Re: Simplifying bootstrap on circular-dependent packages

2011-11-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à 17:30 -0400, Daniel Ruoso a écrit : > The basic idea is creating "dummy libraries" that would serve for the > linking but that had no code on it. This would allow the linking to > happen -- of course this only helps in the case where the build > process doesn't run a

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à 21:21 +, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > It's not a GNU invention; I believe it derives from BSD. I stand corrected. That doesn’t make it have any more sense, though. > Apparently it's for executables that don't belong in the path (rarely > used from interactive shel

Bug#647758: ITP: jfugue -- Java API for music programming

2011-11-05 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: g...@debian.org Package name: jfugue Version: 4.0.3 Upstream Author: David Koelle URL: http://www.jfugue.org/ License: LGPL-2.1+ Description: Java API for music programming JFug

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Hendrik Sattler | Am Freitag, 4. November 2011, 20:55:24 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: | > So since gnome-shell actually needs gnome-bluetooth, the dependency | > should be demoted to a Recommends? | | Needs? Why should a desktop _need_ bluetooth? Maybe it uses the gnome-bluetooth DBus APIs uncon

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Christoph Anton Mitterer (please don't Cc me on mails to lists, it's rude and against the mailing list etiquette) [...] | > I believe the Gnome packaging team would be happy to accept more members | > if somebody wants to work on this and keep maintaining it. | | You shouln't take my comment

Bug#647755: ITP: radare2-bindings -- bindings for radare2

2011-11-05 Thread Sebastian Reichel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Reichel * Package name: radare2-bindings Version : 0.8.8 Upstream Author : pancake * URL : http://www.radare.org * License : LGPL Programming Lang: many Description : bindings for radare2 The project a

Re: Sharing data between maintainer scripts and debian/rules

2011-11-05 Thread Frank Küster
Neil Williams wrote: > Other than using sed and awk during the build on a package-specific > basis with all the potential for typos, is there a wider use case for > dissemination of variables from debian/rules into maintainer scripts? In tex-common and texlive-{base,extra,lang,doc}, we use eper

Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

2011-11-05 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for the optional debian/rules targets "build-arch" and "build-indep". The intention is to finally solve issues like #619284 and the goal is related to #629385. According to Linti

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:12:59PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 10:21 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:13:43AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Other package that depend on menu... mostly meta package > > >

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 20:55 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > So since gnome-shell actually needs gnome-bluetooth, the dependency > should be demoted to a Recommends? Well but then it would be enough for gnome-shell to depend on it. And one should perhaps try to, whether it's easy to patch it, that

Bug#647742: ITP: libradsec - RADIUS over TLS/DTLS/UDP/TCP library

2011-11-05 Thread Sam Hartman
package: wnpp severity: wishlist URL: libradsec branch of http://www.project-moonshot.org/gitweb/radsecproxy.git URL2: http://software.uninett.no/radsecproxy/ Description: libradsec is a library for RADIUS clients and servers This library features support for RADSEC (RADIUS over TLS/DTLS) as wel

Bug#647740: ITP: libvertfo - library abstracting event loop interfaces

2011-11-05 Thread Sam Hartman
package: wnpp severity: wishlist URL: https://fedorahosted.org/libverto/ Description: libverto provides a common interface on top of libev, libevent, glib, tevent. The goal is to allow development of asynchronous libraries that will work with whatever event loop an application happens to be u

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Oh and: > Clint Adams writes ("Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?"): > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:46:20PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > I don?t think Debian requests FHS to document something before we can > > > use it. The real problem with the bizarre GNU invention that > > > is

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Clint Adams writes ("Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?"): > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:46:20PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I don?t think Debian requests FHS to document something before we can > > use it. The real problem with the bizarre GNU invention that > > is /usr/libexec is th

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-05 Thread Didier Raboud
Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Worse, it would let metapackages migrate to testing without the > appropriate dependencies. Then _this_ problem should be fixed and not used as a justification to use Depends, either at the britney side or by providing "enforcing" metapackages, not supposed to be use

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag, 4. November 2011, 20:55:24 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > So since gnome-shell actually needs gnome-bluetooth, the dependency > should be demoted to a Recommends? Needs? Why should a desktop _need_ bluetooth? It's not even common to have bluetooth hardware. HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#647716: O: xmltoman -- simple XML to man converter

2011-11-05 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Package: wnpp I'm orphaning the xmltoman package. The reason is that the current maintainer is no longer active and I will not sponsor him anymore. Best regards, // Ola -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology / o...@inguza.comAnnebergsslingan 37

Orphaning lprfax

2011-11-05 Thread Niels Thykier
severity 645793 normal reassign 645793 wnpp retitle 645793 O: lprfax - Utility to allow printing to a fax modem thanks Hi, I am orphaning lprfax[1] on behalf of Camm Maguire (see #645793). Due to its RC bugs and its very low popcon I intend to request the removal of this package in about 14 day

Re: libpopt

2011-11-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Paul Wise [05 19:00 +0800]: [...] > For Debian there are only disadvantages to inlined popt in most cases. Thanks for all your advises. I'll take care of them by packaging a new version of moc build against libpopt-dev. Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-)

Re: libpopt

2011-11-05 Thread sean finney
Hiya, On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 07:00:58PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > we have many packages which are build against popt. Some of them > > have included a bundled (inlined) verion of popt. But they are using > > Debian's libopt-dev like

Re: libpopt

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Thanks for any suggestions I forgot to say: if you are contacting upstreams, please include this URL: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: libpopt

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > we have many packages which are build against popt. Some of them > have included a bundled (inlined) verion of popt. But they are using > Debian's libopt-dev like pkg-config. Sounds like a bunch of bugs to be filed and info to be added t

libpopt

2011-11-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, we have many packages which are build against popt. Some of them have included a bundled (inlined) verion of popt. But they are using Debian's libopt-dev like pkg-config. Can someone please advise me on how to handle this. I don't find a section in Debian's Policy which describes how to h