Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:00:06PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Malloc debugging, #285685 suggests it is broken for > 300 days now, > either update or remove: > >Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ccmallocBuild-Depends: g++-2.95 [alpha arm

Re: Bug#342959: Package explicitely build-depends on g++-3.4

2005-12-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Howdy, On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:18:29AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > We will get rid of g++-3.3 for the etch release and remove the > g++-3.3 package. On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:54:22AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > We would like to get rid of g++-3.4 for the etch release, although > curre

need help with minc

2006-02-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, I made the mistake of adding "make check" to debian/rules. Now minc won't build on certain architectures. It builds on i386 (my architecture), ia64, s390, and powerpc. It fails on alpha, sparc, mips, hppa, arm, and mipsel. I poked around on a few of the debian machines (vore, paer, caba

Re: ITK debian packages

2006-03-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
For the Debian-devel folks just tuning in: we're debating how to introduce a SOVERSION to the ITK libraries that lack it upstream. The current thread starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2006/02/msg00037.html Your input is welcomed. On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:23:47PM +1100, Gavin B

idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Howdy, Suppose you're a debian developer with limited time each week for Debian. You get a bug report because your package fails to build on architecture X. When you have your 2 hour window to sit down and fix things, you log in to one of the project machines of the appropriate architecture, apt

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Laszlo said: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:01 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Wouldn't it be nice if you could simply "sudo apt-get install " > > yourself? Is it feasible to have at least some of the sid chroots > > allow this? Alternatively, how abo

project machine architecture aliases

2006-03-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I have another "wishful thinking" idea for build machines to float. Suppose I get a bug report saying my package has failed to build on architecture glooble. I don't personally have a globle machine. To debug the problem, I need to fire up www.debian.org/devel, find the link to the list of

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:59:42PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:09:12AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:28:02PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > > > Unless you care about performace. Which is the main reason to use > > > different packages for each C

reliable mirroring of local web tree?

2003-07-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Howdy, The boost libraries have excellent documentation in HTML format. Unfortunately, there is no "make install" equivalent to copy the files into a nice place. Nor is it as simple as "cp -a docs ..." as the files are intermixed with the source code. But there is a top-level "index.htm" file,

Should we have two versions of Boost in the archive?

2008-03-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, A new version (1.35) of the Boost library collection was released yesterday. I'd like to get it packaged for Debian ASAP. The question is: whether to simply replace the existing version (1.34.1) as we have always done, or to have the old and new both available in the library? In the past

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Should we have two versions of Boost in the archive?

2008-03-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:38:14PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:22:45PM +0000, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A new version (1.35) of the Boost library collection was released > > yesterday. I'd like to get it package

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Package: boost > > Severity: wishlist > > > Boost 1.35 has been released and contains great enhancements. Could you > > please update the Debian package? > > Seconded--I've bee

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > I think new and separate boost-1.35 package is the best option we have: > > 1. It may be uploaded now and released with lenny without touching > any reverse dependency > 2. Never more huge transitions, reverse dependencies

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-21 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:53:35PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> If we do decide to have co-installable -dev packages, the next >> question is how do we handle the current non-versioned includes and >> link libraries? Do we follow what gcc and p

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:43:35PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > I think new and separate boost-1.35 package is the best option we have: > > > > 1. It may be uploaded now and released wit

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-05-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:14:45PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:22:24AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > In contrast, the alternative strategy of having all the libfoo-dev > > (1.34.1) packages conflict with libfoo1.35.0-dev packages

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-05-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:15:39AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > My headache now is that there are 13 -dev packages in Boost. One > > (libboost1.35-dev) contains 60+ header-only libraries, while the > >

Debian tcl/tk policy: where to put shared libs?

2008-05-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I need some help packaging Tcl language bindings for ITK [1]. I've read the policy (in package tcl-doc) but I'm not sure whether I'm doing the right thing. I am essentially tcl illiterate, so please explain things in full. Examples help. ITK generates about 9 shared libs and 4 .tcl files, i

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: > - > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Debian adopts time-based release freezes pr...@debian.org > J

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:31:57PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: > >> Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes > > > > I believe this is a

Bug#547611: RFH: geomview -- interactive geometry viewing program

2009-09-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I'd appreciate someone to help with maintenance of geomview. The package description is: Geomview is interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, geomview can display things in hyperbo

renamings to remove extensions

2009-09-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I agree with Charles: this is unncessary, unproductive busy-work. On the other hand, Section 10.4 says only "the script name should not include an extension". So you can leave the extension for compatibility with the rest of the world. It is a bug, but Section 1.1 says: Non-conformance w

Re: Bug#430266: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Discussed in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01173.html There's not a lot of discussion there -- just an announcement really. > With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the 'long double' > data type did change

uninstallable despite satisfying dependencies

2007-07-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, How do I debug this situation: ipe won't install, yet I have the dependencies that "apt-get install" complains about. Below, you will see that my attempt to install libipe1c2a claims to have three unmet dependencies. However, as you see by "dpkg --list", I *do* have these three packages at

Re: uninstallable despite satisfying dependencies

2007-07-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:03:16PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > How do I debug this situation: ipe won't install, yet I have the > > dependencies that "apt-get install&q

parallel builds using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2008-10-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The Policy Manual [1] gives the following recipe for supporting parallel make: ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) NUMJOBS = $(patsubst parallel=%,%,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) MAKEFLAGS += -j$(NUMJOBS) endif Unfortunately, for packages that use recursive m

can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-10-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The buildd log pages, e.g. [1], used to be sorted by package version (or maybe build date). However that is no longer the case. Can this be fixed? The current situation is less than useful since the latest build is buried in other output. Thanks, -Steve [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.

Who owns /etc/default/locale?

2008-11-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I have two systems. Both track unstable, and have package locales at version 2.0.16. On one system, package locales owns /etc/default/locale, on the other, it doesn't. Should the file be owned by locales or not? Could the situation arise by upgrades? One system is 4 years old (upgraded weekl

canonical list of port-specific CPP symbols

2008-11-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Is there a canonical list of symbols defined by each of the Debian architectures, e.g. do I test for Sparc using __sparc or __sparc__ ? How about m68k, hppa, etc? My first guess was that would be contained on http://ports.debian.org/ but no such luck. Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Descri

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-11-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:04:46PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > * Steve M. Robbins [Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:42:06 -0500]: > > > Hi, > > > The buildd log pages, e.g. [1], used to be sorted by package version > > (or maybe build date). However that is no longer the cas

NEW processing

2008-12-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, Is the NEW queue going to get processed any time soon? There's a load of packages that are 3 weeks or more old. Thanks, -S signature.asc Description: Digital signature

libsoqt change Qt3 -> Qt4: change package?

2007-08-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I need some guidance from library packaging gurus. Libsoqt is a library that is currently linked with Qt3. I've had a request to rebuild it with Qt4 instead (#415382) which can be done by simply changing the configuration. Can I simply upload the reconfigured shared library package, which

Boost libraries name change (again)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
**NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** The boost library short name has changed semantics in Debian. Prior to 1.34.0-1, the short name was multi-threaded. Now it is single threaded. **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** Hello, A new versio

Re: Bug#436267: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686: IEEE1394 modules unbuilt in packaged kernel

2007-12-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:59:37PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:50:56AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > Git repos are not relevant here. > > they are fucking important, but it seems that the firewire > lib maintainers are quite

Re: Bug#459511: Consider adding Perl License to common-licenses

2008-01-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:28:27AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:18:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I don't think it makes sense to include in common-licenses something &g

New GMP version 5.0.0 available in experimental: please test

2010-01-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Upstream released a new GMP version 5.0.0 with a scary-sounding caveat: The 5.0.0 release contain a very large amount of new code, and countless improvements to existing code, please see below for the complete list. No past GMP release has contained more new code than 5.0.0. Most

experimental buildd link gone?

2010-02-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The "links" box of the PTS used to have a link to the experimental buildd logs. I think I used it last week but today it is not there; c.f. http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gmp.html How can I see the logs? Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Paul, I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that. However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors, I'm not completely convinced that using a flag chosen by country X to represent country

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I'm a little alarmed at the attitude that "no one cares about static linking" so that it's okay to drop the .a files. Likely relatively few people care, but there are some that do. One example is scientific users that need to ensure reproducibility of computer experiments [1] over many years: one

Re: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Folks, The package "aptitude" is priority "important" and depends on libboost-iostreams, which is "optional". This is a violation of Policy section 2.5. The request of Bug #588608 is to raise the priority of libboost-iostreams to "important". Reading Policy, I note that "important" means:

Priority dependence

2010-07-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The discussion surrounding why aptitude is priority 'important' [1] is very enlightening. Thanks to all contributors. With respect to the priority of libboost-iostreams, the consensus seems to be to raise it. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:18:52AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > [ ... ] on ba

Seeking machines for nightly builds of ITK

2010-08-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The insighttoolkit package is a large and active code base. They use a system of nightly build/test on a variety of machines [1] to ensure that the code works on all supported platforms. I run a build on my amd64 machine -- configured as the Debian ITK packages -- to expose issues early.

Bug#598556: ITP: insightapplications -- InsightToolKit (ITK) based medical imaging applications

2010-09-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: insightapplications Version : 3.20.0 Upstream Author : The Insight Consortium and Contributors * URL : http://itk.org/ITK/resources/applications.html * License : BSD (http://w

Bug#599880: ITP: mriconvert -- medical image file conversion utility that converts DICOM files to other formats

2010-10-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: mriconvert Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Jolinda Smith joli...@uoregon.edu * URL : http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ D

ca-certificates-java does not install in pbuilder

2010-11-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
pbuilder itself or a third package. Has anyone else seen/solved this? Thanks, -Steve On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:24:51PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Package: ca-certificates-java > Version: 20100412 > Severity: important > > I routinely build insighttoolkit using pbuilder. Ins

Re: ca-certificates-java does not install in pbuilder

2010-11-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
More information ... On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > failed (VM used: java-6-openjdk). > > dpkg: error processing ca-certificates-java (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > >

two new annoying svn-buildpackage behaviours

2010-11-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I was working on gmp and insighttoolkit packages today and ran into two new behaviours of svn-buildpackage that are very annoying. I checked the obvious candidates that I could think of (svn-buildpackage, pbuilder, dpkg, devscripts) but didn't see any recent changelog messages that appear ala

Re: try to rebuild base.tgz (re: Does not install in pbuilder)

2010-11-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:25:50PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > I got the same issue with ca-certficates-java and pbuilder, but after > re-create base.tgz, it has gone away. Could you try to do that, please? Thanks for the tip! Indeed, re-creating base.tgz using "pbuilder --create" di

Re: bits from the DPL: sprints, events, delegations, assets

2010-11-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:49:04AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Squeeze Release > === > > The monthly RFH section is once more for the Squeeze Release. Trying to > read Release Team minds, I get something like: ? the RC bug count [1] is > proceedings in the right direction,

Re: bits from the DPL: sprints, events, delegations, assets

2010-11-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:34:02PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 14:26:39 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > So I looked at [2], clicked through to the Universal Debian Database > > [3], selected Sort By "last modified", and clicked Search

Oops: I broke the lenny --> squeeze update

2010-11-21 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I just received notice (bug 603579) that upgrade lenny to squeeze will break if a boost package containing an "rtupdate" script is installed. In stable there are four such packages: libboost-python-dev libboost-dbg libboost-python1.35-dev libboost1.35-dbg The issue is that the rtupd

What to do about Bug #557495?

2010-11-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
The list of RC squeeze bugs in the UDD http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi is growing alarmingly. However, I found one that doesn't seem like it belongs there so I'd like to ask what to do about it. Bug #557495 describes an undeclared conflict between packages: libctapimkt0-dev/1.0.1-1 libtowit

Bug#607030: ITP: elastix -- toolbox for rigid and nonrigid registration of images

2010-12-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: elastix Version : 4.4 Upstream Author : Stefan Klein and Marius Staring * URL : http://elastix.isi.uu.nl/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : toolbox

Re: Release Update: deep freeze, remaining bugs, schedule, themes and Wheezy

2010-12-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, This release update announced: As hinted in the previous release update, now is the time to decide exactly what is going in to squeeze and what isn't. Here's what we're going to propose regarding the remaining RC bugs. We'll be working against the list of RC bugs affecting S

How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I've recently adopted a package (nyquist) that only builds in 32-bit mode. I'm struggling with supporting it on amd64 and other 64-bit architectures in Debian. First: yes, clearly the code should be migrated to 64-bits. Upstream is aware of that and it's a nontrivial effort. I'm interested

ITK 3.20.0 python WrapITK wrappers fail to build: too big?

2011-02-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The Debian build of ITK 3.20.0 fails to build on the powerpc build daemon [1] with the diagnostic: [ 23%] Building CXX object Wrapping/WrapITK/Modules/Base/CMakeFiles/_BasePython.dir/wrap_itkImageToImageFilterBPython.o cd /build/buildd-insighttoolkit_3.20.0-6-powerpc-m2NGDH/insighttoolkit-

Re: [Insight-developers] ITK 3.20.0 python WrapITK wrappers fail to build: too big?

2011-02-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:15:12AM +0100, Ga?tan Lehmann wrote: > > Steve, Luis, > > Splitting ImageToImageFilterB into smaller modules seems to be the > way to go in ITK v3. The attached patch should help! Thanks, Gaetan! I'm building ITK with this patch now for upload to Debian so we'll know

patch removal of --unified-reject-files breaks quilt

2011-02-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Suddenly, I can't apply my quilt patches: steve@riemann{insighttoolkit-3.20.0}quilt push -a Applying patch metaio-test-vtk_source.patch patch: unrecognized option '--unified-reject-files' patch: Try `patch --help' for more information. Patch metaio-test-vtk_source.patch does not app

Re: patch removal of --unified-reject-files breaks quilt

2011-02-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 03:53:34AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:17:35 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > Suddenly, I can't apply my quilt patches: > > > > steve@riemann{insighttoolkit-3.20.0}quilt push -a > > Applying patch metai

how come the buildd machines can't find python-vtk?

2011-02-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I uploaded insighttoolkit the other day, but the buildd machines refuse to build it, claiming an installability problem [1]: insighttoolkit/alpha dependency installability problem: insighttoolkit (= 3.20.0-8) build-depends on one of: - python-vtk (= 5.4.2-8) This is repeated for all ar

RFH: kseg migration to qt4

2011-02-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 604479 + help thanks The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries from Debian shortly. The package kseg uses Qt3 presently and needs to be modified to build with Qt4. I'm not actively using kseg and don't have time to spend modifying it. I'm looking for someone t

What's up with buildd logs?

2011-02-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The buildd system is generally quite fabulous, but why does https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=insighttoolkit show version 3.8.0-1? This version is neither sid, not stable, nor oldstable. Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Boost packages status

2011-03-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'm cc-ing to debian-devel since I expect others are wondering about the Boost status. On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 05:43:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Hi Steve, > > 1.42 still appears to be the latest version available in Debian (unstable). > Could 1.46.1 be uploaded? I assume you're

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Just wanted to mention another approach that avoids guessing at which files need to be touched and in what order. This is what I use in debian/rules when I need to modify automake source files: # Suppress accidental execution of the auto-* tools; see # http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/de

Bug#276085: ITP: mpfr -- C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding

2004-10-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mpfr Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.mpfr.org * License : LGPL Description : C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding The main

need to collect a list of files for HTML docs

2002-04-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, One of my packages (libboost-dev) has a lot of documentation as HTML files, complete with inlined graphics and the like. However, these files are all mixed in with the source code. I need a maintainable way to get a list of these files. There must be some tool that will parse a set of html

imlib-linked-with-libpng3

2003-04-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, I'd like to solicit opinions about what to do with imlib-linked-against-libpng3. Until August 2002, the Debian imlib packages were linked with libpng2. Even after libpng3 was released in early 2002, imlib remained linked with the older libpng2. This was done to retain the ABI of imlib, es

Re: imlib-linked-with-libpng3

2003-04-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 07:53:50PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 08:43:45PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > What would be the best way to accomodate such a request? I can > > imagine introducing a new package of imlib linked with libpng3. But > >

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Chris Cheney asks So gnome doesn't use imlib (in Debian at least it seems to), or did I somehow miss why it appears RedHat only has one version of imlib, which is the version compiled against libpng12? Red Hat hacked gdk-imlib so that libraries loaded as "modules" (like png) do N

Re: auditd as logrotate replacement?

2001-04-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:03:03PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Since it is in non-us, at least for now that means it will not appear on a > official debian cd. When I burned the 2.2r2 iso's last December, there was both a "crippled" and a "non-us" ISO for the first CD ("binary-i386-1").

configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I've recently adopted the isapnptools package. This package is most useful for 2.2 kernels. However, one of the bug reports (#71007) has a proposal for making it useful with the 2.4 kernel. In kernel 2.4, ISA PnP configuration can be done using the kernel. When enabled, this kernel option p

Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:27:20AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To complicate matters, the configuration logic may be compiled as a > > kernel module, meaning the module needs to be loaded before cards > > may be conf

Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 & isapnptools

2001-04-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:27:59AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:52:38PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > What is already handled by modutils? Loading the isa-pnp module? > > Configuring the PnP cards? > > Sorry, I wasn't talking a

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:15:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 07:48:07PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > I can keep this up just as long as you can. > > Everyone around here knows that I just love this game. Children! > In any case, your script is still broken. I'm o

Re: BTS feature?

2001-05-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:38:06PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > during the latest debate on the BTS, I thought of a new feature > which would be really useful in the BTS. > > Instead of the maintainer sending a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying "this is not a bug" (which only > serves

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:34:31AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is likely that the folks who wrote autoconf did not invent this > > idiom for setting and re-setting $IFS. They probably borrowed the > > idea from exi

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:31:34PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 02, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >(*) I really hate it when people close bugs with a one-liner (or less) > >answer, without any substantiating motivation. Especially when parts of > That's fair. I have when peop

Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, No response from -user, here's hoping someone on -devel can shed some light. I have HTML-ized documentation for a code library that contains links to the actual header files. Clicking on the link is supposed to show the contents of the "fool.h" file, for example. However, instead of display

Re: Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:58:59PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:20:15PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > WTF? It's *text*, after all. What magic spell is needed to convince > > navigator to put it into the main window like a "foo.tx

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:20AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > The point here is to make packages start moving to Build-Dep'ing on > kernel-headers-* packages. The question is, how to allow them to do that > easily. > > IMO, we can use alternatives. And it should be fairly easy > > update-altern

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:39:48PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:43:30PM +0200 wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem > > with the new upstream version. The package and program has been > > renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, be

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > Hi all, > > maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other > places than / ? It is not a stupid question, IMHO. Unfortunately, I believe the answer is "not in general". One of the problems is that

Re: Bug#96224: libgmp3: Move documentation in the -dev package

2001-05-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi Christian & Dale, On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:11:14PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > DS> I can be convinced on either count. How would you feel about my presenting > DS> this issue to the "developers" at large, with you an

script for on-disk configuration file backup

2001-05-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, A couple days after first installing debian a couple years back, I managed to mess up the passwd file in some way. I was very pleasantly surprised to find a backup version of the file on-line in /var/backups. I was quickly able to un-do whatever it was that I did. There are also backups of d

Re: Bug#110892: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hey Guys, I think Anthony mistyped the bug# here. This has nothing to do with gdk-imlib1. Cheers, -Steve On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:44:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > severity 110892 wishlist > thanks > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:42:23PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > # On Sun, 2 Sep 2

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:23:53AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Debconf question: do you want a symlink. > > Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to > interact with the user does not mean

Re: what happened to the dput package?

2001-09-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:10:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:07:36PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: > > there used to be a package called "dput", > > but now I cannot find it anymore. For example > > visiting > > > > http://packages.debian.org/dput > > > > shows t

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:28:57AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > If a multi-billion dollar company whose employees have all learned > British English decide that their documentation should be in > American English, that's saying something. It says that they feel Americans are too provincial.

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:17:01AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:06:33PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:36:24 +1100 > > Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are > > > we

libpng transition

2002-01-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:48:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > and have created one (See 127215). From my perspective the problem > > seems to be the libpng3 changes the dependencies of qt2 and hense kde. > > It seems the fix is not to r

Re: Bug#127747: general: libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library

2002-01-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Folks, We're going to have a whole new round of complaints and such if the broken packages get into testing. It seems to me that we should have high-severity open bugs on these packages to prevent them from getting into testing before it is sorted out. Do the new maintainers of libqt and KDE

Re: New project: Debian-Med

2002-01-07 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:46:12PM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > is an Debian internal project to support tasks of people in medical care. > Debian-Med will have two main components: Support for general practice and > laboratory research. In the "research" category -- how about medical imaging?

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:11:49PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also link > > > with libpng3 ? Manual check ? > > > > yes manual check > > > How about libqt2-dev confli

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:21:34AM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:07:13AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > > > > > > It's only the -dev package, which is only

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > > [...] > > >> I really

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > The fact remains that we cannot change the linkage of the library > > NOR of applications piecemeal. The c

Re: Bug in buildd for all except ix86 and sparc?

2002-01-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:30:56PM +, James Troup wrote: > Package: ax25-apps > Version: 0.0.5-5 > Severity: serious > > Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyone else have this problem? Is it a "feature" or a bug? > > It's a bug in your package. > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/

Re: Do not link GNOME1 apps with libpng3

2002-01-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:09:41PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > > [...] > > >> See Colin's answer. C

Re: Do not link GNOME1 apps with libpng3

2002-01-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:07:26PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On 09 Jan 2002 15:09:08 +0100 > Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now, the question is: should GNOME move to libpng3, and how? The QT/KDE > > > folks have sidestepped the problem by declaring that libqt2

Re: defining directories with autotools

2002-01-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:15:37PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > Having all those $*dir's done by automake and autoconf is all fine, but > how does the program know at runtime what the user entered as argument > to configure? Say, the program has some datafiles it needs in > $datadir/progr

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