Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Jeff Stevens] > If /etc/hosts were changed to: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > > Resolution of 127.0.0.1 would properly return localhost. Yeah, but that's all beside the point. There is no point in swapping the order of the two names unless there be any point in having "loca

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Simon Josefsson: > >>> I think you might get broader support in the vendor community if you >>> make the license for modified copying non-copyleft. >> >> Yes, that is the intention. Requiring a copyleft license is likely to >> meet with disapproval f

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Mattia Dongili] > * Package name: acpica-unix > > iasl compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI Machine > Language). This AML is suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system > firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes. The name is a bit silly, IMO. It's not as t

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Thomas Hood
OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes 127.0.0.1 localhost to /etc/hosts. >From now on let's consider at least the following two phenomena to be bugs: * The application expects to be able to resolve 'localhost.localdomain' to an IP address. * The application breaks if 'localhost.l

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, October 14, 2005 10:46 am, Peter Samuelson said: > > [Mattia Dongili] >> * Package name: acpica-unix >> >> iasl compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI Machine >> Language). This AML is suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system >> firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for d

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Qui, 2005-10-13 às 22:36 -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg escreveu: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > >Package: general > > > >override change are not announced to the package maintainers, _after_ > >a package is uploaded. > > > I don't beleive this is true. I just got the following email from the > archi

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:04:20AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > What doko meant, if I understand this correctly, is that, if a package > has already been uploaded when an ftpmaster modifies the overrides, the > maintainer will not get to know about it until s/he uploads a new > package a

Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
reassign 333844 dak severity 333844 wishlist thanks On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:00:15AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > override change are not announced to the package maintainers, _after_ > a package is uploaded. Fwiw, they *are* listed on the PTS Package Tracking system, packages.qa.debian.org/$

Processed: Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 333844 dak Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers Bug reassigned from package `general' to `dak'. > severity 333844 wishlist Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers Severity

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 14, 2005

2005-10-14 Thread Jerome Warnier
Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 00:26 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : [..] > The following packages have been orphaned: > >and (#333683), orphaned today [..] I'm maintainer (but still not DD) of this package "and", and the bugreport does not apply to it, still I do not want to orphan it at a

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 14, 2005

2005-10-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-14 14:50]: > >and (#333683), orphaned today > I'm maintainer (but still not DD) of this package "and", and the > bugreport does not apply to it, still I do not want to orphan it at all. > Do I need to do something or contact someone to confirm this?

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 14, 2005

2005-10-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
retitle 333683 O: octave-statdataml, r-cran-statdataml, r-cran-xml thanks Hi Jerome, Jerome Warnier wrote: >> and (#333683), orphaned today > I'm maintainer (but still not DD) of this package "and", and the > bugreport does not apply to it, still I do not want to orphan it at all. > Do I need t

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 14 October 2005 02:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > to /etc/hosts. Thank you! Yay for purging ugly non-standardness! =) > From now on let's consider at least the following two phenomena to be > bugs: > > * The applicat

Automated mailing to all maintainers of packages depending on X?

2005-10-14 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, does anybody know about a ready-made script that would extract all package names and maintainers of packages depending on X from the Packages file, and send e-mails to them, replacing the package name for some boilerplate text in a text I feed it: Dear Maintainer of , you receive this mail b

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The copyright notice says "all rights reserved" right before the > rest of the license spells out several rights which are, in fact, > not reserved. Those several rights are probably (I haven't read the full license) granted only subject to certain c

Re: Automated mailing to all maintainers of packages depending on X?

2005-10-14 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:47:26PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know about a ready-made script that would extract all > package names and maintainers of packages depending on X from the > Packages file, and send e-mails to them, replacing the package name for > some boilerplate

Bug#333949: ITP: orpheus -- text mode menu- and window-driven audio player application

2005-10-14 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: orpheus Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Konstantin Klyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://thekonst.net/orpheus/ * License : GPL Description : text mode menu-

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Henning Makholm writes: > But in fact "All rights reserved" is just legal boilerplate that has no > freedom-related consequences at all. It used to be (before the USA joined > the Berne treaty, iirc) that this particular language was a formal > necessity for asserting any copyright in the first pla

Re: Automated mailing to all maintainers of packages depending on X?

2005-10-14 Thread Frank Küster
James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:47:26PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does anybody know about a ready-made script that would extract all >> package names and maintainers of packages depending on X from the >> Packages file, and send e-mails to them, rep

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Sex, 2005-10-14 às 11:34 +0200, Bastian Blank escreveu: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:04:20AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > > What doko meant, if I understand this correctly, is that, if a package > > has already been uploaded when an ftpmaster modifies the overrides, the > > maintainer

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Jeff Stevens
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 10:47 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > to /etc/hosts. > > >From now on let's consider at least the following two phenomena to be > bugs: > > * The application expects to be able to resolve 'localhost.l

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Christoph Haas
Thomas... On Friday 14 October 2005 10:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > to /etc/hosts. Thank you very much. My fellow sysadmins will appreciate that. And of course I'm very glad that after a lot of global warming the thread fina

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Thomas Hood wrote: OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes 127.0.0.1localhost to /etc/hosts. Excellent. Thank you. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch

2005-10-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> * Nathanael Nerode: > > > In gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0, these functions have been replaced with out-of-line > > functions, implemented in libstdc++. > > Do these out-of-line functions avoid the LOCK prefix overhead on > non-SMP systems or, at least, non-threaded programs (for example, > using some

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:55:30PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > Em Sex, 2005-10-14 às 11:34 +0200, Bastian Blank escreveu: > > And he get only warnings for binary packages he uploaded, not for the > > packages which are only built by the autobuilders. > > Perhaps because the override ch

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Sex, 2005-10-14 às 19:22 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar escreveu: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:55:30PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > > Em Sex, 2005-10-14 às 11:34 +0200, Bastian Blank escreveu: > > > And he get only warnings for binary packages he uploaded, not for the > > > packages whi

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I suppose you are right. I have changed the license into: > > The Contributor grants third parties the right to > copy and distribute the Contribution, with or without > modification, in any medium, without royalty. If the >

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, you misunderstand. Bastian means that if some binary packages > are only built on some archs, not including the one the upload is > taking place for, nobody will get an override disparity > warning[1]. And he's correct, as override disparity

Please check if it is needed and if yes please help

2005-10-14 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi I started to debianize UniGnuplot, a graphical frontend for Gnuplot. Now I am at a point where I can't maintain it, because there are some bugs which may be easy for a Tcl/Tk coder, but not for me ;=) The package seems to have a dead upstream!!! If someone here is interested in maintaining th

Re: Please check if it is needed and if yes please help

2005-10-14 Thread Steffen Joeris
On Saturday 15 October 2005 02:36, Steffen Joeris wrote: > Hi > > I started to debianize UniGnuplot, a graphical frontend for Gnuplot. > Now I am at a point where I can't maintain it, because there are some bugs > which may be easy for a Tcl/Tk coder, but not for me ;=) > > The package seems to hav

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Frank Küster wrote: > In the particular case, the reason is something else: If the recommended > package B (tetex-bin) is there, it makes sense to run one of its > executables (mktexlsr, updmap) to register the files of package A (any TeX > font package). This is a time-consuming process. Howeve

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:35:19PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > This property of metapackages has always irked me. If I install gnome > and then remove gnome-games, I won't automatically benefit in the next > release from any other goodies the gnome maintainers have added to > "gnome" package. T