Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-15 Thread Guillem Jover
/replacement(?), powerpc specific, needs update: Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] openhackwareBuild-Depends-Indep: gcc-2.95 I'll allocate some time to upgrade this to latest gcc. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Requesting pistachio removal in a week

2006-01-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, Initially I packaged pistachio because it was supposed to be the next microkernel to be used by the Hurd. That's questionable now. Also the package suffers some problems that I don't want to spend time fixing, like it not building on all supposedly supported arches, upstream not being much

Re: Problem with kdenetwork build for unstable

2002-12-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: I have problems fixing kdenetwork for unstable. With gcc 3 get/setenv aren't detected through C but through C++ which doesn't work. That's a bug in automake. It should be fixed with a patch in the following source:

Re: guaranteed non-interactive installation and upgrades

2002-12-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:56:47PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: I think we should document this in the policy and force maintainers, following this simple rule. When DEBIAN_FRONTEND value is Non-Interactive, ^^^ no question

Re: Problem with kdenetwork build for unstable

2002-12-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:39:36PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: I'd love to have it work but now the build complains about: make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/joey/kdenetwork-2.2.2' *** Creating acinclude.m4 make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/joey/kdenetwork-2.2.2' make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: sabre -- Fighter plane simulator. [#175226] * Orphaned 97 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Hmm, would be a shame if noone would care for it. My son likes it and the bugs on it do not

Glide co-maintainers request

2003-04-21 Thread Guillem Jover
retitle 189820 ITA: glide -- development files for libglide3 retitle 189952 ITA: device3dfx -- Device driver source for 3Dfx boards for 2.2+ kernels thanks Hi, I'll adopt those packages, and will start triaging all bugs. But I only have a Voodoo3 2000 PCI, so I would like to have one or more

Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

2003-04-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 08:07:14PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:46:03AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 20, Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about keeping a whitelist database in which the users can add themselves by sending a mail in certain format to

Re: Bug#200163: ITP: png2ico -- command-line PNG to ICO converter

2003-07-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:45:53PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: * Package name: png2ico Version : 20021208 Upstream Author : Matthias Benkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ * License : GPL Description :

Re: PearPC Section (contrib or main)

2004-10-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 08:15:47PM +0200, Ramón Rey Vicente wrote: Leo Costela Antunes wrote: | PearPC does not need MacOS X or other non-free operating system to be | fully used, it can be used with Debian/PPC for example, so, does it need | to stay in contrib? And, whats about dosemu?

Re: svn.debian.org

2004-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:51:03AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: It took me a while to get SVN access to some projects at svn.debian.org. It will be nice if someone can update web page contents of svn.debian.org. Done. Of couse, svn+ssh with absolute path /svn/pkg-ime/ worked but this is

Re: Bug#280534: ITP: kernel-patch-linuxabi -- Runs programs written for different Unix's under Linux

2004-11-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Russell, On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:28:25AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kernel-patch-linuxabi Version : 20040724 Upstream Author : Various * URL :

Re: Format of Release file and tools to create

2003-10-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:39:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where can I find the official definition for the Release file (http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release), e.g. a BNF or an informal description? Which is the tool (of choice) to create the files? How are

Re: testing packages at build

2003-10-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:09:31 +0200, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I see two possibility to implement this proposal: 1°) Let maintainers run tests in the build or binary target. Eventually we add a notest DEBBUILD_OPTION to disable it. 2°) We add a test target in debian/rules.

Generic init framework (was: Re: faster boot)

2003-10-16 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:12:26AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: If we want to introduce a new init system into debian, we should prepare a generic init framework (like many distributions already have in place) that allows for - silent/verbose boot and output redirection - fancy display of

Re: Changes in t1lib.

2003-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:48:29PM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:35:55PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: If you're renaming them anyway, why not follow Policy 8.1 and s/t1lib/libt1-/ (yielding libt1-1, etc.)? Yes, I thought about it. But there is no strict rule in

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 09:44:50 -0700, Erast Benson wrote: because non-glibc Debian architectures does exists (i.e. FreeBSD,Solaris,Darwin), and it is time to consider them and accept their existence. Those core architectures are open sourced and their communities will only grow over time. It

Re: Bug#363486: dpkg: [update-alternatives] New categories for: WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc.

2006-06-15 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 03:06:09 +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: I don't see real obstacle here. Granted that the alternatives system should be extended to look for $HOME/debian/alternatives Before checking /etc/laternatives Perhaps I should file a wishlist for it. Please

Re: Bug#374029: Fixing inconsisten and unusefull Build-Depends/Conflicts definition

2006-06-18 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:10:36 +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: normal [Side note: Buildds/dpkg-buildpackage has no robust way of telling if the optional build-arch field exists and must call build. This is wastefull for both build dependencies and build time.]

Re: Bug#156956: ITP: iftop -- iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs.

2002-08-16 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:37:41PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-16 Severity: wishlist * Package name: iftop Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Paul Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Lightfoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:03:32PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: * Package name: apt-history Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Vittorio Palmisano [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://redclay.altervista.org/archivio/python/apt-history/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:00:19PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I guess you would have to divert apt-get and aptitude for that and log the invocations. Actualy with aptitude taking the list of non automatic packages should give you exactly the install list. aptitude has had such kind

Re: architecture alias and disto rebuild

2005-09-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Bill Allombert [Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:39:36 +0200]: So I propose a alternate solution: If the distro foobar rebuild packages on i386, they could use i386foobar as architecture name instead of i386, this way every

Re: Build-Depend'ing on libasound2-dev just for Linux

2005-09-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:09:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 16 septembre 2005 à 00:33 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : It is maybe a crazy idea, but it is the only one that work. What you suggest simply doesn't work, as not+linux is a provided package, and the

Proposal: Start wrapping source control file fields

2005-10-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, A while ago bug 90989 was submitted, it was asking to extend the definition of source control file fields to be all (physical not logical) multi-line. I think it makes sense as we are supposedly using RFC822, and more given some really long and obscene fields in packages from d-i or xorg. As

Bug#303488: ITP: openhackware -- OpenFirmware emulator

2005-04-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: openhackware Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Jocelyn Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/ * License : GPL Description

Bug#303489: ITP: proll -- JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible replacement

2005-04-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: wnpp Owner: Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Severity: wishlist * Package name: proll Version : 18 Upstream Author : Pete A. Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/ * License : GPL Description : JavaStation PROM 2

Re: autoconf method in ifupdown

2009-04-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:00:14 +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: I was looking a method to just have ipv6 with autoconf network and found this patch http://mlblog.osdir.com/linux.debian.devel.ipv6/2005-05/msg00012.shtml This link didn't seem to work, got this instead:

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-04-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 16:23:12 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: I don't have the energy to push this any more, but I should probably at least refer to my previous attempt to standardize bulleted lists: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00531.html You might find it

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

2009-04-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:18:32 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: === And the details: === * Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings * --- Student: Jonathan Yu, Mentor:

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-04-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:26:36 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Michael Banck wrote: So it would be great if some numbers could be brought up first (maybe Andreas has a rough overview now, because he looked at the different kinds of itemizations). Well, I had not but

Re: autoconf method in ifupdown

2009-04-17 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 19:14:14 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: I'm ready to do it but I think this makes more sense to submit the bug to the upstream dev. Unfortunetely I couldn't find the web page of the ifupdown upstream development. It's not a software specific to debian, isn't it ? The

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-03 Thread Guillem Jover
[ BCCed debian-dpkg for the proposed dpkg changes. ] Hi! On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage and the policy do not match fully. Ok, had finally the time to read and think about this. I've to say

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 12:50:03 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Since etch, dpkg has supported architecture wildcards such as linux-any and any-powerpc, which can, among other things, be used to express Linux-only build dependencies like this: Build-Depends: libcap2-dev [linux-any]

Re: Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

2009-05-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:18:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan rmh.debian@aybabtu.com * Package name: vsag Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Robert Millan rmh.deb...@aybabtu.com * URL : not yet released

Re: Bug#534507: ITP: kalternatives -- graphical alternatives system configuration tool

2009-06-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Pino! On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:02:12 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pino Toscano p...@kde.org * Package name: kalternatives Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Pino Toscano p...@kde.org * URL :

Re: Bug#534507: ITP: kalternatives -- graphical alternatives system configuration tool

2009-06-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:32:23 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: Few days ago, I had a nice talk with Guillem, and he told me that dpkg developers are working for cleaning up update-alternatives' code, and planning to convert it to C (along with provide a dpkg library); since the previous

Re: multiarch and maintainer scripts

2009-07-02 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 13:58:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: what can be done if the maintainer scripts of a package must behave differently when unpacking the i386 deb on i386 or the i386 deb on amd64? We discussed this with Steve some days

Re: Bug#536888: ITP: tlock -- Terminal locker

2009-07-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:28:53 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Ryan Kavanagh ryana...@kubuntu.org (14/07/2009): This package will also provide the library packages librpass0 and librpass0-dev, with long description: Static library installed with tlock, it provides a function

Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker

2009-08-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:38:41 +0400, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of shared C/C++

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 13:03:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Open questions: * Can we require a one-to-one correspondance between binary package names and debug package names that provide symbols for that binary package? I think we should; I think it would make the system more

Re: Bug#540365: ITP: turnin-ng -- Assignment submitter and manager

2009-08-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:40:44 -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:23:43PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: I hope the packages uploaded won't have a «project» binary in the PATH? At the moment yes, Turnin-NG provides /usr/bin/project since that's what the original turnin

Re: What's the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:15:37 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: BTW also Maintainer and Uploader fiels are uselessly exported. Same here, they are used. While in stable the info might not be up-to-date, in sid it does and those infos are used

Re: Override changes

2009-08-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 23:49:52 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: if you need to request an override change for your package, please use the BTS in future, no longer reply to the override disparity mail you will receive from the archive. What about mass override change suggestions? Should those

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 22:06:23 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:02:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:54:19PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: * document that local policy will live in /etc/inetd.conf.d/ and any manual changes will

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 13:59:48 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:40:51PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: There are many obvious examples of update-foo scripts which behave in this manner. The requirement to run a script to update the working configuration is nothing new in

Re: Bug#545795: ITP: libbind -- standard resolver library

2009-09-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:20:57 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ondřej Surý ond...@debian.org * Package name: libbind Version : 6.0 Upstream Author : Internet Systems Consortium * URL : https://www.isc.org/software/libbind

Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

2007-02-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:51:17 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: Binary-only NMUs are a necessary evil. The implementation kind of sucks, but I'm not sure how a better approach would look like. It's not just the dependencies problem, it's also quite confusing that you've got a source package

Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

2007-02-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 19:13:09 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Guillem Jover: The resulting .changes will get a field like this: Source: bacula (1.38.11-7) which can be used to track back from which source this binary originated. Yeah, but this only helps if you've got a source

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

2007-03-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 10:28:34 -0600, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: It is really this simple to do using mutt. 1. To encrypt the vote you need to have the key. It could be accomplished in several ways. They way I did it was by copying from the call for votes email into a file such as foo.txt

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:12:00 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: Do we have plans for lenny to enable the use of bzip2 instead of gzip for the upstream orig.tar source tarballs? Does dpkg/apt support this already or has this already been thought about? As other people have replied etch's dpkg

Re: Bug#420344: ITP: swingx -- Extensions to the Swing GUI toolkit

2007-04-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 20:00:10 +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: swingx Version : 20070415 Take into account that if upstream later on changes the version to something not date based you

Re: Inactive maintainer (package: libguichan0)

2007-05-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 09:17:43 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: Now I have complained an offical report at the dbd about it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421859 But without any answer. This bug report has only been filed 3 days ago... regards, guillem -- To

Re: compiling packages

2007-05-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 06:14:46 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 03:29 +0200, Oliver Block wrote: I am not very familiar with the debian developer tools. How to recompile a package with debuggin option (gcc -g)? 1. Change the Makefile and/or debian/rules as necessary to

Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml upload finally triggered it. Please stop parsing dpkg status file from maintainer scripts. No package should assume its location or format (except for now for package managment frontends and the like, until there's a proper

Re: checklib

2007-05-30 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 02:19:33 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007 20:26:00 +0200, A Mennucc said: hi what about http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ ? madcoder mentioned in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00822.htmlof the intention of getting the checklib

Re: checklib

2007-05-30 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:13:32 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:59:15 +0300, Guillem Jover said: On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 02:19:33 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Has this been fixed in the latest incantation? Please fix this by adding an additional mode/view

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those packages are poking at the status file, please use something like: $ dpkg-query -W -f

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 15:22:59 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2007, 07:53 +0300 schrieb Guillem Jover: I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml upload finally triggered it. Well, why didn't you send me a CC of this mail? I just stumbled over

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-06 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:49:00 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Vogt wrote: - support for the new dpkg Breaks field (thanks to Ian Jackson for his work on this) Although dpkg still doesn't have Breaks support, so we still can't use it, AFAIK.. It will have on 1.14.5. regards, guillem

Re: Bug#428575: ITP: plexus-i18n -- Plexus internationalisation package.

2007-06-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Paul, On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:48:41 +0100, Paul Cager wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: plexus-i18n Version : 1.0-beta-6 Upstream Author : Plexus Developers * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org *

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-28 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:33:26 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Bill Allombert writes (Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?): At least, I would feel less alone. FWIW, I agree with you. I think the proposed `Build-Options' source control field is a sensible addition and

Re: patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:28:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I do this in configure.ac: dnl If and only if we're on Linux, use a mapfile to do symbol versioning. dnl We'd like to do this on all platforms, but the syntax is different dnl everywhere and I don't feel like dealing with the

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:04:14 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: So that it doesn't ask to install every driver each time. Actually the xorg server does that using: xserver-video-driver-all | xserver-video-driver-1.0 and each individual xserver-video-driver-foo provides the latter. So

Re: needs=vc as menu field useful and needed?

2007-08-02 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:12:20 +0200, Nico Golde wrote: When looking at the tags it doesn't look like the programs can't run in an X terminal. I tried worms from bsdgames, cadubi and pinball (randomly picked) and they all worked flawless in my aterm. Programs using the framebuffer directly, or

Re: Lina and BTS News

2007-08-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:16:03 +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: I'm not sure how useful lina is, but it's basicallly run some random program against all files in Debian (binary as well as source packages): http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/lina/ Any comments? Could you poolize the checks

Homepage field (was: Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard Homepage: trick)

2007-08-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 10:50:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti: Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea. Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with moving

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 09:43:06 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:05:28PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: I'd opt for dpkg generating the checksums upon _extracting_ the .deb file. [...] Where's the code for that? Changing write_filelist_except to update a new .md5

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:49:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:17:03AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: Ok, just pushed the Homepage field support into dpkg git. Chose Homepage as that was what was requested on 142324 and what has mostly been used on the pseudo

Re: Who owns /etc/default/locale?

2008-11-11 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 21:42:34 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 18:43 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: Frank Lin PIAT wrote: [] I have question which is directly related: shouldn't a package own and declare all the configuration files that it uses, even if it

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:27:14 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: PW Which date would it contain? The date the maintainer made the polishing touches on the .deb. We don't have that date. We do have: [...] And the date the .deb

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 09:30:48 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Introduction of the new fields == - Build-Recommends would list packages that are basically available in the Debian archive, but are not available on all architectures or for all kernels. [...] A

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:37:06 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: What you actually want here is to use architecture wildcards, as in: libasound2-dev [linux-any] this is documented in dpkg-architecture(1), and has been supported since dpkg 1.13.13

Re: file-roller: Can't open .deb by default (aka should recommend binutils)

2009-02-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:31:14 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: In Bug 515175, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Package: file-roller Version: 2.22.4-2 Severity: normal On a default gnome-desktop system (Lenny), .deb files (application/x-deb) are associated with file-roller, but it can't open

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 20:48:06 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 06:08:17PM +0200, Teodor wrote: There is no need to create another standard, FHS is being continued in the LSB project at linuxfoundation.org / freestandards.org. FHS was the starting point for LSB.

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-19 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:32:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Reiviving the FHS is great! Something that is bothering me a bit, though, is that historically it seemed to try to cater to Unix in general, not only Linux, even if most of the participants were

Re: the files in /etc/modprobe.d/

2009-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:02:18 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:02:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: winge Insert the typical winge here about dpkg conffile renaming code being deployed via cut-n-paste from a wiki page

Re: lrmi vs new kernels vs libx86

2009-03-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:49:33 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote: dear maintainers of packages that contain lrmi.{c,h}, today Lucas has reported #518725 - atitvout FTBFS because of missing *_MASK defines. Seeing that bug and remembering fun with lrmi myself, I thought I can have a look how

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:03:32 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: Guillem Jover wrote: I don't think it makes sense to have different Homepage fields on the binary stanzas, but if someone can think of a case it might be useful I could change it to override the source stanza field. I have one

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:35:31 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Will it be possible to have more than one homepage listed, comma-separated? Because dpkg does not have any direct use for it, it's not checking for the validity of the values. So technically, yes, you could. The question though is, do we

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:08:16 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Raphael - I'm in the middle of a rewrite of dpkg-cross, including the diversion of dpkg-shlibdeps: So far, pre1 is largely complete for dpkg-cross and the dpkg-buildpackage diversion, barring an unknown number of possible corner

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Raphael, On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:19:02 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I think my work is mostly ready for unstable as it is. The last step is to convince Guillem Jover, the main dpkg maintainer, to merge that in the master branch. He believes that supporting odd cases encourages bad

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-09-09 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 00:15:10 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:09:42AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: For libraries with versioned symbols, just checking for the needed version nodes should be enough, and I'd say that adding symbols to a previously existing version node

Re: Misc development news

2007-11-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:09:09 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:01:22PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Homepage field in debian/control (...) This was implemented in dpkg 1.14.6. Vcs-* fields in debian/control (...) This was implemented in dpkg 1.14.6. Do

Testers sought for svgalib on non-i386/amd64

2007-12-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I've just finished porting svgalib to non-i386/amd64 systems, I think it should build at least on sparc, mips, powerpc. I've not tested on other boxes but except for alpha it should build on mostly everything. I'd appreciate if someone could test on any arch (except alpha and the current

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-02 Thread Guillem Jover
be a cleaner approach. I haven't done a thorough comparison to your list but the results seem to be pretty similar. $ grep-dctrl ! -FDepends -e '.' -a ! -FPre-Depends -e '.' \ -a ! -FArchitecture all -n -sPackage binary-i386_Packages | dd-list -i -u -b Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnumach

Re: Parallel build results

2008-01-02 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:23:01 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 01/01/08 at 18:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the other hand, DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=n was ignored by packages that have not been validated by the maintainers, and used by

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:51:16 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: libdvb-dev (U) Only ships static libs; no idea why. That's due to #218387, #226985 and #359697. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 08:55:06 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Currently on dpkg I have 4 N: lines: one per deb + one for the .dsc. That clutters the output a bit too much to my taste. And ideally it should be at the end of the output (or at

Re: List of packages defining a RPATH on amd64 (differs from i386/lintian.d.o)

2008-01-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 17:01:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Oh, the other challenge with running lintian across multiple architectures is that, at least in previous days, some things didn't work right unless the binutils installed corresponded to the package architecture. I wonder if that's

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-18 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:13:43 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: After noticing a few compiled Perl module packages were missing ${shlibs:Depends} and/or dh_makeshlibdeps, I looked a bit into how widespread this issue is. Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] libdirectfb-dev Fixed in svn for 1.0.1-6

Bug#461985: ITP: libbsd -- BSD compatibility library

2008-01-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libbsd Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : The FreeBSD project * URL : http://www.freebsd.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : BSD compatibility

Re: Wrong Architecture for openhackware

2008-01-29 Thread Guillem Jover
tags 339870 wontfix thanks Hi, On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:47:53 +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: * Error out if the toolchain used to build is not powerpc-linux-gnu. (Closes: #322300, #339870) Again, I don't agree here (backed by p2): The package is

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-02-01 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 05:30:47 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Guillem Jover wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:11:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: For 12.) and 28.), I'd file a wishlist bug providing a config file snippet for /etc/rsyslog.d/ Can we please use /etc/syslog.d/ instead? this way

Re: Automatic mirror selection

2008-02-04 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 21:09:24 +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: Adam Borowski wrote: Uhm, and how exactly do you get the arch? At DNS time you don't have anything but the requester's or his ISP's IP. This would have to be placed inside sources.list at some point, then I figure the

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-04 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:54:11 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Of course, that would mean that the few debian/rules (hi Manoj) in Debian not being makefiles [...] You were probably thinking about Josip (and now the VDR team):

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 20:23:37 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 06/02/2008 Russ Allbery wrote: I'm not sure whether this is an issue with dpkg or rather with lintian, but if I check the cryptsetup deb+udeb packages after building them, lintian reports that udebs don't allow the

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:23:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Except it will only work if the package uses 'Package-Type' and not 'X*-Package-Type'. X*B*-Package-Type should work as well. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#465402: O: directfb -- direct frame buffer graphics

2008-02-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Now that the library transition is over, and all major bugs should be fixed, I've been able to finally orphan the directfb suite of packages. It might make sense for whoever takes over, to adopt the whole suite (directfb, dfb++ and fusionsound), they have been

Re: Bug#465402: O: directfb -- direct frame buffer graphics

2008-02-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 16:03:04 +0100, Fathi Boudra wrote: Otavio Salvador, Luis Mondesi and me would like to adopt directfb and friends. Sure, I've transferred the alioth project now (you sort out the project perms). Something I forgot to say before about latest upstream release, I didn't

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