Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-05 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 3 Jun 2008, at 07:52, Ferris McCormick wrote: I think nominations are open. I'd like to nominate: Ingmar ColdWind - ferdy -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Josh Saddler
Łukasz Damentko wrote: Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): amne betelgeuse dberkholz flameeyes

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: flameeyes I'm glad to accept the nomination. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ pgpLZOrCacFcT.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
Hi there! This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two packages. The packages I care about are media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into one media-plugins/vdr-streamdev package. So there seem to be different options: 1. Just create the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 05-06-2008 02:35:16 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): I nominate: dertobi123 fmccor -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two packages. The packages I care about are media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into one media-plugins/vdr-streamdev package. So there seem

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Ulrich Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] #1 is the default used in the tree. With good reason, IMHO. This is a package manager issue which shouldn't be solved by creating strange dummy ebuilds. Won't the new portage unmerge-on-blocker feature take care of

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two packages. The packages I care about are media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into

[gentoo-dev] Freedesktop utils in ebuild

2008-06-05 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
Hi list, I'm currently trying to update an ebuild (x11-misc/zim) to a new version. The old one uses a patch to disable running update-desktop-database and instead using the fdo-mime_desktop_database_update function. Now - the new ebuild also wants to call: - update-mime-database -- disable and

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Matthias Schwarzott a écrit : With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the package manager know of the merged package that should be emerged. I would do #1 because it's easier to do and it's the Gentoo Way (tm). Consider writing an upgrade guide and post it on Planet Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-05 Thread George Prowse
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:31 +0100, George Prowse wrote: Alex Howells wrote: 2008/6/3 George Prowse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thirded Someone can clarify but don't you need to be a Foundation member to nominate or support nominations? Either way, all of the current

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: With #1 the user will get a message about the blockers immediately. With #2 his emerge (maybe of many packages) will needlessly die when it reaches your package. With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the package manager

[gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (05 Jun 2008) # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners. # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724. dev-libs/libffi dev-lang/squeak x11-libs/gtk-server Squeak and gtk-server maintainers still have time to rescue their ebuild, just enough time

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:44:06 +0200 Ulrich Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: With #1 the user will get a message about the blockers immediately. With #2 his emerge (maybe of many packages) will needlessly die when it reaches your package.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Markus Ullmann
Josh Saddler schrieb: Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): amne betelgeuse dberkholz flameeyes jokey lu_zero vapier Thanks, I accept the nomination :) Greetz -Jokey -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Łukasz Damentko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). I wish to nominate Halcy0n, Cardoe and leio. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ pgpeaQMLjTTgU.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Fabian Groffen wrote: On 05-06-2008 02:35:16 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): I nominate: dertobi123 Though I'm in favor of just re-electing the current council members as they did a very good job in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-05 Thread Łukasz Damentko
2008/6/4 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12:07 Tue 03 Jun , Łukasz Damentko wrote: Nominations aren't open yet. They will be soon (rather days than weeks). But not yet. I have no idea why you guys rushed it but you will have nominate again after we open if for real. That sounds

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ali Polatel
Łukasz Damentko yazmış: Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). I want to nominate: Fernando J. Pereda -- ferdy Bo Ørsted Andresen -- zlin -- Regards, Ali Polatel pgpt5DDlXWbJD.pgp

[gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll try again. :) I nominate rane welp zlin Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:44:19 +0200 Fabian Groffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05-06-2008 02:35:16 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): I nominate: dertobi123

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Albert Zeyer
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:52 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: # Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (05 Jun 2008) # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners. # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724. dev-libs/libffi dev-lang/squeak x11-libs/gtk-server Squeak and gtk-server

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Howells
I nominate everyone on the current Council and/or second anyone else nominating them :) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Howells
2008/6/5 Ali Polatel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to nominate: Fernando J. Pereda -- ferdy Bo Ørsted Andresen -- zlin Is there a method for objecting to a nomination, kinda like the opposite of seconding it? :P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Weller
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:26 +0100, Alex Howells wrote: 2008/6/5 Ali Polatel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to nominate: Fernando J. Pereda -- ferdy Bo Ørsted Andresen -- zlin Is there a method for objecting to a nomination, kinda like the opposite of seconding it? :P ?^X(j)b b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread David Leverton
On Thursday 05 June 2008 19:21:24 Albert Zeyer wrote: Are you sure that Squeak really depends on libffi? I just compiled it (squeak-3.9.7) fine without having libffi on my system and with disabled libffi USE-flag. According to my reading of the code, it doesn't use libffi on x86-linux,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Roy Bamford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Please tell us how/if you plan to fix GLEP 39. (You may not consider it broken) Need to address better when a meeting is considered official (right now it's not addressed at all, so anything is better), for the rest is fine as it is. 2. As one of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:23 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: 6. Tell us one outstanding (in your own mind) contribution you made to Gentoo in the last year. Last year? Being a council member already, I'd say. What did you achieve as a council member? -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Luca Barbato
Josh Saddler wrote: Łukasz Damentko wrote: Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): lu_zero Thank

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:23 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: 6. Tell us one outstanding (in your own mind) contribution you made to Gentoo in the last year. Last year? Being a council member already, I'd say. What did you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:21:24 +0300 Albert Zeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:52 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: # Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (05 Jun 2008) # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners. # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:52:35 + Ferris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think nominations are open. I nominate Then I'd like to nominate (mostly same ones again) flameeyes vapier dberkholz aballier ingmar --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Howells
Oh, btw! astinus, I'm nominating you. :P Hahahahah, I find this hilarious and will accept just so I can *not* write a big manifesto (pointless waste of time) and *not* vote for myself -- gotta be worth seeing how badly one can fail to be elected ;) What would I aim to fix? Hopefully not

[gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary tools to document their USE flag usage it better detail on a per package basis. An clearly

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ali Polatel
Alex Howells yazmış: 2008/6/5 Ali Polatel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to nominate: Fernando J. Pereda -- ferdy Bo Ørsted Andresen -- zlin Is there a method for objecting to a nomination, kinda like the opposite of seconding it? :P No! *stab* -- Regards, Ali Polatel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Richard Brown
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Alex Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, btw! astinus, I'm nominating you. :P Hahahahah, I find this hilarious and will accept just so I can *not* write a big manifesto (pointless waste of time) and *not* vote for myself -- gotta be worth seeing how badly one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:35:16 -0700 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): amne betelgeuse dberkholz flameeyes jokey lu_zero vapier As per GLEP 39, I'd like all of the above

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary tools to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Petteri Räty
Josh Saddler kirjoitti: Łukasz Damentko wrote: Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the current council members (again): amne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Albert Zeyer
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:54 +0100, David Leverton wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2008 19:21:24 Albert Zeyer wrote: Are you sure that Squeak really depends on libffi? I just compiled it (squeak-3.9.7) fine without having libffi on my system and with disabled libffi USE-flag. According to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Weller
Count me in. I don't really know whether or not to write a manifesto as such... I mean, it's obviously good to know what the person who you're voting for wants to do, but... All the nominees are just going to write about the latest and greatest issues (see my old manifesto). But I'm generally

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

2008-06-05 Thread Tiziano Müller
Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: * media-video/griffith - also easy, pending version bump Took it. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Samuli Suominen wrote: | # Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (05 Jun 2008) | # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners. | # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724. | dev-libs/libffi | dev-lang/squeak | x11-libs/gtk-server | |

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Luca Barbato
Roy Bamford wrote: On 2008.06.05 01:00, Aukasz Damentko wrote: Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). Team, I don't want to nominate anyone who hasn't been nominated already. I would like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 05 June 2008 20:26:03 Alex Howells wrote: 2008/6/5 Ali Polatel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to nominate: Fernando J. Pereda -- ferdy Bo Ørsted Andresen -- zlin I accept. Is there a method for objecting to a nomination, kinda like the opposite of seconding it? :P It would

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:41:40 +0300 Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:52:35 + Ferris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think nominations are open. I nominate Then I'd like to nominate (mostly same

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:01:00 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Goldstein
Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:01:00 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-05 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 2008-06-05 15:34, Ryan Hill uttered these thoughts: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:41:40 +0300 Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:52:35 + Ferris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: I think nominations are open. I nominate Then I'd like to nominate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Richard Brown
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Łukasz Damentko wrote: Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). Now that nominations are officially open, I nominate the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:33:34 +0100 Roy Bamford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008.06.05 01:00, Łukasz Damentko wrote: Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:08:24 +0200 Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just picking a random mail to reply to. gentoo-project people! this is why it exists. /analretentive Actually, it was stated in the originating mail (starting the nomination period) that All nominations

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

2008-06-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun , Samuli Suominen wrote: # Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (05 Jun 2008) # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners. # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724. dev-libs/libffi dev-lang/squeak x11-libs/gtk-server The latest version of g-wrap