Re: Signing a .deb later?

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
debsign -Rob -- 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/caj3hoz0rthwwg60+pywdb0u3h5pdxtxfebrn1mkqrvfa7nv...@mail.gmail.com

Re: NMU done but unresponsive maintainer

2011-12-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Emilien Klein emilien+deb...@klein.st wrote: 2011/12/9 Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org: * Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org, 2011-12-09, 13:56: This package should have at least a new co-maintainer, Eh, why? Because the maintainer failed to respond to

Re: ia32-libs-dev build dependency vs. Ubuntu

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Gregor Jasny gja...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I'm the maintainer of v4l-utils and ran into the following problem: The last v4l-utils Debian package added a build dependency to libjpeg, and because I also build 32bit libs on amd64 (for Skype) I had to add

Re: RFS: (NMU) testrepository

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: Did he give any reasons why he doesn't simply fix this himself? It would have been useful if you had at least included an excerpt of the IRC communication in the bug report. Well, and even if he cannot find the time

Re: On the Bazaar version at Alioth.

2010-07-02 Thread Robert Collins
bzr is still network compatible back to 0.9 or so. However, 2.0 changes the default format to the one introduced in 1.16; users can choose to use an older format, which older bzr's will access, but this comes with a performance penalty. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian changelog vs upstream changelog

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 12:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: It might actually be best to store all this upstream data in the PackageMap or somewhere associated with it and map from Debian package - PackageMap name - upstream metadata. I'm also reminded of things like DOAP, which are sometimes

Re: RFS: aegis (updated package, NMU)

2009-09-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 07:49 +0200, Walter Franzini wrote: Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org writes: [...] I've had a brief look at the package, and have a few comments on it: Thank's for taking the time to review the package. - the orig.tar.gz you've used is content-identical

Re: RFS: libmemcached

2009-05-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:35 -0700, Monty Taylor wrote: 3. consider remove the .la file if you already have a .pc file. Is that a policy/best practice for library packages? I've uploaded a new copy to mentors with 1 and 2 fixed. I'd like to know more about 3 before making that change.

Re: RFS (take 2): libbash

2009-05-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 20:37 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: On May 10 2009, Patrick Matthäi wrote: See: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html -- quote # When to use a native vs a non-native debian package (...) But linda, lintian, dpkg and some other tools are purely

Re: RFS: google-gflags

2009-04-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 08:52 -0700, Ehren Kret wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:29:23AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: The distinctive feature of this library that I'm aware of is that it allows command line flags to be defined in any file in which they're needed and uses the linker to

Re: RFS: bzr-diffstat

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 23:26 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * martin f krafft [Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:07:28 +0100]: also sprach David Futcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.10.30.1044 +0100]: This is mainly an ease of use/usability thing. Ubuntu is trying to move to using bzr (and only bzr) for

Re: Same file in two packages

2008-08-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 03:27 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: Dear mentors: File /usr/share/icons/wmaker-GNUstep.xpm from package wmaker-data I've recently adopted and file /usr/share/WindowMaker/Icons/GNUstep.xpm from package wmaker are exactly the same, bit by bit. Since wmaker

Re: RFS: desktop-data-model

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 21:29 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO En ce début de soirée du mercredi 23 juillet 2008, vers 21:37, Julien Lavergne [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : I am looking for a sponsor for my package desktop-data-model. Hi Julien! You are adding

Re: RFS: python-minimock

2008-06-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:58 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: Hi On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:46:03 +1000 Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately they require using a Subversion repository. One of the big advantages of Alioth is that I don't have to use Subversion repositories for my

Re: About md5sums of debian sources

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 00:54 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I am relatively certain that on those machines, the speed boost of using gzip compression over bzip2 compression is probably quite necessary in the ability of those machines which are being used as buildds to keep up. This

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 09:56 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:39:30AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Why bother with the date? 2.1~svn-r91 seems much more concise and has the same information, really. Though you're right that the information is the same, a date is

Re: [OT] svn rollback

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:34 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:01:52PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Also, in the (rare but can occur) event of a svn rollback, r91 is not necessarily accurate after the fact,whereas a datestamp is. Uh? Is rollback (in the sense

Re: dropping dependencies for a package

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:17 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: Hello All: If a new version of a package drops a dependency on a previously required package, should an install-time reminder be given to the user? I don't really want to add debconf clutter for such a trivial matter but it is

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 01:52 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:20:56 +1100, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The basic problem is that presence of a kernel package does not imply presence of the desired patch/enabled feature in that package, nor

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:38 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:33:34PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Its not -required- that any of the software on a machine be packaged. Users can (gasp) build and run their own $software - e.g. squid, apache, whatever

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:51 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:48:57PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Yes. But enough people build non-packaged kernels that it is not really fair to exclude them. Add to that the fact that the presence of a particular kernel

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 22:15 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Right. But depending on a particular kernel image is an artificial limitation. If I roll my own kernel without using Debian tools (which is a fairly common practice), why should I have to work around your package's dependencies

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2006-12-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:14 +1100, Craig Small wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:40:47PM -0500, Jerry DuVal wrote: Is it bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image? This might be a loaded question, but I was just trying to get an opinion. All of the boxes using this

Re: Somebody please put peless in a debian repository!

2006-06-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 08:12 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: During the xlibs-dev transition, I learned that listing full build-dependencies (not just the minimal set) is recommended, though I don't know how widely accepted or followed this is. I don't mean listing indirect build-deps, just the

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2006-01-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 00:45 +1100, skaller wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 03:35 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: While insiders are not qualified to comment on how outsiders *feel* about the process, they are certainly the people to judge whether the *outcome* of the process is the correct one.

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:05 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:13:31PM +1100, skaller wrote: This is how Wikipedia works and why it is successful. With minimal fuss I have contributed some comments and a couple of changes. How easy is it for a Wikipedia comment to

Re: Stupid shebang tricks

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:07 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: To what extent should that be used? Is it reasonable to do it for *any* shebang line? '#!/usr/bin/env make'? '#!/usr/bin/env bash'? Are there any downsides? AFAIK you can't pass parameters to the program : #!/bin/env python --debug

Re: filing bugs against my own package

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:59 -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote: I have been fixing some upstream bugs that I discovered in one of the packages I maintain. I plan to package a new version with these fixes soon but I am waiting for upstream as they may release shortly, and include these fixes. Should