Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-09-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > A package that wants to change a directory to a symlink (or vice versa) is > a very special case, and one that runs afoul of dpkg support for the local > system administrator moving and symlinking directories (something that can > be quite useful if one screws up disk partitioni

Bug#689279: ITP: erlang-bitcask -- Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data

2012-09-30 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu * Package name: erlang-bitcask Version : 1.1.6 Upstream Author : Basho Technologies * URL : https://github.com/basho/bitcask * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: erlang Description : Log-Stru

Bug#689277: ITP: pd-chaos -- Pd library for calculating various chaotic attractors

2012-09-30 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" * Package name: pd-chaos Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Ben Bogart and Michael McGonagle * URL : http://puredata.info/downloads/chaos * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-09-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 30/09/2012 18:49, Frank Bauer wrote: > Why not, my computer upgrade cycles are about 6-8 years and the > computer won't be idling all the time - especially considering modern > desktop environments running whole database engines to store > config/meta data. > > Is writing of 160GB/day realistic

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-09-30 Thread Wookey
+++ peter green [2012-09-30 15:34 +0100]: > I've been attempting to use multi-arch for cross-building packages > for raspbian (a debian derivative I am working on for armv6 > hardfloat) and run into a few things which I thought i'd share > and/or ask about. I've been doing a fair amount of this to

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 06:10:16PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > > I don't know what to make of the "seconds" suggestion by Bart, though. I > > understand the rationale, but is not clear to me how to raise the > > interest by other DDs in reviewing the "intent to orphan" bugs filed by > > 3rd partie

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Rath writes: > Tollef Fog Heen writes: >> ]] Nikolaus Rath >>> How do I check if a directory belongs to a package? >> dpkg -S ? > I guess you shouldn't have used "belongs" but "owns" here. For example, > for /usr/share/dict dpkg -S lists wamerican, base-files and > dictionaries-commo

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-09-30 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Nikolaus Rath > >> How do I check if a directory belongs to a package? > > dpkg -S ? I guess you shouldn't have used "belongs" but "owns" here. For example, for /usr/share/dict dpkg -S lists wamerican, base-files and dictionaries-common. How do I find out which of th

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-09-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Nikolaus Rath > How do I check if a directory belongs to a package? dpkg -S ? > What should package do if it wants to install a file in a directory > owned by another package? The maintainers should talk with each other and come to some sort of agreement. What they decide on should be docu

Bug#689241: ITP: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl -- editor for Dpkg source files with validation

2012-09-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl Version : 2.026 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : FIXME * License : LGPL-2.1+

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 06:33:58PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > As a general principle, I'm with Bart here. I don't think we will > benefit from a new, relatively complex, procedure that overlaps with > other existing mechanisms. > > Socially, we need to acknowledge the fact that the curren

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-09-30 Thread Nikolaus Rath
gregor herrmann writes: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:29:09 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> I've solved that in the >> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was >> a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth. >> >>>Somehow that sounds like a real

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 30.09.2012 18:33, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > As a general principle, I'm with Bart here. I don't think we will > benefit from a new, relatively complex, procedure that overlaps with > other existing mechanisms. As for me, I am fine with *any* proposal which works out in practice. Bei it

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 05:52:23PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 06:48:22PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > > Actual proposal follows: > > The proposal adds a new procedure that overlaps/bypasses existing procedures. > > We have discussed that before in this thread : > http://lis

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-09-30 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 03:34:18PM +0100, peter green wrote: > Build-depends installation: > apt-get build-dep is fine if you are building an unmodified package > from a repo but it's of no use if you have modified the > build-dependencies to make them satisfiable. > > dpkg-checkbuilddeps doesn't

thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-09-30 Thread peter green
I've been attempting to use multi-arch for cross-building packages for raspbian (a debian derivative I am working on for armv6 hardfloat) and run into a few things which I thought i'd share and/or ask about. Build-depends installation: apt-get build-dep is fine if you are building an unmodifie

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-09-30 Thread Игорь Пашев
Relax :-) It is a hardware problem. Just keep doing your regular job till SDD become more robust. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALL-Q8xFUS22ff1by

Bug#689211: ITP: gcc-4.7-doc -- documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++, gcj, gnat, and gccgo)

2012-09-30 Thread Guo Yixuan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guo Yixuan X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: gcc-4.7-doc Version : 4.7.2-1 Upstream Author : Free Software Foundation * URL : http://gcc.gnu.org * License : GFDL with

Bug#689207: ITP: rust -- a safe, concurrent, practical language

2012-09-30 Thread Luca Bruno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Bruno * Package name: rust Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : Graydon Hoare et al. * URL : http://http://www.rust-lang.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C/C++, Rust Description : a safe, concurrent, prac

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-09-30 Thread Frank Bauer
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:15:45PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > If you have 5000 erase cycles, it will run for 13 years if you overwrite > it once per day. Do you really expect this device to work until this? Why not, my computer upgrade cycles are about 6-8 years and the computer won't be idli