Help with package

2011-12-11 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
Hi, I know that this mail list is not debian-mentors. I am so sorry for this mail, but I sent a lot of mails to upload the package wmaker and I don't know what to do. Some DD help me with the package [thanks a lot], first Anibal, Paul (DM) and Lisandro, but the package was not uploaded. Why

Re: Help with package

2011-12-11 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Sun 11 Dec 2011 17:41:28 Rodolfo kix Garcia escribió: Hi, I know that this mail list is not debian-mentors. I am so sorry for this mail, but I sent a lot of mails to upload the package wmaker and I don't know what to do. Some DD help me with the package [thanks a lot], first Anibal, Paul

Porter help needed: CCSEapps

2011-12-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
(_CRAYT3E) || \ defined(__hpux) static const IntDescriptor nld(sizeof(long), IntDescriptor::NormalOrder); #endif return nld; } ie. whether the arch is little / big endian, supports IEEE arithmetic, etc. Can anyone help? Regards Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , alast...@sceal.ie

Re: Porter help needed: CCSEapps

2011-12-05 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Is that Overture / U.S. tax funded stuff? Object-Oriented Tools for Solving PDEs in Complex Geometries ? Is it better than Maxima or Octave with PDE's or graphing? Does one need to CAD a whole simulation in Overture specific format to get a dynamic sol'n (paid for / sought)? -- To

Re: Porter help needed: CCSEapps

2011-12-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alastair McKinstry mckins...@debian.org (05/12/2011): ie. whether the arch is little / big endian, supports IEEE arithmetic, etc. Can anyone help? http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo might help, for a start. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

technical help

2011-11-13 Thread atin mukherjee
I am Biswajit, form India, i am using Debian 6 (Squeeze) in HP laptop. Model Number of laptop HP 430 and serial number QG620PA, facing a problem regarding sound driver, my sound driver is not working.What should I do now.Please help

Re: technical help

2011-11-13 Thread Victor Nitu
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Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there any common indicators? Anything that looks like cruft or things that the Debian maintainer does not need

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:34:47 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there any common indicators?

Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
at some of these patches myself, but that just does not scale. So I invite the Debian community to help me out here, please take a look at a few patches and reply if you find one that could be filtered out *automatically* by some code to be written in the future and give some indication of how to do

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:50:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and enhance it for this purpose. This will necessarily include mechanisms to mark patches as

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, sean finney wrote: I think it's also worth some consideration about if/how it could be integrated with the Debian patch-tracker service (or perhaps supercede said service if it made more sense). Without thinking super hard on it it seems like it could have

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
to contribute patches (or even have a look at the code) :) It depends on who wants to contribute here. I'm open to suggestions… A nice feature that I'd like to keep is visualisation of patches by hunk… this will require a parser to read unified diffs. In any case, I'd be happy to help here

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 15:50:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, Up to now the only options for pulling patches from distributions derived from Debian have been Ubuntu's Debian patches repository[1] and manual downloads of source packages from derivatives. In my estimation a more general

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org wrote: On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and enhance it for this purpose. This will

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 08:49 +1100 schrieb Karl Goetz: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org wrote: On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: Is there a reason to restrict this to derivatives?  I find patches from fedora rather more interesting than ubuntu's. Fedora don't use Debian source packages so we don't have anything to debdiff against. But I guess you mean patches

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
is visualisation of patches by hunk… this will require a parser to read unified diffs. In any case, I'd be happy to help here to implement and setup this new service. I'm personally not able to read/write OCaml but if you are willing to implement the features needed for derivatives stuff

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
is visualisation of patches by hunk… this will require a parser to read unified diffs. In any case, I'd be happy to help here to implement and setup this new service. I'm personally not able to read/write OCaml but if you are willing to implement the features needed for derivatives stuff then there should

OSS Research Help Needed Please - drawing for tablet computer ($500.00 gift card) for participation.

2011-10-08 Thread Lila Holt
Hello! We are asking you for some help from the Open Source communities. As researchers at the University of Tennessee we are interested in discovering more about learning and interactions of members of the open source forums. This research is conducted through the University of Tennessee

Re: Help for testing

2011-09-19 Thread Mike Dupont
is basically commented out, so the libeventserver wont work, but the php compiler is running, anyone wants to help test the packaging is welcome. code is here in the branch (official) https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/hiphop-php/tree/official should work with dkpg-buildpackage mike -- James

Help for testing

2011-09-18 Thread Mike Dupont
I have a first running version of hiphop for php debian packaging. The server side stuff that uses a custom libevent is basically commented out, so the libeventserver wont work, but the php compiler is running, anyone wants to help test the packaging is welcome. code is here in the branch

'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing

2011-09-13 Thread Beatriz
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Help for bug #568910

2011-08-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Dear DDs DMs, I am looking for help on bug #568910. I have been banging my head on this bug for quite some time. I spent litterally hours tracking it down, without any success so far. Before filling an RFH, I thought I could drop this note on dd@l.d.o hoping someone would jump

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-24 Thread Philipp Kern
(possibly limiting access through groups; with some help of dpkg-statoverride). Please don't run wireshark as root. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Toby Speight
-mouse-mode may help: / | xterm-mouse-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `xt-mouse'. | (xterm-mouse-mode optional arg) | | Toggle XTerm mouse mode. | With prefix arg, turn XTerm mouse mode on if arg is positive, otherwise | turn it off. | | Turn it on to use Emacs mouse

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:14 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: KR == Kenyon Ralph ken...@kenyonralph.com writes: KR I use emacs under X to administer my Debian systems. I don't run it as KR root though. I use emacs TRAMP to use sudo to edit files as root on KR the local machine. On remote

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com (23/08/2011): And for middle ages dog (not oldtimer) they are the ssh -X root@localhost trick or: sudo XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority wireshark Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:00:25AM +0100, Toby Speight spake thus: r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I r cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and r unfriendly. But, worst of all, some

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread jidanni
I am now officially pleased with sux, enabling me to use X programs as root despite http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633652 . Thanks everybody. Have a song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLtzQXTHiqklist=PL38C412C876528CCB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread PJ Weisberg
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, Toby Speight t.m.speight...@cantab.net wrote: If you feel you must run as root, and you want to use a mouse with emacs in XTerm, then xterm-mouse-mode may help: If you feel you must run Emacs as root, you probably want sudoedit instead. -- -PJ

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well. But that's the way it must be here on

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 2011-08-23T08:35:58+0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r But, worst of all, some key

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
KR == Kenyon Ralph ken...@kenyonralph.com writes: KR I use emacs under X to administer my Debian systems. I don't run it as KR root though. I use emacs TRAMP to use sudo to edit files as root on KR the local machine. On remote machines I do the same but in an ssh KR session in xterm (I don't use

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 08:35:58 AM +0800 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r But, worst of all,

Accepted libgrinvin-help-java 1.2-2 (source all)

2011-08-08 Thread Torsten Werner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:37:37 +0200 Source: libgrinvin-help-java Binary: libgrinvin-help-java Architecture: source all Version: 1.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed

Re: help with git

2011-07-22 Thread Julien Valroff
Le jeudi 21 juil. 2011 à 19:39:00 (+0200 CEST), Simon McVittie a écrit : On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 at 19:16:50 +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: When running this type of config, how do you avoid pushing the upstream tags to the debian repository? To push individual tags, use git push origin 1.2-3 or

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-07-21 at 11:10am, Norbert Preining wrote: I now want to include upstream git into a branch, either the upstream branch itself, or some other/new one, but I have no idea how to set that up? Can someone help me here? The remote is some git://gitorious.org/owner/proj.git By now

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 10:11:37, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : On 11-07-21 at 11:10am, Norbert Preining wrote: I now want to include upstream git into a branch, either the upstream branch itself, or some other/new one, but I have no idea how to set that up? Can someone help me here

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 21 Jul 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I would, instead of editing the config, use this command: git checkout -B --track upstream-git/foo bar That gives me: fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Best wishes Norbert

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 21 Jul 2011, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: I would also precede it with git remote add upstream-git url-of-upstream-git That I did already. Thanks both for your suggestions, unfortunately I am not further by now. Any other ideas? Best wishes Norbert

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-07-21 at 11:06pm, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 21 Jul 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I would, instead of editing the config, use this command: git checkout -B --track upstream-git/foo bar That gives me: fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 21 Jul 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: git checkout -B --track upstream-git/foo bar That gives me: fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Sorry, as often happens I got the order wrong: git checkout -B --track bar

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-07-21 at 11:18pm, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 21 Jul 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: git checkout -B --track upstream-git/foo bar That gives me: fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Sorry, as often happens I got the order

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Julien Valroff
Le jeudi 21 juil. 2011 à 15:57:32 (+0200 CEST), Thomas Preud'homme a écrit : Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 10:11:37, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : On 11-07-21 at 11:10am, Norbert Preining wrote: I now want to include upstream git into a branch, either the upstream branch itself, or some other/new

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 at 19:16:50 +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: When running this type of config, how do you avoid pushing the upstream tags to the debian repository? To push individual tags, use git push origin 1.2-3 or something, instead of git push --tags. To get rid of the upstream tags from

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi, thanks for your help, Jonas, I think I found the error, or better, a way to fix that. On Do, 21 Jul 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: ...perhaps because you mess with config file options that you are not familiar with. Well, I used only git for editing the config file, by calling git remote

help with git

2011-07-20 Thread Norbert Preining
$ where the master is generated from git-import-orig. I now want to include upstream git into a branch, either the upstream branch itself, or some other/new one, but I have no idea how to set that up? Can someone help me here? The remote is some git://gitorious.org/owner/proj.git By now I

Re: Help with shared libs and .la and cryptic lintian messages

2011-07-11 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 10 Jul 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: I was assuming that the library at least was new. If not, you have to watch out for other packages with *.la files referencing this one, but since you said that the library is only used by this binary, it shouldn't be a problem in this case. Ok, thanks

Re: Help with shared libs and .la and cryptic lintian messages

2011-07-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-07-11, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: can please someone help me with packaging gwaei, I get some warnings/errors from lintian I don't udnerstand. The layout as installed by libtool/configure/make/make install is In /usr/lib: libwaei.a libwaei.la libwaei.so - libwaei.so

libdbi maintainership needs help

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
again, as I do feel like I'm hurting Debian. Also, I think I have other areas where I can help better, especially because I don't use libdbi. So: - I'd be glad if someone could take over the maintainership of libdbi - I'd be glad if I could still help with it, because I might have time later

Help with shared libs and .la and cryptic lintian messages

2011-07-10 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, can please someone help me with packaging gwaei, I get some warnings/errors from lintian I don't udnerstand. The layout as installed by libtool/configure/make/make install is In /usr/lib: libwaei.a libwaei.la libwaei.so - libwaei.so.1.0.0 libwaei.so.1 - libwaei.so.1.0.0 libwaei.so

Re: Help with shared libs and .la and cryptic lintian messages

2011-07-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at writes: - N:Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval, N:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01003.html, and N:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01146.html for details. First link does not exist

Re: Help with shared libs and .la and cryptic lintian messages

2011-07-10 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Russ, thanks for the answer On So, 10 Jul 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: First link does not exist Second link does not exist Yes, they do, at least for me. Maybe you cut and pasted the comma along with the rest of the link? Representing links in freeform English text is hmmm, you are

Re: Help with shared libs and .la and cryptic lintian messages

2011-07-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at writes: On So, 10 Jul 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: The Lintian tag should now really just say if this is a new package, just don't install the *.la file in the first place. Well, it is not a new package, since long in Debian ... I was assuming that the

Bug#631441: ITP: writetype -- application designed to help students write more easily

2011-06-23 Thread Miriam Ruiz
; Includes font under SIL Open Font License 1.1 Programming Lang: Python Description : application designed to help students write more easily WriteType is a simple word processor designed to help young students write more easily and accurately. It offers spelling suggestions as students

HELP: how to compile with the source version of apt

2011-06-23 Thread Kim, Seung
keep getting E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list But I'm not sure why I'd need to put an URI since I'm trying to compile locally, so technically I shouldn't need any entry in the URI (source.list) file? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Re: HELP: how to compile with the source version of apt

2011-06-23 Thread Henry velez
Hi Kim. I am a newbie too, but maybe i can help you. To have the sources of the packages you need to add in your source.list a line like this: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib non-free main Take a look that we are just adding a -src in the original line and the rest

Help sought for mdadm

2011-06-17 Thread martin f krafft
Dear colleagues, real life is taking over, I am barely finding time for computer work, let alone my Debian duties. The problem is mainly that I am still the sole maintainer of mdadm. I need one or two co-maintainers. I am willing to set aside an hour for introductory IRC talking, and I am not

Bug#629205: RFP: yelp -- When I use the help function for some Gnome program I get an error

2011-06-04 Thread Mats Olofsson
.] Description: [DESCRIPTION] When I use the help function for some Gnome program I can see the first help page but if I click on an alternative in this page (for example ”Introduction”) I get an error, in this example for Gedit: Could not load the page. The requested URI file :usr/share/gnome/help

Accepted wims-help 4.01-2 (source all)

2011-05-12 Thread Georges Khaznadar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 23:41:34 +0200 Source: wims-help Binary: wims-help Architecture: source all Version: 4.01-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Georges Khaznadar georg...@ofset.org Changed-By: Georges Khaznadar georg

Accepted wims-help 4.01-1 (source all)

2011-05-09 Thread Georges Khaznadar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 14:51:59 +0200 Source: wims-help Binary: wims-help Architecture: source all Version: 4.01-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Georges Khaznadar georg...@ofset.org Changed-By: Georges Khaznadar georg

Bug#625971: ITP: wims-help -- help files for wims

2011-05-07 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar georg...@ofset.org * Package name: wims-help Version : 4.01 Upstream Authors : Bernadette Perrin-Riou b...@math.u-psud.fr, Marie-Claude David m...@math.u-psud.fr, Association

Need your help in a HTML5 Web Development Project

2011-04-21 Thread tulsanamarketing
Hi, I hope you are doing well. I found your post on a website where you have mentioned about your experience and interest in web development. Can you help me in a HTML5 based web development. This is a $450 project and I can offer this job to you if you are interested. For more details

Accepted gimp-help 2.6.1-1 (source all)

2011-04-21 Thread Ari Pollak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:02:20 -0400 Source: gimp-help Binary: gimp-help-common gimp-help-de gimp-help-en gimp-help-es gimp-help-fr gimp-help-it gimp-help-ko gimp-help-nl gimp-help-nn gimp-help-pl gimp-help-ru gimp-help-sv

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: [ Bcc to -dpkg for info ] Hello, since multiarch support in dpkg is on good track, it's about time to identify what will break when people start using multiarch packages... A while back I already posted about a major problem cases. Specifically

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: What is the policy on conffiles under multiarch? Can a Multi-Arch: same package have conffiles? Or would that confuse dpkg too much? They can have conffiles but obviously the confffile must be the same across all architectures (for a given

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: Hi, On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: What is the policy on conffiles under multiarch? Can a Multi-Arch: same package have conffiles? Or would that confuse dpkg too much? They can have conffiles but obviously the confffile must be

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: They can have conffiles but obviously the confffile must be the same across all architectures (for a given version). And if I change the conffile and upgrade does dpkg then ask twice if I want to keep my version? No. What about stopping to

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Carsten Hey
* Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-02 15:06 +0100]: In general parsing the status file should not be done, instead you should use dpkg-query. Is there any reason for this, except that the format of the status files will evolve? You should use dpkg-query --control-path package something to

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
be done way faster even in gawk. JFTR, there are also 300+ bugs in the BTS and we are two active developers on dpkg. dpkg-query is rarely used in performance sensitive situation, it's not really my priority to improve it. But if you want to help, you're welcome. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
. dpkg-query is rarely used in performance sensitive situation, it's not really my priority to improve it. But if you want to help, you're welcome. That's on my TODO list. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:06:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Here's what might create troubles: 3/ Any program that assumes the current layout of control files (/var/lib/dpkg/info/package.something) will be broken (at least for some packages) since the layout will change to support

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: And the status file is not a public interface. It's a file used by dpkg. If tomorrow dpkg supports an optional SQLite internal database through a plugin, dpkg-query will continue to work but your access to the status file will

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: And the status file is not a public interface. It's a file used by dpkg. If tomorrow dpkg supports an optional SQLite internal database through a plugin,

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields explicitly (using --show + --showformat) or (2) list all package names (using --status)? I

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:20:01 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields explicitly (using --show +

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Cc-ing the bug log ] On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:05:14PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: For each package --status will do the trick, for all packages, yeah it does not support patterns. I guess adding that would be fine. So one could do something like: «dpkg-query -s '*'». Or on a second

Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Bcc to -dpkg for info ] Hello, since multiarch support in dpkg is on good track, it's about time to identify what will break when people start using multiarch packages... I have started filing a few bugs for some packages where I knew of the problems but I need your help to identify other

Bug#615085: ITP: yelp-xsl -- XSL stylesheets for the yelp help browser

2011-02-25 Thread Frederic Peters
for the yelp help browser Yelp-xsl contains XSL stylesheets that are used by the yelp help browser to format Docbook and Mallard documents. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#612566: ITP: python-ucltip -- A library to help making command line tool Python binding faster

2011-02-09 Thread Hsin-Yi Chen (hychen)
Programming Lang: Python Description : A library to help making command line tool Python binding faster This library makes you to use command line tool in Python by OO way. The concept is to transform 1) command as a instance, 2) options of command as arguments and keyword arguments of function

Help needed please help

2011-02-05 Thread Marin George Sorin
Hy can you please help me get rid of red screen ...please i asked so many ppl and no 1 knows how to help me...it`s about GRUB4DOS 0.4.4 i can give you every detail please answer me

Re: Help needed please help

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Marin George Sorin tupac.ho...@gmail.com wrote: Hy can you please help me get rid of red screen ...please i asked so many ppl and no 1 knows how to help me...it`s about GRUB4DOS 0.4.4 i can give you every detail please answer me You have contacted the email

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-19 Thread Amaya
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: While I have no love for insserv, if you think the whole point of dependency based boot (be it insserv, upstart, systemd) is boot speed, I think you're mistaken. It's a part of the goal, but much more important is actually correctness. Getting the dependencies between

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:52:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: Yes, and this is what I did. It's just rather tedious to (IIRC) repeatedly run dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc and then find out which file is offending, run dpkg -S $file, and then purge it.

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes (Re: Why is help so hard to find?): A possible hack would be to have insserv ignore any initscripts which are conffiles which when run without options exit with zero status. It could probably safely invoke them with: /etc/init.d/obsolete --fail-please But this probably

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mike Bird dijo [Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:51:43AM -0800]: KDE4 is crap, world+dog know that. Use GNOME, XFCE or whatever. If you want KDE3 in Debian, then put your money where your mouth is and come maintain it. That is well known. KDE 4 maintainers cannot keep up with the bug reports now

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-01-17, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: Mike Bird dijo [Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:51:43AM -0800]: That is well known. KDE 4 maintainers cannot keep up with the bug reports now and will be totally overwhelmed when Squeeze is released. That is not what people expect of Debian Stable.

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ian: On Monday 17 January 2011 13:32:33 Ian Jackson wrote: Don Armstrong writes (Re: Why is help so hard to find?): A possible hack would be to have insserv ignore any initscripts which are conffiles which when run without options exit with zero status. It could probably safely invoke

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon January 17 2011 11:46:05 Gunnar Wolf wrote: But given that nobody has stepped up to package Trinity for Debian, I can only assume KDE4 is good enough for them. Trinity is packaged for Debian[1]. The problem is that KDE SC quite unnecessarily took over the KDE package namespace, making

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mike Bird dijo [Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:44:31PM -0800]: But given that nobody has stepped up to package Trinity for Debian, I can only assume KDE4 is good enough for them. Trinity is packaged for Debian[1]. The problem is that KDE SC quite unnecessarily took over the KDE package

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Carr
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 13:07 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 15 ian 11, 10:10:04, Chris Carr wrote: Is there some forum in which the choice of a default for a package or service gets made? I subscribe to debian-devel and debian-policy, but neither seems to contain discussions about

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:02:06 -0800, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:07:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Huh. Every system I've upgraded had no problems. I find this strange, since every system that has ever been etch

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:02:06 -0800, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:07:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Huh. Every system I've upgraded had no problems. I find

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:14:45 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: I believe aptitude purge ~c does the same. I avoid using aptitude for non-interactive things since I am falling over two annoying bugs in aptitude for months without seeing them fixed. Also you might want to take a

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Bjørn Mork
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes: Completely agreed. The focus of dependency based boot is correctness. The old system with static start/stop priorities was a pain to maintain and actually had many bugs which were effectively impossible to change, because changing the priority of *one*

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: It's the responsibility of packages to clean up obsolete conffiles as they're upgraded.  If you run into the case of a package that's been upgraded and not cleaned up its obsolete conffiles, and there isn't some reason for

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Carr
On 15/01/2011 23:50, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Carrranting...@gmail.com writes: Is there some forum in which the choice of a default for a package or service gets made? I subscribe to debian-devel and debian-policy, but neither seems to contain discussions about the risks of replacing

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bjørn Mork Hi, | Although I do agree with the improved simplicity, I do not agree that | *all* incorrect orderings are simple to fix (or necessarily package | bugs). Unfortunately, there are some packages which require system | dependent ordering. The most obvious example is the set

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
appreciate you are trying to help. But you are discussing too much and doing too few research before posting mails over here. rant When a thread gets to the point where 3 non-packagers are discussing (and sometimes bashing) together the work of other Debian contributors, it's a big FAIL. /rant Cheers

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