Re: Is menu orphaned?

2007-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill, I'm afraid you might ignore the fact that there are many > developers who consider menu outdated and more or less just add menu > files to just avoid a lintian warning about a missing menu file. Hm, which lintian warning is that? There was a wish

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

2007-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: OK, this hint (is it documented somewhere?) would probably help Not yet, though you are welcome to provide a patch for the menu manual. As ususal. I hope there are not even more hidden/undocumented features which are waiting for patches in the docs.

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Felipe Sateler
Steve Langasek wrote: > ... also, -Wl,--as-needed is *not* a complete solution for the problems > caused by generating extra -l arguments. Every -lfoo option passed to the > linker requires the corresponding -dev package to be installed at build > time; while it is a bug if the -dev packages don'

libgpg-error0 and libgcrypt11: static linking or move from /usr/lib to /lib?

2007-12-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey, in the cryptsetup package we currently link statically against libgcrypt11 and libgpg-error0. cryptdisks is run before mountall.sh, thus we cannot depend on libraries which are are located in /usr/lib. in many systems /usr is a seperate partition. static linking has been a good solution in t

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > However, not all applications uses those symbols in their current code, so > > they do not need to be linked against speex themselves. > And therefore, the scripts generating dependency information for dynamically > linking to li

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:31:27PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Please don't answer when you don't have read the whole thread... It was > already very clearly mentioned that the team decided to file with > severity important instead... Please don't CC me on replies, I am subscribed. cheers, Michae

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:31:19PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Sunday 09 December 2007 22:45:46 Nikita V. Youshchenko, vous avez écrit : > > > However, most of the applications don't need to link against theora and > > > speex. > > Doesn't libshout reference symbols from libspeex and libtheo

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 19:11 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > > Just curing the symptoms instead of the problems will not help to get > > there any sooner. > What if there is no problem? > For example, pkg-config --li

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-09 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:42:02PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > > Mmmh. Strictly speaking, sysklogd logs mail to /var/log/mail.log, along > > with duplicating (!!) much of the content to (IIRC) /var/log/messages and > > /var/log/ma

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-09 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 06:39:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> I don't agree with this. In a team, it's difficult to notice that one >> member disappeared. And lack of involvement in one package doesn't mean >> being completely MIA. As co-maintainer I wouldn't want to re

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Sunday 09 December 2007 22:45:46 Nikita V. Youshchenko, vous avez écrit : > > However, most of the applications don't need to link against theora and > > speex. > > Doesn't libshout reference symbols from libspeex and libtheora? Yes > If it does, resulting binary must be linked against both th

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:45:46AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Ok, let's consider another very simple case: > > libshout allows to perform streaming of speex, vorbis, and theora formats. > > > > Hence, when asking for the libs to link with, you got -lspeex and -ltheora > > since it's n

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Ok, let's consider another very simple case: > libshout allows to perform streaming of speex, vorbis, and theora formats. > > Hence, when asking for the libs to link with, you got -lspeex and -ltheora > since it's needed to cover all build cases. > > However, most of the applications don't need

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

2007-12-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:10:29AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: > > >Actually this is not true: You can just add > >!C menu-1 > >to the start of each files (or each menu-1 files if you prefer) > >before concatening them. > >Menu change format each time it

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
Don Armstrong wrote: > I've modified the code to now have an explicit default list of > architectures instead of assuming that all architectures are keeping > up [and made the version display more verbose for things that matter.] Thanks a lot Don. The bugs have now moved down to "Resolved". Looks

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, let's consider another very simple case: > libshout allows to perform streaming of speex, vorbis, and theora formats. > > Hence, when asking for the libs to link with, you got -lspeex and -ltheora > since it's needed to cover all build cases. Why?

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > [There is some argument that I should completely ignore hurd-i386 by > > default since it isn't keeping up *at all* but I haven't made that > > change yet.] > > It's been anoying for a long time and there is absolutely no > improveme

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Michael Banck wrote: > D'oh, that's a known bug in dak which does not generate Packages.gz > for d-i/hurd-i386 [1]; I've been told it's low priority. I suggest > you prod the ftp-masters to get this fixed. > > base-installer is uptodate on hurd-i386, partman-lvm is Arch: all >

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:06:58PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Michael Banck wrote: > > > D'oh, that's a known bug in dak which does not generate Packages.gz > > > for d-i/hurd-i386 [1]; I've been told it's low priority. I suggest > > > you prod the ftp-masters to get this f

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:06:58PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Michael Banck wrote: > > > And note that that is not because we upload new versions every day. > > > partman-lvm: last version built for hurd: 45; uploaded: 2006-07-19 (1.5 > > > years!) base-installer: last version built for hurd: 1.57;

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Banck wrote: > > And note that that is not because we upload new versions every day. > > partman-lvm: last version built for hurd: 45; uploaded: 2006-07-19 (1.5 > > years!) base-installer: last version built for hurd: 1.57; uploaded: > > 2006-05-14 > > D'oh, that's a known bug in dak which

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Sunday 09 December 2007 20:03:27 Kurt Roeckx, vous avez écrit : > Anyway, I think it is bad style to use macro's in public header > files that call functions from another library.  It's also easy > to replace them with real functions.  If there are such functions > being called I suggest you rep

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 06:39:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I don't agree with this. In a team, it's difficult to notice that one > member disappeared. And lack of involvement in one package doesn't mean > being completely MIA. As co-maintainer I wouldn't want to remove someone > if I'm not

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 19:11 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > > Just curing the symptoms instead of the problems will not help to get > > there any sooner. > > What if there is no problem? > > For example, pkg

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:14:31PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > [There is some argument that I should completely ignore hurd-i386 by > default since it isn't keeping up *at all* but I haven't made that > change yet.] Well, feel free to ignore hurd-i386 for that. I'm not going to argue about how

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=partman-lvm;dist=unstable > hurd 11 uploads behind; 7 out of 20 bugs long solved > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=base-installer;dist=unstable > hurd

Key signing party in Lille 9-10 dec ?

2007-12-09 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, In Lille (France) there is a meeting organized by the INRIA (40 years of this French institute of computer science). I just realized there should be other (future?) DD or DM here, so we can try to organized a key signing party. Best regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG k

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 19:11 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > Just curing the symptoms instead of the problems will not help to get > there any sooner. What if there is no problem? For example, pkg-config --libs gtk+-x11-2.0 will return, among others, -lglib-2.0 and -lm. And this

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071209 18:48]: > > due to the recent dpkg-shlibdeps changes, people have started adding > > -Wl,--as-needed into their LDFLAGS. > > > > THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. > > > If there are broken scripts adding too many libraries then it is time to > > fix those scr

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 09:03 +0100, Simon Richter a écrit : > Hi, > > due to the recent dpkg-shlibdeps changes, people have started adding > -Wl,--as-needed into their LDFLAGS. > > THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. Of course it is. This is the most reliable way of dropping unneeded dependencies.

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > 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 exp

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Sunday 09 December 2007 09:56:39 Zack Weinberg, vous avez écrit : > I'm curious what prompted your message.  Did a program you use > actually break?  What was the failure mode? Yes, I agree too. I've been using this flag recently, and in most cases it just does what's required... I think th

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-09 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: >> At work we are using syslog-ng a lot and it's very useful for a central >> logging server. However I don't like the syntax because it's verbose and >> typo-prone. So I was looking at metalog and seeing it orphan

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
> due to the recent dpkg-shlibdeps changes, people have started adding > -Wl,--as-needed into their LDFLAGS. > > THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. > > You are essentially telling gcc to pass an option to the linker without > understanding what it does, and, more specifically, an option that tells > the link

Re: Bug#454162: libxine1-plugins: should not depend on libxine1-gnome

2007-12-09 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Philippe Cloutier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> This bug is now about that all plugins are installed by default, >> dragging in too many dependencies at install/upgrade time. I have the >> following compromise in mind, which I first want to be commented on >> before I do the follwing changes:

-Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, due to the recent dpkg-shlibdeps changes, people have started adding -Wl,--as-needed into their LDFLAGS. THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. You are essentially telling gcc to pass an option to the linker without understanding what it does, and, more specifically, an option that tells the linker to sec