Re: parallel building without make

2008-01-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
g and potentially use more threads than specified > 3- Use the -j flag with a lower number (eg, NTHREADS/2). > > Any opinions? Don't use dpkg-buildpackage -j. Only set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=n", so build-arch and build-indep are not run in parallel, but you stil

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
ce ? Of course, the problem space of REVU and {mentors,sponsors}.d.n is similar, and common tools could be developed too instead of reinventing the wheel. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- T

Re: Rebuilding the whole archive.

2007-05-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
d all packages once, you don't need wanna-build. Just parse the Source files and get the list of (package, version) you want to build. Then use pbuilder or sbuild to build them all. My preference goes to sbuild, because it's closer to what is really running on the buildds (so you get

Re: RFS: mailscanner (updated package)

2007-07-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
s, or (more likely) clamav-daemon. - please consider including the ubuntu patch. It won't hurt, especially if /var/run is cleaned up. (/var/run is on /tmpfs in Ubuntu, so that's probably the reason for that patch) - please consider fixing bug #432881 now that I filed it ;) -- | Lucas Nussbaum |

Re: RHS: libterm-ansicolor-ruby

2007-08-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/08/07 at 00:12 +0530, Deepak Tripathi wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libterm-ansicolor-ruby". Hi, Have you considered maintaining this package inside the pkg-ruby-extras team? It would probably help a lot when looking for sp

Re: Package requiring a customised version of libc6

2007-08-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
n what about using ptrace and overriding syscalls in the way usermodelinux used to do it? You could point your upstream to this article: Rapid File System Development Using ptrace Richard P. Spillane, Charles P. Wright, Gopalan Sivathanu, and Erez Zadok Should still be available from http://www

Re: 0-day NMUs, DELAYED/n uploads

2007-10-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
> submitting NMUs will not benefit the project in the long term. The > NMU does not replace communication skills. Mails were sent to the relevant bugs on the BTS (and thus to the maintainer(s)). Do you need a personal email, because you filter out BTS mails? Then we probably have another pr

Re: 0-day NMUs, DELAYED/n uploads

2007-10-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
there a consensus that those processes are OK? If not, what could we do, without making it too painful for the NMUer? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
k that it's very important to do them on mentors. I don't think that resources are a problem: nobody said that you _had_ to host mentors yourself. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
not totally ;) I have the feeling that the lack of open-ness in mentors.d.n caused several people to reinvent it (with sponsors.d.n and REVU). Of course, it's not the only cause, but I have the feeling that mentors could be much better than it currently is, but isn't, because of the fact th

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/10/07 at 16:06 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:26:57PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 26/10/07 at 14:18 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > > I'm more interested in piuparts tests than in builds, actually. The > > point is

Re: Automated testing of maintainer and init script interaction?

2007-11-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
he daemon is running. I don't think so, but it could be a good idea to hack piuparts into doing that. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2012-01-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I'm generally not a big fan to overuse the BTS for stuff it wasn't really designed for. This tends to result in complex processes that are difficult to follow for newcomers. For example, the wnpp bugs are often misformed, or people don't follow the right process. > * Integration into UDD bug

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
(besides not being very beautiful), but didn't get an answer. I think that it's mostly harmless: I can't think of any important part of Debian architecture parsing the changelog to extract that information. It probably just doesn't look nice on http://packages.debian.or

Re: RFS: ruby-fftw3

2009-09-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
debian/pool/main/r/ruby-fftw3/ruby-fftw3_0.2-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Hi, Have you considered maintaining it inside the pkg-ruby-extras team? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum

Re: New developer.

2009-11-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
r > you by a sponsor. Why the harsh answer? The guy probably just understood that he had to do those steps before starting to contribute. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: On intermediary deb-releases, their archiving.

2010-01-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
ge are available from https://code.launchpad.net/debian, or https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/debian/sid/libnokogiri-ruby/sid (for a specific package). It's still ungoing work, some revisions might be missing, and he also plans to rebase the branches when snapshot.debian.org

Re: On intermediary deb-releases, their archiving.

2010-01-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/01/10 at 10:34 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:20:50PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Mats Erik Andersson writes: > > > > > in trying to disect an RC-bug I find myself wanting to compare, using > > > debdiff, two immediate successor packages, like > > > > > >

Re: +dfsg extension meaning and reference docs ?

2010-03-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/03/10 at 19:40 +0100, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > Repack. These files cannot live on Debian archives (or ISOs). I'm not sure > about what rules apply to Alioth or collab maint though. > > Arthur > > On Mar 24, 2010 6:45 PM, "Olivier Berger" > wrote: > > Hi. > > I cannot manage to find the r

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/05/10 at 20:20 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe a écrit : > > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:57:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as MIA > > > if they do not respond: > > > >

Re: RFS: clustershell

2010-06-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
inistration of cluster by providing a lightweight > but scalable API for developers. > . > Example : clush -w node[001-256] hostname > or clush -w node[001-256] apt-get update|clubak -c That's not how Description: works. first line is supposed to be a 1-line summary. And I don

Re: Bug#584769: RFS: clustershell

2010-06-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/06/10 at 13:13 +0200, Stéphan Gorget wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Lucas Nussbaum > wrote: > > > (Please Cc me on replies, I don't follow -mentors@ very closely). > > > > First question: why do we need yet another parallel command execution >

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/10/10 at 09:14 -0700, PJ Weisberg wrote: > 2010/10/11 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso : > > Why do fixes to testing have to go through unstable, even during freeze > > time? > > Because a lot more people use Unstable than use Testing Citation needed. - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Bug#585510: herculesstudio: changing back from ITP to RFP

2011-02-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 20/02/11 at 01:55 +, Liang Guo wrote: > Hi, > > Add CC to p2 and debian-mentors > > Actually all packaging work had already completed, I had sent RFS to > debian-mentors too: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2010/07/msg7.html > > But before herculesstudio can be used in Debian

Debian Packaging Tutorial

2011-05-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I’ve been working on a Debian packaging tutorial. It is composed of about 60 slides providing a throughout overview of Debian packaging. It now reached the point where I consider it ready for use, and I am looking forward to reviews and comments. The document is split into 4 different PDFs: *

Re: Debian Packaging Tutorial

2011-05-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/05/11 at 13:37 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Lucas Nussbaum > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’ve been working on a Debian packaging tutorial. It is composed of > > about 60 slides providing a throughout overview of Debian packagi

Re: Debian Packaging Tutorial

2011-05-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/05/11 at 17:54 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 16:57 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > [...] > > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lucas/packaging-tutorial.git;a=blob_plain;f=packaging-tutorial.pdf;hb=refs/heads/pd

Re: Debian Packaging Tutorial

2011-05-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/05/11 at 19:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/05/2011 10:57 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’ve been working on a Debian packaging tutorial. It is composed of > > about 60 slides providing a throughout overview of Debian packaging. > > >

Re: Debian Packaging Tutorial

2011-05-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/05/11 at 08:33 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/06/2011 08:26 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 06/05/11 at 19:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 05/05/2011 10:57 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >>> And of course, it can be found on git.debian.org: > &

Re: Debian Packaging Tutorial

2011-05-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/05/11 at 02:19 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/08/2011 09:46 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 07/05/11 at 08:33 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > >> On 05/06/2011 08:26 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> > >>> On

Re: RFS: pmatch

2011-07-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/07/11 at 08:31 +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 17:58 +0100, Tomasz Muras wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pmatch". > > > > * Package name: pmatch > > Version : 0.4.0-1 > > Upstream Author : Tomasz

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/08/11 at 17:07 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Well, then it is a shame that the system has not been given even a > slight test since all these years... On 14/08/11 at 17:18 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > You shold have asked for external testing and help *BEFORE* switching > mentor

Re: ITP: i-news (2nd request) -- GTK-based highly graphically-configurable RSS Ticker - Bug#638999

2011-08-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/08/11 at 21:32 +0200, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > Dear mentors, > > Sorry if this is a silly question. I previously mentionned the name > choice was not definitive but must I pick *first* a fully suitable one > in order to get a chance of getting sponsorded? Packages renames are possibl

Re: ITP: i-news (2nd request) -- GTK-based highly graphically-configurable RSS Ticker - Bug#638999

2011-08-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/08/11 at 00:05 +0200, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > On 08/25/2011 09:58 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 25/08/11 at 21:32 +0200, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > >> Dear mentors, > >> > >> Sorry if this is a silly question. I previously mentionned the

Plans for rails & wheezy (Was: RFS: ruby-activemodel)

2011-08-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/08/11 at 09:49 +0530, karim memon wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ruby-activemodel". > > * Package name: ruby-activemodel >Version : 3.0.10-1 >Upstream Author : David Heinemeier Hansson > * URL : http://rubygems.org/gem

Re: [DRE-maint] RFS: ruby-omniauth

2011-08-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/08/11 at 03:08 +0530, Muneeb Shaikh wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ruby-omniauth". > > * Package name: ruby-omniauth >Version : 0.2.6-1 >Upstream Author : Michael Bleigh , > Erik Michaels-Ober > > * URL

Re: Plans for rails & wheezy (Was: RFS: ruby-activemodel)

2011-08-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/08/11 at 10:27 +0530, karim memon wrote: > > > > So please don't upload. Ruby is API mess even without multiple rails > > versions. > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I haven't looked at the package, but I know that Ondřej Surý has been > > > doing some work on rails-related packages, so maybe he woul

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/09/11 at 15:12 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > I've been thinking about how mentors works lately (after watching > Asheesh's debconf11 talk). It seems like the 4 day response effort > worked somewhat well for a while, but kind of tailed off, and I've been > pondering what could be d

Re: RFS: logservice -- new upstream release

2011-12-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
ckage. Hi Haikel, There seems to be something fucked up between the package currently in the archive, versioned 2.7-1, and what's in git, where there's no such version (it's versioned 2.7.0-1 in git). So, I'm lost, and can't review. I don't know where the version i

Re: RFS: logservice -- new upstream release

2011-12-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/12/11 at 16:02 +0100, Haïkel Guémar wrote: > Le 19/12/2011 15:26, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > >Hi Haikel, > > > >There seems to be something fucked up between the package currently in > >the archive, versioned 2.7-1, and what's in git, where ther

Re: RFS: diet -- new upstream release

2012-01-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/01/12 at 16:48 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le jeudi 01 décembre 2011 à 16:34 +0100, Haïkel Guémar a écrit : > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the following package: > I will sponsor it. Hi, This is also on my radar, but feel free to sponsor it. (I'm quite busy c

Bug#718610: RFS: ruby-sys-admin/1.6.0-1

2013-08-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/08/13 at 23:23 -0400, Sam Kottler wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ruby-sys-admin" Hi, Have you tried getting in touch with the Ruby team, instead? https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby ; debian-r

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

2013-09-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/09/13 at 16:15 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 24/09/2013 15:58, Paul Wise a écrit : > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Dominik George wrote: > > > >> Sorry to disapoint you, but you should read *all of* DPM before passing > >> a package for upload to a sponsor or to mentors. > > > > I

Re: Bug#860690: crac: FTBFS on i386: build-dependency not installable: libjellyfish-2.0-dev

2017-04-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/04/17 at 11:28 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > could you please be more verbose why this is a RC bug? Crac was never > Build on i386 (neither was it on any other arch than amd64) exactly > because this not installable Build-Dependency. As far as I know there > is no point in re

Re: Bug#860652: snap-aligner: FTBFS on i386: SNAPLib/SortedDataWriter.cpp:338:70: error: no matching function for call to 'max(long unsigned int, _int

2017-04-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 19/04/17 at 09:19 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hello Lucas > > > Can you please fix your script? :) > rmadison -u debian snap-aligner > snap-aligner | 1.0~beta.18+dfsg-1 | testing| source, amd64, arm64, > mips64el, ppc64el > snap-aligner | 1.0~beta.18+dfsg-1 | unstable

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/11/14 at 20:20 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > The WNPP list in itself is useful, but when looking at it again > recently, I distinctly recalled how foreign most of the packages were to > me when I first started contributing -- not a great motivator into > getting involved with something. A

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Don, On 09/11/14 at 13:44 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: > > With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering > > whether following such an achievement-oriented approach, with > > opportunities for contribution formulated as a l

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/11/14 at 14:13 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Have you considered adding the 'gift' tag[0] to some BTS bugs? > > I probably should do that; I actually wasn't that familiar with the gift > tag before this e-mai

Re: Bug#976906: Possible lex issue for ppc64el (Was: Bug#976906: libpll: FTBFS on ppc64el: lex_utree.l:22:10: fatal error: parse_utree.h: No such file or directory)

2020-12-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 10/12/20 at 18:20 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:10:17AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > "make -j160" > > > > that would be my guess :) > > This sounds pretty likely, thought. Thanks for the hint. Hi, I tried building with SMT off (so the machi

Re: Bug#976906: Possible lex issue for ppc64el (Was: Bug#976906: libpll: FTBFS on ppc64el: lex_utree.l:22:10: fatal error: parse_utree.h: No such file or directory)

2020-12-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Here is a patch based on this : https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Yacc-and-Lex.html Tested on a power machine (where the build failed) and it seems to work. F. Description: Fix parallel build This happened here : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976906 Soluti

Bug#799268: RFS: ck/1.6.2 [ITP]

2015-09-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/09/15 at 12:43 +0200, Grigori Fursin wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ck" > > * Package name: ck > Version : 1.6.2 > Upstream Author : Grigori Fursin > * URL : http://gi

Bug#799268: RFS: ck/1.6.2 [ITP]

2015-09-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/09/15 at 12:25 +0200, Grigori Fursin wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > Thank you very much for your time to check it - really appreciated! > And sorry for some mix ups - it's my first time trying to package > something for Debian ;) ... > > >Must be fixed: > -> Given that this software is not specific

Bug#799268: RFS: ck/1.6.2 [ITP]

2015-11-10 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/11/15 at 16:21 +0100, Grigori Fursin wrote: > Hi Gianfranco, > > After hacking various guides I managed to update python-ck > based on what you mentioned: > > >https://mentors.debian.net/package/python3-ck > >this is a nack for me. > > > >You can build two binaries with the same source pack