Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 30 November 2008 00:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Closes: 341420 > Do you mind at least contacting the maintainers? > I find your upload very impolite. Huh? We are in a permanent bugsquashing party, cause we want to release lenny. This is a RC bugs since three weeks, so I rather

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 29 November 2008 01:57, William Pitcock wrote: > What I propose is something more along the lines of Gentoo's "sunrise" > overlay... a repository that anyone can get upload access to provided > that they understand basic Debian policy and have established that they > will be non-ma

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: > I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository > for things like qmail, packages unwanted in Debian proper for the time > being, etc. d

Re: Info on Planet Debian

2008-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 25 November 2008 20:30, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > See http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian > Don't you think it would be nice linking this in the planet page? Done so now. Tiago, Florian, if you still want to be added to planet, feel free to send me an email with your feed u

Re: RFH: who should get this bug?

2008-11-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 16 November 2008 15:45, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > I have no idea which package should get this minor bug[0] about some > characters covering the underscore that marks an activation key. My best > guess would be either libpango or libgtk2.0, but I'm at a loss here. > Opinions? I

Bug#505739: ITP: ffmpeg2dirac

2008-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
package: wnpp severity: wishlist owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I intend to package this and to maintain it in the collab-maint repository on alioth. If someone wants to (co)maintain or beat me in packaging it, plea

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, kudos from me for this nice service as well!! On Friday 14 November 2008 10:28, Christoph Haas wrote: > Screenshots in > several languages carry very little different information IMHO and don't > warrant the extra hard disk space and effort to have them on the web > server. Or am I totally of

how far is Debian Edu from Debian?

2008-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/etch_needs_love.html and http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/lenny_needs_love.html now show (part of) the answer to the question "how far is Debian Edu from Debian?": Source packages in Debian etch main: 10225 Source packages in Debian Edu etch local: 2

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 09 November 2008 13:37, Paul Wise wrote: > The images don't include non-free stuff, but they do allow loading > non-free firmware. Joey Hess blogged about how it works here: > > http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_firmware_loading/ So all we need is just a download location for

Re: NEW status as of right now

2008-10-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 26 October 2008 23:04, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Mostly thanks to Joerg and Mark this > is down from ~250 packages we had in NEW on Friday. thanks to all of you who worked on this! (now and before and in future.) regards, Holger, who is happy to have spoiled the "its a thankl

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 27 October 2008 19:35, Frank Küster wrote: > If the PDF is frozen documentation, it's probably worth the effort. If > upstream changes the PDF with every new version, you should ask them for > their sources instead. What if they use openoffice.org to edit the pdf and the pdf is the

Bug#501590: Processed: Re: Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Christian, I don't understand why you reassigned this bug to general. Surely, if you want to discuss this with debian-devel@ you can cc: the list. Reassigning the bug to general often achieves nothing (which cannot be achieved by cc:ing) while it tends to pile up the list of general bugs and

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I was thinking whether not to mail this at all, or to -curiosa or to Gunnar, but then, I think it's useful to spread the message how silly patents are... On Tuesday 07 October 2008 21:13, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > For positive proof, I'd buy it - but we must remember logical > fallacies can be de

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 07 October 2008 16:44, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > - packages in 'patented' must fulfill the requirements of the dfsg I dont think we should support the obsolete, useless & wrong patent system by doing this. Also, something must patented in which / how many of the 160 juristrictio

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Reinhard, On Tuesday 07 October 2008 12:11, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Can you please backup that claim? Well, no and yes ;-) You confirm it yourself, but then say its not comparible. I only said that those patents are being enforced, which they are. (I didnt mention whether thats comparible

Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

2008-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 07 October 2008 09:03, Robert Millan wrote: > Unclaimed patents are precisely the reason we don't have any MPEG encoders > in Debian (see http://techliberation.com/2006/05/11/mpeg-patent-thicket/). Wrong. We dont have mpeg encoders in Debian because those patents are being enforce

Re: RFA: The Debian Jr. project

2008-10-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:37, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Probably. But it doesn't stop me from wishing this were not so. I > didn't want Debian Jr. to be *only* a packaging effort. I wanted a > living, breathing relationship between children, their caretakers and > developers. We've fall

Re: RFA: The Debian Jr. project

2008-09-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ben, On Monday 25 August 2008 11:38, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Thanks. It's hard to let go, but it's really for the best if someone > else will carry on. Yup. Has something happened on this in the last month? > > Is that vision written down somewhere? > It is probably best expressed on http://w

Bug#195481: closed by Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (upstream issue, not packaging related)

2008-09-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 23 September 2008 23:10, Neil Williams wrote: > > Guess we have different ideas about what "wishlist" bugs are for. > > My attitude is they're for wishes, like the sea is for fishes. > Wishes should still have some possibility of attainment, otherwise it > is wishful-thinking not wi

Bug#195481: closed by Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (upstream issue, not packaging related)

2008-09-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Barak, On Sunday 21 September 2008 19:13, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > As said, feel free to reopen. > Will do. And you did :-) > Willing? Yes. Able? No, not realistically: too many other plates > spinning in the air. But I'm happy to bounce things around with > people. If there are p

Re: Bug#195481: closed by Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (upstream issue, not packaging related)

2008-09-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Barak, On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:09, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > What makes Debian a "distribution" rather than just a random > collection of miscellaneous software is integration. This is an > integration wishlist. It has to happen at the distribution level if > it is to happen anyw

Bug#30020: reassign to lintian

2008-09-11 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 30020 lintian thanks Hi, reassigning to lintian, because a.) I think thats right and b.) I dont understand why it was reassigned from lintian to general in the first place. Probably this is already implemented (a check that two binary packages from one source package have exactly the

Bug#457839: reassign

2008-09-11 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 457839 perl thanks Hi, my understanding on this is based on reading the bug report. I'm not fully sure if this issue has been closed with perl 5.10 or if seperate bug reports for all effected manpages are useful. (I think the former but leave it to the perl maintainers to confirm.)

Bug#388065: reassign

2008-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 388065 cups tags 388065 +upstream thanks Hi, based on the assumption that a bug report titled "My PC should warn me when I try to shut down while my printer is still printing" clearly assumes ("My PC") a default printing environment on a default desktop install (which is cups) and tha

Bug#65611: reassign to lsb

2008-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 65611 lsb-base tags 65611 +upstream thanks Hi, I don't think it's Debians role to demand such changes in upstreams behavior, even though this change might be a good idea. So I'll reassign this to lsb-base. regards, Holger pgpK62PyEw3Se.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#238833: please read the bugreport until the end to understand why I reassigned this bug

2008-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 238833 qt-x11-free retitle 238833 wrong rendering fallback thanks Hi, please read the bugreport until the end to understand why I reassigned this bug. Probably you also want to retitle this bug even more. regards, Holger pgpBJiJQvc0dE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#366893: reassign to lintian

2008-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 366893 lintian thanks Hi, I'm reassigning this to lintian so that a check for a standarized stop message can be implemented. Reading from the bug, I think policy is quite clear about it. (If there is a stop script, there should be a stop message) Feel free to reassign to debian-policy

Bug#173829: debuild should have an option to test for this

2008-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 173829 devscripts thanks Hi, IMHO debuild should have an option to test for this, thus reassigning. regards, Holger pgps1C1REqVOs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#206187: marked as done (apt-get update fails to get index package list and therefore does nothing)

2008-09-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lawrence, On Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:33, Lawrence Williams wrote: > Without more information, I would think the "Waited, for gzip but it wasn't > there" message meant that gzip wasn't installed. read the merged bugreport 199653. regards, Holger pgpQbAiWhFQP7.pgp Description:

Bug#311868: another usecase for debtags

2008-09-03 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 311868 debtags thanks Hi, I read in this bugreport that it would be a good idea to use debtags to indicate whether a package installs remotely accessable services or not. (The other modifications suggested in this bugreport are mostly prohibited by policy) Does such a tag exist? If s

Bug#464551: does this problem still exist?

2008-09-03 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 464551 usbutils tags 464551 +moreinfo thanks Hi Rafael, you submitted this issue in February, are your devices correctly displayed by lsusb nowadays? regards, Holger, udev+linux-2.6 were other reassign candidates and if the submitter doesnt reply in 14 days I suggest close ;

Bug#484045: this is fixed by now, isn't it?

2008-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > This is bug #480093 (sys/user.h broken on (at least) hppa) which > has been fixed in glibc/2.7-11. > Who should I notify to have the HPPA build machines updated? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do I assume correctly, that in the last three month glibc has been updated on the hppa buildds? If so, ple

Re: Release Update: freeze guidelines, testing, BSP, rc bug fixes

2008-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 02 September 2008 07:54, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Due to license incompatibility, the content of the NewInLenny wiki page > can't be copied to the release notes. I just added this info as well as a link to the releasenotes repo to http://wiki.debian.org/NewInLenny. regards,

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ian, nice work! but... On Wednesday 27 August 2008 23:10, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'm hoping to shortly turn on the automatic bug filing mechanism. > I'm writing now to give people a chance to object :-). /me objects / suggests to first enable mails to some mailinglist (this one?), instead of a

Bug#105337: Processed: retitle

2008-08-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Vincent, On Wednesday 27 August 2008 22:35, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > Bug#105337: a central database for translated templates > > Changed Bug title to `i18n.debian.org: a central database for > > translated templates' from `a central database for translated > > templates'. > A

Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)

2008-08-27 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 437118 dpkg retitle 437118 Report broken package database to user close 437118 thanks Hi, I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right. Apologies for that. Because, I wonder if this bug shouldn't better be closed, as dpkg informs the user/admin directly abou

Bug#224692: reassign

2008-08-27 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 224692 texmacs-extra-fonts thanks Hi, reassigning to texmacs-extra-fonts as its appearantly the only package providing fraktur fonts ;-) OTOH, "apt-cache search gothic font" gives numerous results in sid, so I assume adding fraktur to the description would be helpful. regards,

Bug#482994: more info needed

2008-08-25 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 482994 normal tags 482994 +unreproducable thanks Hi Federico, I very much believe that this bug is caused by a configuration problem on your side, as I can print from gnome applications to a local cups printer just fine. Can you please elaborate? Else I'll close this bug in a week. r

Bug#414938: status update?

2008-08-25 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 414938 normal thanks Hi Steven, downgrading as networking works for 99,9% of our users just fine :-) The bug smells a bit like 472680, have you been able to fix your network issues since then? regards, Holger pgpZZSq598vS7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#161978: this really should be checked by lintian

2008-08-25 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 161978 important thanks Hi, downgrading severity, as this is about an old issue with tetex and because there is probably even a lintian check for this already. (Too lazy to confirm now, thus I'm also not reassigning the bug to lintian yet.) regards, Holger pgpmaN4blyB01.pgp

Re: RFA: The Debian Jr. project

2008-08-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ben, thanks for your work on Debian Jr. and for acknowledging that you don't have time/a heart for it anymore! On Thursday 07 August 2008 12:46, Ben Armstrong wrote: > The time has come for me to give up the [0]Debian Jr. project for > someone else to lead. While I still have a clear vision f

Re: [Debconf-announce] Schedule for DebConf8

2008-08-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Florian, On Saturday 02 August 2008 07:58, Florian Maier wrote: > is there a definite deadline for talks/bofs? I'd love to see a Debian > & LiMux BOF and/or LiMux talk at Mar del Plata this year, but didn't have a > chance to prepare anything useful in the last couple of days... You can still

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 21 July 2008 05:17, Joey Hess wrote: > Hmm, my reading of this has been that programs should default to using a > directory in /srv (it says "should be used as the default location for > such data"), but have to allow being configured to use any other > directory in or out of /srv fo

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:42, Florian Weimer wrote: > Relicensing would involve moving the package to non-free, that's > correct. Ui, I dint expect you really would want that. Why not detect if the system is really Debian and if not output "system type unsupported"? regards, Holger

Re: Bug#489132: lenny release notes, upgrade dpkg first

2008-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 03 July 2008 12:25, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Given that the new dpkg also supports triggers, we should probably also > recommend to upgrade apt/aptitude at the same time otherwise those tools > might be confused by the new package status... #464559 (in apt) is also a problem for e

Re: Bits from Testing Security team

2008-06-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Testing Security team, thanks for the announce-mail and your work! On Wednesday 25 June 2008 11:08, Nico Golde wrote: > General security support for testing > [...] > kernel. Also, we would like to state that packages that are not > security supported for

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Saturday 28 June 2008 02:48, Holger Levsen wrote: > It's documented here: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/HowTo/Administration#head-136bb7e75e07e8b6463e6b30761ac51776c5c27d now also with the correct order of commands :-) regards, Holger (see, it ain

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, while I'm actually in favor of adding this package because it makes it a lot easier to obtain a trustpath to the backports.org repo, which is important to our users, it's not true that there isnt a documented trusted path to install the key. It's documented here: http://wiki.debian.org/Debi

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 21 June 2008 15:52, Alexander Wirt wrote: > I'm still not that sure if its a good idea to add a non-offical debian repo > keyring into the archive... Nobody is forced to install it?! And AFAICS we regulary recommend backports.org to users, who need newer software. So I think it

Re: Automatic debiian installation

2008-06-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Tim, thanks for sharing your experiences. On Wednesday 11 June 2008 12:18, Tim Cutts wrote: > However, FAI usually depends on NFS -- yes, I know about fai-cd -- and > so isn't very appropriate for installing machines which are not part > of the same network (FAI: -1) This isnt really accurate

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marc, On Saturday 07 June 2008 11:51, Marc Haber wrote: > Shouldn't that be easier to do, Send patches?! ;) > and - most of all - documented? http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage regards, Holger pgprFz3NRVvRf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, wow, great! You're aware that you need to be done in just a bit more than six weeks to achieve your goal of being part of lenny? http://release.debian.org/emails/release-update-200801 regards, Holger pgpanKqExinsP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads

2008-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for starting an initiative to make NMs more useful and accepted! For now I just have two procedural remarks. On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:42, Bas Wijnen wrote: > [0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/ > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NmuDep Why isnt the second URL http://dep.debian.net/deps

Re: separate package for iotop?

2008-04-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Paul, thanks for bringing iotop to my attention! On Monday 21 April 2008 13:13, Paul Wise wrote: > Craig, do you think including the iotop python script in procps is a > good idea or should I create a separate package for it. moreutils might also be an option, it would also be a new dependen

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Roberto, On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > This is something that I propsed on January 3, 2007, on debian-devel. > There was a fairly lengthy thread that resulted and Thomas Viehmann even > offered to help. Of course, he and I both became very busy and so it > sort

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joshua, On Saturday 12 April 2008 03:02, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > How close /are/ we to a freeze? Please send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], thanks. Current status of the release: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg2.html Timeline for the release: http://lists.de

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 07 April 2008 19:57, Peter Jordan wrote: > why are the keyrings of debian-multimedia.org and debian backports not > in the official repository of debian? I guess this was answered already in this thread :-) > At the moment you have to install untrusted keyrings before you can use >

Bug#474321: Fwd: patch for gpart to support Windows XP NTFS

2008-04-04 Thread Holger Levsen
package: gpart severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: patch for gpart to support Windows XP NTFS Date: Friday 04 April 2008 16:33 From: "Trace Green" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 04 April 2008 00:35, Mike Bird wrote: > for sid's xserver-xorg.* 7.3 which has not yet made it to lenny, http://layer-acht.org/debian/xorg-etch-backports/ regards, Holger P.S.: If you wonder why there are no backports on bpo, please provide them. pgp1ZSidIna9I.pgp Desc

Re: How to deal with #402010?

2008-04-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 04 April 2008 09:18, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > to virtually any kind of web application accessing some kind of > database/ldap passwords somewhere in the filesystem. I dont consider a web application which is used to configure the LDAP database and FAI configuration (to install and

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 03 April 2008 07:19, Anibal Avelar wrote: > Totally I agree. Testing is fine for a personal Desktop machine. I disagree. It's fine for some persons desktops, yes. But it is neither "feature"-supported nor security supported, if users have problems they'll get "use stable if y

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (Please don't cc: me, I'm subscribed.) On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:20, Michael Biebl wrote: > Holger Levsen schrieb: > > Did you file those bugs? Is there a usertag for them? > > I tried to collect the information at http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog and > started

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, (sorry for the bad quoting ratio, but I figured it's nice to bring back the context...) On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:11, Michael Biebl wrote: > rsylogd provides linux-kernel-log-daemon and system-log-daemon, so it > replaces both klogd and sysklogd. The only package depending on kl

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 13 March 2008 23:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Therefore > http://wnpp.debian.net/ > is no longer a HTTP redirect but Great! > Since the page has reached a "stable" state > I would like to ask if there is a chance > to point to it from somewhere on > http://www.debian.or

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-03-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Tim, On Monday 17 March 2008 10:45, Tim Cutts wrote: > http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html > > Click on its "triad" button, and it automatically picks three > contrasting colours which work in all forms of colour blindness That page/tool rocks! Thanks for sharing! :) regar

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. > >[¹] Technically speaking it was a penguin. But it was a youthful > >penguin, rebelling agains

Re: Bug#436267: Firewire support in lenny

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 12 February 2008 12:31, Guus Sliepen wrote: > I do not see why making the old stack available again, but blacklisted > by default, discourages testing of the newer stack. If you have both > available, then yes, users can switch to the new stack more easily, but > at least they will

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 11 February 2008 11:48, Mike Bird wrote: > > > On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot which > > > may occur once a year for a kernel security update is not worth a > > > single broken script, nor a single failed backup, nor a single lost > > > data bit. > > Since

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:11, Michael Biebl wrote: > > - Involve the rsyslog maintainer in the work > I'm here and all ears. I'm willing to work on the necessary steps. > Ok, here we go... I just wish to say a big thanks to you for all the work you've already done on this. You

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 30 January 2008 18:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > What do you think about that lucas? Why only a redirect in the first > > place? > > 1. http://people.debian.org/~nion/net-domains.html > Lucas offered that to me but the host the site runs > on cannot handle a new IP for free. I

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 29 January 2008 00:55, Russ Allbery wrote: > Of course, since other syslog implementations are potentially better in > larger ways, there may still be good reason to switch the default syslog > to another implementation. It seems to me that everybody replied in favor to this idea

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Javier, hi Joey, On Monday 28 January 2008 10:51, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > 2008/1/28, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The main reason is that we need/want to configure syslogd via debconf (or > > any other policy complient way) for remote log

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-01-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 28 January 2008 11:03, Holger Levsen wrote: > Could you add an explaination of "dust" on the page, too? I'm pretty sure > it means "age in days", but as there seem to be 23 wnpp-bugs from today, I > checked half of them as I couldnt believe there

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-01-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sebastian, On Saturday 26 January 2008 02:13, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > thanks to lucas nussbaum the address >http://debian.binera.de/wnpp/ > is now accessible through >http://wnpp.debian.net/ . Heh, cool, I tried wnpp.debian.net last week and it was not there yet :-) Could you add a

changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, Debian Edu will be switching its syslog for Lenny and as we want to differ the least possible from Debian, we are wondering, what the default syslog will be in Lenny. The main reason is that we need/want to configure syslogd via debconf (or any other policy complient way) for remote loggi

Re: Packages leaving obsolete init.d scripts behind

2008-01-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Petter, On Friday 11 January 2008 12:39, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Here are some examples from my sid chroot: Did you file bugs? regards, Holger (writing this offline..) pgpJ76J5F8Jr4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#411639: x11-common: There should be a way to set per-user environment variables which last the whole X session]

2007-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 16 December 2007 16:29, David Nusinow wrote: >I'd appreciate some brief commentary on this bug from people who are > more aware of the minutia of shells and so forth than I am. Is this really > accurate, or is there a way that the submitter and myself are unaware of > for setting

etch installer with 2.6.23 (Re: why does ubuntu cripple alsa?!?

2007-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:00, Alan Ezust wrote: > True, I *can* install debian, except that I was trying to use Etch, > and etch's installer crashed in the middle of its process, leaving me > with an un-bootable system, due to the recent-ness of my computer. You could try the etch inst

Re: Draft new policy document format

2007-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Manoj, On Saturday 01 December 2007 07:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > At Debconf earlier this year, I gave a talk about the benefits > of creating language for a lintian/linda check whenever we introduce a > new policy rule (when appropriate, and feasible, of course)... I've completly

Re: debian-infrastructure-announce (was: dupload failed)

2007-11-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 09 November 2007 10:45, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > I'd suggest that if ftp-master is down, the message should go to both d-d-a > and the infrastructure list. I'm not sure I see the benefit to also have it on the infrastructure list, when you have to read d-d-a anyway. Maybe for ar

Re: debian-infrastructure-announce (was: dupload failed)

2007-11-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 09 November 2007 09:38, Frank Küster wrote: > Err, and what exactly is the reason for this? d-d-a isn't exactly > overloaded, and availability of debian infrastructure is something every DD > and maintainer should know about. It's also not like it would create a > problem if we got m

Bug#448724: O: imsniff: Simple program to log Instant Messaging activity on the network

2007-10-31 Thread Holger Levsen
package: wnpp X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Amaya requested me to orphan this package as she is too busy. regards, Holger pgpM4XHNQoxIw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updating software-properties in testing

2007-10-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 23 October 2007 09:13, André Wendt (bcc:ed) wrote: > P.S.: If this is not the right place for the question, please forward it > -- or drop me a line and I'll do it. The right place is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - but I don't forward it there as it has been reportadly fixed. regards,

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 13 October 2007 09:22, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Perfect example of a useless buggy package in debian. Anyone needing > dak uses the svn snapshot because the one in the archive is old and > deprecated. I think you are on a wrong track here. It might be an example of a poorly mai

Re: Bug#444021: ITP/RFP: sugar

2007-10-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 02 October 2007 13:32, Xavier Oswald wrote: > I will help you to co-maintain this package. Great. > Otherwise, I have asked to open an OLPC project on alioth and thus we could > use it for maintaining OLPC related packages together.. I was actually more thinking about using the d

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

2007-10-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 01 October 2007 11:01, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > I don't know any example of package which has included some additional > sources because the upstream didn't provide real-sources for its > sources. typo3-src is an example. Upstream doesn't provide the source for a font it ships.

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 30 September 2007 00:25, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > What about the following plan: It's not only pointless, but will also result in FTBFS errors once the old package is not available anymore. regards, Holger pgpZzFKDNDyYQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 27 September 2007 08:39, Ben Finney wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think there is any requirement to have any upstream contact > > information whatsoever in order to be able to distribute a package. > This seems to be the point of disagreement. I th

Re: Bug#444021: ITP/RFP: sugar

2007-09-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 25 September 2007 16:20, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface. Its goal is to turn the > > Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing > > and learning. > But, er, what does it /do/? Point taken. > I read the webpage bu

Bug#444021: ITP/RFP: sugar

2007-09-25 Thread Holger Levsen
package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: sugar Version : snapshots Upstream Authors : 14 people, see AUTHORS * URL

Re: RFC: "autobuilder" pseudo-package

2007-09-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:25, Simon Richter wrote: > inspired by the "how to detect if inside a buildd chroot" thread: would > it make sense to have an (empty) package "autobuilder" that all packages > that are not supposed to be installed on autobuilders (daemons, packages > requiring i

Bug#442251: check for non-free firmware (Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom)

2007-09-14 Thread Holger Levsen
ge, as described in > the mail quoted below? > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:29:29AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:37, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > There isn't any patch that should be required here. There is alre

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:37, Robert Millan wrote: > > There isn't any patch that should be required here. There is already a > > script in the kernel team repo to be used for pruning non-free firmware > > from the tarball, and it appears that whoever produced the initial > > uploads

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm happy to hear that the team maintainance aspect of this seems to have been resolved on IRC. Thanks to those involved! On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:26, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If there are restrictions on the package name, this definitely looks > like something all Debian developer

ttf-liberation (Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?)

2007-08-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 09 August 2007 10:03, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to replace > > > > the MS fonts. > > > Have their licensing issues been solved? Have those issues been communicated to upstream and what is their reaction? The ITP in

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 01 August 2007 21:46, Neil Williams wrote: > And a script to implement that in every box I have to install. Again > and Again and Again and Hu? You don't change any other configuration on those boxes? Nothing?? regards, Holger pgps3qpDnM8C4.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 14 July 2007 13:10, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Because our priority are our users, and not only those users that some > people think are the important ones? > > And how is it bothering other people if there are options? Should we > remove all features just because you and some major

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 07 July 2007 08:30, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like > debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be > somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). mock worked for me to setup Fedora Core 6, haven#t tried 7 yet.

Re: who are the kernel maintainers?

2007-07-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi debian-kernel ;) for those of you who dont read debian-devel... :-) On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:14, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I'm trying to find out who has responsibility for Bug #430646. Thomas, if you think that a bug has fallen under the radar of a maintainers team, why do you send

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 02 July 2007 17:45, Jon Dowland wrote: > Can someone upload an example of a wikipage, exported as > docbook and post-processed? I'm interested to see e.g. what > happens to links etc. try http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/ITIL/Samleside?action=format&mimetype=xml/docbook o

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