Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Ian Jackson | --divert | In practice diversity in this option seems to cause more | trouble than it's worse. Perhaps we should settle on | `.diverted' or something ? [...] | Which leaves only the pathname :-). While diverting libraries is something that should be done wi

Work-needing packages report for Jun 27, 2008

2008-06-26 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 497 (new: 27) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 109 (new: 2) Total number of packages reques

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding from reading this thread is that the signature of the > function did *not* change, but that in previous versions of the library > the macro definition in the header was simply broken, with the result > that anything built using that def

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:10:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the change is a define in a header, where said define is *not* used > > in the library itself, then the libraries binary will not change. Thus > > physically it would have the same API an

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the change is a define in a header, where said define is *not* used > in the library itself, then the libraries binary will not change. Thus > physically it would have the same API and ABI. If the new behavior of the header file is required for the new

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikita Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If the expr had a bug and old binaries didn't work with the old library >> then I would say that requires and shlibs bump, possibly a versioned >> conflicts against all rdepends and binNMUs. > As far as I understand, as soon as source uses the aff

Re: [security] Incorrect file permissions due to (now fixed) perl 5.10 issue

2008-06-26 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:31:44PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 26 Jun 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > [1]http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/2008/06/msg00016.html > > And exactely that link is not present??? Actually, it is. Even if a typo were present, you could go t

Re: [security] Incorrect file permissions due to (now fixed) perl 5.10 issue

2008-06-26 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 26 Jun 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > [1]http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/2008/06/msg00016.html And exactely that link is not present??? Best wishes Norbert --- Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROT

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling"): > Declarative diversions are a much-needed enhancement to dpkg; there are > cases one cannot deal with on upgrade without rm'ing one's own package files > in the prerm in order to handle diversion changes, a

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Christian Perrier writes ("Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?"): > So, well, in such case, closing with "I think this is not a bug > because synaptic is recommended by another package in the dependency > chain" would have been better. Even better would have been to > investiga

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

2008-06-26 Thread Joe Smith
"Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THANK YOU ! So far I only had FUDs about: 'no this is impossible, 'this is not the right way'. Thanks for taking the time to answer in detail, this much more supportive. I finally understood the previous aggressive answers, I was simply looking at

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Joe Smith
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Nikita Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080626 11:51]: To fix #486693, I need to apply a patch that changes #define'd macro in an exported library header. The pattern is: extern int foo(char *param1, int param2

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Nikita Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080626 11:51]: > To fix #486693, I need to apply a patch that changes #define'd macro in an > exported library header. > > The pattern is: > > extern int foo(char *param1, int param2); > #define bar(param) foo(param, expr(param)) > > and changed thing is e

Bug#488117: ITP: libv4l -- Thin abstraction layer on top of video4linux2 devices

2008-06-26 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libv4l Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Hans de Goede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Descriptio

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Nikita Youshchenko
> If the expr had a bug and old binaries didn't work with the old > library then I would say that requires and shlibs bump, possibly a > versioned conflicts against all rdepends and binNMUs. As far as I understand, as soon as source uses the affected macro, binary is broken if compiled against un

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Nikita Youshchenko [Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:22:19 +0400]: > Hello. > To fix #486693, I need to apply a patch that changes #define'd macro in an > exported library header. > The pattern is: > extern int foo(char *param1, int param2); > #define bar(param) foo(param, expr(param)) > and changed thi

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Neil Williams [Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:33:33 +0100]: > SONAME bump would seem appropriate W. T. F. (Hint: no, it is not appropriate.) [snipped completely irrelevant stuff to the case at hand] -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Bug#488108: ITP: openlldp -- implementation of IEEE 802.1ab

2008-06-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: openlldp Version : cvs snapshot Upstream Author : OpenLLDP team * URL : http://openlldp.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : implemen

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nikita Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > To fix #486693, I need to apply a patch that changes #define'd macro in an > exported library header. > > The pattern is: > > extern int foo(char *param1, int param2); > #define bar(param) foo(param, expr(param)) > > and changed thing is

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Any comments on how to handle this change in packaging properly? > > Maybe upstream could implement a "deprecated" support scheme that allows > the old routine to be available, puts the new routine under a new name > and moves the old ro

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:22 +0400, Nikita Youshchenko wrote: > Hello. > > To fix #486693, I need to apply a patch that changes #define'd macro in an > exported library header. > > The pattern is: > > extern int foo(char *param1, int param2); > #define bar(param) foo(param, expr(param)) > > and

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian

2008-06-26 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:52:43AM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > Hi, > > Don Armstrong wrote: > > I have no idea if it's trivially possible, but it would be ideal if > > whatever spell checker we switched to had some sort of compatibility > > layer for ispell to reduce the number of applications th

Re: RFH: curl, c-ares and ipv6

2008-06-26 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Luca Bruno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080626 09:57]: > Rebuilt from incoming for i386, it seems to work here too: good. thanks! > I've also seen that -4 doesn't really force ipv4 resolution and connection: great that you thought of testing that, too. It is entirely possible that there are more cases

Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Nikita Youshchenko
Hello. To fix #486693, I need to apply a patch that changes #define'd macro in an exported library header. The pattern is: extern int foo(char *param1, int param2); #define bar(param) foo(param, expr(param)) and changed thing is expr(param) Looks like binary interface of the shared library do

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian

2008-06-26 Thread Per Olofsson
Hi, Don Armstrong wrote: > I have no idea if it's trivially possible, but it would be ideal if > whatever spell checker we switched to had some sort of compatibility > layer for ispell to reduce the number of applications that are > affected by such a migration. Both hunspell and aspell have such

Re: RFH: curl, c-ares and ipv6

2008-06-26 Thread Luca Bruno
Yves-Alexis Perez scrisse: > On jeu, 2008-06-26 at 08:41 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Here it seems to work fine even with curl 7.18.2-1: > > Hmhm well. Ok. With curl 7.8.12-1e1 and libcares: > So it seems to work. Rebuilt from incoming for i386, it seems to work here too: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: RFH: curl, c-ares and ipv6

2008-06-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu, 2008-06-26 at 08:41 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Here it seems to work fine even with curl 7.18.2-1: Hmhm well. Ok. With curl 7.8.12-1e1 and libcares: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: curl -v -o /dev/null http://public.teleport-iabg.de/test100m.dat * About to connect() to public.teleport-iabg.de

Re: RFH: curl, c-ares and ipv6

2008-06-26 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Yves-Alexis Perez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080626 08:42]: > On jeu, 2008-06-26 at 00:28 +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > Hi! > > > > As a solution for "#481189 curl: cannot connect to IPv6 hosts > > anymore" I added a patch to hook curl to c-ares even for ipv6 > > lookups. Upstream is very interes