[4 letter words deleted]
=== cut ===
# sudo dpkg -i libgssapi2-heimdal_1.0.1-1_i386.deb
──(Fri,Aug10)─┘
S
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 387 (new: 7)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 76 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requeste
Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This means that when draining the battery we do not allow the CPU to run
> at full speed, so CPU-bound tasks take longer. This tends to extend
> battery life but reduces the processing work derived from the battery,
> since other components then take a h
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I've read the complete thread, and i understand who the main reason from
the mantainers are these. But, in the other hand, have the reason of
gtk1.2 removal porposal. I understand this, but, i say who of the
given reasons are incorrect. Too, i say who
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:00 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> If any person wants to spend their efforts to work on particular
> software, the Debian project should not throw obstacles in their way,
> but asking the Debian project to actively help is going too far.
And even way more far is to asking the
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:34:01PM +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:
>I'm grossly underqualied in that respect, I fear. I can outline precisely
>what needs to be done to make nvidia-glx, for example, bearable[1] (and it
>does not involve a specialised GUI, god forbid) but am in no position at
>
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:45:32PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 21:23 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> > Not sure. I suspect it depend on the task being installed. It is
> > currently used to detect which X driver to activate, but that need
> > will go away in the fu
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 05:04 +0200, David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui) wrote:
> xmms have 11000+ popcon installations reported. The total reports of
> popcon are 57000+. This is aprox 20% of users. Now, are talking for
> removal an application for those users?...
>
> I've read the buglist of xmms, and i
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:08:00PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Gustavo Franco]
> > Btw, it seems that xdebconfigurator already support discover (2) or
> > discover1 but xserver-xorg recommends is on 'discover1 | discover'
> > and in ltsp-client-core we depend on discover1 (not desktop task
"Ben Goodger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 09/08/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The objection is making it a priority over supporting free drivers
> > or diverting people working on supporting vendors who provide DFSG
> > free drivers by making it a distribution wide priority
Qui, 2007-08-09 às 15:24 -0300, Gustavo Franco escreveu:
> Btw, desktop-c-gtk-devel and desktop-python-gtk-devel makes no sense,
> IMHO. It's too specific that we will need
> desktop-$every_language_in_debian-gtk-devel. What a task like
> desktop-php-devel will contain, vim? For those who like emac
Qui, 2007-08-09 às 10:42 -0700, Joey Hess escreveu:
> Luis Matos wrote:
> > having a console tasksel is not enough ... someone was developing a gtk+
> > front end ... right?
>
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome tasksel ?
>
that's a pretty hack ... why does tasksel does not get the debconf
option on which f
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 18:37 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:20 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
> > >
> > > We already have this on the desktop, from what I can
> > > see (there is evidence of a
>
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Ben Goodger wrote:
> I can outline precisely what needs to be done to make nvidia-glx,
> for example, bearable[1] (and it does not involve a specialised GUI,
> god forbid) but am in no position at all to do so :(
Sure you are! Outlining exactly what needs to be done and filing
Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb:
>
> I get the impression that you are talking about boot time? I am
> talking about the Debian installer and behavior at install time.
> discover is not used at boot time, and have not been providing a
> init.d script since before Etch was released. Kernel module lo
On 09/08/07, Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> having a console tasksel is not enough ... someone was developing a gtk+
> front end ... right?
running "tasksel --new-install" gets you a debconf window, which is either
curses, gtk, qt etc depending on your debconf conf.
--
Ben Goodger
B
On 8/9/07, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:20 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
> >
> > We already have this on the desktop, from what I can
> > see (there is evidence of a
> > scaling-module-loading-thingummy running on boot)
On 09/08/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The objection is making it a priority over supporting free drivers or
> diverting people working on supporting vendors who provide DFSG free
> drivers by making it a distribution wide priority.
The free drivers are perfectly well supported
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:20 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
>
> We already have this on the desktop, from what I can
> see (there is evidence of a
> scaling-module-loading-thingummy running on boot)
>
> Yes, it loads, but the default scalin
[Hendrik Sattler]
> As long as "automatic" doesn't take more time than "using manual
> settings", that's fine. I doubt that they can detect some of the
> settings (keyboard layout, driver options), though ;) I appreciate
> the efforts a lot though, especially a better cooperation of kernel
> drive
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: ulex0.8
Version : 0.8
Upstream Author : Alain Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.cduce.org/download.html
* License : LGPL
Programming Lang: OCaml
Descri
Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 21:23 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Hendrik Sattler]
>
> > Is discover still installed by default on new installs?
>
> Not sure. I suspect it depend on the task being installed. It is
> currently used to detect which X driver to activate, but that need
> will go awa
I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written...
> On Aug 09, Tim Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's actually not just ATI/nVidia - most wireless drivers are at least in
>> part non-free. In my case, it's the madwifi drivers with their binary
>> HAL. There's also the ipw2100/2200/39
[Gustavo Franco]
> Petter, couldn't we replace discover1 with discover (2) into the
> desktop task ?
Actually, we (Otavio an me) plan to replace discover1 with discover
for Lenny, so that every user with discover1 will upgrade
automatically to discover.
> Is this a list of supported hardware issu
[Hendrik Sattler]
> Is discover still installed by default on new installs?
Not sure. I suspect it depend on the task being installed. It is
currently used to detect which X driver to activate, but that need
will go away in the future when X.org manage to configure itself
automatically. :)
> I
On Thu August 9 2007 12:08:05 pm Florent Rougon wrote:
> Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > dselect doesn't force you to install recommended packages; for as
> > long as I can remember (since Bo) it has given you a list with the
> > recommends preselected, and a simple keypress is all that i
On 8/9/07, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 23:02 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> > [Julian Andres Klode]
> >
> > > We should try to use binary packages provided by linux-modules-* or
> > > other modules packages by default and fallback to m-a.
> >
> > You migh
On 8/9/07, Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Qui, 2007-08-09 às 14:10 +0200, Michael Banck escreveu:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:27:40AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
> > > Qua, 2007-08-08 às 20:30 +0200, Hendrik Sattler escreveu:
> > > > Additionally, it should be noted that a desktop task has
On 8/9/07, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:27:40AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
> > Qua, 2007-08-08 às 20:30 +0200, Hendrik Sattler escreveu:
> > > Additionally, it should be noted that a desktop task has nothing with
> > > multimedia (means: surprise, you can use
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:38:42PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> Another option is to reduce the dependency from guile-1.8-libs to
> guile-1.6-libs. According to discussion at [4], we do not loose any
> functionality due to this. What do you say?
You could use something like:
Build-Depends:
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dselect doesn't force you to install recommended packages; for as long
> as I can remember (since Bo) it has given you a list with the
> recommends preselected, and a simple keypress is all that is needed to
> decline them.
I'm afraid your memory is not
Hi,
Currently texmacs depends upon guile-1.8-libs . However guile-1.8
FTBFS on ia64 architecture [1]. According to [2] it is not going to be
fixed anytime in the near future. Lilypond, a package which also
depends upon guile-1.8-libs faced the same problem. It was removed
from ia64 architecture [3
On Wed August 8 2007 10:01:40 am Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Just to clarify, aptitude didn't "come up" with anything. This was
> the standard behavior in Debian at the time (dselect was far more
> draconian about forcing you to install recommended packages), and one
> of the top complaints I got wa
Luis Matos wrote:
> having a console tasksel is not enough ... someone was developing a gtk+
> front end ... right?
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome tasksel ?
--
see shy jo
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 23:02 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Julian Andres Klode]
>
> > We should try to use binary packages provided by linux-modules-* or
> > other modules packages by default and fallback to m-a.
>
> You might want to check out the recent changes to discover and
> discover-da
On Aug 09, Tim Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's actually not just ATI/nVidia - most wireless drivers are at least in
> part non-free. In my case, it's the madwifi drivers with their binary HAL.
> There's also the ipw2100/2200/3945/etc with the non-free firmware. Without
The firmwares are n
Quoting Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:00:00AM +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to replace
> > > the MS fonts.
> >
> > Have their licensing issues been solved?
>
> Which ones ?
> Well, when you started this thread I was fearing a quite long flame
> with everybody jumping at you with "if you don't like you're
> free to some and help improving it"which is definitely what
> happens too frequently when some users report issues that can't often
> be pointed to a given pac
Please don't CC me, as I read the list.
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:49:33AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > The reason? It's counterproductive and silly, when upgrading from
> > oldstable to stable, to get lots of news that was eve
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:36:39PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Neil Williams wrote:
> > And a script to implement that in every box I have to install. Again
> > and Again and Again and
> >
> > You almost forcing me into maintaining a fork of apt that restores the
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
>
> > No - because the default is already in place in aptitude which is WHY I
> > don't use aptitude. If apt goes the same way, the default configuration
> > of each offers no choice.
> >
> > By the tim
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: phpformgenerator
Version : 3.0
Upstream Author : Musawir Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL
Description : cr
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> The reason? It's counterproductive and silly, when upgrading from
> oldstable to stable, to get lots of news that was ever relevant only for
> sid-to-sid upgrades.
Better to do that cleanup near the freeze, if at all. Otherwise, once could
eas
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> So, this mail is a request for new maintainers for both hplip and
> amavisd-new.
I've already had three people (two DDs and a non-DD) join in for amavisd-new
work. So it looks like it will be well-cared for in the future.
But what about H
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Gregory Colpart wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:11:24PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > [...]
> > The requirements for amavisd-new is a good grasp of perl and email
> > infrastructure, and the usual careful attitude one should have when dealing
> > with packa
* Simplify installation of out-of-tree kernel modules, possibly by
adapting Ubuntu's Restricted Manager to work with m-a. Non-free
drivers would *only* be displayed if non-free is in the sources.list.
No plans AFAIK. Working on this should not be difficult and should be
appreciated, either by i
Qui, 2007-08-09 às 14:10 +0200, Michael Banck escreveu:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:27:40AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
> > Qua, 2007-08-08 às 20:30 +0200, Hendrik Sattler escreveu:
> > > Additionally, it should be noted that a desktop task has nothing with
> > > multimedia (means: surprise, you can
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:27:40AM +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
> Qua, 2007-08-08 às 20:30 +0200, Hendrik Sattler escreveu:
> > Additionally, it should be noted that a desktop task has nothing with
> > multimedia (means: surprise, you can use a desktop without music and
> > movies).
>
> I think we n
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> (Please don't start a debate over what an interpreted language is, I just
> tried to generalize the subject.)
>
> Perl XS module packages usually install all their code under /usr/lib/perl5 -
> not just the shared library that implements the external
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: http://www.digiband.net/
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Joe Wall
* URL : http://www.digiband.net/
* License : LGPL
Programming Lang: C++
Description : full home ve
(Please don't start a debate over what an interpreted language is, I just
tried to generalize the subject.)
Perl XS module packages usually install all their code under /usr/lib/perl5 -
not just the shared library that implements the external subroutine, but also
at least one ordinary module, w
Hello,
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:11:24PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> [...]
> The requirements for amavisd-new is a good grasp of perl and email
> infrastructure, and the usual careful attitude one should have when dealing
> with packages that are often mission-critical. Upstream
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:08:46AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I have seen some packages lately, most prominently apache2, that replace the
> entire NEWS.Debian file when they have some news to report. That way, older
> news are lost, and users who don't upgrade to every intermediate versio
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:55:13AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:00:00AM +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to replace
Qua, 2007-08-08 às 20:30 +0200, Hendrik Sattler escreveu:
> Additionally, it should be noted that a desktop task has nothing with
> multimedia (means: surprise, you can use a desktop without music and
> movies).
I think we need to have multiple desktop tasks. One desktop-simple,
desktop-multimed
I have seen some packages lately, most prominently apache2, that replace the
entire NEWS.Debian file when they have some news to report. That way, older
news are lost, and users who don't upgrade to every intermediate version
(say, those who upgrade only between stable releases) are left in the
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Julien Valroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: gconf-cleaner
Version : 0.0.3
Upstream Author : Akira TAGOH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://code.google.com/p/gconf-cleaner/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Des
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:00:00AM +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to replace
> > > the MS fonts.
> >
> > Have their licensing issues been solved?
[manphiz]
> As in my case it didn't work because the cpufreq related modules
> were not loaded automatically, I had to explicitly write them down
> in /etc/modules, then everything is fine.
The /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq script is supposed to load the cpufreq
related modules automatically. If this
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007, Tim Hull wrote:
> Update: it works with libxine1-ffmpeg installed. Evidently totem-xine is
> installed by default - at least if you install Etch and upgrade to Lenny.
> Is this by design, or just an issue with Etch to Lenny transitions. I'm
> going to install totem-gstreame
60 matches
Mail list logo
