Re: RFS: libaosd (updated package)

2010-07-27 Thread Russ Allbery
e than it's worth, and since this library won't add any new library dependencies to your package, it's really just aesthetic. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@li

Re: dfsg bit in the package name

2010-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
fused about version numbers containing more than one dash.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: RFS: xsublim

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
cious and internalized. xsublim uses instead, I think. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
(because > Policy says all files in /etc are conffiles). This is only true if you're using debhelper, and from previous messages I believe the original poster is learning packaging by taking a more manual approach. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eag

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
he conffiles in the package. > OR is there a debhelper command (dh_..) that will trigger that prior to > calling dpkg-deb dh_installdeb handles creating of conffiles if you're using debhelper (compatibility level v3 or higher). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <h

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
probably unenforcable. I believe Debian and Fedora use essentially the same policy: we don't include software with a patent that we think is likely to be enforced on either Debian or our users. Where that line gets drawn tends to vary a lot depending on a wide variety of factors, including leg

Re: Bug#573745: No response from official maintainer

2010-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
gt; over the package. I don't agree. The new version is not eligible for squeeze regardless, and it seems to me like there's some time to ask Matthias what his intentions are concerning the package, whether he is interested in transferring it to a new maintainer, etc. -- Russ Allbe

Re: Bug#573745: No response from official maintainer

2010-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
chats.) Is this work targetted at squeeze? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Bug#573745: No response from official maintainer

2010-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
romising and it seems like things are now on the right track. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: reprepro signing.

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
can manually import the public key into each client using apt-key add. How you obtain the public key is up to you in that case. Any trusted path works. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mento

Re: reprepro signing.

2010-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Wiltshire writes: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:42:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The conventional way to handle this is to build a Debian package that >> installs the keyring and runs apt-key add, based off of packages like >> debian-archive-keyring, and

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
practice it doesn't work. So I agree with Christoph. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87ocbyu1as@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Is Debian Repeat Secure?

2010-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
g-agent with a five minute timeout, which is long enough to let me sign a bunch of packages while I'm actively working (plus git tags and so forth) but short enough that I'm not too worried about an attacker taking advantage of the cached password. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Movin discussion from debian-mentors to debian-doc

2010-09-29 Thread Russ Allbery
ng rewrite into DocBook that I need to commit, so you may want to hold off doing significant work until I have a chance to deal with that. I haven't had a chance for some months now, but I have a vacation starting this weekend and hope to get somewhat caught up on Debian work during that vac

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
it should be. Such libraries without SONAMEs can't be represented in shlibs, which is causing both of the errors that you're getting. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ..

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes: > Does it have to be this way? Why do fixes to testing have to go > through unstable, even during freeze time? Because otherwise there isn't any good way to test them with a reasonably large user base, which is even *more* important during the freeze

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ibs section because the shlibs file syntax requires a version number in the SONAME (see Policy 8.6.3). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
are you trying to fix other than that you don't like the name? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
thing actually looks at. All the other things, like the symlinks and the shlibs entries, then have to match the SONAME that's recorded in the library. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ..

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ntal because you're concerned that it may really be broken and non-functioning? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
like to have new software in unstable during the freeze period since they're not very interested in the stable release, and that's come up before (such as in the CUT discussions), but as with your note above, this seems most often to be an argument made theoretically by peop

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
tall the right kernel headers, ensure that they're always upgraded when the kernel is upgraded, etc.), so it may be helpful to have it be fairly obvious that the package is a DKMS package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: RFS: libvdpau (updated package)

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
e at this point, since updates have broken the buildability of the package in the past five months.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
getting it to work with the fglrx and the free versions of the libraries as well. But not for the next Debian release at this stage, of course. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.

Re: Depositing source archive at Alioth.

2010-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
rm drawback that we've accumulated some 3GB of tarballs in Subversion and the overall Subversion repository is therefore ginormous. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Depositing source archive at Alioth.

2010-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
sible to have some sort of automagic here. Maybe someone else will know more. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: python 2.6 lenny backport - symbols problem

2010-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
e 2.6.6-6~bpo50+1 version. > how can i bypass this error I suspect you will need to either backport dpkg or remove the (optional) qualifier that doesn't appear to be supported by stable dpkg (or remove the symbols file entirely). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <ht

Re: DEP5 and multiple copyrights for same file

2011-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
gue that "keeping intact" doesn't require duplicating in debian/copyright but just not removing the notice from the source code, but it's easy enough to copy the GPL notice, and I think better safe than sorry. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.e

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

2011-01-26 Thread Russ Allbery
installed the package before, I'm fairly sure you wouldn't get that message. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Init scripts as conffiles

2011-02-15 Thread Russ Allbery
ould easily deal with via /etc/default. I think the current behavior is correct, particularly given the *substantial* simplicity gain from being able to treat everything in /etc as a conffile. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUB

Re: Init scripts as conffiles

2011-02-15 Thread Russ Allbery
roblems of init scripts being configuration files while still providing the same features). The effort that would be put into plastering over further problems with System V init scripts could, I think, be better put into working out the details of an optional transition to a better init system. --

Re: what if upstream provides debian build directory

2011-03-18 Thread Russ Allbery
ches for fixes, which makes it complex to separate the changes easily | into individual patches. They are therefore all included in a single | Debian patch. | | For full commit history and separated commits, see the packaging Git | repository. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <htt

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
kage and bump your local version. It's a big pain in the ass, and I wouldn't do this. 5. Give up on using Debian packages to do this and instead use a separate configuration management system that doesn't do its work with packages (something like Puppet or Cfengine). Th

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
x27;s just strongly preferred for security support. In this case, it sounds like what was originally one library has forked thoroughly enough to be four separate libraries. It's not an ideal situation, but I don't think this should block adding the software to Debian. That said, it woul

Re: override_dh_auto_configure not called

2011-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
t fixing this for manual invocations of debian/rules, you need to instead hook into binary-arch and binary-indep and stop building the package in the build rule. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-re

Re: RFS: nvidia-cg-toolkit (updated package)

2011-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
packages as well as the NVIDIA graphics drivers and libraries, and while I don't have any time to work on NVIDIA packaging myself, I'm happy to do uploads for others and some package review. Other people on the team may also be willing to help. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
27;s just a pointer to where you can find the complete license. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: How to delete the .la file?

2011-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
e appropriate packages. If your package follows that model, just omit the *.la files from all the *.install files, and they won't be part of any package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
according to the GPL itself: "any version ever published." -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: ubuntu keyring?

2011-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
ug from people who do >> not think it belongs in Debian, but I think arguments for having it in >> Debian are a bit stronger. I have gone ahead and changed the bug to an >> ITP. > Great! Thanks for working on this, Nathan. Yes, thank you. I've been wanting this for

Re: RFS: mpd-sima (updated package)

2011-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Tanguy Ortolo writes: > debian/clean > What is that? I have never seen such a file, is it for a dh command > I do not know yet? I may be interested for my own packages. :-) It lists additional files deleted by dh_clean. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Avoiding useless library dependencies

2011-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
rd to fix, since the only benefit is some minor cleanliness that users will never notice. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87lixycw1h@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
format hammered out), so I can quickly find the information I need and don't have to parse and understand hundreds of different ways of conveying the same information. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mento

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
do I have to handle this in debian/libxyz.install? On Debian, you should always install into lib and never use lib64. (Eventually, you may want to use the multiarch directory, but it will still not be lib64.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
happen if you run it interactively. If you don't run it interactively, then it should realize that it can't prompt and just abort. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
David Bremner writes: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:40:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> On Debian, you should always install into lib and never use lib64. >> (Eventually, you may want to use the multiarch directory, but it will >> still not be lib64.) > That was my first

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-11 Thread Russ Allbery
em². So we should absolutely forbid this in Policy instead of just removing the requirement. I'll open a bug against debian-policy for this. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
convention for changelog entries for cherry-picks: * Apply upstream deltas: - [] - ... where is the first eight characters of the upstream commit hash and is the first line of the upstream commit message, edited as necessary to keep the length of the change

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Wolodja Wentland writes: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > [ ... ] >> but for some other packages I want to use some of the files that are >> generated as part of the upstream tarball release but aren't checked in. > Ok, this is not necessar

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
I like being able to pull down the repository from anywhere and build a new Debian revision of the package without having to hunt down or download the original upstream tarball separately. With Subversion, I ended up checking the upstream tarballs into the repository to accomplish the same end, b

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Policy process, but it's an *optional* policy. No package will be required to use DEP-5. It won't even be at the should level. That was part of the original DEP-5 discussion; it's there for people who want to use it, but it's not something the project wants to stand

Re: dh-autoreconf/autotools-dev questions

2011-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
e latest config.{guess, sub}, > or is it enough to set the --build and --host options of configure > with dpkg-architecture? If you don't use config.guess and config.sub, there's no reason to copy them into the package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://ww

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
ate common package just isn't worth it, and that way the desktop file is only installed when the command is available. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
rking tricks in battle against APT, but i will > leave that up to decide for others as IANAD{D,M}. You can't use disappearing packages with Policy-compliant packages so far as I can tell, since it would require both packages provide the same /usr/share/doc directory and changelog file, which is

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
David Kalnischkies writes: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 00:58, Russ Allbery wrote: >> You can't use disappearing packages with Policy-compliant packages so >> far as I can tell, since it would require both packages provide the >> same /usr/share/doc directory and changel

Re: RFS: news (News - RSS Ticker)

2011-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
gt; * License : GPL >Section : net I think you need to use a bit less generic of a name than that. (Like, for instance, news-rss-ticker, which would be a fine name). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSU

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
C headers.) But there's no obvious reason why that shouldn't be required given the current Policy wording. I think this should probably be raised as a Policy bug so that we can clarify this one way or the other. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/&g

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Russ Allbery [110822 19:59]: >> That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev >> package, since essentially every -dev package would require that, which >> seems rather silly. (There are almost no non-trivi

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela writes: > On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery wrote: >> There are not, so far as I know, any exceptions for -dev packages from the >> normal requirements for Depends, which say simply: >> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is >>

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
be to write an explicit exception into Policy saying that C -dev packages do not have to declare dependencies on any package that's part of build-essential.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
seems like it could pose any problem, and it's going to be pretty rare for that to be any sort of issue since C -dev packages aren't likely to care about dpkg-dev one way or the other. Note that I explicitly said, and meant, "part of build-essential," not "in the

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Russ Allbery [110824 19:34]: >> -data packages *should* depend on the non-data package in an ideal >> world, and the only reason why they don't is because circular >> dependencies are a bigger problem. But -data packages a

Re: Heimdall

2011-09-28 Thread Russ Allbery
mdall/) That's an unfortunate upstream name, given the conflict with the existing Heimdal package (which is a long-standing implementation of Kerberos). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@li

Re: dh --parallel

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ill happen, at least in the near future. Job control in portable Bourne shell isn't up to it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
t as soon as possible. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87ehy8ayoj@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
some things, too (although with it merging is sufficiently painful that I really don't want to use it for a problem involving merges). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: git-buildpackage and tarballs

2011-10-22 Thread Russ Allbery
wkward, and once one invests in the one-time tool configuration effort required to separate the two release flows, generally unnecessary. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: git-buildpackage and tarballs

2011-10-22 Thread Russ Allbery
the VCS and > the Debian archive of binary packages. There are very good reasons to favor some sort of 3.0 (VCS) source format. But using 3.0 (native) as a stand-in for that causes problems because it breaks various assumptions about the meaning of a native package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@deb

Re: git-buildpackage and tarballs

2011-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
rect solutions to technical problems. If we want to use a source package format similar to 3.0 (native) for non-native packages, we should define such a format, not abuse the native package format for that purpose and lose the meaningful distinction between a native and a non-native package. -- Russ Al

Re: email rejected bugs.debian.org

2011-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
of the reasonable and non-extortive ones, this certainly should be (in part) up to the BTS admins. Any black list that Debian uses I'm sure Debian has the local ability to override. Starting upstream is probably the right move, but contacting the BTS admins about it isn't unreasonable.

Re: pre ITP maintainer wishes to remain anonymous

2011-10-29 Thread Russ Allbery
history without changing what the previous maintainer > did? Lintian will ignore all changelog entries below the line: Old Changelog: with no leading whitespace in the changelog file. This is intended to allow preservation of historic entries that are not formatted correctly for the current s

Re: pre ITP maintainer wishes to remain anonymous

2011-10-29 Thread Russ Allbery
is documented in the section for > syntax-error-in-debian-changelog perhaps it only works for syntax errors? > Is this a bug or a feature? I think it's a bug. Could you open a bug on Lintian about that? Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/

Re: reentrantcy?

2011-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
r more than just normal static or global variables). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: DEP-5 versioned URI / Lintian complains

2011-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
ioned URL currently available that takes you straight to the current text of the document. However, I may have missed something. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Add texinfo back to build depends: policy has been subverted

2011-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
forces of wishful thinking and forward progress Looking at the history, it's probably referring to the ongoing problem that one can't really use Build-Depends-Indep without a lot of trouble because the buildds run build, not build-arch. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Symbols and C++ inline constructor

2012-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
ols file (symbol tag optional), and then the symbols generation won't care if it appears and disappears. You have to do that for some things with C++, since there are places where C++ just doesn't give you control over what symbols are exported. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Symbols and C++ inline constructor

2012-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Weber writes: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:14:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If it's a private symbol not intended to be used by clients and that >> wouldn't naturally be used by clients, you can mark it optional in the >> symbols file (symbol tag

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

2012-01-08 Thread Russ Allbery
g the ViewVC URI, which I didn't realize would work but which does seem to be versioned (even though Lintian doesn't know about it). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.or

Bug#696769: RFS: inn2/2.5.3-1.1 [RC]

2012-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Marco (the package maintainer) specifically said that he wanted to handle the update in: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690128#95 That's why I didn't offer to sponsor this upload. Admittedly, he's not gotten a chance yet, and it's been a little b

Re: Migrating from experimental to unstable

2013-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
and to upload with a changelog entry that starts with: * Upload to unstable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Build-Depends versioning and binary Depends versioning

2013-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
comes from shlibs/symbols, which won't take into account restrictions on the build dependency. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Build-Depends versioning and binary Depends versioning

2013-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
should use at least trivial symbol versioning that assigns all symbols a version that changes with the SONAME. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: git packaging workflow notes, diagram

2013-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
ture. The > dual-repository approach remains relevant if upstream is on CVS or SVN > and the Debian packages are to be maintained with git. Indeed, that's part of why I haven't revised my notes yet. Both methods really need to be explained. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: git packaging workflow notes, diagram

2013-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
e the upstream VCS history > in your Debian repo. You can, but I've not found it particularly useful. Mileage may vary, of course, but when upstream isn't using Git, the annoyance of dealing with the translation layer and the various weird conventions used in other VCSes has rarely se

Re: git packaging workflow notes, diagram

2013-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
pristine-tar and let it do its thing for subsequent uploads. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: git packaging workflow notes, diagram

2013-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Rütten writes: > schrieb Russ Allbery : >> Yeah, I agree. That's partly what I was trying to do with my notes, >> but they need more revision, and I wouldn't at all mind the content >> being copied somewhere that's more generally editable so that oth

Re: Multiarch and architecture specific headers

2013-05-13 Thread Russ Allbery
ers in this directory > but I never heard of this strategy on the Debian wiki. That's mostly because multiarch for -dev packages isn't really well-documented yet. But I believe this is the right approach. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~e

Re: Multiarch and architecture specific headers

2013-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Moulard writes: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Thomas Moulard writes: >>> A package I maintain contains a configuration header (vpConfig.h) >>> which differ depending on the architecture we are (here the >>> dependencies

Re: pristine-tar and upstream zip

2013-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
d therefore won't be able to use the upstream distribution verbatim. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: pristine-tar and upstream zip

2013-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Felix Natter writes: > So I add a download rule: > get-orig-source: > uscan --force-download --repack > and use the result as input to git-import-orig and everything should be > ok? Yup, that's what I'd do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <

Re: What's the proper way to build from debian dsc

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
ate as needed % cd .. % debsign *.changes # the previous step requires you have a GnuPG key set up They're now ready to upload, which you probably want to do with dput. If you're uploading it to mentors, see the mentors documentation for the correct dput configuration and tar

Re: Bug#710473: RFS: bats/0.2.0-1

2013-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
ey are particularly obscure, if they are only useful for very specific purposes (such as all debugging symbol packages), or if they conflict with packages with a higher priority (such as alternative implementations of the same functionality). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http

Re: Need detailed help on creating a Debian package (post-install configuration)

2013-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
ication in README.Debian; it's not entirely satisfactory, but sometimes there isn't another good option. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Need detailed help on creating a Debian package (package name)

2013-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
T o n g writes: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:45:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The typical thing to do in this sort of situation is to document the >> required modification in README.Debian; it's not entirely satisfactory, >> but sometimes there isn't another good

Re: PHP libraries in /usr/share/

2013-07-04 Thread Russ Allbery
ogram or configuration file and includes such things as architecture-independent libraries"). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Files with "All rights reserved."

2013-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
ase, you can safely consider it legal boilerplate and ignore it. I suspect the problem in this case is the lack of some accompanying clear license statement. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-r

Re: PostScript with Copyright from Adobe Systems

2013-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
.org/type1nondfsg Seems weird to have it in a favicon, though. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
rt version for most packages is "use dh_apache2". -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
nk thats true. As long as you care about > backporting your package to stable, 2.2 should still be considered. You pretty much have to branch to support both. The packaging is substantially different. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- T

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Alexander Wirt writes: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: >> You pretty much have to branch to support both. The packaging is >> substantially different. > I have several packages working well for 2.2 and 2.4. At least for > webapps, it is possible. Hm, how do you

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