Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-01 Thread Wookey
7;neat' epochless versions forevermore for all those future users when everyone has forgotten about this cock-up. Ultimately you are the maintainer so it's up to you. From what you have said, I think I'd epoch in this case, unless I thought the current set of users could be considered

Re: Strange armel build error

2024-08-17 Thread Wookey
onsistent as possible across architectures, and don't just reach for the 'disable' button. For someone on a particular arch that is the same as the 'remove from archive' button in effect. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Strange armel build error

2024-08-17 Thread Wookey
t; solution I could and should upload it. That is indeed a totally reasonable approach. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#285814: ITP: libtom0 -- wraper library for using OpenGL from tcl

2004-12-15 Thread Wookey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libtom0 Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://perso.club-internet.fr/dropfred/index_en.html * License : GPL Description : wraper library for using OpenGL from tcl Tom is an OpenG

How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-13 Thread Wookey
others in the same situation, although I have not done extensive research to try and produce a list. (cc: me - I'm not subscribed) Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.or

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Wookey
On 2006-10-14 12:06 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:30:14AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I believe the Vancouver proposal went into wrong direction by excluding > (slower) archs from releases. Of course, dropping archs is a quick and easy > way to lighten th

Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads

2006-12-20 Thread Wookey
sure having more than one maintainer would be helpful. Aurel - do you want to commit to this task? Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads

2006-12-23 Thread Wookey
On 2006-12-20 19:58 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:32:25PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > > > Could you try those packages on hedges? (You can get developer access > > from Wookey if you need it). Hedges has 512MB real and 1.5GB swap. And &g

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-06-07 Thread Wookey
sitry library). I have no idea what it would take to persuade you that I am who I say I am, but if you _only_ accept National Passports then it would appear to be impossible in my case (which I realise is something of a corner-case). Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44

Re: compaq iPaq

2000-08-16 Thread Wookey
atform linux software. Emdebian intends to use the resulting good stuff to produce a proper small-device distro. The needs of genuinely embedded devices and general-purpose handheld computers are not quite the same, but the restrictions are similar so we hope that a distro can be produced that

Re: Upcoming debian meetings

2007-02-08 Thread Wookey
orward. I suggest best initial contact is Cesar Gomex Martin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and danger

Re: Upcoming debian meetings

2007-02-08 Thread Wookey
On 2007-02-08 20:19 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:25:32PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > > > I suggest best initial contact is Cesar Gomex Martin: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > gomex-> gomez :) > > (in both surname and email address)

Re: Last call for keys for keysigning in New York City, USA during DebConf10

2010-07-20 Thread Wookey
rd to get done (indeed Steve mcintyre is now about 12m away in the next office :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

tcl8.5 breaks dpkg-cross assumptions and multiarch

2011-01-31 Thread Wookey
Does anyone disgree with the above conclusions? And do people agree that policy 8.2 could be clearer on this point? I've filed a bug containing some of the above discussion and a patch for tcl8.5. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611650 Wookey -- Principal hat

Re: tcl8.5 breaks dpkg-cross assumptions and multiarch

2011-01-31 Thread Wookey
;s actually correct. Its policy of only crossing arch-dependent files is the right one, I believe. (It does allow symlinks within /usr/src which presumably has/had a good reason.) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: tcl8.5 breaks dpkg-cross assumptions and multiarch

2011-02-03 Thread Wookey
+++ Loïc Minier [2011-02-01 12:50 +0100]: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011, Wookey wrote: > > But if something is looking for arch-independent stuff in /lib then in > > general that's wrong, and I'm not aware of any examples of > > correctly-packaged packages that need t

Fun with libtool and cross-builds

2011-02-09 Thread Wookey
c.a: could not read symbols: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libtool: install: error: relink libboundparam.la' with the above command before installing it make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 I note that when doing this libtool --config shows that it do

Fun with libtool and cross-builds

2011-02-10 Thread Wookey
before installing it make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 I note that when doing this libtool --config shows that it does have an idea of where the right place is: maverick)wookey@kh:~/ubuntu/maverick/build/pcre3$ ./libtool --config | grep sys_lib sys_lib_search_path_spec="/usr/lib/

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Wookey
urity support to make it practical for people to use/test in the real world. All the above IMHO as I don't claim to have a deep understanding of all the dependency and trnsitionning issues. I do have an interest in consistent buildability for embedded Debian though. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/

Bug#170945: ITP: therion -- Cave survey drawing software

2002-11-27 Thread Wookey
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist Package name: therion Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.therion.sk/ License : GPL Description : Cave survey drawing software Therion is a

ITP survex

2001-09-02 Thread Wookey
downloads and info. Wookey

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: > > I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd > components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being > aware. Where is this package? I'm not finding it in testing or the pts? Wookey -

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
svinit-core&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ti%20+cks=on&from_date=2014-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%Y-%m&beenhere=1 Which shows about a change from 'peak sysvinit-core' in mid-april: Mid april Now sysvinit-core:89% 81% sys

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2014-06-26 12:31 +0200]: > On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > +++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: > > > > > > I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd > > > components being installed

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Marco d'Itri [2014-06-26 16:29 +0200]: > On Jun 26, Wookey wrote: > > > Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable > > number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly > > when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Havi

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-01 Thread Wookey
md? I guess > > I could make a dummy package that conflicts with systemd, but I'm > > I made such a dummy package, and Wookey wanted to upload it > yesterday IIRC. It is not on https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > yet, though. Ah yes. E-busy. Just uploaded 'preve

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-01 Thread Wookey
+++ Lars Wirzenius [2014-07-01 18:34 +0100]: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > You get a choice of 'prevent-systemd' which stops it running as init > > but allows the -shim and libpam packages so that logind and the like > > will wo

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Wookey
be taken very seriously. I'm afraid the name amused me - and I assume I'm not the only one. But OK. I get it - this is still too contentious to have any room for this sort of foolishness and if it's to exist at all it'll have to be called something boring. That's a

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Wookey
s us more possible routes through the dependecny graph, which (up to a point) is generally a useful thing with a new arch as you don't always know in advance which packages will be most trouble. The chosen route is unlikely to use all the profiles available unless there really are only jus

Re: trying to build debs of Enlightenment for wheezy

2014-07-12 Thread Wookey
x27;s share of the work in terms of dependencies. > I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask these questions. If that > is the case please direct me to the right place. The right place is the debian-mentors mailing list https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ You will get good advice t

Re: let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-15 Thread Wookey
uld be far better solved with a system conffile of some sort > like /etc/dpkg/dpkg-source.cfg, which admittedly doesn't exist yet. Agreed. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Re: NMUing generally

2014-07-16 Thread Wookey
ng, and many packages with a backlog of minor bugs, or packaging that frankly just needs updating. But a lot of this quickly gets into 'updating' and 'de-crufting' rather than simply minimally-bug-fixing. I suspect that would see more pushback if one did much of it. Wookey -- Princ

Bug#755035: ITP: rt-app -- Test application which simulates a real-time periodic load

2014-07-16 Thread Wookey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wookey * Package name: rt-app Version : 0.2_alpha Upstream Author : Giacomo Bagnoli * URL : https://github.com/gbagnoli/rt-app * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C Description : Test application which simulates

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-05 Thread Wookey
to debian-multimedia and ubuntu where they have been for years), and am happy to do packaging-level work to make that happen. (I've also been a tad busy with arm64 and cross toolchains and bootstrapping to make anything other than very slow progress on this project...) But overall, I

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-08 Thread Wookey
s make it materially better or not. That testing is easier if ffmpeg is available in debian, but obviously possible without. Thanks for your response, which provides some useful info. I assure you that it was worth your time. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboar

Re: Multiarch capabilities for mingw crossbuilds too?

2014-08-08 Thread Wookey
ocations, and that might be a hard sell in Debian. It _should_ only affect libc packaging, but work needs to be done to demonstrate that. Everything else is straightforward, and indeed a simplification of the current state for any package that produces win32/64 libs. Wookey -- Principal hat

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-11 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2014-08-08 16:05 +0100]: > > My expertise here is extremely limited, but some practical experience > shows that mythtv does at least basically work fine with libav. It turns out that this is completely wrong (as hinted at in later mails). I was mislead by info in bugrepo

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Wookey
iew, whilst acnowledging that it is no longer the 90's and a 512Mb machine will struggle with any modern desktop+browser (which is sad IMHO - dawkins knows what software, especially browsers, do with all that memory! - hundreds of Mb for simple tables of built packages, for example, bu

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Wookey
0 392188 > >KDE: > > total used free sharedbuffers cached >Mem:506756 499724 7032 6772 10516 109760 >-/+ buffers/cache: 379448 127308 >Swap: 392188 21632

Re: Two new architectures bootstrapping in unstable - MBF coming soon

2014-08-27 Thread Wookey
orts to help bootstrap debian proper (cycle breaking), so will keep debian-ports running until everything there is also built in debian-proper, then we can turn it off, and as you observe, 'free up' a slot. That should be within the month judging by current rates of progress. Wookey -- P

Re: Minimum ISA

2014-10-09 Thread Wookey
t format you write it down in, as presumably each compiler uses (slightly?) different ISA terminology. I'd certainly like to follow up this problem next year. A useful start would be if people could list the affected packages, beyond gcc* and llvm-toolchain*. Wookey -- Principal hats: Li

Re: Built-Using, again…

2014-10-13 Thread Wookey
y-ical, or a human, > solution to this problem, right? The situation could clearly be improved. (I have an interest in built-usuing currency for cross-toolchain builds). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Wookey
we're about to freeze testing. > > The GR train passed… At this point I'm inclined to agree. I'm just pointing out that interested people, who are moderately well-involved, really did miss that a GR was attempted. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonb

Re: Adding and using repositories during package installation?

2014-10-22 Thread Wookey
ry options make it very easy to add a repo and packages to the build environment. That might help, or not, depending on what your actual requirements are. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: Hurra for an efficient ftpmaster team!

2014-10-23 Thread Wookey
had some complicated ones and they have also been handled carefully and promptly. Things are working well, and we do do indeed appreciate your work, FTPmasters, especially at this busy time. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org

Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

2014-11-01 Thread Wookey
Changes to the system such as a mechanism for rebuilds that didn't change the version number, or changes to dpkg to consider binary rebuilds 'multiarch equivalent' would solve this in a more systematic way. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard

Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

2014-11-07 Thread Wookey
foreign-arch: armhf useful recently (for using armhf packages in bootstrapping when arm64 ones were not yet available/working) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

2014-11-09 Thread Wookey
is it just a bug? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.deb

Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

2014-11-09 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2014-11-01 14:19 +]: > +++ Marc Glisse [2014-11-01 11:45 +0100]: > > Hello, > > > > sorry for the naive question, but is there a plan for massively > > rebuilding all "Multi-Arch: same" packages that have inconsistent > > version nu

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Wookey
(such as planet). Just some (anecdotal) data. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Wookey
eating a binary name that is already used somewhere, and thus a potential clash, but it is not obvious to me how to check. Strictly this applies to every file in a package, although clashes are most likely in /usr/bin Wookey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Bug#648345: marked as done (FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64)

2012-05-04 Thread Wookey
osmetic issues? > I obviously do not want to dictate how you should spend your time, but > is kfreebsd already working so well that you are bored? That doesn't look cosmetic to me. That looks like an FTBFS fix for kfreeBSD, which he gave you 5 months to do yourself before NMUing it.

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Wookey
fault over CDs? And try to hide the 'hd-media' name at least in initial download selection, because it is geek-accurate, but rather confusing to a newcomer. Wookey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120515142459.gf11...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Wookey
he build so it skips the not-present dh-translations on Debian, and otherwise modified the deps for Debian. I'll do some testing tonight when I have USB sticks to hand. There are probably quite a few useful utilities like this in Ubuntu universe that should get uploaded. Wookey --

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-18 Thread Wookey
+++ Mehdi Dogguy [2012-05-16 16:24 +0200]: > On 16/05/12 13:41, Wookey wrote: > >is there any reason not to just upload this to Debian? > > There are ITPs filed for it: > - http://bugs.debian.org/582884 > - http://bugs.debian.org/576359 Yes. I discovered that when I went t

Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-18 Thread Wookey
includes useful layout/format information. Wookey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120518174500.gf11...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-20 Thread Wookey
+++ Ben Hutchings [2012-05-21 00:30 +0100]: > > (Should we consider gathering selected hardware specs in popcon?) Yes please. This would really help arm people too. We currently have to guess how many people we are cutting off when minimum support is moved forward. Wookey -- To UNSUB

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-26 Thread Wookey
thus tmpfs) having more than a few MB of ram. hmm. I just checked some stats: after looking inside a 45MB .deb files in mc: tmpfs382M 212K 382M 1% /tmp so it's not unpacking it there any more even though MC_TMPDIR=/tmp/mc-wookey perhaps this issue is fixed at leas

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Thorsten Glaser [2012-05-27 17:52 +]: > Wookey dixit: > > > >here's a case where a lot of space gets used in there: open a .ppt > >(powerpoint) file in libreoffice. The conversion involves writing a > >file in /tmp/ for every page/image. To open an image-

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-27 Thread Wookey
ou expect it to be better than the alternative. > > Still, if mc will obey $TMPDIR, it is not at fault. Does it? Yes, it does. (I just checked). It even behaves well if the dir specified does not exist (complains, but starts anyway, gives errors if you try to open archives with no tmpdir, star

Re: Migration path for 'Multi-Arch:allowed' packages

2012-06-13 Thread Wookey
tes etc. then it might > be possible to drop it now. I added a user-oriented HOWTO to the multiarch doc-collection last month as there seemed to be a shortage of such docs to point to that weren't cryptic specifications, or talking mostly about cross-building. It may be a useful place

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Wookey
nce of using your real name _and_ having a special 'unusualy names checking service'. I still got told to piss off. I don't get that sort of aggro from IRC servers. But yes if it works for you it's one of many possible communication channels. Wookey -- Principal hats: Lin

Re: Remote conferencing software (audio/video chat and broadcast)

2012-06-21 Thread Wookey
oduction ready. That sounds interesting as something to evaluate. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-24 Thread Wookey
and superiour. If one does that they might go away with the impression that Debian is a civilised place where they'd like to help out, rather than a place full of people who are usually right but arrogant with it. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http

Re: Proprietary software that's hard to avoid.

2012-06-25 Thread Wookey
ke a look at this stuff. This is one bit of proprietary software I'd be quite keen to swap out. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2012-01-19 14:32 +]: > +++ Neil Williams [2012-01-19 13:02 +]: > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 + > > Wookey wrote: > > > > > I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for > > > cross-building would be

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Wookey
a conventional cross-toolchain or is it like the amd64/i386 case where a chroot and a personality is all that is needed? I admit that I haven't thought about the issues for this particular case in any detail. Is there actually a demand for being able to do this? Wookey -- Principal hats: L

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-08 Thread Wookey
27;t recall if the rules for arm actually prevent the bootloader allowing the loading of other keys, or just prevent turning off secure boot. I think the latter, but as there is no requirement for this feature it may be rare in practice. By making this easily available in UEFI I suppose that ma

Re: solving the network-manager-in-gnome problem

2012-07-18 Thread Wookey
. They are not all mutually exclusive and are listed approximately in order of utility in terms of solving the issue (IMHO). I do believe that at least one of the above should be done for wheezy. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ --

Re: Have NetworkManager disabled by default when... (was: Recommends for metapackages)

2012-07-18 Thread Wookey
everything seeming OK. wicd is easy to disable as it has a ENABLE/DISABLE option in /etc/defaults. N-M doesn't so you either have to remove it properly or resort to nobbling the init script. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ --

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Wookey
re important things to do with our time than bikeshed about upstream's funny naming, which does at least have the major benefit of being a unique string.) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Wookey
e spec sheet which is 79000 yen, which I make to be best part of 750 euro. I'm not sure they'll sell any at that price, so hopefully that'll change. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Wookey
t is by no means exhaustive, and not all of the > > possibilities are common: > > Very informative reply, thank you very much! One wonders if some posters recognise comedy when they see it :-) Thank you Lars, it was a fine piece of work. Now back to your normal programming of humourl

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-09-01 Thread Wookey
still relevant or worth the effort would no doubt require another long thread :-) Steve and Russ have it right. We strive for technical excellence and the widest functional coverage that can sensibly be achieved in the context of a binary distro and the available resources. The implies plenty of choi

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Wookey
re gnome3 came out) I'd be happy if xfce was the default. Which is better depends if one prefers 'dull-but-works-everywhere' over 'shiny-but-not-universaly-liked'. I can see reasonable arguments in favour of either. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookwar

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-12 Thread Wookey
gration, dependencies. But it is worth examing what the particular benefits/aspects of a new app are. I am slightly perplexed to see in that list that there is a 'Gnome Map Application' that only runs on Windows. Funny old world. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookwa

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-27 Thread Wookey
d > this certainly qualifies, IMO. I only run cross-buildds, not native ones, so this isn't my call. Just bear in mind that every such choice of providing more than is strictly mandated will be hiding bugs in other circumstances. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Ball

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-13 Thread Wookey
+++ The Wanderer [2013-05-13 10:22 -0400]: > On 05/13/2013 09:46 AM, Wookey wrote: > > >+++ The Wanderer [2013-05-13 07:55 -0400]: > > >>For the full 64+32 Wine, I don't believe this is possible - or if > >>it is possible, no way of doing it has yet b

Re: Apport for Debian

2013-05-13 Thread Wookey
explicitly declare it and munge the rules file to make it. Adopting some similar scheme (or even the same one) makes a lot of sense to me. Does anyone object to doing this? Are there problems with doing it? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Wookey
ibc headers to /usr/include/$multiarch fix mingw builds? How many other libraries are similarly affected? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-23 Thread Wookey
ot allowed in UIDs, (if only to avoid confusion and getting someone-else's email) although everything seems to cope these days in practice. I do recall seeing a warning about the 'Debian-exim' name from something-or-other once, which was how I discovered the 'rule'. Wookey --

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Wookey
w if this ever happens. Ideally not, and only the core program libraries would be needed to build against, but all sorts of crazy stuff goes on in people's builds. Does anyone know of examples? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Wookey
this approach, but am entirely unfamiliar with the issues involved with keeping them synced with browsers. If it wasn't too hard I'd be happy to maintain xul-ext-lazarus, for example. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- T

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-05 Thread Wookey
ts if they disagree. > == binutils == > > binutils 2.23.2 will be uploaded to unstable after GCC 4.8 as the > default on x86 reaches testing. Later updates will introduce binutils > trunk leading to 2.24, later this year. I've only tested 2.23.1 but had no trouble at all

Re: DebianBootstrap supported in which Debian suites?

2013-06-07 Thread Wookey
some cases. In general we don't have a mechanism to do this _in the archive_ until build-profiles are supported (or at least ignored by B-D parsing tools) You can bootstrap happily using local builds and local tools that support profile builds. Existing patches here: http://people.debian.or

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Wookey
might get a tuit soonish), but the people who built it are clueful, and it _ought_ to be better than rebuildd, simpler and more flexible than wanna-build, and more appropriate than jenkins and buildbot. I'd be very interested to hear from people working in this area whether it is ind

Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

2013-06-14 Thread Wookey
y(ish) staring at build-logs. The short-form build logs are often useless for working out why something isn't working, or comparing successful native builds with failed cross builds, for example. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-20 Thread Wookey
ust because we don't make it easy for them or because of free-loader aspects? I have always thought that there was room for a business selling longer-term Debian support. Maybe someone does? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ --

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-21 Thread Wookey
+++ Philip Hands [2013-08-21 10:35 +0100]: > Wookey writes: > > > I have always thought that there was room for a business selling > > longer-term Debian support. > > Quite. > > It seems to me that doing things to keep these people cheerful should > attract

Re: debian-cross mailing list created

2013-08-21 Thread Wookey
e also formed a debian-cross-compilers packaging team at debconf, which is co-ordinated here: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/crosstoolchain/ so if you want to help out with actual packaging, that's the place. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://w

Re: Preventing government subversion in Debian, verification of binary package uploads

2013-08-24 Thread Wookey
//wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds Quite a lot of people are interested in this, for various reasons, the one you give being just one example. We did seem short of volunteers to actually push this forward and make it happen, so as ever, if you'd like to see this become a reality, do please ge

Re: Debian running on handhelds (or for terminals)

2013-08-26 Thread Wookey
ort for more devices, updating handheld-relevant packages). Lots of people are 'interested' in this are, but I'm not aware of much actual work being done. A bit of action could well generate quite a lot more interest. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloon

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Wookey
.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703421 Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Wookey
million, so I had to put in an epoch. Which doesn't really matter but just seems kind of annoying and unnecessary. The 'use an ISO date as version' idea comes from advice in the developer packaging docs somewhere. It would be good if this 0~ trick was mentioned there too so one could

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Wookey
re than one release a day. Which exact tag/branch/hash/whatever was used for the orig tarball can be recorded elsewhere in the release. It doesn't have to go in the version number - that's a decision for the packager. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, AR

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Wookey
|| 3 || 1 || 2 ||6 > armel: Wookey (DD), Gatis Visnevskis (!DD), Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (DD), Steve > McIntyre (DD) > armhf: Jeremiah Foster (!DD, but NM?), Wookey (DD), Justus Winter (!DD), > Lennart Sorensen (!DD), Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (DD), Steve McIntyre (DD) I

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Wookey
erraintool' in $XDGHOME) This was done upstream, not just for Debian, so conforms with what you've said above, although I wasn't aware of any particular consensus. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - a decision is needed, patches exist

2013-10-23 Thread Wookey
back on his list and promised to put somethig in soon, so I hope we'll see something which is both reasonably flexible and implemented very soon. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-req

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Wookey
agree it's a sensible default if we are going to pick one. Re accessibility: There is an 'accessibility' settings box with sticky keys, slow keys, bounce keys, and mouse emulation. I really don't know how that compares to the gnome options, or whether important aspects are missing in

Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Wookey
good reason I can discerne). If xnox forgot that then a tut is in order. > It builds fine. When some distro bogusly introduces changes which make > all kind of packages breask they can fix them up; but this is not a reason > for NMUing it in Debian. Why would you want to actively prevent

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