Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Michael Hanke
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 28 juin 2012 à 16:42 +0200, Guus Sliepen a écrit : > > - Don't immediately start complaining to the submitter of the ITP. Just let > > the submitter devote his/her energy to packaging. > > I don’t think it is worthwile

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:21:21PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : > > This is a collection of useful tools that Debian maintainers can use > to make their packaging work easier. They all work with regular > Debian package list files, and should be useful for Debian > derivatives as well. This p

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 29 June 2012 21:18:39 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 29.06.2012, 19:21 +0200 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Mehdi Dogguy > > > > > > * Package name: ben > > >

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29/06/12 18:21, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mehdi Dogguy > > * Package name: ben > Version : 0.6 > Upstream Author : Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu > * URL : http://ben.debian.net/ > * License : AGPL-3+ > Programming

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-29 Thread Roger Leigh
tags 539591 + patch thanks On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 02:40:18PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 08:02:33AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > > On 06/27/2012 03:4

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:21:21PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mehdi Dogguy > > * Package name: ben > Version : 0.6 > Upstream Author : Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu > * URL : http://ben.debian.net/ > * License :

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 06/29/2012 09:15 PM, Ralf Treinen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:21:21PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Mehdi Dogguy >> >> * Package name: ben >> Version : 0.6 >> Upstream Author : Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu >> * URL

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Freitag, den 29.06.2012, 19:21 +0200 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Mehdi Dogguy > > > > * Package name: ben > > Version : 0.6 > > Upstream Author : Mehdi Dogguy and Sté

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 29/06/12 19:36, Benjamin Drung wrote: What does ben stand for? Is this just a short name for me? ;) Very long story¹. :) Would it be useful to have ben in devscripts instead of a separate package? No. I beleive devscripts maintainers will not be happy as it requires OCaml and a few OC

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 29.06.2012, 19:21 +0200 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mehdi Dogguy > > * Package name: ben > Version : 0.6 > Upstream Author : Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu > * URL : http://ben.debian.net/ > * License :

Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mehdi Dogguy * Package name: ben Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu * URL : http://ben.debian.net/ * License : AGPL-3+ Programming Lang: C, OCaml Description : toolbox for Debian main

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I don’t think it is worthwile to let people devote their energy to > packaging pet applications that will disappear in 2 years time when they > find another one. +1 > We really need to find better ways to involve new users in core teams, +1 > and

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon McVittie writes: > On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. >> I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with >> gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me everything needed to cross-compile >> for i38

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I would go even 1 step further and seek from a perspective maintainer, especially a non-DD/DM, at least some assurance that it is not a fire-and-forget project for him (e.g. that he is using it extensively and planing to do so for the next X years) and that he is willing to put effort in proper mai

Bug 679504: ITP: lazylpsolverlibs -- libraries that proxy function calls to commercial lp solvers

2012-06-29 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christophe-Marie Duquesne * Package name: lazylpsolverlibs Version : 0.1.44 Upstream Author : Christophe-Marie Duquesne * URL : https://code.google.com/p/lazylpsolverlibs/ * License : EPL Programming Lang: C Descript

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > We really need to find better ways to involve new users in core teams, > and that means removing from our collective consciousness the idea that > you come in Debian to package your new favorite piece of software. Unfortunately dif

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 28 juin 2012 à 16:42 +0200, Guus Sliepen a écrit : > > - Don't immediately start complaining to the submitter of the ITP. Just let > > the submitter devote his/her energy to packaging. > > I don’t think it is worthwil

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:55:15AM -0600, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2012, Ben Finney wrote: > > It's part of the job of a (prospective) package maintainer to advocate > > for the package. > > what??? I don't see anything unreasonable about being able to articulate the reason

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:28:45AM +, Bart Martens wrote: > I'm not convinced that the recent additions to the wiki page reflect consensus > in this debate. But I appreciate your attempt to summarize this debate on > that > wiki page. Maybe we should revert the recent changes on that wiki pa

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Holger Levsen] > if thats true, I don't want any of my package maintainance jobs. can > you please fire me? You've been around awhile. If that is true, you should know how to RFA or orphan packages and/or retire from the Project. You should know by now that it isn't up to others to "fire" you.

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 juin 2012 à 16:42 +0200, Guus Sliepen a écrit : > - Don't immediately start complaining to the submitter of the ITP. Just let > the submitter devote his/her energy to packaging. I don’t think it is worthwile to let people devote their energy to packaging pet applications that will d

Re: fortify help

2012-06-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:06:02PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > but i always get: > W: plasma-widget-smooth-tasks: hardening-no-fortify-functions > usr/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_smooth-tasks.so As the extended tag description suggests, refer to http://bugs.debian.org/673112 for the discussion of f