ITP: efilinux -- A UEFI bootloader

2011-08-29 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Package: wnpp Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** * Package name: efilinux Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Matt Fleming * URL : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/boot/efilinux/ * License : BSD Programm

Bug#639756: ITP: recorditnow -- Qt/KDE application to record the desktop

2011-08-29 Thread Eshat Cakar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: recorditnow Version: 0.8.1 Upstream Author: Kai Dombrowe URL: http://recorditnow.sourceforge.net/ License: GPLv2 Description: Qt/KDE application to capture desktop -- es

Re: getting permission denied with shmat() as non-root

2011-08-29 Thread Timothy Stotts
Thanks Peter. That was the tip I needed for debugging the program on the Debian system. ipcs(1), when run as the same user as the program, did not show any shared memory being created. However, running ipcs(1) as root showed the memory being created by the non-root user with permissions of . Ob

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-08-29, Russ Allbery wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: >> Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 29 Aug 2011 16:49:17 +0200, a écrit : >>> Those packages should be set Not-For-Us anyway, no? So they still need >>> an action from porters or buildd maintainers. >> We want to avoid Not-For-Us. Maintainers sho

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [110829 20:42]: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 29 Aug 2011 16:49:17 +0200, a écrit : > > >> Those packages should be set Not-For-Us anyway, no? So they still need > >> an action from porters or buildd maintainers. > > > We want to avoid Not-

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (29/08/2011): > Does this work now? Previously, setting the architecture list didn't > do anything useful if the source package built at least one arch: all > package. Since arch: all as per-arch (…) now, I guess that limitation is gone. And yes, arch restrictions have been working

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 29 Aug 2011 16:49:17 +0200, a écrit : >> Those packages should be set Not-For-Us anyway, no? So they still need >> an action from porters or buildd maintainers. > We want to avoid Not-For-Us. Maintainers should simply set the > architecture list.

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > We might chose to make ruby1.9.1 the default ruby implementation for > wheezy (instead of ruby1.8). I still hope that all porting issues > affecting ruby1.9.1 will be resolved. > But if it's down to those four choices, what should I do in a couple of > weeks, when the new

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Lucas, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But if porting software to > KFreeBSD's linuxthreads-based threading library with slightly broken > semantics becomes my own task, I won't try to solve issues on KFreeBSD > and instead stop supporting it, because I just don't have the time to do > that. That sou

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:49:17PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 29/08/11 at 16:16 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > or test suites failing for various random reasons. > Like what? In my experience rebuilding the archive on amd64, there are > only a handful of packages where the test suite fails

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/08/11 at 18:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/29/2011 04:49 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > [...] > >> In my experience you would get a lot of issues which are nothing porters > >> need to solve, like libraries not being available as the hardware just > >> doesn't exist for that architecture

Bug#639715: ITP: libjsoup-java -- Java HTML parser that makes sense of real-world HTML soup

2011-08-29 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner * Package name: libjsoup-java Version : 1.6.1 Upstream Author : Jonathan Hedley * URL : http://jsoup.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : Java HTML parser that makes sense of re

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 13:10]: > If you take a list of packages that failed on $PORTER_ARCH, but built > fine on at least two or three other architectures, do you really expect > to get many false positives (i.e, non-arch-specific problems)? If we have methods which pr

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/29/2011 04:49 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [...] >> In my experience you would get a lot of issues which are nothing porters >> need to solve, like libraries not being available as the hardware just >> doesn't exist for that architecture > > Those packages should be set Not-For-Us anyway, no? S

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-08-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:40:30PM +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > they decided to remove one of (typically) gnome's dependencies, which > caused the metapackage to be removed as well. That also causes an effect of "GNOME gets removed!" even without any additional autoremoved packages :( -- WBR

Dependencies of metapackages

2011-08-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi all, is there a specific reason why metapackages depend rather then recommend packages they are meant to pull in? The rationale behind this question is [0] that we see a plethora of users in #debian who ask questions like: "Why did apt remove all my system??⸘one!one!eleven!" and we h

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/08/11 at 13:06 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > If you take a list of packages that failed on $PORTER_ARCH, but built > fine on at least two or three other architectures, do you really expect > to get many false positives (i.e, non-arch-specific problems)? Such a list would be easy to generate

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 29 Aug 2011 16:49:17 +0200, a écrit : > On 29/08/11 at 16:16 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > On 08/29/2011 01:06 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > On 29/08/11 at 09:47 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > >> * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 08:59]: > > >>> I'd lik

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/08/11 at 16:16 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/29/2011 01:06 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 29/08/11 at 09:47 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > >> * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 08:59]: > >>> I'd like to reinforce the fact that it's the porters' responsibility > >>> to

Bug#639701: ITP: festvox-ca-ona-hts -- Catalan text to speech voice for festival. 16kHz, HTS, female.

2011-08-29 Thread Sergio Oller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergio Oller * Package name: festvox-ca-ona-hts Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Sergio Oller * URL : http://www.talp.cat/festcat/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Lisp Description : Catalan text to speech voice

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/29/2011 01:06 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 29/08/11 at 09:47 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 08:59]: >>> I'd like to reinforce the fact that it's the porters' responsibility >>> to investigate porters issues, and propose the following >>>

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/08/11 at 09:47 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 08:59]: > > I'd like to reinforce the fact that it's the porters' responsibility > > to investigate porters issues, and propose the following > > responsibilities: > > (1) It is the responsibilit

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 08:59]: > I'd like to reinforce the fact that it's the porters' responsibility > to investigate porters issues, and propose the following > responsibilities: > (1) It is the responsibility of porters to: > - track architecture-specific bugs (