Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Andre Lehovich
> - there must be a sufficient user base to justify inclusion on all > mirrors, defined as 10% of downloads over a sampled set of mirrors Only i386 currently meets this condition, with c. 97% of downloads out of the four interesting archs, for details see the tables below. I suspect 97% is bias

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
[please don't cc: me on this thread, one copy is plenty, thanks; and please don't cc: debian-release unless there's a specific reason it's on-topic there, which explaining wanna-build is not. ;)] On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:30:45PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op vr, 11-03-2005 te 17:03 -0800, s

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:37:51AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > IMHO all these facts with exception of those "social" facts I marked (?) > are fullfilled by Sparc. For reference, the killer for most archs is the "98% built" criterion; fro

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:47:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The sh and hurd-i386 ports don't currently meet the SCC requirements, as > > > neither has a running autobuilder or is keeping u

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:47:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The sh and hurd-i386 ports don't currently meet the SCC requirements, as > > neither has a running autobuilder or is keeping up with new packages. > It is impossible for any port

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread dann frazier
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > The much larger consequence of this meeting, however, has been the > crafting of a prospective release plan for etch. Thank you to those individuals who worked on this plan; I think its a good step in reducing our release turnaround time

Re: buildd queue starvation (Was: Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!)

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > None of the documentation calls it a 'queue', in fact; only people not > really involved in buildd stuff do. Does that include you? In two recent messages, you referred to it as a queue. > > I can see excellent reasons why age in the list shouldn't

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree with the w-b maintainers. The queue order is only interesting in > the case where there is a backlog; in other cases, packages are usually > built rather fast. In the case where there is a backlog, those trying to > fix the architecture (usuall

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It means that when one is told "just wait, your package will get > > rebuilt"; it is not necessarily true at all. There is no upper bound > > at all on time to wait for building, and that's a disaster. > > This paragraph assumes nobody ever looks t

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Michael Prokop wrote: I do know many people who are used to ha-prosper and haven't switched to LaTeX-Beamer yet. As I said - there is a compatibility mode - but I did not tested it yet. ha-prosper needs less space than latex-beamer (not taking care of dependencies but ratio sho

Re: buildd queue starvation (Was: Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!)

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 12-03-2005 te 21:12 -0800, schreef Thomas Bushnell BSG: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If the queue is non-zero for a longer time, there is a problem in buildd > > machine power, and the wanna-build admin has choosen to in this case > > allocate the buildd power t

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr, 11-03-2005 te 19:14 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > sorted by: > > - target suite - previous compilation state (already built packages are prioritized above packages never built for the target architecture) > -

Re: Is there Linux operating system for Nokia mobile devices?

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op zo, 13-03-2005 te 21:19 +0200, schreef Mikko Ma Aaltonen: > Hi Debian developers. (My first time post here.) > > I'm here to ask, if anyone of you know, > has someone done some development work to get a Nokia (or some other > brand) mobile to work with some other operating system than Symbian?

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr, 11-03-2005 te 17:03 -0800, schreef Thomas Bushnell BSG: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Re-uploading a package to provoke a buildd response is counterproductive, > > *particularly* when the package is already in Needs-Build on the missing > > architectures. Re-uploading

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 12-03-2005 te 15:19 +1100, schreef Matthew Palmer: > I'm trying to work out why package *section* matters at all. This is simply an attempt to avoid as much needs-build->building->dep-wait cycles as possible; packages that are usually build-dependencies are built before packages that are us

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 12-03-2005 te 15:01 -0800, schreef Thomas Bushnell BSG: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Remember that the buildd queue is not FIFO at all. The queue has a > > completly static order. Any changes to the queue are just packages > > hiding because they are not "needs-b

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 12-03-2005 te 16:24 -0800, schreef Thomas Bushnell BSG: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Practically, buildd admins can notice a longer-than-usual queue and throw > > hardware at the problem, and that seems to work well enough, and we could > > reduce the rate of package i

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact is that I am unable to send emails with my debian.org address. > Does someone has some idea of how can I fix that? fastmail.fm has 'personalities', 'aliases', and smtp access. -- KBK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The sh and hurd-i386 ports don't currently meet the SCC requirements, as > neither has a running autobuilder or is keeping up with new packages. It is impossible for any port under development to meet the SCC requirements. We need a place for such por

Re: d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels (was: Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware)

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Andrew Pollock wrote: Sorry, I do not know anything about partition labels but if this is the solution it should be done in the installer and if this works in Grub menu.lst this should be done here as well. I gave some of the relevant people in the d-i team an education on the

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:49:34AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Given how low hamradio (and the like) are prioritised, I suggest that we > get smarter about 'tesing' and omit some sections on some architectures. > Frankly there are not likely to be any users for hamradio on s390, mips* > arm, or

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: - it must first be part of (or at the very least, meet the criteria for) scc.debian.org (see below) - the release architecture must be publicly available to buy new - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number required to keep u

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When I include the configure script in my source packages, I can feel >> pretty confident that they package I upload will stay buildable even >> if a week from now autoconf or automake gets updated to something not >> backwards compatible.

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:04:17 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The current practice and trend is going the other way, >but I strongly recommend for using autoconf/automake in build scripts. Does cdbs do it right? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No co

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> When I include the configure script in my source packages, I can feel > >> pretty confident that they package I upload will stay buildable even > >> if a week from now autoconf or automake gets

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:57:14PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some maintainers have already opted to move their GFDL documentation > > to non-free for sarge, but the vast remainder will need to be dealt > > with soon after sarge's release to

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some maintainers have already opted to move their GFDL documentation > to non-free for sarge, but the vast remainder will need to be dealt > with soon after sarge's release to keep us on track for etch. I assume you mean that the documentation will nee

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given how low hamradio (and the like) are prioritised, I suggest that we > get smarter about 'tesing' and omit some sections on some architectures. I don't think those sections are causing the problem. There are also not so many uploads for them. The

Re: orphaning some of my packages

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joerg Wendland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-08 12:09]: > I have neither time for nor interest in maintaining the following > packages any more. > > fam - the file alteration monitor > pam-pgsql - PAM module for authentication against PostgreSQL > ulogd - netfilter userspace logging daemon T

Re: Orphaning three packages

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-12 14:30]: > I'm orphaning three packages: > hawhaw-doc - the documentation for HAWHAW and HAWXY > hawxy - a script that makes PHP-enabled webservers to HAWHAW proxies > libphp-hawhaw - a PHP toolkit to create universal mobile applications ... > If no on

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-13 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:34:19PM +0100, Florian Möllers wrote: > Hi, > > can you just give us (at the fai mailing list) a brief description of > what you are discussing?! > > Let me guess, and I migth be totally wrong, but you are discussing ways > to install 60 PCs with Debian and you have 4

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:01:59AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > It is a highly ordered list, more or less libs+base first, than devel, shells, > perl, python. After that graphics, admin, utils. Just to look at the > other side of the sorting order, at the end of the list is hamradio, > non-US and

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:16:56PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > Our goal is that the queue gets empty from time to time, and so, > priority shouldn't prevent a package from being built. How often should the queue be emptied, or when will an architecture be declarared not-keeping-up? According to

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > However, if I left it to the source package to run autoconf by itself > weach time it is build, it could slide into unbuildability _without me > or anybody else noticing_ before it is too late and we have > not-buildable-anymore code sitting around in the archive, and most > likely even in

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050313 23:50]: > I think I slightly misunderstood the "ordering by section" bit -- I was > assuming an alphabetical ordering by section. So once base and libs have > had their priority building, what's the ordering after that? Alphabetical > by section, or do

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We are a bit concerned with old LilyPond packages, and a potential > > new maintainer (Pedro Kroger) with his sponsor going mia. > > Who was going to sponsor him? I use lilypond all the time, so I'm happy to adopt it if necessary. I'm a bad mentor

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050313 23:15]: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050312 02:05]: > > If, perhaps, there was a clear indication of the buildd ordering > > policy, then it could be properly used. Until then, I go on the basis > > of guesswork. > The ordering applied

Re: Bug#299379: ITP: moodle-book -- moodle module for multi-page resources

2005-03-13 Thread Juan Manuel Garcia Molina
Hi, Ben and folks. On Sunday 13 March 2005 23:22, you wrote: > Hi, > > > This Moodle module makes it easy to create multi-page > > resources with a book-like format. > > When you create the actual packages it might be nice to explain what > moodle is, for those of us who have no idea. e.g.: > >

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because we want packages in base to be preferred, as well as packages in > libs. I think that is a given, but it's not uploads to base and libs that are hosing the recompilation of gnucash at present. I think it's worth looking at the perverse incentiv

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:44:33AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:17:52PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Because we want packages in base to be preferred, as well as packages in > > libs. > > I think I slightly misunderstood the "ordering by section" bit -- I was > assu

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 13 mars 2005 Ã 23:10 +0100, Michael Prokop a Ãcrit : > And TeXciting might never be released, quoting Hendri - the author > of ha-prosper: > > | I have reconsidered whether it will be possible > | to finish this project. Taking into account also > | the work that I'm doing on other pa

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:17:52PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050312 05:25]: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:14:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > > > sorted by: > > > > > > - ta

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Don't take this as a promise to take it over, but I'll see > > what I can do. > > I already made an attempt: > http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/debian/ Please don't build it as a native Debian package, so there's a separ

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050313 01:05]: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:12:12PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Er, packages *do* eventually get built; they just don't get built in any > > kind of FIFO order. > Er, no. Unless there's some sort of aging process (not yet described in the

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:25:33PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > More machines can catch up faster than few can do. > > When one machine out of a dozen machines is unavailable, it has less impact > > than one machine failure out of two machines, although the chances will > > raise that a machin

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Michael Prokop
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050313 18:15]: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Michael Prokop wrote: > > I think replacing the prosper-package with ha-prosper wouldn't be > > a good choice. I'd like to provide ha-prosper in a separate > > package > >

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ingo Juergensmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050312 14:15]: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 02:06:24PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > As it has been said earlier, the machines are back, but just need to > > catch up. So just waiting might be the easiest thing to do. > More machines can catch up fast

Re: Bug#299379: ITP: moodle-book -- moodle module for multi-page resources

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > This Moodle module makes it easy to create multi-page > resources with a book-like format. When you create the actual packages it might be nice to explain what moodle is, for those of us who have no idea. e.g.: This Moodle module makes it easy to create multi-page resources with a

d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels (was: Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware)

2005-03-13 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:20:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: > > >>it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > >>probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system > >>after kernel-image updates, because the kern

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050312 05:25]: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:14:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > > sorted by: > > > > - target suite > > - package priority > > - package section > > - p

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050312 04:25]: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > > sorted by: > > > > - target suite > > - package priority > > - package section > > - package name > >

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050312 02:05]: > Since the all but one of the other arch buildd's have empty > needs-build queues, it is harmless to force them to execute a > recompile and costs no scarce resources. I did check this before > uploading. Even in the case the buildds oth

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit > > > too much and I have no strong motivation for xscreensaver. > > > > Just asking, since somebody would have to do it. > > Don't take this as a promise to take it over, but I'll s

Bug#299379: ITP: moodle-book -- moodle module for multi-page resources

2005-03-13 Thread Juan Manuel Garcia Molina
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: moodle-book Version : 1.4.4 Upstream Author : Petr Skoda * URL : http://moodle.org/download/modules/ * License : GPL Description : moodle module for mult

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:52:25PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? >> >>I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit >>too much and I have no strong motivation

ITO: oftc-hybrid, bubblefishymon

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi! Due to lack of time and since I stopped using it quite a while ago I intendo to orphan oftc-hybrid. The package is outdated, current upstream version is oftc-hybrid-1.4.0pre4. Since nor weasel nor I use bubblefishymon we intend to orphan this one as well. There is no more upstream work in pro

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 13 mars 2005 Ã 21:52 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt a Ãcrit : > * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? > > > > I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit > > too much and I have no stron

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? > > I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit > too much and I have no strong motivation for xscreensaver. Just asking, since somebody would have to do it

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Christian Perrier
> > I have announced in many places my intent to take over the package > > development, which I'm in fact doing since mid 2004 (with NMUs). > > Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit too much and

Bug#299349: ITP: moodle-dialogue -- moodle module to allow internal mail

2005-03-13 Thread Juan Manuel Garcia Molina
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: moodle-dialogue Version : 1.4.4 Upstream Author : Ray Kingdon * URL : http://moodle.org/download/modules/ * License : GPL Description : moodle module to

Re: Is there Linux operating system for Nokia mobile devices?

2005-03-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:19:09PM +0200, Mikko Ma Aaltonen wrote: > Hi Debian developers. (My first time post here.) > > I'm here to ask, if anyone of you know, > has someone done some development work to get a Nokia (or some other > brand) mobile to work with some other operating system than Sym

Is there Linux operating system for Nokia mobile devices?

2005-03-13 Thread Mikko Ma Aaltonen
Hi Debian developers. (My first time post here.) I'm here to ask, if anyone of you know, has someone done some development work to get a Nokia (or some other brand) mobile to work with some other operating system than Symbian? I'd be interested if anyone is attempting to create "mobile Linux". An

Bug#295760: ktoon depends on libming

2005-03-13 Thread Juan Manuel Garcia Molina
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #295760 Owner: Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi. After working a bit on creating the package, I discovered it depends on libming. Unfortunately, libming is not in Debian sid. I have been trying to hack the code in order to let the package compile w

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:05 -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > * timestamp skew means that the autobuilt makefiles will try > > to rebuild configure from configure.in even if configure is patched by > > dpkg-source at the same time as configure.in > >

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 05:19:25PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > And last I feel the sorting by name is actualy harmfull. That should > be exchanged with the time of upload, i.e. FIFO if the rest matches. > We all know FIFO isn't the best but it is simple, fair, predictable > and does not

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Or are you saying that all build dependencies should be removed, > since they all can cause you problems. I am saying that this particular build dependency can be removed without causing problems that have anywhere near the severity of the problems that

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Kurt, On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 03:40:23PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > That's the point, actually: If I build-depend on autoconf, I *cannot* > > know that it will actually build after the next update to autoconf, > > because most likely nobody will try it. > > If it's known that a new major v

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-13 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer said: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:58:49AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:18:06PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > > I'm with a problem about sending emails @debian.org. My ESP (email > > > service provider) has a rest

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Michael Prokop wrote: I think replacing the prosper-package with ha-prosper wouldn't be a good choice. I'd like to provide ha-prosper in a separate package so when TeXciting is available there aren't any breakages with prosper. Recently I investigated some time in LaTeX based p

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[remove -release, nothing they can do about it] Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:01:28PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Remember that the buildd queue is not FIFO at all. The queue has a >> > comp

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:02:29PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Kurt Roeckx > > > And how can you know you can actually build it if you > > never tried it? > > That's the point, actually: If I build-depend on autoconf, I *cannot* > know that it will actually build after the next updat

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Kurt Roeckx > And how can you know you can actually build it if you > never tried it? That's the point, actually: If I build-depend on autoconf, I *cannot* know that it will actually build after the next update to autoconf, because most likely nobody will try it. When I provide a config

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:04:59PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > - Putting autoconf-generated files in the source package is nearly as > > fragile as generating them at build time. If there are changes in > > autoconf which break the configure.

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - Putting autoconf-generated files in the source package is nearly as > > fragile as generating them at build time. If there are changes in > > autoconf which break the configure.ac etc, then the next ti

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - Putting autoconf-generated files in the source package is nearly as > fragile as generating them at build time. If there are changes in > autoconf which break the configure.ac etc, then the next time you want > to make other changes or bring your c

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

2005-03-13 Thread Abel Cheung
æ æï2005-03-13 æ 09:06 +0100ïJan Nieuwenhuizen æåï > Martin Michlmayr writes: > > > No, it's a private alias. > > Ok. I hope Anthony is well. > Anthony is overloaded with lots of work from company and local community, so very likely he won't be able to update debian lilypond package... well, t

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since July 2004, I've got no news from Karl and any further attempt to > get in touch with him has been unsuccessful. Even before this, it > became quite obvious that the package is not very actively maintained. Same goes for his xscreensaver package, wh

Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Hello folks, The shadow package is officially maintained by Karl Ramm, with assistance by Sam Hartman. It is the source package for "login" and "passwd", two important pieces of Debian base system. I have helped Karl in collecting the package translations (both debconf and programs translations)

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:58:49AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:18:06PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I'm with a problem about sending emails @debian.org. My ESP (email > > service provider) has a restrictive rule about sending emails with a > > >From header

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-13 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:18:06PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > I'm with a problem about sending emails @debian.org. My ESP (email > service provider) has a restrictive rule about sending emails with a > >From header different of the account you actually have. > > This wouldn't be a problem, as I

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

2005-03-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Martin Michlmayr writes: > No, it's a private alias. Ok. I hope Anthony is well. >> We are a bit concerned with old LilyPond packages, and a potential >> new maintainer (Pedro Kroger) with his sponsor going mia. > > Who was going to sponsor him? I don't think Pedro told me that. Pedro? Jan.

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Sprang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaul Karl wrote: > I am forwarding this to linux-fai at uni-koeln dot de. I believe > many people interested in this discussion hang out there. > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson > wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 1