Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
Christoph Biedl writes: > Don Armstrong wrote... > >> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Christoph Biedl wrote: > >> > Rest assured I did very extensive testing before the submission of my >> > patch, and also spent a lot of time on a careful analysis of the >> > present code, resulting in the longish descript

Bug#700759: Re: Bug#700677: Incorrect upstream versioning / ABI breakage

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/18/2013 07:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: Daniel, are you happy applying this patch? no, which is why i've uploaded a similar-but-not-identical one the other day, if you'd care to take a look at the package in sid.. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email:

Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Christoph Biedl
Don Armstrong wrote... > On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Rest assured I did very extensive testing before the submission of my > > patch, and also spent a lot of time on a careful analysis of the > > present code, resulting in the longish description of the patch. > > Is that thi

Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote... > > > Finally, do we have a tested patch available to re-enable the > > necessary scripts? > > Rest assured I did very extensive testing before the submission of my > patch, and also spent a lot of time on a careful analysis of

Bug#700759: Re: Bug#700677: Incorrect upstream versioning / ABI breakage

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:45:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:57:46AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > On 16/02/13 05:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > n 02/16/2013 03:40 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > >> have ntfs-3g Provides: libntfs-3gSOVER (substituted as appropriate

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/2013 1:21 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > 2) don't install a .so in a -dev package. That might be a signal a human can understand, but the build system won't catch it. The goal is to make sure the build system doesn't generate broken binary packages

Bug#700759: Re: Bug#700677: Incorrect upstream versioning / ABI breakage

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:57:46AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 16/02/13 05:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > n 02/16/2013 03:40 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > >> have ntfs-3g Provides: libntfs-3gSOVER (substituted as appropriate) > > patches welcome. > Here is the patch to implement this. > Tested

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/2013 1:04 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > What could be done is that the shlibs file sets up a strict > version dependency. It currently says: libntfs-3g 837 ntfs-3g > udeb: libntfs-3g 837 ntfs-3g-udeb Collin Watson suggested this as a reasonable

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I'd like to speak a bit to what tthe right answer here is rather than what the policy currently says. It's sometimes fairly annoying to move a library out of the default path and to adjust the build system accordingly. Russ did that for one of krb5's private libraries, and in retrospect, I fee

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:24:09PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > Package: tech-ctte > > I filed bug #700677 because ntfs-3g has a shared library that ubuntu's > testdisk links to, but it does not follow the SONAME rules. It seems > that upstream breaks ABI on every release, and the maintainer feel

Bug#698556: Processed: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
Don Armstrong writes: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Andreas Barth wrote: >> 4. While I see reasons to consider the udev solution nicer if it >> would be available, I fail to see a reason why it would be better to >> have users creating their own startup scripts then to include >> sensible defaults in ou

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/2013 11:09 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > I would have thought that the correct place to discuss confusing > sections or possible interpretations of the policy manual would be > the policy mailing list, where improvements could get proposed if >

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-18 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 20:24:09 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > Package: tech-ctte > > I filed bug #700677 because ntfs-3g has a shared library that ubuntu's > testdisk links to, but it does not follow the SONAME rules. It seems > that upstream breaks ABI on every release, and the maintainer feels >

Bug#698556: Bug#609736: please readd MAKEDEV calls to init.d.functions

2013-02-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: severity 609736 serious On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:45:11PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > I would be quite disappointed if I now have to add mknod statements to my > own init script or the isdnutils init script or rc.local. (It is besides > the point that I know how to do this. Some other us