Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
hosting or would my own VPS be fine? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Getting Started': On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this isn't the right way to start, but I'm more interested

pbuilder/chroot problems

2008-11-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
better. I don't see a bug about this, perhaps I should file one? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: pbuilder/chroot problems

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 03:05, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-11-09 01:06 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I attempted to to the chroot command directly, and got a bit more verbose output ending in: Setting up libc6 (2.7-16) ... sh: /dev/null: Permission denied sh: /dev/null

Re: [uploaded] Re: RFS: cppcheck (4rd attempt)

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 10 November 2008 01:12, Reijo Tomperi wrote: I can close it if you can tell me how to close it? http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Advice for Adopting Valknut

2008-11-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
hate to waste effort fixing bugs that upstream may (I think probably) have fixed already. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

GPG Keys

2008-11-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
relatively easy to confirm that I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- we could do that via email. If you'd prefer to see my passport and/or DL to confirm I'm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr., we'll have to meet in person; who's closest to Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Debian Maintainance w/ a DVCS

2008-11-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
know where the manual is at. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/                      \_/     pgpWn84PtQN1o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: bot-sentry

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Tobias Domhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RFS: bot-sentry': Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License : [fill in] You seem to have not filled everything in. -- Boyd Stephen

Fwd: Re: RFS: bot-sentry

2008-11-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm pretty sure Tobias meant this for the list: -- Forwarded Message from Tobias Domhan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- Subject: Re: RFS: bot-sentry Date: Saturday 15 November 2008 From: Tobias Domhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] oh I'm sorry. Upstream

Re: RFS: premake

2008-11-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
it. The are quite a few packages in Debian -- are there any projects using premake whose software is in Debian. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: RFS: vbetool (QA upload)

2008-12-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is there for not using the latest upstream? BTW, it looks like there's a new URL for upstream. PTS shows http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/vbetool/ which has a really lame, manual redirect to http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool/ . -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: RFS: vbetool (QA upload)

2008-12-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 17:07:06 Julien Lavergne wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 16:49 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool/download/ shows that a 1.1 version is available. Since you don't seem to be targetting Etch or Lenny, what reason

Re: VCS-Git branch

2008-12-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of all branches and checkout HEAD. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. bs...@volumehost.net                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/                      \_/     signature.asc Description

Re: help to make a .deb package needed till monday

2008-12-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-manuals/menu.html/ might be useful, too. If your program is meant to be used by users in more than one region, http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ might be userful, too. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. bs...@volumehost.net                      ((_/)o o

Re: #506353 CVE-2008-5312/3: mailscanner might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack

2008-12-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
for a security update. After the package is in stable, that will be the way forward for security updates (or other fixes for high-severity bugs) so you might as well get used to it now. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. bs...@volumehost.net                      ((_/)o o

Re: RFS: libexplain

2008-12-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
/semantics, but I understand that the GNU version predates it by some time. [1] I don't completely understand the technical details, but if your code indicates _XOPEN_SOURCE = 600 and not _GNU_SOURCE you can get the SUSv3 version. Otherwise you get the GNU version. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: RFS: libexplain

2008-12-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2008 December 24 11:17:04 George Danchev wrote: the reentrant version of strerror is not the most interesting part here, is it ? No, but: http://xkcd.com/386/ :) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: RFS: krypt

2008-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian etch - Rebuilding a package from source.

2008-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
continue to follow the Debian conventions for package versioning, e.g. by using one of the previous two paragraphs to guide your version numbers. IIRC, devscripts has a script/program to conpare version numbers if you aren't sure which one the newer/greater than another. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: RFS: krypt

2009-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 01 January 2009, Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr wrote about 'Re: RFS: krypt': Hello again and have/make a happy new year with an early Lenny release. On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: At least mention somewhere that one have to be subscribed to debian

Re: Debian etch - Rebuilding a package from source.

2009-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 01 January 2009, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote about 'Re: Debian etch - Rebuilding a package from source.': On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:16:46PM EST, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 31 18:45:26 Chris Jones wrote: What I have done so far is pretty much

Re: RFS: indonesian-fonts

2009-01-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
in] You need to actually fill out this information. This also applies to your other RFS for scim-tables-indonesian. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Patching Upstream Source

2009-01-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, I wanted to double-check what is current policy. (BTW, if I'm just being thick and this is actually clarified in the documentation, just give me a document and section and I'll look it up myself.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of the Debian users and administrators that are not English speakers. Translations are not just a good idea, they are a requirement for any software released world-wide the way Debian is. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the full power of gdb to bear. Because gdb (et al) is still able to match the function addresses on the stack with the -g3 generated symbols. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: How can i install Debian via hard disk

2009-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
list, BTW. If you need further assistance, follow-up to debian-user. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc

Re: How can i install Debian via hard disk

2009-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 19 February 2009 22:12:42 Qzi wrote: Is there a easy way to start the graphic install without CD *WRONG* *List*. Please follow the Code of Conduct http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct and use the correct list, debian-user *NOT* debian-mentors. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: RFS: libpam-paperauth

2009-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
idea why that could be the case? Probably x86 vs. x86_64 issue. You might try using qemubuilder (or just qemu) to compile on other architectures. IIRC, x86_64 requires all shared code to be compiled as PIC (Position Independent Code) -- I'm not entirely sure why x86 doesn't. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: Which package cacher to use?

2009-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
handy. Yes. * Does it keep a directory hierarchy neatly organized like the Debian archive? Yes. For building in pbuilder (or a variant) (or another build daemon) some sort of apt proxy is virtually required. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
hope. Yes, pbuilder provides a way for you to login and execute commands in the sid environment. You should be able to reportbug that way. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: RFS: fsprotect

2009-03-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the right thing automatically for them. There are other lists I've been on that M-F-T was explicitly disliked. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. In terms of a separate package, or simply not including? In this case, not including. Debian couldn't distribute that data even in the non-free section. If the data was distributable but not modifiable by end-users, you could break it into a separate package and put it in non-free. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 01785aaa-09b5-4cff-826b-78f31bd27...@free.fr, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Distributing non-DFSG-free software in main, even if it [...] can be considered data... All software can be considered data. That's the beauty of the Turing machine abstraction and the von realization. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: RFS: pyrex 0.9.8.5-1 (or RFS: fftw3 3.2.1-1)

2009-04-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
wrote: Hi all, I would need a sponsor for fftw3. The package is available here: dget http://goyave.piem.org/~piem/debian/fftw3_3.2.1-1.dsc Source: pyrex Binary: python-pyrex pyrex-mode How'd you get those mixed up!? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, or Arch? If so, Debian can be upstream but still produce non-native packages. Packages should be non-native unless they are fairly Debian-specific. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090425001917.gb6...@resivo.wgnet.de, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 24/04/2009 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Packages should be non-native unless they are fairly Debian-specific. Ok, I see your point. I'll change the package to be non-native again. But how about all the links to upstream places

Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87bpqlqj6w@turtle.gmx.de, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-25 09:26 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090425001917.gb6...@resivo.wgnet.de, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 24/04/2009 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Packages should be non-native unless they are fairly Debian-specific. Ok, I see

Re: How to give lesstif2 some attention?

2009-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
prepare a package, throw it on mentors.d.n, and start looking for a sponsor. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Lintian clean?

2009-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. However, they are not *always* a reason to prevent an upload. That seems reasonable. I use the pedantic flag on all my gcc compiles, but it isn't *always* a problem that requires an (immediate) fix. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
help reduce FTBFS bugs, at least. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: RFS (take 2): libbash

2009-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Ubuntu, for instance, and the wording of that part may leave newer maintainers puzzled. Use in other Debian-based systems is not always reason enough to make something non-native. (Use in a non-Debian-based OS generally is.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: RFS: scmbug

2009-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a version number containing a dash. IIRC, the version is in your debian/Changelog. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: RFS: scmbug

2009-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, please don't include the debian/ directory in your release tarballs so they don't get in the way of the official Debian (or Ubuntu or Knoppix or whatever) packaging. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: RFS (take 2): libbash

2009-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Patrick meant to put the files in /tmp, not in /tmp/dirlocks. If you need the locks to last across reboots, /var/tmp, not /var/tmp/dirlocks. Both /tmp and /var/tmp have the 1777 permissions you want and are present on any Debian system. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: RFS (take 2): libbash

2009-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
here, although it is not completely portable. mktemp+mkdir are portable, but make sure your code does not have a race condition. So far you haven't provided any evidence that /tmp or /var/tmp are inappropriate for your program. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: Dash and dot in package version

2009-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
repacking for Debian by a non-Debian (or simply unofficial) group. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc

Re: Dash and dot in package version

2009-05-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 7337540c0905181406k63858584r28dbd4883869c...@mail.gmail.com, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: Just, IMO: I prefer 2.2~rc3+hg365~dfsg1 so that 2.2~rc3+hg365 would be greater than it. In this way, it would allow

Re: how to check for binary compability?

2009-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the function is no longer exported (or present). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: RFS: agedu

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
not freeze time). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: info-document-missing-dir-section

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
quilt or dpatch, preferably. You may also want to push this change upstream, although I do not know if the info sections are standardized. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: PapaFactory

2009-06-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Maintainers' Guide, and the Debian Developer's Reference. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: RFS: gddrescue-1.10

2009-06-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, a DD, a DM, or any of the Debian packaging teams could be upstream and it still might not be correct to have the package be native. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: RFS: iulib (2nd attempt)

2009-06-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
- versioned) symlink libiulib.so.0 - libiulib.so.0.0.0 needs to be in the libuilib0 package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: package advices

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. Again, I'd recommend against it and instead have your $org-admin-scripts package contain $org-addadmin and $org-deladmin scripts that are installed to /usr/sbin. Whatever method you are using for mass package-installation should be able to handle mass script-running. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
does show a[i] = i as a valid statement. Here's an example of using that statement to basically do n=n: int a = 0; void **i = i; int main() { a[i] = i; printf(%p, i); } There may be other issues that affect the quoted code, but I don't see them off-hand. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 200906171857.57749@v13.gr, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: Same thing for the trigraphs. puts(What??!); /* ;) */ -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 200906171954.59429@v13.gr, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 200906171857.57749@v13.gr, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: Same thing for the trigraphs. puts(What??!); /* ;) */ I meant that they are not very popular

Re: RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean? no.

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
always be built in a Sid environment), you can use a post-build hook to run Sid's lintian against the package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Creating a transition package for source and binary switching

2009-06-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
will be considered to be a lower version (that 3:1.1-2) by dpkg and any higher-level tools, including apt. Once an epoch is in place, it is required to stay. That's one reason the should be avoided if possible. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Packaging data for a CGI

2009-06-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
environment, it might be better as /usr/share/doc/hoogle/apache.conf.example -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: RFS: mount-systray

2009-06-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
* reason that openSUSE, Fedora, or Gentoo would want to use the software (albeit with different packaging) you should use normal (non-native) packaging. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: RFS: mount-systray

2009-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 135eeb1d0906250600y552b3c5du980a01d3e3d3e...@mail.gmail.com, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote: On 24 jun, 21:40, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 135eeb1d0906241156q69cfcf9fqeb7bfbe733ddc...@mail.gmail.com, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote: * The version numbering

Re: Adopting package

2009-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is stated there? For the packaging copyright, it would be the previous maintainer for the years they maintained it and your copyright for the years you maintained it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: non-native package versions

2009-06-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
there another option? The other option is native packaging. However, I think we've already covered why that isn't appropriate for this package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: non-native package versions

2009-06-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
). Is this a thinly-veiled reference to the new source package format? If it is, do you know of any page on the Internet that gives the status of this project? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: nzbget

2009-07-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ is the start page for that. If you have more specific questions, please let us know. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: shell kung-fu with set -e, return codes and i/o redirection in while read ... loop

2009-07-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the remaining crypt targets. Using something like the above you should be able to try to mount the all entries, print a warning for each one that fails, and then return an appropriate code to indicate success/partial success/failure. \-- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: shell kung-fu with set -e, return codes and i/o redirection in while read ... loop

2009-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
script set -e. It helps prevent errors from cascading. Even if you are checking return values for everything now, you might not be so disciplined with changes in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: Nomeclator of plugins

2009-07-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. This allows multiple (major) versions of the library package to be installed, so that package with binaries that haven't made the transition can still run and Depend on the only version. You might even consider making the SO_VERSION part of the lib*-dev package name. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: RFS: deejayd (updated package)

2009-07-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is required to return 0 (succeed) if the argument is non-empty and return non-0 (fail) if the argument is empty. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 200907281303.42301@iguanasuicide.net, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090728163525.gc31...@an3as.eu, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers are rarely considered user-friendly. However

Re: git-buildpackage issues

2009-08-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
no commits; the .git/HEAD symref is invalid/missing. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
sockets the same way ssh-agent and/or gpg-agent secure theirs? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc

Re: Automated package build-and-test tools for Debian package maintainers (was: pbuilder: The following packages have unmet dependencies)

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In Tuesday 04 August 2009, you wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:23AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090804100620.ga8...@shurick.s2s.msu.ru, Alexander Inyukhin wrote: Socket permissions are controlled by umask, but if security matters, a more sophisticated way of managing sockets

Re: RFS: libsockets++

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: Upstream dedicated system and Debian adaptation

2009-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535361 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
are fine, but there seems to be a constant need for more maintainers of the packages that already exist. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
or would like to use. I'm not sure that's the most common itch anymore. I think more often it is that they want faster releases or bug fixes. Either that or continued availability of packages that are RFA, ITO, or O. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-by-side installation of the old ABI and the new ABI. This may be desirable in the short term for any library. For the long-term, multiple source packages will probably be required. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: RFS: nautilus-dropbox

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a (restricted) redistribution-only license. They could be put into non-free, but they certainly can't reside in main. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on Debian. Shipping the library along-side the application is also generally frowned upon. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 12:54:21 Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:45:53AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090901055635.gc6...@glandium.org, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:03:06PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote: Another issue sprung up, though. What I need

Re: RFS: sqlkit

2009-09-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Recommends $mysql_pkg, $postgres_pkg, $other_pkgs is ideal, I'd think. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc

Re: Problem with debian/rules

2009-09-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but won't work. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: How to detect 32 or 64 bit at build time?

2009-09-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is built for]. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: multiple database support with dbconfig-common : metapackages ?

2009-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-ruby and postgresql-client. Shouldn't libpq5 (desciprion: PostgrSQL client libraries), brought in as a dependency of libdbd-pg-ruby be enough of a client? postgresql-client is only the front-end binaries. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: NMU for libkarma (Rio Karma tools)?

2009-10-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-responsive maintainer. If you'd like to take maintainership, please start that process. In the meantime a suitable NMU should be prepared until (if) you become the maintainer. If you don't have time, I wonder if this is a good place for collab-maint to step in? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: RFS: qemu-kvm (kvm)

2009-10-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, maintainers of java-related packages should be familiar with the Debian GNU/Linux and Java FAQ. All of these documents are available from http://www.debian.org/doc/. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but it is grammatically correct as it can be used unchanged in a grammatically correct structure. (In addition, it stands on its own as a noun phrase.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 October 2009 11:15:16 Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, Oct 23 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 22 October 2009 22:37:54 Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, Oct 22 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: I also think that style issues should

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
[...] This would mean, that it is created with inkscape, which could also save the files as svg. In this case, it would also mean the preferred form for modification is the inkscape native format. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
- masters. However, violating the GPL (by not distributing the preferred from for modification) can be considered an RC bug (at the least) and may require your packages be moved to non-free for a release (at the least) or dropped from the repositories and their archives. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: About software from other distribution

2009-11-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
an odd view of a normally acceptable license. [2] If there's already a package that fills the same role, your package might not be considered useful for Debian users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. The last two may contain some sections you can skip if they aren't relevant to your current package. If there's a python team (I think there is) you should probably work with them as well -- they may have even prepared python-specific policy documentation. TLDNR: RTFM N00B! -- Boyd Stephen

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 16:49:37 Francisco Rivas wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: TLDNR: RTFM N00B! is this necessary or are you kidding?.. :P Sorry, if it wasn't clear. I was just joking. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

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