Re: Bug#464019: Please binNMU rsstail in all archs

2008-02-10 Thread Torsten Werner
severity 464019 important tags 464019 + wontfix thanks On Feb 10, 2008 3:54 AM, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bug #464019 should be resolved - either by changing the package name of libmrss0, or by closing the bug as a wontfix - before these packages should be binNMUed; otherwise I

Re: Library soversion numbers in SuiteSparse

2008-02-10 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Hi Steve, Thanks for your thorough comments. I am not going to reply to all of them because I think there is a misunderstanding here: * Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-09 10:53]: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:42:29PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: As I wrote above, it will be a

lprof and libvigraimpex

2008-02-10 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Dear release managers, could you please rebuild lprof to make it depend on libvigraimpex2ldbl instead of libvigraimpex2 ? # apt-get install lprof Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed:

Please binNMU paintlib on all archs (except sparc)

2008-02-10 Thread Varun Hiremath
Hi, The paintlib2c2a-dbg package is empty on all architectures that built paintlib with cdbs 0.4.50, ie. !sparc, because of #462130. Could you please schedule a binNMU on other archs? Thanks Varun -- Varun Hiremath Undergraduate Student, Aerospace Engineering Department, Indian Institute of

Re: Re: Library soversion numbers in SuiteSparse

2008-02-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Why not just use the whole library version in the soname and package name? For example, libsuitesparse has lib*.so.3.1.0 which is the soname, and forget about .so.3 . Then the soname and package name match, so lintian is happy, and if upstream changes the interface between 3.1.0 and

dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is inconsistent with the Debian versions. Nothing in Posix permits this behavior, but it is tolerated by the standard

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. [ strip whining ] Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command. [ whine whine whine ] What is that change please ? Last time I checked dash supported the proper POSIX

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is inconsistent with the Debian versions. Onlookers should see

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 10:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:58 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. [ strip whining ] Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command. [ whine whine whine ] What is

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Raphael Geissert
Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. [ strip whining ] Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command. [ whine whine whine ] What is that change please ? Last time I checked

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:57:51PM +, Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 10:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:29:28PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: How come no-one even *bothered* to check. For the google impaired, you can find the specification here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/test.html And yes, I think it'd be a reasonable thing to ask our

Re: Please binNMU paintlib on all archs (except sparc)

2008-02-10 Thread Niko Tyni
Varun Hiremath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The paintlib2c2a-dbg package is empty on all architectures that built paintlib with cdbs 0.4.50, ie. !sparc, because of #462130. I just went through all the dozen or so -dbg packages built with debhelper (=6) and cdbs, and the only other victim I found was

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 11:26 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: On Sun February 10 2008 10:16:44 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Shells can override commands, but only if they don't play games with the syntax. Agreed. Within the Debian world, dash has redefined test rather than building in test.

Re: lprof and libvigraimpex

2008-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:26:35PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: Dear release managers, could you please rebuild lprof to make it depend on libvigraimpex2ldbl instead of libvigraimpex2 ? Scheduled. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun February 10 2008 15:54:36 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Or to follow Colin's suggestion from the policy discussion a few years ago, and grant a special exception, carefully crafted, for particular shell builtins. I have no objection to that solution. As a Debian user rather than a DD I

Re: X.org plans for the lenny cycle

2008-02-10 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:46:30PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 11:38 +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:06:19AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: A long-standing bug which should be thought about is the GL licensing problem [1]. SGI kindly contributed

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just replied to Thomas on the bug report including some information that demonstrates that his arguments on dash not implementing some (at least the one mentioned on the report) /usr/bin/test features is not valid. For further reference please see

Re: X.org plans for the lenny cycle

2008-02-10 Thread Niv Sardi
I forwarded that information internaly to my manager about a week ago (after a discution with jcristeau), I believe that the message is: * If it affects only Debian SGI (as a corporation) will not care and treat us as a bunch of nitpickers hippies. (julien sent me a link I can't find now where

Re: Please binNMU paintlib on all archs (except sparc)

2008-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:07:53PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote: The paintlib2c2a-dbg package is empty on all architectures that built paintlib with cdbs 0.4.50, ie. !sparc, because of #462130. Could you please schedule a binNMU on other archs? BinNMUs scheduled for paintlib 2.6.2-14. In the

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just replied to Thomas on the bug report including some information that demonstrates that his arguments on dash not implementing some (at least the one mentioned on the report)