Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread wnpp
Report about packages that need work for Apr 11, 2003 Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 63 Number of packages offered up for adoption this week: 3 Total number of orphaned packages: 196 Number of packages orphaned this week: 26 The number in parenthesis after each package name is

Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
There are currently about 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of the following packages in two weeks unless a package has been adopted by someone until then. If you want to keep one of the following

Bom dia debian-devel

2003-04-11 Thread Alexandre Venturini
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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: xshipwars-server (debian/main) Maintainer: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 150411 [P ] xshipwars-server: POSIX shell incompatibilities 173966 [ ] xshipwars-server: won't uninstall unless the server is running! This package has

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:06:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: This package has is taged patch to one bug and in fact includes another patch in the text of the other bug which is tagged pending. Moreover it contains an offer from Colin Watson to sponsor the package from half a year ago. I

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Mark Brown wrote: This package has is taged patch to one bug and in fact includes another patch in the text of the other bug which is tagged pending. Moreover it contains an offer from Colin Watson to sponsor the package from half a year ago. I guess someone should

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: xscreensaver (debian/main) Maintainer: Karl Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 171772 [ ] Alarm clock error 180063 [ ] xscreensaver: exit on X Error after any authentication attempt Xscreensaver has a lot of bugs tagged pending, a lot

Re: ocaml compiled binaries and rpath

2003-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:56:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi! I'm just packaging planets (#187988) which is written in ML and compiled with ocaml. The problem is that the ocaml linker uses the rpath feature (i. e. hardcoded libary paths). Yes, it does ... It seems to be against Debian

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:03:50AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Could you please be so kind to ask the maintainer whether he want to continue maintaining? Will do. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:06:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: xshipwars-server (debian/main) Maintainer: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 150411 [P ] xshipwars-server: POSIX shell incompatibilities 173966 [ ]

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:13:01AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Moreover I wonder if I'm correct if suspect that the files /usr/share/xscreensaver/config belong to /etc because it might be possible to change these xml files to influence the behaviour of the hacks so they are

Re: Bom dia debian-devel

2003-04-11 Thread Rodrigo Tadeu Claro
Putz piada essa msg aqui né This lists isn't for marketing! On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:18:13 Alexandre Venturini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FRAGRÂNCIAS FAMOSAS FRAGRÂNCIAS FAMOSAS? Azzaro,   Dolce Gabbana,   Angel, Pólo,   Armani,   Chanel 5,   Gabriela Sabatini, Paco,   

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jeremy Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030410 23:59]: Can someone point me the message(s) discussing /run (and why not /etc/run) - I would like to think that adding another directory off / should be avoided. /etc/run sounds nice, unless you want to support booting before /etc is mounted... On

Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-11 Severity: wishlist * Package name: exim-mysql Version : 3.36 Upstream Author : Mark Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian exim upstream) * URL : http://www.exim.org/ * License : GPL Description : An MTA (Mail

Re: Bug#173966: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: Hold it for a bit, please. I've been talking to the maintainer privately for the last week. An upload is waiting until the new libjsw is accepted. Thanks Andreas. -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F.

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030410 22:52]: What's wrong with /lib/ for 64 bits libs and /lib/32/ for the 32 bit legacy stuff (note the slash). Ofcourse, they'll get the rpath thing wrong and commercial applications are going to insist on /lib64, shiver. Well, it's written

Bug#188569: ITP: common-lisp-devel -- Metapackage for Common Lisp development

2003-04-11 Thread Kevin M. Rosenberg
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-11 Severity: wishlist * Package name: common-lisp-devel Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : [ No yet written ] * License : BSD Description : Metapackage for Common Lisp

Re: Bom dia debian-devel

2003-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:38:23AM -0300, Rodrigo Tadeu Claro wrote: Putz piada essa msg aqui n? This lists isn't for marketing! 1) Please don't reply to spam. 2) If you must reply to spam, please don't quote the whole thing! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: 2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, 1500 over age

2003-04-11 Thread Teemu Hukkanen
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I suggest we remove packages which haven't entered testing after more more then 300 days. Packages can be stuck out of testing due to their dependencies, so 300 days of lag only

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread David B Harris
On Fri Apr 11, 11:47am +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Package name: exim-mysql Version : 3.36 I already packaged with one (exim compiled with mysql and tls support). I needed it personally, with the provided debian exim package a recompile is necessary to use a mysql backend.

Bug#188574: ITP: libcommons-dbcp-java -- short description

2003-04-11 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libcommons-dbcp-java Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Jakarta Apache group * URL : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/ * License : Apache Software License Description : Database Connection Pooling

Re: Bug#188307: ITP: gpdf -- GNOME pdf viewer

2003-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:08:56PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:32:48AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I was surprised that neither of you contacted me as Xpdf maintainer, Hmm, well. I've yet to take a closer look at how much gpdf xpdf source are alike; I only

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:47:23AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Package name: exim-mysql [...] I already packaged with one (exim compiled with mysql and tls support). I needed it personally, with the provided debian exim package a recompile is necessary to use a mysql backend. [...]

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread David B Harris
On Fri Apr 11, 02:25pm +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/ Ack, sorry, I didn't realise you guys were uploading to experimental now :) pgp5PKNAFgS4V.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fakeroot to obsolete DESTDIR

2003-04-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:26:38 +, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: What I propose to do is to slightly extend fakeroot to also intercept open/diropen. If the open call would create a file, redirect it to /.../debian/tmp or some such location. If the call would open a file, first check

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Philipp Kern
Andreas Metzler wrote: Build-Depends: [...] libmysqlclient-dev, libssl-dev [license snipped] You cannot distribute this, GPL and OpenSSL licenses are incompatible. So how you exim4 guyes managed to get around that? By the use of gnutls? If yes I'll switch to that one IF I continue exim-mysql

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Philipp Kern
David Pashley told me: This is wrong. Philip Hazel is the upstream author. Mark Baker is the maintainer for the exim packages. I suggest you talk to Mark and talk to people on the exim4 mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CCed). Ok, but because I didn't know the correct one I wrote debian exim

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* David B Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030411 13:05]: On Fri Apr 11, 11:47am +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Package name: exim-mysql Version : 3.36 I already packaged with one (exim compiled with mysql and tls support). I needed it personally, with the provided debian exim

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:23:12PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 April 2003 16:43, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: # echo x86-64 /etc/dpkg/legal-archs #

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:14:37PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Andreas Metzler wrote: Build-Depends: [...] libmysqlclient-dev, libssl-dev [license snipped] You cannot distribute this, GPL and OpenSSL licenses are incompatible. So how you exim4 guyes managed to get around that? By the use of

Re: Suggestions accepted

2003-04-11 Thread Jeremie Koenig
Hello, On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:52:44PM -0300, Rodrigo Tadeu Claro wrote: Hello! I'm going to do it with name gtk-fm. IMHO, gtk-* should be reserved to packages that are part of the GTK project, or at least closely tied with it. To me foo-bar implies that this packages is the bar part

Re: SASL/LDAP/DB dependency hell.

2003-04-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
I could not convince libpng maintainers to use versioned symbols because they were apparently not available on AIX and Windows. AIX is an ancient PoS. And Windows, well... :) Symbol versioning is something that can be turned on and off where it is available. Not using it because foo

Database-specificisms considered harmful

2003-04-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, * Package name: exim-mysql Personally, I do not like all those -mysql, -pgsql, -whatever packages. Whatever happened to the idea of using a common database access library like iODBC? It's reasonably small, Not A Burden if you happen to not require any database lookup features, and it

Re: fakeroot with chroot.

2003-04-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
http://people.debian.org/~dexter/fakeroot/ Have a good fun! Nice. Very nice. Will you put that into the official fakeroot? I really don't know. The fakeroot is not my project and I'm afraid my patches are too experimental for such stable tool. Also there is too much work with

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: They are in experimental, see http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=exim4searchon=namessubword=1version=allrelease=all Rather than the obscenely ugly URL like that, use the convenient

Re: fakeroot with chroot.

2003-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:50:20PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I really don't know. The fakeroot is not my project and I'm afraid my patches are too experimental for such stable tool. Also there is too much work with cleaning up the code. Should I start new project or join to the

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: [exim4] At q.bofh.de are still backports to woody that work fine, also under testing. (And at least the backports are really usable and have a _very_ nice configuration setup. I can't say anything about experimental, as I haven't

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:13:48AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: airsnort (debian/main) Maintainer: Noel Koethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 167901 [ ] [S] Unfullfilable Depends: prevents the package from working (and Depends: not properly setup) That bug only applies to woody, I

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:29:56PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:13:48AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: [...] Package: doc-rfc-std (debian/main) Maintainer: Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [REMOVE] 111218 [ + ] Cannot install/remove

Bug#188608: ITP: xmms-speex -- Speex speech codec - XMMS input plugin

2003-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-12 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xmms-speex Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Jens Burkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jzb.rapanden.dk/speex * License : GPL Description : Speex speech codec -

Re: Bug#150411: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:27:06AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:06:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: xshipwars-server (debian/main) Maintainer: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 150411 [P ] xshipwars-server:

Re: fakeroot with chroot.

2003-04-11 Thread Bill Allombert
Piotr Roszatycki wrote: I really don't know. The fakeroot is not my project and I'm afraid my patches are too experimental for such stable tool. Also there is too much work with cleaning up the code. Should I start new project or join to the original fakeroot? Start a fakechroot project :) I

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Joe Nahmias
Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are currently about 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:06:32AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: If you want to keep one of the following packages, please make sure to - change the title of the bug from O: to ITA: as described on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp - make an upload to the archive, change the

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Joe Nahmias wrote: Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? archive.d.o stores stable distros, and is never purged of packages (although too old releases just might. Depends on the amount of space, I

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-11 13:52]: Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? They won't be removed from already released versions of Debian. So if the packages were in potato or woody, they will be available

Attempting a Debian Install on a Libretto 100CT

2003-04-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Attempting a Debian Install on a Libretto 100CT When: Wednesday 16 April 2003, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Mike

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 April 2003 15:49, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:23:12PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2003 16:43, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-11 Thread Thomas Hood
(I am resending this because the earlier version contained a few minor errors. I suppose I should put this on the web somewhere and post the link.) (I repeat the call for people to look for files that are in /etc/ but shouldn't be.) Here are: * an updated list of wishes filed, * an updated TODO

Fwd: ITP: bashish (retitle from RFP) -- theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells

2003-04-11 Thread Bruno David Rodrigues
I meant debian-devel, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) - Mensagem Reenviada de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Data: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:55:40 +0100 De: Bruno David Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: ITP: bashish (retitle from RFP) -- theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Lars Bahner
I am not currently using anything on the wnpp-list, but it seems to me that not all these packages are better off gotten rid off. Does anyone know something about the importance of these packages? Has/can someone run this against the popularity-contest? My point is that I could prolly adopt a

Re: fakeroot with chroot.

2003-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:49:20PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: AFAIK user-mode-linux require root access to set up the network to have network access under uml. No, this is only true for the tuntap transport. The slirp transport, for example, requires no additional privileges, and it is not

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:42:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 11 April 2003 15:49, Emile van Bergen wrote: You do want to allow both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of libraries to be installed, for which you need different package names; you want to avoid adding fields to a

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 April 2003 23:17, Emile van Bergen wrote: What I have in mind is something along the lines of libfoo 'Provides: libfoo(32bit)' lib64foo 'Provides: libfoo(64bit)' bar 'Depends: libfoo($BITSIZE)' I don't know if it's

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 13:57, Lars Bahner wrote: I am not currently using anything on the wnpp-list, but it seems to me that not all these packages are better off gotten rid off. Does anyone know something about the importance of these packages? Has/can someone run this against the

Nameserver-pushing mechanism

2003-04-11 Thread Jeremie Koenig
(sorry, i have easy enthusiasm, especially at 2:30 am ;) On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:39:46PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: TODO for etc/resolv.conf Overview * /etc/resolv.conf - /run/resolv.conf * Networking daemon pidfiles go in /run/ * Resolv.conf-like files go

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:23:39PM -0700, Nathan Paul Simons wrote: | | [...] Most sound cards these days don't even *come* with wavetable | synthesis, [...] | Er, the SBLive and its Creative brethren do, don't they? At least, I'm presuming that's what sound fonts are for. Has it been removed

llave gpg

2003-04-11 Thread Jose M Duart
Hola a todos, hace un par de dias me dispuse a ver la página http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=joduart%40alumni.uv.es y me sorprendió ver el mensaje gpg key id not found, ya que mi llave gpg sí está en bastantes servidores de llaves. Buscando información sobre el tema he visto que