Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-29 Thread Stefano Canepa
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:04:08PM -0500, ceduardo wrote: 2010/3/25 Brian Ryans brian.l.ry...@gmail.com: Quoting ceduardo on 2010-03-18 17:32:27: What Do you developer tools sugges? If you use emacs for editing try its integration with gdb for debugging. I like it. As a way to manage your

Why is srtp in testing?!?

2010-03-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi fellow developers, I maintain the packaging of SRTP for Debian. I am quite happy that it finally entered testing. But today when I wanted to do a minor update to the packaging, I discovered that my earlier -5 release for some reason hadn't been uploaded to Debian at all. Now I am

Re: Why is srtp in testing?!?

2010-03-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:27:41 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Now I am puzzled: 1.4.4~dfsg-4 is in testing. The source package is arch-any, but the code fails to build on ia64, sparc and Hurd. How could srtp enter testing without succesful build on some archs?!? Missing build only

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:02:24AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: I'm surprised by the resistance I see to these changes. I see the approach pushed by dpkg maintainers as fairly conservative with very progressive changes to existing packages and much respect for people who don't want to

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-29 Thread Tilo Schwarz
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:32:27 +0100, ceduardo carlos.eduardo.vir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi every body, thaks you for your suggestions. Well I am learning about C, C++ and Linux programing, jeje I am trying to be a Debian developer this is my objetive. On my practices use emacs and others tools

Re: Why is srtp in testing?!?

2010-03-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:34:39AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:27:41 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Now I am puzzled: 1.4.4~dfsg-4 is in testing. The source package is arch-any, but the code fails to build on ia64, sparc and Hurd. How could srtp enter testing

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Hi, The problem is that if debian/source/format is missing for one reason or another, your package will be silently built as a 1.0 source package. There's no need for it to be silent. The idea was raised that, after a period of silent

Re: Applied-Upstream field for Patch Tagging Guidelines (DEP-3)

2010-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:26:21PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com writes: Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 09:18 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com writes: When a new upstream version is released, I have to check all patches

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Julien BLACHE wrote: FWIW I think debian/source/format sucks big time and its content should be moved to debian/control. Actually it's a design decision to put it outside of the control file: it's easier to create/modify/discard automatically when needed. I expect this to

no updates since three days?

2010-03-29 Thread Norbert Preining
Is it possible that in the last three days nothing has been updated or uploaded, or did I miss some important announcement? (was off for some time in the moutains) Since several days aptitude does not show any updates at all. Best wishes Norbert

Re: no updates since three days?

2010-03-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Mon Mar 29, 2010 at 19:56:27 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Is it possible that in the last three days nothing has been updated or uploaded, or did I miss some important announcement? (was off for some time in the moutains) Since several days aptitude does not show any updates at

Re: no updates since three days?

2010-03-29 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 29 Mär 2010, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: you should read debian-devel-announce an it's follow-ups on this list. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html Ah thanks, missed that one. Good to know that the uploads are not lost. Best wishes Norbert

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: I expect this to be of particular interest when we'll have VCS-powered source formats (say 3.0 (git2quilt)) that generate source packages that are plain 3.0 (quilt) based on the git repository information. This is becoming crazy, really. JB. --

Bug#575817: ITP: django-auth-ldap -- LDAP authentication backend for Django

2010-03-29 Thread Fladischer Michael
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fladischer Michael fladischermich...@fladi.at Owner: Fladischer Michael fladischermich...@fladi.at -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: django-auth-ldap Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Peter Sagerson

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Sven Mueller
Wouter Verhelst schrieb: I might want to have a file with 1.0 (non-native) to have dpkg error out when I accidentally don't have a .orig.tar.gz file somewhere, for instance. As long as the absense of that file does not make things suddenly break, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Mueller s...@debian.org writes: Wouter Verhelst schrieb: Of course, this all conveniently ignores the fact that the above explicit non-native option isn't actually supported, which is unfortunate... Didn't check for this: Is a bug open to request such a feature to explicitly say 1.0

Packages up for adoption

2010-03-29 Thread Luca Falavigna
I'm asking for adopters for the following packages: * boa-constructor http://bugs.debian.org/575844 * drpython http://bugs.debian.org/575845 * foff http://bugs.debian.org/575842 * jokosher http://bugs.debian.org/575843 * lfm

Bug#575850: ITP: libspring-webflow-2.0-java -- Java MVC framework focused in View and Controller layers

2010-03-29 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta mig...@miguel.cc * Package name: libspring-webflow-2.0-java Version : 2.0.8.RELEASE Upstream Author : SpringSource, Inc. * URL : http://springsource.org/webflow * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang:

Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice GSoC project, and not necessarily too complex. As I've my plate already full,

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 23:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! I've had this idea in my head for long, but as never found the time to work on it, didn't feel appropriate to throw it to the wall and expect someone else to implement it. Anyway, it seems to me it might be a nice GSoC project, and

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
Ideally the package manager front-ends would propose for installation to the user all hardware related packages for currently detected hardware in the system, or removal once such hardware is not present (although that might need to be disabled for pluggable hardware). The implementation

Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-29 Thread John Goerzen
Hi folks, I'm trying to solicit comments on what people are using for development environments and how well it's working. Here are some situations I imagine are common: 1. workstation running sid I've followed this model for over a decade. It works well, in general, and I keep up with

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org writes: 1. workstation running sid I've followed this model for over a decade. It works well, in general, and I keep up with development well enough that I can fix problems when they arise. However, it tends to lead to a certain amount of cruft over the

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:03 AM, John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: 1. workstation running sid I used that until DebConf9 when I reinstalled and switched from i386 to amd64. 2. workstation running squeeze or lenny At the moment I have only one workstation (a laptop). I use testing,

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Mar 29 2010, John Goerzen wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to solicit comments on what people are using for development environments and how well it's working. Here are some situations I imagine are common: 1. workstation running sid 2b. Xen, KVM, qemu, or VirtualBox I have