Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

2014-04-20 Thread Charles Plessy
f targets so large that this level of coordination is not reachable ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

2014-04-17 Thread Charles Plessy
, pulseaudio and foo-player > + conflicts against bar-studio-desktop > + postinst script asks foo-player to use PulseAudio. > > How could such postinst scripts look? Hi Jonas, If the maintainer scripts of the three packages can cooperate, have you considered using Dpk

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ot migrate to testing. In the case of staden-io-lib, I took action to make it migrate, and it was cancelled by porters who wanted to fix a bug affecting their architecture instead of having the package removed on that architecture. Thus, I do spend time on my packages which do not migrate from un

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ease pay attention that the patch for #744664 has been applied and that the uploaded package is now in the NEW queue for unrelated reasons. -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ded, is never-ending: new packages uploaded today build fine everywhere, but some of them will need patching in the future. Please break the circle ! Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UN

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
something wrong. Don't we use debhelper and CDBS to have reasonable defaults ? Are there more packages that fail to build after autoreconf, than packages that fail to build without ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
hat it would be better to base them on Sid (or Jessie when appropriate, which would not be the case here). Or if you base your reports on Ubuntu, could you add a filter that checks the version numbers and helps you to reduce the false positives ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med pack

Submitted application/vnd.debian.binary-package to the IANA.

2014-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
o this message, as this tag is already in the subject line. Thank you, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority iana-m...@iana.org - Name : Charles Plessy Email : ple...@debian.org MIME media type name : Application MIME s

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:07:33PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Hi Guillem and everybody, > > I agree with your suggestions. > > If there are no further comments I will submit the media type after > correcting the points below. For the record, here is the latest version.

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Guillem and everybody, I agree with your suggestions. If there are no further comments I will submit the media type after correcting the points below. Have a nice day, -- Charles Le Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 03:22:38AM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > This still seems confusing, “Debian forma

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-14 Thread Charles Plessy
hard-line point of view does not motivate and rather leads people to give up. Have a nice week-end. -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
e preferred form for modification because they do not contain the typical revision information and comments found in version control systems used upstream. This was not the case when Debian was founded, but as the world evolves, we need to evolve. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debi

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Plessy
le would not find it useful and would rather clone an upstream Git repository than apt-get-sourcing the not-always latest source from our archive. Therefore, more than ever, it is on the binary packages that we must commit on the highest level. The upstream source tarball matters much less. Cheers,

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-21 Thread Charles Plessy
I would much prefer to resolve that issue before sending it. Have a week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 07:08:44AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > you already have commit access to the Debian Med packages, like all other > > Debian developers. Please go ahead ! > > There was adoption of DEP-

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
of software to > deal with both path names. Hi James, you already have commit access to the Debian Med packages, like all other Debian developers. Please go ahead ! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg: is_native version checks in dpkg 3.0 Native

2014-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
the concept of a "native" package. It shows that there is no problem with the version number indicating one thing and the source format indicating another one. So please revert your change, which solves no practical problems. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
e concerned about is moving the files in the repositories, > I'll gladly do that. When will you start and when do you plan to finish ? Just do it please. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
o make it available to uscan. Can you clarify whether you will lead the transition, or whether you found somebody elese to do it, or what your plan is if you do not find somebody to do it ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagaw

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
do the work then let's create pages under https://wiki.debian.org/Debate and take a ticket to the TC. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
lease, the Archive delegates are in charge of the Archive, etc. Some may see it more do-o-cratic, but I find this a step backwards. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
n after the last reform of Alioth). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Charles Plessy
in the 3.0 (native) format to use non-native version number. Alternatively, please rename the "3.0 (native)" format to "3.0 (tarball)" or anything elese, and we are done. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-04 Thread Charles Plessy
ive" to Debian. In that sense, I do not see the point for forbidding to use non-"native" version numbers with "non-native" dpkg formats. The 3.0 (native) format is useful when packaging a work that is developped and distributed in a Git repository. Please leave us this

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-02-02 Thread Charles Plessy
oking at other records, I do not think it is necessary. I attached again a plain version of the media type declaration. To everybody: please not that the debian-policy mailing list is indicated as a contact point; please let me know if you think it is a bad idea. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles P

Proposed changes on menu systems (was: Re: Bug#707851: Let's remove the Debian menu from the Debian Policy ?)

2014-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20140125121136.gm24...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
> I'm not sure that frontends are usually started when downloading raw > .debs from the net, though. Indeed, with Epiphany browser or Chrome, no front-end is proposed despite the media type is indicated in the HTTP headers. I consider it a bug. With Iceweasel, it worked. Have a nice

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
ast a few hours to see if members of the relevant team have something original to say ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
is type: None. Magic number(s): Files usually start with the following string: ! File extension(s): deb Macintosh file type code(s): None. Object Identifier(s) or OID(s): None. Intended usage: Common Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear FTP team, I would like to help processing the NEW queue. You can see at the following URL some of the reviews that I did in the past as part of my "peer review" proposal. - https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=one-copyright-review;use

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
there is a new member in the FTP team ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France -- 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/20131227214441.ga2...@falafel.plessy.net

[DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? If people like the idea, I can send a patch to dpkg if needed. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-G

On building everything from source.

2013-12-26 Thread Charles Plessy
ible is something that is easy to be done. But not if the emails finish by things like "in the meantime, we have deleted your documentation from our packages". Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

Re: [Prepare mass bug filling][RFC] New lintian tags: privacy-breach

2013-12-23 Thread Charles Plessy
e donation field in the debian/upstream file (https://wiki.debian.org/debian/upstream), which is quite un-leveraged for the moment but could be an efficient way to lead our users to the Upstream donation pages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel

Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-17 Thread Charles Plessy
uture, I recommend to better organise the work of the FTP team. Have you considered using a public tracking system like in Fedora ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-14 Thread Charles Plessy
wrong solution. So, FTP team, please take your decision and let's close this story. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-13 Thread Charles Plessy
of the NEW queue, then the only solution is to reduce the input. No need to try to do the impossible. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
given goal is still relevant after a release, or if it has eventually been obsoleted. http://dep.debian.net/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
o the release team for the very nice summary that started this thread, for the auto-removals, and everything else. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

How many users for /usr/bin/view ?

2013-11-27 Thread Charles Plessy
triggers bugs such as http://bugs.debian.org/623384. I will most probably remove /usr/bin/view from mime-support, but just in case, I would like to hear if some people are strongly relying on it. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2013-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Debian binary packages would be something like application/vnd.debian.binary or application/vnd.debian.binary-package. Any thoughts, comments, or volunteers ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
oment does not work, therefore a different strategy is needed. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Bug#729282: ITP: htslib -- C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats

2013-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Hello everybody, I intend to package the HTSlib, that some existing packages (samtools, tabix) will need later. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan Package name: htslib Version : 0.2 Upstream Author

Re: .py suffixed scripts to /usr/bin/

2013-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
lintian > override? The solution is to the change Policy :) See http://bugs.debian.org/190753 for more discussion. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Proposal: s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Saturday, October 26, 2013 10:45:55 Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Conflict of interest is not a judgement on a person. It is a judgement > > about a situation, and a recommendation on how systematically react, > > without making exceptions. Le Fri, Oct 25, 2013

Bug#727754: New "security-aware-resolver" virtual package.

2013-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
C services. Dear all, are there Debian Developers seconding or objecting to this new virtual package name ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Proposal: s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Charles Plessy
I also think that it is premature to make a decision without seeing the final implementations working. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Charles Plessy
have been avoided, etc. If on the other hand it wins to all other options, you will have learned for yourself, at the expense of the other developers, that your understanding of the situation was wrong, which is still less bad than being left with "further discussion" only. Currentl

Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
ke it a lot, and would be extremely disapointed if in the future I can not have it anymore because regular fingerpointing and accusation would be driving out people who undertake a such a heavy task as maintaining a destkop environment. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSU

Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
en a bug on the Policy. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20131023222431.gb28...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: a stupid suggestion for dpkg?

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
i-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582109#209 I plan a Policy update by the end of October, and my gut feeling is that if by that time, peple stay silent on the issue, the work will go straight in the dust bin. I am of course happy to delay a bit the update if one needs more time to review the patches. Cheer

skipping bioinformatics on some architectures ? (was Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression)

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
th the Field::Biology tag. If you are interested I would be willing to inspect the corner cases (such as mencal ?), in order to devise a better filter for listing the packages related to biology and bioinformatics to skip on m68k, and other low-power architectures if their porters are intersted.

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

2013-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:30:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > The attached patch is a third attempt, which underlines that the Built-Using > field is particularly useful when a given package, contributing contents > included in another package, can not be replaced by a later

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
everybody's help to pick one and resolve it is more than welcome ! Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Charles Plessy
removals (and the automated "autopkg" testing) are a big step forward. Let me take this opportunity to thank to the Release team for this ! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRI

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

2013-10-06 Thread Charles Plessy
later version. It also explains that the Debian archive uses the Built-Using field to retain source packages. What do you think about it ? Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >From ee6c716663bbd8652b96e7e53743bf0e1e276003 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Ple

Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
side. https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries#Parallel_between_Menu_and_Desktop_entries Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
, it makes the work easier for some and harder for others; let's see in a couple of years what it means for Debian in terms of being a good platform for R users. You already got a hint from one of Dirk's email: there is some excellent work that is done outside Debian. Have a nice week-e

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

2013-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
riting something clear. If my patch is a good start, could somebody improve it ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >From e61b6e81b923d4d39b5089e87e9cad02140d5cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:21:25 +0900 Subject: [PATCH

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

2013-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:56:28AM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > do you think that the attached patch would solve the problem ? > > There are more reasons for using Built-Using than licenses, for example: > > Re

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

2013-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
tag 688251 patch thanks Le Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:57:34AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I would like to make the short-term clarification for the next revision of the > Policy. In its simplest form, it could be the addition of something like > "when > the com

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ics on the top of the list, to not do so in a misleading way. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ree and move to something else. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ploader, please feel free to delete them from our archive. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Status of dgit (good for NMUs and fast-forwarding Debian branches)

2013-09-17 Thread Charles Plessy
bian.org/dgit-repos/repos/pv-grub-menu.git’ gives ‘warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.’ Do you think it is problems that are possible to solve ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
ing like "when the combination of licenses requires to keep all the sources", plus a footnote informing that the case of the libc and libgcc are being investigated, and that the current practice is to consider that we can benefit form their exception to the GPL. Please let us know your thou

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-10 Thread Charles Plessy
it as such in your rejection message. Otherwise, a policy about small packages would have been helpful. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ery important to have at least a clear separation between the blocking issues and the personal comments. In the case of pv-grub-menu, I am left with the questions "What else shall I do that I have not tried yet ? How many weeks or monthes shall I try before giving up", which will waste time on

Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Debian copyright file, please note that a quick inspection of the package could have shown you that replacing the current content of the Files field by "*" would have solved the problem entirely. I will re-upload "when I have time". Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Gr

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-22 Thread Charles Plessy
In some cases I found it quite useful. Have you considered integrating logs in dgit ? In a somehow similar goal (finding difference between builds), have you also considered committing the contents of the unpacked binary packages in other branches ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/2013082440.ga25...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:12:24AM +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > > > About display by GUIs, I think that we should have a system to install all > > the > > fonts necessary to display languages that we support at the in

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
characters that are not in ASCII. See http://bugs.debian.org/701081 for further discussion. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20130812235702.gb9...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > I would like to propose full UTF-8 support. I don't mean here full > support for all of Unicode's finer points, merely complete eradication of > mojibake. Hi Adam, this is a great goal. Here are two comments. There is a rel

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Plessy
k that it is even better to implement a versionned R API number. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
a (much simpler) work on line at http://clonotyper.branchable.com/ Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

A transition plan for R data in binary format ?

2013-08-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 08:29:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > While writing this answer, I also read Don's email advocating for Debian to > take the lead and change the current practice in the R community, that prefers > to ditribute data as R binary objects in the sourc

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
so that we can better decide if we undertake the work at all. Currently, my take would be to move packages to non-free. This would also allow us to ship the PDF documentation that we currently delete. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-me

We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
s decision and stick to it. But I warn that it may have the consequence of moving most of them to non-free, despite the data in binaryformat is freely modifiable or exportable to text format with R, which is a Free software that we distribute. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med pac

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
ome of the new pakcages that need to be introduced, which added a long waiting period to the process. When they will be accepted in Debian, ggplot2 will be updated a soon as possile. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kan

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
greetings and more "advices"... In summary, I welcome the goal of increasing new contributions to Debian, but recommend to pick a more casual name for your project. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20130730220407.ga18...@falafel.plessy.net

[OT] Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ter ? Bets are funnier if there is a concrete consequence with both outcomes. How about triaging 100 bugs of your choice for instance ? The problem is that, if it is too cheap to predict bad things on that list and be wrong, then the proportion of relevant messages on this list will decrease... C

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
oud-final 121 sysvinit/cloud-init 121 sysvinit/cloud-init-local Doesn't that underline that "classical" init scripts are a big waste of time for maintainers, and a workload that can not be shared between distributions ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -

Re: Bug#678607: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:06:59AM +, Bart Martens a écrit : > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 08:24:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > How about simply replacing "should name the original authors" by "should > > provide contact information for license questions&quo

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
d name the original authors" by "should provide contact information for license questions" ? I think that there is value to correct this point even if we can not define precisely what should or must be in the Debian copyright file as a whole. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsur

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Charles Plessy
licy being relaxed on that point (http://bugs.debian.org/678607#10). Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20130629025227.gb4...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Charles Plessy
bian copyright files is optional, and the whole format is optional too. I recommend to use debian/upstream instead, especially because the whole point of this file is to provide a way to update metadata without uploading the package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
urce packages are maintained. http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/table/contact In some cases, it is a valid email address. Perhaps you can give it a priority ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --

Re: On accepting pre-generated doc from upstream

2013-06-07 Thread Charles Plessy
tion with autopkgtest (DEP 8) for instance ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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

Re: Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:15:14PM +0200, "Steffen Möller" a écrit : > > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 09:37:54AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Le Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:06:26PM +0200, Niels Thykier a écrit : > > > > > > > > Our automated tool

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
sting. Thanks a lot. Please do not hesitate to remove leaf packages like mira in an automated manner. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-25 Thread Charles Plessy
ackage can use it, but it is not part of the upstream source (which is not Amazon), so I really would prefer to ship the certificate somewhere else. I proposed ca-certificates earlier, but the result was inconclusive. http://bugs.debian.org/573857 Would there be a volunteer to maintai

Re: simplifying running piuparts (was: Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay))

2013-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
into > the ftp-master/buildd side will take a much longer way. Hi Andreas, it is not fully related to your original question, but do you think that piuparts could support running Autopkgtests as well ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
sers (uid >= 1000) to 002? > > +1. It would be a useful default. See also: http://wiki.debian.org/umask http://wiki.debian.org/Debate Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Switching packages to non-awaiting triggers

2013-05-16 Thread Charles Plessy
noawait in most cases). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20130516232324.ga10...@falafel.plessy.net

Time to summarise the discussion on epoch ?

2013-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, would there be a volunteer to summarise this discussion as a patch to the Developers's Reference ? You do not need to be an expert: reading and understanding this thread is enough. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Upcoming libgd2-{xpm, noxpm}-dev -> libgd2-dev transition

2013-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:34:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý a écrit : > > 1. I have dropped the {xpm,noxpm} dichotomy and there's only >libgd2-dev now. There are transitional packages which are ment >to help with the move to libgd2-dev, so you don't have to make >any changes right now - the

Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
y with the licenses. I use the machine-readable format because I feel that it makes my work simpler as a maintainer. If it makes your work harder, then by all means do not use it. It is just as simple as this. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
angelog line passed as parameter, and uploads signed it with a trusted key ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20130513224408.ga30...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: encrypted popcon submissions

2013-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
y cryptography", do you mean GPG or TLS ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

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