Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 4. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] marking the bug as forwarded. > 5. Wait for response (seems to take ages), fix any errors that > occurred, go back to step 4. > > Generally, I always seem to find new and exciting ways of stuffing up > step 4 (e.g.

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Brian May
Ralf Treinen wrote: I do not think that automatically forwarding bugs would be a good idea. Right now it is a pain to forward a bug, say to a sourceforge bug report, because it involves several steps: 1. Log into sourceforge 2. Create bug report, copy link to Debian bug report into it.

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:39:40PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ /me sets the Reply-To: to debian-cd again... ] But not Mail-Followup-To:... > >At a bare minimum: - installer - downloadable (business card) - installer+base - downloadable (netinst) > > - CD - disk 1 dow

Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:16:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 04:47, Philip Charles wrote: > [snip] > > worrying about. Even then bluray disc(s) will take up about the same > > space as a CD set. > 21GB on CD is 21GB on Bluray. Physical space isn't an issue for us. Cheers, aj

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, gregor herrmann wrote: > Maybe a better place for Tincho's idea would be an (optional) > debian/bugtracker file (similar to debian/watch). An important concern is that these sorts of files don't actually change with the source package, they change whenever the upstream changes

Re: Debian Installer Lenny Beta1

2008-03-17 Thread Rick Thomas
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Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:30 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > I appreciate the strive to make Debian work on small machines, but it > > is reasonable to put their constraints on the whole project? > IMHO the Packages.gz file is already too large for my standard Debian > machines! I see this point

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi All, Steve McIntyre wrote: Is it possible to create a jigdo image without creating the full ISO? ie, to go from a list of files you want on the ISO straight to a jigdo template without the intervening step of actually copying all the files around? Oh, absolutely. That's one of the biggest c

Re: Debian Installer Lenny Beta1

2008-03-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> > We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, > so please try it. The images are available at: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta1/ <...> I have mista

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not convinced that the majority of these uncaught problems are > significant enough to worry about. I would be surprised, for example, > if using a non-pristine tarball was ever regarded as a release-critical > issue. > > Why slow down NEW processing

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:18:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The last part is certainly true, although I don't think that makes the > check at that point unuseful. The initial upload is the point at which > it's the most likely that significant misunderstandings or structural > flaws will show

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:16 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please can this 'trend' be stopped here and now? > > > > The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially for Emdebian > > purposes or other low resourc

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:27:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Joerg has been moving towards doing more of this, and I applaud him for >> doing so. I hope that anyone else who works on NEW does the same. >> It's one of our best opportunities to raise th

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:27:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Joerg has been moving towards doing more of this, and I applaud him for > doing so. I hope that anyone else who works on NEW does the same. It's > one of our best opportunities to raise the general quality of the archive > up-front,

Re: Proposing a new field in the source control data

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
"Martín Ferrari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Ben Finney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Those pieces of data are called "fields". Just like in RFC2822 > > messages or HTTP responses. > > Thanks for the correction. I always think of headers, because one > u

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I personally try to take care to only upload pristine .orig.tar.gz > for my own packages (and even think that using the delete option might > be preferable to unpacking and packing again) I distinctly think that > this is out of the scope of NEW

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > But I think it is a problem that such a thing was able to get in. > As it is not a policy rule broken, I fear less that noone has even > looked at the file. But the alternative of someone looking, realising this > mistake and just letting it in anyway is not very confortin

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Martín Ferrari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially for Emdebian >> purposes or other low resource units) and adding yet more fields to >> debian/control is really not

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, that makes sense. However, with +nmu1, there still is the problem > of how to name security uploads. With +s1, they sort after +nmu1, which > I think is wrong. There's no reason why we have to stick to one suffix. +s1+nmu1 for an NMU after a securit

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Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-17 Thread Vincent Danjean
Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:40:25PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 09:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: >> [...] > Good idea. Even better, IMO, wou

Re: Proposing a new field in the source control data (was: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs)

2008-03-17 Thread Martín Ferrari
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those pieces of data are called "fields". Just like in RFC2822 > messages or HTTP responses. Thanks for the correction. I always think of headers, because one usually refers to rfc2822 "fields" as "headers", I didn't know

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Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Martín Ferrari
(reply-to as requested) On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It could be used to automatically forward bugs, > > I don't think bugs should be forwarded automatically. See my previous mail, I did choose the wrong word here. > > track which bugs are open t

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Martín Ferrari
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please can this 'trend' be stopped here and now? > > The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially for Emdebian > purposes or other low resource units) and adding yet more fields to > debian/control is really no

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ /me sets the Reply-To: to debian-cd again... ] AJ wrote: >On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst) >> ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set >> ~4 DVDs per arch for a full DVD set >> (total 353 CDs, 51 DVDs, 426 GB) > >Blura

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Martín Ferrari
Trying to answer some of the problems pointed out to my proposal... On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that if the goal is to support automated tools, pointing to > straight web pages isn't particularly useful without some additional > informatio

Re: Bug#470622: ITP: qtnx -- NX client for QT

2008-03-17 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Montag, 17. März 2008, Fathi Boudra wrote: > > Description: NX client for QT > > NX is a differential X compression protocol for X11. > > . > > This package provides the QT client. > > Have you sync'ed with sidux people ? I am aware of these uploads and welcome them a lot. So far there

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-03-17 Thread Holger Levsen
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Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 04:47, Philip Charles wrote: [snip] > worrying about. Even then bluray disc(s) will take up about the same > space as a CD set. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -BEGIN

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Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080316 21:14]: > There is no requirement that we ship pristine tarballs as downloaded from > upstream. But doing so without a good reason or in this case without any reason at all just makes no sense. I do not know why it is only in the DevRef but not in polic

Re: apt-get and SOCKS

2008-03-17 Thread Vincent Danjean
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Re: Bug#471312: ITP: libhyphenate -- An hyphenation library for C++

2008-03-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
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Bug#471312: ITP: libhyphenate -- An hyphenation library for C++

2008-03-17 Thread Steve Wolter
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Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > 3. For some arches, should we just provide the first couple of CDs > and a full set of DVDs? This is a bit of a compromise option - if > a given machine will not boot from DVD, but can boot from CD and > get the rest of

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-03-17 Thread Adam Borowski
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Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
On Monday 17 March 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:29:12AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netin

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-03-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 17 Mar 2008, at 3:35 am, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Tim Cutts wrote: Hm, can you help with creating a good set of colors? There are a number of programs around which can help with this. I use Color Oracle: http://colororacle.cartography.ch/ It sits in a Gnome panel, and will temporarily c

Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:29:12AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst) > >> ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set > >>

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 02:38 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Dear -devel: > > Following the trend to add metadata to the debian/control file that > allows for the creation of new and powerful tools, I thought about the > usefulness of a header that'd allow to automatically relate to > upstream bug t

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:38:19AM -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Following the trend to add metadata to the debian/control file that > allows for the creation of new and powerful tools, I thought about the > usefulness of a header that'd allow to automatically relate to > upstream bug trackers. I

Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst) >> ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set >> ~4 DVDs per arch for a full DVD set >> (total 353 CDs, 51 DVDs, 426 GB) > > Bluray image? Appare

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-17 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:40:25PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 09:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > [...] > > >> Good idea. Even better, IMO, would be to use a syste

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:38:19AM -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Dear -devel: > > Following the trend to add metadata to the debian/control file that > allows for the creation of new and powerful tools, I thought about the > usefulness of a header that'd allow to automatically relate to > upstrea

Proposing a new field in the source control data (was: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs)

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
"Martín Ferrari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Following the trend to add metadata to the debian/control file that > allows for the creation of new and powerful tools, I thought about the > usefulness of a header that'd allow to automatically relate to > upstream bug trackers. Those pieces of d

Re: Bug#470622: ITP: qtnx -- NX client for QT

2008-03-17 Thread Fathi Boudra
> Description: NX client for QT > NX is a differential X compression protocol for X11. > . > This package provides the QT client. Have you sync'ed with sidux people ? AFAIK, someone from their team work on NX related stuff. It could be a good idea to not duplicate effort with them. cheers, Fa