Re: Build-Depends-Indep and packages with architecture all

2003-08-04 Thread Frank Kster
Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What concern do porters have with architecture-all-only-packages? With most Arch: all packages, little to none. The concern is actually in *not* having stuff that is *only* needed for -indep targets (which will generally never be built by porting machines)

Re: GNAT 3.15p

2003-08-04 Thread Florian Weimer
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please write to Florian Weimer first. He already did the job, so it's up to him to decide if he wants him packages to enter the archives rather than yours. I'm not a DD, so I have no word on this issue. But I'm going to have a look at Ludovic'

Re: GNAT 3.15p

2003-08-04 Thread Florian Weimer
Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged gnat and gnat-doc 3.15p for Debian on i386, as well as libgtkada2 (total, 3 source and 9 binary packages). They are available for download here: deb http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta testing main deb-src

UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then `file changelog.new` returns 'ASCII text' again, and

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: [snip] As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I only use ASCII characters, it should be fine. You are perfectly right. -- I have sampled

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mike Hommey said: On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: [snip] As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I only use ASCII characters, it should be

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Joel Baker
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joel Baker said: US-ASCII only defines characters from 0x00 through 0x7F (0 - 127); it is a formal subset of both ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and UTF-8. Or, more precisely, both Latin-1 and UTF-8 are proper supersets of US-ASCII, largely to prevent being gratuitously

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Stephen Gran wrote: Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. Note that file doesn't look at the whole file, so it may miss non-ASCII characters if they're not at the

Re: RFS: kforth

2003-08-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Somebody please step up and sponsor me. Christian Kurz did. Thank you! -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de -- Why don't you fix your little

Re: GNAT 3.15p

2003-08-04 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged gnat and gnat-doc 3.15p for Debian on i386, as well as libgtkada2 (total, 3 source and 9 binary packages). They are available for download

Re: Build-Depends-Indep and packages with architecture all

2003-08-04 Thread Frank Küster
Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What concern do porters have with architecture-all-only-packages? With most Arch: all packages, little to none. The concern is actually in *not* having stuff that is *only* needed for -indep targets (which will generally never be built by porting machines)

Re: GNAT 3.15p

2003-08-04 Thread Florian Weimer
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please write to Florian Weimer first. He already did the job, so it's up to him to decide if he wants him packages to enter the archives rather than yours. I'm not a DD, so I have no word on this issue. But I'm going to have a look at Ludovic'

Re: GNAT 3.15p

2003-08-04 Thread Florian Weimer
Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged gnat and gnat-doc 3.15p for Debian on i386, as well as libgtkada2 (total, 3 source and 9 binary packages). They are available for download here: deb http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta testing main deb-src

UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then `file changelog.new` returns 'ASCII text' again, and

Re: GNAT 3.15p

2003-08-04 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged gnat and gnat-doc 3.15p for Debian on i386, as well as libgtkada2 (total, 3 source and 9 binary packages). They are available for download here: deb

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: [snip] As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I only use ASCII characters, it should be fine. You are perfectly right. -- I have sampled

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mike Hommey said: On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: [snip] As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I only use ASCII characters, it should be

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Joel Baker
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joel Baker said: US-ASCII only defines characters from 0x00 through 0x7F (0 - 127); it is a formal subset of both ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and UTF-8. Or, more precisely, both Latin-1 and UTF-8 are proper supersets of US-ASCII, largely to prevent being gratuitously

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Stephen Gran wrote: Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. Note that file doesn't look at the whole file, so it may miss non-ASCII characters if they're not at the

Re: RFS: kforth

2003-08-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Somebody please step up and sponsor me. Christian Kurz did. Thank you! -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de -- Why don't you fix your little

Re: GNAT 3.15p

2003-08-04 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged gnat and gnat-doc 3.15p for Debian on i386, as well as libgtkada2 (total, 3 source and 9 binary packages). They are available for download

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus, unless you're using high characters not defined in US-ASCII, all of the following three statements are true: 1) It is a valid US-ASCII file 2) It is a valid ISO-8859-1 file More generally, it's valid (and will appear identical) in any of the