Re: Concerns/problems shipping multiple shared libs in one package

2020-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
tream breaks that guarantee and the SONAMEs diverge. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Copyright for contributors

2019-07-05 Thread Russ Allbery
ices just want us to preserve whatever notice upstream decided to write. There's generally no useful purpose served in trying to improve upstream's copyright notices or make them more accurate, and it arguably can be a technical violation of some licenses that require preserving copyright notices. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#922965: Bug#923220: DFSG compliance concerns

2019-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Debian for working with non-free software. This sort of upstream repackager, if it itself is released under a free software license, is in general acceptable for contrib if someone is willing to sponsor it. (I haven't looked at the details of this specific package.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debi

Re: Formal definitions of Provides and Replaces

2018-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrius Merkys writes: > On 09/06/2018 07:12 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> As part of that transition, it looks like exactly what you said >> ("adaptation and rebuilding of all packages depending on blacs-mpi") >> was done for the packages in Debian. >

Re: Formal definitions of Provides and Replaces

2018-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
ge too far from upstream in trying to maintain backward compatibility. If upstream has decided not to maintain that compatibility, trying to do it ourselves in Debian is rarely a good use of scarce resources. That sometimes means package-breaking transitions that require a bit of work for dependencies.

Re: debhelper-compat-version 11 and systemd

2018-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
r tool, please use an empty override target. Please note that the dh_installsystemd tool has a slightly different behaviour in some cases (e.g. when using the --name parameter). You may want to read the dh_installsystemd(1) man page to see if any of the changes affect your

Re: VCS repositories

2018-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
t and then run man dgit-user, hopefully that should get you started. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: How to fix symbols files to work with gcc-7 and gcc-8

2018-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
/bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658333 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Fixing incorrect .orig

2018-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
ne). We don't have great or consistent naming conventions for this stuff. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Built-Using usage question

2017-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
he included package into the including binary > package somewhere in /usr/share/doc/$package. While it will waste some > space (and duplicate files), it will also make sure that we correctly > follow any copyright changes without requiring the package maintainers > to manually track them

Re: Built-Using usage question

2017-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > Personally, I feel this change to policy is a mistake. Alternative proposals that achieve the goal of not adding Built-Using fields to the entire archive are welcome. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Built-Using usage question

2017-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
o I need to somehow include the debian/copyright file from > gnu-efi in the syslinux-efi binary package? Yes, or at least the portions relevant to the code that's being statically linked. The resulting binary is a derivative work of the syslinux-efi package, so you need to follow its license. --

Re: pandoc example for implementing Policy 12.4

2017-06-12 Thread Russ Allbery
if you *really* want to provide an HTML version for some reason, multimarkdown < README.org > README.html does a pretty good job (probably redirecting it to some path under the staging area for building the new package). BTW, are you sure that this is in Markdown? org-mode is something else

Re: Copyright for Autoconf stuff

2016-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
rate those stanzas (the notices are fairly consistent and open for that sort of automation) rather than asking people to do tedious and not very productive manual work. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Data updates in debian packages

2016-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
it probably wouldn't, by itself, trigger a new release. So the update would wait for some other time zone change to be rolled into a release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Data updates in debian packages

2016-10-30 Thread Russ Allbery
rely on that. The required timeliness depends a lot on what you're using leap seconds for, and in particular if you need to know about them far in advance, or if it's only necessary to have an updated table before the leap second itself arrives. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Packaging mmh (fork of nmh)

2016-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
lowed >> subdir of /usr/bin is /usr/bin/mh. > So nmh is not following FHS either. mh implementations have a special historical exception in the FHS. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: git-buildpackage pattern question

2016-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
think gbp import-orig, under the hood, does something more complicated using Git plumbing to create the merge commit directly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: public-domain in the debian/copyright

2016-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
e paragraph, or at least somewhere in debian/copyright (a Comment field or whatever). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: To override or not to override?

2016-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
so that you can remove them. That should make it safer to add an override for a Lintian bug, since when the bug is fixed, Lintian will tell you that you can remove it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: How to determine when being packaged under Debian?

2015-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >> Yeah, this is why I'd put a check into the Debian packaging to be sure >> that the software was built this way and abort the build during the

Re: How to determine when being packaged under Debian?

2015-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
hy I'd put a check into the Debian packaging to be sure that the software was built this way and abort the build during the check phase if it wasn't, with a big comment explaining the situation. Then hopefully anyone else who picks up the package, if that happens, would be aware. -- Russ Allber

Re: How to determine when being packaged under Debian?

2015-09-29 Thread Russ Allbery
dividual build. Also, I would question the assumption a bit: if this is important for distributions, wouldn't it be important for all builds? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: apt-get upgrade and package consolidation

2015-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
well as all those 'Provided' packages >are held back. I think you need Replaces. See: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.6.2 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: How much is lintian an expert in english language ?

2015-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> That intransitive form of allow is almost always used >> in combination with the preposition "for". > But why then isn't the lintian check called > "allows to allows f

Re: How much is lintian an expert in english language ?

2015-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
to allow for a variety of uses, but it's not as common of phrasing for a package description, and it's usually a pretty indirect and unusual way of phrasing things. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Dropping a link reference

2015-03-24 Thread Russ Allbery
): $ patchelf --remove-needed libraw1394.so.8 /path/to/binary -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: odd Vcs-Git pointer in control file, package fortune-zh

2015-02-03 Thread Russ Allbery
packages are not required to use Git, and QA uploads for orphaned packages often don't. You can import the changes from 1.10 into the repository using a tool such as gbp import-dsc from the git-buildpackage package. That's what I'd do at this point. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: code reuse in debian/package.config

2014-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
are installed. I think that you can work around this by having your internal packages use Pre-Depends for the package that provides your script library (instead of Depends). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: code reuse in debian/package.config

2014-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
in the generated package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8761cvfjx3

Re: Sample systemd service init file please

2014-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
that takes care of activating your systemd unit file. --parallel is up to you and depends on whether your package supports parallel build. (It's unrelated to systemd support.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Sample Debian package to show-case all

2014-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
welcome!). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87tx0xd40q@hope.eyrie.org

Re: Sample systemd service init file please

2014-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
, and an upstart configuration, all of the same (simple) daemon, so it's easy to compare them. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
find this approach too complicated. I guess I'm just used to it, but it works for me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

2014-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
. If you're not, you can leave it out. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87oarpju8v

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
progress. +1. I use help as a sort of variant of wontfix. It means that I'm not opposed to a fix for that bug, but I'm not going to work on it, either because I don't have the time or I don't have the necessary skills. Therefore, unless someone else works on it, it's not going to get fixed. -- Russ

Re: libtool zealeousness: how to stip off -pthread added by libtool

2014-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
situations for my packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87k3374r2i

Re: dh_installman and camel case name in .TH (repost)

2014-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
from the basename of the source file. So you need to rename funopen.3 to FunOpen.3, and then it should install in the correct location. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dh_installman and camel case name in .TH (repost)

2014-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Ole Streicher oleb...@debian.org writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: This is arguably a bug in te dh_installman documentation. It takes the section component of the man page name from the .TH line, but the name component is taken from the basename of the source file. So you need

Re: Build-depending on non-free package

2014-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
with ftp.debian.org. It's possible that Policy could stand some work to make this clearer. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Build-depending on non-free package

2014-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr) writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I'm pretty sure that default is applied before dak ever sees the binary package priority. (In other words, it's expanded via the build process before priorities are added to the *.changes file.) So

Re: Autoreconfing guide

2014-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
want done, and they don't always regenerate everything. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Autoreconfing guide

2014-07-16 Thread Russ Allbery
is needed given that autoreconf is recursive. I don't think autoreconf can always figure out what to do when the files are buried in some random subdirectory without anything at the top level. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Autoreconfing guide

2014-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
are better treated as source, and the generated files regenerated on every build. This ensures that the files can still be generated from the source, which in turn ensures that anyone wanting to make changes to the source package will be able to do so easily. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: Autoreconfing guide

2014-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org writes: Russ Allbery wrote: I would still use dh-autoreconf. It's not as critical, since it's unlikely to be necessary for supporting new architectures, but I think the Autoconf and Automake files are better treated as source, and the generated files regenerated

Re: Dual licence + linking openssl

2014-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
believed that this can be done for MIT-licensed software regardless of whether it's dual-licensed, since there aren't any license terms that conflict.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?

2014-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
and instead provide some sort of Makefile to install things, but it works great for quick internal packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?

2014-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
about, as long as the packages in Debian do the right thing. Is any of these Stanford-internal packages available to be looked at in a public place? It doesn't look like it, unfortunately. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dh, autoreconf, remember to run libtool --finish

2014-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
fix (and similarly for the other patterns in other *.install files). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: public extension linked with libpython* vs. -Wl,-no-undefined

2014-03-18 Thread Russ Allbery
not sure why -- I think it shouldn't -- but that will at least affect Apache and PHP modules. I must be misremembering the Python situation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: public extension linked with libpython* vs. -Wl,-no-undefined

2014-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
: it's probably a plugin. ``` then. Yes. The it's probably a plugin part is basically trying to tell you to ignore this as long as the message is correct and it is a plugin. Python, PHP, and Apache modules all generally get this warning. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: Splitting in /usr/lib/arch and /usr/share

2014-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
these days for most packagers to spend time on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Lintian error for package with Apache2 module

2014-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
, and the Apache packaging for wheezy is substantially different than Apache packaging for jessie and newer releases. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Weird conffile case

2014-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
then turn into a UID via getpwnam)? Then you wouldn't have to modify the configuration file. If it doesn't support names now, could that be added? It might be a fairly simple patch, a few lines at most. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

2014-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
users for running particular applications normally should not have a valid shell, and auditors will often require that they not have a valid shell. You don't want that sort of change (possibly required by local audit policies) to break the package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: Working with gbp and older releases

2014-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
by a older version than 1.4.12, it is allowed to modify the old changelog entries, when the fix was actually added. Yup. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Working with gbp and older releases

2014-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Dariusz Dwornikowski dariusz.dwornikow...@cs.put.poznan.pl writes: On wto, lut 18, 2014 at 01:29:06 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I think you were also saying this, but just to be very clear: please also include the CVE numbers directly in debian/changelog in the entry for whatever release

Re: How to selectively silence git-multimail messages ?

2014-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
the previous release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y524tya5

Re: Requirement for compat level 9

2014-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
debhelper 9 or later, which means stable or squeeze-backports (but not squeeze itself). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: empty-binary-package

2014-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
. If you want to rename things, you'll need to do that separately, usually with an override and some code that runs before dh_install. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: File modification and the copyright

2014-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Schwimmer * Extensively modified by Russ Allbery ea...@eyrie.org from one of my projects. - I should inherit the BSD-licensed, right? Yes, almost always. - How to express that the new file was based on another old file from a different author in the debian/copyright file? Copyright: 2003

Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories

2014-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
directory, use whatever variable upstream is using; if they're just using usr/bin literally, then use: install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories

2014-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: First, dh_installdirs is not actually useful for solving this particular problem since dh_installdirs creates directories in the package staging area. Your problem is happening prior to that; make install of the upstream source into debian/tmp is failing

Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories

2014-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I guess I should say, for the sake of completeness, that you *can* make dh_installdirs do this with the -P flag. But I would find that confusing; I think an explicit install -d is easier to understand. And, regardless, dh_installdirs isn't normally run

Re: [Help] Usable command options parser for C

2013-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
this stuff by hand, but I also mostly don't support long options. I keep meaning to find a more portable solution to that for C programs than GNU getopt_long(3). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Which targets need their requirements in “Build-Depends*” declared?

2013-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
. What's currently done everywhere in the archive is that the targets run by dpkg-buildpackage (either arch or arch-indep builds) must have their dependencies listed, and dependencies for the other targets are not listed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Please help fix these build errors

2013-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
on the exact situation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87a9gdcpx7

Re: How to determine build dependency

2013-11-16 Thread Russ Allbery
have been known to start with the empty set and just keep building and adding dependencies to fix each failure or each missing feature in configure. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DESTDIR Support for debian/install

2013-11-15 Thread Russ Allbery
means making a debian/glimpse/usr/lib/glimpse directory and moving some of the files into it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Bug#729375: RFS: authprogs/0.5.1-1 [ITP #616126]

2013-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Send the lintian authors a patch to update the current Standards-Version. This is already in progress -- no need to send more patches. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Re: Cannot create regular file under /usr/share/man/man1

2013-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
prefix. You can possibly work around this by setting prefix to $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp, but this really should be fixed upstream by adding support for DESTDIR. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Cannot create regular file under /usr/share/man/man1

2013-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
years. I have fix it myself, but I don't know how. Generally it's as simple as adding $(DESTDIR) in front of the installation paths for all install rules in the upstream Makefiles. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Is it OK to have compile warnings

2013-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
with. (The socket_* calls are, on Linux, just macros that expand to write and close. They exist for compatibility with Windows, where different functions have to be used when working with sockets.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to allocate a TCP port?

2013-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
it approved by the normal IETF process. (I think this is quite reasonable given how scarce such ports are.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl

2013-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
it that way. I've seen upstreams just refuse to add the license exception on the grounds that they think Debian's concern is silly and they refuse to cater to it. *sigh* -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: race condition

2013-10-05 Thread Russ Allbery
(); savescore_memory2file(); } What would be the standard way to lock the scorefile? fcntl(fd, F_SETLK). See fcntl(2). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Should .pc filenames depend on the version number?

2013-10-03 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zjqpluqh@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

2013-09-24 Thread Russ Allbery
any further investigation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bo3hkh8s

Re: Bug#718323: another hyperrogue suggestion from debian reviewers

2013-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
#1 and #3. (It would be okay for the separate non-free archive.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Bug#668505: dwarf fortress debian package

2013-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
forward. Note that this only works if the only binaries linked with that shared library are built from the same source package. If you have to link with that shared library across source packages, you may want to consider a different approach. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: Bug#668505: dwarf fortress debian package

2013-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Beren Minor beren.minor+deb...@gmail.com writes: I can either: - exclude usr/lib/gemrb from dh_makeshlibs I would do this. If the library is not a public API that should be used by other projects, then having out it ouf /usr/lib is probably the right

Re: Bug#668505: dwarf fortress debian package

2013-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Beren Minor beren.minor+deb...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Alternately (and in my opinion preferrably) just exclude the plugins directory from dh_makeshlibs: override_dh_makeshlibs: dh_makeshlibs -Xusr/lib/gemrb

Re: Bug#668505: dwarf fortress debian package

2013-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
(This is really a (minor) upstream bug, since, as plugins, these objects should not have SONAMEs.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: multi arch shared libarary with non multi arch -dev package?

2013-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
of multi-arch comes from just having the libraries be multi-arch, and we've not yet made a push to multi-arch the dev packages. The dev packages pose a variety of additional challenges that we haven't completely sorted through. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
. As long as you care about backporting your package to stable, 2.2 should still be considered. You pretty much have to branch to support both. The packaging is substantially different. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Alexander Wirt formo...@formorer.de writes: On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: You pretty much have to branch to support both. The packaging is substantially different. I have several packages working well for 2.2 and 2.4. At least for webapps, it is possible. Hm, how do you deal

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes: On 23.07.2013 20:08, Russ Allbery wrote: Hm, how do you deal with the conf.d vs. conf-available change and the completely different maintainer script actions? there are several possibilities, but I suggest something like [1] which I wrote for that purpose

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
version for most packages is use dh_apache2. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Files with All rights reserved.

2013-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
it. I suspect the problem in this case is the lack of some accompanying clear license statement. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: PostScript with Copyright from Adobe Systems

2013-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
weird to have it in a favicon, though. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: PHP libraries in /usr/share/

2013-07-04 Thread Russ Allbery
as architecture-independent libraries). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#710473: RFS: bats/0.2.0-1

2013-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
if they are particularly obscure, if they are only useful for very specific purposes (such as all debugging symbol packages), or if they conflict with packages with a higher priority (such as alternative implementations of the same functionality). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Need detailed help on creating a Debian package (post-install configuration)

2013-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
, but sometimes there isn't another good option. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: What's the proper way to build from debian dsc

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
# the previous step requires you have a GnuPG key set up They're now ready to upload, which you probably want to do with dput. If you're uploading it to mentors, see the mentors documentation for the correct dput configuration and target. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: pristine-tar and upstream zip

2013-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
won't be able to use the upstream distribution verbatim. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: pristine-tar and upstream zip

2013-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net writes: So I add a download rule: get-orig-source: uscan --force-download --repack and use the result as input to git-import-orig and everything should be ok? Yup, that's what I'd do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Multiarch and architecture specific headers

2013-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Moulard thomas.moul...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Thomas Moulard thomas.moul...@gmail.com writes: A package I maintain contains a configuration header (vpConfig.h) which differ depending on the architecture we are (here

Re: Multiarch and architecture specific headers

2013-05-13 Thread Russ Allbery
putting headers in this directory but I never heard of this strategy on the Debian wiki. That's mostly because multiarch for -dev packages isn't really well-documented yet. But I believe this is the right approach. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: git packaging workflow notes, diagram

2013-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
if upstream is on CVS or SVN and the Debian packages are to be maintained with git. Indeed, that's part of why I haven't revised my notes yet. Both methods really need to be explained. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: git packaging workflow notes, diagram

2013-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sj362qhi@windlord.stanford.edu

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