Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
foo-dev depends on libfoo (= ${Source-Version}) > libfoobar depends on libfoo (= ${Source-Version}) No, it's not a problem, it's just confusing due to the naming of this variable "Source-Version", and I would encourage you to use the new binary:Version variable instead. -- Steve Lan

Re: debconf: how write sections and comments at php.ini?

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
use for this purpose. There is an interface (currently encapsulated in the common maintainer script code shared by PHP extensions) for adding and removing extensions to php.ini, but that's it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Develop

Re: debconf: how write sections and comments at php.ini?

2006-09-21 Thread Steve Langasek
? No, there is no interface at all that you're permitted to use in packages for adding your own sections to php.ini. I wasn't aware that php5 now had a --with-config-file-scan-dir option. Please file a bug against php5 requesting its inclusion. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: Dictionary data source

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
e your best judgement here, as to whether including that source will be important to you as the maintainer or to users wishing to modify/reuse the package. Děkuju, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on,

Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-10-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:11:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > > The documentation for this probably belongs in debian-policy; current > > versions of policy seem to mention Source-Version, though, not the new > > s

Re: Taking over a previously diverted file

2006-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
copy from thailatex. - By avoiding any use of the preinst, we also avoid any rollback requirements. Completely untested in real-world conditions, let me know if you find I've screwed something up :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debia

Re: Taking over a previously diverted file

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ted > > files, and as a result give us a $TEXDIR/babel.sty file that we're > > assured > > of being the copy from thailatex. > I'm not so sure about this. Should the final mv be guarded with > "if [ -e $TEXDIR/babel.sty.undivert]"

Re: who do I bug to frob the buildd flags?

2006-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
dle the w-b settings for all archs at once. Anyway, cleared for arm and sparc now. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: Freeness of a license - french

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
can, if he wishes, permit you to distribute the original under the same terms as the copies. I don't think that requiring a statement telling recipients where to get the original work is onerous or non-free, but it's the only thing that stands out, so I figured I'd point it out anyway.

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ty* from the Essential system, yes. (We have removed individual packages from Essential, because their functionality was moved to a different package due to renames/splits/merges.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer t

Re: Linking with --as-needed in Debian Packages (Was: Re: RFS: flamerobin (updated package))

2006-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ts own that *no*, are not bugs in individual packages that "can and should be addressed individually." --as-needed will always get the answer wrong in certain cases, because it's a heuristic. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian D

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
ibfoo.so.1.2.3 ? No, .so.x.y.z is the traditional format; embedding the library version in the part of the name before the .so is a relatively new innovation that hasn't been adopted too widely outside of certain circles (such as GNOME). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever lon

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
such a change in the not so distant past, and no one noticed except the LSB folks, who were using dlopen() to try to check the ABI... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
ms built against the old library but now using the new one? They'll still work just fine. This actually happens quite frequently with private symbols that were never meant to be exported as part of the library's ABI and have never been included in the published API. Cheers, -- Steve

Re: Why are the buildds able to find a Build-Dep on their own?

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
y the buildds were able to build the package > without explizitly knowing about the needed libattr1-dev build-dep? proftpd build-depends on libacl1-dev, which depends on libattr1-dev. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: [OT] svn rollback

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
sense he means, it just lets you reverse a commit with a later one. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/

Re: How to drop a package from some architectures?

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
the 32-bit archs, instead of "any". But wouldn't it be fine to just drop this binary package on all archs? I seem to remember that liferea-gtkhtml has had other problems on all archs in the past, and that the -xulrunner variant was recommended? -- Steve Langasek G

Re: Bug#361376: Can liferea-gtkhtml be removed from etch?

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
ferea-gtkhtml package or make it an empty package depending on liferea-xulrunner, rather than to risk getting package relationships wrong when merging the contents. Please go for one of those first options. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough a

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
the main binary > package. You'll need to place the SOs in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE, of course. No, you should *not* put libraries into subdirectories of /usr/lib unnecessarily. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:36:13PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:10:06PM -, Paul Cager wrote: > > > On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: > > > > I am

Re: Question about how to handle a RC bug.

2007-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
f that package is not the correct answer here? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Question about how to handle a RC bug.

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:10:01PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:31 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:23:46PM -0400, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez > > wrote: > > > I uploaded a new upstream version of a package which

Re: Problems with debconf in postinst

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
ebconf error that you get? What is the postinst code that's failing? (I've downloaded your diff.gz at this point, but I don't see any obvious errors in it...) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on

Re: Problems with debconf in postinst

2007-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > FWIW, you're likely to get better feedback if you help make it easier for > > people to see the problem you're having. What is the debconf error that you > > get? What is t

Re: yada generated deb not calling update-menus

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Langasek
placing yada with something non-bletcherous. TTBOMK, the only person willfully using yada for official Debian packages is the yada author. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

2007-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
h dh_pycentral; I have never seen dh_pycentral set these permissions on directories, so the permissions probably come from the upstream install rules. Are you calling dh_fixperms from your debian/rules? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS De

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
server, you can't > get rid of the comment by any other means than making a new key. If it > hasn't been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can remove the UID. Right. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
sources. Does anyone know a solution > to this? Ask upstream to provide a cleaner tarball for next time? You could reroll the upstream tarball with a distinguishing Debian version number, but I don't think it's worth it at all for this. But that's why this is a warning, not an erro

Re: replacement for getpass(3) in older program (1994)

2007-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
nyone tell me with what I should replace this function? libpam. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ --

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
riate use of PHP than nanoweb. Maybe you missed the php-qt ITP then? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.o

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 06:26:01PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Sunday 6 May 2007 17:43, David Paleino wrote: > > Now, as Steve Langasek pointed out in that bug report: > > "PHP is GPL-incompatible. You cannot distribute GPL software together with > > GPL-inc

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 04:55:58PM -0500, Raphael wrote: > On 06/05/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 05:40:37PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > >> If Ubuntu want nanoweb they are welcome to it. I see no reason to haul > >> thi

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
providing the schema file (a bit heavy of a solution for a single schema file..) - use alternatives or a diversion to decide which package's schema file will be available under the named location (only appropriate if the two packages have identical schema file contents) -- Steve Langasek

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:35:24PM -0700, John Stamp wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - have both packages depend on a common file providing the schema > > file (a bit heavy of a solution for a single schema file..) > What if I split lastfm into 'la

Re: Are (c)debootstrap broken ?

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
nyway with both a binNMU of e2fsprogs and a subsequent maintainer upload, so I think this bug can be closed rather than reassigned. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move th

Re: RFC: zfs-fuse packaging

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
to build your binaries as 64-bit -- but given that Debian still (for the moment) supports 32-bit sparcs too, building your binaries as 64-bit has the one advantage that this would pick up a dependency on libc6-sparc64 to make it clear to sparc users that it's not suitable for 32-bit machine

Re: RFS: NMU for aolserver4-nsimap

2007-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
not subscribed to > debian-mentors. I don't see any point in trying to upload this right now, when the package's build dependencies (aolserver4) aren't installable on the buildds? http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=aolserver4-nsimap&arch=alpha&ver=3.1-3%2Bb1&s

Re: Symbol-versioning a C++ library

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ng gcc in line with the standard, so there shouldn't really be much cause for worry in that regard. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Symbol-versioning a C++ library

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
not safe under symbol versioning, using symbol versioning should be the default policy. Even if only packages linking against the new version of the lib pick up the symbol versioning, it can still make a *huge* difference in the quality of the user's experience. -- Steve La

Re: -xpm or -noxpm

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
find it an annoying split, since over its lifetime libgd has had correct shlibs and reasonable -dev packages only about a quarter of the time, and I don't think xpm is so heavy that we should be concerned about the size impact on users' machines. -- Steve Langasek Give m

Re: -xpm or -noxpm

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
because I think the -noxpm stuff is pointless, but it's equally pointless to link against libraries you know you won't use. :) Anyway, building against libgd2-noxpm-dev will get you a proper dependency that will be satisfied by either the xpm or the noxpm version of libgd. Cheers, -- Ste

Re: RFS: ntfs-config

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
small subset of entries in /etc/fstab. Why in the world is this something that needs an entire package to itself? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: ntfs-config

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:46:16AM +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > Il giorno sab, 02/06/2007 alle 17.43 -0700, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:59:38AM +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ntfs-config&

Re: RFS: screenkast (updated package)

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
be beneficial if prospective uploaders would hold off on uploading this package for a couple of days, to let the remaining architectures catch up (the binaries are already built on the autobuilders, and just need to be uploaded & propagated). Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
s nature. 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' is a double-invocation of fakeroot which may fail altogether. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: bluetooth-alsa (updated package)

2007-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
the effort that goes into the debugging is worthy of recognition. This is obviously not the case here, I couldn't care less if you credit me for this change. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
r the changelog entry and append to it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
at's more than enough. That doesn't address the incorrect dependency on the *webserver*, which is what Nacho was pointing out. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PR

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
(because php4-cgi is not in depends > of virtual package php4 in sarge): Which makes it not particularly relevant to newly-packaged software. In fact, you can pretty much drop the 'php4' alternative altogether now, since php5 was in etch and php4 won't be in lenny. -- Steve Lan

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:07:23PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:47:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:12:47PM +0200, Gregory Colpart wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:06:14PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >

Re: missing file in php-net-ipv4 in official package

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
r package so that the build rules notice, and treat it as a fatal error, if key files go missing. That won't directly answer the question of why the package in the archive is wrong, but it will make the task of tracking down the bug in your sponsor's devel environment a bit easier. Cheer

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
. > would it be practical to get a lint to pick up this kind of thing ? > (might be a good idea anyway) It's not something that I would consider it a priority to work on, in the case of existing packages; I'm just pointing out why adding "| php4" for new packages isn't

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
o-step upgrade of some variety: either holding ia32-libs back until after the dist-upgrade, or upgrading the package manager before the dist-upgrade. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the wor

Re: [Multiarch-devel] Proper upgrade path for lib32v4l-{0,dev}?

2012-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
; So to me the most appealing solution would be to drop the lib32v4l > packages altogether and let those users that need the conversion > install and configure these packages by hand. That would be my recommendation. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Bug#665199: fix for rc bug #665199

2012-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 11:11:13AM -0300, gustavo panizzo wrote: > updated package can be found at > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/openldap/openldap_2.4.31-1.1.dsc This is not the correct procedure for an NMU. Please send a debdiff to the bug report. -- Steve La

Re: Bug#665199: openldap: diff for NMU version 2.4.31-1.1

2012-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
. This change should not be uploaded to unstable. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/

Re: Bug#554167: RFC: mawk (not maintainer, updated package)

2009-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:04:17AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I am wondering what to do next: should I pursue a 14-day delayed NMU? > Do nothing and hope some of my changes are picked up? An unsanctioned NMU of a new upstream version of a Priority: required package? No. -- Steve La

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps error

2011-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ch, as you know, is currently waiting for confirmation of the final multiarch db layout). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
that you intend to go on record as sponsoring this NM, not on grounds of familiarity with his work, but because you're opposed to the existence of a central authority that decides who is given developer access? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpWqN7r8jhrq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: building unstable packages with stable

2003-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
he Debian archive. Sourceforge has certainly been compromised in the past, and remains a high profile target; I wouldn't want to see it used as a conduit for getting compromised software into Debian. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpJDp7H5JcQi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: copyright file

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
tions, recently discussed on debian-legal) and accurate as to the identity of the copyright holders and the date of their copyrights. In that sense it is likely to be verbatim, if only because there are only so many ways you can express a copyright notice. Otherwise, this seems co

Re: when to close bugs

2003-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
oon as there's a fixed version seems to be the most effective way to manage bugs in the BTS, generally speaking. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpyhyskMM9ZY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: timidity-patches

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
g to sponser this package for me? Do you have documentation to show that we have a license to distribute this package (bug #156057)? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpMlWQIjs0vv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: timidity-patches

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:28:16PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:37:40PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Do you have documentation to show that we have a license to distribute > > this package (bug #156057)? > Hi Steve. I took a look at the copyright f

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
to the increased coordination required. While Debian isn't exactly collapsing yet, it is important to pay attention to the growth of the distribution. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp1v4onYhiCP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sponsor and Mentor request

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Langasek
eam has recently switched to Bugzilla for their own public bug tracking. YMMV. :) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpL8Ibqu1nAj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: IRAF Deb -- first pass

2003-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
istributed by Debian." If they're distributed by Debian, they are by definition NOT third party, and therefore cannot touch /opt. > I'll think about it some more, but I'm not convinced that the concept > of breaking it up into /usr/share, /usr/lib, /usr/bin can work. At best, > we might be able to put everything under /usr/share/iraf and use > symlinks to satisfy the policy. This has been done before; see mailman for a well-executed example. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp9MRlStAfVW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sponsorship for non-NM?

2003-10-10 Thread Steve Langasek
the NM process is usually more than sufficient. I say, go for it. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpHxN3SFH7Bb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
*or* 5) doesn't already have? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ "audio" group question(s)

2003-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
UID root, then the package is almost certainly buggy. Please use a privileged audio device user instead; I'm aware of no reason that audio software should need general root privileges. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
when somebody > accidently installs it on a machine using nfs for /usr. > As I don't use nfs at all, I don't know how to figure this out safely > during configure. Can you point me to the right place? Can you explain in more detail how the call to 'stat&#x

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:45:31PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> As I don't use nfs at all, I don't know how to figure this out safely > >> during configure. Can you point me to the right place? > > Can

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
tion > file, and thus it belongs there. But to preserve the possibility of > local additions, I would like to find a way for co-existence of > debconf-managed and manually-edited parts. I would say that, even though this is a cop-out, it's a better solution than what's in place for tetex today. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpXjqvzK1iIY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now > >> both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups > &

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
8 didn't need any *help* being kept out of sarge. Which bug are you referring to? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpWqwtkXqYTN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/tmp vs. debian/package

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ed to the file list for one of the packages. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpr5qmyy4xCN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Fwd: Re: Integrate Knoppix in Debian (was: Re: Debian Enterprise?)]

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:37:19PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > fyi Er, why did this warrant reposting on a list for answering novice developer questions? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > -Forwarded Message- > > From: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

Re: all, any, alpha -- how to build them? (package split)

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
ts own target, the rules could just be included under 'build-arch'; but having a separate 'build-aboot' target might make the conditional easier to read). And thanks for working on this bug. If you need another set of eyeballs on your rules once you have them put together, let me know. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debconf db_input in postinst / horde2

2003-12-12 Thread Steve Langasek
a different file, but if the server is local, anyone with > root access can just delete the database by hand anyhow. This solution has a prerequisite of the package postinst script being permitted to *create* such a user, as well as granting it the desired privileges. This hardly seems a

Re: Need a mentor: adoption of tuxeyes, blackened, animals and groovycd

2003-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ackage is quite insistent on not letting go of it, even though the only upload in the last 6 months (at least) has been an NMU. The history of this package is fairly well documented in bug #202174. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why are these packages removed from testing/sid?

2003-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
movals listed on ftp-master.debian.org, or listed separately? (Or not at all?) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpubYrOmm1Lx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First multi-binary - could someone please check?

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ystem, and does NOT require running X; and there are many other packages that will depend on xlibs that users will want installed on non-X-using systems, so the per-package net impact is much less . I don't see any reason for splitting this into a separate package. Regards, -- Steve Langas

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
dings, you'd better know precisely how the input is > encoded. The best heuristic is to first check whether it's valid UTF-8, and if it isn't, convert it from latin-1 to UTF-8. This correctly detects the vast majority of texts; but if what you want is UTF-8, it's always better

Re: how do I get rid of browser bug

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
browser bugs of any kind. Best of luck, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpBFxdrYRSyt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: data files in /etc?

2004-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
no provision for state files (persistent or not) that are available prior to /var being mounted. Discussion of this issue on debian-devel was extensive last year, but it seems the farthest it got was "get the FHS to sanction it, then we'll consider it". -- Steve Langasek po

Re: Failed build on alpha, would like to investigate

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
e something with > threads). It is definitely a case of missing references to libpthread. The bug is in /usr/lib/lam/lib/liblam.so, which should be linked against libpthread if it depends on it. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

2004-03-03 Thread Steve Langasek
ts own package. Submitting it for inclusion with gs upstream seems like a good idea. Otherwise, I think the vast majority of users who can't figure out the ghostscript commandline on their own (including myself) will cope with the inefficiencies of pdftk just fine. -- Steve Langasek post

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
ner is actively involved with addressing precisely these issues upstream), it should soon no longer be necessary to make such a choice. But shipping .la files in non-dev packages should still be a hanging offense. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
ligated to support every stone age library implementation available doesn't mean Debian should. Tolerating such known-buggy designs would erode one of Debian's greatest strengths as a platform. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
er static lib was current at the time would be the one provided by this library. With no shared library, there would be no non-dev lib package. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:22:13PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:14:22AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Well I thought about it, but this doesn't solve every my doubt. > > > How could I name this package? Are there any policies ab

Re: About Package Creation... (sarge vs sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ckage that is being uploaded to the archive *was* built on sid, not just that it could have been. For sponsored uploads, this is usually not an issue, since the sponsor ought to be doing a rebuild from source before uploading. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: About Package Creation... (sarge vs sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:02:44PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >No, you also have to be sure that the package that is being uploaded to > >the archive *was* built on sid, not just that it could have been. > >For sponsored uploads, this is usuall

Re: About Package Creation... (sarge vs sid)

2004-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:33:35PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >IIRC, the --distribution argument only has an effect the first time you > >run 'pbuilder create'. > What should I have done instead to ensure the program was being built

Re: looking for sponsor - giac, computer algebra system

2004-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
y for the packages > > uploaded to the archive. > But WHY ??? Because to do otherwise makes diffs of debian/changelog a PITA. Including a debian/ dir in CVS is reasonable. Including it in an upstream source release is not. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ll. It would still be a bug to turn on -O3 optimization when you don't know what you're doing (which is to say, in the vast majority of cases), whether or not it actually trips a compiler bug in the process. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: question and request for comments on php4-interbase package

2004-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
to libgds.so? What does 'file' say about the format of this file, if dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't recognize it? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: question and request for comments on php4-interbase package

2004-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
; /usr/lib/libgds.so.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 > (SYSV), stripped > It is in one of these packages libfirebird-c32, libfirebird-s64, > libfirebird-s32, libfirebird-c64 which are orphaned. See > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237532 > Is i

Re: why are these packages in testing?

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
ated. FWIW, I'm not sure this kind of question is appropriate for debian-mentors; surely this would be better on debian-devel? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: why are these packages in testing?

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
ges that block its removal, as per the update_output.txt report. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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