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Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Duncan! You wrote: Adding a sleep $[ $RANDOM % 60 ] is probably not a good idea as it will hold up all the other cronjobs that should be run. What about making sure the spamassassin cron.daily job is the last one to run (by calling it ZZspamassassin or so)? It might even be worth it to

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 19:57, Joey Hess wrote: I had generally assumed that most programmers were reaonsable and used powers of 2, but this thread is certianly changing my mind about *that*. It's not that unreasonable. Humans generally count in base 10 - computers count in base 2. -- Magnus

Bug#428643: ITP: maven-ant-helper -- package helper scripts for building Maven components with ant

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: maven-ant-helper Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Trygve Laugstøl [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-java/trunk/maven-ant-helper * License : Apache

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070612 23:17]: On 12/06/07 at 22:23 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: NO! unstable is meant for packages that should be in the next stable release, as such only packages that are in the maintainer's opinion ready to migrate to testing should be uploaded to

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:42:34AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: - Smooth passages are not always smooth (who had a working xorg after the upgrade for 7, please raise their hands) AFAIR apart from having to edit a few config files it was quite painless (I've upgraded when Xorg was still in

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:40:29PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: I disagree, that's what we've with experimental today mainly due to the fact that there's just a few packages there. Consider everybody uploading every package for unstable instead. Experimental can and does contain packages that

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:28:09AM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: What can I do to satisfy those with and without anacron, and to avoid hammering the sa-update servers at a specific time? Idea: - Generate a random minute number in the postinst - Set up an entry in cron.d that runs every hour at

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Ter, 2007-06-12 às 17:03 -0700, Steve Langasek escreveu: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:42:34AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: Ter, 2007-06-12 às 22:05 +0200, Frans Pop escreveu: Personally I think the current system is fine. just a note, as user: The current system is fine but: - priority

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:28:52AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: kernel upgrades from 2.6.50 to 2.6.51 ... nvidia packages don't build in time (they are not free, right?) ... kernel passes to testing ... automatically, the nvidia-module-2.6.50 uses 2.6.50 and not *.51, so ... after a reboot, my

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:28:52AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: The current system is fine but: - priority from unstable should less than testing or stable ( as i think - not for sure - happens nowadays). On experimental has less priority. - There are no guaranties that testing is

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Wouter Verhelst dijo [Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:59:49PM +0100]: Honnestly, no, this is not true anymore nowadays. With a 500Gb sata hard drive, you're able to have a full debian mirror (all archs). Such a disk is around 100??? nowadays. ... but it will break down in three months with the

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/12/07, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:40:54PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: * What do you mean by switch unstable automatic nature to not automatic In a few words, move the 'NotAutomatic: yes' from experimental to unstable and burn experimental. So

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Christof Krüger
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: shirish writes (Using standardized SI prefixes): Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . Urgh, these things are ugly and an abomination. We should avoid them. Ian. I'd really like to hear some real

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Gustavo Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/12/07, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:40:54PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: * What do you mean by switch unstable automatic nature to not automatic In a few words, move the 'NotAutomatic: yes' from experimental

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 13/06/07 at 11:19 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Lucas Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070612 23:17]: On 12/06/07 at 22:23 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: NO! unstable is meant for packages that should be in the next stable release, as such only packages that are in the maintainer's

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:02:53AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:40:54PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: * What do you mean by switch unstable automatic nature to not automatic In a few words, move the

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13/06/07 at 11:19 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Lucas Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070612 23:17]: On 12/06/07 at 22:23 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: unstable is meant for packages that should be in the next stable release, as such only packages that are

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Caeles
One more opinion: If you consider a number more relevant than its nearest power of 2, then somebody else will consider every digit of that number relevant. In that case, don't use rounding by SI/IEC prefixes at all. For an example see Bug #420716. The first number, where the difference between

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Gustavo Franco [Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:20:17 -0300]: * Switch unstable (release) for not automatic updates This seems like the key of your proposal, and this is, in simple words and AIUI, why it would not bring any improvements: - Our main objective is to have as few bugs in testing as

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:51 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: shirish writes (Using standardized SI prefixes): Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . Urgh, these things are ugly and an abomination. We should

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Bjørn Ingmar Berg
On 13/06/07, Christof Krüger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to hear some real arguments against SI prefixes, besides being ugly or funny to pronounce or just because it has always been like that. Advantages of using SI prefixes has been mentioned in this thread. Please tell me the

Bug#428676: ITP: snowballz -- fun RTS game featuring snowball fights with penguins

2007-06-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: snowballz Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Joey Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Upstream Author : Matthew Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://joey101.net/snowballz/ * License

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:01 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: 1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no less. No it doesn't. The meaning of 1 TB depends on the context, and has always done so. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Ubuntu Development Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 6/13/07, Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The meaning of 1 TB depends on the context, and has always done so. Wrongly. -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/13/07, Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be easy to get the list of packages that haven't reached testing in the n months (and have been in debian for more than n months). Such a list exists: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html -- bye, pabs

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Jones
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Without the binary unit to consider, when we quote a drive as 1TB, we know that it has *at least* 1,000,000,000,000 bytes available. Depending on the drive, it may have anywhere between this and 1,099,511,627,776 bytes available.

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 15:29, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:51 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] Please tell me the disadvantages so there can actually be a constructive discussion. User Confusion. Most

Re: Getting package translations into the mirrors (was Re: APT 0.7 for sid)

2007-06-13 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:16:49PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On 6/10/07, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because they're not the latest files. The latest output form the DDTP project is here: http://ddtp.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/ There have been

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 13/06/07 at 15:19 +0100, Paul Wise wrote: On 6/13/07, Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be easy to get the list of packages that haven't reached testing in the n months (and have been in debian for more than n months). Such a list exists:

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13/06/07 at 15:19 +0100, Paul Wise wrote: On 6/13/07, Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be easy to get the list of packages that haven't reached testing in the n months (and have been in debian for more than n months). Such a list

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread shirish
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:51 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: shirish writes (Using standardized SI prefixes): Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . Urgh, these things are ugly and an abomination. We should

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Alex Jones may or may not have written... And no-one uses floppy disks any more. Let's just bury them all and forget about them. :D I used one yesterday to do a BIOS upgrade. :-) 1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no less. It means 1024^4

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 15:19, Bjørn Ingmar Berg wrote: Let me start with a dumb example: (OK, dumb example duly deleted) Computers deal with numbers in base two. Humans deal with numbers in base 10. When computers and humans interact (on a technical level) humans must adapt to the

How to package software with binaries in tarball?

2007-06-13 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi! What is a recommended practice of packaging programs, for which distributed tarball contains binaries (generated from the sources)? Specifically, newly released erlang distribution includes prebuilt architecture-independent binary files. Should we remove them from the original tarball, or

Re: How to package software with binaries in tarball?

2007-06-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
Sergei Golovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a recommended practice of packaging programs, for which distributed tarball contains binaries (generated from the sources)? Specifically, newly released erlang distribution includes prebuilt architecture-independent binary files. Should we

Re: How to package software with binaries in tarball?

2007-06-13 Thread Sergei Golovan
On 6/13/07, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should we remove them from the original tarball, or is it better to leave them? Unless there is a huge a gain in tarball size I would keep the Tarball without binaries is about 11Mb, with binaries is about 37Mb. pristine source. It is

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:13PM +, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:42:08 -0300 Paulo Marcondes wrote: billion = 10^6 * 10^6 (IIRC, as used in Portugal - no jokes here!) =10^12 :) and Germany, France, former UdSSR, insert your

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Christof Krüger
Let me start with a dumb example: For a child or uninterested commoner that flying critter is simply a birdie. For those in the know exactly the same entity is a Falco peregrinus. Even if simply calling it birdie or perhaps falcon would be easier, more user friendly more understandable for

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:08 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:13PM +, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:42:08 -0300 Paulo Marcondes wrote: billion = 10^6 * 10^6 (IIRC, as used in Portugal - no jokes here!)

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 13 juin 2007 à 15:06 +0100, Scott James Remnant a écrit : On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:01 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: 1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no less. No it doesn't. The meaning of 1 TB depends on the context, and has always done so.

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread sean finney
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 06:28:09 Duncan Findlay wrote: I imagine it would be relatively simple to have the postinst generate a random time during the day for a cron script to run, but this doesn't work with anacron -- many users would never get updates. how would this break anacron? What

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
* sean finney [Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:46:42 +0200]: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 06:28:09 Duncan Findlay wrote: I imagine it would be relatively simple to have the postinst generate a random time during the day for a cron script to run, but this doesn't work with anacron -- many users would

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Christof Krüger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd really like to hear some real arguments against SI prefixes, besides being ugly or funny to pronounce or just because it has always been like that. Advantages of using SI prefixes has been mentioned in this thread. Please tell me the disadvantages

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Duncan Findlay wrote: Adding a sleep $[ $RANDOM % 60 ] is probably not a good idea as it will hold up all the other cronjobs that should be run. How about using a sub shell, so that other cron jobs can continue? ( sleep $[ $RANDOM % 60 ] sa-update ) (or something like this) Cheers

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Christof Krüger
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: [...] And we still have many figures in both GB and GiB which are neither of the two! okay ... reading on ... [...] I see no problem with this 1TB quote being approximate. It's rounded anyway. So you don't care if it is

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 17:40 -0300, Gustavo Franco a écrit : I disagree, that's what we've with experimental today mainly due to the fact that there's just a few packages there. Consider everybody uploading every package for unstable instead. This has already been tried by Fedora and

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: Even in the US all legitimate science and engineering is done in SI units. Suurre... That's why in 1999 the NASA Mars orbiter didn't crash because one (NASA) team worked in metric units and the other (private contractor) in

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Duncan Findlay: I imagine it would be relatively simple to have the postinst generate a random time during the day for a cron script to run, but this doesn't work with anacron -- many users would never get updates. debsecan creates a cron entry which is run hourly, at a random minute, and

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 13 juin 2007 à 15:19 +0200, Bjørn Ingmar Berg a écrit : When computers and humans interact (on a technical level) humans must adapt to the computer, because computers can not. Anyone starting with such assumptions should never design any kind of user interface. Dealing with chunks

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-06-13 às 03:45 -0700, Steve Langasek escreveu: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:28:52AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: look ... i don't want guaranties ... you know what i mean ... want a place where it says testing HAS security support, we focus on having it stable. I don't want written

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-06-13 às 12:39 +0200, Gabor Gombas escreveu: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:28:52AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: kernel upgrades from 2.6.50 to 2.6.51 ... nvidia packages don't build in time (they are not free, right?) ... kernel passes to testing ... automatically, the

Re: Bug#428198: ITP: gabedit -- graphical interface to Ab Initio packages

2007-06-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 10.06.2007, 08:41 +0200 schrieb Luca Brivio: Daniel Leidert wrote: Gabedit is a graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages, like: - GAMESS-US - Gaussian - Molcas - Molpro - MPQC - Q-Chem Maybe the fact that MPQC is the only one which is

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Luis Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but why should I??? this goes against the testing is always *WORKING* phrase. TESTING IS NOT ALWAYS WORKING. Having to use module-assistant != not working. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To

Re: How to package software with binaries in tarball?

2007-06-13 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:06:20PM +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote: pristine source. It is rather nice to be able take debian's tar.gz and verify with md5sum or a detached gpg sig that upstream's tarball is The original tarball contains non-free RFCs, so it is recreated anyway. On a general note

Bug#428750: ITP: drawxtl -- display crystal structures on ordinary computer hardware

2007-06-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Leidert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: drawxtl Version : 5.3 Upstream Author : Larry Finger, Martin Kroeker and Brian Toby * URL :

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-06-13 às 14:16 -0700, Russ Allbery escreveu: Luis Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but why should I??? this goes against the testing is always *WORKING* phrase. TESTING IS NOT ALWAYS WORKING. Having to use module-assistant != not working. having a working system *with* only

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Onno Benschop
As I see it there are two ways of resolving the difference between KiB and KB. * Use Rosetta to update the text and fix the output so that it now reads KiB. This would be relatively simple to do, but not actually helpful longer term. * Fix the source code that calculates KB by

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Ivan Jager
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alex Jones wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Without the binary unit to consider, when we quote a drive as 1TB, we know that it has *at least* 1,000,000,000,000 bytes available. Depending on the drive, it may have anywhere between this and

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Luis Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: having a working system *with* only debian *oficial* packages and then after an upgrade that system stops working properly, i call it a regression ... If you're using non-free drivers, the first part of your sentence above doesn't apply. Usually, however,

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Many non-free drivers (and some free drivers, for that matter) are never automatically built at the moment, although with the new mechanism for building modules in main, hopefully that number will drop over time for the free ones.

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
Luis Matos wrote: Qua, 2007-06-13 às 14:16 -0700, Russ Allbery escreveu: Luis Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but why should I??? this goes against the testing is always *WORKING* phrase. TESTING IS NOT ALWAYS WORKING. Having to use module-assistant != not working. having a working

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Steinar H Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Many non-free drivers (and some free drivers, for that matter) are never automatically built at the moment, although with the new mechanism for building modules in main, hopefully that

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steinar H Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Many non-free drivers (and some free drivers, for that matter) are never automatically built at the moment, although with the new mechanism for

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 14:03:51 Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: Even in the US all legitimate science and engineering is done in SI units. Suurre... That's why in 1999 the NASA Mars orbiter didn't crash because one (NASA)

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-06-13 às 15:00 -0700, Russ Allbery escreveu: Luis Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: having a working system *with* only debian *oficial* packages and then after an upgrade that system stops working properly, i call it a regression ... If you're using non-free drivers, the first

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2007-06-11 19:56 -0400]: Testing also needs periodic snapshots and guaranteed upgradability to be useable by more users, amoung other points I discuss at http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/ Snapshots should be made available regularly, so that users who

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-06-13 às 18:09 -0400, Felipe Sateler escreveu: Luis Matos wrote: Qua, 2007-06-13 às 14:16 -0700, Russ Allbery escreveu: Luis Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but why should I??? this goes against the testing is always *WORKING* phrase. TESTING IS NOT ALWAYS WORKING.

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qui, 2007-06-14 às 01:04 +0200, Emanuele Rocca escreveu: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2007-06-11 19:56 -0400]: Testing also needs periodic snapshots and guaranteed upgradability to be useable by more users, amoung other points I discuss at http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Luis Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Qua, 2007-06-13 às 15:00 -0700, Russ Allbery escreveu: My recommendation is to always use module-assistant for all non-free drivers that you want to use. That way, if there is a build in non-free, you can be pleasantly surprised, but your normal method

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:53:24AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:42:34AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: - Smooth passages are not always smooth (who had a working xorg after the upgrade for 7, please raise their hands) AFAIR apart from having to edit a few config files

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the time it hit testing it worked pretty well for most people. We broke a few things, but it was nice for just about everyone. Everyone except those people using proprietary drivers, but they know they've already dug their own grave there. If Luis

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-06-13 às 16:18 -0700, Russ Allbery escreveu: For non-free, this is inevitable without significant changes to the way that Debian works that I don't believe will happen. Debian has provided a different solution in the form of module-assistant that in my experience works great. I

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-06-13 às 19:20 -0400, David Nusinow escreveu: By the time it hit testing it worked pretty well for most people. We broke a few things, but it was nice for just about everyone. Everyone except those people using proprietary drivers, but they know they've already dug their own grave

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
Ivan Jager [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alex Jones wrote: 1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no less. If they want to actually put 1.024 TB on the disk then they can say 1 TB (approx.) like any other industry (detergent, bacon, etc.).

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christof Krüger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd really like to hear some real arguments against SI prefixes, besides being ugly or funny to pronounce or just because it has always been like that. Advantages of using SI prefixes has been mentioned in

Bug#428774: ITP: pixman -- pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo

2007-06-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian X Strike Force [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: pixman Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Søren Sandmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/pixman * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-13 Thread Brian May
Duncan == Duncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Duncan What can I do to satisfy those with and without anacron, Duncan and to avoid hammering the sa-update servers at a specific Duncan time? Look at the clamav-freshclam package. I suspect the maintainers have already encountered

Bug#428776: ITP: libpciaccess -- Generic PCI access library for X

2007-06-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian X Strike Force [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libpciaccess Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Authors: Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] edward shu [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:32:01PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: Um, no. That does not happen automatically. In rare cases it happens because the release team has overridden the installability check for a package, because maintainers have not coordinated their transitions in unstable

Bug#428777: ITP: xserver-xorg-video-avivo -- X.Org X server -- Avivo display driver

2007-06-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian X Strike Force [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: xserver-xorg-video-avivo Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Authors: Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerome Glisse [EMAIL

Re: Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-13 Thread Philippe Cloutier
I am definitely a GUI person (aptitude is the last non-GUI program with a GUI available that I still use), but I still prefer aptitude to any other. I was under the impression that most others did too, is it not the recommended Debian way?. Yes (but that's a reported bug, #418455) -- To

GSASL Maintainer Missing in Action?

2007-06-13 Thread cascardo
Hello, libgsasl and libntlm are maintained by Yvan Bassuel and were uploaded by Anibal Salazar. I am CC'ing them. Two weeks ago I've sent an email no Yvan, asking if he was still interested in maintaining those packages. Both have newer upstream versions. There is a bug with a patch for

Re: How to package software with binaries in tarball?

2007-06-13 Thread Sergei Golovan
On 6/14/07, Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:06:20PM +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote: pristine source. It is rather nice to be able take debian's tar.gz and verify with md5sum or a detached gpg sig that upstream's tarball is The original tarball contains

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:20:17 -0300, Gustavo Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1) The 'remove experimental' proposal * Warn developers and contributors[0] * Remove experimental * Switch unstable (release) for not automatic updates This is one of the worst proposals I have seen.

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 11:24:08 -0500, Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 09-Jun-07, 04:30 (CDT), Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point is that it is useful to know what major release of Debian a machine is using, My point is the only reliable way to determine that is

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Miles Bader
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is not really understandable is why this stupid naming has been kept in Windows XP. Because nobody actually cares except control-freak types, and they're certainly not who windows is targetting! -Miles -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:41:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:08 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:13PM +, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:42:08 -0300 Paulo Marcondes wrote:

Accepted spamassassin 3.2.1-1 (source all i386)

2007-06-13 Thread Duncan Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:36:38 -0700 Source: spamassassin Binary: spamassassin spamc Architecture: source all i386 Version: 3.2.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Duncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Duncan

Accepted telepathy-idle 0.1.1-1 (source i386)

2007-06-13 Thread Sjoerd Simons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:29:32 +0200 Source: telepathy-idle Binary: telepathy-idle Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.1.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Telepathy maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted insighttoolkit 3.2.0-2 (source i386 all)

2007-06-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:59:13 -0500 Source: insighttoolkit Binary: libinsighttoolkit3.0 insighttoolkit-examples libinsighttoolkit-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 3.2.0-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Gavin

Accepted deb822 0.3 (source all)

2007-06-13 Thread John Wright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:37:05 -0600 Source: deb822 Binary: python-deb822 Architecture: source all Version: 0.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted audit 1.5.3-2 (source i386)

2007-06-13 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:33:56 +0200 Source: audit Binary: libaudit-dev libaudit0 python-audit auditd Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.5.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Philipp Matthias Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted reportbug-ng 0.2007.06.13 (source i386)

2007-06-13 Thread Bastian Venthur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:48:46 +0200 Source: reportbug-ng Binary: reportbug-ng Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2007.06.13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Bastian Venthur

Accepted taskjuggler 2.4.0~beta2-1 (source amd64)

2007-06-13 Thread Fathi Boudra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:33:41 +0200 Source: taskjuggler Binary: taskjuggler Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.4.0~beta2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Fathi

Accepted glibc 2.5-11 (source all amd64)

2007-06-13 Thread Aurelien Jarno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:06:21 +0200 Source: glibc Binary: libc0.1-prof libc6-dev-amd64 locales-all libc6-i686 libc6-dev-ppc64 libc0.3-pic glibc-doc libc0.3 libc6-dev-mipsn32 libc0.1-i686 libc0.1-i386 libc6-mips64 libc6.1-dev

Accepted gtk+2.0 2.10.13-1 (source i386 all)

2007-06-13 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:06:49 +0200 Source: gtk+2.0 Binary: libgtk2.0-dev gtk2-engines-pixbuf libgtk-directfb-2.0-dev libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 libgtk-directfb-2.0-0-udeb libgtk2.0-0-dbg libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-doc gtk2.0-examples

Accepted glib2.0 2.13.4-1 (source i386 all)

2007-06-13 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:52:27 +0200 Source: glib2.0 Binary: libglib2.0-0-dbg libglib2.0-udeb libglib2.0-data libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-doc libglib2.0-0 Architecture: source i386 all Version: 2.13.4-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency:

Accepted postr 0.7-1 (source all)

2007-06-13 Thread Ross Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:17 +0100 Source: postr Binary: postr Architecture: source all Version: 0.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description:

Accepted openoffice.org 2.2.1-1 (source all powerpc)

2007-06-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:24:56 +0200 Source: openoffice.org Binary: openoffice.org-l10n-dz openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-l10n-ts openoffice.org-l10n-zu openoffice.org-help-zh-cn openoffice.org-help-ru openoffice.org-l10n-ru

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