Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:

2009-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:15:57PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > A closer reading of the DEP-5 wording clears this up for me: > However it makes for easier reading if the copyright > file lists the “main” license first: the one matching > the “top level” of the work, with others li

Re: replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev

2009-09-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Sep 13 2009, Matthias Klose wrote: > Both libreadline-dev (>= 6.0) and libreadline6-dev are now available > in unstable and testing. If possible, please replace the > libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev, so that in > future changes of the libreadline soname binNMU's can

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:38:47PM -0400, Felipe Sateler a écrit : > > A lot has been said about CCing submitters, but what about other > contributors? Is there any reason someone would want to comment on a bug > report and _not_ be notified of further messaging on it? Hi all, during last year

Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:

2009-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:15:57PM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > So as it stands, no inheritance is possible, and every Files: line must be > accompanied by a Copyright: and a License: line. Hi again, to my knowledge, nobody proposed inheritance before you, probably because most people see th

Re: DEP-5: an example parser, choice of syntax for Files:

2009-09-13 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Sonntag, den 13.09.2009, 23:58 +0100 schrieb Jon Dowland: > Most of the examples given in DEP-5 containing the path > character will not work, either, e.g. > > Files: debian/* > > Assuming they are passed into a find(1) invocation like so > > find . -path 'debian/*' > > (note the pre

DEP-5: an example parser, choice of syntax for Files:

2009-09-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Given that DEP-5 is supposed to be about machine- readability, I thought it would be worthwhile trying to write something to parse the proposed format. Please find attached a short python script that I have written based on the current text of DEP-5 at dep.debian.net[1]. It's designed to be run f

Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:

2009-09-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 09:08:19PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > In this simple example there is no ambiguity, but only > because it is assumed that the package is licensed > entirely under one license. That wasn't the assumption I was making... > The easiest alternative source is the the stanza

Proposed mass bug filing: Perl 5.10.1 breaks 'make install PREFIX=$(TMP)/usr'

2009-09-13 Thread Niko Tyni
(sending to -devel, -perl and #545904, followups to -perl) A change in the ExtUtils::MakeMaker module between Perl 5.10.0 and Perl 5.10.1 (currently in experimental) makes 246 packages fail to build from source. See #545904 for details; the summary is to use either of make install DESTDIR=$(TM

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Felipe Sateler wrote: > A lot has been said about CCing submitters, but what about other > contributors? Is there any reason someone would want to comment on a > bug report and _not_ be notified of further messaging on it? That's not really the reason why we don't already noti

Re: replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev

2009-09-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi, Matthias Klose wrote: > Both libreadline-dev (>= 6.0) and libreadline6-dev are now available in > unstable and testing. If possible, please replace the libreadline5-dev > build dependency with libreadline-dev, so that in future changes of the > libreadline soname binNMU's can be used for this

Re: chrooting daemons no longer supported?

2009-09-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 06:43:24PM +, Florian Weimer wrote: > The reason is that more and more libc features depend on availability > of /proc. This means that you have to mount /proc within the chroot, > which somewhat defeats the exercise of chrooting. Yes. You also might need /sys and /de

Bug#546486: ITP: xmris -- A version of the Mr Do video arcade game for X

2009-09-13 Thread Nozzy Nozzy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nozzy Nozzy * Package name: xmris Version : 4.0.5 Upstream Author : Nathan Sidwell * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmris/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A version of the Mr Do video ar

Re: replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev

2009-09-13 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 14:28 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Both libreadline-dev (>= 6.0) and libreadline6-dev are now available in > unstable > and testing. If possible, please replace the libreadline5-dev build > dependency > with libreadline-dev, so that in future changes of the libreadline s

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:16:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:23 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Conceptually, what "we" want is trivial: we want submitter to be > > subscribed (in the sense of "bts subscribe") by default. If they want, > > they are free to opt uns

replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev

2009-09-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Both libreadline-dev (>= 6.0) and libreadline6-dev are now available in unstable and testing. If possible, please replace the libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev, so that in future changes of the libreadline soname binNMU's can be used for this kind of update. Sending email