Re: Asking Debconf questions about database data

2005-08-06 Thread sean finney
hi phillip, On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:08:57PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > what's the common practise if a package gets purged and depends on > user-supplied data in a database? In this case these are DNS zones (it's > about `mydns-mysql'). Currently there is a Debconf question in postrm, > which

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas Hood wrote: > It is not even useful as a which(1) replacement. Whereas "which" > prints the pathname of the first executable file on the PATH, Note that the Debian 'which' is different than the which on other systems. The traditional which is a csh script that intentionally sources the us

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came > > up with that idea. > > Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change?

Re: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-08-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:22:19AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > > libtagcoll0, Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Already asked for removal, now supserseded by libtagcoll1-{dev,pic}. I added this to the exclusion list. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-08-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:34:14AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > thanks for the list. Do you want updates? Sure. Exclusions mostly. Whatever needs to be excluded from the list because it doesn't need to be/won't be transitioned. -- Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joey Hess [Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:46:20 -0400]: > Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers >kdebase >kdenetwork Fixed in SVN, will be in the next upload. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability

Re: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-08-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:04:30PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > The attached list has been generated with an up to date Packages > file for the following architectures: alpha arm hppa hurd-i386 i386 > ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc. The list and script can be found in

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >localepurge > The next upload will contain the correction. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Marco d'Itri wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Thomas Hood wrote: > > > Is there anything else which dash supports but posh does not? > > command -v > > Which is the well known which(1) replacement, and basically mandatory > in a sane Debian shell. I keep wondering why people bother with posh. "

Re: Asking Debconf questions about database data

2005-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what's the common practise if a package gets purged and depends on > user-supplied data in a database? In this case these are DNS zones (it's > about `mydns-mysql'). Currently there is a Debconf question in postrm, > which is definitely wrong because I ca

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/6/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Didn't I (also) send you a much later version? > > Hmm.. I cant find that, but yes I thin u did. Can you dig that up? Sure: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222324&msg=19 Just on

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:58:15PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimar?es wrote: > IMHO this is a profound disrespect for the great work done in Debian by Bruce. Are we thinking of the same guy? > And to boot, an e-mail calling for curriculae for a recruiting party > is on-topic to a DEVELOPERS list No

Re: New C++ Packages

2005-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:58:34PM +0300, Mattias Nordstrom wrote: > Hey everyone, > Is it ok to start uploading new (as in completely new) packages written > in C++, if the libraries they depend on have been upgraded to the right > C++ ABI? Yes. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

New C++ Packages

2005-08-06 Thread Mattias Nordstrom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, Is it ok to start uploading new (as in completely new) packages written in C++, if the libraries they depend on have been upgraded to the right C++ ABI? - -- Mattias Nordstrom CTO Realnode Oy [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.realnode.com -BEG

Bug#321654: RFA: debtags: Enables support for package tags -- optional

2005-08-06 Thread Enrico Zini
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, I've recently been making a new debtags version at least once a day: either some chunk of the gcc migration, or yet another APT ABI change, or who knows what's going to happen tomorrow. I'm tired, and I haven't been writing any line of code for it anymore si

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: > But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure > of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ Sysvconfig keeps records. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Aug-05, 16:22 (CDT), Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use > our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links. > > But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite > sure of just wh

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Re: Asking Debconf questions about database data

2005-08-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's the common practise if a package gets purged and depends on > user-supplied data in a database? In this case these are DNS zones (it's > about `mydns-mysql'). Currently there is a Debconf question in postrm, > which is definitely wrong because I cann

Asking Debconf questions about database data

2005-08-06 Thread Philipp Kern
Dear Debian fellows, what's the common practise if a package gets purged and depends on user-supplied data in a database? In this case these are DNS zones (it's about `mydns-mysql'). Currently there is a Debconf question in postrm, which is definitely wrong because I cannot rely on Debconf being i