Re: pkg-config issues

2004-11-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Freitag, 12. November 2004 14:47 schrieb Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo: > I've just started packaging some library which provides .pc file for > pkg-config. So I was wonder where to put this file and if my -dev package > should depend on pkg-config. IMHO not. Because you don't need pkg-config.

many .pc files in wrong package / mass bugfiling?

2004-11-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Many packages are buggy and include the .pc file in the main package (not the -dev). Mass bugfiling with allowed? Which severity? A quick apt-file search on sarge/i386 shows: $ apt-file search \.pc | grep pc$ | grep pkgconfig | grep -v dev beast: usr/lib/pkgconfig/bse.pc beast: usr/lib/pkg

Re: many .pc files in wrong package / mass bugfiling?

2004-11-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 16:16 schrieb Scott James Remnant: > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:07 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Many packages are buggy and include the .pc file in the main package (not > > the -dev). > > Did you actually check whether any of these *had* -

Re: Accepted mozilla 2:1.7.5-1 (i386 source)

2005-01-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 11:02 schrieb Takuo KITAME: > mozilla (2:1.7.5-1) unstable; urgency=high > . >* New upstream release (closes: Bug#288047,Bug#288044,Bug#287111, > Bug#277515) ARGS. Two of those bugs at least are *NOT* "new upstream release" type bugs. Is it really to hard to

ndiswrapper should be in contrib

2005-01-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: ndiswrapper Severity: serious Tags: sarge, sid Hi, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > > into his shell and refuses to discuss this problem. > > Btw, cou

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > Increasing the rate at which new packages flow into unstable is NOT > something that should be a priority when we're trying to get the RC bug > count down in preparation of a release. Show me that there are enough > people working on release-critical issues for sarge,

Re: OpenOffice2 on Debian

2005-02-07 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Drew Parsons wrote: > The OpenOffice web site gives clues for running the 1.9 test releases on > Debian at > http://installation.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=609 > > These hints, for OO 1.9m51, are out of date for recent snapshots. > > I have gotten 1.9.74 to work on Debian

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Montag, 14. MÃrz 2005 08:36 schrieb Steve Langasek: > wanna-build stats: > i386: 99.83% up-to-date, 99.83% if also counting uploaded pkgs > ia64: 97.39% up-to-date, 97.41% if also counting uploaded pkgs > powerpc: 97.99% up-to-date, 98.00% if also counting uplo

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Montag, 14. März 2005 18:58 schrieben Sie: > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > pcc is barely at 98%. I don't think that barrier should be that high. We > > *should* at last release with the tree most important archs: i386, amd64, > > powerpc.

Bug#348206: ITP: ieee80211softmac -- IEEE 802.11 SoftMAC kernel module

2006-01-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ieee80211softmac Version : 20060114 Upstream Authors: * Copyright (c) 2005 Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Joseph Jezak <[

Bug#348207: ITP: bcm43xx -- Broadcom 43xx Wireless LAN driver module

2006-01-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bcm43xx Version : 20060108 Upstream Authors: Copyright (c) 2005 Martin Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Orphaning: opendchub, pimppa, rccp, xnc, xshisen

2006-02-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Zak B. Elep wrote: > On 2/2/06, Gregory B. Prokopsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've not have had time lately to maintain these packages properly and > > it'll > > be best for everyone to have them officialy orphaned. > > > > First come - first serve. Please Cc: me, I am n

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

2006-02-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
Christian Perrier wrote: > List of current ttf-* packages > -- > (just looking at the packages descriptions give a good idea of the > non-coordination of font packaging..:-))) [...] > ttf-opensymbol - The OpenSymbol TrueType font built from OOo... Regards, Rene sign

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, besides the fact that I agree with the people saying that this team is a unnecessary institution for *package maintenance*, and that ttf-opensymbol is built from the openoffice.org source package anyway ... Christian Perrier wrote: > Improve communication > - > This team

Re: Bug#315808: ITP: cedar-backup2 -- Secure backup to CD-R and CD-RW media

2005-06-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Don't forget to tell Rene Engelhard to rename OpenOffice.org2. > Uh, you know that openoffice.org already is in the archive and openoffice.org 2.x is supposed to be parallel installable until it is uploaded to unstable (and it's only in experimenta

Re: OOo & OOo2 (was Re: Bug#315808: ITP: cedar-backup2 -- ...)

2005-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Ron Johnson wrote: > When I installed openoffice.org2, out went OOo 1.4. (Which > surprised me, since I remember you writing that they are supposed > to be parallel installable.) Then you most probably had a thesaurus installed. The formats are incompatible and so... If you don't have a the

Re: Bug#381992: ITP: libming-fonts-openoffice -- Fonts for use with the Ming Library for SWF Creation

2006-08-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 09:28 schrieb Alejandro Rios P.: > * Package name: libming-fonts-openoffice > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : OpenOffice.org > * URL : http://www.openoffice.org/ > * License : GPL > Description : Fonts for use with the Ming Li

Re: Bug#381992: ITP: libming-fonts-openoffice -- Fonts for use with the Ming Library for SWF Creation

2006-08-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 14:13 schrieb Stuart Anderson: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > Are those fonts manually converted? If not, wouldn't it be better to convert > > them as needed instead of yet-another-incompatible-font-package? > > The long term plan is for libmin

Re: Bug#381992: ITP: libming-fonts-openoffice -- Fonts for use with the Ming Library for SWF Creation

2006-08-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 14:47 schrieb Stuart Anderson: > Yes, the packages I have prepared are built as part of the rest of the > ming package. The ming source package Build-depends on the package that > contains the TTF fonts that will be converted into a libming font package. > Upstream ming

Re: Bug#381992: ITP: libming-fonts-openoffice -- Fonts for use with the Ming Library for SWF Creation

2006-08-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
close 381992 thanks Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 14:11 schrieb Stuart Anderson: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 09:28 schrieb Alejandro Rios P.: > >> * Package name: libming-fonts-openoffice > >> Version

Re: Bug#381992: ITP: libming-fonts-openoffice -- Fonts for use with the Ming Library for SWF Creation

2006-08-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 15:10 schrieb Stuart Anderson: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > OK. Now, I fetched your -openoffice pakcage and saw that (as I guessed) it > > just does OpenSymbol. Can you please name it -opensymbol (to show that it > > is the

Re: Bug#381992: ITP: libming-fonts-openoffice -- Fonts for use with the Ming Library for SWF Creation

2006-08-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 15:32 schrieb Stuart Anderson: > So this should cover it? > > Package: ming-fonts-opensymbol > Conflicts: ming-fonts-openoffice > Replaces: ming-fonts-openoffice > Provides: ming-fonts-openoffice No, Replaces:/Povides:/Conflicts: libming-...

Re: Bug#381992: ITP: libming-fonts-openoffice -- Fonts for use with the Ming Library for SWF Creation

2006-08-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Alejandro R?os P. wrote: > "Alejandro (in case you read that in the buglog since your ??%&?? > mailserver doesn't accept mail)..." Well, it's not personal. It just the mailserver not accepting mail and that makes problems for reaching you (as in case for this ITP). As mail is to debian commun

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-09-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Montag, 4. September 2006 08:08 schrieb Mgr. Peter Tuharsky: > > > > > Personally I think the DS team have enough work making sure > > security updates are a smooth process for packages *in the > > OS*: being expected to test random-external-package-x on top > > of that is asking too much. > >

Re: Need for darcs.debian.org?

2006-09-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 15:14 schrieb Luca Capello: > After having read zack's blog entry [2] about the new XS-X-VCS-xxx > field for debian/control files, I was adding it to my packages [3] > (all related to Common Lisp). Does this handle two VCSes? Regards, Rene -- .''`. René Eng

Bug#403897: ITP: libwps -- Works text file format import filter library

2006-12-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwps Version : no release yet Upstream Author : Andrew Ziem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libwps.sf.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++

Re: buildd disk space and debug symbols

2006-03-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Am Dienstag 21 März 2006 12:56 schrieb Martin Michlmayr: > * Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-21 09:46]: > > So I'm wondering if building xulrunner with debugging symbols is > > possible considering the buildd infrastructure, or at all useful on > > arches like m68k, mips, sparc, where the

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:52:09PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060427 15:05]: > > > Andreas, do you have an explanation of why d-i commit access was taken > > > from > > > me, and why i find out only now as i was going to fix the iss

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:10:17PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:52:09PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060427 15:05]: > &

Re: Bug#366426: ITP: bcm43xx-fwcutter -- bcm43xx firmware extraction utility

2006-05-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
ED]:~ $ apt-cache show bcm43xx-fwcutter Package: bcm43xx-fwcutter Priority: optional Section: contrib/utils Installed-Size: 108 Maintainer: Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: powerpc Version: 20060501-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Recomm

Re: ${lib}-dev, .pc and pkg-config

2005-01-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2005 12:08 schrieb Artur R. Czechowski: > pkg-config. It gives standarized interface[1] for getting compiler and > linker flags. What is your recomendation for adding a .pc files in -dev > package? What is your recomendation for using pkg-config in packages > dependend

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:47:52PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > >* New Upstream Version (closes: #176227, #188308, #90276) > > > > > > Changelog abuse. This is only a valid entry if all 3 of t

Re: new bug tags

2003-05-31 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > The BTS now has "lfs" (large file support) and "ipv6" tags. > > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian.org/tag:ipv6 will > > search for matching bugs. > Since we're using bug tags for such

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
reopen 193497 thanks Hi, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Changes: > svtools (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low > . >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497) Meep. No. Write proper changelogs and(or close bugs the right way[tm]. That form is only acceptable for "New upstream version, pleas

Re: new bug tags

2003-06-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, James Troup wrote: > I don't; it's silly. At best you'll get an architecture tag for the > arch that the buildd maintainer reported the bug on, but that's it. > An inaccurate architecture tag is worse than useless, it's misleading. > Just parse wanna-build's failed logs; it's trivial. Sure,

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:59:40PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > >* New upstream version (Closes: #193497) > > > > Meep. No. > > > > Write proper changelogs and(or close bugs the right way[tm]. That > &

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, > However, it really might be better to put a longer statement into > changelog. _But_ it's certainly much worse to re-open a really closed > bug than to make a too short changelog entry. (BTW: You should really a wrongly closed... (whithout explanation what the fix was; the new upstream vers

Re: Status of Sarge Release Issues (Updated for June)

2003-06-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > 2 i386 libc support? (The large thread starting with > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01895.html > and going into the May archive talks about this). Do we have to wait for > upstream to fix this? We want to stay compatible with othe

Re: Status of Sarge Release Issues (Updated for June)

2003-06-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:19:19PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Stock OpenOffice seem to be able to embedd java applets into > > documents. RedHat nuked this. > > And we can't do the same because ... ??? We have done that (as Jan wrote.) Building n

Re: whereis libsensors1?

2003-06-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:40:15PM +0200, Angathule wrote: > > > > I'm trying to install KDE on a Sid Machine, but I can't, this is what I > > do: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ apt-cache show libsensors1 > Package: libsensors1 > Status: install ok installed Yes. It is inst

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Millis Miller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: email > Version : 1.9.0 > Upstream Author : Dean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/email > * License : Custom > De

Re: [Stefano =)] Bug#198619: Could not perform configuration on libpam0g

2003-06-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Adam Heath wrote: > this is a bug in apt. dpkg correctly handles this case(it breaks the dep loop > randomly, which means postinsts of the affected packages need to be aware of > the issue. > > The apt developer has refused to fix apt to work around this non-problem in > the past, I suggest

Re: db.debian.org

2003-07-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Michael Koch wrote: > Connections with webbrowser fails too. Can someone please notify its > admin ? They already know... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Debootstrap, Sid, and console-tools-libs

2003-07-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [ please wrap your lines after 72 chars ] Matthew P. McGuire wrote: > The grumpy user might accuse console-tools-libs of being the problem, but I > decided to try another route. Install a chroot woody system, and upgrade that > chroot system to sid using apt. During that upgrade apt shows t

Re: BSP in Debcamp.

2003-07-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:28:18PM +0200, David Martinez Moreno wrote: > > Hello, guys. Here in Debcamp we decided that we're going to kill as > > many bugs > > as possible (and even releasing sarge if we work hard ;-) during the entire > > Debcamp, so we'll appl

Bug#202930: ITP: openoffice.org-dictionaries -- MySpell dictionaries from OpenOffice.org

2003-07-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: openoffice.org-dictionaries [*] Version : 20030617 Upstream Author : David Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gianluca Turconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Davide Pri

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Alfie, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > I'd like to start organizing the debconf for the year 2005 in Vienna, > Austria. Why that early announce? So we have time enough to find cool. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://

Re: should bugs really be closed?

2003-07-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Adam Heath wrote: > These bugs won't be fixed in gcc-3.2. gcc-3.3 is a newer upstream version. > Just because it's made as a separate package doesn't mean a newer upstream > hasn't been uploaded(3.3). You shouldn't forget that gcc 3.2 is still default on sparc... Grüße/Regards, René -- .

New virtual package: myspell-dictionary?

2003-07-31 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, I forgot that doing before, so forgive me sending this mail now and not earlier... ;) "Packages MUST NOT use virtual package names (except privately, amongst a cooperating group of packages) unless they have been agreed upon and appear in this list." OK, as the procedure describes, here I am

Re: Bug#202869: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [ note that I atm have the tendency to say that the Depends should remain... ] Hans Fugal wrote: > * Andreas Jellinghaus [Wed, 6 Aug 2003 at 00:27 +0200] > > mutt can do many nice things without /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > a dependency is set if something is always required, > > a recommends i

Re: How to locate package uploader?

2003-08-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Is there any way to find out who uploaded a given package? [...] > listed in the list of NM applicants. So, I'm assuming that there must > be a sponsor for the upload, but is this information kept anywhere? You could gpg --verify the .dsc or .changes... R

Re: Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Jose M. Fdez wrote: > Patent on LZW algorithm expired so the support for GIF and TIFF > images is now back in the main Gimp package. Only in the US... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/

Re: d-i milo missing (might have fix)

2003-09-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Greg Folkert wrote: > Quick question then... how do I get on the mailing list that develops > the d-i? I don't see a specific one on lists.d.o. (I could be blind > though) debian-boot Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi *, Chris Halls wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:12:52PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > > We didn't have OpenOffice at last release and it doesn't seem to be in > > unstable yet. 'apt-cache search openoffice' only find myspell > > dictionaries. > > It's in contrib, package openoffice.org. It

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > With the exception of the recent aptitude bug, this makes all the > difference between pulling in non-free packages by default, and > informing the user by default that a non-free package is available which > complements the chosen package. umm. there are packages in c

Re: Package verification and "/usr/bin/install" tool replacements

2003-10-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Kim Lester wrote: > Although debian packages may contain md5sums it seems package > verification is > not available (unless I have missed something). Probably you missed debsums... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org |

Re: broken g++ transition packages

2005-07-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Mike Furr wrote: > These packages were all auto-built with the right version, but the Wrong. I has to do a binary-NMU for ARM... > maintainer uploaded a package with the wrong ABI: > libmyspell3c2 (myspell) [powerpc] *shrugs*. Fixed. Grüße/Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene

Re: Help needed: People willing to help co-maintain debian accessibility packages

2005-07-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
fice.org but I don't know the actual state of this. Grüße/Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F2

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With the new style of "mass tirage" of bugs, triage. > The user submits a bug; > while (sleep 1 year) { > He gets a message asking him to verify if the bug still exists; > He perhaps especially reinstalls the package that he long ago stopped > using && > He v

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, John Goerzen wrote: > I have learned that certain well-known packages (OpenOffice, say) are bug OpenOffice isn't in Debian. If you mean OpenOffice.org, I feel obliged to answer this now, because you complely underestimate a) how many people maintain OOo (hint: 1) and b) how many time even k

Fwd: Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi again, > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419523 for a RFH open > > for looong. Oh, and note that I *did* reply to the offers there, but that didn't turn out (except Lior and and Tim Richardson with their bug triage of *OLD* bugs which I am very thankful for) Regards,

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, John Goerzen wrote: > > > blackholes. I submit a bug, and never hear anything from Debian > > > maintainers > > > except for periodic triage stuff when a new upstream comes out. > > > > Sorry, that's not fair at all. > > The two bugs I see in src:openoffice.org with my name on them are: >

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Joey Hess wrote: > Things I want to see use triggers, in approximate priority order: > > - scrollkeeper > This is a huge speed pig, and d-i has hacks to disable it and > run it at the end that I would love to be able to remove. > dpkg's triggers.txt has a plan for triggeriz

Bug#476573: preinst fails on etch->sid dist-upgrade with old unopkg

2008-04-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: openoffice.org-voikko Version: 2.2-2 Severity: serious Unfortunately I didn't think about/notice this either, but a etch->sid dist-upgrade with openoffice.org-voikko involved now fails with the scriplets using -env. Stripped log from the dist-upgrade: Preconfiguring packages ... [...] P

Re: latest sid image is broken?

2008-05-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My question is why can't this drama be played out behind the scenes? > > Why can't all the dependency stuff be resolved first before it is sent > to sid? > > Or is that how dependency problems are detected and hunt down? If so, > then why can't this be played out o

Re: eiskaltdc extra licence

2009-08-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:48:55PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Andrey Tataranovich schrieb: > > > What should I do to satisfy DEBIAN policy? > > > > a) rename/move this file another place and patch code Depends on the license. If it was (L)GPL you could use /usr/share/common-l

Re: eiskaltdc extra licence

2009-08-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:50:07PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > c) patch it to display /usr/share/doc/$package/copyright ? That would be against policy. No package is supposed to rely on /usr/share/doc/$package for doing stuff. Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Where should DLL files go?

2009-08-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:20:25AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Sam Morris , 2009-08-25, 21:48: >> The gcc-mingw32 package provides GCC configured to target Microsoft >> Windows. The executables built by GCC will pick up a dependency on >> libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll; the question of where that file s

Re: Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:33:44PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Can anyone explain if/why stlport is still useful? Given the low > popcon, and small number of rdepends, could this be a candidate for > removal? libstlport4.6 has to be kept on i386 for ABI issues. For the rest[1], yes I agree

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > 2) Package too large to be tested: > openoffice.org: too large Nonsense. You could speed up the build and make it use less hd space like we do for buildd builds (lang=en-US). That's visible from the source package. (Still build

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:45:23PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > There's no reason for skipping openoffice.org. And openoffice.org is a clear Actually, there is, as installing libjpeg7-dev would break some of OOos r-b-deps... Will try hack around this for trying a build with libjpe

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 05:05:11PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Actually I tried to build it twice and it failed with "disk full" error. Anyway, when hacking around the build-dep problem openoffice.org builds with libjpeg7-dev. Didn't try the "working" part yet as I only tried with a 3.2 snapsho

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > > be buildable insi

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-09-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:59:51AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That said uploading missing binaries yourself is not the rigt way forward, > official build daemons must be able to build it and you should work with > buildd maintainers and porters to get your package built (and building). I

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-09-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:48:00PM +0800, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Montag, 28. September 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > That said uploading missing binaries yourself is not the rigt way > > > forward, official build daemons must be able to build it and

Re: Some questions on format "3.0 (quilt)" multi-origin

2009-11-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:28:56AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: > 3) When a new version of a component is released, how to handle it in > the new source format? I can't find any standard place where to put meta > informations regarding extra origin tarball. I don't think there exist one

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:00:35PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > However, seems like on IRC we reached kind of a consensus on the fact that > metapackages should use Recommends instead of Depends. I plan to do a mass- > bug filing on this issue sooner or later, just need some time to do it :) Wha

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:12:15PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > You're on your own with these. I don't think you want to go though A recommends B which depends on C which depends on D etc." route on servers which should have only the stuff installed you need. Or even on desktops which you wan

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > The problem is that the mentioned lintian warning was fixed in .27 .. so if > testing and unstable are using .28, there should be no problem with just > ignoring the warnings for now and see what my _tests_ on debian will No, that's wrong. *Build* also on Debia

Re: Debian admin, keyring-maint and Request Tracker

2007-03-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, James Troup wrote: > Other teams > - --- > > If any other teams/groups want to use rt.debian.org to track their > requests, they're welcome to do so, just send us the details in an RT > ticket for DSA. What about the ftpmasters? (As you are ftpmaster anyway, you probably don't need a

Bug#419523: RFH: openoffice.org -- OpenOffice.org Office suite

2007-04-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the openoffice.org package. The package description is: OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. . This metapackage installs all components

Bug#431465: ITP: libsvg -- library for parsing SVG files

2007-07-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsvg Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Carl Worth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cairographics.org/snapshots/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#431474: ITP: libwpg -- WordPerfect graphics import/convert library

2007-07-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwpg [1] Version : 0.1.0 (not released yet) Upstream Author : Fridrich Strba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libwpg.sf.net * License : LGPL Program

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Some of them: fontconfig-config, blender, openjdk-6-jre, > openoffice.org-core, vlc. And, as I understand, it leads to 93 bugs of > "serious" severity and yet another pain for release team. ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and i

Re: Statically linking against bundled libagg

2008-08-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > When building against system agg, I get the lintian error: > > E: libmapnik0.5: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/libmapnik.so.0.5.0 > > this does not occur when compiling mapnik's own agg library. > I'm not sure what's happening here; does it indicate a mistake in

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >aria > => gwget You're kidding? gwget does not have many features aria has. >manedit > => gmanedit Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Deve

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 16:27 +0100, Rene Engelhard a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >aria > > > => gwget > > > > You're kidding? gwget does not have

Re: Accepted suitesparse 3.2.0-1 (source all i386)

2008-12-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > suitesparse (3.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low WTF? > Accepted: > libsuitesparse-3.2.0_3.2.0-1_i386.deb > to pool/main/s/suitesparse/libsuitesparse-3.2.0_3.2.0-1_i386.deb > libsuitesparse-dbg_3.2.0-1_i386.deb > to poo

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Holger Levsen schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > On Montag, 15. Dezember 2008, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >> Something like that, I don't really care about the name. The important > >> thing is, that unstable is never frozen, but temporarily disconnected > >> from the unstable >

Bug#508985: ITP: libmysqlcppconn-dev -- MySQL C++ Connectivity library

2008-12-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Engelhard * Package name: libmysqlcppconn-dev Version : 1.0.2 snapshot Upstream Author : MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems Inc. * URL : http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Connector_C++ * License : GPL v2 with "FLOSS exce

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Harald Braumann wrote: > package's directories for the new user. But a downgrade would then not > be possible. The old version couldn't access the directories. > > Is there precedence for such a situation? How can it be resolved? Downgrades are not supported. (which doesn't mean they should

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Maximilian Gaß wrote: >Examples of programs that embed libev: the EV perl module, >rxvt-unicode, gvpe (GNU Virtual Private Ethernet), the Deliantra MMORPG >server (http://www.deliantra.net/), Rubinius (a next-generation Ruby >VM), the Ebb web server, the Rev event toolkit. > > I ha

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
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. OpenOffice.orgs homepage is www.openoffice.org. Now, since 2.3,

Re: Bits from the Qt/KDE team

2008-01-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > I'd plea to follow the policy of openoffice.org by tagging conf folders > with versions: Where you you see openoffice.org doing this? It doesn't. It only encodes the major: ~/.openoffice.org2 (we take upstreams default here) Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René

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

2010-01-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Gunnar, On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:27:49PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > libprawn-ruby uses the 3.0 (quilt) format and is built from three > tarballs > (libprawn-ruby_0.7.1+dfsg.orig.tar.gz,libprawn-ruby_0.7.1+dfsg.orig-pdf-inspector.tar.gz

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:13:40AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: >> I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. > > Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I file > wishlist bugs against the affected packages? What's the opinion

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:48:13PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > > Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: > > > I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. > > > > Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:14:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Actually, libjpeg62-dev is needed to build LSB compliant software that use > libjpeg, so losing that would not be very nice. But depending on the software this will be practically impossible (at least for all gtk apps) as gtk wan

Re: status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2010-06-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 06 juin 2010 à 18:06 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > > [Bill Allombert] > > > Dear developers, > > > Today circular dependencies in unstable reached an all-time low. > > > > Very good to hear. If only we c

Re: status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2010-06-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 06:15:41PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > The bug report doesn't explain why this needs to be a Depends: either - > it could be a Recommends AFAICT. To quote the report, "which for some > stuff needs" - the definition of a Recommends in my book. If "some stuff" in t

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