Re: Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-11 Thread Hubert (Chan) Chathi
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:16:17 -0400, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:52:03AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear mentors, in a package I prepare, there is the following line in a source/Makefile: CPPFLAGS=-O3 -funroll-loops -march=i686 -mfpmath=sse -msse

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-11 Thread Hubert Chan
that the package will have to sit in the NEW queue for who-knows-how-long. But that's just my opinion, and if you are willing to put up with that, that's up to you. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint

Unidentified subject!

2007-01-09 Thread Hubert Chan
X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50.1 (via feedmail 8 I) X-Hashcash: 1:23:070110:debian-mentors@lists.debian.org::UkzcTxrtVnlskpr5:00VaZr From: Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries References: [EMAIL

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
indirectly provides B() and C() via its new dependency on libbar.so? AFAICT, if a program (or library) that is linked against the old libfoo.so and calls B() or C() will also work with the new libfoo.so without needing to be recompiled, then you shouldn't need to bump the soname. -- Hubert Chan

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-05 Thread Hubert Chan
be avoided whenever possible. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Problems when I use debhelper compatibility level 5

2007-01-01 Thread Hubert Chan
? Is it correct if I just erase this line into libcegui-mk2-dev.install? The package should work properly, but won't allow static linking. As for why the .a files aren't being created, you'd have to look into the build process for the package. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems when I use debhelper compatibility level 5

2006-12-30 Thread Hubert Chan
in an error. To fix it, I guess you just need to remove the usr/lib/libCEGUI*.a entry from debian/libcegui-mk2-dev.install, or wherever it's listed. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7

Re: correct debian way to write version into changelog file

2006-12-06 Thread Hubert Chan
, as it was created first by dh_make. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: what is debian way to modify Makefile.frag ?

2006-12-06 Thread Hubert Chan
Makefile.frag in the root source directory and let dpkg-buildpackage include the patch into the diff.gz file. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA

Re: RFS: wmshutdown -- A dockapp to shutdown or reboot the machine

2006-12-02 Thread Hubert Chan
contain some don't do this unless you understand the security issues warning. Also, you shouldn't add the '-r' flag to rm in the clean rule in the Makefile. -- Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:33:22 +0200 -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG

Re: build-essential / native-package-with-dash-version ?

2006-11-29 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:03:22 -0500, Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:30:03 -0300, andremachado [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The executable-not-elf-or-script I guess will continue. Jar, war, policy

Re: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends ?

2006-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
would still need to depend on it. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: build-essential / native-package-with-dash-version ?

2006-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
jar files should be executable, but if they shouldn't you should chmod -x them in your build process, after they get installed. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29

Re: RFS; gnuserv -- Allows you to attach to an already running Emacs

2006-10-21 Thread Hubert Chan
not necessary, and should be removed from those patches. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

who do I bug to frob the buildd flags?

2006-10-19 Thread Hubert Chan
I bug to get this fixed? The architectures are arm and sparc. On the next upload libavifile-0.7-dev will be removed from the build-depend on ia64. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-22 Thread Hubert Chan
. -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
be your package, when you are not the maintainer. The maintainer has given Yavor his blessing to be co-maintainer. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=385239;msg=32 -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key

Re: What to do with word documents ?

2006-09-19 Thread Hubert Chan
software projects. -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFS: jabbin

2006-08-29 Thread Hubert Chan
Hello, On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 8/25/06, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what would be the alternative? Would we have to use a makefile hack (e.g. test for the existence of /dev/random and set a compile flag) or something to figure out what random seed we

Re: RFS: jabbin

2006-08-24 Thread Hubert Chan
as intended. |int seed = int(tick); | #ifdef WIN32 |srand(seed); ` -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Hubert Chan
version) for both libraries will always be the same, it should be safe to put them both in the same package. If the SONAME may be out of sync, they should be in different packages. -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Hubert Chan
a header (like above) to it. Then you just create a 00list file, which lists all the patches in order (without the .dpatch extension). -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74

[RFS] ufraw: raw camera image importer

2006-06-13 Thread Hubert Chan
profiles. Thanks -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

RFS: windows-el: window manager for emacs

2006-06-03 Thread Hubert Chan
/windows-el/ (or just http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/ ). Package is lintian and linda clean. Package: windows-el Version: 2.40-2 Section: utils Priority: optional Architecture: all Depends: emacs21 | emacsen Installed-Size: 146 Maintainer: Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-03 Thread Hubert Chan
made a contribution to Debian -- significant enough that someone is willing to be their advocate. So I would not be surprised if a larger-than-average number of applicants are prepared to be DDs. -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Thank you for any hints Daniel -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
, for that issue, you just need to ask upstream to s/FREEBSD PROJECT/VIRTUAL EXIM DEVELOPMENT TEAM/ . This has nothing to do with whether or not it's a real BSD license. It's just upstream being sloppy about copy-and-paste. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
restriction (well, actually, that restriction is already covered by law). So the only problem, really, is just making sure that all the names are correct. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA

Re: non-standard configure cdbs

2006-01-08 Thread Hubert Chan
:: configure-foo-stamp configure-foo-stamp: ./configure bla bla bla touch configure-foo-stamp The second time the configure/foo rule is called, it will notice that the configure-foo-stamp is already present, and not run configure. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: RFS: GNUstep packages

2005-12-09 Thread Hubert Chan
are not DDs (yet). But yes, it would make sense to put them in some test-repository, before we upload to unstable. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net

RFS: GNUstep packages

2005-12-01 Thread Hubert Chan
. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: 'RFP', 'wnpp', 'ITP',...

2005-10-14 Thread Hubert Chan
for eventual inclusion in Debian, you should use them (and check to see if other people have already filed ITP bugs), to avoid stepping on other peoples' toes. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719

Re: Best way to maintain a package for multiple Debian releases?

2005-07-08 Thread Hubert Chan
to set up a chroot and build against woody on sarge and other combinations. I'm facing the same question as Jarle, and this is what I was planning on doing. You may need to maintain a diff between the sid/sarge/woody versions, if there's any difference (such as in the control file). -- Hubert Chan

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-26 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 19 May 2005 18:31:16 -0400, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Michael == Michael K Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hubert Commenting out those lines, and compiling multi-threaded, gives Hubert performance similar to the single

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-18 Thread Hubert Chan
Michael == Michael K Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The configure flags for compiling libgc are: --disable-threads --disable-shared --enable-cplusplus (obviously with --disable-threads toggled for the different tests). I'm also

depending on a customized library

2005-05-17 Thread Hubert Chan
to proceed? Are there other options? -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. pgpgzAvSPOd3z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-17 Thread Hubert Chan
. By the way, have you heard of any other comments about multi-threaded libgc being slower than single-threaded? -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
/changelog). Tell your upstream to move his changelog. There isn't any reason for it to be there. The debian directory is for things specific to the Debian package. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
to make their own package of the latest version of the software for some reason. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Hubert Chan
subdirectory is to Miriam distribute it with the source files. You can then ask him why he needs/wants to distribute it with the source files. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key

Re: CDBS and DESTDIR

2005-03-22 Thread Hubert Chan
includes perlmodule-vars.mk, which re-sets DEB_MAKE_INSTALL_TARGET. BTW, you don't have include makefile.mk if you include perlmodule.mk, since perlmodule.mk automatically includes makefile.mk. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5

Re: RFS: albumshaper - a drag and drop photo album manager

2005-03-16 Thread Hubert Chan
permissions, or change the permissions in debian/rules. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: WMAnsiEd - An ANSI/ASCII editor

2005-03-04 Thread Hubert Chan
can find. Perhaps the question is better phrased: what makes WMAnsiEd better/sufficiently different from the other ANSI editors already in Debian? Or why would someone want to use WMAnsiEd instead of one of the other ANSI editors? -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-04 Thread Hubert Chan
anything that might require root privilege. ... Michelle | binary: Again, from Policy section 4.8: The binary target must be all that is necessary for the user to build the binary package(s) produced from this source package. Hence binary should depend on build, install, etc. -- Hubert Chan

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-04 Thread Hubert Chan
section 4.8: The binary target must be all that is necessary for the user to build the binary package(s) produced from this source package. Hence binary should depend on build, install, etc. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5

Re: Help about license

2005-02-28 Thread Hubert Chan
understand copyright. The way that statement parses, the copyright for the software is held by an entity (company) called GNU Copyleft. You should bug upstream for clarification, and get him to put in a proper copyright statement. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key

Re: Advice in 3 packages

2005-01-04 Thread Hubert Chan
, if the license is non-free. -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

RFS2: asymptote: MetaPost-inspired graphics language

2004-12-15 Thread Hubert Chan
that LaTeX does for scientific text. Packages available at http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian.text -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net

RFS: asymptote: graphics language inspired by MetaPost

2004-12-08 Thread Hubert Chan
/debian.text -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

architecture detection

2004-09-27 Thread Hubert Chan
this? The package does not use autoconf/automake, and currently depends on the user to determine the architecture (via make x86, make ppc-linux, make generic, etc). -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719

architecture detection

2004-09-27 Thread Hubert Chan
this? The package does not use autoconf/automake, and currently depends on the user to determine the architecture (via make x86, make ppc-linux, make generic, etc). -- Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719

RFS: hashcash

2004-02-23 Thread Hubert Chan
Maintainer: Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: a postage payment scheme for email based on hash calculations Hash cash is a payment scheme that uses CPU cycles as the form of payment. This can be used as a counter-measure for junk email (spam) by using the hash cash token as a proof

RFS: hashcash

2004-02-23 Thread Hubert Chan
Maintainer: Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: a postage payment scheme for email based on hash calculations Hash cash is a payment scheme that uses CPU cycles as the form of payment. This can be used as a counter-measure for junk email (spam) by using the hash cash token as a proof