Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Julien Lavergne
Thanks a lot Cyril for this explanation, it makes more sense now :) Using -Wl,--as-needed, I reduce the depends for 1 binary, but it's seems not good for one other. But I'll try to correct configure/Makefile directly, since I begin to understand this strange thing that is autotools :) -- Kind reg

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 03/02/2008, Neil Williams wrote: > Just imagine the chaos in Debian if the pkgconfig data of > libgtk+2.0-0 was changed now. Each reverse dependency would then > need upstream changes to add extra libs to the build that were > previously implied. That would be just as disruptive as a full > SONA

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 22:14 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 03/02/2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > What I meant was if dependencyA appears in the dpkg-shlibdeps list > > of "not needed" linkages for 'foo' but foo is nearly always > > installed alongside bar which uses symbols from dependencyA (i.e

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 03/02/2008, Neil Williams wrote: > What I meant was if dependencyA appears in the dpkg-shlibdeps list > of "not needed" linkages for 'foo' but foo is nearly always > installed alongside bar which uses symbols from dependencyA (i.e. > dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't complain about dependencyA in the build

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:21 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 03/02/2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > but if that extra dependency is genuinely necessary for some other > > application which would almost inevitably be installed alongside the > > package in question, then no harm is done. > > I don'

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 03/02/2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > Note that this might still break the build system, but that *is* a > > good thing. > > (Agreed, but is probably easier to fix upstream than in Debian, > YMMV). Well, if you're packaging something, basic understanding on what the code is doing, what submodule

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:21 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Sometimes, just deleting an -lfoo would do. But more commonly, the > build system doesn't allow you to use fine-grained library > dependencies. That's where LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed is your friend, > since it tells the linker to forget abou

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 03/02/2008, Julien Lavergne wrote: > That's something I wanted to do, but I didn't find a good way to do > that. I tried to replace ${shlibs:Depends} with only necessary > library, but dpkg-shlibdeps still get the same warnings. Oh, no, you definitely don't want to touch that! The idea is to g

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-03 Thread Julien Lavergne
On sam, 2008-02-02 at 00:10 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > It spews several pages of dpkg-shlibdeps warnings during build -- what > about > trimming the libs somehow? That's something I wanted to do, but I didn't find a good way to do that. I tried to replace ${shlibs:Depends} with only necessary l

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:50:42PM +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote: > * Package name: avant-window-navigator It spews several pages of dpkg-shlibdeps warnings during build -- what about trimming the libs somehow? -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: //

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-02-01 Thread Julien Lavergne
On ven, 2008-02-01 at 09:01 +0100, Luca Bruno wrote: > Michael Biebl scrisse: > Yeah, when you repackage the tarball, you should mention that in > debian/copyright and name the tarball something like > avant-window-navigator_0.2.1.dfsg.orig.tar.gz Thanks Michael, I renamed it and reuploaded it to

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-01-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Julien Lavergne wrote: Hi Luca, Thanks for the review. * It looks like you're shipping a non DFSG-free icon, data/avant-window-navigator.svg under CC 2.0 by-sa, as specified by its rdf metadata. Please contact upstream and ask him to relicense it under a free one (ie. upgrade to CC 3.0).

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-01-31 Thread Julien Lavergne
Hi Luca, Thanks for the review. > * It looks like you're shipping a non DFSG-free icon, > data/avant-window-navigator.svg under CC 2.0 by-sa, as specified by > its rdf metadata. Please contact upstream and ask him to relicense it > under a free one (ie. upgrade to CC 3.0). Please mention it

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-01-30 Thread Luca Bruno
Julien Lavergne scrisse: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "avant-window-navigator". I did a review of your package, and spotted these issues: * It looks like you're shipping a non DFSG-free icon, data/avant-window-navigator.svg under CC 2.0 by-sa, as specified by

RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-01-29 Thread Julien Lavergne
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "avant-window-navigator". It is a dock-like navigation bar that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list. It also take advantage of the composite desktop

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Marco Rodrigues schrieb: > Dear mentors, There is obviously something odd here. > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "avant-window-navigator". > > * Package name: avant-window-navigator > Version : 0.2-1 > Upstream Author : Julien Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream is

RFS: avant-window-navigator

2007-10-22 Thread Marco Rodrigues
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "avant-window-navigator". * Package name: avant-window-navigator Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Julien Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://launchpad.net/avant-window-navigator * License : GPL v

RFS: avant-window-navigator

2007-10-07 Thread Julien Lavergne
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "avant-window-navigator". * Package name: avant-window-navigator Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Neil Jagdish Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://launchpad.net/avant-window-navigator * License : GP