Re: rock around hwclock.sh

On Wednesday 13 April 2011 08.05:23 Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > ii) Possibly, `hwclock.sh stop` should be run more frequently than just > once on shutdown, because it sometimes happens that the system doesn't > shut down correctly. If that happens after some time correction (like > DST), system tim

Python 3 as default? (Re: "Python2.6 as default")

Hi, On Tuesday 12 April 2011 01.22:55 Scott Kitterman wrote: > The notion that /usr/bin/python pointing to any python3 version in the > near term is anything other than crazy talk is, well, crazy. Agreed. However, it would be interesting to track which of the bg/major python packages/frameworks

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

On Monday 04 April 2011 18.04:20 Luk Claes wrote: > The most obvious reason to not degrade bash to Priority: important is > obviously that one needs to declare a dependency on bash when it's used > in a package. Which means quite some packages will need to be changed. Do you have any kind of estim

Re: Bug#620821: ITP: vpnautoconnect -- Automatically reconnect VPNs created by NetworkManager

On Monday 04 April 2011 14.15:37 barraud wrote: > vpnautoconnect is a daemon that allow you to reconnect automatically > (at startup too) a vpn created with network manager. It can reconnect Can I please have a daemon that monitors if vpnautoconnect works correctly? perhaps vpnautoconnectmonitor

Re: Hay one more, in GNU World

Hi, On Sunday 03 April 2011 11.57:02 Snow Star wrote: > We are developing on good infrastructure Yours and Ubuntu, > We want to develop on Your and Ubuntu GNU / Linux, and also to become > great friends of the GNU world, and so our community becomes stronger. > > Our visions are similar to Yours

Re: Is BTS down?

Heyho! [bts down?] Note that Googlebot or other bots sometimes hit (some of) the bts mirrors quite hard. I repeatedly had the case where using a different bts mirror (via static entry in /etc/hosts) temporarily helped. cheers -- vbi -- Think of it as a steak haché sur un petit pain aux gra

Re: Process to adopt moribund packages?

On Saturday 12 March 2011 14.50:53 Neil Williams wrote: > roy hills wrote: > > I know the current package maintainer can file an RFA, or orphan the > > package, but is there a process for a new maintainer to take the > > package over if the current maintainer doesn't update it but doesn't > > requ

Re: Frage zu eine DEB Paket

Hi, On Wednesday 09 March 2011 02.19:42 linus.kaltenbach wrote: > Hi ich hab ne Frage,wieso haben sie in Ihrem Repo kein OpenBVE drin > http://openbve.trainsimcentral.co.uk/ The answer to "why is X not in Debian" for free software packages is mostly: because nobody has done the work (yet.) I ha

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

Heyho! On Friday 04 March 2011 14.16:34 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Sorry, could you explain how it works in python, when a given binary > package contains stuff for both python 2.6 and 2.7, for example? I'm not involved with Python packages, so somebody correct me please. The way it's done is that

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

Yodel again! On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17.02:11 Marius Vollmer wrote: > It shows a speed up between factor six and two in our environment (ext4 > on a slowish flash drive) . I am not sure whether messing with the > fundamentals of dpkg is worth a factor of two in performance To not be all negati

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17.02:11 Marius Vollmer wrote: > - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into > half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a > big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status. You don't want to do this. While prod

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 10.43:44 Ana Guerrero wrote: > Debian is applying as mentoring organization to the Google Summer of Code > (GSoC) this year Dealing with the init scripts / service enable / disable mess. See current d-devel discussion. As much a discussion / social skills project as a

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

Hi! On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03.38:42 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: > > Hi all, > > [snip] > > > BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. > > This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are > upstream and other distros just not de

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

On Saturday 26 February 2011 21.44:07 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'd like us to decide on a policy about enable/disable flags in > /etc/default in general. +1 on those who don't like to have them. The init scripts (or whatever) need to * provide a sane default for startup order * allow users to

Re: Bug#612694: ITP: scanmonitord -- scanner button daemon

Hi, On Thursday 10 February 2011 01.32:12 Jakub Wilk wrote: >Description : scanner button daemon > > Scanmonitord is a daemon which runs device monitors on one or more > devices. [...] I'm curious (and you might want to add it to the description): does this tie in with modern desktop sy

Re: Kernel

Heyho! On Tuesday 08 February 2011 22.57:51 Pontus Andersson wrote: > Hi. I like to make a request regarding the Debian Linux kernel. > I think the "tux boot" should be compiled with the Debian logo.. > With tux boot I mean that some distros e.g. Arch and slackware boots with > the logo > while di

Re: Qt3 removal rational

On Wednesday 09 February 2011 01.12:57 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Of course, we can simply orphan Qt 3, and hope somebody will step up to > maintain it; we are unconvinced this is a responsible step for us to take > as it would place the maintenance burden of a large package on

Re: The "node" command in Debian

On Monday 07 February 2011 13.54:24 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 1. they can declare a conflict with each other, so that the packaging >system will never let both get installed in the same system. JavaScript and AX.25 sounds like it might be quite a distance in terms of people involve

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

On Friday 04 February 2011 12.47:21 Fernando Lemos wrote: > do, say, an "apt-get upgrade", apt prepares an upgrade "plan" that > uses a given set of packages. If apt wouldn't lock [...] > new plan would have to be created, the user would > have to be asked for confirmation again. Doesn't sound that

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00.54:44 Silvio Cesare wrote: > I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux > distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is > automatically generated. Cool! Maybe I have missed a pointer or whatever: how did you compute this s

Re: Bug#566126: ITP: openpgm -- Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol

Hi Steven, On Thursday 13 January 2011 13.18:58 Steven McCoy wrote: > A year later and I have a basic Autoconf/Automake system in trunk for > OpenPGM ready to package for Debian. Nice to see progress, note that I'm not involved in zeromq packaging anymore (except to sponsor the odd upload) be

Bug#607043: ITP: jwhoisserver -- Java Whois Server - a small whois server written in java

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian von Bidder -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +++ * Package name: jwhoisserver Version : 3.3.0 or newer Upstream Author : Klaus Zerwes zero-sys.net * URL : http://jwhoisserver.net/ * License : Affero

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

Hi Arthur, On Monday 20 September 2010 11.37:04 Obey Arthur Liu wrote: [GSoC report] Hmm. It would have been nice to hear about what the students did and how far they got in their GSoC projects instead of what they did at DC10. Exactly like David Kalnischkies wrote his summary. (That said, TH

Re: Bits from the Security Team

On Friday 19 October 2007 17.52:29 Steve Kemp wrote: > I don't believe that post contains significant new information, > (except that I like pies!), and as such I didn't believe it deserved > massive visibility. That you like pies is important. Seriously: I think exactly this kind of "not r

Bits from the Security Team

Hi everybody, Allow me to point out the message at which is really a Bits from the Security Team. Why is - once again - a message that I'd consider appropriate for d-d, or perhaps even d-d-a (though I admit that the r

Re: Find complete set of debs

On Friday 07 September 2007 09.48:36 Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Adrian von Bidder [Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:49:19 +0200]: > > No, all the other .deb packages that come from the same source pkg as > > the one I have. (But usually I only want i386 and all architectures.) > > > >

Re: Find complete set of debs

On Thursday 06 September 2007 19.33:50 Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:45:28 +0200 > > Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's > > very crude and probably buggy) download all .de

Find complete set of debs

Hi! [please cc: me. Thank you.] How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's very crude and probably buggy) download all .debs (and for bonus points the source pkgs, too) that belong to some .deb that I have (same src package, same version)? cheers -- vbi -- > So do

unarchiving doesn't work?

Yo all! I'd be happy if anybody can have a look at #376910: according to the message from madduck (third from the bottom atm), the bug should be open, but somehow this didn't work. thanks & greetings -- vbi -- Alle schlauen Amerikaner arbeiten bei der NSA, und die dürfen nicht mit Aus

Re: Please all dependency info into your init.d script

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 20.04:38 Russ Allbery wrote: > Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Slapd may require an > > external SQL server if a suitable backend is defined, and I guess that > > a whole slew of other applications have similar problems. > > You should require everything you mi

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

On Monday 04 June 2007 14.20:46 Frank Küster wrote: > Michael Welle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The german term 'Sturmbahn' as in 'Sturmbahnfahrer' describes a trail > > were you have to vanquish some barriers to train your physical > > fitness. [...] > [1] and I'm german, not swiss as my sig

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

On Friday 01 June 2007 20.51:27 Kris Deugau wrote: > Instead, we try to make them work > > > as far as their dependencies are met. > > ... which means what, exactly, if my program expects > /usr/lib/apache2/suexec but the system (stock Debian sarge) only has > /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2?  Or vice ve

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22.46:30 Kris Deugau wrote: > I've been writing custom utilities and libraries for various systems at > work, and with one particular project recently it's become (more) > important to know exactly which Debian release it's running on (at some > stage or other between versi

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

On Friday 04 May 2007 20.52:07 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Don't forget the GUI tools: > x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > gnome-09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > k09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 You forgot to make Gürkan and a few others happy: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.app -- vbi

Re: To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

On Friday 04 May 2007 08:45, sean finney wrote: > hi, > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:52 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > An unfortunate string of events lead me to upgrade a server from sarge > > to etch, using the mysql-server-4.1 package and stupidly assuming that > >

To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

Please DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN: +++ $ apt-cache policy mysql-server-4.1 mysql-server-4.1: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5.0.32-7etch1 Version table: 5.0.38-3 0 600 http://syydelaervli unstable/main Packages 5.0.38-1 0 700 http://syydelaervli lenny/main Packages 5.0

Re: Xorg 7.2

On Thursday 19 April 2007 03.15:21 David Nusinow wrote: > We > need to push XCB forward though, and how to deal with the java bug > mentioned in that post isn't clear yet. What I don't quite understand is how a non-free package should block this upgrade. Yes, Java is used by a lot of people and

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20.51:16 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > man procmailrc On gmail? -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg pgpjhb3v1ODBT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Xorg 7.2

Yo! Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent announcement on David Nusinov's blog at . I wish such stuff would be posted to the mailing lists and

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

On Sunday 01 April 2007 23:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 01 Apr 2007, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > IIRC signing subkeys are not accepted at package uploads, so maybe > > that's what you were thinking about. > > AFAIK, they are. Policy URLs are not a

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

On Friday 30 March 2007 08.47:53 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > OK, so please take this honest. > >         I don't think I have ever been dishonest about it. Amused, >  perhaps, dishonest, no. Language issue. s/honest/serious/ Admittedly, I'm guessing. cheers -- vbi -- The young lady had an

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

On Thursday 29 March 2007 06.24:52 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:52:33 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > You do not handle signing subkeys? > > > > What makes you think th

Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit

On Saturday 17 March 2007 09.29:10 Peter Samuelson wrote: > "x86=64" would have been > amusing too.  Is it a veiled Commodore 64 reference, or is it > quoted-printable? Not to speak of broken mime decoders that would just display x86d. I'd rather say it's to do something with Georg Orwell. If 2+

Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit

On Thursday 15 March 2007 20.02:14 Greg Folkert wrote: > And for clarity, IA32 cover 32-bit Intel and works for AMD 32-bit > processors. IA64 is the Itanium series of processors, amd64 cover the > AMD K8/Opteron processors AND the Intel emt64* Intel processors. ... and just for completeness: x86_6

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 20.23:16 Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) > > Maybe I should compile lintian by hand ... tried using sources from > feisty but they need to much dependencies ... If you're building packages for Debian,

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

On Monday 05 February 2007 17.23:28 Maarten Verwijs wrote: > I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch. > This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of > users. Hi, Manually? I'd just like to point out that for 27 machines, setting up a fai server

Re: For Those Who Care About: Switzerland/Liechtenstein

On Friday 02 February 2007 09:33, Sam Hocevar wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, martin f krafft wrote: > > PS: Almost all... as first official act, I herewith announce the > > nomination of Mark J. Ray as an honorary member of debian.ch. > > Honorary members have no rights and no obligations, but they

Re: Etch Software RAID Upgrade Trouble & Suggested Installer Improvements

Yo! Having some rescue tools available in the installer medium is nice, but I usually prefer to use some full live CD system (Knoppix in my case) for the more involved rescue operations. (Especially since I usually download the businesscard ISO to install - and limiting what's being shipped is

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

On Monday 01 January 2007 22:20, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 01 janvier 2007 à 17:51 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > > On Jan 01, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > rejecting email blindly based on data as > > > reliable as RBLs is likely to give tons of false positives. > > >

Re: Bug#403584: RFH: apt-cacher -- caching proxy system for Debian package and source files

[There is a X-debbugs-cc header which allows easier handling of bug mail gated to the lists] On Monday 18 December 2006 10:16, Eduard Bloch wrote: > And/Or help developing or rewritting the incomplete designated > successor, apt-cacher-ng (currently C++ with some sugar). Not to dissuade anyone f

Re: Bug#401157: ITP: ingres -- Ingres 2006 Business Open Source Database

On Friday 01 December 2006 11:10, Paul J Stevens wrote: > The Ingres 2006 DBMS can support a wide range of applications, from > ad hoc queries to large-scale, mission-critical production applications > which require 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week service. The Ingres 2006 > Intelligent DBMS features

Re: Fwd: FC6 downloads and installs

On Saturday 25 November 2006 00:50, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:52:36PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > I *guess* that Debian has a much higher percentage of downloads through > > mirrors where we don't have the log files compared to FC, so this &

Re: Fwd: FC6 downloads and installs

On Sunday 19 November 2006 01:35, Michelle Konzack wrote: [FC core download stats] > Blahblah! ... > So the download statistics would be false anyway. It's not necessary to be so arrogant. In their email, they acknowledge that proxies etc. have influenced their stats. Their numbers are a lower b

Re: [RFC] new virtual package names for optical discs burning applications

On Friday 17 November 2006 15:22, George Danchev wrote: > * `cd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, cdrskin, (cdrdao ?) > * `dvd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, dvd+rw-tools and > dvdrecord I don't know the programs in question exactly, but how likely is it that even wod

Re: Request for Help/Comments: fvwm95

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 16:10, Daniel Martin wrote: [killing off fvwm95] > Now, what do people think of this idea? Anything that lessens the number of different window managers in Debian is a Good Thing(tm) ;-) popularity contest says this about the various fvwm packages: #rank name

Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

Yodel! Since I hate having tons of configuration files lying around from my various tests (and build-dep installing orgies), I do "dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -f 3 -d \ | xargs dpkg -P" every now and then. Actually, I first look at the list, and this proved very important here... What happened:

Re: ITP: libauthen-simple-perl -- Simple and consistent framework for authentication

On Friday 03 November 2006 11:12, Xavier Oswald wrote: > Description : Simple and consistent framework for authentication > > This is the basis package for various authentication methods. This description should be a bit extended. Authentication in what context? Do I need this when I want

Re: bts behaviour - versioning issue?

On Saturday 23 September 2006 11:17, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] Ok, thanks everybody. (Steve, I hope you do something today besides explaining things to me ;-) cheers -- vbi -- Protect your privacy - encrypt your email: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro pgpBWHkmganv2.pgp Description: PGP signat

bts behaviour - versioning issue?

Yodel! When I look at , I'm confused at the information for #309511, which is listed as outstanding (wishlist), but "Done" and "Archived". Can anybody tell me why? cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys pgpdhdKKN92N8.pgp Description:

I want one of those!

Now I'm not a buildd operator nor do I have any experience on non-x86 arches, but a 16 core MIPS 1U server that only pulls 50W power and that ships with Debian preinstalled just has a very high coolness factor :-) http://www.movidis.com/products/rev.asp http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr

Re: VMware packaging

On Sunday 13 August 2006 02:25, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le dim 13 août 2006 02:06, Peter Collingbourne a écrit : > > Dear all, > > > > I found there were no VMware-related packages in the official > > repository, nor any way of creating them. Thus I propose to create > > a tool that will build (f

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

On Thursday 03 August 2006 06:24, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the > installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer. Anyobdy (Marco d'Itri?) can add some comments regardin

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

On Monday 31 July 2006 08:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I > believe there are a large percentage of machines without > popularity-contest installed for all the architectures, and that this > do not skew the result significantly for any of the architecture. I'd be prepared to believe *some* bias

Re: New Naming Convention

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 19:22, Jeremy Herndon wrote: > We have used 10 toy stoy names over a period of 10 years. That is a good > round number and would be a logical place to start anew. Logical? Hmm, well, as far as I know "logic" has something to do with causes and effects, which I can't see h

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 00:13, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > > Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can we get greylisting now? > > > > We have it, duh. Have you not been paying attention? > > We don't have it yet. Have you not been pa

Greylisting: discussion should stop here, for now (Re: greylisting on debian.org?)

Apart from the fact that the opinions seem to be set (and haven't really changed since the last time the discussion came up IIRC, so we really can stop arguing - nothing new for quite some time...): am I correct in my observation that nobody who has participated in this discussion up to now is

NFSv4

On Monday 17 July 2006 17:00, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:18:41PM +, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: > > There was a new request for another approved release goal, that is NFS > > v4 support. We approved that goal. > > AFAICS, that goal has been completed for a while. Sm

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

[sending systems that don't deal with greylisting] On Monday 17 July 2006 17:36, Magnus Holmgren wrote: [...] > Also, this kind of information can be > shared so that not every mail admin has to find it out himself by users > complaining. Some data points: * the default greylist shipped by greyl

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

On Monday 10 July 2006 06:58, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Doing sender verification and graylisting are both violations of the > RFCs. Which rfcs and where, exactly? Specific filename, version and line numbers, as Kimball would say it. AFAICT, the protocol allows the receiving end to temporari

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

On Monday 10 July 2006 02:17, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an MTA > > unless that MTA is willing to accept replies. This is a common spam > > prevention measure.

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

On Sunday 09 July 2006 15:48, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: [greylisting] > The point was about mailers sending mail to debian. If they receive a > 4xx they have to queue the mail and retry later. It's cheap for > debian, but expensive for everyone else. Does anybody have sensible numbers about th

Re: Bug#359073: Net/RBLClient.pm (postgreyreport)

> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:51, Adrian von Bidder wrote: ^ [... package doesn't exist, perhaps somebody on [EMAIL PROTECTED] has time to do the package? ... ] On Sunday 09 July 2006 22:17, you wrote: ^ > Done. Now that is what I ca

Re: Bug#376521: ITP: kwlan -- wpasupplicant frontend for KDE

On Monday 03 July 2006 17:16, Fathi Boudra wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > > > Perhaps you are interested in joining the pkg-wpa team on alioth [1]? [...] > There's many K wireless tools but none really perfect maybe > we can cooperate to have only one good tool nicely integrated with > wpa_supplicant. Yo

Re: some Debian Apache Maintainer here ?

On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:51, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: [...] > > Without knowing or having asked Adam, this seems like help might be > > welcome. > > Useful patches and comments are always welcome. Threats of NMUs and > similar aren't. Tollef, you realise that neither me nor Marc (who has started t

Re: egroupware upgrade drops several applications -- suggestions?

On Friday 16 June 2006 13:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The upgrade to the new egroupware upstream drops several applications > [...] On the other hand, if a sarge->etch > upgrade potentially throws away a bunch of functionality and data, users > won't be happy. > > What to do? Rename the packa

Re: some Debian Apache Maintainer here ?

On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:06, Marc Chantreux wrote: > Is there a way to help/join/"have news from" the apache team ? Have you tried contacting the apache maintainers directly? (I'd cc such mails to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, just for the record) The changelog.Debian.gz of apache2 and apache

Re: some Debian Apache Maintainer here ?

Marc cc:ed, not sure if you're on the list. On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:06, Marc Chantreux wrote: > I've posted a patch to fix #350119, #342008, #350119 139 days ago and > have no news about it. I tried to contact the apache team to know if i > was able to help but i have no news. There is the d

Re: debian/ search

On Monday 05 June 2006 18:18, Eto Yasuo wrote: > hi > > I just a thought search debian/ include package. > I'd try the idea out, use gonzui. > > http://debian-src.devel.jp Nice idea. What exactly is included in the search? All source packages? All binary & source packages? Debian mailing list

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:21, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Le Mardi 09 Mai 2006 22:49, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers > > ... > > > libkcal2b > > libkdepim1a > > It looks like these two have circular dependencies because libkdepim > depends on libkcal, while a couple

Re: Bug#365087: ITP: debcheck -- Checks whether dependencies of debian packages can be satisfied

On Thursday 27 April 2006 21:53, Ralf Treinen wrote: > The constraint solving algorithm is complete, that is it finds a > solution whenever there exists one, even for multiple disjunctive > dependencies and deep package conflicts. This problem is computationally > intractable in theory (that is, NP

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: > The stable version installed so easily and well I just > couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than > Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user. What praise. Thank you very much! I just had to laugh out loud

Re: Bug#362040: ITP: rt2x00 -- RT2400/2500/2570 wireless network drivers

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, Ben Hutchings wrote: > * Package name: rt2x00 > This package would contain version 2 of the rt2x00 drivers that are > currently distributed as separate rt2400 and rt2500 packages (and a > proposed rt2570 package). Did you talk with Aurelien (maintainer of rt2

Re: RFS: libuninameslist -- a library of Unicode annotation data

On Sunday 09 April 2006 10:45, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, [libuninameslist] > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:26:15AM +0300, K?stutis Bili?nas wrote: > > I'd be very glad if someone of you could sponsor them for me. > > Thanks for your contribution to Debian, but sponsorship requests should > go to -m

Re: problem with packaging

On Friday 07 April 2006 15:43, jean wrote: > hi, > i'm trying to create a package for sarge (it is my first experience in > packet creation ), i tried to do this from an existing packet, i have > decompacted the packet, i modified some things, and i re-packaged the > folder. As others have said: y

MIA: Thomas Fasth? (was: Re: About the maintainance of monotone)

QA/MIA people: are you reading this (below)? Or Thomas - perhaps you have time to dropa a quick note yourself? cheers -- vbi On Tuesday 04 April 2006 23:46, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if there's a way to figure out what the status of the > monotone package is. T

Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 18:15, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 28, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about restarting syslog (or it's equivalent) after relocating the > > old /dev? glibc already has infrastructure for restarting services on > > upgrade, maybe udev can borrow that. > > H

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:18, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > what would be the appropriate way to handle large and old > debian changelog files. Rather arbitrarily, just feels more or less safe: cut everything from before oldstable release. Based on the assumption that oldstable -> stable updates

Re: freetype package

Yo! No idea what this [below] is about exactly, but are you aware of the newly formed Debian fonts task-force? Mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings -- vbi On Friday 24 March 2006 19:19, Anthony Fok wrote: > Will Newton wrote: > > This package hasn't had a maintainer upload in 12 month

Re: We want to honestly apoligize to the whole Debian Community

On Thursday 23 March 2006 00:56, Frans Pop wrote: > Myself, I'm a KDE user currently, so why do I not propose to sync > Debian's release to their release schedule? Or why not MySQL, or Apache > or ...? Because I happen to know that releasing Debian involves a bit > more than waiting for random ups

Re: Уникальные семинары!

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:06, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: [challenge response email systems] > Would I be wrong in deciding not to make this > confirmation? Easy enough: if you receive a confirmation request identifying the message far enough for you to decide that it was spam with your email

Re: For those who care about stable updates

On Saturday 11 March 2006 09:10, Kevin Mark wrote: > -- vbi: > > Kevin: [mediation] > > > After the meeting everyone would agree to not discuss anything in > > > public and only redress further problems by arranging another private > > > irc session. > > > > Hmm.  I agree with you that solving the

Re: For those who care about stable updates

On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:27, Kevin Mark wrote: [DPL as mediator] The DPL already could do that. The DPL probably in the past *did* step in in some cases behind the scenese. There's no reason for the technical overhead of a mediator@ email alias - there's leader, and people who trust the D

Re: For those who care about stable updates

On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:41, Amaya wrote: > ... focus on attacking Ubuntu Ah, yes, we need an enemy so we can unite against it. Old-fashioned tactics, proved to work. -- vbi /me is trying to imagine the Debian project's members trying to agree on an enemy... -- One picture is worth 128K

Re: For those who care about stable updates

ObIntro: I add my thanks to all the others' On Thursday 09 March 2006 14:38, Gustavo Franco wrote: > What's wrong with us ? I just read some messages with a "no Martin, > can we revert it?", it seems that the default reply is "ok Martin, see > you, thanks.". > > It's volunteer work, he's free to d

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

On Thursday 02 March 2006 04:46, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Package: libacme-brainfck-perl > Provides: libacme-brainfuck-perl Ah, and back to the time when some words where magic and caused burn marks on the paper around the ink. I never have and probably never will see why some people find 'f*ck'

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

On Monday 20 February 2006 07:40, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, I hereby propose to think about a possible TTF fonts packaging > team. A comment as a pure user insofar as fonts are concerned: I don't care if what I see comes from a ttf, metafont, ps, bdf or PEX font. I just want the font to b

Re: Automatic testing of .deb's

On Monday 06 February 2006 19:53, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 2/6/06, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ filing automatic package tests to the Debian bts ] > The Ubuntu maintainer should always open bugs with the test related stuff > and see if the Debian maintainer judge it's valuable or not

Re: Bug#351470: ITP: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

On Sunday 05 February 2006 03:58, gregor herrmann wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: libmail-gnupg-perl > GnuPG::Interface can process or create PGP signed or encrypted > email. Oh, and: either it's Mail::GnuPG here

Re: Bug#351470: ITP: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

think this should be mentioned in the description. (And I'm just wondering: does it handle both PGP/MIME signed + encrypted as separate layers, S/MIME style, and also as signed+encrypted OpenPGP blob in one multipart/encrypted container?) cheers -- vbi -- pub 1024D/92082481 2002-02-22 A

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:07, Martin Schulze wrote: > Posting permissions to debian-devel-announce revoked after making a > point. [public announcmement of the above on d-d-a] Thank you very much. Very well written. -- vbi -- The early bird gets the coffee left over from the night befor

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