Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: libspectre I can help out here. -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: [snip] FYI: libexif This is used by a lot of stuff, including kdegraphics (but also WINE and several GNOME packages). indeed, I missed that, can jump on that one too. -- Rex --

Re: Bodhi CA problem

2009-12-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Jussi Lehtola wrote: Hi, for some time now I've been experiencing the following problem with bodhi: $ make update Creating a new update for gromacs-4.0.7-1.el4 gromacs-4.0.7-1.el5 Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/bodhi, line 360, in module main() File

Re: All I want for Christmas is digiKam 1.0 in F12-stable...

2009-12-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Linuxguy123 wrote: digiKam 1.0.0 was released today. I think a lot of us are running 1.0-beta 6 installed via yum. Would it be possible to get 1.0.0 into F12 stable prior to Christmas ? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/digikam-1.0.0-1.fc12 stable that quickly? I'd feel a bit

Re: rawhide report: 20091128 changes

2009-11-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Nicolas Chauvet wrote: 2009/11/28 Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu: Rawhide Report wrote: Compose started at Sat Nov 28 08:15:06 UTC 2009 Broken deps for i386 kipi-plugins-0.8.0-3.fc13.i686 requires libcxcore.so.2 kipi-plugins-0.8.0-3.fc13.i686 requires libcvaux.so.2 kipi-plugins-0.8.0-3

Re: rawhide report: 20091128 changes

2009-11-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Rawhide Report wrote: Compose started at Sat Nov 28 08:15:06 UTC 2009 Broken deps for i386 kipi-plugins-0.8.0-3.fc13.i686 requires libcxcore.so.2 kipi-plugins-0.8.0-3.fc13.i686 requires libcvaux.so.2 kipi-plugins-0.8.0-3.fc13.i686 requires libcv.so.2 kipi-plugins-0.8.0-3.fc13.i686

Re: Who handles lidclose at login screen?

2009-11-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Orion Poplawski wrote: On 11/23/2009 12:43 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:26:41PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: What is responsible for suspending a laptop when the lid is closed and it is at the login screen? Running kdm and the machine does not suspend. In

Re: Dependency problems on upgrade from F-11 to F-12

2009-11-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Michael Schwendt wrote: ?? No polkit-qt package set in F-12 anymore, although there are builds in koji. Fixed these in rawhide/cvs (added Obsoletes to kdebase-workspace), will be included in next batched kde update. -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Adding packages to comps.xml

2009-11-02 Thread Rex Dieter
alekc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all. I want to add to comps.xml for F10-F13 some optional packages which I not own. To kde-desktop group: kde-plasma-quickaccess kde-plasma-runcommand kde-plasma-translatoid kde-plasma-yawp qt-recordmydesktop skanlite To graphical-internet group: arora

orphaning (eol) gtk-qt-engine

2009-10-23 Thread Rex Dieter
This is to announce my intentions to orphan (and hopefully eol) gtk-qt- engine in fedora. For F-12+, my plan is to allow the new kcm-gtk package to Obsoletes it. It will provide a systemsettings/kcm module to configure gtk theming, but without the problematic Qt gtk engine. See also:

Re: orphaning (eol) gtk-qt-engine

2009-10-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: For F-12+, my plan is to allow the new kcm-gtk package to... provide a systemsettings/kcm module to configure gtk theming When will it be available, even as a testing rpm? I looked in koji and it is not there and yum knows nothing about

Re: orphaning (eol) gtk-qt-engine

2009-10-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I will give it a try. After a few hours of testing, I see that the font selection works well, but the widget style does not work. I know this is a new program and this is the very first step. Works for me (though you'll have to

Re: orphaning (eol) gtk-qt-engine

2009-10-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I will give it a try. After a few hours of testing, I see that the font selection works well, but the widget style does not work. I know this is a new program and this is the very first step. Works for me

Re: The future of rawhide (was [Fwd: Re: What is the Fedora Project?])

2009-10-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Tomas Mraz wrote: We could allow adding numbers after the dist tag in release for this purpose. That is already allowed, and encouraged, for branch-specific modfications, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches -- Rex --

Re: Rationale behind _cmake_skip_rpath choice in /etc/rpm/macros.cmake

2009-10-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: I'm convinced to revert, I'll run the change by my fellow cmake maintainers (I think we have buy-in from everyone though). Please test that we really don't end up with standard paths like /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 in the rpath of installed executables

Re: Rationale behind _cmake_skip_rpath choice in /etc/rpm/macros.cmake

2009-10-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: There might be some other very good reason for keeping those lines, but I do not see it (Rex ? since you added the lines, maybe you remember what was the motivation ?). I'm convinced to revert, I'll run the change by my fellow cmake maintainers (I think we have

Re: Rationale behind _cmake_skip_rpath choice in /etc/rpm/macros.cmake

2009-10-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: I would like to understand why the file macros.cmake as distributed in fedora-10 defines: %_cmake_skip_rpath -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON or just %define _cmake_skip_rpath %{nil} to disable (why it was made a macro, so it's easy to change or override). It's probably

Re: rpms/libXt/devel .cvsignore, 1.11, 1.12 libXt.spec, 1.33, 1.34 sources, 1.12, 1.13

2009-10-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 13.10.2009, 10:21 -0700 schrieb Jesse Keating: On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:18 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: I am confused here. Why this is removed? I still see xt.pc needs those Requires. rpm now autogenerates the pkgconfig requirements, both

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: As far as I can tell, gnome-desktop doesn't include explicit (default or otherwise) fonts either. I haven't dug through the dependency graph yet, but looking at fedora-livecd-desktop.ks: google

Re: status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

2009-09-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This would be great if maintainers were willing to fix issues after the fact. Look at rsync -- there's no incentive to fix the library issue at this point because rsync is already in the distribution. We need to fix this lack of incentive for other reasons -- but we

Re: $PATH

2009-09-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Valent Turkovic wrote: I found out while compiling some apps manually that they are failing because they can't find files, I investigated and found out that the binaries are installed but just not in $PATH. /usr/lib/qt4/bin/ Is this path left out on purpose? Shrug, there's app-qt4

Re: rpms/kdebase/devel kdebase.spec,1.386,1.387

2009-08-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/30/2009 10:33 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Anyway, I'm open to suggestions on how to better achive what we want here. Maybe drop the kde-plasma-folderview dep, and just add to comps instead? FWIW, this is the solution, I prefer. sounds like a winner, done. -- Rex

Re: PolicyKit 0.9 is going away

2009-08-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Matthias Clasen wrote: I have been able to port some 10-12 PolicyKit users from 0.9 to 0.90 in a matter of a few days. The KDE sig should really be able to get this port done. We really don't want to ship multiple authorization databases, that way lies confusion and madness. The PolicyKitOne

Re: gwenview - Re: Orphaning packages

2009-08-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/23/2009 11:18 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: Doubtful. How much will that save? - A typical problem with KDE apps is that not only they pull in some KDE libraries, the KDE packages come with lots of additional KDE-specific dependencies. Installing: ktorrent

Re: Broken dependencies in Fedora 11 - 2009-08-20

2009-08-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: == The results in this summary consider Test Updates! == Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name

Re: Firmware licence question

2009-08-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) wrote: I very want see this driver in Fedora: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/dkms-tiacx/ This is free and even packaged, so no problem there... May be except what it dkms? But it have not kernel modules (I known what it is not permitted) and built

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Rex Dieter
On 08/06/2009 12:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I think the correct question here is why has a perfectly routine version bump for components included in Fedora been submitted as a 'feature'? I figure it's largely about which items of the distro gets focus marketing-wise. -- Rex --

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? For the most part, those are hard decisions best left to the discretion of the maintainers in question. -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Mozvoikko doesn't build on F12, please help

2009-08-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote: results in `nsISupports::COMTypeInfoint::kIID' referenced in section `.data.rel.ro' of /usr/lib64/xulrunner-sdk-1.9.1/lib/libxpcomglue_s.a(nsGenericFactory.o): defined in discarded section

Re: kde-4.3.0 coming to F-10, F-11

2009-08-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Christopher Stone wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Adam Jacksona...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:55 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: The KDE SIG is now working on KDE-4.3.0-related builds for Fedora 10 and 11 candidate updates. As this requires some buildroot overrides, if your

Re: kde-4.3.0 coming to F-10, F-11

2009-08-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Jesse Keating wrote: It's supported, but there are those of us that feel that it shouldn't be getting version updates, only bug fixes. Just going by the version numbers, 4.2.4 to 4.3.0 seems like a fairly big jump. However it could just be a bugfix rollup, it's hard to tell just by looking

Re: F12 mass rebuild status

2009-07-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Jon Ciesla wrote: Many of mine, and others', seem to be due to the new freeglut. Does anyone have any pointers for this, generally speaking? One common issue for at least 2 packages (jasper being one), was that freeglut no longer links libGLU, so if your package uses libGLU symbols, it

Re: [pkgdb] libatomic_ops: sharkcz has requested approveacls

2009-07-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Nicolas Chauvet wrote: 2009/7/24 Dan Horák d...@danny.cz: Nicolas Chauvet píše v Pá 24. 07. 2009 v 10:06 +0200: This package was orphaned because libatomic_ops is going to be merged with gc. Do we have a particular rationale about why to continue to maintain it over splitting

Re: readline update?

2009-07-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 02:48:47PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Miroslav Lichvar wrote: kdeedu-4.2.95-1.fc12 kdeedu only uses readline in KAlgebra which is GPLv2+ (and only in the command-line version (calgebra) at that), so no problems there. (I also verified that

GraphicsMagick-1.3.x coming to rawhide

2009-07-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Up'ing to GraphicsMagick-1.3.x in rawhide, which involves an ABI break. I'll take care of (re)building dependant apps, dvdauthor and koffice. Issue tracked here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487605 If you're aware of any other deps I missed, please comment or block the

GraphicsMagick-1.3.x coming to rawhide

2009-07-01 Thread Rex Dieter
Manually, sending to -devel list, while one to -announce sits for moderation... - Up'ing to GraphicsMagick-1.3.x in rawhide, which involves an ABI break. I'll take care of (re)building dependent apps, dvdauthor and koffice. Issue tracked here:

Re: Porting amarok-1.4 to F11

2009-06-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: Ingvar Hagelund wrote: * Rex Dieter amarok2 supports qtscript (which is why it currently has a dependency on qtscriptbindings) So, it should be possible to access a mounted iPod db in amarok-2.x using qtscript? I'm unfamiliar with programatic access to ipod db's

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Rahul, I question the point of ... making laundry lists of pros, cons, bugs of desktop X vs Y... I'm sure folks can come up with a similar list of gnome (or other) related negative items, or kde-only features too but I question it's constructiveness. My only comments here: 1. The desktop

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: 1. The desktop spin *is* gnome for cryin out loud. Seriously, common sense is just screaming in my head to call a spade a spade. We have a Desktop team. So IMHO the default desktop is what they decide it to be. They are currently focused only on Gnome.

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 23:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: The reality is that KDE *is* a second class citizen in Fedora - it doesn't get anywhere near the attention that Gnome does. SARCASMThanks/SARCASM for insulting our (KDE SIG's) work yet

Re: Odd omission for qt4-devel package

2009-06-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:05:41 -0500, King wrote: I found a very strange omission for the qt4-devel package. The path to qt4-devel binaries (/usr/lib/qt4/bin) isn't automatically added to $PATH like qt3's are. Additionally, when I removed the qt3-devel package, the

Re: Localization versus Requires: aspell-en

2009-06-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: Hello there, We have some doubt about the Requires: of a default localization. For example, eclipse-texlipse needs aspell https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506431 By default I chose aspell-en, # For Spell-Check (choosing default : English) Requires:

Re: Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

2009-06-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Rex Dieter wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: It's not about the upgrade process. It is only about compare_providers. You have 3 pkgs providing 'foo' foo-1.1.noarch foo-1.0.x86_64 foo-1.0.i386 Which one do you pick on x86_64 or i686? We weight

Re: Where do i file a bug against the kde-redhat repository?

2009-06-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Yaakov Nemoy wrote: Hey All, As the subject says, i'm looking to figure out where is the accountable place for filing bug reports. For anyone who can apply a quick fix, the repo is missing repo closure, and i can't install the latest KDE beta because PyKDE is out of date. fedora-kde

Re: Why a multilib wrapper for non-multilib architectures?!

2009-06-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Lane wrote: Personally I don't use multilib wrappers on arches that don't need it; I think not needing extra cases in the wrapper header outweighs the added complexity in the specfile. But I'm not going to tell the gmp maintainer he's wrong for doing it the other way. +1 -- Rex --

Re: RPM Soft dependencies (Was: Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting)

2009-05-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Horst H. von Brand wrote: This whole soft dependencies idea has been discussed to death numerous times already, and the conclusion has always been that they really don't solve anything. Whoa. That's far from my recollection, which is that most folks (me included) seem to think some variant

Re: ancient memtest86

2006-03-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Florin Andrei wrote: The version of memtest86 included on the Fedora installer CDs as a boot option is 1.55 while the newest memtest86 is now at version 3.2 Check your facts again (note memtest86 != memtest86+) (-: Now, keeping that in mind, per http://www.memtest.org/ the latest memtest86+

Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

2006-03-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Janina Sajka wrote: The grub documentation includes provides kernel failover provisions, but these don't appear to work. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-your-system-robust.html#Making-your-system-robust Should I expect this to work? ... Is there some other mechanism

Re: gnome trash (UGENT: found problem)

2006-03-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Louis E Garcia II wrote: Seems to occur with user accounts. root is ok. Very strange. It works for me with user accounts. Can you try making a new account and try that? Something must be different with the computers or accounts where it doesn't work. I did some investigating and found that