Shouldn't apt-listchanges be Priority: standard?

2007-12-18 Thread Christian Perrier
From Bug#456977: Steve Langasek commented while closing this bug report: > > It is recommended that you use apt-listchanges on your system, to be > notified of package behavior changes such as this. Could we consider increasign the priority of apt-listchanges so that it is installed by defaul

Re: ATI 3D Treiber-Probleme

2007-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Daniel Leidert wrote: $ fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest Major opcode of failed request: 144 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X_GLXVendorPrivate) Serial number of failed request: 41 Current s

Testers sought for svgalib on non-i386/amd64

2007-12-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I've just finished porting svgalib to non-i386/amd64 systems, I think it should build at least on sparc, mips, powerpc. I've not tested on other boxes but except for alpha it should build on mostly everything. I'd appreciate if someone could test on any arch (except alpha and the current supp

#BUG_INTERACTIVE (Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch_

2007-12-18 Thread Philippe Cloutier
> 3. I'm definitely opposed to a feature which will pop up a *terminal* > where a user has to do something before he can proceed reporting a bug. > Sorry, but this won't happen in rng. I might consider such a thing if it > could be scripted to use QT or even GTK but a terminal popping up in a > G

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:44:02PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have read quite some bug scripts today. I am kind of wondering (maybe > > jsut > > my imagination being limited) why you aren't just unconditionally including > > those data instead of

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-18 Thread Ian Jackson
"Leo \"costela\" Antunes" writes ("Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description"): > While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we shouldn't > file bugs for it while there's no better place to put this information. > It may reduce the objectiveness of some

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Kris Deugau writes ("Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)"): > Literally and exactly that - I want to be able to tell it to put > daemon.* in /var/daemonlogs/mainlog, mail.info in > /var/mailbits/mail.info, mail.debug in /tmp/debuglogs/maildebug.log, and > just to be perverse (and more

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:19:25 +0100 Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Well, for my own needs, emdebian-tools and apt-cross. Every bug report > > against apt-cross would have benefited from getting answers to the > > questions that are

Bug#456980: ITP: libxapool-java -- connection pooling for JDBC

2007-12-18 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libxapool-java Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Experlog * URL : http://xapool.experlog.com * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : connection pooli

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > Well, for my own needs, emdebian-tools and apt-cross. Every bug report > against apt-cross would have benefited from getting answers to the > questions that are now deployed in the bug script (that is why the > questions are in the bug script). I

Re: etch installer with 2.6.23 (Re: why does ubuntu cripple alsa?!?

2007-12-18 Thread Alan Ezust
Wow, that's the first Debian installer that made it all the way through on this machine. Thanks! --alan On Dec 13, 2007 2:38 AM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:00, Alan Ezust wrote: > > True, I *can* install debian, except that I was trying t

impending libclamav library transition

2007-12-18 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello, I'm writing to all of you to let you know about an impending libclamav soname transition. So long as your application doesn't use any private structures or functions from clamav, you shouldn't need to do anything. My first round of testing shows that all packages build from source against

Re: [RFH] Bug#454179: kdesvn killed by SIGBUS

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Vincent Fourmond schrieb: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> I need help with an RC against kdesvn. >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454179 >> In short: >> If the user runs the (amd64) version from the archive (0.14.1-1), it >> crashes with a SIBGUS error. >> I asked the user to recompile

Re: [RFH] Bug#454179: kdesvn killed by SIGBUS

2007-12-18 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Michael Biebl wrote: > I need help with an RC against kdesvn. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454179 > In short: > If the user runs the (amd64) version from the archive (0.14.1-1), it > crashes with a SIBGUS error. > I asked the user to recompile kdesvn with the nostrip option, t

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Neil Williams
Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 18.12.2007 03:47 schrieb David Nusinow: >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:47:39AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >>> Why was I opposed to implement this. >>> >>> 3. I'm definitely opposed to a feature which will pop up a *terminal* >>> where a user has to do something before

Bug#456959: RFP: wnpp -- makehuman: software for the modelling of 3-Dimensional characters

2007-12-18 Thread Stefano Costa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: wnpp Version: Upstream Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.dedalo-3d.com/index.php License: GPL 3 Description: MakeHuman ©

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:06:21AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >> 3. I'm definitely opposed to a feature which will pop up a *terminal* > >> where a user has to do something before he can proceed reporting a bug. > >> Sorry, but this won't happen in rng. I might consider such a thing if it

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#411639: x11-common: There should be a way to set per-user environment variables which last the whole X session]

2007-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:29:33AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Hi everyone, > >I'd appreciate some brief commentary on this bug from people who are > more aware of the minutia of shells and so forth than I am. Is this really > accurate, or is there a way that the submitter and myself are una

Re: Unmet dependencies on Sparc when building wordnet and fslview

2007-12-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:32:02AM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:40:52AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > if you look at the buildd report for latest wordnet on sparc at > > > > > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=wordnet&ver=1%3A3.0-6&arch

Re: Bug#456599: ITP: dvtm -- Tiling window management for the console

2007-12-18 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
Pierre Habouzit wrote: What would be the advantage i get by switching to your code? Well if recent rote support multi byte encodings and have fixed their handling of colors for rote launched inside rote, probably not a lot. The color issue is probably still present. I think I understand

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#411639: x11-common: There should be a way to set per-user environment variables which last the whole X session]

2007-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 16 December 2007 16:29, David Nusinow wrote: >I'd appreciate some brief commentary on this bug from people who are > more aware of the minutia of shells and so forth than I am. Is this really > accurate, or is there a way that the submitter and myself are unaware of > for setting

Re: Bug#456599: ITP: dvtm -- Tiling window management for the console

2007-12-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:24:39AM +, Marc Andre Tanner wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >On dim, déc 16, 2007 at 09:19:54 +, Albin Tonnerre wrote: > >>Package: wnpp > >>Severity: wishlist > >>Owner: Albin Tonnerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> > >>* Package name: dvtm > >> Version

Re: Bug#456599: ITP: dvtm -- Tiling window management for the console

2007-12-18 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
Pierre Habouzit wrote: On dim, déc 16, 2007 at 09:19:54 +, Albin Tonnerre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Albin Tonnerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dvtm Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Anselm R. Garbe, Marc Andre Tanner * URL : http://ww

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: > 1. I *personally* hated that some packages sent a *huge* amount of > 2. I *personally* was very annoyed by packages with very long presubj > 3. I'm definitely opposed to a feature which will pop up a *terminal* > 4. I was *personally* very annoyed

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > I haven't implemented presubj text in my patch, so this is a non-issue > > for that specifically. > > Yes, but I've merged this bug with a similar one where the reporter > wanted rng to support presubj. And presubj is the most important thin

Bug#456885: ITP: thaifonts-arundina -- Thai DejaVu-compatible fonts

2007-12-18 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: thaifonts-arundina Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Boonlert Wutikornkhanarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://linux.

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 18.12.2007 03:47 schrieb David Nusinow: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:47:39AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Why was I opposed to implement this. >> >> 2. I *personally* was very annoyed by packages with very long presubj >> text, which I doubt anyone reads anyway. Since I don't want rng to be

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

2007-12-18 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:21:25AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > A few things: why is it called "tcpwatch" when it only watches HTTP > > requests? A better name would be "httpwatch". > > it's named that way by upstream. I want to keep confusion to a minimum > and don't see much benefit in renami

Re: Unmet dependencies on Sparc when building wordnet

2007-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Hamish Moffatt wrote: What is the usual response time? I sended the mail 7 days ago. In my experience, you may not get a response but action will be taken anyway. Well, I was asking because http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=wordnet did not changed since one

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:47:14AM +, David Nusinow wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:47:39AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > Since I received a terrifying amount insults(!) via mail for not > > implementing this feature request after my last blog entry, where I > > asked for help developin

Re: Unmet dependencies on Sparc when building wordnet

2007-12-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 08:18:13AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> asking for a give-back on [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do the trick. > > What is the usual response time? I sended the mail 7 days ago. In my experience, you may not get a response but ac