Re: Using perl to build perl

2016-04-17 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On 16 April 2016 at 19:20, Niko Tyni wrote: > For a long time, src:perl has had some limited support for bootstrapping a > new architecture without /usr/bin/perl. We've gone to quite some trouble > to avoid needing perl to build perl as far as possible, including quite > a few sed scripts and a 6

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-04 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On 4 May 2010 22:54, Niko Tyni wrote: > unlike earlier versions, perl 5.12.0-1 in experimental is configured with > the "use64bitint" and "uselongdouble" options on all architectures. I'm > looking for input on whether this is the right choice for sid. Sounds like a good idea to me. I had intend

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-07-03 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why I suggested to integrate liblocale-gettext-perl in perl-base > itself. This would be the simplest/nicest solution IMO. It would always be > synchronized with the current perl. > > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-30 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 02:17:05PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: >I don't actually remember the part of this discussion where the real cause of >the problem with the above rule was discussed, but in case it is about some >dependencies between the rules (which is the most likely IMHO), then it sh

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-30 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:13:53PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >It appears that ExtUtils::MakeMaker, a standard Perl module commonly >used to generate Makefiles for Perl modules, emits the rule: > >install :: all pure_install doc_install > >This appears to account for the failure of some of my Perl

Re: python-minimal in base?

2006-08-27 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:45:26AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >[...] upstream considered it completely unacceptable for anyone to >ship python in such a state that users would end up with less than the >full python suite installed on their system. [...] In fairness, Perl upstream had similar pr

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:19:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >On Fri, 07 Jul 2006, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: >> What about something like ``To subscribe to this bug, send an empty >> email to $email.'' to make more explicit that they >> don't need to fill anything out? > >There are a whole host

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
Package: debbugs Version: 2.4.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:02:44AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >If I need to subscribe to a bug I can't use the web interface. >The answer you might give is, "Oh! Send am email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" This may be a simple way to ad

Re: A question on setting setuid bit

2006-07-05 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:02:43AM -0400, sean finney wrote: >On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:39:12PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> dpkg-statoverride is a tool for the system administrator to specify a >> different mode or ownership for a file to that which is provided in the >> package. It is not me

Re: additions to dpkg-architecture

2006-06-25 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:54:49PM +0200, Volker Grabsch wrote: >I propose to add more CPU types to dpkg-architecture. In particular, >I'd like to see the different i386 architectures there, i.e. >i586, i686, k6, ... [...] >For instance, some programs with lots of calculations (e.g. mplayer) >are c

Re: Regexp to parse "Version:" fields

2006-06-21 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:56:21PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: >for mentors.debian.net I would like to find a perfect (TM) regular >expression to split the "Version:" line of a control file into: > > - epoch > - upstream version > - Debian package revision > >My current attempt is: > > ^(?:(\d+)

Re: Cleaning /var/lib/dpkg/available

2006-06-14 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:03:21PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: >On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: >> I've been upgrading my machines since Woody to Sarge, then to Etch. Now, >> my /var/lib/dpkg/available are huge (15MB), and it seems they never get >> cleaned. >> How a

Re: Bug#368383: dumb "manual page for..." NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-23 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:29:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Glad that you guys will take care of this, as it is way over my head. It's not complex. The problem manual pages have been generated with a program [help2man] which interprets a program's --help output. Unfortunately, it's not p

Bug#368383: dumb "manual page for..." NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-21 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
>dotlock (1) - manual page for dotlock (GNU Mailutils 0.6.93) This is the default NAME section generated by help2man. Fairly useless, but there needs to be *some* default. Suggest that you file bugs on the particular packages which need either to provide a --name="short description" arg

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-12 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:31:58PM +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: >Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> (In fact, IMHO nothing should depends from perl-modules at all). >>

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >Le Mer 10 Mai 2006 15:44, Brendan O'Dea a écrit : > >> The current dependencies are used to allow a slightly newer version >> of perl-modules to be installed: porters had issues in unstable >> where

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:01:21PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: >On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:40:32PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:49:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >> >Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies li

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:51:59PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >Le Mer 10 Mai 2006 14:40, Brendan O'Dea a écrit : >> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:49:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >> >Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed >> > b

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:49:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by >maintainers. > > perl > perl-modules These two packages are meant to be installed together, split only for arch any/all. I'm a bit puzzled as to why

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-14 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:20:28AM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: >I offer to implement a update-ldconfig program that would work the same >way update-menus work, by checking a lock and forking in the background >and waiting for the dpkg lock. It's more than just update-menus and ldconfig. update-m

Re: perl 5.6 dependent packages

2002-08-26 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:33:51AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:44:00AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> Note that in addition, since perl 5.8.0 includes some modules which were >> previously stand-alone, any package declaring a versioned

Re: libwww-perl

2002-08-24 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:56:05PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: >>Has anyone had any luck building libwww-perl against perl 5.80 >> yet? > >Check http://ftp-master.debian.org/~bod/perl/pool/libw/libwww-perl/ Everything from that pool with the exception of libwww-perl was pushed into unstable las

Re: perl 5.6 dependent packages

2002-08-24 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 02:49:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >perl 5.8 will enter unstable at the next dinstall run. Before it can >make testing though, we have to update the following 84 packages which >still depend on perlapi-5.6.*. This list should take into account those >packages that were alrea

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-06 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
ad: Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com.au Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633

Re: Runlevel for powersaving

2001-05-03 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
>Your script could query `apm | grep on-line` or something. The apmd package contains a little program called /usr/bin/on_ac_power to determine the AC/battery status. Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com.au Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-27 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
hat dpkg only does that when the maintainer has changed the script in the newer version. Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com.au Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-26 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
now that netbase has changed the dependency on portmap to a `suggests' you may remove it anyway. Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com.au Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-26 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
mage-2.4.3-k7 kernel-image-2.4.3-pentium4 Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com.au Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2001-01-04 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
3) stable; urgency=low * make mgetty-fax's postinst create /var/spool/fax/outgoing/.last_run to close a potential symlink exploit by members of the fax group that is otherwise possible until that file is created -- Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:0

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
sbin/dictd | xargs -r ps PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 14769 ?S 0:00 dictd 1.4.9: 0/0 # pidof -x dictd | xargs -r ps PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 14769 ?S 0:00 dictd 1.4.9: 0/0 Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
t really convenient. Upgrading xdm should not affect the links in /etc/rc?.d as update-rc.d (called in the postinst) is a no-op if any links for the script already exist. Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com.au Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
mp;& apt-get autoclean && \ apt-get -q -d -y -u upgrade Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com.au Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9809 0133

Re: netstd split results in loss of functionality

2000-03-13 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:42:54AM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: >Speaking of which, where did netdate go? I've been wondering for a >while what happened to it. rdate may do what you are after. Regards, -- Brendan O'Deabod@compusol.com