On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 10:21:10PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> the doc-base sections follow the menu sections. What to do with server
> software? There is obviously no menu section for those.
In fact, doc-base is now a bit less strict than that: it is based on the
menu sections, but also allow
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:11:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > The question of whether someone is doing an adequate job of maintaining a
> > package is a legitimate one. The identity of their employer is
> > imm
On Sun, Dec 06 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 09:28:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 06 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:44:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> Making a package essential in order to avoid
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:39:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > There's no reason that ucf *should* fall under either of these rules; so
> > even if ucf /didn't/ work the way it does, the right solution here would be
> > to f
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin
> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary
> manually. What should I do in this case?
[...]
> - let libpaper's setting overwrite everything: Pr
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:48:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:39:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > the right solution here would be to fix it so that it did, not to add
> > it to Essential.
> On a side note, I thought the right solution was to integrate the ucf
>
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Andreas Marschke wrote:
> I'm hereby proposing an additional Category for this list of such applications
> called Multimedia. This defines clearer what they are.
Sounds reasonable to me, this would bring the Debian menu closer to
the FreeDesktop menu, which has Au
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | As is adding a perl dependency to packages that have no previous need
> | for perl.
>
> *shrug*, unless you're talking about embedded systems, which are of
> course free to patch their way out of this some other way, most systems
> will h
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 01:43 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Robert Millan
>
> * Package name: modem-cmd
> Version : 0.0.1
> Upstream Author : me
> * URL : none yet, debian-native
Why should this be Debian-specific?
> * Licens
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Robert Millan
* Package name: modem-cmd
Version : 0.0.1
Upstream Author : me
* URL : none yet, debian-native
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : send arbitrary AT commands to your modem
modem-cmd c
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Benjamin Drung
* Package name: release
Version : 0.1 (native)
Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung
* License : GPL v3+
Programming Lang: Python
Description : provides information about the current releases
This package contain
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Marcelo Jorge Vieira (metal)
* Package name: pesto
Version : 13
Upstream Author : Oliver Cope
* URL : http://pesto.redgecko.org/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Python
Description : is a library for Python web
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Erik de Castro Lopo
* Package name: sndfile-tools
Version : 1.02
Upstream Author : Erik de Castro Lopo
* URL : http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/tools/
* License : GPL and BSD
Programming Lang: C
Description :
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 09:28:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:44:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> Making a package essential in order to avoid a if clause in
> >> postinsts is very likely too fri
Hi,
the doc-base sections follow the menu sections. What to do with server
software? There is obviously no menu section for those.
In particular, I want to know what to set for the Apache docs. There
is Web Development and Network/Web Browsing, but both do not fit web
servers. Currently, Apach
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:00:18PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Patrick Schoenfeld
>
> Hi,
>
> | depends on what you expect. I would expect or no lets say I wish that
> | purging a package removes all traces that the package where installed
> | in the first place, except the cases where th
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Julian Andres Klode
* Package name: python-configglue
Version : 0.2dev
* URL : https://launchpad.net/configglue
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Glues together optparse.OptionParser and
Config
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Julian Andres Klode
* Package name: ubuntuone-storage-protocol
Version : 1.0.0
* URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone-storage-protocol
* License : AGPL-3
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Python library for Ub
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Julian Andres Klode
* Package name: ubuntuone-client
Version : 1.0.2
* URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client
* License : GPL-3
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Ubuntu One client
Package: ubuntuone-clie
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 08:20:14PM +0100, Marcin J. Kowalczyk wrote:
> [LD] eagi-test.o strcompat.o -> eagi-test
> [CC] eagi-sphinx-test.c -> eagi-sphinx-test.o
> [LD] eagi-sphinx-test.o -> eagi-sphinx-test
> [CC] chan_local.c -> chan_local.o
> [LD] chan_local.o -> chan_local.so
> /usr/
Hi,
I was pointed to
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/ch2.html
as I had an issue with an application categorized as Sound though it did video
and pictures, too.
I found that there was no entry for Multimedia but for Applications/Sound and
Applications/Video which is ra
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:57:23PM +0100, Marcin J. Kowalczyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since Digium released Asterisk 1.6.1.8 I can't build debian package
> (tried 1.6.2.0-rc7 and 1.6.1.11 as well).
> While compiling straight on system everything is OK, but while I try to
> build package I get:
>From
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann
* Package name: libweb-simple-perl
Version : 0.002
Upstream Author : Matt S. Trout
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Web-Simple/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description
Hi,
Since Digium released Asterisk 1.6.1.8 I can't build debian package
(tried 1.6.2.0-rc7 and 1.6.1.11 as well).
While compiling straight on system everything is OK, but while I try to
build package I get:
/usr/bin/ld: chan_bridge.o: in function
__register_file_version:chan_bridge.c:30: err
2009/12/6 Patrick Schoenfeld :
>
> Actually the point is what a random package should do if it is beeing
> purged in order to undo what it has done on installation in the
> corner-case when ucf is beeing removed.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
My opinion
If ucf is just removed then any dangaling files
On Oct 24, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> I am proposing to set net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 by default for new
> installations
Done, let's see what breaks. :-)
--
ciao,
Marco
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]] Serafeim Zanikolas
| On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:56:37AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > ]] Serafeim Zanikolas
| >
| > | The service supports no authorisation/authentication and, as of now, has
no
| > | way of limiting the size of inserted messages. Would it be acceptable if I
| > | were t
]] Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi,
| depends on what you expect. I would expect or no lets say I wish that
| purging a package removes all traces that the package where installed
| in the first place, except the cases where this is inappropriate (for
| example: there is a good reason not to remove logfil
Package: wnpp
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Owner: Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4...@gmail.com>
* Package name: classlib
Version : 3.0.9
Upstream Author : Lassi Tuura
* URL : http://cmsmac01.cern.ch/~lat/exports
* License : GPL2
Programming Lang: C++
Description : C++ Cl
On Sun, Dec 06 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 08:35:38PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> > I never said that. The problem are not the files owned by the package,
>> >> > but the files owned by ucf, which are modified by ucfr, while not
>> >> > restoring t
On Sun, Dec 06 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On So, 06 Dez 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> So, policy does not require dependencies to be around at least
>> during purge.
>
> Ah yes of course, sorry. I was referring to the remove phase, where it
> is also not present, although policy s
On Sun, Dec 06 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:44:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Making a package essential in order to avoid a if clause in
>> postinsts is very likely too frivolous a reason to pass muster, yes.
>
> I do not want to avoid the if-claus
On Sun, Dec 06 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Actually the point is what a random package should do if it is beeing
> purged in order to undo what it has done on installation in the
> corner-case when ucf is beeing removed.
Remove your files, and make a best effort attempt to call oth
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:48:44 +0100, Michael Banck
wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:39:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> the right solution here would be to fix it so that it did, not to add
>> it to Essential.
>
>On a side note, I thought the right solution was to integrate the ucf
>functional
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Matthew Johnson
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Source package: pescetti
Binary package(s): pescetti
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:12:24AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Not wanting to start another flame war, but ...
>
> On Sa, 05 Dez 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> > The crux is the last point. For a good reason postrm must not require
> > tools it depends on to be around when removing the pac
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:56:37AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Serafeim Zanikolas
>
> | The service supports no authorisation/authentication and, as of now, has no
> | way of limiting the size of inserted messages. Would it be acceptable if I
> | were to patch the tests to accept connectio
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:43:28AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> This is where things break down. ucf --purge does not do what
> you think it does, it by no means removes the configuration files. You
> remove the configuration files, not ucf.
It seems that I expressed myself uncl
Hello,
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 08:35:38PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> > I never said that. The problem are not the files owned by the package,
> >> > but the files owned by ucf, which are modified by ucfr, while not
> >> > restoring the changes if ucf is not around.
> >>
> >> Well
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:39:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> There's no reason that ucf *should* fall under either of these rules; so
> even if ucf /didn't/ work the way it does, the right solution here would be
> to fix it so that it did, not to add it to Essential.
Makes sense. But how do y
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:44:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Making a package essential in order to avoid a if clause in
> postinsts is very likely too frivolous a reason to pass muster, yes.
I do not want to avoid the if-clause. I want to avoid leaving modified
files around when r
]] Neil Williams
| > * foo 1.0 ships /etc/foo.conf with
| > featureA=yes
| > featureB=no
| > * I change featureB to yes
| > * foo 2.0 ships /etc/foo.conf with
| > featureA=yes
| > featureB=no
| > featureC=7
| > * Now dpkg ask if I want the new version or my modified one. But what
| >
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:41:14PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> It is beginning to make some sense but the problems do not outweigh the
> (frankly wishlist) benefits so far outlined. If the package isn't
> buggy, it won't need a model
No, not really. The package can be perfectly fine and still be
]] Serafeim Zanikolas
| The service supports no authorisation/authentication and, as of now, has no
| way of limiting the size of inserted messages. Would it be acceptable if I
| were to patch the tests to accept connections only from the localhost?
| (implies a potential risk of a local user att
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas
* Package name: flapjack
Version : 0.tag.0.5
Upstream Author : Lindsay Holmwood
* URL : http://flapjack-project.com
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Ruby
Description : scalable and distributed
On So, 06 Dez 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> So, policy does not require dependencies to be around at least
> during purge.
Ah yes of course, sorry. I was referring to the remove phase, where it
is also not present, although policy states it.
Best wishes
Norbert
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