Re: Trying to understand "updating orbit2 makes 79 packages unintallable ..."

2003-11-10 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:24:05PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the reason why orbit2 is blocked from testing, I can only guess, but I think it is because of orbit2's conflict with liblinc-dev. I would really like to see ORBit2 2.8 to go into testing, since I plan to remove t

Re: unicode

2003-07-24 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:11:46PM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > Is Debian aims to be unicode compatible system? Not officially, although I think that this is a worthwhile goal and there are various efforts that try to bring Debian a little bit closer to ubiquitous Unicode support. > If y

Re: Qt3 still broken (compat-headers), what to do?

2003-07-13 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:51:07PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > It seems then that our options are as follows. > > (i) Wait for the Qt maintainers to upload a fix. > (ii) Do an NMU for Qt, despite the fact that this bug is not release-critical. > (iii) Resort to the technical committee. > (iv) Keep

Re: Qt3 still broken (compat-headers), what to do?

2003-07-13 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 12:14:52AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Bah, the Technical Committee takes months, sometimes over a year, to do > something even as seemingly uncontroversial as voting in opposition to > whichever solution Branden Robinson proposes. So? This is more than enough time. T

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-08 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:57:40AM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > Il mar, 2003-07-08 alle 11:11, Sebastian Rittau ha scritto: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:36:22PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > 100 million users > > > 1000 installations > >

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-08 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:36:22PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > General > Debian > 1 project >10 architectures > 100 countries > 1000 maintainers > 1 packages >10 bug fixed > 100 million users > 1000 installations I would recommend to ex

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-04 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > But how far goes clause 4? Obviously not that far that Debian > includes Java (for rather complete values of "Java", which seems to > imply a certain proprietary implementation at the moment). Which non-free Java implementations a

Re: Debconf or not debconf : Conclusion

2003-07-03 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:17:50PM +0200, Julien LEMOINE wrote: > Finally, since there is not really a policy about when to use debconf, > I will respect the DFSG [1] and add a debconf warning [2] in the > stunnel package. [...] > [1] "4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software "

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-03 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:00:47PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 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 modified > version as an

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:41:13PM +0200, Julien LEMOINE wrote: > Not exactly, there is a variable ENABLED which is set to 0 at installation. > So > the service will not start while variable is not set to 1. So, just set the variable to 1 if upgrading from a version earlier than that in which y

Re: Bug#195426: O: multi-gnome-terminal -- Enhanced the GNOME Terminal

2003-05-30 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 03:34:50AM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2003 17:25:15 +0200, > >>>>> "SR" == Sebastian Rittau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SR> Is there anything that multi-gnome-terminal can do that the current

Re: Bug#195426: O: multi-gnome-terminal -- Enhanced the GNOME Terminal

2003-05-30 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:00:13AM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: > I'm orphaning multi-gnome-terminal package now, because I > don't use it at this point, and I have no enough time to > maintain such package. presumably there might be the > appropriate DD than me to maintain this package. Is there an

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-02 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:06:20PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > The NMU was made before I was in any way contacted. Would you please stop bitching, you're getting on my nerves. Except you nearly nobody sees this as a problem. If you're not able to maintain your packages properly and in a timely

Re: Should we customize apps for a common "debian-look"?

2002-08-31 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Redhat seems to be going to use a common look for their desktops (GNOME > as well as KDE) in their new beta featuring a new icon set. > Check out the screenshots at > http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=616&mode=&order=0

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-10 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:49:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Jeroen Dekkers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Isn't the goal of Debian > > providing a free system so users don't have to run any non-free > > software anymore? > > No, no, nonono, no, no, no. Yes, of course. That's one of Debian

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Given that gcc, binutils, and KDE are in main, it would seem that the > status quo and the DFSG are in conflict, or the status quo and someone's > interpretation of the DFSG are in conflict at least. As far as I can see neither the g

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:05:45AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:54:40PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > I don't know. Call me an optimist, but I seem to be hearing a rough > > consensus. > > [...] And you, and another group of people, see to think that Debian > should

Re: ITP: rootkit - a Ro0Tk1t 4 Deb1an boxxxen

2002-04-02 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:56:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > But rootkits "are only likely to be useful if you already know what > > they are or have specialised requirements". > > Ah, but useful to whom? It is clearly in the best interest of some of > our users for a root

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:21:32PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > - for each ITP, we need at least 2 developers that will maintain the > package, they both subscribe to the package, one is the official > maintainer, the other is listed in the Uploaders: field. This may work with larger packa

Re: ideas about how to package something

2001-09-06 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:50:56PM -0400, Brandon L. Griffith wrote: > Should I package each plugin seperately or make one large > openverse-plugins.deb? I would package them according to their size and external dependencies. For example, I would package the plugin that requires dict separately,

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:53:06PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > "Scott Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The > >changelog explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar. > > I don't see the reasoning in the changelog, but

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:55:11AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I'm in real trouble with apt-get and a squid proxy. We've got the same problem when using apt via Squid via a broken IBM proxy. (Apt connects to the Squid proxy, which has the proxies of the German provider T-Online as its only and