Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, martin f krafft wrote: PS: this figure is 80% correct but will surely be questioned by 70% of the people. The likelihood that someone replies to this message is 50%. I just take the mere chance to do this. ;-) The likelihood that someone flames is currently 12.6%. Is th

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:21:44AM +, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.01.27.0505 +1100]: > > Seconded. I'd add, that in fact we should standardize on quilt > > as an exchange format for patches, because it's simple, and that > > there are pow

Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

Dear maintainers of CDBS, dpatch, and quilt, if you are subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], you must have noticed the long discussion about patch systems. An idea that was quite popular was to standardise the patch target in all patch systems used during package building. Here is a summary of the ta

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:38:14AM +, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.01.27.0939 +1100]: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:00:02PM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Michael Banck wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM

Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

On Feb 3, 2008 4:13 AM, Kevin Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see an "other option" and it is straightforward. Do like what was > done in lenny with wxwidget2.4 and my package ctsim which requires > wxwidgets 2.4. They were removed from Debian testing and it's not a > problem. Simply down

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project -

On Sun Feb 03 10:38, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > You agree on the fact that a Debian source package isn't (or shouldn't > for big enough packages) be the preferred form of modification. Then > it's that it's an exchange format. As an exchange format quilt is > brilliant, because it holds *EVERYTHIN

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:32:42PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear maintainers of CDBS, dpatch, and quilt, > > if you are subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], you must have noticed the > long discussion about patch systems. An idea that was quite popular > was to standardise the patch target in al

Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 4:13 AM, Kevin Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see an "other option" and it is straightforward. Do like what was done in lenny with wxwidget2.4 and my package ctsim which requires wxwidgets 2.4. They were removed from Debian tes

Bug#463796: ITP: mlt -- multimedia framework

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: mlt Version: 0.2.4 Upstream Author: Charles Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan Dennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.mltframework.org License: LGPL Description: multimedia framewo

Bug#463807: RFH: wxwidgets2.6 -- wxwidgets2.8 may be packaged

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Following this afternoon's discussion on #debian-devel, I'm filing this RFH bug to note that Ron, the wxwidgets2.6 maintainer, does encourage people wanting to actively work on getting 2.8 into Debian to do so. Bear in mind that there are lots of open issues that sh

Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pgtop Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Jeremy D. Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/pgtop-0.04/pgtop * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl

Re: Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

Quoting Noah Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: pgtop > Version : 0.04 > Upstream Author : Jeremy D. Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/pgtop-0.0

Re: Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:52:03PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > I'd suggest to phrase this "PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool" or > any other way to avoid a verb sentence... Sure thing, sounds sensible. How about: PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool akin to top -- Noah Slater

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > Is there sombody working on Wig&Pen? Is the format consensual enough > that it would be accepted in Debian? I plan to work on it (but have not done anything yet except thinking about it and following discussions), the format might need some tweaks (expl

Re: Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

Quoting Noah Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:52:03PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I'd suggest to phrase this "PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool" or > > any other way to avoid a verb sentence... > > Sure thing, sounds sensible. How about: > > PostgreSQL perfo

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 06:06:04PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > No, I said "rebase" and not merge. > > See http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rebase.html > > > > (Note that this means that nobody should derive from upstream-patched

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Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Kevin Rosenberg wrote: I think that's contention, the difference in opinion between the package maintainer and some users about what software Debian should provide. Well, if we advise users to compile their stuff on their own something is broken. If we can not provide the

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 05:47:13PM +1100, martin f krafft wrote: > As Debian moves more and more into developing countries, where > Internet access is not (yet) ubiquitous, this seems like a step > backwards. Ideally, the history should be on the source DVDs. Nope, I disagree. Well, I agree that i

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:10:41AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > I find personnaly patch/unpatch more easy to understand, but YMMV... I think (hope) that no one will be able to find a reason why the two target should *not* be called "patch" / "unpatch". They are IMO the only 2 that people will be

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

On 2007-12-25, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: >> This is a proposal to introduce a common set of compiler options which >> can be set independently from the package, and passed/injected to the >> package build process. It was first discussed at the last UDS;

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

Riku Voipio wrote: >> In kernels that support text ASLR, programs compiled >> for PIE will gain full position randomization. > > For which architectures is text ASLR available? does it require > external kernel patches? PIE means considerable system overhead > and fatter binaries, especially for sy

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

John Goerzen wrote: > However, I am concerned that is appears to be limited in scope to packages > that: > > * Are written in C or C++ > > * Can have hardening achieved through technical changes to the build process > > I think it is important to remember that other languages can have security

Bug#463862: ITP: ipafont -- Japanese high quality TrueType font

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: ipafont Version: 00201 Upstream Author: Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. URL: http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/ License: Original It has restr

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> Not sure what you had in mind for a "feed". If you mean RDF/RSS of >> DSAs, there are two here: >> >> http://www.debian.org/security/ The recommended way is to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there a way to get notified of new security > bugs right when they are

Re: Bug#463862: ITP: ipafont -- Japanese high quality TrueType font

Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 05:53 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >Package name: ipafont This should be ttf-ipafont. William signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Automatic mirror selection

Hello, Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > Hey there, > > As an incredibly late follow-up to this [0] small thread, I created a > small script to act as backend for pdns and return a mirror for the > user's country. > It's a simple DNS based geographic mirror selection idea. > > It works by: > - usi

Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:06:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Kevin Rosenberg wrote: >> I think that's contention, the difference in opinion between the >> package maintainer and some users about what software Debian should >> provide. > Well, if we advise users to compile

Bug#463873: ITP: pondus -- personal weight manager for GTK+2

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eike Nicklas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pondus Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Eike Nicklas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ephys.de/software/pondus/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Descript

Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

Hi, On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 14:19 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:06:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Kevin Rosenberg wrote: > > >> I think that's contention, the difference in opinion between the > >> package maintainer and some users about what so

Re: Bug#463862: ITP: ipafont -- Japanese high quality TrueType font

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:43:27 -0600 William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This should be ttf-ipafont. Yes, binary package name is ttf-ipa, but source package name is ipafont. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Automatic mirror selection

Hi, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > I'm not an expert on the subject, but wouldn't anycast be more suitable? > It's been suggested on the referred thread[0]. I've never worked with it myself, but my limited understanding is that it would need work from all mirror admins and even if that was feasibl

Re: Automatic mirror selection

Hi, Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > > It's been suggested on the referred thread[0]. > I've never worked with it myself, but my limited understanding is that > it would need work from all mirror admins and even if that was feasible, > there are bound to be mirrors that are (technically, bureaucrat

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:35:35PM +0200, Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >heroes-common Whoops. The package started out binary-indep, then changed to binary-dep. I remembered to start invoking dh_shlibdeps on it ... but naturally I forg

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

Michael Biebl wrote: > Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> [Michael Biebl] >>> That's mostly because of lots of documentation in >>> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog. If you think that's an issue, I could split >>> out the doc into a separate package. >> This is probably a good idea, for t

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NMU campaign for control|changelog encoding issues

Quoting Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (in d-d-a) > * UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control > > Only 40 packages still use obsolete charsets in their changelog or > control files. Please check if your package is listed on the lintian > tag pages: > http://lintian.debian.org/rep

Re: Bug#463862: ITP: ipafont -- Japanese high quality TrueType font

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:54:20AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:43:27 -0600 > William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This should be ttf-ipafont. > > Yes, binary package name is ttf-ipa, but source package name > is ipafont. Please don't do that for a source packa