Re: Libraries with "extra" priority?

2016-09-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Tim, When Debian had less than 1000 packages it meant something to talk about "specialised requirements", and divide packages between extra and optional based on that, but that division has broken down now we have 50,000 packages. As I understand it, the current consensus is that the differ

Libraries with "extra" priority?

2016-09-25 Thread Tim Dengel
Dear mentors, I was looking at debcheck[0] and saw that my package (with "optional" priority) depends on a package with "extra" priority (libpeas-1.0-0), which is not allowed by policy. After re-reading the policy chapter about priorities[1] it seems that my package is really better off in "extra"

Bug#838870: RFS: nbsphinx/0.2.9+ds-1 [ITP] -- Jupyter Notebook Tools for Sphinx

2016-09-25 Thread Jerome Benoit
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear Sponsors, I am looking for sponsorship for the Debian package nbsphinx [0,1]. This package brings nbsphinx to Debian on behalf of the Debian Python Modules Team. This is my second Debian Python Module package, s

Bug#838859: RFS: clipf/0.4-2 [QA]

2016-09-25 Thread Gustavo Soares de Lima
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "clipf" * Package name: clipf Version : 0.4-2 Upstream Author : Galtsev Denis * URL : http://code.google.com/p/clipf/ * License : GPL-2+ Secti

Bug#838845: RFS: puppet-module-puppetlabs-motd/1.4.0-1

2016-09-25 Thread Gustavo Soares de Lima
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "puppet-module-puppetlabs-motd" * Package name: puppet-module-puppetlabs-motd Version : 1.4.0-1 Upstream Author : Pup

Re: NFS_SUPER_MAGIC portability

2016-09-25 Thread Ole Streicher
Christian Seiler writes: > Therefore, it might be a good idea to know _why_ you want to check for > NFS here? What's the use case? Perhaps there's a better and more > portable way to check for that specific thing. That was the key question ;-) Scanning the code showed me that the function is act

Re: NFS_SUPER_MAGIC portability

2016-09-25 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/25/2016 03:12 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > I have the problem that in a package (casacore) there is basically the > following code: > > -8< > #include > #include > > Bool Directory::isNFSMounted() const > { >struct stat

Re: NFS_SUPER_MAGIC portability

2016-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > A bit of web searching A bit of codesearching finds this interesting function in coreutils: https://sources.debian.net/src/coreutils/8.25-2/src/stat.c#L212 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: NFS_SUPER_MAGIC portability

2016-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > The linux include subdir is obviously only available on Linux archs, not > on kfreebsd or hurd. From the "statfs" manpage, I had the impression > that the second include is just not needed; however then NFS_SUPER_MAGIC > is not available. A

NFS_SUPER_MAGIC portability

2016-09-25 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi, I have the problem that in a package (casacore) there is basically the following code: -8< #include #include Bool Directory::isNFSMounted() const { struct statfs buf; if (statfs (itsFile.path().expandedName().chars()

Bug#838824: RFS: moka-icon-theme/5.3.2-2

2016-09-25 Thread foss.freedom
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "moka-icon-theme" * Package name: moka-icon-theme Version : 5.3.2-2 Upstream Author : Sam Hewitt * URL : github.com/moka-project/moka-icon-theme * License