Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to fix the issues in wheezy. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> > There were quite some bugs with that tool AFAIR. Does it also cover > things that are not supported by Canonical? How does the development and > testing of the tool work? I think we can do better than having to rely on a weird tool to fix the issues we produced by not d

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ake the free software to do it with freedom. Exactly. Or we can even use a hangout to develope a replacement for the google+ hangout. :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint:

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/21/2012 02:55 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Seriously, thats all fine stuff, but if having a hangout with 10+ people >> on google+ helps Debian to get the bugs squashed, I can't see a reason >> why we should not use it. It

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
#x27;t see a reason why we should not use it. It is much more pain free to use than any other solution we have in Debian. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
bugs on the version in Squeeze, while Peter Palfrader (weasel) took care of Tor related things and Debian sysadmin work, including starting on the new bugs and udd hosts. Phillip Hug (hug) worked on the debian.ch infrastructure. Together with Miroslav Suchý from Red Hat Bernd Zeimetz (bzed) worked

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
7;t just > freeze on the current slang but ship the > broken environment. Try gcc/g++ 4.6 instead of 4.7. Maybe check if "S-Lang load path" (wherever that is stored) is initialized in a sane way. I had a similar issue where an integer was 0 all the time - although not being initialized

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t;Source Code: irqbalance-0.56.tar.bz2 (28Kb) >> >> ? > > The project home page moved. The old one is out of date. And that is mentioned where? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org G

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/14/2012 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi Bernd, > > Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 10:32 +0200 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: >>> I would like to see more flexibility in dpkg-source as to where the >>> effective build depends come from. My use case are (as y

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I don't think that your case is special enough to add yet an extra option to dpkg-source. I have two packages where I'm changing much more than the build-dependencies automatically, for example. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
package with various uploaders (from a team...) got DM upload permissions and the other team members became DMs later - obviously they got the same permissions then as soon as they were in the Keyring. Which bad things happened that we have to change the current process? -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-06-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I couldn't get it to bridge from my wifi to the ethernet port. > [...] -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-06-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
also an active maintainer which is able to refer such cases to the TC by himself, there is no need to crowd-source this. > As for the TC never having removed a maintainer against their will: I think > the TC is institutionally conservative by design, and will tend to favor the > s

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
just nobody uses it anymore because it is too old? 'Please package the current upstream version'-bugs are wishlist only, unfortunately. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fin

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/31/2012 06:25 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 31/05/12 18:15, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> >> Part of the common and established procedure is to mail d-devel if >> you intend to hijack a package > > True, but it is _not_ common (nor acceptable) to let only 2-3 days fo

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/31/2012 04:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 31/05/12 15:11, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 05/31/2012 03:03 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> [...] >> >>> A hijack is, by definition, a declaration by the hijacker that >>> they believe they are not answera

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ul input on how to fix an obviously broken (since years!) process instead of trying to forcibly trying to choke down people who actively want to improve Debian. Welcome to the dictatorship of the TC. > [...] -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
that is only really possible to do with "social pride" > which is lacking when maintainer is outside of Debian. Yet another job for the sponsor. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debia

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
documentation are you talking about? Most official documentation should have a fixed URL. If you are talking about the wiki: retrieving a fixed version from moinmoin is the same as in mediawiki. So I can't see a useful argument here, only FUD trying to talk people into using Mediawiki. --

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
https://gitorious.org/gitorious/ > --cut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitorious -- > > PS. An RFP, perhaps? Better look into packaging gitlabhq. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r home. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: removal of Qt3

2012-05-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t be relevant to Debian since we have it in Debian and > even have a mailing list dedicated to it: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-lsb/ > > Apparently LSB 5.0 will drop the Qt3 requirement: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-lsb/2012/02/msg9.html Then we should either

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/18/2012 11:37 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:24:04AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 05/17/2012 04:52 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: >>>> I'm confused concerning the above; the point of a VCS in thi

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
but > it's still better than fighting with integrating quilt with a VCS (in > which case, everyone with a higher number of patches would go back to > 1.0 and custom patching systems and ignore every other benefit of 3.0, > because quilt and VCS generally don'

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
installations is that the debian packages are too old to be really useful. Most plugins seem to require current versions. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Package: wordpress Severity: grave Version: 3.3.2+dfsg-1 [CC-in d-devel@l.d.o to discuss this] Hi, although I think the wordpress maintainer are doing all they can do to keep wordpress in a good shape in Debian, I do not think that it is possible

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#614907: nodejs/node command conflict: why can't we have both?

2012-05-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
mailinglist. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
try to find a consensus about which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both programs must be renamed. And this is - looking at this way too long thread - the best solution for this issue imho. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Develope

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ure with debconf for the "normal" user - and that is what counts. Those who know what they want/need also know how to install exactly that. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
if they are not >> fitting. > > Er, what? Please don't throw out silly strawmen... Stephan's points are valid. Just having a link on your favourite cisco does not mean that you are allowed to send packets anywhere yet. Getting a ipv6 address via radvd d

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/29/2012 04:11 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 14:59 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 04/27/2012 03:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 08:55 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>>> On 04/27/12 03:32, Adam Borowski wrote: >>&g

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt;> >> udev is just the reference implementation. mdev [part of busybox] can do >> the same (modulo rules: it has a slightly simpler format that doesn't >> provide exactly the same features (yet)) > [...] > > Sure, for Linux in general you have other options like mde

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
do something after your devices appear, use udev. As traffic yo your iscsi disk will be queued in case the connection gets lost there is also no need to find something new to handle link up/down events. If your link is gone forever there is a broken filesystem and some stuck IO fun

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ery > package like those listed above that needs the network to loop and retry > if the network isn't available when it first starts. This is a huge waste > of effort. > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
>> time could disrupt the boot then I think that most people would consider it >> as >> ready for a release. >> > Especially considering that we can fix stuff in Stable > if the release team agrees... Which bug number is that? -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
about it before doing anything. If anyone fancies > doing the packaging, I'll be happy to join in. I'll probably be able > to provide a better overview once I know a bit more. > > > Regards, > Roger > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
dencies the same as insserv? > How about old scripts lacking dependency info? Are the dependencies > computed dynamically or generated? (insserv hooks into update-rc.d) > > > Regards, > Roger > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
modified) creates the relevant device > nodes, etc). And udev does this jus fine, I don't need systemd or whatever else on top of that. > I agree that automatically mounting usb sticks or such on servers would > be more than silly, and haven't suggested that (neither have the u

Re: Volunteer-initiated team maintenance as a solution for packages with low activity

2012-04-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/19/2012 05:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> That would require that the tech-ctte's decisions do not take months or >> years. They are fast if they really need to be, but in such general >> cases the time a descision takes is imho way to

Re: Volunteer-initiated team maintenance as a solution for packages with low activity

2012-04-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
is imho way too long and frustrating for all involved people. I would prefer a solution which involves the ctte only if there is no other way. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerpri

Re: Bug#631139: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over

2012-03-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ce nearlly half a decade). I think it might even be useful to talk to both upstreams to ask them to rename one of the project to avoid such issues. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fi

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
; though probably just a subset so it's portable to other kernels and init > systems. Sounds like a good plan to make the fanboys of both sides of the world happy - I have no idea if its possible, but maybe also generate upstart configs? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebia

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/20/2012 10:49 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: >> On 03/17/2012 08:20 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >>> On Mar 17, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >>>> Have you noticed that both myself and Phil Hands took the decision to >>>> write a sy

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s not an issue. Obviously you were born as an expert. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o, just to figure out why something does not work as expected. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en it starts to be the case because kFreeBSD doesn’t have a modern > init system available, will you reconsider? Yes. Reconsider to use Linux in case I'm forced to use stuff like systemd. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s absolutely >> desirable to support several init systems in Debian. > > What is the benefit, for our users, to be able to choose between two > implementations? They are *free* in what they choose. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
equire *modifications to upstream code* to > support socket-based activation. Is that compatible to what systemd requires? Various projects start supporting systemd, so enabling such a feature for upstart would be easier if the systemd stuff is implemented alread

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to /etc/initramfs-tools - that is a sane and obvious way to handle such things. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r me. ... and then it is just wishlist again. Having /tmp on / is as bad as having /var/log on / on busy machines. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. Remember, just because something still applies and compiles properly it doesn't mean it works... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD

Re: lack of replacement for linux-vserver

2012-02-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ain the patch for stable releases. But they are not willing to support Debian as they neither use Debian nor have any interest in supporting the Debian kernel. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debia

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ecurity enabled to have a more or less save-enough virtualization solution, although I'd recommend to do so. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD9

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
a DEP should not do that at all, at least not without asking on common lists first. No reaction on your DEP could just mean that people consider it as a waste of time or don't like your format. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Fwd: Re: Open-FCoE for Wheezy

2011-12-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; I guess I'll push it to unstable. If there are issues reported, we'll > see about its inclusion for the stable release, then. I'd suggest to do so, too. In the worst case it could be removed from testing before the release. As soon as there is a software ta

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ven for a severity:minor bug. I think it should, might be even a higher severity, depending on what the content of these files is - especially .install and similar files might produce not so funny results if you execute them accidentally. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
>> /bin/sh never hurt anybody! > > Except that it forces your interpreter to be written in sh, which Debian > doesn't > like[1][2]. > > [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/script-with-language-extension.html > [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-poli

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/09/2011 07:42 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> On 12/07/2011 11:47 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> Now that we’ve made incredible progress in terms of obfuscation, I’d >>> appreciate if we could have a working solution that does

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
yes, you could even fork (its open source!) a dh_install package - or instead of wasting ftp master resources, just ship your own dh_install script in your debian folders. I'll happily use the new dh_install feature instead of whining. -- Bernd ZeimetzDeb

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; was going on and how he could help, if he had approached me saying that > Debian sucks. Yes, I'm glad too that he didn't experience the same issue with about 50% of the packages he uses as he would think in a different way then. -- Bernd ZeimetzDe

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/03/2011 05:33 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in >> contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure >

The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ill be orphaned soon and I'll file bugs to remove it from the packages which build-depend on it. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nto conflict. I think we should for these cases where it is obvious that one software exists for a much longer time than the other. We should not force old projects to rename themselves just because the developers of a new project did not investigate if they use an existing name. Checking filenames of

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-11-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. How the source is distributed does not matter. Please don't abuse this for yet another dpkg 3.0 git discussion. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 11/01/2011 11:23 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> And I believe that NM should not be something gnome should depend on as >> there are various other ways to configure your network. Imho it should >> Recommend network-manage | wicd-gtk | similar-tools-if-t

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 11/01/2011 05:54 PM, Florian Reitmeir wrote: [...] > i believe a way of installing network-manager, but disabling it > completly would be enough for many people. Although harddisk space is cheap these days, this should not be the preferred way. -- Bernd Z

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
epends also mean that we diverge from upstream? I don't think so. And I believe that NM should not be something gnome should depend on as there are various other ways to configure your network. Imho it should Recommend network-manage | wicd-gtk | similar-tools-if-they-exist. Cheers, Bernd --

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Do not use TOFU on Debian lists. It just makes a mess. On 10/29/2011 09:55 PM, Dallas Clement wrote: > How can I link with libc6-dbg instead of regular libc6? Thanks. http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer h

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ot;jimtcl". Although it's probably smaller. As network-manager is the reason why usb-modeswitch is in the default desktop install (which makes sense) - does size really matter here? NM pull in a lot of libraries and tools, without checking it I'd guess that adding tcl or jim

Re: usb sata docking station: backup button?

2011-10-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10/09/2011 03:26 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Does anybody know some way to bind an action to the button > most usb sata docking stations come with? please ask on debian-user, which is a much more appropriate list for such questions. Thanks, Bernd -- B

Re: [unstable/admin 9mount] Website update

2011-10-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t; to sqweek.dnsdojo.org from pages like > http://packages.debian.org/sid/9mount ? Its generated from the information in the control file of the last uploaded version - the way to change it would be to upload a fixed package. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hink that is true - the exported *FLAGS broke various of the packages I maintain, mainly due to LDFLAGS breaking the build of Python extensions or other kinds of plugins. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Re: buildd machines vs. resource-hungry packages (ITK)

2011-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
_CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) else GMIC_CFLAGS = -g -O0 endif endif endif Not the best solution as it means that gmic will be slow(er) on arm and mips at least, but the only working solution. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.d

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the licenses If you just use Apache to serve stuff and the ldap server - then there are no restrictions. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 D

Re: forwarding bugs upstream - opt-in, delayed, automated

2011-09-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ribe to the bug mails of a package. We should make it easier for upstreams to subscribe to bts mails. May be also implement a weekly summary of bug mails instead of spamming every single bug mail. Just my 2c :) Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebi

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
armel computers do ? The mipsel port is used by the Lemote Notebooks/mini Desktops for example, which come pre-installed with Debian. Not sure if they have popcon enabled at all. And I guess mipsel is more a target for Embedian. No idea about usage statistics there, though. -- Bernd Z

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
on edge firewalls because it's way easier > for a standard linux / debian admin. And please don't put hurd-i386 in > the same camp as kbsd. They're not. Hurd is far away from being useful while kfreebsd offers a great mic of a good kernel and a usable userland (instead of t

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ms which run Debian or derivates of Debian. So looking at the list of architectures, the only one I could imagine to get rid of at some point would be sparc, maybe powerpc and ia64. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/29/2011 07:15 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 29/08/11 at 18:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 08/29/2011 04:49 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> I'm also completely tired of investigating issues which are already >>> known to porters, which is unavoidable if

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
maintainer probably know the source times better than the porter and you should be able to come up with something useful to debug much faster? We don't have enough porters to throw all the longish tasks on them, imho the maintainer should go to porters with an arch specific problem to solve, no

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
would get a lot of issues which are nothing porters need to solve, like libraries not being available as the hardware just doesn't exist for that architecture or test suites failing for various random reasons. If you want a help from a porter, imho you should present a problem in a wa

Re: Package for OpenAxiom

2011-08-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
please file an ITP bug, otherwise a RFP bug. See the 'Using wnpp' part of http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > Any advices are strongly welcome. If you intend to maintain the package in Debian, http://mentors.debian.net/ is a good start. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Docs/examples on how to package a PostgreSQL needing app

2011-08-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
em in postgres. If it runs somewhere else, you can't modify the remote pg_hba.conf. To add new databases (and roles) to postgres, look into dbconfig-common. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian

Re: No bzcat when installing the weekly/daily builds of GNU/Linux installer.

2011-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/19/2011 11:16 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > Couldn't you block the creation of weekly and daily builds when things > like this happen? Weekly and daily builds of the installer are done to be able to find such bugs. We can't predict the future unfortunately :) --

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
such a bugfree condition that it could be used without problems at all. But its a long time ago that I looked into the differences and talked with the maintainer about it. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Re: massive bug report to replace "!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386" kludges with dpkg wildcards

2011-07-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/17/2011 08:13 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > > More usefully, the dd-list of the packages is attached. > > Bernd Zeimetz >gpsd >zbar Both fixed in git, will be included in the next upload. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Develop

Re: Bug: dh_make fails to make driver symbolic links without absolute paths

2011-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/05/2011 12:35 PM, SP wrote: > Has this been fixed in upstream? Is there a work around? > > Bug has been filed here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dh-make/+bug/803882 Please file it in the debian bug tracker. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebi

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
le to just accept some of the changes we've made even > though you think it makes URLs uglier. They're done to avoid cyclic > dependencies between services. Please explain that. I can't see how a cyclic dependency could happen there. And I still think loosing

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/31/2011 04:03 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Can't we fix that in a point release, by backporting fixes? That would be appreciated! -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.

Re: Color Management in Debian

2011-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
uld be taken care of as soon as possible imho. Unfortunately I'm swamped with work so I want have the time to help and discuss, but if you need a sponsor for packages don't hesitate to ask. Cheers and thanks for your work, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU

Re: Semantic change for dpkg triggers?

2011-05-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
heir awaited triggers? > > python-support seems to need that; python does not see files in > /usr/share/pyshared/, so until update-python-modules has run, a python > module cannot be used. python-support should be removed at some point in the future. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Please reconsider public vcs naming on alioth

2011-05-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ly I fail to understand why it should not be possible to find a sane way to make it available. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.+\.git.*$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/repos/.*$ RewriteRule ^.*$ /gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] which should be similar to alioth's needs. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Bug#593706: [kl...@ethgen.de: Re: Bug#593706: install-info breaks dpkg]

2011-05-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nobody will be able to help you. The only thing you are doing is to waste time. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tp://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git Even better would be http://git.debian.org/devscripts/devscripts.git which is easy to handle with some rewrites. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehtt

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
not funyy and such massice changes without even discussing them first makes the new alioth unusable for me. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D4

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n be used > to run any random stuff by anyone). What happened to the crontabs? I hope that importing upstream's git and svn repositories into those used for Debian development is not 'random stuff'. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU

Bug#626424: Please implement a method to save and restore netfilter rules at boot

2011-05-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nfiguration. Or even better, use ferm instead. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
best if you consider unstable always in production-mode by > default. Let's freeze unstable today, call it stable and never touch it again. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Finge

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
enough to avoid the need to repeat them all over the > place, IHMO. While we don't need this kind of bashing, the issue needs to be fixed somehow, indeed. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debi

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