Re: Override changes

2009-08-05 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 23:49, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > The format for such bug reports against the ftp.debian.org > pseudopackage: > > Subject: override: PACKAGE1:section/priority, [...], PACKAGEX:section/priority > > Include the justification for the change in the body of the bug please. > > (I hope

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-05 Thread Alexander Wirt
Christian Perrier schrieb am Tuesday, den 04. August 2009: Hi, > > > look it up yourself: > > > http://lists.debian.org/archive-spam-removals/review/stats.html (my > > > user is morph...). So, are you going to help us kill spam (reporting > > > it) or no time for this? > > > > So you're Debian'

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

2009-08-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Bastian Blank writes: > What happens if someone install libc-bin without a new libc6 then? At present, I would expect that to run into file conflicts with libc6. In the future, yes, that could be a problem without appropriate Breaks: or Conflicts: declarations. :-/ One possible workaround coul

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Charles Plessy | I am all for campaigning for the unified diff format if there are | arguments on which I can base a discussion with Upstream, but a mere | cultural preference, be it the one of a very large majority, is a too | weak argument. They're easier to review (because you have a bit o

Re: Can you (re)confirm that packages re-uploaded to NEW are processed according to the date of their first upload?

2009-08-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> The web summary of the queue contents lists the packages by upload date, but I > remember reading from you in a previous discussion that the queue is processed > according to the date of the first upload. Unfortunately, I lost the > reference… > Can you confirm, or can somebody point me at the

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:37:29PM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : >> I think tying such information to a source or binary package is a bad >> idea since it changes independently of the package. I have similar >> issues with the Homepage field and to a lesser extent, watch fi

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:45:00PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > > The point, rather, seems to be that unified-diff format is the de > > facto standard format for exchanging patch information. > > Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:53:21AM +0200, Michael Banck a écrit : > >

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg so urce format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:45:00PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : The point, rather, seems to be that unified-diff format is the de facto standard format for exchanging patch information. Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:53:21AM +0200, Michael Banck a écrit : It's the preferred f

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (05/08/2009): > In my workplace's cafeteria, 99 % of the people eat curry rice with a > spoon, and 1 % with chopsticks. But this is causing no trouble, and > never the spoon users ask the chopsticks users to change their > instrument (and I can tell you that I do not leave a single

Bug#540065: ITP: libsynthesis -- library for SyncML-DS (SyncML Data Sync) clients

2009-08-05 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: libsynthesis Version : 3.0.28+git1+cc01b66 Upstream Author : * URL : http://www.synthesis.ch/indefero/index.php/p/libsynthesis/ * License : LGPL2.1 or LGPL3 (with some BSD) . Unless no

Non-unified patches and dpkg sou rce format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:45:00PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > The point, rather, seems to be that unified-diff format is the de facto > standard format for exchanging patch information. Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:53:21AM +0200, Michael Banck a écrit : > > It's the preferred format for 99% o

Bug#540061: RFH: phpwiki -- informal collaborative website manager

2009-08-05 Thread Matt Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the phpwiki package. In particular, I need assistance dealing with a number of bugs related to code from other packages that is embedded within the PHPwiki codebase. There is also at least one further instance of this reported by

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Banck (05/08/2009): > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them > > apart that unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian > > developers, > > It's the preferred format for 99% of all Free

Re: CDBS + python + control with 2 .deb

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
sandro (05/08/2009): > What should I do to have 2 packages defined in control, one a python > package and one a documentation package and use cdbs? Try -ment...@. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

CDBS + python + control with 2 .deb

2009-08-05 Thread sandro
Hi, I have a package named python-sqlkit with python package sqlkit. I'm using cdbs with a simple rule and the packge is ok: #!/usr/bin/make -f include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk DEB_PYTHON_SYSTEM = pysupport DEB_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE := .py .sqlite include /usr/share/cd

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:37:29PM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : > I think tying such information to a source or binary package is a bad > idea since it changes independently of the package. I have similar > issues with the Homepage field and to a lesser extent, watch files. > > Do you think that apt

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them apart that > unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian developers, It's the preferred format for 99% of all Free Software work/projects AFAICT. > and that

Re: Is Christian Meder MIA?

2009-08-05 Thread Christian Meder
Am Mittwoch, den 08.07.2009, 18:40 +0200 schrieb Walter Franzini: > Hi, > > in the past months I've tryied without success to contact Christian > Meder (ch...@absolutegiganten.org), the maintainer of the aegis package, > offering my help. > > As a Debian and Aegis user I'm a bit worried of state