Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:16:47AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Besides that that snippet is broken? It made me nuts that quilt people > are changing that snippet and breaking many packages, like all of mine. > It should be: > build-stamp: $(QUILT_STAMPFN) > ... > and as far as I see: >

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gerfried Fuchs writes: > Hi! > > Some few comments. > > * Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 16:54:36 CET]: >> * even if you don't have any upstream patch right now, next time that >>someone must NMU your package, they can cleanly add a patch (with a >>proper DEP-3 header) without havin

Re: Bug#557431: general: there is no package to install all POSIX utilities at once

2009-11-21 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 03:41:39AM +0200, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > Currently no package exists that would allow installation of all > utilities specified by the POSIX `Shell and utilities' volume: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html > > It is considered useful to

Bug#557431: general: there is no package to install all POSIX utilities at once

2009-11-21 Thread Dmitri Vorobiev
Package: general Severity: wishlist Currently no package exists that would allow installation of all utilities specified by the POSIX `Shell and utilities' volume: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html It is considered useful to have such a package, and one such pack

Bug#557430: ITP: gummi -- simple latex editor written in Python/PyGTK

2009-11-21 Thread Cristian Greco
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cristian Greco * Package name: gummi Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Alexander van der Mey * URL : http://gummi.midnightcoding.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : simple latex editor wr

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Mike Hommey | On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:33:29PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: | > On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:23 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: | > > Ack. People which use computers which did not came with a DVD reader built in | > > are probably not able to play nexuiz anyway as it needs a

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 21 Nov 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Heavy modification? What's so heavy on three entries there? > > include /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make > > clean: > [...] > unpatch > > build-stamp: patch Besides that that snippet is broken? It made me nuts that quilt people are changing th

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-21 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 20:51:51 CET]: > Hi, > > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 16:54:36 CET]: > > > * even if you don't have any upstream patch right now, next time that > > >someone must NMU your package, they can cleanly add a patch (wi

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:51:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Currently a package without a patch system needs heavy modifications in > debian/rules to setup the patch system. So when you want to add a patch in > debian/patches and not in the .diff.gz, you have to choose a patch system > in pl

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 16:54:36 CET]: > > * even if you don't have any upstream patch right now, next time that > >someone must NMU your package, they can cleanly add a patch (with a > >proper DEP-3 header) without having to modify

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-21 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Some few comments. * Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 16:54:36 CET]: > * even if you don't have any upstream patch right now, next time that >someone must NMU your package, they can cleanly add a patch (with a >proper DEP-3 header) without having to modify the build system Thi

Re: ITP: mercurial-buildpackage (for those who care about Mercurial)

2009-11-21 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Jens Peter Secher may or may not have written... > 2009/11/21 Goswin von Brederlow : >> Jens Peter Secher writes: >>> As I see it, there is no need for using Mercurial Queues (mq) with >>> mercurial-buildpackage because dpkg-source format "3.0 (quilt)" has >>> the same purpose as mq

Re: RFH: fluxbox -- Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager

2009-11-21 Thread Andreas Marschke
Hi, I would like to help fluxbox as I do have some experience in writing code and developing applications in various languages etc. Could you give me some pointers to hit on or any good/easy hacks you use? Sincerely , Andreas Marschke. On Sunday 25 October 2009 16:22:53 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wr

Re: ITP: mercurial-buildpackage (for those who care about Mercurial)

2009-11-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jens Peter Secher writes: > 2009/11/21 Goswin von Brederlow : >> pristine-tar does not put the tarball into the repository. It only >> stores the delta between taring up the upstream branch and the actual >> upstream orig.tar.gz. That way you can clone a repository and build >> without first havi

Re: ITP: mercurial-buildpackage (for those who care about Mercurial)

2009-11-21 Thread Jens Peter Secher
2009/11/21 Goswin von Brederlow : > Jens Peter Secher writes: >> As I see it, there is no need for using Mercurial Queues (mq) with >> mercurial-buildpackage because dpkg-source format "3.0 (quilt)" has >> the same purpose as mq, namely to wrap around quilt to achieve >> automatic patch handling.

Re: possible MBF about Policy 8.2 (Shared library support files)

2009-11-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:41:11AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> I detected 1063 possible violations with some percentage of false >> >> positives. Since those are too many to go through by hand I filtered a >> >> bit for the location of the violating files: >

Re: leftover /usr/X11R6 references

2009-11-21 Thread George Danchev
Quoting "Michal Čihař" : Hi Dne Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:10:54 +0600 Mikhail Gusarov napsal(a): Twas brillig at 03:00:27 21.11.2009 UTC+01 when ni...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: >> There are probably more references total than can be sensibly removed, >> but perhaps it would be worth a

Re: leftover /usr/X11R6 references

2009-11-21 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:10:54 +0600 Mikhail Gusarov napsal(a): > > Twas brillig at 03:00:27 21.11.2009 UTC+01 when ni...@debian.org did gyre and > gimble: > > >> There are probably more references total than can be sensibly removed, > >> but perhaps it would be worth adding some targeted

Re: leftover /usr/X11R6 references

2009-11-21 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 03:00:27 21.11.2009 UTC+01 when ni...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: >> There are probably more references total than can be sensibly removed, >> but perhaps it would be worth adding some targeted lintian checks to warn >> about >> uses in places, like libraries, where it p