Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-28 22:18 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > since a short time when I build a binary package on my running system, > I cannot install the created .deb anymore because it depends on > libc-amd64 (>= some.version) which somehow is not what I have although > I am running amd64 sid. Uninstal

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, second try, with more data .. default package texinfo, I am importing a new upstream into my git, no changes to debian/rules or debian/control, rebuild. >From the debian/control: .. Package: info ... Architecture: any Multi-Arch: foreign ... After building the package looks like: i

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:32:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau > > > wrote: > > > > (...) > > > > xserver-xorg-video-sis >

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > (...) > > > xserver-xorg-video-sis > > > (...) > > The SiS chipset was, unfortunately, really popular with manufactu

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:10:07PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > > Not in the preferred form for modification means you're not distributing > the source. We don't do that. Hi Tollef and everybody, please, I would like people to accept that things are not black and white. In "preferred for

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-28 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:18:03AM +0400, Norbert Preining wrote: > since a short time when I build a binary package on my running system, I > cannot install the created .deb anymore because it depends on >libc-amd64 (>= some.version) > which somehow is not what I have although I am running am

Bug#724859: ITP: r-bioc-hypergraph -- BioConductor hypergraph data structures

2013-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-hypergraph Version : 1.32.0-1 Upstream Author : Seth Falcon, Robert Gentleman * URL : http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/hypergraph.html * License : Artistic-2.0 Pro

dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, since a short time when I build a binary package on my running system, I cannot install the created .deb anymore because it depends on libc-amd64 (>= some.version) which somehow is not what I have although I am running amd64 sid. Any suggestions? Thanks Norbert ---

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andreas Tille > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:31:47PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > Charles' statement made me nervous because it sounds like he is saying > > he's not interested in looking carefully enough to know which side of > > any line he's on, and he wants to use Debian resources to

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:31:47PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Charles' statement made me nervous because it sounds like he is saying > he's not interested in looking carefully enough to know which side of > any line he's on, and he wants to use Debian resources to redistribute > that lack of e

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:32:01PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > I had noticed you doing a lot of work on R packaging, and would like > to express my appreciation. I know much of the time packaging can seem > like hard and thankless work. Having done several R packages myself I need to admit that t

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Maarten Lankhorst
Hey, Op 28-09-13 17:16, Bob Tracy schreef: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> (...) >>> xserver-xorg-video-sis >>> (...) > The SiS chipset was, unfortunately, really popular with manufacturers of > relative

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
Off the top of my head, my Sun E3500 (8x 64-bit SPARC CPUs) has an SBUS graphics adapter that is one of those cg{N} adapters, but honestly, Linux support for E3500 is shoddy at best, so it's fine by me. Patrick On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:2

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > (...) > > xserver-xorg-video-sis > > (...) The SiS chipset was, unfortunately, really popular with manufacturers of relatively expensive micro PeeCees (EzGo, Jadetec, etc.),

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Hi, > > we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following > packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care > of them. The reason is they see 0 testing, nobody maintains them > upstream, if you'r

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:08:55AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The question is how to make it clear that's not the intent, which > requires figuring out how to separate the other use cases from the gcc > and glibc case. I guess the general answer you're looking for depends on the use cases Built-

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org tag 688251 - patch usertags 688251 discussion thanks Le Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:08:55AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > The basic problem that we're trying to solve is that nearly every package > in Debian incorporates code from gcc and/or libc into the re