Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
will change depending on what packages you have installed. -- 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: Symbols and C++ inline constructor

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

Re: Symbols and C++ inline constructor

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

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

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

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
is going to be a derivative work in most cases and also won't be redistributable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
rights. ftpmaster is just checking for mistakes (at the point at which most mistakes are made). The difference for mentors is that the uploaders are not (yet) Debian project members and are not guaranteed to be trained in our licensing policies, and have not agreed to follow our rules. -- Russ

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: For the main archive, the NEW check I think is best thought of as a spot check to ensure maintainers are doing their jobs.  The real responsibility of not uploading non-redistributable

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
being somewhat paranoid about things that get the official imprimatur of the project. And I'm certainly not a lawyer and this is just my guess. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
is of course a whole field of expertise in and of itself. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Russ Allbery
graphics card, for example. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hazfr7sd

Re: How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?

2012-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
easy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqdmeer8@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?

2012-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
operating systems and is not actually a good idea unless all of the libraries the package uses support a facility like pkgconfig (which is something that upstream is often not in control of). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: DEP-5 versioned URI / Lintian complains

2012-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
they are! The current plan is to release debian-policy with the 1.0 version of this document on February 22nd. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Which git tool should I use?

2012-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
systems. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ty2qhwu0@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: debian/rules default

2012-02-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net writes: What should be the default target for debian/rules ? Whatever you want, basically. None of the standard tools ever invoke it with the default target, so it's up to the discretion of the maintainer. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
of architectures on which valgrind is required, even if you also opportunistically test for its existence. There's no reason to allow *not* running valgrind tests on i386 and amd64. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
the tests. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871upgsqwf

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-07 Thread Russ Allbery
want to move to eventually. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcmgxig3

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html Where were you 2 years ago when I first asked about how to use git when being both upstream and debian maintainer? :) Posting that site to Planet Debian

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
realized that I really needed a Debian-specific patch. It works, but quilt is really another VCS, and I don't like layering one VCS on top of another. VCS management is too complicated already! :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
master upstream/x.y would be correct. Will try that when I find the time to recreate the repository. Yes, that would work if you want to preserve the history. But since nothing other than pristine-tar is going to look at the upstream branch, I'm not sure I'd bother. -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: Bug#665658: RFS: org-mode/7.8.06-1.0 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]

2012-03-24 Thread Russ Allbery
/pkgs.html#nmu Also the wrong version for an NMU of a new upstream release (should be -0.1). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How to provide a helper script to be sourced by maintainer scripts

2012-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
with #DEBHELPER#). Yup, this is what the OpenLDAP packages do for exactly this use case. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How to provide a helper script to be sourced by maintainer scripts

2012-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de writes: Am 25.03.2012 19:21, schrieb Russ Allbery: Arno Töll deb...@toell.net writes: As another alternative which comes me in mind is a pseudo-shared library. You would put the common functions into debian/maintscripts-common and copy its contents

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
notifications for all the individual commits. I'm not sure why, but I'm not complaining. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
approach described in the last paragraph there is now supported natively by the latest git-buildpackage (although I haven't had a chance to test yet). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to handle embedded javascript/php libraries in WebApps

2012-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Java, which provides a lot of tools to try to get it right, doesn't offer a good ABI versioning system, so if you do have to change the ABI, there isn't a good way of handling the transition.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-05 Thread Russ Allbery
pronounceable password generation algorithm to warrant yet another package? apg uses Morrie Gasser's algorithm from A Random Word Generator For Pronounceable Passwords (National Technical Information Service (NTIS) AD-A-017676). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
for a change that was made in an earlier version, I fix it like any other bug: correct the changelog for that version, and add a note in the changelog for the most recent version that I fixed the documentation bug. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Moving library to Multi-Arch

2012-05-12 Thread Russ Allbery
entirety. There will be some remnant of non-multi-arch library packages in the wheezy release. Then all other packages must be removed from testing before freeze, right? No. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Re: SONAME best practice

2012-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
requirement of coinstallability of multiple versions of the library is that the library MUST use symbol versioning properly so that the libraries can coexist in memory without tromping on each other. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-22 Thread Russ Allbery
for all the people listed there to add to debian/coypright). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
be fixed by just deleting the .PD 0 command (or at least moving it down to the formatting section, if it's still desireable for the resource specifiers. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: * The formatting of the man page isn't great. There are a few places that seem to have spurious line breaks (the --append documentation, for example), and it's traditional to have a blank line between each option documented in OPTIONS. The second

Re: Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
the package as-is. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bokamrnv

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
will be considered wrong by consensus, but as you mention, I think it's a common interpretation by other packagers of GNU software. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
applying the same standards to sponsoring as one would generally apply to any other package in the archive; I think this is just a disagreement over what the existing Policy text means. Now that I've seen this thread, I can certainly see where it's unclear. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
. Absolutely. And I'm sorry for my tone in some of my earlier messages. I had a really obnoxious week and didn't do a very good job of keeping that out of my tone. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Bart Martens ba...@debian.org writes: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:54:10AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Bart Martens ba...@debian.org writes: That authors are not the same as copyright holders is simply a fact regardless of what debian-policy states. For example, the programmer who wrote some

Bug#678500: RFS: cppreference-doc/20120620-1 [ITP] -- C and C++ standard library reference manual for English language.

2012-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
for the purposes of identification. The only difference is that it's obvious that the former is a pseudonym :) For the record, here's the actual policy for DDs: http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/07/msg00044.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: It was. But then Russ Allbery noted some oddities! :-) I have addressed those issues with a new package turn. Here is the latest and greatest: http://www.proulx.com/~bob/debian/pool/sid/main/time/2012-06-24/time_1.7-24.dsc http://www.proulx.com

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: thanks for pinging me. I saw others taking over the additional reviews of time, so I'm fine with them sponsoring it. Thanks, Sandro! Bob, I've uploaded the latest version. Thank you for your work! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: Moving /home of a package account, and to where?

2012-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
to the documentation through to completion. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obny27sf

Re: Moving /home of a package account, and to where?

2012-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber mh+debian-ment...@zugschlus.de writes: On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 07:53:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: It would indeed be best if everything possible was documented, but very few people volunteer to do the work to drive changes to the documentation through to completion

Re: Bug#679402:

2012-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
the wrong design to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d34e3xhn

Re: Bug#679402:

2012-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
that shared stuff between the MySQL packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Copyright problems for the opensource reimplementation of a closed-source library (ITP #679504)

2012-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
in Europe either. There is some precendent for doing something similar to what you're doing (see readline/editline). Of course, even if what you're doing is perfectly legal, that doesn't prevent someone from suing you anyway. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: modifications by sponsors

2012-07-11 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipdtltpr@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ever previously required. Unfortunately, there is not good documentation of exactly what's required in copyright files. There are a lot of open bugs against Policy about this. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Russ Allbery
-based build system licenses. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87629ncun5

Re: RFC: xinetd autoreconf

2012-07-27 Thread Russ Allbery
that by overriding dh_autoreconf and running: dh_autoreconf -- autoconf instead of its default action. That should be safe, since the package doesn't use automake or libtool either, so the other things that autoreconf runs are not relevant to it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: *.so symlinks in shared lib package

2012-07-27 Thread Russ Allbery
shared object version. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5m57gbu

Bug#686298: RFS: obnam/1.1-1.1 [NMU] [RC]

2012-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
on this message. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/876280q7ti@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Advice on a new package

2012-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
options. For some reason that I've not been able to figure out, PIE causes some really weird problems in some applications. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Rebasing published software and avoid git revert/merge

2012-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
of merging the branch but in the sense of reimporting it, right? At least I don't see an git-import-orig option which allows upstream-source to be a git branch. git-import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag. It's great. :) I use it for all my projects where upstream is also using Git. -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: Bug#686679: RFS: asn1c/0.9.21+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- ASN.1 compiler for C

2012-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
to the sorting problem with upstream minor versions, since +dfsg is otherwise equivalent. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: pkgkde-gensymbols / Std-Vers: 3.9.4 and § 8.6 for C++ libs

2012-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/007.html http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/008.html http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-02/001.html before going too far down this path. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: shlib-calls-exit and the flex-generated function yy_fatal_error

2012-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
), such as this one. There are huge false positive problems with the tag, which is why it's still experimental. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: shlib-calls-exit and the flex-generated function yy_fatal_error

2012-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [121102 19:29]: I'm starting to think that we should drop this tag entirely. There are a lot of legitimate reasons why shared libraries call exit(), plus there are legitimate reasons why shared library source includes

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

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
the *.dsc files. The devscripts package has an nmudiff script that automates much of this procedure. (I'm listed as a comaintainer for openldap but haven't had any time to work on the package for quite some time, unfortunately. I should really probably remove myself.) -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: debian/bug-control: report bug against unofficial debian packages

2012-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
as a source package header in debian/control instead. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: debian/bug-control: report bug against unofficial debian packages

2012-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter). Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Russ Allbery r...@debian.org' as your from address. Getting status for svnlog... Checking for newer versions at madison... Will use mailto

Re: jquery.js from Doxygen in documentation, what to do about it

2012-11-23 Thread Russ Allbery
this issue. It may need a bug against doxygen, though (and possibly some help for the Doxygen maintainer). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: git-buildpackage: can it recreate the orig.tar.gz without the pristine-tar?

2012-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
uploads. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871uf696xv

Re: Adding configfile

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
don't think there's any supported way currently to get the file included in the package file list. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Man page, the way to avoid lintian error ??

2010-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
on the upstream man pages to convert the character set used upstream to what should be used on Debian (generally UTF-8). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Man page, the way to avoid lintian error ??

2010-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: The first thing to double-check is whether you have a UTF-8 locale installed. If you don't, that may be confusing man. I'm confused by the related discussion (on ‘debian-devel’, I think) of having a UTF-8

Re: Use, Depends: locales-all|locales or not

2010-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:43:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: echo 'locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' \ | debconf-set-selections aptitude install locales I thought manual configuration of build environment should

Re: dh_installinit: what to do if upstream provides a initscript?

2010-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Use, Depends: locales-all|locales or not

2010-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:50:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Absent that, we're considering adding some sort of ugly hack to Lintian to force the locales package to generate a UTF-8 locale if one isn't already available. Unfortunately, there's

Re: Use, Depends: locales-all|locales or not

2010-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
place I looked. It is mentioned, but not defined, in environ(7). Thank you! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Unicode quotes? Use troff to render the man page into PostScript instead of using nroff to view it. I don't believe nroff converts double quotes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Nicolas Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Nicolas Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com writes: What about double quotes? quilt's manpage renders like this in the man viewer: ``pushed on the stack'' I looked at the source and the .1 file has exactly those

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
to either “” or depending on the locale. Yeah, that's a groff-specific feature. I suspect they won't render properly on, for instance, Solaris. (\[xx] is a groff extension to the language.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
, and install the upstream NEWS file as /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: All of the packages for which I'm both upstream and the Debian packager have no traditional ChangeLog file, only NEWS, and install the upstream NEWS file as /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz. Perhaps

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably be discussed.  When packaging other people's software, I install the upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS

Re: RFS: collectl

2010-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
to create a source package to move into the build chroot. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: collectl

2010-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: The basic problem is that while there's potentially some use to the idea of separating out architecture-independent build requirements, Lintian wasn't really checking that.  In order

Re: RFS: collectl

2010-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
the arch-independent ones? Or even more simply, just designate one architecture (i386 perhaps) to keep all the results of the build including the arch-independent packages? That's what I assume was going to happen, which unfortunately doesn't imply fixing any of the problems you note. -- Russ

Re: RFS: ITA of giflib

2010-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
. # Run the actual program with our arguments. echo See the libtool documentation for more information. 12 That looks like you didn't install the gifinfo binary but instead accidentally installed the libtool wrapper script. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Lintian.d.o != local lintian

2010-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
that was uploaded to the archive, or what happened with the last tag. Can somebody tell me why lintian.d.o is reporting warnings I don't get local? aptitude download -t unstable aiccu followed by running lintian on the package in the archive produces the same tags as what lintian.d.o shows. -- Russ

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Nicolas Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com writes: Russ Allbery wrote: (\[xx] is a groff extension to the language.) Is \(lq portable? It does the same thing. I'm not sure. It's not one of the documented special characters available in CSTR #54, which is the gold standard, so one would have

Re: Multiples binaries with different versions from one source file?

2010-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
to for some reason. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Multiples binaries with different versions from one source file?

2010-01-28 Thread Russ Allbery
documentation search skills were defeating me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: The use of epoch in version

2010-01-28 Thread Russ Allbery
as 1.2.3.1. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
bugs are mostly ignored so it's not clear that this makes much difference. I prefer not to tag such bugs wontfix when closing them because if they're re-opened, usually it's for reasons that would also remove the wontfix tag, so it just requires more effort on both sides. -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: Indicating the resolution of a closed bug report

2010-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
that I'd rather not bother with. The distinction between WONTFIX, INVALID, and WORKSFORME in Bugzilla, for instance, is a distinction I've never seen much utility in drawing. This is just my personal opinion for my own packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: RFS: cobertura

2010-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
in a bunch of places (the PTS, the BTS, etc.). There isn't any technical difficulty with upstream using a different distribution name than the Debian source package name. Sometimes it's easier to just stick with the existing name. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: how to account for dependence on standard lib (-lm) ?

2010-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
to fail to build if the linker is switched to gold. Obviously, users will have to use -llmmin along with -lm. Users should not have to do this unless they call the math functions directly. The shared library should have proper interlibrary dependencies of its own. -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: A meager copyright. Remotely acceptable?

2010-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
instead. To respond to the original poster, I think that distribution is clearly covered by the license and copyright in the COPYING file and wouldn't give it a second thought, although of course double-checking with upstream can't hurt I suppose. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: A meager copyright. Remotely acceptable?

2010-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
configuration options to limit it to only this mode and seems to be designed with a lot of security in mind. I've been using it for years with no complaints. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: flow of things rules/debhelper (still confused)

2010-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
, or you explicitly provide all the targets and don't use a wildcard rule. Doing a mix of the two is just going to make everything extra confusing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: windowlab (updated package)

2010-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
overrides with most of the stuff I've been backporting and relying on that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: embedded-zlib and fpc

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
match the regex that Lintian is using. I can't find any other occurance of inflate or deflate in the strings for easymp3gain, though. You should override this Lintian tag for right now until we can figure out what's going on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: RFS: easymp3gain (updated package), fixes RC bug

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
to Lintian in this area either. How are people getting a Lintian error on this package? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: embedded-zlib and fpc

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org writes: Am 13.04.2010 23:14, schrieb Russ Allbery: You should override this Lintian tag for right now until we can figure out what's going on. But this one is one of the not-overrideable-ones as in: the package will be rejected. No, it isn't. Look

Re: embedded-zlib and fpc

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: The problem with embedded-zlib appears to be a false positive in Lintian. It seems to be triggering on the string: Seek in deflate compressed stream failed. Ah, no, I was looking in the wrong package. It's fp-units-base, and the string is indeed

Re: embedded-zlib and fpc

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org writes: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:30:58 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Ah, no, I was looking in the wrong package. It's fp-units-base, and the string is indeed exactly the problematic string indicating an embedded copy of zlib: 4 deflate

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