Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:48:07AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I don't know about that. Hasn't it been a long-standing policy that bugs > that get no response from the submitter to questions can be closed? I know of no such policy. However, it has been common practice to do that for bugs that

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:13:34AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I don't think canard means what you think it mean: all my > packages treat .ac files exactly like they treat .c files; and this > factual statement blows “canard” out of the water. Really, so your package runs ./configu

Re: Bug#445008: ITP: lazygal -- Static web gallery generator

Hi, Michal Čihař wrote: > I know there are many so far, unfortunately none did not fit my needs > (you can check my blog for details: > , > ). Hmhm.

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: > > > Is it possible to compare this data against unofficial > > > kfreebsd-(i386|amd64) > > > and armel ports in http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian/ [1] ? Armel port is > > > softfloat, and thus libraries using floats can end up exporting > > > inlined softfloat m

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:01:29 -0400, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:09:59PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: >> Until Debian as a whole can agree that it is important to be >> self-hosting, and to be confident enough in our autotools maintainers >> to trust their pa

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:49:47AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Juliusz Chroboczek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Also node that many bugs are sometimes hard to reproduce, because you > > > need a very specific environment that the maintainer not always have > > > (e.g. the issue I have is th

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

* Juliusz Chroboczek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Also node that many bugs are sometimes hard to reproduce, because you > > need a very specific environment that the maintainer not always have > > (e.g. the issue I have is that as a glibc maintainer, I've no large > > enough and used pam-ldap o

Re: pristine tarball generator

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:15:44PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > BTW, the next release of pristine-tar will support generating pristine > gz files too, so will fully support pristine .orig.tar.gz. Regenerating > pristine gz files from small deltas is quite a lot trickier, and > currently works for abou

Re: configure script cannot find doc/goops/Makefile.in

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:18:48PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Dont know whether debian-user or debian-devel is appropriate for this kind > of question. Trying my luck here first... > > When I run the configure script of guile 1.8.2+1 on Debian Sid, the > configure script stops with the

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007, John Goerzen wrote: > That involves looking up a username and password in some secure > storage system for such, logging on to the particular BTS, > navigating the web form, going to the Debian BTS to pull up the bug, > copy and pasting each relevant message, creating an upstre

configure script cannot find doc/goops/Makefile.in

Dont know whether debian-user or debian-devel is appropriate for this kind of question. Trying my luck here first... When I run the configure script of guile 1.8.2+1 on Debian Sid, the configure script stops with the following error. $ ./configure . config.status: creating Makefile config.st

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

* Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 20:09 -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > This is exactly the point I've been trying to make for a long time, > > about things like autoconf and automake1.x, and why you should > > build-depend on them and run them every ti

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 6:10:33 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:01:23PM +, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 2:09:40 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:25:21PM +, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > Of course, the question is how to

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007, Michael Banck wrote: > Agreed. Would it be easy to have a list of those libraries which differ > on hurd-i386, unless it's almost every lib we're talking about anyway? I don't know. On alioth:~hertzog/mole/dbseed/ you'll find all the files that are distributed by mole. You ca

Re: Bug#445008: ITP: lazygal -- Static web gallery generator

Hi On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:53:02 +0200 Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian will be so cool having two static web gallery generators written > in python along those two written in perl, I know there are many so far, unfortunately none did not fit my needs (you can check my blog fo

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:01:23PM +, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 2:09:40 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:25:21PM +, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Of course, the question is how to determine what's an upstream bug. > > > Perhaps we could still rece

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 2:09:40 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:25:21PM +, John Goerzen wrote: > > Of course, the question is how to determine what's an upstream bug. > > Perhaps we could still receive reports in our Debian BTS, but provide > > some automated tools to

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:25:21PM +, John Goerzen wrote: > Of course, the question is how to determine what's an upstream bug. Perhaps > we could still receive reports in our Debian BTS, but provide some automated > tools to send them on to popular types of upstream BTSs, and then close th

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:32:40AM +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:21:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > diff -u <(c++filt > > > > --- /dev/fd/63 2007-10-02 00:19:14.445928644 +0100 > > > +++ /dev/fd/62 200

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 20:00 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek a écrit : > > Since this particular bug is trivial to reproduce (ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/), > > it would appear that the Firefox maintainers are mass-closing bug > > reports without even checking what they are about.

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:01:29 -0400 > Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:09:59PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: >> > Until Debian as a whole can agree that it is important to be >> > self-hosting, and to be confident enough in our autotools

Re: pristine tarball generator

Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> pristine-tar stash > > lib/debian/unstable/uqm-voice_0.3.orig.tar.gz uqm-voice.delta > > Hmm.. I don't quite understand why this stashing is required. Why > would that be. Also another question would be, would it work, for > example, with upstream w

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

* John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 20:47]: > As a maintainer and a user, I have often wondered lately if the practice of > tracking numerous upstream bugs in the Debian BTS is something that should > be ended. We nominally do this out of convenience to our users. However, I > have found r

Upstream bugs in Debian BTS [was: Firefox bugs mass-closed.]

> As a maintainer and a user, I have often wondered lately if the practice of > tracking numerous upstream bugs in the Debian BTS is something that should > be ended. Please don't. I always ask my downstream DDs to forward bugs to me together with the Debian bug number, and to leave the bug ope

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Re: Bug#445008: ITP: lazygal -- Static web gallery generator

Michal Čihař wrote: > * Package name: lazygal > Version : none released yet > Programming Lang: Python > Description : Static web gallery generator Debian will be so cool having two static web gallery generators written in python along those two written in perl, but shouldn'

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:47:40AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:11:56AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > So, well, despite all arguments developed by Joey in this thread, I > > still think that mass pings can really help maintainers in their work, > > particularly whe

Bug#445039: ITP: ocaml-reins -- data structure library for OCaml

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: ocaml-reins Version : 0.1a Upstream Author : Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://ocaml-reins.sf.net License : LGPL 2.1 w/ standand OCaml linking exception Programm

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:25:21 -0500 John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a maintainer and a user, I have often wondered lately if the practice of > tracking numerous upstream bugs in the Debian BTS is something that should > be ended. We nominally do this out of convenience to our users.

Re: Cleaning out useless debian/changelog entries

* Magnus Holmgren [Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:47:16 +0200]: > I'm taking over a package (pike7.6) that up to when it was orphaned got an > automated changelog entry each time the upstream build number was > incremented. Hence debian/changelog contains tens of completely > informationless entries ("The

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 02/10/2007 hora 10:06: > > Because it proves that we are fully self-hosting, and the main > > reason _not_ to do it is the fear that we might _not_ actually be > > self-hosting. Which is something I believe we've promised our > > users, implicitly if not explicitly. >

FWD: Bug#444962: monop: program name collides with /usr/bin/monop

both bsdgames and mono-mcs contain a "monop" program. bsdgames in /usr/games, and the other in /usr/bin. bsdgames's monop has been around since 1993 or so and has that name on the bsd systems that bsdgames's games come from. It probably has few users, so renaming would not be too annoying, aside f

Bug#444989: ITP: mysar -- MySQL Squid Access Report is a reporting system for user web traffic activity

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I intend to package MySAR. I talk to creator and get permissions to do this package for Debian. Thanks. * Package name: mysar Version : 2.0.13 Upstream Author : Brivaldo Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cleaning out useless debian/changelog entries

On tisdagen den 2 oktober 2007, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > I'm taking over a package (pike7.6) that up to when it was orphaned got > > an automated changelog entry each time the upstream build number was > > incremented. Hence debi

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Mon October 1 2007 4:50:10 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:34:56PM +, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > What Joey and I are specifically complaining about are three bugs that > > we have described in enough detail and that are trivial to reproduce. > > The maintainer did n

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Mon October 1 2007 5:22:24 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:02:25PM +, Ben Finney wrote: > > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:57:07PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > Asking *kindly* some help from the submiter, once or t

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:01:29 -0400 Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:09:59PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > Until Debian as a whole can agree that it is important to be > > self-hosting, and to be confident enough in our autotools maintainers > > to trust their

Re: Bug#444021: ITP/RFP: sugar

On 16:08 Tue 25 Sep , Holger Levsen wrote: > I'm very happy about co-maintainers or even other maintainers, as a.) I'm > quite too busy already and b.) I don't really know much python. I thought I > file this as an ITP anyway (and not RFP), so that it shows up on my QA-page, > so I get remin

Re: pristine tarball generator

Hi, > The 41k uqm-voice.delta file was created earlier as follows; normally > this would happen when packaging the new upstream version, and it could > be checked into revision control. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> pristine-tar stash > lib/debian/unstable/uqm-voice_0.3.orig.tar.gz uqm-voice.delta H

Bug#445008: ITP: lazygal -- Static web gallery generator

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michal Čihař" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: lazygal Version : none released yet Upstream Author : Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sousmonlit.dyndns.org/~niol

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:48:07PM +, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon October 1 2007 5:22:24 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:02:25PM +, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:57:07PM +, Pierre Habouzit

pango1.0: aclocal.m4 is outdated WRT libtool (was Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files)

Package: pango1.0 Version: 1.18.2-1 Hi, On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:57:08AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > Can some hurd people check and explain me why hurd-i386 libs export > > private symbols ? Turns out it's because pango's Makefile uses libtool's export-symbols feature, but pango's copy of

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

> > Is it possible to compare this data against unofficial kfreebsd-(i386|amd64) > > and armel ports in http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian/ [1] ? Armel port is > > softfloat, and thus libraries using floats can end up exporting > > inlined softfloat math functions. > Honestly, I have spent too much time

Re: Bug#445001: pango1.0: aclocal.m4 is outdated WRT libtool (was Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files)

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007, Michael Banck wrote: > So, running autoreconf with the current libtool package installed fixed > this for me, filing this on pango1.0. Thanks; I'll add a relibtoolizing patch to pango1.0 and glib2.0 ASAP. > > I checked a couple, and it seems glib2, gtk2, and gnome-vfs2 seem

Re: Conflicting bsdmainutils and bsdutils on mipsel and sparc auto-builders

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:41:08AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering how to cope with the following problem: The auto-building > of the wordnet package failed on mipsel and sparc with: > > ... > Unpacking bsdmainutils (from .../bsdmainutils_6.1.7_sparc.deb) ... > dpkg: error proce

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Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

[Josselin Mouette] > Given that especially autoconf introduces serious incompatibilities > between minor releases, this is simply not feasible because it would > trigger hundreds of FTBFS errors each time a new autoconf version is > uploaded. So it sounds like you're saying that, although we ship

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:06:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:32:40AM +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:21:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > diff -u <(c++filt > > > > --- /dev/fd/63 2007-10-02 00:19:14.445928644 +0100 > > > +++ /dev/fd/

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:11:56AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, well, despite all arguments developed by Joey in this thread, I > still think that mass pings can really help maintainers in their work, > particularly when someone takes over a package that has been neglected > for some time

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:09:59PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Until Debian as a whole can agree that it is important to be > self-hosting, and to be confident enough in our autotools maintainers > to trust their packages for automated builds, I don't think you should > ask David to build a who

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:02:25AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:57:07PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > Asking *kindly* some help from the submiter, once or twice a > > > [year], is not an insult. > > The insult isn't

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

Hi, On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:09:01AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > In other cases, most of the architectures are in sync and some > > special architectures are creating troubles. It looks like > > hurd-i386 is currently causing me lots of trouble

Conflicting bsdmainutils and bsdutils on mipsel and sparc auto-builders

Hi, I'm wondering how to cope with the following problem: The auto-building of the wordnet package failed on mipsel and sparc with: ... Unpacking bsdmainutils (from .../bsdmainutils_6.1.7_sparc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/var/cache/apt/archives/bsdmainutil

Re: Cleaning out useless debian/changelog entries

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > I'm taking over a package (pike7.6) that up to when it was orphaned got an > automated changelog entry each time the upstream build number was > incremented. Hence debian/changelog contains tens of completely > informationless en

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

(Replying from -devel into -hurd) On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In other cases, most of the architectures are in sync and some > special architectures are creating troubles. It looks like > hurd-i386 is currently causing me lots of troubles for example on pango: > http://qa.debian.

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 20:09 -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > This is exactly the point I've been trying to make for a long time, > about things like autoconf and automake1.x, and why you should > build-depend on them and run them every time. Because it proves that > we are fully self-hostin

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 20:00 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek a écrit : > Since this particular bug is trivial to reproduce (ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/), > it would appear that the Firefox maintainers are mass-closing bug > reports without even checking what they are about. And that is a good thing. If t

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Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

On Monday 1 October 2007 22:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Doesn't this tend to send the message that a bug submitter's time > is less valuable than the package maintainer's time? I don't think it does. Their time may be of equivalent value, but the submitter has a higher probability of being able to rep

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Luca Capello wrote: > It seems it doesn't take experimental into account: > http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols?pkgname=libthinkfinger0 Yes I know. I support sid only because that's what matters for preparing our next release. There's no good reasons in optimizing

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

Hi, On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Michael Koch wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:47:34PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Hello, > > > > since library maintainers will soon have the possibilty to use > > symbol-based dependencies (instead of shlibs) I setup a system > > to keep up-to-date ready-to-use

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:32:40AM +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:21:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > diff -u <(c++filt > > --- /dev/fd/63 2007-10-02 00:19:14.445928644 +0100 > > +++ /dev/fd/62 2007-10-02 00:19:14.445928644 +0100 > > @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ > > raw_so

Re: Shared libraries, dependencies and symbols files

Hi, On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:47:34PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > In other cases, most of the architectures are in sync and some > > special architectures are creating troubles. It looks like > > hurd-i386 is currently causing me lots of troubles fo