Re: New Packages (i18n version of APT)

2002-04-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Erich Schubert wrote: > I REALLY REALLY would like to see translated apt in woody. > And i cannot understand why apt-i18n is not installed so we could > test it. Adding apt-i18n to unstable will not break anything, but > interested developers can test this before adding it to

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > Looking at the build logs for antlr, the jikes bug in question (on > alpha, right? #123041) has already been fixed. Somebody should > reschedule that build. My personal impression is that jikes in sid is very broken. Some packages that use

Re: gpg -e errors - All garbled output

2002-04-06 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't know if my locale is causing it or what. The problem is that as > soon as I try to gpg -e to edit a key I get the following junk. [23:24:22] wesley:~ $ gpg --help|grep -e -e -e, --encryptencrypt data -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of Dale> the GNU Free Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put Dale> a copy of this license into the common reference area? Depends. Would you say that at leas

Re: Woody now more installable than potato

2002-04-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josip> I checked had a stagnating number of subscribers than a few Josip> months before, the traffic on the web pages continues to Josip> slowly grow or stagnate in the new year, and the major Josip> mirrors' traffic is also growing bit by b

gpg -e errors - All garbled output

2002-04-06 Thread david-downey
Evening folks, Got something weird for you. This has been happening over the last 5 or 6 revisions of gpg and I have absolutely *no* clue what is causing it. I don't know if my locale is causing it or what. The problem is that as soon as I try to gpg -e to edit a key I get the following junk.

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:42:38PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 1:24 pm, Anthony Towns wrote: > > velocity werken.xpathantlr > > These are all pretty much bug free (antlr has a couple of wishlist > bugs) but a jikes bug is keeping them out of testing. Does any

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:51:23AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The keyword here is "prominent". > > > > Yes, it is. > > > > > The > > > Debian servers don't run non-free soft

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, > to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily > non-free and proprietary software that we are not even allowed to > place in our non-free section outside of our distribution. Received:

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that > the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free > software also subverts my principles. > > The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should > not have su

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > into the common reference area? > > Who should I talk to about this? Why put a bl

Re: Package metadata server

2002-04-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > (picked up from http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=633) > > The scalability problems of the Packages file is a recognised problem that > has been discused many times on this list, i think the following idea > could go a long way to solving it. >

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
Adam Majer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:53:00PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > 1) Large packages files > > [... 3 level idea ...] > > I would suggest a solution that is much easier to manage. That is, packages > should be sorted according to the date that the package was modified. > This co

Re: Package metadata server

2002-04-06 Thread Glenn McGrath
On 06 Apr 2002 19:45:29 -0500 "Colin Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 06:37, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > An idea that i havent heard mentioned here is to create a > > client/server application for specifically handling our metadata, the > > server can be queried by clien

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Walters
[ Please don't CC me, I read this list ] On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 20:03, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. I > don't say we should refuse their sponsership totally, but if they > provide hosting on non-free software I think that is a valid reas

Re: New Packages (i18n version of APT)

2002-04-06 Thread Erich Schubert
I REALLY REALLY would like to see translated apt in woody. And i cannot understand why apt-i18n is not installed so we could test it. Adding apt-i18n to unstable will not break anything, but interested developers can test this before adding it to real apt. I've been thinking about calling to sign

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Erich Schubert
> > galeon logtrend-httpagent rie > > Is there anything I can do to get galeon included in woody? Since there > are no outstanding RC bugs, I assume there are dependency problems. Galeon was unfortunately removed to a RC bug that did apply to a version in sid, not in woody, t

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. Er, we _host_ non-free software on our servers, and distribute it via our mirror network. If you want to go on a crusade, then there are targets closer to home. Ric

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:48PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should > > not have such a prominent sponser promoting non-free > > software. Especially as we probably don't ne

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > into the common reference area? No, it would be premature. There's a draft for a

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > The keyword here is "prominent". > > Yes, it is. > > > The > > Debian servers don't run non-free software provided by HP and/OR > > Sun. The debconf2 registration page is hosted on

Re: Package metadata server

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 06:37, Glenn McGrath wrote: > An idea that i havent heard mentioned here is to create a client/server > application for specifically handling our metadata, the server can be > queried by clients to send only the required metadata. debian-corba already implements most of the

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 11:22, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > OK. Since the build problems seem to be easily solved (see #141077), I > hope both mozilla and galeon can be included in woody. Indeed. aj already knows that I'm on the next plane to Australia if woody releases without Galeon :) -- To UNSUB

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should > not have such a prominent sponser promoting non-free > software. Especially as we probably don't need it. Jeroen, please calm down. I admit that while the registration pa

Re: Defoma Problems

2002-04-06 Thread Erich Schubert
> It's interesting how strongly these fonts are a recommendation of free > fonts. Misnamed glyphs need to be moved, those previously mentioned > blank glyphs need to go away, and many new characters could be created > with little work (Berylium has the c, h, g, j, s, u, circumflex and > breve glyph

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > The keyword here is "prominent". Yes, it is. > The > Debian servers don't run non-free software provided by HP and/OR > Sun. The debconf2 registration page is hosted on a server with > non-free software and has a link to a website with a non-f

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:17:46AM +0100, Thom May wrote: > * Jeroen Dekkers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > > It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that > > the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free > > software also subverts my principles. > > >

Update excuses openh323gk (2.0b2-1 to 2.0b4-1) (mk68k)

2002-04-06 Thread Mark Purcell
According to http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=openh323gk&ver=2.0b4-1&arch=m68k&stamp=1017326211&file=log&as=raw openh323gk-2.0.b4-1 was built for m68k on 28 Mar, however this package doesn't seem to of been uploaded to the archives which is why this package hasn't been released to test

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Thom May
* Jeroen Dekkers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that > the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free > software also subverts my principles. > > The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we shoul

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:54:32AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > Why should we refuse? Lindows.com came to us, not the other way around. > > Because it's a proprietary software company? Hey, I heard that some of our machines got donated by proprietary software/hardware companies! So lets cut o

The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license into the common reference area? Who should I talk to about this? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" _

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:25:10PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a > > > registration page to no registration page at all. > > > > Is it that difficult to make a registration

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a > > registration page to no registration page at all. > > Is it that difficult to make a registration page with free software? To the best of my knowledge, no. But I did

problem with gvd

2002-04-06 Thread Carl B. Constantine
I've had the following problem while trying to do a dist-upgrade this morning: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/gvd_1.2.5-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 93580 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gvd 1.2.5-1 (using .../archives/gvd_1.2.5-1_i386.deb

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:19:49PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Reasons enough to release woody+1 not too late. > > Speaking of which, woody+1 sounds like it's going to be a release similar to > link -- no huge changes to cause a prolongued release time. So, the Debian Installer is already ready

Re: Defoma Problems

2002-04-06 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:37:56PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Second i do not want to be shown the confirmation that the font uses > "iso-8859-1" as default encoding... Maybe it's a hint that you should be checking these things. (Actually, deforma-hints should be checking these things for you,

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Actually, as always, it'll release when it's ready: if we find that the > software doesn't meet our expectations on April 30th, you'll find me on > the ground writhing in pain with leaves, bark and wood all over the place > [1]. Well

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:49:16PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > Between Apache 2.0 and KDE 3 releasing, I don't think we need Anthony > > > to tell us that a Debian release is imminent :-P > > > > I heard something about a new release of Gnome coming out too. Gcc 3.1's > > also due soon. W

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:03, Martin Schulze wrote: > Joe Drew wrote: > > Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message: > > > > LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT > > SCORN. > > While I don't want to squeze lindows support, I have to

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:30:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:56:55AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Between Apache 2.0 and KDE 3 releasing, I don't think we need Anthony > > to tell us that a Debian release is imminent :-P > > I heard something about a new releas

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > I'm somewhat puzzled: > > Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 > Form submission goes to: > Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html > > If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, > to a confere

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: > Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message: > > LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT > SCORN. While I don't want to squeze lindows support, I have to interpret this statement like "Joey, shut up! Somebody has spent

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html > > > > If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, > > to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:02:08PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:39, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Form submission goes to: > > Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html > > > > If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, > > to a confer

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html > > If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, > to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily > non-free and proprietary so

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-06 Thread Mark Eichin
> (insert standard promotial rant about Super Sparrow here). google finds supersparrow 0.0.0 from Feb 2001 on supersparrow.org and sourceforge, and nothing more recent -- is there any life to it? it certainly sounds interesting... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > It'd be a very, very bad idea for anybody to start doing or saying > anything non-constructive to Lindows.com. They as a company, and every > person I've dealt with through Lindows.com, employee or otherwise, have > been nothing but corteous and helpful, and have helped make Debconf 2 a > poss

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:39, Martin Schulze wrote: > Joe Drew wrote: > > The 2nd Annual Debian Conference registration page is now available at > > http://lindows.com/debconf2 . Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the > > web page and all their gracious help. > > [...] queso reports > a non-free o

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: > The 2nd Annual Debian Conference registration page is now available at > http://lindows.com/debconf2 . Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the > web page and all their gracious help. I'm somewhat puzzled: luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~> HEAD lindows.com 200 OK Connection: close Date:

Request for NMU: sidplay-base

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
Quite simple fixes: - Fixes build on hppa and quite possibly others. - Bump version number to replace older packages correctly. (RC bug) - Fix a minor bug in the description. Packages and diff are here: http://www.misconception.org.uk/will/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 06, Anthony Towns wrote: > pfaedit The "RC" bug appears to be in an out-of-date version of the package. Furthermore, it's been closed for over a week... > popularity-contest Fixed for several days in NMU. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ -

New Packages (i18n version of APT)

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Piefel
The release seems to draw near, but we won't see one of our central packages translated, namely APT. Why won't we? Well, perhaps because nobody tried to i18n it, perhaps? No, that's not it. Well, maybe there are no translations ready. No, that's not it either. Patches are ready, 13 translations a

Bug#141494: ITP: fuse -- Filesystem in USErspace

2002-04-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: fuse Version : 0.95 Upstream Author : Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> among others * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf * License : GPL Description : Filesystem in USErspace I have roughly split f

Bug#141488: ITP: libsigc++-1.1 -- Development branch of SigC++

2002-04-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-06 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libsigc++-1.1 Version : 1.1.6 Upstream Author : Karl Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libsigc.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL Description : Development branch of S

Re: Spamassassin config files in /usr/share

2002-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Blars Blarson wrote: > The spamassasin maintainer doesn't think that there are settings > in /usr/share that can't be overridden by the settings in /etc > should be considered "serious". See bug #141125 and spamassassin > bug #188. If you really must exactly offset amazon's whitelisted score, yo

Re: Release notes

2002-04-06 Thread Simon Richter
On 6 Apr 2002, Rob Bradford wrote: > * Split/Renamed packages *since* Potato - Have any of you packages been > renamed or split. Note this includes merges as the net result is a > rename. The python-imaging documentation has been split, as not all of the documentation is in the upstream archive.

Re: Bug#141345: ITP: sextractor -- Builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.

2002-04-06 Thread Mako Hill
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:04, Stephen Quinney wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-05 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: sextractor On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:59:32AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > What does a sex tractor have to do with astronomy? > > What is

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:41:27PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "we can tell that a Debian release is about to happen". Or > > something. > "I sense a disturbance in the force" ? "As though millions of voices cried out, and ran apt-get." Cheers,

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread David N. Welton
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "we can tell that a Debian release is about to happen". Or > something. "I sense a disturbance in the force" ? -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.

Processed: reassign

2002-04-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 141479 apmd Bug#141479: general: Problem when try to install apmd Bug reassigned from package `general' to `apmd'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (adminis

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:56:55AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Between Apache 2.0 and KDE 3 releasing, I don't think we need Anthony > to tell us that a Debian release is imminent :-P I heard something about a new release of Gnome coming out too. Gcc 3.1's also due soon. We're also a touch be

reassign

2002-04-06 Thread Thomas Hood
reassign 141479 apmd thanks I noticed this bug at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=141479 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Colin! You wrote: > galeon 1.2.0-2 depends on mozilla-browser (>= 2:0.9.9), which isn't in > testing because: [mozilla doesn't build on hppa and is not yet built on m68k, sparc] > In other words, it's currently mostly mozilla that's broken, not galeon. > I guess that if mozilla is fixed then

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
I just realized this might be ambigous -- what I meant was not that "we shouldn't be about to release woody", but rather that "we can tell that a Debian release is about to happen". Or something. Maybe I should keep my mouth shut when running on too little sleep :) Daniel -- /---

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
Between Apache 2.0 and KDE 3 releasing, I don't think we need Anthony to tell us that a Debian release is imminent :-P Daniel -- / Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---\ | "Progress just means bad things happen faster." | |

Re: Woody now more installable than potato

2002-04-06 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:22:25 +0200 Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > On related note, I've been looking at the various Debian statistics > ... > So it seems that even though we are in a period of stagnation when it > comes to attracting new users, journalists and hype, the community > a

Re: Spamassassin config files in /usr/share

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Apr-2002 Malcolm Parsons wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:45:08PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: >> Currently, I edit the file in /usr/share to implement my site-wide >> policies, but this will be overridden every time spamassassin is >> upgraded. > > Why not use dpkg-divert? > that is o

Re: Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-06 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 03:13, Otto Wyss wrote: > Please show use any figures first before you assert this. > > I know rsync imposes some load for the computing of the md5sum but > sendind only the difference outweighs it repeatedly. It's my understanding that rsync imposes a large computational b

ilisp debian package

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
(I have CCd to debian-devel in case you are on holiday or otherwise indisposed to close these) ilisp is being removed from woody because of a bug that is fixed but not closed. According to your changelog the following bugs are fixed, but are not closed: 125744 140049 138669 137011 98132 12885

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 3:42 pm, Will Newton wrote: > > ilisp > ilisp is in fact fixed, it's just the bug has not been closed yet due to a typo in the changelog. I'll email the maintainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Bug#141479: general: Problem when try to install apmd

2002-04-06 Thread Kase-O
Package: general Version: 20020406 Severity: normal -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux maquina.jise.com 2.4.19-pre6 #2 SMP sáb abr 6 02:55:59 CEST 2002 i686 unknown When I try to install apmd, and hdparm already installed, I get error "Broken Pipe"

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 1:24 pm, Anthony Towns wrote: > velocity werken.xpathantlr These are all pretty much bug free (antlr has a couple of wishlist bugs) but a jikes bug is keeping them out of testing. Does anyone who knows jikes have any idea if this can be fixed soon, or is it a bi

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:17:02PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Yes, of course. It only says a newer version is in sid, and that it will > be considered tomorrow. It also says: Depends: galeon mozilla galeon 1.2.0-2 depends on mozilla-browser (>= 2:0.9.9), which isn't in testing because: m

Bug#141476: ITP: ijs-dev -- IJS raster image transport protocol

2002-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-06 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ijs-dev Version : 0.33 Upstream Author : Raph Levien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.linuxprinting.org/ijs * License : MIT Description : IJS raster image transport pr

Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread Thom May
As those of you who read slashdot know, Apache 2.0 was released last night. Debian packages are available for testing at pandora.debian.org/~thom/apache deb http://pandora.debian.org/~thom/apache2 ./ Please can people test these packages (after we've finished killing bugs for woody, naturally).

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... [snip] > I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release readiness. So, to go > out on a limb: > Debian 3.0 (codenamed woody) will release on May 1st, 2002. Oh good. What will it be releasing? :-) -- | Darren Salt |

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Over the past few weeks most of the following packages have been removed > from the upcoming release due to bugs and such [0]. > lclint I'm working on an NMU just now. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydr

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Petter! You wrote: > [Bas Zoetekouw] > > Is there anything I can do to get galeon included in woody? Since there > > are no outstanding RC bugs, I assume there are dependency problems. > > Did you check > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#galeon>? Yes, of course. It

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Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bas Zoetekouw] > Is there anything I can do to get galeon included in woody? Since there > are no outstanding RC bugs, I assume there are dependency problems. Did you check http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#galeon>? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Anthony! You wrote: > Over the past few weeks most of the following packages have been removed > from the upcoming release due to bugs and such [0]. > galeon logtrend-httpagent rie Is there anything I can do to get galeon included in woody? Since there are no outstanding

Re: Woody now more installable than potato

2002-04-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:57:41PM +0200, Paolo Redaelli wrote: > > Looking at the testing and stable problems pages on master, I now notice > > that for each and every architecture in potato, there are less > > uninstallable packages in woody that in potato. > > > > All in all, nearly doubling th

Re: Woody now more installable than potato

2002-04-06 Thread Paolo Redaelli
Il sab, 2002-04-06 alle 13:10, Anthony DeRobertis ha scritto: > Looking at the testing and stable problems pages on master, I now notice > that for each and every architecture in potato, there are less > uninstallable packages in woody that in potato. > > All in all, nearly doubling the architectu

Re: Spamassassin config files in /usr/share

2002-04-06 Thread Malcolm Parsons
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:45:08PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > Currently, I edit the file in /usr/share to implement my site-wide > policies, but this will be overridden every time spamassassin is > upgraded. Why not use dpkg-divert? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Woody now more installable than potato

2002-04-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Looking at the testing and stable problems pages on master, I now notice that for each and every architecture in potato, there are less uninstallable packages in woody that in potato. All in all, nearly doubling the architecture count results in less than 100 more uninstallables in woody. Congrat

Re: Spamassassin config files in /usr/share

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:45:08PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > The spamassasin maintainer doesn't think that there are settings > in /usr/share that can't be overridden by the settings in /etc > should be considered "serious". See bug #141125 and spamassassin > bug #188. > > Currently, I edit

Re: Spamassassin config files in /usr/share

2002-04-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:45:08PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > The spamassasin maintainer doesn't think that there are settings > in /usr/share that can't be overridden by the settings in /etc > should be considered "serious". See bug #141125 and spamassassin > bug #188. It's not a configurati

Re: grass entering debian

2002-04-06 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il sab, 2002-04-06 alle 09:39, Martin Schulze ha scritto: > Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > the grass debian package is currently sitting in incoming (or being > > transferred there, 30Mb being quite a lot for my 128Kbit cdn). there are > > still 20-25 lintian warnings and 5-6 errors, mainly relate

Bug#141450: ITP: jackit -- JACK low-latency sound server

2002-04-06 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-06 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jackit Version : 0.24.2 Upstream Author : Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL/LGPL Description : JACK low-latency sound ser

Re: Bug#141345: ITP: sextractor -- Builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.

2002-04-06 Thread Stephen
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Russell Coker wrote: >What does a sex tractor have to do with astronomy? > >What is a sex tractor anyway? A google search turned up some amusing >results, especially the first one, but didn't seem to describe what you are >packaging. I've never been able to tell whether th

Re: Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-06 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Some questions that need to be asked: > > Howmany of our mirrors are rsyncable? > How much load can the servers handle? > How much more load does rsync do than a fast http server like tux? > Please show use any figures first before you assert this. I know rsync imposes some load for the compu

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-06 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I've now choosen "7dsc" since packages aren't commands. > > How about something more descriptive than "dsc"? Say, "package", > "pkg", or "deb" (in my order of preference)? > I'm also not very happy with "dsc" but I neither are wit

Spamassassin config files in /usr/share

2002-04-06 Thread Blars Blarson
The spamassasin maintainer doesn't think that there are settings in /usr/share that can't be overridden by the settings in /etc should be considered "serious". See bug #141125 and spamassassin bug #188. Currently, I edit the file in /usr/share to implement my site-wide policies, but this will be

Re: grass entering debian

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > the grass debian package is currently sitting in incoming (or being > transferred there, 30Mb being quite a lot for my 128Kbit cdn). there are > still 20-25 lintian warnings and 5-6 errors, mainly related to the use > of csh as a scripting shell. it works for me and i