How to handle conffiles when renaming or splitting a package?

2021-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
dpkg's database so that it does not report obsolete conffiles for mime-support? (Actually, I would have expected dpkg to do this automagically given the Breaks and Replaces relationship.) Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan T

Re: How to manage CPU-specific features in package ?

2020-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
i.debian.org/SIMDEverywhere Have a nice Sunday Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan

Re: Riddled by debian-policy 8.1.1 about ldconfig

2017-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
libraries complying with the Policy, you will see that this file indeed "activate-noawait" the "ldconfig" trigger. For packages built using Debhelper, the triggers files is added by `dh_makeshlibs`, which explains why you can not see traces of it in the clean source package. I

Re: installing GUI launchers and mimes

2017-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
update-menus fi I am not sure why this is still needed while there is already a dpkg trigger doing the work. Anyway, as noted elsewhere, the Debian menu system is being phased out. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: How to deal with arch-specific paths in .install files

2017-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
ectory in my .install file? Hi Shawn, you can find an answer (and many alternatives) in the following wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Best GPG practices before sending computer to maintenance.

2016-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
the laptop. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Review of firefox-branding-iceweasel

2016-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
d to /user/share/common-licenses when a Policy Editor will find time to make it happen. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768292 So I suggest that it is fine to be forward-compatible with the future Policy :) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-08 Thread Charles Plessy
will be good to document this workflow somewhere (perhaps README.source ?) since it is not standard. Otherwise, people may run gbp import-orig and waste time wondering why it did not work as expected. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: git-buildpackage pattern question

2016-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
u still using in your workflow ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

[OT] Re: user want messages removed from mailing list

2015-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:18:04PM +0100, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > > Reporting non-spam messages as spam is counter-productive. It won't help the > message disappear. But it will help actual spam messages to survive in our > archives. Hi Jakub, there are definitely precedents were messages

Re: user want messages removed from mailing list

2015-11-16 Thread Charles Plessy
gt; read it. He hasn't replied yet. But if he insisted on having the > conversation removed, what should I do? Hi Alex, You can mark it as spam and cross fingers that other people do the same and the spam cleaners (everybody's help is welcome by the way) feel compassion. Have a nice day, -- Char

Re: cowbuilder/pbuilder: require newer version from experimental

2015-10-28 Thread Charles Plessy
his is a bit off-topic answer, but if you use sbuild --build-dep-resolver=aptitude, you should be able to satisfy the dependency on the package in experimental. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
. For downloader packages, however, they can become useless at any time, and the user has no control over this. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: doc-base for more than one document

2015-06-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:26:58PM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : I am a bit confused on how I can register more than one document for one package. Hi Ole, one file per document; see the emboss package for instance. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team

Re: Not able to pull dependencies for tests ran on ci.debian.net.

2015-06-17 Thread Charles Plessy
because the file debian/tests/control declares “Depends: @, tabix”. Am I misunderstanding how this control file is used ? Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Not able to pull dependencies for tests ran on ci.debian.net.

2015-06-16 Thread Charles Plessy
: - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - - samtools-testFAIL non-zero exit status 127 Does anybody spot what I have been missing ? Have a nice day -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique

2015-03-03 Thread Charles Plessy
the paragraphs I checked only use GPL-2+. Hello Helge, I think that the lintian tag is either too strict or too severe, given that the machine-readable format permits to repeat the long description in multiple Files paragraphs. I opened https://bugs.debian.org/779676 about this. Have a nice day, -- Charles

Re: launchpad for debian and autobuilders

2014-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:15:44AM +0100, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit : I build my packages with pbuilder, but I'm looking for an automatic place to build packages for debian. Dear Leopold, how about Elida ? https://packages.debian.org/sid/elida Cheers, -- Charles -- To

Re: Install files based on architecture?

2014-09-27 Thread Charles Plessy
it is used in the particular case of multi-architecture packages. https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation But as Paul noted, wildcards are enough as long as you do not need $arch to be in the target. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org

Re: Samtools fails to build on several architectures [nore...@buildd.debian.org: failed i386 build of samtools 1.0-1]

2014-09-24 Thread Charles Plessy
= -; } Brilliant, many thanks ! The issue was then quickly solved upstream. https://github.com/samtools/samtools/issues/300 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Packaging from upstream's Git repository.

2014-07-12 Thread Charles Plessy
of autogenerated files, I think that it is preferable to use the source directly. So, are there other suggestions ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Licensing question

2014-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
with your conclusion; the worst case scenario is only to have to remove the packages from our Project's main archive later. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Packaging from upstream's Git repository.

2014-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
. Thus, given that Debian source package are based on tar archives, the version number is lost unless I use the “sources” produced by ‘make distcheck’. Does anybody know a simple solution to that problem ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Help for watch file needed

2014-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
on remote site is 2-0-1, local version is 2.0-1 = remote site does not even have current version -- Scan finished Hi Andreas, shouldn't it be s/-/./g instead ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: script-with-language-extension

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
of the Unix world. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140310072711.gc9...@falafel.plessy.net

How to selectively silence git-multimail messages ?

2014-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
that, when pushing with the --quiet option, the individual emails for each commits will be skipped ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: (uscan) Files-Excluded mecanism documentation ?

2013-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
it will take, but in theory, it can be as fast as providing a patch to #685506, have it accepted, and upload an updated debian-policy package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:31:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: $ gbp-clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/htslib.git $ cd htslib (debian/unstable) $ git branch *

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 09:00:48AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : PS: Alioth is back online and I might have a look later this day if you would commit there. Thanks a lot ! gbp clone git.debian.org:/git/debian-med/htslib.git Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:26:24AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:29:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: gbp clone git.debian.org:/git/debian-med/htslib.git When doing `git-buildpackage` (which for sure includes the .git dir) I can not see the effect you

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:24:29PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : without having checked out the repository and diving into it: Can you post a diff of the two build logs? Hi Andreas, here it is (attached). Could the problem be a side effect of the test suite ? Cheers, -- Charles ---

No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

2013-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131120054439

Is it still needed to pre-depend on multiarch-support ?

2013-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, now that Wheezy has been released, I am wondering if it is still needed to pre-depend on multiarch-support, especially for a new package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Please help: sra-sdk

2013-10-22 Thread Charles Plessy
changes before, as I updated the symbols file. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: DFSG and assembler code

2013-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
to the binary packages, but I would like to stress that it is not because of the DFSG. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: How to handle a package requiring external test data for its test suite?

2013-06-17 Thread Charles Plessy
separately. Dear Thomas, Have you considered running the tests with autopkgtest ? http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ Then, you can either download the data or install it from a separate data package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

A smart post-commit hook to cherry-pick only Debian changes ?

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Plessy
hook that will only send an email for the changes related to the Debian packaging ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

2013-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
to appreciate what we already have so far. Hi, have you considered the following tutorial ? http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#packaging-tutorial Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-01 Thread Charles Plessy
not match the text of the MIT or Expat license, therefore it is better to use an arbitrary short name. Something like gti, or MIT-like (as Upstream calls it), etc. would be enough. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Debian Preseeding: prevent particular package from being installed

2013-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
be people experienced with preseeding as well. I am not sure if it will work, but have you tried d-i base-installer/excludes ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Changelog etiquette for upstream patches

2013-03-01 Thread Charles Plessy
the contributor in the upstream changelog. It is not necessary to repeat the information in the Debian changelog. If there was a Debian bug associated to the issue, you can mention its number together with the mention of a New upstream version. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
become short in time make sure in these teams, is that the infrastructure and learning curves are as easy as possible for newcomers, in order to to help others to contribute where they can not do themselves anymore. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http

Exact matches in files in control data format.

2013-02-27 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130227140023.ga13...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: RFS: libengsas packages

2013-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
after converting them back to plain text. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130226083157.ga23

Re: xdg menu entries

2013-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
/games, I have no comment to make). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130207060242.ga6

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#699260: Help (Was: Bug#699260: r-cran-genabel: FTBFS: error: subscript out of bounds)

2013-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
tag 699260 confirmed severity 699260 grave thanks Le Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 01:28:36PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : Also, CRAN has 1.7-3, you guys are at 1.7-0 of GenABEL. Maybe this even changed upstream... Indeed :) +*** v. 1.7-3 (2013.01.09) + +(2013.01.09) +Commented the parts

Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages

2012-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
it myself, but see the following wiki page to contribute. http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Once more: Need help updating my DM upload permissions

2012-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
is. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121117114502.gc29...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: asking for package removal

2012-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
, debian-qa is an appropriate list to discuss further the removal. If there a consensus for it, you can submit the request yourself to the FTP team. But I think you were right to use debian-mentor for asking for a general advice. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: How to remove a package from unstable

2012-09-17 Thread Charles Plessy
a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120917235904.gc25...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Need help for watch file

2012-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
/|| Uscan now sees the file name as VolViewSrc-3.4.tar.gz Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Problems converting Subversion-managed source package to Git.

2012-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
uploaded the repository at git://git.debian.org/debian-med/velvet.git Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
version 1.0. These files are refreshed each time the package is uploaded, and sometimes more often, as they are picked directly from the package's VCS. See the following URL for details. http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: how to document removed Build-Depends in debian/changelog (Re: viennacl at mentors)

2012-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
mentions the first numbers of the hash ID. But this is a matter of taste; all in all, it does not cost much to fill up the changelog line with more information. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
at http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata ) Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#675701: RFS: ptop

2012-06-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:37:42AM +, Bart Martens a écrit : Files: filename1, filename2 for exceptions. Actually, it should be: Files: filename1 filename2 (The separator is a space, not a comma plus a space). Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
that your current copyright file does not have a valid syntax as spaces are not allowed in short license names. The tool 'cme' frome Dominique Dumont's excellent libconfig-model-perl package, will assist you for further syntax checking. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Bug#678468: RFS: sgml-data/2.0.7 [RC] [QA] -- common SGML and XML data

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
, perhaps one of the problems it causes is that, when the homepage changes, the long description changes, which will spend a bit of time of the translators, just for them to acknowledge that there is nothing to translate ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Maintainer of GNS3 Missing-in-Action, I volunteer

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120515225252.ga30...@falafel.plessy.net

About the field Choices-C Debconf templates.

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, years after becoming DD, I am learning Debconf... amazing. I could not find an explanation for the Choices-C field in debconf-devel(7) nor the Developers Reference. Is that field clearly defined somewhere ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
to make a pre-review to ease the work of the FTP team, by reducing the number of errors they have to deal with. http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:09:32AM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : On 15.05.2012 00:26, Charles Plessy wrote: when the NEW queue is long, this leaves us some time to make a pre-review to ease the work of the FTP team, by reducing the number of errors they have to deal with. how would you do

What is the best way for disabling a service from another package ?

2012-05-04 Thread Charles Plessy
curious how to actually do these kind of operations, when package A must in a way modify package B's starting behavior or configuration. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/0.0.20111012-1 [ITA] - ELF prelinking

2012-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120428035339.ga16...@plessy.org

Re: how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
if in parallel you follow the guidelines that Paul pointed you to, and help the QA and MIA teams to take care of the other packages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
not found it causing breakages. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120421073546.gb31

Re: Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:22:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: are there concrete problems caused by modifying previous changelog entries ? Doing that breaks the entirely reasonable expectation: that a changelog only ever accumulates entries

Re: Documentation generated by doxygen and Debian Policy

2012-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
the planet for no benefit. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120419142040.ga30

Re: Documentation generated by doxygen and Debian Policy

2012-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : Le 19/04/12 16:20, Charles Plessy a écrit : I think that there is a consensus that generated files must be regenerable, and that it is a bug if their build system is broken. The best way to ensure

Re: adding a new file using (d)quilt

2012-04-12 Thread Charles Plessy
the dpkg format 3.0 (quilt). In contrary to what the name suggests, this will not be done using quilt. See the manual page of dpkg-source for more details. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Charles Plessy
as flaws from Debian's point of view, somebody will have to do some work to correct the package in Sid and perhaps in Stable. That is one of the reasons for the reluctance to accept your package. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 07:04:08PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov a écrit : On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: I also think that we should refrain from using short and common names for the What about repagen i.e. REadable PAssword GENerator ? Is it OK

Re: installing desktop file and icon

2012-04-06 Thread Charles Plessy
simply install them at the same time as the other files. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
of the software that is packaged, there are other ways such as the AppStream and Component Metadata for Debian and Upstream metadata gathered with yaml (UMEGAYA) projects. http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: Signing a .deb later?

2012-04-04 Thread Charles Plessy
you can sign is the .dsc (source package) and .changes (upload file). You sign them using debsign. Actually, there is a binary package signing tool, but it looks rather abandonned… http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/debsig-verify.1.html Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
uploads for a long time, perhaps you can check if he is still interested or available; otherwise it is a good moment to take over the package or transfer it to a team that would like to adopt it, possibliy with more extensive modifications (for instance merging Ubuntu's changes). Cheers, -- Charles

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
did not manage to find how to avoid sending a deluge of commit emails when pushing the upstream branch to Alioth. Also, they are sent with the commiter's name as sender, which gives the wrong impression he is the one who pushed the upstream changes to the Debian package. Any hint ? -- Charles

Re: how to manage d/changelog for updated but not yet sponsored package

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
previous “unstable” entries to “UNRELEASED” to clearly mark that these packages were not in the Debian archive. Have a nice day, Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Files permission in the debian directory

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
) format. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120213235945.ga9...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: DEP-5 versioned URI / Lintian complains

2012-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ The DEP is in a final review stage. Unless additional delays, I will probably mark it accepted next week, and the above URL will become valid immediately after the next Policy upload. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Charles Plessy
/samtools/files/samtools/.+?/samtools-(.*).tar.bz2/download Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
is not active or they are busy with something more important. Hi Dmitry, have you actually tried to contact the team ? I do not see messages from you in January or February on their mailing list. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
. As a consequence, it can happen that everyone expects the others to have answered. I recommend to contact the team on its mailing list. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
tend to consider them as annoying noise, especially on debian-devel and debian-policy. I prefer when no message is send by routine tools when there is no error. But I guess that the issue is rather with the BTS. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: bibtool

2012-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
by the Policy: DEP 5: The syntax of the file is the same as for other Debian control files, as specified in the Debian Policy Manual. See its section 5.1 for details. Policy §5.1: All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
a dedicated pseudo-package would definitely be superior. Another point of my proposal was to ask that developers who call for sponsorship try to review at least another package. Please do not hesitate to take the idea of you like it. http://wiki.debian.org/PackageReview Have a nice day, -- Charles

Re: RFS: libxml2 (NMU)

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
them ? http://bugs.debian.org/654176 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Correct value for DEP5’s Format: field?

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
copyright file, I recommend you to use the URL that was chosen for publishing version 1.0. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Note that the trailing slash is part of the URL. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Correct value for DEP5’s Format: field?

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
other recommended URLs (svn.debian.org or anonscm.debian.org) are also broken, I do not think that it is much problematic. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: RFS: vodafone-mobile-broadband

2012-01-07 Thread Charles Plessy
be preferrable to depend on ttf-freefont, that provides this font, than distributing a copy in vodafone-mobile-broadband. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: RFS: solarpowerlog

2011-12-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Arno Töll a écrit : On 23.12.2011 08:57, Charles Plessy wrote: For projects on Git hubs that do not release tar archives, I am starting to use native formats. This is much more straightforward. just because you opted to ignore all conventions

Re: RFS: solarpowerlog

2011-12-22 Thread Charles Plessy
be found in the Debian archive. For projects on Git hubs that do not release tar archives, I am starting to use native formats. This is much more straightforward. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: original source has file in top-level directory

2011-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: How to pass CFLAGS to upstream's Makefile with debhlepler ?

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
On 2011-11-14 06:12, Charles Plessy wrote: trying to pass dpkg-buildglags' settings to an upstream build system (http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-med/bwa.git), I found no other way than patching their makefile, basically replacing CFLAGS = -g -Wall -O2 with CFLAGS

How to pass CFLAGS to upstream's Makefile with debhlepler ?

2011-11-13 Thread Charles Plessy
, and if it is a change that can be forwarded upstream. Also, I added $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) in some calls to $(CC), but I think I remember reading that $(LDFLAGS) is not needed everywhere. When in doubt, is it safe to add them ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http

Re: What is the proper way to rename scripts?

2011-11-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Upstream to rename the file if you think it is worth doing so. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Upload to stable-security

2011-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
and with version like 1.9.9.dfsg2-4+squeeze1? Dear Tomasz, thank you for your care for security. It looks like the answer to your questions are in the Developers Reference. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#bug-security Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: start mysqld from debian/rules?

2011-10-30 Thread Charles Plessy
this happen, we need to provide packages that implement auopkgtest tests. How about using it in your case ? http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: setup packaging project on Alioth?

2011-10-30 Thread Charles Plessy
that you don't neccessarily have to have your own your own project: Hi Paul and Ben, indeed, even if there is only one maintainer, it is good to use collab-maint to manage source packages, as the maintainer can change (or worse, dissapear), and others may join. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy

Re: setup packaging project on Alioth?

2011-10-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:52:45PM -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : Could someone write a how to on how to setup a packaging project on Alioth? I usually use svn. Dear Paul, please have a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

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