Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: I can confirm the trend for a couple of organisations. The primary reason that I identified was the retirement of security support for Lenny and that Lenny packages are removed from many Debian mirrors which made it difficult to use

Re: Popularity of bzr-builddeb and dh-make

2012-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote: A poll is a good idea. Can you recommend a site that allows setting up a poll? The Debian secretary was at one point going to setup devotee for this sort of thing, don't think that ever happened though. If you want some FSAAS

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I further looked around: e.g. the Release file seems to only use MD5 not so good :( Wrong, the Release file has had all 3 since sarge. woody had MD5 SHA-1. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Sources files seems to use MD5, SHA1 and SHA256... though MD5 seems to have a special status (Files vs. Checksums-algo). That might be just historic, though. Similarly the Packages files... MD5/SHA1/SHA256... Only since wheezy

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net wrote: Then what's this: ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release Sounds like you have a person in the middle hacking your network (or a browser bug), it works for me: pabs@chianamo ~ $ GET

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Russell Coker wrote: We could have a lintian warning for any occurance of the string /home in a packaged file and have error conditions for /build and the current value of $HOME for the account running lintian. Based on a quick grep of /usr/bin on my laptop,

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Russell Coker wrote: For a warning it doesn't matter much if we have a few false-positives. For the error conditions that I suggest for /build and $HOME I find it difficult to imagine false-positives except the case where a DD uses their own home directory

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
I don't think we need GRs to decide development procedures like this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: suggestion

2012-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: When somebody implements it. Someone already did: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/unstable/win32-loader.txt -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: While this feature allows gdb to know the correct source locations, using it implies that packages requiring the feature contain incorrect source paths - wouldn't it be better for these packages to contain correct source paths in the

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: For every debian source package that enters the archive, dak should commit the source code to a public readable Git repository and put a signed tag on it. While we are discussing wacky ideas, there is a derivative putting the entire installed

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: Unblocks and Freeze Policy -- ... We're also reducing the acceptance criteria [RM:POLICY] - we're now only going to accept: ... Which policy applies in the case of unblock requests that are pending action by the

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: The policy and diff from the start can be found at http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html Which policy applies to #685913 (and all the other open unblocks)? The policy announced at the beginning of the freeze or the current

Re: Bug#692863: ITP: heimdall -- tool for flashing firmware on Samsung Galaxy S devices

2012-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: There's another ITP that suggested heimdall-flash: http://bugs.debian.org/644520 Marcin Juszkiewicz was also packaging this and I suggested android-tools-heimdall since we also have android-tools-adb and android-tools-fastboot. -- bye,

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-14)

2012-11-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: We are considering removing the following packages from testing as they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The packages can be found in the attached dd-list. ... Alexander Wirt formo...@debian.org ferm Um, DSA might not be happy

Re: Bug#693310: ITP: spiped -- create secure pipes between socket addresses

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: Description : create secure pipes between socket addresses spiped (pronounced ess-pipe-dee) is a utility for creating symmetrically encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses, so that one may connect to one address

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661239 Hmm, that doesn't look like a valid bug report to me. Especially I don't see why dhclient would be able to disrupt systemd in such a way that you'd need to do a hard reboot. I

Re: Usertags browser/search

2012-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Wookey wrote: Usertags are very flexible but rather undiscoverable. I have been using this to backup my usertags but you can also use it to browse all the usertags known by the BTS and grep through them: rsync

Re: Bug#693492: ITP: litecoin -- peer-to-peer network based digital currency

2012-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Litecoin is a fork of Bitcoin. Please get that documented in the security team's embedded code copies file: http://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Marc Haber wrote: How many non-Linux platforms does Arch Linux (sic!) support? Looks like just Hurd: http://www.archhurd.org/ It seems that they are talking about Arch BSD too: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142679 I know of two non-Linux

Re: x32 port bootstrap is uploaded

2012-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Daniel Schepler wrote: Later I'll try to document this a bit more on the wiki, create a stub root index.html redirecting to the wiki, and possibly create an x32.debian.net alias. Please do move it to debian-ports.org when you are able, I don't think we want

Re: Bug#693998: ITP: linux-minidisc -- Free software for accessing NetMD and HiMD MiniDisc devices

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: * Package name: linux-minidisc Thats a strange name considering it builds and runs on MacOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Haiku. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Do not CC me

2012-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: And to add to the confusion, the BTS does not automatically subscribe the contributors to a thread, As a submitter of bugs, I do not need (nor want) to be CCed on every mail to a bug, just the ones that require my input. So I would oppose

Re: Do not CC me

2012-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: The solution to this is very simple. Have the mailing list manager to add a Reply-To: header on each messages. I've done this on few of the lists I manage, and since then, nobody sends double-messages. But, probably,

Re: dput-ng/1.1 in unstable

2012-12-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: While the traceback is ugly, that's valid. Note 0xDEFACED isn't 8 long, it's 7. Even though it's unlikely we'd get that key, I figured the DD would use a UID that's valid. Anything less than the full fingerprint (8, 7 or whatever) should

Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

2012-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: I can split the fonts into a separate package. Will it be OK if I keep the current path (/usr/share/javascript/mathjax/fonts/), or should I change it to something else to make it possible to load the fonts from other applications? On

Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

2012-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: OK. I maybe can try to add a fontconfig script or something like that. No need for a script, just install them in the right directory. My another question is: there are 5 types of fonts, one of which is quite heavy: $ du -sh

Re: Packaging upstream tarballs with mixed C and Python sources

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Игорь Пашев wrote: I think override_dh_auto_{build,install,clean} in debian/rules could help. For example: override_dh_auto_build: cd server ... # build server $(MAKE) ... # build in top dir Best talk upstream into providing a better build system,

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2012-12-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: $ man debian-distro-info Debian OS provides API to query such information. In addition, stable alias names are also provided (stable, testing, unstable, experimental). As a last resort you can also scrape archive mirrors dists (e.g.

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Any feedback is appreciated. Please read the wiki page before you comment, it contains more rationale than this email. Thanks. Since golang apparently doesn't support dynamic linking, every package built against a golang library will

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Only when not using the “official” compiler (gc), e.g. gccgo has support for dynamic linking. Then we should use gccgo until the official compiler supports this. AFAIK not, but I will add this to the list of questions I want to ask

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Another question: Have you considered asking for a archive Section for those packages? I guess with no special section yet all those packages would be section libdevel as they are for static linking only, wouldn't they?

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: Like a machine-readable http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/README ? Yeah, or something like this: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Knowing the release names in advance (was: Feedback)

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Maybe distro-info-data's csv file should be published on mirrors, to even provide historical names.

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: One might argue that the static case is actually better because it is more predictable, but our post-release support model is heavily dependent on minimal changes (because we cannot do full QA post-release). Such minimal changes are

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Slightly different approach: However, for serious server deployments we in Debian might want to think about supporting older releases a little longer than atm. A scheme like veryoldstable - oldstable - stable - testing - unstable From

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Nick Andrik wrote: Recently I was trying to convert the debian/copyright file of a non-free package ( unrar-nonfree ) to 1.0 format. The main license of this software is non-free (mainly because it does not allow reverse engineering of the RAR algorithm) but

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 06:26 +0200, Nick Andrik wrote: We have unrar-nonfree that builds the binary package unrar and unrar-free that builds the binary package unrar-free. We also have unar that builds the binary package unar. I guess you meant unrar-nonfree can probably be removed from

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Nick Andrik wrote: The main reason I decided to deal with unrar is because of e-book reader calibre needing the libunrar.so library [1] in order to read CBR files. I see. Can unar provide such an interface? It is LGPL, so it could be made to provide such

Bug#697897: RFP: xul-ext-stylish -- a user styles manager for the web

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Mozilla Extension Maintainers pkg-mozext-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: xul-ext-stylish Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : Jason Barnabe * URL :

Re: Retrieving source package from repository without touching sources.list?

2013-01-14 Thread Paul Wise
Sounds like you are looking for chdist: pabs@chianamo ~ $ chdist create foo http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Run chdist apt-get foo update And enjoy. pabs@chianamo ~ $ chdist apt-get foo update Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org unstable InRelease [228 kB] Get:2

Re: Retrieving source package from repository without touching sources.list?

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: It's called pull-debian-source Sounds like something that should be moved into devscripts. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
The version difference is probably due to symbols stuff, read deb-symbols(5), dpkg-shlibdeps(1), dpkg-gensymbols(1) and this wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps No idea about the other stuff, you appear to have four copies of the C library installed and are maybe

Re: Bug#698256: ITP: lz4 -- Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: * Package name: lz4 Description : Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm. Is it faster than lzop? How does it compare to lzop, gzip, lzip, xz, bzip2 in terms of

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
Thanks a lot for your work on this! and to everyone else who worked on or shaped the proposal. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: - should Debian be bootstrappable in a fully automated fashion? We created the algorithms that can allow this to happen, we just need

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Wookey wrote: I intend to send an update mail on the state of this later this week. Excellent. Does asking d-devel for feedback count as news? Having this functionality available for packagers would count as news... But I agree that telling people about the

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:44:53AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : The version difference is probably due to symbols stuff, read deb-symbols(5), dpkg-shlibdeps(1), dpkg-gensymbols(1) and this wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects

Re: how to handle architecture dependent headers in subdirectories

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
Would it be possible to use something similar to the bits/ dir in eglibc? Or would your proposal replace that? /usr/include/python2.7/bits - /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/bits And in /usr/include/python2.7/* #include python2.7/bits/foo.h -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Bug#698656: ITP: adequate -- Debian package quality testing tool

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: adequate checks quality of installed packages. Please add the commands needed for running adequate to this list of checking tools: http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian#Check_points_for_any_package -- bye, pabs

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-01-24)

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
n Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: So all in all it is ugly (as in most PHP webapps), but it doesn’t seem release-critical to me. The SWF files do not appear appear to have source code in glpi. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Question about PTS web interface

2013-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
The PTS has a lot of unstable-isms, patches welcome though. Outside the freeze, experimental probably isn't particularly important to inform people about though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: tool to create debian/copyright files paragraphs?

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: I have a package (closure-compiler[1]) with files copyrighted by six different parties unsystematically distributed over a large source tree. Has anybody already written a tool to automatically create the files section of the

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On the other side of the fence are folks who believe in the separation between upstream and Debian so much that they refuse to package software they are upstream for (I'm not among them, but I know they exist). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: tool to create debian/copyright files paragraphs?

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:28 +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: Fossology seems to have been removed because it was un-maintained, (ITP #483297 then RoQA #656591 at version 1.1.0). But upstream looks (very) active and released version 2.1.0 three months ago. Paul, do you think it is worth bringing it

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: I would add one thing here: Haskell/GHC also (currently) doesn't create shared libraries, and instead builds the program statically, but the Debian Haskell group still tries to package as best as they can the development libraries, for all

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Having multiple package managers which don't know about each other on a system is evil™ (but in some cases, can be managed properly). Some integration between dpkg and domain-specific package managers could be useful. With DEP-11, we

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:52:33PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: So, take this as an example of another language which doesn't do shared linking but for which libraries are still packaged

Re: Default packages flags

2013-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Pavel Baculák wrote: Is possible to know, which is default flags for packages? Or where can i find this information? For example in Gentoo or in Sabayon is this very easy. For Sabayon can I find all flags on the Sabayon's web page for all packages. Sounds like

Re: Default packages flags

2013-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Pavel Baculák wrote: As I am reading this mailing list, I think - download source, unzip and read debian/rules is the best way. Any easier way don't exist. But it is a shame that there don't any easier ways. Perhaps you didn't read my email, so I will repeat

Re: Building and using shared libraries using gccgo

2013-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Assuming we ship Go libraries compiled as shared libraries, where do we get the SONAME from? There is no mechanism for Go libraries to declare an ABI break. Inventing one and asking all upstream projects to adopt it seems unlikely to

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: Speaking with many hats on, I think Debian Python has done a very admirable job of integrating the Python ecosystem with Debian. One of the pain points for users (I've had folks ask me this face-to-face) with that stuff was site-packages vs

Re: upstream advise page about circular dependencies (bootstrapping)

2013-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
Which software is this and why does it need itself to build? Is it a compiler? Feel free to add a section to UpstreamGuide about this, it seems like appropriate content. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: big improvement with Experimental kernel 3.7.3

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
I would suggest you find the relevant fixes and report a bug asking the Debian Linux kernel team to backport them to the wheezy version of Linux. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: realise diff-updates with dpkg

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
In what specific situation did you want to use something like this? I'm having a hard time imagining an appropriate use-case for this solution. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: realise diff-updates with dpkg

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
I asked for a specific place you want to use it, rather than some general ideas. I don't think a generalised mechanism can work in the situations you are thinking of, per-database mechanisms are the way to go really. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: realise diff-updates with dpkg

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
A DNSBL is the traditional solution for blacklists, why are you putting your blacklist in a .deb? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
For duplicate file detection, there is now the Debian duplication detector (still importing the archive): http://dedup.debian.net/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: realise diff-updates with dpkg

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
I don't know how big your squidguard blacklists are (its a good idea to include details when asking questions), but the largest one I could find was 20MB, much smaller than some of the packages I maintain in Debian, let alone the largest package in Debian. Anyway, rsync sounds like the most

Re: Bug#698656: ITP: adequate -- Debian package quality testing tool

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: Unlike other tools on that list, adequate requires the package to be installed before it can be checked. Then you call it this way: adequate pkgname Feel free to update the wiki page; I won't do it myself. Will add it once adequate reaches

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Amen to this. I care a lot about having fairly complete Unicode coverage in my display fonts, and I've often had to trawl through aptitude to try to guess at which font packages I need to install just to, for example, see the front page of

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
recommended is in the eye of the beholder, I personally like DejaVu for latin characters but others detest it. There is a page about fonts for the Debian installer though: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIFonts -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Some poking around Wikipedia reveals that what this page is referring to is Chữ Nôm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m. I suspect the fonts I have installed have all of the borrowed Chinese characters but are missing some

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: This seems wrong to me. Adding complex schemes to text-drawing backends sounds like something fragile. It will slow stuff down, and add surprising modes of failure as well. The schemes have already been implemented in PackageKit and

Re: Getting Intel Cedarview drivers into Debian

2013-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Is it just me or this thread about propietary stuff should not be happening here? http://www.debian.org/social_contract It may be just me, yes. It definitely isn't just you. -- bye, pabs

Re: needing sponsor for blt: am I at that stage?

2013-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
Looks like you did everything correctly, except one thing: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: * Closes: #664092 * Closes: #524149 * Closes: #636629 It is best to explain what is being closed, please read the devref section on changelog best practices:

Re: needing sponsor for blt: am I at that stage?

2013-03-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:44 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I'd like to disagree here. After having a quick glance at the package on mentors [1], there is lots of work to be done until the package is lintian-clean which is what I always prefer when sponsoring. I didn't look at the

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: So yes, I would think having a safe, backup of Alioth is important. Now, what worries me is that I didn't read any of the Alioth admins explaining what is currently in production. I've searched, and the only info I found was hosted

Re: Bootstrapping: list of 81 self-cycles in Debian Sid

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
Is there anything we can add to debcheck or the PTS to encourage maintainers to help break these cycles by adding build profiles and or cross-compilation info? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bootstrapping: list of 81 self-cycles in Debian Sid

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:28:15PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Is there anything we can add to debcheck or the PTS to encourage maintainers to help break these cycles by adding build profiles and or cross-compilation info? It seems

Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Arno Töll wrote: dcut dm --uid Tobias Stefan Richter --allow nexus Could this be moved to devscripts as a dm command? Maybe with less dashes in the interface too. dm Tobias Stefan Richter allow foo bar , deny baz -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: [PATCH] netplug - Allow to specify custom script file via param '-s'

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com wrote: I sent this email also to debian netplug maintainer, but he did not responce. So forwarding email to debian-devel mailinglist. -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Pali

Re: [PATCH] netplug - Allow to specify custom script file via param '-s'

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: I sent this email also to debian netplug maintainer, but he did not responce. So forwarding email to debian-devel mailinglist. Please file a bug so the patch does not get lost: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- bye, pabs

Re: Bug#702607: make source code of all Debian projects visible (on gitweb) [DCS]

2013-03-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: Also, GitHub being proprietary software, it would be great to have a mirror on a platform running Free software. Done. :) I had assumed Charles was talking about alioth.debian.org, in collab-maint or similar.

Re: Doing an anonymous git clone from bitbucket: is it possible?

2013-03-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: BTW, I've came across: http://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/git-remote-hg-bzr-2/ Awesome, nice find! I just converted all the hg repos I have checked out to git using this, everything worked. Both of these appear to be in git from

Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? No, that is not how the firmware-free source package works. It

Re: repositorio TUQUIGRUB

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
Hola Patricio, Por favor, escriba en Inglés en debian-devel según lo sugerido por nuestro código de conducta: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Por favor, lea esta introducción a mantener paquetes en Debian: http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers [Asking Patricio to write

Re: bugs.debian.org: something's wrong...

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: The bigger concern is that this is a web bug, whether it wants to be or not. Whoever hosts any of the images being included knows the IP address and time of every visitor to a bug report. Only if you use a web browser that is obeying

Re: bugs.debian.org: something's wrong...

2013-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 09:35 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: If your browser downloads an image, then the server hosting the image at the very least knows your IP. If your browser was obeying you, it wouldn't download the web tracking images. PS: please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. -- bye,

Re: grub2 on zfs root

2013-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Игорь Пашев wrote: Suddenly, I've found that grub2 knows about kopensolaris [1] So does dpkg: $ dpkg-architecture -L | grep -i opensolaris | head -n2 kopensolaris-i386 kopensolaris-ia64 Could anybody say how it happened? [1]

Re: Splitting the devscripts package

2013-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: This can/should preferably be configurable, defaulting to the Debian BTS. Derivatives should be encouraged to override the defaults accordingly. Only EmDebian is using debbugs and they use bugs.d.o. I didn't think the bts command had

Re: Multiple applications in one git repo

2013-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
What you want should be possible if upstream were to add some git tags. Obviously the downloaded tarball would need to be modified. Does upstream release individual tarballs for each application? Probably what needs to happen is to split the git repo up into one per app. -- bye, pabs

Re: Multiple applications in one git repo

2013-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Philip Hands wrote: Might it be possible to do that with git-subtree, and then track the application specific branch created by subtree as the upstream for each package? I'm not familiar with this case, nor with git subtree but my favourite solution for

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Wookey wrote: Is anyone actually working on making the aptitude multiarch-friendly, or planning to? It appears so, see the bottom of this mail: http://lists.debian.org/deity/2013/04/msg00027.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Debootstrap progress does not look monotonic

2013-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Игорь Пашев wrote: Progress, reported by debootstrap does not look monotonic. Do I miss something? The debian-boot list might be a better place to discuss this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Paul Wise wrote: For duplicate file detection, there is now the Debian duplication detector (still importing the archive): http://dedup.debian.net/ This will soon be linked to from the PTS for packages that share a significant amount of data. Here

Re: Add multiarch library paths to DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH in Dpkg::Shlibs?

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Игорь Пашев wrote: Now, /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Shlibs.pm defines default library search path as: Sounds like a topic for the debian-dpkg list? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:05:47 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: The tool you are looking for is mk-build-deps from the package devscripts. So one uses mk-build-deps to create a .deb containing the build dependencies as binary dependencites, put that

Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Nonetheless, with derivatives and Debian itself having different release cycles, and wearing my upstream developer hat, I can't help wondering: how can upstreams ensure that the freshest versions of their package propagate to the

Re: [PATCH] netplug - Allow to specify custom script file via param '-s'

2013-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: But why Debian cannot review and include this my patch? Now is the time for fixing RC bugs, not for including patches, please wait until wheezy is released and then give the maintainer some time to review it and prepare a new package. -- bye,

Re: Join the #newinwheezy game

2013-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Only problem: dd-list seems to expect *binary* package names and has no mode to tell it to expect *source* package names, despite outputting the latter by default. (Why?) Are you sure? From the manual page: Input is a list of source or

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