Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although as Steve Langasek has pointed out, the Sarge->Etch upgrade will > be hard unless the etch key becomes available to Sarge users who've not > touched their system since Sarge r0a... I guess this comes down to > making the etch key available in

Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: > I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using > meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in > package descriptions in general. Sounds like something that should be added to lintian. I suggest filing a wishlist bug

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote: > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all > DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more > organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build its own version of > launc

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul TBBle Hampson] > Although as Steve Langasek has pointed out, the Sarge->Etch upgrade > will be hard unless the etch key becomes available to Sarge users > who've not touched their system since Sarge r0a... I guess this comes > down to making the etch key available in some kind of Sarge-signe

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:16:36PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe the one-true-stable-key idea is the way to go after all... > One key by distribution? Well, I meant a different one for each stable, which I guess logically becomes "yes"...

Bug#346443: ITP: cue2toc -- converts CUE files to cdrdao's TOC format

2006-01-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cue2toc Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Matthias Czapla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cue2toc.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : converts CUE files

Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Juergen Salk
* Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060107 14:13]: > Description : tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby First of all: This is not against you, Vincent. :-) I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in package

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060106 13:05]: > The exposure of the archive key is higher, because it sits on an > Internet-connected, ssh-accessible server. Also, you don't have to trust > AJ's key; in contrast with Florian's assessment of the NM-suitability of the > three ftpmasters, one

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060106 11:56]: > * Bernd Eckenfels: > > >> IOW using the old key to sign the new key only requires that the old > >> key be "good" at one point during the new year, whereas continuing to > >> use the old key requires that it be "good" all year. > > > > Yes, bu

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:51:55AM +0100, Jiří Paleček <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Jiri Palecek wrote: > >>How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it > >>prefer to do something that

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The aptitude in unstable and testing has a feature that lists suggested > ways to fix broken packages. Unfortunately, the feature doesn't work very well. Frequently I say "aptitude remove XXX" and the first several suggestions that aptitude comes up with

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:32:29PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:22:50AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Michael Vogt] > > > Sorry for the delay. I'm preparing a new upload that adds the 2006 > > > archive key to the default keyring. > > > > Sounds good. Will t

Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I'm wondering if the passwd package should be essential or not. [...] > So, passwd was virtually essential because bash had a > dependency on it, but now it doesn't anymore. > So why do I think passwd needs to be essential? > There are several

Re: [no subject]

2006-01-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 06 janvier 2006 à 15:11 -0500, Gillings, Marcus a écrit : > Hello, > > My name is Marcus Gillings. There was an email sent from me > on your website. Can you please delete it and the contents in it, > please. No, as explained on http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ we don't

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 06 janvier 2006 à 14:28 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla a écrit : > Hi, > > I just upgraded Sid and rebooted, after that, logging into Gnome told me if I > wanted to migrate to a Single file that will give me better performance, so of > course I said yes. It logged me off and everytime that I

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Fri, Jan 06, 2006, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2: error while loading shared > libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or dir > gconf-sanity-check-2 did not pass, logging back out I've filed a serious

Bug#346373: ITP: tioga -- tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby

2006-01-07 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tioga Version : 1.0.i Upstream Author : Bill Paxton (email omitted) * URL : http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga.html * License : LGPL Description : tioga :

Re: ITP vexim2

2006-01-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Daniel: > is there anybody - preferred German speakers - who is willing and able > to package this OR to give assistance to me (i would try packaging when > there is somone helping me)??? Hi Daniel! An 'ITP' is supposed to be filed in the Debian bug tracking system. Best just use the 'reportbug

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bernd Eckenfels: > Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe the one-true-stable-key idea is the way to go after all... > > One key by distribution? If this means one key per suite (sarge, etch, ...), and no yearly key rollover, I agree. 8-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Request for Replacement Packager for Ampache

2006-01-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 06 January 2006 19.47, Karl Vollmer wrote: > Hello All, > > I apologize if this is the incorrect list to use for this purpose, > however a few months back I posted an ITP as I thought I would > actually have time to package up Ampache (http://www.ampache.org) > However that hasn't happe

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe the one-true-stable-key idea is the way to go after all... One key by distribution? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Loïc Minier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > (I don't think the "non-free" argument is here of importance > considering it's a web service, in the same way as Google or > buildd.net. I shall get flamed for these remarks.) As long as Debian doesn't want to build its own launchpad, sure. But th

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: I just upgraded Sid and rebooted, after that, logging into Gnome told me if I wanted to migrate to a Single file that will give me better performance, so of course I said yes. It logged me off and everytime that I need to log back in, it kicks me out. I don't have any s

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.07.1132 +0100]: > This is inconsistent with Debian's past policies wrt stable releases, > namely, that it should be possible for a user to skip all point releases and > security updates (at the peril of their system's security...) and still be

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:14:50PM +1100, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > We're already doing security rX updates to Sarge anyway, surely we just > need to synchronise the key rollover with those releases? And maybe an > rX release if the current archive key becomes compromised? This is inconsistent w

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:21:14AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: >> Oh, the explanation for current practice is that if the key doesn't >> change in practice, apps that look at the keys won't cope well with the >> key changing, and when that becomes important, such as in the event

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006, Frans Jessop wrote: > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all > DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more > organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build its own version of > launchpad which is better