Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:29:55 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So while I'd love to have a way to have -dbg packages available for > every binary, I actually am happy with this proposal to do it for only > every library (plus whatever other binaries really need it). And it's > a direct

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:26:38PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > I'd be interested to see some numbers on the archive size impact - my > > experience with C++ suggests that the size inflation caused by debug > > symbols can be enormous. > > I don't know about

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 4/23/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, doubling the size of the archive is less of an issue than it might have been in the past, since we've done the archive split, and since ftp-master has 1.4 Terabytes of disk with half that unused, but it is still a concern, for mirrors, numb

Bug#420542: ITP: libvorbisspi-java -- interface to support OGG vorbis audio format

2007-04-22 Thread Varun Hiremath
Package: wnpp Owner: Varun Hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: libvorbisspi-java Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Joseph Hines, Dong Yang, Scott Pennell, Dmitry Vaguine * URL or Web page : http://www.javazoom.net/jlgui/api.html * License : LGPL

Bug#420543: ITP: libjlayer-java -- library to decode, convert and play MP3 files

2007-04-22 Thread Varun Hiremath
Package: wnpp Owner: Varun Hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: libjlayer-java Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Joseph Hines, Dong Yang, Scott Pennell, Dmitry Vaguine * URL or Web page : http://www.javazoom.net/jlgui/api.html * License : LGPL Des

Re: patches.ubuntu.com and the Debian PTS derivatives

2007-04-22 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 4/2/07, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As some of you may have noticed, the patches.ubuntu.com website and equivalent mailing of changes to the Debian PTS and ubuntu-patches mailing list has been offline, or at least intermittent, for a few weeks. This was caused by the hostin

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Brown wrote: > I'd be interested to see some numbers on the archive size impact - my > experience with C++ suggests that the size inflation caused by debug > symbols can be enormous. I don't know about C++, but for C it depends. For example, aalib is a 102 kb library that compresses to 44kb.

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:39:26PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and > a -doc package. (Libraries for perl or other non-compiled languages > would be exempt from

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... [snip] > Upstream are using SourceForge or Berlios, not Alioth. Upstream don't use > dh_strip or debhelper And, of course, upstream is not a Debian package maintainer. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashi

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > > > Certain packages have already had bug reports requesting a -dbg > > > package. > > > > I'd rather see some offline debug-symbol infrastructure for all > > packages implemented, so that you can download the debug symbols when > > you need them. > > But the -dbg package on

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > If there are concerns over archive size, why don't we drop all static > .a libraries at the same time. Given that in Debian we typically > always link dynamically, is there a need for .a libraries in all but a > handful of cases? I'd

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:31:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Did you ever try to debug an application compiled with optimizations? > No, either you build an optimized version (-O2) or you build a debug version > (-g). If you want to debug what was coded, you better compile without > optimiz

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:56 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Did you ever try to debug an application compiled with optimizations? >> Yes, I do it all the time. > Hmm, must be personal preference, then. It m

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > If there are concerns over archive size, why don't we drop all static > .a libraries at the same time. Given that in Debian we typically > always link dynamically, is there a need for .a libraries in all but a > handful of cases? D

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 22-Apr-07, 16:22 (CDT), Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because segfaults are often not easily reproduced. Having the ability to > > analyse a crash that occured when the user did not have the -dbg > > package

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Roger Leigh
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 22-Apr-07, 14:39 (CDT), Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 >> binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and >> a -doc package. (Libraries for p

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > > 2. Why a seperate -doc? API docs should be part of the -dev package. > > In practice, such attitudes are commonly expressed as RTSL. (Read The > Source, Luke). That does NOT encourage upstream usage of Debian as a > distro. > > Is man (3) really so

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > That's an argument in favor of making the base library package built > with debug symbols and then stripped[1], not of requiring -dbg packages. Depends what you put in the -dbg package; it could be the symbols stripped out of the

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:39:26 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and > a -doc package. (Libraries for perl or other non-compiled languages > would be exempt from -dbg p

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:14:04 -0500 Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22-Apr-07, 14:39 (CDT), Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > > binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg > >

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:31:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:12 schrieb Russ Allbery: > > Actually, you don't. See the features of dh_strip introduced at debhelper > > level V5. And of course you can do the same thing by hand. > > > > gdb will read the resulting

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Apr-07, 16:22 (CDT), Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:14 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 22-Apr-07, 14:39 (CDT), Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > > > binary pack

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:14 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 22-Apr-07, 14:39 (CDT), Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > > binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and > > a -doc package.

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:56 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:12 schrieb Russ Allbery: > >> Actually, you don't. See the features of dh_strip introduced at > >> debhelper level V5. And of course you can do the same thing by hand

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Apr-07, 14:39 (CDT), Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and > a -doc package. (Libraries for perl or other non-compiled languages > would be exem

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:12 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> Actually, you don't. See the features of dh_strip introduced at >> debhelper level V5. And of course you can do the same thing by hand. >> gdb will read the resulting detached debugging symbols

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:12 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams: > >> Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg > >> packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 22:39:41 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > For a start, it would probably make sense to file Priority: important > bugs on sun-java5 and sun-java6 describing the breakage. Then wait a > bit, and if upstream is too busy with other things like OpenJDK to > address the issue, up

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: > "unstable" doesn't mean "it's ok to upload packages with known bugs > that render the system unusable to many users and drives them away > from using unstable because they're using non-free software and that > shouldn't matter to us". The consequences of breaking Java for most

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:44:28 +0200 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Certain packages have already had bug reports requesting a -dbg > > package. > > I'd rather see some offline debug-symbol infrastructure for all > packages implemented, so that you can download the debug symbols when >

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:02:37 +0200 Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams: > > Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg > > packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy? > > You essentially ne

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Neil Williams: > Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg > packages should not be available? GCC's debugging information at -O2 will continue to worsen (in part as a result of -O2 getting better). Hence, -dbg libraries would need to be compiled with different optim

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 22:02:37 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams: > > Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg > > packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy? > > You essentially need to build al

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams: >> Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg >> packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy? > You essentially need to build all library packages 2 ti

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Damián Viano
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:02:37PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams: > > Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg > > packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy? > > You essentially need to build a

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams: > Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg > packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy? You essentially need to build all library packages 2 times, then. Any examples for debian/rules file? But

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 09:44:28PM +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:39:26PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > After getting some positive feedback on this from a blog entry and > > personal mail, I wondered if the idea deserves a wider airing. > > > > htt

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:39:26PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > After getting some positive feedback on this from a blog entry and > personal mail, I wondered if the idea deserves a wider airing. > > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/18-Mandatory-dbg-packages-for-lib

Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Neil Williams
After getting some positive feedback on this from a blog entry and personal mail, I wondered if the idea deserves a wider airing. http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/18-Mandatory-dbg-packages-for-libraries.html Others have expressed the same idea: http://ze-dinosaur.li

Bug#420507: ITP: gnofract4d -- a fractal images creator

2007-04-22 Thread Francesco Namuri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: gnofract4d Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : Tim whidbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/download.html License : BSD Programming Lang: C

Bug#420505: ITP: libbasicplayer-java -- threaded simple player class based on JavaSound API

2007-04-22 Thread Varun Hiremath
Package: wnpp Owner: Varun Hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: libbasicplayer-java Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Joseph Hines, Dong Yang, Scott Pennell, Dmitry Vaguine * URL or Web page : http://www.javazoom.net/jlgui/api.html * License : LGPL

Re: debootstrap/cdebootstrap failure: libsasl2 cannot be installed

2007-04-22 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 00:00 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Did it require a manual action from ftp-master ? Either way I guess > it takes a few days to happen. It requires manual action. There's a bug open for its removal: #419418 > Until that time, 'pbuilder create' and 'debootstrap' and > 'cde

Re: Beryl Maintainer

2007-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:00:48AM -0400, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:38:39AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:27, Anibal Avelar wrote: > > > > Hi. I see you h

Re: debootstrap/cdebootstrap failure: libsasl2 cannot be installed

2007-04-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > Does anyone know why, and better yet, how to fix this situation? > > Wait for libsasl2 to be decrufted out of the archive, since it's no longer > built from cyrus-sasl2 source? Thanks. Did it require a manual action from ftp-master ? Either way I guess it takes a few days to happen.

Re: Beryl Maintainer

2007-04-22 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:34:24PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:00:48AM -0400, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:38:39AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > > On Wednesd

debootstrap/cdebootstrap failure: libsasl2 cannot be installed

2007-04-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, cdebootstrap sid failed today : O: The following packages have unmet dependencies: O: libsasl2: Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8+b1) but 2.1.22.dfsg1-9 is to be installed I'm not quite sure why cdebootstrap is trying to pull in libsasl2; all packages in base seem to have already migr

Beryl Maintainer

2007-04-22 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:38:39AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:27, Anibal Avelar wrote: > > > Hi. I see you have in queue NEW three packages: beryl-plugins, > > > beryl-settings and emerald [1] and not

Re: debootstrap/cdebootstrap failure: libsasl2 cannot be installed

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:20:55PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > cdebootstrap sid failed today : > O: The following packages have unmet dependencies: > O: libsasl2: Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8+b1) but 2.1.22.dfsg1-9 > is to be installed > I'm not quite sure why cdebootstrap is tryi

Re: Hoi thao " Tien bo trong dieu tri Ung thu the ky 21"

2007-04-22 Thread tran van hieu
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Re: Bug#420165: ITP: commons-configuration -- Java based library providing a generic configuration interface

2007-04-22 Thread Marcus Better
Torsten Werner wrote: > I call the binary package > libcommons-configuration-java but not the source package. This is one of the two conventions used by the Java packaging team (and IMHO the best option), cf. commons-logging and commons-daemon packages. The other common option is to name both sour

Re: Error with fakeroot

2007-04-22 Thread Clint Adams
> I doubt that. > You can easily run into this problem by using > make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot modules-image > and the nvidia module will fail with Does this happen every time? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Tiltott csatolt állomány]

2007-04-22 Thread 'HUX01 - 'Watchdog' Demon'
GROUP Watchdog Server: HUX01 --- Az Ön által küldött levél tiltott állománytípust tartalmazott, ezért nem került kézbesítésre. / Your mail item contained attachments that are denied by type. --

Re: Bug#420165: ITP: commons-configuration -- Java based library providing a generic configuration interface

2007-04-22 Thread Torsten Werner
On 4/21/07, Damián Viano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mmm... I think commons-configuration can be a slightly misleading name, how about libcommons-configuration-java following lots of libcommons-* packages already in the archive? A full name would be: libapache-jakarta-commons-configurati

Re: Bug#420344: ITP: swingx -- Extensions to the Swing GUI toolkit

2007-04-22 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi, On 4/22/07, Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Take into account that if upstream later on changes the version to something not date based you might have to use an epoch. sure. Cheers, Torsten -- blog: http://twerner.blogspot.com/ homepage: http://www.twerner42.de/ -- To UNSUBSC

Re: 1241 not binNMU-safe packages found in sid

2007-04-22 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:23:56 +0200 Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:25:22 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > Out of 10126 diff.gzs I got from sid, 1241 have "bad" dependencies - > > > time for mass-bugfilling? > > > > Have you checked that those are effectively dependencies from "Ar

Re: Bug#388701: Why Beryl has just four packages?

2007-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:27, Anibal Avelar wrote: > > Hi. I see you have in queue NEW three packages: beryl-plugins, > > beryl-settings and emerald [1] and not ready (yet) beryl. > > Firstly, the beryl packages were REJECTED b