Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: Would anything else be there? Bits and pieces of state. There are no hidden bugs, if that's what you mean. Oooh, the irony. I've just this minute been poking around in the archived bugs, and came across 20879.log which is chmod o-r (the only one

Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Nobody wants to do that. Still, I am back on my must join Debian kick and I really intend to join. It may take years, oh well. Instead of adopting a package I have resurrected one: http://www.gyrodynamic.net/debian/xdrum [nat'ted .. slow] I took this package, see xdrum_1.5.tar.gz and built it

Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:34:37PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: Bits and pieces of state. There are no hidden bugs, if that's what you mean. Oooh, the irony. I've just this minute been poking around in the archived bugs, and came across 20879.log

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I'd use my http://www.gyrodynamic.net/spacecommander_0.3.3-2.tgz Space Commander program, but it is has languished for a very long time. Poor old program. Nevertheless, if that is what it takes I will ressurect it and hack in Text Elite or something. Sorry, broken link.

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have anadvodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
[This is probably going to sound hypocritical coming from a DD, or excessively harsh, but try and stick with me] On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I would really like to be a contributing member of Debian, but it is the chicken and egg thing. I can't help until I become a member,

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:08:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: Still, I am back on my must join Debian kick and I really intend to join. It may take years, oh well. Instead of adopting a package I have resurrected one: http://www.gyrodynamic.net/debian/xdrum [nat'ted .. slow] If

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread Pete Ryland
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:21:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I'd use my http://www.gyrodynamic.net/spacecommander_0.3.3-2.tgz Space Commander program, but it is has languished for a very long time. Poor old program. Nevertheless, if that is what it takes I will

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't havean advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
I really could give a ratt's a$$ about a Debian email address, that is the least of my concerns. Just what I don't need is another email address. Still, I have been a staunch Debian advocate for over ten years, and I have installed it for several friends of mine, including some pesky laptop

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Yeah, my Netwinder is flaky, and it is NAT'ted to port 13808 because of Charter.Net blocking port 80. I used to have the xdrum_1.7.orig.tar.gz online, but I wrote xdrum_1.7 and I just made it a Debian native package, hence no need for the original. If you look in the dir, xdrum_1.5.tar.gz was the

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
B. Douglas Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree. Thus the real answer to my query. This makes it very hard to apply because you need an advocate before you even apply, so nobody even knows you are alive. It would be nice if there was a pre-applicant Well, basically you need to somehow

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't send me private copies of replies to list mail - thanks.] On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:09:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:08:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: Still, I am back on my must join Debian kick and I really intend to

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have anadvodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Roland Mas
B. Douglas Hilton (2003-04-04 04:55:35 -0500) : [...] I dunno. I remember submitting a bug report for Debian/Arm last year because something trivial ( can't remember now ) was messed up. I don't generally submit bug reports, because I generally don't have any problems with Debian that I

dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread A Mennucc1
hi I would like to sponsor a package of a friend the first time, I (of course) check the package (lintian, install it, etc etc) but what about the next times? what is the best practice? 1) simply resign it, and upload. 2) rebuild it from source each time I would prefer the 1st , for

Looking for a sponsor

2003-04-04 Thread Bruno Barrera C
Hello: I'm looking for someone who is interested in sponsoring the following Debian package: aget - Multithreaded HTTP Download Accelerator It could be downloaded in: http://www.igloo.cl/~bruno/debian/aget_0.4-1_i386.deb Other files here:

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Junichi Uekawa
To my knowledge, Netfilter's ULOG target (and thus ipt_ULOG.h) appeared in kernel version 2.4.18. On neither architecture, kernel versions greater than 2.4.17 are available, so I guess using ulog-acctd on those architectures would not make much sense, anyhow. I don't think it is intended

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header --help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2003-04-04 at 16:32, Hilko Bengen wrote: I maintain the ulog-acctd package and have the problem that it does not build on every architecture because a header file (/usr/include/linux/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.h) is missing. At the moment, the affected architectures are arm and m68k. This

Re: dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread Gergely Nagy
1) simply resign it, and upload. 2) rebuild it from source each time I always did the second, and when I had the time and energy, I also checked the diff between his previous version, and the then-current one. Is there any easy way to strip away the signature of the sponsoree and sign it

Re: dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:05:09PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: I would like to sponsor a package of a friend the first time, I (of course) check the package (lintian, install it, etc etc) but what about the next times? what is the best practice? 1) simply resign it, and upload. 2)

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: I maintain the ulog-acctd package and have the problem that it does not build on every architecture because a header file (/usr/include/linux/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.h) is missing. At the moment, the affected architectures are arm and

Re: dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread tony mancill
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:05:09PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: I would like to sponsor a package of a friend the first time, I (of course) check the package (lintian, install it, etc etc) but what about the next times? what is the best practice?

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: In previous versions of ulog-acctd, I solved the problem by shipping ipt_ULOG.h in the .diff, but my AM Andrew Suffield told me that this is an ugly hack -- and I really have to agree. A slightly more elegant way is to bdep on

Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:52:47PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:39:34 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:19:54PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: inside /org/bugs.debian.org/spool. Would anything else

Looking for Mentor for Packet 'dvdauthor'

2003-04-04 Thread Rene Tschirley
Dear Mentors, I intend to apply for becoming a Debian Packet Maintainer for the packet 'dvdauthor'. To apply to the New Maintainer process it seems as if I now need an existing Debian developer who agrees to be an advocate and verifies my application so that I may proceed to the New Maintainer

Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:18:04PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:52:47PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Would anything else be there? Bits and pieces of state. There are no hidden bugs, if that's what you mean.

kmess package looking for a sponsor

2003-04-04 Thread Sebastian Wolfgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have created a package for kmess, a KDE3-based MSN chat client (see http://kmess.sourceforge.net). kmess is a well-done and KDE3-based client for the famous MSN chat network written in C++ by Mike K. Bennett. It includes font support, emoticons

Re: Need sponsor for TagTool

2003-04-04 Thread Fredrik Liljegren
Excuse me, forgot to tell you to CC me; I'm not on the list. Regards, Fredrik Fredrik Liljegren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I'm quite far in the nm-process, just need to get my package up. I've packaged Audio TagTool (formerly known as MP3 Tag Tool). My packages are here:

Re: dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:24:40AM -0800, tony mancill wrote: Once I'm satisfied with the build, lintian/linda checks, and that the package installs/deinstalls ok, etc., then I sign with debsign. I just dropped a script into ~/bin/ that should be called with the .changes file(s) as the

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have anadvodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Brian Nelson
B. Douglas Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, but I'm such an old fart... I actually used to run Debian 0.97 on my old 386 (and it was sooo cool). As far as Linux is concerned, I have always used Debian and nothing else. For years and years I have just been a Debian User -- now I want to

Looking for a sponsor for libgnujaxp-java

2003-04-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
I am not a Debian Developer yet but I did package gnujaxp, a free implementation of the jaxp api with a SAX2 and DOM Level2 free implementation. The announce of the package as already be done[1] on debian-java and Mark Howard made some remarks[2]. Everything has been corrected[3] and the package

Re: Registro (translated)

2003-04-04 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 23:47, Rudy wrote: i think he's missunderstanding the 'representation' term and thinking as comercial distribution, which is not the case. Oh, i'm sure he is. Thanks for helping. -- Jordi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
I can complete the entire checklist except I do not have an advocate. Last year I checked the box anyways and was dropped from the list after 6 weeks or whatever it is. I would really like to be a contributing member of Debian, but it is the chicken and egg thing. I can't help until I become a

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:50:14AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I would really like to be a contributing member of Debian, but it is the chicken and egg thing. I can't help until I become a member, and until I become a member I'm not that enthusiastic. It is not true that you can't help

Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:52:47PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:39:34 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:19:54PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Where might I get a copy of the bug database? Is there any way to search the bug database by text?

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Ralf Treinen wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:50:14AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I would really like to be a contributing member of Debian, but it is the chicken and egg thing. I can't help until I become a member, and until I become a member I'm not that enthusiastic. It is not true

Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Nobody wants to do that. Still, I am back on my must join Debian kick and I really intend to join. It may take years, oh well. Instead of adopting a package I have resurrected one: http://www.gyrodynamic.net/debian/xdrum [nat'ted .. slow] I took this package, see xdrum_1.5.tar.gz and built

Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:34:37PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: Bits and pieces of state. There are no hidden bugs, if that's what you mean. Oooh, the irony. I've just this minute been poking around in the archived bugs, and came across 20879.log

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I'd use my http://www.gyrodynamic.net/spacecommander_0.3.3-2.tgz Space Commander program, but it is has languished for a very long time. Poor old program. Nevertheless, if that is what it takes I will ressurect it and hack in Text Elite or something. Sorry, broken

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
[This is probably going to sound hypocritical coming from a DD, or excessively harsh, but try and stick with me] On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I would really like to be a contributing member of Debian, but it is the chicken and egg thing. I can't help until I become a member,

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:08:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: Still, I am back on my must join Debian kick and I really intend to join. It may take years, oh well. Instead of adopting a package I have resurrected one: http://www.gyrodynamic.net/debian/xdrum [nat'ted .. slow] If

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread Pete Ryland
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:21:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I'd use my http://www.gyrodynamic.net/spacecommander_0.3.3-2.tgz Space Commander program, but it is has languished for a very long time. Poor old program. Nevertheless, if that is what it takes I will

Looking for a sponsor for libgnujaxp-java

2003-04-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
I am not a Debian Developer yet but I did package gnujaxp, a free implementation of the jaxp api with a SAX2 and DOM Level2 free implementation. The announce of the package as already be done[1] on debian-java and Mark Howard made some remarks[2]. Everything has been corrected[3] and the package

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
I really could give a ratt's a$$ about a Debian email address, that is the least of my concerns. Just what I don't need is another email address. Still, I have been a staunch Debian advocate for over ten years, and I have installed it for several friends of mine, including some pesky laptop

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Yeah, my Netwinder is flaky, and it is NAT'ted to port 13808 because of Charter.Net blocking port 80. I used to have the xdrum_1.7.orig.tar.gz online, but I wrote xdrum_1.7 and I just made it a Debian native package, hence no need for the original. If you look in the dir, xdrum_1.5.tar.gz was the

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
B. Douglas Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree. Thus the real answer to my query. This makes it very hard to apply because you need an advocate before you even apply, so nobody even knows you are alive. It would be nice if there was a pre-applicant Well, basically you need to somehow

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't send me private copies of replies to list mail - thanks.] On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:09:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:08:22AM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: Still, I am back on my must join Debian kick and I really intend to

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I really could give a ratt's a$$ about a Debian email address, that is the least of my concerns. Just what I don't need is another email address. Well, that's a start. I was hard on the issue of the e-mail address because it's an easy analogy...

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Roland Mas
B. Douglas Hilton (2003-04-04 04:55:35 -0500) : [...] I dunno. I remember submitting a bug report for Debian/Arm last year because something trivial ( can't remember now ) was messed up. I don't generally submit bug reports, because I generally don't have any problems with Debian that I

package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Hilko Bengen
Hello, I maintain the ulog-acctd package and have the problem that it does not build on every architecture because a header file (/usr/include/linux/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.h) is missing. At the moment, the affected architectures are arm and m68k. This file is supposed to be part of libc6-dev and as I

dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread A Mennucc1
hi I would like to sponsor a package of a friend the first time, I (of course) check the package (lintian, install it, etc etc) but what about the next times? what is the best practice? 1) simply resign it, and upload. 2) rebuild it from source each time I would prefer the 1st , for

Looking for a sponsor

2003-04-04 Thread Bruno Barrera C
Hello: I'm looking for someone who is interested in sponsoring the following Debian package: aget - Multithreaded HTTP Download Accelerator It could be downloaded in: http://www.igloo.cl/~bruno/debian/aget_0.4-1_i386.deb Other files here:

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Junichi Uekawa
To my knowledge, Netfilter's ULOG target (and thus ipt_ULOG.h) appeared in kernel version 2.4.18. On neither architecture, kernel versions greater than 2.4.17 are available, so I guess using ulog-acctd on those architectures would not make much sense, anyhow. I don't think it is intended

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2003-04-04 at 16:32, Hilko Bengen wrote: I maintain the ulog-acctd package and have the problem that it does not build on every architecture because a header file (/usr/include/linux/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.h) is missing. At the moment, the affected architectures are arm and m68k. This

Re: dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread Gergely Nagy
1) simply resign it, and upload. 2) rebuild it from source each time I always did the second, and when I had the time and energy, I also checked the diff between his previous version, and the then-current one. Is there any easy way to strip away the signature of the sponsoree and sign it

Re: dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:05:09PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: I would like to sponsor a package of a friend the first time, I (of course) check the package (lintian, install it, etc etc) but what about the next times? what is the best practice? 1) simply resign it, and upload. 2)

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: I maintain the ulog-acctd package and have the problem that it does not build on every architecture because a header file (/usr/include/linux/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.h) is missing. At the moment, the affected architectures are arm and

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: In previous versions of ulog-acctd, I solved the problem by shipping ipt_ULOG.h in the .diff, but my AM Andrew Suffield told me that this is an ugly hack -- and I really have to agree. A slightly more elegant way is to bdep on

Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:52:47PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:39:34 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:19:54PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: inside /org/bugs.debian.org/spool. Would anything else

Looking for Mentor for Packet 'dvdauthor'

2003-04-04 Thread Rene Tschirley
Dear Mentors, I intend to apply for becoming a Debian Packet Maintainer for the packet 'dvdauthor'. To apply to the New Maintainer process it seems as if I now need an existing Debian developer who agrees to be an advocate and verifies my application so that I may proceed to the New Maintainer

Re: search/get bug database, rc bugs excuses, closing bugs

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:18:04PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:52:47PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Would anything else be there? Bits and pieces of state. There are no hidden bugs, if that's what you mean.

kmess package looking for a sponsor

2003-04-04 Thread Sebastian Wolfgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have created a package for kmess, a KDE3-based MSN chat client (see http://kmess.sourceforge.net). kmess is a well-done and KDE3-based client for the famous MSN chat network written in C++ by Mike K. Bennett. It includes font support, emoticons

Re: Need sponsor for TagTool

2003-04-04 Thread Fredrik Liljegren
Excuse me, forgot to tell you to CC me; I'm not on the list. Regards, Fredrik Fredrik Liljegren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I'm quite far in the nm-process, just need to get my package up. I've packaged Audio TagTool (formerly known as MP3 Tag Tool). My packages are here:

Re: dpkg-signpackage

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:24:40AM -0800, tony mancill wrote: Once I'm satisfied with the build, lintian/linda checks, and that the package installs/deinstalls ok, etc., then I sign with debsign. I just dropped a script into ~/bin/ that should be called with the .changes file(s) as the