Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-03 Thread Guillem Jover
[ BCCed debian-dpkg for the proposed dpkg changes. ] Hi! On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage > and the policy do not match fully. Ok, had finally the time to read and think about this. I've to say

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Hello Raffaele, Raffaele Morelli schrieb: > [...] > > Is it a bug or what? No, as documented in the changelog ([0]) and probably elsewhere you need to put the needed scripts into [1]. In case of initrd generation example scrpts are shipped with kernel-package in [2]. I hope this helped. Greetin

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> David Paleino wrote: >> >>> * The image postinst no longer runs the initramfs creation >>> commands. Instead, there are example scripts provided that will >>> perform the task. These scripts will work for official k

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Manoj Srivastava [090503 01:24]: >> I wold like to say that I do not really see the Degbian source >> package as a primary mode of development communication between Debian >> and the downstreams, as it is strictly a snapshot, and loses t

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > >> * The image postinst no longer runs the initramfs creation >> commands. Instead, there are example scripts provided that will >> perform the task. These scripts will work for official kernel images >> as well. > >

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> There is one _very_ important reason why it is the best practice, too: >> since the build process is complete, and tested at every upload on >> every arch, it is far less likely to break on the hands of the >> security team, or on the hands of a por

Bug#526790: ITP: libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup -- access control based on on unix group membership for Apache

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hai Zaar * Package name: libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Jan Wolter * URL : http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_authz_unixgroup/ * License : Apache Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#526786: ITP: libapache2-mod-authnz-external -- authenticate Apache against external authentication services

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hai Zaar * Package name: libapache2-mod-authnz-external Version : 3.2.3 Upstream Author : Jan Wolter * URL : http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external/ * License : Apache Programming Lang: C Description : authen

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
David Paleino wrote: > * The image postinst no longer runs the initramfs creation > commands. Instead, there are example scripts provided that will > perform the task. These scripts will work for official kernel images > as well. Don't use the example scripts, they're kinda weird. i

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 3 May 2009 10:14:57 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all, > > I am using vanilla sources to build a debian RT custom kernel using > make-kpkg. > Compiling goes very nice and ends up with a deb kernel package but make-kpkg > does't generate initrd using --initrd option! I had to gen

Bug#526762: ITP: pwauth -- authenticator for mod_authnz_external and the Apache HTTP Daemon

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hai Zaar * Package name: pwauth Version : 2.3.8 Upstream Author : Jan Wolter * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pwauth/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : authenticator for mod_authnz_external and t

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Manoj Srivastava [090503 01:24]: > I wold like to say that I do not really see the Degbian source > package as a primary mode of development communication between Debian > and the downstreams, as it is strictly a snapshot, and loses too much > history. I think that people deriving c

make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, I am using vanilla sources to build a debian RT custom kernel using make-kpkg. Compiling goes very nice and ends up with a deb kernel package but make-kpkg does't generate initrd using --initrd option! I had to generete it by hand with update-initrams and the put the corresponding line

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [090502 18:25]: > On Sat, 02 May 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > First of all, you do not discuss the most common type of packages: do > > not change the build-system, but just use it. This means autotools are > > never called, neighter when preparing the package, n

Bug#526739: ITP: libbash -- a tool that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hai Zaar * Package name: libbash Version : 0.9.10b Upstream Author : Hai Zaar * URL : http://libbash.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: shell script Description : a tool that enables bash dynamic-like shar

Re: Bug#526740: ITP: bpython -- fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter

2009-05-03 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 3 May 2009 09:54:41 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Paleino > > * Package name: bpython > Version : 0.7.1 > Upstream Author : Name Argh! Upstream Author : Bob Farrell Sorry people. -- . ''`. Debian maintainer |

Bug#526740: ITP: bpython -- fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter

2009-05-03 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: bpython Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://www.noiseforfree.com/bpython/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : fancy curses interface to the Pyt

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 2 May 2009 13:24:07 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >I personally dislike the entire concept of "Debian-native" source packages. >I would like it if all software in Debian had a split .orig/.diff. Even >for real "native" sources, it makes things like backporting, reuse by >others, and minor fix