Bug#314311: NMU alright? (was: Re: debootstrap: Draft patch for setup_{proc,devices} handling on GNU/Hurd)

2005-12-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:52:46PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I think this patch is now good to go in, what do you think? Are you OK with an NMU for this and the one in #314304? Just make absolutely sure it doesn't break Linux installs; otherwise NMU now and if there're problems I'll whine at

Bug#327712: debootstrap: Fail bootstrapping a working sarge

2005-10-23 Thread Anthony Towns
tag 327712 + moreinfo thanks Hi Guido, I tried bootstrapping sarge with the new debootstrap, and even if the bootstrapping itself is successful the resulting system fails to boot. (I tried to boot it under the xen vmm). In particular after starting cron the system hangs and starts

Bug#204652: incompatible license requirements (GPL)

2005-10-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:54:18PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: Please tell me, why you completly removed fakechroot support? My patches were never released under GPL license [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/P/debootstrap/0.3.1.9$ grep GPL * functions:# (c) 2003-2005 Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Bug#334263: category feature broken/disabled?

2005-10-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:52:08AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: Package: bugs.debian.org When trying to use the new dynamic categorization feature, each url I tried would cause an Internal Server Error. For example:

Bug#402772: bug 402772: downgrade mplayer bug 395252 (for including mplayer in etch)

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:01:58AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Actually, I think we should refuse dealing with the issue now, because according to Don (wearing [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat) the decision whether a bug is RC or not is done by the release team, not the maintainer - and the release team

Bug#402693: Apollon doesn't start saying that there's no libapollon.so.0

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
The debian/rules script removes libapollon.so.0 during installation claiming that it is statically linked. These bug reports suggest that it is _not_ statically linked and therefore necessary. I attach a patch which just leaves the library file in the apollon package; NMU debs and source with

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
This bug seems to only occur for the posix format tar archives. It's repeatable outside the tar test suite by doing: #!/bin/sh export TAR_OPTIONS=-H posix --pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f echo hello file1 echo goodbye file2 while :; do tar cf archive.1 file1 file2 tar cfT

Bug#403023: angrydd: big crystal unlock at 25 crystals not 16

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: angrydd Version: 1.0.1-3 Severity: normal From unlocker.py: By breaking a crystal of over 16 gems, you've unlocked two more characters - The Yuniks brothers. Both encourage a very unique style of attacks. Go check them out.) From game.py: if

Bug#402975: debian-policy: Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf templates

2006-12-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:33:51PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: + Packages which use the Debian Configuration management + specification must allow for translation of their messages + by using a gettext-based system such as the one provided by + the

Bug#401354: package includes undistributable/non-free images

2006-12-03 Thread Anthony Towns
tag 401354 + confirmed retitle 401354 mailscanner: includes undistributable/non-free images thanks As well as the transtec logos which may or may not be distributable (given they're a sponsor of mailscanner), the package also includes some other logos (Google and O'Reilly) and a Dilbert cartoon

Bug#6786: Mirror split stuff

2006-01-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:44:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: rsync -av --progress --delay-updates -a --files-from :indices/files/arch-i386.files \ --delete --delete-after --max-delete=1000 \ rsync://MIRROR/debian/ ./ The file list currently

Bug#458939: allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:07:15PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: There are already mirrors which allow indexing, and you can use the BTS's own search engine which is far superior to gooogle [...] Uh, you're kidding right? The BTS's own search engine won't turn up hits outside the BTS, as a

Bug#458939: allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:58:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Getting smarturl.cgi properly done is still probably the real solution. Okay, so I've made smaturl.cgi work again; it was broken by: - Debbugs::CGI not accepting params from ARGV (smarturl.cgi changed to set QUERY_STRING

Bug#458939: allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:54:32PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: Uh, you're kidding right? The BTS's own search engine won't turn up hits outside the BTS, as a trivial example... It's far superior to google for searching for results *in* the BTS

Bug#458939: allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:58:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Disallow: /*/ # exclude everything but the shortcuts Allow: /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug= Allow: /cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=*;dist=unstable$ I've set that up on rietz for Googlebot, we'll see if it works ok. I

Bug#452011: Advocate DM: Asheesh Laroia

2007-11-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: I advocate Asheesh Laroia as a DM. I've been reviewing and uploading Asheesh's packages for sometime now and he already done a great job for Debian already and will continue to do so a sa DM. Could people advocating DMs (or

Bug#441200: libconfig name clash

2007-11-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:25:02PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: [Option D:] (1) The existing libconfig in Debian may retain its name. The maintainer of that package writes: ] Here's my argument(s). I'll try to keep it short: ] ] a) First come, first serve. I'm both the upstream author and

Bug#431891: status of DDTP and ftp mirror synchronization?

2007-12-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:50:52PM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: I'm still not entirely comfortable with having something outside of ftpmaster determine which translations should be in which suites, but that's something that'll probably need changes in apt-ftparchive to improve,

Bug#431891: status of DDTP and ftp mirror synchronization?

2007-12-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 10:23:50AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: The package, .dsc and byhand-ddtp are here: http://people.debian.org/~faw/ddtp/ (I haven't looked at this yet) Some doubts appear in the process, while writing the byhand I realize that you (or other

Bug#438179: Processed: destruction of round-robin functionality is fucking up our mirrors and making Debian suck for many people, hence fixing this is a release-critical wish

2007-12-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:45:37AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: After around 11 hours, we've had: * villa 4.29 MB/s * lobos 3.91 MB/s * steffani 14.86 MB/s The rule9 prediction was: A: 000.000.000.000-127.255.255.255: steffani, villa, lobos B: 128.000.000.000-191.255.255.255: steffani C:

Bug#431891: status of DDTP and ftp mirror synchronization?

2007-12-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 10:23:50AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: I finished working on the scripts that will generate the files, we add some tests during the package build to reduce the checks on the archive side. The package, .dsc and byhand-ddtp are here:

Bug#456918: Please apply patchseries for ifupdown in experimental

2007-12-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:53:25PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: Here's a bunch of patches to improve ifupdown 0.7~alpha2 (the current version in experimental). +Depends: net-tools, iproute (= 20071016-1), [...] iproute (20071016-1) unstable; urgency=low ... [ Alexander Wirt ] * Add

Bug#456918: one more patch for experimental ifupdown - restore hwaddress.

2007-12-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:51:08PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: Here's an additional patch on top of the previous in the series. It restores backwards compatability for the hwaddress option (and drops the new lladdress option that was invented for the new syntax). Ah, I don't think I can

Bug#449542: equivs: Option to include file contents inline

2007-11-13 Thread Anthony Towns
support for in place +specification of postinst and other maintainer scripts. + + -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:32:33 +1000 + equivs (2.0.7-0.0aj1) unstable; urgency=low * An unuploaded NMU. diff -Nurb equivs-2.0.7-0.0aj1/usr/bin/equivs-build equivs-2.0.7-0.0aj3/usr

Bug#454461: [D-m-team] Bug#454461: Bug#454461: debian-maintainers: package name does not match GR

2007-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
severity 454461 wishlist thanks On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:27:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Martin Wuertele wrote: Please change the name to debian-maintainers-keyring to match the keyring namespace as used by the following packages: debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring

Bug#432564: Allow debian/rules to not be a makefile

2007-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:42:03PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: I also could have sworn that we recently tightened this requirement, but I can find no mention of that in changelog with some quick searches. Am I just imagining things? It was tightened

Bug#432564: Allow debian/rules to not be a makefile

2007-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:31:50PM +0100, Lo?c Minier wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: Regardless, even requiring debian/rules to be a makefile doesn't actually do much, because someone could do something like: .DEFAULT: debian/irule $@ or whatever. People

Bug#431891: status of DDTP and ftp mirror synchronization?

2007-12-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:39:34AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: If I'm not wrong, Anthony did the first upload of the Translation files, I'm cc:ing him, he probably can add more info on that. I think we could use the BYHAND to upload Translation files having

Bug#293096: bash: patch for DOTPATH

2005-01-31 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: bash Version: 3.0-13 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, as per discussion on -devel, it'd be nice if you could set $DOTPATH to tell . to search for shell snippets that don't need to be on the PATH. ie, $ cd $ mkdir snippets $ echo 'f () { echo hello, world; }' snippets/hello.sh $

Bug#296115: ifupdown: [patch] Port to non-linux

2005-02-20 Thread Anthony Towns
Michael Banck wrote: the following patch makes ifupdown installable on GNU/Hurd and (supposedly) GNU/k*BSD. net-tools is not available for those arches (and inetutils-tools is not quite there yet). Also, the test suite fails on hurd-i386, Err, then the test suite needs to be fixed to work on hurd.

Bug#62529: On dpkg support for binary recompilations

2005-03-11 Thread Anthony Towns
Scott James Remnant wrote: Source: banana Package: banana Architecture: any Depends: libbanana0 (= ${Source-Version}) Package: libbanana0 Architecture: any Depends: libbanana-common (= ${Source-Version}) Package:

Bug#183995: NMU to make netkit-base use po-debconf

2005-03-16 Thread Anthony Towns
Lucas Wall wrote: As announced in a previous mail sent to this bug I will now upload my NMU to DELAY-2 queue. Attached to this mail you can find the patch with all my changes. Looks fine here, I'd suggest skipping the DELAY queue. Cheers, aj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#302519: ifupdown: postinst fails if /dev/shm/network/ does not exist

2005-04-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Stefan Kluth wrote: Setting up ifupdown (0.6.4-4.12) ... ifupdown.postinst: Error: The canonical path of /etc/network/run could not be determined. Aborting. After googling for a few minutes I found that $ mkdir /dev/shm/network I believe I had some weird, unreproducible, behaviour from

Bug#303656: ifupdown: can't write /etc/network/run/ifstate no space left on device

2005-04-08 Thread Anthony Towns
mike at dst wrote: Preparing to replace ifupdown 0.6.6 (using ifupdown_0.6.6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ifupdown ... Setting up ifupdown (0.6.6) ... Moving /etc/network/ifstate to /etc/network/run/ifstate mv: writing `/etc/network/run/ifstate': No space left on device dpkg: error

Bug#303874: --exclude deprecated?

2005-04-09 Thread Anthony Towns
Thomas Hood wrote: * Deprecate (undocument) --exclude option. The exclude feature is being used by netbase to exclude lo from the list of interfaces to deconfigure at shutdown time. Does the deprecation of --exclude imply that the allow feature should be used instead? I.e., should netbase do

Bug#303161: ifupdown-clean should delete net.enable

2005-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
reassign 303161 hotplug retitle 303161 hotplug should delete net.enable thanks To fix the crash case, please delete the file net.enable too in ifupdown-clean. Err, what? Hotplug creates the file, hotplug should clean it up. If hotplug needs to change that file at some point, you shouldn't need

Bug#106039: use google to search the BTS?

2005-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
Matt Taggart wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/robots.txt effectively preventing such searches. I'm sure there is a good reason that restriction was added, but it's pretty universal. If it was a case of abuse, maybe we can loosen it up so that well behaved search engines are allowed? The reason is

Bug#128818: partial patches - server application

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Towns
Andreas Barth wrote: with ideas and code (and a lot more) from Anthony, I was able to put together the server part for partial patches in a way that it seems to me that it might be included in dak. The resulting files are available from deb http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian sid main contrib

Bug#435743: qa.debian.org: Link for NEW packages returns 404

2007-08-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:01:07PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: This link is now there. I guess the problem is that that page is not generated as often as the DDPO is updated. The pages are updated daily at 00:09 UTC, fwiw. Anthony, would it be possible to generate that page when a new

Bug#438179: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:33:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Anthony Towns writes (Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order): I'm not familiar with how getaddrinfo() has been implemented in the past I think this is an important point. If you're not familiar with the history then perhaps I can

Bug#438179: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:41:45PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:03:51AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: So if getaddrinfo() has always behaved in this way, I don't see a great deal of justification in changing it. [...] glibc is the only implementation I know of that does

Bug#438179: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:18:40PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: There are only three possibilities: (a) It is correct that the behaviour of applications (and hence of hosts) should be changed to comply with rule 9. (b) Application behaviour should not change; getaddrinfo should behave

Bug#438179: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:19:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So do you have a use case where you think the behavior described in rule 9 *is* desirable? Any application written assuming this behaviour, works correctly on Windows, Solaris, *BSD and glibc based systems in general, but not on

Bug#438179: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:21:58AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:07:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:19:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So do you have a use case where you think the behavior described in rule 9 *is* desirable? Any

Bug#360066: sudo fails to lookup hostname if it contains a hyphen (-)

2007-10-14 Thread Anthony Towns
tag 360066 unreproducible thanks I think this is actually due to a typo on the submitter's behalf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ps sudo: unable to lookup az-svr-01 via gethostbyname() PID TTY TIME CMD 12302 pts/000:00:00 ps If I change the hostname to azsrv01 sudo is silent

Bug#435058: ITP: smolt -- Fedora hardware profiler

2007-07-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:25:58AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:28:46PM -0400, Ricky Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ricky Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: smolt Version : 0.9.8.3 Upstream Author

Bug#438179: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:06:06AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: It's atleast in the spirit of the rfc to prefer one that's on the local network. It might be the intention of rule 9, but then rule 9 isn't very well written. Rule 9 seems perfectly well written, it just does something you

Bug#438179: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:06:40AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Does anyone have an answer to my point that application of rule 9 changes the long-established meaning of existing DNS data ? I'm not familiar with how getaddrinfo() has been implemented in the past -- but I think it makes more sense

Bug#439607: FWD: breaks debootstrap on ia64, d-i release blocker

2007-09-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:03:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Please fix this immediately. Having debootstrap and thus all current sid installs include gosmore and all its dependencies (including gpsd!!) is a horrible bug, and it's breaking debootstrap entirely on at least ia64. Overrides

Bug#385623: Processed: reopening 385623

2007-10-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:28:23AM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote: I guess you're reopening of this bug is related to the UNACCEPT messages that I got. I am still in the dark about that. Could you please let me know what is wrong and what I might need to do to fix it? There was some internal

Bug#438179: getaddrinfo() behaviour

2007-09-28 Thread Anthony Towns
So here's my understanding of where we're at. First, fact finding. Everything here should be able to be agreed by everyone. getaddrinfo() is a new interface that replaces gethostbyname(). It hasn't different semantics that are intended to make it superior to gethostbyname() and other functions,

Bug#449542: equivs: option to add additional files to a package

2007-11-06 Thread Anthony Towns
to include actual files by +specifying a Files: section that contains src /path/to/dest +lines. + * Update Standards-Version. + * Change debhelper to Build-Depends: for availability in clean target. + + -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:41:29 +1000 + equivs (2.0.7) unstable

Bug#410666: update-notifier doesn't work with apt-secure

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Towns
retitle 410666 update-notifier doesn't work with apt-secure tag 410666 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks Hi Alfie, AFAICS, update-notifier/update-manager just uses regular python-apt to handle all this stuff, which should go through the same code path as aptitude and apt-get. Unless you've got

Bug#410666: update-notifier doesn't work with apt-secure

2007-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:44:29PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2007-02-28 14:46]: AFAICS, update-notifier/update-manager just uses regular python-apt to handle all this stuff, which should go through the same code path as aptitude and apt-get. Unless

Bug#411953: emacs-lisp-intro: The package has an invariant section

2007-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
tag 411953 + confirmed thanks Hi, I emailed Richard Stallman (FSF) and Robert Chassell (the original author). Robert replied that he considered the Preface to be a secondary section because it described how he thought of his audience; but that he didn't really care; Richard replied that he

Bug#411953: emacs-lisp-intro: The package has an invariant section

2007-03-03 Thread Anthony Towns
FWIW, I've uploaded an NMU moving this to non-free. It'll need NEW processing (by someone else) before hitting the archive. Cheers, aj signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#369797: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports

2007-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:50:24AM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: seems to list under three DDs actively involved in the port, OK, we miss one more current DD listed here. Yup, though that shouldn't be much of a challenge. The other problem is that the list doesn't seem active, so it's not

Bug#413926: Call for vote: wordpress: Should not ship with Etch

2007-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:27:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [ 2 ] Choice 1: wordpress should not be included in etch due to bug #413269 [ 1 ] Choice 2: wordpress should be included in etch in spite of bug #413269 [

Bug#353277: Call for vote: ndiswrapper: Move to contrib

2007-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:16:52AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: - - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [ 2 ] Choice 1: ndiswrapper should move to contrib as per bugs #353277, #353278 [ 1 ] Choice 2: ndiswrapper should remain in main despite bugs #353277,

Bug#385665: Call for vote: fluidsynth: Move to contrib

2007-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:18:49AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: - - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [ 2 ] Choice 1: fluidsynth should move to contrib as per bug #385665 [ 1 ] Choice 2: fluidsynth should remain in main despite bug #385665 [ 3 ] Choice 3:

Bug#413926: wordpress: Should not ship with Etch

2007-03-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:30:14AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: However, on closer examination, the source data that Neil used here (svn://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing/data/CVE/list) covers *all* historical CVEs dating back to 1999. This means that, while the history for phpbb2 and

Bug#341839: Call for vote: coreutils: md5sum output format

2007-06-14 Thread Anthony Towns
] Choice 3: Further discussion - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This horse has bolted already. ] * Don't worry if md5sum from stdin adds a - after the md5sum. Should ] make debootstrap more usable on non-Debian Linuxes. ] -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL

Bug#418956: etch-proposed-updates amd64 Release file fails checksum [Was: possible problem with ftp.us.debian.org]

2007-06-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:57:46PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: More than a month ago I filed a bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418956 Sorry about that, fixed now. (The daily regeneration of the Release files wasn't working because the dak script wasn't noticing

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:45:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modified versions of dcraw.c as required by the DFSG. I don't agree with you here. It seems to me that we do have permission to

Bug#367709: Call for vote: gcc: requesting libstdc++.udeb

2007-06-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:09:46AM +0100, Bdale Garbee wrote: The udeb structure was invented for debian-installer, and to date Debian has not supported the use of udebs for any other purpose. (With ftpmaster hat: I would expect non d-i uses of udebs to be in a different section of the archive

Bug#417861: Did not set wishlist severity

2007-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:45:27PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Am 05.04.2007 03:51 schrieb Charles Plessy: I used reportbug-ng to send a wishlist bug, but it appears with the Normal ones. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417581 Hmm, I see what you mean, the BTS seems to

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:08:04PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: * Package name: rpmstrap Version : 0.5 * URL : http://hackers.progeny.com/~sam/rpmstrap/ * License : GPL Description : bootstrap a basic RPM-based system rpmstrap is a tool for

Bug#274705: mv: --reply doesn't work

2005-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
tag 274705 + patch thanks So the relevant code seems to be in src/copy.c, where it checks if --reply=no was set _and_ the file isn't overwritable; or if -i was set, or if no option was given and the file isn't overwritable. So --reply=no has an effect when you do: touch a b chmod

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Anthony Towns
seem to copy quite a bit from debootstrap anyway. For instance, debootstrap's copyright says: ] It was written from scratch for Debian by Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] based loosely on the code for constructing base tarballs as part of the ] boot-floppies package. and I think you'll find

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:41:26AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Looking at rpmstrap-0.1, we see the following code for handling options: Also copied was debootstrap's --arch and --include handling; even duplicating the bug where you have to say --arch i386 (with a space) and --include=foo,bar

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 06:00:07PM +, Sam Hart wrote: Ok, I went back to the source of the problem. Back in Feb 2005 there was some development done in IRC between myself and another contributor. [...] I have since confronted him on this and he admits that the code was from an ancient

Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-08-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:16:55PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Christoph Berg wrote: I'd like to have a debian-planet list that would receive blog postings from planet.debian.org While I agree that an archive of Planet Debian is desirable, I'm not sure this is the way to go. I'm

Bug#313065: base-files: please change awk dependency to mawk|awk

2005-06-11 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: base-files Version: 3.1.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, It'd be helpful if base-files' awk dependency was of the form mawk | awk to make it possible for really naive dependency resolvers to work out what should be in essential/required correctly. I'd like this for debootstrap. The only other

Bug#24564: Are we ever going to support the static pages again?

2005-08-02 Thread Anthony Towns
Don Armstrong wrote: Are we ever planning on supporting the static pages again? Should we just shoot them and put them out of their misery permanently? If we do ever support them, it probably makes sense to regenerate them by doing: lock-bts # updated changed bugs find spool/db-h

Bug#428084: Announce of the upcoming NMU for the ifupdown package

2008-04-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:26:32AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: I announced the intent to build and possibly upload a non-maintainer upload for this package in order to fix this long-time pending localization bug as well as all other pending translations. Ack, do it. AFAICS your patch

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:46:53AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: But nasm requires such assembly for useful execution! Dude, you're on crack. First, there's apparently free software in main that you can compile with nasm to your heart's content, namely crystalspace, drip, e3, effectv, extipl,

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:59:07AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: Anthony Towns writes: But even if that weren't the case, nasm is an assembler -- it doesn't rely on assembler code to do anything useful, its purpose is to translate assembler code. ndiswrapper isn't a driver compiler, it's

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I see. From http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ : CIPE-Win32 is a port of Olaf Titz's CIPE package from Linux to Windows NT. I think this is the cipe-source package in debian. If this driver is already

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:36:13PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I requested that ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-modules-i386 be moved to contrib. ndiswrapper is a program to allow users to load Windows drivers for their hardware and use them on Linux. The drivers are executed on the main CPU; there

Bug#291338: apt: md5/sha1 checksum routines should work if length of file is unknown

2005-01-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch SHA1Summation::AddFD should work on pipes as well as regular files so files don't need to be uncompressed to disk to be summed. This impacts python-apt too, since it doesn't offer a cumulative interface to SHA1Summation. Easy fix seems

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:02:45AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: He said (in private) that the the way i communicated had nothing to do with it, and i understand that this is exactly what is reproached to me in this whole mess, so i have no idea what is reproached to me here. Communications

Bug#342455: #342455

2006-02-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:48:25PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: It's also inconsistent over time on many single machines. I agree that the current situation is unsatisfactory. But I think (at the moment, at least) that it should be fixed by adopting Bastian's code fragments with an appropriate

Bug#342455: #342455

2006-02-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 04:47:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:33:34PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 2/10/06, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... follow-up to self: given that crypt-dm sits on top of devmapper, it is indeed plausible that one would want

Bug#353277: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-03-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:43:45PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: Of course, I can be convinced that the constitution does give the ctte that power, but so far, I am not. Otherwise, why didn't we pose to the ctte a request for how the

Bug#345067: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this.

2006-03-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:03:17AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Subject: Re: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this. reassign 345067 tech-ctte

Bug#345067: jonas, you are being dishonest.

2006-03-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:15:56PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I am severly disapointed with you, and you are a liar by claiming that i Sven, there is no need to call anyone a liar. Cheers, aj signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#345067: ide-generic on poweprc

2006-03-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:35:59PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/7/06, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:20:31PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Please see http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxKernelIdeProblem that I created today and have invited the kernel team and

Bug#62529: [DPKG-GENCHANGES] [DPKG-GENCONTROL] Support binary recompilations with different version

2006-06-13 Thread Anthony Towns
reopen 62529 thanks I consider this bug closed with the following past changes: dpkg (1.13.19) unstable; urgency=low ... [ Guillem Jover ] * Add new substvars source:Version, source:Upstream-Version and binary:Version so packages will be able to avoid breaking on binNMUs.

Bug#330871: boa should check for sendfile() returning ENOSYS

2006-07-03 Thread Anthony Towns
2006-07-03 12:44:46.0 + @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +boa (0.94.14rc20-1.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non Maintainer Upload + * pipe.c: Just use io_request() if sendfile() returns ENOSYS (closes: +Bug#330871) + + -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 3 Jul 2006 08:43:40 -0400

Bug#376777: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive fails to generate Contents files

2006-07-05 Thread Anthony Towns
package apt-utils tag 376777 - help tag 376777 + patch thanks I'm pretty sure this bug is simply due to misuse of auto_ptr in writer.cc (causing old auto_ptr's not to be freed properly or similar which then causes breakage after a few have built up). This is probably my fault; the fix is just:

Bug#376777: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive fails to generate Contents files

2006-07-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:31:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: package apt-utils tag 376777 - help tag 376777 + patch thanks I'm pretty sure this bug is simply due to misuse of auto_ptr in writer.cc Okay, I've no idea if this is right or not now; but it's not the real bug; and if it were

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-06-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:02:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: 3. Access controls to source code repositories are not something in the regular domain of the Technical Committee. However, in this case the decision was delegated by the Project Leader to the Technical Committee as

Bug#379576: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive clean doesn't work due to cachedb format change

2006-07-24 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: apt-utils Version: 0.6.44.2 Severity: important Tags: patch The Clean() function in ftparchive/cachedb.cc wasn't changed to match the new format of the cachedb databases in 0.6.44. It's cleaning everything but records matching type:filename where type is one of st, cn or cl, and filename

Bug#474651: Fwd: Re: Bug#474651: debootstrap: W: Failure trying to run: chroot /sid

2008-04-18 Thread Anthony Towns
reopen 474651 thanks On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:06:48PM +0200, Peter Walser wrote: It is reproducable and it's just whith: $ fakeroot -s fakechroot.save \ fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot \ sid /sid http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ Turns out it's reproducible with ]

Bug#469148: closed by Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#469148: bugs.debian.org: bug marked as resolved when it is not in any version)

2008-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:51:10PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008, Colin Watson wrote: Yes, I know - I meant conceptually rather than in detail. notfixed should not leave the bug in a fixed/done-type state. The problem is that giving it side effects (reopening the bug) means

Bug#469148: closed by Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#469148: bugs.debian.org: bug marked as resolved when it is not in any version)

2008-03-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:55:29PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:01:00PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:57:25PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Blink. Is that a typo? notfixed should be, if

Bug#474553: jetring-gen support for updating keys

2008-04-06 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: jetring Version: 0.12 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The following changes Action: import to Action: import --import-options=merge-only for patches that just modify a key, and introduces a Key-Info: section to make it easier to find a changeset just by grepping. For checking keyservers

Bug#474552: jetring: debian/copyright incomplete?

2008-04-06 Thread Anthony Towns
/jetring-diff ] #!/usr/bin/perl -w ] ] # Copyright (c) 2007 Anthony Towns ] # GNU GPL; v2 or later Cheers, aj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#474553: jetring-gen support for updating keys

2008-04-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:19:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: and introduces a Key-Info: section to make it easier to find a changeset just by grepping. Some overlap with d-m keycheck info, though I don't think I've ever grepped that. Opaque files just bother me. If you have a use case that

Bug#474553: jetring-gen support for updating keys

2008-04-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:45:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: FWIW, attached is something that'll take a directory of changesets (.) and either die with an error if there's a problem, or print out the order they should be applied in. *sigh* Cheers, aj #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my

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