Diffs of debci runs?

2024-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
stamps, - visualise the differences with icdiff. This was already a big progress compared with eyeballing, but I was wondering if I missed a more automated tool of if somebody knew a more powerful approach. Have a nice week-end ! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama

Help needed on providing the en_US locale in autopkgtests

2024-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
vide the needed locale to debci, please let me know. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian R packaging team https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/r-pkg-team Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_pless

How to handle conffiles when renaming or splitting a package?

2021-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
roblem here. Is it needed to clean dpkg's database so that it does not report obsolete conffiles for mime-support? (Actually, I would have expected dpkg to do this automagically given the Breaks and Replaces relationship.) Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy

Re: How to manage CPU-specific features in package ?

2020-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
i.debian.org/SIMDEverywhere Have a nice Sunday Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan

Re: Riddled by debian-policy 8.1.1 about ldconfig

2017-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
libraries complying with the Policy, you will see that this file indeed "activate-noawait" the "ldconfig" trigger. For packages built using Debhelper, the triggers files is added by `dh_makeshlibs`, which explains why you can not see traces of it in the clean source package. I

Re: installing GUI launchers and mimes

2017-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
update-menus fi I am not sure why this is still needed while there is already a dpkg trigger doing the work. Anyway, as noted elsewhere, the Debian menu system is being phased out. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: How to deal with arch-specific paths in .install files

2017-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
ectory in my .install file? Hi Shawn, you can find an answer (and many alternatives) in the following wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Best GPG practices before sending computer to maintenance.

2016-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
laptop. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Review of firefox-branding-iceweasel

2016-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ded to /user/share/common-licenses when a Policy Editor will find time to make it happen. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768292 So I suggest that it is fine to be forward-compatible with the future Policy :) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-07 Thread Charles Plessy
maintenance, it will be good to document this workflow somewhere (perhaps README.source ?) since it is not standard. Otherwise, people may run gbp import-orig and waste time wondering why it did not work as expected. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: git-buildpackage pattern question

2016-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
nds are you still using in your workflow ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

[OT] Re: user want messages removed from mailing list

2015-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:18:04PM +0100, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > > Reporting non-spam messages as spam is counter-productive. It won't help the > message disappear. But it will help actual spam messages to survive in our > archives. Hi Jakub, there are definitely precedents were messages contain

Re: user want messages removed from mailing list

2015-11-16 Thread Charles Plessy
can > read it. He hasn't replied yet. But if he insisted on having the > conversation removed, what should I do? Hi Alex, You can mark it as spam and cross fingers that other people do the same and the spam cleaners (everybody's help is welcome by the way) feel compassion. Have a nice

Re: cowbuilder/pbuilder: require newer version from experimental

2015-10-28 Thread Charles Plessy
his is a bit off-topic answer, but if you use sbuild --build-dep-resolver=aptitude, you should be able to satisfy the dependency on the package in experimental. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
in the main section. For downloader packages, however, they can become useless at any time, and the user has no control over this. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: doc-base for more than one document

2015-06-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:26:58PM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : > > I am a bit confused on how I can register more than one document for one > package. Hi Ole, one file per document; see the emboss package for instance. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packa

Re: Not able to pull dependencies for tests ran on ci.debian.net.

2015-06-17 Thread Charles Plessy
pected tabix to be installed because the file debian/tests/control declares “Depends: @, tabix”. Am I misunderstanding how this control file is used ? Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Not able to pull dependencies for tests ran on ci.debian.net.

2015-06-16 Thread Charles Plessy
ols-test: ---] adt-run [00:27:24]: test samtools-test: - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - - samtools-testFAIL non-zero exit status 127 Does anybody spot what I have been missing ? Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://ww

Re: not installed and installed , where they store?

2015-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
optional > Section: contrib/misc Hello everybody, by the way, for such queries, there is also the command "grep-status" in the package dctrl-tools. $ grep-status -Fpackage dctrl-tools -sPackage,Status Package: dctrl-tools Status: install ok installed Have a nice Sunday, -- Ch

Re: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique

2015-03-03 Thread Charles Plessy
about this. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150303222139.ga14...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: launchpad for debian and autobuilders

2014-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:15:44AM +0100, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit : > > I build my packages with pbuilder, but I'm looking for an automatic place to > build packages for debian. Dear Leopold, how about Elida ? https://packages.debian.org/sid/elida Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUB

Re: Install files based on architecture?

2014-09-27 Thread Charles Plessy
ok at dh-exec and how it is used in the particular case of multi-architecture packages. https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation But as Paul noted, wildcards are enough as long as you do not need $arch to be in the target. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med

Re: Samtools fails to build on several architectures [nore...@buildd.debian.org: failed i386 build of samtools 1.0-1]

2014-09-24 Thread Charles Plessy
error(NULL); >bam_fname = "-"; >} Brilliant, many thanks ! The issue was then quickly solved upstream. https://github.com/samtools/samtools/issues/300 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#751255: Help needed for wxWidgets 3.0 transition of TreeviewX

2014-08-17 Thread Charles Plessy
efit from it. http://code.google.com/p/treeviewx/issues/detail?id=4 Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Packaging from upstream's Git repository.

2014-07-12 Thread Charles Plessy
autogenerated files, I think that it is preferable to use the source directly. So, are there other suggestions ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Packaging from upstream's Git repository.

2014-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
a Git tag. Thus, given that Debian source package are based on tar archives, the version number is lost unless I use the “sources” produced by ‘make distcheck’. Does anybody know a simple solution to that problem ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To U

Re: Licensing question

2014-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
n the same thread you still have no doubts, go ahead with your conclusion; the worst case scenario is only to have to remove the packages from our Project's main archive later. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Ka

Re: Help for watch file needed

2014-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
load=1:bio3d-v2-0-1 (2-0-1) > Newest version on remote site is 2-0-1, local version is 2.0-1 > => remote site does not even have current version > -- Scan finished Hi Andreas, shouldn't it be s/-/./g instead ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www

Re: script-with-language-extension

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
being rock solid and secure, rather than know it for being incompatible by design with the rest of the Unix world. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

How to selectively silence git-multimail messages ?

2014-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
y be able to improve the system so that, when pushing with the --quiet option, the individual emails for each commits will be skipped ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSC

Re: (uscan) Files-Excluded mecanism documentation ?

2013-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
e is the best solution. It is hard to say how long it will take, but in theory, it can be as fast as providing a patch to #685506, have it accepted, and upload an updated debian-policy package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-m

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:31:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > $ gbp-clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/htslib.git > > > $ cd htslib > > > (debian/unstable) $ git br

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:26:24AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:29:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > gbp clone git.debian.org:/git/debian-med/htslib.git > > When doing `git-buildpackage` (which for sure includes the .git dir) I >

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 09:00:48AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > PS: Alioth is back online and I might have a look later this day if > you would commit there. Thanks a lot ! gbp clone git.debian.org:/git/debian-med/htslib.git Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:24:29PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > without having checked out the repository and diving into it: Can you > post a diff of the two build logs? Hi Andreas, here it is (attached). Could the problem be a side effect of the test suite ? Cheers, -- Charles --- w

No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Does anybody see why the hardening-no-relro is triggered when building in presence of the .git directory ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Is it still needed to pre-depend on multiarch-support ?

2013-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, now that Wheezy has been released, I am wondering if it is still needed to pre-depend on multiarch-support, especially for a new package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Please help: sra-sdk

2013-10-22 Thread Charles Plessy
hesitate to upload. Just pull the most recent changes before, as I updated the symbols file. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: DFSG and assembler code

2013-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
be added to the binary packages, but I would like to stress that it is not because of the DFSG. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: How to handle a package requiring external test data for its test suite?

2013-06-17 Thread Charles Plessy
o distribute > them separately. Dear Thomas, Have you considered running the tests with autopkgtest ? http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ Then, you can either download the data or install it from a separate data package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNS

A smart post-commit hook to cherry-pick only Debian changes ?

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Plessy
hook that will only send an email for the changes related to the Debian packaging ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

2013-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
We've got to > appreciate what we already have so far. Hi, have you considered the following tutorial ? http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#packaging-tutorial Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.o

Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-01 Thread Charles Plessy
it may be fair to call it "MIT" if Upstream calls it "MIT". In the case of gti, the license does not match the text of the MIT or Expat license, therefore it is better to use an arbitrary short name. Something like "gti", or "MIT-like" (as Upstream calls it),

Re: Debian Preseeding: prevent particular package from being installed

2013-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ask first on a debian user mailing list, where there may be people experienced with preseeding as well. I am not sure if it will work, but have you tried d-i base-installer/excludes ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-men

Re: Changelog etiquette for upstream patches

2013-03-01 Thread Charles Plessy
eam, you can thank the contributor in the upstream changelog. It is not necessary to repeat the information in the Debian changelog. If there was a Debian bug associated to the issue, you can mention its number together with the mention of a "New upstream version". Have a nice day, --

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
up and help the teams you mentionned. What DDs who become short in time make sure in these teams, is that the infrastructure and learning curves are as easy as possible for newcomers, in order to to help others to contribute where they can not do themselves anymore. Have a nice week-end, --

Exact matches in files in control data format.

2013-02-27 Thread Charles Plessy
? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130227140023.ga13...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: RFS: libengsas packages

2013-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
allow the retreival of the pristine text using dedicated software. For instance, the tool "config-edit" displays license texts after converting them back to plain text. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-re

Re: xdg menu entries

2013-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
lity to drop a script in /usr/games, I have no comment to make). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#699260: Help (Was: Bug#699260: r-cran-genabel: FTBFS: error: subscript out of bounds)

2013-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
tag 699260 confirmed severity 699260 grave thanks Le Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 01:28:36PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > > Also, CRAN has 1.7-3, you guys are at 1.7-0 of GenABEL. Maybe this even > changed upstream... Indeed :) +*** v. 1.7-3 (2013.01.09) + +(2013.01.09) +Commented the parts r

Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages

2012-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
es that are collectively maintained. I have no time to do it myself, but see the following wiki page to contribute. http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.

Re: Once more: Need help updating my DM upload permissions

2012-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
o wheezy-proposed-updates if need is. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121117114502.gc29...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: asking for package removal

2012-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
on to remove the package, that you made in http://bugs.debian.org/687579#10. In the absence of answer, debian-qa is an appropriate list to discuss further the removal. If there a consensus for it, you can submit the request yourself to the FTP team. But I think you were right to use debian-mentor

Re: How to remove a package from unstable

2012-09-17 Thread Charles Plessy
osed-updates. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120917235904.gc25...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Need help for watch file

2012-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
6_64.sh/VolViewSrc$1.tar.gz/;s|http://www.kitware.com/VolView/files/|| Uscan now sees the file name as VolViewSrc-3.4.tar.gz Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Problems converting Subversion-managed source package to Git.

2012-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
epair ? I have uploaded the repository at git://git.debian.org/debian-med/velvet.git Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
that they follow the machine-readable format version 1.0. These files are refreshed each time the package is uploaded, and sometimes more often, as they are picked directly from the package's VCS. See the following URL for details. http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata Have a nice d

Re: how to document removed Build-Depends in debian/changelog (Re: viennacl at mentors)

2012-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
s, and more verbose in the corresponding commits, for which the changelog mentions the first numbers of the hash ID. But this is a matter of taste; all in all, it does not cost much to fill up the changelog line with more information. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging tea

Re: Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
collab-qa/packages-metadata/ (More information about this project at http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata ) Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Bug#675701: RFS: ptop

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:37:42AM +, Bart Martens a écrit : > > "Files: filename1, filename2" for exceptions. Actually, it should be: Files: filename1 filename2 (The separator is a space, not a comma plus a space). Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...

Re: Bug#678468: RFS: sgml-data/2.0.7 [RC] [QA] -- common SGML and XML data

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
undant, i.e. it adds > no value to the description. But this is just my opinion. Hi all, perhaps one of the problems it causes is that, when the homepage changes, the long description changes, which will spend a bit of time of the translators, just for them to acknowledge that there is nothing t

Re: Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
that your current copyright file does not have a valid syntax as spaces are not allowed in short license names. The tool 'cme' frome Dominique Dumont's excellent libconfig-model-perl package, will assist you for further syntax checking. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

About the field "Choices-C" Debconf templates.

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, years after becoming DD, I am learning Debconf... amazing. I could not find an explanation for the "Choices-C" field in debconf-devel(7) nor the Developers Reference. Is that field clearly defined somewhere ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging

Re: Maintainer of GNS3 Missing-in-Action, I volunteer

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
of the gns3 package. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120515225252.ga30...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:09:32AM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : > On 15.05.2012 00:26, Charles Plessy wrote: > > when the NEW queue is long, this leaves us some time to make a pre-review to > > ease the work of the FTP team, by reducing the number of errors they have to > > deal

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, when the NEW queue is long, this leaves us some time to make a pre-review to ease the work of the FTP team, by reducing the number of errors they have to deal with. http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Is there anyway to prettify long *-Depends: lines?

2012-05-12 Thread Charles Plessy
em to break core toolchain programs, but is there somebody aware of peripheral problems ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

What is the best way for disabling a service from another package ?

2012-05-04 Thread Charles Plessy
de me curious how to actually do these kind of operations, when package A must in a way modify package B's starting behavior or configuration. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/0.0.20111012-1 [ITA] - ELF prelinking

2012-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
ck the archive instead of patching it ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120428035339.ga16...@plessy.org

Re: how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
r packages. You will do a great service to Debian if in parallel you follow the guidelines that Paul pointed you to, and help the QA and MIA teams to take care of the other packages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kan

Re: Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:22:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > are there concrete problems caused by modifying previous changelog > > entries ? > > Doing that breaks the entirely reasonable expectation: that a changelog > only ever

Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
I have not found it causing breakages. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201

Re: Documentation generated by doxygen and Debian Policy

2012-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : > Le 19/04/12 16:20, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > I think that there is a consensus that generated files must be regenerable, > > and > > that it is a bug if their build system is broken. The b

Re: Documentation generated by doxygen and Debian Policy

2012-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
diffs and heating the planet for no benefit. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: adding a new file using (d)quilt

2012-04-12 Thread Charles Plessy
using the dpkg format 3.0 (quilt). In contrary to what the name suggests, this will not be done using quilt. See the manual page of dpkg-source for more details. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Charles Plessy
s users expectations, not only your vision as an upstream developer. This means that if some design choices are perceived as flaws from Debian's point of view, somebody will have to do some work to correct the package in Sid and perhaps in Stable. That is one of the reasons for the relu

Re: installing desktop file and icon

2012-04-06 Thread Charles Plessy
s, it would be best that "make install" simply install them at the same time as the other files. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 07:04:08PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I also think that we should refrain from using short and common names for > > the > > What about "repagen" i.e. REadable PAs

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
tine name of the software that is packaged, there are other ways such as the "AppStream and Component Metadata for Debian" and "Upstream metadata gathered with yaml (UMEGAYA)" projects. http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata

Re: Signing a .deb later?

2012-04-03 Thread Charles Plessy
x27;t sign your binary packages. What you can sign is the .dsc > (source package) and .changes (upload file). You sign them using debsign. Actually, there is a binary package signing tool, but it looks rather abandonned… http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/debsig-verify.1

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
tu's changes). Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402020810.gb7...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
with Git: I did not manage to find how to avoid sending a deluge of commit emails when pushing the upstream branch to Alioth. Also, they are sent with the commiter's name as sender, which gives the wrong impression he is the one who pushed the upstream changes to the Debian package. Any hint

Re: Files permission in the debian directory

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
rting the 3.0 (quilt) format. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120213235945.ga9...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: how to manage d/changelog for updated but not yet sponsored package

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
ries of packages that have been released outside Debian for the public. However, I revert all previous “unstable” entries to “UNRELEASED” to clearly mark that these packages were not in the Debian archive. Have a nice day, Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.or

Re: DEP-5 versioned URI / Lintian complains

2012-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
el, I do not recommend to use this URL. The current draft will not have normative changes anymore, so you can use: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ The DEP is in a final review stage. Unless additional delays, I will probably mark it accepted next week,

Re: watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Charles Plessy
s/ \ http://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/samtools/.+?/samtools-(.*).tar.bz2/download Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
ns. As a consequence, it can happen that everyone expects the others to have answered. I recommend to contact the team on its mailing list. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
een > touched for years, I have reasonable concerns that either team is not active > or they are busy with something more important. Hi Dmitry, have you actually tried to contact the team ? I do not see messages from you in January or February on their mailing list. Have a nice day, --

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
at do others think? I tend to consider them as annoying noise, especially on debian-devel and debian-policy. I prefer when no message is send by routine tools when there is no error. But I guess that the issue is rather with the BTS. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Re: RFS: bibtool

2012-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
hine-readable copyright format, it is indirectly mandated by the Policy: DEP 5: The syntax of the file is the same as for other Debian control files, as specified in the Debian Policy Manual. See its section 5.1 for details. Policy §5.1: All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. Chee

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
idea of you like it. http://wiki.debian.org/PackageReview Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120117235414.gb26...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Correct value for DEP5’s Format: field?

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
ts own URL, we need its draft to mention it before it actually contains something. Given that most other recommended URLs (svn.debian.org or anonscm.debian.org) are also broken, I do not think that it is much problematic. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Correct value for DEP5’s Format: field?

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
for a new copyright file, I recommend you to use the URL that was chosen for publishing version 1.0. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Note that the trailing slash is part of the URL. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: RFS: libxml2 (NMU)

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
tried to contact them ? http://bugs.debian.org/654176 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: RFS: vodafone-mobile-broadband

2012-01-07 Thread Charles Plessy
. Note that it would be preferrable to depend on ttf-freefont, that provides this font, than distributing a copy in vodafone-mobile-broadband. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: RFS: solarpowerlog

2011-12-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Arno Töll a écrit : > > On 23.12.2011 08:57, Charles Plessy wrote: > > For projects on Git hubs that do not release tar archives, I am starting > > to use native formats. This is much more straightforward. > > just because

Re: RFS: solarpowerlog

2011-12-22 Thread Charles Plessy
rce format are rare, but can be found in the Debian archive. For projects on Git hubs that do not release tar archives, I am starting to use native formats. This is much more straightforward. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: original source has file in top-level directory

2011-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
ething even simpler to do: talk to Upstream ! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: How to pass CFLAGS to upstream's Makefile with debhlepler ?

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
> On 2011-11-14 06:12, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > trying to pass dpkg-buildglags' settings to an upstream build system > > (http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-med/bwa.git), I found no other way than > > patching their makefile, basically replacing >

How to pass CFLAGS to upstream's Makefile with debhlepler ?

2011-11-13 Thread Charles Plessy
to do, and if it is a change that can be forwarded upstream. Also, I added $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) in some calls to $(CC), but I think I remember reading that $(LDFLAGS) is not needed everywhere. When in doubt, is it safe to add them ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team,

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