Bug#897046: RFS: link-grammar/5.4.4-1 [QA upload]

2018-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
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Re: Bug#665199: openldap: diff for NMU version 2.4.31-1.1

2012-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
not be uploaded to unstable. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

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

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

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

2012-07-04 Thread Steve Langasek
that need the conversion install and configure these packages by hand. That would be my recommendation. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

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

2012-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
, or upgrading the package manager before the dist-upgrade. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps error

2011-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
to a symlink for backwards-compatibility. But yeah, it seems dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work with this database layout; I don't know why. This issue will go away on the next upload of dpkg to Ubuntu (which, as you know, is currently waiting for confirmation of the final multiarch db layout). -- Steve

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

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

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
packages; I'm just pointing out why adding | php4 for new packages isn't necessarily a good answer. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
it as a fatal error, if key files go missing. That won't directly answer the question of why the package in the archive is wrong, but it will make the task of tracking down the bug in your sponsor's devel environment a bit easier. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: Doubts about PHP

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

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
makes it not particularly relevant to newly-packaged software. In fact, you can pretty much drop the 'php4' alternative altogether now, since php5 was in etch and php4 won't be in lenny. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
recommend to Depend on php5. $ apt-cache show php5 | grep Depends Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (= 5.2.3-1) | php5-cgi (= 5.2.3-1), php5-common (= 5.2.3-1) That's more than enough. That doesn't address the incorrect dependency on the *webserver*, which is what Nacho was pointing out. -- Steve

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

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

Re: RFS: bluetooth-alsa (updated package)

2007-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
here, I couldn't care less if you credit me for this change. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

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

Re: RFS: screenkast (updated package)

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
hold off on uploading this package for a couple of days, to let the remaining architectures catch up (the binaries are already built on the autobuilders, and just need to be uploaded propagated). Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: RFS: ntfs-config

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

Re: -xpm or -noxpm

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
packages only about a quarter of the time, and I don't think xpm is so heavy that we should be concerned about the size impact on users' machines. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: -xpm or -noxpm

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

Re: RFS: ntfs-config

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
is this something that needs an entire package to itself? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Symbol-versioning a C++ library

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
still make a *huge* difference in the quality of the user's experience. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Symbol-versioning a C++ library

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
in that regard. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: NMU for aolserver4-nsimap

2007-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
point in trying to upload this right now, when the package's build dependencies (aolserver4) aren't installable on the buildds? http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=aolserver4-nsimaparch=alphaver=3.1-3%2Bb1stamp=1178149073 -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: Are (c)debootstrap broken ?

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
this bug can be closed rather than reassigned. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: RFC: zfs-fuse packaging

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
(for the moment) supports 32-bit sparcs too, building your binaries as 64-bit has the one advantage that this would pick up a dependency on libc6-sparc64 to make it clear to sparc users that it's not suitable for 32-bit machines. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Question about a package conflict

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

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
for a single schema file..) - use alternatives or a diversion to decide which package's schema file will be available under the named location (only appropriate if the two packages have identical schema file contents) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

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

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

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

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

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

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

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

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can remove the UID. Right. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

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

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

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

Re: yada generated deb not calling update-menus

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Problems with debconf in postinst

2007-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: FWIW, you're likely to get better feedback if you help make it easier for people to see the problem you're having. What is the debconf error that you get? What is the postinst code that's failing? (I've

Re: Problems with debconf in postinst

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
any obvious errors in it...) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Question about how to handle a RC bug.

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

Re: Question about how to handle a RC bug.

2007-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
I proceed? I mean, should I upload the previous version of cegui to unstable? or what is the correct procedure to handle that kind of problem? Is there any reason that getting the maintainer of ogre to upload a newer upstream version of that package is not the correct answer here? -- Steve

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

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE, of course. No, you should *not* put libraries into subdirectories of /usr/lib unnecessarily. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

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

Re: [OT] svn rollback

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
the fact,whereas a datestamp is. Uh? Is rollback (in the sense of undoing a commit) possible with SVN without manually fiddling in the repository at all? Sure, svn merge. That doesn't undo a commit in the sense he means, it just lets you reverse a commit with a later one. -- Steve Langasek

Re: How to drop a package from some architectures?

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

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

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

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

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
explizitly knowing about the needed libattr1-dev build-dep? proftpd build-depends on libacl1-dev, which depends on libattr1-dev. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
as part of the library's ABI and have never been included in the published API. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
, and no one noticed except the LSB folks, who were using dlopen() to try to check the ABI... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
the .so is a relatively new innovation that hasn't been adopted too widely outside of certain circles (such as GNOME). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Depending on an essential package

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

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

2006-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
that can and should be addressed individually. --as-needed will always get the answer wrong in certain cases, because it's a heuristic. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

Re: Freeness of a license - french

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
think that requiring a statement telling recipients where to get the original work is onerous or non-free, but it's the only thing that stands out, so I figured I'd point it out anyway. BTW, requests for license review should be sent to debian-legal, not to debian-mentors... -- Steve Langasek

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

2006-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
at once. Anyway, cleared for arm and sparc now. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Taking over a previously diverted file

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
this. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Taking over a previously diverted file

2006-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
, and as a result give us a $TEXDIR/babel.sty file that we're assured of being the copy from thailatex. - By avoiding any use of the preinst, we also avoid any rollback requirements. Completely untested in real-world conditions, let me know if you find I've screwed something up :) -- Steve Langasek

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

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

Re: Dictionary data source

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
including that source will be important to you as the maintainer or to users wishing to modify/reuse the package. Děkuju, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2006-09-21 Thread Steve Langasek
to use in packages for adding your own sections to php.ini. I wasn't aware that php5 now had a --with-config-file-scan-dir option. Please file a bug against php5 requesting its inclusion. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

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

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
script code shared by PHP extensions) for adding and removing extensions to php.ini, but that's it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
the lintian error? The error is, if you don't *need* a specific version of the package, you shouldn't depend on it at /all/. Essential means it's always available, so there's no reason for you to depend on it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

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

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Source-Version, and I would encourage you to use the new binary:Version variable instead. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

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

2006-09-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:47:34AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: The BIG problem is how to get the next-version. Say you have version 1.2-3. A binNMU would be 1.2-3+b1, a security release would be 1.2-3etch1 (unless

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

2006-09-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:55:47PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to declare a strict versioned dependency from an arch: all package to an arch: any package... don't do that, because it will break under binNMUs. :) I only know

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

2006-09-12 Thread Steve Langasek
it will break under binNMUs. :) The documentation for this probably belongs in debian-policy; current versions of policy seem to mention Source-Version, though, not the new substvars, and I'm not sure if anyone has submitted a patch for this? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Replace a package

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
packages can't be versioned, so your libldap2.2 doesn't satisfy the dependency. Besides which, having a libldap package from OpenLDAP 2.2 claim to provide libldap2 is broken in the extreme. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
for comaintenance in a reasonable timeframe. What if I want to hijack the package in favour of a better maintenance ? In that case, please consult the QA team for advice (and for formal MIA tracking). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Langasek
. NMUs should always be limited to fixing bugs -- not making decisions that are exclusively the maintainer's to make, like accepting comaintainers... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-09 Thread Steve Langasek
chroot if the intent is to upload to unstable. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Langasek
to not use dpatch and use quilt instead. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ldconfig

2006-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On the trail of Linux DLL Hell...

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
, forcing apt (aptitude or apt-get) to find a solution that lets you keep them all. This is definitely off-topic for -mentors, though; if you need further help, please see debian-user. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?

2006-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
is a broken one, because responsibility for the NMU lies with the uploader, not with the sponsoree. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?

2006-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:04:00PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bart Martens wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:03:19PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: There are no technical measures in place which *prohibit* developers from sponsoring NMUs. Nevertheless, the concept

Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Debian developers we have that are reticent to communicate with the project in the English language are in the bottom .1% of the population? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

Re: RFS: xlife - X11R7 changes

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:04:29PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:33:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/lib/X11/config

Re: [Debian-haskell] RFS: haskell-http

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
this is a binNMU... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: xlife - X11R7 changes

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
-stamp] Error 1 This looks like you have the wrong version of xutils-dev. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Problems with leftovers from unregistering alternatives

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:38:22AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2006-04-26, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what does update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme list in this case? It shows nothing. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linda warnings about manpages in my packages

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:33:04PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:51 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: If it's not supposed to be a public module, it shouldn't be in a public directory, and then there's no reason to provide more packages than just the application package

Re: Problems with leftovers from unregistering alternatives

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme list in this case? It really looks to me like a u-a bug, not a bug in the calling maintainer script. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

Re: W: A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from

2006-04-18 Thread Steve Langasek
the binary. You want objdump -p binary | grep NEEDED instead. But it was established a few weeks ago that linda's check used ldd by mistake, and I haven't heard that it's been fixed yet. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: question about CFLAGS modifiers to ./configure

2006-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
. Is there a nice solution for this? I guess the right thing should be to tell upstream to unify the libraries into one, is there any other solution I can handle? Unifying the libs is the only way to do this cleanly, AFAIK. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: question about CFLAGS modifiers to ./configure

2006-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: This is discussed in policy 10.2. If your libraries are failing to link when using -z,defs, that's a bug in those libraries; anything that references symbols from other libraries

Re: question about CFLAGS modifiers to ./configure

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
to link against those libraries. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Naming of library -dev package

2006-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
. Since the name of this library is etl, the name would be etl-dev. Can anyone clarify? The name etl-dev is fine. Prepending lib when there's nothing here named libetl is pointless. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Non-free firmware update data for a package in main?

2006-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
that this means splitting the source package, since you can't build binaries for both main and non-free from the same source. The driver itself sounds like it's perfectly suitable for main, only the optional firmware would need to be in non-free. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: libcpufreq and the small libsysfs transition

2006-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:47:11PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:19:08PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:06:00PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: I need a quick suggestion how to handle libcpufreq{0,-dev} within the libsysfs transition

Re: RFC/RFS: PyKaraoke

2006-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
understand why it cannot be run with python2.4 then. I hope someone finds a better solution anyway :) Yeah, we've been working on it... discussion on debian-python over the past month or two. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: libcpufreq and the small libsysfs transition

2006-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bug pages and source packages

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=texlive-bin nothing mentions this bug! Is the reason for this that the texlive packages are in experimental and not in unstable? Yes. Since the package is not in unstable, it's not in the source-binary map used by bugs.d.o. -- Steve

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
that it's unmodified. Well, really, I think the right thing is for *dpkg* to remove it if it can determine that it's unmodified; this is bug #330256. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: non-PIC problem

2006-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
users to download install it as a build-dependency. shrug -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Steve Langasek
while DAK still sets it instead of doing a proper job of issuing notfound commands to the BTS. You mean close commands... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:00:01AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:29:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: In a more general sense, it's important to note

Re: How to add a localization *.po file to a package?

2006-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
modifying the configure.in? You don't. How about just forwarding it upstream instead? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: fixing a bug via NMU

2006-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
-maintainer or otherwise. A DD will have to upload the fix in question. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: fixing a bug via NMU

2006-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:55:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:03:32PM +0100, Bjoern Boschman wrote: I'd like to close on of the xlibs-dev bugs, but I've never done an NMU before. This is because NMU stands for non

Re: RFS: knmap -- Kde interface to nmap [uploaded]

2006-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
to be clear, relibtoolizing should only need to be a one-time thing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: RFS: Kraptor and Kball

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
, since it has a similar RC bug. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: RFS: Kraptor and Kball

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:19:00AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Already uploaded kball, actually; you should've received some email about that by now. Looks like bug #345244 wasn't closed in the changelog, though, so I'll go close it by hand. Also, you might want to fix the broken debian

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