Re: possible freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-11-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: * Use Debian's libtool. kmldonkey links with the following libraries: -lkdeui -lkio. As shipped, libtool expands that to every library under the sun. The new libtool indeed reduces this to

Re: possible freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-11-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:48:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I've trimmed the configure scripts to avoid this, leaving me with the link commands for the two binaries being: g++ -Wall `/usr/bin/wx-config --cxxflags` -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -g -O2 -o tqsl tqsl.o

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:43:15PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi, Vincent Sanders wrote: [1] http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/architecture.php?a=arm taking a random (end of alphabet) sample from maybe-failed: twinkle: requeue (probably libccrtp was stuck in NEW) Just try to

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:51:00AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi, hotkey-setup: might also work on amd64 ia64 (depends on dmidecode) OTOH, maintainer usually seems to know what he's doing... Also see #331280. Afaik, there is no reason this couldn't be changed to work on

Re: Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 05:55:23AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Indeed, for practical buildd maintainance purposes, the distinction is not that important -- though 'Failed' is known to not benefit of a requeue, while 'Building:Maybe-Failed' might or might not, it's unkown, most archs

Re: ldd -u (Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages)

2005-12-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:56:08PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Nathanael Nerode [Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:35:41 -0500]: To work out which libraries you're linked to which you don't actually need, ldd -u executable or library is invaluable. This seems like not the case _at all_ to

Re: ldd -u (Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages)

2005-12-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 05:02:15PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:56:08PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Nathanael Nerode [Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:35:41 -0500]: To work out which libraries you're linked to which you don't actually need, ldd -u executable

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:25:03AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: [1]: As I write this 79 NEW packages, 85 total. Then ftp-master must be really busy, since it's now 64, total 69. Also note that most of those packages in new aren't even a week in it, alot aren't even a day old. I think they're

Re: urgency='low' testing propogation only 5 days for gtk+2.0?

2005-12-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:10:11PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: It is my understanding that an urgency='low' upload defines a 10 day delay in testing propogation, unless overridden by hints. However, yesterday's gtk+2.0 upload indications only a 5 day delay. Why?

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Six months is a lot of time; and experimental should provide you with the space and machine power to handle the rebuilding. I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid against build-dependencies in

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:54:34AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid against build-dependencies in experimental. I thought I did

Re: debian experimental

2005-12-30 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:12:23PM +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, I have noticed that directory debian/dists/experimental/main/binary-i386 is empty. Where is new experimental repository? -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 1288427 2005-12-29 21:14 Packages drwxr-sr-x 2 mirror mirror4096

Re: debian experimental

2005-12-30 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:48:06PM +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free So why do you use ftp.debian.org and not ftp.pl.debian.org for experimental?

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:09:34PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 06 janvier 2006 à 14:28 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla a écrit : /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-01-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:19:58PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le Fri 20 Jan 2006 23:15:11 +0100, a écrit : Maybe the debian policy should require -Werror-implicit-function-declaration in CFLAGS so as to avoid such issue? Or buildds could check for implicit declaration

Re: Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:30:16AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even though it builds on AMD64. Since it turns out this package has never worked on AMD64, this bug

Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded

2006-03-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:25:43PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Yee-ha! This makes a wonderful (if moderately belated) first birthday present for my em64t workstation. :-) One question, though: what's the contact address for the new buildd's administrators? I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] (to

Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded

2006-03-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For now I suggest you contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, thanks; I considered that, but wasn't sure it was focused enough. (Granted, -devel isn't that focused either, but it is more developer

Re: S/390 buildd reconfiguration -- problem fix

2004-10-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:25:33AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Unfortunately this changed the kernel architecture from s390 to s390x. This in turn has the potential to break older configure scripts. May I suggest that you use the linux32 util? It should change the returned uname -r from

Re: Synching mirrors and clients (was: Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync)

2004-11-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: Now if you feel advantous, repack as many package on the source mirror with gzip --rsyncable and notice the difference. Exactly how is this going to help? I can only see this as being useful when the files change. Files should never

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:29:16PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is not the autobuilder infrastructure per se. It is that testing and unstable are largely in sync (!). This, combinded with the fact that testing must not have

Re: For people more knowledgeable about buildds...

2005-01-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:13:11PM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: Hi, Is there a webpage that shows the current queue of packages in Needs-Build state? igloo's pages are great, but they only let you know the position in the queue of a package, not what's before or after it (out of curiosity).

Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:20:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Bernhard R. Link wrote: Looking into sarge I found a number of manpages, that do not look redistributeable as they are licensed under the GFDL but do not include the full licence text needed to be distributeable. Especially

Re: Bug#292831: udev: udev prevents X from beeing started

2005-01-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:46:50PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:31:03AM +0100, Joey Hess wrote: Marco d'Itri wrote: My package works as designed, but let me know if you can design something better. Oh, so it's udev that's responsible for what IIRC is a race

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:47:28PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: It would be better to set up a arch-indep autobuilder (on a FAST machine that can handle pbuilder's unpacking of chroots, so that chroot crappage won't happen so often) and file FTBFS automatically. We build all

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:38:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name rules to be relaxed. One report wants . to be allowed in user names, another wants usernames to start with numbers. May I ask for your opinion before

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:14:09AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:33:53PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: It was brought up on IRC, a couple of weeks ago (my apologies, but I don't recall who brought it up, nor do I have a log) that it is now possible to strip debugging

Re: The ghost of libc-dev

2005-02-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:05:56PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: *) The standard way of doing this today is to have a -dev package which needs libc headers Depend on 'libc6-dev | libc-dev' to avoid the situation of having only a pure-virtual package. Why does that rule exists anyway? It's

Re: Does this break binary compatability on 64bit architectures?

2005-02-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:53:02PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Hello. Upstream of a library package that I maintain changed function prototypes in the followinf way: -int mailpop3_retr(mailpop3 * f, uint32_t index, char ** result, +int mailpop3_retr(mailpop3 * f, unsigned int

gcc-3.3 3.3.5-9 C++ ABI problem.

2005-03-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, gcc-3.3 3.3.5-9 was build with the configure option --disable-__cxa_atexit instead of --enable-__cxa_atexit. This causes it to have a different C++ ABI. This was fixed in the 3.3.5-10 which should be available soon. I've made a list of source packages that might have been build with the

Re: Where are the files of tetex-bin_3.0-1?

2005-03-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:45:23PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: (Cc to -devel, because this might be of general interest). Hello, on Tuesday I got a mail from katie that tetex-bin_3.0-1 was accepted, but the files don't seem to be in the archive. There was a problem with katie stopping

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:04:59PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Daniel Schepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Putting autoconf-generated files in the source package is nearly as fragile as generating them at build time. If there are changes in autoconf which break the configure.ac etc,

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:02:29PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Kurt Roeckx And how can you know you can actually build it if you never tried it? That's the point, actually: If I build-depend on autoconf, I *cannot* know that it will actually build after the next update

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:44:33AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:17:52PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Because we want packages in base to be preferred, as well as packages in libs. I think I slightly misunderstood the ordering by section bit -- I was assuming an

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:25:30PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: kid3 This one dep-wait on the wrong package. The package did declare a build dependency on libtunepimp2-dev until you uploaded one that build depends on libtunepimp3-dev yesterday. wanna-build doesn't remove those automaticly,

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:20:09PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kid3 This one dep-wait on the wrong package. Yeah, the dep-wait should be dropped to reflect the recent upload. Speaking of dep-wait, there appear to be a few bugs whose fixes

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:47:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le Ven 7 Avril 2006 20:33, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : A lot of the others simply need to desupport old versions of Python. python2.1 and 2.2 are supposed to be removed soon, but both currently fail to build.  There are lots

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, the clean solution for those cases when there's a compelling reason to implement this bad idea: see what dpkg-shlibdeps(1) has to say about shlibs.local. I've tried to do this

Re: AMD64: etch and uploads

2006-04-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:17:54PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:41:50AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Developers with amd64 machines are also now able to upload new versions of their package built locally (rather than in an i386 chroot) -- but in order to ensure

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was asked to package the latest version

Re: Does /etc/shadow exist in an sbuild environment?

2006-04-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:09:17AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Turning shadow on in chroots is left up to the local admin. This is optionnally done by the passwd package when it is reconfigured, see /var/lib/dpkg/info/passwd.config Of course, using shadowconfig on is also possible

ITP: elfutils

2006-05-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : elfutils * Version : 0.120 * Upstream Author : redhat (Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL :ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/systemtap/elfutils/ * License : GPL Description : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects. Elfutils

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

2006-06-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:53:57PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: | | The same problem is with Office programs: | |lyx |abiword |oowriter |... | | The /etc/alternatives contains a good framework to canonicalize actions to | common names available in system and to

Re: These new diffs are great, but...

2006-06-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:35:09PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:15:13PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Same here. Very annoying on a box where you only update every few weeks or something. Wouldn't it be possible to make snapshots every

Re: additions to dpkg-architecture

2006-07-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
| You have searched for the contents of libssl0.9.7 in stable, | architecture sparc. Package contains 9 files, displaying files 1 to 9. | | usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 | usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 | usr/lib/v8/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 | usr/lib/v8/libssl.so.0.9.7 |

Re: [Ping] Packages-arch-specific: please add architectures to Ada packages

2006-07-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:03:56PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: It has been a week since I sent the request below, and I received no answer. I am resending to the three maintainers of Packages-arch-specific, and CCing debian-devel. I've restricted the list of supported architectures to

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:47:13AM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: This issue has been blocking the Ada transition (19 source packages, 11 RC bugs) for about 3 weeks now, and I'd really like to be able to proceed. I don't see how this can be blocking a transition. Please just do it for the

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:51:22PM +0100, Martin Kittel wrote: Hi, I am maintaining the packages of the MaxDB database system. Recently upstream has converted the database kernel from linuxthread-style threading to NPTL. While -at least for i386- linuxthreads is still supported in MaxDB

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The information of -dev packages depending on other -dev packages cannot be automatically determined currently; it should be possible to obtain a minimal list by analyzing the NEEDED field of the objdump output. Errr, -dev packages

Re: The BTS and bug subscriptions

2005-07-23 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:11:14PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: It is now possible to subscribe and unsubscribe from individual bugs in the Bug Tracking System. To do so, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED], where nnn is the bug number you wish to {,un}subscribe to.

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:28:58AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:01:16AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: mini rant: what's the point in breaking important packages in unstable for significant periods (e.g. the bug above was filed 2005/07/13)? Isn't experimental more

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:33:59PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: apt-rdepends Interesting, but not useful for the case I had today: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-rdepends --build-depends --reverse foo E: Reverse build-dependencies are not supported

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path

2005-08-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:34:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: For the past week, I've started getting errors like the following when building any packages in pbuilder that include shared libraries with the current tool chain in unstable: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path for

Re: order of builds on a buildd: icu (optional/libs)

2005-08-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 05:46:19PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:40:30PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: Based on what I've seen in other threads, the order in which packages get built on a buildd is a function of, among perhaps other factors, its priority and

Re: Debian shared libs use far more memory than required

2005-08-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:47:17PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: The immediate suspect is binutils, particularily ld. It might be interesting to do test compiles with an older binutils version (2.15 vs. 2.16?) and see if the problem is reproducible. The package in question was already build

Re: Debian shared libs use far more memory than required

2005-08-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:21:07AM +0200, Stephane Chauveau wrote: I am not really surprised because I just compared the linker scripts from 2.15 and 2.16. They have a different section ordering and the official debian package clearly follows the 2.16 ordering. Also, there was no

Re: Debian shared libs use far more memory than required

2005-08-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:25:15AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: I checked the content of the .data section in libgtk and the unexpected data appears to be composed of all exported symbols aligned to a multiple of 16. Obviously a symbol table of some kind. The whole thing sounds like

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:45:35PM +0930, Debian-armeb Porting Team wrote: We *really* need to be hooked into the buildd system to be able to automatically build the rest of the stable, testing and unstable releases. This is our top-most priority, and we hope to get help on this point from

Bug#142164: Packages files should be in UTF-8

2005-09-30 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:32:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: reassign 142164 general thanks Hi, Just because a topic has been discussed on the policy discussion list is not reason enough to assign the bug to policy. Note that bug has been reassigned to the policy in

Re: Bug#331072: ITP: cinelerra-cvs -- non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux.

2005-10-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:05:08PM +0200, Riccardo Setti wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riccardo Setti [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: cinelerra-cvs Version : 2.0-cvs Upstream Author : * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License :

Re: dh_libtool proposal (-dev dependencies on -dev from libtool)

2005-10-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:44:02PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: The proposal is to have this program populate a substvar named ${libtool:Depends}. I've studied this problem at a cursory level, and this is what I currently intend to do: * Traverse the directory to be installed for .la

Re: Bug#332498: RFH: openssl -- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools

2005-10-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:07:01PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the openssl package. I am currently the only maintainer, but this package really needs a team to work on it. Too many packages depend on the library

Re: There are buildlogs for amd64 packages?

2005-10-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:20:52PM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: Hi, there can I find the build log for dvgrab_1.7-1 on amd64? http://buildd.debian.org/ doesn't list amd64 at all and http://amd64.ftbfs.de/ has only 1.8-1 and higher. Only buildd logs since about May 2005 are available on the

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: - Make pkg-config mandatory. pkg-config can already handle the case that different libraries are needed for static and shared linking. pkg-config also helps the second problem (conflicting -dev packages), see below Pretty

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:03:51PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:15:38PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: 3D Pretty please don't suggest that unless you first fix pkg-config. It's always linking in the libraries required for static linking even if you don't request

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:20:16PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: $ pkg-config --libs a -la -lb ^^^ It should not link to libb if you only request it to link to liba. liba should have a DT_NEEDED for libb, and the linker should find the symbols liba needs

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:29:20PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:55:25PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: $ pkg-config --libs a -la -lb ^^^ It should not link to libb if you only request it to link to liba. liba should have a DT_NEEDED for libb

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:11:00AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: If the .deb files were compressed using the gzip --rsyncable option, then fetching them with zsync (or rsync) would be considerably more efficient than straight HTTP transfers. No it wouldn't. Remember that .deb files are never

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:12:04PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Sorry, you're completely wrong. The files installed in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib are detached symbol files, that are loaded automatically by gdb -- *not* using LD_LIBRARY_PATH; and gdb looks for

Re: real-i386

2005-11-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:35:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Nick Jacobs: You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been

Re: How to get rid of a poised version

2005-11-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote: Hello, Mea culpa. I did a stupid thing with sbcl: in version 1:0.9.6.0-1 I used the following construction: [...] So is there anything else I can do? Yes, bootstrap it once for each arch manually. This really is something

Re: How to get rid of a poised version

2005-11-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:35:03PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote: Hello, Mea culpa. I did a stupid thing with sbcl: in version 1:0.9.6.0-1 I used the following construction: [...] So is there anything else I can do

Re: UTF-8 for debian/control

2005-11-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:41:21PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: Time for reviewing http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/12/msg00521.html and a statement in Policy about that (for consistency with changelogs that are already handled that way)? UTF-8 is only recommended in the changelog.

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:32:25AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: There are still a few packages in sarge which fail to build from source on amd64. Those packages will not be part of the amd64 release of sarge. I've made a list list on saterday too which included all patched versions in the

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:36:36PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Does that mean amd64 installer come without a mailer by default? Or will the amd64 installer install a different mailer? The problem is that the old version of libmysqlclient-lgpl was build before we switched to an nptl only

Re: [Release Notes] Use Woody's or Sarge's aptitude for upgrades?

2005-05-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 07:44:37PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: 1. apt-get install aptitude 2. change the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to stable 3. aptitude update 4. aptitude install aptitude dpkg 5. aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade 0. change the

Re: non-free to main, but buildds not picking up?

2005-05-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 04:05:42PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: My ggobi package recently made it from non-free/math to math (as the ATT license was replaced by the CPL, same as for graphviz). However, as shown by igloo's script, buildds are not picking it up:

Re: PostgreSQL transition ahead

2005-06-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:24:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Martin Pitt: (2) PostgreSQL 8.0 brought a new SONAME for libpq (libpq4), which removed a few symbols which were only intended for internal use, but were used nevertheless by some client apps (like psql).

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:11:46PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: 4) buildd software issues(pbuild,sbuild,wanna-build,etc) It looks like this software could use some redesign to put less work on the buildd maintainers and scale better to more buildds. Do you have some specific

Re: Orphaning packages

2005-06-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:08:28PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: Hi, I'm orphaning these packages: dutch (bug #314839) dutch should probably be adopted by someone who speaks Dutch. I'm willing to adopt this package is nobody else wants it. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:52:07PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: The only time I've ever removed entries from known_hosts is when I know that a specific host's key has changed, and 'ssh-keygen -R' deals with that just fine. That options seems to be undocumented. It's not in the man page or the

Re: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:39:13PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: In article 87vdq3gcf6@vorlon.ganneff.de (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general) you wrote: [...] PROPOSAL START General Resolutions are an important

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I'd also like to complain about the title text of the initial GR. It is clearly manipulative, as it pretends to be merely describing the proposed changes when in fact it is asserting an opinion. I hope the Secretary will fix

Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:43:16PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: This could be very bad for the root-system package set. ROOT has libraries named like libMatrix, libPostscript, libPhysics, libMath, and so on - i.e., very general names. For that reason I moved all the packages

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hello everybody, This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal. What actually needs to be done is: * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default, make another

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hello everybody, This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal. What actually needs to be done is: * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default, make another

Bug#506481: initscripts: Fix to allow falsified cpu information in /proc/cpuinfo

2009-07-30 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:21:44PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: reassign 506481 general thanks [Matthias Klose] Right. This seem to be a problem that need to be solved by the compiler, and not by initscripts. Reassigning to gcc. this has nothing to do with the compiler, which

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

2009-09-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:46:36AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:08:40AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: But this will cause trouble anyway. Imagine this case: glib changes SONAME, both app and library depend on glib. app is recompiled, gtk

Re: Looking for a temporary account on Alpha

2007-02-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:33:08PM +0100, Frank B. Brokken wrote: Dear Steve Langasek, you wrote: The intention here is to use size_t in situations where the value is known to be non-negative. I don't see any reason why you should use size_t for that instead of unsigned int.

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

2007-03-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:00:19AM +0200, Michal ?iha? wrote: Hi __ gpg --homedir=. --keyring debian-keyring.gpg --keyring debian-keyring.pgp --with-colons --list-keys 0x05C78623 pub:-:1024:17:DC3552E836E75604:2004-01-10:::-:Michal ?x8ciha?x99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]::scESC: [...]

Re: Unable to upload pacakge

2007-03-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:14:46AM +0100, Cai Qian wrote: Hi, I tried to upload pacakge to anonymous ftp master through passive FTP method. However, I have always got the following error, Check that you uploaded the binaries in binary mode and not in text mode. I think I got that

Re: Not-so-mass bug filing for the patented IDEA algorithm

2007-04-10 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:01:41PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Neil Williams: Which are the offending libraries? Botan, Crypto++, BouncyCastle, a few Perl-related packages. Openssl's README.Debian contains: Some algorithms used in the library are covered by patents. As a result, the

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:24:38PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:49:19PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Actually, I've considered adding hardware reporting to popcon, using a separate question (or more options, not sure which), and hardware reports do not need

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion

2007-04-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:10:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: *If I want or need command xxzz, which packages can give me that? You'll need to explore the packages website. You mean the search page on packages.debian.org called Search the contents of packages? Which just like apt-file

Re: Bug#388701: Why Beryl has just four packages?

2007-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:27, Anibal Avelar wrote: Hi. I see you have in queue NEW three packages: beryl-plugins, beryl-settings and emerald [1] and not ready (yet) beryl. Firstly, the beryl packages were REJECTED because

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 22-Apr-07, 16:22 (CDT), Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because segfaults are often not easily reproduced. Having the ability to analyse a crash that occured when the user did not have the -dbg packages

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: If there are concerns over archive size, why don't we drop all static .a libraries at the same time. Given that in Debian we typically always link dynamically, is there a need for .a libraries in all but a handful of cases?

Re: Bug#422423: ITP: libtool-cvs -- Generic library support script - CVS snapshot

2007-05-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:06:44AM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: Version : 2.1a (2007-04-10) Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Shell Description : Generic library

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:02:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:32:37AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: If there are concerns over archive size, why don't we drop all static .a libraries at the same

Re: Bug#422423: ITP: libtool-cvs -- Generic library support script - CVS snapshot

2007-05-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: 2007/5/7, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Mike Hommey: Why not package this as libtool and upload to experimental ? It would be impossible to build-depend on it. This may or may not be a good thing. I think the

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