Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 11/1/05, Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:56:44PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: In my opinion this is not a bug (except if the package is crucial for the system to work and be reachable, like ssh) - the local admin simply has to review the changes to

Re: Help: Bug#336469: pure-ftpd uninstallable : no pure-ftpd-common

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's a bug in dpkg-dev, which should know how to set ${Source-Version} correctly for binNMUs. It can't really know, can it? If I have a control file with Package: foo Architecture: any Package: foo-data-extra Architecture: all Package:

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Josh Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 31 October 2005 09:54 am, Henning Makholm wrote: This confuses me a bit; I thought that 'autotrace' was in the mess too (due to libmagick and libpstoedit transitions), and had an upload to make it installable-in-sid planned for tonight, now

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-10-31 kello 22:03 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña kirjoitti: After the feedback of the recent d-d thread, I've adapted the section I wrote on the best practices related to system users and groups, it is currently available at:

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:56:44PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: In my opinion this is not a bug (except if the package is crucial for the system to work and be reachable, like ssh) - the local admin simply has to review the changes to conffiles that

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] These variables can be changed by a configuration file, and some of them *must* be set. Now if a user refuses to accept the change that switches from VARTEXMF to TEXMFVAR (or TEXMFSYSVAR, actually), TeX can no longer work. You seem to assume that the

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:29:58AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Josh Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 31 October 2005 09:54 am, Henning Makholm wrote: This confuses me a bit; I thought that 'autotrace' was in the mess too (due to libmagick and libpstoedit transitions), and had

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Josh Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 31 October 2005 09:54 am, Henning Makholm wrote: This confuses me a bit; I thought that 'autotrace' was in the mess too (due to libmagick and libpstoedit transitions), and had an upload to make it

Re: Help: Bug#336469: pure-ftpd uninstallable : no pure-ftpd-common

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's a bug in dpkg-dev, which should know how to set ${Source-Version} correctly for binNMUs. It can't really know, can it? If I have a control file with Package: foo

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread sean finney
hi javier, On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:03:01PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: I would like developers to review and provide feedback for that section, thanks for actually putting this into a document, however, i notice two problems: - the addgroup/adduser functions mask the error

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Zsync checksum files are, depending on block size, about 3% of the file size. For the full archive that means under 10G more data. As comparison adding amd64 needs ~30G. After the scc split there might be enough space on

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
ma, 2005-10-31 kello 22:03 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña kirjoitti: I would like developers to review and provide feedback for that section, specially in form of patches. I'm considering doing a bug hunt for: Typically this means that the configuration files are owned by group, belong

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:29:58AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Interesting. I don't think anybody will miss autotrace in testing for the time being (it exists mostly because it's a build-dependency of something), but it would be nice if the

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] These variables can be changed by a configuration file, and some of them *must* be set. Now if a user refuses to accept the change that switches from VARTEXMF to TEXMFVAR (or TEXMFSYSVAR, actually), TeX can no

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 31/10/2005 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: After the feedback of the recent d-d thread, I've adapted the section I wrote on the best practices related to system users and groups, it is currently available at:

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 01/11/2005 To Debian-Devel wrote: the group deletion has currently a problem. From 6.5.1.3 'Removing system users': # Remove system group if is a system group CREATEDGROUP=server_group if [ -r /etc/adduser.conf ] ; then FIRST_USER_GID=`grep ^USERS_GID /etc/adduser.conf | cut -f2 -d

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a reasonable concern, but the standing policy is that if a package is RC-buggy, it's a candidate for removal from testing at any time. The fact that it is a candidate for removal is a completely

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to assume that the *only* way to get this change into the file is to forcibly discard all of the sysadmin's local adaptations and install a pristine upstream version of the conffile. No, of course

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to assume that the *only* way to get this change into the file is to forcibly discard all of the sysadmin's local adaptations and install a pristine upstream

Bug#336771: ITP: nymbaron -- type III nymserver - get and send emails anonymously

2005-11-01 Thread Laurent Fousse
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: nymbaron Version : 0.0.20050507 Upstream Authors : Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-René Reinhard [EMAIL PROTECTED]. * URL :

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Frank Küster] assume that an update to a package brings in a changed conffile, and because the local admin had changed the conffile, he is asked, and he refuses to accept the changed version. Because one of the changes in the new version was crucial for the function of the program, the

Re: Dummy packages and metapackages (call for consistency in the descriptions)

2005-11-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andreas Tille wrote: The meta packages builded by cdd-dev for instance contain data for building user menus which might override the menu entries of the dependant packages for the special purpose. This is definitely something else than debian/control but sounds to me

Re: Dummy packages and metapackages (call for consistency in the descriptions)

2005-11-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: IMHO, drop the Meta prefix, then. There is no shame in doing so. Well, just dropping the meta is a little bit to simple. There is an extensive documentation about the Custom Debian Distribution techniques and the tools that are used at

Are pure virtual Depends/Recommends entries bugs?

2005-11-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
As I'm sure everyone knows, pure virtual entries in a Depends line are strongly deprecated, due to the fact that frontends have a tendency to pick a random provider of the package. What I'm not sure is if this is just ugly or actually considered a bug. In particular, I can't remember and would

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 04:53:33 -0500, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you're going to do this, it would be better to provide a program or a shell library that is sourced in the postinst, and then awrapper function which does all of this. I would be willing to accept patches for the adduser

Re: Dummy packages and metapackages (call for consistency in the descriptions)

2005-11-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005, Andreas Tille wrote: does not fit into the scope they would give the name meta package. Well, I'd expect meta packages to have nothing on them and I'd be surprised to find relevant data inside them. If you have to keep that meta, you'd better do some work on the package

Re: Transition control

2005-11-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Simon Richter [Mon, Oct 31 2005, 07:00:43PM]: Hi, Eduard Bloch schrieb: Yep. What about another crazy idea... why not check the expected impact from a certain package update before a package has been accepted in _Unstable_? So katie could just veto a version change

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-01 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:06:22AM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:15:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: (And yes, we still need a solution to speed up the actual deb file downloads..) [..] if zsync would be taught to handle .deb files as it does .gz files, and a method for

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. User selects the No, I'm happy with my own version as it look now menu option. Your proposal, if I understand you correctly, is to make (4) result in the postinst failing even though the user _has_

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: So, would anybody object if I set up a cronjob that emails the PTS whenever a (source) package propagates to, or is removed from, testing? I won't so nobody'd object; but it's one of the things we agreed we wanted at the Vancouver

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:00:46AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: No it's not. RC bug, still in testing - fixing this is very important, because it may hold up the testing migration of other packages. RC bug, not in testing - fixing this only affects this one package,

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: So, would anybody object if I set up a cronjob that emails the PTS whenever a (source) package propagates to, or is removed from, testing? I won't so nobody'd object; but it's one of

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the long run, the user-friendly solution is probably to offer (via a debconf question that defaults to 'yes') to automatically rewrite the conffile to take the change into account. That can only be done if we change our policy with respect to

Bug#336852: ITP: libfacile-dev -- functional constraint library implemented in objective caml

2005-11-01 Thread Steffen Joeris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Joeris [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think the lib is needed by some kde applications. The Kalzium developer told me that this lib is needed during the build of Kalzium. * Package name: libfacile-dev Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Copyright

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, would anybody object if I set up a cronjob that emails the PTS whenever a (source) package propagates to, or is removed from, testing? It turns out that PTS mail does not ordinary get sent to the maintainer address, only to third-party

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 01-11-2005 te 18:21 +0100, schreef Henning Makholm: Scripsit Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, would anybody object if I set up a cronjob that emails the PTS whenever a (source) package propagates to, or is removed from, testing? It turns out that PTS mail does not ordinary

Re: is the Debian mail server healthy?

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:34:49 +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 10:52, Marc Haber wrote: I can confirm that master sits on some messages for days, such as this one, for example: |Received: from master.debian.org ([146.82.138.7]) |

Re: Sorting source packages to reduce build effort

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Daniel Ruoso] The question is: Is there a way (I mean, already implemented) to sort the packages putting the most used and less dependencies on the front and showing wich packages needs to be installed before the build can start? [Goswin von Brederlow] No.

Re: Help: Bug#336469: pure-ftpd uninstallable : no pure-ftpd-common

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's a bug in dpkg-dev, which should know how to set ${Source-Version} correctly for binNMUs. I'm not clear which file actually puts this substitution in

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: Sorry, you're completely wrong. The files installed in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib are detached symbol files, that are loaded automatically by gdb -- *not* using LD_LIBRARY_PATH; and gdb looks for detached symbol files by prepending /usr/lib/debug to the full path of the

Re: ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)

2005-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:00:37PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: retitle 319583 ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+) thanks I'm the maintainer of pcmcia-cs so I'm intending to package pcmciautils. May I ask for the status of this ITP? Greetings Marc --

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:12:04PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Sorry, you're completely wrong. The files installed in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib are detached symbol files, that are loaded automatically by gdb -- *not* using LD_LIBRARY_PATH; and gdb looks for

Re: Help: Bug#336469: pure-ftpd uninstallable : no pure-ftpd-common

2005-11-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Nathanael Nerode wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's a bug in dpkg-dev, which should know how to set ${Source-Version} correctly for binNMUs. I'm not clear which file actually puts this substitution in substvars; I tried to track it down but couldn't find it. Clearly

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:54:49PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: The enormous ABI transitions have been particularly hard, of course. If we can avoid ABI-breaking transitions in the future it would help. :-) Wholly unrealistic. Libraries *do* undergo ABI changes;

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Henning Makholm wrote: Well, the build-dependencies became fixed about 4 days ago (courtesy of a NMU by yours truly). Is 4 days enough to get something removed from testing? Well, if you're curious, in this case autotrace had to be removed because pstoedit had to be removed, and pstoedit had

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: My proposal to avoid such problem is to implement multilevel configuration, where the package default configuration and the local overrides are stored in separate files, making sure local configuration do not affect changes to the package default, and thus no

Evolution Contacts

2005-11-01 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
hey, Someone sent an email I dunno if here or in evolution-hackers ML but I also lost All my contacts after upgrading yesterday in Sid! ;0( ;-( .Alejandro -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:14:59AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Also, sticking all the tens of lines of boilerplate code into the postinst of every package that needs a system user is a good way to invite trouble. When the boilerplate has a bug (possibly because things change in the future),

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:14:59AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: ma, 2005-10-31 kello 22:03 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña kirjoitti: After the feedback of the recent d-d thread, I've adapted the section I wrote on the best practices related to system users and groups, it is

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:10:19AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: ma, 2005-10-31 kello 22:03 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña kirjoitti: I would like developers to review and provide feedback for that section, specially in form of patches. I'm considering doing a bug hunt for:

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:53:33AM -0500, sean finney wrote: hi javier, On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:03:01PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: I would like developers to review and provide feedback for that section, thanks for actually putting this into a document, however, i

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:14:58PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 31/10/2005 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: After the feedback of the recent d-d thread, I've adapted the section I wrote on the best practices related to system users and groups, it is currently available at:

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [051101 17:23]: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: So, would anybody object if I set up a cronjob that emails the PTS whenever a (source) package propagates to, or is removed from, testing? I won't so nobody'd object;

Bug#336971: please order posts to a single bugreport by date/thread

2005-11-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: minor Today bugs.debian.org had some problem in receiving mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] timely. For example, in a discussion I started on #222138, mails reached b.d.o in a non-causal order, making the bug report difficult to follow on the web page. Conversely,

Bug#336978: ITP: frown -- a parser generator for Haskell 98

2005-11-01 Thread Arjan Oosting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arjan Oosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: frown Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Ralf Hinze [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/frown/index.html * License : GPL version 2 Description

Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Alex Ross
Nexenta OS: Debian based GNU/Solaris == This is to announce Nexenta: the first-ever distribution that combines GNU and OpenSolaris. As you might know, Sun Microsystems just opened Solaris kernel under CDDL license, which allows one to build custom Operating Systems.

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate usage. [...] There are probably very few projects that can come anywhere close to Nexenta OS, in terms of the size, 2300 15000, by my reckoning. and openness. You keep using that

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: words about yourself. We'll respond with a user/password. Not to poop on your parade, but please, next time you go to announce something to a technical list like d-devel -- drop the marketing guff, just

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:24 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate usage. [...] There are probably very few projects that can come anywhere close to Nexenta OS, in terms of the size,

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:07:08PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:24 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate usage. [...] There are probably very few projects that

Re: Dummy packages and metapackages (call for consistency in the descriptions)

2005-11-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Well, I'd expect meta packages to have nothing on them Why? Was there any other definition than the link I posted that leads to this assumption? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:49:27PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: (Hmm, I wish there was a way there to pay him to change the priorities -- what britney needs most is proper version tracking support for its RC bug analysis, and I'd give some money for that; that's not listed in the notes for

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:32:49PM -0700, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: I don't know if Alex works for Sun, but in anyway, he has the freedom and option to express himself as he wishes. Your comments, only bring FUD. So I do *not* have the freedom and option to express myself as I wish?

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:16 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:07:08PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:24 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Alex Ross
Matthew Palmer wrote: I'm not discounting that it's new and exciting (I wouldn't say totally, but that's a matter of opinion), and I'm in fact quite interested in what the technical benefits of running Debian on a Solaris kernel might be for my needs. However, Alex did specifically claim that

Re: Best practices on system users and groups

2005-11-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Usermod is only called if the user does not exist and the package creates it. gdm, postgresql and logcheck already do this. In the example code, if the system user exists, then usermod is not called, which is better than what logcheck or postgresl currently do. One very short notice for

Accepted gprolog 1.2.18-16 (source i386 all)

2005-11-01 Thread Salvador Abreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:15:20 + Source: gprolog Binary: gprolog gprolog-doc Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.2.18-16 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Salvador Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Salvador Abreu

Accepted xscreensaver 4.23-2 (source i386 sparc alpha)

2005-11-01 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:43:43 +0100 Source: xscreensaver Binary: xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl Architecture: source i386 alpha sparc Version: 4.23-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted dpkg-sig 0.12 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:57:21 +0100 Source: dpkg-sig Binary: dpkg-sig Architecture: source all Version: 0.12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL

Accepted easyh10 1.2-1 (source i386 sparc alpha)

2005-11-01 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:23:57 -0500 Source: easyh10 Binary: easyh10 Architecture: source i386 alpha sparc Version: 1.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Benjamin

Accepted fprobe 1.1-4 (source i386 all)

2005-11-01 Thread Radu Spineanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:27:42 +0300 Source: fprobe Binary: fprobe fprobe-ng Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Radu Spineanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Radu Spineanu [EMAIL

Accepted crosshurd 1.7.22 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Michael Banck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:21:11 +0100 Source: crosshurd Binary: crosshurd Architecture: source all Version: 1.7.22 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Jeff Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted openclipart 0.18+dfsg-1 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Aurelien Jarno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:16:07 +0100 Source: openclipart Binary: openclipart-svg openclipart-openoffice.org openclipart-png openclipart Architecture: source all Version: 0.18+dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aurelien

Accepted mpfi 1.3.3-3 (source powerpc)

2005-11-01 Thread Laurent Fousse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:13:48 +0100 Source: mpfi Binary: libmpfi-dev Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1.3.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL

Accepted beast 0.6.6-1 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Debian packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:39:52 +0100 Source: beast Binary: beast Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sam Hocevar (Debian

Accepted libxml-libxml-perl 1.58-3 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Florian Ragwitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:15:43 +0100 Source: libxml-libxml-perl Binary: libxml-libxml-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.58-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Florian Ragwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Florian

Accepted caudium 2:1.4.7-7 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Marek Habersack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:35:36 +0100 Source: caudium Binary: caudium-ultralog caudium-pixsl caudium-perl caudium caudium-dev caudium-modules Architecture: source i386 Version: 2:1.4.7-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer:

Accepted gartoon 0.5-2 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:54:55 -0200 Source: gartoon Binary: gnome-icon-theme-gartoon Architecture: source all Version: 0.5-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Otavio Salvador

Accepted langdrill 0.3-5 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Debian packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:50:59 +0100 Source: langdrill Binary: langdrill Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sam Hocevar

Accepted glade 2.12.1-2 (source all i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:41:54 +0100 Source: glade Binary: glade-common glade-doc glade-doc-2 glade glade-2 glade-gnome glade-gnome-2 glade-common-2 Architecture: source all i386 Version: 2.12.1-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: high

Accepted libgtop2 2.12.0-2 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:44:28 +0100 Source: libgtop2 Binary: libgtop2-5 libgtop2-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.12.0-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: high Maintainer: Sebastien Bacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Loic

Accepted gnome-system-monitor 2.12.1-2 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:41:42 +0100 Source: gnome-system-monitor Binary: gnome-system-monitor Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.12.1-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Sebastien Bacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted linux-2.6 2.6.14-2 (source i386 all)

2005-11-01 Thread Simon Horman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:27:40 +0900 Source: linux-2.6 Binary: linux-image-sun3 linux-image-2.6.14-1-em64t-p4-smp linux-image-2.6-powerpc-miboot linux-headers-2.6.14-1-atari linux-image-2.6-footbridge linux-image-2.6.14-1-rpc

Accepted igal 1.4-14 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Alexander Zangerl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:28:13 +1000 Source: igal Binary: igal Architecture: source all Version: 1.4-14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Alexander Zangerl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Alexander Zangerl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted dctc 0.85.9-3 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Matej Vela
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:35:16 +0100 Source: dctc Binary: dctc Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.85.9-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matej Vela [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted acidlab 0.9.6b20-13 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:05:35 +0100 Source: acidlab Binary: acidlab-doc acidlab-pgsql acidlab acidlab-mysql Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.6b20-13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Jeremy T. Bouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted openssl 0.9.8a-3 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:56:40 +0100 Source: openssl Binary: libssl-dev openssl libssl0.9.8-dbg libcrypto0.9.8-udeb libssl0.9.8 Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.8a-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian OpenSSL

Accepted xmms-crossfade 0.3.8-1 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Florian Ernst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:14:44 +0100 Source: xmms-crossfade Binary: xmms-crossfade Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Florian Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Florian Ernst [EMAIL

Accepted sensors-applet 1.5.2-1 (source powerpc)

2005-11-01 Thread Sam Morris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:09:34 +0100 Source: sensors-applet Binary: sensors-applet Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1.5.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted licq 1.3.2-1 (source i386 all)

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:34:31 +0100 Source: licq Binary: licq licq-plugin-kde licq-plugin-rms licq-plugin-console licq-dev licq-plugin-osd licq-plugin-qt licq-plugin-forwarder licq-plugin-autoreply Architecture: source i386 all Version:

Accepted libcatalyst-model-cdbi-perl 0.10-1 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Florian Ragwitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:55:56 +0100 Source: libcatalyst-model-cdbi-perl Binary: libcatalyst-model-cdbi-perl Architecture: source all Version: 0.10-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Catalyst Maintainers [EMAIL

Accepted shadow 1:4.0.13-4 (source all i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Christian Perrier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:04:09 +0100 Source: shadow Binary: login passwd initial-passwd-udeb Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1:4.0.13-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Shadow package maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted flow-tools 1:0.68-7 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Radu Spineanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:37:54 +0200 Source: flow-tools Binary: libcflow-perl flow-tools flow-tools-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:0.68-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Radu Spineanu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted loop-aes-source 3.1b-6 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Max Vozeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:50:47 +0100 Source: loop-aes-source Binary: loop-aes-source Architecture: source all Version: 3.1b-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Max Vozeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Max Vozeler [EMAIL

Accepted loop-aes-modules 3.1b+6 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Max Vozeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:54:57 +0100 Source: loop-aes-modules Binary: loop-aes-2.6.12-1-q40 loop-aes-2.6.12-1-686-smp loop-aes-2.6-parisc loop-aes-2.6-q40 loop-aes-2.6.12-1-powerpc64-di loop-aes-2.6-itanium-smp

Accepted mozilla-thunderbird-locale-pl 1.0.7-1 (source all)

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Luberda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:18:16 +0100 Source: mozilla-thunderbird-locale-pl Binary: mozilla-thunderbird-locale-pl Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Robert Luberda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted cpufreqd 1.999+2.0pre2-1 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Mattia Dongili
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:08:38 +0100 Source: cpufreqd Binary: cpufreqd Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.999+2.0pre2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Mattia Dongili [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Mattia Dongili [EMAIL

Accepted yydecode 0.2.10-2 (source i386)

2005-11-01 Thread Matej Vela
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:02:20 +0100 Source: yydecode Binary: yydecode Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2.10-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matej Vela [EMAIL

Accepted bogofilter 0.96.4-1 (source sparc)

2005-11-01 Thread Clint Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:52:45 -0500 Source: bogofilter Binary: bogofilter-qdbm bogofilter-bdb bogofilter bogofilter-common bogofilter-sqlite Architecture: source sparc Version: 0.96.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer:

Accepted libgsf 1.13.2-2 (source all i386)

2005-11-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:14 +0100 Source: libgsf Binary: libgsf-1-113 libgsf-1-common libgsf-1-113-dbg libgsf-bin libgsf-gnome-1-113-dbg libgsf-gnome-1-dev libgsf-1-dev libgsf-gnome-1-113 Architecture: source all i386 Version:

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