Report about packages that need work for Jan 4, 2002
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 55
Number of packages offered up for adoption this week: 3
Total number of orphaned packages: 117
Number of packages orphaned this week: 28
The number in parenthesis after each package name is
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First of all, note that -68k is officialy a users'
forum. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the m68k porters' mailinglist. Cc changed
accordingly.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Josip Rodin wrote:
Hi,
It seems the lack of a m68k package for proftpd 1.2.4-2 is stopping proftpd
from propagating into testing, and the
(crossposted to debian-legal for input on the license; please direct
followups to -devel or -legal as appropriate)
Has anyone looked into packaging BitKeeper (www.bitkeeper.com)? The
license[0] is obviously non-free due to usage restrictions, but people seem
to like it, and some of the licensing
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone looked into packaging BitKeeper (www.bitkeeper.com)? The
license[0] is obviously non-free due to usage restrictions, but people seem
to like it, and some of the licensing restrictions are arguably in defense
of other kinds of freedom. I am
Hi Thomas!
You wrote:
From http://www.debian.org/devel/people, I see:
Maintainer, Unknown Kernel Package [EMAIL PROTECTED]
main: kernel-doc-2.4.5-r4k-kn04, kernel-source-2.4.5-r4k-kn04
What's up with this? This is not a legitimate maintainer address IMO.
Probably the script that
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:08:32PM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote:
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- the Norwegian and Swedish keymap (relative to US layout: Shift4)
All my keyboards (swedish) have it on AltGr + e. Shift + 4 is still
the ¤-symbol (currency).
Excuse my ignorance but I
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:46:02PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:08:32PM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote:
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- the Norwegian and Swedish keymap (relative to US layout: Shift4)
All my keyboards (swedish) have it on AltGr + e.
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:17:09PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Thomas Lange wrote:
my package fai will have a new location for its configuration file
/etc/fai.conf. The next version will use /etc/fai/fai.conf. How can I
handle this in a preinst script during an upgrade ? Any
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:36:11PM +, Rob Bradford wrote:
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 15:50, Dave Swegen wrote:
package: wnpp
severity: wishlist
License: GPL v2
URL: http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net
Description:
SkunkWeb is a web application server written in python. It
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 23:08, Mikael Hedin wrote:
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- the Norwegian and Swedish keymap (relative to US layout: Shift4)
All my keyboards (swedish) have it on AltGr + e. Shift + 4 is still
the ¤-symbol (currency).
I suppose swedish and danish
Zephaniah E\. Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Excuse my ignorance but I have no keys labelled AltGr. Which is it?
The right alt key.
And for those of us that type using 10 fingers, what is the compose
sequence? =e, $e, |e don't seem to work.
Jan.
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On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 12:51, Egon Willighagen wrote:
Yes, wether it is after 1 or 2 releases... IMHO, i think it is important that
the Debian Project should decide what is good for the distribution... all
packages that do not meet 'our' standard can be moved into unstable
and being in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
Bitkeeper is (as you note) not free. Not only the usage restrictions
are a problem, but also the requirement that changes you make may be
distributed by BitOwner under any license.
Thats not non-free in any way. The Freedom DFSG describes is
Hi Jan!
You wrote:
And for those of us that type using 10 fingers, what is the compose
sequence? =e, $e, |e don't seem to work.
-E and =E work for me.
BTW: is there any particular reason why the sequences differ between
console and X?
--
Kind regards,
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
tag 126700 + fixed
Bug#126700: tkstep8.0: never removes alternative
Tags added: fixed
Why on earth do you make a NMU for my package less than 24 hours after the
original bug report and
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
...
In fact, I would consider it acceptable in general to move everything in
contrib to main as long as it each package was forced to be priority
extra until it was suitable for general-purpose use as packaged in main
(including any dependencies,
Peter Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit:
Bitkeeper is (as you note) not free. Not only the usage restrictions
are a problem, but also the requirement that changes you make may be
distributed by BitOwner under any license.
Thats not non-free in any way. The Freedom DFSG
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please elaborate.
There is nothing in the DFSG saying the a licens can't require you to
give the original autor all rights to you changes. So that single
part of the license I refered to does not makes it even more or even
less non-free.
--
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:23:50AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
From http://www.debian.org/devel/people, I see:
Maintainer, Unknown Kernel Package [EMAIL PROTECTED]
main: kernel-doc-2.4.5-r4k-kn04, kernel-source-2.4.5-r4k-kn04
What's up with this? This is not a legitimate
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
Maintainer, Unknown Kernel Package [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How the hell were you able to draw that conclusion? The script may be
broken, but that it would randomly insert local data into the web pages,
well that's just too stupid
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:41:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
I tried to include the support for Euro and Cent in the console keymaps.
Cent is not a problem. It is allmost unknown and AltGR-e could be surely
used for this. But Euro is a problem - keymaps have different location
of the ?. I
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:06:33PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:36:24 +1100
Mark Purcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are we
going to bother to advise the maintainers of these packages? It has been
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:52:01AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
(crossposted to debian-legal for input on the license; please direct
followups to -devel or -legal as appropriate)
Has anyone looked into packaging BitKeeper (www.bitkeeper.com)?
We have a package here which we build from the
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:41:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
- Most keyboards have AltGr-e as Euro
As far as I know most keyboards don't have an AltGr key..
Wichert.
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:17:01AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:06:33PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:36:24 +1100
Mark Purcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are
we
going to
Additionally I see that you did other changes to unix/tkstepConfig.sh that
aren't even mentioned in the changelog!
Here is the complete diff between what I uploaded, and what was in the
archive. Dunno what change you're seeing in tkstepConfig.sh, but it
was there in 4p2-4.
lamont
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Most keyboards have AltGr-e as Euro
- the French keymap (relative to US layout: AltGr])
- the Hungarian keymap (relative to US layout: AltGr\)
- the Norwegian and Swedish keymap (relative to US layout: Shift4)
Did I miss anything or is something
If a package has gotten very stale, and nobody has taken up
maintainence, isn't that a pretty good indication that nobody is
using it anyhow?
What about taking packages like that and removing the binary .deb,
but leave the last source package in the archive... there should be
a way through
I demand that Hereward Cooper may or may not have written...
I'm looking for a sponsor for gkrellm-newsticker.
The upstream can be found at
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~tisa-in/newsticker.html The debian package can be
found at http://www.zadok.uklinux.net/debian
Gkrellm-newsticker scrolls
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
If a package has gotten very stale, and nobody has taken up
maintainence, isn't that a pretty good indication that nobody is
using it anyhow?
Is it? Is the average Debian user both able and willing to be a
maintainer, and sufficiently aware of ongoing developments
I use debain. As a debian user I am quite distressed at how this
bug is being treated. I have watched the bug reports on this issue
and have created one (See 127215). From my perspective the problem
seems to be the libpng3 changes the dependencies of qt2 and hense kde.
It seems the fix is not
Hi Josip!
You wrote:
Maintainer, Unknown Kernel Package [EMAIL PROTECTED]
main: kernel-doc-2.4.5-r4k-kn04, kernel-source-2.4.5-r4k-kn04
What's up with this? This is not a legitimate maintainer address IMO.
Probably the script that generates this page is broken
How
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
and have created one (See 127215). From my perspective the problem
seems to be the libpng3 changes the dependencies of qt2 and hense kde.
It seems the fix is not to revert/fix libpng but to fix the qt
dependencies however I get the impression that
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Maintainer, Unknown Kernel Package [EMAIL PROTECTED]
main: kernel-doc-2.4.5-r4k-kn04, kernel-source-2.4.5-r4k-kn04
What's up with this? This is not a legitimate maintainer address IMO.
Probably the
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:08:48AM +0100, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
I suppose swedish and danish keyboards are alike.
I think they are almost identical. AFAIK the only difference is that
'ä' and 'ö' have changed places on the keyboard. And, of course, the
Danes do not use 'ö' but ø but
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:24PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
As far as I know most keyboards don't have an AltGr key..
In North America that's probably correct (what would they do with it?)
but it's essential with European languages with the possible exception of
British English.
In the
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-01-03 21:06]:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
What I meant was: the page was apparently generated from local data
(from a local /var/lib/dpkg/available perhaps?).
And I said it _was not_.
The broken package really was in
Peter == Peter Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Peter There is nothing in the DFSG saying the a licens can't
Peter require you to give the original autor all rights to you
Peter changes. So that single part of the license I refered to
Peter does not makes it even more or even
Peter Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
Bitkeeper is (as you note) not free. Not only the usage restrictions
are a problem, but also the requirement that changes you make may be
distributed by BitOwner under any license.
Thats not
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:28:22PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
And to be honest - you could have tried to check the Packages file you
get from debian archive.
What, you want the devel/people script to check the validity of the emails
in the Packages files?
But that was quite some days
no it isnt flame bait but it is newbie bait!
there is an good discussion on this very topic at the following url
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
take care. i am not a maintaner yet! someday hopefully
dd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
If a package has gotten
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-01-03 22:31]:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:28:22PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
And to be honest - you could have tried to check the Packages file you
get from debian archive.
What, you want the devel/people script to check the validity of the emails
in
On 3/01, Ari Makela wrote:
| In the Nordic keyboard mappings too many important characters ( {[]}\$ to
| mention a few) are behind AltGR (the right alt). It's quite common that
| Nordic programmers use US mappings when they code or some home brewd
| version of US keymap.
A keyboard that is
Darrell Rene Dupas wrote:
no it isnt flame bait but it is newbie bait!
Not if you read it correctly. Try again.
there is an good discussion on this very topic at the following url
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
I was talking about Debian policy and procedures, not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
OK, perhaps the relicensing rule is not non-free; I'm less sure of
that. But the outright prohibition of certain modifications certainly
kills it.
I only talked about the relicensing issues. I'm sorry it wasn't clear
by my quoting (I can see
Hi!
I'm using this discussion for the RFC for a bug/feature I'm
experiencing regarding the EURO-symbol. I still didn't get the
euro-sign to work in console, but that doesn't bother me because I do
almost everything under X.
When I use a iso8859-15 font in xterm, the euro will display
correctly,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ari Makela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:24PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
As far as I know most keyboards don't have an AltGr key..
In North America that's probably correct (what would they do with it?)
but it's essential with European
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
...
We actually need a Debian-wide (well, probably a LSB-wide) fix for the
problem. The same kind of breakage is expected to hit us again and again
until we do that.
This kind of problem does only occur if we ship several versions of a
Hi,
I had several discussions with people on Debian lists that became very
emotional. They thought that they were right in a discussion and I thought
that I was right and nothing but anger resulted from these discussions.
Several times the opponents in these discussions are people that are
longer
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
...
We actually need a Debian-wide (well, probably a LSB-wide) fix for the
problem. The same kind of breakage is expected to hit us again and again
until we do that.
This kind of problem does
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Craig Dickson wrote:
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
If a package has gotten very stale, and nobody has taken up
maintainence, isn't that a pretty good indication that nobody is
using it anyhow?
Is it? Is the average Debian user both able and willing to be a
Obviously
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:07:57PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
I use debain. As a debian user I am quite distressed at how this
bug is being treated. I have watched the bug reports on this issue
and have created one (See 127215).
If a bug I filed had been treated that way, I would have
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
This kind of problem does only occur if we ship several versions of a
shared library at the same time (in this case libpng2 and libpng3). As
Or if the user needs to have different versions of said library because of
some closed-source
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
This kind of problem does only occur if we ship several versions of a
shared library at the same time (in this case libpng2 and libpng3). As
Or if the user needs to have different versions of
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:47:08PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
This kind of problem does only occur if we ship several versions of a
shared library at the same time (in this case libpng2 and libpng3). As
Or if the user needs to have
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:41:59PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:07:57PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
I use debain. As a debian user I am quite distressed at how this
bug is being treated. I have watched the bug reports on this issue
and have created one (See
Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
please tell me where I stated I would do the work for our users?
When you signed up as a Debian Developer.
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Hi,
One important thing are more frequent releases. We don't have to release
as often as other distributions but IMHO it's needed to have a new stable
release at about once a year. Currently the software in our stable release
is two years old and I see
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sure, everyone agrees. This has been hashed over and over and over. Talking
about it doesn't help. Solve the problem.
Yeah, but I read Adrian's mail as attempting to prod people into
trying to think of solutions.
The 'testing' release is an attempted
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:22:56AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote:
Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
please tell me where I stated I would do the work for our users?
When you signed up as a Debian Developer.
no. I did not. No where did I state I would submit bug reports for our users,
Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
no. I did not. No where did I state I would submit bug reports for
our users, provide all the necessary information on behalf of users,
or anything of the sort. I am a Debian Developer, not a secretary.
It is the responsibility of every Debian
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 00:24, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Most of us who work for Debian do this in our spare time. But I do
personally disagree with the you can't force a volunteer to do anything
argument I heard in several discussions. These were discussions about
things where some work of the
Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
first off the package kde is a meta package that has no binaries so
there is absolutely no problem with that package. The bug report was closed
with a comment of file it against the proper packages please. What is
so wrong about this? Absolutely
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:37:24PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
no. I did not. No where did I state I would submit bug reports for
our users, provide all the necessary information on behalf of users,
or anything of the sort. I am a Debian
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:40:26PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
first off the package kde is a meta package that has no binaries so
there is absolutely no problem with that package. The bug report was closed
with a comment of file it
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
I am not a secretary. If the user wants all those bugs filed he can do
it himself.
*NO*.
If a user wants all those bugs filled, he should mail -devel and ask about
it. Just like we urge developers to do before mass-filling bugs.
--
One disk to
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:19:02PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:41:59PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
If a bug I filed had been treated that way, I would have reopened it
immediately. Closing a bug out of hand just because you don't agree with
where it has been
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure, everyone agrees. This has been hashed over and over and over. Talking
about it doesn't help. Solve the problem.
Debian is too big.
Split it up in 'core' (must fit easily on one CD) and 'added value'
(the other 21 CDs).
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:41:59PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:07:57PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
I use debain. As a debian user I am quite distressed at how this
bug is being treated. I have watched the bug reports
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
your right..but we are not talking about that. We are talking about a
bug report filed against a meta package where the user wanted me to submit
bugs for each of the 40+ packages he listed.
Anthony Towns was working on a clone command last weekend
Hi,
I'm a bit puzzled, I upload some weeks ago a package to non-us
ftp-master server. I just realize the size of the file has changed
between my local copy and the file available at packages.debian.org :
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:24:12 +0100 (CET)
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One important thing are more frequent releases. We don't have to release
as often as other distributions but IMHO it's needed to have a new stable
totally agreed, I hope debian-installer will be one of the solutions to
On 04 Jan 2002 01:33:35 +0200
Fabian Fagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the real debian problem is not about maintainers MIA, orphaned
packages or slow release cycles. The real problem is about lack of
smooth introduction of new participants, and a complicated, undocumented
internal
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:09:31PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
your right..but we are not talking about that. We are talking about a
bug report filed against a meta package where the user wanted me to submit
bugs for each of the 40+ packages he
also sprach Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.04.0101 +0100]:
75337cc8ad3a21e3eb46e31fa24d5393 1000617 crafty_18.12-4.diff.gz
fb8740eea8c993d911521da4e3585edf 1000616 crafty_18.12-4.diff.gz
^^^
Anyone understands this ?
they have
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:12:01PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
...
In fact, I would consider it acceptable in general to move everything in
contrib to main as long as it each package was forced to be priority
extra until it was suitable for
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:39:31PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
BTW: is there any particular reason why the sequences differ between
console and X?
Yes. XFree86 and console-{tools,data} have completely different
upstreams.
--
G. Branden Robinson| The key to being a
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:13:13PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
OK, perhaps the relicensing rule is not non-free; I'm less sure of
that.
I don't think it's obvious from a casual reading of the DFSG that such a
requirement is non-free, but perhaps it should be.
--
G. Branden Robinson
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:09:31PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
your right..but we are not talking about that. We are talking about a
bug report filed against a meta package where the user wanted me to
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 02:23, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
smooth introduction? you never heard of policy, maint-guide, developers'
reference, web pages, etc, have you?
I have. That is not what I call a smooth introduction. For a person who
can devote, say 24 hours per month to working on a
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 18:33, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
What the people writing about this matter seem to be after is
- what is expected of a maintainer?
- how does the debian project fit together?
- what can I do?
- what must I know to be able to do this?
- where do I go to ask if I must know
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:01:26AM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
ftp-master server. I just realize the size of the file has changed
between my local copy and the file available at packages.debian.org :
it has not, the checksum has:
75337cc8ad3a21e3eb46e31fa24d5393 1000617
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:22:09AM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 02:23, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
smooth introduction? you never heard of policy, maint-guide, developers'
reference, web pages, etc, have you?
Many operating systems have accompanying certification
Hi,
Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross?
According to BTS, it seems that dpkg-cross has been left unmaintained
for more than 1 year...
I want to add SuperH support to dpkg-cross (I've just reported as the
wishlist, Bug#127723), and there are several bugs I want to fix too.
Is there any hope
YAEGASHI Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
According to BTS, it seems that dpkg-cross has been left unmaintained
for more than 1 year...
Have you asked the maintainer?
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