Etch 1/2 CD images for test (was: Misc development news (#6))

2008-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Please help test "etch and a half" > -- > The next point release of etch is targeted to be the "etch and a half" > release, with the limited intent of increasing the hardware supported by > the Debian 4.0 release.

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm. Smells a lot like: Yes, it's the same, except eating less screen space; I don't particularly care how it ends up being implemented -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good idea. I just added screenshots.debian.org idea that came up on > > some discussion at Chemnitzer LinuxTage in March. It would be nice if > > somebody would grab this up - at least the idea will not just va

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:38:39 +0100, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I demand that Loïc Minier may or may not have written... >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the place where it >>> belongs. It looks like cruft/bad design t

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Adeodato wrote: > On the other hand, the bit about running `debian/rules build` by hand > seems valid to me. Indeed, that's what my fingers are used to typing if I just want a patched package for local use. I wouldn't be surprised if there were lots of other users who are the same. The various wr

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Simon, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment >> variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to >> be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags >> and to simplify th

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Loïc Minier may or may not have written... > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the place where it >> belongs. It looks like cruft/bad design to have the same snippet of code >> in all packages. > Perhaps this should be fi

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the place where it belongs. > It looks like cruft/bad design to have the same snippet of code in all > packages. Perhaps this should be fixed in another way then? For example a shared Makefile includ

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Raphael Hertzog [Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:20:36 +0200]: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Darren Salt wrote: > > I'd rather that this just got left in debian/rules, where it belongs: > > xine-lib, for example, needs more than just -O0 for disabling optimisations. > You can keep it there for special cases like

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This is something that I propsed on January 3, 2007, on debian-devel. Great!! I did not noticed. :-( There was a fairly lengthy thread that resulted and Thomas Viehmann even offered to help

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Darren Salt wrote: > I'd rather that this just got left in debian/rules, where it belongs: > xine-lib, for example, needs more than just -O0 for disabling optimisations. You can keep it there for special cases like this one. But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Raphael Hertzog may or may not have written... > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Le Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:58:29PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >>> Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment >>> variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS a

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Roberto, On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > This is something that I propsed on January 3, 2007, on debian-devel. > There was a fairly lengthy thread that resulted and Thomas Viehmann even > offered to help. Of course, he and I both became very busy and so it > sort

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:38:16AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > >"Someday someone should do this..." > >--- > > > >Sometimes I stumble on interesting or useful ideas on mailingslists, > >which should be done, but the

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-04-16, Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't helpful for several reasons: > a) Burying this information in a wiki where people may or may not read > it in time (I just reverted a change already done in SVN). I got the idea of pushing it out when Hertzog was talking about sen

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2008, 22:58 +0200 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > FTFBS on packages build-depending on libqt4-dev > --- > > If your package is build-depending on libqt4-dev and is currently failing > to build from sources, please wait for the next qt

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment > variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to > be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags > and to simplify the debian/rules files since CFLAGS has the right def

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: "Someday someone should do this..." --- Sometimes I stumble on interesting or useful ideas on mailingslists, which should be done, but the person having that in mind, doesn't have time to do those. So I came up with ide

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Aren't the dpkg maintainers able to get such things fixed in advance of > uploading dpkg? I'm still missing an announcement (of course before the > upload) about that "feature". > I don't think that such an important package as dpkg should be handle

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:58:29PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > > > Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment > > variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to > > be able to easily recompile

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:58:29PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment > variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to > be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags > and

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-15 Thread Alexander Wirt
Raphael Hertzog schrieb am Tuesday, den 15. April 2008: Hi, *snip* > Use a recent devscripts > --- > > With the introduction of the new Checksums-* fields in the changes file, > debsign had to be fixed to also update the checksums in the new fields > (see #474949). Be sur

Re: Misc development news

2007-11-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:09:09 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:01:22PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Homepage field in debian/control > (...) > > This was implemented in dpkg 1.14.6. > > > > Vcs-* fields in debian/control > (...) > > This was implemented in dpkg 1.1

Re: Misc development news

2007-11-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:01:22PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Homepage field in debian/control (...) > This was implemented in dpkg 1.14.6. > > Vcs-* fields in debian/control (...) > This was implemented in dpkg 1.14.6. Do these need build dependencies versioning or is it only an end-user is