Re: Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-11 Thread Hubert (Chan) Chathi
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:16:17 -0400, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:52:03AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> in a package I prepare, there is the following line in a >> source/Makefile: >> >> CPPFLAGS=-O3 -funroll-loops -march=i686 -mfpmath

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-11 Thread Hubert Chan
ump the soname, you also need a new binary package name, which means that the package will have to sit in the NEW queue for who-knows-how-long. But that's just my opinion, and if you are willing to put up with that, that's up to you. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-09 Thread Hubert Chan
webspace, or make the library into a static library. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

2007-01-09 Thread Hubert Chan
X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50.1 (via feedmail 8 I) X-Hashcash: 1:23:070110:debian-mentors@lists.debian.org::UkzcTxrtVnlskpr5:00VaZr From: Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries Refe

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
then you shouldn't need to bump the soname. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-05 Thread Hubert Chan
However, there are several concerns related to static linking, so it should be avoided whenever possible. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 12

Re: Problems when I use debhelper compatibility level 5

2007-01-01 Thread Hubert Chan
aren't they being created? Is it > correct if I just erase this line into libcegui-mk2-dev.install? The package should work properly, but won't allow static linking. As for why the .a files aren't being created, you'd have to look into the build process for the package.

Re: Problems when I use debhelper compatibility level 5

2006-12-30 Thread Hubert Chan
othing. So, since libCEGUI*.a are not being created, this results in an error. To fix it, I guess you just need to remove the usr/lib/libCEGUI*.a entry from debian/libcegui-mk2-dev.install, or wherever it's listed. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuP

Re: what is debian way to modify Makefile.frag ?

2006-12-06 Thread Hubert Chan
something like dpatch or quilt. Or just modify Makefile.frag in the root source directory and let dpkg-buildpackage include the patch into the diff.gz file. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint:

Re: correct debian way to write version into changelog file

2006-12-06 Thread Hubert Chan
d the version into the file, as it was > created first by dh_make. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: RFS: wmshutdown -- A dockapp to shutdown or reboot the machine

2006-12-02 Thread Hubert Chan
ad of wmshutdown. And it should probably contain some "don't do this unless you understand the security issues" warning. Also, you shouldn't add the '-r' flag to rm in the clean rule in the Makefile. > -- Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 16 Feb 2006

Re: build-essential / native-package-with-dash-version ?

2006-11-29 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:03:22 -0500, "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "Hubert Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:30:03 -0300, "andremachado" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: build-essential / native-package-with-dash-version ?

2006-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
ss will continue. Jar, war, > policy and stamp are generated by the compilation and are the results. I don't know about whether jar files should be executable, but if they shouldn't you should "chmod -x" them in your build process, after they get installed. -- Hubert Chan <[

Re: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends ?

2006-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
d-depend on it (unless it is a versioned build-depend). But if the package needed it when it was installed (which usually isn't the case), you would still need to depend on it. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://ww

Re: RFS; gnuserv -- Allows you to attach to an already running Emacs

2006-10-21 Thread Hubert Chan
are probably not necessary, and should be removed from those patches. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

who do I bug to frob the buildd flags?

2006-10-19 Thread Hubert Chan
ho do I bug to get this fixed? The architectures are arm and sparc. On the next upload libavifile-0.7-dev will be removed from the build-depend on ia64. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
is guaranteed to be present on the system. So this warning can be ignored. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
have the maintainer's blessing for the changes. > I wonder how it can be "your" package, when you are not the > maintainer. The maintainer has given Yavor his blessing to be co-maintainer. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=385239;msg=32 -- Hubert Chan - emai

Re: What to do with word documents ?

2006-09-19 Thread Hubert Chan
rted by many free software projects. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: RFS: jabbin

2006-08-29 Thread Hubert Chan
> Hello, > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Andrew Donnellan wrote: >>> On 8/25/06, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So what would be the alternative? Would we have to use a makefile hack >> (e.g. test for the existence of /dev/random and set a compile flag) o

Re: RFS: jabbin

2006-08-24 Thread Hubert Chan
eed, then you should not be getting rid of the compilation error. It may compile correctly, but it will not work as intended. |int seed = int(tick); | #ifdef WIN32 |srand(seed); ` -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key:

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Hubert Chan
neccessary. Yes. If the SONAME (the "shared object version") for both libraries will always be the same, it should be safe to put them both in the same package. If the SONAME may be out of sync, they should be in different packages. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Hubert Chan
desc->pos); -- END --- Generally, you can build a dpatch source by just taking a regular patch, and adding a header (like above) to it. Then you just create a 00list file, which lists all the patches in order (without the .dpatch extension). -- Hubert Chan - e

[RFS] ufraw: raw camera image importer

2006-06-13 Thread Hubert Chan
color profiles. Thanks -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

RFS: windows-el: window manager for emacs

2006-06-03 Thread Hubert Chan
/windows-el/ (or just http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/ ). Package is lintian and linda clean. Package: windows-el Version: 2.40-2 Section: utils Priority: optional Architecture: all Depends: emacs21 | emacsen Installed-Size: 146 Maintainer: Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Descr

Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-03 Thread Hubert Chan
everyone who applies for NM should have already made a contribution to Debian -- significant enough that someone is willing to be their advocate. So I would not be surprised if a larger-than-average number of applicants are prepared to be DDs. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
e-ness, the license is fine, since it is the 3-clause BSD, with one less restriction (well, actually, that restriction is already covered by law). So the only problem, really, is just making sure that all the names are correct. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
it? Would it be possible > to ask the author to change the license or even switch to the real BSD > license? Any other hints? Uh, for that issue, you just need to ask upstream to s/FREEBSD PROJECT/VIRTUAL EXIM DEVELOPMENT TEAM/ . This has nothing to do with whether or not it's a real BS

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
NY THEORY OF > LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING > NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS > SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > Thank you for any hints Daniel -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: non-standard configure && cdbs

2006-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
fore the installation. configure/foo:: configure-foo-stamp configure-foo-stamp: ./configure bla bla bla touch configure-foo-stamp The second time the configure/foo rule is called, it will notice that the configure-foo-stamp is already present, and not run configure. -- Hubert Chan <[

Re: RFS: GNUstep packages

2005-12-09 Thread Hubert Chan
Thanks. I'll contact him. My thought was to create a repository in our alioth project, instead of putting it in experimental, since it would be easier for us -- since most of us are not DDs (yet). But yes, it would make sense to put them in some test-repository, before we upload to uns

RFS: GNUstep packages

2005-12-01 Thread Hubert Chan
. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: 'RFP', 'wnpp', 'ITP',...

2005-10-14 Thread Hubert Chan
not). If you are creating packages for eventual inclusion in Debian, you should use them (and check to see if other people have already filed ITP bugs), to avoid stepping on other peoples' toes. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Finger

Re: what about confdirs?

2005-10-14 Thread Hubert Chan
configuration file, despite the similarity in names. see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key availabl

Re: Best way to maintain a package for multiple Debian releases?

2005-07-08 Thread Hubert Chan
he sid/sarge/woody versions, if there's any difference (such as in the control file). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encry

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-26 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 19 May 2005 18:31:16 -0400, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael K Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hubert> Commenting out those lines, and

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-19 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael K Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hubert> Commenting out those lines, and compiling multi-threaded, gives Hubert> performance similar to the single-threaded c

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-18 Thread Hubert Chan
GC_malloc, but performance is similar to just using GC_malloc. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-18 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael K Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The configure flags for compiling libgc are: --disable-threads >> --disable-shared --enable-cplusplus (obviously

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-18 Thread Hubert Chan
at Michael> all), how much time is spent fiddling with spinlocks, etc. I'm Michael> a novice with oprofile but I'll be needing to learn about it Michael> Real Soon Now. Ryan, have you had occasion to throw this or Michael> other profiling tools at libgc? I'll take a

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-17 Thread Hubert Chan
27;s numbers. (I'm running sid, last updated a couple of weeks ago, on a 2.6.10 kernel.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-17 Thread Hubert Chan
m. By the way, have you heard of any other comments about multi-threaded libgc being slower than single-threaded? -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at

depending on a customized library

2005-05-17 Thread Hubert Chan
est way to proceed? Are there other options? -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. pgpgzAvSPOd3z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
ume that shouldn't be much of a problem. Miriam> Quoting him: "The reason I added debian subdirectory is to Miriam> distribute it with the source files." You can then ask him why he needs/wants to distribute it with the source files. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
tly. ... It may be of value to users of stable who want to make their own package of the latest version of the software for some reason. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key av

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
(installed with Stefan> "dh_installchangelogs debian.dist/changelog"). Tell your upstream to move his changelog. There isn't any reason for it to be there. The debian directory is for things specific to the Debian package. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhor

Re: CDBS and DESTDIR

2005-03-22 Thread Hubert Chan
le.mk You should set your variables *after* your includes. e.g. perlmodule.mk includes perlmodule-vars.mk, which re-sets DEB_MAKE_INSTALL_TARGET. BTW, you don't have include makefile.mk if you include perlmodule.mk, since perlmodule.mk automatically includes makefile.mk. -- Hubert Chan &

Re: RFS: albumshaper - a drag and drop photo album manager

2005-03-16 Thread Hubert Chan
permissions. So you'll either have to repack the source with the correct permissions, or change the permissions in debian/rules. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-04 Thread Hubert Chan
compile. It doesn't install. >From the Policy Manual, section 4.8: "The build target must not do anything that might require root privilege." ... Michelle> | binary: Again, from Policy section 4.8: "The binary target must be all that is necessary for the user to build the

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-04 Thread Hubert Chan
licy section 4.8: "The binary target must be all that is necessary for the user to build the binary package(s) produced from this source package." Hence binary should depend on build, install, etc. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B6

Re: RFS: WMAnsiEd - An ANSI/ASCII editor

2005-03-04 Thread Hubert Chan
ition, or whether s/he simply martin> uploads whatever s/he can find. Perhaps the question is better phrased: what makes WMAnsiEd better/sufficiently different from the other ANSI editors already in Debian? Or why would someone want to use WMAnsiEd instead of one of the other ANSI edit

Re: Help about license

2005-02-28 Thread Hubert Chan
opyleft could be considered GNU GPL? It seems like upstream doesn't understand copyright. The way that statement parses, the copyright for the software is held by an entity (company) called "GNU Copyleft". You should bug upstream for clarification, and get him to put i

Re: Advice in 3 packages

2005-01-04 Thread Hubert Chan
7; is only for software that depends on non-free software. So unless httplog depends on non-free software, it would go in main, if the license is free, or non-free, if the license is non-free. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprin

RFS2: asymptote: MetaPost-inspired graphics language

2004-12-15 Thread Hubert Chan
that LaTeX does for scientific text. Packages available at http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian.text -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.p

RFS: asymptote: graphics language inspired by MetaPost

2004-12-08 Thread Hubert Chan
/debian.text -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

architecture detection

2004-09-27 Thread Hubert Chan
package does not use autoconf/automake, and currently depends on the user to determine the architecture (via "make x86", "make ppc-linux", "make generic", etc). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint:

architecture detection

2004-09-27 Thread Hubert Chan
package does not use autoconf/automake, and currently depends on the user to determine the architecture (via "make x86", "make ppc-linux", "make generic", etc). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint:

RFS: hashcash

2004-02-23 Thread Hubert Chan
ize: 173 Maintainer: Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: a postage payment scheme for email based on hash calculations Hash cash is a payment scheme that uses CPU cycles as the form of payment. This can be used as a counter-measure for junk email (spam) by using the hash cash token

RFS: hashcash

2004-02-23 Thread Hubert Chan
ize: 173 Maintainer: Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: a postage payment scheme for email based on hash calculations Hash cash is a payment scheme that uses CPU cycles as the form of payment. This can be used as a counter-measure for junk email (spam) by using the hash cash token