Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Is there any objections to my uploading a new e2fsprogs package which > does this? Please take into consideration that libselinux is not available on Debian's non-Linux ports. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:42:19PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GNOME seems to be more and more focusing on the entry-level Linux user, > > and less and less on advanced users. Most unfortunate, its much prettier > > than KDE. > > Indeed. Wasn't t

Re: busybox-1.01-cross.patch

2006-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: > Dear maintainer(s), > > Please consider this patch, that adds the ability to cross-compile > your package. I think you should file those patches as wishlist bugs in the Debian bug tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org.

Re: Change .rm to mp3 or wav file

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:29:52AM -0800, Peter Khwatenge wrote: > Do you have a program that can change .rm to mp3 or wave files? If > yes, how can I get one? This question is inappropriate for this list, please ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Banck
till present in libarts1c2a, > but because they are from the same source package, it can be assumed > that the maintainers know about this. It might make more sense to reassign those bugs to the current binary package in unstable in that case, maybe. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Banck
Gentlemen, On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:14:56PM +, Brett Parker wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:55:57AM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake! > > > everything that is not hardware is software

Re: SVN on alitoth for guest accounts

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Banck
t http://alioth.debian.org states: Any problems? If you encounter a problem with Alioth, please check out the Site Admin group. You may want to use the support request tracker to report problems. http://alioth.debian.org/projects/siteadmin/ Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux and memory leak

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Banck
7;load average:' are under one. Please do not follow-up to end-user questions on -devel without at least setting Mail-Followup-To to a more appropriate list. Better yet, move them elsewhere alltogether. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ad

Re: NEWS.Debian abuse

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Banck
not? IMHO, NEWS.Debian should cover things the users should know in order to successfully operate the package. Knowing who is the maintainer does not fall into this category. If they cared about changes for the Debian packaging, they would read up on it in changelog.Debian.gz. Michael -- Mich

Re: Multiple package variants with CDBS?

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Banck
e, the second without. Is this supported > > by CDBS somehow? Is there a package, that already does such a > > thing using CDBS? Any hint or example debian/rules file > > appreciated, thanks in advance! > > Look at fvwm. fvwm does not use cdbs, I think we all know how to do

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:59:55PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:36:40PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > > > To summarize the proposals so far: > > > > > > - &quo

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:36:40PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > To summarize the proposals so far: > > - "Scan debian/rules, invoke build-arch if present". > > Has been tried, does not work. AFAIK it is working as long as you assume debian/rules to be a Makefile, which is a pretty safe assumpt

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:25:07PM +, Dave Holland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:44:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Raphaël has also harmed the project by implicitly > > linking it to Ubuntu. > > Don't be ridiculous. Ubuntu explicitly acknowledge that they build on > Debian - see

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:44:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Sorry to feed again the troll, but I would like to know what is the > rationale behind removing the permissions for Andrew and not for > Raphaël. This has nothing to do with the technical aspects of Debian development (too bad th

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:28:07PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: > >I've changed the override to Priority: standard; I can't say I'm remotely > >impressed by how this has been handled. > > Could this be stopped, please? I am not sure why you are replyin

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Banck
ichael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian and the desktop (was: Re: Complaint about #debian operator)

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Banck
(Dropping Josh and moving to -devel, as this is discussion is going elsewhere) On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:59:05PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > However, some users just want a computer that works (the "plain > users"). They don't want to have to learn too much about Linux or > Debian, they just

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Banck
-package config. But you can find a link to the buildd logs of > hurd and such on buildd.net. There are currently no public build logs for hurd-i386, but we are working on getting them published on experimentel.ftbfs.de as well. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:47:59PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:27:10 +0100, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Where should I best complain for your NM application to be > > cancelled? > > Err, so if a NM candidate speak

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Banck
appears to get results, doesn't > it? At least, that's the conclusion that a rational outside observer > would come to. Where should I best complain for your NM application to be cancelled? Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.or

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Banck
ring stuff, please post to -project, as this is seems to be off-topic here. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Banck
moment. So nothing to see here, please move along. kthxbye, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#341487: ITP: gchempaint -- Chemical structure editor

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gchempaint Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Jean Brefort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/gchempaint/ * License : GPL Description

Bug#341486: ITP: gnome-chemistry-utils -- GNOME chemistry utility library

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnome-chemistry-utils Version : 0.4.7 Upstream Author : Jean Brefort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/gchemutils/ * License : GPL

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:38:32PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > They were,

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-24 Thread Michael Banck
ovided at db.debian.org are easy enough to setup (as has been shown numerous times now), and I will not engage in that undertaking. If that happens, we can discuss how packages should be named, and whether the current sbuild package should be renamed. Until then, less drama would be welcome. Michae

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:44:42PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:50:11PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> If you NEED to do a manual binNMU it is probably best to use sbuild

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-24 Thread Michael Banck
ian package is the fork, while the sbuild in wanna-build is upstream. As I understand it, we do not plan to use the Debian sbuild package for the buildds, the upstream one works well enough (and currently much better for what the buildds need) Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:50:11PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > If you NEED to do a manual binNMU it is probably best to use sbuild > (the cvs, not deb) Patches for the Debian package are welcome, of course. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:47:22AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Banck wrote: > > Do you plan to use debian-installer for installation? > > And do you realize that the debian installer is largely GPL licensed and > would present the same license incompatability issues as e

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
and > tell us a few words about yourself. We'll respond with a > user/password. I suggest you discuss things on this list (if they are technical) or debian-project (if they are non-technical). This will make it much easier for you to cooperate with the Debian project, if this is your in

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Banck
as it only runs > those parts on target which can't be done on the host. Sounds interesting. Will you work on implementing this? Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Banck
s in the respective teams would get mad, not the people discussing the proposal. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The fact is that Ubuntu has proactively contributed a lot of code back to > Debian, much more than most Debian derivatives have. I see no reason why > claims that Ubuntu is not doing _enough_, or making it easy _enough_ for > Debian

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Banck
Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question was really this, if Ubuntu created a better bug tracking > program would Debian want to run the new software on the debian > servers thus replacing the current bug tracking programs? AFAIK, what Ubuntu is developing is proprietary software,

Bug#311180: ITP: hurd-trans-unionfs -- unionfs Hurd translator

2005-05-29 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: hurd-trans-unionfs Version : CVS Upstream Author : Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gianluca Guida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sv.gnu.org/projects/hurdextras * License : GPL Descri

Re: Debian maintainers and the Launchpad

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Banck
sts: 'within Debian') would need to be discussed at some point. cheers, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is Warren Turkal MIA?

2005-04-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, did anybody see Warran Turkal (the current maintainer of dbs) lately? He seems to be MIA WRT his NM-process and packaging work. I tried to reach him at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for a while now, but to no avail. Does anybody know of a another/better address? thanks, Michael -- Michael

Re: Bug#250202: Standardizing make target for 'patch' and 'upstream-source'

2005-04-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:12:53AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:37 +0200, David Schmitt wrote: > > > To prepare the sourcecode for inspection and/or minor modifications an > > additional argument for debian/rules would fit well into the current model. > > > > Cal

Re: Bug#299713: ITP: cvsfs -- Translator for transparent access to cvs repositories

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:57:45 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > Once translated, the user can browse around in directories and view > > file contents by the means of standard GNU tools. > By my vague (secondhand) understanding of Hurd translators, it shows up > as a regular filesystem tree--so any t

Bug#299713: ITP: cvsfs -- Translator for transparent access to cvs repositories

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cvsfs Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Stefan Siegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cvsfs4hurd.berlios.de/cvsfs.html * License : GPL Description : Translator for transparent access to CVS repositories cv

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:04:57AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:45:17PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > One could argue about sending the NMU-patch/interdiff to the BTS, but I > > personally do not see much point in it, since (hi Omnic!) you can just

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:49:33PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > I'm sorry the NMU annoyed you but I welcome it. There is nothing worse > > than a package that kills buildds, esspecially such a common one. > > I agree. But still LaMont should have expressed his intent to do so, and > send the pat

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:40:29PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > Let me first say unequivocally that the LCC is very interested in > getting Debian involved. The question has always been: How do we do > that? I think there is one obvious answer to this question: 'Learn from history'. 1. Unix and U

Re: pmount vs updfstab

2004-10-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 02:46:05PM +0200, Bluefuture wrote: > Il giorno sab, 09-10-2004 alle 12:23 +0200, Michael Banck ha scritto: > > > What is updtfstab? > I use this on sarge/sid and works very fine: > http://ccomb.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=UsbMassStorageEnglish It s

Re: pmount vs updfstab

2004-10-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:57:58PM +0200, Bluefuture wrote: > Do we have a "debian solution" about this issue? Or we want to use > updtfstab? What is updtfstab? HAL upstream has fstab-sync as fstab wrapper, which will probably be used in RedHat's upcoming Fedora Core distribution, seeing how th

Re: Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:41:03AM -0400, Jeff Teunissen wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: > > Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For me, I don't want GNUstep in the names of my programs because I am > > > not connected to GNUstep and don't want to be. It is just a couple of > > > libraries

Re: Minutes fo DebConf5 IRC meeting of 20041003 at 20:00 UTC

2004-10-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:31:49PM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > - recording talks on video is a problem and a big job; "Martin the > > Argentinian living in New Zealand" was interested in the issue (mooch) > > > > Did I hear someone call my name? ;) > > I am keen on organizing the vide

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 07:45:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I admit I wasn't very clear about why I tagged it pending. I think we > probably need a 'fixed-upstream' tag or similar now that pending is more > explicitly reserved for "upload will happen soon". I second that. Michael -- "The d

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:31:05AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Josselin Mouette [Wed, Jul 23 2003, 06:06:18PM]: > > Le mer 23/07/2003 ? 17:57, Martin Pitt a ?crit : > > > Besides, what's so bad with the current boot-floppies that they could > > > not be used for another release? Most people will

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:36:22PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > Debian 1 project > 10 years >100 countries > 1000 maintainers how about something else, like 'developers' or 'project members'? > 1 packages > General > Debian > 1 project

Re: gcc on a biarch system

2003-07-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:44:31PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > I propose obtaining the gcc specific options from a dpkg-libinfo > (introduced by Gerhard Tonn's lib64 patches) or dpkg-architecture. > debian/rules can query for said options, and use them in order to build > for a given host arch

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:26:17AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > How would you react if somebody called work you did and that took a > few hours "silly"? And Mr. Troup's appreciation of my work is > appropriately named in the directory name the package sits in at the > moment. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:19:16PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Keep stunnel as a stub package depending on either stunnel3 or stunnel4, > change the description of stunnel3 explaining the situation and urging > users to upgrade if possible. Yeah, he could use a debconf note for this for example.

Re: inews path question

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:30:02AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >Hopefully, Debian Policy (and FHS) will allow the use of libexec some > >day... > > Debian's not a BSD, regardless of the kernel that it's running on. AFAIK, /libexec is used by the theoretical GNU system as well. Michael

Re: ximiam connector

2003-07-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:56:02PM +0200, Jim Mintha wrote: > However at the moment red-carpet doesn't seem to work. Also the > sources line above doesn't seem to work either. The line: > deb http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/ximian/debian woody main > but that doesn't get you the connector. I've re

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 07:57:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > So what is the single command to apt-get install all the GNU versions > of everything? Just create and maintain a meta-package that Conflicts/Depends on the stuff you want. See the harden package, which has similar funcionality, AFAIC

Re: [proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:29:41PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Michael Banck wrote: > > > Also, please note that at least half of the dpkg-maintainers don't read > > -devel, you probably want to post this to -dpkg. Incidently, there is a > > propo

Re: [proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:40:21AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030626 08:20]: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > What does oppose us to make subarchitectures quite more easy than now? > > > (Th

Re: subarchitectures? (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > What does oppose us to make subarchitectures quite more easy than now? > (That would also be useful for the AMD Opteron and the like that could > use normal i386-code, but can profit from optimized code.) Nothing opposes it, we're ju

Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:46:24PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > If there is no permanent buildd running, I think most developers will > not be able to identify hurd specific problems, even if they were very > minor. Well, there is a buildd, it's just not running at the moment (and it dies frequently

Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:30:26PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > I think such a machine would be valuable to increase the quality > of the Hurd port overall. Maybe. But also keep in mind that porting to GNU/Hurd is a bit more complicated than porting to just another Linux architecture, because of s

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:29:23PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the > package justice by giving an adequate description. File wishlist bugs with a patch for the long description then. Michael

Re: new packages queue

2003-06-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:02:10PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > I have a new package called fprobe and it's in the new package queue. It > was uploaded on 14 June as you can see from the message below. The NEW queue needs manual intervention, so it only gets processed every now and then

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:09:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > But one they forgot when making the spec was some kind of date > information. Just subscribe to debian-devel-changes. You can get all the necessary information from there. HTH & HAND, Michael -- BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA MOAHAHAHA

Re: Debian Weekly News - June 3rd, 2003

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:05:04PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Martin Schulze wrote: > >Flaming with Jamie Zawinski. > > Slow news day, Joey? I found it highly entertaining. Michael -- marcus: You *are* a dangerous person to distract. I've seen some

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:14:28AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > To demostrate how much this issue is stupid, i'll make any one here > happy by including the entire upstream changelog in > changelog.Debian.gz, next time i'll build a new upstream. Didn't you just complain that peop

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 09:15:39AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Even that is little indicator. I know folks who's job has nothing to do > with Debian, but they do more work than people who are paid to work on > Debian. It's all about motivation, and no person is doing anything > wrong. It's a person

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 07:07:19PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: > > > If your countrymen share that sort of attitute it explains why the > > > USA is in so many wars. > > > > Yeah. We rarely suffer fools gladly. > > Stop it, you're killing me. People from the USA describing others as fools. > One only

Re: More bugs.debian.org MIME work

2003-05-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > bugs.debian.org's web interface now decodes each part of MIME messages > for display, so for example quoted-printable and (God forbid) > base64-encoded text is now displayed in a readable form. In addition, > attachments are now only d

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

2003-05-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:12:35AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > 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

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

2003-05-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:33:05PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Shall I go on? No. Michael -- -!- bunny is now known as trinityBunny >=) * trinityBunny doubles flips in the room, slow motion rotates around jbailey waves h at him in fast motion and stands still.

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

2003-05-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:49:52PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > >* Acknowledge NMU (closes: #174301, #172803, #179036, #177616) > > Ugh, also this one. Do not use changelog for closing fixed bugs. > Do it usin

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 12:17:32PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > As one of the 200+ developers in the USA I don't feel it should be > avoided and I feel quite out in the cold most of the time when these > conferences come around because I don't have the funds to go elsewhere. > I don't see any prob

Re: Bug#194190: ITP: dpkg-rebuild -- Rebuild dpkg's status file

2003-05-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > * Package name: dpkg-rebuild > Description : Rebuild dpkg's status file. > > Rebuild the Debian '/var/lib/dpkg/status' file from information in > '/var/lib/dpkg/available' and '/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list'. This is > usef

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:54:08PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > | These are all valid points, however, I still don't want to read HTML > | e-mail in mutt. > > Why not? Mutt deals perfectly well with HTML e-mail if you have lynx o

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 03:25:42PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: > Yes, but then if the majority of clients can send/recive HTML email, who has > the compatibility problem? It doesn't matter what the clients are able to do. The majority of readers on this list don't want HTML-postings. Just like they d

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:35:01PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > It would be a start and I think that's what is needed. It needs to be > started by someone, and I contend *anyone* can start it, before it will > be possible to do it in full. The thing is: The autobuilders for testing-security are

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:09:28PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I wouldn't feel like setting up a repository for testing that only > > clueless people-who-put-every-apt-line-they-see-in-their-sources-list[0] > > would use.

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:23PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > The accepted procedure seems to be to > - sign your response (!) He did. Michael -- Well, if we can't talk about the Hurd here, we may as well talk about sex. They are often equivalent. functionally speaking. neal: T

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:49:28PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You seem to fail to understand that people don't pull security updates > > from Joe-Random-NM-or-not's server. Of course, one can setup a > > repositor

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:39:20PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:41:47PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200305/msg5.html I stand corrected. > > If a member of the sec-team says

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:38:39PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > People are only going to bitch if you make it look like an > > > official part of Debian

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > People are only going to bitch if you make it look like an > official part of Debian when it isn't, and rightly so. Why the hell do you think this should not be an of

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:52:26AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Matthias Urlichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > >> (a) Before I do something like that, I'd need to be accepted as DD. > > > > > > False statement. > > > > So non-DDs can get accounts on Debian ma

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
So, what have we got here? Three theses: On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: 1. > Well, the documentation says that there is no security for testing, 2. > but it does not say that the security of unstable is higher than the > one of testing. OK, so testing has "no se

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:13:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > The only thing really needed here is the RM's blessing, and an > announcement. I have no idea how you might think this announcement should look like. Could you perhaps at least give a rough outline of it? Thanks. Michael -- DaniFi

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:06:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The problem is finding competent volunteers to do the work. I must have missed that post to debian-devel-announce where the security guys call for responsible people to get on the team then. I mean, nothing wrong with tryin

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:22:28PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > has no official support from Debian security team qualifies as not > for public consumption in my eyes, but fo course there are braver > souls than I out there. So you are saying we should tell people to live with the disease,

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:51:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Daniel K. Gebhart (con-fuse) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Christoph Siess (CHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Why are we giving debian.net addresses to people who don't want to go > through the "pain" of authenticating themselve

Re: RFA: sbuild -- Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources

2003-04-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:44:06AM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: > I request an adopter for the sbuild package. Roger Leigh packages buildd (which includes sbuild) locally, so he might be the right guy for this. Michael

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:23:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > > package. Additionally it seams that aptitude is current

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend andsuggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Am Die, 2003-04-29 um 13.08 schrieb David Nusinow: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:13:38AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Why not just use aptitude?[1] > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > pack

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Nick Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > > I've got an essay due in 24 hours which (was) being > > written in lyx (whic

Re: Bug#191167: ITP: oooqs-kde -- OpenOffice.org QuickStarter applet for KDE

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:25:27AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [1] the package will be called 1:0.99+1.0_rc3-1 to ensure upgradability > to 1.0 and from the woody backport which was versioned > 1.0_rc3-0woody1 :( nothing against upgradability to 1.0, but introducing epochs right from th

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:27:34PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > A bug on the lack of a debian-x86-64 mailing list has been opened (162668). > All that can be done has been done -- it's out of our hands now :) > > The pressure, as you put it, could be increased by modifying the bug's > severi

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:43:54PM -0400, Rich Payne wrote: > > The Inquirer is not always right, so I am not sure if I should take that > > as truth or just rumors. > > I think they're right this time. Most of the press releases that have gone > out mention AMD64 instead of x86-64, and the market

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:04:51AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > I wonder why only the .changes files are readable in the NEW queue. > Is there a reason for this? Crypto-in-main. Michael

Re: [Debian-Lex] Packages and helpers for Linux for lawyers sub-project

2003-04-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:43:50PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > We're still not officially launched yet though, until the list people > create a list for us, so debian-devel will remain the point of contact > until then. Well, you can always create a list on Alioth for the time being. No need to

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:07:19AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Well, I certainly hope he doesn't want the kind of visibility that the > studio and producer have. Can you imagine it? > > # mkreiserfs > > [clear screen] > > > > > N A M E S Y S [...] Dude,

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