Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi Frank, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Cc'ing you 'cause I don't know whether you're subscribed to -devel] I am subscribed. Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name: xindy Version : 2.2-beta2-1 Upstream Author : Joachim Schrod [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-12 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I would like to pack Xindy an index processing system like makeindex. Xindy's source comes with clisp 2.33.2 and it is compiled at build time. I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I have little problem and saw the Debian package depends on X11. Upstream do not

Re: Maintainers Guide

2006-03-30 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Anthony, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Stanley wrote: This has to include a copyright year, also. ...and following additional discussion, the resolution is: After considering the suggestion, I have decided to close this bug. The year really should

Re: How to deal with dependencies/conflics on third party packages

2005-11-25 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Steve, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:50:55PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does not work with j2re1.3 means you should be depending on what it *does* work with, not trying to conflict with (unrelated

Re: How to deal with dependencies/conflics on third party packages

2005-11-25 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello sean, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi joerg, On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:23:58AM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: I've got a bug report (#336527) my package bootchart-view do not work with j2re1.3. But j2re1.3 is not in Debian. Can I set a conflict upon a packages

How to deal with dependencies/conflics on third party packages

2005-11-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I've got a bug report (#336527) my package bootchart-view do not work with j2re1.3. But j2re1.3 is not in Debian. Can I set a conflict upon a packages that is not in Debian? But if it do not work with j2re1.3 it should more than ever not work with older version. But I would assume older

Re: How to deal with dependencies/conflics on third party packages

2005-11-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Steve, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:23:58AM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: I've got a bug report (#336527) my package bootchart-view do not work with j2re1.3. But j2re1.3 is not in Debian. Can I set a conflict upon a packages that is not in Debian

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-10-01 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Thomas, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html I won't summarize the whole discussion here. I will just say that I see good reasons for adopting /run as a standard location for the storage of state information that needs to be

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-06 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Blars, Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on the spam filtering for the BTS. We are getting over 100,000 spams/day and about 50/day get through the filters. Do you tried

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Blars, Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (package name, version, etc) is not followed; the bug will

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-09-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Steve, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:11:31PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: It seems there is a misunderstanding. bootchart is a shell script that is started as init (kernel prompt init=/sbin/bootchart), which then forks the real init to start the real

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-09-01 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Adeodato, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joerg Sommer [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:51:16 +]: Do it and get enough things to use it. Then there is no stopping you. Well, I add /run/ to the directories of my package and mount a tmpfs there on startup. But I leave it mounted after

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-29 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about /run/? Can a new package simply use/create /run? I would add /run to the directories

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-29 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi Roger, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, it looks like we should standardise on something like /run. Has this been brought up with the FHS/LSB folks? This sounds like something other distributions will also need to tackle, so if it gets standardised, so much the better.

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Goswin von Brederlow] Nothing is available before init is started, init is always the first thing to start, even on initrd or initramfs (some archs call init linuxrc though). You

a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before init, which means there is no place in the file tree to write to. The upstream package creates a directory in /mnt/ where it mounts a tmpfs. But using a

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before init, which means there is no place in the file tree to write to. can't you hack the package to use RAM until

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:53:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: /run/bootchart, but there seems to be some resistance to actually trying to standardize on /run :) what about /dev/shm? sean Is it available _before_ init is started? Jörg. --

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 06:31:20PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before init, which means there is no place in the file tree

Re: executable files in examples?

2005-08-17 Thread Joerg Sommer
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:51:31PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: I reported my wish #281892 to have a file in examples executable to make it possible to create a symlink on it that is placed in the PATH. Or that is to say I would like to have

executable files in examples?

2005-08-15 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, is it alright to make a file in /usr/share/PKG/examples executable? I reported my wish #281892 to have a file in examples executable to make it possible to create a symlink on it that is placed in the PATH. Or that is to say I would like to have the file bogominitrain.pl in examples

depending on itself -- bug?

2005-07-12 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I found three packages in my system they name itself in the Depends field: libbonoboui2-0, libgail-common and libtextwrap1 What's the reason for a package to depend on itself? This makes it hard for deborphan to detect them as orphaned. Should check lintian on this? Have a nice day, Jörg.

configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-04 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, can I use debconf to ask the admin what should be the default look and feel for the editor jed? The developers-reference manual tells us to not abuse debconf. Is this an abuse? Jed can have the look and feel like emacs or the KDE editor. Can I ask the admin, what should be the default? Have

remove stale conffiles?

2005-05-06 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, in an old version of jed-common two conffiles 00site.sl and 99debian.sl were included. But caused by some reason they aren't removed on upgrade. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266981 Becomes a conffile held if it was modified when it is removed in a new package version?

gconf, kde: cleanup tmp after X logout

2005-03-11 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, are there any X login manager independent scripts they were run after the X session is closed? Is there a possibility for gconf, artsd and alike to register to get called when the X session ends to bring down there service? I admin a linux pool for nearly 500 people. After two weeks uptime

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 11, Joerg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why ppp provides its own mechanism of telling programs when the interface is coming up or down? Many programs register for the ppp mechanism, but not for the network mechanism. Where is the difference

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:21, Robert Collins wrote: I think there is basically a general class of network event to represent these, and if ifupdown is taught it, and then dhcp, ppp, whatever are hooked into it, the result would be fanastic. That class is

ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-11 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, why ppp provides its own mechanism of telling programs when the interface is coming up or down? Many programs register for the ppp mechanism, but not for the network mechanism. Where is the difference and why both isn't the same? Bye, Joerg. -- Real programmers don't comment their code.

Re: Which package provides policy-rc.d

2003-12-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
begin Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Joerg Sommer wrote: I hope someone knows what policy-rc.d is and can comment my idea, because the maintainer of file-rc will stay conform to sysv-rc, which uses policy-rc.d. http://people.debian.org/~hmh