Re: Sid is/was crazy

2005-10-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/yelp_2.10.0-3_i386.deb - open (30 > Read-only file system) [IP: 204.152.191.7 80] > debian:~# screen > mkfifo /var/run/screen/S-root/5922.pts-0.debian failed your /var is mounted read only mode because your kernel had an

Re: Sid is/was crazy

2005-10-18 Thread Carlos C Soto
Hi Alejandro. Looks like your ext3 partition has errors and the system remount it in readonly mode. Not every problem get corrected by apt, I mean apt rocks but this is not a package problem. Try to check your partition with fsck (man fsck, man fsck.ext3) maybe you need will to execute a livec

Sid is/was crazy

2005-10-18 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi, Every some hours my Debian Sid box goes wild and I can't do anything. Not even being root. Is crazy. I can't even do apt-get update to try fixing this problem... Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main xpdf-common 3.01-2 Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/xpdf-commo

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Can't the patch be posted to the BTS and NMUed after two days if >>> there's no response (in general)? >> >> Yeah, but golly, sometimes there is no patch because the patch is >> blindingly obvious. > > No, no, no. Please not. There's always a patch, a

Bug#334641: ITP: metaplanet -- Web-based feed aggregator written in PHP

2005-10-18 Thread Fernando J . Rodríguez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Fernando J. Rodríguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: metaplanet Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Oscar Cubo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Ramóons Vivanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es/metaplanet

Bug#334605: ITP: acpidump -- utility to dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file

2005-10-18 Thread Mattia Dongili
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: acpidump Version : 20050926 Upstream Author : Alexey Starikovskiy * URL : http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/ * License : GPLv2 Description

Re: udev and Logitech mouse applet

2005-10-18 Thread Christopher Martin
On October 18, 2005 03:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: > OK, as it turns out I was half wrong: /proc/bus/ is not syncronous, so > scripts still need to wait (they may use the wait_for_file function from > /lib/hotplug/hotplug.functions). OTOH, RUN is still the correct keyword > to use, because PROGRAM has

Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...

2005-10-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
> And for those of you interested in the architecture distribution, here > are the numbers and percentages: I think popcon is a really neat project. I do look every now and then to see when the "unknown" line crosses the "amd64" line :) It's getting close. Keep up the good work,

Re: gpl vs openssl again

2005-10-18 Thread Hendrik Sattler
sean finney wrote: > in the long run, i think it would be preferable to have this package > have support for gnutls as an alternative to openssl. however, i don't > even know where to start on this. does anyone here have some notes > or links handy where i could start for porting the few ssl-usi

Re: buzz/rex binaries/install media?

2005-10-18 Thread Matej Vela
Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Yes, I thought about sending this to -curiosa instead... :-) > > For research/fun/..., I want to install historical versions of Debian. Does > anybody have install media of rex and buzz? I guess it is possible to > create packages by starting at

buzz/rex binaries/install media?

2005-10-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! (Yes, I thought about sending this to -curiosa instead... :-) For research/fun/..., I want to install historical versions of Debian. Does anybody have install media of rex and buzz? I guess it is possible to create packages by starting at bo and compiling the older binaries, but I don't

Bug#334530: ITP: libcatalyst-engine-apache-perl -- Base class for Apache 1.99x and 2.x Catalyst engines

2005-10-18 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : libcatalyst-engine-apache-perl Version : 0.99 Upstream Authors : Sebastian Riedel, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hansen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

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

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Also how would a package inset such a Post-Invoke line into the >>> conffig? Modifying the conffile would be a policy violation. >> >> The package

Re: Sid Upgrade, gstreamer0.8-oss (0.8.11-1.1)

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Alejandro Bonilla in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was upgrading Sid and I saw this error message. I dunno if one goes to BTS > or just here to report this. I hope it can be seen by someone who takes care > of this package. > > Setting up gstreamer0.8-oss (0.8.11-1.1) ... To the BTS. Christoph --

Sid Upgrade, gstreamer0.8-oss (0.8.11-1.1)

2005-10-18 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I was upgrading Sid and I saw this error message. I dunno if one goes to BTS or just here to report this. I hope it can be seen by someone who takes care of this package. Setting up gstreamer0.8-oss (0.8.11-1.1) ... OIL: ERROR liboiltest.c 309: oil_test_check_impl(): function fbCompositeSolid

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

2005-10-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also how would a package inset such a Post-Invoke line into the >> conffig? Modifying the conffile would be a policy violation. > > The package that provides the hook to run provides the config entry; t

Re: gpl vs openssl again

2005-10-18 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:56:15AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 10/18/05, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [1] please don't file an rc bug against my package for my having mentioned >>this... i've recently adopted it and would like to see the 30 some odd >>bugfixes make it

Re: When is it acceptable to revoke my gpg key?

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Roberto C. Sanchez in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks for the pointer. I was a bit confused since my QA page shows my > key ID on it. DDPO (aka developer.php) doesn't do that anymore. The code had been broken for some time, and was disabled several weeks ago. The gpg keyid was only informational

Re: When is it acceptable to revoke my gpg key?

2005-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:17:54PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Roberto C. Sanchez in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I recently generated a new gpg key. I was planning on revoking my old > > key, however all of my packages were uploaded with signatures from my > > old key. Do I need to prepare new

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We should really document the result of this discussion in the developers' reference, which currently says: , | NMUs which fix important, serious or higher severity bugs are | encouraged and accepted. ` This I always interpreted as "

adept for Debian?

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi... A coworker just showed me his Ubuntu/Breezy installation featuring their package management tool "adept" [1]. It looks pretty nifty. Are there plans already to offer the same package in Debian? It's not listed in the wnpp yet. I'm just curious if anyone has talked to Ubuntu maintainers about

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC and > maybe important bugs? No, unless you add some sort of timeframe. MIA or otherwise absent maintainers are the usual reason why one needs NMUs. -- "One disk to rule them all, On

Re: NMU policies for etch [Was: Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2005-10-18 às 01:03 -0700, Steve Langasek escreveu: > I think a good balance would be something like: What if all NMUs are delayed for N days, but if maintainer agrees the NMU skips the delay... daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-18 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:12:49PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:59:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Didn't there used to

Re: Query about LmBench

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: animesh bhowmick in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I found a download for MIPS. Then I saw it is having a > .deb extension. How does one uncompress this? 1) Don't cross-post. 2) Install Debian. Read the installation notes. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Descript

Re: When is it acceptable to revoke my gpg key?

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Roberto C. Sanchez in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I recently generated a new gpg key. I was planning on revoking my old > key, however all of my packages were uploaded with signatures from my > old key. Do I need to prepare new uploads with the new key? Since I am > not too far into the NM process

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:59:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Didn't there used to be a delayed queue for NMUs to go into so that the > > > maintainer has time to nix it i

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-18 Thread Christian Mack
Hi Joey Joey Hess wrote: > In the process of my work on the testing security team, I've noticed > that many developers still seem to be unfamiliar with how to use the new > version tracking features[1] of the Debian BTS. < ... > > I thought I'd conclude with an example of how to do it right, and

Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...

2005-10-18 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 10/17/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (...) > > > but is there anyone in the project with academic background about > > this subject ? > > None of the current popcon maintainers have statistical background, as > far as I know. > > We were in touch with someone interested in

Bug#334489: ITP: flamerobin -- graphical database administration tool for Firebird DBMS

2005-10-18 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: flamerobin Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : flamerobin (IDPL): Barbara Del Vecchio Gregory Sapunkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Hie

Re: gpl vs openssl again

2005-10-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 10/18/05, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] please don't file an rc bug against my package for my having mentioned >this... i've recently adopted it and would like to see the 30 some odd >bugfixes make it into testing. Isn't it possible to tell the BTS the RC bug also applies

gpl vs openssl again

2005-10-18 Thread sean finney
hey -devel, the zombie of gpl vs. openssl has once again arisen from the grave, this time, in one of the packages that i maintain (nagios-plugins). as i'm on the upstream development team as well, i've already clarified with the other developers there that this is an omission, and that we'll eithe

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Olaf van der Spek] >> If there's no approval, shouldn't 'that' be fixed also? > > Depends on the form of the lack of approval. If there is no reply, > the MIA process should be started, and if there is a NACK, the NMU > should not go throught with

New locale si_LK

2005-10-18 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
Hi all, The locale si_LK was recently added to glibc (after a long stay in the Bugzilla). Please consider including it in the Debain glibc as it will take some time before it will appear in mainstream glibc. Thanks in advance. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=367 Anuradha

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Olaf van der Spek] > If there's no approval, shouldn't 'that' be fixed also? Depends on the form of the lack of approval. If there is no reply, the MIA process should be started, and if there is a NACK, the NMU should not go throught without further discussion. But one should not have to waint

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 10/18/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Frank Küster] > > Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC > > and maybe important bugs? > > Well, assuming we want as many bugs as possible fixed before the > release, and not only RC bugs, I believe NMUs sh

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Frank Küster] > Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC > and maybe important bugs? Well, assuming we want as many bugs as possible fixed before the release, and not only RC bugs, I believe NMUs should be possible for all kinds of bugs. With maintainer approval if po

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a good balance would be something like: > > - send mail to the bug with a full diff *before* uploading your package to > incoming; two minutes before, two hours before, two days before, it > doesn't matter And make sure that the mail has act

NMU policies for etch [Was: Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >It's easy to understand why people are opposed to too-frequent NMUs. They > >don't want to be seen as bad maintainers for having too many NMUs on their > >packages; they worry about new bugs being introduce

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Didn't there used to be a delayed queue for NMUs to go into so that the > > maintainer has time to nix it if neccessary? ^_^ > > Sure, but at the moment, I only know one way to

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 10/17/05, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> > That is why I ask that before an NMU, someone should show me the patch, >>> > and

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Didn't there used to be a delayed queue for NMUs to go into so that the >> maintainer has time to nix it if neccessary? ^_^ > > Sure, but at the moment, I only know one way to use dupload since the

Re: udev and Logitech mouse applet

2005-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
reassign 334068 libsane thanks On Oct 17, Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On October 17, 2005 13:03, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > The problem seems to be that udev runs lmctl before the usbfs entry > > > corresponding to your mouse has been created under /proc/bus/usb. The > > > > By

Query about LmBench

2005-10-18 Thread animesh bhowmick
Hi , I found LmBench in the Debian web site. Is it free for usage? I would like to run LmBench on the MIPS platform. Is there any particular way of configuring it? We do not have any native compiler or tools running on the target MIPS platform. In the following link, http://packages.debian.org/