Accepted deborphan 1.7.28.8 (source amd64)

2012-06-30 Thread Carsten Hey
-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Description: deborphan - program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries Closes: 658773 Changes: deborphan (1.7.28.8) unstable; urgency=low . * Team upload. * Use _xfunc in debian/bash-completion and update it. Thanks to Julian Gilbey and Mike

Accepted gtkorphan 0.4.4-1.1 (source all)

2012-06-15 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:31:17 + Source: gtkorphan Binary: gtkorphan Architecture: source all Version: 0.4.4-1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Fabio Marzocca thesalty...@gmail.com Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars

Re: bitbucket is lock in? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-05-29 Thread Carsten Hey
* Martin Bagge / brother [2012-05-29 21:01 +0200]: On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote: I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike, say Bitkeeper, ... Can you elaborate on the bitbucket case there? How am I not allowed to do a git clone from my git repo on bitbucket

Accepted deborphan 1.7.28.7 (source amd64)

2012-05-21 Thread Carsten Hey
-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Description: deborphan - program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries Closes: 658972 Changes: deborphan (1.7.28.7) unstable; urgency=low . * Team upload. . This point release includes the remaining part of deborphan's multiarch support

Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-13 Thread Carsten Hey
* Andreas Barth [2012-05-13 11:06 +0200]: * Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120512 23:06]: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Unless we expect that two different binary packages that can be co-installed will distribute the same directory under different ownership or permissions

Fwd: Re: Bug#614907: nodejs/node command conflict: why can't we have both?

2012-05-03 Thread Carsten Hey
Should not at least @debian.org addresses by default be whitelisted on the tech-ctte list? - Forwarded message from debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org - Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 22:33:51 + (UTC) From: debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org To: cars...@debian.org Subject: Re: Re:

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#614907: nodejs/node command conflict: why can't we have both?

2012-05-03 Thread Carsten Hey
* Don Armstrong [2012-05-03 16:08 -0700]: On Fri, 04 May 2012, Carsten Hey wrote: Should not at least @debian.org addresses by default be whitelisted on the tech-ctte list? Sign your e-mail if you want it to go through or subscribe or send the mail through the BTS. The need to sign does

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-01 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2012-05-01 01:07 +0200]: Only Hamish, who did not respond to this issue, uploaded node once in 2005, I need to correct myself, Hamish replied once. In 20110208230458.ga23...@risingsoftware.com he wrote: | I think renaming the node binary to axnode is reasonable and | consistent

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-01 Thread Carsten Hey
* Jonathan Nieder [2012-05-01 12:57 -0500]: Carsten Hey wrote: I don't think that there ever will be a consensus in all those discussions without discussing in a reasonable way (which failed in the past multiple times). Note that a consensus does not imply everyone agreeing. I

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-01 Thread Carsten Hey
* Patrick Ouellette [2012-05-01 16:55 -0400]: I was under the impression that neither package was going to move forward with a binary named node Some proposed this, some agreed, others did not. In the just reported bug #671120 I wrote regarding this neither package should get the name part of

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-30 Thread Carsten Hey
As I'm not involved in developing dma at all, neither upstream nor in Debian, I'm not the right one to discuss implementation details in depth with. * Russ Allbery [2012-04-29 17:32 -0700]: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:50:45PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote

Re: Definition of _boot_

2012-04-30 Thread Carsten Hey
* Vincent Bernat [2012-04-30 20:30 +0200]: OoO En ce doux début de matinée du lundi 30 avril 2012, vers 08:15, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com disait : I'm rather sure that he wants to define booting as part of what currently is done in /etc/rcS.d. Configuring the network or

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-30 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carl Fürstenberg [2012-04-28 03:31 +0200]: There has been an log struggle between the nodejs package and the node package, which is still unresolved (bug #611698 for example) And I wonder now what the future should look like. In short I think that there is only one sane solution to this and

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-29 Thread Carsten Hey
* Joey Hess [2012-04-29 14:22 -0400]: Joerg Jaspert wrote: It's insane to even think of switching one full featured MTA against another full featured one. It feels like gosh, i dislike $onepiece, lets all move to $differentpiece, though both are bad as default. Looks like the DragonFly

Re: Definition of _boot_

2012-04-29 Thread Carsten Hey
* Svante Signell [2012-04-29 21:51 +0200]: In line with the recent discussion, lets aim at defining what _boot_ is: I'm rather sure that he wants to define booting as part of what currently is done in /etc/rcS.d. Configuring the network or mounting non-essential remote file systems wouldn't be

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carl Fürstenberg [2012-04-28 03:31 +0200] The the hamradio package node shipping a binary called node, and as it's so old, the developers argue that the package must ship a binary called node or breakage will occur. Upstream's INSTALL file contains: | Node is intended to be called from ax25d

Accepted deborphan 1.7.28.6 (source amd64)

2012-04-27 Thread Carsten Hey
-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Description: deborphan - program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries Closes: 635771 638906 670652 Changes: deborphan (1.7.28.6) unstable; urgency=low . * Team upload. . [ David Prévot ] * Update Uploaders address. * Fix typo in French

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2012-03-05 08:40 +0100]: On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 10:59:39PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: While we are at it, I also think we should provide an index of *.debian.net entries on that splash page. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianNetDomains is just too prone to outdateness and

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 14:55 -0800]: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org writes: There are still files that differ that do not need to be fixed, for example documentation that contains it's build date. Every file that differs has to be fixed in the current multi-arch plan. Documentation

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-17 14:15 +0100]: You generously left out the paragraph describing how APT should detect that the package foo is in fact a library ... My impression was that you think very library centric. All I wrote was (in other words), that we should consider non-library

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-17 17:20 +0100]: Why would it be intuitive to add a specific value for the arch attribute with apt-get install foo # arch |= native but remove all values of the attribute with apt-get remove foo# arch = ~all-architectures ? We had a similar discussion

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-16 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-16 03:59 +0100]: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 00:39, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:   it needs to find and remove foo:* foo:all (or foo:any) instead of foo:* would save the need to quote it. Actually, why would that be the behavior?  Why would dpkg --purge foo

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-16 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 10:43 -0800]: * Users who want to co-install separate architectures will immediately encounter a dpkg error saying that the files aren't consistent. This means they won't be able to co-install the packages, but dpkg will prevent any actual harm from happening.

Re: Probable multiarch related problem in finding header file posix_types_32.h

2012-02-15 Thread Carsten Hey
* Steve Langasek [2012-02-14 09:29 -0800]: Where we've run across similar problems with posix_types.h in the recent past, it has indeed been due to the use of gcc -I-. Drafts of the C89 and C11 standards read: | A preprocessing directive of the form | # include q-char-sequence new-line |

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-11 Thread Carsten Hey
* Aron Xu [2012-02-09 01:22 +0800]: Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if endianness were not something to care about. ... Debian Policy, begin of section 5.6.8: | Depending on context and the

Re: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match

2012-02-11 Thread Carsten Hey
* Guillem Jover [2012-02-10 23:56 +0100]: * binNMUs for the same version might not be co-installable because doc generators, compressors, etc, might not always produce the same output. ... A possible fix, but only for the compressed files case might be to ship them uncompresesd, but

Accepted pal 0.4.3-8 (source i386)

2011-12-13 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:21:09 +0100 Source: pal Binary: pal Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.3-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-09-02 Thread Carsten Hey
* Josselin Mouette [2011-09-01 09:52 +0200]: I think we could solve a lot of those problems by treating metapackages specially in APT. Ubuntu has a section metapackages, introducing such a section in Debian could be the first step to treat metapackages specially. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Accepted hnb 1.9.18-9 (source i386)

2011-08-29 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:06:20 +0200 Source: hnb Binary: hnb Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.9.18-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org

Re: combined dependencies?

2011-08-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Michael Tautschnig [2011-08-24 14:31 +0200]: Its not any header package: dkms needs the _appropriate_ header package matching the installed kernel package. If linux-image-2.6.39-1-amd64 is installed, then dkms needs linux-headers-2.6.39-1-amd64. If linux-image-3.0-1-amd64 is installed

Accepted pal 0.4.3-7 (source i386)

2011-08-27 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:25:10 +0200 Source: pal Binary: pal Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.3-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-15 Thread Carsten Hey
* Andreas Barth [2011-08-13 13:28 +0200]: Also, the binary packages in the debian/control template could have Build-Depends specified which means that they should only be built if those packages are actually installed ... An optional Build-Depends: field per binary package as you described is

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-15 Thread Carsten Hey
* Steve McIntyre [2011-08-15 11:12 +0100]: Andreas Barth wrote: Generic options are usually better IMHO, but well - YMMV. Often, yes. But also often at extra cost. Where is the added benefit here - i.e. what are the use cases? I'm 100% behind making the bootstrap phase more simple, but I

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-15 Thread Carsten Hey
* Andreas Barth [2011-08-15 13:46 +0200]: * Carsten Hey (cars...@debian.org) [110815 13:36]: An optional Build-Depends: field per binary package as you described is essentially the same as the following, with the notable difference, that the below could appear as it is in the output of, i.e

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread Carsten Hey
* Lars Wirzenius [2011-08-15 18:33 +0100]: raw gz xz 584163 134 file sizes (MiB) 0421 450 savings compared to raw (MiB) -421 0 29 savings compared to current gz (MiB) Years ago I compared sizes of compressed files in

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread Carsten Hey
* Andreas Barth [2011-08-15 23:59 +0200]: * Lars Wirzenius (l...@liw.fi) [110815 23:27]: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:04:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: * Lars Wirzenius [2011-08-15 18:33 +0100]: raw gz xz 584163 134 file sizes (MiB) 0421

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-23 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2011-05-23 16:31 +0200]: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:07, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote:  * Conflicts, Breaks, ..., Enhances:   - satisfied if any of the clauses is true Uhm, a Conflicts/Breaks is satisfied if all clauses are false. This misunderstanding

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-23 Thread Carsten Hey
* Eugene V. Lyubimkin [2011-05-22 18:08 +0300]: On 2011-05-22 16:07, Carsten Hey wrote: 'Enhances:', 'Provides', 'Conflicts' and 'Breaks' also require extensive scanning in the package database. Conflicts and Breaks do not. So, yes, partly true. I personally don't want one more reverse

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-22 Thread Carsten Hey
* Goswin von Brederlow [2011-05-22 11:55 +0200]: Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org writes: On 2011-05-21 21:41, Ian Jackson wrote: Simpler than this, and simpler than constructions involving negations (which would be very troublesome for the resolution algorithms), would be:

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-21 Thread Carsten Hey
* Josselin Mouette [2011-05-21 13:24 +0200]: Therefore, I’m wondering whether it would be possible to extend the syntax of Recommends to allow for conditional dependencies. For example, in this case: Package: A Recommends: A-plugin-B {B} The following would be more general:

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Pierre Habouzit [2011-05-05 07:46 +0200]: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:48:46PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: If more new upstream versions are uploaded to unstable (because they are targeted at rolling), it raises the number of RC bugs needing to migrate to testing through t-p-u. How would you

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-04 Thread Carsten Hey
* Pierre Habouzit [2011-05-04 22:23 +0200]: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 04 mai 2011 à 22:12 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : While I like the idea in general, I think that it should also be possible to upload packages directly to rolling

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-02 Thread Carsten Hey
* Pierre Habouzit [2011-05-02 08:08 +0200]: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: * Pierre Habouzit [2011-05-01 23:17 +0200]: The problem is, you need to entry points, one for testing as we know it, one for rolling. Actually, we need two entry points each

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-02 Thread Carsten Hey
* Lucas Nussbaum [2011-05-02 09:20 +0200]: On 02/05/11 at 08:19 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Also note that testing as is has not enough security support, and read Carsten very good example of the PAM issues. How would CUT or rolling address those? The PAM issue outlines how splitting

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-05-01 15:43 +0200]: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:06:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I think that we should not do any trade off on the quality of rolling/testing/the-antechamber-of-stable, but instead raise the quality of unstable so that (which isn't *that* bad,

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Carsten Hey
* Pierre Habouzit [2011-05-01 23:17 +0200]: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:07:48PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2011, Carsten Hey wrote: Testing, OTOH, is really unique in that respect, with its mixture of fresh software and quarantine period. A 'frozen' requiring most

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-24 Thread Carsten Hey
* Philipp Kern [2011-04-24 10:23 +]: (OTOH it needs to be greater than +squeeze then, so +debXY won't do.) It needs to be greater than +squeeze, smaller than . and must not contain -. /usr/bin/ascii prints: |Dec Hex | 43 2B + | 44 2C , | 45 2D - | 46 2E . ,debXY would do, but would require

Re: Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]

2011-04-06 Thread Carsten Hey
* Luk Claes [2011-04-06 07:20 +0200]: On 04/06/2011 01:55 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: Guaranteeing that /bin/sh exists and is functional during debootstrap, even before any maintainer script has been run, could be archived if every system shell would provide /bin/sh pointing to itself. To avoid

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Guillem Jover [2011-04-05 06:19 +0200]: On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 01:08:19 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: This appears to open up any accounts that have been deliberately disabled by setting their shell to a nonexistent path. I know that's a dumb way to disable an account, but that doesn't make

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Steve Langasek [2011-04-04 19:37 -0700]: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:00:36AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: Before bash or dash could be made non-essential in a clean way, there are IMHO various things not mentioned up to now in this thread to fix: * Fix #428189, either by adapting the policy

Re: Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]

2011-04-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Luk Claes [2011-04-05 23:11 +0200]: On 04/05/2011 11:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Carsten Hey wrote: * Steve Langasek [2011-04-04 19:37 -0700]: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:00:36AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: * Find a sane solution for managing /bin/sh. Currently diversions are used

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-04 Thread Carsten Hey
The release team did again a great job the past release cycle and managed to release again a version Debian can be proud of :) There were of course things that could be done even better next time, but handling such a enormous task without such issues seems to be impossible. One thing that the

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-04 Thread Carsten Hey
Before bash or dash could be made non-essential in a clean way, there are IMHO various things not mentioned up to now in this thread to fix: * Fix #428189, either by adapting the policy to reality or vice versa (depending on the maintainers decision) as prerequisite to fix the next point

Re: Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2011-03-28 17:20 -0700]: Practically speaking, I think bash is going to have to remain essential. There are innumerable scripts, package build rules, maintainer scripts, and other things in Debian referencing /bin/bash without declaring a dependency, ... I agree. So, I think

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-27 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, are there any news about leaf packages and the new field mainpackage:? If so, will Wheezy contain packages using this new field? Did you decide about throwing away DD built binaries? * Joerg Jaspert [2011-03-27 10:56 +0200]: - We had some discussion about accepting ddebs into the archive

Bug#619785: Please move logsave to sysvinit-utils

2011-03-26 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: sysvinit-utils Severity: wishlist * Ted Ts'o [2011-03-26 19:07 -0400]: There are similar, although less serious, issues with filefrag -v (which will work on other file systems), but which also has some ext2/3/4 specific code it in. badblocks is also linked against libext2fs.

Accepted deborphan 1.7.28.4 (source i386)

2011-03-19 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:31:37 +0100 Source: deborphan Binary: deborphan Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.7.28.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars

Re: oops I sent a courtesy copy in violation of the code of conduct

2011-03-12 Thread Carsten Hey
* jida...@jidanni.org [2011-03-12 11:14 +0800]: Recently I replied to a certain message on this list with my familiar S W runs the command gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original keystrokes, only to receive I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC me:

Re: oops I sent a courtesy copy in violation of the code of conduct

2011-03-12 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2011-03-12 10:50 +0100]: There are examples where we lost potential future maintainers because they never received a reply to an RFS. These replies were sent to the list, but they were not sent to those requesting sponsorship. To clarify this: the problem was not that Mail

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-03-10 18:48 +0100]: The argument of maintenance burden is in general a valid one, but IME maintenance burden in devscripts is more limited by the amount of people who are interested in maintaining a specific (dev)script than by the needed language knowledge. ... To

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-03-11 00:18 +0100]: First of all, I'm not sure anymore that I see the point of discussing the *language issue* in a circle larger than the devscripts maintainers. ... The language issue should probably be a decision within the devscripts team, together with the

Re: Automatic debug packages

2011-03-08 Thread Carsten Hey
* Emil Langrock [2011-03-08 00:48 +0100]: I browsed a little bit in the goals which were planned for squeeze and noticed that the debug packages aka ddebs[1] weren't implemented in the debian infrastructure. A prerequisite to automatically add debug packages for all architectures is to change

Re: Automatic debug packages

2011-03-08 Thread Carsten Hey
* Philipp Kern [2011-03-08 16:30 +]: On 2011-03-08, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: A prerequisite to automatically add debug packages for all architectures is to change the way how packages are uploaded and/or build[1]. In the upcoming ftpmaster meeting[2] from the 21st until

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-04 Thread Carsten Hey
* Paul Wise [2011-03-04 12:54 +0800]: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: But, anyway, I believe that the first depends of an alternate depends relation should be available in main and propose to file bugs about this. Do you agree this warrants

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Carsten Hey
* Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-02 15:06 +0100]: In general parsing the status file should not be done, instead you should use dpkg-query. Is there any reason for this, except that the format of the status files will evolve? You should use dpkg-query --control-path package something to

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-03 Thread Carsten Hey
* Holger Levsen [2011-02-28 16:05 +0100]: piuparts in master-slave mode currently cannot test packages which first alternate depends is not available in main, ie the secvpn package depends on adduser, bc, ssh, ppp, timeout | coreutils (= 7.5-1), sudo and timeout is only available in lenny and

Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

2011-01-25 Thread Carsten Hey
* Andrey Rahmatullin [2011-01-25 23:36 +0500]: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:14:39PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: I'm upstream for Cedilla [1,2], which has been orphaned and removed from Sid. I'm receiving e-mail from Debian users of Cedilla, asking me what is the suggested replacement.

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-30 Thread Carsten Hey
* Philipp Kern [2010-12-29 05:38 +]: On 2010-12-28, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: ... One reason for this is that dpkg's perl scripts were rewritten in C. I know you phrased it differently but wasn't the motivation for this rewrite to be more robust in the base system

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2010-12-27 08:49 -0800]: Luk Claes l...@debian.org writes: I thought there were some plans to try to get rid of perl-base being essential, in that case only shell (or C?) is a real alternative. We are not that far away from being able to implement this plan. One reason for

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Steve Langasek [2010-12-28 15:46 -0800]: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:48:18PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: * pam_getenv and pam-auth-update from libpam-runtime: pam_getenv is 76 lines of code. pam-auth-update is 490 lines of code and has been added after Lenny has been released

Accepted deborphan 1.7.28.3 (source i386)

2010-12-12 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:22:17 +0100 Source: deborphan Binary: deborphan Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.7.28.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey c@web.de Changed-By: Carsten Hey c@web.de

Re: xsnow

2010-12-02 Thread Carsten Hey
* Klaus Ethgen [2010-12-02 23:11 +0100]: Unfortunately I am no debian developer so I cannot take the package. Actually, you could maintain a package. You would just need a sponsor for your uploads. Please read the following URL for further information about finding out if the old maintainer is

Accepted deborphan 1.7.28.1 (source i386)

2010-12-01 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:02:19 +0100 Source: deborphan Binary: deborphan Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.7.28.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey c@web.de Changed-By: Carsten Hey c@web.de

Accepted pal 0.4.3-6 (source i386)

2010-12-01 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:16:23 +0100 Source: pal Binary: pal Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.3-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

2010-11-06 Thread Carsten Hey
* Philipp Kern [2010-11-06 10:03 +]: Ubuntu's alternate installer doesn't support it neither. It only applies to the netinst case, too, which Ubuntu doesn't offer as prominently. If one of Ubuntu's installers does support WPA, I guess they also translated their WPA related strings.

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-22 Thread Carsten Hey
* Simon McVittie [2010-10-22 12:10 +0100]: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 at 11:44:31 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that priv was occasionally used as a username for an ordinary user. If I saw it out of context I'd also tend to assume that priv is short for private

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-21 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2010-10-21 02:37 -0700]: I like sudoroot, personally, but I think sudo is probably okay. A group named sudo or sudoroot is somehow linked to sudo as tool used to gain administrative privileges. No one knows if in future an other tool will be the de facto standard to gain

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* Karsten Hilbert [2010-09-09 13:07 +0200]: Filed a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596219 but reportbug did not let me specify either of RC / critical / grave / serious / security ... I just set this to serious. It may take some minutes until the BTS is updated

Re: Activating t-p-u by default (was: Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian)

2010-08-31 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2010-08-28 16:23 +0200]: 2010/8/26 Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org: * David Kalnischkies [2010-08-26 17:43 +0200]: Long story short: If you want to get updates from an archive only if you pushed a version previously from it: 100 = pin 500. Wouldn't adding a new

Accepted hnb 1.9.18-8 (source i386)

2010-08-30 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:50:30 +0200 Source: hnb Binary: hnb Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.9.18-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org

Re: Activating t-p-u by default (was: Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian)

2010-08-26 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2010-08-26 17:43 +0200]: Long story short: If you want to get updates from an archive only if you pushed a version previously from it: 100 = pin 500. Wouldn't adding a new field to Release files similar to 'Not-Automatic' but pin to 101 instead of 1 if this new field is

unstable-proposed-updates (was: For those who care about their packages in Debian)

2010-08-25 Thread Carsten Hey
* Ian Jackson [2010-08-25 13:42 +0100]: Perhaps the right answer is to simply ask people to upload non-release-related stuff to experimental rather than unstable. That way one can do the itch-scratching right away; moving packages from experimental to unstable later is easy ... Even better

Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-18 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Claughton [2010-08-15 01:33 +0100]: Another use-case might be to remove convenience copies of system libraries. Might be useful (e.g. for security reasons) to be able to guarantee that this code isn't being accidentally used by a build (in a way that can be easily checked by a

Accepted aegir-provision 0.3-2.1 (source all)

2010-07-14 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:18:37 +0200 Source: aegir-provision Binary: aegir-provision Architecture: source all Version: 0.3-2.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: critical Maintainer: Antoine Beaupré anar...@koumbit.org Changed-By: Carsten

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Carsten Hey
* Mike Hommey [2010-05-27 12:00 +0200]: There is one possible benefit: impossibility to create a native package when the .orig.tar.gz is missing, which happens much too often. Doesn't look like it's impossible: | dpkg-source: info: source format `3.0 (quilt)' discarded: no orig.tar file found

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org [2010-05-27 15:44 +0200]: * Mike Hommey [2010-05-27 12:00 +0200]: There is one possible benefit: impossibility to create a native package when the .orig.tar.gz is missing, which happens much too often. Doesn't look like it's impossible: | dpkg-source: info

Accepted libgcgi 0.9.5.dfsg-5.1 (source i386)

2010-04-27 Thread Carsten Hey
warnings . [ Carsten Hey ] * Non-maintainer upload. * debian/rules: Avoid useless invocation of automake by touching Makefile.* in the correct sequence (Closes: #571416) Checksums-Sha1: 83f4436e500e2893c10778bf843182d8ac97c23a 1823 libgcgi_0.9.5.dfsg-5.1.dsc

Accepted topgit 0.8-1.1 (source all)

2010-04-26 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:11:16 +0200 Source: topgit Binary: topgit Architecture: source all Version: 0.8-1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian TopGit maintainers pkg-top...@teams.debian.net Changed-By: Carsten Hey

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-04-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org [2010-03-29 19:03 -0500]: Suggestions? Sounds like you should consider trying vserver or similar. It consumes less resources than real virtualisation but provides better networking isolation than simple chroots. You would need a kernel with vserver support

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
Besides sane handling of metapackages we should also think about marking transitional packages in some way. This would enable higher level tools like apt to mark them as automatically installed and thus get rid of useless packages if no other package depends on them. The dependencies of these

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:50:15AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: For each patch: - apply patch - dpkg-buildpackage -S - rename debian/patches/debian-changes-ver into something else and edit its headers - fix debian/patches/series Note: this works only if quilt is not installed (or

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:53:34AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:50:15AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: For each patch: - ... Note: this works only if quilt is not installed (or if you ensure dpkg-source is called with --without-quilt which you currently can't

Accepted pal 0.4.3-5 (source i386)

2009-09-24 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:16:09 +0200 Source: pal Binary: pal Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.3-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org

Re: Bug#535501: ITP: roxterm -- A multi-tabbed GTK terminal emulator

2009-07-02 Thread Carsten Hey
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:36:37PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk Please rename the existing RFA bug (#535246) instead of filing a new one, e.g. by using /usr/bin/bts from the package devscripts. Upstream Author : Tony

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-16 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:05:40AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:31:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: If an integration of the information in the patch headers into UDD would be planned which could be used to query patches not applied upstream or similar, I would at least

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-15 Thread Carsten Hey
target install-doc. (Closes: #497874) -- Carsten Hey c@web.de Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:13:08 +0200 debian/patches/50_debian_fix_example_path_in_manpage.patch: pal (0.4.3-2) * Added a new Debian specific patch which changes the path to example.css in pal.1. Debian

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-15 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:15:16PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:10:14PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: I currently don't see a relevant benefit in this above just using the changelog entry, which you need to write anyway. Additional information Putting the information

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:50:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Nowadays, you cannot use your system if you don’t use udev, so this is irrelevant. I'm writing this mail from a system without udev: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.26-1-vserver-686 (Debian 2.6.26-12)

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:59:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jun 03, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:50:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Nowadays, you cannot use your system if you don’t use udev, so this is irrelevant. I'm writing this mail

Accepted pal 0.4.3-4 (source i386)

2009-05-17 Thread Carsten Hey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 14:43:35 +0200 Source: pal Binary: pal Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.3-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org Changed-By: Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org

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