Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:46:25 +0200 "Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/22 Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:39:29 -0700 > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > Is there any reason this isn't the default behaviour? > >> > >> It is the de

Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-21 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/8/22 Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:39:29 -0700 > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Is there any reason this isn't the default behaviour? >> >> It is the default. >> > > Hmmm...I don't know how mine got to this state then. Probably did > dpkg-rec

Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:39:29 -0700 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any reason this isn't the default behaviour? > > It is the default. > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/fontconfig-config.templates: > > Template: fontconfig/enable_bitmaps > Type: boolean > Default: false > Descri

Work-needing packages report for Aug 22, 2008

2008-08-21 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 464 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 120 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:32:14AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > I recently had trouble with a website that uses Times and Helvetica > which I was able to determine was due to unscaled fonts not printing > well. It took some digging but I eventually, after exploring links and > browsing /etc/fo

bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hi all, I recently had trouble with a website that uses Times and Helvetica which I was able to determine was due to unscaled fonts not printing well. It took some digging but I eventually, after exploring links and browsing /etc/fonts based on a link about something else for mozilla that I was l

Bug#496010: ITP: ttf-togoshi-mincho -- Japanese TrueType font, Togoshi Mincho

2008-08-21 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: ttf-togoshi-mincho Version: 20071218-1 Upstream Author: mshio URL: http://togoshi-font.sourceforge.jp/ License: Wada Laboratory (BSD-like licence. It is same as sazanami

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > It is done in a installation where PXE installing work, and the first > step in the compatibility test is to install Debian Edu automatically > with all questions preseeded. If installation work, the hard drive > work. [...] Your idea is good, an

Bug#495998: ITP: jardiff -- tool to visualise API differences between two JAR files

2008-08-21 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: jardiff Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Antony Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.osjava.org/jardiff/ * License

On changelogs and version tracking

2008-08-21 Thread Don Armstrong
Recently a bug that was brought to my attention[1] told me that I should remind everyone about the importance of ordering of changelogs in their package for the purposes of version control in the BTS. Be careful when you reorder or add back changelog entries. If you return to a previous version by

Bug#495992: ITP: failsafec - memory-safe implementation of the full ANSI C language

2008-08-21 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: failsafec Version: 1.0.0.1662-1 Upstream Author: Yutaka OIWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: https://staff.aist.go.jp/y.oiwa/FailSafeC/index-en.html License: THE Q PUBLIC LICENSE vers

Bug#495985: ITP: tcpdf -- TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF files on-the-fly

2008-08-21 Thread Alessandro De Zorzi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessandro De Zorzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tcpdf Version : 4.0.020 Upstream Author : Nicola Asuni * URL : http://www.tcpdf.org * License : GNU Lesser General Public License Programming Lang: PHP Descripti

Re: Downloading packages with AptPkg (libapt-pkg-perl)

2008-08-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:18 +0200, Mark de Vries wrote: > [ I'm not subscribed to the list, will look at archives, but if you ] > [ can please cc me in replies. Thanks ] > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use libapt-pkg-perl to [log story short] and then download > the packag

Downloading packages with AptPkg (libapt-pkg-perl)

2008-08-21 Thread Mark de Vries
[ I'm not subscribed to the list, will look at archives, but if you ] [ can please cc me in replies. Thanks ] Hi, I'm trying to use libapt-pkg-perl to [log story short] and then download the packages but I can't find a way to get the actual URI to download the .deb

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:07:43PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Mike Bird] > > No one objected to having apt decide by giving priority > > precedence over lexical: > It sounds good until you notice just how many dependency resolvers we > have floating around. dselect, apt, aptitude, pbuilder

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-08-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Mike Bird] > No one objected to having apt decide by giving priority > precedence over lexical: It sounds good until you notice just how many dependency resolvers we have floating around. dselect, apt, aptitude, pbuilder, sbuild - at least. Don't know if synaptic has its own or borrows from li

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that > Bdale came up with during Debconf that we write a hardware > compatibility test of sorts that hardware vendors could run on their > own hardware to test whether Debian works on their system. I saw Bdales talk an

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-21 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:24:07AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > So, that's probably it at this point. I should have a look at bdale's > talk once it becomes available at meetings-archive.debian.net, but that > doesn't yet seem to be the case. If someone who was at bdale's talk has > anything to

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-08-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 00:52:44 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > The only perl scripts provided by Essential packages are > > /usr/bin/scriptreplay This one comes from bsdutils, and it's fairly short (around 30 lines with comments). > /usr/bin/chkdupexe And this one is a bit longer, but still shor

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-08-21 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu August 21 2008 03:22:41 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:53:49AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Package exim4: > > Provides: default-mta > > > > Package: foo > > Depends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent > > > > This should be enough to single out one MTA as the o

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:18:25PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > Why don't you build your own CDD? Because Debian Integrated Solutions (that were formerly called Custom Debian Distributions) are not forks, but 100 % internal projects :) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med p

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > I offer to fix up all packages to exim4 | mail-transport-agent *and* Don't do it on any packages that tagged the bug wontfix, at least not without asking first (AND getting a positive response). Some of the packages have real reasons to prefer an M

Bug#495942: ITP: libhtml-formfu-model-dbic-perl -- integrate HTML::FormFu with DBIx::Class

2008-08-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhtml-formfu-model-dbic-perl Version : 0.03002 Upstream Author : Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/html-formfu/ * License : GPL-1+ | Ar

Bug#495940: ITP: feedvalidator -- advanced feed validator

2008-08-21 Thread Noah Slater
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: feedvalidator Version : 0 Upstream Author : Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://feedvalidator.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : adv

Bug#495933: ITP: samefile -- samefile reads a list of filenames from stdin and finds identical files regardless of their names.

2008-08-21 Thread Thorsten Schmale
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thorsten Schmale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: samefile Version : 2.12 Upstream Author : Jens Schweikhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://www.schweikhardt.net/samefile/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Des

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 11:19 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37:38AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Where did you discuss this mass filing of (useless) bugs before you > > > submitted them? > > The previous discussions has lead nowhere. No use in discussing it yet

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37:38AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Where did you discuss this mass filing of (useless) bugs before you > > > submitted them? > > The previous discussions has lead nowhere. No use in discussing it yet > again, instead it's time to act! > But mass-bug-filing wit

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:53:49AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> > Er, no, that wouldn't happen. As long as packages correctly depend on > >> > default-mta | mail-transport-agent, this will have no impact on upgrades. > >> This can happen if user has 'default-mta' package installed, and

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:58:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:07:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0300, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > It is possible; I'm currently awaiting feedback from the OpenLDAP > > > comaintainers before we

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37:38AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Where did you discuss this mass filing of (useless) bugs before you > > submitted them? The previous discussions has lead nowhere. No use in discussing it yet again, instead it's time to act! > > In particular, these bugs are *c

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Steve Langasek schrieb: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:29:35AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=andreas%40fatal.se > >>> Your packag depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent. Exim (v4) is >>> generally >>> considered the default mta in Debian

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:29:35AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=andreas%40fatal.se > > Your packag depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent. Exim (v4) is > > generally > > considered the default mta in Debian and is also the package prov

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Peter Palfrader
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=andreas%40fatal.se On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello! > > Your packag depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent. Exim (v4) is generally > considered the default mta in Debian and is also the package providing > mail-tran