Re: create orig.tar.gz

2010-02-28 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: And also, the md5sum of the gzipped archive made from the original bzipped archive can vary from conversion to conversion unless the option ``--no-name'' is passed to gzip. We're dangerously digressing into pristine-tar's domain here. [0] From: Joey

Re: Support for non UTF8 encodings

2010-02-26 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Roger Leigh wrote: [...] the localised messages are not being recoded from UTF-8 to the locale charmap at runtime, and this is the cause of the corrupted output. This is a bug. Localisation systems such as gettext (what pretty much everything uses) will automatically

RFR: lbzip2-0.21-1

2010-02-17 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review the new version of my package lbzip2. It seems to be unstable-lintian-clean. Changes in this version: * New upstream release fixes a negligible probability race between the muxer thread printing an error message due to a write error, and the

Re: RFS: libzeep

2010-02-10 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
(This will be off-topic, sorry. I'm not a DD, just a curious user.) On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libzeep. * URL : http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/ This redirected me to [0] and there I didn't find the word zeep in the page.

Re: RFS: libzeep

2010-02-10 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: Hope this clarifies things a bit. Yes, thank you, I've read it with great interest; the library seems useful, indeed. I think (hope) that you've automatically provided some grounds to potential sponsors to look at your package, too. All the

help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I've read some notes on how to use the Debian BTS via email [0] [1] [2], but I am still a bit confused. Rogério Brito has submitted a wishlist bug report for lbzip2 [3]. As Rogério has accepted my proposal to use an external tool for his need, I'd like to close the bug with a

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Ignoring for now the anomaly of closing a wontfix bug, which Kumar has already addressed, this is what I would send to achieve this result. I'll do this. Thank you both very much, lacos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RFS: lbzip2-0.20-1

2009-12-28 Thread Ersek, Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I've released lbzip2-0.20 and packaged it for Debian. I kindly ask you to review it. The dsc file is available at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2/lbzip2_0.20-1.dsc lintian displays the usual W: lbzip2: manpage-has-errors-from-man

RFR: lbzip2-0.19-1

2009-12-01 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review my package lbzip2-0.19-1. Changes: lbzip2 (0.19-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release checks for most errno macros before relying on them (Closes: #559052). http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2/lbzip2_0.19-1.dsc

Re: RFR: lbzip2-0.19-1

2009-12-01 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:49:45PM +0100, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: I kindly request you to review my package lbzip2-0.19-1. Uploaded. Thank you. lacos

Re: RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

2009-11-30 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: If you agree, I'll upload it with the following changes: Wow :) and apply the following patch: diff -urNp lbzip2-0.18/debian/control lbzip2-0.18/debian/control diff -urNp lbzip2-0.18/debian/source/format lbzip2-0.18/debian/source/format

Re: RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

2009-11-30 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: gzip -dc lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.gz | bzip2 -9 - lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.bz2 touch -r lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.gz lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.bz2 Just to understand it better, are both the gz and bz2 tarballs

Re: RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

2009-11-30 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:55:48PM +0100, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review my package lbzip2-0.18-1. The package is located at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2/ If you agree, I'll upload

Re: RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

2009-11-30 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: If you agree, I'll upload it with the following changes: gzip -dc lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.gz | bzip2 -9 - lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.bz2 touch -r lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.gz lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.bz2 I ran

RFR: lbzip2-0.18-2

2009-11-30 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: You missed one important thing and so László didn't changed either: debian/compat should reflect debhelper compatibility level. Fixed right away. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2/lbzip2_0.18-2.dsc Changes: lbzip2 (0.18-2)

RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

2009-11-29 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review my package lbzip2-0.18-1. The package is located at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2/ Changes: * New upstream release: - Add sanity checks to both decompressors. - Remove input FILE operands. - Implement options --keep

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-21 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: I download at 370KB/s on good days and from local servers, and it's the fastest (and most expensive) plan my ISP provides. And I know people on dialup. An alternative is not an obligation, it's an alternative. I can accept, though, that it may not

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, George Danchev wrote: Not that I can help with the surveys, but you may want to compare your compressor to the practical tests and comparisons found at [1], and eventually update your debaday article with the results. [1] (URLs might be wrapped)

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: Decompressing concurrently with the download is faster than both: it takes a total of max(download_time,bzip2_time). The download is usually the slowest, so we can just say it takes download_time. On my machine, standard bunzip2 consumes about 3.6

How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-19 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Hi, I'd like to ask users for their opinions about lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative in Debian, by requesting them to choose exactly one of the following options, after reading my DebADay article [0]: 1. I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative. 2. I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2

Re: Configuration file with sensitive data (password)

2009-11-16 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: But where to put the password? Due to the protocol used during authentication, the daemon needs the pass- word in plaintext form, it can't be a hash (remote client sends I want to auth, daemon sends nonce, remote client hashes password and nonce,

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-11-12 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Write an article for debaday.debian.net about lbzip2 to promote it and get more users/testers. The DebADay Team has reviewed and published my article under [0]. Many thanks to Ana Guerrero, Martín Ferrari, and the rest of the DebADay Team! Also thank

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.17-1

2009-11-04 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Reviewed and uploaded. Thank you! Not sure if you've used zzuf before, but you might want to use it to discover possible bugs that could lead to crashes/etc in lbzip2. Thanks for the tip. I didn't use zzuf, but I did do fuzz testing, as early as

request for review: lbzip2-0.17-1

2009-10-28 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: [apologies for the lateness of this reply] Still too early :), I just noticed I'll have to fix the debian-sanity target, because in lbzip2-0.16rc1, the set of recognized environment variables changed. Mainly I was concerned about the may be used

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16-1

2009-10-26 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Ruben Molina wrote: W: lbzip2: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version 0.16rc1 precedes 0.16 chronologicallly. You should have used something like 0.16~rc1 for the previous release. See the --compare-versions option in dpkg for the next time. Thanks. I

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16-1

2009-10-26 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Ruben Molina wrote: W: lbzip2: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version 0.16rc1 precedes 0.16 chronologicallly. You should have used something like 0.16~rc1 for the previous release. See the --compare-versions option in dpkg for the next time. Fixed,

request for review: lbzip2-0.16-1

2009-10-25 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review lbzip2-0.16-1: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Changes: lbzip2 (0.16-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release: - handle signals and problems with input/output files more gracefully, - close standard

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16rc1-1

2009-10-21 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Please note that you need to remove the patches after running make clean, since you patch the Makefile. (1) Is it acceptable if I make the clean target in debian/rules depend on the unpatch target, which is defined by /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make and

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16rc1-1

2009-10-21 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: (1) Is it acceptable if I make the clean target in debian/rules depend on the unpatch target, which is defined by /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make and seems to do the right thing? Or rather, as the (new) last action of the clean target, invoke

request for review: lbzip2-0.16rc1-1

2009-10-20 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I released a new upstream version of lbzip2. It is a beta (or release candidate). I refreshed the Debian package under [0], built in a sid pbuilder; lintian produced no warnings. lbzip2 (0.16rc1-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release (candidate): -

Re: Realloc is blocking execution

2009-10-16 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Hi, On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: 2. The window manager WM responds to a user request by issuing execlp( /bin/sh -c pkill -HUP WM ) 4. The main process WM receives SIGHUP, and enters a signal handler. The signal handler uses two calls: free_menuitems(),

Re: Realloc is blocking execution

2009-10-14 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se writes: Is this unavoidable fact that realloc() blocks execution a known issue with gcc-4.3.2 or glibc-2.7? Personally, I was under the impression that malloc/realloc never should block

Re: Realloc is blocking execution

2009-10-14 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Felipe Sateler wrote: I've always assumed that malloc (and thus realloc) can sleep. I believe the creators of the Single UNIX Specification didn't share (or at least, didn't codify) this assumption. As a general rule, any system interface that is designed to wait (=

Re: Realloc is blocking execution

2009-10-14 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, George Danchev wrote: Hm, I guess that the library functions are just fine and it has something to do with the kernel performing memory overcommitment by default. You can prevent that by (from the tail of realloc(3) man page): echo 2 /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory and

Re: Realloc is blocking execution

2009-10-14 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: I inserted two printouts, immediately surrounding realloc(): fprintf(stderr, Will enter realloc().\n); ptr = realloc(ptrold, 1024) fprintf(stderr, Has exited realloc().\n); Only the first statement gets printed. Please

tar + lbzip2

2009-10-08 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Talk to the upstream tar maintainers about ways to make tar detect if lbzip2 is available and use it instead of bzip2. Please join the conversation under [0], I believe I'm no further qualified to talk on behalf of Debian. In my understanding, the

Re: tar + lbzip2

2009-10-08 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Bdale Garbee wrote: [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg8.html As the maintainer of the Debian packaging of tar, I'm ok with Sergey's proposal in [0]. Thank you. As that means /etc/alternatives/bzip2-filter, maybe through /usr/bin/bzip2-filter

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-06 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: 3) you patch that Makefile to no longer set CC CFLAGS LDFLAGS and LIBS What I am saying is that this patch is unnecessary. you can do that totally in debian/rules by placing those variables in the make invocation within your build-stamp target.

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-06 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Talk to the upstream tar maintainers about ways to make tar detect if lbzip2 is available and use it instead of bzip2. I made a proposal under [0]. I amended it under [1]. Please look at [1], it also summarizes how (I think) Debian would be affected.

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-06 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: 3) you patch that Makefile to no longer set CC CFLAGS LDFLAGS and LIBS What I am saying is that this patch is unnecessary. you can do that totally in debian/rules by placing those variables in the make invocation within your build-stamp target. I

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-06 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: = and := are exactly the same, except that := is evaluated once and then stored, whereas = is evaluated later. If I were you I would be more worried that all the parsing and reparsing (which causes the need

lbzip2-0.15-2 review

2009-10-06 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Anyway, here are some ideas about what you could do to improve lbzip2: In preparation for a possibly upcoming upstream release, I did some work on the lbzip2 package. I kindly request you to review it; it appears lintian clean in a sid pbuilder jail. I

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-05 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Write an article for debaday.debian.net about lbzip2 to promote it and get more users/testers. Should be in their queue now. Have the package description and manual page reviewed by the Smith Review Project:

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-05 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Note that you might do without a patch. make is build for cases like that in mind, so replacing variables in a makefile you do not like just needs those variables as command line arguments. so just changing debian/rules to $(MAKE)

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-04 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: So as long as it is uploaded before the freeze date you should be fine. Thank you. Most Standards-Version updates are of the form Bump Standards-Version, no changes needed and such updates should not be done unless they accompany some other update like

presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-03 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Hi, what's the earliest event or point in time after which event/point but before Squeeze shipping as stable the policy won't be changed anymore but I as a sponsored maintainer will still be able to upload (ask my sponsor Paul Wise to upload) my lbzip2 package? I'd like to update the package

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-03 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Ben Finney wrote: It's not a problem if packages included in a Debian release are conformant with a slightly outdated version of Policy. I don't see that as a good reason for delaying the upload of an otherwise-ready release of your package. -q: - I don't have anything

Re: RFS: throttle

2009-04-09 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Eduardo Ferro wrote: I just upload a new version. I think that this version fixes all the (I really have no say in this, I'm just curious.) [1] explicitly mentions cstream as a bandwidth-limiting pipe already in Debian. Another program with such functionality is pv (also

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-04-07 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Looks fine, uploaded. Thank you. There is one pedantic lintian complaint: P: lbzip2 source: direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system Makefile and 1 more I think I'd like to start using quilt or dpatch for my own good. I tried to do an interdiff -z

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-04-05 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On 03/17/09 10:19, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:55 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Uploaded. I released upstream-version 0.15 and uploaded dpkg-version 0.15-1 to the URL above. I kindly request you to put

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-03-18 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: On 03/17/09 10:19, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:55 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Uploaded. Thanks a lot! lacos Sorry, I intended to post this to the list. I was constantly

Re: upload key error

2009-03-18 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:33:44PM +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: upload error: /var/cache/pbuilder/result$ dupload -t mentors rumor_1.0.3b-1_i386.changes dupload note: no announcement will be sent. Checking signatures before upload...GPG signature

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-03-16 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On 03/16/09 07:32, Paul Wise wrote: That isn't the way to do it. Because lbzip2 is in NEW, you should add a new changelog entry with two entries, something like this: new upstream release and bump Standards-Version, no changes needed. For the latter, please verify that no changes were needed by

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-03-15 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On 02/18/09 15:25, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:12 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: I uploaded a new build of the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Please contact this list for future versions and I will upload if I am able. I released a new

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-18 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:12 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: I uploaded a new build of the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Apologies for the delay, uploaded, should end up in NEW soon. Please contact this list

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-16 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Paul Wise wrote: The reason is that's the way we do it in Debian. The policy manual probably has a rationale. [...] Hmm, which Debian architectures do you test on? Perhaps /dev/urandom could be a good source of data. [...] Yeah, always run lintian in sid and build/test your packages on

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-16 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Don Armstrong wrote: If you plan on being able to debug the binaries that you've released, you almost certainly need the debbugging symbols that match the binaries that you've released. In Debian we currently aren't collecting all of the debugging symbols, so doing the above is difficult

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-15 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:59 PM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: Citing the Version, File size [B] and Decompr. speed [%] blocks from report_alpha_osf1.txt (I mark the relevant rows with exlamation marks now): Ok, these numbers convinced me lbzip2 is better

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-15 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Paul Wise wrote: And now onto the package review: Why does your diff.gz patch the Makefile? Shouldn't you add those changes to the upstream Makefile? I don't think so. As my general, hobbyist free software development policy, I *always* and *exclusively* follow the Single Unix

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-13 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
(I'm sorry I can't reply directly to e13a36b30902121947y639c65cbq3f925f5ac5039...@mail.gmail.com, my subscription didn't go through before that message appeared on the list, and pine doesn't let me edit In-reply-to: and References: manually, and currently I can only use pine.) How is this

RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-12 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package lbzip2. * Package name: lbzip2 Version : 0.13-1 Upstream Author : Laszlo Ersek (myself) * URL : http://phptest11.atw.hu/ * License : GPLv2+ Section : utils It builds these binary packages: