Re: Advice on HTML docs

2007-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
with a similar problem (openafs-doc) and it was approved, but I put the note to that effect in debian/copyright, which is the file that the ftp-masters review for these sorts of issues and which is the place to note the provenance and licensing of the source. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: drpython (updated package)

2007-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is LP: #96014? LP numbers are usually Launchpad bugs (in Ubuntu's system). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you show the location where that's stated? Did you try searching the table of contents for non-free and following the link? It's section 2.2.3. See also the last sentence of section 2. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
rather than trying to use them as first-class shared libraries. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
of these packages? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-10-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:35:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: While with non-free software you can't really change the binaries, you definitely *can* change the packaging structure however you'd like. Does it make sense to have six different packages

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-10-03 Thread Russ Allbery
with it. There would be no shlibs file. Again no problem, right? That's my take, yes. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-10-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:57:06AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: It would require that you make modifications to the upstream source, probably. So will lots of other things, though. The only packages for which I don't end up needing some sort of patch

Re: How package a binary library with unversioned soname?

2007-10-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:51:41AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Nikolaus Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't dumping several upstream tarballs in one Debian source package require something like that? No, they're unrelated. I guess you mean

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath error message

2007-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lintian .packlist warning and debian/rules modification

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The debhelper tools (dh_install) used to use debian/tmp but now (depending on DH_COMPAT) use debian/$package. So this is a small-ish lintian bug. I've changed the lintian message to use debian/pkg instead. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: su-wrapper in desktop/menu files

2007-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
, someone will have to proper massbugfil about that.. Could you file a wishlist bug against lintian to add a check for this, including a rationale for why one shouldn't use gksu or kdesu directly? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: policy for file headers

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
under that copyright and license. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
to the symlink... The problem is that libtool doesn't think that lib64 is on the regular library search path and hence decides that it needs to add rpath, which is broken at several different levels but best avoided by just using lib. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Francesco Namuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Il giorno 04/dic/07, alle ore 01:23, Russ Allbery ha scritto: The problem is that libtool doesn't think that lib64 is on the regular library search path and hence decides that it needs to add rpath, which is broken at several different levels

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Leo \costela\ Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure? Check out package 'transmission', it's been using chrpath for the last 3 releases (IIRC) without issues on any arch (at least according to lintian.debian.org). lintian.debian.org only checks i386. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
or whether the or later part is available. (The exception is GPL v1, which isn't in common-licenses; in that case, right now, I think the best course of action is to treat the software as under GPL v2 for Debian's purposes. There isn't a lot of software in this category.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
it shouldn't pull in a lot of other packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed. I think debian/copyright should always refer to the exact version of the GPL that the package says it's covered under and then document whether only that version is permissable or whether the or later

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I do run lintian (and linda), but the spare machine I used to build the packages was running Lenny at the time I built them. It's now Sid ;-) You can also pin lintian

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I think the best way is to include the license text in debian/copyright just like any other license that is not in common-licenses. We probably don't really want to include a copy of the GPLv1

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today...

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:44:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: So my original statement that not many packages are in that situation is kind of true and kind of not, depending on how you feel about the Perl situation. (I don't know of any packages that say

Re: RFS: dblatex (updated package): 2nd try

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
) and will be fixed in a later version. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
and submit that as a bug against debian-policy, that would be greatly appreciated and would start the process of including it in Policy. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: mentors.debian.net rejects orig.tar.bz2

2007-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
to accept such packages in the archive. If so, we should change Policy. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/copyright file

2007-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
contractors. It depends on the terms of the contract. But if they say that the contract didn't assign copyright to the contractor in this case, it's reasonable to believe them.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

2007-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
says to run ldconfig when installing libraries into the default search path. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libdbi Debian packages

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
they in /usr/lib? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2008-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
, but the wording is buggy. I expect upstream really intends something more like the license Automake uses. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
the same symbols even if it was -1~bpo.40 or -0.1 or something strange.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SONAME vs illegal package name

2008-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
to change the library package name to not include an underscore since underscore isn't allowed in package names in Debian. The recommendation (which will make lintian happy) is to replace _ with - in the package name. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
to fix it for hours but someone point me at a bug that makes this empty usr/lib/ FTR: #452227. Let me know if python-central decides to keep the empty directories and I can add an exception to lintian. This tag is fairly new and still needs more exceptions added to it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: RFS: poco (updated package) [4th try]

2008-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
libpoco.so.2. It is a place where an override is probably justified, however. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Guidelines.) So the practical impact for a Debian derivative of including or not including one more package with the four-clause BSD license is minimal. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
package with this license would not cause any noticable hardship for redistributors compared to what they already would need to deal with. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
assumed the BSD license as referred to in the DFSG must, regardless of what the web site currently links to, actually refer to the 4-clause license since that's the only thing that existed at the time. Am I missing something? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:27:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : Am I missing something? This ? http://web.archive.org/web/19990210065944/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license http://web.archive.org/web/20001205083200/http://www.debian.org/misc

Re: Config files which are writable by www-data

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
/doc at all. You should ship them in /usr/share/package and add a symlink in /usr/share/doc if desired. See Policy 12.3. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
the files is fairly common right now. See http://bugs.debian.org/397939 for some additional discussion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with watch file -- pre-release upstream versions

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Székelyi Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the usual way of handling preX upstream version numbers in watch files? I'm having trouble because uscan considers 1.0pre3 newer than 1.0. opts=uversionmangle=s/pre/~pre/ -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
-running autoconf and automake would increase the number of FTBFS's that we'd need to fix. (Probably for the greater good of free software, but.) Also, it's not always easy to figure out which files are generated in order to remove them, but that's probably programmatically fixable. -- Russ Allbery

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:21:29AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Always re-running autoconf and automake would increase the number of FTBFS's that we'd need to fix. Not really. No, really, I promise it will. :) Each time we upgrade autoconf, it will break

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-14 Thread Russ Allbery
generation is done is already done as part of the installation of libtool. It's not like Autoconf or Automake where a file in the source is used as input to a compiler which generates a shell script based on it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:02:41PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Note that libtool is an unusual case here and isn't the same as Autoconf or Automake. The files included in the package (libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh) are not generated files in the same sense

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
with the current autotools, the partial run of Automake can leave the whole tree in a broken state, and so forth. But I suppose that's basically the normal argument for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
. For example, should you declare the programs it needs in Build-Depends? I don't think so, and it would feel weird to me to do so, but as a result I use software in get-orig-source for which there's no hint in the source package control file might be needed (wget is the most common). -- Russ Allbery

Re: Ask for removal of a binary package: how?

2008-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
by a person. But I don't think you need to file a bug for this case. You need to file a bug if you drop a package from only some architectures that previously had that package, but if you stop building a binary package entirely, that's caught by the audit scripts. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: desktop file main category for a scientific data viewer?

2008-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Free Desktop specifications right now anyway (since tons and tons of .desktop files use Applications, which also isn't valid). If you can tell me the list of categories on which you've agreed, I'll add them to lintian. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: RFS: QA Upload: jack-tools -- various JACK tools: plumbing, play, udp, ctl, scope, clock

2008-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
suggestions/pointers? Usually, but not always, this means upstream is using an outdated libtool. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: uniconvertor

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
library files, this is common enough practice with Python that the next release of lintian will ignore it. So you can also leave it alone and the warning will go away with the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFH: liblicense: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
debian/rules file. You have to run dh_makeshlibs when building shared libraries. Otherwise, you don't get a shlibs file, which means that the shared library package won't work right and dh_shlibdeps can't find it when setting shared library dependencies. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: More RFH: liblicense: Module symbols found in none of the libraries

2008-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
this to fail. However, lots and lots and lots of stuff does work this way and usually doesn't cause problems. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cowbuilder and Distribution field in .changes file

2008-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
the package was built. You have to edit the *.changes file after the build if you want to target a different distribution than the debian/changelog entry indicates. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cowbuilder and Distribution field in .changes file

2008-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
to in this sentence. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
architectures isn't treating you like shit; it really isn't personal. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tcltls possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl

2008-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
-with-openssl If you add the exception from upstream to the copyright file and it uses one of the standard wordings that talks about an exception or exemption, lintian will figure it out for itself without needing an override. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Keep directory in working tree, but exclude from foo.diff.gz

2008-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
of that VCS data. Is this some additional VCS that the default dpkg-source regex should be changed to also handle? Excluding any VCS files seems to be the goal of the regex and I expect the maintainers would not be adverse to adding another one. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Call for help: please read (bashisms)

2008-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Developer names within debian/changelog

2008-05-12 Thread Russ Allbery
know if it's worth being more formal here in Policy or not. It might be more of a devref thing. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Developer names within debian/changelog

2008-05-13 Thread Russ Allbery
codenames and indeed maintainer names are there only for humans to read. This is not *completely* true; lintian parses the changelog for certain words and conventions and will whine if you don't follow them. But lintian tends to be a weird special case about some of these things. -- Russ Allbery

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
can still look at the openafs package, which is currently using quilt and applies a whole bunch of patches (although we may switch to Git at some point down the road). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, I've converted most of my packages to use Git, which means that the source package as uploaded to Debian has one collapsed patch including upstream changes and you have

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
format will address this, or that otherwise one of the people who are talking about doing this with their packages will write up a good set of tools to let me do this easily, so that I don't have to do the work of writing such a tool. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 01 June 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm currently not doing this for a very prosaic reason: I don't have a simple tool that does it for me, and I'm too busy with other things to write one. The choice was to stay with quilt or to give this up

Re: RFS: eboard (updated package)

2008-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a bit odd to have a package depends on xfonts-75dpi. Do you know the rationale behind this dependency? It's also a Policy violation. See Policy 11.8.5, first point, last sentence. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: RFS: dish

2008-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
in the description is rare, but there are cases where you want to do it.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: poco and poco-doc (updated packages) [3rd try]

2008-06-07 Thread Russ Allbery
library that's a full shared library in its own right because building with debugging changes the library, then yes, you'll need to override a warning about the package name. But it should be in /usr/lib. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: RFS: poco and poco-doc (updated packages) [3rd try]

2008-06-08 Thread Russ Allbery
in the same package, which happens to be a debugging build of another shared library. If the package contained only detached debugging information, Lintian wouldn't be confused. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RFS: poco and poco-doc (updated packages) [3rd try]

2008-06-08 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: poco and poco-doc (updated packages) [3rd try]

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
that a library named libkrb5.so.3 should result in a package name of libkrb5-3 and not libkrb53. It therefore only matches library names that end in a number. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFS: ldtp (updated package)

2008-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
. You don't really want the build to change depending on whether or not someone happens to have autotools-dev installed. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse

2008-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
the *university* license, while ours refers to the real authors. You're correct. You can only use /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD for code that's actually owned by the Regents of the University of California, not for other code licensed under the same license. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: where are __amd64 and __i386 defined?

2008-06-29 Thread Russ Allbery
automatically (standard in the sense that every time I need to figure out what they are, I have to go grovelling through arcane compiler flags or obscure documentation). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: nemesis (updated package)

2008-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
of this for you too. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: nemesis (updated package)

2008-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
William Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I don't know yet how to fix those lintian warnings :/ For each line identified by lintian, look at all the dashes (-) on that line. If any of them are literal - characters, usually for program options, put a \ in front of them. -- Russ Allbery

Re: RFS: nemesis (updated package)

2008-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
before the build, you need to delete all the files modified by that build process in debian/rules clean so that those spurious changes aren't included in the Debian diff. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Factorised code for adding a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and restarting apache ?

2008-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
to the global Apache configuration. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: License help needed (nvi 1.81.6-3)

2008-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
of convenience and because they have well-known and non-problematic licenses. Since we're distributing them, to be fully and formally correct, we should probably document the license status. (Not that I expect many people to go to the effort, but I do do so when I have time for my packages.) -- Russ Allbery

Re: Factorised code for adding a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and restarting apache ?

2008-07-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefan Fritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 06 July 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: That would really upset me if I were a systems administrator. Most of my Apache configurations have multiple virtual hosts, and having some package randomly add itself to the namespace of every virtual host

Re: Question about watch-file

2008-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
represent some sort of meaningful to-do list for the Debian maintainer. Including things on that list that aren't actionable works against that purpose. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
should provide the full path of the target file to dh_link. dh_link will then do whatever is necessary to make it a Policy-compliant link. So if you're linking to a file in /usr/share/package, the source should start with that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) Even if mkfontdir were invoked directly or if it's okay to give update-fonts-dir an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to be updated and the warning

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe HOME was still set to the user's home dir? If XAUTHORITY isn't set Xlib looks in $HOME/.Xauthority, so that may work depending how you get root. Ah, XAUTHORITY was set. Thank you. I didn't know about that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: font policy - maintainerless program

2008-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
of confusion lately. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: gnuplot (updated package)

2008-07-29 Thread Russ Allbery
is being used as an adjective, which conventionally means that you hyphenate the entire phrase. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper

2008-07-30 Thread Russ Allbery
to be able to install (in practice, old enough that it's supported in stable), but there's really no reason not to use the more accurate and informative dependency. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper

2008-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
there was an oldstable (or even just stable) version that didn't support what I needed, but with debhelper it's just so easy to always version it for consistency. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
empty directories in /var. I suspect that your empty directories (particularly cache) may be in the wrong place according to the FHS for what the package will put in them. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
could be removed. The Lintian warning frequently catches scripts that were supposed to be executable but don't have correct permissions, as Joey says. There are already exceptions in Lintian for libraries for some scripting languages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Russ Allbery
. Then move all the other tags and branches to the new commits, and git gc should remove the unreachable objects. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: RFC: QA vs NMU on ssystem - 3D solar system simulator

2008-09-06 Thread Russ Allbery
-data). That would imply that Lintian's threshold for this warning is too low. What do other people think? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Phony patch target: is it necessary ?

2008-09-21 Thread Russ Allbery
reason. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Updated vsftpd (RC bug fix, QA upload)

2008-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
broken (you have the same block in both diffs). Please re-upload without those changes and I'll be happy to upload this NMU given that the maintainer is listed in LowNMU. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unheeded warnings from build tools

2008-10-02 Thread Russ Allbery
). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with debuild and changelog

2006-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
. Standard Debian packaging practices don't let you do this sort of thing and require a hand-maintained changelog file with hand-written new entries for each new version. The standard packaging tools like debuild therefore are not prepared to deal with this and probably are not going to cope. -- Russ

Re: Migration to svn-buildpackage

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
or not I'd bother would probably depend on the package. Is there something useful (some tricks) to know about it? Something to easy SVN management and it's not written in howto? http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ is incredibly useful for all the general Subversion stuff. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
, the answer is run dh_strip and it takes care of this for you. However, it's good to understand the basics and the reasons for what's going on behind the scenes. There's some additional information in section 10.1 of Policy. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256900 Yeah, Objective CAML has been that way for years and years. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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