Release-critical Bugreport for September 7, 2001

2001-09-07 Thread BugScan reporter
Bug stamp-out list for Sep 7 05:00 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 446 Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 0 -- Package: abiword (debian/main) Maintainer: Darren Benham

Uploaded thrust 0.89-16 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:09:35 +0200 Source: thrust Binary: thrust Architecture: m68k Version: 0.89-16 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: RISKO Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded pdl 2.2.1-7 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:44:51 -0400 Source: pdl Binary: pdl Architecture: m68k Version: 1:2.2.1-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded moon-lander 0.9.0-4 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:48:46 +0100 Source: moon-lander Binary: moon-lander Architecture: m68k Version: 1:0.9.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Peter Joseph [EMAIL

Uploaded libapache-mod-gzip 1.3.19.1a-3 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:31:19 +0200 Source: libapache-mod-gzip Binary: libapache-mod-gzip Architecture: m68k Version: 1.3.19.1a-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ryszard

Uploaded gretl 0.96-2 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:02:27 -0500 Source: gretl Binary: libgretl0-dev libgretl0 gretl Architecture: m68k Version: 0.96-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Dirk

Uploaded mserv 0.33-8 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:08:33 -0700 Source: mserv Binary: mserv-dev mserv Architecture: m68k Version: 0.33-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded geneweb 4.03-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:14:21 +0200 Source: geneweb Binary: geneweb Architecture: m68k Version: 4.03-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded xpvm 1.2.5-7 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 14:34:13 +1000 Source: xpvm Binary: xpvm Architecture: sparc Version: 1.2.5-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded xtel 3.3.0-3 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:58:05 +0200 Source: xtel Binary: xtel Architecture: sparc Version: 3.3.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded nap 1.4.6-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:09:30 +0200 Source: nap Binary: nap Architecture: sparc Version: 1.4.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Massimo Dal Zotto [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded sfront 0.75-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:42:25 +0200 Source: sfront Binary: sfront Architecture: sparc Version: 0.75-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Enrique Robledo Arnuncio [EMAIL

Uploaded xfree86 4.1.0-5 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:20:25 -0500 Source: xfree86 Binary: xserver-common xlibs-dev xfs xfree86-common xfonts-pex x-window-system xlibmesa-dev xspecs xlibmesa3 xfonts-cyrillic xlibmesa3-dbg xserver-xfree86 xlibs-dbg libxaw6 libxaw7

Uploaded e2fsprogs 1.24a-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:44:56 +0200 Source: e2fsprogs Binary: e2fsck-static e2fsprogs-bf e2fslibs-dev comerr-dev ss-dev e2fsprogs uuid-dev Architecture: sparc Version: 1.24a-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer:

Uploaded chemtool 1.3.1-3 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:11:23 +0200 Source: chemtool Binary: chemtool Architecture: sparc Version: 1.3.1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Banck [EMAIL

Uploaded gnome-iconedit 1.2.0-6 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:40:47 + Source: gnome-iconedit Binary: gnome-iconedit Architecture: sparc Version: 1.2.0-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jan-Hendrik

Uploaded xine-ui 0.5.3-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:13:25 +0200 Source: xine-ui Binary: xine-ui Architecture: sparc Version: 0.5.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Siggi Langauf [EMAIL

Uploaded tama 1.0-10 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:25:47 +0200 Source: tama Binary: tama Architecture: sparc Version: 1.0-10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Gergely Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded gnome-guile 0.20-7 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:51:30 -0400 Source: gnome-guile Binary: libguilegnome-dev libguilegtk-dev libguilegnome0 libguilegtk0 Architecture: sparc Version: 1:0.20-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon

Uploaded libnss-ldap 172-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:00:48 +0300 Source: libnss-ldap Binary: libnss-ldap Architecture: sparc Version: 172-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sami Haahtinen [EMAIL

Uploaded logrotate 3.5.9-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:42:13 +0100 Source: logrotate Binary: logrotate Architecture: sparc Version: 3.5.9-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Paul Martin [EMAIL

Uploaded xine-lib 0.5.3-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:14:01 +0200 Source: xine-lib Binary: libxine-dev libxine0 Architecture: sparc Version: 0.5.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Siggi Langauf

Uploaded openc++ 2.5.11-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:50:37 +0200 Source: openc++ Binary: openc++ Architecture: sparc Version: 2.5.11-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Yann Dirson [EMAIL

Uploaded turqstat 2.1.1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:00:00 +0200 Source: turqstat Binary: xturqstat turqstat Architecture: sparc Version: 2.1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: peter karlsson

Uploaded space-orbit 1.0.1-6 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:55:02 -0600 Source: space-orbit Binary: space-orbit Architecture: sparc Version: 1.0.1-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Eric Schwartz [EMAIL

Uploaded courier 0.35.0.20010828-2 (sparc all) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:28:13 +0200 Source: courier Binary: courier-doc courier-authmysql courier-mlm courier-pop sqwebmail courier-webadmin courier-mta courier-authdaemon courier-imap courier-ldap courier-base Architecture: sparc all

Uploaded exult 0.94alpha5-4 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:35:54 +0200 Source: exult Binary: exult Architecture: sparc Version: 0.94alpha5-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL

Uploaded xfishtank 2.2-20 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:01:17 -0600 Source: xfishtank Binary: xfishtank Architecture: sparc Version: 2.2-20 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Eric Schwartz [EMAIL

Uploaded pan 0.10.0.90-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:14:18 +0900 Source: pan Binary: pan Architecture: sparc Version: 0.10.0.90-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Takuo KITAME [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded mp3kult 0.4-3 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:32:55 -0300 Source: mp3kult Binary: mp3kult Architecture: sparc Version: 0.4-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Carlos Laviola [EMAIL

Uploaded aterm 0.4.2-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:22:33 +0200 Source: aterm Binary: aterm aterm-ml Architecture: sparc Version: 0.4.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jordi Mallach [EMAIL

Uploaded oidentd 1.9.9-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-07 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:03:52 +0200 Source: oidentd Binary: oidentd Architecture: sparc Version: 1.9.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/sparc Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Waitz [EMAIL

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-07 Thread Florian Weimer
Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:02:19PM +0200, Guillaume Morin wrote: RFC793 says Reserved: 6 bits Reserved for future use. Must be zero. The last statement is the cause of all confusions. s/Must/Should/ would have been better.

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Florian Weimer | This knife cuts both sides. Why should someone bother to forward | non-conformant packages? Because they are reserved and might be used for some useful purpose one day, which they are now. -- Tollef Fog Heen You Can't Win

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 7 Sep 2001, Florian Weimer wrote: snip This knife cuts both sides. Why should someone bother to forward non-conformant packages? Reserved bits can have any value. Routers need to _ignore_ them if they don't know what they mean (that is, if they're too old). They must _generate_ packages

Re: Wherabouts of buildd logs

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:49:17PM -0700, Stephen Zander uttered: I'm trying to track down why some of my packages have not made into testing. update_excuses shows one of them as out of date on hppa, but doesn't give a buildd log showing why. Do hppa buildd logs exist online anywhere? From

Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like tail -f, but works on truncated files, directories, more

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:21:04PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:09:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:08:21 +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you want to go for another name then ? I find it quite confusing. mtail or

Re: A script to see how much a package is depended upon.

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:11:28AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hello, I was writing a script to see how much a package is depended upon, i. e. cumulatively culculating Reverse-Build-Deps, and Reverse-dependencies. However, I thought it might be useful to see what kind of packages have

Re: dispersive translation via DDTS

2001-09-07 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:01:55AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: However, I think the official translator should be able to be changed easily, though I don't have concrete idea now. The best way would be to make it possible for the translation coordinator. -- Misha

Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like tail -f, but works on truncated files, directories, more

2001-09-07 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:21:04PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:09:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:08:21 +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you

Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: no, don't re-invent the wheel. This all make gettext. We don't need patch apt, dpkg, other toold this way. We must only use a old, nice and tested tool: gettext. Nice, I wasn't aware it solves the encoding problem as well! The

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-07 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-09-06 Nick Phillips wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:47:26PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: upstream packages because they are not part of a package? The translation of the error messages and other messages of a program belong to the package of it. That depends on whether

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:48:06PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: Maybe you missed my mail in which I stated that now that someone had bothered to tell me this was a problem, I could fix in it about oh, 10 minutes. The only reason I have not yet is that debconf is currently frozen, along with

Re: What is debian.net used for?

2001-09-07 Thread Mikael Hedin
A new option! (I.e. new to me. Should have RTFM.) Thanks! -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)980 79176 Swedish Institute of Space Physics +46 (0)8 344979 (home) Box 812, S-981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden+46 (0)70 5891533 (mobile) [gpg key fingerprint = 387F A8DB DC2A 50E3 FE26 30C4 5793

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-07 Thread Brian May
GOTO == GOTO Masanori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GOTO wanderlust (package: wl) ? It is also slow but it has nice GOTO feature including mail caching and imap disconnect mode. Looks Interesting. I even found documentation in English! It seems to be a good mail reader, but I am having

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-07 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Alex Pennace wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why should the default configuration be changed to account for the diminishing number of broken routers on the net? From a technical

Re: dispersive translation via DDTS

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:25:05PM +0400, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:01:55AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: However, I think the official translator should be able to be changed easily, though I don't have concrete idea now. The best way would be to make it possible for

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-07 Thread Nick Phillips
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:35:06AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: So you want to compare packages from an upstream with packages created by either someone or a team for a distribution? No, I'm saying that if you're dealing with a package that will be distributed by means over which you have no

http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
http://standard.debian.net/ is now available showing all bugs in standard. 8 RC bugs are currently open. I think gpm needs an NMU, although I'm not sure. It would surely be great if someone could look into #85551 and #110112 (merged) and submit a patch. The bug in mig (needed for Hurd only) is

Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: no, don't re-invent the wheel. This all make gettext. We don't need patch apt, dpkg, other toold this way. We must only use a old, nice and tested tool:

Re: http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: http://standard.debian.net/ is now available showing all bugs in standard. 8 RC bugs are currently open. Standard for the purpose of the freeze also includes all packages included in tasks. Roughly

Re: http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [20010907 23:18]: Standard for the purpose of the freeze also includes all packages included in tasks. Roughly http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/stddscs.txt. Right, I forgot about those; fixed now. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Base freeze on? Will autobuilders use it?

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Has base actually frozen? Is there a space on www.debian.org to track this? Or which mailing list? More importantly, will autobuilders use it? If they don't and rather continue to track unstable, then how will new optional package enter testing before the `optional' freeze? They may get

Re: Base freeze on? Will autobuilders use it?

2001-09-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:50:14AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: If they don't and rather continue to track unstable, then how will new optional package enter testing before the `optional' freeze? They may get built against library versions that aren't in woody and thus never allowed to

Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Blake_2_Drayson
Hi I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting my final year project some time next year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development ideally kernel / module based or a port of software to a specific platform. I am unsure as to what projects are

Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like tail -f, but works on truncated files, directories, more

2001-09-07 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: OK, that makes 2 packages out of ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ zgrep Package /var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.2.73_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages\ |grep ' x' |wc -l 417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ 417 (!) It

wipe WARNING (it will delete parent files and directories!)

2001-09-07 Thread Adam Warner
Package: wipe (0.16-4) Version: This is wipe version 0.16, Jul 8 2001 by Berke Durak, compiled Jul 8 2001. If you wipe hidden directories using the command: wipe -r .* once it has finished deleting files down the directory tree it will move up to the root of your hard disk while continuing to

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:18:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting my final year project some time next year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development ideally kernel / module based or a

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:18:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting my final year project some time next year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development ideally kernel / module based or a

Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like tail -f, but works on truncated files, directories, more

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:29:13AM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: OK, that makes 2 packages out of ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ zgrep Package /var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.2.73_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages\

Re: http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: http://standard.debian.net/ is now available showing all bugs in standard. 8 RC bugs are currently open. Standard for the purpose of the freeze also includes all packages

Re: http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: Just curious, why does 'samba' appear on this list? The package is priority: optional in both potato and sid (not yet present in testing), Correction: Samba is present in woody, but it's the same version that was released with potato -- complete with

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: # apt-get install package # # damn it broke my server again!! # apt-get rewind package *t Tomas Pospisek SourcePole - Linux Open

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for September 7, 2001

2001-09-07 Thread Sven
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:00:02AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: camlp4 (debian/main) Maintainer: Fernando Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 108003 camlp4_3.02-1 fails to autobuild on m68k mmm, both camlp4_3.02-1_m68k.deb and camlp4_3.02-2_m68k.deb are in the archive. Also This bug

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:47:05PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Alex Pennace wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why should the default configuration be changed to account for the

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 09/07/2001 09:45:35 AM T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: # apt-get install package # # damn it broke my server again!! # apt-get rewind package I'd prefer something like CVS so I could roll back to milestones or back to a specific

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:02:48AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: Nazis. Hitler. Microsoft rules! (Die thread die!) You fool you! Godwin's law is powerless when deliberately invoked... ('s' a bit like the chronicles of thomas covenant, now I think about it) Jules

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: On 09/07/2001 09:45:35 AM T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: # apt-get install package # # damn it broke my server again!! # apt-get rewind package I'd prefer

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:45:35PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: # apt-get install package # # damn it broke my server again!! # apt-get rewind package Aside from the fact that the specific packages may not handle this gracefully, and that you may not be

Re: http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-07 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:18:43PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: abiword 108986 open serious abiword 109580 open grave I'm working on a new version of Abiword, will check if it helps with these.

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Integrating CVS into Debian (as a core component, not just a package) would be a long, complex, and rewarding project. But futile and misguided. CVS has whole swathes of fundamental flaws, largely historical. Better to integrate

How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-07 Thread Oohara Yuuma
I wrote a documentation How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable. Have I re-invented the wheel? sgml (DocBook) source http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/apt-gettable/apt-gettable.sgml html version (formatted with NewbieDoc style sheet)

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 09/07/2001 11:20:42 AM Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Integrating CVS into Debian (as a core component, not just a package) would be a long, complex, and rewarding project. But futile and misguided. CVS has whole swathes of

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Roland Mas
Vince Mulhollon (2001-09-07 12:21:30 -0500) : On 09/07/2001 11:20:42 AM Andrew Suffield wrote: But futile and misguided. CVS has whole swathes of fundamental flaws, largely historical. Better to integrate with something similar to CVS References? Just curious what the huge problems are.

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:21:30 -0500 Vince Mulhollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/07/2001 11:20:42 AM Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Integrating CVS into Debian (as a core component, not just a package) would be a long,

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-07 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - delete message on client = gets transfered again on next download. Not if you can set up your mail client properly. If using mutt, set maildir_trash. I typed in rm Maildir/cur/* and all messages were copied over again from scratch. Nothing was

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 09/07/2001 09:21:27 PM Glenn McGrath wrote: The command line arguments CVS use are truely original, which is a really really bad thing ! :pserver:, :ext: mixed with environment variables crazy... what were they thinking when they came up with that stuff, not simplicity thats for

Bug#111609: ITP: cathedral-book -- The Eric S Raymond book The Cathedral and the Bazaar

2001-09-07 Thread bagpuss
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-07 Severity: wishlist Package name: cathedral-book Version : 3.0 (probably) Upstream Author : Eric S Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings License : Open Publication License

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it because of a lack of alternatives. http://subversion.tigris.org -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-07 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
Hi, I wrote a documentation How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable. I think a mini-howto like yours is desirable, especially for new users, to better utilize their use of apt. Since your docs aim at the beginner, I would include some more specific examples, then it would indeed

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:56:23PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it because of a lack of alternatives. http://subversion.tigris.org OT: galeon does not like this website much.

Clueless bug reports from autobuilders.

2001-09-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I am getting more of these bug reports from autobuilders, and I would like to suggest this. Many just send me a bug log, and that doesn't really tell me much, because it lacks the following information : o what kind of things may be broken for the arch? o what version of gcc it is running

libasound2-dev and alsa-headers

2001-09-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
It seems like in the current unstable, libasound2-dev and alsa-headers have a mismatch, and doesn't let packages which depend on libasound2-dev to build. I am uncertain as to if everything will not rebuild, or only some packages. Enlighten me on how I would fix the build failure errors. It's a

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:22:00AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: I wrote a documentation How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable. Have I re-invented the wheel? Not afaik, but you've chosen a rather complex method for it. Here's my ~/bin/makepackages: #!/bin/sh apt-ftparchive

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-07 Thread Oohara Yuuma
[moving the thread to debian-doc; see Mail-Followup-To:] [for debian-doc people: please Cc: to me because I am subscribed to only debian-devel] On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:42:42 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:22:00AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: I wrote a documentation How

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-07 Thread Oohara Yuuma
[moving the thread to debian-doc; see Mail-Followup-To:] [for debian-doc people: please Cc: to me because I am subscribed to only debian-devel] On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 21:12:00 +0200, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote: I wrote a documentation How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable. I think a

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:43:09AM +1000, Brian May wrote: Despite these problems, Gnus is the only program I have seen that will highlight replies to my mail, something I find very valuable in large mailing lists like this one. btw, mutt will do that. it highlights messages sent by or to you.

Locale for i18n boot-floppies

2001-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Since nobody helped on debian-boot, I'm posting this here. Anyone? thanks Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 ---BeginMessage--- Hi! The status is that we need a locale for

Re: http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:39:03AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: http://standard.debian.net/ is now available showing all bugs in standard. 8 RC bugs are currently open. Standard

Cruft update

2001-09-07 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, I'm currently sitting on a pile of cruft filter file updates. The reason I'm sitting on it is that I don't know what to do with them. I already asked a similar question about this some time ago but got no answer. At first sight it would seem logical to simply send a bug report

Re: Locale for i18n boot-floppies

2001-09-07 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hello, At Sat, 8 Sep 2001 02:29:39 +0200, Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I seem to lack the knowledge needed to compile it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=C localedef -i c-utf8-in C-at-UTF8 /usr/share/i18n/locales/i18n:1597: LC_MONETARY: unknown character in field

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:56:23 -0400 Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it because of a lack of alternatives. http://subversion.tigris.org Yes, interesting, i hadnt heard of

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [subversion] It looks like a candidate to be packaged as well. Maybe not yet, though ISTR there's a Debian Developer who follows subversion. Right now, its under extreme development and just started self-hosting, so people interested in it probably want