Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: > Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> My only doubt, also stated in previous thread is the "dash essential". > > It is the goal of many people to remove bash (and dash) and some other > packages from essential. But at this time, it is needed. In general it is very difficult to

Re: How to get all dependent source packages

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Braumann writes: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:42:44 +0800 > sha liu wrote: > >> 2009/7/20 Goswin von Brederlow >> >> > sha liu writes: >> > >> > > Hi everyone, >> > > Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages >> > > which are >> > the >> > > build dependency of one pack

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern writes: > On 2009-07-20, Stéphane Glondu wrote: >> For example, each OCaml transition involve rebuilding a lot of packages >> (about 139), with 6 levels of dependencies. So if some build takes 2 >> days or more (for the current transition, on some builds, it was even >> more than a

Re: How to get all dependent source packages

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
sha liu writes: > 2009/7/20 Goswin von Brederlow > > > sha liu writes: > > > Hi everyone, > >     Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages > which are the > > build dependency of one package? > >     What I want to do is

Re: Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation

2009-07-20 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Luca, On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:43:05AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > user pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > usertags 537623 + package-dependencies *g* I use it on my OpenMoko FreeRunner, too. > On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:41:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > * Package name: busybox-sysl

Re: Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation

2009-07-20 Thread Luca Capello
user pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 537623 + package-dependencies thanks Hi there! On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:41:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > * Package name: busybox-syslogd > Version : 0.1 May I suggest to use the same version number as busybox? > Description

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-20 Thread Christian Hammers
Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh : > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:10:11PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Hello > > > > In the Cc'ed bug report we were asked to created a libmysqld-pic > > package that only contains libmysqld_pic.a which should be compiled > > with -fPIC.

Re: How to get all dependent source packages

2009-07-20 Thread Harald Braumann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:42:44 +0800 sha liu wrote: > 2009/7/20 Goswin von Brederlow > > > sha liu writes: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages > > > which are > > the > > > build dependency of one package? > > > What I want to do is buil

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:10:11PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > In the Cc'ed bug report we were asked to created a libmysqld-pic package that > only contains libmysqld_pic.a which should be compiled with -fPIC. > As I'm no library expert I gladly follow the recommendation of Policy

Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-20 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello In the Cc'ed bug report we were asked to created a libmysqld-pic package that only contains libmysqld_pic.a which should be compiled with -fPIC. As I'm no library expert I gladly follow the recommendation of Policy §10.2 and ask for comments :) The reason for creating this package was that l

Bug#537779: RFP: java-atk-wrapper -- An ATK implementation for Java using JNI

2009-07-20 Thread Mario Lang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: java-atk-wrapper Version : 0.27.4 Upstream Author : Ke Wang * URL or Web page : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/java-atk-wrapper/ * License : LGPL 2.1 Description : An ATK implementation for Java using JNI Java

Bug#537776: ITP: mosh -- A fast R6RS Scheme interpreter

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Moerner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Moerner Package name: mosh Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Taro Minowa URL : http://code.google.com/p/mosh-scheme License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : A fast R6RS Scheme interpreter

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-20 Thread Joey Hess
Dominique Dumont wrote: > I'd like to add the following files in libconfig-model-perl: > - /usr/bin/dh_config > - /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-config-model > > In short, the goal is to use these files to perform smooth upgrade of > configuration data during package upgrades. See [1] f

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Raphael Geissert
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > My only doubt, also stated in previous thread is the "dash essential". It is the goal of many people to remove bash (and dash) and some other packages from essential. But at this time, it is needed. Cheers, Raphael Geissert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-20 Thread martin f krafft
Hey folks, As part of my research[0], I have two questions: Do you know any tools or teams using tools that, like lintian, automatically check packages (or whatever it is that the team is working on) and thereby helps to maintain a common baseline? Also, do any of you remember stories from the e

Re: How to get all dependent source packages

2009-07-20 Thread sha liu
2009/7/20 Goswin von Brederlow > sha liu writes: > > > Hi everyone, > > Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages which are > the > > build dependency of one package? > > What I want to do is building dpkg from source on a CLFS[0] system. > So I > > have to get all the dp

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-20 Thread Jonathan Yu
Raphael: I'm not *too* familiar with either tool, but hopefully my limited understanding is sufficient to answer your question. Disclaimer: I don't use either module, though I have worked somewhat with augeas, so I'm aware of its limitations. Namely, ML programming can be hard for beginners (stee

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Dominique Dumont wrote: > I'd like to add the following files in libconfig-model-perl: > - /usr/bin/dh_config > - /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-config-model > > In short, the goal is to use these files to perform smooth upgrade of > configuration data during packag

Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello I'd like to add the following files in libconfig-model-perl: - /usr/bin/dh_config - /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-config-model In short, the goal is to use these files to perform smooth upgrade of configuration data during package upgrades. See [1] for full details. But we're

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: Hello everybody, This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal. What actually needs to be done is: * Make dash essential, My only doubt, also stated in previous thread is the "dash essential". Technically I would prefer that: - initscrip

Bug#537721: ITP: mini-buildd -- Minimal Debian buildd

2009-07-20 Thread Stephan Sürken
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Stephan Sürken" * Package name: mini-buildd Version : 0.8.3 Upstream Author : Stephan Suerken * URL : None yet: Debian Native, VCS will move to alioth. * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Python, Shell Description

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Luk Claes
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hello everybody, This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal. What actually needs to be done is: * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default,

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-07-20, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > For example, each OCaml transition involve rebuilding a lot of packages > (about 139), with 6 levels of dependencies. So if some build takes 2 > days or more (for the current transition, on some builds, it was even > more than a week) to be uploaded, it mean

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-20 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Wouter Verhelst a écrit : >>> Ah, so this is about not interfering with testing migration, I guess? >> It's not only testing migration. As an example: If you have a large chain >> of binNMUs which all need some dep-wait on a package upper in the chain >> you get the effect that the whole thing tak

ries to be rebooted

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. I'm upgrading the kernel on ries. It should go down for a brief period in a few minutes. To see which services might become unavailable, if any, please consult https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ries>. We apologize for any potential inconvenience that might arise fro

Re: spohr to be rebooted

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote: > I'm upgrading the kernel on spohr. It should be back in a few minutes. It's back now. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Oper

villa to be rebooted

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. I'm upgrading the kernel on villa. It should go down for a brief perioued in a few minutes. To see which services might become unavailable, if any, please consult https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=villa>. We apologize for any potential inconvenience that might arise

murphy to be rebooted

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. I'm upgrading the kernel on murphy. It should be back in a few minutes. To see which services might become unavailable, if any, please consult https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=murphy>. We apologize for any potential inconvenience that might arise from this required

spohr to be rebooted

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. I'm upgrading the kernel on spohr. It should be back in a few minutes. To see which services might become unavailable, if any, please consult https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=spohr>. We apologize for any potential inconvenience that might arise from this required a

raff to be rebooted

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. I'm upgrading the kernel on raff. It should be back in a few minutes. To see which services might become unavailable, if any, please consult https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=raff>. We apologize for any potential inconvenience that might arise from this required and

samosa to be rebooted

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. I'm upgrading the kernel on samosa. It should be back in a few minutes. To see which services might become unavailable, if any, please consult https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=samosa>. We apologize for any potential inconvenience that might arise from this required

Re: How to get all dependent source packages

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
sha liu writes: > Hi everyone, >     Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages which are the > build dependency of one package? >     What I want to do is building dpkg from source on a CLFS[0] system. So I > have to get all the dpkg's dependency source packages and the dependency

Bug#537705: ITP: agda-executable -- Commandline interface to Agda -- a dependently typed functional programming language and proof assistant

2009-07-20 Thread Iain Lane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iain Lane * Package name: agda-executable Version : 2.2.4 Upstream Author : Ulf Norell, Nils Anders Danielsson, Catarina Coquand, Makoto Takeyama, Andreas Abel, ... * URL : http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/ * License

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:58:02AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Is there a reason why we're not using the alternatives system for > > this and let both bash and dash set that up, and then have dash's > > priority lower than bash? Why lower if we want das

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 07:15:56PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > There are a great many Debian changelog messages along the lines of “made > change foo to keep Lintian happy” as though that were the only readon why > such a change would be beneficial. Apart from being bloody useless, that > kind of ch

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:58:02AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different > > proposal. > > > > What actually needs to be done is: > > * Make

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hello everybody, > > This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal. > > What actually needs to be done is: > * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default, > make an