Re: Bug#142818: Menu icon policy (Was: Bug#142818: xteddy: Icons missing from menu entries)

2002-04-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Mark Purcell wrote: Sorry for the delay in replying. But I didn't receive your response directly (by default the BTS doesn't send followup messages to the bug submitter) . Sorry, hope you get it directly now ... I'm running KDE. icewm also appears to need the full path

Re: Intent to hijack: gnuchess

2002-04-19 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Thimo Neubauer wrote: Speak now or hold your peace forever :) Thanks for caring about this package! Have a nice weekend Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PostgreSQL update_excuses

2002-04-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, auric:~ madison postgresql postgresql | 6.5.3-27 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc postgresql |7.2.1-2 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Menu icon policy (Was: Bug#142818: xteddy: Icons missing from menu entries)

2002-04-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
Thanks for the bug report. I just want to know which window manager you are using. I did not found any policy statement about default icon locations. The documentation of menu states: ... please put all icon files in the directory `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/{bitmaps,pixmaps}' and

Clustalw update_excuses

2002-04-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, in the package clustal[wx]_1.82-3 I fixed a buffer overflow and sended the fix upstream. I do not think that the problem is a real security risk but in many cases clustalw does not perform correctly so that I think the latest packages should go into testing. I wonder why it is sticked to

Re: Request for gnuchess packaging change

2002-04-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Lukas Geyer wrote: after unsuccessful attempts to contact the maintainer of gnuchess, Martin Mitchell (he did not answer at all to my emails), I would like to propose a change to the packaging of gnuchess. Andreas Tille did at least do an NMU to update to version 5.03

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, in general I like the idea of descriptions of manpages. I would like it even more if it would regard i18n descriptions which are produced by the ddtp server. Kind regards Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Please compile treetool for ia64

2002-04-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, it would be nice if treetool could be available for all released architectures. Cureently only ia64 is missing. auric:~ madison treetool treetool |2.0.2-1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, powerpc, sparc treetool |2.0.2-2 | testing | source, alpha, arm, i386,

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: I just tried it, and it seems to work very well. I had no problems booting whatsoever. I did just a quick look (no real install just booted and selected the language) and I really like the i18n stuff!!! Great job! Many thanks! Kind regards

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Julian Gilbey wrote: I am happy to take it. But a question: with the more actively maintained dput now being quite mature, do we still need both dupload and dput? IMHO two tools with the same functionality are 1. confusing for users 2. waste of time for developers.

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote: Welcome to the Free Software world. Hmm, I've thought I would just be here. :) There are plenty of editors, MUA, MTA and so on because people want to have fun doing something (and often learning from this experience), even if it

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: IMHO two tools with the same functionality are 1. confusing for users 2. waste of time for developers. They should spend their time to make one better tool instead of two good tools. The implementation language really does make a

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote: Stop talking about one's time. I won't repeat myself. The discussion started because someone stated that he has not enough time. Moreover I talked about a second aspect: Confusing users. I'll now save my time and stop posting to this

MusixTex for arm and sh architecture

2002-01-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, second call for help to compile MusixTex on all architectures: auric:~ madison musixtex musixtex | 1:0.98-1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc musixtex | 1:0.99-1 | testing | source, arm, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc musixtex | 1:0.99-1 |

Re: Will woody ever become stable?

2002-01-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: Unfortunately I'm excuriatingly busy with other things [0] until mid-February, so I just don't have time to pester three or four dozen people personally on a daily basis to get the release out. That *shouldn't* be necessary; just getting rid of the RC

Re: MusixTex for arm and sh architecture

2002-01-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: sh is somewhat deprecated at the moment due to a required decision wrt. sh3/sh4 and big/little endianess. No buildd is currently running for binary-sh because of this. Just stay tuned, the port will eventually continue. I really do not care about

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Will Lowe wrote: Is there any deb available for it? Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb containing 139 lines of perl. Why not fileing a wishlist bug against an apropriate

Re: Internationalization of apt

2002-01-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Michael Piefel wrote: Now that you got my suggested patches for the last part of i18n for apt, I wonder (once again): Are you going to try to get this into woody? At least a test-suite would be great. If not, I plan to do something, I'm not sure what. I could NMU, but I

Re: Musixtex not going into testing?

2002-01-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: I have just uploaded for powerpc. Thanks. Hamish wrote me he did it for hppa and I just did for sparc. Kind regards Andreas.

Musixtex not going into testing?

2002-01-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, some time ago I did an NMU of MusixTex which was accepted by the maintainer. I can't see any reason why this did not entered testing: ~ madison musixtex musixtex | 1:0.98-1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc musixtex | 1:0.99-1 | testing |

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: So, dear co-developers, please join debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and respond to future maintainers, and sponsor those who are asking it. Also check out the sponsor page that is listing about 30 future maintainers who are looking for a sponsor :

Re: linux.conf.au and Debian conference

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, James Bromberger wrote: [at debian-private - but of course it can be also discussed open and so I move here ...] On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:35:47AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: there were some rumors that there would be the Debian Conference 2 connected to http

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: Sounds good. Maybe we should provide a description of this technique somewhere within webml or ddp. WWW/doc folks: any hint about sponsorship uploading practices? At least an FAQ would be apropriate in my opinion. A better solution would be a

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

2002-01-08 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 6 Jan 2002, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The same is the situation for pingus. I tried to email the maintainer 2001-12-23, no reply yet. No changes in 260 days. Last upload was NMU. I've tried to email the one doing NMU after a bug squashing party in April 2001. Not sure what more I

Re: New project: Debian-Med

2002-01-08 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Steve M. Robbins wrote: In the research category -- how about medical imaging? I have considered packaging the MINC tools from our lab (www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca) that are used in brain research. And someone else previously packaged (or at least sent an ITP) other tools for

LVM + XFS/Ext3 (Was no space left on device: LVM, Gnus -- dpkg, apt-get ?)

2002-01-08 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 4 Jan 2002, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I'm using LVM and XFS filesystems on my computer at home. This morning, after I pushed g from the Gnus *Group* buffer (to get new mail), it stopped part way through with an error message. Gnus prompted me in the XEmacs minibuffer saying no space

New project: Debian-Med

2002-01-07 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, a new year seems to be the right starting point for a new project :). So here we are: _ _ __ ___ | _ \ ___ | |__ (_) __ _ _ __ | \/ | ___ __| | | | | | / _ \| '_ \ | | / _` || '_ \ _ | |\/| | / _

wxgtk python2 bindings

2001-09-27 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I had a short e-mail exchange with the maintainer of the wxgtk packages Ron Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I asked him, whether he would plan a package for python2 because a program I want to pack depends from it. Ron isn´t actually a big user of wxPython himself and he said hi is quite

Re: root rm: Permission denied - solution found

2001-09-17 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Edward Betts wrote: # chattr -V -i postgres.log.7.gz chattr 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 chattr: Permission denied while trying to stat postgres.log.7.gz chattr -V -ai postgres.log.7.gz maybe? It´s the same as above (and I expect it to stay so until I

Interbase status (ITP #83098)

2001-09-17 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, any news from the Interbase Debian packages? Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 14 Sep 2001, Lars Wirzenius wrote: #92294: sysadmin-guide; Missing Build-Depends-Indep I´m ready to upload a fixed package with the following changes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:54:54 +0200 Source: sysadmin-guide Binary:

Re: root rm: Permission denied - solution found

2001-09-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Edward Betts wrote: I had the same problem, just worked out how to fix it, I used the chattr program, see the chattr man page for more details. Could you please be a little bit more detailed? # chattr -V -i postgres.log.7.gz chattr 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b,

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Tille, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010914 13:06]: Maintainer: Debian QA team [EMAIL PROTECTED] * changed maintainer field to Maintainer: Debian QA team [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not a valid e-mail address. The correct string

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i would suggest the immutable flag, but AFAIK reiserfs has no such thing. Even if it would have - I do not use such nifty things on a testing box ... sure someone isn't playing a joke on you and replaced /bin/su with fakeroot ;-) :) But I can rm any

root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Corrupted filesystem, unlink that file and try again. Hmmm, I have also a relict of older ReiserFS (from 2.4.4 or so) on my HD (I´m so happy that I didn´t used it on a critical box and perhaps never will do so ...): /var/lug# whoami root /var/lug#

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

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: OH, this is now the second 'remove me' request. Now the server can only mail notifications to all packages or to no packages. Should I stop it? Comments? Example for a procmail rule in the information part? Kind regards Andreas.

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

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Since this should probably be by-package and not by-maintainer, how about a field in debian/control? (I'm not sure it really belongs there, but there were some advantages if it were there; e.g. it can easily be controlled by the maintainer.) If this

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: I have yet to meet a person who would ever need a slovak locale. Nobody cares at all (collate order? who needs that? Different format of numbers? This is not only unneeded, but even harmful. Different format of date? Who cares.. Gettext? Maybe, but

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Santiago Vila wrote: I never asked for a debconf interface (I explained in the bug report But why not following Grisus suggestion? In my opinion the problem is an obvious target for a debconf solution. The user has just to press Enter one times: Do you want locales

Re: CUPS

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Michael Meskes wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:04:10PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: By the way: That lpadmin does not work seems to be a bug but a feature - at least I had the same result as you. :-(( The web frontend worked for me after some fiddling around

Re: CUPS

2001-09-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Michael Meskes wrote: I used to tell everyone we need no fancy GUI for configuration as our postinst scripts take care of all that. All you need to know is dpkg-reconfigure if you want to change anything. That probably won't work with cups. I´m really sure that debconf

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Ari Makela wrote: Just about anyone who's not from English speaking countries. For example, we Finns need 'åäö' and their capital versions. They just don't work if you don't set locales right. If you take a look at even just European languages you can see that most of