Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:47:49PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: For those who haven’t followed, the latest debhelper upload includes the following change: * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the desired configuration. No further changes are planned

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: Note you also need to add a chmod +x debian/*.sh in debian/rules, since apart from debian/rules, nothing has the executable bit after dpkg-source -x. I believe the 3.0 (quilt) format fixes this. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philip Hands p...@hands.com writes: On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:00:35 +, Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 at 01:43:34 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=12a362be5c1982f80dbfb75bda070208a2c99cdf Discuss. As

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 07, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Give everyone at least 10 years headstart to migrate existing systems away from having a seperate /usr partition and for people to stop making a seperate /usr on new installs. Actually, Red Hat's

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com writes: 07.12.2011 04:43, Marco d'Itri пишет: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=12a362be5c1982f80dbfb75bda070208a2c99cdf Discuss. I don't see any reason to move all into /usr from /, and make initrd for minimal system:

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 07 Dec 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: So, to sum it up. Before, you would do in debian/rules: sed s/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/ debian/libfoo.install.in debian/libfoo.install Now, you will do in debian/foo.install:

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Arno Töll deb...@toell.net writes: Your own script-fu in debian/rules or external scripts isn't exactly the next best thing to read and learn how a foreign package works and there /are/ use cases where dh_install isn't flexible enough to deal with the problem by using the possibilities you

Re: ecofont

2011-12-08 Thread 810d4rk
The font can be downloaded in the website after you enter an email and name in a box. There is currently a discussion in libreoffice devel mailing list about this type of font and there is also a discussion about the license:

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Arno Töll deb...@toell.net writes: Your own script-fu in debian/rules or external scripts isn't exactly the next best thing to read and learn how a foreign package works and there /are/ use cases where dh_install isn't flexible enough to deal

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I guess mounting /usr is no more complicated than mounting / in initramfs. Finding out what modules and software is needed for that should be the same code as for /. That depends. I have some systems where all file systems

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 08.12.2011 10:44, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Or for the more general case: override_dh_auto_install: debian/libfoo.my-install-script [..] This new feature stinks of black-box magic that will make people crazy trying to find/fix

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:14:52AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: I disagree. Look at dpatch. It had executable patches since the beginning, and a standardised script from 2.0 onwards. One problem with executable patches was the fact you couldn't reason about the packaging without first executing

Re: ecofont

2011-12-08 Thread Jon Dowland
Please do not top-post: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:36:36AM +, 810d4rk wrote: There is currently a discussion in libreoffice devel mailing list about this type of font and there is also a discussion about the license:

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:14:52AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: I disagree. Look at dpatch. It had executable patches since the beginning, and a standardised script from 2.0 onwards. One problem with executable patches was the fact you couldn't reason about

Re: ecofont

2011-12-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:36:36AM +, 810d4rk wrote: The font can be downloaded in the website after you enter an email and name in a box. There is currently a discussion in libreoffice devel mailing list about this type of font and there is also a discussion about the license:

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Igor Pashev
08.12.2011 13:49, Goswin von Brederlow пишет: Arno Tölldeb...@toell.net writes: Your own script-fu in debian/rules or external scripts isn't exactly the next best thing to read and learn how a foreign package works and there /are/ use cases where dh_install isn't flexible enough to deal with

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 at 11:06:46 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: That depends. I have some systems where all file systems except /boot are encrypted. Since I don’t use Debian kernels and initramfs, I created a small one myself to ask for the /-partition password. Now I would have to put the whole

Bug#651416: ITP: glyr -- search engine for music-related metadata

2011-12-08 Thread Etienne Millon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Etienne Millon etienne.mil...@gmail.com * Package name: glyr Version : 0~git20111205 Upstream Author : Christopher Pahl sa...@online.de * URL : https://github.com/sahib/glyr * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Igor Pashev
08.12.2011 13:40, Goswin von Brederlow пишет: Igor Pashevpashev.i...@gmail.com writes: 07.12.2011 04:43, Marco d'Itri пишет: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=12a362be5c1982f80dbfb75bda070208a2c99cdf Discuss. I don't see any reason to move all into /usr

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 00:12 +0100, Gergely Nagy a écrit : , | #! /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify | /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/* ` The /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify script *tad* It would need to be a compiled program, since you can’t use scripts in shebangs. -- .''`.

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Igor Pashev
08.12.2011 18:49, Josselin Mouette пишет: Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 00:12 +0100, Gergely Nagy a écrit : , | #! /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify | /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/* ` The /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify script *tad* It would need to be a compiled program, since you can’t use

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 00:12 +0100, Gergely Nagy a écrit : , | #! /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify | /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/* ` The /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify script *tad* It would need to be a compiled program, since you can’t

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Kees Cook
After looking at the bugs that are solved with this change, I don't think it's an unreasonable solution. That said, I think it feels incomplete. On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:47:49PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: So, to sum it up. Before, you would do in debian/rules: sed

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net writes: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I guess mounting /usr is no more complicated than mounting / in initramfs. Finding out what modules and software is needed for that should be the same code as for /. That

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Kees Cook k...@debian.org writes: - Export DEB_* environment variables to the script. This really feels like the missing piece to me. I'd love this too. I already have a half-baked patch, implementing some generic substitution-foo that could use this (see #651393 for the details). -- |8]

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Arno Töll deb...@toell.net writes: Hello, On 08.12.2011 10:44, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Or for the more general case: override_dh_auto_install: debian/libfoo.my-install-script [..] This new feature stinks of black-box magic that will make people crazy trying to find/fix a

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Kees Cook wrote: - Export DEB_* environment variables to the script. This really feels like the missing piece to me. dh already does that in v9 mode. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:03:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Kees Cook wrote: - Export DEB_* environment variables to the script. This really feels like the missing piece to me. dh already does that in v9 mode. While I had originally believed this to be the case when drafting

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: override_dh_auto_install: debian/libfoo.my-install-script [..] This new feature stinks of black-box magic that will make people crazy trying to find/fix a prolem in somebody elses package. The thing that make cdbs so bad. I beg to

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:12:08PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 00:12 +0100, Gergely Nagy a écrit : , | #! /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify | /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/* ` The /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify script

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com writes: Goswin, thanks for the explanation. Now I'm inclined to move all to /usr :-) We live to serve. :) I'm kind of undecided. I know eventualy this will just work and have eliminate all those Hey, I have a strange setup and xyz needs to be in / for this

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: *tad* It would need to be a compiled program, since you can’t use scripts in shebangs. Wrong, you can. On Linux and Hurd, yeah. On kFreeBSD, you can't. But hey, FreeBSD folks learned about basic niceties like tab completion just last

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: [...] So, to sum it up. Before, you would do in debian/rules: sed s/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/ debian/libfoo.install.in debian/libfoo.install [...] Hello, a little bit beside the point, but since the example seems to propagate

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:34:34 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: I am not really looking forward to keep reverting these changes in my package, and since Red Hat controls most Linux infrastructure now other packages will face the same problem. I might be missing something but given the link your

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/12/2011 01:40, Gergely Nagy wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: *tad* It would need to be a compiled program, since you can’t use scripts in shebangs. Wrong, you can. On Linux and Hurd, yeah. On kFreeBSD, you can't. But hey, FreeBSD folks learned about basic

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com writes: See my workaround in the mail you quoted. #! /bin/sh $PATH should work for kFreeBSD and pretty much anything else out there too. An extra /bin/sh never hurt anybody! Except that it forces your interpreter to be written in sh, which Debian doesn't

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/07/2011 11:47 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Now that we’ve made incredible progress in terms of obfuscation, I’d appreciate if we could have a working solution that does not require scripting for the most trivial operations. So what remains? * Convincing Joey to revert this useless

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:51:51PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: [...] So, to sum it up. Before, you would do in debian/rules: sed s/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/ debian/libfoo.install.in debian/libfoo.install [...] a

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: While I had originally believed this to be the case when drafting http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation, feedback from those implementing this in practice is that dh does *not* export these variables, it only passes them to autoconf. That's not correct, dh

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/12/2011 02:10, Gergely Nagy wrote: Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com writes: See my workaround in the mail you quoted. #! /bin/sh $PATH should work for kFreeBSD and pretty much anything else out there too. An extra /bin/sh never hurt anybody! Except that it forces your interpreter

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/08/2011 06:47 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: For those who haven’t followed, the latest debhelper upload includes the following change: * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 02:47:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: While I had originally believed this to be the case when drafting http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation, feedback from those implementing this in practice is that dh does *not* export these variables,

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Kees Cook
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 02:47:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: While I had originally believed this to be the case when drafting http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation, feedback from those implementing this in practice is that dh does *not* export these variables,

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 08, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: I am not really looking forward to keep reverting these changes in my package, and since Red Hat controls most Linux infrastructure now other packages will face the same problem. I might be missing something but given the link your posted,

from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 07, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: If this is the future way and the way the developer want to go, then the way will succeed in time, but as Goswin said, it will take time. The admins who think the new way is bad will not change their systems. New admins may

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-08 Thread Wookey
+++ Sune Vuorela [2011-12-07 13:05 +]: Recovering involved - a base64 decoder written in shell - a statically linked busybox uuencoded and pasted into the console - overwriting /bin/ln - /bin/ln /bin/ln /bin/busybox We all had hardcore geeking fun that afternoon :-) Wookey --

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Just a quick side-note. Marco d'Itri wrote: Some changes are coming from upstream and we will have to either embrace them or actively revert them. There is a third option: help upstream to maintain what they consider the legacy alternative. Many upstreams, including at Red Hat, seem to

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Wookey
+++ Thomas Goirand [2011-12-09 02:39 +0800]: On 12/08/2011 06:47 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731, Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129 The incentive for doing all this seems to be multiarch. It's not just multiarch. The list of

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com writes: On 09/12/2011 02:10, Gergely Nagy wrote: Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com writes: See my workaround in the mail you quoted. #! /bin/sh $PATH should work for kFreeBSD and pretty much anything else out there too. An extra /bin/sh never hurt

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: Disclaimer: I didn't write any multiarch packaging (yet). The incentive for doing all this seems to be multiarch. Why instead don't we have a mechanism to have variables in debian/*.install instead, or a dh_helper to move things to the multiarch folder

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Wookey
+++ Marco d'Itri [2011-12-08 20:16 +0100]: On Dec 07, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: - the platform does not support an initramfs * I am still waiting for somebody to enumerate them, but I believe that I can design a suitable workaround Anything that needs

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: Also, I'm pretty sure the *FLAGS export happens only for dh_auto_* and not for dh itself (set_buildflags is called from /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Buildsystems.pm), so it still doesn't help when called from dh_install. joey@gnu:~/src/debhelpergrep

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 07:46:41PM +, Wookey wrote: +++ Marco d'Itri [2011-12-08 20:16 +0100]: On Dec 07, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: - the platform does not support an initramfs * I am still waiting for somebody to enumerate them, but I believe

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:16:57PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 07, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: If this is the future way and the way the developer want to go, then the way will succeed in time, but as Goswin said, it will take time. The admins who think

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Kees Cook wrote: We must be talking about separate things: Yes, there are so many ill-advised variables floating around the build system these days that I have trouble keeping them all straight. Which means I can't use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in the config-scripts, unfortunately. Happily there is

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 at 21:14:05 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: Please excuse me if I misunderstand things, but there was no information about this in the previous thread: why would gnome _ever_ care when /usr is mounted? For GNOME read system services which GNOME depends on, presumably. S --

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Kees Cook k...@debian.org writes: Which means I can't use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in the config-scripts, unfortunately. Not to worry! dh-subst will be coming in a day or two (+ NEW waiting time), which will allow you to use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH as you'd expect to. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/09/2011 03:58 AM, Gergely Nagy wrote: [...] I don't know about you [...] If it goes down to me, I would like using install -D -m [...] manually in my debian/rules files, but as others don't, I try avoiding such hacks these days... :) Note that using the BSD install is compatible with

Bug#651470: ITP: imagevis3d -- desktop volume rendering application for large data

2011-12-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com * Package name: imagevis3d Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Tom Fogal * URL : http://www.imagevis3d.com * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : desktop

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:07:12PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Kees Cook k...@debian.org writes: Which means I can't use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in the config-scripts, unfortunately. Not to worry! dh-subst will be coming in a day or two (+ NEW waiting time), which will allow you to use

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: P.S: Is there any valid lintian clean package in the archive that doesn't use any helper tools at all? That's would be very instructive... dpatch, for example. There are plenty of other examples in the archive. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:07:12PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Kees Cook k...@debian.org writes: Which means I can't use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in the config-scripts, unfortunately. Not to worry! dh-subst will be coming in a

Orphaning emile

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
reassign 648933 wnpp retitle 648933 O: emile -- the Early Mac Image LoadEr severity 648933 normal thanks I am here by orphaning emile on behalf of the maintainers. The description of emile is: the Early Mac Image LoadEr EMILE provides a way to natively boot Macintosh computers which normally

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 08, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: There is a third option: help upstream to maintain what they consider the legacy alternative. Many upstreams, including at Red Hat, seem to be willing to work with downstream packagers that contribute patches. In this case, it has been

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 08, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: However in practice it is very hard to support this sort of thing in Debian anyway, because the way you get fast booting is by removing all the generality in scripts which check what sort of hardware and then Agreed. Also, emebedded devices will

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:07:12PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Kees Cook k...@debian.org writes: Which means I can't use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in the config-scripts, unfortunately. Not to worry! dh-subst will be coming in a day or two (+ NEW waiting

Orphaning genesis -- general-purpose neural simulator

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
reassign 648645 wnpp retitle 648645 O: genesis -- general-purpose neural simulator severity 648645 normal thanks I am hereby orphaning genesis on behalf of its maintainer. The description of genesis is: general-purpose neural simulator GENESIS is a general purpose simulation platform which

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Gergely Nagy alger...@madhouse-project.org writes: Apart from the reason explained in debhelper's git history, I can offer another: variable substitution would be an incompatible change, as it's perfectly legit to have '/usr/bin/${oh hai I broke your system}' or

Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-08 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 392 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 4) Total number of packages

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-12-08 at 03:02pm, Russ Allbery wrote: Gergely Nagy alger...@madhouse-project.org writes: Apart from the reason explained in debhelper's git history, I can offer another: variable substitution would be an incompatible change, as it's perfectly legit to have '/usr/bin/${oh hai I

Bug#651485: ITP: python-django-coverage -- test coverage reporting tool for Django

2011-12-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roberto C. Sanchez robe...@connexer.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: python-django-coverage Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Mikhail Korobov kmik...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Well, in a way this one is too: compat level 9 is not yet finalized, as I understand it. Just prematurely gotten into use due to its upcoming ability to handle multiarch. Yeah, and that was a little unfortunate. There are packages I've not converted to

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Wookey woo...@wookware.org writes: this is not waste time with an intramfs that will soon be superceded with a pivot-root. Not really related to the main issue but do note that pivot_root syscall has not been used for quite some time. run-init basically just uses unlink, mount, chroot and

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-12-08 at 05:48pm, Russ Allbery wrote: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Well, in a way this one is too: compat level 9 is not yet finalized, as I understand it. Just prematurely gotten into use due to its upcoming ability to handle multiarch. Yeah, and that was a little

Bug#651489: ITP: webfinance-front-office -- manage invoices and handle client contacts

2011-12-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roberto C. Sanchez robe...@connexer.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: webfinance-front-office Version : 0.0~git+20111207 Upstream Author : Cyril Bouthors cy...@isvtec.com * URL :

GNU/Linux COM development and Wine/Samba

2011-12-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I've got several projects in SourceForge, one of which is v3c-dcom http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-dcom/ I'm quickly coming to the realisation that I would need several headers/tools from Wine http://www.winehq.org/ , the idea being to be able to develop COM components

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-12-08 Thread Miles Bader
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: The 486-class processors that would no longer be supported are: 1. All x86 processors with names including '486' I'm still running the machine below, and it would be irritating to have to replace it. ... vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gergely Nagy alger...@madhouse-project.org writes: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:07:12PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Kees Cook k...@debian.org writes: Which means I can't use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in the config-scripts, unfortunately. Not to worry!

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Marco d'Itri wrote: In this case, it has been made repeatedly clear by the upstream maintainers that they have no desire to accept code to support this and other things. _If_ upstream is taking the stance that portability to other platforms is something they want nothing to do with, then

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: On 12/07/2011 11:47 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Now that we’ve made incredible progress in terms of obfuscation, I’d appreciate if we could have a working solution that does not require scripting for the most trivial operations. So what remains?

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: I'll happily use the new dh_install feature instead of whining. You are forgetting that there are more people than just you looking at your package. By using an obviously verry controversial feature you will make everybody else life more

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gergely Nagy alger...@madhouse-project.org writes: Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: Disclaimer: I didn't write any multiarch packaging (yet). The incentive for doing all this seems to be multiarch. Why instead don't we have a mechanism to have variables in debian/*.install instead,

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: Some people also argued that they would be more comfortable with a smaller root file system which can act as a rescue system, but I am not sure about which tools they would miss from an initramfs with busybox and fsck. lvm, dmsetup, mdadm, crypto stuff

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Compared to writing overrides, it's less effort. Compared to just writing the variable and expecting it to work, it's two commands more. I believe that's not much. On the other hand, though, making it obvious that it's a script, and there's

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Just a quick side-note. ... The main technical difficulty seems to be platforms where it is common to boot without an initramfs (for example, if it is hard to reconfigure the bootloader and the bootloader is already set up to use a plain

Accepted dolfin 1.0.0-1 (source all i386)

2011-12-08 Thread Johannes Ring
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Accepted libdmapsharing 2.9.14-1 (source amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Biebl
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Accepted pytimechart 1.0.0~rc1-2 (source all)

2011-12-08 Thread Varun Hiremath
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Accepted totem 3.0.1-5 (source all amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Biebl
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Accepted mira 3.4.0.1-1 (source all amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Andreas Tille
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Accepted tumgreyspf 1.36-1 (source all)

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
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Accepted wesnoth-1.9 1:1.9.12-1 (source i386 all)

2011-12-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
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Accepted fenics 1:1.0.0-1 (source all)

2011-12-08 Thread Johannes Ring
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Accepted libvncserver 0.9.8.2-2 (source amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Luca Falavigna
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Accepted deja-dup 20.2-2 (source amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
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Accepted vxl 1.14.0-12 (source amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
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Accepted sourcecodegen 0.6.14-1 (source all)

2011-12-08 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
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Accepted tiger 1:3.2.3-9 (source i386)

2011-12-08 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:46:05 +0100 Source: tiger Binary: tiger tiger-otheros Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:3.2.3-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a j...@debian.org Changed-By: Javier

Accepted bzr 2.5.0~beta4-1 (source all amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:24:34 +0100 Source: bzr Binary: bzr python-bzrlib python-bzrlib-dbg python-bzrlib.tests bzr-doc Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 2.5.0~beta4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Bazaar

Accepted cloog-ppl 0.15.11-3 (source amd64)

2011-12-08 Thread Matthias Klose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:13:05 +0100 Source: cloog-ppl Binary: libcloog-ppl-dev libcloog-ppl0 cloog-ppl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.15.11-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers

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