Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (31/08/2011): > hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 are probably too > experimental to be used on production systems. For kfreebsd, my main > problem (with my Ruby hat) is the linuxthreads-based thread library, but > there might be other problems. http://lists.debian.org/87

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wolodja Wentland (30/08/2011): > It is my impression that the problems mentioned in my initial mail can > be solved by changing metapackages (like those mentioned by Cyril in > his reply) to use Recommends instead of Depends. > > I am, however, not entirely sure if there are any good reasons for

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Tille (30/08/2011): > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:40:30PM +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > is there a specific reason why metapackages depend rather then > > recommend packages they are meant to pull in? > > The statement that metapackages depend from packages is not true in > general.

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (29/08/2011): > Does this work now? Previously, setting the architecture list didn't > do anything useful if the source package built at least one arch: all > package. Since arch: all as per-arch (…) now, I guess that limitation is gone. And yes, arch restrictions have been working

Re: Bug#639420: ITP: xpra -- tool to detach/reattach running X programs

2011-08-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Miguel Landaeta (26/08/2011): > * URL : http://winswitch.org/documentation/protocols/xpra.html (there's no such thing as X windows, first line of General Information) > Programming Lang: C, Python > Description : tool to detach/reattach running X programs What's the sta

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastien ROUCARIES (23/08/2011): > And for middle ages dog (not oldtimer) they are the ssh -X root@localhost > trick or: sudo XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority wireshark Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > * Adam D. Barratt [Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 07:11:08PM +0100]: > > Looking at the procps source package in unstable, it appears to have the > > same issue. If that's the case, then I'm afraid your question should > > really have been "what's the proper way to address thi

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (22/08/2011): > Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > > 1) What's the proper way to address this issue in squeeze? > >a) Build a i386 package with broken symlink? > >b) Build whatever-arch package with working symlink? > > Stop using basename o

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > 1) What's the proper way to address this issue in squeeze? >a) Build a i386 package with broken symlink? >b) Build whatever-arch package with working symlink? Stop using basename on what's in /lib, and do that on what's under debian/tmp. > 2) How can we ma

Conciliating systemd and GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-07-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi all. (Putting -bsd@ in the loop, since I believe not everyone there reads -devel@. The (very long) thread starts at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00269.html) Josselin Mouette (20/07/2011): > You are both framing the discussion through a fallacy: that the only > choice

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Meskes (19/07/2011): > could anyone tell me what the difference between scribus and scribus-ng is? > According to the description scribus-ng is the development branch but scribus > itself is a later rc than -ng. Besides it appears to me that the package(s) > could need a little bit of love

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (18/07/2011): > The upstart maintainers have expressed considerably more willingness > to date to work with Debian on meeting our project's goals and > incorporating those changes into the upstream release. For reference, that would likely be: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/200

Re: Why hasn't libtasn1-3 migrated to testing?

2011-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Johan Walles (13/07/2011): > Build log says "Maybe successful": > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?arch=powerpc&pkg=libtasn1-3&ver=2.9-4 > > What does "maybe" mean in this case? Is it the "Maybe" that's holding > the package back? What does it take to get from "Maybe successful" to > "

Re: kernel module i915 - 3d-acceleration missing after update

2011-06-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hans-J. Ullrich (18/06/2011): > Yes, it is userspace. Pity I don't have the logs any more (Xorg.log.0), where > the error was shown. It showed me, that the *_dri.so could not found (so GLX > could not be started). They originally reside below /usr/lib/dri/, but the > driver search them below /u

Re: kernel module i915 - 3d-acceleration missing after update

2011-06-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hans-J. Ullrich (18/06/2011): > Well, I thought the problem is not related to i915, as this is part of > the kernel, and I did not change the kernel. Just to clarify: You mentioned a .so, not a .ko; there are i915 bits in the kernel, and in userspace; in this case, this is about userspace. Mraw,

Re: kernel module i915 - 3d-acceleration missing after update

2011-06-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi. Hans-J. Ullrich (18/06/2011): > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i915_dri.so > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so > > Solution: > As "apt-file search i386-linux-gnu" did not show any package with this > content, > I added the directories manually and created some symlinks to i915_dri.so

Re: Bug#611400: ITP: wayland -- new generation compositor

2011-06-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Here's a tiny update, and below, the descriptions. Cyril Brulebois (28/01/2011): > * Package name: wayland > Version : git > Upstream Author : Kristian Høgsberg and others > * URL : http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ > * License

Bug#630809: ITP: wayland-demos -- sample compositor and demo clients for Wayland

2011-06-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois A while ago wayland was split into two separate repositories, wayland and wayland-demos. I'll keep #611400 for the former, and this is the ITP bug for the latter. I'll post descriptions for #611400 later on. (http://cgit.freed

Re: wiki.debian.org/GitSrc

2011-06-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Zed Pobre (08/06/2011): > What's involved in editing wiki.debian.org? My debian.org password > doesn't seem to apply […] That's a separate login system, not reserved to DD only. Create an account, log in, and enjoy. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: openvg.h not found

2011-06-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Philip Ashmore (06/06/2011): > While trying to build QT 4.8.0 technology preview I had occasion to > search for openvg.h. while it would be nice to have a functional packages.debian.org, I probably should be sharing that (at least in the meanwhile): # apt-get install apt-file $ apt-file

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Raphael Hertzog (29/05/2011): > from time to time I hear some rumblings about how "3.0 (quilt)" > mixes badly with VCS. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the format > was to not require prior knowledge of the patch system to be able to > modify a package. thanks for trying to improve the s

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Roland Mas (23/05/2011): > We should now be in the phase where we pretend it's done, wait for > the complaints, and fix the problems as they are reported (or laugh > them off when they come from the too-common expectation that Alioth > can be used to run any random stuff by anyone). sorry,

Re: Bug#627114: ITP: libdevel-dprof-perl -- a deprecated Perl code profier

2011-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Dominic Hargreaves (17/05/2011): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Dominic Hargreaves > > * Package name: libdevel-dprof-perl > Version : 20110228.00 > Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-DProf/ > * License

Re: New Packages generator

2011-05-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again, Cyril Brulebois (08/05/2011): > is that a related breakage? > > [Can't debootstrap] > > Same happens with ftp{.fr,.uk,.de,}.debian.org; with i386 and amd64. Also, ftp.ch.d.o exhibited the infamous Hash Sum mismatches for the kfreebsd-i386 sid chroot on io.debi

Re: New Packages generator

2011-05-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Joerg Jaspert (07/05/2011): > As we have received no notice of errors and as we also do not see > anything bad ourself, I just activated the new generator for the > archive. Starting with the next dinstall run in a few minutes all > Packages and Sources files[2] will be generated using the ne

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonathan Nieder (05/05/2011): > I personally don't think uploading packages to experimental before > it is time for them to participate in transitions to testing and > integrate with the rest of the next stable distribution is abuse at > all. In fact I wish people would do it more often. Being a

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, (you already know, but let's state that on dd@ too) Josselin Mouette (04/05/2011): > during the recent discussions about rolling, a proposal was made in > a blog comment, and after giving it some quick thoughts, most people > I’ve talked with seem to think it is a good idea, so it’s time for

Re: Procedure for re-activating my DD status?

2011-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Mark Johnson (03/05/2011): > However, I wasn't able to find any info on how to rejoin the > organization in the standard documents. Do I simply go through the > New Maintainer application process as I did initially? might be that it's a bit uncommon, and maybe under-documented; anyway, I had

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, (not a gcc maintainer) Charles Plessy (04/05/2011): > I just got a bug from you explaining some changes (= more FTBFS) > about 4.6.1. Will there be similar 4.6.x changes in the future ? my reading of it is that to prevent too many FTBFSes while introducing 4.6 in Debian, some changes were

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz (29/04/2011): > Instead of Martin's project you might want to look into ipcfg by > Wouter Verhelst, which is in experimental already. You may want not to. Last I checked (#dd yesterday, but not quoting without permission), the idea was to scratch everything and start over. Mraw, Ki

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jon Dowland (27/04/2011): > ~ sorts after ., so "0~110427" will be considered newer than "0.1". > Therefore, the 0 in 0~YYMMDD is meaningless, and would be no better > than ~YYMMDD (which would still sort after 0.1, and require an > epoch). $ dpkg --compare-versions 0~110427 '<<' 0.1 && echo "Jon

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (23/04/2011): > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in > versions. They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly > which commit the snapshot was can be included in the changelog. I'll be happy to second any wording you could come up with on that topi

Re: Bug#623656: ITP: xml_marshaller -- Converting Python objects to XML and back again

2011-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Arnaud Fontaine (22/04/2011): > * Package name: xml_marshaller not a valid package name. :) > Version : 0.9.7 > Upstream Author : Nicolas Delaby > * URL : http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/xml-sig/ > * License : Python License (CNRI Python Lic

Re: Bug#623601: ITP: aspcud -- a solver for CUDF instances based on answer set programming

2011-04-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ralf Treinen (21/04/2011): > * Package name: aspcud > Version : 2011.03.17 > Upstream Author : Roland Kaminski > * URL : http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/wv/aspcud/ > * License : GPL3+ > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : a CUDF solver based on answer se

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luk Claes (04/04/2011): > The most obvious reason to not degrade bash to Priority: important > is obviously that one needs to declare a dependency on bash when > it's used in a package. Which means quite some packages will need to > be changed. What is the most obvious reason to degrade bash to P

Re: Back to technical discussion

2011-04-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Josselin Mouette (04/04/2011): > I think squeeze already does a lot better, but there is still work > to do, especially with the installation process. > > On my personal wishlist for wheezy is d-i actually calling NM behind > the scenes to configure the network, instead of ifupdown. I’ll > d

Re: Old Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl (04/04/2011): > I might be mistaken, but I think Steve's meant something more along > the lines of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586082 I guess I could have been more specific, and quoted Steve a bit further: | Once that's made its way through the archive, we coul

Re: Old Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
g I have no useful idea to share about the practical implementation, but for the general idea: Acked-by: Cyril Brulebois KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dh_shlibdeps warnings concerning undefined OpenMP symbols

2011-03-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Dmitry Katsubo (31/03/2011): > The mentioned symbols are exported from libgomp (a part of gcc-4.4 > package), which is correctly linked to the SO: > > # ldd ./src/libosra_java.so | grep gomp > libgomp.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 (0xb68df000) you may want to check through objdump

Re: Dropping HAL? [Was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy]

2011-03-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (31/03/2011): > Michael Biebl, le Thu 31 Mar 2011 14:30:06 +0200, a écrit : > > As you can see, xserver-xorg still uses hal on kfreebsd, but iirc > > KiBi did some work in that regard. > > AFAIK, it was agreed that hal is needed for now. FreeBSD's devd > should be a long-term repl

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz (29/03/2011): > And as you have to test-build your packages anyway the only reason I > see why you wouldn't be able to upload them is a very slow > connection to the rest of the world. One can test-build in her own, non-chroot environment, and still be cautious about what changed in

Re: Bug#620018: ITP: nova -- open source software for building reliable cloud infrastructure

2011-03-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (29/03/2011): > Description : open source software for building reliable cloud > infrastructure Please drop “open source software”, that's what Debian is about, no need to mention it in package descriptions (both short and long btw). KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: [RFH] BOINC fails to compile on kfreebsd-i386

2011-03-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Steffen Möller (24/03/2011): > Dear kfreebsd users, this is -devel@; cc-ing -bsd@… > amd64 is fine, but i386 does not build the BOINC package. The only other > platofrm making difficulties is hurd, but this is something very > different and will most likely be already fixed with the next up

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, just as a reminder: Roger Leigh (16/03/2011): > OK. I think this is the only known discrepancy between the two > resolvers. Given that we now routinely build using minimal clean > (cloned) chroots, they will behave identically in practice because AFAICT: only possible on Linux f

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz (02/03/2011): > What about a project which prepares a migration to > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd ? yay for portability. KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi. sergey (27/02/2011): > Is it normal that Debian's programs in my system gets dependencies > from non-Debian libraries? Phrased otherwise, it's normal to get to look into /usr/local/lib since that's the linker's configuration, see /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf (which has a comment about its bei

Re: Fwd: paraview_3.8.1-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2011-02-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mathieu Malaterre (24/02/2011): > Is there anything I would be missing ? […] > Reject Reasons: > paraview_3.8.1-2_amd64.changes file already known to dak You already uploaded this version, and even if it got removed, you can't upload it back AFAICT. > mathieu.malate...@gmail.com may not upload N

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

2011-02-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Patrick Matthäi (13/02/2011): > since we have got a stable release with dkms now, I am asking > myself, if it is still necessary to support module-assistant. > > dkms is IMHO the better system and maintaining two different systems > for kernel modules is a bit bloated. > > I think there should b

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
brian m. carlson (13/02/2011): > Also, FTBFS bugs are often filed by buildd admins; I'm sure they'd > like to spend their time doing things other than filing those bugs. Hell yes. KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli (13/02/2011): > I hereby propose a mass bug filing, severity minor, requesting > migration to the proper debian/control field. That might also be a sign of packages lacking love, maybe some of them should be orphaned or dropped instead? KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: chromium-browser is taking over all URLs

2011-02-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Norbert Preining (12/02/2011): > I checked: > - alternatives of: x-www-browser, sensible-browser, www-browser, gnome-browser > and all of them point to iceweasel > - checked the "preferred applications" in GNOME and it also shows > iceweasel > - checked with > xdg-settings get default-web

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (11/02/2011): > Mmm, I think we've already had users that have even 50% error rate, > simply because they mispell things. I like the intended pun! KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#612031: RFP: xscope -- Monitor X11/Client conversations

2011-02-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Arnout Engelen (05/02/2011): > Package name: xscope > Version: 1.3 > Upstream Author: James Peterson, MCC, Keith Packard > URL: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/ > License: X might not deserve its own package. I guess it could be shipped in one of the x11-* bundles. KiBi.

Re: Bug#611880: ITP: webkit2pdf -- export web pages to PDF files

2011-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ricardo Mones (03/02/2011): > Description : export web pages to PDF files > > Webkit2pdf is a little GTK+ tool designed to fetch web pages and > export them to numbered PDF files (or to print them). > . > Specifying paper size and output directory is also supported. Hope this helps: $ a

Bug#611401: ITP: libxkbcommon -- library interface to the XKB compiler

2011-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: debia...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libxkbcommon Version : git Upstream Author : Dan Nicholson and others * URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxkbcommon/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Descripti

Bug#611400: ITP: wayland -- new generation compositor

2011-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: debia...@lists.debian.org * Package name: wayland Version : git Upstream Author : Kristian Høgsberg and others * URL : http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ * License : GPL & MIT/X mostly. Programming Lang: C Description

Help!

2011-01-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Olaf van der Spek (14/01/2011): > There are lots of packages with old bugs without any comments that > are not on that list. Oh, indeed! Crap! I hereby request help for the 167 following packages: ccsm compiz compizconfig-backend-gconf compizconfig-backend-kconfig compizconfi

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (12/01/2011): > If a bug is not readily reproducible or isolatable, it may be > necessary to pass it over to an upstream maintainer who will know > what further questions to ask. But they need to send those > questions to the user, not to the Debian maintainer. In the kernel > team

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mike Hommey (05/01/2011): > It requires a recent kernel, though. IIRC, Lenny kernels don't > support readonly bind mounts. readonly bind mount support appeared in 2.6.26, at least according to the first point in [1]. 1. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26 KiBi. signature.asc Description: D

Re: Bug#608922: ITP: matlab -- integrate local Matlab installations into the Debian system

2011-01-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (04/01/2011): > [ BS ] Sorry, zack got it right, I didn't. KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#608922: ITP: matlab -- integrate local Matlab installations into the Debian system

2011-01-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Hanke (04/01/2011): > The likelihood of Debian having a package that actually provides > matlab seems to be rather low. If it ever happens this package would > be obsolete and could be removed. Then there should be no matlab package, at all. > I assume you want to point to the problem of

Re: Bug#608922: ITP: matlab -- integrate local Matlab installations into the Debian system

2011-01-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Hanke (04/01/2011): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Michael Hanke > > * Package name: matlab > Version : 0.0.13 > Upstream Author : Michael Hanke > * URL : http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/matlab.html > * License : GPL > Programming Lang:

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2011-01-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Olaf van der Spek (01/01/2011): > > Doing it in the kernel would be fine (maybe DLM could be used here), > > What's DLM? CONFIG_DLM. KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#518696: ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

2010-12-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Kurt Roeckx (30/12/2010): > Do you know about parallel in moreutils? Is there an advantage over > that one? The bug log answers the former (yes). The 4 options mentioned in moreutils's manpage seem to have an equivalent in GNU parallel, according to the first link under “Documentation”. KiBi.

Re: up-to-date dump of packages metadata.

2010-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Gustavo Franco (11/11/2010): > It seems there's a huge database dump being generated, but the > service itself - a pgsql server - isn't externally accessible. Is my > assumption correct? If yes, are there any plans to wrap it using > some sort of API for external consumption? You can haz docs:

Re: Minutes of the Debian linux-2.6 Group Meeting

2010-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thanks maks, tiny update from the Xorg side: maximilian attems (11/11/2010): > Debian intel xorg driver is missing patch to bail out earlier when > kms is off so the server will fall back to vesa, instead of erroring > out. 455f2939 landed upstream, will be cherry-picked: http://cgit.freedes

Re: Bug#602049: ITP: wicd-client-kde -- qt-kde client for wicd

2010-11-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Adding bug & submitter to the loop…) Marc Haber (02/11/2010): > Has there been any development in wicd in the last months that > suggests that packaging new wicd stuff is worth it? [1] is one click away from [2], and it appears stuff happened in october. 1. https://code.launchpad.net/~wicd-de

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (27/09/2010): > The only other proposed solution in the bug was to just require > build-arch/build-indep, and I think that would be more disruptive. Do we have numbers here? From another mail, it looks like a while back, only a minority of packages was affected. Sounds like something

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Dmitry E. Oboukhov (25/09/2010): > It seems that Debian doesn't contain all files which are nessesary > to install Debian in qemu. Could You give me a link to how to > install debian/armel(etc) in qemu? qemu-system-$arch + debian-installer-$version-netboot-$arch? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Desc

Re: /usr/share/info/dir.gz if install-info is installed

2010-09-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (14/09/2010): > > packages really ought to build if that package is installed… > This is true. However you can't install two packages containing this > file. Sorry, I should have been more explicit: build *properly*, i.e. do what's needed to avoid shipping that file in t

Re: /usr/share/info/dir.gz if install-info is installed

2010-09-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (14/09/2010): > So this is to let you know, to remove this package in order to avoid > further problems :) packages really ought to build if that package is installed… Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: list of packages that FTBFS on i386

2010-08-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi (25/08/2010): > How do I obtain a list of packages that have FTBFS bugs filed on > them and that are currently failing to build on i386 architecture? https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=i386&suite=unstable Click “Failed”. Usually, you get a “failing reason”

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (09/08/2010): > This information belongs in the release notes. I'm not sure where > one should look to see the draft release notes for the next release. Sounds like it? http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stephen Powell (13/07/2010): > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Care to share a reference to the bug you reported? > As Sven Joachim has pointed out, this would be an exercise in > futility. Upstream deliberately removed support for UMS a while > ago. Guess what, I *know*. And I did

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stephen Powell (12/07/2010): > But I can't get the nouveau driver to use my custom 100 Hz > Interlaced mode, or even the VESA standard 87 Hz Interlaced mode. > It insists on running the monitor at 60 Hz non-interlaced. And my > eyes just won't take that for very long. At 100 Hz interlaced, I > c

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Dropping -release, which isn't a discussion list.) William Pitcock (22/05/2010): > Given that there is no active upstream and that the Debian lilo > package carries many patches for bug fixes that are alleviated by > standardizing on grub2, this seems like the best option for Debian. Speaking o

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Since -bsd@ might be interested, Cc-ing them: Steve Langasek (07/05/2010): > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:15:25PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 14:57:08 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > > [Aaron Toponce] > > > > I thought Upstart was on the list for release in Sqe

Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++

2010-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Frank Lin PIAT (28/04/2010): > [Various remarks] You're missing the important bit here: Version 2.3.2 was released on 03/13/05. What about not packaging *that* at all? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2010 Results

2010-04-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Romain Beauxis (16/04/2010): > > | 2009 | 1013 | 47.741 | 366 |361 | 43 | 35.636 | 7.56155 | > > | 2010 | 886 | 44.648 | 459 |436 | 88 | 49.210 | 9.76513 | > > I voted twice and never received an ack. I am also not on the list > of voters. Yay for wondering in time. >

Re: Bug#576817: ITP: drupal6-l10n-ru -- Russian translation for Drupal 6

2010-04-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Al Nikolov (07/04/2010): > * Package name: drupal6-l10n-ru > Drupal uses English by default, but may be translated to many other > languages. > > This is Russian translation. Can't it just be merged into the drupal package? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Hardware trouble ries.debian.org - ftpmaster.debian.org / release.d.o services back this weekend

2010-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Luca, Luca Filipozzi (03/04/2010): > I hope that this information proves helpful. terribly. That's the kind of mail which helps getting facts straight, and helps getting a grip on real-life administration-related issues. Thanks. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Russ Allbery (25/03/2010): > Well, certainly the goal of Lintian is not to produce tags for which > the project consensus is that nothing should be done about. If > people don't feel like this is a good idea, we can remove it. It > made sense to me personally, but that isn't a deciding crit

Re: scons.mk is in latest cdbs package

2010-03-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jérémy Lal (20/03/2010): > i wonder if there should be some notice sent to all package > maintainers who use a custom debian/cdbs/scons.mk file, to make them > use the one provided by cdbs now ? reportbug lintian with a patch implementing detecting when scons.mk is found below debian/? Mraw, KiB

Re: uploads to experimental

2010-03-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Brian May (19/03/2010): > On 19 March 2010 13:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > | k...@bowmore:/tmp$ sbuild -c sid-amd64-sbuild -d experimental > > gtk2-engines_2.18.5-2.dsc > > What happens if you omit the -d and only have -c? As already pointed out in [1]: #559659, whi

Re: uploads to experimental

2010-03-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Brian May (19/03/2010): > According to the man page in my version of sbuild: >-d, --dist=distribution > Fetch source packages from specified distribution. > > However this documentation doesn't say this will also override the > distribution used in the changes file. Maybe it

Re: dpkg-deb temporary storage directory

2010-03-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam C Powell IV (06/03/2010): > How can I change the temporary directory where it builds the > tarballs? I don't see anything in the manpage or dpkg-deb --help > output. (Untested) It probably honours TMP/TMPDIR environment variables. > [Please CC me in replies.] [Done.] Mraw, KiBi. signat

Re: mail notifcation on "failed" builds

2010-02-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (24/02/2010): > Hi! Heya again, > Thanks, did't knew about that. Tag! You're it. Go and open a bug against developers-reference with a patch. ;) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mail notifcation on "failed" builds (was: Re: Misc developer news (#20))

2010-02-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (24/02/2010): > Indeed, they are not always a failure. A arch specific package I > sponsor (rt-tests) send me some of these failed build > notifications. The "Problem" the build fails, because the > archittecure is not supported, as can for example be seen on the > hppa

Re: sbuild version 0.60.0 released

2010-02-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Roger Leigh (23/02/2010): > 1) sbuild no longer defaults the distribution to "unstable", and > requires setting by hand with --distribution unless configured in > .sbuildrc. This is to prevent accidental uploads to the wrong > distribution. Yay. :D > 2) sbuild now lists all p

Bug#570053: RFH: blender -- Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer

2010-02-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the blender package. Blender is nice, but might benefit from more hands than only mine. If you want to help, please have a look at this checklist which should help you see if you fit the profile (if you don't, don't be afraid t

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Reinhard Tartler (08/02/2010): > I don't understand why this package is claimed to be empty: > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu/filelist Because of: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu-extras/filelist Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: #560778 apt-listchanges: depends on things in optional, which depend on things in extra

2010-01-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Julien Cristau (26/01/2010): > I'd object to this. I believe apt-listchanges needs to be in the > default install. Seconded. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Conflicting information about buildd status and testing migration

2010-01-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Hanke (15/01/2010): > out of date on hppa: fsl (from 4.1.1-1) > out of date on mipsel: fsl (from 4.0.4-1) > > > and that is supported by the arch listing on > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/fsl “rmadison fsl” is usually how one checks for this. > Unfortunately, the buildd logs

Re: rebuild test of Debian packages with GCC trunk 20100107

2010-01-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Matthias Klose (11/01/2010): > I'll go through the list of build failures this week, trying to file > appropriate bug reports for GCC or the distribution. Please let me > know if somebody wants to work on this list as well. Hi, I might want to join this kind of effort for next runs: I might have

Re: jcc and MIA maintainer

2010-01-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ludovico Cavedon (10/01/2010): > How am I supposed to proceed? Send all the info to the MIA team and > keep making 10-days NMUs until MIA orphans the package or the > maintainer replies? Or is in this case a take over acceptable? I'd suggest taking it over. If the previous maintainer comes back,

Re: dpkg 3.0 (quilt) packages not being accepted?

2010-01-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Gunnar Wolf (04/01/2010): > It seems the problem is reproducible on all Lenny hosts - And it is > quite likely to be a proper bug, as the file is for some reason > recognized as a v2.0 source package. > > My previous (accepted) upload was done on 2009-11-25, and dpkg-dev > dies the same way when

Re: Can not install xserver-xorg-video-vesa

2010-01-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Wong (01/01/2010): > I can not install xserver-xorg-video-vesa a few weeks ago. > > apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > xserver-xorg-video-vesa: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900) > but 2:1.6.5-1 is to be installed > E: Broken

Re: Bug#562848: RFP: pencil -- animation/drawing software

2009-12-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Frank Lin PIAT (29/12/2009): > It is a best practice to fill all the fields below (they wouldn't be > in the template otherwise ;) > […] > Usually, it is a good idea to write the full package description > that you would use for the upload... so people can give feed back. Better yet, check the BT

Re: Bug#562861: ITP: remmina-xfce -- XFCE applet for Remmina

2009-12-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luca Falavigna (28/12/2009): > Description : XFCE applet for Remmina > Remmina-XFCE is a XFCE applet for the Remmina application. This XFCE > desktop applet allows for easy-access of the Remmina main features. > Remmina-XFCE is also able to list all remote desktop files and makes > t

Re: Bug#561401: heimdal: FTBFS: Uses quilt in debian/rules, patches fail to apply.

2009-12-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Brian May (17/12/2009): > See bug #561401. See bug #557667? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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