Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:16:22PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: Vapier wrote:[Fri Sep 16 2005, 03:15:26PM EDT] not really ... sometimes you want to keep a package in unstable forever (like the cvs snapshots i make of e17), or until you work some quirks/features out for a new revbump which you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:20:57PM -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: dev-util/flawfinder (no-herd, aliz?) dev-util/rats (no-herd, robbat2) I'm a large user of these, but for rats there really isn't any maintaining to do, upstream hasn't changed the code in 18+ months, and it works

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developers / polish invasion :)

2005-09-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:52:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. We have two new developers from Poland. Krzysiek Pawlik (nelchael) is going to help with the influx of desktop-misc bugs. I'll let Krzysiek introduce himself: /me prods nelchael ;) I want to help maintain my

Re: [gentoo-dev] New infra dev: markm

2005-09-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:35:30PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: All- Take a moment to say hi to our newest infra dev, Mark Mahle. Mark will be helping out infra with web, security and nagios related things. A little about mark, I live in Silicon Valley, work insane hours and have a 1 year old

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
How about if the maintainer wants wider testing, i.e. wants to move it out of package.mask and into ~arch but isn't confident it's ready yet for arch, adding a string variable to ebuilds indicating why the maintainer considers the package unstable, eg: UNSTABLE=#100435, #100345, unconfirmed break

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 17/9/2005 0:20:57, Mark Loeser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: C++ herd is a good idea, especially with that number of packages. I would also like to see many of them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp category: Is this bit really necessary? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:28:03AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: The 30-day could be calculated from the $Header: of ebuilds that have no UNSTABLE, or where it's empty. Doesn't work for N arches keywording, or ebuild dev doing minor syntax touch ups. ~harring pgp9GsjkqH1mC.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Christian Parpart
On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:20, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 06:20 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: Since we currently have language herds for other languages such as Ada, Perl, and Java, I don't think C++ should be any different. it is different, but i dont mind the idea of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Christian Parpart
On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:36, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 17/9/2005 0:20:57, Mark Loeser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: C++ herd is a good idea, especially with that number of packages. I would also like to see many of them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp category: Is this bit really

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-17 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes and | non breaking spaces in ebuilds. Some people are using weird characters | as substitution delimiters for sed. Don't! It will break on many | systems. I'm going

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME 2.12.0 Final - Testing

2005-09-17 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Schlemmer wrote: Hmm, I still have these as outdated: ? dev-cpp/gconfmm/gconfmm-2.12.0.ebuild ? dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm/gnome-vfsmm-2.12.0.ebuild ? dev-cpp/libglademm/libglademm-2.6.1.ebuild ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME 2.12.0 Final - Testing

2005-09-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Phil Richards wrote: On 2005-09-14, John N. Laliberte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally, I would just unmask pmount, but the comment doesn't exactly fill me with confidence as regards the stability of pmount (and whereas I am happy for gnome to crash in a heap, I tend to be a little more

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 17/9/2005 13:33:30, Christian Parpart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:36, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 17/9/2005 0:20:57, Mark Loeser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: C++ herd is a good idea, especially with that number of packages. I would also like to see many

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 17/9/2005 11:34:56, Brian Harring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:28:03AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: The 30-day could be calculated from the $Header: of ebuilds that have no UNSTABLE, or where it's empty. Doesn't work for N arches keywording, or ebuild dev doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Christian Parpart
On Saturday 17 September 2005 14:01, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 17/9/2005 13:33:30, Christian Parpart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:36, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 17/9/2005 0:20:57, Mark Loeser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: C++ herd is a good idea, especially

[gentoo-dev] Re: The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-17 Thread Dan Meltzer
Assuming, as I do... that ~arch is utf-8 clean, it must not be that wierd a character, and therefore, probably acceptable for sed also. On 9/17/05, Fernando J. Pereda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Something strange I noticed... Some

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-17 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 September 2005 17:42, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: If we'll find other functions needed for portability's sake, they'll probably going to be there, too. Dropped the symcmd function, cleaned up the treecopy function (Martin, take a look at cp --parent, what treecopy does is just

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 Fernando J. Pereda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | | Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes | | and non breaking spaces in ebuilds. Some people are using weird | | characters

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:15:31 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | No, ~ is fine. Anything with a value below 127 (don't use 127, it's | weird) that sed accepts is ok. There are some ebuilds that use that | curly paragraph marker character (§) and weird curly quotes. Those're | the ones

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Loeser
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: I would also like to see many of them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp category: Is this bit really necessary? The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the c++ programming

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 Fernando J. Pereda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | | Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes | | and non

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: Kevin F. Quinn wrote: I would also like to see many of them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp category: Is this bit really necessary? The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: The dev-cpp category contains

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:28 am, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: How about if the maintainer wants wider testing, i.e. wants to move it out of package.mask and into ~arch but isn't confident it's ready yet for arch, adding a string variable to ebuilds indicating why the maintainer considers the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Loeser
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the c++ programming language. Now to me, that means I can find *all* relevant C++

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:28 am, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: How about if the maintainer wants wider testing, i.e. wants to move it out of package.mask and into ~arch but isn't confident it's ready yet for arch, adding a

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:59 pm, Alec Warner wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:28 am, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: How about if the maintainer wants wider testing, i.e. wants to move it out of package.mask and into ~arch but isn't confident it's ready yet for

[gentoo-dev] Remove app-emulation/plex86

2005-09-17 Thread Marcelo Góes
Hello there, plex86 has many issues and no simple solution to all of them. Considering the amount of very old kernel code it has, including the way it deals with devfs, for example, it does not look like it will be easy to fix. plex86 has three outstanding bugs at the time of this writing: bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Remove app-emulation/plex86

2005-09-17 Thread Marcelo Góes
Mike Frysinger wrote: usually we mask for a while before punting ... easier to unmask than to re-add -mike It's been masked for a week, but I doubt anyone has been able to compile it for much longer than that :-). Anyway, when I say remove shortly I am thinking a couple of weeks. Cheers,