100% hardware coverage - is it a realistic goal?

2017-02-21 Thread Philip Ashmore
(es) and have a better chance that someone else using the same hardware would be able to help. Possibilities abound! Regards, Philip Ashmore

Re: Bug#750576: ITP: debdry -- Semi-assisted automatic Debian packaging

2014-06-04 Thread Philip Ashmore
-j9 it's fast! Do please take a look, there may be some ideas you can use. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/538ff3fa.1050

Re: Preventing government subversion in Debian, verification of binary package uploads

2013-08-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
, and that they're the ones to trust with your data, unless the people after it are very very good/bad. Don't even get me started about the hardware our OSes run on. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Fair comment

2013-03-30 Thread Philip Ashmore
if you could see how it configuration reacts to the standard DDOS attack vectors via visual simulation instead of needing to be a networking expert (which is actually not a guarantee of a DDOS-resilient networking setup)? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Fwd: Re: Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from?

2013-03-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
Better late than never ;) Original Message Subject: Re: Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from? Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:13:03 +0100 From: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com To: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com According

Re: history transparency

2013-03-14 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 09/02/12 08:58, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: I think Debian needs a way to be able to pick a point in history and obtain at least the versions + patches of all the source packages that would have been installed / available to reproduce the Debian

Re: history transparency

2013-03-14 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 15/03/13 02:19, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 15 March 2013 00:56, Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com wrote: On 09/02/12 08:58, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: I think Debian needs a way to be able to pick a point in history and obtain at least

Re: release goal for jessie! (Source-only uploads

2012-11-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 25/11/12 00:00, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Thomas Goirandzigoat debian.org writes: Though I'm in the favor of dropping binaries rather than source-only, This could even help the cases of packages that need itself to be built. When a packager does a source+binary upload of foo (= 1.2-1), it

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-15 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 15/11/12 10:18, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 15 November 2012 08:38, Vincent Lefevrevinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2012-11-15 00:15:06 +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Also XML is not diff-able easily, which is usual for tree-like structures. If you mean diff-able for the human, then it

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-14 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 14/11/12 06:48, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On 14/11/2012 13:43, Philip Ashmore wrote: Hi there. As someone who develops software for Debian I encounter situations where I have to specify the same information multiple times, and when that information changes I have to remember to update

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-14 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 14/11/12 16:52, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Wednesday 14 November 2012 12:26:56 Philip Ashmore wrote: The packaging tools used by Debian and others have a steep learning curve because their representation isn't human-friendly - it's all for the convenience of a build system dating back

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-14 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 15/11/12 00:15, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 14 November 2012 15:31, Benjamin Drungbdr...@debian.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2012, 15:32 +0400 schrieb Игорь Пашев: 2012/11/14 Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com simple format which, like xml, is human-readable XML is

A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-13 Thread Philip Ashmore
development but it seems to be one of those things that was like that when I got here. Anyway, I'm going to keep with it and see how deep this rabbit-hole goes. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-13 Thread Philip Ashmore
That sb/tests directory is in my v3c-storyboard project http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-storyboard/ Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Philip Ashmore
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Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-29 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 29/10/12 07:25, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:53:05 +0800 Paul Wisep...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: While this feature allows gdb to know the correct source locations, using it implies that packages requiring the feature contain

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-28 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 27/10/12 19:30, Michael Biebl wrote: On 27.10.2012 12:25, Vincent Bernat wrote: Hi! Libraries with `-dbg` package are a pain to deal with when debugging some problem. The solution to ask each user to rebuild the library without stripping debug symbols[1] seem suboptimal. Asking each

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-28 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 28/10/12 16:09, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:03:25AM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: Having the sources installed in /usr/src and referenced there rather than /buildd would be an improvement too. That's why there is the 'substitute-path' feature in gdb to fix that. Also

Re: Debian stickers

2012-07-22 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 22/07/12 10:57, Mike Dupont wrote: That would be great! It would help when shopping! On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com mailto:cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: Has anyone thought of making Debian stickers for 1. products that work with Debian

Debian stickers

2012-07-21 Thread Philip Ashmore
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Re: Debian stickers

2012-07-21 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 21/07/12 18:17, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:48:07 +0100 Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com wrote: I know I would have liked to see a page on the installation process that told me how well the PC I was installing Debian on was supported in terms of drivers and features.

Bug#681058: ITP: v3c-storyboard -- Tell a story

2012-07-10 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: v3c-storyboard Version : 0.2.0-04 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-storyboard/ * License

apt-get source gets a more recent version of linux than I can install

2012-06-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I noticed a few hours ago that apt-get source linux gets me 3.2.21-1, but the I have the latest kernel installed which is 3.2.20-1. What gives? Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
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Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
follow the link in order to participate in the poll: http://www.doodle.com/qmiu7fp73g2i3xet Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 25/06/12 16:03, Martín Ferrari wrote: Hi Phillip, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to fix bugs. Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere

Re: Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
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Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland, Cork alternative

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
if possible. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe939c2.1060...@philipashmore.com

Re: Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
be a sweet bug to fix. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe94615.6040...@philipashmore.com

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 23/06/12 23:59, Wookey wrote: +++ Philip Ashmore [2012-06-23 05:45 +0100]: On 23/06/12 00:53, Wookey wrote: I'm too busy developing the-next-big-thing(TM), but wanted to encourage some sort of global social bug-squashing event(s) - it might even encourage non-debianites to participate

Re: Bug#678815: ITP: wmfs -- Window Manager From Scratch

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 24/06/12 18:15, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:02:56 +0200 Mickaël Raybaud-Roigraybaudro...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas Kochtho...@koch.ro wrote: Hi, I shortened the list to only include one line for each window manager already in Debian: axi-cache --all search

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 24/06/12 17:54, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 05:24:28PM +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: Anyway, I guess what I would look for, to share the bug squashing atmosphere with others, is a YouTube video summarising the event, maybe magazine style - it doesn't have to show someone

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 24/06/12 17:35, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-06-24 at 05:24pm, Philip Ashmore wrote: Anyway, I guess what I would look for, to share the bug squashing atmosphere with others, is a YouTube video summarising the event, maybe magazine style - it doesn't have to show someone actually squashing

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-22 Thread Philip Ashmore
out there that comes close is of interest to me. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe4a49d.5040...@philipashmore.com

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-22 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 22/06/12 23:04, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, Neil Williams wrote: Bug squashing parties are *social* events where bugs happen to get fixed. soon there will be a 14 day BSP, in Central America, in Managua :-D You'll be able to participate remotly, mostly via IRC ;)

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 21/06/12 13:10, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 06/21/2012 04:53 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: The thought of setting up personal (or even Debian-wide) Google+ servers never occurred to me. I think you might have missed the point. Google

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-20 Thread Philip Ashmore
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Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-20 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 20/06/12 15:48, The Fungi wrote: On 2012-06-20 13:34:22 +0100 (+0100), Philip Ashmore wrote: [...] Has anyone thought about starting a hangout at Google+? [...] Sounds intruiging. Is there a Debian package in main so I can run a Google+ server easily? Setting up my own IRC servers

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-06-04 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 04/06/12 09:53, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 06/01/2012 03:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] It's a wiki, so how would we ensure that? I also couldn't find a permalink on the page. Read the moinmoin documentation? http://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections?action=recallrev=19 I see

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-06-01 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 30/05/12 22:42, Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:20:24 +0100 Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: On 30/05/12 12:29, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 05/26/2012 09:09 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 05/26/2012 06:53 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 05/25/2012 10:03 PM, Philip

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-06-01 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 01/06/12 14:53, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 14:10 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 30/05/12 22:42, Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:20:24 +0100 Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com wrote: snip Could you give examples of things lacking permalinks

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-30 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 30/05/12 12:29, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 05/26/2012 09:09 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 05/26/2012 06:53 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 05/25/2012 10:03 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: Hi there. First, here's what I'm talking about - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink Unfortunately

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-30 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 30/05/12 22:42, Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:20:24 +0100 Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com wrote: On 30/05/12 12:29, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 05/26/2012 09:09 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 05/26/2012 06:53 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 05/25/2012 10:03 PM, Philip

Re: Exported (ba)sh functions in the environment

2012-05-28 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 28/05/12 19:17, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Philip Ashmore] On my machine running set set.txt ls -lsa set.txt reveals that my environment contains 225517 of stuff - some of it is even being taken up by exported function definitions! As mentioned earlier, 'set' is not reporting much more

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 05/26/2012 06:53 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 05/25/2012 10:03 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: Hi there. First, here's what I'm talking about - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't offer permalinks itself, so hopefully the above link won't rot. And here's

Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
/Wikipedia:Using_the_Wayback_Machine From this it's possible to specify a permalink URL even to sites without permalinks, but note that a version being referenced might be missed or duplicated, so this isn't an ideal solution. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Exported (ba)sh functions in the environment

2012-05-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
that my environment contains 225517 of stuff - some of it is even being taken up by exported function definitions! That's 225517 bytes that needs to be copied every time a script runs. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Exported (ba)sh functions in the environment

2012-05-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 26/05/12 03:50, Philip Ashmore wrote: That's 225517 bytes that needs to be copied every time a script runs. Yeah that should read every time a script or program runs. Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Exported (ba)sh functions in the environment

2012-05-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 26/05/12 03:59, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 26/05/12 03:50, Philip Ashmore wrote: That's 225517 bytes that needs to be copied every time a script runs. Yeah that should read every time a script or program runs. Philip Sorry Ben, our emails collided. According to man sh (which links

Re: Exported (ba)sh functions in the environment

2012-05-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 26/05/12 04:14, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm curious why even your set of shell variables is so large, though. My environment is only 1699 bytes on a system I logged onto via ssh, and 1998 on my desktop (running Xfce). One of the biggest chunks of that is LS_COLORS. Here's where I wish I

Re: Exported (ba)sh functions in the environment

2012-05-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 26/05/12 04:34, Russ Allbery wrote: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com writes: Here's where I wish I was a shell script guru: for var in `cat set.txt`; do { if in env discard } done { sort offenders by decending size } Here's a summary of the ones that caught my

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
; } Would something like this help here? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f63d2a1.1040...@philipashmore.com

history transparency

2012-02-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
system running on the users machine at the time they reported the bug. With more and more source packages becoming available under publicly accessible version control, what needs to change in Debian to make this possible? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: history transparency

2012-02-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 09/02/12 09:00, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 09.02.2012 08:45, Philip Ashmore wrote: Right now it's difficult/impossible to recreate a snapshot of Debian as it was (updates included) when the bug was reported. I think Debian needs a way to be able to pick a point in history and obtain at least

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
framework. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eedb545.7010...@philipashmore.com

Re: ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for Qt4 (was ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT)

2011-12-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
retitle 652433 ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for Qt4 thanks Done! Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eedbc1c.90

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
a general purpose C++ class library for use in client projects. . See treedb, meta-treedb, v3c-dcom and v3c-qt as examples of projects that use the v3c build framework. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#652432: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c-dcom -- Baby steps to DCOM)

2011-12-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
-in system as an alternative COM implementation. Unlike COM, v3c-dcom encourages the use of sandboxes of registered plug-ins, Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: utility C/C++ include files libv3c - a C/C++ library v3c - a utility program meant to be used in scripts or from the command line makefile includes - see v3c's client projects makefile for examples automake/aclocal m4 macros - see v3c's client projects for examples --

Re: Bug#652425: Acknowledgement (ITP: treedb -- on-disk memory library)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: treedb can implement malloc functionality, and much more! Need a heap that allocates of a fixed size chunk of memory? No problem. But where treedb comes into its own is when it comes to allocating from a mmap()ed disk file - the memory becomes persistent. . If you follow

Re: Bug#652429: Acknowledgement (ITP: meta-treedb -- on-disk memory library using meta-data)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: meta-treedb can implement malloc functionality, and much more! Need a heap that allocates of a fixed size chunk of memory? No problem. But where treedb comes into its own is when it comes to allocating from a mmap()ed disk file - the memory becomes persistent. . If you

Re: Bug#652432: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c-dcom -- Baby steps to DCOM)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: v3c-dcom provides a plug-in system as an alternative COM implementation. Unlike COM, v3c-dcom encourages the use of sandboxes of registered plug-ins, so allowing per site, per-group, per-user, per-program and per-job sandboxes, allowing virtually unlimited configuration

Re: Bug#652433: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: The v3c-qt package ties QT doxygen-generated documentation into the v3c documentation chain, so that client packages can inherit this in their own doxygen-generated documentation. . It also provides automake rules for MOC, UIC and RCC, to ease their usage in client

Re: Bug#652435: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c-qt-examples -- v3c/automake wrapper for Qt4 - examples)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: The v3c-qt package ties QT doxygen-generated documentation into the v3c documentation chain, so that client packages can inherit this in their own doxygen-generated documentation. . It also provides automake rules for MOC, UIC and RCC, to ease their usage in client

Re: Bug#652433: ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 17/12/11 16:25, Mario Fux wrote: Am Samstag 17 Dezember 2011, 07.10:06 schrieb Philip Ashmore: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: v3c-qt Version : 0.7.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmorecont

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 17/12/11 15:29, David Prévot wrote: Le 17/12/2011 08:59, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : On Sa, Dez 17, 2011 at 12:35:15 (CET), Philip Ashmore wrote: Long description: utility C/C++ include files libv3c - a C/C++ library v3c - a utility program meant to be used in scripts or from

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 18/12/11 01:30, David Prévot wrote: Le 17/12/2011 20:50, Philip Ashmore a écrit : On 17/12/11 15:29, David Prévot wrote: Please prefer the up to date developers' reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices#bpp-desc-basics […] Please let me know

Bug#652423: ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: v3c Version : 2.5.0-01 Upstream Author : Name cont...@philipashmore.com * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c/ * License : (LGPL) Programming Lang: C, C

Bug#652425: ITP: treedb -- on-disk memory library

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: treedb Version : 1.3.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/treedb/ * License : LGPL Programming

Bug#652429: ITP: meta-treedb -- on-disk memory library using meta-data

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: meta-treedb Version : 1.4.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/meta-treedb/ * License : LGPL

Bug#652432: ITP: v3c-dcom -- Baby steps to DCOM

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: v3c-dcom Version : 0.5.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-dcom/ * License : LGPL

Bug#652433: ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: v3c-qt Version : 0.7.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-qt/ * License : LGPL Programming

Bug#652435: ITP: v3c-qt-examples -- v3c/automake wrapper for Qt4 - examples

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * Package name: v3c-qt-examples Version : 0.7.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-qt/ * License : LGPL

Re: GNU/Linux COM development and Wine/Samba

2011-12-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 09/12/11 19:57, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi Philip, On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:18:32 +, Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: I've got several projects in SourceForge, one of which is v3c-dcom http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-dcom/ I'm quickly coming to the realisation

Re: GNU/Linux COM development and Wine/Samba

2011-12-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 09/12/11 17:43, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Am 09/12/11 04:18, schrieb Philip Ashmore: I've got several projects in SourceForge, one of which is v3c-dcom http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-dcom/ I'm quickly coming to the realisation that I would need several headers/tools from Wine

Re: GNU/Linux COM development and Wine/Samba

2011-12-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 10/12/11 02:46, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Am 10/12/11 00:07, schrieb Philip Ashmore: On 09/12/11 17:43, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Am 09/12/11 04:18, schrieb Philip Ashmore: I've got several projects in SourceForge, one of which is v3c-dcom http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-dcom/ I'm

GNU/Linux COM development and Wine/Samba

2011-12-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
implementation that they could both use would be the answer, since Wine and Samba are native implementations already. Comments please. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Using Qt debug libraries without configure and qmake

2011-11-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 18/11/11 00:07, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:01:42 + Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com wrote: On 17/11/11 14:56, Neil Williams wrote: The path doesn't matter that much, as long as the debugger can find a filename which at least matches the end of the path. i.e.

Re: Using Qt debug libraries without configure and qmake

2011-11-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
debugging symbols point to source files all over the place, depending on who or how the package in question was built, none of which pointed to /usr/lib/debug or similar. Developers new to Debian can't fail to be surprised by this. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Using Qt debug libraries without configure and qmake

2011-11-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 17/11/11 14:56, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:11:08 + Philip Ashmorecont...@philipashmore.com wrote: While useful, debug symbolsonlyhelp so much. On some other distributions the debugging symbols package includes the source code and kdbg integration so that kdbg can

Re: Bug#646069: Debian and AutoMake

2011-10-23 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. This email isn't a criticism of rxtx - thanks Scott for accepting my patch. It's more of a starting point for issues with development on Debian and other distributions - see the last comment. On 23/10/11 15:08, Scott Howard wrote: clone 646069 -1 retitle -1 rxtx: make -dbg package

Bug#642703: general: Scan lines appear in drop-down menus. LibreOffice also shows artifacts when starting. Might be something to do with the version of fglrx.

2011-09-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. Do you have swap space enabled? How much memory do you have? I get this problem, including font corruption (one or two characters per font), whenever I run something that causes the system to start using swap space. For me, it seems to happen most to Gnome apps, including Google

Recent upgrade problems

2011-08-14 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I ran synaptic and it did the following (from /var/log/apt/history.log) Start-Date: 2011-08-15 03:06:42 Commandline: synaptic Install: xulrunner-5.0:amd64 (5.0-6, automatic), libmozjs5d:amd64 (5.0-6, automatic) Upgrade: python-coherence:amd64 (0.6.6.2-5, 0.6.6.2-6),

openvg.h not found

2011-06-06 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. While trying to build QT 4.8.0 technology preview I had occasion to search for openvg.h. According to http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezysection=allarch=amd64searchon=contentskeywords=openvg.h it's not in Wheezy/amd64, and yet there it is in libopenvg1-mesa-dev. Is

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 21/05/11 12:24, Josselin Mouette wrote: Therefore, I’m wondering whether it would be possible to extend the syntax of Recommends to allow for conditional dependencies. For example, IANADD, however... In database terms you're talking about a separate table that stores N:N relationships, so

Re: Static libraries in development packages

2011-04-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. Nobody thought to mention that static linking can dramatically increase performance, or to put it the other way around, dynamic linking can incur serious runtime penalties. I don't want to encourage everyone to start static linking everywhere just to get a few percentage points in

Re: Ideas for object-based git-like storage on Linux

2011-02-06 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 06/02/11 23:40, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi folks, There are lots of Debian people out there using git, and some of them have expressed interest over the years in having the ability to use git as a filesystem in its own right (#477942 is an example of one in a package I maintain). I've finally

Re: Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from?

2011-01-27 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 27/01/11 01:09, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 19:50 +, Philip Ashmore wrote: [...] I just did an apt-get upgrade in Squeeze and one of the deferred hooks failed: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... /boot/initrd.img-26.32.5-amd64.squeeze does

Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from?

2011-01-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I've got a multi-boot system for which I maintain my own (Grub2) grub.cfg. I've got Debian Lenny, Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu partitions inside an encrypted LVM2 logical volume, a booting nicely. I just have to watch out if one of them tries to update grub.cfg, completely trashing

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 24/01/11 02:52, Paul Wise wrote: * README.test An alternative is to just provide *-test Debian packages. If the package exists then building it is the same as running a test of the packages it requires to be installed - maybe just the * package, but it could also be an integration test.