mess in BTS

2005-03-20 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi I have noticed a messy situation in BTS, regarding my source package libppd (*) my source package has this web page in BTS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libppd where you see there are 4 bugs listed (resolved) but then there is this web page

dropping lpr-ppd from sarge

2005-03-16 Thread A Mennucc
that it is used by a scarce number of users - for those users, the change from 'lpr-ppd' to 'lprng' or 'lpr' is a breeze a. ps: please CC me when replying -- Andrea Mennucc Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef signature.asc Description: Digital signature

mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread A Mennucc
you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries of mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 in your friendly repository http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge with special thanks to David Moreno Garza for the sparc binary and Simon McVittie for powerpc a. -- Andrea Mennucc Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread A Mennucc
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:09:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:55AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries of mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 in your friendly repository http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge with special

mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC

2005-03-10 Thread A Mennucc
hi everybody thanks to help of many people (both on debian-legal , debian-devel , and privately), I have prepared a new debugged improved version of mplayer for the Debian archive : namely version 1.0pre6-4 Simon McVittie , in particular, has tried my packaging in powerpc : so he has provided

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-04 Thread A Mennucc
Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:47:32PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:25:48PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: Obfuscated code does not satisfy DFSG#2. I hope nobody seriously disagrees with this. Let's not be so fast with this. I haven't taken a

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-04 Thread A Mennucc
sorry, wrong posting (I must switch to a better news reader!) a. A Mennucc wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:47:32PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:25:48PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: Obfuscated code does not satisfy DFSG#2. I hope nobody

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-28 Thread A Mennucc
Sebastien NOEL wrote: I have some questions about your package: * Why the --disable-mencoder in debian/rules ? my original thought was : since LAME is not in Debian , then 'mencoder' will not be very useful but then some people pointed out that there are many interesting things that

Re: APT 0.6 migration -- first status report

2005-02-23 Thread A Mennucc
just my 2eurocents Florian Weimer wrote: * How you can help Please install APT 0.6, take your favorite APT frontend, recompile it from source, test basic operations, and report the results (either to me privately, or to this list). Does it still compile? Does it work as expected (apart from the

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-20 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi I have uploaded mplayer 1.0pre6a-3 It ships a correctly repackaged upstream source; it has a 'debian/rules get-orig-source' (as asked in debian-devel) that creates the .orig.tar.gz It should appear in http://qa.debian.org/~anibal/debian-NEW.html and in I will put a copy in

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread A Mennucc
just my 2 cents: mplayer _does not depend_ on the win32codecs : it will work quite fine without them, and still be able to play an humungous number of video formats and codecs. The win32codecs are purely optional. a. Matthew Garrett wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, this looks like

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-15 Thread A Mennucc
Ken Bloom wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:46:38 +0100, A Mennucc wrote: There have been two main problems keeping mplayer out of Debian: licenses and copyrights. Licenses: the upstream code contains some code that is protected by (more or less) actively enforced licenses: DeCSS code to decode

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-15 Thread A Mennucc
MJ Ray wrote: Andrea Mennucc wrote: I have uploaded a new version of the 'mplayer' package for Debian, namely version 1.0pre6-1 I have reviewed this package, but I've not tried building it. Here are my first comments, split under your headings. --- HISTORY

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-15 Thread A Mennucc
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A Mennucc) Solution: the DeCSS is deleted from the package proposed for Debian (for this reason, I upload mplayer as a native package); That is not a valid reason to pretend it is a native package. The correct thing

mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-14 Thread A Mennucc
. a. -- Andrea Mennucc Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef pgpbtlAujBJ9K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-14 Thread A Mennucc
mplayer_1.0pre6a-1_i386.deb is linked against libxvidcore sorry folks I have compiled and uploaded mplayer_1.0pre6a-2_i386.deb it is also accessible at http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge thanx emfox for pointing out a. -- Andrea Mennucc Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh

Re: update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-23 Thread Andrea Mennucc
until dpkg release the dpkg lock. At this time it run normally. A Mennucc ha scritto: I tested it and it seems ok; so I sent the following proposal as a wishlist bug for 'menu' A Mennucc wrote: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote as an example, 80% of all debian postinst (post install) packages

discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
hi for as much as I loved the religion war of people-liking-discover against p-l-hotplug, (and then of p-l-udev vs p-l-devf vs p-l-/dev ), I think nobody stated the most important point: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists. The reason is in the dependencies: indeed

update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote as an example, 80% of all debian postinst (post install) packages on my computer result in the running of update-menus. you don't need to change the whole of the packages to implement the above just add a few diverts, create some specific locks , and check on

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I agree that hotplug and discover must be able to co-exist on a system. And I believe they mostly do, as I have both installed. :) [A Mennucc] Unless someone may go and rewrite xserver-xfree86 to suggest 'hotplug | discover', and use any of the two. (hotplug has

Re: update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
I tested it and it seems ok; so I sent the following proposal as a wishlist bug for 'menu' A Mennucc wrote: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote as an example, 80% of all debian postinst (post install) packages on my computer result in the running of update-menus. you don't need to change

Re: run-parts concurrently?

2003-12-18 Thread A Mennucc
Thomas Hood wrote: Is there a version of run-parts out there that runs all the scripts in a directory in parallel? I have been writing such a thing but I want to make sure that I am not reinventing the wheel. -- Thomas Hood yes there is but I dont remember where look for ways to speed the

Re: faster boot

2003-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
Christoph Berg wrote: I've been thinking for a while to use a Makefile for that, the IBM article http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html uses make

faster boot

2003-10-13 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hello there has been a lot of interest lately on tecniques to obtain a faster boot; for example http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html http://www.fefe.de/minit/ http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.0/0674.html

reiser on /, fsck and ro: bug?

2003-10-13 Thread A Mennucc
hello I have set up a box that uses reiserfs as the root filesystem I have noticed 3 facts that seem to be bugs (but I could not tell for sure) 1- I use a stock kernel by Herbert XU, which uses initrd; when initrd's /sbin/init is run, eventually it mounts the root from the hard disk, and it

Re: Bug#113238: mplayer ITP status

2003-07-29 Thread Andrea Mennucc
Robert Millan wrote: Hello! What is the current status of mplayer's ITP? After the opendivx driver removal, has anyone investigated wether it's fully free software? I am tring to prepare a package . There are too many threads , in debian-legal and debian-devel, to list them all here. a.

mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Andrea Mennucc
well, I changed my mind a packaging of mplayer 0.90 is available at deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/ ./ we asked for someone on debian-legal to scrutinize it and say if the work we did is enough to let this package in Debian it has also been uploaded to the queue (in case an ftp-installer

Accepted printfilters-ppd 2.13-3 (i386 source)

2002-12-19 Thread Andrea Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:07:35 +0100 Source: printfilters-ppd Binary: printfilters-ppd Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.13-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Andrea Mennucc

Accepted gpr 0.9-2 (i386 source)

2002-10-28 Thread Andrea Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:58:56 +0100 Source: gpr Binary: gpr Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#142705: pgi default configuration WIPES OUT whole filesystems without asking!!!

2002-04-14 Thread Andrea Mennucc
Robinson wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:18:14PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:09:47PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: Package: pgi Version: 0.9.6 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Just for the record: I got bitten by this, too

pgi default configuration WIPES OUT whole filesystems without asking!!!

2002-04-13 Thread Andrea Mennucc
miscellaneous X clients ii xfonts-100dpi 4.1.0-14 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 4.1.0-14 standard fonts for X ii xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-14 the XFree86 X server ii xterm 4.1.0-14 X terminal emulator -- Andrea Mennucc

CERT* VB-98.04: Vulnerabilities in xterm and Xaw

1998-04-28 Thread A Mennucc
Hi Are we aware of (concerned by) ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_bulletins/VB-98.04.xterm.Xaw ? it says that Vulnerabilities exist in the terminal emulator xterm(1), and the Xaw library distributed in various MIT X Consortium; X Consortium, Inc.; and The Open Group X Project Team releases.

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