Re: Bug#588946: ITP: wacom-source -- Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format

2010-07-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 13:00:33 -0500, Taylor LeMasurier-Wren wrote: > I use Ubuntu, but have been having trouble getting any MOTU's or Ubuntu Devs > to listen to me, so I made this package. If I can get this package into > debian, than I can get it into Ubuntu, and than hopefully backported to >

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 21:07:11 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Is there any policy document or that like,... which mandates: > a) What is guaranteed to be available in initramfs images? > b) What is guaranteed to be available as soon as the root-fs is mounted > (I mean /etc/, /bin/, /sb

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 17:41:26 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > Setting up nvidia-kernel-dkms (195.36.24-4) ... > Loading new nvidia-195.36.24 DKMS files... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in > import lsb_release > ImportError: No module named

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation > > detail, no? So it just should not be the responsibility of the caller. > > It should as you can't assume that y

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 22:01:51 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/20/2010 09:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > >> On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > >>> Well, that lsb_rel

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 23:50:36 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: > [...] > > and b.) IMHO reportbug-ng should be installed by the default > > desktop task. > > Yes, if it supports bug scripts properly now. > It doesn't. I'm still tempted to

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-07-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:54:08 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > while I managed to trigger autobuilding on all architectures for one package > (velvet) in February, the same approach applied to another another one > (emboss) > gives problems: the architecture-dependant packages are built, but the

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-07-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 23:58:29 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Unfortunately, no binary package shows up on packages.debian.org. There must > be > something else broken in the changelog file I uploaded… > packages.debian.org is not where packages show up. $ lftp -c 'open ftp.debian.org; cd deb

Re: Problem with gfortran and pkg-config

2010-07-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:52:32 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, > > I've a problem using pkg-config for Fortran programs. > As shipped in sid (and squeeze), libnetcdf-dev includes a netcdf.pc > and /usr/include/netcdf.mod > > Now, to compile a fortran90 program I need to include > gfort

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 22:53:35 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > How does it sound ? Is it possible ? > Running dpkg --install from your maintainer scripts is probably not the best plan ever. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: conflicting with a package that has a binary with the same name ?

2010-08-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 14:23:19 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > But nodejs is getting more popular, and renaming its binary to nodejs > will probably upset many users. Is it legitimate to keep /usr/bin/node, > and Conflict: node ? > No, it's not. Best would be to convince your upstream to use a less

Re: conflicting with a package that has a binary with the same name ?

2010-08-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 18:25:10 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > You could use the alternative system. > No he can't. The programs have entirely unrelated functionality, AIUI. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#594672: ITP: dhcpcd5 -- a DHCP client

2010-08-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:35:29 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > * Package name: dhcpcd5 > Version : 5.2.7 > Upstream Author : Roy Marples > * URL : http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd > * License : BSD-2 > Programming Lang: C, Shell > Description : dhc

Re: Bug#594808: ITP: xvba-video -- XvBA-based backend for VA API

2010-08-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 19:30:47 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Patrick Matthäi" > > * Package name: xvba-video > Version : 0.7.3 > Upstream Author : Gwenole Beauchesne > * URL : http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauches

Re: Bug#594808: ITP: xvba-video -- XvBA-based backend for VA API

2010-08-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 21:13:11 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Already uploaded to NEW. > That means either you uploaded too soon or ITPed too late. Nothing I can do about that. > xvba-video is the right source package name, the binary package is > named xvba-va-driver (same way as the nvidia

Re: Generating SSL certificates in postinst

2010-09-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:25:48 +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote: > I see two ways of fixing this bug: either use -batch option which > means that the certificate will be without common name (this approach > is used in quassel), or supply an own OpenSSL config file along with > the postinst script (or

Re: /usr/share/info/dir.gz if install-info is installed

2010-09-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 14:55:33 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Cyril Brulebois , 2010-09-14, 12:00: > >>So this is to let you know, to remove this package in order to > >>avoid further problems :) > > > >packages really ought to build if that package is installed… > > Should these kind of bugs (FT

Re: Bug#597340: dpkg-gencontrol: implicit substvar at the end of every field

2010-09-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 23:07:44 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >CCing -devel and Joey Hess to have some input on this idea. Do you think > > >it would be useful ? Do you have comments and suggestions ? > > > > I'm uncomfortable with the idea of (ev

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:39:01 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Going by what multiarch proposed and apt already supports that should be > > apt-get install linux-2.6:src > > where "src" is just another architecture (at least for the user > interface). > Why do people hate vowels so much?

Re: Debian ppa (was Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 16:24:44 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 22. September 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: > > PS: for my personal needs, some way to get random packages autobuilt > > would already be helpful (call that ppa if you want). > > I seem to recall, ftpmaster was planni

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 17:12:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:17:02AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > > > So what backports "priority" actually says is "my package is such a > > bullshit that I don't want it ever released, but I am fine with putting > > burden on t

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 00:18:44 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:55:32PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > > What about building this architecture:all package only in binary-indep? > > Like in the attached patch... This way, the buildds won't try to build them. > > > diff -

Re: Can a pure Python package be architecture-dependent?

2010-10-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 21:38:10 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > An alternative is to use type-handling: > Depends: blahblah | kfreebsd-gnu > Not a very nice alternative, since that means depending on dpkg-dev. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Accepted sks 1.1.1+dpkgv3-5 (source amd64)

2010-10-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 13:27:25 +0200, Michael Fladischer wrote: > Christoph Martin, 2010-10-09 13:02: > >* don't depend on mta etc., as mailsync is now mostly obsolete (closes: > > 559280) > > Are you sure that this upload closes #559280? Because this is a bug > reported against the pa

Re: What about including less in standard installation ?

2010-10-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 13:12:14 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm forwarding here my ask in ask.debian.net [1], because two dd said > to me about. > > I don't known if less is not good for any reason, or having more is > enough, but I always install less in my systems > less is Priori

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 17:38:23 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > Maybe "god" ;-) > > What about the "adm" group ? Is it the same as the "admin" ? > What about reading the thread and relevant documentation instead of repeating turned down ideas for the bikeshed

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order > to shut down BIND? > Is it really necessary to send your bug reports to debian-devel? Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 18:29:19 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Sven Joachim, le Wed 27 Oct 2010 18:16:43 +0200, a écrit : > > On 2010-10-27 17:20 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > /lib (except modules) 9276 14096 4820 (notably 3.6M > > > discover) > > > > Why does discover g

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 18:00:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I forgot to mention other tasks as well: > > - Base+Standard grew from 397MiB to 491MiB > (we install libdb4.{5,6,7,8} !?, and since openssh-client recommends > xauth, x11 stuff gets installed) > fwiw db4.5 is (finally) out of

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

2010-11-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 19:45:19 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > >> On 10/31/2010 03:00 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta > >

Re: Bits from ftp-team (aka: Don't upload RC fixes to NEW queue)

2010-11-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 15:02:18 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > OK, that's a reason to avoid package churn in existing source packages and > thus letting packages with new binaries sit in NEW for a while. It doesn't > apply to entirely new packages however. > postgresql-9.0 was an entirely new s

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

2010-11-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:58:04 +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > Remember: "Our priorities are our users and free software". Having a > 100% translation target of d-i shouldn't be the main priority. > Congratulations, you just won today's SC#4 quoting contest! Also congratulations for

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:59:41 +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" > > * Package name: rtl8192ce-dkms > Version : 2.6.0003.0628.2010+dfsg > Upstream Author : Realtek Semiconductor Corporation > * URL : http://www.rea

Re: bits from the DPL: sprints, events, delegations, assets

2010-11-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 14:26:39 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > So I looked at [2], clicked through to the Universal Debian Database > [3], selected Sort By "last modified", and clicked Search. The very > first bug on the result [4] is #545911, which is already fixed. > It's marked as fixed in

Re: ITP: xf86-input-multitouch -- Multitouch X input driver

2010-11-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:12:52 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu > Severity: wishlist > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > * Package name: xf86-input-multitouch > Version : 1.0~rc2 > Upstream Author : Henrik Rydberg

Re: Bug#603534: ITP: xf86-input-multitouch -- Multitouch X input driver

2010-11-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:29:30 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/11/15 Julien Cristau : > > My understanding is that MT support will be added to the regular evdev > > and synaptics drivers (and the X protocol). > > I didn't know this.

Re: Minutes of the Debian linux-2.6 Group Meeting

2010-11-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:23:39 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 13:52:12 +, maximilian attems wrote: > > LSM: Enable AppArmor? as well as/instead of Tomoyo? > > --- > > As the LSM need to be built we can't enable them. This nee

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:29:28 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > All of this suggests that the idea to upgrade APT first, as suggested in > the release notes, is a very bad one. It would work if libapt hadn’t > changed its ABI in the meantime. > Last I checked the squeeze release notes didn't re

Re: Bug#605892: please state that mails will be publically archived

2010-12-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:46:44 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Dear Release Team, could you please state your opinion if this is > something that should be targetting squeeze? > I would say no. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reportbug not translated (Was: Bug#605892: please state that mails will be publically archived)

2010-12-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 13:22:19 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > While the not translated fact makes things easier in the issue of the > thread IMHO reportbug should definitely be translated. I checked BTS > about this but there is no such open bug asking for i18ned reportbug. > Am I the only one w

Re: Bug#584653: CVE-2010-2055

2010-12-23 Thread Julien Cristau
user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertag 584653 squeeze-is-blocker usertag 584663 squeeze-is-blocker kthxbye On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 20:15:19 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard w

Re: Question: How is debian-policy during freeze?

2010-12-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 13:57:33 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Dear developers, > > how are you dealing with packages during freeze? > > Are package versions, which are now in testing frozen even when they are not > working? Or do you exchange not working versions from testing against worki

Re: Question: How is debian-policy during freeze?

2010-12-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 15:45:37 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Freitag, 24. Dezember 2010 schrieb Olaf van der Spek: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich > wrote: > > > Yeah, the bug was reported, the bug was fixed, but the version with the > > > fix is not beein updated in

squeeze blocker: Bug#606295: libhibernate3-java: FTBFS: maven-related errors

2010-12-27 Thread Julien Cristau
user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertag 606295 squeeze-is-blocker kthxbye On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 00:26:26 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > This needs to be fixed for squeeze, we can't support this package if it > can't be built; and there's a bunch of reverse de

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 17:11:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Afaicr I've never seen this documentented somewhere to do it this way and I'm > wondering if this is indeed the agreed upon best practice and if we should > document it somehow (policy, devref, whatever). > Yes. Arguably it's covered

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:15:57 +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: > Hello there. > > I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451 > > I thing this violate 10.7.4 > > "The maintainer scripts must not alte

debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, recent versions of mutt convert attachments to their declared charset when saving them to disk (bug#537061). In particular, this means that a file with non-ascii characters, but wrongly sent with charset=us-ascii, would be converted to ascii on saving, replacing all non-ascii characters with

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:21:52 +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 15/01/2011 11:29, Philipp Kern a écrit : > > Arch:all binNMUing will only work if you keep the invariant of > > version(arch:all) = version(source) in some way. > > Why is this needed? > Package: foo Architecture: all Package:

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 13:52:06 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:21:52 +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > > > Le 15/01/2011 11:29, Philipp Kern a écrit : > > > > Arch:all binNMU

Re: Bug#611698: nodejs: conflicts with package node needlessly

2011-02-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 01:43:27 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > Package: nodejs > Version: 0.2.6-1 > Severity: serious > Tags: experimental > > It appears that nodejs in experimental has acquired a Conflicts with > node. According to the changes file for that release: > >* Use upstream bi

Re: Branching changelogs or not (Was: debian/changelogs, legacy work on packages and other distros)

2011-02-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 16:51:26 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > 3. Whether changelogs should be branched for different Debian > releases, be it testing-proposed-updates, backports or even > derivatives as Ubuntu or others. > As the package itself is branched, the changelog should be, t

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:12:51 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > PS lintian has a warning-level tag about that [2], which reports 250 >packages vs 279 reported by my script. I'll check where the >differences come from before actually reporting the bugs. > Isn't the lintian warning enou

Re: Bug#613788: ITP: dropbox -- secure backup, sync and sharing util

2011-02-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:52:49 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:35:26AM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > * Package name: dropbox > > Version : 1.0.20-1 > > Upstream Author : Dropbox, Inc. > > * URL : http://www.dropbox.com > > * License

Re: how come the buildd machines can't find python-vtk?

2011-02-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 21:27:16 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I uploaded insighttoolkit the other day, but the buildd machines > refuse to build it, claiming an installability problem [1]: > > insighttoolkit/alpha dependency installability problem: > > insighttoolkit (= 3.20.0-8) build

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 22:40:52 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild > resolvers to strip the alternatives (after arch reduction), which > will make them behave pretty much e

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 23:26:27 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:05:28AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 22:40:52 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most >

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:30:05 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > +# Should the dependency resolve use alternatives in Build-Depends and > +# Build-Depends-Indep? By default, only the first alternative will be > +# used; all other alternatives will be removed. Note that this does > +# not include arc

NMU procedure

2011-02-27 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, there are a number of NMUs currently in the delayed queue, adding armhf support to some packages. The bugs referenced in those uploads have seen no notification of any such upload, and no NMU diff has been sent. Please fix this. And in the future, do that before you upload, per http://www.de

Re: "epollCreate: unsupported operation" on buildd hosts

2011-03-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:49:55 +0530, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Dear Devel list, > > updating the GHC haskell compiler to the newest version in Debian is > causing surprisingly many problems. With one of those, I am totally at a > loss to understand it, especially as I cannot reproduce it. > >

Re: "epollCreate: unsupported operation" on buildd hosts

2011-03-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 15:23:09 +0530, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 10:22 +0100 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > epoll_create1 was added in 2.6.27, afaict. If that's what haskell is > > using, then it's not unexpected to have it

Re: -Wl,--no-allow-shlib-undefined fail with undefined reference to `_dl_argv@GLIBC_PRIVATE'

2011-03-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 13:04:44 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Trying to paackage cernlib I get on amd64 > > gfortran -shared .libs/aintgb.o .libs/alosb.o .libs/andb.o .libs/andntb.o > .libs/binvec.o .libs/cntob.o .libs/cntzb.o .libs/copyb.o .libs/cprsb.o > .libs/dalosb.o .libs/dcopyb.o .l

Re: new Contents generator on ftp-master

2011-03-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:25:32 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Samstag, 12. März 2011, Torsten Werner wrote: > > The new implementation is currently only used for suites that are not > > marked as untouchable. Oldstable and stable will switch during the next > > point release. > > Why

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 17:52:31 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > And for packages you either have to do stable updates all the time, or > add an additional repository, or use unstable on a server. Whatever you > prefer. > Not to mention debian mirrors don't have to run debian. Cheers, Julien --

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:12:35 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 04:40:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Eh? Rebuilding twice in a row would remove the files, regenerate them, > > remove them, regenerate them. I can't see how the second regeneration > > would fail if the first

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 14:33:09 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 22.03.2011 14:20, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-03-22, Matthias Klose wrote: > >>> The current design is the Binary packages can contain an additional > > ^^ > >>> control field: Built-Using. > >

Re: cgroup mount point

2009-02-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 18:00 -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Hello, > > Some software I intend to package work with the new cgroup feature in > Linux. I would like to open a discussion about what would be the better > place to mount it and how/when to mount it. What do other distros

Re: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 19:38:16 +0100, Rondal wrote: > >> there are currently no other IRC Services packages in the > >> repositories > > [...] > > > > Unless I misunderstand your assertion or am taking it out of > > context, I would hold up at least the dancer-services package as a > > countere

Re: x11proto-core 7.0.13 will break Tk

2009-02-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 14:07 +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote: > I'd like to ask if there are plans to update x11proto-core to version > 7.0.13 before lenny release? I'm about to upload 7.0.14 to sid now. Is there a tk fix by now? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: ode 0.11 transition

2009-02-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:16 +0100, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: > I uploaded libode 0.11 in experimental. Can you please, test it with > your package and adjust your build dependency in order to able to build > it with libode-dev or libode0-dev. What's the point of changing the -dev package name, if yo

Bug#515611: general: Keyboard layout problem

2009-02-16 Thread Julien Cristau
reassign 515611 xserver-xorg kthxbye On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:15 -0500, fayaz wrote: > After I upgrade to Lenny, my keyboard layout has been lost. It work fine > on the shell. But in gnome it types wrong character. I remove and > re-installed gnome and xserver but it doesn't make any difference.

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:16 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by > > using a debian/rules of: > > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > %: > > dh $@ > > without risking breaking any existing ass

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 20:27:54 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Are there plans on this issue? Drop packages? Always load snd_pcm_oss? > Make those packages depend on oss-compat? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: BDF Considered Harmful?

2009-03-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 12:15 +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:07:56AM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > > However, the original BDF version can contain ASCII comments that are > > not preserved in the PCF version. These comments often contain > > information such as author, copyr

removing unmaintained (unused?) X input drivers

2009-03-18 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, the following X input drivers will be removed from the archive soon unless someone steps up to maintain them (both upstream and in Debian). If you use one of these, now is the time to make yourself known. magellan calcomp digitaledge dmc elo2300 dynapro jamstudio magictouch palmax spaceorb te

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-03-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 19:03 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:45:09 +0100 (CET) > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I tried to find a clear advise how to reasonable format lists inside long > > descriptions of packages. The only thing I know is that lines with two > > leading spaces

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 15:58 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Honestly, if you cant deal with listing the Authors/(C) holders - dont > maintain a package. Is this you volunteering to maintain X? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:47:04 +, Noah Slater wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:53:51 +, Noah Slater wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:55:47 +, Noah Slater wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:58:56 +, Noah Slater wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:02:51 +, Noah Slater wrote: On S

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing? (was Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

2009-03-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:58 +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Why is such a core app and also beautiful app as Ardour is, not even in > Debian stable or testing? This is a big problem imo and it should be > solved as soon as possible. I can't imagine that there is a real > problem, cause I know

Re: Again: Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2009-04-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:23 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > What about using /usr/bin/PLINK? please god no. try to find a name that removes confusion, not one that is ugly but still as generic. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Perhaps programs should create the subdirectories they use for their temporary files

2009-04-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:00 +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > The problem is that some programs (apt-get, PolicyKit, etc.) store temporary > files in /var/run or /var/cache in their own subdirectories, but expect > something else to create these directories for them. I think we should require > these pr

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 14:04 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:55:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > As (co-)maintainer of pm-utils and hal, I'd prefer if we could work towards > > standardizing on one power management stack in Debian (and not install 3 by > > default [1]),

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > 515214 isn't most users. most users just want things to work. > > But then 515214 appears to be at least a significant amount of users. Any

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 10:25 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Well, you can always argue that the rest can be fixed. Provide patches > etc. But the point is that hal implies a regression for many (most?) > users. please stop the FUD. > hal breaks existing working configurations without warnings. The

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 10:18 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > ...except with latest hal/X.org/whatever it also stopped working. Latest > X.org pulled in console-setup, and now the settings under > /etc/hal/fdi/policy get ignored. What a mess. that's called a bug. ranting on mailing lists doesn't do an

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:24:59 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > > hal breaks existing working configurations without warnings. The simple > > > test case is using a non-US keyboard properly configured as such in > > > xorg.conf. Introduce

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:01:55 +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > Is there a way to tell 'make' to execute all the dependencies for a > target but not go through the target itself? > That way you'd execute build-stamp, but not build. Not much of a gain. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Help needed with /etc/X11/config/cf

2009-06-02 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, Please consider posting this kind of questions to debian-user@ instead of -devel, where this is off-topic. Anyway, as for your problem: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 23:56:15 +0100, alexe...@iol.pt wrote: > Hi, > It is my first time i instaled debian. I am enjoying it very much. > I am trying to

Re: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:49:13 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > > > It seems that the support for Intel's Poulsbo chipset (Graphics GMA 500) > > for Atom processor (US15) is sparse [1]. > > So far I have been able to find a

Re: Configurable debian/control & debian/rules

2009-06-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:13:58 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > My question is simply: how do express that only one Binary package > requires a particular Build-Depends package, but the other remaining > Binary package should be fine ? > You don't. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 23:08:26 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > since version 2.6.0-4, fontconfig includes a trigger that will re-run > fc-cache whenever needed. > > Therefore, all font packages that currently do this in the postinst are > strongly advised to remove these calls. The pe

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:22:42 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > For the case of pam, I would be interested in seeing the full build log to > understand how in the world this built successfully without libdb. That's > definitely a packaging error on my part, because without libdb, > pam_userdb.so

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:39:29 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > > On 28.07.2014 02:05, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun > > wrote: > > > >> * Does it make sense for me to switch my package? > >>The rule of thumb is, if your upstr

Re: Introducing vcswatch

2014-07-31 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:57:36 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014, at 08:19, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi Christoph, > > > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > > > https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch > > > > Cool! I wonder whether you could

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 18:02:29 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Thorsten Glaser > > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > > > There is something called LLVMpipe, it's a software fallback when there > > > > Hm, but LLVM is not available for all Debian (CPU) architectures. >

Re: python-openssl unavailable in sid

2014-09-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 09:57:36 +1000, Brian May wrote: > As far as I can tell, this problem has been fixed. ftp-master didn't > respond, maybe it come good by itself? No, they fixed it last week. Cheers, Julien -- Julien Cristau Logilab http://www

Re: schroot, apt-get and experimental

2014-09-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:11:50 -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:14:41AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > (If you don't like that, we can probably consider your patches to > > dd-schroot-cmd :) > > Is the source code only in /usr/local/bin on the schroot machines? Or > is

Re: MBF: libjpeg-turbo transition started (if you depend on libjpeg8-dev please read)

2014-09-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 20:21:09 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > BTW: What is the correct package to build-depend on - libjpeg62-dev or > libjpeg-dev? > libjpeg-dev, please. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Tests running as (real) root?

2014-10-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 15:45:50 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 11:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > I have a question about how to run tests for a package needing root to > > > run properly, fakeroot is not suff

Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

2014-11-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 13:17:11 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > [ Fixed CC and M-F-T addresses, and bounced to debian-release. ] > > Hi! > > On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 11:45:56 +0100, Marc Glisse wrote: > > sorry for the naive question, but is there a plan for massively rebuilding > > all "Multi-Arch:

Bug#768156: general: dpkg frontend inconsistent

2014-11-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 17:53:50 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Michal, > > On Mittwoch, 5. November 2014, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > I was upgrading my system and several times I was asked for installing a > > new configuration file. Sometimes the question is posed in teletype > > style fronte

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