Re: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:39:28 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > maybe i'll just go create the debian2 operating system or the > > google2 search engine. brilliant! > Or you could rip off the name of a standard Windows program. Oh wait, > you already did that. Actually, both mplayer and mpl

Re: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 23:56 -0400, compn wrote: > mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users. > > it doesnt help that debian is using that name as a package: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mplayer/news/20110817T173341Z.html > > debian and uoti are setting themselves (and us) up fo

mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

2011-08-18 Thread compn
mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users. it doesnt help that debian is using that name as a package: http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mplayer/news/20110817T173341Z.html debian and uoti are setting themselves (and us) up for explaining to users which version is better. why each vers

Bug#638403: ITP: gbkeeper -- Book Keeping ncurses interface/accounting/database editor

2011-08-18 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
Package: wnpp Version: 0.9-1 Checked WNPP/apt for the package and didn't find anything like it. I already made the package for private purposes before checking. It was made as there was nothing like it in apt apparently. The only programs existing were saldi(php) and nonfree windows programs (an

Re: Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
Systems running SE Linux tend not to have this problem. In most cases the daemons which use RPC services are not permitted to bind to any of the ports that are reserved for services and therefore such a bind attempt fails with EPERM, glibc will just decrement the port number and try again when

Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 19:03 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:41:22PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:39:16PM +0200, Jan Möbius wrote: > > > sometimes rpc.statd binds to port 631 udp which is used by cups. > > > Therefore cups is unable to bind

Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-18 Thread brian m. carlson
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:41:22PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:39:16PM +0200, Jan Möbius wrote: > > sometimes rpc.statd binds to port 631 udp which is used by cups. Therefore > > cups is unable to bind to its port and no printers get discovered. > > > > Rebooting the

Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:39:16PM +0200, Jan Möbius wrote: > Package: nfs-common > Version: 1:1.2.4-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > sometimes rpc.statd binds to port 631 udp which is used by cups. Therefore > cups is unable to bind to its port and no printers get discovered. > > Rebooting the

Processed: reassign 638322 to general

2011-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 638322 general Bug #638322 [nfs-common] nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup Bug reassigned from package 'nfs-common' to 'general'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions nfs-utils/1:1.2.4-1. > thanks St

Re: Integrating Emdebian Grip into Debian

2011-08-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 04:31:47PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Emdebian has long described itself as an "official sub project of > Debian" but this status has never actually been granted by Debian. The > discrepancy recently led to discussions with the Debian Project Leader > and on the debian-em