Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:25:05 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: is there somewhere on the net a script (*) such that: > > * it accepts two parameters: a debian release (etch, sarge, woody, ...) > and an (empty) directory; > > * it installs required/essential pa

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:03:08PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Frankly, I suggest we look at the list of Unix commands as > specified by the SUS -- which can also be seen at: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_programs > So -- how many of the standard unix commands

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread L. Redrejo
El jue, 06-12-2007 a las 23:00 +0100, Daniel Baumann escribió: > squeak is supposed[0] to be unable to package for debian due to legal > reasons. can you elaborate on the current status? > > [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package > Sure: Squeak is being relicensed from the old Ap

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> * License : MIT hmm, on a fast look trough the tarball all I found was - a LICENSE file, with a license from Apple - a COPYING file, with a license which seems to be written by squeak (starts pretty ugly, didn't read it, though). - a COPYRIGHT file which contains the GPL2 and no licens

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread L. Redrejo
El vie, 07-12-2007 a las 10:57 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz escribió: > > * License : MIT > > hmm, on a fast look trough the tarball all I found was > - a LICENSE file, with a license from Apple > - a COPYING file, with a license which seems to be written by squeak > (starts pretty ugly, didn't re

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:28:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > both required and base in the same list, so you have to look for the split > yourselve (zlibg1 and adduser atm), but that's not too hard hopefully. Yes it is not _hard_, but it is exactly this sort of dependency hunting that is usele

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:52:08AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > ldap-account-manager is not the only package doing this: a quick search > gives me [...] gperiodic I removed that in svn. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Friday 07 December 2007, Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > Enrico Zini wrote: > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > > first. > > While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we shouldn't > file bugs for it while there's no better place to put this in

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:40:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > > Enrico Zini wrote: > > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > > > first. > > > > While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > I do imagine it wont be mandatory (or useful) for all libs as well and > I agree it should be added on a per package basis; one idea I > mentionned to Raphaël is to extend the shlibs / symbols system to allow > a syntax meaning "Take the build-dep versi

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > Almost no packages currently do this, hence relying on the package > description to check wether a package is localized for your language is > completely unreliable. Agreed. > For a list of localised packages check http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po/ > for y

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > Enrico Zini wrote: > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > > first. > > While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we shouldn't > file bugs for it while there's no better place to put this inf

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:38:20PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2007 at 17:33:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Every successful call to pkg-config would fill in a file, let’s say > > debian/pkgconfig.deps, that would in the end contain: > > > > # pkgconfig_file requi

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Stephen Gran wrote: > At the moment, I'm inclined to agree with Enrico. I don't think it's > all that helpful to have some small subset of all the programs actually > translated into a given language returned in a search for that language > string. It's both an incomplete list (since many other p

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Enrico Zini wrote: > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > first. While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we shouldn't file bugs for it while there's no better place to put this information. It may reduce the objectiveness of some searches, but it

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:25:05AM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > Question: is there somewhere on the net a script (*) such that: > * it installs required/essential packages (_all_ of them but _only_ > them) of such a release as a chroot in that directory You could create a variant for debo

Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I'm reviewing tag submissions and I noticed that people added lots of culture::* tags to a non culture specific package like ldap-account-manager. The reason was simple: the description mentions: LAM is translated to Catalan, Chinese (Simplified + Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English,

Re: Sheldon Hearn MIA?

2007-12-07 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello Thomas, > On Friday 07 December 2007 01:02:14 Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > He seems to have progressed in creating packages because there is an > > (unanswered) request to sponsor (upload) them[1]. > > > > He also posted to debian-kernel in mid-October[2]. yes, thank you - he's back :-) Hello

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:50:15PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:08:13PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > === Alternate naming of the macros === > > > > Do omit the '''DEB_HOST_''' prefix and all packages should honour the > > value of CFLAGS etc. in the environment.

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk2.0-0 #MINVER# > * Devel-Package: libgtk2.0-dev > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.8.0 > ... > How does that sound ? Sounds like a good start! Perhaps the injection should be explicitely requested with: * UseBuildDepVersionAsMinVer

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Colin Watson wrote: > I wonder if the objections raised to this suggestion could be addressed > by making it optional in some way - perhaps either by requiring it to be > manually enabled for each library by some kind of shlibs/symbols-like > system, or by providing support fo

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:10:35PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:40:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > > > Enrico Zini wrote: > > > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > >

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:22:49PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > Couldn't debtags support this sort of information in a good enough way > (not via culture::*, but something like translated-in::*)? > Or perhaps - if stricter solution is desired - implementing a new > control field that could

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Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-07 Thread Martin Pitt
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Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-07 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339581 has been fixed on > Apr 17, 2007. But it still shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/texmacs . Is > this a bug in the BTS or am I missing something stupid? Maybe it's because a version with the bug is still availab

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Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:37:57PM +0900, Michal ??iha?? wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:25:05 +0100 > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * it installs required/essential packages (_all_ of them but _only_ > > them) of such a release as a chroot in that directory > Isn't minimal fl

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339581 has been fixed on > Apr 17, 2007. But it still shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/texmacs . Is > this a bug in the BTS or am I missing something stupid? 1:1.0.6-11 is still available in unst

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:23:28AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > With constructs like: > > PYVERS := $(shell pyversions -vr debian/control 2>/dev/null) > > build-%: > PYTHON=`which python$*` ./configure I guess this should have been "`which $*` ./configure", right? If so, re

old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339581 has been fixed on Apr 17, 2007. But it still shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/texmacs . Is this a bug in the BTS or am I missing something stupid? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://mala

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'd also tend to think that generic internationalization support > sentences are quite inappropriate into package long description. > Support leve is generally subject to frequent changes, so why > polluting descriptions with those things? Su