Release-critical Bugreport for September 14, 2001

2001-09-14 Thread BugScan reporter
Bug stamp-out list for Sep 14 05:00 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 449 Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 0 -- Package: abiword (debian/main) Maintainer: Darren Benham

Re: mirror-operators please help

2001-09-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Martin F Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit i know this much and made it work before. however, i have the entire debian tree mirrored and thus need to use apt-ftparchive. but its syntax is overwhelming. How about having a mirror script which mirrors intelligently, and updates

Re: Bug#112020: ITP: keychain -- An OpenSSH key manager

2001-09-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:00:11PM -0400, Brian Sniffen wrote: These are not equivalent situations. If the machine is turned off, keychain's keys are removed from memory. The passphraseless key is still on disk. It's also significantly harder to get the key out of ssh-agent's memory than

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:33:39PM -0500): - filing a request for the mailing list i'll set one up. filing against lists.debian.org takes too long. - putting together a web page similar to that of the X Strike Force with a link to the packages and their bug

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
I would like to help. Well, Apache and its related stuff is big enough to require an special work. El 13 Sep 2001 a las 08:42AM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij escribio: Hi, I would like to propose to form an Apache (web server) task force to maintain the Apache packages currently maintained

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:35:46PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Martin Quinson wrote: But if you put the translation in the control file, you have to add almost hundred fields, on per locale: Description-fr ; Description-fr_FR ; Description-fr_CA ; Description-fr_BE just to

Generating pool-based package.gz files

2001-09-14 Thread James Brown
Hey all, Can anyone point me to any docummentation on how the package files for woody and other pool-based distros are generated? For a few months we have been using a dpkg-scanpackages style system to put our local package repository into mySQL, which is then used for a bunch of

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Nick Phillips wrote: [*] By definition, the English speak English. What the Americans speak is different to what the English speak. Therefore the Americans don't speak English. That would mean the Belgian would

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Michael Bramer wrote: wordperfect is no free software and they can only support some languages. Get KDE, we have 38 kde-i18n-* packages. This is the _minimum_. This is not just about Debian. It is about the dpkg

franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit On a very different topic, I cannot even type in franc,ais in my system, and it seems to be a character not available in the default locale which is C. How are people meant to handle this? regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

2001-09-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:43:17PM +0800, James Brown wrote: Hey all, Can anyone point me to any docummentation on how the package files for woody and other pool-based distros are generated? apt-get install apt-utils; man apt-ftparchive Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL

BUG: #110304

2001-09-14 Thread Sylvain de Crom
Hello Patrick and the other debian-devel readers, As stated in bug #110304 deity won't work, this becouse it depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.1 (NOT AVAILABLE) which is (as you can see) not available. This bug could be easley solved, as deity-0.8.0.5 is available as a source package, and

Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

2001-09-14 Thread James Brown
Glancing over the manpage it looks exactly the same as scanpackages but more configurable not really any different from what I'm doing now. The problem is that the pool directory has potato, woody and sid files all in one, and I need to know how to only pick out the files from woody... -

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le ven, sep 14, 2001, à 04:13:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a écrit: On a very different topic, I cannot even type in franc,ais in my system, and it seems to be a character not available in the default locale which is C. C does not specify a charset outside ASCII, does it ? On my system, with

Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

2001-09-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:16:36PM +0800, James Brown wrote: Glancing over the manpage it looks exactly the same as scanpackages but more configurable not really any different from what I'm doing now. The problem is that the pool directory has potato, woody and sid files all in one, and

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Cyrille Chepelov wrote: Le ven, sep 14, 2001, 04:13:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a crit: ... (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post display completely on your screen ?) Your message didn't specify any character set, so the non-ASCII characters seem to have

Re: Generating pool-based package.gz files

2001-09-14 Thread James Brown
Mmmkay, so I'll have to populate my existing database from the Packages file and scan my local repository and override trees seperatly. Oh well :p - Ender Obviously you use the Packages file we distribute... (If you're interested in the chicken-and-egg problem from Debian's POV, we have a

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Ari Makela
Andres Seco Hernandez writes: Well, Apache and its related stuff is big enough to require an special work. I've been very unhappy in the /etc/init.d/apache script - I'd like if it would check the configuration before stop or restart and if it would be possible to start Apache with option -X

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread David N. Welton
Ari Makela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andres Seco Hernandez writes: Well, Apache and its related stuff is big enough to require an special work. I've been very unhappy in the /etc/init.d/apache script - I'd like if it would check the configuration before stop or restart and if it would

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Ari Makela
David N. Welton writes: If you need to start it with -X, just do it by hand. That's what I do when I'm hacking on mod_dtcl. I'm not really sure that modes of operation belong in init.d scripts... Possibly, that's just a question of policy. However, I do feel that having it in the init

Re: Web interface for Debian Description Translation Server

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:37:12PM +0100, Jaime E . Villate wrote: Where you can find more information about it. At this moment we are translating descriptions into Spanish and Portuguese (as spoken in Portugal). Grisu is taking care of the translations into German, French, Italian and

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Nick Phillips wrote: [*] By definition, the English speak English. What the Americans speak is different to what the English speak. Therefore the Americans don't speak

Re: Web interface for Debian Description Translation Server

2001-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: some comments: - The 'grisu' ddts has some more languages: de (german), pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese), ja (Japanese), fr (french), it (Italian), nl (Netherlands), pl (Polish), da (dutch), hu , sk , sv_SE Not completely true. The

Re: Web interface for Debian Description Translation Server

2001-09-14 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: some comments: - The 'grisu' ddts has some more languages: de (german), pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese), ja (Japanese), fr (french), it (Italian), nl (Netherlands), pl

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-14 Thread Nick Phillips
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:47:18AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: What I meant to say is simple: you can't know what language people speak by having a look at the country they live in. Thus, the english do _not_, by definition, speak english. I never said that you could. You're splitting

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Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Michael Bramer wrote: And if we get translators, why not add a some more languages. We have now in the ddtp only 11 languages at the beginning and

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: T.Pospisek's MailLists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: I would like to propose to form an Apache (web server) task force to maintain the Apache packages currently maintained by Johnie Ingram

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:33:39PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:42:44AM) I would like to propose to form an Apache (web server) task force to maintain the Apache packages currently

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: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le ven, sep 14, 2001, à 08:54:40 +0100, Oliver Elphick a écrit: Cyrille Chepelov wrote: Le ven, sep 14, 2001, 04:13:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a crit: ... (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post display completely on your screen ?) Your message didn't

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Michael Bramer wrote: Please can we make a brainstorming with the apt, dpkg and translator developer? As I already said, not now besides from what we've just being doing. I have to admit that the fact that this discussion keeps repeating itself and people don't seem to accept what

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* 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 to use would be Debian QA Group [EMAIL PROTECTED

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: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a very different topic, I cannot even type in franc,ais in my system, and it seems to be a character not available in the default locale which is C. How are people meant to handle this? I have LC_CTYPE=en_US (or LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1)

Public Shell

2001-09-14 Thread John Salerno
I'm interested .. please contact me directly. Thanks, John Salerno, CEO bigVAULT Storage Technologies, Inc. Voice (631)864-3636

[Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-14 Thread Francis ANDRE
Hi DDG I check out the www.gnu.org inetutils against debian inetutils and I found them out of sync?? Could anybody tell me why?? Cheers Francis ANDRE

Re: Public Shell

2001-09-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm interested .. please contact me directly. You're interested in what?

Re: Preview of new Ghostscript packages - please test

2001-09-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:09:34PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: Is that a good idea? I know the scripts have changed between GNU and Aladdin GS, to make things somewhat more secure. You naturally won't be able to use the Aladdin versions in gs-common, but that means that you will lose

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:54:40AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Cyrille Chepelov wrote: Le ven, sep 14, 2001, 04:13:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a crit: ... (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post display completely on your screen ?) Your message didn't

Gndem (475)

2001-09-14 Thread Sagduyu.Net
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Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Francis ANDRE wrote: Could anybody tell me why?? Ask the maintainer instead of mailing debian-devel? Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-2001 Francis ANDRE wrote: Hi DDG I check out the www.gnu.org inetutils against debian inetutils and I found them out of sync?? Could anybody tell me why?? GNU inetutils is a FSF implementation, ours is the original BSD. The FSF is re-implementing long existing code so that

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debconf question: do you want a symlink. Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to interact with the user does not mean that every possible choice that a package makes needs to ask the user. If I

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:04:08PM +0200, Francis ANDRE uttered: I check out the www.gnu.org inetutils against debian inetutils and I found them out of sync?? Found _what_ about them out of sync? Their version number? Their 3rd toe on their root foot? _What?_ Could anybody tell me why?? Did

dpkg-source messages

2001-09-14 Thread Nick Phillips
I wonder whether anyone can point me at a likely cause for a slightly worrying list of messages I'm getting from dpkg-source when using dpkg-buildpackage to build a multi-binary package... during the build I get: dh_clean dpkg-source -b teapop-0.3.3 dpkg-source: building teapop using existing

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread James Bromberger
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:32:27AM +0300, Ari Makela wrote: If you need to start it with -X, just do it by hand. That's what I do when I'm hacking on mod_dtcl. I'm not really sure that modes of operation belong in init.d scripts... Possibly, that's just a question of policy. However, I

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:39:10AM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post display completely on your screen ?) Here it does. The message I got was properly labeled as ISO-8859-1, too. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't apt 0.5.4 moving to testing?

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Sep-01, 17:50 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Christian Leutloff wrote: Is it really necessary that the package must be able to be upgraded on every architecture!? That's the whole purpose of testing, keep the brokenness to a minimum. So now we have

sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ audio/01_Birdland.wav The idea is basically to convert a .mp3 to a .wav Has anyone a hint ? Thanks. Please CC me -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:23:53AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debconf question: do you want a symlink. Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to interact with the user does not mean that

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Colin Walters
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: Cyrille Chepelov wrote: Le ven, sep 14, 2001, 04:13:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a crit: ... (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post display completely on your screen ?) Your message didn't specify any character

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:23:53AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to interact with the user does not mean that every possible choice that a package makes needs to ask the user. If I wanted to make all the choices, I'll build

Re: Public Shell

2001-09-14 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:06:17AM -0400, John Salerno wrote: I'm interested .. please contact me directly. We are all interested but please, try to keep this as private as possible ... -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards! --from a /.

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ audio/01_Birdland.wav The idea is basically to convert a .mp3 to a .wav Has anyone a hint ? What does this have to

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:14:04PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ audio/01_Birdland.wav The idea is basically to convert a .mp3 to a .wav Uh, why go thru all

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ audio/01_Birdland.wav The idea is basically to convert a .mp3 to a .wav Has anyone a hint ? you don't need sox

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: It could be nice if all you send me a collection of ebooks you think is a must for a developer. Only HTML/PDF/PS/TXT formats. ^^^ Why is that? I find PDF/PS formats to be

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le ven, sep 14, 2001, à 09:39:55 -0500, David Starner a écrit: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:39:10AM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post display completely on your screen ?) Here it does. The message I got was properly

Re: dpkg-source messages

2001-09-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:53:26PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote: I wonder whether anyone can point me at a likely cause for a slightly worrying list of messages I'm getting from dpkg-source when using dpkg-buildpackage to build a multi-binary package... during the build I get: If you put the

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ audio/01_Birdland.wav i assume there's something wrong with mpg123 -w audio/01_Birdland.wav audio/01_Birdland.mp3?

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Sep-01, 10:18 (CDT), Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, why not just test for the existence of directory /usr/lib/procmail-lib ? Is there an advantage to checking the package version instead? Because by the time the postinst runs, /usr/lib/procmail-lib is gone. If it's not

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Thanks to both of you (Dag Belgïe :) Fact is I didn't know about this option, it's documentation is totally hidden. Bug filed. On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:05:42PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I'm unable to find out why this command actuall

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:41:35PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Michael Bramer wrote: Please can we make a brainstorming with the apt, dpkg and translator developer? As I already said, not now besides from what we've just being doing. I have to admit that the fact that this

Re: Why isn't apt 0.5.4 moving to testing?

2001-09-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:36:28AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: We really (okay, you, Anthony :-)) really need to consider the idea of allowing architecture slips in testing, if, there's been a package that has been waiting more than (say) 10 days on a rebuild on fewer than (say) 30% of the

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:02:25PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ audio/01_Birdland.wav The idea is basically to

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Colin Walters
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't use debian-devel for questions that don't belong here (you can e.g. ask at a user list of sox or you can ask the Debian maintainer of sox privately). The proposed debian-user-woody list might also be a good place to ask these kinds of

Re: BUG: #110304

2001-09-14 Thread Randolph Chung
As stated in bug #110304 deity won't work, this becouse it depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.1 (NOT AVAILABLE) which is (as you can see) not available. this is not really a deity bug the 0.8.0.5 package was uploaded originally for sparc/hppa/ia64. the i386 autobuilder just hasn't

Re: dpkg-source messages

2001-09-14 Thread Nick Phillips
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:53:26PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote: I wonder whether anyone can point me at a likely cause for a slightly worrying list of messages I'm getting from dpkg-source when using dpkg-buildpackage to build

problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-14 Thread Gerhard Tonn
Hi, I have done some binary NMUs for s390 in order to fix bugs caused by previous compiler bugs. I experience now the following problem: The architecture dependent package created by the NMU have a 0.1 version, the architecture independent package compiled from the same source package don't

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:49:54PM +0200, Gerhard Tonn wrote: I have done some binary NMUs for s390 in order to fix bugs caused by previous compiler bugs. I experience now the following problem: The architecture dependent package created by the NMU have a 0.1 version, the architecture

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-14 Thread Martin Albert
On Thursday 13 September 2001 23:03, Lars Wirzenius wrote: all the energy I feel I can put into Debian is spent reading mailing oh, yes ..!! I'm about to take an extended vacation from being a Debian developer, Think i would miss you, but to take your word: how about prototyping co-maintenance

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: 1.) notification mails This is already fixed. Verybody can stop the server to send this mails. And I send a Perhaps it would be nice to mention this in the notification mail (something like If you don't want to receive these mails anymore,

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-14 Thread Ryan Murray
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:07:43AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: My bug was triggered by the fact that gdm offers a long selection of languages, among them English (without bells and whistles, just plain GDM does not offer english. It offers POSIX/C English, which sets lang to C. gdm

New update_excuses output

2001-09-14 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, As of the next dinstall/testing run (a few hours away yet) there'll be a new set of lines in the update_excuses output [0] (NB: it's now over a MB so it's quite long and tedious). They look like: + bonobo/alpha: Unsatisfiable Depends: libbonobo2 (= 1.0.8),

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:06:25PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: 1.) notification mails This is already fixed. Verybody can stop the server to send this mails. And I send a Perhaps it would be nice to mention this in the

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Dennis Schoen
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:24:01PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: Thanks to both of you (Dag Belgïe :) Fact is I didn't know about this option, it's documentation is totally hidden. fiesta ~ % mpg123 --help High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59r

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: IMHO it would be better to provide HTML and text formats, together with the source format from where on the preferred document format can be generated. Yep. Instead of all these packages with ps and pdf files, whereever

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:24:01 +0200 Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Thanks to both of you (Dag Belgïe :) Fact is I didn't know about this option, it's documentation is totally hidden. Bug filed. hmmm I learned this option with a simple mpg123 --help... is it really hidden?

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:58:30AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Which packages are these? It's probably a bug in the package source, in that it's coded in such a way that bin-nmu's aren't possible. There're a bunch of packages like that. (ie, a Depends: otherpkg (= myver) line) This problem

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:37:55PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Em Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:24:01 +0200 Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Thanks to both of you (Dag Belgïe :) Fact is I didn't know about this option, it's documentation is totally hidden. Bug filed.

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:41:35PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman écrivait: As I already said, not now besides from what we've just being doing. I have to admit that the fact that this discussion keeps repeating itself and people don't seem to accept what we (dpkg people) tell them makes me rapidly

Re: HW Probe

2001-09-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:19:45AM -0700, BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) écrivait: My project has a Bootable CD based on Debian, but it's difficult to run a XServer in any machine without a HW probe, do you know if Debian has something like that? Check the discover package. xfree4

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread Alan Shutko
David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. Instead of all these packages with ps and pdf files, whereever possible, why don't we just have the LaTeX/Texinfo/Tex/Docbook/whatever source, with instructions on how to build ps/pdf in README.Debian? Better yet, standardize a script used by all

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:53:49AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate location be acceptable? This, in particular, won't work, because dpkg won't replace a directory with a symlink. You could, however, replace the files

Re: sox sucks !

2001-09-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
Ok, this is pointless, but: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:29:12PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ mpg123 --help 21 |grep wav [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ torrent:~ mpg123 --help 21 | grep -i wav -w filename write Output as WAV file torrent:~

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:12:35PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:53:49AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate location be acceptable? This, in particular, won't work, because dpkg won't replace a

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:18:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate location be acceptable? This, in particular, won't work, because dpkg won't replace a directory with a symlink. You could, however, replace

Bug#112272: ITP: phorus -- Zone66 clone: fly a plane in an overhead-2d world and blow things up.

2001-09-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-08-20 Severity: wishlist Phorus is a GPLed game similar to Zone66. Zone66 was an old Epic game in which the player flew a plane through a 2D world, shooting down other planes and bombing strategic targets. It was more fun than it sounds :) Phorus

verifying deb installation

2001-09-14 Thread rich walker
This is probably a dumb question, but I figure there should be an answer, and I couldn't find it. When hacking on a scratch box, I had /usr on /dev/hdc1, and /usr/share on /dev/hda4 as /misc/share with a symlink... I then added a big drive, and moved /usr onto it. And forgot to move

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:50:42PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:18:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: ...and the new prerm remove it, and future versions of these scripts until the end of ti^W^W^Wrelease after next... Actually, if you'd also ship the symlink in the

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le ven, sep 14, 2001, à 12:39:31 -0500, David Starner a écrit: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:02:45PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: it looks like it's because your default locale is 8859-1. Nope. My default locale is UTF-8. As someone else said, your headers look fine. I stand corrected.

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:33:39PM -0500): - filing a request for the mailing list i'll set one up. filing against lists.debian.org takes too long. Please do. Something like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or so? I'm still

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Jonathan McDowell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:33:39PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:42:44AM) I would like to propose to form an Apache (web server) task

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation (was: ddts notification)

2001-09-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: That's sad since : - grisu proposed a simple intermediary solution using gettext that we could use rapidly (you're the first one to say that we can have several ways of getting the translations, so let's integrate the easy way right now and take the

Re: verifying deb installation

2001-09-14 Thread Wessel Dankers
* how do I get dpkg to check the manifest list of the installed packages against the files installed, and reinstall the missing ones? * find /var/lib/dpkg/info -name '*.list' | sort | uniq | while read f do if [ ! -e $f ]; then echo $f is missing;fi;done -- Wessel Dankers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: verifying deb installation

2001-09-14 Thread Wessel Dankers
On 2001-09-15 04:23:17+0200, Wessel Dankers wrote: * how do I get dpkg to check the manifest list of the installed packages against the files installed, and reinstall the missing ones? * find /var/lib/dpkg/info -name '*.list' | sort | uniq | while read f do if [ ! -e $f ]; then echo $f is

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Bug#112305: ITP: cfv - tests and creates .sfv, .csv and md5 files

2001-09-14 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Description: tests and creates .sfv, .csv and md5 files cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv (Simple File Verify) .csv, and md5sum files. These files are commonly used to ensure the correct retrieval or storage of data. It is licensed under the GPL,

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