Re: Bug#699474: RFS: b43-fwcutter/1:017-1 [ITA]

2013-02-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 13:45 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 02/04/2013 01:32 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: b43-fwcutter itself is just a firmware cutter as its name suggests. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Install_b43-fwcutter The thing is that absolutely nothing happens

Re: How to transition to a new UID?

2012-02-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 19:12 +0100, Arno Töll wrote: On 14.02.2012 13:48, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Following the discussion in [2] and most importantly [3] it seems as if the primary UID is not really important as any UID is acceptable if the real name matches. I can confirm that. That's

How to transition to a new UID?

2012-02-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Dear Mentors, I am currently in the process of transitioning to a new UID that I would like to use for my Debian related activities, but am unsure how to do this correctly. There also seems to be a difference between what is documented as good practice and how the actual implementation would

Re: RFS: totem-plugin-arte (updated package)

2011-07-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 00:53 +0200, Nicolas Delvaux wrote: And I can't use pbuilder because of another bug ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631087 ). Just use cdebootstrap for now. -- Wolodja babi...@gmail.com 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
, as it lays the groundwork for everything that comes afterwards. Are there reasons not to focus on being up-to-date? Uploading a non-DEP5 package for example just means that the copyright has to be changed later in order to be policy compliant, doesn't it? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi

Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
:) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Bonjour Thomas, On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 15:12 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 14:38:36, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : First, thanks for posting your git workflow. It is for me very interesting to see different ways of dealing with upstream also using git

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
, but something in me says that it is wrong as the tarballs are not really needed because everything that is needed is already in the VCS. Sorry for the many questions -- I certainly owe all of you a dram of Talisker when we meet ... -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com writes: I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with git-buildpackage. I do the following

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 14:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com writes: How stable is get-orig-source across releases? For a package where I was using a released tarball for the reasons described above, I would dispense with this target entirely and just use

Unit tests and application data

2009-09-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
in Debian? Furthermore it also installs application data into PREFIX/share/foo/data. The data is unlikely to change, but could be replaced by newer versions whenever the system administrator decides to do so. Is '/usr/share/foo/data' correct for data like this? thanks for all the fish Wolodja

Re: Unit tests and application data

2009-09-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 20:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de writes: If the distribution is done using Python's Distutils, then this should be configured by upstream: the configuration of ‘setup.py’ should include all files for the ‘sdist