Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi Ben, On Feb 14, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Feb 14, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: That should read of course be a limit of 300k for patches. If you really impose a limit on 30k the list would be too long to be sent here (-: No, it shouldnt be 300k. 30k is quite reasona

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 14, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: That should read of course be a limit of 300k for patches. If you really impose a limit on 30k the list would be too long to be sent here (-: No, it shouldnt be 300k. 30k is quite reasonable, even generous. Doing some quick lists i don't see man

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread James Gibbs
On Feb 14, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I disagree. We should not accept patches this big in fink. As pogma said, please make it a tar.gz and put it on a web site. If you don't have one, we do. I don't think we should commit patches over 30k. In fact fink should reject such patch files.

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi again, On Feb 14, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: Hi Ben et al., I agree that the huge patch is not a good solution. I leave it to the maintainer to come up with an improved version. However, if you want to impose a limit of 30k for patches, then the following packages will need to b

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi Ben et al., I agree that the huge patch is not a good solution. I leave it to the maintainer to come up with an improved version. However, if you want to impose a limit of 30k for patches, then the following packages will need to be modified, too (sizes in bytes): 318974 ./10.2-gcc3.3/stab

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo m2crypto-python22.info,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python22.patch,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python23.info,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python23.patch,NONE,1.1

2004-02-14 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Feb 14, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Packages submitted to the tracker should be rejected if the .patch files are not in unified diff format. That's our standard. Where is this documented? I cannot find that not in the 'creating fink packages' webpage. - Koen. -

Re: [Fink-devel] date-manip-pm error

2004-02-14 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] The error report came to this list because fink-devel is listed as the maintainer. One (minor) question in this context is how the package database determines the maintainer when different versions of a package have different maintainers. From looking at examples it se

Re: [Fink-devel] Stability - bluefish 0.10-11

2004-02-14 Thread Kevin Horton
At 0:20 +0100 15/2/04, Michèle Garoche wrote: Le 15 févr. 2004, à 0:05, Kevin Horton a écrit : How stable is stable? For example, bluefish-0.10-11 crashes with a bus error when trying to spell check. But it works wonderfully in every other respect. Spell checking is only a very small part o

Re: [Fink-devel] Stability - bluefish 0.10-11

2004-02-14 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le 15 févr. 2004, à 0:05, Kevin Horton a écrit : How stable is stable? For example, bluefish-0.10-11 crashes with a bus error when trying to spell check. But it works wonderfully in every other respect. Spell checking is only a very small part of its functionality. I don't agree with you, Ke

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
I disagree. We should not accept patches this big in fink. As pogma said, please make it a tar.gz and put it on a web site. If you don't have one, we do. I don't think we should commit patches over 30k. In fact fink should reject such patch files. Please submit a revision to this package which

Re: [Fink-devel] Please Help Improve the Stability of Fink

2004-02-14 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le 14 févr. 2004, à 21:43, David R. Morrison a écrit : As many of you know, the "stable" tree in 10.3 was created from the corresponding tree in 10.2. Everything which was moved to 10.3 builds OK on 10.3, but there are a number of cases where the software provided by the package no longer works,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 xv.info,1.3,1.4 xv.patch,1.1,1.2

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 12, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: The DescDetail is one giant line, so it looks like crap on plain-text displays. A couple of weeks ago I added a validator warning for this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think it's gotten into a fink-release yet. All desc fields should be hard w

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1379 - 2 msgs

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
This is a very bad policy, since you may not be aware of possible changes to fink which may break your packages or users' systems. They should be filtered through a developer before being used by users IMO. Anyway, it looks like pogma gave you cvs commit access, so please commit your packages a

[Fink-devel] Stability - bluefish 0.10-11

2004-02-14 Thread Kevin Horton
At 15:43 -0500 14/2/04, Dave Morrison wrote: Dear Fink folks, As many of you know, the "stable" tree in 10.3 was created from the corresponding tree in 10.2. Everything which was moved to 10.3 builds OK on 10.3, but there are a number of cases where the software provided by the package no longer

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo m2crypto-python22.info,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python22.patch,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python23.info,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python23.patch,NONE,1.1

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
Packages submitted to the tracker should be rejected if the .patch files are not in unified diff format. That's our standard. -Ben On Feb 13, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: That appears to be some hard-coded /sw. I don't think the validator catches it, however..."whoever wrote the check

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Feb 14, 2004, at 2:10 PM, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: [] As to the FAQ - I didn't expected this kind of "auto-detection", I expected that I need somehow add manually Apple's x11. So I just didn't guessed that this is faq. It is a good p

Re: [Fink-devel] system-ghostscript8

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin: Your proposed ghostscript, ghostscript-fonts, and system-ghostscript8 packages look good to me. Jeff: If you agree, I think we should move all three of these into fink. -- Dave Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > [] > > In light of the apparent c

Re: [Fink-devel] date-manip-pm error

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
TheSin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't commited anything to stable... talk to Dave about that. > --- > TS > http://southofheaven.org > Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. > > On 12-Feb-04, at 12:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > > > TheSin wrote: > > > >> this seems t

Re: [Fink-devel] Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm jumping into this thread a bit late, since I was out of town for a few days. I hope that everyone is bearing in mind a crucial fact of life: whatever we do in terms of dependencies has to be translated (at the end of the day) into dependencies that the Debian tools (dpkg and apt-get) can handl

Re: [Fink-devel] Uploading source tarballs to fink

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Darian Lanx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: > > > I'm maintaining a package, the source for which is not going to be > > easily accessible from that project's server. It's LPGL, so can I just > > stick it somewhere in fink's SourceForge CVS? > No. > > Where? > You can ask bbrau

[Fink-devel] Please Help Improve the Stability of Fink

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink folks, As many of you know, the "stable" tree in 10.3 was created from the corresponding tree in 10.2. Everything which was moved to 10.3 builds OK on 10.3, but there are a number of cases where the software provided by the package no longer works, or doesn't work as expected. We need

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: [] As to the FAQ - I didn't expected this kind of "auto-detection", I expected that I need somehow add manually Apple's x11. So I just didn't guessed that this is faq. It is a good principle to assume that any question you want to ask has been asked before or migh

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: You guys are really fast. It helps, of course, if one knows perl, I guess :-) I don't, I have more or less been feeling my way around in the dark. This looks good. In VirtPackage.pm there are two 'print "missing"' where I would have put "missing\n". Oop! Good catch, fixe

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: You would run "fink-virtual-pkgs --debug", it puts the debug output to STDERR. You guys are really fast. It helps, of course, if one knows perl, I guess :-) I don't, I have more or less been feeling my way around in the dark. This looks good. In VirtPackage.pm there are two

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: Something like this should probably go into the fink package or it could even be merged with the fink-virtual-pkgs script, maybe activated by "fink-virtual-pkgs --debug-x11" or something similar. OK, I've checked in an analog to what your script does to the virtual packag

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Peter O'Gorman wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: > > The script (6kB) is in my exp directory on cvs, and it is also available > here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/costabel/fink-x11-debug > > To use it, save it anywhere and > - either make it executable and run it as "./fink-x11-debug" > - or run it

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Peter O'Gorman wrote: (well, within reason, no naked ascii art girls please :-) ). Why not? From my marketing point of view that would be a feature to be desired - -d -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFALjfsPMoa

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Martin Costabel wrote: > > The script (6kB) is in my exp directory on cvs, and it is also available > here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/costabel/fink-x11-debug > > To use it, save it anywhere and > - either make it executable and run it as "./fink-x11-debug" > - or run it as "perl fink-x11-debug" > > S

x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Hansen wrote: On Feb 13, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: system-xfree86 is now a virtual package, which is supposed to show up automatically if X11 is installed correctly. It appears that the installer sometimes leaves out files. There's a FAQ on this: http://f