Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Dependsfield??): I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. I

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
Timothy G Abbott tabbott at MIT.EDU writes: Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating Debian configuration packages. By configuration packages, we mean packages that configure an existing Debian

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.25.0828 +0100]: I am not opposed to it. If you can somehow magically create a tool that can linearize the feature branches, more power to you. I personally find the prospect highly unlikely; and I would like to see some code,

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread nic
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:16:28 +0100 Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to set up a Debian Marketing Team, whose work would be to organise all the promotional stuff (logos, t-shirt designs, wallpapers, etc.) so that the project can officially endorse good designs, and to

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I vote for clean history and a bissectable tree, and I think it is worth the effort. But I am no dpkg developer, this is a thing you guys have to find an agreement among yourselves. You vote for the mad route. Sorry, but it makes absolutely

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:38:03AM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I vote for clean history and a bissectable tree, and I think it is worth the effort. But I am no dpkg developer, this is a thing you guys have to find an agreement among

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:37:07AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:17:10 -0500, David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:08:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that you and Manoj assume

Re: [errata] How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:33:48AM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: When it comes to specific patches of yours, I really believe that I really *don't* believe topic branches like you advertise them are the best answer. Git makes -- ·O· Pierre

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 24 février 2008 à 19:46 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : The ones that are overwritten completely that I'm aware of contain only settings managed by debconf, or (as is the case for krb5-kdc and krb5-admin-server) explicitly ask whether you want to manage the configuration file through

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:35:13 +0100, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: also sprach Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.25.0828 +0100]: I am not opposed to it. If you can somehow magically create a tool that can linearize the feature branches, more power to you. I personally

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. [¹] Technically speaking it was a penguin. But it was a youthful penguin, rebelling against its

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:33:48 +0100, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:37:07AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:17:10 -0500, David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:08:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: David

Re: [errata] How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:40:31 +0100, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:33:48AM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: When it comes to specific patches of yours, I really believe that I really *don't*

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. [¹] Technically speaking it

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 13:42 +0100 schrieb David Paleino: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:07 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:07 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: We had a chicken[¹]. We spent

Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, nic wrote: to cut the longway short: I'm iterested, but don't know how it works or how I could contribute. I don't know what needs to be explained... you don't need any special status to contribue a mascot, just find the idea, create the picture, send it to us and wait

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/2/25, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, nic wrote: to cut the longway short: I'm iterested, but don't know how it works or how I could contribute. I don't know what needs to be explained... you don't need any special status to contribue a mascot, just

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: sportman resistance like runners, swimmers, skiers, mountain bikers, etc... Pytrainer works with your GPS fitness device and it is be able to Ehm... using a better wording? Hmm, I also care for content. Perhaps I'm to old fashioned but I

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/2/25, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, nic wrote: to cut the longway short: I'm iterested, but don't know how it works or how I could contribute. I don't know what needs to be explained... you don't need any

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread nic
hi together, I'm not quite sure how to properly use this debian-list (I should have read before, I know...). I spontaneously thought of an ant: It works hard, it's tough, well, and with a fat grin on its face. just a first idea: the 'debiant'. Just playing with words. I tried some rough

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2/ Otavio was sort of acknowledging it as a good thing but a good thing that should be delayed for an unknown amount of time waiting for a fix on apt's side while the lack of fix didn't seem to create important problems Under those conditions, I tend

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance): However you haven't made it easy to merge your code... you repository is a mess to proof-read and the cleaning work that you don't want to do has thus to be done by Guillem. This is

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 16:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Yet, rebasing is still routinely performed in the Linux kernel development. What I find interesting and rather amusing here is Linus talking negatively about rebase: in particular

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... And AFAICT, the kernel works in the very same way. What gets rebased though, are the bugfixes patches that come by 2 or 3, and that add no value when added as a specific branch. Usually those in git.git are applied on top of the 'maint' branch

Bug#467258: general: Net-install CD still defaults to asking for CD in aptitude

2008-02-25 Thread Frans Pop
Chip Norkus wrote: When installing Debian from the small net-install CD it shouldn't ask for the installation media by default in aptitude. This is small but kind of irritating when working on a fresh debian system in remotely. This is already no longer the case if you use the Lenny

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 25/02/2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I'm planning to write a textual version of what I demonstrated at FOSDEM, with some more ideas that I had talking with Julien Cristau on the grass after. Please, pretty please, include graphics. Be it ASCII art-like drawings, or gitk screenshots, with

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun February 24 2008 1:46:59 pm Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I vote for clean history and a bissectable tree, and I think it is worth the effort. But I am no dpkg developer, this is a thing you guys have to find an agreement among yourselves. See [1] for why this behavior stinks.

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon February 25 2008 9:31:15 am Otavio Salvador wrote: Right. Well said. This however doesn't changes the value of logical changes. I doubt git.git people would accept patches like: Now it compiles again Ouch! Syntax error First try to get it done ... It's much nicer to have

Re: the new style mass tirage of bugs

2008-02-25 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: Note that also doesn't indicate how many were actually fixed. We have nothing that look like bugzilla's NOTABUG or INVALID. It would be nice if we had this, actually, and it wouldn't be hard, right? Just define a convention for a new

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Monday 25 February 2008 15:58:16 nic, vous avez écrit : hi together, I'm not quite sure how to properly use this debian-list (I should have read before, I know...). I spontaneously thought of an ant: It works hard, it's tough, well, and with a fat grin on its face. just a first idea: the

Extending fortunes-debian-hints package

2008-02-25 Thread Kartik Mistry
Hi all, I have adopted package fortunes-debian-hints (#465936). The package contains various 'hints' regarding Debian system as name of package suggested. I therefore request to send 'hints' you encountered during your experience with Debian till now which can be helpful to our users and

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dirty history is not only tolerated, but the *only* sane option with, lesse... rcs cvs svn darcs tla baz (bzr?) Only the git and hg people seem to care (and the git people a lot more than hg people). After you get used to get branches with proper

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2008-02-25 at 15:58 +0100, nic wrote: hi together, I'm not quite sure how to properly use this debian-list (I should have read before, I know...). I spontaneously thought of an ant: It works hard, it's tough, well, and with a fat grin on its face. just a first idea: the 'debiant'.

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:06:31PM +, Cyril Brulebois wrote: On 25/02/2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I'm planning to write a textual version of what I demonstrated at FOSDEM, with some more ideas that I had talking with Julien Cristau on the grass after. Please, pretty please,

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 16:25 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: And why not a marmot ?? It's a nice beautifull little animal, and, according to WP, Marmots typically live in burrows, and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social, and use loud whistles to communicate with

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le dimanche 24 février 2008 à 19:46 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : The ones that are overwritten completely that I'm aware of contain only settings managed by debconf, or (as is the case for krb5-kdc and krb5-admin-server) explicitly ask whether you

Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
I am logged in as root, and i try to su as a user : user1 ; I get the following error: rmachine:/home/user1/Maildir/cur# su user1 Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:19 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Dirty history is not only tolerated, but the *only* sane option with, lesse... rcs cvs svn darcs tla baz (bzr?) bzr supports both ways of working, either cleaning up, or preserving the history as is. It has rebase support through a

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, John Goerzen wrote: On Mon February 25 2008 9:31:15 am Otavio Salvador wrote: Right. Well said. This however doesn't changes the value of logical changes. I doubt git.git people would accept patches like: Now it compiles again Ouch! Syntax error First try to

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On lun, 2008-02-25 at 10:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: ucf, from its DESCRIPTION in its man page, seems to handle the case of shipping a configuration file upstream that may also be locally modified, but I don't see where it handles merging in the

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:07:20 +0200, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We had a chicken[1]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. I loved the chicken. I had a character. That would be the animal at: http://lintian.debian.org/

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 10:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: The problem is this: both krb5-kdc and krb5-admin-server have /etc/default files that control various aspects of the startup of the servers, such as whether a krb524d is run and what level of Kerberos v4 support is enabled in the KDC. All

Re: Extending fortunes-debian-hints package

2008-02-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/2/25, Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have adopted package fortunes-debian-hints (#465936). The package contains various 'hints' regarding Debian system as name of package suggested. I therefore request to send 'hints' you encountered during your experience with Debian

Re: Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread nic
hi, I tried to send 2 messages but I guess they failed because of the attached files (~ 6 mb)? so where can I put the drafts? citation below. nic hi, here are 2 drafts attached. the debi-ant and the 'ameisenbaer' (ant-eater). look at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Anteater01.jpeg

Re: the new style mass tirage of bugs

2008-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: Note that also doesn't indicate how many were actually fixed. We have nothing that look like bugzilla's NOTABUG or INVALID. It would be nice if we had this, actually, and it wouldn't be

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 19:24 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Given that our admin is already a weasel and our browser is an ice weasel, it would only be logical to use this fluffy and beautiful animal as a mascot. And (real) foxes are great! -- Corsac signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Preserving history is part of it, but not the objective. Sometimes you just have to plain clean up the mess, so as to be able to see anything of value through it. As people ofthen do when using file based ChangeLog. People doesn't put:

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 17:58 +, James Westby wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:19 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Dirty history is not only tolerated, but the *only* sane option with, lesse... rcs cvs svn darcs tla baz (bzr?) bzr supports both ways of working, either cleaning up, or

conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hi I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually written in debian/control file. The build package dependency is valuable

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Hi I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Feb-08, 10:30 (CST), Vincent Danjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mercurial in now imported in the PAPT repo: Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk Oh, the irony. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev, but on exact one that was actually used when building package. How to

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48:21PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev, but

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that provide dependent .a files). That's not true, afaik. If you're linking

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Vincent Danjean wrote: mercurial in now imported in the PAPT repo: Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk Please add a / at the end (at least for VCS-Browser, which does not really work

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
[migrating to -curiosa] Julian Andres Klode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I think that hg is now the only VCS package which is not maintained in its own VCS format. (or are there other packages, too?) $ apt-cache showsrc rcs | grep Vcs Vcs-Browser:

ANNOUNCEMENT: debimg - debian-cd in Python

2008-02-25 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear Debian Developers (and other readers), debimg will be a free alternative to debian-cd, written in Python. Attached are the file lenny.list, which is a data file (see comments in file), and debimg.cfg which is the main configuration file. Please tell me if you do not like one the listed

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48:21PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev |

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:25:06PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: Humm joke And why not a marmot ?? Screw marmots. What about a human? I would suggest this one: http://people.debian.org/~amaya/wallpapers/dsc01074.jpg -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor:

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Luk Claes
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Hi I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually written in debian/control file. The

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:11:05AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev, but on

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian project (in a

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: debimg - debian-cd in Python

2008-02-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Reply-To: set to debian-cd list ] Hi Julian, On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:17:46PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Dear Debian Developers (and other readers), debimg will be a free alternative to debian-cd, written in Python. I hope you're not meaning to imply that debian-cd itself is _not_

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Frank K??ster wrote: Uh, you can dpkg-divert conffiles, but not generally configuration files, since many won't even be known to dpkg. I must admit I'm a bit sceptical about a proposal on configuration, written by someone who lets this important distinction slip by...

Re: Mass bug filing: perl 5.10 and the remove empty /usr/lib/perl5 dir bug

2008-02-25 Thread Niko Tyni
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:03:59PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: [crossposted to debian-{devel,[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] This still applies. Summary: around 400 *-perl packages have a debian/rules bug that makes them FTBFS with perl 5.10, currently in experimental.

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48:21PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev, but

Bug#467502: ITP: xotcl -- Extended Object Tcl (XOTcl) is an object-oriented scripting language based on Tcl

2008-02-25 Thread Stefan Sobernig
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefan Sobernig [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: xotcl Version : 1.6.0+ Upstream Author : Gustaf Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Zdun [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xotcl.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang:

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I stopped providing static libraries in all my library packages quite a while back. No one used them, and they were just needless bloat. I can't say I would be upset if we dropped all the static libraries from the entire archive--is there actually a

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:56:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: No, it does not. If branch A has pi = 2.34567; and branch B has pi = 3.14159; No matter how much quilting you do you cannot reconcile the fundamental conflict in the final. Either pi is 3.14159; or it

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that provide

Accepted pj 0.0~20080211-1 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Manuel Prinz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:59:04 +0100 Source: pj Binary: libpj-java Architecture: source all Version: 0.0~20080211-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Manuel Prinz [EMAIL

Accepted libclone-perl 0.28-1 (source amd64)

2008-02-25 Thread gregor herrmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:18:41 +0100 Source: libclone-perl Binary: libclone-perl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.28-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: gregor herrmann

Accepted dirdiff 2.1-2 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:17:02 -0600 Source: dirdiff Binary: dirdiff Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL

Accepted lua-markdown 0.30-1 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Enrico Tassi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:18:13 +0100 Source: lua-markdown Binary: liblua5.1-markdown0 Architecture: source all Version: 0.30-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Enrico Tassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Enrico Tassi [EMAIL

Accepted cmigrep 1.4-4 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Ralf Treinen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:21:44 +0100 Source: cmigrep Binary: cmigrep Architecture: source all Version: 1.4-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ralf Treinen [EMAIL

Accepted boinc 5.10.42-1 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Frank S. Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:53:20 +0100 Source: boinc Binary: boinc-client boinc-manager boinc-dev boinc-dbg Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.10.42-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian BOINC Maintainers [EMAIL

Accepted libclass-methodmaker-perl 2.10-1 (source amd64)

2008-02-25 Thread Niko Tyni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:21:41 +0200 Source: libclass-methodmaker-perl Binary: libclass-methodmaker-perl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.10-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted cupsys 1.3.5-2 (source all i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Martin Pitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:13:15 +0100 Source: cupsys Binary: libcupsys2 libcupsimage2 cupsys cupsys-client libcupsys2-dev libcupsimage2-dev cupsys-bsd cupsys-common cupsys-dbg Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1.3.5-2 Distribution:

Accepted gammu 1.18.91-1 (source i386 all)

2008-02-25 Thread Michal Čihař
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:10:17 +0100 Source: gammu Binary: gammu libgammu-dev libgammu-common libgammu3 libgammu3-dbg Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.18.91-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Michal Čihař [EMAIL

Accepted groff 1.18.1.1-17 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:29:46 + Source: groff Binary: groff-base groff Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.18.1.1-17 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Colin Watson [EMAIL

Accepted cfingerd 1.4.3-2 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:43:57 +0100 Source: cfingerd Binary: cfingerd Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.4.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Schulze [EMAIL

Accepted gst-fluendo-mp3 0.10.7.debian-1 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Sebastian Dröge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:49:03 +0100 Source: gst-fluendo-mp3 Binary: gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.10.7.debian-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Maintainers of GStreamer packages [EMAIL

Accepted weka 3.5.7+tut1-1 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:18:45 +0100 Source: weka Binary: weka weka-doc Architecture: source all Version: 3.5.7+tut1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Soeren Sonnenburg

Accepted libepc 0.3.4-2 (source all i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:34:30 +0100 Source: libepc Binary: libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libepc-dev libepc-ui-dev libepc-doc Architecture: source all i386 Version: 0.3.4-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Emilio Pozuelo

Accepted cdebootstrap 0.4.8 (source amd64)

2008-02-25 Thread Bastian Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:12:04 +0100 Source: cdebootstrap Binary: cdebootstrap cdebootstrap-static cdebootstrap-udeb Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.4.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted libnet-z3950-perl 0.51-4 (source amd64)

2008-02-25 Thread Niko Tyni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:05:40 +0200 Source: libnet-z3950-perl Binary: libnet-z3950-perl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.51-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Niko Tyni

Accepted omniorb4 4.1.1-3 (source all i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Girard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:29:08 +0100 Source: omniorb4 Binary: omniorb4 omniorb4-idl omniorb4-nameserver omniorb4-doc libcos4-1 libcos4-1-dbg libcos4-dev libomniorb4-1 libomniorb4-1-dbg libomniorb4-dev libomnithread3c2

Accepted leafnode 1.11.7.rc1-4 (source amd64)

2008-02-25 Thread Mark Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:50:31 + Source: leafnode Binary: leafnode Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.11.7.rc1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted scanmem 0.07-4 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Kartik Mistry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:22:05 +0530 Source: scanmem Binary: scanmem Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.07-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted boa 0.94.14rc21-3 (source amd64)

2008-02-25 Thread Francois-Denis Gonthier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:15:51 -0500 Source: boa Binary: boa Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.94.14rc21-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Francois-Denis Gonthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Francois-Denis Gonthier

Accepted labplot 1.6.0.1-1 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Frank S. Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:29:56 +0100 Source: labplot Binary: labplot Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.6.0.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Frank S. Thomas [EMAIL

Accepted greylistd 0.8.6-0.1 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Morten Werner Forsbring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:40:48 +0100 Source: greylistd Binary: greylistd Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6-0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Julien Danjou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Morten Werner Forsbring

Accepted dictionaries-common 0.96.1 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:40:47 +0100 Source: dictionaries-common Binary: dictionaries-common dictionaries-common-dev Architecture: source all Version: 0.96.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Agustin Martin Domingo [EMAIL

Accepted tor 0.2.0.20-rc-1 (source i386)

2008-02-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:54:58 +0100 Source: tor Binary: tor tor-dbg Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2.0.20-rc-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Peter Palfrader [EMAIL

Accepted libtime-piece-perl 1.12-1 (source amd64)

2008-02-25 Thread Niko Tyni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:38:04 +0200 Source: libtime-piece-perl Binary: libtime-piece-perl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.12-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Niko

Accepted wspanish 1.0.20 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:56:58 +0100 Source: wspanish Binary: wspanish Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.20 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Agustin Martin Domingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Agustin Martin Domingo

Accepted gnome-specimen 0.4-2 (source all)

2008-02-25 Thread Kartik Mistry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:27:15 +0530 Source: gnome-specimen Binary: gnome-specimen Architecture: source all Version: 0.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kartik Mistry [EMAIL

  1   2   >