Did anyone else see this recently in Karmic? python-apport wouldn't upgrade
automatically due to a chain of dependency weirdness which led to
python-zopeinterface and python-zope.interface.
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Reading package lists... Done
Building
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:38:44PM +, Chris Jones wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
our best practices for reporting bugs. In particular, reporting bugs
directly to Launchpad is usually *NOT* the best approach. This should only
Perhaps Launchpad could specifically discourage this within
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:46:05PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 11:08:11 am Derek Broughton wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:38:44PM +, Chris Jones wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
our best practices
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:25:05PM -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
Who makes the final call on the inclusion of Empathy in Intrepid?
The desktop team, or if they can't decide, the technical board can help
advise.
Where does that discussion happen?
ubuntu-desktop@, #ubuntu-desktop, desktop team
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:41:18AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
== Filesystem checking / AutoFsck ==
A suggestion was made to the technical board that Ubuntu could be smarter
about how and when it performs filesystem
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:32:31AM +1000, Chris Jones wrote:
I've been following the development of ext4 for what seems like an
eternity.
From what I understand, the latest Fedora 9 release features ext4
support. So too do many other popular distros. And what I can't
understand is why
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:09:19PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
== Filesystem checking / AutoFsck ==
A suggestion was made to the technical board that Ubuntu could be smarter
about how and when it performs filesystem
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:57:36PM +1000, Ian Chennell wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:09:19PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Some of the other ideas which have been proposed are:
Run fsck
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:17:36PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
ti, 2008-08-12 kello 15:07 +0100, Matt Zimmerman kirjoitti:
Indeed. The best we could do in a scenario like this would be to flag the
filesystem dirty so that it gets checked the next time it's possible.
I assume you mean
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:12:57PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
Hello everyone,
Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop.
The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for
intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give
empathy a
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:26:56AM -0700, Dane Mutters wrote:
Hello.
I've been following along with this empathy discussion, and for my own
testing purposes have made some hardy packages for empathy (and all its
deps that aren't found in the repos). I would like to upload them to my
ppa so
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:27:17AM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/238755
summary:
* cronjobs are broken for system that has a 'passwd -l root' with hardy
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437
* the implematation of
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 12:10:45PM +0300, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
If you were unaware that this was going on, perhaps we could do a better job
of communicating this type of effort with the public.
I would suggest a kind of summary of bugs (and their progression
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:13:00AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
2008/7/9 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As far as I'm aware, Windows provides no tools or infrastructure to make
this easier. It is completely up to the ISV how their software is
installed, and many of them detect
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Pär Lidén wrote:
2008/7/8 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There is a 'regression' tag, and we do try to prioritize these on an ad-hoc
basis, but understand that with such incomplete information, it's difficult
at best.
Ok, I haven't seen
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:47:56AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
2008/7/8 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[package multiple versions of everything]
This sounds simple enough, but the implementation gets complex very quickly,
as does future maintenance and support.
It is a lot
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:19:46AM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:47:56AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
There is already system for handling that - /etc/alternatives/. According
to my
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:20:06AM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my opinion, nothing as esoteric as alternatives should be exposed in the
desktop, any more than should reordering symlinks in /etc/rc?.d.
Isn't
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:48:03PM +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
Il giorno lun, 07/07/2008 alle 18.04 +0100, Matt Zimmerman ha scritto:
Instead, we focus on defining a subset of functionality which can be
tested in practice. You can find the corresponding test plans here:
https
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:54:46PM +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
This is easy to say, but consider carefully what it would mean in practice.
How could we implement such a policy in Ubuntu? Before we can even begin to
estimate the effort required in order to achieve this, we would need to
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:13:23PM +0200, Pär Lidén wrote:
2008/7/8 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:00:00PM -0500, Luke L wrote:
Ceteris paribus, regressions should have a higher priority than normal
bugs. I totally agree.
It's hard to argue
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 08:30:28AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
This is not sustainable in the long term. Before long people will be
saying, Everyone know not to upgrade Ubuntu until the first point
release. Then we don't get the end user base to test until .1 and we have
to bugfix from
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:39:03AM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:20:52PM +, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:28:48AM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
(I'm all in favor of moving to SHA256 or whatever is considered best
practice these days. I've
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:24:56PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
The distinction between main and universe is instead done based on
support. But what does this actually mean?
Our terminology on this needs a bit of cleanup, but the relevant distinction
here is maintenance. This means that,
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 08:21:54PM +1100, Serge de Souza wrote:
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/163042
basically a bad push and permissions were changed on the debs to
prevent them from being downloaded.
Wouldn't a new release without the broken packages fix the
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:14:41PM +0100, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
Preparing and testing a new update is something which takes time, and should
not be rushed. This temporary emergency measure (which is admittedly
confusing for users) prevents further downloads
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:57:32PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 17.11.2007 um 11:33 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
- This regression only affects specific configurations (apparently those
using the deprecated smbfs module)
Obviously a pretty common configuration, as I'm looking at a fresh
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 11:24:07AM -0400, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
It seems like there has been a lot of complaints about how the
update-manager handles the 403 error. Considering the only time the 403
would normally occur is this situation, maybe the update manager could be
smarter about
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:05:01PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
in edubuntu we face the fact that governments and schools start rolling
out really huge deployments in the near future (see macedonia with a
total of 185000 systems for example), if you maintain 5000 seats in one
school or 1
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:53:14PM -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
If this was actually checked against a local web of trust (like
OpenPGP or Gaim-OTR keys or else) it may become interesting. But who
uses that safely ? :)
All packages downloaded by APT are authenticated using PGP keys provided
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 06:17:24PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:27 -0700, Martin Olsson wrote:
I really really would like to see BACKSPACE as BACK working in
Firefox. I think this is the kind of polish bug that makes a lot of
people stay away from ubuntu
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:14:01PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:58:21PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:57:42PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
This is the approach of apt
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:19:23PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
OK, now I understand what you mean.
Yes, you can provide One Click Installer installation file which has
only information which package to install and does not contain any
repository information. This should cover the second
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:01:35PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
I would like to share with you the project I have been working for some
time now which I think could help solving bug #1.
The problem:
- Users coming from Windows (and in general beginners) want installation
of applications
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:52:48AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
(sorry for the crosspost. Please reduce if inappropriate)
Thanks for cross-posting; this issue applies to Debian as well, and we would
appreciate input from the Debian community. I wasn't aware of
pkg-fonts-devel.
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On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:27:45PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
Hello
The kernel security update [USN-464-1] is missing s.th.
This is known to the security team, and being worked on.
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On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:31:37AM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
now i
$ aptitude install linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic
and now nvidia is broken !!
You installed the new kernel, but forgot to install the corresponding
restricted-modules package.
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You have misunderstood. Lumír is not asking how to get this applet into
Ubuntu.
It sounds like the question is how to customize the CD to include this
additional applet by default. I believe some documentation already exists,
as well as some tools.
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:07:40PM +0800,
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:22:30PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote the following on 27.05.2007 22:48
now i
$ aptitude install linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic
and now nvidia is broken !!
You installed the new kernel, but forgot to install the corresponding
restricted
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:07:23PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
On do, 2007-05-24 at 15:01 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:20:58PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
On di, 2007-05-22 at 21:59 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
The members of the Board
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:31:08PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
Op zaterdag 19-05-2007 om 12:34 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Matt
Zimmerman:
There has been some confusion and dissatisfaction over the treatment
of fonts in Ubuntu for a some time now, and no common understanding of
how
I received this reply off-list; it was only sent to pkg-fonts-devel.
Copying back to ubuntu-* as well, as it's very informative.
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:20:58PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
On di, 2007-05-22 at 21:59 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
The members of the Board recognized that they have been inconsistent
about keeping minutes and thereby communicating decisions to the community.
MDZ volunteered
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:39:21PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
Alec Wright wrote the following on 19.05.2007 12:10:
Is anyone else having these problems in gutsy: http://pastebin.ca/496576
Should I file a bug report?
Broken dependencies are quite usual in development releases.
e.g.
package
There has been some confusion and dissatisfaction over the treatment of
fonts in Ubuntu for a some time now, and no common understanding of how to
improve the situation. I spent a little time thinking about this today, and
would like to present some questions whose answers I hope will help us to
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:49:50AM +0530, shirish wrote:
Hi all,
What do you guys think of putting things like keyring manager,
GPA (GNU Privacy Assistant), Seahorse, and other security-based
softwares in a separate menu entry titled Security where all
security-based tools including
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:21:24AM +0100, Ben Francis wrote:
In the Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #39 there was an announcement of the
Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition. The link to the mailing list
announcement was broken and I think it should have been
7.04 has already been released, and will now only be updated for security
and high-impact bug fixes. If UbuntuStudio requires newer software, it must
either be based on gutsy, or use a supplementary repository (such as
feisty-backports, or a dedicated repository of your own, perhaps hosted in
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:27:52PM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote:
No, this not an abstract thing. And no, there are not many free operating
systems based on Ubuntu (SIC!
because Ubuntu is basing on an operating system) : There is only one at this
moment: Linux (or better GNU/Linux).
With my
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:13:13AM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote:
So what is it that you are proposing specifically?
What I want is to combine the worlds of several free operating systems with
the philosophy of Ubuntu:
ease of use, shiny new releases every eye blink , cool community, business
for
this? Perhaps Matt Zimmerman or Martin Pitt could give us some guidence
here.
A main inclusion report should be sufficient; if Debian has made the package
dependency transition then that should be pulled in during the merge. The
remaining work (looking after it in Ubuntu, pulling in any additional
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:37:19PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:20 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Similarly, I don't see how a new set of metapackages for every supported
device (even if that were possible) helps to simplify this.
You say that as if it isn't
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:15:23AM +0200, Petr Hrdlička wrote:
Hello Team,
since last updates from this morning, yesterday and last Partial Update I'm
experiencing very low performance of GUI. This drives me little bit crazy.
Even the mouse cursor isn't moving smoothly. I'm running feisty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:57:06PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
This comes about as more and more people question why their computer
starts bluetooth services when they don't have a bluetooth device, or
why I have a HP printer driver control panel applet, or a Palm Pilot
sync applet, or PCMCIA
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
(As a side thought, I'm not sure what constitutes common hardware, but
I for one don't know a single person who owns a Palm device.)
I can see two or three Treos from here. Whether they work with gnome-pilot
is another story, but if
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:11:23PM +0200, Christoffer Sørensen wrote:
Hi,
I noticed the following on the wiki page
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash
Install the needed .debs (they will be in the current working
directory if the build succeeded):
sudo debi package*.changes
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:10:29AM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
After reading yet another series of threads regarding the NVIDIA binary
drivers I would like to ask: What the Ubuntu position is towards binary
driver bugs?. Does Ubuntu take a similar stance to Red Hat whereupon
the moment you
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
Hello everybody,
a lot of teams have been using the tags feature of Malone to better
organise their workflow. In an attempt to agree on common tags for the
same thing, the BugSquad, the MOTU team, the Desktop team and others
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:12:15PM +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes
cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. This is a well known problem
and there have been a fair few reports of this problem listed on the
forums as well
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:28:53PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
/tmp/isijp053E/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading
shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
This is running a Java VM included in the application, not
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:49:51PM +, Matthew East wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:31 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
* However, new infrastructure will be implemented which allows the user
to
trivially enable both enhanced desktop effects and the necessary driver
support
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:08:03PM +, john levin wrote:
Laurent wrote:
Hello
Now, every iso files of feisty (for instance) are named
feisty-desktop-i386.iso.
This is the same name for Ubuntu Herd-3 and Kubuntu Herd-4.
I think that names should be more
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:29:03PM -0600, David Farning wrote:
This is follow up to the changing nature of bug reports from a few weeks
ago.
On the Mozillateam our triagers are getting swamped with automatic crash
reports.
I would like to make a few suggestions that would greatly help our
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:37:01PM -0600, David Farning wrote:
A number of browser related bug seem to caused by not restarting the
browser after updating some packages in the system. These packages seem
to be firefox itself, some themes, and some fonts.
Until the mozillateam gets these
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