Format 3.0 (git) (was: Re: single-debian-patch (was Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1))

2011-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, If in a large number of cases where one would like to turn off the patch system of the 3.0 (quilt) format, the source package is stored in a Git repository, then one way to move forward would be to make the format 3.0 (git) available in Debian. What are the blocking points ? Che

Re: forwarding bugs upstream - opt-in, delayed, automated

2011-09-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 06:47:52PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I am looking for a set of perl modules which can handle being fed mail > > and managing a subscription list in response to that mail while also > > allowing for subscriptions/unsubscripti

Re: Pythony packages that want a new maintainer

2011-09-23 Thread shero azura
me.but i dont know ho to maintain..im a newbie...hmmm...but let me try of them..:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAO_xyn=vrrgfkdodscxxfqq-pw8caw

Pythony packages that want a new maintainer

2011-09-23 Thread Clint Adams
Does anyone want to take chromaprint django-authority django-notification django-pagination paprass ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110924033046.

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:17:54 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * “dpkg-source -b” on a “2.0” or “3.0 (quilt)” source package will fail > if it detects upstream changes which are not managed by a quilt patch. > * When dpkg-source automatically applies patches at the start of the > build process,

Bug#642562: ITP: flickrbackup -- Simple tool to perform a backup of your photos in flickr

2011-09-23 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz * Package name: flickrbackup Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Colm MacCarthaigh * URL : https://github.com/tiagovaz/flickrbackup * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : S

Re: single-debian-patch

2011-09-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Could we please have the old behaviour back? No, it's a bit late to request this. Before doing this change, we had the discussion here on debian-devel and it was relatively consensual: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01130.html I think

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * dpkg-buildpackage no longer exports CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/FFLAGS | You don't know how many packages are broken or no longer | policy compliant because they were relying on those environment | variables Who said that? Oh, yeah it was you. How are we supposed

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On September 22, 2011 05:54:02 PM Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > > > >> > I hope Debian would honour the Social Contract and put the needs of > > >> > the users ahead of software freeness concerns in that case. > > >> > >

Re: single-debian-patch

2011-09-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Raphael Hertzog | On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Adam Borowski wrote: | > Old-style: rm -rf .pc debian/patches | > New-style: echo "single-debian-patch" >debian/source/options | | --single-debian-patch is no longer "new" at this point. The fact that you | were not using it and relying on dpkg-source to

Re: Re: Proxy compliance and assistance.

2011-09-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote: > There is no point in fighting about the better way if the person > advocating the better way is not willing or able to do anything more > then put pen to paper. Either write a better patch or get out of > the way of progress. It's im

Re: single-debian-patch (was Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1)

2011-09-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Adam Borowski wrote: > Old-style: rm -rf .pc debian/patches > New-style: echo "single-debian-patch" >debian/source/options --single-debian-patch is no longer "new" at this point. The fact that you were not using it and relying on dpkg-source to generate a different patch at ea

Bug#642518: ITP: puppet-lint -- Check puppet manifests for style guide conformity

2011-09-23 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stig Sandbeck Mathisen * Package name: puppet-lint Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Tim Sharpe * URL : https://github.com/rodjek/puppet-lint/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Check puppet man

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-23 Thread bertagaz
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:53:36AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 23, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Two hardening features are not enabled by default: PIE and bindnow. > Why? I guess because they have more impact on performance than the others. > > If your package supports PIE, you migh

single-debian-patch (was Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1)

2011-09-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 08:17:54AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > we just released dpkg 1.16.1 to unstable. It comes with several disruptive > changes that you need to be aware of. Please read carefully. > * “dpkg-source -b” on a “2.0” or “3.0 (quilt)” source package will fail > if it detects u

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 23, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Two hardening features are not enabled by default: PIE and bindnow. Why? > If your package supports PIE, you might want to consider enabling it. > If the binaries are long running processes like daemons, and as such > the startup performance penalty of