Tests that take more than ten times build time.

2008-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Re-salut Cyril, Le Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > What about *relative* numbers, e.g. what % of the time is spent in the > build itself (gcc and friends), and what % of the time is spent in the > testsuite? Anyway, (almost) less than 1 hour everywhere isn't what

Re: Config files which are writable by www-data

2008-02-12 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:20:14PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > but when I copy the files at install time (postinst) then /usr/share/doc > should be no problem? If the administrator deletes the files in > /usr/share/doc afterwards then my application will have no problems. I got a similiar situati

Re: How to set BTS tags nicely

2008-02-12 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:47:10PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do the same except BCC so if anyone replies they don't spammed by the BTS complaining about their reply being commands it doesn't understand. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D8

Re: RFS: python-twitter

2008-02-12 Thread Mauro Lizaur
On Feb 12, 2008 9:28 PM, Piotr Ożarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One more thing before I upload it: please clarify copyright holder > issue - the one in sources and in debian/copyright doesn't match > Added the email of the author and Google as a copyright holder too. I hope this is ok, if not

Re: Skipping tests on some arches.

2008-02-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 13/02/2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > 1h05 on sparc, > 37 min on mipsel, > 39 min on mips, > 37 min on powerpc, > 19 min on hppa, > 6 min on amd64… What about *relative* numbers, e.g. what % of the time is spent in the build itself (gcc and friends), and what % of the time is spent in the testsui

Re: Help with watch file -- versions based on different libraries

2008-02-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, I wrote: > I've been trying to write a watch file for "flpsed". First of all sorry for hijacking the thread. Secondly, it is amazing how writing down one's problem makes it clear how to solve it! > As far as I can see the author's logic for this somewhat bizarre > nu

Skipping tests on some arches.

2008-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:40:02AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > > I'd rather enable the tests on all architectures Well, no problem for me. One of the reasons why I disabled the tests in the past was that I asked the question and I was advised to do so. Last time, the tests have taken: 1h

Help with watch file -- versions based on different libraries

2008-02-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I've been trying to write a watch file for "flpsed". The upstream home page is at http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html This lists two versions of flpsed based on which version of the library fltk is being used. Since Debian only has fltk1.1.x at the moment, I can pa

Re: [CDBS] adding commands to the checking target.

2008-02-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 13/02/2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have disabled the tests on arm m68k s390 because they are not so > fast, and on mips mipsel hppa because the buildds for these arches > are not keeping up. That won't help your package get faster on the top of the queue. And this doesn't seem to be a valid

Re: RFS: falconpl package (ITP:Bug#460591); source package

2008-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
Feb 13, 2008 3:53 AM, Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The checks performed by Ubuntu maintainers have been quite extensive > and deep, and the package should be ready as is; so, I am requesting a > sponsor to forward the package in Debian too. I was intrigued by this claim, so her

Re: [CDBS] adding commands to the checking target.

2008-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:11:05PM +, Neil Williams a écrit : > > If the tests are disabled, you won't know if some tests fail on > different architectures. The whole point of make check if ensuring that > the build works in environments other than the build machine. > > What about simply lim

Re: RFS: python-twitter

2008-02-12 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Mauro Lizaur, 11.02.2008] > may i ask which was the lintian error? i executed lintan -i -I and it > was clean :/ it was about missing python package in Build-Depends (a bug in lintian - fixed already) > All the changes you made are fine for me, there are only two thing > that i would change: > -

Re: RFS: meritous 1.2-2

2008-02-12 Thread D. Moonfire
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:19 +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > * D. Moonfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080212 20:24]: > > Salutations, after getting `meritous` packaged, someone kindly found a > > few bugs which I've patched, sent upstream, but I figured getting them > > out as soon as reasonab

Re: RFS: meritous 1.2-2

2008-02-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * D. Moonfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080212 20:24]: > Salutations, after getting `meritous` packaged, someone kindly found a > few bugs which I've patched, sent upstream, but I figured getting them > out as soon as reasonable would be a Good Thing(tm) being that one of > them causes the game to

RFS: meritous 1.2-2

2008-02-12 Thread D. Moonfire
Salutations, after getting `meritous` packaged, someone kindly found a few bugs which I've patched, sent upstream, but I figured getting them out as soon as reasonable would be a Good Thing(tm) being that one of them causes the game to crash on the first boss fight. :) .dsc: http://mfgames.com/de

RFS: falconpl package (ITP:Bug#460591); source package

2008-02-12 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I have uploaded the package as currently proposed and accepted in Ubuntu, debianized where relevant. The source is at: http://www.falconpl.org/downloads/0.8.8/falconpl_0.8.8-1.diff.gz http://www.falconpl.org/downloads/0.8.8/falconpl_0.8

Re: RFS: uncrustify (updated package) (second try)

2008-02-12 Thread Johann Rudloff
Hi, reading the thread "Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file" on this list, I think I now found the right way(TM) to handle config.{sub,guess} files: The two files are removed (using rm -f) in the clean target, but then the source package would generate a Lintian error as in the above mentioned

Re: How to set BTS tags nicely

2008-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: > > I usually do: > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Better change that cc to bcc. That way, spammers (and people) replying to > your mail will not hammer the poor control bot

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:19:36PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:21:29AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Always re-running autoconf and automake would increase the number of > >> FTBFS's that we'd need to fix. > > > Not really

Re: How to set BTS tags nicely

2008-02-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: > I usually do: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better change that cc to bcc. That way, spammers (and people) replying to your mail will not hammer the poor control bot. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to

Re: [CDBS] adding commands to the checking target.

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 23:37 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I am using CDBS for a package, in particular because it gives the support of > the "nocheck" option for free, but in addition I want to disable by default > the > checks for some arches, because they take 20 min on an iMac G5… If the test

Re: signed mails to control@ (was: How to set BTS tags nicely)

2008-02-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hi David, * David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-12 15:10]: > Il giorno Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:53:21 +0100 > Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > * David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-12 14:50]: > > [...] > > > I usually sign all my emails -- but when I include commands to the

[CDBS] adding commands to the checking target.

2008-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear mentors, I am using CDBS for a package, in particular because it gives the support of the "nocheck" option for free, but in addition I want to disable by default the checks for some arches, because they take 20 min on an iMac G5… To add things to the clean rule, one would have to write somet

Re: signed mails to control@ (was: How to set BTS tags nicely)

2008-02-12 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:53:21 +0100 Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi David, Hi Nico, > * David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-12 14:50]: > [...] > > I usually sign all my emails -- but when I include commands to the BTS I > > cannot do that, as the GPG header is "conf

Re: How to set BTS tags nicely

2008-02-12 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 12 févr. 08 à 14:47, David Paleino a écrit : Il giorno Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:35:46 +0100 Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: Sometimes, I want to send new information to a bug report and set tags or otherwise modify the bug at the same time (for instance, but not only, sending a

signed mails to control@ (was: How to set BTS tags nicely)

2008-02-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hi David, * David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-12 14:50]: [...] > I usually sign all my emails -- but when I include commands to the BTS I > cannot > do that, as the GPG header is "confusing" the server. > > So, this is how you would do it. I add more to the original question: is it > po

Re: How to set BTS tags nicely

2008-02-12 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:35:46 +0100 Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi, Hi, > There is a trivial question I've been asking myself for some time, > and I guess it will be best abswered here. > > Sometimes, I want to send new information to a bug report and set > tags

How to set BTS tags nicely

2008-02-12 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, There is a trivial question I've been asking myself for some time, and I guess it will be best abswered here. Sometimes, I want to send new information to a bug report and set tags or otherwise modify the bug at the same time (for instance, but not only, sending a patch and setting th

Re: RFC: Howto exclude config.sub and config.guess updates from .diff.gz

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 11.02.2008, 19:48 +0100 schrieb Bernhard R. Link: > * Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080211 15:21]: > > If you care > > and if you want to avoid this: preserve the original config.* scripts > > and put them back in the clean-target. This increases the whole > > debian/rules file

Re: ITR: ustr (updated package)

2008-02-12 Thread Václav Ovsík
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:02:40AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:43 +0100, Václav Ovsík wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.3-2 > > of my package "ustr". > > > > It builds these binary packages: > > libustr-1.0-1 - Micro st

Re: ITR: ustr (update for existing package)

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:07 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Hey Neil, > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:02:40AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Good, that's the kind of RFS I like to see - just one thing missing, > > this is an existing package: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/ustr.html > > j

Re: ITR: ustr (updated package)

2008-02-12 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:02:40 + Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > That can be inferred from the bug fix description but the knowledge of > whether this is a new package (with an ITP) or an existing package is > very useful to a potential sponsor so it is as well to put it in a

Re: ITR: ustr (updated package)

2008-02-12 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hey Neil, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:02:40AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Good, that's the kind of RFS I like to see - just one thing missing, > this is an existing package: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/ustr.html just a quick note (and question): He indicated that this package isn't new, by

Re: ITR: ustr (updated package)

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:43 +0100, Václav Ovsík wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.3-2 > of my package "ustr". > > It builds these binary packages: > libustr-1.0-1 - Micro string library: shared library > libustr-1.0-1-dbg - Micro string library: debug

RFS: ustr (updated package)

2008-02-12 Thread Václav Ovsík
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.3-2 of my package "ustr". It builds these binary packages: libustr-1.0-1 - Micro string library: shared library libustr-1.0-1-dbg - Micro string library: debugging symbols libustr-dev - Micro string library: development stuff li

Re: Long descriptions in RFS emails.

2008-02-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 11/02/2008, Andres Mejia wrote: > Perhaps it's best to include where the description and other > information should go. I'm thinking something like: > […] > The package appears to be lintian clean. I'd like not to see this in a template anymore. And rather a “State of the package with the lates