Re: checklib

2007-05-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:22:12PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > We're still waitinf for the lufthansa machines to set it up :/ > That remembers me that having some bits about that would be nice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
or you quick help! > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422717 As you can see, it does not help: proftpd-ldap is (was starting from next upload, thanks God) an all-type fake package with a ${source:Version} dependency in place. That strict dep was probably supefluous in the

Re: Not-so-mass bug filing for the patented IDEA algorithm

2007-04-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, no program in Debian actually uses this code, it's just > inherited from upstream libraries. > > Are there any objections? > Just check that they _CONTAIN_ implementation, not just are able to link some external library which implements IDEA. Just for precision and unu

Re: MySql broken on older 486 and other cpuid less CPUs. Does this qualify as RC?

2007-04-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
well, but it seems > only honest to admit that as a project, we don't care about 486 enough to > even get 486-specific problems marked as RC in time to do anything about > them for a release. > That could be fixed in R1, isn't it? I see no major problems on those regard

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
out debpool and debarchiver, involving > Joel, Ola and several users/code writers. If you are interested, I can > send you the discussion. > Pointers? Debpool is a nice tiny tool, but lacks some major useful features and has a few annoying bugs. It could be improved. It's a pity it stale

Re: Bug#413987: ITP: openjpeg -- JPEG 2000 image compression codec library

2007-03-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
packaging this as a dependancy of secondlife-client > Just I wonder if/how it's better than Jasper for jpeg2k. Any hints about that? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
automatically as > Maitnainer/Uploader, the fact that the package is well maintained may > hide that a particular DD do nothing at all, and is in fact MIA. > That would be avoided by removing entry on the basis of the changelog containts. People who do not touch the package for +365 days

Re: out of date package with maintainer AWOL

2007-01-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t > i be allowed to become the new maintainer of this package. > > any help is appreciated. > Better contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to track the thing properly. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt hangs for ever

2006-11-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ot the same issue with ftp.it and solved twice as pointed by henrique. Installing debian-archive-keyring in the pbuilder chroot (with the new recent key) just before updating solved the issue this time and in the previous case also. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW processing slowdown (Was: FAQ, Re: new mplayer)

2006-10-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
O adding people to do that is the only way to go, but for removing auditing (which is not acceptable). This is the same reason why none can sponsor dozen of packages without lowering reviewing quality. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t; cruft that needs to be addressed. There are absolutely no acceptable > exceptions to either this rule (stopping a stopped service is okay) nor to > its counterpart (starting an already started service is okay), as far as I > know. > Absolutely ack. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ted. > Unfortunately sometimes the daemon does not stop for an error in the maintainer script and that prevents upgrading for ever, even when the package has been corrected. BTW, it seems a lack in the policy to specify how the maintainers scripts should work on stop (i.e. what returning as exit co

[RFC] proftpd 1.3.0rc5 in experimental

2006-03-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
es, I know that aptitude is the sane choice for dist-upgrading :) so I'm not too worried about. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: library for imap (client)

2006-03-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:49:07PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Currently I am starting a new project and want to know, if someone > know the existence if an imapclient library for C programing? > libc-client with some limitations... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Maintainer for fftw 2.1.3 requested

2006-03-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> > Maybe the fftw3 maintainer could be interested in maintainace of fftw2 too... Oh well he, filled the ITA about that on December... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maintainer for fftw 2.1.3 requested

2006-03-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
AFAIK. Maybe the fftw3 maintainer could be interested in maintainace of fftw2 too... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
DD's corner contents should be discussed on d-www, eventually. It already links official and unofficial urls and it seems reasonable for listing those kinds of things. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-12-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> I came back, it no longer seems to work correctly: > > The script used in debian-gis repo (pkg-grass) works like a charm. Feel free to use it... I also looked around a bit to have a working program after alioth upgrade. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: dput works but dupload does not -- illegal PORT command

2005-11-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ackage).dsc: Illegal PORT command. > at /usr/bin/dupload line 508 > > Yet dput works fine. > > Any suggestions what's wrong? Has anyone else been having htis problem? > -- Did you try passive ftp? It works here. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Calculating deps size - splitting a package

2005-11-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
; dependancies (with their installed-sizes) that adding the plugin in > question to a binary package would pull in. I am interested on the total > effect to an end-user, for each plugin. Mmm, if plugins used dlopen() ldd would not help in that respect. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UN

Re: apt-get wants to remove hotplug?

2005-10-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d. > The driver for USB mice is usbhid. > It is (was?) not loaded anyway, keeping off my usb logitech mouse. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PEAR packages

2005-10-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d be BSD-like but claims to be from Berkeley instead. AFAIK they should adapt a PHP-like license or any better. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
does not require preregistering users, monitoring to remove spam, maintaining a black list of terms ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch² : Maintaining a patch for a debian package

2005-09-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
atching already implemented? Maybe apt-fu could > be used for that task, but it's apparently discontinued. > apt-src ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing non-free documentation from main

2005-09-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ept comments in the source code). > I don't think so, there is a lots of software which does not use a separate license for doc, man pages and so on. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I've looked at the SQLite code and it does this. At the same time, it > >> has to implement recursive locks (which can be entered multiple times > >> by the sa

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:35:50AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> SQLite databases (and Subversion repositories) are intended to be > >> opened concurrently by multiple processes. > > > To be more clear: programs which use ordina

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. >

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > > >> res

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. >

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
instead of thread mutexes (which is the proper answer to syncronization issues in a thread-safe architecture)? "It's more easy" is not a decent answer, of course. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ry? Once it becomes multi-threaded CPU usage > could become an issue, especially if we upgrade to spamassassin 3. What's wrong with using native perl threads and mutexes ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: FTPmasters (again)

2005-08-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
tion for their regular job. Well done. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote: > that are not bugs so i wonder if package maintainers where pleased if i > reportbug those lines as wishlist. > Why not? a patch is a patch. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
with CVS, > arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian > Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html > Comparing svn and arch is like comparing apples and tomatos. They have completely different purposes (i.e. centralized vs di

Re: Bug#319334: ITP: ng-spice -- Mixed-level/mixed-signal electronic circuit simulator

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ed all but distribution/copy it could be fine for non-free AFAIK. But that one poses too many limitations. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
have the same role of lintian/linda by this point of view. Filling BTS reports could be not so appropriate. Disclosure: I do not know piuparts at all :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
able to discriminate what's a spurious bug and what's not. That could be useful to create a priority list for QA team jobs, but I wonder if it's better than the proposed popcon approach. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debconf5 - videos of the talks and BOFs available

2005-07-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Will the slides be available in a central repository too? Having both videos and slides would be nice for who missed the event, like me :'( -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
sed policy is already followed in case of ABI changes. And any sane program would not compile when ever a library change its _API_ in a way not back-compatible. If not, well that's an upstream issue, not a debian one :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nts looks not so good. For instance I used happily this resource: XTerm*Font: -monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--15-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-15 and the visual quality of that font is now less good. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
pilation of ancient code. When I asked for revoming due to an old grave bug, people answered almost the same: it's yet useful. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:38:17PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > see shy jo, who argued for 4.0 at the appropriate time to discuss the > version number to use :-) right -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Bug#304521: ITP: wanna-build -- Database management for package (re-)compilation/status control

2005-04-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
eady present buildd project at https://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools/ -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:13:32AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quite difficult if the function is the same. In both cases it uses stderr. > > Oh good grief. Add an argument to the function s

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:38:08AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine writes: > > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for > > either --help or invalid options. > > Sure, but the output should still be directed correctly. Q

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
FYI: new mysql FLOSS includes OpenSSL license, so many packages could migrate to current libmysqlclient starting from no starting from now.. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
We are all awating for new-alioth in place. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /sbin/halt always changes its access rights

2005-01-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d root root 02755 /sbin/halt > > Note that making random programs like "halt" setuid root might > be a serious security hole. > I find ctrl-alt-del quite nice in these cases, changing a bit /etc/inittab and using acpi/apm to powerdown. Any decent login manager allo

Re: Debianized ndiswrapper-source is better on SourceForge

2005-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
n to not simply bugging the maintainer via BTS about that and helping debugging the problems. Also upstream and maintainer generally work together to improve quality and identify problems, both in upstream and packaged versions. Posting in d-d is at least inappropriate. -- Francesco P. Lovergi

Re: AMD64 Archive Key compromised!

2004-10-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:52:07AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > I guess this is the modern version of "real men just upload their > important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." > RMS used to have no password at MIT times, indeed :) How times cha

Re: Bugzilla package in need of help

2004-10-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t see why this is changed) > > I'm afraid I forgot why this was added (it's been roughly three months). > Judging from the code it looks like some left over test code and can be > removed. > > Cheers, > Moritz I'm looking into the package now. Stay tuned. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
'm thinking to the pre-1.0 version of mozilla in woody: upgrading to a sane 1.0 version in stable by volatile could be considered, solving many functional problems and being a sane (and safe) possibility. Other major upgrades (e.g. mozilla-current) are backports.org concerns. We have currently a few software of large use in those conditions, e.g. firefox/thunderbird (but note that those programs are really in better conditions in respect with the old woody mozilla) -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Package idea, Debian-Firewall.

2004-10-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Indeed currently iptables rules need to be loaded with pre-up scripting in /etc/network/interfaces. Old init.d scripts are deprecated and not installed at all. > There are a lot of ways to setup a firewall in Debian [1] I rather not have > yet another package to do this. > Agree. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> I had -m2 and each child canibalized up 20M of VM in just a few minutes. With 128M that makes difference. I'm now quite happily using razor with only very few false positives and a very high success rate in filtering spam. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
s a program which just > can't run on that machine. > Just for your information SA3 was almost unusable on my P4 1.4Ghz with 128MB. It's not a dedicated box, but it's adequate for my workstation use with wmaker. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rs is a non-sense, plain and clear. The volatile archive is having more and more sense. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
problems. It is really a memory and cpu hog. I doubt it is usable as is on any box without a good deal of horsepower and memory. I would add at least a big warning in its NEWS file about this, until its problems will be not solved. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ed in respect with security.d.o is all in this pov. Incidentally, volatile could also be used to upgrade stable for interactive use, which is probably the major reason of obsolescence for stable, but that's questionable. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
the benefit that it > doesn't require that often administrator action (and perhaps an staging > area where the newest things are in, and that is moved to stable once > everything is done). > Yep, that was the idea behind the need of a policy and a RM. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > b. They are already kept off testing (if there is a regression), > >so what's the problem? > The problem is that other packages which might dep

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
uto-build it first and, if no upstream/package faults, we let it in, > > we > > get less RC bugs. > Exactly this was the idea. I'm unsure whether experimental could serve as > this kind of staging area. > A FTBFS for a new package is not a RC error. Only regressions are RC. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
re is a regression), so what's the problem? c. Very few packages are seriuosly broken on some archs. Their problems are generally due either to compiler/binutils problems or upstream coding. In both cases removing them on some archs could be a profitable solution for rele

Re: POSIX capabilities patch

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, doesn't it? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#220401: ITP: linux-experimental -- Linux 2.4 kernel [EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE]

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
PROTECTED] is ok now. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
probably xtradius. System password checking is present for portability with non-linux platform essentially, and for historical reasons, too. A lots of those servers are derived from the original livingston's implementation, but all add alternatives forms of authentication and accounting. It's an admin's choice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ct place to start this kind of flame wars :) In the meantime I'm afraid there is not another list, but for d-d, where discussion on this kind of things can be accepted. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: looking for nco maintainer Brain Mays

2003-08-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
We are going into mainstream towards sarge releasing, so you couldn't have sufficient time for usual release-test cycle of a new upstream release. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Bug#204494: ITP: jot -- print out increasing, decreasing, random, or redundant

2003-08-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-07 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jot Version : 9.0 Upstream Author : John Kunze, Office of Comp. Affairs, UCB * URL : http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/system/rhlinux/athena-9.0/free/SRPMS/athena-jot-9.0-3.src.rpm *

Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program

2003-07-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:58:50PM +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > >>>>> "fpl" == Francesco P Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > fpl> I wonder if that classic package can stay in our archives > fpl> (also non-free). Did you check

Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program

2003-07-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e... http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/Copyrights -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nefits of having them in a modern distro as sarge, whenever it will be available. In these days, zlib's maintainer already dropped libc5 support. I have a grave bug in libc5 linker which is currently unable to manage properly also a silly program. Those kinds of problems will (probably) become quite constant in the future, 'cause of aging of those libs. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Thursday, Jun 19, 2003, at 06:57 US/Eastern, Francesco P. Lovergine > wrote: > > >And surely Debian DOES NOT support > >non-free (in DFSG sense) software, > > No, but we do support our us

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still > work. Yes, it can be a hassle, but it works. > Also woody...

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:59:46AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages > > which are libc5 related: > > I agree, with the proviso that we make sure anyone who really need

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ople have accumulated a lot > on their HDDs in twenty years. > ... and they are also completely uninterested in storing docs in a way that will allow them to read their own data in the future... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, 19 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:56:32AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > > xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8 > > > documents. > > > > > > > That's exactly one of the

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
(another dead product) will have problems. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:55:02AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:17:43PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > zlib1 > > The ocaml bindings to zlib still build depend on zlib1g-dev. > Which is the newer alternative to this package? > E

Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
zlib1 ldso libg++27-altdev libregex0-altdev svgalib1-altdev xlib6-altdev xpm4.7 xaw3d netscape-base-4-libc5 svgalib1 svgalib-dummy1 termcap-compat and others, partially. This could impact potentially very old (commercial mostly) binaries, Comments, ideas, complaints? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
per use, see some old flames about similar cases. And it generally causes confusion in bug submitters' mind: how many of them knows the difference between a fixed and a closed bug? A brief note about NMU changes incorporation in changelog and closing those bugs in BTS by hand is more correct IMO. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Proposal of removing MOSIX stuff

2003-05-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
modifications without author's permission. OpenMosix is fully GPL, instead. I'm simply proposing the complete removing of mosix from archive, if none could adopt it and manage properly its moving in non-free. Ciao -- Francesco P. Lovergine pgpi5sg3X0F01.pgp Description: PGP signature

debmirroring...

2002-04-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Hi debfolks I'm using this command: debmirror /users/debian --nosource -h -d woody in order to have a local copy of i386 stuff for our net. What is the damn reason why it copies potato distribution instead? I'm missing something? Thanks PS: please cc me... -- Francesco P.

Re: Do not link GNOME1 apps with libpng3

2002-01-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ot;It's newer" is not a good reason :) We could discover new problems in linking qt2 with png3 we had not before. Anyway, it's done. Maybe something about these bad practices is already present in the Policy Manual. If not something should be obviuosly proposed. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Please, have a look at #127948 (should merge #128195) which should be grave bugs IMHO. Is this solved also now? I removed KDE at all in my sid. To reinstall it, kpackage issue needs to be solved. This is a PIV 1400Mhz, maybe I could help :) Thanks for your efforts. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Gnome 2 packages?

2002-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
; developer. > Broken, you could search in BTS for wnpp bugs in the meantime. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
NMU. > > If you want to make it clear that the upload is sponsored an entry in the > changelog should be the right solution. Before I became a maintainer I > added to the changelog entry of every package that was sponsored for me a > line > > * Upload sponsored by Tony Manci

Re: NMU sclient

2001-12-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
st seen more than 1 year ago at people.d.o. Maybe a proposal of adoption could be done... He mntns that pkg only. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
too much maintainers are not really active and too much pkgs are built up without a RFP. Some packages are built starting from beta-quality sw, and this is not a good practice. Burocracy cannot solve these problems. Maintainers intelligence could. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e the developers some time to actually do something about it. > And _then_ _consider_ filing bugs (by discussing it here again). > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I agree. As for yardradius, the bug could be in fact secondary - programs works anyway. Severity level should be evaluated in every single case. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
lain with my upstream tomorrow morning for this, when I'll see him... in the bath, in front to the mirror :( -- Francesco P. Lovergine

what's wrong with last KDE update?

2001-09-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
but 4:2.2.0.20010822-1 is to be installed Depends: artsbuilder but it is not going to be installed Depends: noatun but it is not going to be installed Depends: libarts-mpeglib (>= 4:2.2.1-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Maybe, I'm missing somethings... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#112648: ITP: ebook-dev-html - [EBOOK-DEV] HTML 4.01 specification

2001-09-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
998. Latest NMU is in Nov 2000. I'll check if this package can be adopted. In this case I could close this ITP. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > It could be nice if all you send me a collection of ebooks you think > > is a must for a developer. Only HT

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
case HTML is preferred. But so many books are only available in PDF format - which can be printed in non-letter formats easily. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publica

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publication License. > > What do you think of a pseudo package `ebooks-dev' which collec

[RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t including OPL under /usr/share/common-licenses ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
alias contains things like: > What if the gdm pkg cut off `plain' english? Maybe a choice among english_british and english_american could me more correct. What about english_italian also :) ? We speak brooklino instead of plain english, generally ... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome on Sid

2001-09-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
for task-tcltk-dev W: duplicate task info for task-tex Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package task-debug It seems really outdated in unstable. I do not know for testing. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

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