Re: fstrcmp

2009-05-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Peter Miller (Sun, 31 May 2009 11:49:37 +1000): > Wouldn't it be great if when you typed > apt-get build-deps gcc > instead of saying > E: Invalid operation build-deps > it said something more useful, like > E: Invalid operation build-deps, did you mean build-dep instead? I guess

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ John Goerzen (Sat, 30 May 2009 19:09:11 -0500): > I'm CCing this to Debian-devel because I think it speaks to a larger > issue. > I just downloaded a PDF, and tried to copy and paste a bit of text > from it. I used the selection tool, and Okular offered to speak it to > me, but said "Copy forb

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Jonathan Kaye (Mon, 18 May 2009 15:15:27 +0200): > Yes, but sadly 4.2 is not hitting squeeze all at once. I got about 6 4.2 > upgrades today with the results that a lot of my kde apps are no longer > functional. The menu items along with their associated icons are gone: > kpat, amarok, k3b are 3

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Bastian Blank (Sun, 24 May 2009 21:07:49 +0200): > I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux > kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). For now I will not propose > a change of the default machine type setting used by the compiler. As Philipp Kern mentioned, y

Re: Transitions Completed

2009-05-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Frans Pop (Thu, 21 May 2009 20:54:22 +0200): > Adeodato Simó wrote: > > From: Debian Installer > Although this usage probably predates D-I, I do find it quite confusing in > practice, and for example when googling, that we currently have two > completely unrelated usages o

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
> I haven't done an exhaustive survey, but it seems pretty clear so far > that the domain does not get any significant amount of legitimate mail > from machines other than the debian.org hosts. As I understand it, @packages.d.o is the standard way of contacting the maintainers of a package in an e

Bug#529871: Dependency mismatch for nautilus-filename-repairer and nautilus-image-converter

2009-05-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
reopen 529871 clone 529871 -1 reassign -1 nautilus-image-converter severity -1 serious retitle -1 nautilus-image-converter: upload of experimental packages to unstable required reassign 529871 nautilus-filename-repairer severity 529871 serious retitle 529871 nautilus-filename-repairer upload of ex

Re: Fwd: Transitions Completed

2009-05-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Jonathan Wiltshire (Thu, 21 May 2009 19:00:09 +0100): > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > I thought it could perhaps be a good idea to CC them to -devel. Does > > somebody think we shouldn't do that? (I'd send a patch to include the >

Fwd: Transitions Completed

2009-05-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, dak is configured to send the Release Team a mail each time one of the "transition blocks" expires because the transition has been completed. I thought it could perhaps be a good idea to CC them to -devel. Does somebody think we shouldn't do that? (I'd send a patch to include the name of th

Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
possible to migrate to testing the new compiz, useable with KDE4, because it also depends on a newer GNOME. In order to upgrade to KDE4, you will have to temporarily uninstall compiz-kde, or grab compiz-kde and dependencies from unstable. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó Debian Release Team -- To U

Re: Bug#529049: ITP: octave-bugfix-3.0.5 -- bug fixes for some functions of Octave 3.0.5

2009-05-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Rafael Laboissiere (Sun, 17 May 2009 15:31:51 +0200): Hello! > * Package name: octave-bugfix-3.0.5 > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : The Octave Forge Community > * URL : http://octave.sourceforge.net/bugfix-3.0.5 > * License : GPL-3+ > Programming Lang

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Guillem Jover (Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:00 +0200): > The wildcards on the binary stanza Architecture fields have also been > supported since the beginning. What wildcards? The "linux-any" and "powerpc-any" ones you mean? AFAIK, Phil was inquiring about good-old Build-Depends expressions like:

Re: blocked libtool

2009-05-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Thorsten Alteholz (Wed, 06 May 2009 13:22:53 +0200): > Hi Adeodato, Hello, Thorsten (hope it's okay I'm quoting you in public). > could you please tell me the reason for blocking libtool's transition > from unstable to testing? I have a few packages that depend on libtool > but don't want to

Re: Bug#527205: ITP: inotifyx -- Simple Python binding to the Linux inotify file system event monitoring API

2009-05-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Ritesh Raj Sarraf (Wed, 06 May 2009 12:23:06 +0530): Hello!, and thanks for your interest in packaging new software for Debian. > * Package name: inotifyx > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : Forest Bond > * URL : http://www.alittletooquiet.net/software/inotifyx/ >

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Andrei Popescu (Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:56:29 +0300): > On Wed,29.Apr.09, 14:27:45, Darren Salt wrote: > > The list management software, OTOH, can [add] a Mail-Followup-To > > header, if one is not already present, containing the list address > > and, if the sender is not subscribed, his address. >

Re: Webkit build issues

2009-04-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Stefano Zacchiroli (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:16:26 +0200): > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:45:41PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Anyway, the exact list of Bin-NMUs is rather uninteresting. More > > interesting can be, I think, the current list of known transitions > > against w

Re: Folder-less email management with ‘sup-mail ’ (was: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s)

2009-04-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Ben Finney (Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:04:05 +1000): > Caveat: I tried it and dropped it because its support for Unicode is > currently broken (Bug#520374), and Ruby isn't a language I'm able to > hack. #477366, really. -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNS

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Frank Lin PIAT (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:54:07 +0200): > If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: [...] > If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed to the list. [...] And how does one (or their MUA) know which of these is the case? -- - Are you sure we're good? -

Re: Webkit build issues

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
(Bcc: -devel) + Cyril Brulebois (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:09:53 +0200): > Heya folks, > after Ari asked on #dd, I was wondering where one can track the > currently planned binNMUs, so that I could answer his “when will webkit > stuff be rebuilt?” question. Is vorlon's page on ftp-master still the > r

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Mike Hommey (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:52:36 +0200): > > Since I wouldn't dream of recommending anyone use a proprietary data > > silo like Google Mail, I invite you instead to look at the ‘sup’ package > > for a folder-less approach to organising email messages that many say is > > superior. > Descr

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Steve Langasek (Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:13:57 -0700): > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 06:43:00PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > I’m unsure why assigning VERS_1 to all symbols works for preserving > > compatibility, whereas old binaries use symbols not associated with any > > vers

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Mike Hommey (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:46:35 +0200): > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:53:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Noah Slater writes: > > > Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument > > > is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian > > > lists

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Noah Slater (Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:10:17 +0100): > Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument > is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian > lists I fully agree with this. I think having to remember which key one must use in each context for "r"

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Michael Biebl (Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:40:23 +0200): > [not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] [I’m moving to -devel in search of a wider audience, and dropping -mentors via Bcc to avoid the crosspost. Hopefully interested -mentor readers can move to -devel without much inc

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Paul Wise (Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:13:11 +0800): > linux-libre goes further and removes even the request_firmware calls > for non-free firmware: To an hypothetical person that would deeply care about not running non-free software, does that provide any real gain/benefit/improvement over running a k

Re: Bug#524834: ITP: syncmaildir -- Sync Mail Dir is a set of tools to synchronize Maildirs

2009-04-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello!, Enrico. (I’m adding -devel back in case there can be people interested on this.) > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:35:20PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > So does it support (or will it support) using it in the “fetch from > > server, read/delete some stuff on client, maybe rea

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Charles Plessy (Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:49:27 +0900): > Files: debian/* > Copyright: 2009, Charles Plessy > License: PD > Please treat this packaging work as if it were in public domain. Is such a wording actually appropriate for this, “as if”? -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. --

Re: Bug#524834: ITP: syncmaildir -- Sync Mail Dir is a set of tools to synchronize Maildirs

2009-04-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Enrico Tassi (Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:10:35 +0200): Hola! > Description : Sync Mail Dir is a set of tools to synchronize Maildirs > Sync Mail Dir is a set of utilities to synchronize a pair of mail > boxes in Maildir format, using SSH to transfer data. > Unlike OfflineIMAP It requires

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ William Pitcock (Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:49:58 -0500): > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 16:25 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Luk Claes wrote: > > > I'm afraid it's too invasive to be included, though I would propose to > > > upload it to backports.org. > > Then can the current broken version of yum be rem

Re: One-time cron output?

2009-04-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Raphael Hertzog (Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:31:45 +0100): > > IMHO the right thing to would be for mlocate (in locate mode, not in > > updatedb mode) to issue a warning if the DB was too old instead of the > > way you suggested. > Sending the warning only when updatedb is skipped and when the DB is >

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Ben Finney (Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:44:48 +1000): > Sune Vuorela writes: > > How is your work on a useful summary of kdebase-workspace going ? > I do wish this tiresome rhetorical non-argument would stop cropping up. > Are we not able to discuss the purpose of ‘debian/copyright’ without the > fal

Re: Getting Gnome installable again

2009-04-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Norbert Preining (Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:23:07 +0200): > Hi colleagues, > I got my fixed laptop and wanted to re-install everything to continue > TeX development. Ah, great to hear you’re back to that status. :-) > Well, unfortunately it seems that gnome is not installable, due to a > missing li

Re: Transition from libmysqlclient15 to libmysqlclient16

2009-04-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Norbert Tretkowski (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:05:05 +0200): > Hi, Hello, Norbert. > I plan to move MySQL 5.1 from experimental to unstable really soon now, > MySQL 5.0 will be dropped from Debian at the same time. This means 215 > packages need to be rebuild. > There should be no changes necessary

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Andreas Tille (Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:59:32 +0200): > Hi, > while building Blends tasks pages I used to parse the packages file >http://ftp.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > this does not exist any more and I have to add a directory 'debian' >http://ftp.debian.org/de

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Sebastien Delafond (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:08:17 -0700): > On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Why do we need jruby1.0, jruby1.1 and now jruby1.2 ? > so multiple versions of jruby can be simultaneously installed on a > system, like with python2.x, ruby1.x, etc ? The question was, rather: why would

Re: Jack Audio Connection Kit transition

2009-04-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Felipe Sateler [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:58:23 +1100]: > >  * plan for libjack0.100.0-0: there are 11 source packages left with > >    dependencies on this old library. No sourceful uploads are needed > >    for this: once you’ve gotten back to me that the plan is good, I > >    will provide you with

Re: Transitions update: some done, some ready, some starting

2009-04-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
> > We’ll be also > > doing some Bin-NMUs to get rid of dependencies on obsolete > > jack-audio-connection-kit transitional packages > Should we file bugs against packages for build-depending on the wrong package, > so that we can drop the Provides later? Or just let it be for the time being? You

Re: Transitions update: some done, some ready, some starting

2009-03-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:56:33 +0200]: > * poppler, evolution-data-server/gnokii/metacity, libmtp/libgpod > scheduled for this week, upload blocks in place (see attached) > The complete list of packages is attached. Yeah, about that. Attached now. poppler ===

Re: demoting a dependency

2009-03-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Paul Wise [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:42:32 +0800]: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Is there a more elegant way to do this? > Not sure if it would work with your case, but xchat used this to > demote plugin dependencies to recommends: > dh_shlibdeps -a -u'-dDepends debian/

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:08 +0200]: > The alternative solution is ia32-archive, which creates a local > repository of converted packages on the users system. No wrappers > needed and no ugly hacks but that comes at the cost of disk space and > the need to configure what packa

Re: Jack Audio Connection Kit transition

2009-03-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
Maintainers: unless you’re jackbeat or gst-plugins-bad0.10, you need not upload for this, though build-depending on libjack-dev in your next upload would be nice. --- Hello, Felipe. I finally found some time to look at your message. I’ve moved -release to CC (thanks for the Bcc!), since it’s on-t

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: Hello, [-mentors only Bcc'ed to drop it from the discussion] Executive summary: concerns about ia32-apt-get raised, lesser hack proposed for comments. > before Lenny ftpmaster asked us (ia32-libs maintainers) to do > something about t

Re: grouping of alternative depends

2009-03-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Holger Levsen [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:14:24 +0100]: > Hi, Hey, > On Sonntag, 29. März 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Doesn't this do what you want? > > Depends: pdns-backend-ldap | bind9, pdns-recursor | bind9 > sure, that works and thats what I'm doing now. But it's ugly and redudant a

Re: Proposed hook to tag bugs as pending

2009-03-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Clint Adams [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:22:31 +]: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:12:29PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Right, but my proposed script should cater for both workflows (letting > > the tools write your debian/changelog, or writing it by hand), since the > > bug

Re: Proposed hook to tag bugs as pending

2009-03-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* John Goerzen [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:37:51 -0500]: > but it scans the git commit message and so can send a slightly more > accurate report. I did it specifically parsing debian/changelog to address [1], because I actually often do the same (not writing Closes: #XXX in the commit message and only i

Proposed hook to tag bugs as pending

2009-03-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hopefully this does what people wanted to do. Here: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/adeodato/git-hooks.git;a=blob;f=post-receive-tag-pending;hb=HEAD Sample output at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520017#17 -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and L

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* sean finney [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:00:24 +0100]: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:40:05PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Additionally, I'm looking for a post-commit hook that can send the > > commit diff via email to a ml + tagpending the bugs in the diff. I'm > > pretty sure someone out there has this

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Reinhard Tartler [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:03:42 +0100]: > > Then I've used git-svn to import the svn history in an extra repository, > > verified that everything is right, and pulled it from the repository created > > with git-import-dsc. As git-import-dsc uses the date from the changelog as > > com

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Kurt Roeckx [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:52:22 +0100]: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'd also like to complain about the title text of the initial GR. It is > > clearly manipulative, as it pretends to be merely describing the proposed > > changes when in fact it

Re: #520646: binNMU oprofile

2009-03-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Paul Wise [Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:29:10 +0900]: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > I’m told libbfd.so is a private/internal library of binutils that should > > not be dynamically linked against. A static version exists (libbfd.a), > > and packages

Re: #520646: binNMU oprofile

2009-03-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, > Looks like oprofile needs a rebuild . > $ opreport > opreport: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > $ dpkg -L binutils | grep libbfd- > /usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.1.so I’m told libbfd.so is a private

Re: Please make openbsd-inetd of priority Extra.

2009-03-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steve Langasek [Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:19:58 -0700]: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:14:24AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Package: openbsd-inetd > > Version: 0.20080125-2 > > Tags: squeeze sid > > Severity: normal > > Following the thread on debian-devel, where people seemed to agree with > > su

Re: xine-lib transition: packages must depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-console, as needed

2009-03-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Darren Salt [Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:01:15 +]: > >> Debian Python Modules Team > >>   pyxine > > We only build-dep on "libxine-dev" and depends are brought in by substvar, > > so a binNMU should be enough to update dependencies. > No; you need to explicitly depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-co

Re: Packaging a library when upstream does not build a .so

2009-03-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Enrico Zini [Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:42:58 +]: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:03:22PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Is there a reason you need this now and can't wait until you've managed > > to argue for the shared library from upstream and cajoule them into > > producing a .so? > > I had an u

Re: A hack to alleviate transitions in Britney; now what?

2009-03-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:25:10 +0100]: > * Raphael Geissert [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:32:51 -0600]: > > > Removing GNOME from testing because something depends on libfrufru1 isn't > > > a win for testing's usability. > > It would only last until i

Re: A hack to alleviate transitions in Britney; now what?

2009-03-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Raphael Geissert [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:32:51 -0600]: > > Removing GNOME from testing because something depends on libfrufru1 isn't > > a win for testing's usability. > It would only last until it is able to migrate without breaking anything. I > think this is just a matter of deciding which way

Re: A hack to alleviate transitions in Britney; now what?

2009-03-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Richard Atterer [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:34:17 +0100]: > At the very least, there should be an auto-generated web page listing > packages in testing that are currently unreleasable! http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00836.html -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory

Re: generating man pages from docbook

2009-03-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Norbert Preining [Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:24:15 +0100]: > On Mo, 16 Mär 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Mar 16, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > > > Hmm, weird. jadetex is architecture all and haven't changed for a > > > while. Could you find out, why it can't be installed? > > I hoped that somebody here w

Re: Splitting of the gnome-python* source packages - MBF

2009-03-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
> Clement Lorteau >gtkvncviewer I filed #518000 a while ago about this, heh. But the bug report needs updating to say that python-gconf exists on its own, and that gtkvncviewer should depend on that instead of python-gnome2. Cheers, -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory a

Re: A hack to alleviate transitions in Britney; now what?

2009-03-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steve Langasek [Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:55:50 -0700]: Hello, Steve. > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:44:08PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Now, this has its own set of problems and caveats as well, since if you > > don’t pay attention and take care of later cleanup, you end up with

A hack to alleviate transitions in Britney; now what?

2009-03-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, this mail is to talk a bit about the current situation regarding transitions in unstable. In my opinion, it is unfortunate that the Release Team has had to insist on semi-serializing them, because that’s not the kind of development you want to have in unstable right after a release. Execut

Re: One-time cron output?

2009-03-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
As an extra idea, on IRC Peter Palfrader suggested never skipping the warning, but always sending it to syslog rather than stderr. -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

One-time cron output?

2009-03-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, I wanted to gather some opinions on this matter. I’ve recently applied to the mlocate package a patch I received to skip running the daily update of the database if the system is running on batteries. When that happens, the daily cron script emits a warning like “System on battery power, n

Re: Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, Jean-Yves. Please mail your questions about packaging to debian-ment...@lists.debian.org. -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: need help updating @debian.org email alias

2009-03-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
I replied to him in private (because I wanted to mention his current emailForward setting). Cheers, -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: [luabind] Naming library with proper SONAME

2009-03-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Roberto C. Sánchez [Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:34:20 -0400]: > > It’s certainly not desirable. Do you have an estimation of how many > > reverse dependencies libluabind will have? Goswin’s remark about API > > compatibility is also an important one. > Currently, none of the luabind packages have rever

Re: [luabind] Naming library with proper SONAME

2009-03-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Roberto C. Sánchez [Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:30:19 -0400]: > I am curious as to what people generally think of how the libluabind > SONAME will be going forward. I know that certain packages (like > libssl) have the complete version in the SONAME, but I can't imagine > that this is a really good ide

Re: tex-common with triggers support

2009-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Russ Allbery [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:06:41 -0700]: > Adeodato Simó writes: > > Another option would be a lintian test that warns if the postinst calls > > updmap-sys but the package depends on text-common (>= 1.15). This would > > give us the benefit of having an a

Re: tex-common with triggers support

2009-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Stefano Zacchiroli [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:20:06 +0100]: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > There could be a mass bug filing using some usertag, but that may > > get out of sync if people make an upload without noticing the bug > > should be

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Giacomo A. Catenazzi [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:56:20 +0100]: > how to had new services in /etc/services database? By filing a bug like #353835 (against netbase). -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: tex-common with triggers support

2009-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Norbert Preining [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:18:45 +0100]: > Dear all, > the Debian TeX Team has uploaded tex-common 1.15 to unstable which > brings triggers support for font maps (calls to updmap-sys) and > hyphenation patterns (calls to fmtutil-sys --byfmt). Great. \o/ > Those packages shipping fo

Re: libpoppler3 missing in unstable

2009-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Normally, we keep the lib$foo$N and add lib$foo$N+1. By withdrawing > > libpoppler3 you broke the buildability of hundreds of package with tex > > documentation. Was there a reason? Uploading libfoo2 and making libfoo1 disappear are actually do

Re: To the aqualung NMUer....

2009-03-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
* "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" [Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:42:43 +0100]: > I bet it won't work for a package in dak ;) http://incoming.debian.org http://packages.qa.debian.org/aqualung And, FFS, the ACCEPTED mail you get has you *and* the uploader in the To: line. -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always.

Re: To the aqualung NMUer....

2009-03-09 Thread Adeodato Simó
deal with your RC bugs in a timely manner 5. Or you can just mention in the bug report that you're working on a fix 6. Or you can state that you don't want NMUs 7. Or you could do as everybody else and actually thank people for NMUing you Best

Re: libphysfs 1.0.1

2009-03-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
--- libphysfs-1.0.1.orig/configure +++ libphysfs-1.0.1/configure @@ -1506,8 +1506,8 @@ MAJOR_VERSION=1 MINOR_VERSION=0 MICRO_VERSION=1 -INTERFACE_AGE=0 -BINARY_AGE=0 +INTERFACE_AGE=1 +BINARY_AGE=1 VERSION=$MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$MICRO_VERSION --- libphysfs-1.0.1-2.orig/configure.in +

Re: libphysfs 1.0.1

2009-03-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
so. If somebody could work with Barry to see if the SONAME given by upstream for 1.1.1 is appropriate, that'd be great too. Barry, a good start would be the output of `nm -D` and `objdump -p` for the 1.1.1 library, plus the configure.in file. In the meantime, Barry, please upload 1.0

Re: Requirement for a “pro per manpage” for every command

2009-03-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
 responsable de merde putain de feignant » > (translated in my language). Thank you for opening my eyes. Well, I think writing missing manpages is commendable independently of what we may agree on calling those who won't do it. Have a nice day, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
ckout" of the appropriate revision, i.e. an unpacked tree. So you could checkout that from the upstream VCS, and store the delta in the debian-only VCS, if in fact your packaging VCS is debian-only. (Else, this point is moot. :-) I hope I explained myself clearl

Up for adoption: Xiph.org and OpenEXR packages

2009-03-03 Thread Adeodato Simó
at period. If they are many, at some point I will have to orphan them. Many thanks in advance, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
dom will yield results, so I don't have anything against it being done, but I don't think it should be a substitute for packaging the software. (¹) I realize mydns could be complete crap, but the argument still holds. My off-the-top-of-my-heart

Re: Requirement for a “pro per manpage” for every command

2009-03-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
Many times the problem is that upstreams do provide such adequate documentation... in other formats than man pages. What should the packager do in that case? Create a dummy man page pointing out to eg. /usr/share/doc/foopkg/html/fooprog.html? Copy over the contents of fooprog

RC bugs blocking transitions

2009-03-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
they'll appreciate any help. If nobody objects, I'm going to permanently decrease the waiting period for bugs in the "transition-blockers" list (current or future) from 7 to 3 days. Just be civil and honour maintainer's wishes. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó

New format for binNMU requests

2009-03-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
I've updated http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU to include a pointer to the preferred format for binNMU requests, which supersedes the old one. The appropriate syntax is explained at: http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó da

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
tion to browse can be useful, but I don't think support libraries have a place there, since they're something that's going to be installed because of dependencies, and not intentionally. Thoughts? -- Adeodato Simó dato at ne

Re: Old bug in ppmtofb is quite important

2009-02-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
e removed altogether (CC'ing -qa). It has popcon 5, and hasn't seen a real upload for 6 years. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Don't be irreplaceable, if

Re: Plea for library transition coordination

2009-02-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
I forgot to add, that almost no requests actually said "I'll go forward with this in a few days if nobody objects", for which I'm very grateful already. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Plea for library transition coordination

2009-02-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
ckages in testing. I get that everybody is anxious to get their work done, and I'm sorry the Release Team is the bottleneck, but I don't think having your transition stuck in unstable for four months is going to be any funnier than waiting one. Thanks

buildd.debian.org and https

2009-02-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
is included by default in Debian, but it's a good idea to have it since it's needed by some other services as well (eg. http://db.debian.org). Hopefully this isn't much of a nuisance. -- Adeodato Simó dato at n

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
ctly the same, but this could be a feature (the -> dh symlink) that v3 source packages could use. However, I don't think it's a good idea at all, and hope it doesn't go forward. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: ode 0.11 transition

2009-02-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Gonéri Le Bouder [Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:34:51 +0100]: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > I'd like to suggest ithat you upload again to experimental, but having > > libode-dev Provide: libode0-dev. Then you ask reverse dependencies for > &g

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jonny Lamb [Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:03:51 +]: > On Sat, Feb 14, 16:25:41 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Do you have binary packages anywhere? I'd like to give it a try without > > having to compile it. > Sure. I threw some i386 and amd64 packages here: > http:

Re: ode 0.11 transition

2009-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
Oh, and thanks for taking the initiative to contact your reverse dependencies, it's appreciated. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org A hacker does for love what other would n

Re: ode 0.11 transition

2009-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
verybody else. From a quick look it's quite an isolated transition, so it should be able to get the "go" very soon. Thanks in advance, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian

Re: x11proto-core 7.0.13 will break Tk

2009-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
this bug fixed. Hm, they ship & compile a separate copy of Tk? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org A lie can go round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Britney (was Re: Bits from the ftpteam, re Lenny/Squeeze)

2009-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
first migration, a bit more than 2500 packages managed to migrate without any manual hinting (96% of all elegilible candidates). Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Any life,

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
try without having to compile it. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Will you just stand still? -- Luke Danes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-re

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
case. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Excuse me for thinking a banana-eating contest was about eating a banana! -- Paris Geller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
t heuristics to spot a 'rotting' package > (like, for example standards-version older than X, but you need to tell > me what X), I can automatically mine it and turn it into a debtags tag. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
ends, I will > solve this in my packages with a dpkg substvar, > such as $(depends:libfoo-bar-perl} for Foo::Bar. It seems that it is > trivial to pass through dh_gencontrol. Substvars don't work for Build-Depends, I'm afraid. -- Adeodato Simó

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
ontain correct information at the beginning of the > build. I don't think nobody is suggesting inferring Build-Dependencies from Depends field. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

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