Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread Brian May
> "Steve" == Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> fact 3: libtool library libtool tries to implement a wrapper >> around shared library and static library, so that both of them >> can be uniformly processed, and allows specifying just: libtool >> cc -lnewt a.c St

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2005-07-29 Thread Benita Hsueh
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Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow: > >>> This was once desirable because you couldn't declare real constants in >>> classes. Today, >>> >>> template >>> struct Foo >>> { >>> static const unsigned N = T::N; >>> char bar[N]; >>> }; >>> >>> works an

Bug#320503: ITP: camlgz -- Ocaml zlib and bzip2 library bindings

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: camlgz Version : 0.5.6 Upstream Author : Olivier Andrieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ocamlplot.sourceforge.net/#gz * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) De

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Jaakko Niemi: > > > So, if I'm understanding this and the discussion > > that followed correctly, we should change the > > enum to constants. > > Eh, no, sorry. This will almost certainly break things because this > is a C header, not C++. Sorr

Re: Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
fenio wrote: >On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:25:41PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: >> I wonder if it is possible to find out on which CD of a stable release >> the package I look for is? >> I guess it is possible, as apt can do it. >> But is it available somewhere online? > >Right now it's possible only

Re: Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:38:30PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > Sorry, it doesn't work. Just replace the name of the service with the > real name of the machine currently hosting it. [...] Sorry I was first with previous mail ;) regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:[EM

Re: Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:33:10PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > The (ugly) script that generated it is on > http://alioth.debian.org/~ftlerror-guest/cdpkglist.sh. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])~$wget http://alioth.debian.org/~ftlerror-guest/cdpkglist.sh --00:39:29-- http://alioth.debian.org/~ftle

Re: Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Sex, 2005-07-29 às 19:33 -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore escreveu: > http://alioth.debian.org/~ftlerror-guest/list.txt > http://alioth.debian.org/~ftlerror-guest/cdpkglist.sh. Sorry, it doesn't work. Just replace the name of the service with the real name of the machine currently hosting it. ht

Bug#320492: ITP: dhcp-helper -- A DHCP relay agent.

2005-07-29 Thread Simon Kelley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dhcp-helper Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Simon Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dhcp-helper * License : GPL Description : A DHCP relay agent. Dhcp-helper is a DHCP and BOOT

Re: Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Sex, 2005-07-29 às 14:25 +0200, Jerome Warnier escreveu: > But is it available somewhere online? There is a list of packages in each CD automatically generated from jigdo files on http://alioth.debian.org/~ftlerror-guest/list.txt, where list.txt is a symlink to list_.txt, currently list_3.1_r0a

Re: Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:25:41PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > I wonder if it is possible to find out on which CD of a stable release > the package I look for is? > > I guess it is possible, as apt can do it. > But is it available somewhere online? Right now it's possible only by looking jigdo

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jaakko Niemi: > So, if I'm understanding this and the discussion > that followed correctly, we should change the > enum to constants. Eh, no, sorry. This will almost certainly break things because this is a C header, not C++. Just use #defines, as suggested by Brian M. Carlson in <[EMAIL P

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-29 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > Someone suggested an announcement should be sent to > > d-d-a. What do you think ? > > Yes, go to it and find some reviewer. Will do... > Maybe you should add a 'get a random Description' link on your Page... I'm not sure it would be very good, because it's better to review related p

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > This was once desirable because you couldn't declare real constants in > classes. Today, > > template > struct Foo > { > static const unsigned N = T::N; > char bar[N]; > }; > > works and the enum trick lost its importance. So, if I'

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050729T17+0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > The problem is, your trick doesn't work outside templates, > > Huh? [After testing it:] I'll be damned. I was sure I was right :) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:16:36PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > I would like to point out that the following are not POSIX features: > > local > > test -o > > test -a > Regarding "local", see #294962. I would like to see support for > "local" added to posh and "local"

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Olaf van der Spek: >> Only if the compiler knows all uses of that constant. With dynamic >> linking, you can't know that very easily. > > I thought you meant optimizing code that accesses it for performance. > I don't think the space optimization is important. The space optimization is crucia

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 7/29/05, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20050729T16+0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > On 7/29/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Doesn't that still make N a real variable in memory and does not g

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thiemo Seufer: >> With dynamic linking, you can't know that very easily. > > The compiler knows nothing about dynamic linking, since this is outside > the compilation unit. Indeed, and the fact that you can use such a constant as a template argument just stresses that it's a compile-time thing.

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread GOMBAS Gabor
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > This is nice, but I think it's not really very autoconfish [tm] in > spirit. It is not meant to be autoconfish. It is meant to be run _before_ configure, so you can decide if you have to re-libtoolize the package or not. > Also, t

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
GOMBAS Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:57:29AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > >> I'd think we could come up with a way to detect the version of libtool >> in use, somehow. :) > > LTMAIN_SH_PATH=`autoconf --trace='AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR:$1'` > LTMAIN_SH_PATH="${LTMAIN_SH_PAT

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20050729T16+0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > On 7/29/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Doesn't that still make N a real variable in memory and does not get > > > optimized away like enu

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: > That is not a new trick, I'm fairly sure that was legal when I first > learned of the enum idiom. It's illegal according to The C++ Programming Language, Second Edition (which was published in 1991). I didn't claim the trick was new. 8-) > The problem is, your trick

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050729T151821+0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Today, > > template > struct Foo > { > static const unsigned N = T::N; > char bar[N]; > }; > > works and the enum trick lost its importance. That is not a new trick, I'm fairly sure that was legal when I first learned of the enum

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Goswin von Brederlow: >> This was once desirable because you couldn't declare real constants in >> classes. Today, >> >> template >> struct Foo >> { >> static const unsigned N = T::N; >> char bar[N]; >> }; >> >> works and the enum trick lost its importance. > > Doesn't that sti

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050729T16+0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 7/29/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Doesn't that still make N a real variable in memory and does not get > > optimized away like enums? > > I think it's (only) required to

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 7/29/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't that still make N a real variable in memory and does not get > optimized away like enums? I think it's (only) required to have an address. I don't see why the compiler can't optimize

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread GOMBAS Gabor
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:57:29AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > I'd think we could come up with a way to detect the version of libtool > in use, somehow. :) LTMAIN_SH_PATH=`autoconf --trace='AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR:$1'` LTMAIN_SH_PATH="${LTMAIN_SH_PATH:-.}" grep ^VERSION "$LTMAIN_SH_PATH"/ltmain.sh |

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: > >> The anon enumeration trick has been an established C++ idom for years >> (ISTR, but cannot check now, even Stroustrup himself advocating it). > > This was once desirable because you couldn't declare real constants in > cla

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread GOMBAS Gabor
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:05:34AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > We've had that discussion before. Last I recall there wasn't really a > huge fight to keep them. Well, Debian developers do not really need them. But there are people who do not develop Debian but develop other software _using_ Deb

Another gnutls ABI change / (small) mass bug filing

2005-07-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, gnutls changed their ABI again. Due to historical reasons (the API changes in the past were somewhat intrusive), the -dev package of libgnutls had been named libgnutls{,10,11}-dev. The API is now sufficiently stable that this naming scheme does not make sense any more. Therefore, in the last

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread GOMBAS Gabor
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:38:17AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Why is this better? I have to change my perfectly normal, standard Unix > link command to use something that completely hides the actual link > command and makes debugging problems nearly impossible? Exercise: let's say I have an

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: > The anon enumeration trick has been an established C++ idom for years > (ISTR, but cannot check now, even Stroustrup himself advocating it). This was once desirable because you couldn't declare real constants in classes. Today, template struct Foo { static

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-29 Thread GOMBAS Gabor
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:12:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Nothing garanties that cron jobs are run at the right time. Running > it a bit later (whenever you boot) is just like it being delayed due > to excess load. If there are things that shouldn't be run at the wrong > time we sho

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:23:26AM +0200, Clément Stenac wrote: > > If you go to review all description, please check the technical parts > > also. > > Sure, thanks for the reminder. I added it to the wiki page Thanks > I think the interface is now ready for the work to begin. However, very > fe

Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Jerome Warnier
I wonder if it is possible to find out on which CD of a stable release the package I look for is? I guess it is possible, as apt can do it. But is it available somewhere online? Thanks -- Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BeezNest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 29, 2005

2005-07-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-29 12:32]: > > ml-nlffigen ml-lex libckit-smlnj ml-yacc ml-burg libcmlutil-smlnj > > libpgraphutil-smlnj smlnj nowhere libmlrisctools-smlnj libcml-smlnj > > > >standard (#319801), offered 4 days ago > > This looks like some script bug. F

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20050729T083332+, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> Of course, I could be persuaded that the enumeration is a good idea, but >> I don't see what problem it solves, and it only seems to cause them. > > The anon enumeration trick has been an estab

Re: Bug#312897: ITP: texlive -- The TeXlive system packaged for debian

2005-07-29 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Developers! I have a question concerning the .orig.tar.gz files for the following ITP: On Fre, 10 Jun 2005, Norbert Preining wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: texlive > Version : 2005.1 > Upstream Au

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas Hood
Brian M. Carlson wrote: > I would like to point out that the following are not POSIX features: > > local > test -o > test -a Regarding "local", see #294962. I would like to see support for "local" added to posh and "local" added as an exception to the "POSIX-only" rule laid down in 10.4. See #26

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050729T083332+, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > Of course, I could be persuaded that the enumeration is a good idea, but > I don't see what problem it solves, and it only seems to cause them. The anon enumeration trick has been an established C++ idom for years (ISTR, but cannot check now, even

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 29, 2005

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* > The following packages have been given up for adoption: > >compiler (#319801), offered 4 days ago > >eli (#319463), offered 6 days ago > Description: compiler construction kit > Reverse Depends: eli-xtools eli > >lincvs (#319461), offered 6 days ago (non-free) > Descr

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Petri Latvala wrote: > One option would be to make wrap take an int always, if that's > feasible. Or long. Or unsigned versions of those. sfs upstream might want to do that for portability. I'm wondering what are the consequences of making that enum named.. can anyone see w

Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-07-29 Thread Brian M. Carlson
This is a public service announcement about Debian Policy section 10.4, which states in part: The standard shell interpreter `/bin/sh' can be a symbolic link to any POSIX compatible shell, if `echo -n' does not generate a newline.[1] Thus, shell scripts specifying `/bin/sh' as interpreter sh

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 10:55 +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Hello, > > /usr/include/sys/socket.h has this: > > - > /* The following constants should be used for the second parameter of >`shutdown'. */ > enum > { > SHUT_RD = 0, /* No more receptions. */ > #define SHUT_R

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Petri Latvala
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:55:36AM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Hello, > > /usr/include/sys/socket.h has this: [anonymous enum def] > rexchan.C:254: error: no matching function for call to 'wrap(unixfd* > const, void (unixfd::*)(int, int), )' > > rexchan.C:254 is: > > paios_out->setwcb (w

RFC, problem with g++4

2005-07-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello, /usr/include/sys/socket.h has this: - /* The following constants should be used for the second parameter of `shutdown'. */ enum { SHUT_RD = 0, /* No more receptions. */ #define SHUT_RD SHUT_RD SHUT_WR, /* No more transmissions. */ #defi

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