Bug#1068495: sponsorship-requests: RFS: tack/1.09+20230201-1 [RC] -- terminfo action checker

2024-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
ase in debian/copyright (Upstream-contact ⇒ Upstream-Contact). . [ Sven Joachim ] * New upstream snapshot. - Fixes FTBFS with -Werror=implicit-function-declaration (Closes: #1066469). * Update debian/watch to version 4, and look for tarballs on https://invisible

Re: build for stable: bad-distribution-in-changes-file

2023-09-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-09-09 09:17 +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > I want to build a package to upload to stable, but I get a lintian Error > E: runit-services changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file bookworm > > I'm doing the following steps > > 1. generate the changelog entry with > $ dch --stable > https://salsa.de

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps cannot find the shared objects provided by a downloader package

2023-03-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-03-20 00:37 -0400, M. Zhou wrote: > I'm trying to build the cuda version of pytorch. It depends on a non-free > library libcudnn.so.8 which > is downloaded during postinst by bin:nvidia-cudnn. It is provided by a > downloader script due to > some problems in the upstream EULA. > > During

Re: Question on rm_conffile

2021-02-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-02-22 09:09 -0500, Tong Sun wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:33 AM Tong Sun wrote: >> >> > Can I use rm_conffile to remove a (conffile) directory? >> > >> > I checked the man page but am still not too sure about that. > > I am still not too sure about the above yet. If you want to rem

Re: How to handle conffiles when renaming or splitting a package?

2021-01-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-01-03 09:02 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have recently split the mime-support package in two: media-types and > mailcap. But I wonder if I handled the conffiles correctly. > > mime-support had the conffiles `/etc/mime.types` and > `/etc/mailcap.order` until version 3.64. Version 3.65

Re: Illegal seek Distribution field may be wrong!!!

2020-08-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-08-03 09:55 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > [cc me please] > > Hi there, > > Does anyone understand the following non-fatal error: > > [...] > /<>/pixelmed_20200416-2_all-buildd.changes.new could not be > renamed to /<>/pixelmed_20200416-2_all-buildd.changes: > Illegal seek > Distributio

Re: dh_installman mv errors

2019-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-10-30 22:27 -0700, Matthew Fernandez wrote: > As it turns out, there was mail from Colin Watson sitting in my spam folder > that explained the situation as a dh_installman bug [4]. Colin, you > describe this as a man-recode problem but your description actually makes > it sound like a bug

Re: dbgsym metapackages?

2019-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-08-11 09:31 -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > I'd like a metapackage that'd pull in all automatic dbgsyms from one source > package. But I don't see any way to accomplish this. Is this possible? You can of course create such a metapackage, but it becomes out of date when the list of binar

Re: Sharing a script between two "Multi-Arch: foreign" packages

2019-08-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-08-06 16:45 +0200, Jens Reyer wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a way for two different, arch-specific packages (from the same > source package) to share an identical file (script)? Yes, provided one of these two packages diverts the other one's file, see dpkg-divert(1). This is usually done

Re: Failing autopkgtest because of X server

2019-07-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-07-17 19:06 +0200, François Mazen wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I'm trying to add auto-pkg-tests to the flightcrew package with CI on > Salsa repo. > > When I launch the flightcrew-gui binary via autopkgtest, I got the > following error on Salsa CI [1]: > > "flightcrew-gui: cannot connect to

Re: cannot find library libgmsh.so.4.4 needed by ...

2019-07-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-07-15 14:44 +0200, Nico Schlömer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > when upgrading gmsh to 4.4.0, I'm getting the build error > ``` > [...] > dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot find library libgmsh.so.4.4 needed by > debian/gmsh/usr/bin/gmsh (ELF format: 'elf64-x86-64' abi: > '0201003e'; RPATH:

Re: dwz failures

2019-07-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-07-15 08:35 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > I have a larger package (eso-midas) that built successfully over the > last years. However, a new binNMU failed last night on > mips/mipsel/mips64 with the cryptic error message > >dh_dwz -a > dh_dwz: dwz -q > -mdebian/eso-midas/usr/lib/debug/.

Re: Build-Depends :native

2019-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-06-22 12:20 +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > Hello, > > can someone please tell me a source about the meaning of :native in the > Build-Depends? The architecture you are building on, see deb-src-control(5): , | An architecture qualifier name can be a real Debian architecture name |

Bug#887870: RFS: pcc/1.2.0~DEVEL+20180120-1 [ITP]

2018-01-21 Thread Sven Joachim
Disclaimer: I am not a DD and cannot sponsor your package. On 2018-01-21 15:01 +0800, Yangfl wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pcc" > > * Package name: pcc >Version : 1.2.0~DEVEL+20180120-1

Re: C++ help needed for new version of tifffile

2017-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-10-05 21:00 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I migrated the Debian packaging of tifffile from SVN to Git[1]. After > upgrading to the latest upstream version (dated 2017-09-14) I get: > > ... > x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-ali

Bug#876519: sponsorship-requests: RFS: tack/1.08-0.1 [RC, NMU]

2017-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-09-23 10:54 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: important > > I am looking for a sponsor for an NMU of the "tack" package, > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tack. > > This is a new upstream version fixing an FTBFS bug

Bug#876519: sponsorship-requests: RFS: tack/1.08-0.1 [RC, NMU]

2017-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important I am looking for a sponsor for an NMU of the "tack" package, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tack. This is a new upstream version fixing an FTBFS bug with current ncurses[1] and a segfault problem[2]. In addition to that, I have fixed the debian/w

Re: Problem with dh_installman: usr/share/man/man8/amadmin.8: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 131.

2016-07-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-31 18:05 +0100, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > I am changing the rules of the package amanda to debhelper 9 and I am > stopped in a problem with dh_installman. I have checked what I know > and everything is correct. But still I think that is something > obvious that I am missing. Possibly

Re: libgdbm transition

2016-07-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-13 01:35 +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > Some time ago I made gdbm_1.12-3 into experimental, and since it is > incompatible with > gdbm-1.8 (new soname, separated compat library) I rebuilt all reverse > depedencies. > Here is my report: > > FAIL camldbm_1.0-2.dsc | PATCH >

Re: combined manpage with symlinks to multiple binaries across packages: how to do?

2016-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-08 23:53 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > If I may piggy-back off here: what's the best way to achieve that if > this crosses binary-package boundaries? > > While packaging open-isns [1], I had the following problem: upstream > ships a man page isns_config.5, which covers isnsadm.conf.5

Bug#828030: RFS: gdbm/1.12-3

2016-06-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-06-25 05:24 +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: >> On 2016-06-24 00:19 -0400, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: >> >> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gdbm" >> > >> > Changes since last upload: >> > >> > * Separate translation files (/usr/share/locale/*) into new binary >> > package 'libgd

Bug#828030: RFS: gdbm/1.12-3

2016-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-06-24 00:19 -0400, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gdbm" > > Changes since last upload: > > * Separate translation files (/usr/share/locale/*) into new binary > package 'libgdbm-l10n' to comply with Policy §8.2 (Closes: #828005) Thanks for the fast

Bug#827043: RFS: gdbm/1.12-1 ITP

2016-06-11 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi Dmitry, I am not a DD and thus cannot sponsor your package, but here are a few remarks. On 2016-06-11 11:17 -0400, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gdbm" Thanks for taking care of it! > Changes since last upload: Your debian/changelog file is actually miss

Re: Package conflicting with itself?

2014-10-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-22 08:20 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > >> Does it makes sense for a package to conflict with itself? > > Not really, especially since there is no multi-arch header. You might > want to file a bug report about this. It would

Re: Install files based on architecture?

2014-09-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-27 17:49 +0200, Bamm wrote: > I could not use the wildcards bin/*/* usr/bin because the tarball > contains binary blobs of the same filename. I want the correct file to > be installed depending on whether an i386 or amd64 package is being > built. You can use debian/install.$arch to di

Re: Problem with my package wanting to remove systemd-sysv in piuparts

2014-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-06 16:52 +0200, Joseph Herlant wrote: > I am packaging gnome-shell-pomodoro-data and found out that piuparts > fails testing it because at some point, it wants to install > sysvinit-core so removes systemd-sysv. > > The first question is WHY?! I don't understand what dependency makes >

Re: Build-depending on non-free package

2014-08-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-18 09:46 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Ole, > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 01:31:40PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> >> And, the question remains: how do I effectively shall maintain such a >> package without burding a heavy load to my sponsor and possibly to other >> people (porters)?

Re: Hardening flags missing despite using dh?

2014-08-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-15 17:50 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > The warning seems to be red herring, maybe the tool scanning the build > logs needs to be adapted for dpkg-dev 1.17.11 which changed the default > CFLAGS, replacing -fstack-protector with -fstack-protector-strong. For the record, that wou

Re: Hardening flags missing despite using dh?

2014-08-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-15 16:11 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > I maintain linuxinfo and now I get an "issue"[1] that the hardening > flags appear to be missing. > > In the build logs I see some, and I expected my debian/rules to pick > everything up (since I use dh): > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > %: > dh

Re: video card for packager who must sometimes run unstable?

2014-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-31 20:35 +0200, Paul Elliott wrote: > This may be the wrong list, but I am not sure what the right list is. The debian-user list suggests itself. > When I package, I like to run unstable to see if the packages work. > > This is becomming difficult because my video interface built > in

Re: RFS: read-edid/3.0.1-2

2014-02-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-14 13:52 +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > After some inquiry, I can see that it can build only on amd64, i386, > kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64 and hud-i386, because the lib it depends on > (libx86) is only present there. On other architectures I could build only > one of the binarie

Re: RFS: read-edid/3.0.1-2

2014-02-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-14 09:38 +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "read-edid" Have you tried to contact the DD who sponsored the 3.0.1-1 upload yet? > Changes since the last upload: > >

Re: Upload modified package to mentors

2013-09-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-17 21:42 +0200, Daniel Lintott wrote: > On 17/09/13 19:36, Sven Joachim wrote: >> That would be the best, I think. > > Thank you for your assistance Sven. Note that I'm not a DD and cannot sponsor your package. > I have now uploaded the package to mentors agai

Re: Upload modified package to mentors

2013-09-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-17 20:24 +0200, Daniel Lintott wrote: > On 17/09/13 18:50, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Looks like you used different .orig.tar.gz tarballs for 0.4b2-1 >> and 0.4b2-2. > > Ah... I had recreated the git repository to follow the git workflow > outlined on the Debian

Re: Upload modified package to mentors

2013-09-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-17 16:58 +0200, Daniel Lintott wrote: > I updated one of my packages on mentors earlier and wanted to clarify > whether each upload increment the build number? (For example 0.4b2-1 > would become 0.4b2-2) Sponsors have different requirements, but most of them would rather not want you

Re: Packaging for multiarch i386 sse2/non-sse2

2013-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-19 11:31 +0200, Fabien Givors (Debian) wrote: > I had a look to eglibc source package. I can tell some dark magic is at > work in this package. But as I need only a small fragment of it, I'll > probably be able to extract it. It would probably be easier to look at a simpler package suc

Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

2013-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-11 20:35 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > I am fairly sure Lintian emits that tag based on a static data file. Oh, libmpich-dev is indeed listed in /usr/share/lintian/vendors/debian/ftp-master-auto-reject/data/fields/virtual-packages. Thanks, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

2013-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-11 20:17 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > On 11/05/13 20:10, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know why lintian would think that libmpich-dev, which is a >>> new package that

Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

2013-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > I'm working on a new version of the mpich2 packages. It is being > renamed to mpich, so I have introduced some transitional packages. > > For example, the current package called libmpich2-dev will be replaced > with the new package lib

Re: Depending on a -bin package built from the same source version

2013-03-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-10 21:09 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: > On 10/03/13 20:17, Antonio Valentino wrote: >> >> Il 10/03/2013 19:59, Sven Joachim ha scritto: >>> >>> A valid possibility would be to reverse the roles and dependencies: >>> rename polsarpro to polsarpro

Re: Depending on a -bin package built from the same source version

2013-03-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-10 19:26 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: > On 10/03/13 18:48, Antonio Valentino wrote: >> Configuration item 'binary:polsarpro Depends:2' has a wrong value: >> dependency 'polsarpro-bin (<< ${source:Version}.1~)' does not match grammar >> >> >> Should I care about it? > Not about the "unknow

Re: install rule in Makefile

2013-03-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-09 18:15 +0100, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Alfonso Sabato Siciliano writes: >> I am making a package, the original Makefile has not install rule so >> it install anything then I have to add it. >> Where must I install this rule? >> -Patching original Makefile > > A good solution if

Re: Proper upgrade path for lib32v4l-{0,dev}?

2012-07-01 Thread Sven Joachim
[ CC'ing ia32-libs maintainers for their opinion. ] On 2012-07-01 16:04 +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hello, > > currently my source package v4l-utils builds lib32v4l-0 and > lib32v4l-dev packages on amd64. I'd like to get rid of them sooner > than later and provide a proper upgrade path to multia

Re: help with intra-package dependencies (library and binary)

2012-05-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-13 00:50 +0200, Jon Dowland wrote: > I'm trying to package 'lhasa' but I'm having some trouble. There is a binary > package 'lhasa' shipping a binary which depends on a library from a library > package 'liblhasa0', all from the same source. (analogous to curl depending > on libcurlX fro

Re: Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-10 20:06 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 10-05-12 01:22, Ben Finney wrote: >> Policy dictates, and ‘dpkg’ obeys, that this change is not respected. >> The result is that the existing directory remains, and is no longer >> populated in the new release. >> >> >> The package installs a du

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-03-02 10:43 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Also >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> >> /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 >> and >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> >> /lib/i486-linux-gnu/ld-linux.so.

Re: What to do if there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar?

2011-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-11-09 12:01 +0100, Björn Esser wrote: > What shall I do, when there's already a debian-dir inside the .orig.tar, > e.g. when upstream already package his/her program for ubuntu? Replace the debian/ directory with your own version. > Can I safely remove the existing debian-dir from the .o

Re: Best practice: 0.5.999 as beta revision (Gummi)

2011-10-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-30 19:59 +0100, Daniel Stender wrote: > The developer's have marked the current beta of Gummi 0.6 (split-panel > LaTeX editor) as 0.5.999, though not officially presented but > available as svn snapshots. > > Question: Me as maintainer I would like to support the development of > Gummi,

Re: multiarch and ucf

2011-10-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-17 15:23 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > I'm having a small issue and I'm not exactly sure whether it's a bug or > I'm misunderstanding the documentation. > > I'm packaging tivoli-tsm (an i386-only closed-source application) for > internal use. It used to work fine depending on ia32-li

Re: Shared libs dependencies

2011-09-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-24 10:16 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > If a symbol is removed in a later version > (and the soname is not bumped, due to a mistake), the above method will > result in a library that, when installed, will break any app using the > old, removed symbol. Erm, this will also happen if you do

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-08-22 11:54 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote: > Paul Elliott writes: >> >> Does this mean that if my library has an include reference >> #include >> in one of its .c or .h files, then my -dev package must have a depends line >> like this in its debian/control file: > > You need that for p

Re: RFS: icecat

2011-08-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-08-21 08:33 +0200, Javier Sancho wrote: > There is no limitation. Users can install non-free plugins if they > want. They can go to Firefox website and download them. The only > difference is that Gnu IceCat don't provide these non-free plugins at > its add-ons manager and then, users know

Re: [done] RFS: libbs2b

2011-07-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-30 19:58 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:35:40 +0300, "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" > wrote: >> One minor detail (for the next upload) I didn't notice before: there is >> no substitution variable '{misc:Pre-Depends}', so you can remove that >> Pre-Depends line of libbs2b0 a

Re: dpkg status Conffiles obsolete flag?

2011-07-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-10 20:55 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am hoping to understand the "obsolete" flag on conffiles in the dpkg > status file. There are many packages that include this flag at the > end of the line. For example: > > Package: file > Conffiles: > /etc/magic.mime 272913026300e7ae9b5e2d51f13

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-09 10:20 +0200, Reijo Tomperi wrote: > We could have a service where we submit the package. That service will > then run some checks for it. E.g. > - building the package Automatically running code from random people sounds rather risky to me. > - lintian check. > - install & uninstal

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-13 12:11 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2011-06-11 09:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >>> Except for how dpkg behaves. If your package has a file in /usr/lib64/ >>> and gets installed then dpkg records

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-11 09:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Except for how dpkg behaves. If your package has a file in /usr/lib64/ > and gets installed then dpkg records that that directory belongs to your > package. Then the next time libc6 gets updated dpkg will try to unpack > the /usr/lib64 symli

Re: No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libdl.so'

2011-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-09 11:19 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:00:40AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> The problem is that libdl.so has been moved to the multiarch paths in >> libc6-dev 2.13-5. You must upgrade cmake to 2.8.4+dfsg.1-3, have you >>

Re: No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libdl.so'

2011-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-09 08:11 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:28:52PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:26:22AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> > make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libdl.so', needed by >> > `src/cadxcore/libCADxCore.so.2.4.1.1'. S

Re: RFS: brainparty

2011-06-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-07 09:03 +0200, Johannes Storm wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 07.06.2011, 11:02 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise: >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Johannes Storm > wrote: >> >> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "brainparty". >> ... >> > Section : contrib/x11 >> >> That should

Re: Cannot push changes to git repo

2011-05-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-24 11:09 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > On 05/24/2011 10:43 AM, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote: >> $ssh eftaxiop-gu...@git.debian.org >> >> I get the same rejection. > The same here. The public key is rejected and no password asked (run > with -v). > I presume the folks are aware of it a

Re: /usr/include/linux/videodev.h

2011-04-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-04-08 16:18 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Does anyone knows where /usr/include/linux/videodev.h has gone ? It > has disappear from the latest linux-libc-dev package in sid. It has been removed in Linux 2.6.38 (commit 88ae7624a6fe890e5a8ca57b25420f66e1389f8b in Linus' tree). Sven

Re: ${xviddriver:Provides} broken?

2011-02-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-23 19:54 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/23/11 17:06, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-02-23 16:39 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> >> >> Sorry, I got confused myself. That should have read >> xserver-driver-video, not xserver-xorg-video. >>

Re: ${xviddriver:Provides} broken?

2011-02-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-23 16:39 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/22/11 23:29, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-02-22 23:08 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> >>> On 02/22/11 21:29, Sven Joachim wrote: >>>> >>>> Are you using xsfbs? If so, this is probably beca

Re: ${xviddriver:Provides} broken?

2011-02-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-22 23:08 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/22/11 21:29, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Are you using xsfbs? If so, this is probably because the >> /usr/share/xserver-xorg/videoabiver file is gone. >> >>> instead of >>> >>> xs

Re: ${xviddriver:Provides} broken?

2011-02-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-22 20:47 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am running my own NVidia graphics package. Problem: After the most > recent upgrade of xorg the "${xviddriver:Provides}" macro in the > "Provides:" line expands to > > xserver-xorg-video- Are you using xsfbs? If so, this is

Re: Init scripts as conffiles

2011-02-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-15 22:24 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 15 February 2011 15:16:27 Tony Houghton wrote: >> How about I file a wishlist bug for dpkg and apt for an option similar >> to purge but which only purges files which haven't been altered from the >> package's default? > > From

Re: update-rc.d and rare start/stop runlevels

2011-01-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-27 14:20 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > torsdag den 27 januari 2011 klockan 10:45 skrev Sven Joachim detta: >> On 2011-01-27 00:11 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >> >> > onsdag den 26 januari 2011 klockan 16:59 skrev Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. >> >

Re: update-rc.d and rare start/stop runlevels

2011-01-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-27 00:11 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > onsdag den 26 januari 2011 klockan 16:59 skrev Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. detta: >> >> How are you calling update-rc.d? These warning messages indicate to me that >> update-rc.d is complaining that you've asked it to install S* links in >> rc

Re: update-rc.d and rare start/stop runlevels

2011-01-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-27 10:03 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > onsdag den 26 januari 2011 klockan 16:06 skrev Russ Allbery detta: >> Mats Erik Andersson writes: >> >> > However, update-rc.d disagrees vividly with me (and possibly >> > also insserv), since it prefers to call aloud >> >> >update-rc.

Re: What to do?

2011-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-25 17:43 +0100, Michael wrote: > I want to get rid of > > W: libsnacc0c2: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libasn1c++0 > libasn1cCebuf0 libasn1cebuf0 libasn1cmbuf0 libasn1csbuf0 libasn1ctbl0 > > I didn't do the naming, but it's true, what lintian is saying. Looks like the package got

Re: Detecting build architecture

2011-01-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-13 09:38 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:39:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> at compile time. Upstream said I need to set ARCH_64=1 if the >> >> architecture has 64 bit *pointers* (they sa

Re: Detecting build architecture

2011-01-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-12 13:34 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi, > > Hello, > >> I try to build a package which needs information about the architecture >> at compile time. Upstream said I need to set ARCH_64=1 if the >> architecture has

Re: RFS: mosquitto (updated version)

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 17:27 +0100, Roger Light wrote: > Should the library -dev package names have the SO version number in or > not? In other words, should libmosquitto0-dev actually be > libmosquitto-dev? I've seen packages both with and without an SO > version. Usually it is better to omit the soname

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 05.12.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Harald Dunkel: > On 12/05/10 13:37, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Am 05.12.2010 um 12:05 schrieb Harald Dunkel: >> >>> Doesn't this mean that no other >>> packages providing libgl1 can be installed, >> >> Not along l

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 05.12.2010 um 12:05 schrieb Harald Dunkel: > I found this in debian/control for libgl1-mesa-glx: > > : > Conflicts: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0) > Replaces: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0) > Provides: libgl1 > : > > This looks weird to me. How can it repla

Re: gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found

2010-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-13 05:07 +0200, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I am pretty sure this is a very trivial issue. But googling for the error > returns lot of hits none of which I find useful. > > I packaged a small program called lapack95. I uploaded the files to > sourceforge website after signing them

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-05 17:17 +0200, gustavo panizzo wrote: > Hi folks, > > i would like to create a man page for vavoom, based on a wiki page > licensed as GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. > What can i do? GFDL is not free for debian, and my pkg is for main. GFDL without invariant sections is fine for

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-18 14:27 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Hello mentors: > > I have some problems with lintian overrides. My package show these: > > - > lintian -I -E --pedantic kstars-data-extra-tycho2_1.1r1-1_all.deb > I: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: unused-debconf-template kstars-data- > extr

Re: Debian and Patents

2010-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-31 09:42 +0200, Praveen A wrote: > 2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : >> I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to >> legal risk to SPI.  I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia >> repositories which, while good, are not official. > > apt

Re: Advice about Lintian errors

2010-05-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-30 19:31 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Le dimanche 30 mai 2010, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> On 2010-05-30 19:03 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: >> > Le dimanche 30 mai 2010, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> >> I think the autojump.* files should not have shebang li

Re: Advice about Lintian errors

2010-05-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-30 19:03 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Le dimanche 30 mai 2010, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> I think the autojump.* files should not have shebang lines, because it >> would be rather pointless to run them directly. If you remove the >> shebang lines and make the

Re: Advice about Lintian errors

2010-05-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-30 18:19 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > The second one, missing-dep-for-interpreter, is about a Zsh script > (autojump providing a Zsh extension, this is expected) and the following > dependency set: > Depends: ${misc:Depends}, python, ${python:Depends}, bash (>= 4.0) | zsh > You wil

RFS: backup-manager (updated package, RC bug fix)

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.9-2 of my package "backup-manager". It builds these binary packages: backup-manager - command-line backup tool backup-manager-doc - documentation package for Backup Manager Apart from one overridden warning, the package appears to

Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-02 11:14 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:10:59 +0100, Gregor Jasny wrote: > >> To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to >> v4l-utils. >> But what actions do I have to take to take to replace libv4l with >> v4l-utils in the archive? > >

Re: RFS: logkeys

2010-02-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-23 11:39 +0100, Vedran Furač wrote: > On 21.02.2010 00:03, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> * Vedran Furač , 2010-02-20, 18:52: >>> Dear mentors, >>> >>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "logkeys". I would also note >>> that I'm familiar with this process as, for some years now, I alread

Re: RFS: wpasupplicant (updated package)

2010-02-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-11 08:22 +0100, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > For now, I've taken a look at your package. It seems to not build > properly in a sid pbuilder; can you try that? I'm happy to help you > set up a pbuilder of your own so you can find these issues quickly. FWIW, it built fine under pbuilder here,

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-09 09:42 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-02-08 15:43 +0100, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >>> Le Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Sven Joachim a écrit : >>>> On 2010-02-

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-08 15:43 +0100, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> On 2010-02-08 14:25 +0100, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >> > libjpeg8-dev does not provide libjpeg-dev… >> >> The latest version (8-2) does.

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-08 14:25 +0100, Charles Plessy wrote: > libjpeg8-dev does not provide libjpeg-dev… The latest version (8-2) does. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-08 14:17 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > This is weird. I think this may be caused by libvtk-java: > > $ apt-cache depends libvtk-java | grep jpeg > Depends: libjpeg62 > > However the Build-Dep seems alright: > > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/debianonly/view/vtk/5.4.2-4 > >

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-08 12:35 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I am trying to use pbuilder but it keeps failing with this error: > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > liblzma1{u} > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy > 0 packages up

Re: How to write emacs dependency ?

2009-11-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-11 16:43 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote: > TANIGUCHI Takaki schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> I am maintainer of darcsum package. >> >> It works on >> * emacs21 + gnus >> * emacs22 >> * emacs23 >> * xmacs21 >> >> I can't find how to write Depends field. I want to write such as >> "Depends:

Re: RFS: ne (QA upload)

2009-09-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-26 23:05 +0200, Ryan Niebur wrote: > however you shouldn't need to do "dh_auto_install -- DESTDIR=$(BUILDDIR) > PREFIX=/usr" > "dh_auto_install" passes those by default. This is true for DESTDIR (thanks for the hint), but not for PREFIX, dh_auto_install only passes PREFIX=/usr to Make

Re: RFS: ne (QA upload)

2009-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Hello Ryan, thanks for your review. On 2009-09-25 08:14 +0200, Ryan Niebur wrote: > I wouldn't include the authors in the long description, as that's kind > of boring/useless information for the user. also, the short > descriptions should follow the guidelines in devref, please read this > page

RFS: ne (QA upload)

2009-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.3-1 of the package "ne", which is currently orphaned (see #547225¹). It builds these binary packages: ne - Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor ne-doc - Documentation for NE, the Nice Editor Long description

RFS: symlinks (updated package, second attempt)

2009-09-18 Thread Sven Joachim
+recommended by Policy §4.14. + * Build with dh to minimize debian/rules. + * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3, no further changes needed. + * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git fields to debian/control. + + -- Sven Joachim Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:51:27 +0200 + symlinks (1.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

Re: How to detect 32 or 64 bit at build time?

2009-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-08 06:05 +0200, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2009-09-07 12:54 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> How about DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS? This needs dpkg 1.15.4, though. >> >> Sorry, that should have been DEB_BUILD_ARCH_BITS. > &

Re: How to detect 32 or 64 bit at build time?

2009-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-07 12:54 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > How about DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS? This needs dpkg 1.15.4, though. Sorry, that should have been DEB_BUILD_ARCH_BITS. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: How to detect 32 or 64 bit at build time?

2009-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-07 12:32 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > the new version of arb I want to package requires to set a variable > >ARB_64=0/11=>compile 64 bit version > > to specify whether it will be compiled on 32 or 64 bit architecture. Is > there any safe way to set this variabl

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