Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2011-09-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > > > Would one of the following work? > > > 1. Merge perl and perl-modules. Some waste across architectures in the > >archive, but not horribly much. > > This is probably the simplest solution conceptually and in terms of to

Bug#640755: ITP: node-xmlhttprequest -- XMLHttpRequest for Node

2011-09-06 Thread Per Andersson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Per Andersson * Package name: node-xmlhttprequest Version : 1.2.2 Upstream Author : Dan DeFelippi * URL : http://github.com/driverdan/node-xmlhttprequest * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: Javascript Descriptio

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 05, Kees Cook wrote: > It might be better to extend it further, like "all network daemons using > dpkg-buildflags properly and enabling PIE" I fully support this (and I have already enabled hardening for most of my packages with no adverse effects). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descrip

Re: RFC: Adding "Pre-Depends: libtinfo5" to libncurses5

2011-09-06 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 07:17:05PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > To rule out this possibility, I would like to add an unversioned > "Pre-Depends: libtinfo5" to libncurses5. In my tests, apt did install > libtinfo5 before unpacking the replacement libncurses5 anyway, so this > is mostly meant as a s

Bug#640721: ITP: xf86-video-omap -- X.Org X server -- OMAP display driver

2011-09-06 Thread Sebastian Reichel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Reichel * Package name: xf86-video-omap Version : 0.0.1~git20110717 Upstream Author : Rob Clark * URL : https://github.com/robclark/xf86-video-omap * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : X.

Bug#640718: ITP: aces3 -- Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure III

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: aces3 Version : 3.0.6 Upstream Author : Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida * URL : http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/ACES/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Fortran Description :

Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2011-09-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > Would one of the following work? > 1. Merge perl and perl-modules. Some waste across architectures in the >archive, but not horribly much. This is probably the simplest solution conceptually and in terms of tool changes required, but the Perl maintainers weren't ver

Bug#640695: ITP: python-mrjob -- MapReduce framework for writing and running Hadoop Streaming job

2011-09-06 Thread Janos Guljas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Janos Guljas * Package name: python-mrjob Version : 0.2.7 Upstream Author : David Marin * URL : http://github.com/Yelp/mrjob/ * License : Apache Programming Lang: Python Description : MapReduce framework for writ

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-06 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: [...] > It might be better to extend it further, like "all network daemons > using dpkg-buildflags properly and enabling PIE" [...] And since many network daemons are implemented in interpreted languages, it might be nice to include packag

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi David, and others, On 11-09-05 at 05:25pm, David Given wrote: > I even spent a while looking for existing packages with the same > license as mine from which I could steal the copyright file, but I > couldn't find anything which used DEP5... Sorry to hear that you have tried and grown frustr

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Monday 5 September 2011 18:25:48, David Given a écrit : > FWIW, I have recently tried to put together a DEP5 compliant copyright > file for a package I'm working on. I say 'tried' because eventually I > had to give up. I was simply unable to get enough information out of the > spec to produce a

Re: Bug#640672: moving files to arch specific include breaks compilations with -m32

2011-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:44 +0200, Daniel Bayer wrote: > Package: linux-libc-dev > Version: 3.0.0-3 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/asm/errno.h > > Hi, > > since asm/errno.h was moved to the arch specific sub directory it is > no longer possible to create 32 Bit Binaries

Bug#640670: ITP: ruby-pdf-reader -- Ruby library for accessing the content of PDF files

2011-09-06 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Cédric Boutillier" Hello, I would like to package, under the umbrella of the ruby-extras team, the ruby library ruby-pdf-reader, hich is necessary to upgrade libprawn-ruby (soon to be renamed ruby-prawn) to a newer version. * Package name: ruby-pdf-r

Bug#640664: ITP: libpspio -- Library to read and write pseudopotentials

2011-09-06 Thread Yann Pouillon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Pouillon -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libpspio Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Micael Oliveira * URL : http://www.tddft.org/trac/libpspio/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C,

Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2011-09-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:57:39AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 06 Sep 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > The problem is that perl and perl-modules really are one package that was > > > split apart solely to get the (large) architecture-independent parts into > > > an arch: all packag

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:55:26PM +0300, Andrew O. Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:46:50 +0600 > Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > > Until that happens, please use whatever URL you like. I use > > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ myself. > > > Note that some people think that

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 15:46 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > DEP5 is in the process of being incorporated into the debian-policy > > package, and once that is finished, there will be a stable URL to > > the spec (with a version number in the URL), something like > > > > http://www.debia

Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2011-09-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > > > The problem is that perl and perl-modules really are one package that was > > split apart solely to get the (large) architecture-independent parts into > > an arch: all package. > > > > Wouldn't this problem be solved by moving the c

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:46:50 +0600 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > Until that happens, please use whatever URL you like. I use > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ myself. > Note that some people think that http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ is > not a versioned URL and so it doesn't comply t

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > This is a minor issue,but I would propose to change it to > > http://svn.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?revision=REVISION > > if the Format field should point to a specific svn version of the > > document. However, as f

Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > The problem is that perl and perl-modules really are one package that was > split apart solely to get the (large) architecture-independent parts into > an arch: all package. > Wouldn't this problem be solved by moving the contents of perl to, e.g., perl-bin, making perl a dummy package

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-06 Thread Pierre Chifflier
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 07:42:30PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Raphael Hertzog schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > we're not very far from having hardening build flags set by default by > > dpkg-buildflags (waiting on some documentation update that Kees should > > take care of). > > Thanks! > > >

Re: Multiarch in Debian unstable

2011-09-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve Langasek (27/06/2011): > But when can I use it? > == > > As noted above, support for the multiarch filesystem layout solves only one > of the two problems preventing side-by-side installation of packages from > multiple architectures. The other problem, package manager