Re: RFS: weboob

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t; substitution done to them to make them less potentially offensive, IMO. I'm not sure this is the best forum to discuss this, and I could certainly be wrong. In an attempt to avoid a flamewar, I will endeavor to make this my last post in this thread. I believe I've said

Re: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:

2011-03-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ta directories like this. Look at MySQL and PostgreSQL and see what their behavior is on a purge. Do they delete existing tablespace or not? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: Help with mantis package

2011-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
x27;ve not have to go through this process, so I'm speaking from a position of theory and study, not practice and action. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'

Re: RFS: ncrypt

2011-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
against a compatible version of the LGPL code. NB: IANADD; TINASOODP. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Problem to create the orig tarball

2011-02-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ild multiple binary packages $app, $app- plugin-$plugin. [1] This might actually not be fully supported, yet. I'm not sure about the status, but I believe 3.0 (quilt) source packages can handle it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Init scripts as conffiles

2011-02-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
er, something like that couldn't be the default for the same reason --purge can't be the default. I'm not sure how such a state would be representing in dpkg. uninstalled, half-configured? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =.

Re: Init scripts as conffiles

2011-02-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
if a file has been modified since it has been installed. Some packages ship with debsums, but not all. Neither the original .deb or any sort of "exploded" form is saved for the entire time a package is installed. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-

Re: installing an end user editable file

2011-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
r/share files should mostly be 644. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: installing an end user editable file

2011-02-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
eal user to many real users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: dtmfdial

2011-02-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e point in your maintainership. HTH I'm looking forward to seeing your RFS mail about dtmfdial. Also, be sure to use this list a a resource for answers to any specific packaging questions you have. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: update-rc.d and rare start/stop runlevels

2011-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201101261659.53734@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <20110126222650.ga26...@mea.homelinux.org>, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >>start and stop runlevels are: >>Default-Start : S >>Default-Stop : 0 6 >> >>Howeve

Re: update-rc.d and rare start/stop runlevels

2011-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ges indicate to me that update-rc.d is complaining that you've asked it to install S* links in rc{2,3,4,5}.d and K* links in rc{0,1,6}.d but that the init script expects something different, namely what you've listed in the script. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =.

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-01-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ants to take an active hand in preparing policy- compliant and release-ready packages, it may be best to use upstream resources to manage the package. Contrary-wise, a half-baked debian/ directory, even if it only appears in the upstream VCS is not really useful to any

Re: RFS: liboauth (updated package)

2011-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s on lintian errors <http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/bilalakh...@ubuntu.com.html#liboauth> (which links to a full report <http://lintian.debian.org/full/bilalakh...@ubuntu.com.html>), so the information was available elsewhere, and you reference the PTS reports in your sponsors

Re: RFR: webalizer - web server log analysis program

2011-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the private email does need to be disclosed to (at least) the DD that does the actual sponsoring. We do need to respect the work of existing maintainers; part of that is not "stealing" a package from them. We do what is necessary to prevent that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Debconf in non-interactive mode

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
u can really be sure one way or the other. (Assume non-interactive, plz.) [1] On Linux, at least. I don't know if the kFreeBSD port has /dev/tty. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20101120183255.gf12...@khazad-dum.debian.net>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >But hey, all the maintainer has to do is add 1, in words ONE, char to >> >debian/rules. Just change "build:" to &quo

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t;maintainers to change the source. > >But hey, all the maintainer has to do is add 1, in words ONE, char to >debian/rules. Just change "build:" to "build%:" and dpkg-buildpackage >could use build-arch/indep targets instead of build. Aparently that is >too much to a

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday, October 23, 2010 08:21:23 you wrote: >On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:49:41PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> There's no reason Debian freezes must last six months or longer. > >Are you serious? Yes. >There is nothing in our real life which have no rea

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s DFSG-free data available, but the non-free data is still useful from some purposes, then DSFG-free data and program in separate packages in main and Suggest non-free data in non-free. (Gets a little stickier if the program doesn't support multiple data sets.) -- Boyd Steph

Re: hello

2010-10-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ugs in that package. There are a number of tools that are helpful in preparing new (patches to) source packages, but they are fairly well documented, both on the Debian web site and in the mailing list archives. If you have specific questions, this list can generally answer them. Examples incl

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
" of your commit that you can apply and have a "working" build, then your commit is just the right size to stand alone. E.g. If you add a new function, and fix up a few places to use the new function instead of copy-pasta, that should be two or more commits. E.g. If you change

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on and building under a different chroot. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday, October 11, 2010 17:01:16 you wrote: >On 11 October 2010 20:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In , Jordi >> Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >>>On 11 October 2010 12:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. >>>wrote: >>>> It gets used as "unsta

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >On 11 October 2010 12:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> In , Jordi >>> Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >>>Does it have to be this way? Why do fixes to testing have to go >>>through unstable, even during freeze time? >&g

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
reeze AND you'd likely have to re-upload to "unstable" after the thaw anyway. (Continual automatic migration from "unstable+1" to "unstable" is wrong semantically, and likely has some technical hurdles as well.) If a re-upload is required anyway, we might

Re: Bug in frozen package - aim at backports/volatile?

2010-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
.7 is released. (The fix is relegated to s-p-u, security, volatile, etc.) See bug 595728. :P -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
imes a license that is normally appropriate for main can be disallowed due to the interpretation of the copyright holder. (ISTR, Pine's license being like this.) It is possible the converse could be true as well. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I was imagining a C library, which has little end-user demand if there's no application that needs it. I can imagine a PHP library (e.g.) might be shipped because it is useful for users developing websites (e.g.). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.n

Debian and Patents (was: Re: RFS: packagekit)

2010-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
g etc. So I >think, this item can be removed. I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to legal risk to SPI. I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia repositories which, while good, are not official. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Package proposal for Jaxl - Jabber XMPP Client Library

2010-08-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ase and the maintainer is unwilling or unable to fix those issues before release. TL;DR: Prepare your package for unstable, it will migrate to stable eventually. We are in a freeze right now, so it will be a while before new packages are considered for stable. --

Re: RFS: premake

2010-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , James Goppert wrote: >I think I have corrected all olf the errors in the premake package. Please >let me know if there is anything left to change. Same or different dget URL from your OP? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuici

Re: RFS: premake

2010-08-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s (pinning most of Sid to 99 or less, and lintian in Sid to 991 or more) to install Sid's lintian on a stable system. Fifth, thanks for the package, I hope you can clean it up and get it in Debian. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Default Configuration Issues

2010-08-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >fluxboxes (or is that fluxboxii) Definitely not fluxboxii, unless it is a loan word from a language I am entirely unfamiliar with. It is probably fluxboxes (c.f. box -> boxes) but it might also be fluxboxen (c.f. ox -> oxen). -- Boyd Stephen

Re: restricting git commits to the debian subdirectory?

2010-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
bly rejects the commit. The example script checks all commits, but I think you should be able to determine what branch you are on with (git symbolic-ref HEAD). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaT

Re: RFS: notorious-women

2010-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
forgiven to not read the whole thing -- it is rather large. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc D

Re: RFS: notorious-women

2010-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t is simple categorization with no ulterior motives that I can imagine. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
our package. If you aren't obnoxious with your self-promotion, you'll eventually find someone to take enough time to look at your package and, most likely, reply with a laundry list of things you need to fix. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.n

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 18:22:08 Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 18.12 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha > > scritto: > > I don't think you are going to get a lot of traction for any proposal > > that removes a DD from the upload process. >

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
g to get a lot of traction for any proposal that removes a DD from the upload process. So, lack of free DDs will always be a potential issue. I suggest you encourage people to become a DD. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: License Question (from Newbie)

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of main (or at least, non-free). That's probably a question for debian-legal, but it depends *a lot* on the content of EULA.txt and how flexible upstream is about changing it. The advertisement window is not strictly forbidden, IIRC. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =.

Re: Taking over maintaining a package

2010-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on, or close some as invalid completely. Consider preparing a package for stable-updates if you can fix bugs affecting stable the risk is low. Consider preparing a package for backports. ... Anything I missed, -mentors? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicid

Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?

2010-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
h one is the correct one? -- IV For a simple repository, I used apt-ftparchive. If you are going to have multiple releases (e.g. lenny, sid), multiple sections (e.g. main, non-free), or a package pool, then it might be too simple a tool, however. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,

Re: Update of package problems on web site

2010-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and aptitude, too, right? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s a "major change". > Is that the situation? Yes, dpkg does not (currently) expose the control fields in the environment that the {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts are run. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
" > > How would one accomplish this in deb? You wouldn't. It's a useless message. Drop it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguana

Re: RFS: shtool (updated package)

2010-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
uot;shtool scpp" but shtool) > > In git they have made this solution: > > You can start git i.e. with: "git checkout ..." > > But the manpage must be started with: "man git-checkout" Or, (git checkout --help). > This coul

Re: RFS: new package lmfit: Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares minimization and curve fitting

2010-03-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ost to the list again. If this is your first package, expect sponsors to reply to the list with issues that need resolving before they upload. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDadd

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
present your work. Trust me, any issues remaining will prompt your peers to correct you. >:) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/

Re: How to remove the relation between a file and a .deb package

2010-02-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
cies to delete"? No; No. >What happens if the same file is contained in two packages and one of >them gets removed? dpkg will notice the packages conflict and not allow them to be installed at the same time. (Assuming no Replaces dependency.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: The use of epoch in version

2010-01-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 January 2010 17:34:18 Ben Finney wrote: > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > > If the upstream version is currently 1.2.3, and debian version is > > something like 1.2.3-4, how about releasing Debian version > > 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3-1 with a new

Re: The use of epoch in version

2010-01-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
quot;upstream" tarball with version 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3. You avoid using an epoch and can continue waiting on a real 1.2.4 from upstream. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-&

Re: On the htdig package

2010-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ssues within Htdig. It it used by the help system to search and index all the installed help files. I think upstream should probably stop depending on it, and start using the Akonaki framework to handle those tasks. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...

Re: On intermediary deb-releases, their archiving.

2010-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
are such packaged quickly > pushed into oblivion? Normally, I'd recommend snapshot.debian.net, but I believe it ran out of space last year and can no longer provide this service. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 16:49:37 Francisco Rivas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > TLDNR: RTFM N00B! > is this necessary or are you kidding?.. :P Sorry, if it wasn't clear. I was just joking.

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
as well -- they may have even prepared python-specific policy documentation. TLDNR: RTFM N00B! -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: About software from other distribution

2009-11-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, (ala PINE) the copyright holder could have an odd view of a normally acceptable license. [2] If there's already a package that fills the same role, your package might not be considered useful for Debian users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
for a release (at the least) or dropped from the repositories and their archives. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
gt; > sBIT > > pHYs > > tEXtSoftware > > www.inkscape.org > > [...] > > This would mean, that it is created with inkscape, which could also save > the files as svg. In this case, it would also mean the preferred form for modification is the inksca

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 October 2009 11:15:16 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 22 October 2009 22:37:54 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 22 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >> > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t have to be modified to be used as a noun phrase. The first is clearly grammatically incorrect -- it can't be used unchanged in any grammatically correct structure. The second is not a sentence, but it is grammatically correct as it can be used unchanged in a grammatically correct structu

Re: RFS: qemu-kvm (kvm)

2009-10-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
* Introduction to i18n Finally, there may be specific policy documents that apply to the package(s) you are most interested in. For example, maintainers of java-related packages should be familiar with the "Debian GNU/Linux and Java FAQ". All of these documents a

Re: NMU for libkarma (Rio Karma tools)?

2009-10-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
't have time, I wonder if this is a good place for collab-maint to step in? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: multiple database support with dbconfig-common : metapackages ?

2009-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ever, I am a bit surprised that you need to depend on both libdbd-pg-ruby and postgresql-client. Shouldn't libpq5 (desciprion: PostgrSQL client libraries), brought in as a dependency of libdbd-pg-ruby be enough of a client? postgresql-client is only the front-end binaries.

Re: Problem with debian/rules

2009-09-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t;/dev/tty" for output (No such device or address) > >Wild guess: if you run build from chroot, then probably your /dev >(under chroot) is not populated, thus awk can not access /dev/tty. Either that or your chroot is in a "nodev" mount point. Then

Re: How to detect 32 or 64 bit at build time?

2009-09-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
put executables for a different system, you can specify the "target" [the system it's output is built for]. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'

Re: RFS: sqlkit

2009-09-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
titude is how to not install Recommends by default. Depends: $mysql_pkg | $postgres_pkg | $other_pkgs Recommends $mysql_pkg, $postgres_pkg, $other_pkgs is ideal, I'd think. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_))

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 12:54:21 Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:45:53AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090901055635.gc6...@glandium.org>, Mike Hommey wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:03:06PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote: > > >

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
m. You might be able to use static linking, but that's generally frowned upon on Debian. Shipping the library along-side the application is also generally frowned upon. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 51

Re: RFS: nautilus-dropbox

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
efinitely not. The images are under a (restricted) redistribution-only license. They could be put into non-free, but they certainly can't reside in main. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/A

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
name. However, changing the (binary) package name could possibly allow side-by-side installation of the old ABI and the new ABI. This may be desirable in the short term for any library. For the long-term, multiple source packages will probably be required. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ey are missing a piece >of software they use or would like to use. I'm not sure that's the most common itch anymore. I think more often it is that they want faster releases or bug fixes. Either that or continued availability of packages that are RFA, ITO, or O. -- Boyd S

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
blicized. New packages are fine, but there seems to be a constant need for more maintainers of the packages that already exist. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)

Re: Upstream dedicated system and Debian adaptation

2009-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s.qa.debian.org/d/dhcp-probe.html >[2] : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535361 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/

Re: RFS: libsockets++

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
are making. >[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In Tuesday 04 August 2009, you wrote: >On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:23AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090804100620.ga8...@shurick.s2s.msu.ru>, Alexander Inyukhin wrote: >> >Socket permissions are controlled by umask, but if security >> >mat

Re: Automated package build-and-test tools for Debian package maintainers (was: pbuilder: The following packages have unmet dependencies)

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
um of documentation reading. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ooler can't secure it's sockets the same way ssh-agent and/or gpg-agent secure theirs? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/

Re: git-buildpackage issues

2009-08-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a most recent commit. It has no commits; the .git/HEAD symref is invalid/missing. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200907281303.42301@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <20090728163525.gc31...@an3as.eu>, Andreas Tille wrote: >>On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >>> > This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
h later today. P.S. Please CC me if you drop debian-mentors, I am not subscribed to debian-med. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: RFS: deejayd (updated package)

2009-07-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ing 2 arguments to the '[' command, after removing the trailing ']' only one argument remains. In that case the '[' (or test) command is required to return 0 (succeed) if the argument is non-empty and return non-0 (fail) if the argument is empty. -- Boyd St

Re: Nomeclator of plugins

2009-07-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
consider making the SO_VERSION part of the lib*-dev package name. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: shell kung-fu with set -e, return codes and i/o redirection in while read ... loop

2009-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
while leaving the entire script "set -e". It helps prevent errors from cascading. Even if you are checking return values for everything now, you might not be so disciplined with changes in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: shell kung-fu with set -e, return codes and i/o redirection in while read ... loop

2009-07-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t to exit >with any return code != 0 as that would cause the whole initscript to >stop instead of processing the remaining crypt targets. Using something like the above you should be able to try to mount the all entries, print a warning for each one that fails, and then return a

Re: RFS: nzbget

2009-07-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e some >help with it. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ is the start page for that. If you have more specific questions, please let us know. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
However, it is executed poorly; it's not ready for upstream in its current state. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: non-native package versions

2009-06-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, a get-orig-source target is virtually mandatory since this package would be very hard to maintain without it. >You can't upload a VCS revision as a source package (yet). Is this a thinly-veiled reference to the new source package format? If it is, do you know of any page on the Interne

Re: non-native package versions

2009-06-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
by my reckoning, which is not what is appropriate for this package. >[D]o I really need to separate the app code from the debian >packaging files? isn't there another option? The other option is native packaging. However, I think we've already covered why that isn't appropri

Re: Adopting package

2009-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
pyright, it would be the previous maintainer for the years they maintained it and your copyright for the years you maintained it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .

Re: RFS: mount-systray

2009-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <135eeb1d0906250600y552b3c5du980a01d3e3d3e...@mail.gmail.com>, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote: >On 24 jun, 21:40, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> In <135eeb1d0906241156q69cfcf9fqeb7bfbe733ddc...@mail.gmail.com>, Juan >> Jesús >> Ojeda Croissier

Re: RFS: mount-systray

2009-06-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
le use to non-Debian-derived distributions. If you can think of *any* reason that openSUSE, Fedora, or Gentoo would want to use the software (albeit with different packaging) you should use normal (non-native) packaging. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicid

Re: Packaging data for a CGI

2009-06-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ors will find it right away. If it isn't appropriate to activate in any non-trivial environment, it might be better as /usr/share/doc/hoogle/apache.conf.example -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\

Re: Creating a transition package for source and binary switching

2009-06-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
sion without an epoch will be considered to be a lower version (that 3:1.1-2) by dpkg and any higher-level tools, including apt. Once an epoch is in place, it is required to stay. That's one reason the should be avoided if possible. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean? no.

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
stable/testing/whatever. If you are using pbuilder to build your package inside a Sid chroot (packages for uploading to unstable should always be built in a Sid environment), you can use a post-build hook to run Sid's lintian against the package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200906171954.59429@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <200906171857.57749@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >> >Same thing for the trigraphs. >> >> puts("What??!"); /*

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200906171857.57749@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >Same thing for the trigraphs. puts("What??!"); /* ;) */ -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
at the *start* of it's declaration and ends at the end of the containing block' with the specific admonition that 'int n = n;' "initializes" n to whatever value was at that location before n was initialized, leaving n with an unknown, not well-defined value. --

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
quot;: int a = 0; void **i = &i; int main() { a[i] = i; printf("%p", i); } There may be other issues that affect the quoted code, but I don't see them off-hand. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: package advices

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ripts package contain $org-addadmin and $org-deladmin scripts that are installed to /usr/sbin. Whatever method you are using for mass package-installation should be able to handle mass script-running. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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