Bug#309279: whereami: ESSID problems with testap/testssid

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:42 +0200, Peter Koellner wrote: found a number of problems with testap/testssid: Please, don't file multiple bugs under a single report: it makes it difficult for me to track whether things are fixed, and to relate conversations about a particular issue. - iwlist

Bug#345906: Should support a /usr/local/share/whereami/tests directory for locally crafted tests

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 08:32 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Package: whereami Version: 0.3.28 Severity: wishlist I currently used several home-crafted scripts for various tests specific to my needs. However, I have to put them in /usr/share/whereami/tests which is not very Debianistic..:-)

Bug#294389: enblend: package ready too

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 01:06 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Hubert Figuiere (the upstream maintainer of gphoto) had made packages for Ubuntu, which he wanted me to submit to Debian for him. He also made a package of hugin (the GUI tool making use of enblend). I made various cleanups to

Bug#339106: whereami: testap has inverted logic for madwifi test

2005-11-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:10 -0500, Steve Pomeroy wrote: Package: whereami Version: 0.3.28 Severity: normal The tests/testap script has two inverted string tests for the madwifi detection. This causes whereami to not bring up the wireless interface properly. Attached is a patch to correct

Bug#400680: RM: dbbalancer -- upstream uncontactable, better alternatives, unmaintainable

2006-11-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi. I'm the maintainer of 'dbbalancer' which has had no upstream work for about 3 years. A better solution exists which is well maintained (PGPool). Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#502273: sarg: Poor file location and naming

2008-10-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
of the actual sarg configuration options! Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-happy (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG

Bug#493687: two removal suggestions awl and gem

2008-09-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
it in is kind of lost without the other software it depends on which didn't make it into testing before the freeze. Cheers, Andrew. Andrew @ McMillan .Net .NZ

Bug#501266: [intl:fr] davical po templates translation

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
a typo. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Bruce Schneier can log into any computer just by staring down the prompt

Bug#460606: fbpanel: Allow option for multiple rows in tasklist / pager

2008-01-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
find that this approach justifies having a slightly taller panel that is still useful when I have many applications open and/or many desktops available. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#456634: closed by Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GSA sentences should be included since 2.36-1)

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
It is indeed working now, and gpsdrive correctly displays my altitude as a result. Thanks very much, Andrew McMillan. On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:15 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which

Bug#452357: xserver-xorg-video-intel: 945GM always crashes within 10 seconds of login

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
it. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- Package-specific info: /var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist. /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-09-04 07:26 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1672732 2007-11-20 13:03 /usr/bin/Xorg Contents

Bug#452357: xserver-xorg-video-intel: 945GM always crashes within 10 seconds of login

2007-11-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
it is probably a dupe of #451570 then. I've attached a log of my Xserver crashing when I reinstate the Virtual line... Thanks, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11

Bug#456149: gpsdrive: Doesn't display my altitude

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: gpsdrive Version: 2.10~pre4-1 Severity: normal GPSDrive is not displaying any altitude reading from my GPS (a Garmin 60CSx). If I telnet to the gpsd port on my local machine I definitely do see my altitude coming through on the various data streams available. -- System Information:

Bug#456152: gpsdrive: Can't override window size

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: gpsdrive Version: 2.10~pre4-1 Severity: normal According to the man page, gpsdrive has -s and -r options to override the autodetection. Since the autodetection doesn't notice the panels at the top and bottom of my screen I tried to use these options to set a saner resolution. It

Bug#456149: gpsdrive: Doesn't display my altitude

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 22:50 +0100, Andreas Putzo wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks for reporting this bug. On Dec 13 21:59, Andrew McMillan wrote: Package: gpsdrive Version: 2.10~pre4-1 Severity: normal GPSDrive is not displaying any altitude reading from my GPS (a Garmin 60CSx). If I

Bug#456634: gpsd: Translated NMEA output does not include a GSA sentence

2007-12-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
difference :-( Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis

Bug#285703: whereami, testmii and Sun Gem NIC

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi, I've added the relevant ifconfig $1 up to testmii in the next-to-be-released whereami, but some testing suggests that this might screw up other network cards that are currently working :-( Do you think this problem is specific to the Sun Gem NIC? I could perhaps detect this type of NIC

Bug#443137: libpano12: New upstream version(s)

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: libpano12 Version: 2.8.3-1 Severity: wishlist I note that there is a new upstream version of libpano12 (2.8.6) as well as an even more advanced release which is libpano13 version 2.9.12. It would be really nice to get these into Debian, along with the latest version of Hugin. -- System

Bug#443547: libpoppler1: Problems rendering Porirua City overview map

2007-09-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
. Including the time it took me to notice and click 'Accept' on the license agreement dialog. The various sub-map links are also overlaid in the correct positions. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers

Bug#435646: libc6: resolver considers IPv6 enabled when any IPv6 address is configured

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
as to be behind broken DNS infrastructure which ignores requests, resulting in frequent timeouts with much confusion and frustration. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (690

Bug#435646: libc6: resolver considers IPv6 enabled when any IPv6 address is configured

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
will test this in a couple more environments, but I guess it would be nice to find some more volunteers :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners

Bug#439908: singularity: Broken on upgrade

2007-08-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
not sure what is supposed to create a /dev/sequencer link and where it is supposed to point - possibly at /dev/snd/seq. Thanks, Andrew McMillan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (690, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel

Bug#440143: network-manager: No applet = package is unusable

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
into Sid without having a corresponding network-manager-gnome package to go with it, since the package is effectively useless without the UI required to prompt me for my keyring password. Regards, Andrew McMillan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny

Bug#440143: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#440143: network-manager: No GNOME applet (yet)

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:10 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: As Cyril explained it already very accurately, the correct way (for users using network-manager-gnome) is simply to not force the upgrade until network-manager-applet has left NEW. The old 0.6.4 packages will then automatically be kept

Bug#449059: whereami.pl missing from whereami

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi Cord, I had thought that whereami.pl was removed from whereami a while ago, but perhaps not. Does it all work again if you delete that symlink and reinstall the package? The symlink shouldn't be there any longer. I've renamed the actual program to /usr/sbin/whereami instead. Regards Andrew

Bug#410638: libsoup: Error in status parsing routine causes Evolution CalDAV failure

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
rewritten with better error checking and an entirely new bug in a lesser-used code path. The patch I have attached to the upstream bug makes Evolution's CalDAV plugin work for me, and this problem with libsoup affects the versions of Evolution in both Unstable and Experimental. Thanks, Andrew

Bug#414953: firmware-ipw3945: Please use newer firmware version

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
1.14.2 downloaded from http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ released in December last year. It would probably also be a good idea if the newer firmware could somehow wend it's way into Etch... but I guess I should not hold my breath! Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System

Bug#414954: libpng14-dev: Missing pngdefs.h from package

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
circumstances. Specifically, I find I can't build the libgdiplus from experimental without this file. Not that I can build it _with_ this file, but I'm sure this being missing is part of the problem :-) Thanks, Andrew McMillan -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers experimental APT

Bug#422650: whereami: testsupplicant not working when wpa_supplicant was already running

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
always adding the delay. If that variation still works for you I will apply it instead. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St

Bug#422494: testmii does not wait for interface to come up

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:25 +0200, Raphael Wimmer wrote: Package: whereami Version: 0.3.32 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hi, I have a MacBook Pro C2D with a Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) (driver is sky2). The testmii

Bug#424768: cogito: Need to depend on curl

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: cogito Version: 0.18.2-3 Severity: normal A fresh install of cogito on a new server fails to fetch because curl is not installed. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (690, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686

Bug#426107: molly-guard: Molly-guard failed to stop me halting my server

2007-05-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
in Etch r1 also. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. PS. It's a great idea. In fact when my son (the one whose computer I was actually trying to shut downi here) was about 14 months old he was caught repeatedly pressing the On/Off switch on a client's server that he

Bug#419844: whereami: allow user(-scripts) to find out where the current location is

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 09:44 +0200, Cord Beermann wrote: PS: I notice that this scripts has many open bugreports, do you need help? I suspect a number of them are actually resolved, but I would certainly love help as I am more involved in other projects now. In reality I have stopped using

Bug#330878: openclipart: Suggests should include inkscape

2005-09-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
they quite possibly won't ever see that. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (950, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc6

Bug#327408: evince: Fails to remember window size/shape

2005-09-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
, in which case it should reset to the default. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (950, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel

Bug#325079: quanta: New upstream version

2005-08-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: quanta Version: 1:3.3.2-6 Severity: normal It seems that there is a new upstream version of Quanta (3.4.2) and that the package as it stands depends on libraries that no longer exist in unstable (kdelibs4, libqt3c102-mt). Any chance of an updated package soon? Thanks, Andrew

Bug#327738: inkscape: Missing dependency on libxml-xql-perl

2005-09-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: inkscape Version: 0.42.2-1 Severity: normal With the inclusion of scripted effects in Inkscape, there is now a missing dependency. The drop shadow effect needs libxml-xql-perl installed to work. Thanks, Andrew. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT

Bug#328211: evince: Fails to display PDF content

2005-09-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
with 1.5G of RAM, so it _shouldn't_ take that long to render. Xpdf renders the document in less than a second on the same hardware. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (950, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1

Bug#314906: oops: force-reload option is incorrectly implemented

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
script! Thanks, Andrew McMillan -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (950, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8

Bug#317180: Patch to add syslog support to wpasupplicant

2005-07-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
and friends to log all of their messages to syslog, using appropriate log levels. Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington

Bug#320659: dbconfig-common: Incorrect manpage for dbconfig-load-include

2005-07-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: dbconfig-common Version: 1.8.2 Severity: normal Hi, The man page for dbconfig-load-include appears to refer instead to dbconfig-generate-include mistakenly. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#294389: ITP: enblend

2005-08-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi, I have built a package of enblend. Should I upload it and close this bug. I'm happy to be down as the maintainer. If I don't get an answer within a few days I will assume nobody else cares enough to do this. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. signature.asc

Bug#481010: ircd-ircu: Incorrectly masks IPv6 addresses causing connection refusal

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
pain right now :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.1-hippy (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF8, LC_CTYPE

Bug#490438: ITP: libawl-php -- Andrew's Web Libraries - PHP Utility Libraries

2008-07-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libawl-php Version : 0.30 Upstream Author : Andrew McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/projects/awl * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP

Bug#490444: ITP: davical -- DAViCal CalDAV Server

2008-07-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: davical Version : 0.9.5.1 Upstream Author : Andrew McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://rscds.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description

Bug#490872: New qlandkarte upstream release.

2008-07-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: qlandkarte Version: 0.7.2+svn20080629-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I note that there is a new upstream release of qlandkarte available which adds some nice new features, and fixes a bunch of bugs. Thank you, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information

Bug#402165: Link to Java bug report

2007-04-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
Also see the Java bug report at Sun: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6532373 Regards, Andrew McMillan. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#349354: Dependency loop makes upgrading Sarge - Unstable very hard

2006-02-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
normal situation will involve a kernel upgrade to meet the udev dependency, along with the udev upgrade. Unfortunately the udev.preinst script doesn't seem to make any effort to behave sanely in this situation. Regards, Andrew McMillan

Bug#374392: detect and configure WPA networks

2006-06-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 09:09 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: package: whereami severity: wishlist version: 0.3.28 Hi Andrew, it would be cool, if it was possible to detect and configure WPA networks with whereami too. Besides that, whereami still rocks my world! Hi Holger, Perhaps

Bug#375619: cogito: Please push debian directory upstream

2006-06-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
people want to build their own packages. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE

Bug#372111: ITA: spicctrl -- Sony PIC control program

2006-06-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] The maintainer of this package has not updated it for nearly a year and has been put on hold in the NM queue due to being uncontactable. I have uploaded a newer version as an NMU, but unless someone strenuously objects I

Bug#373085: 'apt-get build-dep twinkle' cannot be satisfied on Sid

2006-06-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
: twinkle: Depends: libccrtp1-1.3-0 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcommoncpp2-1.3-2 but it is not installable Thanks, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ

Bug#366368: whereami: Please provide a simplified method of configuration

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
for Debian also :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St

Bug#355246: Since wpasupplicant 0.5.1 is now in unstable

2006-03-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
I really look forward to seeing network-manager 0.6+ ... :-) Andrew McMillan - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz

Bug#355246: Since wpasupplicant 0.5.1 is now in unstable

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 18:38 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:17:17PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: I really look forward to seeing network-manager 0.6+ ... :-) http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wpasupplicant.html show that the version in unstable and experimental

Bug#474175: pmacct: Please enable IPv6 support

2008-04-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: pmacct Version: 0.11.4-1 Severity: normal According to the documentation, pmacctd supports reporting on IPv6 traffic, but it needs to be built with the --enable-ipv6 flag configured for this functionality to be included. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers

Bug#474175: IPv6 support works well

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
. Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 6, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201

Bug#475790: coreutils: touch -d fails to parse ISO timestamps correctly

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
an ISO format date approaches zero. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-hippy (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF8

Bug#471104: php5: Please rebuild against up to date timezone data

2008-03-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
) New Zealand. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-mousy Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored

Bug#523551: Quanta 3.5.9 with kde4

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi, While you're relaxing dependencies, it might as well to change the Suggests for kimagemapeditor at the same time. Regards, Andrew. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com

Bug#504223: python-uniconvertor: Falis to find fonts

2008-11-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
no information on how one might be able to configure an existing font as the fallback, or add other directories to it's font search path, even though the error messages about config.preferences.fallback_font and so forth suggest that this might be possible. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System

Bug#504749: sarg.usertab fails for IPv6 addresses

2008-11-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
of the technologies for mediating between IPv6 and IPv4 networks, so I have marked this bug as 'Important' even though there are no doubt very few users at present who will be encountering the problem. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny

Bug#470994: mail_spool default mode is 0660

2009-02-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
or another MUA must recreate it if needed. /p p I've read through the report in full and I'm happy to second this also. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2009-08-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:43 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I think at this point, now that debconf is mandatory for all but essential packages, removing the guarantee of a controlling terminal is uncontroversial. This bug has been open for a while and I'd like to put it to bed. Here's proposed

Bug#543417: README.source patch system documentation requirements considered harmful

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Lamb la...@debian.org writes: If the motivation behind README.source is to highlight non-trivial packaging, then many packages can be presented that are trivial dispite using a patch system. My own conclusion is that the

Bug#530378: debian-policy: allow /usr/share/doc/package to point to another indirectly-depended-upon package's dir

2009-05-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
perspective. Regards, Andrew McMillan. Andrew @ McMillan .Net .NZ Porirua, New Zealand http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/Phone: +64(272)DEBIAN

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.2 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information Andrew @ McMillan .Net .NZ

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
, Andrew. Andrew @ McMillan .Net .NZ Porirua, New Zealand http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/Phone: +64(272)DEBIAN Open Source: the difference between trust and antitrust

Bug#508673: davical can't find the include file, AWLUtilities.php

2009-07-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:07 +0200, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: Hi Andrew, Did you have a chance to think about my proposed solution for this bug? Do you see any problem with it? I'm considering upgrading the severity to minor, since it does cause more annoyances than necessary during

Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as kilobytes but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:20 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 13:29:48 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: I formally object to the part '(in other words, the size in kibibytes)'. (I believe this change is not informative and only serve the purpose of endorsing a standard

Bug#580862: xmms2-client-nycli: Please include patch to extend command-line length

2010-05-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
This is mostly an issue for people who pipe the output of nycli into something else, although for those of us who do that it is a right pain :-) Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 22:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: jida...@jidanni.org writes: RA == Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: RA No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something that RA we need to make technical Policy about. RA I'll leave this bug open for a

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
for a freeze exception. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Pyros of the world... IGNITE

Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

2010-09-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 18:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes: please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to install without a local db should be treated. Thanks. I agree with jcristau; I think it's reasonable to have database

Bug#588014: Documenting the DM-Upload-Allowed field.

2010-09-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 23:47 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:15:15PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : Capitalization is inconsistent across the patch. I guess you should fix that. Ooops (correction attached). I support the change, with the correction.

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:05 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:23:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : I have been reading §5.1 (Syntax of control files) many times recently, and would like propose clarifications about a couple of points. If consensus emerges,

Bug#106073: recommend to install package documentation into /usr/share/doc/package/

2010-08-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:16 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com writes: My personal preference would be to encourage -doc packages to install their files into /usr/share/doc/package/docs - including their internal administrivia. That would break Lintian, apt

Bug#594542: debian-policy: add descriptions for main, contrib, and non-free archive areas

2010-08-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
, and would undermine the DFSG as a decision-making tool. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN A tall, dark

Bug#594542: debian-policy: add descriptions for main, contrib, and non-free archive areas

2010-08-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 07:35 -0400, CJ Fearnley wrote: I don't think CJ is advocating changing the DFSG, but rather is concerned that the way the DFSG is worded may not make it clear to people what the motivation is and what the implications are for users. In other words, a rephrasing

Bug#594658: debian-policy: Add FHS exception for GNU/Hurd directories

2010-08-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
the paragraph with On GNU/Hurd ... might make it clearer when it stands on it's own. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 04:17 -0700, PJ Weisberg wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:24:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : In fields where the value may not span multiple lines,

Bug#594542: debian-policy: add descriptions for main, contrib, and non-free archive areas

2010-08-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:05 -0400, CJ Fearnley wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:38:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: CJ Fearnley c...@cjfearnley.com writes: 2.2.1 The main archive area The main archive area comprises the Debian GNU/Linux distribution; only the packages in

Bug#594658: debian-policy: Add FHS exception for GNU/Hurd directories

2010-09-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com writes: I would change the text around a little to add that to the beginning of the paragraph, something like: On GNU/Hurd systems the file/hurd/file and file/servers/file

Bug#578797: davical: Creating the Database fails

2010-09-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
severity 578797 wishlist tag 579797 +wontfix retitle 578797 DAViCal: UTF-8 capable PostgreSQL setup required for database creation thanks On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:43 +0200, Frank Hartmann wrote: Hi, I found a workaround/solution: postgres stores some information at install time about the

Bug#578797: davical: Creating the Database fails

2010-09-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
change in the short term. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/ Porirua, New Zealand Twitter: _karora Phone: +64

Bug#550195: evolution: WebDAV contacts don't work

2010-09-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
-D-S, but just some information on how to get a few debugging messages out of the WebDAV contacts plugin would be much appreciated. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT

Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)

2010-09-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 21:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Okay, here's new proposed wording that incorporates some of the discussion on this bug along with my personal opinion on the best wording. How does this look to everyone? diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 642f672..314d5d0

Bug#527871: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 06:45 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi! Recommend using the DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables instead of the GNU style ones. And mention that the latter are mostly intended for use with

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm not sure how many of these were false positives, but I'm fairly sure that at least some of them are real: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/read-in-maintainer-script.html Not all that many, and some will be false positives. I think

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 20:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Management Specification, version 2 or higher, unless no such interface is available when they are executed. Should we require that non-essential packages depend on debconf if they're going to do prompting? That

Bug#508673: davical can't find the include file AWLUtilities.php

2008-12-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
other things! Regards, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN You are capable of planning your future

Bug#508673: davical can't find the include file AWLUtilities.php

2008-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Necessity is the mother of documentation

Bug#509732: marked as done (Debian Policy doesn't include directive for filing RC bugs against the Policy)

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
reopen 509732 thanks It is truly classic irony that we see this one getting closed by spammers :-) andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Executive ability is prominent in your

Bug#521862: More info about the evolution startup crash

2009-03-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
-* didn't help me, downgrading to 3.5.9-6 did sort the problem out and I am now able to get back into my e-mail... Regards, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com

Bug#522364: debian-policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement

2009-04-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: minor This looks extremely obsolete. I think it can just be removed. Seconds? Seconded. Regards, Andrew. diff --git a/policy.sgml

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 22:32 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: It is my impression that more packages than mksh could use an UTF-8 locale at build time (I’m afraid I don’t have pointers, but I’m sure I’ve come across at least a couple). Wouldn’t it be just better to change Debian’s default to

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
*... So we could close this bug as 'why bother', really, but the discussion is much more important than that. Regards, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:31 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: We have the same objective, but two different ways. Indeed, but it seems to me that you are pushing for a much bigger change than I am. So the smallest step which is in the same direction both of us want to go, is for *a* UTF-8

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Packages that are essential or that are dependencies of essential packages may fall back on another prompting method if no such interface is available when they are executed. Since we're essentially saying that all packages

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:13:19AM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Packages that are essential or that are dependencies of essential packages may fall back on another

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