On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 01:23, David Coe wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-26
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: zope-translationservice
> Version : 0.2
> Upstream Author : Florent Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL :
> http://www.zope.org/
So, while we wait for the dpkg maintainers to review the dpkg-source v2
code, I decided to address another thing I think is broken about our
source format: the excessive complexity and redundancy in debian/rules.
I was strongly influenced by Christoph Lameter's u-os package manager
source format (
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 12:42, Ari Pollak wrote:
> * Package name: fontconfig
First of all, have you talked to Branden about this?
Second, I've been maintaining unofficial packages of fontconfig and xft2
in my "local" repository for quite some time now; see
http://people.debian.org/~walters
T
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 04:10, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:34:19AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:25:23AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > would be a positive improvement over the status quo); I wonder what
> > > Debian
> > > developers who supp
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:56, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> anyone can agree that this is a little bit more clearer?
>
>
>
> Description: Display program shortcuts as icons on desktop
> With idesk you can define shortcut's for several programs
The apostophe is an error.
> and display thes
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 23:05, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> That will also break rsyncing them, which saves a lot.
Let's just keep pestering gzip upstream to include the rsyncable patch.
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:55, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> I also agree. There was a moment of "bah we are not a company" but in the
> end, I think a little help in giving our users a good looking default would
> go a long way. Of course not being a KDE or GNOME user I would also like to
> see
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 02:48, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> What we need is a change here: Bugs should just be closed in unstable.
Have fun hacking the debbugs code, and good luck emerging from the
experience a sane man :)
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 00:43, Miles Bader wrote:
> What's especially cool is that it hardwires the British (or Australian,
> in this case, I guess) spelling of `disc' as part of the UI
The idea that devfs hardwires anything seems to be very popular. It is
also completely wrong. You can use the u
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 16:31, Rob Bradford wrote:
> http://www.robster.org.uk/files/security-update-check.py
That's an interesting approach. What I do is:
#!/bin/sh
apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq -s dist-upgrade
in /etc/cron.daily/local_aptupdate. Of course, this mails me if any
packages ar
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 14:37, Mark Howard wrote:
> Initial packages for this are available at
> http://tildemh.com/tmp/metacity-themes/
Hmmwhere's the source package?
On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 19:20, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> gnome-applets contains 5 clocks, I'm proposing 7.
This was a bug; it's been fixed in GNOME 2.
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 20:37, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> I've been using a hackish program to manage my archive, so I'm very
> interested. It doesn't do quite what my old program does though
> (~joeyh/bin/package-sync).
On which machine is this ~joeyh?
> * I need the ability to keep my existing sources.
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 12:23, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I haven't had time to experiment, but I think there should be some
> occurrences of
> libpng2 and libpng3 being linked at the same time, which we tried to avoid,
> but
> failed.
Indeed. Try recompiling the latest Evolution, for example. It
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:48, Russell Coker wrote:
> I have written SE Linux policy for administration of a chroot environment.
> That allows me to give full root administration access (ability to
> create/delete users, kill processes running under different UIDs, ptrace,
> etc) to a chroot envi
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:26, Colin Walters wrote:
> * Package name: mini-dinstall
Interested? My current packages are available here:
deb http://monk.debian.net/~walters/debian/ staging/$(ARCH)/
deb http://monk.debian.net/~walters/debian/ staging/all/
deb-src http://monk.debian.
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: mini-dinstall
Version : 0.0.0.0.1.0
Upstream Author : Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : (none yet :/)
* License : GPL
Description : daemon for updating
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 03:09, Colin Walters wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-13
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: python-logging
For anyone interested, my current packages are in my staging repository:
deb http://monk.debian.net/~walters/debian/
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: python-logging
Version : 0.4.6
Upstream Author : Vinay Sajip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.red-dove.com/python_logging.html
* License : BSD
Description : advanced l
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 16:56, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> I know gcj can compile to native code (on x86 platform only AFAIK) -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> madison gcj-3.1
gcj-3.1 | 1:3.1.1-1 | unstable | arm, ia64
gcj-3.1 | 1:3.1.1-2 | unstable | alpha, i386, m68k, powerpc, s390,
sparc
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:42, Brian May wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:47:05AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > I like dput's DWIM features. For example, it figures out automatically
> > whether or not a package is in non-US, and uploads to the correct
> > place.
&g
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 00:30, Craig Small wrote:
> Hello,
> I have bug #142292, #109237 and #106414 for procps. The common thing
> is that if System.map file is a multiple of 1024 (or 4096 not sure
> which) ps crashes. Thanks to Dark for getting me that far.
>
> Can someone look at 106414 and D
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 20:53, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:40:47AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I am happy to take it. But a question: with the more actively
> > maintained dput now being quite mature, do we still need both dupload
> > and dput?
>
> Dumb question, but what dput
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:20, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:30:08PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > The byte compilation should be done when the package is built, not
> > > at runtime, not at install time.
> >
> > So you're say
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:28, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > > The GNU FDL violates the DFSG ?
> > >
> > > In case this is true, nearly all KDE packages have to be moved to
> > > non-free as they use the GNU FDL for the documentation. For
[ Please don't CC me, I read this list ]
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 20:03, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. I
> don't say we should refuse their sponsership totally, but if they
> provide hosting on non-free software I think that is a valid reas
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 06:37, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> An idea that i havent heard mentioned here is to create a client/server
> application for specifically handling our metadata, the server can be
> queried by clients to send only the required metadata.
debian-corba already implements most of the
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 11:22, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> OK. Since the build problems seem to be easily solved (see #141077), I
> hope both mozilla and galeon can be included in woody.
Indeed. aj already knows that I'm on the next plane to Australia if
woody releases without Galeon :)
--
To UNSUB
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should
> not have such a prominent sponser promoting non-free
> software. Especially as we probably don't need it.
Jeroen, please calm down. I admit that while the registration pa
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 17:44, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> It's simple, just stick a flag in the mail headers.
I don't really regard that as a reasonable solution. For example, my
email client doesn't (as far as I know) allow adding arbitrary headers
to a message. I suppose you could argue that my
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 14:18, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Is there anyone out there who actually appreciates the storms of
> "Information received" acks that debbugs generates? If not, it is
> fairly simple to turn them off - we just need to decide to do so.
I think this has come up before, but I c
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 21:41, Peter Cordes wrote:
> For software with problems like that all over the place, you could use
> gcc -fsigned-char [...]
Nooo! This is a bad idea, unless you're in a freestanding environment,
and even then it should be avoided. See the previous thread.
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 18:33, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Some weeks ago I mail the page maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) saying
> that I can make the change in the php page and send to him the patch,
> but I get no answer. Does anybody knows where I can find the .php source
> and, more important, whe
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:37, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Have you ever seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an
> "apt like" package fetcher + installer? "urpmi". Hahah.
What makes Debian's package management great has not so much to do with
apt itself as it does with the high qual
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 12:05, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install
dpkg --get-selections | egrep '[[:space:]]install$' | cut -f 1 | xargs apt-get
install --reinstall
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 09:33, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> While of course what you are saying here is formally correct, this
> shouldn't mean that a project consisting of hackers (such as Debian),
> shouldn't have a clear internal structure, a clear idea of what things
> people can work on, or clear idea
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 18:33, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> What the people writing about this matter seem to be after is
> - what is expected of a maintainer?
> - how does the debian project fit together?
> - what can I do?
> - what must I know to be able to do this?
> - where do I go to ask if I must
On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 05:40, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I believe that the author (Knuth) presumably thought "c should only be
> between 0 and 127, probably not even that far, and we're using c as an
> array index, where we've only allocated 256 chars for this array.
Right. Then it should be explic
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 17:02, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> This package is correct as is, and the warning is harmless; the line
> of code involved is:
>
> return (c<0||c>255)? unexpected_char: icode[c];
>
> where c is a char expected to be in the normal range (0<=c<=127). All
> the chars used in this c
Hi,
Could someone with experience with po file translation look at NMUing
lftp? It is way behind in upstream versions (which will fix bug
#116068). The maintainer added a lot of translations to the 2.4.1
release, and the Debian diff no longer applies cleanly at all. I think
a lot of these trans
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 23:23, Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> * Package name: pnet
Hmm. This is a rather undescriptive name. How about something like
"dotgnu-pnet", or "dotgnu-dotnet", "dotgnu-net", or even
"dotgnu-portable-net"?
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 14:08, Gerhard Tonn wrote:
> A solution is to declare the datatype explicitly as signed char or compile
> using the option -fsigned-char.
Compiling with -fsigned-char, though it works, is not the "right"
solution. It's better to fix the bug in the code.
On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 18:44, Erich Schubert wrote:
> But you didn't understand completely what i was talking about;
> i was considering not packaging the quake2 engine as binary, but
> packaging the _source_ for developers to look at.
How much value is there really in packaging the source, when on
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please don't use debian-devel for questions that don't belong here
> (you can e.g. ask at a user list of sox or you can ask the Debian
> maintainer of sox privately).
The proposed debian-user-woody list might also be a good place to ask
these kinds of que
"Oliver Elphick" writes:
> Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> >Le ven, sep 14, 2001, 04:13:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a crit:
> ...
> >(by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post
> >display completely on your screen ?)
>
> Your message didn't specify any character set, so
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In my search for a "perfect" offline IMAP client(TM) I have looked
> at isync vs mailsync.
What's wrong with Gnus? Perhaps with the Agent? I admit I've never
tried disconnected IMAP with it, but I see people talking about it on
the ding lists.
James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Situation is that the gnome versions of the xemacs packages have
> troubles. Broken in irritating ways.
Yeah. I don't personally use XEmacs, but I like to test my code on
it, and after discovering that stuff like popup menus were dying deep
inside t
Just a random idea:
So now that the BTS has these tag things, I think it would be cool if
there were tags for the various architectures. People often say
[powerpc] or [alpha] or [hurd] in the subject, but tags could probably
help porters more, especially if there was a way to search for all
bugs
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Programs shouldn't gratuitously break configurations which worked.
> When woody is released, and people upgrade en masse to it, they will
> want their configurations to carry on working.
In my experience, GNOME has had this problem since version 1.0; almos
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, IMO, anything that goes on the Debian website better be
> created by free software. No offense, but if I start seeing "Made
> with Macromedia" or "Designed with Photoshop" on the website, there
> will be hell to pay :)
It seems very strict to requir
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I personally would like having hardware detection stuff in woody.
> Wouldn't it be great to have to install procedure ask you something
> like "hi dude, I've detected that you've got a ne2000 NIC in your
> computer. Shall I load the appropriate module?"
> Package: bbdb (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 59177 xemacs20 didn't compile bbdb-gnus on installation
Instead of removing this package, couldn't we just change the Depends:
to emacs20 | xemacs21 ?
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Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTE
Package: procps
Version: 1:2.0.3-3
Preparing to replace procps 1:2.0.3-3 (using .../procps_1%3a2.0.3-4_i386.deb) ..
hen trying to
remove packages that have long strings of dependencies, I have
to grep /var/lib/dpkg/status, and remove things by hand, when
what I really want to do is dpkg -l '*netscape*' | xargs dpkg --purge.
--
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://web.verbum.org/levanti
PGP F
age's postinst did an:
/etc/init.d/gpm start
Is this correct behavior? I think we definitely need to come to a conclusion
on this issue. There should definitely be a way to specify which packages you
want to actually run out of the installed packages.
--
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PRO
efault configuration upon installation would be for a
secure "workstation".
--
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://web.verbum.org/levanti
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pon installation; it prompts you for which
services to enable out of a list of installed daemons. Perhaps upon
installation
or a dist-upgrade, apt could list everything that had a "daemon" flag and prompt
you to start it. That way we would avoid asking every time.
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Colin Walters <
ic
> > /usr/sbin/{httpd,popd,smtpd}-config.
>
> I see absolutely no need for an httpd-config. I'm perfectly happy
> with they way apache, apache-ssl, and roxen coexist.
And of course you can always do dpkg --force-conflicts. I believe that's what
the --force commands ar
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