Re: Problems found by piuparts

2006-02-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 17:42:00 +, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Shouldn't logic like that be in one central place (dpkg or a library) > and not spread over dozens of packages? Something like dh_usrlocal(1)? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On 08/05/2005-10:35, Joey Hess wrote: > ocaml-getopt According to [1], this package was removed because of bug#306074, which is now fixed. ocaml-getopt in unstable is now 12 days old, so I think it can be allowed back in testing. Thanks, Julien Cristau [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/test

Re: diverting conffiles

2005-06-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:35:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Be aware of the fact that diverting conffiles doesn't work. > > Hi, what exactly is the problem with diverting conffiles? > See http://bugs.debian.org/58735. Cheers,

Re: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch)?

2006-11-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 14:53:38 +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > that package is only 2 days old and did not transition to etch yet > > so it is too early to start signing etch archives with it > > and it empties the whole idea : to restore my trust path , I > will have to manually download that

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 22:54:59 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Then the manpage should be ammended and those things removed. It does not > make sense to disable things and ship a manpage that implies that they do > work. > Did you look at the bash manpage? NOTE: Bash, as

Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 23:51:21 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Could the ftpmaster team, after creating the key, do any (or all) of the > following? > You know the contact address for ftp-master is not debian-devel@lists.debian.org, right? Cheers, Julien signature.asc Descript

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-19 Thread Julien Cristau
your upload are determined by the changes file, so you can use the -vversion switch with dpkg-buildpackage or dpkg-genchanges to use changelog information for versions version+1 and version+2. Cheers, Julien Cristau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dependencies for autoconf

2008-01-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:08:47 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I am torn between the two possibilities. On one hand, Debian > policy is clear that packages should have full dependencies on > all the programs that they may invoke. I disagree with that. Quoting policy 7.2: The `Depends' fiel

Re: Re: Gnome 2.21???

2008-01-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 18:35:50 +0100, Cyril Jaquier wrote: > Hi Loïc, > > > We currently maintain a little amount of GONME 2.21 modules in > > experimental, mostly platform stuff, lacking the manpower to follow > > the full set, send bugs upstream etc. > > Sad :( But why don't you "backport" Ubu

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Processing of ip4r_1.03-1_multi.changes]

2008-02-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 15:52:30 -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote: > I uploaded these[0] files last week and expected to see a corresponding > "ip4r_1.03-1_multi.changes is NEW" mail (due to the new binary package > postgresql-8.3-ip4r), but one never came, nor do I see the package in > NEW or incoming

Re: Proposed MBF: packages defining useless RPATH's

2008-02-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 19:38:55 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > If no one objects I'll start MBF within a week or, if encouraged to and with > no objection, probably during the week. > Do we really need a mass bug filing for every single lintian check out there? I don't think this achieves an

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking > (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that > provide dependent .a files). That's not true, afaik. If you're linking st

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the?HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-03-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 18:57:47 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Now, unless we decide to, Debian is not meant to refuse any *new* package. Sure it is. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 15:01:13 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > Just for the record: every single package Rafael itp'd is already in > the archive as part of octave2.1-forge. Upstream decided to split this > up, so we follow. > If the software is already packaged, then it doesn't need an ITP bug i

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-03-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 14:09:09 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and > uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar. > > Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to provide > the dependency

Re: Bug#473354: ITP: winhardware -- hardware summary report from a Win32 host

2008-03-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 14:26:48 -0300, Joel Franco wrote: > I would to hear others opinions about your opinion. > I don't think adding a package for a simple shell script makes any sense. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: ${devlibs:Depends} results in libstdc++6-4.1-dev

2008-04-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 14:18:06 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > when trying to update libgenome-1.3-1-dev I noticed that the variable > ${devlibs:Depends} is turned into a dependency from a libstdc++6 which > is shipped with gcc-4.1 instead of using libstdc++6-4.2-dev or even > libstdc++6-4

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:56:01 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > This certainly good. However, perhaps dak should have been changed to > accept both format versions (1.7 and 1.8), instead of just rejecting the > old one right away. This could have been continued until some fixed > time after

Bug#477699: general: No read permission for /usr/include/GL directory

2008-04-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 18:02:28 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > I would suggest that this bug should be closed, it certainly does not > appear to be a "general" bug because only one package creates that > directory and that package is creating it correctly AFAICT. > dpkg creates that directory, an

Bug#477699: unreproducible

2008-04-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 19:53:19 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > The only thing I could think of is a package that generates > /usr/include/GL in its postinst without specifying the mode. > Or some buggy nvidia or ati "installer". Those are very good at fucking things up. Cheers, Julien --

Re: Bug#477732: libgsl0ldbl must conflict with libgsl0

2008-04-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:02:51 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adding debian-devel as I would like input from other DD. > The main question is "Do Debian support partial upgrade between > etch and lenny ? Or are only full upgrade supported ?" Yes, partial upgrades should work,

Re: Mailing lsit code of conduct, again

2008-05-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:26:29 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Another solution on your side is to use Mail-Followup-To. > > [...] > > Most mailers comply with this header. > > That field is non-standard, and there are many MUAs that don't obey >

Re: Processed: tagging 480716

2008-05-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 14:18:07 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > If it is just that 'quiet' supports what it does because that is all it > has needed to support so far, I'm fine with that. It just means I cannot > prevent those messages coming to -devel. I still need to process the > bugs. > The on

Re: Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

2008-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:35:20 -0700, Stephen Powell wrote: > I realize that PS/2 mice were not intended to be hot > swapped, but "stuff happens". Sometimes the connector > is loose and falls out, sometimes a mischievous > co-worker unplugs it as a practical joke, sometimes > the mouse fails, s

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 13:22:28 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > There are better processes for reducing RC counts and > improving Debian without crippling "Debian Desktop Edition". > Thanks for sharing your experience about improving Debian. Oh, wait... Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Mass bug filing: FTBFS because of using imake without Build-Depends on xutils-dev

2008-06-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 09:24:45 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I found those issues as well (there are 84 packages failing to build > because of that). I discussed this briefly on #debian-x, but it's not > clear yet if the X maintainers want to revert this change. > > I would personally prefer i

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 17:30:35 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There where 3 options: > > 1) ia32-libs + ia32-libs-gtk (+ ia32-libs-kde + ia32-libs-qt) >ftp-master asked us to clean that up basically and >"it would not pass NEW if it where uploaded now" > > 2) ia32-lib* packages i

Re: Bug#537492: menu: Binary without execution bits.

2009-07-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 22:28:23 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > And also, under zsh: > | $ which doublefailure 2>/dev/null > | doublefailure not found > > Leading to: > | if [ -x `which icanhazfailure 2>/dev/null` ] ; then echo FAIL ; fi > | [: too many arguments > Why would you point /bin/s

Re: Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation

2009-07-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 23:41:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Debian's busybox package has the syslogd and klogd functionalities > already compiled in, but to use them, a little bit more than a few > symbolic links is needed. > > This package provides the appropriate dependencies, the symbolic li

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 "Squeeze" release goals

2009-08-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:59:44 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - as a by product, would this enable binNMUs for arch:all packages? > Pretty sure it won't, since many packages assume that .dsc version and _all.deb version are the same. You'd have to solve that somehow. Cheers, Julien --

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 18:37:05 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > 2) These packages may just symlink > > /usr/share/doc/${package name}-${debug suffix} to > > /usr/share/doc/${package name} > > (and of course, depend on ${package name} > > 5) There m

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:58:45 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > If that bothers you, you can use the share we plan to provide. > I'd like to still be able to debug offline, thank you very much. So far you've avoided answering the question, though: why one ddeb per source instead of per b

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:05:44 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) [090825 10:28]: > > Le lundi 24 août 2009 à 22:25 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > > gnome-applets: > > > > This is a false positive. xmodmap.la is about the “la” locale, it’s not > > a libtool

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 20:55:04 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org) [090825 12:18]: > > You should exclude anything that isn't /usr/lib IMO. > > And not /lib and not /lib{32,64} and not /usr/lib{32,64}, ... > /lib shouldn't contain

Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-09-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:56:35 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > I made some last changes to the DEP following round 4. You'll find them below. > I plan to switch the DEP's status to CANDIDATE since it's about time to start > using this new format to try it out. Once I've done this, I'

Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-09-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 17:21:28 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > > FWIW, I'm not going to use something that I can't produce with git > > format-patch and feed to git send-email / git am since that feels like > > busy work; in particular

Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-09-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:22:30 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Are those patches in that format because you took them from the upstream > git repository or because using this format from the start lets upstream > pick it up easily? > Both (usually the latter though, because for patches which ar

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:41:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 04, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I still can't fathom why someone decided that udev should be responsible for > > translating PCI IDs and USB IDs into text strings. This smells of crazy. > I think that part of the rationale is

Re: library-related policy question

2009-09-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:50:59 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Hi > > > > Is there an statement in Debian Policy that explicitly requires higher > > version of a shared library package to be backwards-binary-compatible with > > previous versions of the

Re: library-related policy question

2009-09-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 15:14:21 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > As of today, debian does not contain this bug, because ffmpeg with this > brakage happened not to be uploaded yet to debian. However, once it is, > the bug will be in debian, and will have to be handled somehow. > So when th

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 05:15:19 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > From what I can see in /lib/udev/rules.d, the ids files are only used to setup > the (udev) environment variable ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE > (75-net-description.rules, 75-tty-description.rules, 78-sound-card.rules). > > There are no sym

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 14:59:44 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > khazad-dum:~$ lsusb ; ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/* > Bus 004 Device 003: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA > Modem / E270 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2009-09-07 14:56 > /dev/serial/by-id

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 22:02:21 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:54:19PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > * document that local policy will live in /etc/inetd.conf.d/ and any manual > > changes will be made effective by running update-inetd > > I think this violate

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:25 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > That is the thread at large. Currently it was about why nnn-quiet is no > suitable workaround if the followup address for users (nnn@) would suddenly > also mail users. Speaking of -quiet, I'd be happy to see that die. Or at the very le

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:23 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Conceptually, what "we" want is trivial: we want submitter to be > subscribed (in the sense of "bts subscribe") by default. If they want, > they are free to opt unsubscribing. If the submitter can unsubscribe, then we haven't won anyth

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:00:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > As a general principle I think it should always be possible for people to > opt out of mail from any sort of automated or semi-automated system. I > think supporting opt-out is a good idea. But I think that if the > submitter opts out

Re: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#545275: priority important package depending on optional one.

2009-09-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:55:27 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > CCing d-devel to get some more feedback (@David, this is mostly FYI - > please comment if I'm wrong) > > Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 09:47 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > > > the new gnupg now *depends* on libcurl3-gnutls. gnupg is

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 16:41:50 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > the answer to the real problem is education. if a user didn't submit > sufficient details in their report, politely ask them for more. show > them a guide for strace, or bug writing guides, or debian > documentation, or whatever may

Re: Fixing the Gobject Introspection mess

2009-09-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 13:32:54 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 2. Naming scheme > > The package should be named gir1.0-foo-X.Y. For example, the package > containing WebKit-1.0.gir will be named gir1.0-webkit-1.0. > > Giant repositories of dozens of unrelated introspection data should be > av

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-09-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:53:01 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hello, > > my non-free package mgltools-molkit built nicely everywhere, but the armel > could yet not be uploaded - blocking the autodocktools to arrive in testing. > > I tried to help it out with my OpenMoko running Debian, and wh

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-09-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:26:01 -0700, Daniel Nicoletti wrote: > >>>This solution is not implemented as I don't know debconf verry well > but there is one problem that I'd like to know if there is a already a way > to deal with this: > when aptcc backend starts installing packages it's status are

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-10-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 09:25:44 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Well, I think this reality sucks and should be fixed. Hahaha. Good luck with that plan :) Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 20:14:12 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > 204 packages are affected by this, a ddlist of the affected packages is below. > Please hold off on the xfonts-* ones. These are most likely due to a bug in xfonts-utils, so don't need to have individual bugs. Cheers, Julien -- T

Re: Changes to libc affecting name resolution in chroots?

2009-10-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:14:25 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > piupar...@piatti:/org/piuparts.debian.org/master/sid$ rgrep -l -e "Failed to > fetch.*Something wicked happened resolving" fail/*|wc > 237 2377713 > > I'm attaching one log like this to this mail, as I'll cleanup piuparts

Re: hardening-wrapper and debug symbols

2009-10-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:27 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I found out the hard way that when a package is built with > hardening-wrapper, then debugging it with gdb results in seriously > suboptimal backtraces like this: > > #0 0xb7d01424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > #1 0xb7816d11 in ?? () > #2

Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction

2009-10-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 16:02 +0100, Tobi wrote: > [1]: > http://svn.opensourcefactory.com/svn/vdr/trunk/debian/make-special-vdr.sh > > asks for a password. also nothing in what you said explains why you can't do what you want using a makefile. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Minimal kernel version raised to 2.6.27

2009-11-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:27:16 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:08:08 +0100 > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > > Due to changes in udev 147, squeeze will not support kernels earlier > > than 2.6.27. > > > > If your packages have code needed to support old kernels, t

Re: Minimal kernel version raised to 2.6.27

2009-11-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:14:00 -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:56:16AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:08:08PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Due to changes in udev 147, squeeze will not support kernels earlier > > > than 2.6.27. > > > > What a

Re: Minimal kernel version raised to 2.6.27

2009-11-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 16:45:58 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > According to "man 2 open": > >O_CLOEXEC (Since Linux 2.6.23) > > So why does using this flag require 2.6.27? Who is wrong here? > If you'd actually bothered to look at the changes in question, you would have noticed t

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:29:33 +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > Christian Perrier wrote the following on 15.11.2009 07:13 > > > Not considering the technical backgorund (which is of course an easy > > stance), it could be really interesting to have *by default* the > > default X session on tty1, when

Re: leftover /usr/X11R6 references

2009-11-20 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: libxcursor1 Version: 1:1.1.9-1 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 17:41:32 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > /usr/X11R6 is gone but code trying to use it lives on. > [...] > Binary file libXaw.so.7 matches > Binary file libXaw7.so.7 matches > Binary file libXaw7.so.7.0.0 matches http://cgit.freedesktop

Re: Unversioned .so file in /usr/lib vs dh_makeshlibs vs postinst-must-call-ldconfig

2009-11-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 13:33:17 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hi > > I tried to prepare and NMU to fix an RC bug #553111, which is > postinst-must-call-ldconfig. > > I found that adding missing call to dh_makeshlibs does not fix the issue, > because package installs a private shared l

Re: Bits from the ftp-team

2009-11-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 14:14:16 +, Mark Hymers wrote: > First of all, the following parts of the archive are temporarily > non-functional: > > * {o-,}p-u-new to {o-,}p-u migration (sometime this week) > What's up with that? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: Bits from the NM people

2009-11-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 20:21:02 +0100, Andreas Marschke wrote: > Lets say this package is maintained on Launchpad that also "maintainance" for > debian or would this have to be on mentors.debian.org to be a valid > maintainance? (Just curios as there use to be some discussion between the > blo

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 01:56:50 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > When it came to evaluating the same for Debian, his technical opinion > won (e.g. the problem with setup.py changes mentioned some time ago) for > the time being, and now that python2.6 would be ready to upload, > Matthias turned ill (

Re: linker script and versioned symbols

2009-12-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:17:12 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 20, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > How can I write an ld linker script that will cause ld to output the > > > same symbols two times, with and without a version tag? > > > I.e. I need it to output both sym...@base and sym...@lib

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 16:50:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The X packages will be able to use modprobe > > > config files to enable KMS at run time as required. > > This is not for the kernel team to do. > FWIW, this is done for intel in experimental, probably soon in unstable. For radeo

Re: QA pages and epochs: problem?

2009-12-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:10:07 +0100, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > Recently, it seems that the QA pages started ignoring the epoch in > changelog versions. Specifically > http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haxe.html shows an ancient version > 20060912-2 as the version in sid, while it shows 1:2.4-3

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2009-12-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 13:24:11 +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I do: > int v6only = 0; > int fd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0); > setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_V6ONLY, (void*)&v6only, sizeof(v6only)); > bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &my_sock, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6)); > listen(fd, 2);

Re: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap? (Re: Bug#562143: fails on cowbuilder --create)

2009-12-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 23:43:44 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > It seems like apt is not installed with debootstrap anymore. > > And it seems to be staying like this. > > > > I'm not sure when this happened, but apt used to be > > build-essential=yes but now it's not.

Re: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap? (Re: Bug#562143: fails on cowbuilder --create)

2009-12-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 00:20:49 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > Are you saying people didn't check debootstrap before breaking it? > > AFAIK it was checked with running debootstrap which still works as > expected except for the new variants..

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 18:55:32 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > PS: My vote for default GNOME browser definitely goes to Epiphany; > Firefox^WIceweasel comes nowhere close to feeling like a real GNOME > application. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2007/01/msg00952.html Cheers, Ju

Re: Bug#407468: ITP: cwiid -- Linux interface to the Wiimote

2007-01-18 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 18:57:41 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > CWiid is a Linux interface to the Wiimote written in C. is there any reason this needs to be mentioned in the package description? I'd think most users don't care, and those who do can use debtags to find out. Cheers, Julien

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 20:36:21 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I have to completely disagree here. When I started in earnest with the > effort to clean up the sasl package, I literally spent three twelve hour > days in a row doing nothing but bug triage. I really am not surprised > that peo

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 18:48:49 +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > - XSF packages is (mostly I think) Julien and David (2 people): I'd > say more than 900 bugs (500 on xorg solely). Add to that Drew Parsons, Michel Dänzer (who mostly helps with the harder bugs), and Brice Goglin (who d

0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on X bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Julien Cristau
<http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/Contrib> (NB: feel free to improve these pages as well) Need _live_ help? Hop in on #debian-x on OFTC. See you soon in the bug tracker, PS: Nothing particularly new in this email. -- Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian X Strike For

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:42:54 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:35:39PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Mar 26, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I think that the right thing to do is to assign the persistent names to > > > network devices that still exi

Re: MySql broken on older 486 and other cpuid less CPUs. Does this qualify as RC?

2007-04-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 5, 2007 at 19:08:03 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > The other minor problems was the netscape navigator 4.77 packages > breaking the x.org /usr/X11R6 upgrade. Do you know the exact name of the old package that caused this problem? Thanks, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: RFO: duplicity

2007-04-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Apr 7, 2007 at 13:49:20 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Can you please file an ITA about this into the BTS? Or if you cannot ^^^ That would be RFA. > maintain it for the time being, even an "O:"? > > This way, this mail will not be

Re: MySql broken on older 486 and other cpuid less CPUs. Does this qualify as RC?

2007-04-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Apr 7, 2007 at 13:31:00 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:24:06AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Do you know the exact name of the old package that caused this problem? > > I believe they were: > > communicator-smotif-477 > naviga

Re: Debian Development environments.

2007-04-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 20:25:35 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Still I don't see the advantage of having a complete development > environment on a live CD. Who is supposed to use this? > Students, who typically only have a windows install at home. It's much easier (for them and for the teache

Re: Intent to remove /usr/bin/X11 from PATH in /etc/login.defs

2007-04-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:07:38 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2007-04-15 at 19:33 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Are there any objections to us changing this setting in the default > > /etc/login.defs file? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -ld /usr/bin/X11 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2007-04

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 14:53:26 -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 4/17/07, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know --compare-versions, but I wasn't patient enough to come to > >4.22.. But it 4.22..-3.1 doesn't look too bad to me actually, just > >funny. > > I like "4.22_-3.1", it

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 22:02:37 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams: > > Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg > > packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy? > > You essentially need to build al

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 22:39:41 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > For a start, it would probably make sense to file Priority: important > bugs on sun-java5 and sun-java6 describing the breakage. Then wait a > bit, and if upstream is too busy with other things like OpenJDK to > address the issue, up

Re: Group maintainance howto and role of uploaders

2007-05-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 19:03:32 +0200, Marcus Better wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> I think so, see #397761. > > > I do not think so, since this would result in duplicat mail for all > > packages with maintainer=mailinglist. > > That's a minor problem that is very easily solved with a fil

Re: slang : sid transitions still frozen?

2007-05-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 16:44:42 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the maintainer of slang2. > I uploaded version 2.0.7 19 days ago, and according to > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#slang2 > its blocked by the etch freeze... > > Is this still the case,

Re: BoF: Supporting 15,000 packages - How much support do we mean?

2007-06-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jun 2, 2007 at 15:15:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > #382607 (CVE-2006-4041) has apparently not been touched in 9 months. > This is probably mitigated by the fix for #368645 (CVE-2006-2314), but > this was never confirmed. > The security tracker lists this as "unimportant", with a note

Re: Bug#427248: ITP: promethee -- a productive numeric working space

2007-06-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jun 2, 2007 at 11:50:45 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > "lambda (sbrice)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Description : A productive numeric working space > > > > promethee is an all-inclusive education project (called numeric > > working space) which support school managing and > > i

Re: License discussions in Debian

2007-06-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 6, 2007 at 06:07:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Perhaps a more interesting example is xserver-xorg-core's inclusion of the > GLX Public License, which includes: > > Any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the > exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Cou

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 6, 2007 at 17:50:26 +, Oleg Verych wrote: > Just as better alternative IMHO, please consider using `eu-readelf -ds` > from elfutils. elfutils isn't build-essential. binutils is, and does the job, so "it's better IMHO" isn't a particularly compelling reason to make all packages bu

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

2007-06-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jun 7, 2007 at 17:56:46 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070607 17:49]: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > symbols MUST NEVER disappear! > > > > Reality is that it happens. > > Reality is that

Bug#428774: ITP: pixman -- pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo

2007-06-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian X Strike Force <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pixman Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Søren Sandmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/pixman * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C

Bug#428776: ITP: libpciaccess -- Generic PCI access library for X

2007-06-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian X Strike Force <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libpciaccess Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Authors: Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> edward shu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *

Bug#428777: ITP: xserver-xorg-video-avivo -- X.Org X server -- Avivo display driver

2007-06-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian X Strike Force <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xserver-xorg-video-avivo Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Authors: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jerome Glisse <[

Re: who are the kernel maintainers?

2007-07-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jul 4, 2007 at 09:14:24 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I'm trying to find out who has responsibility for Bug #430646. It's a > critical bug, which should normally get some attention, and mail to > debian-kernel on the question, by at least a half-dozen people, has > gotten no respon

Re: who are the kernel maintainers?

2007-07-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jul 4, 2007 at 09:38:24 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I installed the package, which was automatically upgraded since I have > the previous version of the module which you had to build yourself. My > network immediately failed. > > At that point, I had to walk across campus where

Re: debootstrap+udev+sarge fails to remove mountig point

2007-07-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 15:20:05 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > one last thing - Daniel has recommended the "policy-rc.d" , i really > don't understand why do i need it and how it's gonna help me: when do > i use this script and why... > When you're building the live-cd. To prevent daemons fr

Re: x11proto-core 7.0.13 will break Tk

2008-07-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 14:07:02 +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to ask if there are plans to update x11proto-core to version > 7.0.13 before lenny release? > No, x11proto-core in lenny will be 7.0.12. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > 3) Even if "mkfontdir" were invoked directly or if it's okay to give > > "update-fonts-dir" an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to > > be updated and the warning removed), isn't it also ad

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