Re: RFS: ario

2007-09-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:22:03 +0200 > "Marc Pavot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > - consider using system libmpd instead of bundled src/libmpdclient.[ch] >> libmp is different from libmpdclient. libmpd is a higler level library >> based on libmpdclient but Ario doe

Re: RFS: kopete-otr 0.6-1

2007-09-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
Raphael Geissert wrote: > * calling debian/rules deletes the autom4te.cache directory; so > running dpkg-buildpackage twice will modify the .diff.gz. You should > contact upstream and ask him/them to provide a clean tarball No, it won't. dpkg-source -b will skip missing files, and is current prac

Re: Are soname bumps required when library upgrades break compatibility?

2007-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:27:11PM -0700, Brandon wrote: > Thanks for your explanations guys. I get it now. A crash is serious, > whether or not the reason is documented in policy. If the crash is the > fault of the library, the library gets the RC bug. The statement was that a crash due to change

Re: Are soname bumps required when library upgrades break compatibility?

2007-09-11 Thread Brandon
>> That is a bit of a stretch. It would not be unusable. > The point of a library is to be used by its dependencies, by the > packages built against it. If it is (not|no longer) usable by these > rdepends, the package is unusable. That makes sense. >> You can't really say "breaks unrelated packa

Re: RFS: kopete-otr 0.6-1

2007-09-11 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 11/09/2007, Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > On 10/09/2007, Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear DD, > > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kopete-otr". > > > > > > > Maybe you should send

Re: RFS: ario

2007-09-11 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:22:03 +0200 "Marc Pavot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - consider using system libmpd instead of bundled src/libmpdclient.[ch] > libmp is different from libmpdclient. libmpd is a higler level library > based on libmpdclient but Ario doesn't use libmpd. It provides libm

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-09-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:55:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Woh, it's great to hear from you. I'm afraid I've been lazy too, you should > > be shown ready patches instead of hearing "that's mostly working"... > > If you do work on patches, please make sure they're against current bzr; > the

Re: packaging sqliteman

2007-09-11 Thread David Claughton
François Févotte wrote: ... I would definitely appreciate any feedback you'd have on sqlitebrowser as compared to sqliteman. I just installed it - looks good. Functionally it seems to offer roughly the same as sqliteman, though I personally prefer sqliteman's interface (YMMV of course). H

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:06:42PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Adeodato Simó schrieb: > > Your init.d script should *not* exit with status non-zero if the daemon > > was already stopped. You can do that either by passing --oknodo to > > start-stop-daemon, or by checking by hand if the return

Re: RFS: ario

2007-09-11 Thread Marc Pavot
Hi > Please fix following issues: >=20 > - you should close ITP in changelog done. > - any good reason for being Architecture: i386 and not all? It's a mistake, I changed the Architecture to 'any'. > - fix copyright file > - add more license information and link to full license (see [1] for

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-11 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Adeodato Simó schrieb: > Your init.d script should *not* exit with status non-zero if the daemon > was already stopped. You can do that either by passing --oknodo to > start-stop-daemon, or by checking by hand if the return status is 1. > *Not*, in any case, by appending "|| true", since that would

Re: Are soname bumps required when library upgrades break compatability?

2007-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:20:27 -0700 Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm asking mostly for bug reporting. I don't maintain any libraries. > >> When I file a bug report against a library for breaking ABI > >> compatability without bumping the soname, do I report it as serious? > >> Or just im

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Christoph Biedl [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:34:49 +0200]: > Hello, > Currently I am packaging a daemon. I used dh-make (0.43, Debian > lenny) and did some small adjustments afterwards. Now came across two > problems where I am not sure how they should solved properly, in other > words: What is best

Re: Are soname bumps required when library upgrades break compatibility?

2007-09-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (11/09/2007): > >Yes, serious at least, but I'd even say “grave”: “renders package > >unusable” (by its dependencies) in reportbug. > > That is a bit of a stretch. It would not be unusable. The point of a library is to be used by its dependencies, by the packages built

Re: Are soname bumps required when library upgrades break compatability?

2007-09-11 Thread Brandon
>> I'm asking mostly for bug reporting. I don't maintain any libraries. >> When I file a bug report against a library for breaking ABI >> compatability without bumping the soname, do I report it as serious? >> Or just important? What would the justification be for reporting as >> serious if there i

Re: [UPLOADED] hex-a-hop (updated package)

2007-09-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:13:21PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > What I meant is that if you consider license information of any value to > > the reader of the manual page, it should contain a link to the actual > > license text (it can be on the internet as well). In fact, I expect it > > not to

Re: [UPLOADED] hex-a-hop (updated package)

2007-09-11 Thread Jens Seidel
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:38:06PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > I uploaded the package. I still have some comments (see below), but > they weren't enough reason to not upload. Thanks. > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:20:11AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > > this is a "GPL without version" claim, whi

[UPLOADED] hex-a-hop (updated package)

2007-09-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi Jens, I uploaded the package. I still have some comments (see below), but they weren't enough reason to not upload. On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:20:11AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > this is a "GPL without version" claim, which according to the GPL > > means any version is acceptable. I >

daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-11 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hello, Currently I am packaging a daemon. I used dh-make (0.43, Debian lenny) and did some small adjustments afterwards. Now came across two problems where I am not sure how they should solved properly, in other words: What is best practise? Given the following situation: The daemon was stoppe

Re: RFS: kopete-otr 0.6-1

2007-09-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Francesco Cecconi wrote: > this is my last attempt :) You need to be more persistent than that :D All the best with your effort for which we are all grateful. Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: kopete-otr 0.6-1

2007-09-11 Thread Francesco Cecconi
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Raphael Geissert wrote: > On 10/09/2007, Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear DD, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kopete-otr". > > > > Maybe you should send an ITP first and add a (Closes: #nn) to the > debian/changelog done,

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
[Quotes reordered slightly to suit the flow of my reply from argument to constructive suggestion. :-)] On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:56:50PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 07:03:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:50:53AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >

Re: packaging sqliteman

2007-09-11 Thread François Févotte
Hi David, > I picked sqliteman purely because I needed/wanted a GUI frontend (there > isn't a similar program already in Debian AFAICT) and this was one of > only a handful I was able to find on Google... > > I would still like to see such an application in Debian, as well as > finding a usable pr