Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:55:38PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I certainly didn't want to diminish the work you're doing, but I still think > we have to find better ways to release. potato is too old right now and most > people I do talk to, tell me they don't care about all these packages, but

atlas on HPPA (PA RISC)

Greetings! Anyone out there using these machines wanting an atlas port? I've run into some very odd compiler problems, and am in need of an expert to go any further. Basically, single precision floating point fails accross the board, double passes all tests. The compiler dies with an error if t

Re: CHECK BEFORE YOU RETITLE Re: Processed: Retitling...

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:54:26PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > He did change some ITA to O - I have no idea why... IMHO, the > difference b/w > > ITA: gtml > > and > > ITA: gtml -- An HTML pre-processor > > is trivial.. There should be no reason to do that especially > that the package is IT

RE: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

> A Debian native source package is one which has no .diff.gz, because the > Debian source code and the upstream source code are the same thing. This > means that the source tarball contains a debian/ directory with the > necessary packaging infrastructure. This configuration is used for > packag

postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

hi folks, should i file this bug against both packages, or which one should get precedence? i feel like postfix will be losing out... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/smtpd_2.0-4_i386.deb trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/smtpd.8.gz', which is also in package postfix-tls co

Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-guide

Package: maint-guide Severity: wishlist On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:45:17PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > > if test -d build -a build != source; then rm -f -r build; fi > > > dpkg-source -b icu > > > dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./icu' is not > > > - `icu-2.0' > > > dpkg-source: bu

Re: Debian.rpm

Previously David B Harris wrote: > Well, I'm kind of thinking he meant an automated procedure. So did I. Someone made a rpm package that you could install with rpm and it would convert a RedHat system into a Debian system. It only handled the base system and left the rest unchanged, but it did wor

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changed maintainer of ptex-jisfonts

Hi all, I don't know where is an appropriate mailing list to announce this kind of fact but I guess it might be better to announce somewhere than not to announce at all; the maintainer of ptex-jisfonts was changed from me to OHURA Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who has contributed so many times to

Re: Debian.rpm

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:03:37 +0100 Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, what you're suggesting isn't really feasible ;) > > Someone actually did this a couple of years ago so it is feasible. Well, I'm kind of thinking he meant an automated procedure. To do a "real" upgrade, lots

take over preview-latex

Hi all, About two months ago, Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> anounced ITP of preview-latex (cf. #117060) but after some communication with him, he kindly permitted me to take over preview-latex so I will upload preview-latex in a few days. An ITP was already done by him so it might n

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:20:45AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously David N. Welton wrote: > > Right, so how do we fix this? It is our problem, in that we need to > > make the software we distribute work together. But are you also > > saying that upstream shouldn't be setting that bit

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Previously David N. Welton wrote: > Right, so how do we fix this? It is our problem, in that we need to > make the software we distribute work together. But are you also > saying that upstream shouldn't be setting that bit in their header > file? As long as the API (and ABI) never exports things

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The Problem here is, that some header files define the LFS. This > > should not be done. > Indeed, doing that is broken behaviour. Grepping about on my system, I see that mysql does it too, in my_config.h: #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 > > One go

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Previously Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Yes, Wickert should reread your initial message. Pleas spell my name correctly. > The Problem here is, that some header files define the LFS. This > should not be done. Indeed, doing that is broken behaviour. > One good Idea would be to include the define in

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wichert Akkerman writes: >Bogus, if you compile them with the same options then will the the >same. If you compile one with LFS and one without you can expect >problems as you have demonstrated. Well, yeah, but it seems dubious at best for Apache to be defining _FI

Re: gnumeric and guppi in sid

Well, this is on ppc sid. I'll try to find someone else on ppc sid to check this. Oh I did file a bug report because guppi hasn't been working for me for quite some time. This is just the first time it actually showed a support program was segfaulting. Jack

Re: Theory

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:11:17PM +0100, Robert J?rdens wrote: > - What do statistics about the CD/FTP ratio say? Are CDs still so > important, that we need definite and long-lasting identical > images/distros? True: floating release is nothing for CDs. Having 5 > different versions of a pac

RE: .dsc not generated during package build?

> > Since it was trying to tar up 'icu' (which is a symlink) for whatever > > reason, it may be that dpkg-source tried to create a tarfile containing > only > > that. dpkg-source just does a "tar cf -", so symlinks would not be > > followed. I could see how that might have caused some confusion.

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) writes: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > One important thing are more frequent releases. We don't have to release > > as often as other distributions but IMHO it's needed to have a new stable > > release at about once a year. [ ...] > Sure, everyone ag

Re: CHECK BEFORE YOU RETITLE Re: Processed: Retitling...

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:54:26PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > IMHO, retitling to ITA: without explanation is seen as an attemp > to adopt a package.. Retitling ITA to ITA+description should be pretty clear without explanation. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:49:05PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Since it was trying to tar up 'icu' (which is a symlink) for whatever > > reason, it may be that dpkg-source tried to create a tarfile containing only > > that. dpkg-source just does a "

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:10:13PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > In any case, changing the order of two header files doesn't seem > offhand like the sort of thing that would go about changing the system > definitions. That's poor modularity, in my opinion, because neither > Apache nor Python, Tc

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:55:10PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Actually, I don't think I've ever seen "AltGr" printed on a key, yet all the > keyboards in .hr have the right alt doing that. The Gr stands afaik for "Alternative Graphics". It is found mainly in Europe if the keyboards does not follo

Re: packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

also sprach Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2034 +0100]: > > if i package spambouncer so that a configurable cronjob obtains updates > > on the anti-spam rules and databases from the spambouncer website, then > > the files can't remain in /usr, right? > > Are you sure you want to do

Re: gnumeric and guppi in sid

> I am just wondering if guppi has every worked properly in sid. well, it does right now. at least for me and on this machine running sid. i think it was the first time i tried, though ;) i usually don't need a spreadsheet, and i usually prefer gnuplot... Greetings, Erich P.S. No, Branden, plase

Re: packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

also sprach Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2013 +0100]: > The changing things go in /var/lib/spambouncer or something... If > there are executables, these should go into /usr/bin or /usr/sbin or > something. the entire package consists of procmail recipes, which are changing. there are

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Since it was trying to tar up 'icu' (which is a symlink) for whatever > reason, it may be that dpkg-source tried to create a tarfile containing only > that. dpkg-source just does a "tar cf -", so symlinks would not be > followed. I could see how that m

Re: new selftest target in debian/rules, new package state for autobuilder (suspect), debs that selftest on build

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:04:54PM -0500, Maitland Bottoms wrote: > To that end the VTK package includes regression tests in the build > process, and a reporting package to accumulate the results. Just an small experience, beeing the maintainer of libadns from Ian, which includes some regression t

RE: .dsc not generated during package build?

> > if test -d build -a build != source; then rm -f -r build; fi > > dpkg-source -b icu > > dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./icu' is not > > - `icu-2.0' > > dpkg-source: building icu in icu_2.0-1.tar.gz > > dpkg-source: building icu in icu_2.0-1.dsc > > Why is icu a Debian native packag

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:07:48PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run- > time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the > directories specified on the command line, in the file >

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:04:53PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper > > 3.0.51): > > > > What command did you run to do this? What you probably meant was > > dpkg-buildpackage. > > I did use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > > Her

Re: Installed postgresql 7.1.3-6 (i386 all source)

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:59, Roland Mas wrote: > Oliver Elphick (2002-01-05 20:53:08 +0100) : > > > Closes: 12166 121666 121699 121712 121944 122167 122871 123349 123950 > > 124317 125772 126193 126440 127004 127275 > > Changes: > > postgresql (7.1.3-6) unstable; urgency=low > > . > >* pos

gnumeric and guppi in sid

Has anyone managed to get guppi to work in current sid? I have yet to have any success. Before today guppi would silently fail whereas today I get a crash in guppi-gnumeric. I am trying the following... 1) run gnumeric 2) enter two columns of three rows of numbers (1,2,3 and 2,4,6) 3) select th

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously David N. Welton wrote: > > I don't think it's right that two pieces of software can declare > > the same struct and have them come out different things... there's > > something wrong. > Bogus, if you compile them with the same options th

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

* Matt Zimmerman | If portability is an issue, the software in question should be using libtool | anyway, which takes care of this for you. If it will only ever work on | GNU/Linux, ldconfig -n with an explanatory comment should be sufficient. Example from where I've used ldconfig -n: mklibs.p

RE: .dsc not generated during package build?

> > Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper > 3.0.51): > > What command did you run to do this? What you probably meant was > dpkg-buildpackage. I did use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Here's more of the log: if test -d build -a build != source; then rm -f -r build; f

Re: apt-get reinstall all

* (Jacob Elder) | On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:26PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install | > | > should work. | | Not unless every package name is <16 characters. COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --r

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Re: no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?

Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sbagliò: > Actually, i have just read a debian-kde message about the PNG > problem... > That seems to be a KDE specific problem. Yes, it is due to the problem about libpng. Apt is completely innocent. :-) -- Au revoir. Lele...

Re: apt-get reinstall all

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 12:05, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install dpkg --get-selections | egrep '[[:space:]]install$' | cut -f 1 | xargs apt-get install --reinstall

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Previously David N. Welton wrote: > I don't think it's right that two pieces of software can declare the > same struct and have them come out different things... there's > something wrong. Bogus, if you compile them with the same options then will the the same. If you compile one with LFS and one

Re: apt-get reinstall all

> I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) > I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package installed ... > You cou

Re: Evolution and GnuPG

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 06:38, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I've noticed that Evolution (1.0-4) is very prone to report bad > signatures. To start with I thought it was down to use by the sender of > a particular mailer, but I am beginning to doubt that. This is a known bug in Evolution: see http://bugz

Re: packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:31:28PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > if i package spambouncer so that a configurable cronjob obtains updates > on the anti-spam rules and databases from the spambouncer website, then > the files can't remain in /usr, right? Are you sure you want to do this? What abou

Re: CHECK BEFORE YOU RETITLE Re: Processed: Retitling...

Hi, On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:54:31PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > Hey, buddy!! I ITA those packages a while back - I'll be uploading > them in the next day!!! PLEASE CHECK THE O LIST > __BEFORE__ YOU RETITLE A BUG! Please calm down. I was not trying to adopt these packages or anything. I was onl

Re: Evolution and GnuPG

Hello! Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Oliver Elphick a écrit : > > I've noticed that Evolution (1.0-4) is very prone to report bad > > signatures. To start with I thought it was down to use by the sender of > > a particular mailer, but I am beginning to doubt that. > [sneep] > >

Re: apt-get reinstall all

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Michael De Nil wrote: > I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) > I think it's

Re: packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:31:28PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > if i package spambouncer so that a configurable cronjob obtains updates > on the anti-spam rules and databases from the spambouncer website, then > the files can't remain in /usr, right? > > the primary candidate for installation o

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:59:55PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Marcus Brinkmann > > | Sure, evms seems only to be available on GNU/Linux, too. But just > because | it happens to work by chance it is no excuse to do the wrong > thing. People | might take it as an example and use it in the

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:26:11PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Sorry if that has been asked before. I mistakenly deleted quite a bit of > Debian mail. I did check the archives for the past month though... > > Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper 3.0.51): What comma

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

Try sending email to QA or something. Maybe they should orphan the package owned by that maintainer. - Adam On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:34:53AM +0100, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > I mailed the maintainer of the above package on the eleventh of december and > haven't got a reply yet. All the bugs of t

Re: apt-get reinstall all

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:26PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Michael De Nil > > | I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > | that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > | I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir

Re: Debian.rpm

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:27, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I think you can probably boot to it with a carefully crafted initrd > that performs a pivot_root into the debootstrapped chroot. I believe that pivot_root only works on mounted file systems, so unless your chroot environment is at the root dir

Re: CHECK BEFORE YOU RETITLE Re: Processed: Retitling...

> Hi Adam, > > it seems you misunderstood what Uwe was doing: He did only add the package > descriptions to the WNPP bugs, IOW he changed e.g. > ITA: gtml > to > ITA: gtml -- An HTML pre-processor > or > O: wmf > to > O: wmf -- Web Mail Folder > > > These changes are visible e.g. in the

Re: Proper way for a i586-pc-linux-gnu (k6-2) to build for the same

Junichi Uekawa wrote: Could you elaborate ? Uninstalled pentium-builder, and debian/rules build still aborted (could not find cc?). Tried to figure how cc could not be referenced correctly (symlinks seemed OK, but would not work when called by debian/rules build). Long story short, I removed e

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 01:34:53 +0100 Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I mailed the maintainer of the above package on the eleventh of december and > haven't got a reply yet. All the bugs of the package are pretty old, a new > version of the proggy is also available upstream, c

new selftest target in debian/rules, new package state for autobuilder (suspect), debs that selftest on build

Hi, In packaging VTK I have come across some tools which address some of the same things Goswin Brederlow brought up. It turns out that developing a 3-D scientific data visualization library is only part of the goals of the Visualization Tool Kit (VTK) project. The other part is concerned with th

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

On 06-Jan-02, 04:55 (CST), Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You need to do this in a portable way so that it works on every system... No, the people who want modern code to run on their systems need to figure out how to support the standard. Why should every piece of code contain the w

Re: Evolution and GnuPG

Oliver Elphick a écrit : > I've noticed that Evolution (1.0-4) is very prone to report bad > signatures. To start with I thought it was down to use by the sender of > a particular mailer, but I am beginning to doubt that. [sneep] > Do other mail clients give similar results? I have noticed the sa

Re: 1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

* (Martin Schulze) | http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_0.1.9.1-1.potato1.dsc | http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_0.1.9.1-1.potato1.tar.gz Built, test-installed and uploaded. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selectiv

Re: 1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

[Martin Schulze] > For further explanation please check the detailed report at > . libc6 is still not mentioned on this list. Is this on purpose, or did someone forget to let you know? There seem to be a security problem with the current potato/woody glibc.

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

[Ulrich Eckhardt] > Hi all, > I mailed the maintainer of the above package on the eleventh of > december and haven't got a reply yet. All the bugs of the package > are pretty old, a new version of the proggy is also available > upstream, current version is > a year > old. The same is the situation

Re: Bug#126856: kernel-package: kernel-image should deal with flavours just like modules packages

>>"martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.1016 +0100]: >> Wrong. Read the documentation on the Flavours before using >> it. This is the reason that Flavours are deprecated, incidentally. martin> okay, i did

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

> I mailed the maintainer of the above package on the eleventh of december and > haven't got a reply yet. All the bugs of the package are pretty old, a new > version of the proggy is also available upstream, current version is > a year > old. He is my applicant, and has a new version ready (wit

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:34:53AM +0100, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > I mailed the maintainer of the above package on the eleventh of december > and haven't got a reply yet. All the bugs of the package are pretty old, a > new version of the proggy is also available upstream, current version is > > a y

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

Ari Makela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dubitò: > me neither. I must show my ignorance: I don't know what it > is. ¥ means "yen", the Japanese currency. -- Au revoir. Lele...

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:55:10PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Actually, I don't think I've ever seen "AltGr" printed on a key, yet all the > keyboards in .hr have the right alt doing that. It's standard on UK keyboards. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Re: apt-get reinstall all

* Michael De Nil | I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get | that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. | I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) | I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package insta

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously David N. Welton wrote: > > I'm not sure exactly what problems this may cause, but I don't > > like the looks of it... Interestingly (... or not) enough, that > > define isn't created when building locally (version 1.3.23-dev)... > It do

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

* Marcus Brinkmann | Sure, evms seems only to be available on GNU/Linux, too. But just because | it happens to work by chance it is no excuse to do the wrong thing. People | might take it as an example and use it in their own software, where it | doesn't work (on GNU/Hurd, and other systems).

Re: Installed postgresql 7.1.3-6 (i386 all source)

Oliver Elphick (2002-01-05 20:53:08 +0100) : [...] > Closes: 12166 121666 121699 121712 121944 122167 122871 123349 123950 124317 > 125772 126193 126440 127004 127275 > Changes: > postgresql (7.1.3-6) unstable; urgency=low > . >* postgresql: fix postgresql-dump so that it doesn't crash o

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:56:38AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > But like I said, that wouldn't buy as anything: the *hardest* parts are > getting base and standard working properly, once they're done, it's not overly Okay, good point. > Well, in a sense they don't: it's the fact that the core pa

Re: Evolution and GnuPG

Hm, I've already deleted the messages in question, but I know I always get good signatures from Anthony Towns and Branden Robinson. I also believe I got a good signature from that Michael Meskes message as well. In fact, I don't think I've seen a bad signature. This is mutt 1.3.25-1, gnupg 1.0.6

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

* Bas Zoetekouw | You wrote: | | > Then you are _very_ wrong. There are too many and too complicated | > questions asked for a «normal user», whatever that is. You have to be | > interested and/or have somebody help you install Debian, else you will | > give up halfway. | | Maybe we we should

packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

if i package spambouncer so that a configurable cronjob obtains updates on the anti-spam rules and databases from the spambouncer website, then the files can't remain in /usr, right? the primary candidate for installation of spambouncer is /usr/share/spambouncer, but /usr/lib/spambouncer might be

Re: apt-get reinstall all

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Michael De Nil wrote: > I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. You can use "apt-get --reinstall install " There are a few possibilities to create th

Re: Bug#126856: kernel-package: kernel-image should deal with flavours just like modules packages

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:31:48PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > and maybe someone can suggest an alternative to flavours. i have about > 27 systems for which i have kernel-images, using the flavour to specify > the machine name. this works beautifully. without the flavour, i would > not have the

Re: apt-get reinstall all

> I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) > I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package installed ... well, if

Re: Many .changes not being sent to debian-devel-changes

On Sunday 06 January 2002 09:40 am, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > recently, the debian-devel-changes list is missing more .changes > messages than usual. I first suspected a local config change as the > culprit, but There was a note yesterday on Debian Planet about a resource-exhaustion problem on

Re: Still no fam in Woody

Petter Reinholdtsen, on 2002-01-05, 22:49, you wrote: > * fam/hppa unsatisfiable Depends: libstdc++3 (>= > 1:3.0.3-0pre011215) ['gcc-3.0'] ^^ see below... > Why is it still not included in Woody? Several kde and gnome packages > depend on this packa

Re: Many .changes not being sent to debian-devel-changes

Previously Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > mozilla_0.9.7-3_i386.changes(non-us) > openssh_3.0.2p1-2_i386.changes (non-us) > rsync_2.5.1-0.1_i386.changes I did get those three. > I can dig up more if needed (counting only packages I have installed > I've found 15 today). I suspect

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

Previously Yves Arrouye wrote: > any idea about what is happening? Why isn't ../icu_2.0-1.dsc found (when cat > complains)? dpkg-source builds the .dsc file. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left

Re: no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?

Egon Willighagen wrote: > That makes me wonder: is it possible that i am imagening things, and that the > upgrade went well, even though my HD was full? Did it actually install files > then, or did it not overwrite, because of the HD being full, and my files are > basically not upgraded, but just

Re: Adopting these packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 January 2002 17:03, Daniel Stone wrote: > (BCC'ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > I will adopt the KDE packages, while Chris "calc" Cheney will take Qt, and > will also be the KDE3 maintainer when it comes around to it; by the time > KDE2.2 is

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:15:41PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:37:46PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It's already pretty split-up: we have base, we have standard, and we > That's what I meant to say. The only think we don't have is the release of > base/standard wi

Bug#127909: glibc: cross compile support

Package: glibc Version: 2.2.4-7 Tags: patch Hi, It seems glibc source package is aware of cross compile, but I feel current version is not very useful. I'm using dpkg-cross and applying following patch to glibc. * makerules.dpatch: Disable check for make -e. It checks $(PATH), but $(PATH

1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

These packages have to be rebuilt for stable on i386 in order to let the packages go into 2.2r5. Please find URLs to source packages attached below for convenience. When uploading, please take care of the distribution, which should contain 'stable' and nothing else. For further explanation please

maintainer for cervisia is MIA

Hi all, I mailed the maintainer of the above package on the eleventh of december and haven't got a reply yet. All the bugs of the package are pretty old, a new version of the proggy is also available upstream, current version is > a year old. what should I do/can be done? Uli

new selftest target in debian/rules, new package state for autobuilder (suspect), debs that selftest on build

Hi, I'm trying to build gcc-3.0 manually because the autobuilder on m68k just timeout on it. So all this takes gcc-3.0 as example, nothing personal. This is more about improving the autobuilders. Doing a test compile on i386 (way faster to check build-depends and general errors there) I noticed t

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Previously David N. Welton wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what problems this may cause, but I don't like > the looks of it... Interestingly (... or not) enough, that define > isn't created when building locally (version 1.3.23-dev)... It doesn't cause any problems at all, it is by design. Wichert

Re: VIM features

Previously Paul Mackinney wrote: > What would be helpful is a README.Debian file in /usr/doc/vim that > alerts the user to the existence of /etc/vim/vimrc and its nice set of > potential customizations. I had overlooked the vim stuff in /etc, but I > have learned to check the /usr/doc directory.

Re: Still no fam in Woody

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The current excuse for 'fam' in > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz> is > > - fam (- to 2.6.6.1-4) > * Maintainer: Joerg Wendland > * 16 days old (needed 10 days) > * fam/hppa unsatisfiable Depends: libstdc++3

Debian at FOSDEM 2002

Moin! We have also been invited by FOSDEM to attend this year's Free and Open Source Developers Meeting taking place on February 16th and 17th in Bruxelles. There are a lot of seminar rooms which can be used by all participating projects and developers. If there are people from Debian who would

Bug#128013: ITP: debpartial -- Debian Packages/Sources file partition tool

Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-06 Severity: wishlist * Package name: debpartial Version : 0+20020106.1 Author : Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * License : GPL Description : Debian Packages/Sources file partition tool debpartial is a progra

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > > If a package has gotten very stale, and nobody has taken up > > > maintainence, isn't that a pretty good indication that nobody is > > > using it anyhow? > > >

Re: Bug#126856: kernel-package: kernel-image should deal with flavours just like modules packages

reopen 126856 severity 126856 serious thanks [cc'ing to debian-devel for comments.] [please refer to bug 126856 for background info.] also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.1016 +0100]: > Wrong. Read the documentation on the Flavours before using > it. This is the rea

Many .changes not being sent to debian-devel-changes

[please CC me on replies] Hi, recently, the debian-devel-changes list is missing more .changes messages than usual. I first suspected a local config change as the culprit, but http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2002/debian-devel-changes-200201/maillist.html> doesn't list what I missed

Re: CHECK BEFORE YOU RETITLE Re: Processed: Retitling...

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Adam Majer wrote: > Hey, buddy!! I ITA those packages a while back - I'll be uploading them in > the next day!!! PLEASE CHECK THE O LIST > __BEFORE__ YOU RETITLE A BUG! Hi Adam, it seems you misunderstood what Uwe was doing: He did only add the package descriptions to the WN

Re: NFS Servers, deadlocks and symlinks

Hi elf! You wrote: > I'll start with the question(s) for the impatient. Is anyone > experiencing deadlocks between nfs-kernel-server and ext3? How about No, not at all. Using 2.4.17 on potato+bunk. > Starting back on the original project, the Etherboot finally succeeded > The next discovery

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