Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
I won't comment on the main issue since other people gave you the solution. On dim., 2010-08-08 at 16:45 +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I need to generate a Debian package for a library > As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . Note that libvirt is already packaged so you can inspire you of th

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:01 -0400, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ben Hutchings (09/08/2010): > > This information belongs in the release notes. I'm not sure where > > one should look to see the draft release notes for the next release. > > Sounds like it? > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/re

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (09/08/2010): > This information belongs in the release notes. I'm not sure where > one should look to see the draft release notes for the next release. Sounds like it? http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Zvi Dubitzky writes: > I need to generate a Debian package for a library > As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . > I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz This might sound rude but since you are using Ubuntu all around why don't you ask them for help? > For the lib

Bug#592413: ITP: qxmpp -- cross-platform C++ XMPP library

2010-08-09 Thread Jeremy Laine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremy Lainé * Package name: qxmpp Upstream Author : Manjeet Dahiya * URL : http://code.google.com/p/qxmpp/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : cross-platform C++ XMPP library QXmpp is a cross-platform C+

eXtplorer web file manager packaging work and SWFUpload packaging

2010-08-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, This email has 2 goals: 1/ Let you know about my past work 2/ Ask for help for packaging swfupload Because it has been said many times in Debconf that we should tell about things we do in Debian, I decided to write a quite long email, so

Re: Support for creating installer packages

2010-08-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Malte Forkel writes: > lately, I created two packages that do little more than wrap software > written in a scripting language (one Java, one Perl) so I could put them > in a local repository for easy installation and deinstallation. > In both cases, I expect upstream versions to change often. S

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:54:16PM +0200, Sebastian Krause wrote: > Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > > know what does the release team think about it. BTW

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Sebastian Krause
Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > know what does the release team think about it. BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:31:53PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/09/2010 07:13 PM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > > know what does the release team

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/09/2010 07:13 PM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > know what does the release team think about it. BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debia

Bug#592390: ITP: spm8 -- analysis of brain imaging data sequences

2010-08-09 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NeuroDebian team * Package name: spm8 Version : 8.4010 Upstream Author : Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging * URL : http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm8/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Matlab/Octave

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2010-08-09 at 21:13 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons why many > desktop users switch to other distros. Is it? -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:22:27PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:27 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > Thus, getting to the main point of this long e-mail: what are we going > > to do with libcairo2 in squeeze? If we keep it at 1.8.10, I think it > > makes sense to app

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dröge
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:27 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > plain text document attachment (libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel > rendering.eml) > Hi debian-devel, > > As we all know, squeeze is frozen now. This was a long awaited event, > although for some importans software that we have in the d

Support for creating installer packages

2010-08-09 Thread Malte Forkel
Hello, lately, I created two packages that do little more than wrap software written in a scripting language (one Java, one Perl) so I could put them in a local repository for easy installation and deinstallation. In both cases, I expect upstream versions to change often. So I will probably find

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/9/2010 9:36 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Michel] I don't know where is the work on upgrade documentation but I wanted underline this order. At least the udev issue is known to me. It can be worked around by touching /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade before upgrading udev, allowing the kernel a

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:27:01PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Thus, getting to the main point of this long e-mail: what are we going > to do with libcairo2 in squeeze? If we keep it at 1.8.10, I think it > makes sense to apply the above mentioned patch, because it has been > accepted by up

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Michel] > I don't know where is the work on upgrade documentation but I wanted > underline this order. At least the udev issue is known to me. It can be worked around by touching /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade before upgrading udev, allowing the kernel and udev to be upgraded at the same time and with

libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hi debian-devel, As we all know, squeeze is frozen now. This was a long awaited event, although for some importans software that we have in the distro it would be beneficial if this moment could happen later. One of such examples is libcairo2. The last release by ustream [1] is 1.8.10. At the mom

Bug#592353: ITP: ejabberd-mod-shared-roster-ldap -- Shared Roster via LDAP for ejabberd

2010-08-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thorsten Glaser * Package name: ejabberd-mod-shared-roster-ldap Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Marcin Owsiany * URL : https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ejabberd-msrl/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Erlang Desc

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 02:06:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:00 +0200, Michel wrote: > This information belongs in the release notes. I'm not sure where one > should look to see the draft release notes for the next release. I guess its already known: #549573 Its

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:00 +0200, Michel wrote: > Hello, > > > I have upgrade my Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze and I don't know if > it's only on my case but Imust upgrade grub, linux-image (2.6.26 to > 2.6.32) and udev in this order. > > > grub before linux-image because linux-image-2.6.32 d

Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Michel
Hello, I have upgrade my Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze and I don't know if it's only on my case but Imust upgrade grub, linux-image (2.6.26 to 2.6.32) and udev in this order. grub before linux-image because linux-image-2.6.32 don't upgrade /boot/grub/menu.list linux-image before udev because ude

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 02:08:28PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > OK, so would a debhelper patch implementing this be accepted? Hardly so, as long as the patch is theoretical and discussed on -devel, where not necessarily will get the attention of debhelper maintainer. I suggest following the usua

Bug#592314: ITP: meego-packaging-tools -- MeeGo packaging tools

2010-08-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra * Package name: meego-packaging-tools Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Intel Corp. * URL : http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/trunk/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Python and shell script Descrip

Bug#592311: ITP: spectacle -- RPM Spec file generator and management tool

2010-08-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra * Package name: spectacle Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Intel Corporation * URL : http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/spectacle * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python Description :