Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2002

2002-08-30 Thread wnpp
Report about packages that need work for Aug 30, 2002 Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 61 Number of packages offered up for adoption this week: 18 Total number of orphaned packages: 127 Number of packages orphaned this week: 12 The number in parenthesis after each package name

Uploaded cwi-gpp-boot 2.2.1-6 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-08-30 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:31:31 +0200 Source: cwi-gpp-boot Binary: cwi-gpp-boot Architecture: m68k Version: 2.2.1-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Julien LEMOINE

Uploaded cwi-pt-support 0.10-2 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-08-30 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:42:33 +0200 Source: cwi-pt-support Binary: cwi-pt-support-dev cwi-pt-support Architecture: m68k Version: 0.10-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded cwi-sdf-support 0.9-2 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-08-30 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:55:50 +0200 Source: cwi-sdf-support Binary: cwi-sdf-support Architecture: m68k Version: 0.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Julien LEMOINE

Uploaded cwi-sc-boot 0.8-6 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-08-30 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:36:30 +0200 Source: cwi-sc-boot Binary: cwi-sc-boot Architecture: m68k Version: 0.8-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Julien LEMOINE [EMAIL

Uploaded cwi-srts 0.8-4 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-08-30 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:46:28 +0200 Source: cwi-srts Binary: cwi-srts-dev Architecture: m68k Version: 0.8-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Julien LEMOINE [EMAIL

Uploaded vide 1.24-1 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:04:18 +1000 Source: vide Binary: vide Architecture: m68k Version: 1.24-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded dump 0.4b31-1 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:20:14 -0600 Source: dump Binary: dump Architecture: m68k Version: 0.4b31-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded wmressel 0.8-2 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:53:28 -0400 Source: wmressel Binary: wmressel Architecture: m68k Version: 0.8-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Mike Furr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded multi-gnome-terminal 1.5.2-2 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 06:45:19 +0900 Source: multi-gnome-terminal Binary: multi-gnome-terminal-doc multi-gnome-terminal Architecture: m68k Version: 1.5.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL

Uploaded xpad 1.5-1 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:11:32 +0200 Source: xpad Binary: xpad Architecture: m68k Version: 1.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Søren Boll Overgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded x2vnc 1.4-1 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:27:49 +0200 Source: x2vnc Binary: x2vnc Architecture: m68k Version: 1.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded gcc-3.0 3.0.4ds3-12 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:36:25 +0200 Source: gcc-3.0 Binary: gcc-3.0-sparc64 gcc-3.0-soft-float libstdc++3 libgcc1 gobjc-3.0 gcc-3.0-base libffi2-dev fastjar cpp-3.0-doc protoize cpp-3.0 g++-3.0 libobjc1 libstdc++3-dev g77-3.0

Uploaded centericq 4.8.3-1 (m68k) to erlangen

2002-08-30 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:42:39 +0200 Source: centericq Binary: centericq-fribidi centericq centericq-common Architecture: m68k Version: 4.8.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug of the month, or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 29 August 2002 19:45, Andrew Suffield wrote: [Obey M-F-T or die] Here's the basic idea: turn bug-fixing into a game (a counterbalance to the huge quantities of time which moon-buggy and frozen-bubble have taken away from Debian development). People register to play, and each

Re: Bug of the month, or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Also once you have this more fully fleshed out perhaps announcing this on some place like DebianPlanet would be a good idea. We have plenty of users who have time to fix a bug or two but not become full time devels. Or is this meant as a

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Fabien Penso
Joey a écrit : | To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, | Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software | decoders. For commercially sold decoders – primarily hardware mp3 players – | the per-unit royalty has always

Re: debbugs: assign someone from a group of willing people to fix a bug

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Package: debbugs It would be bugs.debian.org. You don't file a bug against smartlist or qmail if you want a new mailinglist either. Please reassign. What to do? I would like to propose a setup similar to the one used to translate package

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2002

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 0 Number of packages offered up for adoption this week: 0 Total number of orphaned packages: 0 Number of packages orphaned this week: 0 Maybe you could run the script on satie rather than auric?

Bug#158851: ITP: mairix -- indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir or MH folders.

2002-08-30 Thread Kevin M. Rosenberg
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mairix Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Richard Curnow [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix * License : GPL Description : indexing and searching email

Re: Bug#158851: ITP: mairix -- indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir or MH folders.

2002-08-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Kevin M. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mairix Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Richard Curnow [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix * License : GPL

Re: Security notification script

2002-08-30 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:31:34PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: I have written a python script that allows you to compares locally installed packages with those on security.debian.org. Furthermore it provides a description of the problem/DSA name if the package is mentioned in the DSA RDF.

Re: Bug#158851: ITP: mairix -- indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir or MH folders.

2002-08-30 Thread Kevin Rosenberg
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:09:45PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: * URL : http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix Sounds cool. Is it us-ascii only or does it support latin1/latin9? And directly connected to this question: does it decode quoted-printable before indexing? I don't see any

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Richard Atterer
Hi, I have been waiting all along for someone to post this, but nobody does, so... As usual Heise got it right: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-28.08.02-000/ (German). Essentially, the relevant change to the MP3 license was already made 1.5 years ago, but apparently nobody noticed until

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:42:48PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: I have been waiting all along for someone to post this, but nobody does, so... As usual Heise got it right: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-28.08.02-000/ (German). I posted the other story (with Thomson official

Bug#158874: ITP: backuppc -- A high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs

2002-08-30 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: backuppc Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Craig BarrattName [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/ * License : GPL Description : A

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 08/30/2002 06:42:48 AM Richard Atterer wrote: As usual Heise got it right: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-28.08.02-000/ (German). Or, for you English speakers, http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/data/jk-28.08.02-008/

Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Erich Schubert
Redhat seems to be going to use a common look for their desktops (GNOME as well as KDE) in their new beta featuring a new icon set. Check out the screenshots at http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=616mode=order=0 I like them and i think they are impressive... It's one of the things

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: I don't have a real opinion, but i do thing that looks begin to matter for linux apps and desktops... I agree with you. I think that the default Distribution theme really matters; RH and MDK have very nice default desktop

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:44:03PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 18:34, Robert Millan wrote: Also since this depends on mpg321 it'd have to be in non-US. Certainly not. mpg321 isn't in non-US now, and probably won't ever be. currently non-US is the only place where it can be

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Joe Drew
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:16, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:44:03PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 18:34, Robert Millan wrote: Also since this depends on mpg321 it'd have to be in non-US. Certainly not. mpg321 isn't in non-US now, and probably won't ever

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Erich Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apart from the question if KDE and GNOME2 should be made to look similar (KDE developers were pretty angry at RedHats step), should we try to make a Debian look default? (Provided that someone does Debian Themes...) By all means, anything that

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:31:23AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:16, Robert Millan wrote: currently non-US is the only place where it can be without breaking law. This is incorrect: mp3 patents exist in non-US places too, like Germany. we definitely need an mp3 decoder in

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2030 06:50, Jérôme Marant wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: I don't have a real opinion, but i do thing that looks begin to matter for linux apps and desktops... I agree with you. I think that the default Distribution theme really

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
that reddish tone? Please no; it's a very nice color, but I don't think people want to look at it for more than 5 seconds at a time. why? In my windowmaker I'm using default debian-theme, and I like it very much :-) -- Mati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sounds like a Windows problem, try calling

Re: Bug#158851: ITP: mairix -- indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir or MH folders.

2002-08-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:09:45PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: * URL : http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix Sounds cool. Is it us-ascii only or does it support latin1/latin9? And directly connected to this question: does it decode

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Yenar Calentaure
Jérôme Marant wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: I don't have a real opinion, but i do thing that looks begin to matter for linux apps and desktops... I agree with you. I think that the default Distribution theme really matters; RH and MDK have very nice

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Erich Schubert
No, seriously, it would be less confusing for novice users. More experienced ones already know how to change themes and perhaps make everything look consistent, but it's a considerable ammount of work. Especially since KDE asks at the beginning which style they want to use anyway... If we

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Erich Schubert
Provided we *ONLY* muck with things like colors, icons, and root images this should be fine. Actually changing code like RH did to remove the About box would not be good. I never look at about boxes anyway, so why remove them? ;) This has nothing to do with common look, and all Interface

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Mateusz Papiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why? In my windowmaker I'm using default debian-theme, and I like it very much :-) But AFAIR in the Window Maker theme it's used for the active (?) title bar. That's a very good use because it's the one element in the desktop which your are

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2002 09:03, Yenar Calentaure wrote: Please, please, please, do not change the default without asking user first. Debian users tend to know what they want. And the clueful user almost never uses the default anyways. But even if they do want to we just provide an option in

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
But AFAIR in the Window Maker theme it's used for the active (?) title bar. That's a very good use because it's the one element in the desktop which your are using, but you don't actually look at the title bar, you look at the window's content. yes - you're right. Never mind :-) I

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:05, Erich Schubert wrote: Provided we *ONLY* muck with things like colors, icons, and root images this should be fine. Actually changing code like RH did to remove the About box would not be good. I never look at about boxes anyway, so why remove them? ;) This

existing debian themes

2002-08-30 Thread Erich Schubert
On themes.freshmeat.net there are a few Debian themes, some nice backgrounds etc. For example this one could go for a futuristic aqua-like look (GnuBubbles for GTK2 for example?) http://themes.freshmeat.net/screenshots/28071/ And sunshineinabag.co.uk already has a Debian GDM2 login screen

graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
Hello! Is there any plans for the graphical installer? I know, it isn't needed, but I think it would be nice step for beginners - for example automatically search and install modules for ethernet/whatever - or easy configuration for printer :-P Of course I'm not a beginner :-P -- Mati ([EMAIL

Re: existing debian themes

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
And sunshineinabag.co.uk already has a Debian GDM2 login screen http://sunshineinabag.co.uk/ which (when one replace the ridiculous apples ;) could be a nice default for gdm2 (when it gets packaged, i can't await it ;) It's nice, but I think that this white color is too absorbing, maybe some

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Paul
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: Hello! Is there any plans for the graphical installer? I know, it isn't needed, but I think it would be nice step for beginners - for example automatically search and install modules for ethernet/whatever - or easy configuration for printer

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ It's very nice! I like GTK wizard look very much - so why it isn't integrated with unofficial Sid images? Have You got any other plans ? Or maybe you want to use text installer for ever? -- Mati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sounds like a Windows

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 08/30/2002 08:43:32 AM Erich Schubert wrote: It's one of the things Apple proved: desktop and apps that look smooth do make their users feel comfortable with them ;) No, they proved if you do not give users a choice of nothing or Apple's theme the users prefer to use their theme rather than

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:02:46PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: (But i HATE that druid of KDE... why do i have to select the language and keyboard again? my admin already configured these...) Because some admins, unlike the rest of us, thinks users want's to have software in their local

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
If I like the look of ratpoison, and someone themes it to look like W95, I'm not going to like it when I'm surprised with Debian's themed version. so maybe debconf should ask (when installing windowmanager) which theme do you like - original from wm, or this debian theme ? -- Mati

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Peter Mathiasson wrote: Because some admins, unlike the rest of us, thinks users want's to have s/want's/wants software in their local language and use local keyboard layout, then we indeed want's to have our software in english and us keyboard layout

apt-get does not do what dselect says

2002-08-30 Thread Florian Hinzmann
Hello! Problem: apt is removing some packages when started from dselect within prior notice inside dselect. (this might be related to bug#151662, #157210, but I am not sure it is the same currently -- maybe discussion makes it more clear to me, I can tighten up my report and send it to the

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ It's very nice! I like GTK wizard look very much - so why it isn't integrated with unofficial Sid images? Have You got any other plans ? Or maybe you want to use text installer for

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Vince Mulhollon wrote: The problem is, I experiment with and chose window managers by going to the website and look at the pretty screenshots. If I like the screenshot, then it's a quick apt-get install somethingwm. I expect to get what I saw on upstream's

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 08/30/2002 10:34:18 AM Mateusz Papiernik wrote: If I like the look of ratpoison, and someone themes it to look like W95, I'm not going to like it when I'm surprised with Debian's themed version. so maybe debconf should ask (when installing windowmanager) which theme do you like -

Re: existing debian themes

2002-08-30 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 16:16, Erich Schubert wrote: And sunshineinabag.co.uk already has a Debian GDM2 login screen http://sunshineinabag.co.uk/ which (when one replace the ridiculous apples ;) could be a nice default for gdm2 (when it gets packaged, i can't await it ;) The Debian color

Re: existing debian themes

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
However, a quick look at the file reveals that the debian logo is actually a large jpeg. If someone could find a vector source of the Debian logo (I'm sure there is one somewhere) which could be converted it's on debian.org site - I'll find it within seconds :-) -- Mati ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: existing debian themes

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
However, a quick look at the file reveals that the debian logo is actually a large jpeg. If someone could find a vector source of the look at it: http://gnuart.onshore.com/svg/openVertColor.svg p.s. http://www.debian.org/logos (EPS) -- Mati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sounds like a Windows problem,

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:22:50PM +0200, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: Hello! Is there any plans for the graphical installer? I know, it isn't needed, but I think it would be nice step for beginners - for example automatically search and install modules for ethernet/whatever - or

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Chris Hagar
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:22:50 +0200 Mateusz Papiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beginners - for example automatically search and install modules for ethernet/whatever - or easy configuration for printer :-P Of course I'm not a beginner :-P Being able to automatically search and install modules

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 30/08/2002 à 17:37, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry a écrit : On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ It's very nice! I like GTK wizard look very much - so why it isn't integrated with unofficial Sid images? Have You got

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:57, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le ven 30/08/2002 à 17:37, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry a écrit : On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ It's very nice! I like GTK wizard look very much - so why it

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
Being able to automatically search and install modules or having easy configuration for printers, has nothing to do with using a graphical interface or not. sorry - I meant not that. I meant about extending install-system capability with adding graphical interface to it :-) -- Mati ([EMAIL

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Erich Schubert
Because some admins, unlike the rest of us, thinks users want's to have software in their local language and use local keyboard layout, then we indeed want's to have our software in english and us keyboard layout with local as an switchable option, right? Which means *everbody* needs to

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mateusz Papiernik | Is there any plans for the graphical installer? yes. look at the debian-installer module in debian-boot cvs. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' :

dpkg bug #156463: second opinions?

2002-08-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Just writing to request a second opinion on this bug. Current dpkg behavior does not allow a package to replace a directory with a symlink during upgrade. This broke a libc6-dev upgrade when I made an unstable chroot from a potato tarball on an ARM system a couple of months ago.

Re: dpkg bug #156463: second opinions?

2002-08-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Just writing to request a second opinion on this bug. Current dpkg behavior does not allow a package to replace a directory with a symlink during upgrade. This broke a libc6-dev upgrade when I made an unstable chroot from a potato

Re: RFD: Architecture field being retarded? [was: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?]

2002-08-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Andreas Rottmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:35, Geert Stappers wrote: When the cause of the buildproblem is in the package, fix the problem there. The package maintainer hasn't to do it by

Re: Is there a limitation on swap parition size linux can use?

2002-08-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I heard that 2Gb is the limit. If so I would have to create distinct swap partitions if I wanted to have more than 2Gb swap? Just wondering... The older blends of kernels only allowed swap partitions up to 128MB. The newer kernels allow 2GB per swap

Re: RFD: Architecture field being retarded? [was: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?]

2002-08-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: This proposal would also allow, say bochs, to provide i386 too (although I think more work might be needed here). No, it wouldn't. Say you install bochs on alpha. If bochs provides i386, then this would tell

Re: Large file support?

2002-08-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:42:04PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: This does not solve the issue, LFS requires 2.4 or a patched 2.2 Kernel. http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html But with a standard 2.2 kernel it should still work for files

Re: dpkg bug #156463: second opinions?

2002-08-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, Just writing to request a second opinion on this bug. Current dpkg behavior does not allow a package to replace a directory with a symlink during upgrade. This broke a libc6-dev upgrade when I made an unstable chroot from a potato

Re: RFC: Handling of certificates in Debian

2002-08-30 Thread Andrew McDonald
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:40:11AM +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Right now, every TLS-enabled package tries to screw it up in new and never-before-tried ways. One commonly missing feature is that the certificate should contain a subjectAltName extension of type dNSName containing

Re: Large file support?

2002-08-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Its not. glibc takes care of it since like forever. Otherwise ls, dd, cat, tar, all would be broken. Thanks. That was what I would have expected, but anyway, better be sure what you are doing. Greetings Torsten

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:31:23AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: If fraunhofer say that you are allowed to distribute mp3 players for free (but not for cost), then they must be put in non-free. And since they have patents all around the world, they can't be put in non-us. It's my interpretation of

Re: Please compile treetool on alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, powerpc and s390

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:15:19PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:59:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: unfortunately treetool is non-free because there is neigther a license nor any upstream author available. Uh, if

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:37:50AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Friday 30 August 2002 08:29, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ It's very nice! I like GTK wizard look very much - so why it isn't integrated with unofficial Sid images? Have

Re: Should we customize apps for a common debian-look?

2002-08-30 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:55, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I also agree. There was a moment of bah we are not a company but in the end, I think a little help in giving our users a good looking default would go a long way. Of course not being a KDE or GNOME user I would also like to see this

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2002

2002-08-30 Thread Rodrigo Henriquez
I don't know if this is the place to send this mail, so sorry if i'm wrong. I like contribute in some of the following projects : emelfm (#158150), orphaned 119 days ago Description: file manager for X/gtk gadfly (#113080), orphaned 342 days ago Description: SQL database and parser

Re: RFC: Handling of certificates in Debian

2002-08-30 Thread Neil Spring
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:58:00PM +0100, Andrew McDonald wrote: On a similar subject, there seem to be more than a few applications that have had SSL/TLS support added, but don't do any hostname checking against the certificate - leaving you open to man-in-the-middle attacks. (speaking as an

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, it was written: Hello world, In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their place (actually, if you look carefully, they're already being generated). Sources.bz2 files are

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:34:48PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: This will break apt, as it doesn't look for compressed versions when using file uris. Then apt, or debian-cd, needs to be fixed. *shrug* There's no need to Cc me, even when I bounce things and possibly lose my M-F-T header. Cheers,

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Richard Braakman
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:36:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: In other words, if you write some free software, it's not your fault if some company decides 15 minutes or 15 years later that they had a patent on an algorithm you used, and sent packs of lawyers out to eradicate your software

Re: RFC: Handling of certificates in Debian

2002-08-30 Thread Andrew McDonald
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:57:12PM -0700, Neil Spring wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:58:00PM +0100, Andrew McDonald wrote: On a similar subject, there seem to be more than a few applications that have had SSL/TLS support added, but don't do any hostname checking against the certificate -

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:34:48PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: This will break apt, as it doesn't look for compressed versions when using file uris. Then apt, or debian-cd, needs to be fixed. *shrug* Huh. debian-cd can just uncompress them, but

Re: Bug of the month, or how to get people fixing bugs

2002-08-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
Andrew Suffield wrote: [Obey M-F-T or die] Here's the basic idea: turn bug-fixing into a game (a counterbalance to the huge quantities of time which moon-buggy and frozen-bubble have taken away from Debian development). People register to play, and each month, all the players are given three

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-30 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:34:48 -0500 (CDT) Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, it was written: Hello world, In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their place

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello world, In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their That will also break rsyncing them, which saves a lot. Packages, Sources and Contents files only have

why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-30 Thread Jack Howarth
I am trying to get the glibc debian cvs for 2.2.92 to package (it builds and passes make check fine on debian ppc sid with the new gcc 3.2.1pre). However the buggy perl 5.80 in sid has broken install-info. I looked at a Yellow Dog Linux machine and noticed, however, that they had a texinfo 4.2

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote: I am trying to get the glibc debian cvs for 2.2.92 to package (it builds and passes make check fine on debian ppc sid with the new gcc 3.2.1pre). However the buggy perl 5.80 in sid has broken install-info. I looked at a Yellow Dog Linux machine and

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: If its compressed its all or nothing. nope. you can append compressed data to the end of a gzip file, and gunzip will cope.

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-30 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:09:04PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: I am trying to get the glibc debian cvs for 2.2.92 to package (it builds and passes make check fine on debian ppc sid with the new gcc 3.2.1pre). However the buggy perl 5.80 in sid has broken install-info. I looked at a Yellow

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-30 Thread Anthony Towns
Heh. What part of There's no need to Cc me is so unclear, I wonder? On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:01:29PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Using http range transfers its possible to only download a portion of the packages file if its uncompressed, this method could have been used along with a package

Accepted dh-make-perl 0.9-0.2 (all source)

2002-08-30 Thread Ivan Kohler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:18:51 -0700 Source: dh-make-perl Binary: dh-make-perl Architecture: source all Version: 0.9-0.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Paolo Molaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ivan Kohler [EMAIL

Accepted zope 2.5.1-2.1 (i386 source)

2002-08-30 Thread Matthias Klose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:21:08 +0200 Source: zope Binary: zope Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.5.1-2.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description:

Accepted vegastrike-data 0.2.9.4-2 (all source)

2002-08-30 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:22:20 -0400 Source: vegastrike-data Binary: vegastrike-data Architecture: source all Version: 0.2.9.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Mike Furr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Mike Furr [EMAIL

Accepted af 2.0-6.1 (i386 source)

2002-08-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:33:45 -0300 Source: af Binary: af Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0-6.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: nobody@nowhere Changed-By: Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: af

Accepted cfitsio 2.401-1.1 (i386 source all)

2002-08-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:01:00 -0300 Source: cfitsio Binary: cfitsio-doc cfitsio-dev cfitsio2 Architecture: source i386 all Version: 2.401-1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: nobody@nowhere Changed-By: Otavio Salvador

Accepted python2.2 2.2.1-10 (i386 source all)

2002-08-30 Thread Matthias Klose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:09:13 +0200 Source: python2.2 Binary: python-dev python2.2-examples python2.2-dev python-examples python2.2-gdbm python2.2-mpz python2.2-doc python-gdbm python-doc python2.2-xmlbase python2.2-tk python-tk python-mpz

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