Re: how-to push a package in testing ?

2002-04-07 Thread christophe barbé
Hi Anthony Towns, Would it be possible to remove the current gphoto2 package (final-1) from woody ? It is clearly broken until the new libusb enter woody and when libusb arrive a new gphoto2 will follow. I am afraid that gphoto2 will be broken in the official woody release if the release happens

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:34:13PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Read up on the BTS docs, but the common ways are: > > Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "close 140049" No! Don't fucking do that! Geez, how many times does one have to repeat that. -- 2. That which causes joy or

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct > procedure for getting these bugs closed? Since you're not a maintainer, you shouldn't close them. However, you can tag them "fixed", by sending 'tag fixe

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 4:16 pm, Will Newton wrote: > > I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct > procedure for getting these bugs closed? > > The changelog looks like this: > > ilisp (5.11.1-7) uns

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 4:16 pm, Will Newton wrote: I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct procedure for getting these bugs closed? The changelog looks like this: ilisp (5.11.1-7) unstable; urgency=low * well 125744 was fixed, but I put the files in the old

Re: Package metadata server

2002-04-07 Thread Sam Couter
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It could probably be done with HTTP, using cgi scripts (i dont know much > about this), that way standard clients can be used to retrieve pieces of > the Packages's file by putting the querry in the url. And then you get the solution which has been mentio

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

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:21:14AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:56:12PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > The build on sparc is due to something else, don't have time to > > investigate that right now; mips doesn't seem to have even attempted the > > build. > > antlr buil

Webalizer & Analog log reading

2002-04-07 Thread Martin WHEELER
Anyone else experiencing the same problem as me, wrt apache's access log default ownership settings? When I first set up Apache, logrotate dutifully created new access logs with owner and group as specified in httpd.conf. The anacron / logrotate combo has recently taken to creating *new* access l

Python module for debconf

2002-04-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Being tired of the shell, and not knowing perl enough, I have written a little python module for debconf. I haven't tested it thouroughly, but it seems to work fine. Of course, I intend to use it, but if people are interested, it can be found at : http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~jmouette/debian/ It is "d

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: >IMHO the non-free section should be removed. IMHO you should write less email and fix more bugs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Commander Taco wastes our time with these dumb polls but we keep r

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

2002-04-07 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:05:03AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Le Dimanche 7 Avril 2002 09:57, Ben Pfaff a ?crit : > > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: gnu-standards > > > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > > > Severity: serious > > > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 > > > > > > The GNU

Re: Update excuses openh323gk (2.0b2-1 to 2.0b4-1) (mk68k)

2002-04-07 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El día 07 Apr 2002, Mark Purcell escribía: > > According to > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=openh323gk&ver=2.0b4-1&arch=m68k&stamp=1017326211&file=log&as=raw > > openh323gk-2.0.b4-1 was built for m68k on 28 Mar, however this package > doesn't seem to of been uploaded to the archives

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:24:22PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > > Reasons enough to release woody+1 not too late. > > > > Speaking of which, woody+1 sounds like it's going to be a release similar to > > link -- no huge changes to cause a prolongued release time. > > So, the Debian Installer is

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:12:16AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. > > Er, we _host_ non-free software on our servers, and distribute it via > our mirror network.

Re: mirrors [Re: Release notes]

2002-04-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:38:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > after the dust settles after the CD stampede > > Speaking of which, what's the tactic to get this done efficiently? I suppose > we could coordinate with several mirror m

Re: Bug#141345: ITP: sextractor -- Builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.

2002-04-07 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:44:48 +0100 (BST): > sextractor stands for Source Extractor, it's usually referred to as > SExtractor but he went and named the binary 'sex' so jokes abound in > the astronomy community about 'doing sex', etc,.. > Hmm... Won't that conflict with this X edit

mirrors [Re: Release notes]

2002-04-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > after the dust settles after the CD stampede Speaking of which, what's the tactic to get this done efficiently? I suppose we could coordinate with several mirror maintainers to have them rsync copies of the final images before the use

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 05:06, Joseph Carter ha scritto: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > > into the common re

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

2002-04-07 Thread Michael Meskes
Just some short questions. On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > libqt3-psql I just came back from vacation and saw that the new qt3 uploads that fix the problem are still waiting in the queue. Would it be possible to get this package back into woody if I upload an

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> You also speak of a DVD distribution, while it may be possible, I've >> never heard of someone doing it officially ... better leave it out until >> we actually provide some DVD imag

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-07 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 10:01, Ben Pfaff ha scritto: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > Orphaned because it's now considered non-free. > > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: gnu-standards > > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 >

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > You also speak of a DVD distribution, while it may be possible, I've > never heard of someone doing it officially ... better leave it out until > we actually provide some DVD images ? John Winters of linuxemporium.co.uk was asking me about this

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Sun, 7 Apr 2002 10:54:06 +0200: > You may not aware of the discussion we had last year, when VMware > offered to donate five (or another amount, not sure anymore) licenses > of their vmware product to Debian in order to help us develop > boot-floppies. > Just wonderin

Re: Woody now more installable than potato

2002-04-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:58:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Josip> I checked had a stagnating number of subscribers than a few > Josip> months before, the traffic on the web pages continues to > Josip> slowly grow or stagnate in the new year, and the major > Josip> mirrors' traffic is a

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:58:18PM +0100, Rob Bradford écrivait: > With the release nearly upon us this is an *URGENT* request for > information regarding the woody release notes. The following issues need > addressing. > > Draft release notes are available at > http://www.debian.org/releases/wood

RE: gpg -e errors - All garbled output

2002-04-07 Thread David D.W. Downey
Hehe, meant to send an email earlier than this. Realised my mistake later on. -- David D.W. Downey ("pgpkeys") <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libpam-pgsql Home Site: http://libpam-pgsql.codecastle.com Newbies: http://linuxnewbie.codecastle.com Admins: http://admin.codecastle.com Developers: http://devel.cod

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Colin Walters wrote: > It's also probably worth pointing out, as you seem to see yourself as > "the Dutch RMS", that the Free Software Foundation also accepts > donations from proprietary software companies: > > http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2002supporters.html This is a bogus argument. The Debi

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

2002-04-07 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Le Dimanche 7 Avril 2002 09:57, Ben Pfaff a écrit : > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Package: gnu-standards > > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 > > > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither > > one of which mee

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a > > > registration page to no registration page at all. > > > > Is it that difficult to make a registration page with free software? > > To the best

Re: Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 03:13, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Please show use any figures first before you assert this. > > > > I know rsync imposes some load for the computing of the md5sum but > > sendind only the difference outweighs it repeat

gmetadom failure on HPPA never reported in update_excuses

2002-04-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I noticed that another package of mine, which is needed to build gtkmathview, wasn't successfully rebuilt on hppa, namely package "gmetadom". I'm wondering why the hell "gmetadom" isn't mention as out of data on hppa in update_excuses which reports only: * gmetadom (- to 0.0.3-5) +

Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main

2002-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:57:53PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one of > > > which meets the DFSG. > > > > > > The first is the GNU FDL, which blatantly violates sections 5 and 6 of th

please rebuild gtkmathview 0.3.0-4 on hppa, m68k and arm

2002-04-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package gtkmathview (version: 0.3.0-4) hasn't been rebuilt on hppa since Wed 13 March and on m68k since Wed 27 March, could someone please trigger the rebuilt of it on these archs? BTW, on arm the package has been successfull rebuilt on April 2 and April 6, but the package is still reported as out

Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:57:53PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one of > > which meets the DFSG. > > > > The first is the GNU FDL, which blatantly violates sections 5 and 6 of the > > DFSG. The second license allows only for verba

O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Orphaned because it's now considered non-free. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: gnu-standards > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one

Re: problem with gvd

2002-04-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had the following problem while trying to do a dist-upgrade this > morning: ... > ideas on a fix? Please read the BTS. I've already sent a patch and the maintainer will upload soon. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main

2002-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: gnu-standards > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one of > which meets the DFSG. > > The first is the GNU FDL, which blatantly violat

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Re: perl getpwnam returns x

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Kirk Ismay wrote: > I have just copied one of my perl programs from an old slink system to a > new machine running potato. Its a perl program for managing users and such. > > On slink, getpwnam(foo) returns the hash for the password, on potato i get > an x. > Both are using shadow passwords. >

Re: New Packages (i18n version of APT)

2002-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:52:03PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > I REALLY REALLY would like to see translated apt in woody. > > And i cannot understand why apt-i18n is not installed so we could > > test it. Adding apt-i18n to unstable will not break anything, but > > interested developers can

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:48PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should > > > not have such a prominent spons

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