Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Bloom
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:13:23AM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: > >>Why not accept the AMD64 binaries, then dump the AMD64 binaries because >>you don't know what to do with them, but accept the arch:all debs from >>that upload? > > > Why would ftp-master want to work on specia

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:29:32AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I would speculate debsigs got a name change to dpkg-sig. Can somebody > confirm or deny? As Mark said, it's not a name change. The FAQ on the dpkg-sig site (http://dpkg-sig.turmzimmer.net/) has more info. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've never seen dpkg-sig mentioned before, only debsigs, >> so I'm not familiar with the tool itself, but the concept >> is one that needs a lot more exposure. > I would speculate debsigs got a name change to dpkg-sig. Can somebody > confirm or deny? No. dp

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, After discussing this in IRC, we agreed that I give a short overview about the important stuff. As I'm quite lazy, I'm quoting James Troup for the history bits: was written for Ubuntu, specifically because they were activating data.tar.bz2 support in debs. as a side effect it also enforc

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
> "Matthew" == Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I'm keenly interested in per-package signatures for Matthew> Debian packages -- I think they're a great idea and it's Matthew> a pity that they haven't received more interest. Same here. I would really like to see

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
> "Stephen" == Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So if I have my system say `250' to a piece of mail, I'm guaranteeing >> that either I'll bounce it (and get a `250' on the bounce), or that >> some human (me or someone else I know) will read it. Stephen> Sure, so sa

Re: too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:54:26AM +, Andreas Orfanos wrote: > My question is: Is this build time acceptable for the new kernels? > Is something wrong with the tool chain? Distribution? My question is: Is it a real problem? How often do you really compile your kernels yourself with all the mod

Re: too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Orfanos
Yes! you are right. I try to produce some statistical data with different kernels. The latest 2.4.32 takes an average 6 minutes to build (~500 objects). But 2.6.0 takes more than half an hour for (~3000objects and more). The latest 2.6.14.2 one hour and more, and again we are talking for thousands

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:13:23AM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: > Why not accept the AMD64 binaries, then dump the AMD64 binaries because > you don't know what to do with them, but accept the arch:all debs from > that upload? Why would ftp-master want to work on special-casing amd64 for this instead of

Re: How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Armin Berres
Benjamin Mesing wrote: Only a thought that occured to me when reading this: Did you think about how your approach will work once the proposed parallel boot script execution is implemented? If you want to see how it could look like when you have scripts with parallel output you could have a loo

Re: too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Le mardi 22 novembre 2005 à 10:54 +, Andreas Orfanos a écrit : > The delay was not due to lots of new modules, it was clear that the > incremental list of compiled components on the screen was moving > up slow. I remember kernel builds where ultra fast, couldn't watch on > screen what it was

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:50:02PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > As I'm responsible for most of dpkg-sig's code (and planned to do some > more work in the next two months) I'd like to know if anyone cares about > using these binary signatures or if I can invest my time into something > tha

Re: How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Only a thought that occured to me when reading this: Did you think about > how your approach will work once the proposed parallel boot script > execution is implemented? It will be replaced by whatever is in the parallel system. So don't worry too much

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-21 23:33:48]: > If the DPL team is actually addressing that issue, it is not doing so > transparently. That was on purpose. we thought that there was something to be learned from threads on public mailinglists that lead nowhere and wanted to try private m

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-22 08:52:25]: > * Andreas Schuldei: > > > i have not given up that hope yet and i invest a considerable > > amount of time working on this issue as part of my work on the > > DPL-Team. others there do so, too. > > Is this the "delegation to teams" it

Re: BTS down?

2005-11-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Gregor Jasny wrote: > >> Bastian Venthur schrieb: > >> > Can somebody confirm that there is a problem with the BTS? > >> > >> I've got the same setup and the same problem. Still no confirmation > >> from bu

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Darren Salt wrote: There is a database where ISPs can register the ranges they assign for dialup users. Isn't that for dynamic-IP dial-up only? AFAIK there are two lists, however only few static dialup IPs are registered -- after all, the interesting attribute is whether the addresse

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Simon Richter may or may not have written... > Rolf Kutz wrote: >>> emails because of obviously nonexistent envelope addresses, that doesn't >>> count those systems where we don't accept mail from *at all* because they >>> are dialup systems. This, however, is a small system with 10

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.11.22.1650 +0100]: > As I'm responsible for most of dpkg-sig's code (and planned to do > some more work in the next two months) I'd like to know if anyone > cares about using these binary signatures or if I can invest my > time into somet

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt writes: > I'd like to know if anyone cares about using these binary signatures I do. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > Get to next debconf and see him actually work with people. > > No need for words. > > did i beat someone up when i was watched? did it get caught on > film, even? (c: ... where did the evidence go? :) --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: what does Enhances *really* mean?

2005-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I thought that Enhances is merely the converse of Suggests, and that it > was invented for situations where it is problematic or inconvenient to > use Suggests directly, as when a main package wishes to suggest a > non-free package. *I* thought it wa

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:41:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] > > I'd like to know if anyone cares about using these binary signatures > > I can not really say if I care or not, as I do not really know what > these binary signatures are. Care to send URL to pa

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 02:18:02AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> If somebody designs and implements (after a suitable architectural >> review) some software to support distributed keyring maintenance in a >> secure, auditable way, it is likely that ca

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] > I'd like to know if anyone cares about using these binary signatures I can not really say if I care or not, as I do not really know what these binary signatures are. Care to send URL to pages explaining the topic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Only a thought that occured to me when reading this: Did you think about how your approach will work once the proposed parallel boot script execution is implemented? Best regards Ben -- Please do not sent any email to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] - all email not originating from the mailing list will be

Re: How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gabor Gombas] > I'm thinking that it would be very useful to redirect stderr to a > file (say /var/log/boot/.error). It happens far too often > that the error message scrolls off the screen, then > fonty/gdm/etc. starts making scrolling back impossible. There are ideas to send boot messages to s

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:57:27AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I don't want to accept any random crap that a forwarding host might send > > me just because I asked it to forward mail for me; my resources (in the > > form of bandwidth, processing ti

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Jaakko Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-22 17:12:00]: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i have not given up that hope yet and i invest a considerable > > > amount of time working on this issue as part of my work on the > >

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't want to accept any random crap that a forwarding host might send > me just because I asked it to forward mail for me; my resources (in the > form of bandwidth, processing time, and disk space) are limited, and if Then don't run a mail server.

dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, Today (or last night, whatever), the dak installation on ftp-master was changed to not accept packages that include more than 3 parts, which are usually the binary version and the compressed control and data tarballs. This means that signed binary packages are rejected. This is not the firs

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-22 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:11:45 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > IMHO pkg-data package should also include an «Enhances: pkg» in > > addition to the suggest. Both fields with some partial string > > matching on the package

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i have not given up that hope yet and i invest a considerable > > amount of time working on this issue as part of my work on the > > DPL-Team. others there do so, too. > > I hope this is true. I rea

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
James Troup writes ("Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time"): > The change was made roughly less than 24 hours before your first post > to debian-devel. There wasn't actually all that much time to contact > you in. You (plural) could have _just_ contacted me and I would have fixed it, as I h

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:56:25PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So if I have my system say `250' to a piece of mail, I'm guaranteeing > > that either I'll bounce it (and get a `250' on the bounce), or that > > some human (me or someone else I know) will

Re: How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:21:37PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > But the problem is that foo may produce output and this will break up the nice > single-line format. I don't mind deverting stdout to /dev/null, but I am > reluctant to divert stderr to /dev/null and error messages will also break up

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:15:50PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Aparently yes. Menu seems to be smart enough for that, see other > > mails. Bad example, sorry. But manpages certainly aren't. > > Well, being able to read t

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Bloom
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "=?iso-8859-15?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I meantioned one solution. There is another possible one: source uploads. >>And no, I don't think it would cause more breakages than nowdays because >>uploading sources only doesn't meant package

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-22 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Aparently yes. Menu seems to be smart enough for that, see other > mails. Bad example, sorry. But manpages certainly aren't. Well, being able to read the documentation (including the man page) of a binary without requiring th

Re: what does Enhances *really* mean?

2005-11-22 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:07:25PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051122 12:58]: > > I thought that Enhances is merely the converse of Suggests, and that it > > was invented for situations where it is problematic or inconvenient to > > use Suggests directly, as

Re: krb5: ABI Issue--confirm your packages work against 1.4.3 in experimental

2005-11-22 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Sam Hartman wrote: I'd appreciate it if you would take the time to see if your package works against the new Kerberos library. The easiest way to do this is to build your package or at least the kerberos using parts of your package against the new libkrb5-dev package and co

Re: too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Orfanos] > I hope I post this to the right list. debian-user is probably the right list, actually. > The delay was not due to lots of new modules, it was clear that the > incremental list of compiled components on the screen was moving up > slow. I remember kernel builds where ultra fas

Re: what does Enhances *really* mean?

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051122 12:58]: > I thought that Enhances is merely the converse of Suggests, and that it > was invented for situations where it is problematic or inconvenient to > use Suggests directly, as when a main package wishes to suggest a > non-free package. > > In wh

what does Enhances *really* mean?

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Enrico Zini] > My hope is that if more people start to use it, then package managers > can start building features with it. I thought that Enhances is merely the converse of Suggests, and that it was invented for situations where it is problematic or inconvenient to use Suggests directly, as whe

too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Orfanos
Hi, I hope I post this to the right list. Last night I tried to build the latest version of Linux kernel 2.6.14-2, on my Debian 3.1. It took me around one hour to build.  I did the build on a system with a Pentium M at 2GHz. I tried also on another machine (3GHz) and it was a few minutes

Not delete symlinks to directories in /var/run/ ?

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
[Please forgive the duplicate, but I first sent this with a useless Subject line.] debian-devel readers: There is a proposal (#272066) that bootclean.sh's cleanrun function not delete symlinks under /var/run/ whose targets are directories. The function already refrains from deleting directories.

How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
In trying to convert the initscripts in the "initscripts" package to use the logging functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions I have run into some problems. Currently there are two sets of functions intended to implement the several kinds of messages normally output by Debian and Ubuntu initscripts.

Re: Bug#272066: Patch?

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
debian-devel readers: There is a proposal (#272066) that bootclean.sh's cleanrun function not delete symlinks under /var/run/ whose targets are directories. The function already refrains from deleting directories. Any objections? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list. Cameron Hutchi

Re: removal syncing among "official" and amd64 archive

2005-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:42:15PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/amd64.debian.net$ madison editex >> editex |0.0.5-6 |stable | source >> editex |0.0.5-6 | unstable | source >> >> As you ca

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > IMHO pkg-data package should also include an «Enhances: pkg» in > addition to the suggest. Both fields with some partial string matching > on the package names could make some frontend realize the kind > of relation between the packages. > > regard

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:26 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> foo depends on foo-data. But foo-data does NOT depend on foo. >> >> So an "apt-get install foo-data", while being useless, is consistent >> for dpkg. After that you would end up with a

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:26:34PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:13:48PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: >> >> Hello Debian developers

Re: BTS down?

2005-11-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Gregor Jasny wrote: >> Bastian Venthur schrieb: >> > Can somebody confirm that there is a problem with the BTS? >> >> I've got the same setup and the same problem. Still no confirmation >> from bugs.debian.org. > > The BTS is currently receiving mail p