Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: - Store all of the source, upstream and Debian, in the same VCS (better if upstream uses the same, but if it has to be a clone of upstream then so be it) I would be absolutely unhappy about this. On one hand it is just a waste of resources to

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:26:04AM +, Andreas Tille wrote: What would you suggest to enhance the situation? For one, I'm not sure the situation is that horrible. Second, I believe joeyh's proposal to be able to use some DSCM features to replace the old diff.gz is an excellent proposal,

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 09:50 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) For historical reasons I use dpatch but I'm not really happy with this. I would gladly adopt any other patch system if it would be declared as kind of standard. I’d be glad if we

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:08:29AM +0100, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 09:50 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) For historical reasons I use dpatch but I'm not really happy with this. I would gladly

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 08:50:56AM +, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: - Store all of the source, upstream and Debian, in the same VCS (better if upstream uses the same, but if it has to be a clone of upstream then so be it) I would be absolutely

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:59:00AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: For one, I'm not sure the situation is that horrible. Second, I believe joeyh's proposal to be able to use some DSCM features to replace the old diff.gz is an excellent proposal Full ack! OTOH, you will have a lot of people

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread sean finney
On Friday 25 January 2008 11:08:13 am Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:55:02AM +, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how common it is for this additional functionality to be used in packages in the archive? I do use it for config.guess and config.sub

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Friday 25 January 2008 09:50:56 am Andreas Tille wrote: I would be absolutely unhappy about this. On one hand it is just a waste of resources to clone upstream source on the other hand handling a set of (documented!!) patches seems much more clearly for my taste. inconvenient

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, Steve Langasek wrote: As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:14:24AM +0100, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 11:08:13 am Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:55:02AM +, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how common it is for this additional functionality to

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, Steve Langasek wrote: As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-25 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:37:29AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:35:06PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: Have you spoken with the rails package maintainer about this and your other ITP? Having duplicate copies of the same code lying around in the

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:13:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: The only sad thing is that quilt only deals with patches (i.e. diffs), whereas dpatch can do scripts, too. Anyways, I now prefer not using dpatch of quilt. Does anyone know how common it is for this additional functionality to be

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:37:29AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: Why? What is the disadvantage of having it together with rails? I'm assuming 7MB of diskspace (2MB archive) is not what is your main reason. I'm interested in looking at active record in non-web situations. It's only a mild interest

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:55:02AM +, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:13:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: The only sad thing is that quilt only deals with patches (i.e. diffs), whereas dpatch can do scripts, too. Anyways, I now prefer not using dpatch of

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: a set of (documented!!) patches seems much more clearly for my taste. You comment patches in the commit message, don't you ? Well, I do, but if I want to provide a fix for package XY I would have to install the perfered VCS of maintainer of XY

xen-utils installation failure

2008-01-25 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: xen-utils-3.2-1 Version: 3.2.0-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, xen-utils fails to install. I'm sorry that I couldn't gather other information that reportbug gathers. virtian:~# apt-get install xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386 xen-utils-3.2-1 xen-docs-3.2 Reading

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread Roland Mas
Andreas Tille, 2008-01-25 12:16:02 +0100 : On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's obvious for everybody :) Yes, please do

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: For one, I'm not sure the situation is that horrible. Second, I believe joeyh's proposal to be able to use some DSCM features to replace the old diff.gz is an excellent proposal, OTOH, you will have a lot of people complaining about having to use git

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/01/08 at 12:16 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:59:00AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Oh and don't try to ask for complete uniformity in packaging, there are 1000 DDs, 10 times as many packages We have managed to get almost complete uniformity of the binary packages produced. And imho, it's one of the things that

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Of course, the list includes some false positives, but they are difficult to identify without going through all the debdiff outputs and build logs manually. Hmm, the debdiff output is not really helpful in deciding whether my

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:14:24AM +0100, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 11:08:13 am Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:55:02AM +, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how common it is for this

Re: Fixing watch file (Was: Bits from DEHS)

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Andreas Tille wrote: I'm aware that the watch file of adun.app is wrong because it reports version 0.74 as newer than 0.8.2 (upstream should have choosen 0.7.4 instead of 0.74). Any hint how to fix this watch file line http://download.gna.org/adun/Adun-(.*)\.tar\.gz to do the right

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Call me old fashioned but I want to see a set of files if I do apt-get source XY and want to see the patches to the original tarball. That's not old-fashioned, because that's never been what 'apt-get source foo' is meant to do. old-fashioned

Re: Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

2008-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To make the dialign-t package, I removed the documentation from the upstream tarball, that I use for a dialign-t-doc package, in the non-free section as the their LaTeX sources are not provided. Now, I was informed that the reason is that the sources

Bug#462606: ITP: dejima-mincho -- antiquated Japanese TrueType Mincho font, Dejima Mincho

2008-01-25 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: dejima-mincho Version: 126 Upstream Author: Yoshiki Hayashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://code.google.com/p/dejima-fonts/ License: MIT Description: antiquated Japanese

Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

2008-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, To make the dialign-t package, I removed the documentation from the upstream tarball, that I use for a dialign-t-doc package, in the non-free section as the their LaTeX sources are not provided. Now, I was informed that the reason is that the sources have been lost. In that case,

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:51:40PM -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : Unless what you get when you run apt-get source is *not* the source that is in the end used to build the package, which is instead squirrled away in some arbitrary patch format somewhere under debian/. In this case, unlike in the

Re: Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

2008-01-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: To make the dialign-t package, I removed the documentation from the upstream tarball, that I use for a dialign-t-doc package, in the non-free section as the their LaTeX sources are not provided. Now, I was informed that the reason is that the

table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-01-25 Thread Sebastian Pipping
thanks to lucas nussbaum the address http://debian.binera.de/wnpp/ is now accessible through http://wnpp.debian.net/ . sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Pierre Habouzit may or may not have written... On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:26:04AM +, Andreas Tille wrote: What would you suggest to enhance the situation? For one, I'm not sure the situation is that horrible. Second, I believe joeyh's proposal to be able to use some DSCM

Bug#462602: ITP: eeepc-acpi-source -- source for Eee PC ACPI module

2008-01-25 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: eeepc-acpi-source Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ecc/eeepc-acpi_1.0.tar.gz * License : GPL Programming Lang:

debian-installer and software RAID

2008-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
A recent feature of Linux software RAID is a write intent bitmap. The purpose of this is that before writing to a section of disk the bitmap is altered to mark it as dirty. Then if the machine experiences a power failure or other catastrophic event then when rebooted it will know that the

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/01/08 at 13:46 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Would it be possible to get access to the binaries? I'm interested in choose-mirror, localechooser, ikiwiki, libperl-critic-perl, and fbreader, which differed only in package size between the two builds. The host I stored them on isn't

Bug#462584: ITP: grub2-splashimages -- a collection of great GRUB2 splashimages

2008-01-25 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: grub2-splashimages Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : none (native package) * License : GNU FDL or CC-BY(-SA) (one or both

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each maintainer may be familiar with his pet patch system, but for archive wide work I agree the current approach is a mess and makes security updates painful. Since it's unlikely to change anytime soon, each source packages, which uses something

Re: xen-utils installation failure

2008-01-25 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Michael Banck wrote: Why do you CC debian-devel for a regular bug report?  If every bug report would be copied to debian-devel, the list would be totally flooded. Sorry. Will take care of that. Ritesh -- If possible, Please CC me when replying. I'm not subscribed to the list. -- To

Re: Fixing watch file (Was: Bits from DEHS)

2008-01-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Andreas Tille wrote: I'm aware that the watch file of adun.app is wrong because it reports version 0.74 as newer than 0.8.2 (upstream should have choosen 0.7.4 instead of 0.74). Any hint how to fix this watch file line http://download.gna.org/adun/Adun-(.*)\.tar\.gz to do the right

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Joey Hess
Would it be possible to get access to the binaries? I'm interested in choose-mirror, localechooser, ikiwiki, libperl-critic-perl, and fbreader, which differed only in package size between the two builds. That's semi-understandable for choose-mirror, but I can't guess what would make the others

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Andreas Tille wrote: What would you suggest to enhance the situation? Each maintainer may be familiar with his pet patch system, but for archive wide work I agree the current approach is a mess and makes security updates painful. Since it's unlikely to change anytime soon, each source packages,

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:25:42PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 25/01/08 at 15:36 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Hmm, the debdiff output is not really helpful in deciding whether my packages actually have a problem (doc-linux and libgpod). It just reports a different Installed-Size.

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: On 25/01/08 at 15:59 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: [docbok-xsl-doc-html] But if the size is the same, why would the Installed-Size differ? I have no idea. I've copied the source and the binary packages to

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-25 16:05]: I don't think these bugs should be closed without considering the type of the removed package. If it's just gotten useless or uninteresting, no problem. But if there's some kind of successor (like foo2 in a new source package, iceweasel to

Re: xen-utils installation failure

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:52:20PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Package: xen-utils-3.2-1 Version: 3.2.0-1 Severity: important Why do you CC debian-devel for a regular bug report? If every bug report would be copied to debian-devel, the list would be totally flooded. cheers, Michael --

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hmmm... On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:41PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: I ended up updating NM guide which only had dpatch to current one with quilt: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-dpatch As I read this thread back to d-project, ... interesting. It all started

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 16:20 +0100 schrieb Jens Seidel: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: [difference in Installed-Size for docbook-xsl-doc-html] copies files from the source to the correct place in the file system. So I checked the files: a) that I have

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/01/08 at 15:59 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 15:25 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: I've done two rebuilds of sid on i386. - one in a perfectly clean chroot, as I usually do - one in a chroot, where as many build-dependancies as impossible were installed

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Brett Parker
On 25 Jan 15:59, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 15:25 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: I've done two rebuilds of sid on i386. - one in a perfectly clean chroot, as I usually do - one in a chroot, where as many build-dependancies as impossible were installed (take the

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/01/08 at 15:36 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Of course, the list includes some false positives, but they are difficult to identify without going through all the debdiff outputs and build logs manually. Hmm, the

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 15:25 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: I've done two rebuilds of sid on i386. - one in a perfectly clean chroot, as I usually do - one in a chroot, where as many build-dependancies as impossible were installed (take the Sources file, extract the build-deps for all

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, Steve Langasek wrote: As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use dpatch. This was discussed in debian-doc and

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:14:01PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Well, I do, but if I want to provide a fix for package XY I would have to install the perfered VCS of maintainer of XY and learn how to uncover the comments of a patch (including its history). Nope, since nobody is stating that the

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] Today a new package to speed up the boot is available in unstable. The readahead binary package can speed up the boot quite significantly by optimizing how the hard drive is used. It make sure the kernel disk cache is populated as the very first thing done at boot with

Bug#462594: RFP: qemulator -- [SHORT DESCRIPTION]

2008-01-25 Thread Russo Giampiero
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: qemulator Version: 0.5-3 Upstream Author: [NAME [EMAIL PROTECTED]] URL: [http://example.com] License: [GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.]

Re: Bits from DEHS

2008-01-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:07:07PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: It's been some time since DEHS[1] had some 'big' changes (probably since its creation). Here's a list of changes that have been done lately: Can you please add an entry about that to

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Michal Čihař wrote: Hi Dne Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:37:36 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): Seems like gzip didn't compress the files in the exact same way, even if the resulting size was the same: $ diff -burN t t2 Binary files

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri January 25 2008 3:47:36 am sean finney wrote: hiya, On Friday 25 January 2008 09:50:56 am Andreas Tille wrote: I would be absolutely unhappy about this. On one hand it is just a waste of resources to clone upstream source on the other hand handling a set of (documented!!) patches

Re: Bits from DEHS

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:07:07PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: It's been some time since DEHS[1] had some 'big' changes (probably since its creation). Here's a list of changes that have been done lately: Can you please add an entry about that to http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews, so that

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Lucas Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's obvious for everybody :) Yes,

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:59 +0100, Roland Mas wrote: It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's obvious for everybody :) Yes, please do so! I would like to read that. Seconded. Also, please include the

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread Vincent Danjean
gregor herrmann wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:59 +0100, Roland Mas wrote: It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's obvious for everybody :) Yes, please do so! I would like to read that. Seconded. Also,

rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I've done two rebuilds of sid on i386. - one in a perfectly clean chroot, as I usually do - one in a chroot, where as many build-dependancies as impossible were installed (take the Sources file, extract the build-deps for all packages, and install as many packages as possible) (the chroot

ITP: libconfig-json-perl -- A parser for JSON-based configuration files

2008-01-25 Thread Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
Package: wnpp * Package name: libconfig-json-perl Version: 1.1.2 Upstream Author: JT Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-JSON/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: Config::JSON parses configuration files written in JSON. It also does some non-JSON

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 25/01/2008, Vincent Danjean wrote: If someone has an example of how to use quilt + cdbs (or even quilt + standard debhelper debian/rules file) to patch the *clean* system of the software, I would be interested. Usually, patches are early removed (or not applied) when running debian/rules

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Michael Banck wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, Steve Langasek wrote: As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% use

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:13:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: The only sad thing is that quilt only deals with patches (i.e. diffs), whereas dpatch can do scripts, too. Anyways, I now prefer not using dpatch of quilt. Does anyone know how common it is for this additional

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Jens Seidel
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 15:25 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: I've done two rebuilds of sid on i386. - one in a perfectly clean chroot, as I usually do - one in a chroot, where as many build-dependancies as impossible were

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lucas Nussbaum] I'm not really sure of what we should do about those problems. The easiest way to fix them is to use source-only uploads (to avoid packages built on broken maintainer machines), Very good work. I hope to find solutions for all my packages with this problem. I agree that

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Peter Makholm
Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, the list includes some false positives, but they are difficult to identify without going through all the debdiff outputs and build logs manually. One false positive is when one of the builds fails, like ack-grep which fails some times due to

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com writes: In the past, I closed all bug reports from packages that were removed. Some people were unhappy about this but it was the best solution we had. This changed with the introduction of version tracking. The idea now is to close them with a fake

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:37:36 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): Seems like gzip didn't compress the files in the exact same way, even if the resulting size was the same: $ diff -burN t t2 Binary files t/usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-doc-html/changelog.Debian.gz and

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 25/01/2008, Frank Küster wrote: I don't think these bugs should be closed without considering the type of the removed package. If it's just gotten useless or uninteresting, no problem. But if there's some kind of successor (like foo2 in a new source package, iceweasel to firefox, or TeXLive

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-24 21:08]: I think that the BTS learns the hierarchy of packages' versions by parsing the changelogs. Would your plan work even if the version is a fake one (not in any changelog)? At least it's

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Joey Hess
FWIW, I'm very disappointed in this thread so far -- everyone in it seems to be missing between 50 and 90% of the point of my blog post. Pierre Habouzit wrote: Oh and don't try to ask for complete uniformity in packaging, there are 1000 DDs, 10 times as many packages, different needs (you

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Tille wrote: If you ask me personally the situation with zillions of competing VSC systems is even worse than the hand full of tools to build Debian packages. I personally refuse to switch VCS every six month because there is a newer and even better one if you trust the one or other

Re: Bits from DEHS

2008-01-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hello Andreas, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: It's been some time since DEHS[1] had some 'big' changes (probably since its creation). Here's a list of changes that have been done lately: I don't know how to file wishlist bug reports but I would like to

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/01/08 at 18:10 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: On 25/01/08 at 15:59 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: [docbok-xsl-doc-html] But if the size is the same, why would the Installed-Size differ? I have no idea. I've copied the

Bug#462593: RFP: qemulator -- i wax launching qemulator

2008-01-25 Thread Russo Giampiero
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: qemulator Version: 0.5-3 Upstream Author: [NAME [EMAIL PROTECTED]] URL: [http://example.com] License: [GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.]

Accepted extace 1.9.8-1 (source i386)

2008-01-25 Thread Christian Marillat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:00:58 +0100 Source: extace Binary: extace Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.9.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Christian Marillat [EMAIL

Accepted lnpd 0.9.0-5 (source i386)

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:54:54 +0100 Source: lnpd Binary: lnpd Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.0-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL

Accepted gcc-h8300-hms 1:3.4.6-5 (source i386)

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:51:29 +0100 Source: gcc-h8300-hms Binary: gcc-h8300-hms Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:3.4.6-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael

Accepted lprng-doc 3.8.A~rc2-1 (source all)

2008-01-25 Thread Craig Small
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:53:51 +1100 Source: lprng-doc Binary: lprng-doc Architecture: source all Version: 3.8.A~rc2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted brickos 0.9.0.dfsg-6 (source all i386)

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:54:20 +0100 Source: brickos Binary: brickos brickos-doc Architecture: source all i386 Version: 0.9.0.dfsg-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael

Accepted ldap-account-manager 2.2.0-1 (source all)

2008-01-25 Thread Roland Gruber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:44:10 +0100 Source: ldap-account-manager Binary: ldap-account-manager Architecture: source all Version: 2.2.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Roland Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Roland

Accepted hashalot 0.3-5 (source arm)

2008-01-25 Thread Adam Borowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:26:46 +0100 Source: hashalot Binary: hashalot Architecture: source arm Version: 0.3-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted cmake 2.4.8-1 (source amd64)

2008-01-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:19:47 +0100 Source: cmake Binary: cmake Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.4.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL

Accepted di 4.12.dfsg.1-1 (source amd64)

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:53:29 +0100 Source: di Binary: di Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.12.dfsg.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description:

Accepted pango1.0 1.19.3-1 (source all i386)

2008-01-25 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:12:28 +0100 Source: pango1.0 Binary: libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-udeb libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev libpango1.0-0-dbg libpango1.0-doc Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1.19.3-1 Distribution: experimental

Accepted equivs 2.0.7-0.1 (source all)

2008-01-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:26:38 +0100 Source: equivs Binary: equivs Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.7-0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL

Accepted openldap2.3 2.4.7-4 (source amd64)

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:17:23 -0800 Source: openldap2.3 Binary: slapd libldap-2.4-2 ldap-utils libldap2-dev slapd-dbg libldap-2.4-2-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.4.7-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian

Accepted libunicode-string-perl 2.09-3 (source i386)

2008-01-25 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:59:45 +0200 Source: libunicode-string-perl Binary: libunicode-string-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.09-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted cellwriter 1.3.2-1 (source i386)

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Levin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:18:00 -0500 Source: cellwriter Binary: cellwriter Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.3.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Levin [EMAIL

Accepted libwebapp-ruby 0.4-2 (source all)

2008-01-25 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:01:30 +0900 Source: libwebapp-ruby Binary: libwebapp-ruby1.8 Architecture: source all Version: 0.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: NIIBE Yutaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: NIIBE Yutaka [EMAIL

Accepted sun-java5 1.5.0-14-1 (source i386 all)

2008-01-25 Thread Matthias Klose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:36:49 + Source: sun-java5 Binary: sun-java5-jre sun-java5-bin sun-java5-plugin ia32-sun-java5-bin ia32-sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-fonts sun-java5-jdk sun-java5-demo sun-java5-source sun-java5-doc

Accepted ncurses 5.6+20080119-1 (source i386 all)

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:45:00 +0100 Source: ncurses Binary: libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncurses5-dbg libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dev libncursesw5-dbg lib64ncurses5 lib64ncurses5-dev lib32ncurses5 lib32ncurses5-dev ncurses-bin

Accepted tklib 0.4.1-20080125-1 (source all)

2008-01-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:44:11 +0300 Source: tklib Binary: tklib Architecture: source all Version: 0.4.1-20080125-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sergei Golovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sergei Golovan [EMAIL

Accepted workrave 1.8.5-5 (source amd64)

2008-01-25 Thread Francois Marier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:43:44 +1300 Source: workrave Binary: workrave Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.8.5-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Francois Marier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Francois Marier [EMAIL

Accepted shorewall-common 4.0.8-1 (source all)

2008-01-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:52:53 -0500 Source: shorewall-common Binary: shorewall-common shorewall Architecture: source all Version: 4.0.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

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