Re: localisation in system wide daemons

2007-01-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:05:41 -0300, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> Hindu is an adjective that describes someone whose faith is >> hinduism. It is not a language. >> >> manoj > And, according to Merriam-Webster[1], a native or inhabitant from > India.

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 19 January 2007 02:19, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading >> the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a >> reasonable fast i386 machine

Re: xdelta, "grave" bug 147187, time left

2007-01-19 Thread LaMont Jones
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:37:26PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:28:11AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > So the question to d-release team (and to the mantainer) is: > > should/could I NMU a new version with this patch applied? > That question isn't one the release team real

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
Russell Coker wrote: > Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems > other than i386. So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at > least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruction set then you could > probably improve performance by running

Re: localisation in system wide daemons

2007-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hindu is an adjective that describes someone whose faith is >> hinduism. It is not a language. > And, according to Merriam-Webster[1], a native or inhabitant from India. > [1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?b

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ debian spamfilters do hate me, resend with different address. ] Russell Coker wrote: > Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems > other than i386. So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at > least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruc

Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:21PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a > wrote: >> I thought that the 2007 key was (based on [1]) supposed to be available >> early in January and available in the debian-archive-keyring package. Which >> doesn't seem to be the case. > >

Re: Is Ryuichi Arafune MIA?

2007-01-19 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
(Added the MIA team to `Cc' to manage Ryuichi's packages) On January 11, 2007 at 10:26PM +0900, tats (at debian.org) wrote: > On December 20, 2006 at 8:36PM -0600, > gwolf (at gwolf.org) wrote: > > > I just prepared a NMU for toolbar-fancy [1], a package maintained by > > Ryuichi Arafune. Now, I

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-19 Thread Miles Bader
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well we shouldn't keep ourselves hostage of stupid upstream behaviour, >> should we? > > Contrary to us, GNOME (in this case RedHat) actually employs usability > experts. Who are we to think we know better? Actual users? -Miles -- `...the Soviet Uni

Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-19 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 13:01:45 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:21PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a > > wrote: > >> I thought that the 2007 key was (based on [1]) supposed to be available > >> early in January and availa

Is Susumu OSAWA MIA?

2007-01-19 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
I've noticed that the eb package is an old version. "new upstream available" wishlist bug was filed on 2005-02-11, and the upstream releases were on 2005-05-29, 2005-08-14, 2005-11-26 and 2006-08-31, but the package hasn't been updated since 2003-09-14. The maintainer of eb is Susumu OSAWA <[EMAI

Bug#407568: ITP: libapache2-mod-defensible -- Apache 2.x module intended to block spammers using DNSBL servers

2007-01-19 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libapache2-mod-defensible Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : myself * URL : http://julien.danjou.info/mod_defensible.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#407442: general: few free disk detection

2007-01-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 18 janvier 2007 à 14:45 +0100, Jean-Michel a écrit : > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > On a filesystem which might fragment on low disk space(such as > ext2/ext3), > might be the system should detect this condition, and inform, in some > way, the root, and the user who tries to

Bug#407446: general: automatic mount network share in filesystem.

2007-01-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 18 janvier 2007 à 14:55 +0100, Jean-Michel a écrit : > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > > samba network share might be automagically mouted in file system. > > share partage on computer machine from domain domaine, with user utilisateur > shoud be > available in filesystem thr

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-19 Thread Miles Bader
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having eog and evince in the menu serves the "I want to look at a file I > know I have on my disk" case. But you can open the file in the same > number of clicks but with a better interface, by launching a nautilus > window. "Better interface" for som

~ SIS is searching for a Solaris / Web Administrator for a Contract Opportunity in San Francisco, CA ~

2007-01-19 Thread Christine Cauthen
Hello, System Integration Solutions is searching for the following consultants, please review the details listed below: Title: Solaris / Web Administration Positions: 1 Rate: DOE, let's chat Duration: 6+ months Location: San Francisco, CA Solaris / Web Adm

Bug#407592: ITP: fntsample -- program for making font samples

2007-01-19 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fntsample Version : >= 2 Upstream Author : Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/fntsample * License : GPL Programming

Change loader for programs

2007-01-19 Thread Emmanuel QUEMENER
Hello world, I would like to ask a rookie question about the possibility to reassign by substitution a new loader (/lib/ld-linux.so.2 or alike) to each program. In fact, I know that it's possible to launch it for example echo by using /new/path/lib/ld-2.3.2 /new/path/bin/echo but I would like to

Re: xdelta, "grave" bug 147187, time left

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:28:11AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > this bug's severity was debated a lot; in the end , it was decide to > downgrade it > fast forward to today: since I would need to use xdelta across 32bit and > 64bit archs (see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=147187;m

Work-needing packages report for Jan 19, 2007

2007-01-19 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 338 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 82 (new: 1) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: > For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading > the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. Measured how? Much of the work that dpkg is doing when it prints "Unpacking replacement foo ..." is not uncompressing. -- see shy jo signature.a

/var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Paul Cager
I am packaging MyServer (a small web server). By default it expects its document root to be /var/web. Am I right to assume I should change this to /var/www (as in apache2)? The FSH doesn't mention either directory. Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Georgy Berdyshev
Hello, Paul and all Debian developers!!! It's great that you're going to package MyServer. If you'll need any additional help, just drop a line. We prefer: /var/web should stay, as it is MyServer's default web content location. But when the Debian developers prefer /var/www: Can /var/www/myserve

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am packaging MyServer (a small web server). By default it expects > its document root to be /var/web. That path shouldn't be created or modified by a Debian package, so you'll need to change the package so it conforms to Debian policy. > Am I right to a

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:27:23PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well we shouldn't keep ourselves hostage of stupid upstream behaviour, > >> should we? > > > > Contrary to us, GNOME (in this case RedHat) actually employs usability > > experts. Who are w

Re: ~ SIS is searching for a Solaris / Web Administrator for a Contract Opportunity in San Francisco, CA ~

2007-01-19 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag 19 Januar 2007 21:40 schrieb Christine Cauthen: > Must have worked constantly with Solaris 10 and Red Hat within the last 1-2 > years. [...] > a)Your current Word formatted resume Strange, indeed, to expect a Solaris/Linux expert to write a resume on Windows (ok, MacOS is possible, to

Re: xdelta, "grave" bug 147187, time left

2007-01-19 Thread A Mennucc
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:03:16PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote: > I hadn't seen the mail that added the patch to the bug report - I'll > work on xdelta this weekend. that patch should fix interoperability between 64 and 32 bit I dont know if it addresses security implications... > thanks thank yo

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 01:45:10AM +0100, Georgy Berdyshev wrote: > Hello, Paul and all Debian developers!!! > > It's great that you're going to package MyServer. If you'll need any > additional help, just drop a line. > > We prefer: /var/web should stay, as it is MyServer's default web > content