Re: sbuild for experimental

2024-09-05 Thread Wookey
imental then sbuild -d experimental -c unstable-amd64-sbuild and that worked without lintian complaining, and produced a package with a changes file that will send it to experimental. HTH Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How can I contribute to Debian?

2024-08-19 Thread Wookey
'm not sure if I'm posting this message in the right channel, sorry. You have indeed found the right place to ask questions like this, (and more detailed ones). So that's a good start :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Packaging an application with unpackaged dependencies

2024-05-25 Thread Wookey
nstances. You can do both at once but I find it easier if the libraries go in first, then you can be sure everything works without having to have 'special' build environment with your extra library packages present. Mostly it depends how fast you want to move. Either is fine. Wookey --

Re: packaging help

2024-05-05 Thread Wookey
Doxyfile.orig Doxyfile -mv libsquish.pc.in.orig libsquish.pc.in dh_clean Does that help? Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to name a similiar package?

2024-03-17 Thread Wookey
-tools and ssh-toolz is, so at least be very clear in the long description, and give a clue in the short one if possible. And thanks for thinking about it before it's too late to fix. Names that are clear to users are definitely helpful. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Is there a way to set up a sid environment at this time?

2024-03-12 Thread Wookey
We are working on unbunging things so we can get back to our usual level of smooth updates soon. I expect unstable to be rather more unstable than usual for another week or two. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Rebuilding Debian packages

2024-03-05 Thread Wookey
sorts of dependency, nor packages furtuer down the tree. I hope that answers your question? Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FWD: Copyright in LGPL projects

2024-03-05 Thread Wookey
), but could be any README, or even just a notice on the project website, or an email saying ' Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1064346: Source is missing errors on HTML source files

2024-02-22 Thread Wookey
in, and you don't need to worry too much, but it is a good idea to at least have this stuff in the back of your mind when packaging. Ideally this would all work correctly on the whole archive, and packagers are the ones best-placed to stick in the necessary runes. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Building a package for arm64 only on amd64 machine

2024-01-14 Thread Wookey
ld is a different thing, and whilst it would be good to have that working too, it won't be used by the buildds. I had a quick go with a trivial packaging and yes it didn't build on x86 /usr/bin/c++ -I/home/wookey/packages/oaknut/debian/oaknut-1.2.2/tests -I/home/wookey/packages

Re: Questions about package dependencies with no upstream version

2023-11-21 Thread Wookey
than your made-up dates (which it won't be if you used the obvious '20231118' (version 20-million-ish)). So you need to version it like this: 0~20231118 0~20240315 etc This is in the debian docs somewhere, but I forget where. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about non-responsive key-signing mate

2023-11-14 Thread Wookey
int stash collection. It's not personal. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: lintian error due to arm64 and aarch64 mismatch on raspberry pi

2023-11-11 Thread Wookey
86_64' None of this has anything to do with your actual lintian error, as you have worked out :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian versioning question

2023-11-10 Thread Wookey
On 2023-11-10 23:44 +0100, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: > On 10.11.2023 03:10, Wookey wrote: > > Hi Wookey, > > > I think your options are > > 1) add an epoch (which exists to deal with this sort of problem) > > > Well, would like to avoid it, if possible. There is n

Re: Debian versioning question

2023-11-09 Thread Wookey
with the old version until a higher-versioned one appears 3) upload a 'nobbled' version number, which is often done to deal with this sort of temporary issue: 1.3.8a+really1.3.8+dfsg-1 dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8a+dfsg lt 1.3.8a+really1.3.8+dfsg; echo $? I'd probably go

Re: Mysterious uscan problem

2023-10-31 Thread Wookey
On 2023-10-31 04:57 +, Phil Wyett wrote: > On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 04:23 +0000, Wookey wrote: > > uscan is doing something very strange with version numbers and I > > don't understand what's going on. > > > > However, whilst it now finds the current v3.5.0 i

Mysterious uscan problem

2023-10-30 Thread Wookey
gz uscan debug: line: get_newfile_base() uscan info: Matching target for filenamemangle: https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/archive/refs/tags/v3.5.0.tar.gz uscan debug: safe_replace input="https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/archive/refs/tags/v3.5.0.tar.gz"; uscan debug: safe_

Bug#1051879: RFS: ncdu/1.19-0.1 [NMU] -- ncurses disk usage viewer

2023-09-15 Thread Wookey
can do it for you (I use and enjoy this package). Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1035946: RFS: justbuild/1.1.0-1 [ITP] -- Justbuild generic build system

2023-05-16 Thread Wookey
ully (finally) get this fixed for the general case. I can provide debian packaging and build expertise to complement your knowledge of google-apis. (and then maybe we can give bazel-remote-apis a very similar treatment). I will put my unfinished project on salsa, file an ITP, and find my notes, the

Re: GPG user ID policy - online persona/brand

2022-11-14 Thread Wookey
. I'm fairly sure there is some actual policy written down somewhere, probably in the 'DD/DM application process' info. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1023143: RFS: xfce4-calculator-plugin/0.7.1-1 [ITP] -- calculator plugin for Xfce panel

2022-10-31 Thread Wookey
On 2022-11-01 08:57 +0500, Akbarkhon Variskhanov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 7:02 PM Wookey wrote: > > The description could be more useful. > > "The plugin supports common mathematical operators (+, -, *, /, ^) with > > usual > > precedence rules, and som

Bug#1023143: RFS: xfce4-calculator-plugin/0.7.1-1 [ITP] -- calculator plugin for Xfce panel

2022-10-31 Thread Wookey
to the copyright list and the package includes the LGPL COPYING.LIB at top level, although it's not obvious if that actually applies to any of the code. If it does then the LGPL should be listed (maybe you already checked this?). Otherwise it looks fine. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1021364: RFS: ghostwriter/2.2.0-1 [RC] -- Distraction-free, themeable Markdown editor

2022-10-10 Thread Wookey
Just put 3rdparty into files-excluded: in the debian/copyright file, and setup up the watch file to repack/rename. https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Repacking https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1021364: RFS: ghostwriter/2.2.0-1 [RC] -- Distraction-free, themeable Markdown editor

2022-10-10 Thread Wookey
/usr/share/javascript) is used (referred-to as http://localhost/javascript/) If that version is too old then investigate if it can be updated (without breaking other depending packages) If the package is not yet present then ideally package that too. Info here: https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript W

Re: Self dependent package, build profiles and buildd servers

2022-09-20 Thread Wookey
ut do people really need both packages in the archive? Or is only the pkgB actually useful? Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Self dependent package, build profiles & buildd servers

2022-09-17 Thread Wookey
ducing pkg-A and one producing pkg-B, so that both end up in the archive. Binutils is an example of a package that does this (building both native and cross versions). Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Do autopkgtest for non-listed architectures prevent migration?

2022-01-23 Thread Wookey
out you mark which arches to run tests on separately from which arches to build. If the package is available then maybe someone who cares will fix it. If it isn't they probably won't even try. A note in the Debian.README about this known issue would be helpful. Wookey -- Pr

Re: The purpose of marking a package Multi-Arch: foreign

2022-01-16 Thread Wookey
php?p=easygen vs. > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=golang-github-danverbraganza-varcaser This is not cross-building. This is native building. Cross-building is building one package on a machine of another architecture. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1003306: RFS: mbedtls/2.28.0-0.1 [NMU] -- lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library

2022-01-08 Thread Wookey
On 2022-01-08 16:54 +0100, Andrea Pappacoda wrote: > > Il giorno sab 8 gen 2022 alle 01:52:47 +, Wookey > ha scritto: > > However, I have already packaged v3.0.0. It's not been uploaded yet > > because it fails some tests intermittently, and I am in discussion &

Re: Bug#1003306: RFS: mbedtls/2.28.0-0.1 [NMU] -- lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library

2022-01-07 Thread Wookey
iving them a prod and us waiting another week or so to see if v3.0.0 will happen? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Salsa Maintainer access

2021-04-21 Thread Wookey
org/debian/flam3.git > <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/flam3.git> Hmm, last touched 3 years ago. A long way behind the package. Done. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#985893: Forking on MMSD

2021-04-14 Thread Wookey
ian to have a big patch. Versioning could be tricky in some situations, but SFACT the ofono mmsd is just 0.0 so the debian version can be 0.0.something and remain compatible with a shift back to that repo at some point. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#981715: RFS: xpra/3.0.9+dfsg1-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- tool to detach/reattach running X programs

2021-02-03 Thread Wookey
ed to get the migration going and allow others to test. I should be able to contrive a non-headless armhf machine too, given a bit of time (not today) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package ghostwriter E source-is-missing

2021-01-24 Thread Wookey
y the watch file to do the renaming. Details are described here: https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Repacking i.e don't just manually delete the dir and then call that file 'orig' because it's not the original source tarball/git checkout (even though it should be if th

Re: Package ghostwriter E source-is-missing

2021-01-24 Thread Wookey
hich case you need to get thosepatches into the debian package, or stick with the 3rd-party version. Or it requires a different version from the one(s) available in debian inwhich case agin you either need to fix it to work with the version in debian or stick with the 3rd-party version. Does that

Bug#978724: RFS: dhcpcd-dbus/0.6.1-1 [QA] -- DBus bindings for dhcpcd

2020-12-30 Thread Wookey
or ignored? The config file has not changed from what is in the current version and the file _does_ seem to specify a send_destination, so is there in fact a lintian bug? http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd";> Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#962640: RFS: zmat/0.9.8 [RFS] -- a portable C-library and Octave toolbox for data compression

2020-06-11 Thread Wookey
(which can take a while (days to months) after initial upload). https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingFormalBackports https://wiki.debian.org/Backports Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for help towards my first Debian package (ITP#962603)

2020-06-11 Thread Wookey
nse for something like a big GUI toolkit: QT4 and QT5, but not a leaf compression library) Library naming conventions are subtle and the reasons for _why_ one might want to do one thing or another are not obvious. Details are given in policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs

Re: Bug#961429: RFS: cryptopass/1.0.0-1 [ITP] -- CLI utility for generating long, unguessable passwords.

2020-05-27 Thread Wookey
e in debian is always sid (unstable). The sbuild-debian-developer-setup package provides a very convenient way to set this up if you haven't already. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about naming

2020-04-22 Thread Wookey
On 2020-04-22 15:13 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote: > > > Thanks a lot, Wookey! I think I will just change my library name. At this > stage, no other libraries > that I'm aware of are relying on the name. Right. If you are upstream and can do this, then yes just picking a non-

Re: Question about naming

2020-04-22 Thread Wookey
ng to do depends on the popularity and satbility of these projects and how many other packages/external projects use them. Contacting the grok maintainer to discuss what would be best is in order IMHO Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Git bare debian repository format and python packages

2020-04-22 Thread Wookey
ted to reliably build every package using sbuild had an automated way of doing it. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: sbuild & cross build

2020-04-14 Thread Wookey
be > fulfilled. However I know that the packages in question do exist for > that arch. What am I missing? It's because libc6 is out of date on sparc64 compared to amd64 (the arch I assume you are building on) (unstable-amd64-clean-home)wookey@e110476-lin:~$apt policy libc6-dev:sp

Re: Seeking Daniel Schepler

2020-01-18 Thread Wookey
recently? He's been discussing stuff on debian devel this week, using Daniel Schepler So yes, he's active and around. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Understand Debian Keyring

2020-01-05 Thread Wookey
quietly throws away your packages without telling you. I know this because I've had this problem for some time (my machine defaults to using the wrong key despite having default-key set in .gnupg/gpg.conf so I have to sign with an expicit key (debsign -k)). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: debhelper versions

2019-11-22 Thread Wookey
e no longer supporting something that only has '8'. > And should the compat file be 11 in all cases? No, the compat file should match the dependency, and determines the actual behaviour of debhelper in the packaging. i.e. that's the important bit, and the control file depen

Re: Sharing a script between two "Multi-Arch: foreign" packages

2019-08-06 Thread Wookey
x27;wine' binary that was 32 or 64 as required then you could make this work as you want. Otherwise you need both those packages to depend on another wine-startup or whatever that contains the shared file. (I think - I admit I haven't fully groked the wine package layout) Wookey -- Princip

webapp packaging

2019-06-15 Thread Wookey
;ll do for now. not-quite finished package is here: http://wookware.org/files/bankofcucc/ Cheers for any clues. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How specific must Copyright be?

2019-06-12 Thread Wookey
lowed by a long argument about whether or not it meets the DFSG - this is a very foolish route to take without a _really_ good reason), and write it down. Once they've declared a free licence, Debian is happy. How they choose to record their authorship copyrights is entirely up to them - just

Re: Having trouble creating a shared library package

2018-12-07 Thread Wookey
On 2018-12-07 17:06 -0800, John Horigan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:36 AM Wookey wrote: > On 2018-12-07 08:27 -0800, John Horigan wrote: > Normally the library package > libfoo is shared, and the libfoo-dev package contains the static > version. You already

Re: Having trouble creating a shared library package

2018-12-07 Thread Wookey
deal with -DEV packages and shared libraries? What am I > supposed > to do? I can help explain this in more detail (as I've been doing a lot of this recently, and I agree it's confusing), but lets sort out whether you really need libagg-dev _and_ libagg2-dev first. I

Re: compiled binary file in source package

2018-02-08 Thread Wookey
ved files. > So, after more than a year, I think he won't answer. So I have to come > up with another solution. I just don't have an idea, what is the best > way to do that. Can you help me? Repacking the source without it is probably neatest. But just removing it in the clea

Fixing incorrect .orig

2018-01-26 Thread Wookey
s tells me that 16.0-3 is less than 16.0.0-1 so that should work. This seems like the best plan, but I wondered if there was anything niftier? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Dependencies across architectures

2018-01-07 Thread Wookey
elf-contained, but clearly we'd like things to work as well as possible for the cases where they aren't/can't be. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Multi-arch header conflict and pkg-config

2017-10-27 Thread Wookey
On 2017-10-27 12:12 +, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Wookey, > > Apologies for the delayed response. > > On Thursday, 26 October 2017 12:23 AM, Wookey wrote:  > >> The header was previously installed with other headers in > >> /usr/include/. > >>

Re: Multi-arch header conflict and pkg-config

2017-10-25 Thread Wookey
DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH} gets substituted. But I'd check whether you really need to do that first. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help to build library in generic form, avx and sse3

2017-09-09 Thread Wookey
ou do one with neon enabled for armhf, or altivec for powerpc. It's much better to build one version for each arch that can dynamically use available HWCAPS, but of course that's tricky if upstream doesn't support it. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http:

Re: artifacts in upstream, re: pristine source

2017-05-16 Thread Wookey
arballs and put them into their binary tarballs/packages. If they > refuse, then add Files-Excluded to debian/watch Files-Excluded goes in debian/copyright, not debian/watch. (unless there is some new feature I'm not aware of). It would arguably make more sense in watch, but that's n

Re: how best to package when using hardware vectorization with vector-unit specific code?

2017-05-10 Thread Wookey
runtime function/library level detection in the future if you did that. You definitely don't want 15 flavours though. Work out which ones _really_ matter (> 10% speed difference overall?) and package those, perhaps. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how best to package when using hardware vectorization with vector-unit specific code?

2017-05-10 Thread Wookey
On 2017-05-10 18:01 +0200, Kay F. Jahnke wrote: > @pabs > > @wookey > > > There is (as yet) no mechanism in packing to select packages by > > hardware variant or optimisation. It has been mooted, and could be > > done, but it's a big job, which would take ye

Re: how best to package when using hardware vectorization with vector-unit specific code?

2017-05-10 Thread Wookey
On 2017-05-10 13:56 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 05/10/2017 11:52 AM, Wookey wrote: > > Debian requires packages to run on the base level ISA defined for each > > architecture (which does change slowly over time). > > Well, kind of. What Debian requires is that if

Re: how best to package when using hardware vectorization with vector-unit specific code?

2017-05-10 Thread Wookey
so there is probably some code already available for the checks and switching in your language. For arm there is the ne10 package for useful optimised neon functions, but it doesn't help with any other architectures, or the fallback/variant-switching part, but it may still be helpful. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#859776: rejection

2017-04-11 Thread Wookey
rs from different conributors, even if they have the same licence). But this level of detail is not required. Even if you put it as one stanza because it's all one licence, it's good practice to include all the authors names (that have indicated their copyright by putting their names o

Re: Debian packaging for packages that provide the same files

2017-01-11 Thread Wookey
ontrol < control #nasty hack for arch support - fixme! ARCH1=armhf ARCH2=arm64 mkpkg t62x fbdev ${ARCH1} ${ARCH2} #mkpkg t62x wayland ${ARCH1} ${ARCH2} #mkpkg t62x x11 ${ARCH1} ${ARCH2} ARCH=arm64 mkpkg t62x wayland-fbdev ${ARCH} mkpkg t62x fbdev-wayland ${ARCH} ARCH=armhf mkpkg t60x fbdev ${ARCH} mkpkg t60x x11 ${ARCH} mkpkg t62x wayland ${ARCH} mkpkg t62x x11 ${ARCH} mkpkg t76x fbdev ${ARCH} mkpkg t76x x11 ${ARCH} Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

qbs building (with qt)

2016-09-04 Thread Wookey
default # choose gcc as if clang is installed too you have to pick one qbs config profiles.default.baseProfile gcc override_dh_auto_build: qbs build -f dewalls.qbs profile:default override_dh_clean: # tidy up qbs profile builddirs qbs clean profile:defa

Re: How do you delete a sbuild an sbuild chroot and start over?

2016-08-05 Thread Wookey
guess maybe you have a permissions problem? You may also find that --log-external-command-output and --log-external-command-error will help. --debug will give you buckloads of output, which again may help clarify the issue. I think there is a way to stop it putting i the <> substi

Re: How do you delete a sbuild an sbuild chroot and start over?

2016-08-03 Thread Wookey
ural choice for a > tool > that does the opposite of what sbuild-createchroot does. 'destroy' is closest to the opposite of 'create'. But 'remove' sounds a bit less cataclysmic :-) Either will do fine. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: help2man usage with pybuild / debhelper packaging workflow

2016-06-03 Thread Wookey
if you _really_ can't be bothered making man pages, just leave it as upstream supplied. Using help2man is a worse 'solution' than doing nothing. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: help2man usage with pybuild / debhelper packaging workflow

2016-06-03 Thread Wookey
e a man page. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mass-rebuilding packages

2016-05-01 Thread Wookey
, debile or rebuildd can help you with this, but they all need a bit of config to set up your chroots (suite, arch etc), and a list of packages to build. build-rdeps (from devscripts) is handy for listing all the packages you want. (or dctrl-tools if you want to do fancier things). Wookey -- Pri

Re: Packaging mmh (fork of nmh)

2016-04-10 Thread Wookey
+++ Jakub Wilk [2016-04-10 17:15 +0200]: > * Wookey , 2016-04-10, 15:49: > >>nmh installs it's binaries (~20) into /usr/bin/nmh. > > Actually it installs to /usr/bin/mh, ... > > >>Now I try to do the same, and install mmh's binaries into /usr/bin/mmh, >

Re: Packaging mmh (fork of nmh)

2016-04-10 Thread Wookey
ble to me. > And what to do with man pages? > For example, both provides `scan(1)', but only `nmh' has `mhshow(1)'. Well, if you only install one or the other this isn't a problem - they both just provide a suitable set of manpages. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#816169: RFS: fake-factory/0.5.3-1

2016-03-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Mattia Rizzolo [2016-03-27 12:39 +]: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:21:33PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > +++ Christopher Baines [2016-03-27 10:49 +0100]: > > > On 20/03/16 03:12, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > > A possible alternative would be to include a manpage made w

Bug#816169: RFS: fake-factory/0.5.3-1

2016-03-27 Thread Wookey
thus best avoided if possible. Adding support for a 'nodocs' profile to skip its use is one way to (mostly) deal with that. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: public-domain in the debian/copyright

2016-02-04 Thread Wookey
Bdfsg-1 (which then cause another (wrong) lintian warning about the GPL as that is mentioned in the text) That text came from the bottom of http://tango.freedesktop.org/ Can you find a similar statement for your project? HTH Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Again about Multi-Arch and Pre-Depends

2016-01-28 Thread Wookey
is no longer needed. It was a transitionary measure for upgrading from squeeze. Adding the "Multi-Arch: same" field to libraries (and making them install in the arch-specific localtions) is good. So yes, apply doko's patch, and just remove the Pre-Depends: line as it is no lo

Re: RFS: snetmanmon, a simple network manager and monitor

2016-01-13 Thread Wookey
nd cmake (and are built from git with git-buildpackage) http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/ros It works fine, although you do need to use dpkg-source --after-build . to tidy up build artifacts before doing clean builds in sbuild for some packages. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Re: mentor wanted

2016-01-09 Thread Wookey
ound about mentoring 'via private email' possibly meant to refer to the contact being by private mail, not to the asking and answering of queries, although I agree it could be read either way. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: O: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager

2016-01-07 Thread Wookey
oting in a debian/README.source on how you do updates/new releases (especially for anyone else that takes over in future or has to update/build it locally for other reasons) > Again, thanks for your support. Of course, I hope, i won't disappoint any of > you guys :D Don't worry.

Re: Failed to stop defining RPATH in libncl

2016-01-04 Thread Wookey
+++ Andreas Tille [2016-01-04 16:19 +0100]: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:07:40PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > > E: ncl-tools: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/NCLconverter > > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/n> > The brute force way to fix this is to use > > >

Re: Failed to stop defining RPATH in libncl

2016-01-04 Thread Wookey
er is to stop it being generated with CMAKE: SKIP_BUILD_RPATH TRUE autotools: See https://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue for details (that whole page is useful - but maybe you read it and tried that stuff already?) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: unreproducible Build-Attempted

2015-12-03 Thread Wookey
ither someone noticed or you found a comms channel. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: general question about quilt patch handling

2015-12-01 Thread Wookey
7; too - that's just as anspect of makig it work nicely. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [cmake][multipackaging] best practices

2015-11-04 Thread Wookey
ot; handles the cmake configuration and the > "make" + "make install" step, and then passes the installed files to > debian tools. I would like "dh" to configure, make and ask cmake to > generate the packages directly (without any "make install").

Re: [jitsi-dev] Jitsi in Debian

2015-10-18 Thread Wookey
people can at least see what is going on. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757768 Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#800759: RFS: sdcc/3.5.0+dfsg-1

2015-10-03 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2015-10-03 14:05 +0100]: > +++ Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [2015-10-03 13:48 +0200]: > > Changes since the last upload: > > > > * New upstream release (Closes: #789831) > > * Improve manpages as and sdcc > > * Add manpages sdar, sdas3

Re: Bug#800759: RFS: sdcc/3.5.0+dfsg-1

2015-10-03 Thread Wookey
csim to sdcc > * Add binary file sdldstm8 to sdcc > * Add provides c-compiler to control file (Closes: #768307) > * Add huge memory model libraries (Closes: #768307) > * Add deoendency on graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat > * Exclude example code from compression Wookey

Re: Multi-Arch and debian/control

2015-09-21 Thread Wookey
about derivatives upgrading from Ubuntu LTS for example, where presuambly this will apply for some time yet.) Should we in fact be advising removal of this stanza entirely now? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/

Re: Help getting a bug report in order

2015-09-20 Thread Wookey
> (4) it would probably be helpful to other X32 developers to ensure the > new GDB is built and made available. Prepare a patch so that it is easy for the maintainer to apply it and upload. File it in the bug. Then just wait till the maintainer uploads a new version with your patch. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/

Re: Bug#799390: linuxbrew-wrapper: over-restrictive architecture setting?

2015-09-20 Thread Wookey
should just be arch all IMHO, whatever actual limitations there are in the wrapped linuxbrew. Then if someone makes linuxbrew more capable one day this wrapper will at leastbe available on all arches already. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/

Re: Bug#796828: RFS: xfce4-equake-plugin/1.3.8

2015-09-04 Thread Wookey
fix if you get errors. So it is good practice for a package to be autoreconfable as that means that it will build on more architectures, and new architectures correctly. But if you cannot easily fix it this is not a reason to delay upload (but you should probably tell upstream that their

Bug#791901: RFS: frozen-flask/0.11-1 [ITP]

2015-07-09 Thread Wookey
ne with some python-clue could perhaps take a look (and would be a better sponsor in that regard) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Making Debian package with multiple opensource package

2015-06-10 Thread Wookey
zog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream-tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/ Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: mipsel -m64 testing

2015-05-27 Thread Wookey
Not really since it also fails on arm64 with the same error.  adding -m64 on arm64 to a gcc invocation will result in an error because it is meaningless. In general we should (IMHO) simply not be using -m32 or -m64 in debian builds. Not sure if I have understood you properly there? Maybe there is s

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-22 Thread Wookey
ht, so that DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck works, which is often important for cross-building. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: tuxonice-userui: can architecture be changed to linux-any ?

2015-03-04 Thread Wookey
27;any'. It would have been useful to cc the sponsor who disgrees on this mail so we can hear if there is some good reason why 'any' is in fact not appropriate. I suggest you file a debian bug with this patch, so that any necessary debate will be recorded there. Wookey -- Princip

Re: From mentors to Debian repo

2015-01-11 Thread Wookey
st one is out of NEW, because there is a quite a high risk of something like the above happening, which is not a big deal, just a bit annoying. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Please sponsor dbab, the dnsmasq-based ad-blocker

2014-12-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2014-12-12 21:49 +]: > +++ Tong Sun [2014-12-12 09:52 -0500]: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I'd like to bring your attention again to dbab, > Other than that it looks simple enough Oh, and a man page would be nice. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linar

Re: Please sponsor dbab, the dnsmasq-based ad-blocker

2014-12-12 Thread Wookey
trm. * There should be a systemd service file as well as an init script * Any reason why dh compat level is 8 not 9? * The package has a .pc dir but there is no patch series Other than that it looks simple enough Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.o

Re: launchpad for debian and autobuilders

2014-12-12 Thread Wookey
'having somewhere public for others to download from' or the 'building other arches natively' issues. I have looked at this issue a few times and would love to have more time to spend to spend on it... Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.or

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