Bug#901134: RFS: anbox-modules/0.0~git20180608-1 [ITP]

2018-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 16:04 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:46 AM Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 01:09:39AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I agree, I don't think it makes much sense to build these OOT if

Bug#901134: RFS: anbox-modules/0.0~git20180608-1 [ITP]

2018-06-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 13:23 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi Ben! > Could you please chime in to bug #901134 (RFS: anbox-modules)? > > This package wants to ship redundant copies of two modules (ashmem and > binder) that are already in mainline since a long time ago. This strikes me > as

Re: [buildd] unexpected FTBFS on amd64 buildd «binet»

2016-10-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
does support. > > That means nothing higher than SSE2 on amd64, and no SSE at all on i386. [...] On i386 we cannot even assume MMX, as the earliest 686 models don't have it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signatu

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
, though that is not yet an official service) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
this in a package uploaded to Debian. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 00:01 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: [...] I think there's a good case for including it in the 'laptop' task, but not in the standard system (desktops and servers generally don't need

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
is enough, so long as the referenced file really is included. I would recommend to upstream that they include a copyright statement (year and owner) in each file, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:20 +0100, Dominik Smatana wrote: Hello, there are missing licenses in some source files in upstream project I'm packaging for Debian. There is just license in the main source file. Is it fine? Or should I edit these files and add missing licenses (copy paste

Re: exception and RFS: unionfs-fuse - fix RC bug

2009-01-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
not be passing untrusted strings to it, so it doesn't allow compromising an ordinary user account. So, not a security flaw so far as I can see. But it obviously ought to be fixed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. - Rachel

Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
if you have the original source unpacked in the directory $name-$version.orig and the Debian-modified source in the directory $name-$version then dpkg-source -b $name-$version will use $name-$version.orig to build the orig.tar.gz. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame

Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
to form a pipeline if not. snip It doesn't. The pipeline would be: tar cf - $source_dir | gzip -c9 $tarball Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Question about how to handle a RC bug.

2007-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
in the Debian package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Few questions

2007-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
could have a template postinst file and then (1) in the command for the binary target make copies of that with substitutions (perhaps using sed), and (2) in the commands for the clean target delete the substituted version. Make sure to comment what you're doing. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00010.html How is the dpkg v2 archive format activated during the packaging process? So far as I know, there are no tools for making dpkg source v2 (aka Wig and Pen) packages yet, though dpkg-source can unpack them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
can upload to unstable and then prevent it from moving into testing by immediately filing a bug on with severity serious simply saying that it is not ready for release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] shortened to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've signed my GPG key, please send a signature

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
or sbuild after inspecting, but would prefer you to test beforehand. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] shortened to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've signed my GPG key, please send a signature on and to the new uid. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious

Re: HPPA buildd warnings for gimp-resynthesizer

2006-04-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
/machines.cgi?host=sarti is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Question about rules file

2006-03-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
). Each of the scripts should have a manual page, but not the kernel modules. Have you read http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModulesPackaging yet? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: debian package installation - setting environment

2006-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
of its files under /opt/$vendor. I don't know what I would do about including its binaries in the path though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: RFS: directnet -- A serverless, mesh network instant messaging client

2006-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
+2.4.4rc1. I believe this practice has been obsolete since the release of sarge. dpkg now considers ~ to sort before anything, even a null string, so you can use e.g. 1.0.0~rc5. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description

Re: RFS: kmess -- A messenger for KDE with MSN support

2005-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?

2005-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
near the end. It might be worth a look. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: ktorrent - KDE Bittorrent client

2005-09-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
distributions, so far as I know. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: ktorrent - KDE Bittorrent client

2005-09-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
Joel Johnson wrote: On Thu, September 22, 2005 10:38 am, Ben Hutchings wrote: snip A new rule was added to dpkg version comparisons a while ago to support this case. A ~ compares as less than anything else, even the empty string, so 1.1~rc1 is greater than 1.0 and less than 1.1

Re: debian-mentors FAQ updated

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
://changelogs.debian.net/ here ? I rather think this should be http://snapshot.debian.net. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your sig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about increasing versionnumbers

2005-08-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
in this case, I guess?), so that all new changelog entries are included in .changes. (I didn't know about this till tbm pointed it out to me.) -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

RFS: Sponsor needed for sgt-puzzles

2005-06-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
games Source and i386 binary packages can be found at http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/software/. (Note: linda complains Build-Depends on debhelper unnecessarily. even though debian/rules does use debhelper; I don't understand why.) -- Ben Hutchings The program is absolutely right; therefore