[Mageia-dev] GLUT (part of mesa srpm) is not GPL... and is quite obsolete ! (bis)

2011-01-23 Thread Philippe DIDIER
I send this message again because it did not appear in the mailing-list after I sent it on january 18th As it concerns a basis rpm upon which others are built, I thought there's some emergency This seems to have at least convinced Mandriva team... and might improve Mageia too, reaching some

[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
/ Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against // these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this // company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is // still live... ) / Well, who own the patents now ? I don't know who owns

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Well, the old simple logic works... lets say we abuse the release tag, for example changing mga to mgt then if the user enables tainted (meaning he/she wants the rpms) urpmi will automatically get the mgt ones, no questions asked... simple, and effective. and since the rebuild should be

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Quote: rdalverny wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:04 Long time ago, How long is a long time ago? because every patent has a term and here it may have expired. Long time ago means 1999.. Actually the problem has not expired : Bruno

[Mageia-dev] Sophie doesn't survey updates_testing repos

2011-03-07 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! Some work for Nanardon ... http://sophie.zarb.org/distrib/Mageia/cauldron/i586 Missing repos : Core-updates_testing Core-updates_testing-src nonfree-updates_testing nonfree-updates_testing-src tainted-updates_testing tainted-updates_testing-src Best regards philippe

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeglut last update

2011-04-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thank you to provide an answer to an old Mandriva package request https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47090 in comment n°10 of this bug I provided a list of possible dependency problems when replacing mesaglut with freeglut hope it will be useful ! Best regards to everyone Philippe

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeglut last update

2011-04-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thierry Vignaud wrote : mesa is ready to switch from itw own implementation to freeglut. I had read your spec (rev 88231) and understood you planned to... and was happy to see this ! I was aware of the problems of dependency (I posted on dev mailing list january 18th) hoping that an early

Re: [Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

2011-04-26 Thread Philippe DIDIER
We're not going to have the same application twice with different names in mageia. The obsoletes/provides are needed to allow upgrades from mandriva linux 2010.1 . The problem remains for seamonkey-enigmail-2.0.13 and seamonkey-enigmime-2.0.13 They are in the mageia repo because it seems that

Re: [Mageia-dev] regarding tainted progress

2011-05-29 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Happy to see bug 358 quite resolved and seeing tainted repo populated with new specially built rpms beside core ones (libpano; and ffmpeg, xine, vlc, mplayer, libquicktime, gstreamer )... Two little problems remain : 1) libfaac is missing ... no problem for ffmpeg : voaacenc is in the tainted

[Mageia-dev] mesaglut versus freeglut in cauldron

2011-06-14 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! Wonderful job done by the team (congratulations) just some problems with some missing rpms in Mageia1 : waiting for a solution to be found to add them (in backports or updates repo?) and it will be perfect ! Talking about future (whatever the release cycle will be) : Just a reminder :

[Mageia-dev] Update of mesa to git version

2011-06-22 Thread Philippe DIDIER
I also disable the mesa glut build in the same change since (if i'm not wrong) we're supposed to move to freeglut instead. Thierry Vignaud is certainly the one that is aware about freeglut versus GLUT ! He is the one that may say if you are right or wrong to do so now ! Beware of the fact

[Mageia-dev] Update of mesa to git version

2011-06-22 Thread Philippe DIDIER
/ And if both glut and freeglut were installed,/ Libfreeglut3.rpm and libmesaglut3.rpm can't be installed side by side : they install the same link glut.so.3 to glut.so.3.9.0 for the first or glut.so.3.7.0 for the second... fortunately libfreeglut3.rpm obsoletes libmesaglut3.rpm

[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

2011-07-12 Thread Philippe DIDIER
So there seems to be a wish for an other answer to this request : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730 Faac (and rpms built with it ) might appear at least in tainted repo ? same as they are in plf ... or in Debian squeeze multimedia repo, or in ATrpms repo for Fedora 15

[Mageia-dev] autopano-sift-C ought to be in tainted, instead of core repository

2011-07-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
It's in the title ! The use of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorythm allowing to find control points to build panorama with several pictures is restricted by a US patent... this algorythm is the basis of autopano-sift and autopano-sift-C ! hugin (a pano builder program)

[Mageia-dev] autopano-sift-C ought to be in tainted, instead of core repository

2011-07-19 Thread Philippe DIDIER
/ What are the patents number ? // / I was under the impression thathttp://www.google.com/patents?vid=6711293 is related to it, but I am not sure. That's it ! Though the author is a University professor and the owner a University, and we may suppose they won't pursue authors and

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
It's just a reminder : there seemed to be a consensus about using freeglut instead of mesaglut (as all other distributions do, excepted Mandriva) Because of compatiblity when upgrading from Mandriva this couldn't be done for Mageia1 ... Now this might be done in cauldron : some rpms are

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-23 Thread Philippe DIDIER
I saw Funda could rebuild openscenegraph without -- BuildRequire : mesaglut-devel -- which is not needed anymore : openscenegraph is no more in mikala's list ! It seems that it would be interesting to try, first, to build each package without this BuildRequire (some specs have not their

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-23 Thread Philippe DIDIER
- why migrate? https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110118/002316.html https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110420/004104.html https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-June/005920.html - what works - what to change when build fails - where to go if nothing makes it build we

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Balcaen John a écrit Well it's more glut-devel instead of freeglut-devel :) cf urpmq --provides lib64freeglut-devel glut-devel[== 3.7] devel(libglut(64bit)) lib64freeglut-devel[== 2.6.0-4.mga1] lib64freeglut-devel(x86-64)[== 2.6.0-4.mga1] You may add to the spec Provides

[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

2011-09-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! Since sunday september 18th faac is provided in tainted repos for mageia1 and cauldron after some controversy https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730 Mplayer (for the mencoder part) Libquicktime VLC Gstreamer-plugins-bad Mythtv had been imported and built in core... and in

[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

2011-09-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Anssi Hannula wrote /Tue Sep 20 17:29:44/ : Including faac itself is no less safe than other patent-encumbered codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution. The only non-free and non GPL part of FAAC is the ISO MPEG reference code which it is based on... to comply with this

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-09-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! This was discussed on this list in july for cauldron... (after some previous discuss on avril 20th when freeglut was pushed in mageia1) bug reports were done in the end august https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2412 (thanks to all that worked on it) The whole job is done :

[Mageia-dev] texi2html

2011-09-26 Thread Philippe DIDIER
changing the provides from // Provides: tetex-texi2html = 1:3.0 to Provides: texi2html //make some problem appear : http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html : ffmpeg gcompris lash qemu quagga xen have this BuilRequires 2 solutions : - You may keep the 2 provides (//texi2html and

Re: [Mageia-dev] texi2html

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
There's indeed a wrong Provides: texi2html in texlive : Texlive contains nothing similar to the files that we can find in texi2html ! (previously named tetex-texi2html). and it can't because the source of texi2html is not in the srpm (and is not part of texlive's source tarbal)! This

[Mageia-dev] sorry to break the threads (a reply to Nicolas Vigier and others that get bored with this...)

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
*nicolas vigier* /Tue Sep 27 13:52:27 CEST 2011/ Can you stop creating a new thread anytime you send an email ? I'm really sorry... It's not deliberate Whatever I tried I could never prevent Thunderbird to create a new thread when I post in mageia mailing lists. I ask for some help in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-09-30 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : Hello! My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net http://blogdrake.net/ team. I am writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have created a repository with a big amount of good programs for Mageia. Our final

Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2011-10-02 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Anne Nicolas a écrit : Hi there As I told him, I will mentor J-C. GOD !

Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2011-10-02 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Anne Nicolas a écrit : Hi there As I told him, I will mentor J-C. GOD ! May we promise we'll never crucify him ! ;)

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeglut vs. mesa (devel requires problem)

2011-10-03 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Colin Guthrie a écrit : Can whoever uploaded freeglut please fix the mesa require tags. i.e. the fact that mesa-common-devel requires the mesa lib[64]mesaglut3-devel = 7.11 Cheers Col Bug 2891 it seems there is only one line to modify in mesa spec file : line 18 17# freeglut should

Re: [Mageia-dev] texi2html

2011-10-03 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thomas Spuhler a écrit : On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 03:49:56 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote: D.Morgan a écrit : On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Jani Välimaa jani.vali...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/27 Thomas Spuhler tho...@btspuhler.com: On Monday, September 26, 2011 07:33:20 pm Thomas Spuhler

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 1050] unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD beta2 : possible solutions

2011-10-11 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Oliver Burger a écrit : Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011, 02:51:58 schrieb Philippe DIDIER: Since in core repo are how many GigaBytes of packages and you have 700MB of space on a CD. Are you seriously asking why one package isn't included in the CD? I don't say, this special package shouldn't

Re: [Mageia-dev] vlc packages

2011-10-13 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and D.Morgan at 13/10/11 17:41 did gyre and gimble: should be in update_testing as this is related to a CVE :/ Yeah that's what I meant... more info here: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2267 And maybe in tainted/update_testing too :) ...

Re: [Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

2011-10-15 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thomas Spuhler a écrit : I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove -%{python_sitelib}/* Can someone who uses it please test it? In the previous build (march) python-lash rpm was created it could install a directory /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ wich contained 4 files

Re: [Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thomas Spuhler a écrit : On Saturday, October 15, 2011 07:16:19 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote: Thomas Spuhler a écrit : I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove -%{python_sitelib}/* Can someone who uses it please test it? In the previous build (march) python-lash rpm

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : Hello! My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net http://blogdrake.net/ team. I am writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have created a repository with a big amount of good programs for Mageia. Our final

Re: [Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Thomas Spuhler a écrit : On Saturday, October 15, 2011 07:16:19 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote: Thomas Spuhler a écrit : I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove -%{python_sitelib}/* Can someone who uses it please test it? In the previous build

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
andre999 a écrit : Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : Hello! My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net http://blogdrake.net/ team. I am writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have created a repository

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-10-17 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : This package is in: ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/SRPMS/faac-1.28-1bdk.mga1.src.rpm You can find a list with this package and much more in: ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/incoming/MGA/joaquin/mageia.txt Regards. Yes, I now your repo since I read your

[Mageia-dev] ffmpeg in mageia1 updates testing (revision 171164)

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
To Funda : you modified the spec file of ffmpeg : disable x264 support as x264 is too old in mageia 1 This may induce a regression (a missing feature) Why not to update libx264 before updating ffmpeg, and by this way allow to keep x264 support enabled ? Is there a problem for other

Re: [Mageia-dev] ffmpeg in mageia1 updates testing (revision 171164)

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Funda Wang a écrit : Yes, new x264 introduces new libmajor, which requires a mass rebuilding of other packages. 2011/11/24 Philippe DIDIER philippedid...@laposte.net: To Funda : you modified the spec file of ffmpeg : disable x264 support as x264 is too old in mageia 1 This may

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 3431] ffmpeg security update to version 0.7.8

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Funda Wang a écrit : And, we will rely on current maintainer nobody to take care of this bug. Don't be angry ... please !!! I know how much work you do for nobody's packages. I just pointed a little problem about the dilemma to which you found an answer that may be discussed and that may

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 3431] ffmpeg security update to version 0.7.8

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Funda Wang a écrit : And, we will rely on current maintainer nobody to take care of this bug. Don't be angry ... please !!! I know how much work you do for nobody's packages. I just pointed a little problem about the dilemma to which you found an answer

[Mageia-dev] Ping about the hypothesis to create a non-freetainted repo

2011-12-05 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! There was a discussion on dev mailing list and something was said about it in meeting on september 21st http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2011/mageia-dev.2011-09-21-19.07.log.html (faac status begining at 19:42:50 ) This concerns faac and packages been built upon it : see bug 2833

Re: [Mageia-dev] Ping about the hypothesis to create a non-freetainted repo

2011-12-05 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Anne nicolas a écrit : Please have a look on Dev meeting logs, il was decided not to create it for now, at least before Mageia 2 is out. This was done during meeting some weeks ago -- Anne http://www.mageia.org Sorry ! My English is not fluent... I read it several times but perhaps

[Mageia-dev] Packages in Mageia liveCD

2012-04-21 Thread Philippe DIDIER
First I would congratulate everybody for the nice job done to build a quite perfect KDE Beta3 LiveCD... I only want to suggest to provide Gimp instead of hugin in the livecd : Hugin is a perfect software to built panoramic photographs but is not needed by every user ... and is limited in its use

Re: [Mageia-dev] Beta Install failure with Intel Atom 330 Nvidia Ion

2012-04-28 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Mika Laitio a écrit : Just tried to boot (and also install) the Mageia-2-beta3-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe2-i586-CD.iso on Zotac Atom 330 NVIDIA Ion system and it didn't really work out. Install starts up just fine and it shows up the Mageia splash screen with 2 balls on top of it. Then it goes

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

2012-04-30 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Donald Stewart a écrit : On 30 April 2012 18:08, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and You-Cheng Hsieh at 30/04/12 17:45 did gyre and gimble: 2012/4/30 Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org: after dropping kipi-plugins-expoblending,hugin, inkscape, the package cleanups done

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: request Gimp 2.8 regarding single window interface!

2012-05-07 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Olav Vitters a écrit : On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:16:33PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: El lun, 07-05-2012 a las 12:04 +0200, Olav Vitters escribió: On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:27:48AM +0800, Funda Wang wrote: It already exists in updates_testing. This requires gegl and babl as well. I tried

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: request Gimp 2.8 regarding single window interface!

2012-05-09 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : On 7 May 2012 14:43, Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html shows (in known regressions section) that wacom devices no longer work on gimp-2.8 and recomment people to downgrade to 2.6 if they need that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bugzilla mass ping

2012-05-26 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Claire Robinson a écrit : On 26/05/12 11:20, Marja van Waes wrote: Hi everyone, We have very many Cauldron bugs that aren't listed as package requests.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 DVD 64bits install is broken

2012-05-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
andre999 a écrit : John a écrit : On Sun, 27 May 2012 04:18:19 +0100 Simple . wrote: 2012/5/27 Simple .simpl...@gmail.com: 2012/5/27 Johnj...@neodoc.biz: [...] _You_ used a Windows application to write the image to the USB key. If instead calling _You_ you

[Mageia-dev] audiokonverter for Mageia2

2012-05-28 Thread Philippe DIDIER
This rpm has been built and provided in core repo for Mageia2 It is missing in tainted repo : It may be built in tainted repo (adding an option to create mp3...) the srpm provides 2 patches and a spec file to allow different build (one for core one for tainted) Would it be provided in updates

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-17 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Rémi Verschelde a écrit : 2012/6/17 Simple w simpl...@gmail.com: Hi, I have been running arist-gtk to encode video and almost all presets fail because it needs gstreamer-faac, please see the output: ]$ arista-gtk ** (process:3757): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags'

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Oliver Burger a écrit : Am 18.06.2012 11:52, schrieb Simple w: faac couldnt exist in non-free repository? No, the problem with faac is that it contains nonfree parts and is tainted. So it's a no-go currently. I see that these packages for example in Fedora they exist in Rpm Fusion

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
nicolas vigier a écrit : 4) wait until someone creates an open source version of faac. I'm not sure faac support is worth the complexity added by adding an other repository, and an other duplication of packages for mplayer, ffmpeg, mythtv, gstreamer, vlc, xine, ... Do you mean that

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-19 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Simple w a écrit : 2012/6/19 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 19.06.2012 17:41, Simple w kirjutas: As always Colin interventions are quite clarifying. But i thought there were more software like this, like for example there was in mandriva PLF Most of this software is in nonfree or

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 6493] simplew Should be Granted a Commit Bit

2012-06-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Simple a écrit : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6493 --- Comment #14 from Simple simpl...@gmail.com 2012-06-25 10:33:14 CEST --- Im causing too much noiseand i never wanted this. Ill try to expain some confusions, my name is Pedro Gomes, and i was more a Windows user but i always

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 6493] simplew Should be Granted a Commit Bit

2012-06-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Simple a écrit : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6493 --- Comment #14 from Simple simpl...@gmail.com 2012-06-25 10:33:14 CEST --- Im causing too much noiseand i never wanted this. Ill try to expain some confusions, my name is Pedro Gomes, and i was more

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 6493] simplew Should be Granted a Commit Bit

2012-06-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Simple a écrit : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6493 --- Comment #14 from Simple simpl...@gmail.com 2012-06-25 10:33:14 CEST --- Im causing too much noiseand i never wanted this. Ill try to expain some confusions, my name is Pedro Gomes, and i was more