I (used to) document the upstream branch location in debian/README.source.
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:57:16AM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
The only problem is that svn-buildpackage does not support this. Or
rather: it should have, but a long standing bug (with a partial fix
attached to it, to which the maintainer did not comment. But since
uploaded one or two
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:37:03AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
The chances of Trinity, the desktop environment, being packaged in Debian are
very low.
That may be the case, but it may still confuse users regardless.
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 09:23:02AM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Then don't package Go at all and leave it entirely outside the realm of dpkg
- no dependencies allowed in either direction, no files created outside
/usr/local for any reason, no contamination of the apt or dpkg cache data. If
what
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chocolate-doom - Doom engine closely-compatible with vanilla doom
Closes: 692762
Changes:
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* Remove deprecated dm-upload-allowed field from
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* Provides: doom-engine
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 01:27:05PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca writes:
Not all C libraries are distributed from one central site and they
certainly don't expect you to use a central package installation system.
So much more the shame for C.
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:20:08PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:00:32AM +, Jon Dowland wrote:
As a Haskell developer, I find cabal much more convenient than nothing,
in the situation where the library I want is not packaged by Debian yet.
If I want my
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 12:38:16PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Using Debian packages is a *means*, not an *end*. Sometimes in these
discussions I think people lose sight of the fact that, at the end of the
day, the goal is not to construct an elegantly consistent system composed
of
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:02:18PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
For cpan there is even dh-make-perl. The solution then is to make
equivelant scripts for other languages. The solution is NOT to use some
other package installation system.
Although I've never used dh-make-perl myself, I'm
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:46:35PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Absolutely. As a user I have a nice package management system that I
know how to use and which works well. I don't need another one.
As a Haskell developer, I find cabal much more convenient than nothing,
in the situation where
Package: wnpp
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* Package name: squishyball
Version : 0.1~svn18785
Upstream Author : Monty mo...@xiph.org
* URL : http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/squishyball/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:46:33AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
You might find this useful:
http://np237.livejournal.com/33449.html
I made this presentation in the hope to make such things easier to
understand for the sysadmin.
Just for the record I found it a good read, and mentally have
Hi - we have/had some modules here at Newcastle University using TinyOS
and having it available in Debian may make it easier for us to deliver
the teaching in future. Thanks!
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:04:22AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
* Jakub Wilk jw...@jwilk.net, 2012-12-01, 12:10:
Any volunteers to file bugs?
I'll file them myself.
Please collect them together with a usertag to help others who
may wish to get involved.
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:53:41AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
Anything less than the full fingerprint (8, 7 or whatever)
I hadn't noticed that 0xFEFACED was only 7 characters. That's cheating ☺
It might be worth noting that GPG does not accept less than 8 chars as an
argument prefixed by 0x
$
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:02:29PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote:
Hint: gpg --list-keys --with-colons --keyring
/usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg --no-default-keyring
No need, I have 'keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg' in my
~/.gnupg/gpg.conf.
Not sure though, why nion is listed
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 03:39:03PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
What's so bad about evince that you need to use a forked version
anyway? Or gnome-icon-theme, gnome-keyring, gnome-terminal, etc.
This is drifting off the topic at hand, please, take it to another
list if you want to continue down
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:06:03AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
You can use the upstream packaging, available at:
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main
Thanks but I'm interested in possibly helping an effort to package MATE
in Debian, rather than run it myself.
So from
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 01:26:50PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hey,
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:22:52AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I'd therefore like to ask if anyone here would be willing to help me
to get MATE into Debian for Jessie.
I'd like to ping back and
I feel your pain. I've tried to do much the same thing to diagnose old
kernel bugs. I recommend installing squeeze on a small root partition
entirely separately. (or older than squeeze if necessary)
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:19:22PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
I am using systemd on my laptop, i have a very default system configuration,
(except that i compile my own kernel to avoid initrd)…
^^
…if I, with a normal, standard desktop
Thanks for the update!
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:55:13AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
However, you are running Gentoo and rebuild your kernel, why would
you bother with such thing as kernel modules and initrd? The thing is,
many (most? all?) Gentoo user, as far as I understand (I'm not a
Gentoo user), do not use
I had a half-drafted message to the same effect, but deleted it
earlier. Thanks Neil for speaking up. I have to say Thomas, many
recent messages from you across many threads, mostly on -devel
but also elsewhere, have seemed to have very little in the way
of polite, constructive content, advancing
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:34:32PM +, Darren Salt wrote:
Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other
little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which
makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a
reversible
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 05:29:20PM +, Jon Dowland wrote:
The following SHOULD be 0, 1, and 2 levels of quoting, first to last.
It was for me (Maildir)
Just rechecked, I'm wrong - the first line was quoted.
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
explains the different mbox formats, what 'From_' means, etc.
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:41:35PM -0400, David Prévot wrote:
Seems weird to see another non-library ending up in the pool/main/libr/
directory of our archive (and yet another special case to handle for
tools like deborphan). It would be nice to avoid the lib- prefix for
non-library.
Nice,
On 22 Nov 2012, at 15:57, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote:
So if you don't like that decision it should be escalated to the
Technical Committee.
I'm surprised that *anyone* can refer issues to tech ctte. Has a non DD ever
submitted something worthwhile?
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:51:06PM +0100, Stefano Karapetsas wrote:
GNOME Classic is just as featureful and usable as GNOME Shell,
which makes it very suitable for a default desktop on non-3D machines.
But GNOME Fallback is going to be dropped soon.
I'm surprised nobody has talked about
Hi - please change the Subject: of the thread if the topic of conversation
has moved on. (We're all guilty of not doing this enough…)
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:07:29AM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote:
snip 32 line preamble
I realise your intentions are good, here, but please, it is not much help.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:03:33AM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote:
So much for the general rules... but exceptions ARE possible! And I
just try to make a case here about how important it might be!
IF you had a set of MATE packages all ready to go and you were asking
for a freeze exception for
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:22:52AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I'd therefore like to ask if anyone here would be willing to help me
to get MATE into Debian for Jessie.
As you know, there is already an effort to package MATE ongoing (at least
#658783). The purpose of ITPs is to
Please stop top-posting.
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:48:08PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
MATE will not be in Wheezy and staying on Squeeze until Jessie is released is
probably not suitable for most users.
It's quite likely that if MATE packages make it into Debian at all, they
will be provided in backports, so some
On 21 Nov 2012, at 17:27, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
don't know if Ian is, but I certainly would. We have a bunch of
existing virtual packages that aren't really useful because they don't
offer any sort of guaranteed interface, and therefore cannot be
meaningfully used in package
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:25:38PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
The core components are always built (which includes systemd itself, as
well as udevd and journald).
For some uses the configure switches do not provide sufficient modularity.
For example, they cannot be used to build
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:10:37AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
I currently do not have facilities to build the package in question
with the host running Debian's kernel.
So how can you prove that the package builds?
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:37:48PM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote:
And whatever they or anybody else does in that regard, it will come
to late for wheezy.
All of MATE will come too late for Wheezy. It's already too late for
Wheezy.
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+ good-not-evil
usertags 692613 + good-not-evil
usertags 692615 + good-not-evil
usertags 692626 + good-not-evil
usertags 692621 + good-not-evil
thanks
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:25:43PM +, Jon Dowland wrote:
I've found one of these - #692614 - is the whole set collected together
under a common
Every post to this thread makes my heart that little bit heavier.
Can participants please
a) consider whether this is on topic to -devel and move to -user if
not;
b) trim quotes appropriately;
c) change Subject: when the subject under discussion changes
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Description:
vavoom - Advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife engine
Closes: 676580 691741
Changes:
vavoom (1.33-5) experimental; urgency=low
.
[ Jon Dowland ]
* Reword the long description a bit. Thanks Filipus Klutiero.
Closes: #676580.
.
[ Fabian
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 03:51:53PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
lucie-uboot
lucie-uboot-netconsole
If upstream refer to it as 'plum', then eradicating plum from the package
name entirely isn't sensible.
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:06:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce
duplicate GNOME3 packages into Debian. Nautilus 3.4 is currently
available through GNOME3, so this would introduce redundancy.
wheezy will have 3.4 but 3.6
CCing Ansgar
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote:
Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the
problematic JSON license term The Software shall be used for Good, not
Evil.
I've found one of these - #692614 - is the whole set collected
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:27:03PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes, that's correct. But that's only one of the points of my
criticism. I am in general not very much convinced by the quality of
the packages in Linux Mint.
Neither am I. I did look at cinnamon and muffin briefly, saw
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:40:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
Which policy applies to #685913 (and all the other open unblocks)? The
policy announced at the beginning of the freeze or the current policy?
…or the time the unblock was filed?
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:13:45PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote:
As far as I can see Mr Crockford _enjoys_ being asked to change his
license. So no, please don't feed the troll.
As much as I think this licence is stupid (from my free
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
Hm, I filed two unblock requests after that deadline, but before reading
the announce mail about it.
You don't state whether the decision impacts them or not, but so it goes…
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:21:30PM +, Neil McGovern wrote:
Apologies for the lack of clarity in the d-d-a posting - the new
acceptance criteria are for unblocks filed after 11:54:49 + today.
No problem - thanks for the clarification!
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Microcode updates will be applied immediately when the microcode
packages are installed or updated: you don't have to reboot. You will
have to keep the packages installed, though: as explained above, the
microcode
Changed-By: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org
Description:
chocolate-doom - Doom engine closely-compatible with vanilla doom
Changes:
chocolate-doom (1.7.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Add myself back to uploaders.
Checksums-Sha1:
e14463afa028d9155655e1b1e51386730ee68af4 2114 chocolate-doom_1.7.0-2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA256
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:50:59 +
Source: bup
Binary: bup
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.25~git2011.11.04-6
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org
Changed-By: Jon Dowland j
-By: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org
Description:
prboom - clone of the legendary first person shooter Doom
Closes: 579749
Changes:
prboom (2:2.5.0+dfsg2-1) experimental; urgency=low
.
* Fix a bashism in fix_upstream.sh and use the
URW-Bookman-Demi-Bold font for menu graphics
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:53:24PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
does it make sense to establish a list of candidates for reintroduction to
testing ?
Is this not something best managed on a case-by-case basis?
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 03:53:42PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Wrong. It will be a new thing, not related to the previous thing.
It's evidently related: if not in terms of actual reused code but in terms
of who is expected to use it and what it is to be used for.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:03:02AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
I'd prefer if such a tool could replace an existing one. Why not aim at
replacing dput if there's a reason for it?
I must concur. I can't see the reason for dput, dupload and dput-ng to
co-exist. If dput-ng has the momentum and is a
Great stuff, thanks!
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 07:39:52PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 26 oct 12, 15:38:03, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
it is currently showed in the PTS: e.g.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/alevt.html:
problems
How many non-DDs/DMs do you think are aware of the PTS? My guess is: not
Changed-By: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org
Description:
freedm - multiplayer-oriented maps for Doom
freedoom - free game files for the 3D game DOOM
Closes: 691399
Changes:
freedoom (0.8~beta1-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Fabian Greffrath ]
* Add myself to Uploaders.
* Imported Upstream
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:09:33 +0100
Source: deutex
Binary: deutex
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 4.4.902-14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Games Team pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Changed-By: Jon
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 02:53:43AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Then again,... I wonder why Ubuntu exists, if they allegedly anyway want
their changes into Debian.
And still sounds like a fork in a respect that forks usually don't
change everything.
But I mean that discussion
Great work, thanks all!
Did you usertag any of the bugs you closed in that party? It would be kind-of
interesting to see them. Does anyone else think that might be useful (either
now or in future?) I suppose I could just scan debian-bugs-dist for the time
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 04:03:53PM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
Steve with his years of packaging experience is not probably a good
sample of one to base this upon. I'd be curious to see if newer
packagers use it or not.
I don't bother with dh-make anymore. Like Steve the (mixed-case! Argh!) .ex
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote:
I am willing to co-maintain the package with Manoj, or even maintain
it by myself if he's no longer interested in dealing with it. But
since there has been no reply from him I now turn to the list: any
suggestion on what I should
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:54:05AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
It is very unlikely they would unblock a package with major changes such
as a new upstream version. Not to say Vincent should not work on it, but
it won't be in time for Wheezy.
Yes, agreed. There is the small-print reason that the
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:25:36PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
- the problem affects all packages *build-depending* on gnome-pkg-tools, thus
I'd actually have to do an MBF (it's more than 160 packages)
It would be worth looking at a) whether those 160 packages have a common
maintainer,
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Description:
game-data-packager - Installer for game data files
Changes:
game-data-packager (32) experimental; urgency=low
.
* hexen2: don't install strings.txt, progs.dat or progs2.dat;
they're carried by the uhexen2 package. Thanks Gustavo
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:08:31AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
If it pulls in half of GNOME when you install it, its nice to have the
name gnome in there somewhere.
Well I disagree, but either way, it doesn't¹:
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
${python:Depends},
gir1.2-champlain-0.12,
That's not really of any interest to -devel, and I guess you're quoting
info from private mail here. Please let's keep this list useful.
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Hello,
Thank you for your mail.
The reason MATE is not in Debian is that nobody has put the work in to make it
so. In Debian, things happen thanks to developers putting effort in, usually in
their spare time. Whilst it's true that some people believe MATE should not be
included in Debian, they
Personally, I think l.d.o would be an appropriate home for such things, but I
believe the decision is one for the list server admins. Having said that, I
think efforts are underway so that the alioth-hosted lists are moved to the
l.d.o infrastructure, precicely because it is recognised that
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:52:29PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Description : What do you want to deploy today?
A better short description is needed here. In a nutshell, what
does it do?
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:08:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
I'm so tired of these gnome2 vs gnome3 discussions...
Stop proliferating them then! They are orthogonal to the point of
this thread, and you will never shout down all the people who disagree
with your point of view.
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:45:36PM +0300, Serge wrote:
There's no need to walk through the minefield, it's already done.
Fedora lost more than half of the user base with the Fedora 15
release (GNOME3 and systemd).
[citation-needed]
They now bring GNOME2 back. [1] :)
[1]
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:33:41AM +, Pietro Paolini wrote:
I am not really sure this is the correct newsletter for my question, if not
please apologize me and suggest me a right newsletter, thanks.
It isn't - please try debian-user: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:26:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
game-data-packager, although that one is a bit different: it supports a
relatively large number of game-data packages, and most of the data it
works on is not freely downloadable, so it often has to support building
the same
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:03:33PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
Let's acknowledge that the gnome-* prefix means to be used mostly in
the GNOME Desktop environment and not officially endorsed by GNOME.
Or something like that.
We need to distinguish between what the situation is now, and
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 01:06:22PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
I have encountered numerous people who have been complained (not in
particular to me, just i general) about changes to GNOME. Not being a
GNOME user myself I don't really appreciate these complaints.
However, I have observed that
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Changed-By: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org
Description:
game-data-packager - Installer for game data files
Changes:
game-data-packager (31) experimental; urgency=low
.
* Initial Hexen 2 support.
* An initial regression test suite in the source.
* Fixup 'slipstream' and adjust callers
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 10:42:35PM +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote:
OK,
so let's go on picking 'gnome-osm-maps'.
Thank you all folks!
No, one package in the archive with a misleading name doesn't mean
we should have more! See also: gnuplot, not related to GNU, and no
doubt many more.
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:45:42AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Luca Capello l...@pca.it [2012.09.09.2029 +0200]:
Or, if this is tightened to OSM, 'gnome-osm-maps'.
except the 'm' on osm is already a map, so maybe osm-client.
I like dropping 'gnome', and not doubling-up map,
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 10:01:17PM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
When building for as many architectures as we have, situation when some
dependencies are missing (or can't exist) on some architectures is not rare.
However we still want to build our packages with all features possible.
You
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 05:18:57PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
I also considered, but the information of what files are excluded when
creating
the Debian source package is not relevant to upstream.
More simply, I think that if debian/watch would radically change its format to
YAML or the
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:11:25AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Subject: Re: Bug#686903: RFP: pass -- the standard unix password manager
I realise this text comes from upstream, but the standard unix password
manager is IMHO misleading for this program. A unix password manager is more
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:04:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
the machine-readable format does not mention trailing slashes at the end
of directory names, and refers to the -path test of the GNU find command,
Good. Having a trailing-slash be meaningful is very confusing. I especially
hate
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:27:02PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
1) We have the source for the parts that we ship in binary packages,
yes. We do not, however, necessarily have the actual source for the
minified files unused for binary packages yet redistributed by us in
source tarballs:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:57:10PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 08/31/2012 06:55 PM, Riku Voipio wrote:
How is that different from having a botched / or /boot ? Why do you
think having a separate /usr will make / less prone to HD crashes?
You have / on RAID5 while /usr isn't?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:12:15PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
We are building a binary distribution which main characteristic is to have
the
packages built _rarely_. As such, a useful but CPU-expensive operation is
always worth it.
The situation is slightly different for
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:56:47PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Before wondering whether PNG files should have an additional
compression level, is there any reason why a better PNG compression
isn't used in the first place? For instance, optipng -o9 tries
various parameters and keeps the best
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:17:15PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
I don't think it's worth +dfsg, and CPU cycles will only be wasted once
on the maintainer side, since most of PNGs are in arch:all packages anyway.
I used to hack on the games-thumbnails package a bit, which ran optipng as part
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:38:14PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
...Or add the exclude list to a file called 'debian/watch'.
I struggle to see why. I suppose because uscan reads debian/watch, but
the point of that file is to document where to find upstream sources,
the name implies that, and
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:58:42AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
But if anyone would lobby that (release goal: default to CGI/FCGI),
they'd have definitely my support :)
A bit late for wheezy, do you mean for +1?
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:19:23AM +0200, rosea grammostolla wrote:
Subject: Re: Bug#685064: ITP: non-daw -- please package non-things
^
You've filed an ITP (I Intent To Package) but your subject reads more
like a Request For
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:41:35AM +0200, Ulrich Dangel wrote:
On 08/08/12 04:11, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Fedora did it a few months ago, so probably we should do it as well to
minimize the pain.
As far as I know (based on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458176 /
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:40:42PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
Warning the user that they are using an obsolete tool is IMO entirely
justified, particularly when there is a much better and more capable
replacement.
And there's plenty of precedent:
$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version
It would be nice if your initial upload would resolve the multiple issues
that were the cause for the package removal, rather than simply reintroduce
them.
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:00:38PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
/usr/games is a swamp for another time I think. I guess it contains
an awful lot of things with clashing names.
Last I checked the latest FHS drafts removed /usr/games entirely, so the
morass might end up being dumped into /usr/bin
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:55:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
Jon Dowland writes (Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to
mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs
conflict)):
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:15:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
We
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