Debian Project Leader report for 2005-05-08

2005-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
The second of my reports as Debian Project Leader is now available. You may read it in HTML format at: http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/reports/2005-05-08.html ...or in ReStructured Text format[1], below. If you find ReStructured text format difficult to understand, you can use lynx to

it`s julie :)

2005-05-09 Thread Julie Huff
I'm new, it's Julie :) Alot of the times I feel weird, even my girlfriends told me that old time friend suggested to put my hot videos somehow online. My website is like my new hobby :D AllCome check website I put together, I'm not that good tho with comp skills yet but tell me what you

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:10:41AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Andrea Mennucc] me, I do my part of the work in Debian and nobody ever contacted me regarding the choice of the number What that...? Why on earth would you think you should be contacted before this sort of decision is

AMD64 non-free archive - the good and the bad

2005-05-09 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, Ok. Took me about 6 hours, but I think I checked all licenses for non-free that were in debian/*copyright. I didn't look for other files - there is too much stuff in non-free and I don't want to go crazy. Anyway, I compiled the licenses and summary for what Amd64 could distribute in

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:45:32PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Should we change some of these to /usr/libexec? well, it would be against the FHS, I think. The BSDs use libexec but I don't really see a good reason why it exists. -- Martin Waitz signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix vs /usr/libexec/postfix. It seems to me that /usr/libexec is a better name for such things, I disagree. Why is it

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Makholm
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix vs /usr/libexec/postfix. It seems to me that /usr/libexec is a better name for such things, and having the same

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Miles Bader
Martin Waitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should we change some of these to /usr/libexec? well, it would be against the FHS, I think. The BSDs use libexec but I don't really see a good reason why it exists. GNU project stuff also uses libexec (by default; I don't know if that location gets

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kevin Mark] that would suggest that its the RM who has decided such issues in the past unilaterilly. Conventional wisdom is that release management involves so much drudgery and so little recognition that the *least* we can do is let the release manager decide on codenames and version

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Martin Waitz] The BSDs use libexec but I don't really see a good reason why it exists. Well, the reason */libexec exists is to avoid overloading the meaning of */lib to include things other than libraries. Just as /sbin was invented (way back in the day) to stop overloading /etc with things

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:02:32AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Kevin Mark] that would suggest that its the RM who has decided such issues in the past unilaterilly. Conventional wisdom is that release management involves so much drudgery and so little recognition that the *least* we can

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should we change some of these to /usr/libexec? Debian strives to follow the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs), and this standard does not include /usr/libexec. See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=146023, which mentions the use of

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if there's an argument for it other than clarity and warm fuzzies. Not that there is anything wrong with warm fuzzies. I prefer that to a file hierarchy layout that gives me the chills. [I personally think that if a good idea is against the

Re: cogito_0.10-1 available

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sebastian Kuzminsky] Before 0.10, the upstream installed both the binaries (actually shell scripts) and the shell libraries in /usr/bin. Starting with 0.10, the shell libraries are moved to /usr/lib/cogito. Correct, except that it should be /usr/share/cogito/. Thanks for packaging this.

Re: Upcoming removals

2005-05-09 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:26:34PM -0400, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 00:24 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Your latest comment in #259581 is completely different from this -- please keep the relevant wnpp bug in the loop for stuff like this! Specifically, your

Location of Web Application Data, Policy 11.5.3

2005-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, quoting from Policy 11.5.3: Web Applications should try to avoid storing files in the Web Document Root. Instead they should use the /usr/share/doc/package directory for documents and register the Web Application via the menu package I have two issues with that: (1) I think

Re: Location of Web Application Data, Policy 11.5.3

2005-05-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Marc Haber in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am I missing something or is this part of policy widely ignored? I had my own problems with that paragraph and would appreciate to have it clarified. There's a new mailing list for webapps since last week, shouldn't the discussion go there?

Bug#308310: ITP: z80asm -- assembler for the Zilog Z80 microprocessor

2005-05-09 Thread Bas Wijnen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: z80asm Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/z80asm/ * License : GPL Description : assembler for the

Re: Location of Web Application Data, Policy 11.5.3

2005-05-09 Thread sean finney
hi, On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:16:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: quoting from Policy 11.5.3: Web Applications should try to avoid storing files in the Web Document Root. Instead they should use the /usr/share/doc/package directory for documents and register the Web Application

Exact Replica Rolex Watches

2005-05-09 Thread Leon Lara
Get the Finest Rolex Watch Replica ! We only sell premium watches. There's no battery in these replicas just like the real ones since they charge themselves as you move. The second hand moves JUST like the real ones, too. These original watches sell in stores for thousands of dollars. We sell

Policy and FHS-2.3? (was: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec)

2005-05-09 Thread Juergen Salk
* Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050509 03:07]: Well, the reason */libexec exists is to avoid overloading the meaning of */lib to include things other than libraries. Just as /sbin was invented (way back in the day) to stop overloading /etc with things other than config files. I think

Bug#308319: ITP: kdebluetooth -- KDE Bluetooth Framework

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: kdebluetooth Version : 1.0beta1 Upstream Author : Mattia Merzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fred Schaettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://kde-bluetooth.sourceforge.net

way to tell when a package makes it to testing?

2005-05-09 Thread sean finney
hey all, (this is a general, non-release related question) i was talking with another member of my local LUG, and he asked if there was a way to tell when a package was uploaded into the testing distribution. currently, the package qa pages say when a package is uploaded into unstable, and they

adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-09 Thread Shaul Karl
adduser(8) states that With the --disabled-login option, the account will be created but will be disabled until a password is set. The --disabled-password option will not set a password, but login are still possible for example through SSH RSA keys. I wonder what is the

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Humberto Massa
Raul Miller wrote: On 5/6/05, Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ??? Let's try again: '' The GPL tries to define work based on the Program in terms of derivative work under copyright law, and then, after this definition and a colon, it tries to explain what is a derivative work under

Tricky library packaging question

2005-05-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I'm trying to package the new version of debtags, with perl and python bindings, and I'm facing some tricky issues. Source packages: libtagcoll1 Functions used to manipulate tagged collections libdebtags1 Debian package tags library (also builds perl and python bindings)

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Humberto Massa
Batist Paklons wrote: This however doesn't really change a lot about our discussion about the GPL. It is my belief that the GPL is horribly drafted. One should either choose the simplistic beauty of a BSD style license, or choose a carefully drafted legalese text, such as the IBM Public License. I

Re: way to tell when a package makes it to testing?

2005-05-09 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 09 May 2005 15:48, sean finney wrote: hey all, hello, (this is a general, non-release related question) i was talking with another member of my local LUG, and he asked if there was a way to tell when a package was uploaded into the testing distribution. currently, the package qa

asciidoc makes ugly man pags (was: cogito_0.10-1 available)

2005-05-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-05-08 kello 22:15 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky kirjoitti: The only lintian/linda complaints are from missing manpages. Some upstream folks are working on translating the existing docs from .txt to manpages (actually asciidoc), so it'll hopefully get cleaner soon without me lifting a

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 21:03 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: So here is a list (from update-excuses) of all 491 packages that is being held out of sarge[1]. ... eglade There are no open bugs. Can it be put back in? -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Adrian Bunk] The entry packages: was a bug in my quickdirty scripting... Thanks for making a nice summary of the relevant packages. :) Feel free to include the script to generate the list when you generate dynamic list of packages like this. It would make it easier for all of us to

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: I could package the whole libsnmp source code into the Quagga file, and simply compile it with --without-openssl and then link it statically or something similar brute force and ugly. FWIW: Please don't. This would mean creating a security-support nightmare.

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen Quinney
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Christian Hammers wrote: I could package the whole libsnmp source code into the Quagga file, and simply compile it with --without-openssl and then link it statically or something similar brute force and ugly. FWIW: Please

Re: Is Petr Cech cech@debian.org MIA?

2005-05-09 Thread Lior Kaplan
No need. I already have an ITA on it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306670 On 5/8/05, Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:02:51AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:38:39PM +0200 , Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu,

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Waitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The BSDs use libexec but I don't really see a good reason why it exists. It reduces search times in libraries, which is important. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix vs /usr/libexec/postfix. It seems to me that /usr/libexec is a better name for such things, I disagree. Why is it

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 09 May 2005 17:17, Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In principle, there could be files which can be used as both a shared library and an internal binary. Where would you put such files? Anything that's a shared object has to be in a directory that ldconfig knows about.

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stephen Quinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050509 17:20]: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Christian Hammers wrote: I could package the whole libsnmp source code into the Quagga file, and simply compile it with --without-openssl and then link it statically

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix vs /usr/libexec/postfix. It seems to me that /usr/libexec is a better name for such things, and having the same

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 09 May 2005 15:34:06 +0300, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adduser(8) states that With the --disabled-login option, the account will be created but will be disabled until a password is set. The --disabled-password option will not set a password, but login are still

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: On Mon, 09 May 2005 15:34:06 +0300, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adduser(8) states that With the --disabled-login option, the account will be created but will be disabled until a password is set. The --disabled-password

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?=
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 04:02:58PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Adrian Bunk] The entry packages: was a bug in my quickdirty scripting... Thanks for making a nice summary of the relevant packages. :) Feel free to include the script to generate the list when you generate dynamic list

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:39:10AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix vs /usr/libexec/postfix. It seems to me

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix vs /usr/libexec/postfix. It seems to me that /usr/libexec is a better

Bug#308364: ITP: waste -- Software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small trusted groups of users.

2005-05-09 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: waste Version : 1.5b3 Upstream Author : Waste Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://waste.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Software product and

Bug#308368: ITP: exo -- Library with extensions for Xfce

2005-05-09 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: exo Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Benedikt Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://libexo.os-cillation.com/ * License : GPL Description : Library with

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:38:02AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The BSDs use libexec but I don't really see a good reason why it exists. It reduces search times in libraries, which is important. well, /usr/lib is not _that_ crowded. Any sane filesystem should handle that many

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The number of directory entries in /usr/lib should not make any difference to a modern GNU linker on a modern filesystem, unless you have thousands or millions of them. Why? Is there magic now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:21:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The number of directory entries in /usr/lib should not make any difference to a modern GNU linker on a modern filesystem, unless you have thousands or millions of them. Why?

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:21:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The number of directory entries in /usr/lib should not make any difference to a modern GNU linker on a modern filesystem, unless

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:33:32PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:21:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The number of directory entries in /usr/lib should not make

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You asked why the GNU linker, which does not need to be 'ls' and does not need to look at the list of files in any directory, scaled well with the size of the directory. That's the question I answered. How does ld determine that -latoheun will

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-05-09 kello 14:39 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG kirjoitti: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You asked why the GNU linker, which does not need to be 'ls' and does not need to look at the list of files in any directory, scaled well with the size of the directory. That's

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I may be completely wrong here, but as far as I understand, ld turns -lfoo into /usr/lib/libfoo.a and then uses that if it can find it. It might look into some other directories as well, and it might fill in foo into some other patterns than lib%s.a,

Re: way to tell when a package makes it to testing?

2005-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:48:03AM -0400, sean finney wrote: hey all, (this is a general, non-release related question) i was talking with another member of my local LUG, and he asked if there was a way to tell when a package was uploaded into the testing distribution. currently, the

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is a reason to separate /usr from / (which so many people think there is, though I don't understand why, since it has no semantic significance at all), why separate /lib from /etc? I don't see a semantic difference between /bin and

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Thomas, please read http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-mailing-lists-rules about not sending Cc's unless people explicitly ask to be copied. (Mail-Followup-To is non-standard and badly supported, and also unnecessary. Any decent mail user agent can deal with

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is a reason to separate /usr from / (which so many people think there is, though I don't understand why, since it has no semantic significance at all), why separate /lib from /etc? I don't see a

Re: way to tell when a package makes it to testing?

2005-05-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-05-09 kello 14:56 -0700, Steve Langasek kirjoitti: There is no log; there is only the daily output of britney, telling which packages have been accepted in. There is, however, qa.debian.org, that lets you see at a glance the versions in stable, testing, and unstable. It requires

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I may be completely wrong here, but as far as I understand, ld turns -lfoo into /usr/lib/libfoo.a and then uses that if it can find it. It might look into some other directories as well, and it might fill

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which doesn't? Minix maybe. Even ext2/3 has hashes for dir if you format it that way. Is this the Debian default for installation? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/9/05, Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't re-state something saying a different thing. GPL#0 says that a work based on the Program is a derivative work under copyright law, and then says that is to say, a work containing..., which is NOT a re-statement of a derivative work

Re: cogito_0.10-1 available

2005-05-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] [Sebastian Kuzminsky] ] Before 0.10, the upstream installed both the binaries (actually shell ] scripts) and the shell libraries in /usr/bin. Starting with 0.10, ] the shell libraries are moved to /usr/lib/cogito. ] ] Correct, except that it should

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is a reason to separate /usr from / (which so many people think there is, though I don't understand why, since it has no semantic significance at

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there is a reason to separate /usr from / (which so many people think there is, though I don't understand why, since it has no semantic significance at

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That doesn't make sense. If you get rid of the /usr vs / distinction, then there is no before /usr is mounted. But then you have a minimum 1-5GB /. That sucks. Why, exactly? I know people think it's obvious, but the lack of stated reasons

fwd: one hour cas1no payout.

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distributed batch processing

2005-05-09 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi all, I am looking at ways to distribute batch jobs on various hosts. Essentially, i have N different command lines, and M different hosts to run them on: foo -i file1.data -p 0.1 foo -i file2.data -p 0.1 foo -i file3.data -p 0.1 ... foo -i file1.data -p

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That doesn't make sense. If you get rid of the /usr vs / distinction, then there is no before /usr is mounted. But then you have a minimum 1-5GB /. That sucks. Why, exactly? I know people

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On May 8, 2005, at 08:36, Andreas Henriksson wrote: Hi everybody! Although I guess there's no chance for it to make it in, Openswan is the one on my personal wishlist. Seconded! The only RC-bug in openswan is for a newer version of the kernel which will not ship with Sarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Test of upgrade from Woody - Sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Just a couple of quick notes: the process in general was fairly smooth, though I wouldn't want to have to do it for more than a couple of machines at a time. Hardware: Home build, Celeron 1200, 640M of memory, 40G disk, ATI Radeon video with 128M memory, 3Com 3C905, cheap CMP soundcard, genuine

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I haven't replied in detail to Batist yet because I am still digesting the hash that Babelfish makes out of his Dutch article. And I don't entirely agree that the GPL is horribly drafted, by comparison with the kind of dog's breakfast that is the typical license contract. In the past, I have

Re: www.debian.org and users information

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:25:48AM -0500, Adam M. wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: Hi DD folks, Sarge is now approaching zero kelvin and folks are scrambing to get the last few bugs squashed. I was recently thinking about why the non-clued folks bash Debian with incomplete or inaccurate facts and a

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:25:46PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: On 5/9/05, Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Batist, I think you are mistaken about the meaning of the any later version copyright license... the terms are precisely '' This program is free software; you can

Re: cogito_0.10-1 available

2005-05-09 Thread Ben Finney
On 09-May-2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] [Sebastian Kuzminsky] ] the shell libraries are moved to /usr/lib/cogito. ] Correct, except that it should be /usr/share/cogito/. The FHS describes /usr/share as architecture-independent data, and gives

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Seconded! The only RC-bug in openswan is for a newer version of the kernel which will not ship with Sarge. Doesn't #291274 also affect the 2.6.8 kernel? Also, what of the mail in that bug report stating that even once it's patched to build, it doesn't really work?

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:02:32AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Kevin Mark] that would suggest that its the RM who has decided such issues in the past unilaterilly. Conventional wisdom is that release management involves so much drudgery and so little recognition that the *least* we

Re: Tricky library packaging question

2005-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Enrico, On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:06:28PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: Now, the ABI, and to a lesser extent the API of the libraries is still not stabilised, so I was planning to package libtagcoll1 and libdebtags1 only as -dev packages. That way, packages would be statically linked to

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: - / can't be on lvm, raid0, raid5, reiserfs, xfs without causing problems for /boot. Why is that? - a larger FS has more chance of failing so you risk having a fully broken system more often And two file systems have even more chance. One read only

Bug#308418: ITP: libytnef -- improved decoder for application/ms-tnef attachments

2005-05-09 Thread Joshua Kwan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joshua Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libytnef Version : 2.6 Upstream Author : Russell Hand [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : improved decoder for

Bug#308419: ITP: ytnef -- improved decoder for application/ms-tnef attachments

2005-05-09 Thread Joshua Kwan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joshua Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: ytnef Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Russell Hand [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : improved decoder for

Re: Accepted xrender 0.9.0-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stone wrote: Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:09:41 +1000 Source: xrender Binary: libxrender1-dbg libxrender-dev libxrender1 Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Stone

Accepted r-cran-maps 2.0-27-2 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Chris Lawrence
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 01:05:19 -0500 Source: r-cran-maps Binary: r-cran-maps Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0-27-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL

Accepted xrender 0.9.0-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:09:41 +1000 Source: xrender Binary: libxrender1-dbg libxrender-dev libxrender1 Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted render 0.9-1 (all source)

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:07:11 +1000 Source: render Binary: render-dev Architecture: source all Version: 0.9-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted vimoutliner 0.3.3-5 (all source)

2005-05-09 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 17:01:14 -0400 Source: vimoutliner Binary: vim-vimoutliner Architecture: source all Version: 0.3.3-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matej Cepl [EMAIL

Accepted watchdog 5.2.4-3 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Meskes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 12:48:38 +0200 Source: watchdog Binary: watchdog Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.2.4-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Meskes [EMAIL

Accepted superkaramba 0.35-3 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Jean-Michel Kelbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:12:02 +0200 Source: superkaramba Binary: superkaramba Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.35-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Jean-Michel Kelbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jean-Michel

Accepted roxen4 4.0.325-2 (i386 source all)

2005-05-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 07:42:13 +0200 Source: roxen4 Binary: roxen4-doc roxen4 Architecture: source i386 all Version: 4.0.325-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo

Accepted cvm 0.33-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Gerrit Pape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 20:36:21 + Source: cvm Binary: cvm cvm-pgsql cvm-mysql cvm-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.33-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Gerrit Pape [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Gerrit Pape

Accepted runit 1.2.3-1 (source ia64)

2005-05-09 Thread Gerrit Pape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 17:49:37 + Source: runit Binary: runit Architecture: source ia64 Version: 1.2.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Gerrit Pape [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Gerrit Pape [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted enigma 0.91-2 (i386 source all)

2005-05-09 Thread Erich Schubert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 01:27:47 -0700 Source: enigma Binary: enigma enigma-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.91-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Erich Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted pyid3lib 0.5.1-5 (powerpc all source)

2005-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 10:38:43 +0200 Source: pyid3lib Binary: python2.4-id3lib python2.2-id3lib python2.3-id3lib python-id3lib Architecture: source powerpc all Version: 0.5.1-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Jonas

Accepted php4 4:4.3.10-15 (powerpc i386 source all)

2005-05-09 Thread Adam Conrad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 02:13:19 -0600 Source: php4 Binary: php4-cgi php4-sybase php4-recode libapache-mod-php4 php4-cli php4-dev libapache2-mod-php4 php4-snmp php4-odbc php4-xslt php4-mysql php4-domxml php4-gd php4-ldap php4-imap

Accepted ace 5.4.2.1.0-4 (i386 source all)

2005-05-09 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 19:30:01 +0200 Source: ace Binary: libkokyu-dev libtao-orbsvcs-dev libace-rmcast-dev libtao1.4 libtao-xtreactor-dev libtao-qtreactor-dev libace-tkreactor5.4 libacexml-dev libace-doc libace-flreactor5.4

Accepted pinfo 0.6.8-5 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:11:20 +0200 Source: pinfo Binary: pinfo Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.8-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted kcdlabel 2.13-KDE3-3 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen Gran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 20:12:01 -0400 Source: kcdlabel Binary: kcdlabel Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.13-KDE3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Stephen Gran [EMAIL

Accepted meld 0.9.5-1 (all source)

2005-05-09 Thread Ross Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 21:08:22 +0100 Source: meld Binary: meld Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description:

Accepted roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 0-8 (all source)

2005-05-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:46:10 +0200 Source: roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 Binary: roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 Architecture: source all Version: 0-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo

Accepted roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 0-8 (all source)

2005-05-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:42:47 +0200 Source: roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 Binary: roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 Architecture: source all Version: 0-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Turbo

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