Re: manual how to create a lib-package

2001-07-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa

Nikolaus Regnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit

 I'm searching for a manual (like New Maintainers' Guide) how to craete a 
 package from a libary. Is there anything like that?

As far as I know, the answer is No, and I think we need one too.
You can see some of it in the debian-policy.


What to do when the upstream soname changes, 
incompatible changes are made in the library interface, etc.
shoud be documented, if such a manual (or policy) exists.

regards,
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Unresolved symbol

2001-07-10 Thread sumit kalra



Hi everybody,

I'm learning to make kernel modules and am 
currently working on a block device driver.

I had installed kernel version 2.2.16-22 (RH - 7.0) 
and then changed it to 2.2.16 (downloaded from
kernel.org).

PROBLEM : When I try to "insmod blkdev.o" it gives 
a message 

  "unresolved 
symbol __constant_test_bit
unresolved symbol 
__test_bit" 

and the module is 
not inserted . These two are being generated because I'm using
INIT_REQUEST. If I 
put INIT_REQUEST in comments (/* */) the module gets inserted.
But of course it 
doesn't work the way it should because of obvious reasons.

 
Can anybody tell me where am I going wrong ?

NOTE : I've included asm/bitops.h which has 
these two functions.

HOW I INSTALLED MY NEW KERNEL (2.2.16): Probably 
I'm going wrong in my links. So here I
 
reproduce the actual steps I took
 1. tar -xvf linux-2.2.16 in 
/usr/src 
2. The new source tree was 
installed in /usr/src/linux so,
  mv linux 
linux-new
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux-new linux
 3. Then I got my links right 
i.e. in /usr/include I did
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux/include/asm asm
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
 4. cd 
/usr/src/linux
  make mrproper 

 make 
menuconfig
  make 
dep
  make 
clean
  make 
bzImage
  make 
modules
  make 
modules_install
 5.cp 
/usr/src/linux/arch/i-386/boot/bzImage /boot/new
 6. 
Updated/etc/lilo.conf and ran lilo
 7. Rebooted from this new 
kernel

 8. Now I compiled my block 
device driver module and tried to insert it and it gave me the 
aforesaid
  
error.

NOTE : 1. They say RH7.0 doesn't have a stable gcc 
so I had done
 
  cd /usr/bin
  
  rm -f gcc
  
  ln -s /usr/bin/kgcc gcc
  
  before recompiling the 
kernel.
  
 2. insmod blkdev.o -f doesn't work either

I'm not on any mailing list so please reply to me 
separately

Thanks for your time
I'd be glad if somebody can help me 
out

Regards
Sumit




Re:Unresolved symbol

2001-07-10 Thread matthew . vinall

unresolved symbol __constant_test_bit
 unresolved symbol __test_bit 


NOTE : I've included asm/bitops.h which has these two functions.

If you've got unresolved symbols then the inline functions aren't actually being
inlined. Are you giving gcc the -O option?

Matt



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looking for sponsor for gpmudmon-applet

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Walters

Hello,

I'm looking for a sponsor for my package of gpmudmon;

walters@space-ghost:~$ dpkg -s gpmudmon-applet
Package: gpmudmon-applet
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 152
Maintainer: Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 0.1.1-3
Depends: pmud, gdk-imlib1 (= 1.9.10-3), libart2 (= 1.2.13-5), libaudiofile0, libc6 
(= 2.2.3-1), libcapplet0 (= 1.4.0.2-3), libdb3 (= 3.2.9-1), libesd0 (= 0.2.22-4) | 
libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.22-4), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (= 1.2.13-5), 
libgnomesupport0 (= 1.2.13-5), libgnomeui32 (= 1.2.13-5), libgnorba27 (= 1.2.13-5), 
libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.10-1), liborbit0 (= 0.5.8), xlibs ( 4.0.3)
Description: GNOME battery applet for PMUD
 gpmudmon is a GNOME applet which displays battery status obtained
 from the PMU daemon (powerpc only).

It is apt-able from:

deb http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~walters/debian/sid ./

Thanks!


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Re: Patch problem -- always fuzzy?

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer

Mikael Hedin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 /tmp/micce$tar xzf ~/sw/cvsdeb/tela/tela_1.32.orig.tar.gz 
 /tmp/micce$cd tela-1.32/
 /tmp/micce/tela-1.32$diff -u doc/usrguide-7.html 
~/debian/cvsdeb/tela/doc/usrguide-7.html  ../mydiff
 /tmp/micce/tela-1.32$patch -p0  ../mydiff 
 patching file doc/usrguide-7.html
 Hunk #1 succeeded at 59 with fuzz 1.
 /tmp/micce/tela-1.32$

Interesting, I see the same behaviour. A diff generated with -u2
has no problems, OTOH. So you may want to work around this by
manually replacing the chunk in the diff.gz with that.

You should definitely look if this bug in patch is known, and report
it otherwise.

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Re: [zeratul2@wanadoo.es: Bug#102811: grub: cannot access newer ext2 filesystems]

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer

Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The bug is not serious enough to justify an update to stable, especially not
 when we are preparing for a new release.

You could of course upload a potato package anyway, and punt the
decision to the release managers. AFAIK the package will end up in
potato-proposed-updates where interested users of stable can get it.
The chances of it appearing in potato are pretty slim, of course,
because (a) it sounds like a big enough change, that even a backport
(should you take this work on you) is probably too destabilizing, (b)
it's dubious whether another potato point release will be done at all.

 Explain to the user that the fixed version is already in 'testing',
 and will be included in the next stable release. If you wish, you
 can leave the bug open (and downgrade it, it doesn't qualify as
 important) so that users know that they can fetch the latest version
 from testing.

You should definitely tag it with potato if you keep it open.

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Re: g++ 3.0

2001-07-10 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck

On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:45:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:01:52PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
 
  I read on -devel that compiling packages with g++ 3 is problematic
  since they will not correctly link with C++ libraries built with an
  older compiler. I figure this will not be a problem for my package
  because it does not depend on any C++ libraries other than libstdc++,
  which should be ok. Normal C libraries are no bother, I assume. Is
  this correct?
 
 If the problem occurs only on certain architectures, you may want to try it
 yourself on as many as possible before switching entirely to g++-3.0.

What is gained by this? Either he uses g++-3.0 for building these himself or
he will still have to deal with all the problems.
If he builds them with g++-3.0 he may just as well Build-Depend: on it and
be done with it. In fact, if he doesn't Build-Depend: on g++-3.0 but does
build manually with it, it might cause major trouble (NMU's, or just someone
trying to build himself from sources without knowing he needs 3.0)

 On some
 Debian architectures, 3.0 is already the default compiler (see the source for
 gcc-defaults, I think).  If those are the same architectures where your package
 has problems, then there is no problem for Debian.

I think if those were the architectures, he wouldn't know of any problems...

 As long as it doesn't link against any other C++ libraries, it should work,
 yes.  Whether or not this is a good idea, I'm not sure.  There are issues with
 g++-3.0 other than ABI compatibility (such as debugging).  It seems to be
 available on all platforms, though, so it might be worth a try if it turns out
 to be necessary.  It might be wise to restrict the change to the problematic
 architectures, though.

If the package builds fine with g++-3.0, and must be built with it even on
some arches, I don't see why one would want to restrict this usage. It will
become the default compiler eventually anyway.

Regards,

Filip

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Re: Unresolved symbol

2001-07-10 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:51:00PM +0530, sumit kalra wrote:
 Hi everybody,
 
 I'm learning to make kernel modules and am currently working on a block device 
driver.
 
 I had installed kernel version 2.2.16-22 (RH - 7.0) and then changed it to 2.2.16 
(downloaded from
 kernel.org).

FYI, this is a Debian mailing list. Maybe you could post to Suse lists.


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Re: Re: [zeratul2@wanadoo.es: Bug#102811: grub: cannot access newer ext2 filesystems]

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Millan

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:17:43 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
  (b) it's dubious whether another potato point release will be done at all.
 
 How can you be so certain about the dubiousness of that? :-)
 
 We should consider *all* the possibilities, including (but not limited to)
 that the release of woody will be delayed and there will be more potato
 point releases.

hello,

I'd like to suggest renaming it to grub1 or something and moving the woody version
to potato, so we still have the chance to use both of them.

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Re: proud maintainer that do no want NUM :-)

2001-07-10 Thread Julian Gilbey

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:32:31PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
 On  9/07, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
 
 | I know that is a really silly question, but I really dislike fixed in
 | NMU on my own bug pages :-)))
 
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uninformative message that the bug has been closed with no rationale.

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Re: [zeratul2@wanadoo.es: Bug#102811: grub: cannot access newer ext2 filesystems]

2001-07-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:25:08PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:

 was wondering if anyone could suggest how to handle this bug.  It is fixed in
 new versions of grub.

The bug is not serious enough to justify an update to stable, especially not
when we are preparing for a new release.  It's certainly not necessary to
remove grub from stable, as many people use it with no problems (I use grub on
my potato system).

Explain to the user that the fixed version is already in 'testing', and will be
included in the next stable release.  If you wish, you can leave the bug open
(and downgrade it, it doesn't qualify as important) so that users know that
they can fetch the latest version from testing.  However, the bug is fixed, and
the usual policy for fixed bugs is to close them.

Some people use the 'fixed' tag for this purpose, but it only seems to cause
confusion, since the BTS reports such bugs as 'fixed in NMU'.

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Re: Policy question about web application

2001-07-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:25:38PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:33:20PM +0200, R?mi Perrot wrote:
  
  I read in the Debian policy that cgi script of web application must
  go in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name and should be referred as 
  http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name (section 12.5).
  
  It look like that it is not allowed to have subdirectory under 
  /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
  if I have well understanding the policy.
  [...]
  So is subdirectory is allowed under /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ ? And if no
  do we need to amend the policy or report bug against packages
  that violate the policy ?
 
 Although I don't recall this section of Policy and have no firsthand 
 experience
 with this issue, I recall it being mentioned that it is OK and even 
 recommended
 to make subdirectories in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ if you need a number of different
 scripts or if they have names that would conflict with other scripts. If 
 Policy
 contradicts this, it should (in my opinion) be changed, since I don't think
 anyone intends it to do so.

I agree.  I've had cricket's CGI scripts in a subdirectory since the beginning.
Since they have generic names like 'grapher.cgi', it helps to show which
package they belong to.

IMO, any package which has more than one or two CGI scripts should do this
(*cough*, doc-central).  The one that really bugs me is viewcvs, which installs
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/query.cgi.  In fact, I think it deserves a wishlist bug.

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manual how to create a lib-package

2001-07-10 Thread Nikolaus Regnat
I'm searching for a manual (like New Maintainers' Guide) how to craete a 
package from a libary. Is there anything like that?

Nikolaus



Re: manual how to create a lib-package

2001-07-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Nikolaus Regnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit

 I'm searching for a manual (like New Maintainers' Guide) how to craete a 
 package from a libary. Is there anything like that?

As far as I know, the answer is No, and I think we need one too.
You can see some of it in the debian-policy.


What to do when the upstream soname changes, 
incompatible changes are made in the library interface, etc.
shoud be documented, if such a manual (or policy) exists.

regards,
junichi

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Unresolved symbol

2001-07-10 Thread sumit kalra



Hi everybody,

I'm learning to make kernel modules and am 
currently working on a block device driver.

I had installed kernel version 2.2.16-22 (RH - 7.0) 
and then changed it to 2.2.16 (downloaded from
kernel.org).

PROBLEM : When I try to "insmod blkdev.o" it gives 
a message 

  "unresolved 
symbol __constant_test_bit
unresolved symbol 
__test_bit" 

and the module is 
not inserted . These two are being generated because I'm using
INIT_REQUEST. If I 
put INIT_REQUEST in comments (/* */) the module gets inserted.
But of course it 
doesn't work the way it should because of obvious reasons.

 
Can anybody tell me where am I going wrong ?

NOTE : I've included asm/bitops.h which has 
these two functions.

HOW I INSTALLED MY NEW KERNEL (2.2.16): Probably 
I'm going wrong in my links. So here I
 
reproduce the actual steps I took
 1. tar -xvf linux-2.2.16 in 
/usr/src 
2. The new source tree was 
installed in /usr/src/linux so,
  mv linux 
linux-new
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux-new linux
 3. Then I got my links right 
i.e. in /usr/include I did
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux/include/asm asm
 ln -s 
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
 4. cd 
/usr/src/linux
  make mrproper 

 make 
menuconfig
  make 
dep
  make 
clean
  make 
bzImage
  make 
modules
  make 
modules_install
 5.cp 
/usr/src/linux/arch/i-386/boot/bzImage /boot/new
 6. 
Updated/etc/lilo.conf and ran lilo
 7. Rebooted from this new 
kernel

 8. Now I compiled my block 
device driver module and tried to insert it and it gave me the 
aforesaid
  
error.

NOTE : 1. They say RH7.0 doesn't have a stable gcc 
so I had done
 
  cd /usr/bin
  
  rm -f gcc
  
  ln -s /usr/bin/kgcc gcc
  
  before recompiling the 
kernel.
  
 2. insmod blkdev.o -f doesn't work either

I'm not on any mailing list so please reply to me 
separately

Thanks for your time
I'd be glad if somebody can help me 
out

Regards
Sumit




Re:Unresolved symbol

2001-07-10 Thread matthew . vinall
unresolved symbol __constant_test_bit
 unresolved symbol __test_bit 


NOTE : I've included asm/bitops.h which has these two functions.

If you've got unresolved symbols then the inline functions aren't actually being
inlined. Are you giving gcc the -O option?

Matt



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looking for sponsor for gpmudmon-applet

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Walters
Hello,

I'm looking for a sponsor for my package of gpmudmon;

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s gpmudmon-applet
Package: gpmudmon-applet
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 152
Maintainer: Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 0.1.1-3
Depends: pmud, gdk-imlib1 (= 1.9.10-3), libart2 (= 1.2.13-5), libaudiofile0, 
libc6 (= 2.2.3-1), libcapplet0 (= 1.4.0.2-3), libdb3 (= 3.2.9-1), libesd0 
(= 0.2.22-4) | libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.22-4), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgnome32 
(= 1.2.13-5), libgnomesupport0 (= 1.2.13-5), libgnomeui32 (= 1.2.13-5), 
libgnorba27 (= 1.2.13-5), libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.10-1), liborbit0 (= 0.5.8), xlibs 
( 4.0.3)
Description: GNOME battery applet for PMUD
 gpmudmon is a GNOME applet which displays battery status obtained
 from the PMU daemon (powerpc only).

It is apt-able from:

deb http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~walters/debian/sid ./

Thanks!



Re: Patch problem -- always fuzzy?

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Mikael Hedin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 /tmp/micce$tar xzf ~/sw/cvsdeb/tela/tela_1.32.orig.tar.gz 
 /tmp/micce$cd tela-1.32/
 /tmp/micce/tela-1.32$diff -u doc/usrguide-7.html 
 ~/debian/cvsdeb/tela/doc/usrguide-7.html  ../mydiff
 /tmp/micce/tela-1.32$patch -p0  ../mydiff 
 patching file doc/usrguide-7.html
 Hunk #1 succeeded at 59 with fuzz 1.
 /tmp/micce/tela-1.32$

Interesting, I see the same behaviour. A diff generated with -u2
has no problems, OTOH. So you may want to work around this by
manually replacing the chunk in the diff.gz with that.

You should definitely look if this bug in patch is known, and report
it otherwise.

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Re: [zeratul2@wanadoo.es: Bug#102811: grub: cannot access newer ext2 filesystems]

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The bug is not serious enough to justify an update to stable, especially not
 when we are preparing for a new release.

You could of course upload a potato package anyway, and punt the
decision to the release managers. AFAIK the package will end up in
potato-proposed-updates where interested users of stable can get it.
The chances of it appearing in potato are pretty slim, of course,
because (a) it sounds like a big enough change, that even a backport
(should you take this work on you) is probably too destabilizing, (b)
it's dubious whether another potato point release will be done at all.

 Explain to the user that the fixed version is already in 'testing',
 and will be included in the next stable release. If you wish, you
 can leave the bug open (and downgrade it, it doesn't qualify as
 important) so that users know that they can fetch the latest version
 from testing.

You should definitely tag it with potato if you keep it open.

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Re: g++ 3.0

2001-07-10 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:45:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:01:52PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
 
  I read on -devel that compiling packages with g++ 3 is problematic
  since they will not correctly link with C++ libraries built with an
  older compiler. I figure this will not be a problem for my package
  because it does not depend on any C++ libraries other than libstdc++,
  which should be ok. Normal C libraries are no bother, I assume. Is
  this correct?
 
 If the problem occurs only on certain architectures, you may want to try it
 yourself on as many as possible before switching entirely to g++-3.0.

What is gained by this? Either he uses g++-3.0 for building these himself or
he will still have to deal with all the problems.
If he builds them with g++-3.0 he may just as well Build-Depend: on it and
be done with it. In fact, if he doesn't Build-Depend: on g++-3.0 but does
build manually with it, it might cause major trouble (NMU's, or just someone
trying to build himself from sources without knowing he needs 3.0)

 On some
 Debian architectures, 3.0 is already the default compiler (see the source for
 gcc-defaults, I think).  If those are the same architectures where your 
 package
 has problems, then there is no problem for Debian.

I think if those were the architectures, he wouldn't know of any problems...

 As long as it doesn't link against any other C++ libraries, it should work,
 yes.  Whether or not this is a good idea, I'm not sure.  There are issues with
 g++-3.0 other than ABI compatibility (such as debugging).  It seems to be
 available on all platforms, though, so it might be worth a try if it turns out
 to be necessary.  It might be wise to restrict the change to the problematic
 architectures, though.

If the package builds fine with g++-3.0, and must be built with it even on
some arches, I don't see why one would want to restrict this usage. It will
become the default compiler eventually anyway.

Regards,

Filip

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Re: Unresolved symbol

2001-07-10 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:51:00PM +0530, sumit kalra wrote:
 Hi everybody,
 
 I'm learning to make kernel modules and am currently working on a block 
 device driver.
 
 I had installed kernel version 2.2.16-22 (RH - 7.0) and then changed it to 
 2.2.16 (downloaded from
 kernel.org).

FYI, this is a Debian mailing list. Maybe you could post to Suse lists.


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Re: g++ 3.0

2001-07-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:37:09PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:

 On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:45:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
  If the problem occurs only on certain architectures, you may want to try it
  yourself on as many as possible before switching entirely to g++-3.0.
 
 What is gained by this? Either he uses g++-3.0 for building these himself or
 he will still have to deal with all the problems.
 If he builds them with g++-3.0 he may just as well Build-Depend: on it and
 be done with it. In fact, if he doesn't Build-Depend: on g++-3.0 but does
 build manually with it, it might cause major trouble (NMU's, or just someone
 trying to build himself from sources without knowing he needs 3.0)

I stated in the following paragraph what could be gained from such a test.
Obviously, if the package were meant to be built with a different compiler on
certain architectures, this would be enforced in the debian/rules file, and
there would be no difference between manual and automated builds.

  On some
  Debian architectures, 3.0 is already the default compiler (see the source 
  for
  gcc-defaults, I think).  If those are the same architectures where your 
  package
  has problems, then there is no problem for Debian.
 
 I think if those were the architectures, he wouldn't know of any problems...

That is not necessarily true.  Most likely, not all users of the program are
Debian users.  There is no telling which compiler versions are in use when
these problems surface.

  As long as it doesn't link against any other C++ libraries, it should work,
  yes.  Whether or not this is a good idea, I'm not sure.  There are issues 
  with
  g++-3.0 other than ABI compatibility (such as debugging).  It seems to be
  available on all platforms, though, so it might be worth a try if it turns 
  out
  to be necessary.  It might be wise to restrict the change to the problematic
  architectures, though.
 
 If the package builds fine with g++-3.0, and must be built with it even on
 some arches, I don't see why one would want to restrict this usage. It will
 become the default compiler eventually anyway.

Read what I wrote.  g++-3.0 is a big step, and when it becomes the default
compiler, there will be a transition plan.  Just build random packages with
3.0 is not a transition plan.  Who's to say that building with g++-3.0 on i386
will not introduce new bugs?

-- 
 - mdz



Re: [zeratul2@wanadoo.es: Bug#102811: grub: cannot access newer ext2 filesystems]

2001-07-10 Thread Santiago Vila
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
 (b) it's dubious whether another potato point release will be done at all.

How can you be so certain about the dubiousness of that? :-)

We should consider *all* the possibilities, including (but not limited to)
that the release of woody will be delayed and there will be more potato
point releases.



Re: Re: [zeratul2@wanadoo.es: Bug#102811: grub: cannot access newer ext2 filesystems]

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:17:43 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
  (b) it's dubious whether another potato point release will be done at all.
 
 How can you be so certain about the dubiousness of that? :-)
 
 We should consider *all* the possibilities, including (but not limited to)
 that the release of woody will be delayed and there will be more potato
 point releases.

hello,

I'd like to suggest renaming it to grub1 or something and moving the woody 
version
to potato, so we still have the chance to use both of them.

regards,


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Re: proud maintainer that do no want NUM :-)

2001-07-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:32:31PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
 On  9/07, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
 
 | I know that is a really silly question, but I really dislike fixed in
 | NMU on my own bug pages :-)))
 
 Send a mail containing close ... in the body (by using the right bug
 number) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Don't do that; email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a copy of the
changelog entry instead, otherwise the submitter will get this
uninformative message that the bug has been closed with no rationale.

   Julian

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