Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will make the make-kpkg script far less error prone, and far more deterministic. a. Every invocation of kernel-package will remove ./debian directory,

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be > able to load the entire file into memory - as most text editors do - > stat() will be only the first of its problems. Old vi was able to work with files larger than avail

Re: Data packages. (with BitTorrent)

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:22:10PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski a écrit : > > Is there a capability of creating a mirror that would use torrent technology? > > If you have these .deb packages that are big (could you list few, with > their sizes), I was under the assumption that having torrent mirror >

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Okay, that matches my reasoning. I'll remove that tag in the next >> version of Lintian. Thank you very much! > Maybe i missinterpreted your conclusion, but this what I get in one of > my packages: > desktop-mimetype-without-update-call /usr/sha

Re: Data packages.

2009-02-08 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:57:12AM +0100, Peter Palfrader a écrit : >> >> The data.debian.org thing is actually Joerg's proposal, he first raised >> it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00970.html last >> year. > > Hi Peter,

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 10:46 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle > 64‐bit kernel structures. In this special case, the stat() return with > EOVERFLOW Value too large to be stored in data type. Jed was compiled for > a 32‐bit kernel

Re: Data packages.

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:57:12AM +0100, Peter Palfrader a écrit : > > The data.debian.org thing is actually Joerg's proposal, he first raised > it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00970.html last > year. Hi Peter, thanks for the pointer. I think that I will keep on exploring

Re: Data packages.

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Joey Schulze a écrit : > > > > The data archive will contain huge packages that cannot be distributed > > through the regular archive due to their sheer size. The number of free > > large data packages, such a

Data packages.

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Joey Schulze a écrit : > > The data archive will contain huge packages that cannot be distributed > through the regular archive due to their sheer size. The number of free > large data packages, such as medical and statistical data sets, and also > game d

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/08/2009 04:46 AM, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi, I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle 64‐bit kernel structures. In this special case, the stat() return with EOVERFLOW Value too large to be stored in data type. Jed was compiled for a 32‐bit kernel and is run with a 64‐

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Maybe i missinterpreted your conclusion, but this what I get in one of my >> packages: >> desktop-mimetype-without-update-call /usr/share/applications/... >> >> Now that we have triggers, I really don't see the benefit of adding such a >> li

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-08 Thread James Vega
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:21:10PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Maybe i missinterpreted your conclusion, but this what I get in one of my > > packages: > > desktop-mimetype-without-update-call /usr/share/applications/... > > > > Now that we have triggers, I rea

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-08 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Michael Biebl wrote: > Maybe i missinterpreted your conclusion, but this what I get in one of my > packages: > desktop-mimetype-without-update-call /usr/share/applications/... > > Now that we have triggers, I really don't see the benefit of adding such a > lintian warning. Imho we should get rid

Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
Steve McIntyre wrote: > Cool. I'll be doing builds during Saturday; let's co-ordinate as we go > so that we can release as quickly as possible. i'll be online the whole weekend, so best would be if someone would ping me on irc when i can start the builds. once they are finished, i'll let steve kno

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Russ Allbery wrote: > Loïc Minier writes: > >> I can see how it would be useful to recommend calling dh_desktop as >> soon as you distribute .desktop files just like it would be more useful >> if we could inject any rules in packages via cdbs or the new "dh". >> However, this is really packag

Re: Bug#514485: ITP: globus-usage -- Globus Toolkit - Usage Library

2009-02-08 Thread Chris Walker
Steffen Moeller writes: > * Package name: globus-usage > * URL : http://www.globus.org/ > * License : Apache 2 > Programming Lang: C/C++ > Description : Globus Toolkit - Usage Library > Debian-science has been collecting packages useful for science into task packa

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread sean finney
hi, On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:58:43PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I'd think you should enable it for all 32 bit builds; it is, I think, > a step in having support for large files (files bigger than 2 or 4 > gigabytes), something we wanted to have for... woody. more specifically, what i th

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:46:42AM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle > 64‐bit kernel structures. (...) The error can be fixed by compiling > Jed with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Should I set this option for all > 32‐bit builds or does it hav

Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle 64‐bit kernel structures. In this special case, the stat() return with EOVERFLOW Value too large to be stored in data type. Jed was compiled for a 32‐bit kernel and is run with a 64‐bit kernel. The error can be fixed by compili

Bug#514516: ITP: xfswitch-plugin -- user switching plugin for the Xfce4 panel

2009-02-08 Thread Evgeni Golov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Evgeni Golov * Package name: xfswitch-plugin Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Jérôme Guelfucci * URL : http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfswitch-plugin * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Descripti

Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 11:48:44PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > >however, for cosmetic reasons, it would be nicer to build them against >final lenny. otherwise the release files on lenny final images would >claim it's testing (without any other technical consequence) which feels > akward. Sure,