream Author : Mary Fernandez, Jerome Simeon, et al. * URL : http://www.galaxquery.org/ * License : Lucent Public License Versi

Re: parsing/using *.dsc *.changes, *.deb etc., from Python

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
espread (yet). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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\/right

Re: parsing/using *.dsc *.changes, *.deb etc., from Python

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Please consider only the examples you can currently find under /usr/share/doc/python-debian/examples/debfile/. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
l free to take the current patch text and divert it where appropriate. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit t

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in the PTS. Still there. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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\/right k

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
omplete doc. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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\/right keys a

Re: XS-Vcs-*, XS-X-Vcs-* and friends

2007-11-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
> (Or "Vcs-svn"?) It wouldn't matter, field handling is case insensitive. But the most widespread capitalization is Vcs-Svn, so let's stick to it. For the sake of completeness, the matching Vcs-Browser field should be: Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-shadow/t

Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

2007-11-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
dn't like to see it in the long description. What does it means? First under what criteria? Sounds more like an advertisement than a useful information for the sysadm that need to choose whether to install it or not. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ..

Re: debian-infrastructure-announce: please announce it on d-d-a

2007-11-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:01:25AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > But still, please use the appropriate channels to announce such stuff. ^^ With that I meant the mailing list itself. That is: I think it is appropriate

debian-infrastructure-announce: please announce it on d-d-a

2007-11-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ling list you just created itself. debian-devel-announce would have been the good medium to announce this, ... and it still is. Cheers. [1] http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200711071600 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/2007/11/msg0.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -

Re: Bug#452557: ITP: bibutils -- interconvert various bibliographic data formats

2007-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
c formats. Can you please add it? Thanks in advance! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac

Re: Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

2007-11-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rols? Let me know if you want a wish-list bug report for that. Many thanks in advance! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All o

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
xed package is in your repository they can't take benefit of the fix. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
art of Debian. YMMV. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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\/right keys

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
that the information is not shown? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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\/r

old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a dd-list, so that people can check for false positives), though right now is probably too early (4'000 packages to go), but I'm not sure about the current policies for mass-bug filings. Cheers. [1] http://sockmel.bononia.it/~zack/homepage-field/pkg_w_old_homepage_pseudo_field.dd-list.t

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-12-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:55:43PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > May I point you to http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgHomepageFieldTransition ? Yes, and thanks for this. As it was evident, I was not aware of that page. And thanks to Russ for mentioning my stats there. Cheers. -- Stef

Re: Draft new policy document format

2007-12-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
opriate element for this or where else can be but a element, but something better then this should be looked for. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la

Re: doc-base, menu, and policy (Re: Debian Policy 3.7.3.0 uploaded)

2007-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e for subsystems (for example having a section with all the library references of language X). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\

Re: ftp.debian.org update

2007-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
or (de) for downloading .dsc/.diff/... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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: Doc-base section hierarchy (was: Re: doc-base, menu, and policy (Re: Debian Policy 3.7.3.0 uploaded))

2007-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
better than the status quo for me. But actually I'm not sure if my case would deserve an even finer sub-category such as Programming/$language/ApiReference or similar. What do you think? Would it be possible to let package maintainers to refine some leaf categories? Cheers. -- St

Re: ftp.debian.org update

2007-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
aware of. If this is not the case I'll switch to ftp.de as well for the PTS. (Though that will be in some respect a pity, we have several mirrors and not a single one for a reason, after all.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAI

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
h python$*` ./configure ... build-arch: ... ? Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15

Re: Bug#455730: ITP: lua-peg -- Parsing Expression Grammars For Lua

2007-12-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
it as "lpeg"... Hence, I guess, the proposed name would be "lua-lpeg", right? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All on

Re: reporting BTS spam easily from Mutt

2007-12-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ipts useful for DD's on > the wiki or something? I believe this kind of stuff should go into devscripts (maybe not in /usr/bin/ if people fear polluting that namespace to much, but still into devscripts). Please file wishlist bugreports against it, with pointers to the relevant code. Cheer

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
fic I would be more than happy to change gdome2-xslt, but at the moment I feel there is no such a consensus. Cc-ing -devel for the sake of this discussion. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bo

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rt it to a non-native Debian package. Still, and before doing so, I want to have a clear and agreed upon interpretation of what is a Debian native package, which is *reflected* in our authoritative documents. Cheers. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s3.2.1 [1] http://www.

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the Cc now. ] > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:35:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> There are other examples of packages in the archive which are no way >> Debian specific, but which are native as gdome2-xslt is; a fresh example >> I have in mind is ikiwiki. > &g

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ript need python-debian to be installed -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/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: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rmat. Once we have that once can imagine setting up a statistics page showing how many packages in the archive are using such a format, but not before. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bon

Re: DOAP files

2007-12-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
more obvious places to me seem packages.d.o and/or the PTS. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:

Re: DOAP files

2007-12-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
on how to answers the above questions are totally appreciated! 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

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
pelled words that Lintian doesn't catch, please let debian-lint-maint > know and we'll add them to the table. Regarding the Objective Caml language, whose acronym correct capitalization is "OCaml", please add the following: ocaml -> OCaml OCAML -> OCaml Many thanks! -

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
guess that what you want is something like the following: * glib -> GLib * gobject -> GObject * gtk+ -> GTK+ * gconf -> GConf * gnomevfs -> GnomeVFS * gstreamer -> GStreamer Add other translation rules as needed. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:13:43PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libgtkmathview-bin Fixed in collab-maint repository, thanks. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.i

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

2009-12-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
essary and/or seriously-buggy, which IME it is not, as confirmed by the current acceptance rate [1]. Finally, nobody is forced to use it: if you don't like it, just avoid using it. Cheers. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/dpkg-v3/ PS the post of course is not aimed at you, Peter, in particular

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

2009-12-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
have a reason to complain and we will hopefully know the technical reasons why the involved maintainers thin it is a bad idea. All this belongs to the BTS, not to -devel. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org

Re: Python 2.6

2010-01-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
urrent status. The above public pointer has been given to me by asking there a few days ago.) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et

Re: Is archive this list?

2010-01-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
org/ , before posting your question: it might have already been answered on the website :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. E

Re: Invitation to the BSP in Tokyo/Japan,23 January 2010

2010-01-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s and bts.turmzimmer.net. Thanks nevertheless for the coordination page! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d-Conflicts. Why having a non-declared Build-Conflicts shouldn't be a bug? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veu

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
), but are still bug that ought to be filed. Be assured that I'll file the one that will cross my path. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c&#x

Re: Bug#566364: RFH: doc-central

2010-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n user (as you observe); I, for instance, am a daily user of it. So, exactly *why* you want this package to be removed, considering that there are way more "bad" packages in the archive (and almost completely unused) that would deserve removal first? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o-

Re: Bug#566364: RFH: doc-central

2010-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
was also to phase out doc-central in favor of dwww, that might be an option, but then agreement should be sought between the two packages maintainer and a bit of smooth upgrade path should be provided. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc

advice sought for hamlib new upstream vs "embedded ltdl"

2010-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Patrick Ouellette fldigi (U) Jaime Robles fldigi (U) klog -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne

Re: #560778 apt-listchanges: depends on things in optional, which depend on things in extra

2010-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
this would be have two python runtime helper in standard (-central and -support), but that's already the case today on all real-life installations which require a handful of Python application. We won't be adding much more by pushing that to standard. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o-

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
has been implemented and generalized in "gbp-pq", from git-buildpackage itself. Unfortunately the doc is a bit scarce ATM and the manpage of gbp-pq simply redirects to https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/ If you like it, you can help out in improving the

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d of bugs. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...| ..: | Je dis

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
;ll be eventually receive the next round of DDPO-by-mail. Regarding lintian errors and warning, I'd increase the S/N ratio by including only lintian errors that will cause automatic rejection (lintian -F). Thanks again for DDPO-by-mail. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Scie

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
r's opinion. Please mail me in private if you think it is needed. (My impression is that it is not needed: opt-out *seems* to me to be fine for most of us.) Lucas, BTW, you should probably add Sune to the exclusion list too :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ P

Re: Bits from the release team: Release schedule; the RT needs YOU

2010-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
;t need anything more to start squashing RC bugs today, really :-) Cheers. [1] http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/releasing-squeeze-6 [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-guidelines [3] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/debian/rcbw/ -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD

DEHS and source format 3.0

2010-02-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
HS can "parse" v3 source packages whereas before it was not able to? Thanks for the clarification, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è

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