Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

[Joey Hess] > Probably making the print server task install it instead of lpr, which > would have a side effect of making sure it's on CD#1 if it's not > already. Probably also demoting the lpr package to optional and moving > cups from there to standard. Possibly making lsb depend on part of cups

Current linux console screen blanking period?

I know it is possible to use 'setterm -blank ' to change the current screen saver timeout value in the linux console. But is it possible to get the current value out of the console? I want to disable the screen saver while some task is being done, and then enable it again with the original value

CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

I believe it would be a good idea if the default print system in the next release of Debian (Sarge) is changed to CUPS. CUPS is a more complete, more userfriendly and RFC complient printing system. http://www.cups.org> Any reason not to change the default?

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

[Tore Anderson] > God, No! There's far too many Debconf questions being asked by > various Debian packages already, IMNSHO. There is no reason for you to get religious over this question. The nice thing about debconf is that there is no _need_ to present all options as questions. One can like n

[custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

As discussed during debcamp in Oslo, all the groups/projects making debian based custom distributions should join together to find common solutions to the common problems. This is a start, with a few of the issues that Skolelinux had and solved. - Automatic installation Using the new debi

Re: Close old RFP/ITPs?

[Andreas Barth] > So I think this is fair enough and if neither the original requester > nor any reader of debian-wnpp sees need for a package it really > doesn't need to be packaged any more. I have several packages which I am interested in getting packaged, but I am neither the requester nor a r

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

[Stephen Stafford] > We have a commitment that everything in Debian main is Free. Since > the RFC license is NOT Free, it can't be in main. This does NOT > imply anything about the usefulness of RFCs, merely about their > Freedom. There seem to be two ways of interpreting the social contract. O

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña] > (For those who are not aware of this issue, please read #92810) There seem to be someone believing that standard documents should be treated as software. Standards are not software. Standards do not improve if everyone is allowed to modify them and publish the

Status of testing migration is improving

Some of you might remember my script to summarize the excuses list for package migration from sid to testing. I've posted it twice already. The updated list is available from http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff-all.html.gz>. The situation is a lot better now then it was in apr

Re: /etc/hostname

[Nikita V. Youshchenko] > Should /etc/hostname contain only short hostname, or FQDN name? > Is this documented anywhere? I prefer the FQDN as hostname. It make it easier to report the correct name in scripts when administrating large installations. Some unix-types do not handle FQDN as hostname,

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

[Tollef Fog Heen] > So, why do you think having a more even distribution is a good > thing? Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, and many with less "load". People with high load are more likely to burn out and disappear. It is thus better to have more people with l

Re: Debian MIA check

[James Troup] > Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I forwarded this email to his other address, which I came across in a mail from a common friend of our.

Re: autobuild request: make config.log available

[Derek Atkins] > In particular, part of the problem appears to happen during the > configure phase. In order to debug the configuration problem > I need access to the config.log during the failed build process. This can be fixed in the package build script (debian/rules). Just call configure lik

Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

I just ran some stats on my APT sources (mostly Woody), and discovered that the distribution of number of packages per developer is very uneven. This is the histogram of developers with the specific number of packages they maintain: Packages Developers 1 239 2 128

Re: Getting hostname

[Matt Zimmerman] >> a) Can I get the hostname in my shell script another way (this could be a >> question for this list)? > > getent hosts foo.bar.baz getent is available on Linux and Solaris (7 and 8). It is not available on Tru64 Unix 5.2, Irix 6.5.15, Mac OS X 10.2, HP-UX (11.00 and 11.22) an

Re: Debian MIA check

[James Troup] > On the 12th March I sent out a maintainer ping to 191 possibly > inactive Debian developers. The list of developers was generated by > looking first at all maintainers who didn't have a source package > signed by (one of) their key(s) in unstable and then excluding from > that anyo

Updated package diff stats for testing/unstable

http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff-all.html.gz> Statistics from update_excuses.html generated 2003.04.21 23:32:16 +. - 2274 packages total. - 2269 packages with differences. - 1106 valid packages. - 365 buggy packages. - 1634 packages over age. - 570 pac

Re: Debian Usability Research

[Enrico Zini] > What would a Debian Usability project do? What about looking at the new installer, and give suggestions to how it can be made easier to understand and user for new users?

Re: ElectricFence question

[Ravindra Sunkad] > I'm am trying to debug a memory corruption problem using > ElectricFence 2.1 on Linux I believe valgrind is better for this. Check out http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/>. Sorry, but I do not know anything about your mmap problem.

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

[Matthew Wilcox] > I got sick of listening to people discuss the gcc 3.2 transition in an > uninformed manner. So I've whipped up a transition plan which will > hopefully get us from A to B without causing too much pain. Haha. > I'm entirely fallible and I don't pretend to understand all the issu

Re: exim or postfix for home modem user?

[Rob Bradford] > Well, yeh but thats relatively recent. And exim does have eximconfig > which does work even if it isnt pretty. It does not work well if you want install the packages automatically on several hosts while supplying the configuration answers using debconf. I hope it will soon. :-)

Where is gpm v1.19.6-12 for powerpc?

The gpm v1.19.6-12 binary was built for powerpc on voltaire 2002-03-23, but it is still missing from the archive. Anyone know why this binary is missing? Check http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff.html.gz> and http://auric.debian.org/~pb/shame/powerpc.html> for the latest statu

Some missing packages (built, but not uploaded?)

The dillo and gpm packages are missing some binaries. The dillo binary for ia64 was built on 2002-03-22, but is still missing from the archive. The gpm binary for powerpc was built on 2002-03-23, but is also missing from the archive. Could someone have a look to find find out what happened. -

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

[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: OpenPKG vs. APT

[Joerg Wendland] >> If you run stable, use aptwatcher >> (http://people.debian.org/~lowe/aptwatcher) and each box will mail you >> when you need to do something to it. > > Nice tool, seems to be going into some crontabs :-) Is there any deb available for it?

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

[Mark Brown] > You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by > calling db_stop. debconf causes child processes to have an extra > file descriptor open and waits for these to be closed before exiting > and the daemon doesn't know it has this file open so doesn't close > it. Is

Re: forking packages and private archive

[Peter Jordan] > I am not sure if I should create my own installer package > (non-interactive) using debian-installer and a forked rootskel [...] This sounds interesting and highly relevant to the work I'm currently doing. Do you have a complete automatic non-interactive installation working? Pl

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

Still no fam in Woody

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 (>= 1:3.0.3-0pre011215) ['gcc-3.0'] * Valid candi

Re: X autoconf

[Sergio Rua] > I've a python script to autoconfigure X. It tries to configure > your X server using FrameBuffer. If it's not available, using > "XFree -configure" option detect and configure your X. This sounds like a very good idea. How do you pass the configuration informatio

Re: Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian

[Thomas Hood] > A master plan does not entail having a master tool, however. Debian could use kudzu or harddrake to automatically adapt to HW configuration changes. There is some work needed to get these to do sensible things with the HW detected (on Debian that is), but both being able to detec

Re: 2 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

[Martinf] > For further explanation please check the detailed report at > . Is the security problem with libc glob() present i Potato? According to http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-160.html>, the bug is present in 2.2.4, and according to http:/

Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

[Mikael Hedin] > checking whether the C++ compiler (g++-3.0 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -O2 ) is a > cross-compiler... yes If the compile host fails to run it's fresly compiled hello world program, it is assumed to be a cross comiler. The config.log file would tell you why.

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