Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 13:43 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Neil, > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:32:31PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > I ask because emdebian-tools isn't intended for Ubuntu either. See [0] - > > emdebian-tools also depends on server resources provi

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread Neil Williams
from the apt-cache search results in Ubuntu which only confuses people. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread Neil Williams
website-login-combo-to-use-once-and-lose-forevermore - useless Ubuntu bug tracker. :-( I do feed info upstream (via yet more website logins), I really can't add yet another one. That was the main point of my original blog entry linked from the previous post. Having to ask the lazy web to sort ou

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread Neil Williams
Alternatively, is there a package that I can list in Conflicts: that is only present in Debian derivatives? Yes, any mechanism could be abused but MOTU-people could always file bugs in the BTS about such usage. [0] http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/122-Migrating-Em

Re: Status of Emdebian {ARM}

2008-07-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 11:57 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Work is ongoing to fold uClibc into Emdebian to reduce installation sizes > > further. > > FYI, uclibc is no longer available in

Re: Status of Emdebian {ARM}

2008-07-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 00:45 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > 1. gtk+2.0 fails to cross-build because the patches now try to build the > > udeb which comes up against a bug in dpkg-cross. I've uploaded the > > new version (inclu

Re: Policy or best practices for debug packages?

2008-07-07 Thread Neil Williams
ry > easy to google for. :-) What do we want to do? Combine apt-get install foo-dbg with apt-get source foo ? Isn't it up to the debugging tool to correlate one with the other, rather than the distro? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Williams
e code supporting alternatives - not my favourite option when the entire OS has to fit into 32Mb (or 64Mb for a full GUI using glibc). -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 08:33 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Neil Williams > > | Just a thought - why use /usr/lib/$ARCH and /usr/include/$ARCH at all > | when it would (IMHO) be simpler to use /usr/$TRIPLET/ and put the entire > | package under that, as we do with dpkg-

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-03 Thread Neil Williams
ng the > > diversion is uninstalled as now you have conflicting packages. > > Actually, you already had conflicting packages that just weren't > > affected yet because of the diversion, which leads to 2). If the multiarch package can be installed alongside the primary wit

Re: Mixing dbconfig and gconf

2008-06-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 21:39 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > Ok, then one problem with it is that as soon as the user will have > gconf settings in place different from the default, any updates to the > default wont be visible anymore. It

Re: Mixing dbconfig and gconf

2008-06-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:39 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > Is this a sane use of dbconfig and gconf? > > I might misunderstand what you're doing, but I think you're setting up > GConf default systme-wide. Only for

Mixing dbconfig and gconf

2008-06-30 Thread Neil Williams
geared more towards Web2.0 type stuff rather than compiled programs. [0] http://estron.alioth.debian.org/ -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-06-30 Thread Neil Williams
ions postponed during the initial setup" > I like "Processing delayed configuration". This is probably slightly > less precise but really clear of what this thing "Joe User will never > know about" is. delayed from when? I think it is better to extend the message an

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Any comments on how to handle this change in packaging properly? > > Maybe upstream could implement a "deprecated" support scheme that allows > the old routine to be available, puts the new routine under a new

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Williams
*AND* I can fold all changes into one SONAME bump. Without deprecated.c, I'd already be on libqof68 or more. As it is, libqof1 in Debian (0.7.5) can pretend to be libqof2 with a mere ./configure switch, at least as far as testing is concerned.) -- Neil Williams =

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Williams
tween cmake meta-data and debhelper meta-data. That is the mapping you need. Give up generating the debhelper meta-data directly and just get debhelper to understand how cmake expresses the meta-data and help debhelper process the cmake data accordingly. Automated package generation is a mugs

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
CII armoured GPG key file that would be signed by keys belonging to relevant people - in that respect, it's not that different to any package. The text file is useless without being imported into gpg so the integrity checks in gpg provide the integrity check. -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROT

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
ributions, don't know about dak). -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VLC 0.8.6a - Why hasn't the package been upgraded?

2008-06-14 Thread Neil Williams
Can't check on backports right now - server unresponsive. -- Neil Williams = [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-30 Thread Neil Williams
roperly for this project. That's what I'd do, at > least; that ensures a clean build without putting artifacts in the > *.diff.gz. Got a few other things to do first but yes, I will explore that before uploading the new upstream version. Thanks both. -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:45 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Ignore the CC for #482716 - the CC should be for #471263 [patch-systems]: please no patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com

Re: Processed: tagging 480716

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:39 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 14:18:07 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > If it is just that 'quiet' supports what it does because that is all it > > has needed to support so far, I'm fine with that. It just

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:06 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Lots of other packages do this -- one of mine off the top of my head is > >> xml-security-c. &

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > >> If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure that the > >> changes which autotools ma

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
e dpkg database which is already too > > big. > > What's an extra few MB plus parsing overhead when "everyone" has > 250GB HDDs, multi-core 64-bit CPUs and 2+GB RAM? I am going to assume you are not being serious. Try 64Mb Flash, ARM5 CPU and 64Mb RAM. -- Neil Wi

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
ase remember that the packages descriptions go into the dpkg database which is already too big. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Generated files and patch systems

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 14:01 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > So I am running the relevant autotools at build time but I still get the > >

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
hat can still be parsed by gettext so that TDebs can read the translation strings from binary .mo files. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Generated files and patch systems

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > So I am running the relevant autotools at build time but I still get the > > warning. > > If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure

Generated files and patch systems

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
dsc I won't upload to ftp-master just yet - I do need to do some more tests to ensure that other GPE packages build and function correctly so that I don't inadvertently trigger a transition in over 40 packages. ;-) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
e list of diversion bugs obtained via SOAP. Lintian doesn't currently do SOAP queries of the BTS but a QA script should be relatively easy to create. Maybe bts-link could be drafted in to provide some leverage over pseudo-headers mapping to an upstream bug tracker. Lintian could check that the pseudo-header exists. -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:51 +0100, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > Yes - supported by the use of (Fixed: #1234) in > > debian/changelog, .changes etc. and a revised interface for PTS and DDPO > > to discriminate between Fixed and Clos

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
ether that > particular point is in the upstream bug tracker or the BTS is > inconsequential. The essential point is that it does exist and it is > linked from both entry points. I'm not sure which bug tracker I was thinking of regarding logins but upstreams that only have private e

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
ffers) - this sounds like the patches.d.o idea. I'll stick to Problem 1. :-) I think you're right that there are two distinct problems - although I'm still not convinced that Problem 2 is sufficiently common to require a whole new bug/patch tracker. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Which problem are we trying to solve? (Was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
d in an upstream release, I still see that the package has bugs that are Fixed but not Closed. bts-link takes care of updating the tags on the Fixed bugs (because they are also forwarded) so that when the upstream release is made, I know which patches are included upstream. I can then remove th

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 1 - User reports bug with a patch against upstream code > > [open, patch] > > 2 - maintainer forwards the patch upstream > > [confi

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:43 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, from a bug submitter point of view, I don't think I want to > > see the bug report kept open (tagged divergence) after it has > > actually been cl

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
reason and we get a FTBFS RC bug. Detecting which files are changed as a by-product of a patch isn't always particularly obvious. Incidentally, you can collapse the zgrep into lsdiff -z: $ lsdiff -z *.diff.gz | grep -v debian -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.or

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
added upstream (Closes: #1234) Assuming both refer to the same bug report, I personally prefer the Fixes: #1234 approach: foo (0.1.6-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * Remove patch 'patch-file-name' included upstream (Closes: #1234) -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
d in the release phase for Lenny, as a bug submitter I might be a little concerned. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
ging bugs for the purposes of tracking forwarded bugs for a long time. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
Call it a feature enhancement if you like but it still ends up in a bug tracker of one kind or another so might as well call it a bug IMHO. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package and Emdebian bugs

2008-05-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:47 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > OK, I'm using quiet now so there should be no more CC'd reports to > > -devel with the next batch of reports. Sorry for the noise. > > Why are you f

Re: Bug#480718: buildd.emdebian.org: Unable to update gnome-vfs, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 22:31 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11382 March 1977, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Package: general > > Severity: normal > > User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing > > Yes

Bug#480730: buildd.emdebian.org: Unable to update ntp - new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated because the new version fa

Bug#480729: buildd.emdebian.org: ncurses cannot be updated, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal $ emsource --status ncurses Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. W: Unable to locate package lib64ncurses5 W: Unable to locate package lib64ncurses5-dev W: Unable to locate package lib32ncurses5 W: Unable to locate package lib32ncurses5-dev W: Unabl

Bug#480722: buildd.emdebian.org: gtk+2.0 fails to update, udeb fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480718: buildd.emdebian.org: Unable to update gnome-vfs, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480717: buildd.emdebian.org: [RM] {arm} (unstable) gcc-4.2 not needed in Emdebian anymore?

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480716: buildd.emdebian.org: New version of findutils fails to cross build, prevents update in Emdebian

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated be

Bug#480715: buildd.emdebian.org: New version of 'file' fails to cross build, unable to update package.

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal $ emsource --status file Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. Checking status of file in /opt/emdebian/trunk/f/file/trunk/ 4 emdebian patch files 0 debian patch files Checking emdebuild status in /opt/emdebian/trunk/f/file/trunk/ build log:

Bug#480712: buildd.emdebian.org: e2fsprogs fails to cross build, unable to update package

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ emsource --status e2fsprogs Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. W: Unable to locate package libuuid1-udeb W: Unable to locate package libblkid1-udeb W: Unable to locate package e2fsprogs-udeb Checking status of e2fsprogs i

Bug#480711: buildd.emdebian.org: curl cross built but unable to upload, missing dependencies

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully. $ emsource --status curl Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. Check

Bug#480706: buildd.emdebian.org: coreutils fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that fail to crossbuild successfully, despite building successfully in the past. i.e. where an existing package in Emdebian cannot be updated because the new version fa

Bug#480710: buildd.emdebian.org: avahi cannot be updated, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully. $ emsource --status avahi Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for arm. Chec

Bug#480709: buildd.emdebian.org: cupsys fails to cross build, cannot be updated

2008-05-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully or fail to cross build themselves after an update in Debian. $ emsource --status cu

Bug#480521: buildd.emdebian.org: gpe-clock inherits wrong configure environment

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal This bug is in preparation for a buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package. This is not a bug in gpe-clock because gpe-clock is doing what is required by CDBS - it is a bug in buildd.emdebian.org because Emdebian needs to be able to build as many packages as possible wi

Bug#480518: buildd.emdebian.org: libgpewidget needs DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nodocs" support in debhelper

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal libgpewidget includes documentation files required by Debian Policy and is unable to remove these using the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nodocs" option due to a lack of support for this option in debhelper. Documentation needs to be removed when preparing Emdebian packages

Bug#480515: buildd.emdebian.org: gconf unable to be uploaded, libldap-2.4-2 failed to cross build

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: normal In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing status bugs about packages that block the use of packages that crossbuild successfully. libldap-2.4.2 fails to cross build: configure: error: crossing compiling: use --with-yielding_select=yes|

Bug#480514: general: buildd.emdebian.org : Need a crossbuilding buildd compliant with Emdebian Policy

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Williams
Package: general Severity: wishlist This is filed against general in advance of a buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package becoming available. See #480408 Emdebian has a set of prebuilt binary packages which allow an 80% reduction in the total installation size of the final Debian system, acheived thro

BTS pseudo-package: buildd.emdebian.org ?

2008-05-08 Thread Neil Williams
in/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://www.emdebian.org/bugs.php (parses the same tags) [3] http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianPolicy [4] http://www.emdebian.org/packages/search.php -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#477699: general: No read permission for /usr/include/GL directory

2008-04-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:10 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 18:02:28 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > I would suggest that this bug should be closed, it certainly does not > > appear to be a "general" bug because only one package creates that &g

Re: Bug#427697: sbackup uses a non-existent group.

2008-04-24 Thread Neil Williams
lf would show some > sign of activity. Maybe he has a mail configuration problem ? and maybe he's just busy, like many of us. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#477699: general: No read permission for /usr/include/GL directory

2008-04-24 Thread Neil Williams
sed and you need to reset the current umask for the root user. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#477218: ITP: estron -- data-centric development interpreter for GNOME

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: estron Version: 0.7.0 Upstream Authors: Neil Williams, Linas Vepstas URL: http://estron.alioth.debian.org/ License: LGPL

Bug#476793: ITP: soci -- C++ Database Access Library

2008-04-19 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: soci Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : Maciej Sobczak, Stephen Hutton, David Courtney, Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski, Rafal Bobrowski, Mateusz Loskot

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:12 +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:12:45PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > > > &g

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:23 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > First of all, I skipped a large part of this thread, so I'm sorry if > this has come up before. > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > And by this definition, it is the package

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
epend on pkg-config *if* they need that to work with other libraries. (That's the usual case - most applications will end up running pkg-config so most applications will end up with a Build-Depends: pkg-config, ) -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 19:15 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > >> What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > >> > >&

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:12 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > What about these clauses as a Policy amendment? > > > > 1. If a library *only supports the retrieval of FOO_LIBS and / or > > FOO_CFLAGS

Re: Should DMs be allowed to upload to NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
ication then I have cause to worry about your ability to maintain a library in Debian in the first place. It doesn't give me any confidence in you or in DMs in general. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Should SONAME bumps always go through NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
ame for NEW anyway, hence I think it should stay as-is. Dropping this merely for the convenience of DM's when the real problem is delays in NM is trying to fix the wrong problem in the wrong place, IMHO. > But I don't > think you will be able to. In fact, most people might w

Re: How to manage security issues when the maintainer is not the developer

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
stream are busy with other things, solve the problem yourself and make the upload - ask the security team for help with that side if you are unsure. Solve the problem - if upstream come back to you with a different fix later, you can always migrate to that fix. -- Neil Williams =

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Williams
-Depends on pkg-config in the source package. Is that suitable as a Policy clause? (probably needs a few tweaks for clarity and examples in clause 1). It may well cause a few packages to depend or build-depend on pkg-config even though another dependency also requires it but duplication of depen

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Williams
t but it does make life easier and it does solve some problems inherent in other methods. (It brings in one or two problems of its own too.) (In terms of cross-building / debian-xcontrol, Simon, it's a Build-Depends-Tool.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-free

Re: Simple bug left unsolved

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Williams
be done to have at least simple bugs resolved fast. Well, maybe you could help with d-i rather than just point out the negative? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp47Yva2wtZc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:16 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please can this 'trend' be stopped here and now? > > > > The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Williams
er possible for all such metadata - maybe even migrate some existing data in debian/control to debtags. This specific request, IMHO, is probably best done via links on the Homepage URL anyway. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com

Re: [PATCH] debootstrap new options to list and check suite

2008-03-13 Thread Neil Williams
/www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting This isn't the kind of thing that generally needs discussion on debian-devel. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, gtk-doc-tools and buildds

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:28 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:06 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > > gtk-doc-tools is not being picked up as a build depends during port > > > builds, despite it being lo

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, gtk-doc-tools and buildds

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:06 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > gtk-doc-tools is not being picked up as a build depends during port > > builds, despite it being located during normal debuild, pdebuild and > > pbuilder checks on m

Build-Depends-Indep, gtk-doc-tools and buildds

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
l Debian box without implementing sbuild? (This is also holding up my own upstream work which needs a fix in this version of libgda3-3.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This i

Re: swfdec0.6 buildd failure

2008-03-03 Thread Neil Williams
is also in experimental and therefore builds of your package try to use this experimental version which then fails because experimental is not a complete distribution. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

Re: Progress on the mass bug filing for cross build support.

2008-02-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 19:19 +, Neil Williams wrote: One little note on these bugs: 1. All bugs below have patches attached that have been carefully tested with your package to avoid any changes in the Debian packages. As such, the patches can be applied without you needing to worry about

Progress on the mass bug filing for cross build support.

2008-02-11 Thread Neil Williams
451281 newt 465105 openssl465248 pam 284854 popt 282913 procps 451812 psmisc 465226 readline5 465237 rxvt 465214 tcp-wrappers 451854 udev 465156 wget 451285 xdemineur 465117 -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: package names for library modules (was: shlibs vs symbols)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Williams
fcashobjects0 ... (with -dev, -dbg etc. as normal) Applications then mix-and-match object libraries (and/or their own objects) at compile time and call routines in libqof1|2 to dynamically load the backend module as requested by the user. The transition is the perfect time to change the names of t

Re: Proposal: Alternatives: field for debian/control

2008-02-04 Thread Neil Williams
discussions on xmms and audacity. Such "fuzzy" relationships are best done with tags, IMHO. (Also, let's not add yet more lines to the Packages.gz file?) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.

Bug#462791: ITP: libgtkstylus -- stylus tap support for Gtk+

2008-01-27 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgtkstylus Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : LGPL Program

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Williams
u seeing it as "resolved"? It's still listed as outstanding > on > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=edac-utils;dist=unstable > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=edac-utils -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Bug#462306: ITP: gpe-tetris -- tetris game for small screens and embedded devices

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-tetris Version : 0.6.4 Upstream Author : David Necas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/ * License : GPL Program

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Williams
Looks OK now - maybe just a delay? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Amarok build-dep failure

2008-01-21 Thread Neil Williams
/minor bug in apt to request a clearer error message but I don't see that it is a bug in amarok. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpzYgfd9EKtF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Williams
ibdmalloc-dev > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libqwt-dev > Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >liballegro-dev > Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libpoppler-glib-dev >libwnck-dev > Akira TAGOH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libgtk1.2-dbg > Debian GSS Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libgss-dev > Marcio Roberto Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libiec61883-dev > Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libncbi6-dev (Just a sample of the -dbg and -dev packages) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpedfHiptBOC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#461084: ITP: gpe-announce -- gpe-announce: Alarm support for the G Palmtop Environment

2008-01-16 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-announce Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Joe McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Faerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download

Re: Future Debian package candidate web pages: present and future

2008-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
project could help with that but a full text search would be v.useful. The hardest thing to do right now is work out if someone has already filed an ITP or RFP when preparing an ITP myself. There are so many that my eyes just glaze over when browsing the WNPP list and in-browser text search isn't

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:25:17 +0100 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 13:54 +0000, Neil Williams a écrit : > > GnomeVFS is used by GNOME but it does not require GNOME itself. It > > isn't a "part of GNOME" > >

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-09 Thread Neil Williams
ays it could be called GVFS to indicate a relationship with libglib2.0-0 (used by all GNOME libraries and lots of none-GNOME ones). -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp2vahjJHpF4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: netconf control socket protocol: rfc822, xml-rpc, or dbus

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Williams
gt; I want netconf to eventually replace ifupdown and thus become part > of Debian's base system. Maybe if 'ifupdown' becomes an optional package instead of netconf rather than losing ifupdown completely? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://w

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