Re: Bug#292322: emacspeak: might be non-free

2005-01-26 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Package: emacspeak Version: 17.0-1 Severity: severity The copyright of emacspeak is confusing, and the package is possibly non-free: debian/copyright claims two contradicting licenses for the packages. The first seems to be present in some

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
X-Posting to -policy, because this might be a bug in Policy. I'm not subscribed to -policy, please Cc me unless you keep -devel in. Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel Aelwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Hi, what

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do others also think this is an error in policy? Nobody would object if I raise severity of such a bug and address it in an NMU (which I'm going to do for a different RC bug, anyway)? I can answer the second question myself: According to http

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
anything about transparency?) surely is connected to different understanding of the word problems in that context. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
that it is not possible to rationally discuss the meaning of the word problems). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
there were some people who objected to some of the contents of the document. But even for those it is probably better to have a Debian package - if it's important, the discussion will take place in bug reports, instead of not taking place. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Küster
? Lucky Germans, we. Namibian scam, anybody? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Küster
Francois Bottin [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Selon Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So you think spam is the revenge for colionalism? Lucky Germans, we. Namibian scam, anybody? I forgot to put some irony indicators here. Hum... From your signature I guess you are from Switzerland I work

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Küster
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [stuff] I cannot follow you, sorry. EOT. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Frank Küster
every script that uses gettext. You wouldn't need to change every script - you just need to move gettext.sh to /usr/share/gettext/scripts and create /usr/bin/gettext.sh with the content Sean suggested. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Frank Küster
sense it is sufficiently clear. Do you think we should simply not make any use of the POSIX feature that . $name will look for $name in the $PATH? Or do you think we should add a directory to PATH that is then dedicated to such shell snippets? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der

Requirement for unmodified source (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
-patches source version is sufficient. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
-specific RC bugs are FTBFS, anyway. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues?

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Frank Küster wrote: I do not understand why the Nybbles team mixed their good news about sarge with their foreseeably controversial plans or proposal for etch. I fear that we will have a huge, long flamewar. And many competent, active people will start

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
up some stuff and do some basic testing, then release a snapshot. This would make security support much harder. The first question above still is interesting here. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Dropping from mirror network vs dropping from tier-1

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
be able to reach tier-1 easily, but really have no reason to be on the mirror network). But it does *not* say that s390 is likely to be among the released architectures. And I do not understand why. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
, though. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

The 98% and N=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
% of sparc users that do use KDE, it would probably be okay to have a separate archive for such stuff. Regards, Frank [1] this is just an example, I have no idea how a sparc compares to other machines; I just read that they are today manly used for server tasks. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
that we know what we are talking about. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
, and this puts again some workload on the ftpmasters and system admins. From the Vancouver proposal it seemed to me that it was not planned to provide such ressources. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: stable - yes or no?

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
to be outside Debian. If you can provide the quality expected of a Debian/stable release, then I don't believe anyone would object calling the result Debian/stable. The proposal does. Or what am I reading wrong? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian

Package versions in lesser-architecture-releases (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
have to recompile their stable stuff just to match the Debian revision? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues?

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Frank Küster wrote: I think all this discussion about etch should be delayed until sarge is out. Of course we would need a statement from the Nybbles team that they do not intend to make decicions, and not to settle facts before a thorough discussion

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Will it be possible to get the fixed-up sources reintegrated in point releases of stable? [don't know whether this is desirable] All things are *possible*. What's desirable is the question. I understood that there are reasons

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
is available if I'm not mistaken. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: about Nybbles : how to keep all those archs releasable complying with the Vancouver Project

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
with etch. The plan only works (i.e. leads to a smoother release process and prevents burnout in core teams) *if* there are less architectures in etch. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
Miros/law Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: 16.03.2005 pisze Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Package name: ttf-antp Version : 0.51 Upstream Author : Bogus?aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk * URL :

Re: How to join a team

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
directly and who cannot? When I got my DD account, I think it was the then most active DD on the debian-tetex-maint list who asked the DSA to put me into the group that own the teTeX CVS. And I guess today it's up to me if one more DD (Henning?) wishes to get CVS access, too. Regards, Frank -- Frank

Re: Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote: Miros/law Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1 GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa Toru?ska etc.) - I think such a package will be redundant

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-22 Thread Frank Küster
the state of free software, and it is sad that you decide to throw in the towel because of hard language from a fellow Debian volunteer. :( -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: discrepancies between uploaded and source-built .deb

2005-03-23 Thread Frank Küster
at the differences? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

sliced bread (was: Debian-Installer rc3 released)

2005-03-24 Thread Frank Küster
code for sliced bread!!!1 Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-29 Thread Frank Küster
only people who send patches? To me it seems this might even discourage newbies. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Bug#301892: ITP: cuetools -- tools for manipulating CUE/TOC files

2005-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
|- cueprint: print disc and track information for a CUE or TOC file | | It can also be used to split a large audio file into many | small files according to a CUE or TOC. ` Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
updated it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:56 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: There is a way to cause make to re-read a Makefile: Makefile remaking. debian/rules: debian/rules.in $(command that recreates debian/rules) --infile $ --outfile $@ ... make will reread

Re: init.d script dependencies for etch?

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
to hear. This would also fix #253128 and similar problems. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

How to handle unreproducible RC bugs when the submitter is MIA?

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
this bug be handled? I'm cc-ing -devel, because this question seems to be of general interest. Please note that I am not subscribed to -release (but get mail to -devel or the bug address). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
, Frank P.S. if somebody can point me to an alternative for wwwoffle, that would be nice. Is polipo good? If yes, does it provide an upgrade path from woody? -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
the maintainers of alternatives. Since polipo claims to be in the spirit of wwwoffle, it might even be possible to provide an upgrade path. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-01 19:28]: - its open bugs (one RC, but worked on) http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/vorlon contains # bug #295060 remove wwwoffle/2.8e-1 So, yes, because of an RC bug. Is it not usual practice

Re: How to handle unreproducible RC bugs when the submitter is MIA?

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
add-ons that rely on similar features (auctex runs its configure script from the maintainer script). And in this case I think it would be a serious bug in that other package. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:00:19PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Is it not usual practice to send a note about this to the bug? I think this would be a good idea, both for documentation purposes, and to wake up lazy maintainers. No, maintainers have

watch files and weird version numbers

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
. Is there any way to teach uscan about this? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
Niv Altivanik (Debian) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does ([0-9].[0-9])([0-9]?) help ? i noticed having 2 pairs of () added a . in the Debian version. Thank you, that does it fine. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Hi, thanks to the thread about watchfiles for sourceforge projects I now have a working watch file for jabref which I intend to package. However, they used version numbers that lacked

How to handle permissions of configuration files in maintainer scripts?

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, when a maintainer script creates and possibly edits configuration files (of course not conffiles), what is the best way to set proper permissions (e.g. change ownership to a daemon user created by the package), while still preserving local admin's changes? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
a new dupload.conf. Has anyone else had this problem? I can't find anything about it using google. And I'd like to get some bug fixes uploaded before the freeze. I use dput, and I didn't have any problems. Furthermore, you can use the DELAYED-0 queue on gluck. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues? (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
think all this discussion about etch should be delayed until sarge is out. Of course we would need a statement from the Nybbles team that they do not intend to make decicions, and not to settle facts before a thorough discussion has taken place - after the release. -- Frank Küster Inst. f

Re: Bug#312897: ITP: texlive -- The TeXlive system packaged for debian

2005-06-13 Thread Frank Küster
, or alternatively a hell of patches. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Bug#312897: ITP: texlive -- The TeXlive system packaged for debian

2005-06-14 Thread Frank Küster
taken from texlive packages. It would be hard (and hardly sensible) to try the other way round, texlive basic packages with, say, tetex-extra. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Frank Küster
of any efforts, or even whether that would be realistic. Just a principle thought. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: file permissions on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

2009-04-24 Thread Frank Küster
, if you cannot get agreement with the apt maintainers soon. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-07 Thread Frank Küster
a complete binary distribution is able to rm -rf the doc directory. Would there be any objections to filing minor/wishlist bugs against these packages? We'll just add wontfix tags, so you might as well not bother to file the bugs against the texlive packages. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-08 Thread Frank Küster
install a TeX system because something needs it - but because they want to right texts. Only in the special case of software documentation does it happen that the documentation is completely written, and the user (developer or buildd) just needs the runtime. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-08 Thread Frank Küster
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 08 May 2009 11:59:27 +0200 Frank Küster fr...@debian.org wrote: Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be wrote: The development documentation for libraries and programming languages should not be installed by the runtime. This probably means

Re: texlive restrictive licence in main prevents derived works?

2009-05-08 Thread Frank Küster
texlive-base Depend on it, instead of every doc package (which Depend's on texlive-base anyway) Depend'ing on it. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: texlive restrictive licence in main prevents derived works?

2009-05-09 Thread Frank Küster
? Emdebian Grip drops Recommends No problem to lower tl-base's dependency on tl-base-doc to Recommends. But still, what's the problem with downloading and installing a package with Installed-Size: 1216 ? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC

Re: how to satisfy a patched build-dependency in debuild / pdebuild

2009-05-20 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
, and look up which in the developer's reference. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
? What should we do? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
when the missing command is not available. ? It could be easily solved by making sure that nothing on the buildd installs packages without installing their dependencies. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
- that should already be guaranteed by dpkg, or am I missing something? If it isn't on that machine, what kind of patch should I write? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
explaining why. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de wrote: On 2009-06-04, Frank Küster fr...@debian.org wrote: And what would be the criterion for solved? After an analysis of N build logs of random packages on that buildd show no segfaults any more? I am not going to do that. It's not a bug in my package; I

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster fr...@debian.org wrote: Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Fine, though taking the trouble to talk to the porters might still be worthwile. Yes, but definitely not after I've spend hours of my little Debian ^time

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Fine, though taking the trouble to talk to the porters might still be worthwile. Yes, but definitely not after I've spend hours of my little Debian arguing about non-bugs with people who don't read

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
being installed, or even unpacked, is NOT A BUG OF tex-common. It seems it is a bug of policy, or dpkg. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
# dpkg --unpack a # dpkg --purge a can be done without b present. And you do not need any --force option. Yes, I see. We'll have to make an upload of texlive-2007. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV

Re: Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 04 Jun 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Except for arguing, mixing (non?) bugs and resisting to upload an easy workaround might have made things worse btw... And that easy

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-17 Thread Frank Küster
: people). When adding a new patch, empty fields remind you to write *something* instead of just dropping the diff into debian/patches... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: BTS and the missing 'invalid' tag

2009-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: binNMUs for arch:all packages too

2009-07-07 Thread Frank Küster
. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Küster
cdbs-simple-patchsys. Why should he need to do that? If you'd had written submit patches to dpkg, I could get a meaning out of it, but here? He doesn't want to diverge from upstream. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Küster
but RC (and translation) fixes. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [Fwd: Bug#412952: file conflicts between afnix and aleph]

2007-03-01 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add this to afnix: Conflicts: aleph Replaces: aleph This should make it possible to have always one of them installed and make afnix replace aleph on dist-upgrades. Isn't Provides: aleph also needed? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-10 Thread Frank Küster
- but I think it's beyond doubt that we will not intentionally drop support for things like Maple. Or even Mathematica, which approximately 20 years of development ahead of Maple ;-) Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich

Re: debian tex policy

2007-04-11 Thread Frank Küster
? d-d-a, and it's already there. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg6.html Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: teTeX is gone, beware of build-dependencies

2007-04-16 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear fellow developers, the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live 2007 to unstable. With this version, teTeX will vanish as a separate package and only continue to exist as transitional packages. I must apologize

How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Küster
? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:11:18AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Hi, I'm currently preparing an NMU for a package which, besides an RC bug, also has a bug in its last version number. The upstream version is 4.22, but after 4.22-2 the maintainer uploaded

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Küster
.. is considered higher than 4.22.3. I'm not sure if this is good advice though :-) I know --compare-versions, but I wasn't patient enough to come to 4.22.. But it 4.22..-3.1 doesn't look too bad to me actually, just funny. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Küster
if first is larger' which gives the nice output $ apt-compare.py false if second is larger false if first is larger $ -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Küster
anyway should a 4.22.x version be released. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

[ITH] xmltex, passivetex, offer to take over jadetex

2007-04-23 Thread Frank Küster
tex4ht which we do not think should be integrated -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: [ITH] xmltex, passivetex, offer to take over jadetex

2007-04-25 Thread Frank Küster
OHURA Makoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Frank and all. # I'm reading debian-tex-maint. From: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ITH] xmltex, passivetex, offer to take over jadetex Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:46:15 +0200 We offer to do the same with jadetex, if Ohura thinks

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-04 Thread Frank Küster
. For those who don't routinely decipher DVDs, can you enlighten me? Did they include a master key in all DVDs which is just a number? Pointers to a press release are welcome, google only gives results similar to this ITP... Fr'wants to laugh too'ank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Merging packages

2007-05-15 Thread Frank Küster
symlinks from /usr/share/ to /etc. The problem is specifically with symlinks from /etc to some other place in /etc, and is caused by the fact that debhelper does not mark symlinks in /etc as conffiles. Has this aspect been discussed with the debhelper maintainer? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster

Ensuring complete upgrades in applications with multiple binary packages

2007-05-15 Thread Frank Küster
, other reasons like unrelated errors during dist-upgrade might also cause version mixes, but again the sane thing to do would be to run dist-upgrade again, and not try to use the packages or report a bug... Comments? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
use pending to indicate fix found, tested, committed to the repository. This means there's no need for anyone to work on it. Whether the upload should be done ASAP or in the next couple of weeks depends on the severity of the bug. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
them in the clean target, and therefore I think the orig.tar.gz should *not* be touched because of this. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
in the development branch). Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
Marcus Better [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: The VCS can handle the changesets. Putting patches under VCS is silly! I don't agree. With patches in debian/patches, you can give names to those files. With a VCS you can also name branches, or changesets (stgit). Personally

Re: Group maintainance howto and role of uploaders

2007-05-18 Thread Frank Küster
-- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-25 Thread Frank Küster
like shrink-wrap licenses, but if you rent a car or buy a refrigerator, it's common. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Frank Küster
Francesco P. Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:56:12AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Yes, you simply submit a bug report with a patch, and wait for a couple of year for it to be applied. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkgdata

Can/should debconf notes still be used?

2007-05-29 Thread Frank Küster
/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/106537/ -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Can/should debconf notes still be used?

2007-05-29 Thread Frank Küster
was ever meant to be taken as admins have an inalienable right to screw up a package's installation, and packages must not try to correct for this, which seems to be the case you're describing. That way to look at it makes me feel much better... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single

Re: Can/should debconf notes still be used?

2007-05-29 Thread Frank Küster
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2007, Frank Küster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2007, Frank Küster wrote: To me, the solution is to resurrect these conffiles without prompting, because prompting doesn't make sense if the only working

Why do I get this mail? (was: [Archive Administrator] Processing of texlive-bin_2007-9_sparc.changes)

2007-05-30 Thread Frank Küster
daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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