Re: Drop testing

2004-10-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:47:49PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I have a simple question for you: have you actually talked to those currently managing our releases before drafting this GR? For comparison, when drafting the proposal for package pools and testing, the folks actually managing the

Debian installer and non-official drivers

2004-10-28 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hiho! Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in order to detect the additional hardware. Would this udeb

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:05:51PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: * One of Testing's goals was to be 95% releasable at all times. * It hasn't been. * Why not? (a) RC bugs (b) Can't install it (c) Security

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:44:19PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Even if the file is updated only by the postinst, it is useful to know that you can recover a broken system from scratch by having: * A backup copy of /etc, /var, /home, /usr/local, etc. (but not /usr). * The list of installed

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

2004-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 16:16 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? Isn't

Debian installer and non-official drivers

2004-10-28 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hiho! Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in order to detect the additional hardware. Would this udeb

Re: A localisation success: French po-debconf translations briefly reached a full virtual 100%

2004-10-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
[please remember Debian list policy: no cc:s unless requested] On Wednesday 27 October 2004 17.54, Christian Perrier wrote: But does anything warn me (linda/lintian?) when I update debconf templates and/or package descriptions and forget to post to debian-i18n? (which would be: it should

Re: Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

2004-10-28 Thread Jerome Warnier
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:22 +0200, David Schweikert wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 13:07:34 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: * Package name: ibm-acpi This has been integrated into the acpi.sf.net patch, so is fairly likely to end up in the mainstream kernel before too long. Even if

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.26.2057 +0200]: You should probably tell us non-chatters what The software is... I believe the original post had the reference: apt-spy, pciutils, usbutils, possibly others. Note that usbutils and apt-spy are already fixed. -- Please do not

Re: Debian installer and non-official drivers

2004-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in order to detect the additional

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-28 Thread Simon Huggins
'ello Debian On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:40:30PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: asking Google for this problem just leaded to hints of some broken X resources but I have no real clue what might have caused the failure of at least three important applications which I'm running on a laptop with an

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-28 Thread Oded Shimon
On Thursday 28 October 2004 01:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: A package in main must not depend on any software outside of main, and must be DFSG-free; A package in contrib must be DFSG-free; A package in non-free must be legally distributable by Debian. There are no further restrictions than

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Clemens Schwaighofer [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:02:44 +0900]: Hi, I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation scripts and not logrotate. albeit both are Priority: important, sysklogd is Section: base. and, iiuc, base should be self-contained (that is, packages in base

Re: Subversion / swig1.3

2004-10-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* John Lenz [Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:02:43 +]: On 10/26/04 16:35:35, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:39:15PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: subversion depends on swig = 1.3.22-2 which is in unstable. but it's not in testing yet because swig cannot be put into testing because

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal

2004-10-28 Thread Grkan Sengn
Brent has already a packaged libical here: http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/gnustep/ yours, Gürkan

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Erik Schanze [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:31:35 +0200]: If your program depends on MPlayer, it must go into non-free. If your program depends on a program in non-free, it must go into contrib. But MPlayer isn't even in non-free. not exactly. packages in contrib can depend on packages not

Bug#278620: ITP: tecnoballz -- A breaking blocks game ported from Amiga

2004-10-28 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tecnoballz Version : 0.90.6 Upstream Author : TLK Games http://linux.tlk.fr * URL : http://linux.tlk.fr/games/TecnoballZ/ * License : GPL Description : A breaking blocks game ported from Amiga This is a

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thomas Bushnell writes: So the RC bugs should not be blocking release unless they are *new* RC bugs which don't already exist. I'd word that a bit differently: the definition of an RC bug should *never* allow a bug still present in stable now (+ security.stable) to reach the level of RC. Jan.

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:53 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: paddy wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 5)== User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a dot file). If Speaking of which: there used to be some proposed addition to FHS about

Re: Debian installer and non-official drivers

2004-10-28 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2004 10:38 schrieb Joey Hess: Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during

Re: Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

2004-10-28 Thread David Schweikert
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:44:18 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: Even if it gets integrated in the kernel (which I am not 100% sure about), having a package would make it work on older kernels. Also, an init script is needed to configure what events you are interested in and the package can

Bug#278246: 278246 -- does not reproduce for me.

2004-10-28 Thread Joost Witteveen
In both KDE (e.g. Konqueror, Kmail) and GNOME (e.g. gedit) applications Cyrillic letters are displayed as double-width. Ah, that was a long time ago that I had that problem. (But for me mozilla used to have the problem too, not any more though) I just tried again with gedit, and I cannot reproduce

Bug#278627: ITP: childsplay-base -- base package for childsplay, a suite of educational games for children.

2004-10-28 Thread Stas Zytkiewicz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-base Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkieiwcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : base package for childsplay, a suite of educational games

Bug#278630: ITP: childsplay-games -- collection of games for childsplay-base.

2004-10-28 Thread Stas Zytkiewicz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-games Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : collection of games for childsplay-base. This package

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-28 Thread Ben Burton
However, if you upload a package to contrib that build-depends on a package not in contrib or non-free, you'll get a FTBFS RC bug filed against you before you blink. Hmm, I didn't, back in the days when regina-normal built against java2 (which wasn't in the archive at the time). Though

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Simon Huggins wrote: Is this a Transmeta Crusoe based laptop? No. It is centrono based and I guess this is rather a problem of some pure X applications, because Gnome and KDE applications and also Mozilla are behaving fine. The only thing is that sometimes fonts are not

Bug#278633: ITP: childsplay-games -- games for childsplay, a collection of games for young children.

2004-10-28 Thread Stas Zytkiewicz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-games Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : Additional games for childsplay, a collection of games for

Bug#278631: ITP: childsplay-base -- base package for childsplay, a collection of educational games for children.

2004-10-28 Thread Stas Zytkiewicz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-base Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : base package for childsplay, a collection of educational

Bug#278634: ITP: libdigest-crc-perl -- Generic CRC functions for Perl

2004-10-28 Thread Allard Hoeve
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libdigest-crc-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Oliver Maul * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~olimaul/Digest-CRC-0.09/lib/Digest/CRC.pm * License : public domain Description : Generic CRC functions for

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User specific configuration files [...] If an application needs to create more than one dot file then they should be placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' ... I have no idea if we comply, but this is a new requirement. Slrn,

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 22, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:41:42PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Could the script that generates the RC bug list be modified to show two additional numbers for each bug: first, how old it is (in days), and second, how old (in days) is the last message posted to the bug? This will

NMU on sysklogd

2004-10-28 Thread Jerome Warnier
Hello guys, I'm having a problem with sysklogd on Sarge: everytime it rotates logs, it fails to log in the new file, it continues in the previous, renamed one. I introduced bug #275111 about that. It is really annoying since every log analysis tool is failing on this every week at least? By log

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 28 October 2004 01.53, Joey Hess wrote: paddy wrote: what about ~/Desktop and friends? I don't know if Desktop falls under the heading of being a configuration file or directorty. Not that I much like that directory, but like Maildir, it seems out of the scope of this FHS

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09.20, Ian Bruce wrote: Can anyone explain why rsync is no longer considered an appropriate method for fetching Packages files? IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so while the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to

Versioned bugs in the BTS (was: Drop testing)

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, we'll have a bug database which tracks version numbers. This in turn means that we have a nice distinction between bugs that are actually RC in the fix this if we'd want to release Etch tomorrow sense, and bugs that are RC in the keep this

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jan Nieuwenhuizen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041028 14:05]: Thomas Bushnell writes: So the RC bugs should not be blocking release unless they are *new* RC bugs which don't already exist. I'd word that a bit differently: the definition of an RC bug should *never* allow a bug still present in

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

2004-10-28 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Jaldhar H. Vyas asks, I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? I do not pretend to have the full answer to the question, but I

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Ian Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone explain why rsync is no longer considered an appropriate method for fetching Packages files? It's the only mechanism I'm aware of Because it's hard on servers, for a start. -- ciao, | Marco | [8782 diFcw3LT7Erlw] signature.asc

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? If the fonts are meant to be used by TeX

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.26.2057 +0200]: You should probably tell us non-chatters what The software is... I believe the original post had the reference: apt-spy, pciutils, usbutils, possibly others. The original post

Package name eMail or not?

2004-10-28 Thread Millis Miller
There was some discussion [1] about an ITP I filed last year for a package called email [2], which suffered from an inappropriate license and name problems. The upstream has since released a newer version under the GPL and has indicated to me a willingness to have the package called eMail.

Bug#278648: ITP: kkbswitch -- keyboard layout indicator for KDE3

2004-10-28 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kkbswitch Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Leonid Zeitlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : keyboard layout indicator for KDE3 KKBSwitch is useful

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update [Oct 24]

2004-10-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-10-26 09:27:22, schrieb Martin Schulze: Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Martin and *, Am 2004-10-24 11:24:26, schrieb Martin Schulze: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update == You should first check whether

aide 0.8-2 moved /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf

2004-10-28 Thread Mark-Walter
Hello, I've just installed aide for woody but it was required to move /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf. Can someone reproduce this if it's a bug or not ? -- Best Regards, Mark

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal

2004-10-28 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:04:51 +0200 Gürkan Sengün [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent has already a packaged libical here: http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/gnustep/ Yeah, but that's not in the archive :) And even having that one it wouldn't serve, as vcalendar plugin needs specifically the

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

2004-10-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 25 octobre 2004 16:16 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas a crit : I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? Generally, fonts should

Re: Bug#278255: ITP: rdflib -- A python library for working with RDF

2004-10-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 27 octobre 2004 20:12 +0200, Alberto Rodriguez Galdo a crit : deb http://www.igaelica.com/debian ./ It's name is python2.3-rdflib as it depends on python 2.2 Please, don't do that. You should name it python-rdflib and use ${python:Depends} to generate the python dependency.

d-i using kexec

2004-10-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
Has anybody ever considered the possibility of a 0-reboot installation? It seems that this should be possible with (or without?) kexec. I think the reason the installer presently reboots is to load the *real* kernel (which will be used during normal runtime) rather than the installer kernel.

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-28 Thread paddy
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:28:26AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.26.2114 +0200]: What software writes to /usr ? As noted in the OP, apt-spy, pciutils, and probably others. My apologies, I only just got that post today! I dived in a little

An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
Developers, do not allow http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg to happen to you. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update [Oct 24]

2004-10-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Joey, You should first check whether they exist no the original security server. If they do, you'll have to contact the ftp.de mirror maintainer. OK, checked... I have changed the Server to ftp://security.debian.org and gotten the same problem: ( 'stdin'

Re: Versioned bugs in the BTS (was: Drop testing)

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041028 17:00]: Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, we'll have a bug database which tracks version numbers. This in turn means that we have a nice distinction between bugs that are actually RC in the fix this if we'd want to release Etch

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps that's true -- I must do a little reading. However, if you upload a package to contrib that build-depends on a package not in contrib or non-free, you'll get a FTBFS RC bug filed against you before you blink. Are there any (inofficial) buildds

special request - no spam - seriously!

2004-10-28 Thread Falko Klein
Hi I know that this is for sure an usual request posted on this list. Sorry for that. But I am desperately looking for Debian hacker which are also engaged in Linux. I know that Linux is not far from Debian. Anyway. For my final thesis dealing with “coordination mechanism and coordination

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Travis Crump
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:53 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: paddy wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 5)== User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's

Re: An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Developers, do not allow http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg to happen to you. And it's better to repeat it three times: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/wanna-build/secring.gpg

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

2004-10-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:03:43PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: For those of you interested, I've uploaded resmgr 1.0-1 to experimental (must go through NEW, etc.). I'll upload a version of sane-backends built with resmgr support to experimental when sane-backends 1.0.15 will be released (end

Re: An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Stuart Yeates
Matthew Garrett wrote: Developers, do not allow http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg to happen to you. I haven't checked lately, but at least some of those used to be: (a) secret keys used in regression tests, (b) honeypots and (c) findable via google but not downloadable cheers

Re: An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrote: Warning: The signature is bad. I guess this was unavoidable in a posting about a security related issue with GnuPG... greetings -- vbi -- Oops pgpsZSnPddRmR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-28 Thread Brendan
On Thursday 28 October 2004 07:18, Jon Dowland wrote: i still like them both and still run both on servers, You run gentoo on *SERVERS*!?!?! I guess someone would have to define servers in this context. A news server for downloading special avi files is not really a server in the sense of

Re: d-i using kexec

2004-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Justin Pryzby wrote: Has anybody ever considered the possibility of a 0-reboot installation? It seems that this should be possible with (or without?) kexec. I think the reason the installer presently reboots is to load the *real* kernel (which will be used during normal runtime) rather

Re: aide 0.8-2 moved /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf

2004-10-28 Thread Adam Majer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just installed aide for woody but it was required to move /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf. Can someone reproduce this if it's a bug or not ? # apt-cache policy aide aide: Installed: 0.8-2 Candidate: 0.8-2 Version Table: *** 0.8-2

deletion of xpackman dir

2004-10-28 Thread Nico Golde
hi, today i checked my local debian mirror and i saw that var/www/debian/pool/non-free/x/xpacman/ is an empty directory. can someone delete it? regards nico -- Nico Golde - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ngolde.de GPG: FF46 E565 5CC1 E2E5 3F69 C739 1D87

AMD64 Archive Key compromised!

2004-10-28 Thread Adam Majer
Matthew Garrett wrote: Developers, do not allow http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg to happen to you. Yeah. debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/wanna-build/secring.gpg http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/wanna-build/secring.gpg is Forbidden, but

Re: Bug#278255: ITP: rdflib -- A python library for working with RDF

2004-10-28 Thread Alberto Rodriguez Galdo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 28 de Octubre de 2004 16:24, Josselin Mouette escribió: Le mercredi 27 octobre 2004 à 20:12 +0200, Alberto Rodriguez Galdo a écrit : deb http://www.igaelica.com/debian ./ It's name is python2.3-rdflib as it depends on python 2.2

Re: SourceForge.net PR-Web Upgrade Notice.

2004-10-28 Thread Sean Perry
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i'm forwarding this to debian devel for people's attention because it would appear that debian has lost a quite large opportunity - by not having selinux available. PR choices, not much else. It is also entirely possible the last of the Debian faithful have

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-28 Thread Sean Perry
Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Simon Huggins wrote: Is this a Transmeta Crusoe based laptop? No. It is centrono based and I guess this is rather a problem of some pure X applications, because Gnome and KDE applications and also Mozilla are behaving fine. The only thing is that

Re: An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:08 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrote: Warning: The signature is bad. I guess this was unavoidable in a posting about a security related issue with GnuPG... Verifies fine here. Scott --

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
and before anybody asks, I already but all the things into logrotate. I just curious why its not there from beginning. With current default configuration, if I add some more log files info /etc/syslog.conf (e.g. to catch localN facilities), they get rotation automatically. Can the same be

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Speaking of which: there used to be some proposed addition to FHS about re-locating all dot-files into ~/etc or some directory like that. Does anybody know what happened to that? I'm aware of the problems (sharing $HOME over several different machines etc.), but but I'll be glad if the mess

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

2004-10-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I plan to have SANE built with resmgr support for Etch, and I hope other applications will support resmgr too. It can make life a lot easier, and changes to the code are really minimal. It is, however, a security hole; it's functionally

Re: d-i using kexec

2004-10-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Justin Pryzby may or may not have written... Has anybody ever considered the possibility of a 0-reboot installation? It seems that this should be possible with (or without?) kexec. I think the reason the installer presently reboots is to load the *real* kernel (which will be

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:03:31AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Trivial analysis: () The release managers have been putting some effort into (a)(1) over the past year, and there's four of them now instead of just one. How much effort has the project been putting into the other factors? I

Re: Waiting for unfinished jobs....

2004-10-28 Thread Luis Mayoral
El Martes, 26 de Octubre de 2004 02:06, Anibal Monsalve Salazar escribió: Package harbour is FTBFS on alpha, s390, m68k, powerpc and mips, as you can see at: http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=harbour Could someone shed some light on this problem? Hi Anibal. I'm the maintainer of

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

2004-10-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:46:18PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: I plan to have SANE built with resmgr support for Etch, and I hope other applications will support resmgr too. It can make life a lot easier, and changes to the code are really minimal. It is, however, a security hole; it's

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041028 22:00]: Also note that there are _many_ patches in the BTS for RC (and many other bugs). But RC bugs do not get fixed in time [0] this also shows that a number of packages are not being properly maintained and we maybe could maybe

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-28 Thread Oded Shimon
On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:15, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: Hello Oded. snip Again, good luck. If and when you find an appropriate sponsor, let me know the good news. Wow, honestly, that was some damn great advice... And it does sound very accurate and I do understand it. I don't know if

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-28 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2004 01:43 AM, Christoffer Sawicki wrote: The Debian Desktop Distribution will be something like this. I believe more details will be available soon. Until then, http://debiandesktop.org/ has a concept paper. Is this a fork from the

Re: NMU on sysklogd

2004-10-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jerome Warnier] Could someone go through the list and NMU this? I'm willing to help, if necessary. The maintainer of sysklogd have a problematic relationship with NMUs. Have a look at bug #225895 for an ironic view on this. :)

Re: NMU on sysklogd

2004-10-28 Thread Jerome Warnier
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 00:46 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Jerome Warnier] Could someone go through the list and NMU this? I'm willing to help, if necessary. The maintainer of sysklogd have a problematic relationship with NMUs. Have a look at bug #225895 for an ironic view on this. :)

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:10:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps that's true -- I must do a little reading. However, if you upload a package to contrib that build-depends on a package not in contrib or non-free, you'll get a FTBFS RC bug filed

Re: Waiting for unfinished jobs....

2004-10-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:06:48AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Hello, Package harbour is FTBFS on alpha, s390, m68k, powerpc and mips, as you can see at: http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=harbour Could someone shed some light on this problem? A build log extract

Re: An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:08 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrote: Warning: The signature is bad. I guess this was unavoidable in a posting about a security related

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 5)== User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a dot file). If an application needs to create more than one dot file then

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so while the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to 100s of users, they don't have the (CPU) resources for a few dozen

Bug#278741: ITP: unalz -- The unalz tool is the utility used for decompressing alzip format file.

2004-10-28 Thread Yooseong Yang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unalz Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : hardkoder [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.kipple.pe.kr/win/unalz/ * License : BSD Description : The utility used for decompressing alzip format file. The

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:20:19AM -0700, Ian Bruce said Now that gzip has the --rsyncable option, wouldn't it be feasible to rsync against compressed Packages files rather than having to keep the uncompressed ones around for this purpose? You have to explicitly enable this option, which is

Accepted midentd 2.3.1-3 (i386 source)

2004-10-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:21:47 +0200 Source: midentd Binary: midentd Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.3.1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL

Accepted roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 0-7 (all source)

2004-10-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:32:19 +0200 Source: roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 Binary: roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 Architecture: source all Version: 0-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo

Accepted roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 0-7 (all source)

2004-10-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:41:42 +0200 Source: roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 Binary: roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 Architecture: source all Version: 0-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo

Accepted libroxen-disclaimer 1.0-9 (all source)

2004-10-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:57:55 +0200 Source: libroxen-disclaimer Binary: libroxen-disclaimer Architecture: source all Version: 1.0-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo

Accepted python-libgmail 0.0.8-3 (all source)

2004-10-28 Thread martin f. krafft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:30:03 +0200 Source: python-libgmail Binary: python-libgmail Architecture: source all Version: 0.0.8-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: martin f. krafft

Accepted radiusclient 0.3.2-7 (i386 source)

2004-10-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:35:55 +0200 Source: radiusclient Binary: libradius1-dev libradius1 radiusclient1 Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3.2-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted nagat 1.0a2-4 (all source)

2004-10-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:17:25 +0200 Source: nagat Binary: nagat Architecture: source all Version: 1.0a2-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted libdbix-searchbuilder-perl 1.12-1 (all source)

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen Quinney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:07:04 +0100 Source: libdbix-searchbuilder-perl Binary: libdbix-searchbuilder-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.12-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Stephen Quinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted php4-idn 1.0-3 (i386 source)

2004-10-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:33:12 +0200 Source: php4-idn Binary: php4-idn Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL

Accepted brltty 3.4.1-4 (i386 source)

2004-10-28 Thread Mario Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:21:03 +0200 Source: brltty Binary: brltty-udeb libbrlapi-dev libbrlapi brltty Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.4.1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Mario Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted kinoplus 0.3.2-5 (i386 source)

2004-10-28 Thread Roland Mas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:30:36 +0200 Source: kinoplus Binary: kinoplus Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3.2-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted dvtitler 0.1.1-2 (i386 source)

2004-10-28 Thread Roland Mas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:26:14 +0200 Source: dvtitler Binary: kino-dvtitler Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.1.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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