Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 21:31 +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 01/05/12 18:23, Russel Winder wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 17:12 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: I will put in a bug report but it would be good if this were followed up by representations from the LDC bosses... Sam Morris

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread David Nadlinger
On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 16:12:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: I will put in a bug report but it would be good if this were followed up by representations from the LDC bosses... The maintainer of the Debian package is Arthur Loiret, so I'm not sure what we as LDC devs can do about that. I'm

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread David Nadlinger
On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 11:48:32 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: (and apparently it ships with Ubuntu, at least: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libconfig) Oh well – I guess you know what I meant…

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 13:48 +0200, David Nadlinger wrote: [...] The maintainer of the Debian package is Arthur Loiret, so I'm not sure what we as LDC devs can do about that. I'm also not quite sure what the problem with the package is in the first place? Was libconfig kicked out of the

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread David Nadlinger
On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 13:16:04 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Downstream folk building a friendly and constructive relationship with Debian maintainers generally helps everyone. Huh? You mean »upstream«? Is Arthur a sole maintainer or is he part of a team. I don't know – as far as I'm

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread David Nadlinger
On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 13:16:04 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Downstream folk building a friendly and constructive relationship with Debian maintainers generally helps everyone. Huh? You mean »upstream«? Is Arthur a sole maintainer or is he part of a team. I don't know – as far as I'm

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 18:07 +0200, David Nadlinger wrote: [...] Huh? You mean »upstream«? I guess so ;-) [...] I don't know – as far as I'm aware, he is just a D user who thought it would be nice to have LDC packaged (thanks a lot for that, btw). To get into the Debian repository a

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-02 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/05/12 18:08, David Nadlinger wrote: On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 13:16:04 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Downstream folk building a friendly and constructive relationship with Debian maintainers generally helps everyone. Huh? You mean »upstream«? Is Arthur a sole maintainer or is he part of

LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-01 Thread Russel Winder
I will put in a bug report but it would be good if this were followed up by representations from the LDC bosses... The version of LDC in the Debian Unstable repository cannot be installed on a fresh Debian install as it depends on a library that is no longer in the repository. -- Russel

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-01 Thread Russel Winder
it is installable. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23664876 The version of LDC in the Debian Unstable repository cannot be installed on a fresh Debian install as it depends on a library that is no longer in the repository. -- Russel

Re: LDC and the Debian Repository

2012-05-01 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 01/05/12 18:23, Russel Winder wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 17:12 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: I will put in a bug report but it would be good if this were followed up by representations from the LDC bosses... Sam Morris already reported this, but it appears that some pressure is needed to