Re: Python 2.6? A Python transition?

2009-08-28 Thread Luca Falavigna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Allbery ha scritto: >> First, the installation path changed from site-packages to >> dist-packages. This means that most Python packages will need two >> changes: > >> * passing --install-layout=deb to setup.py > > Okay, that's easy enoug

about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Harsha s.v. Banavasi
dear sir/madam    I am Harsha, i have written device driver pgm(1553 communication device) in redhat linux 2.4 kernel which is running fine.  Now My boss asked me to change the OS to Debian

Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Harsha s.v. Banavasi wrote: dear sir/madam I am Harsha, i have written device driver pgm(1553 communication device) in redhat linux 2.4 kernel which is running fine. Now My boss asked me

Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:28:56 +0530 (IST) "Harsha s.v. Banavasi" wrote: [Problems compiling a driver for linux 2.4 against linux 2.6] The main issue is, that the 2.6 kernel-series has a completely different driver API then 2.4 series. More than that, linux 2.6.0 was released in December 2003, whi

Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I assume that you wrote a kernel driver, thus the problem is in your code: also, please note that this list is for development *of* debian, not for development *on* debian, so this is not really the proper forum for this type

Re: about device driver pgm.

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Harsha s.v. Banavasi wrote: > I am Harsha, i have written device driver pgm(1553 communication device) in > redhat linux 2.4 kernel which is running fine.  Now My boss asked me to > change the OS to Debian 5.0  with 2.6 kernel. But now my device driver pgm Your p

Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, due to lack of resources I ask for someone who can take over maintainership. I am willing to sponsor uploads if needed. The package is currently using alioth's collab-maint svn repo. Cheers, Torsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Double /dev/disk/by-id Vision

2009-08-28 Thread jidanni
> "FZ" == Felix Zielcke writes: FZ> I'm also running the udev in experimental 146-1 and have the same, but FZ> it affects only my IDE disk not my SATA ones even though they have an FZ> ata-* link too: FZ> $ ls -1 /dev/disk/by-id/ FZ> ata-SAMSUNG_SP1213N_SAMSUNG_SP1213N_S00UJ10X203399 FZ> ata

Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before. Some packages using automake have a Makefile.in like this: install-info-am: [...]

Bug#544047: ITP: Galet -- Peer-to-peer program aiming to provide easy to setup VPN

2009-08-28 Thread Andrea Neroni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Neroni * Package name: Galet Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Jean Krohn * URL : http://galet.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++/Qt Description : Galet is a peer-to-peer program aiming

Bug#544045: ITP: nfoview -- a simple viewer for NFO files

2009-08-28 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: nfoview Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Osmo Salomaa * URL : http://home.gna.org/nfoview/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : a simple viewer for NFO files NFO

Re: Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is > GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named > /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before. Note that lintian catches that: http://lintia

Bug#544051: ITP: divxenc -- shell script to encode DVDs to FMP4/DivX

2009-08-28 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: divxenc Version : 1.4.2 Upstream Author : Grozdan Nikolov * URL : http://divxenc.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Bash Description : shell script to encode DVDs t

Bug#544062: ITP: xcfa -- X Convert File Audio

2009-08-28 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: xcfa Version : 3.4.9 Upstream Author : Claude Bulin * URL : http://www.xcfa.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : X Convert File Audio Extraction of Au

APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Today: apt0.7.23 and bang: $ apt-get update ... 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped) WARNING to everyone. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x7fdea4ad8d6d in pkgAcqIndex::Failed(std::string, pkg

Bug#544071: ITP: svgtune -- tool to generate a set of .svg files out of a single .svg file

2009-08-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: svgtune Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Yaroslav Halchenko * URL : http://github.com/yarikoptic/svgtune * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : tool to generat

Re: Debian P2P Team

2009-08-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:10:28AM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > since some time I'm wondering why there is *not* a Debian-p2p team > active already. We have several p2p-related packages in the archive and > it looks like they are maintained individually and not by a specific > team. Is there

Re: Debian P2P Team

2009-08-28 Thread Andrea Veri
Simon Richter ha scritto: > Is there a specific problem you are trying to solve? Actually there isn't a specific problem, I just think working as a team might improve the quality of packages when, for istance, a MIA maintainer leaves his package orphaned for long time without having no one looking

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:55:26PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Today: apt0.7.23 and bang: > $ apt-get update > .. > 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for > headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > WARNING to everyone. Thanks for your warning. > Program

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote: > the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this > failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the > architecture you are using? amd64, sources.list attached, but some of the repositories are local on my disc. I checked that down

Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leinier Cruz Salfran * Package name: libsockets Version : 2.3.6 Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom * URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ Sockets Library Th

Re: Debian P2P Team

2009-08-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:14:57PM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > Actually there isn't a specific problem, I just think working as a team > might improve the quality of packages when, for istance, a MIA > maintainer leaves his package orphaned for long time without having no > one looking at it.

Re: Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > > This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is > > GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named > > /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before

Re: Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Hola Leinier, 2009-08-28, Leinier Cruz Salfran: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Leinier Cruz Salfran > > * Package name: libsockets > Version : 2.3.6 > Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom > * URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/ > * License : GPL

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Vogt wrote: > It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma support > for Package file downloads and the option to configure in what order > the compression types should be used. That last is really excellent news! I have some slow systems where using gzip will be *much* f

Re: Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
#539568 was my first ITP, unfortunatelly, I made some mistakes I fixed in #544074 and the new package .. the main change: - the library name comply with the upstream library name upstream: Sockets library: sockets in #539568 I set the library name to 'sockets++' in order to make available spa

Re: Bug#544074: ITP: libsockets -- C++ Sockets Library

2009-08-28 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Hi, 2009/8/28 Leinier Cruz Salfran : > #539568 was my first ITP, unfortunatelly, I made some mistakes I fixed > in #544074 and the new package .. the main change: > > - the library name comply with the upstream library name >  upstream: Sockets >  library: sockets > > in #539568 I set the library

Re: Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread David Bremner
Can anyone explain if/why stlport is still useful? Given the low popcon, and small number of rdepends, could this be a candidate for removal? all the best, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:33:44PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Can anyone explain if/why stlport is still useful? Given the low > popcon, and small number of rdepends, could this be a candidate for > removal? libstlport4.6 has to be kept on i386 for ABI issues. For the rest[1], yes I agree

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:41:23PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote: > > the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this > > failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the > > architecture you are using? > > amd64, sources.list att

Maintainer for ‘python-dogtail’ MIA? (was: Automated testing for GUI programs)

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > Please ping the maintainer [of ‘python-dogtail’] and report them as > MIA if they do not respond: > > http://www.debian.de/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa That instructs me to use ‘mia-query’, but AFAICT that command is available only for those with shell a

Re: Maintainer for ‘python-dogtail’ MIA?

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Can someone with that access please report the results of an MIA query > for “Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo ”? Answered on ‘#debian-devel’: 13:43 < womble> bignose: jsogo was last seen in April, according to mia-query -- \ “[On the Internet,] power and control will shift