Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:28:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Bastian Blank] > > You know that parts of the config settings are only supported in the > > legacy-format? > Nope. What parts is that? I read it in the docu of some of the overlays, not sure currently. No

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0300, Steve Langasek wrote: > It is possible; I'm currently awaiting feedback from the OpenLDAP > comaintainers before we enable it. You know that parts of the config settings are only supported in the legacy-format? Is there documentation how to import new sche

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I really wish there was some organized way for packages to > automatically add schemas and settings to the OpenLDAP server > configuration, at install time. ldap is a network based service. Why does the OP even consider that th

Re: Bug#492807: ITP: procinfo-ng -- displays system information from /proc

2008-07-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:53:26AM -0700, tabris wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:18:02AM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: >>> Procinfo-NG is a complete rewrite of the old system monitoring app >>> procinfo. The goal is to make more readable

Re: Bug#492807: ITP: procinfo-ng -- displays system information from /proc

2008-07-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:18:02AM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > Procinfo-NG is a small program that gathers some system information from > diverse files under /proc and prints it to the screen. /proc is deprecated for system information. > Procinfo-NG is a complete rewrite of the old system

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:23:19AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:08:43AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > right but still no excuse to bring in a patch set that is *known* >

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > right but still no excuse to bring in a patch set that is *known* > to not be merged upstream. So OpenVZ is also out of reach. Bastian -- There is an order of things in this universe. -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:34:28PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > That SLES forward-port for 2.6.26 is not acceptable based on Debian kernel > patch policy: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines Which is only the case for the main images. We have support for additional feat

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > One big difference between Xen and KVM is the fact that KVM always requires > hardware virtualization (HVM) support from the CPU. It uses the the qemu device emulation code, which is security wise one large catastrophe. Okay, Xen

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:53:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > What are the plans for Xen for lenny? Is this situation likely to change > before the release? As we have seen, there is no real plan. So lets summarize the possibilities: Option 1: Use alternatives == Well,

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:18:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/07/08 at 11:24 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Anything else can be considered more or less broken. > It seems that Ubuntu 8.04 shipped with a 2.6.24 domU. So Ubuntu is > the only distro shipping a dom0

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:53:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > AFAIK, the status of Xen in lenny is currently the following: > - no dom0 kernel Yep. There are some preliminary patches but they break non-paravirt usage for now. > - domU kernel only for i386 (no domU kernel for amd64) x86_64 is

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:19:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Using alternatives for kadmin is more problematic. Which means that you need to find a consens and rename _both_ if none is found. > (BTW, Brian, this discussion reminds me that I'd like to use alternatives > for krb5.conf.5 so that

Re: Bug#431066: install network/ip-up.d script to check for IP duplicates

2008-07-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:20:47PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > And DHCP clients should double-check their assigned address with ARP > > anyway, so it's duplicating this check on most systems. > Where is this specified? The DHCP server is authorative about the > addresse

Re: Bug#431066: install network/ip-up.d script to check for IP duplicates

2008-07-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:28:51AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > IMHO it is an RFC requirement, however the solution with a synchronous > script is not that well suited for default-on. Can you please stat which RFC? Especially as there are many setups where it can't check if an address is alread

Re: Bug#431066: install network/ip-up.d script to check for IP duplicates

2008-07-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:48:23AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:03:13PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Jun 29, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Come on, how often this happens? And it's disabled by default anyway. > > The major effect of this patch is to w

Re: subversion 1.5.0 in experimental

2008-06-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:59:01PM +0200, Daniel Widenfalk wrote: > If you update your svn client to 1.5.x it will automatically > upgrade your working copies (I guess on first use) so that > they become incompatible with earlier clients! This was already the case with 1.4, so what? > For merge i

Re: Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files

2008-06-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:14:33AM -0430, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote: > Is there a document or package I could follow as an example? Put the modules into /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates. Bastian -- Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder. -- Kirk, "This side of P

Re: Time to phase out net-tools?

2008-06-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 07:56:38PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Robert Edmonds wrote: > > rarp is obsolete. > It's not, I do use it from time to time, do you have a replacement? bootp/dhcp. Bastian -- Change is the essential process of all existence. -- Spock, "Let That Be Your Las

Re: Non-free question regarding upstream releasing different binary-only tarballs for different architectures

2008-06-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:12:29AM +0100, Martin Meredith wrote: > Buildd's wouldn't have anything to do with it anyway, as it's not > auto-built. I found this in the copyright file of the rar package: | This package is Auto-Buildable Also the control file say the same. Please explain. Bastian

Re: Non-free question regarding upstream releasing different binary-only tarballs for different architectures

2008-06-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:36:55PM +0100, Martin Meredith wrote: > I'm also pretty sure that the licence doesn't let me do a > "tarball-in-tarball" thing (orig.tar.gz has to stay the same) I think you mean the following: | b. The RAR/WinRAR unregistered trial version may not be distributed |

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:53:39PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Sunday 18 May 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Isn't this already the case in practice? Do you really see many Debian > > packages that have modified *.orig.tar.gz tarballs? And if so, have you > > filed bugs? > Sorry for the delay

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:44:49PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I'd suggest to start with making pristine upstream tarballs (or pure > subsets of those) obligatory. No modifications allowed in there and no > exceptions. How would you define "no modifications"? Even a subset already implies mod

Re: Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml

2008-05-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:13:50AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > * Package name: core This package name is a little bit too generic. Better one may be ocaml-core. > Version : 0.5.0 > Upstream Author : Jane Street Holding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This does not really look like a n

Re: NMU versioning

2008-04-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:16:28PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Mike Hommey [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:54:59 +0200]: > > FWIW, I think NMUing a package shouldn't end up with a sourceful upload > > but should instead have a .diff.gz, whether it's a native package or not. > 100% agreed. (Assuming you me

Re: Building with -msse

2008-04-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:02:24PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > - When you hace shared libraries you can put them in directories like > /usr/lib/i686/sse/. The dynamic linker whould pick it up for > you in that case. (I have no idea if it looks at i686/sse or not, > but it looks at various o

Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source

2008-04-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: > Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with > gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? I don't see a reason to not do that. > Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main?

Re: binNMUs to keep haskell packages in sync

2008-03-10 Thread Bastian Blank
This gets offtopic on debian-release. Please follow to debian-devel. On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:55:15PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 09.03.2008, 23:02 +0100 schrieb Bastian Blank: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:42:59PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > >

Re: Adding Install-Architecture to debian/control

2008-02-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 02:34:59PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Such a field would allow us to make packages like ndisgtk arch-indep, > >> while installing them only into the architectures specified in > >> Install-Architecture. > make your package arch all and request an

Re: preparing sid/lenny to build with GCC-4.3

2008-01-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:53:19AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:53:59PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > (...) so that we have > > the chance to drop gcc-4.2 for the next release (together with > > gcc-3.4/g++-3.4/gcc-4.0). > Except if you want to remove qemu and kvm from

Re: debian-installer and software RAID

2008-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:10:17PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > A recent feature of Linux software RAID is a "write intent bitmap". The > purpose of this is that before writing to a section of disk the bitmap is > altered to mark it as dirty. Then if the machine experiences a power failure >

Re: Bug#462602: ITP: eeepc-acpi-source -- source for Eee PC ACPI module

2008-01-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:55:02PM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > * Package name: eeepc-acpi-source > Version : 1.0-1 > Upstream Author : Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ecc/eeepc-acpi_1.0.tar.gz > * License : GPL > Programming Lan

Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-01-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: >So, I am doing so now. Any objections if I > add a dependency on passwd for libuuid1? The aternative would be to > roll-my-own useradd/adduser functionality, but that would be a real > PITA There are s

Re: buildds: "Authentication warning overridden."

2007-11-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:27:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst: > > That's inevitable because http://incoming.debian.org is not signed; The > > update frequency of that repository (which is available only to buildd > > hosts by IP and/or password protection) makes that impossib

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

2007-11-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:18:43AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > You should use "-Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/arb/lib" instead of > "-Lrpath /usr/lib/arb/lib". Better use the shorter form "-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/arb/lib". Bastian -- The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:19:18AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Yep. Fixed. There are some magic constants in the code ... Assuming okay. Bastian -- Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes. -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:55:12PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > >> 107 cisco-vpnc3 > >> 143 cisco-vpnclient 1 > > (free replacement exists) > Which one ? vpnc does not handle connection based on certificate. racoon. Bastian -- No one wants war.

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:44:03AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > 25 ieee80211 109 > > 61 ieee80211softmac 14 Merged and deprecated by mac80211. > > 14 zaptel 295 > Not really considered for inclusion by upstream, yet. Not pos

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:44:24AM +, Robert Edmonds wrote: > On 2007-10-10, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch should apply on the pruned version. > Applies but does not compile: Yep. Fixed. There are some magic constants in the code ... Bast

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:44:54AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > None, at least from my point of view. Just someone have to do it. (See > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on d-kernel.) The attached patch should apply on the pruned version. Bastian -- We have found all life forms in the galaxy

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:41:13AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Any reason why your 5701a0-removal patch can't be applied to our kernel > packages? None, at least from my point of view. Just someone have to do it. (See <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on d-kernel.) Bastian -- There are some things worth

Re: using testing/stable/unstable names with cdebootstrap

2007-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:12:12AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Is there a reason to not use stable/testing/unstable as the names in > config/suites file ? Yes. It needs to get the Release file before setting up the parts which needs to know the codename. The code which did that was removed

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:38:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > (Otherwise, you'd be building the arch: all package from the binary-arch > rule on arm only; this would work, but cause brain-twistiness wrt the > separation between arch: all and arch: any.) sbuild does not allow this. Bastian --

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:25:19PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Not good enough. What if I am using m-a with kernel.org kernel > sources? I won't have a kernel-headers package installed (I don't). If > you need something, depend upon it. You already built the kernel and therefor ha

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:44:50AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It would be consistent with m-a's handling of build-essential. However, > I think m-a should depend on build-essential since it always requires > it. Therefore we are still undecided about bzip2. m-a don't need build-essential. It n

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like > that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an > owner of a german Enterprise whether it is possibel to port GNU/Linux, > specialy De

raptor.d.o down

2007-09-15 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor.d.o and the other debian related guests on this system (skuld, lophos) are down. The storage for this systems died partially today and needs to be investigated on site. Bastian -- If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes. -- Kirk, "Space Seed", sta

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:39:47AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > I assume you mean to make the documentation match the behaivour. At least. > Rememer it is a Tape ARchival program. | -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F | use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout) The file is ex

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:44:32PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Bastian Blank may or may not have written... > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:08:12AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >> Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE is set. > > The

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:08:12AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE > is set. The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a environment variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty! -- To

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 01:44:14AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > As the "target" user for this sort of package is a sysadmin type, I > would saw it is an important enough detail that it should be in the > short description. But only in the relation: multi-threaded == bad. You need much more k

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 03:54:25PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Until now, in a typical computer app, "900K" had an unambiguous meaning: > 900*1024. No, its 900 Kelvin aka 626.85°C Should I say that kb and Mb are kilo bases and mega bases, as in DNA? Bastian -- The sight of death frightens them

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:59:38AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > - automatic installation of recommends like aptitude Please inform the buildd maintainers about this. The buildds must not hit this changed default or the builds will get unreliable. Bastian -- Our missions are peaceful -- not for

Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database

2007-06-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 02:52:04AM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > > Based on a relational database it will run faster, > First reason is "faster". What if i'll say: based on tmpfs and > directory/file structure it will run even faster? tmpfs is not faster than a real disk. You need the memory anyway

Re: Touching a file in another package

2007-06-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 06:20:47PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Despite its ugliness, the only proposed solution that works so far is to > touch the libgstgnomevfs.so file in libgnomevfs2-extra's postinst (and > the same for other packages providing GnomeVFS methods), so that its > timestamp ch

raptor.d.o down

2007-03-30 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor.d.o is down until at least tomorrow. During a planned system move something got wrong and the machine is now in an undefined state and needs manual intervention by an vm admin. Bastian -- Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating more sheer horror than the m

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:15:30PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Sure, but hotpluggable PCI(e) interfaces are the exception, not the > norm. It seems wrong to optimize for this case. udev sees network devices, not pci devices. and hotpluggable network devices are common. Bastian -- A woman sh

Re: buildd stuff

2007-01-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:04:12AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > You think wrong. Using the public ldap database, you can find the > following details: This access is only usable for people which have login access to ftp-master (or where the info currently is located). Even if I'm included into

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 05:34:28AM -0800, Ryan Murray wrote: > * Mail greylisting What happens with a mail which is delivered to an user with greylisting enabled and one with it disabled? > * Mail whitelist > * Mail RBL list > * Mail RHSBL list What happens with this list

Re: [ITH] eagle-usb

2006-12-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 09:21:31PM +, Paul Cupis wrote: > I intend to hijack the eagle-usb source package. Please remove s390 from the architectures, it is useless. Bastian -- Our way is peace. -- Septimus, the Son Worshiper, "Bread and Circuses", stardate

Re: [HELP] FTBFS on alpha for xulrunner

2006-08-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:57:40AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > PyGBase.cpp: In member function 'nsresult > PyG_Base::InvokeNativeGetViaPolicy(const char*, PyObject**)': > PyGBase.cpp:613: error: no matching function for call to > 'PyG_Base::InvokeNativeViaPolicyInternal(char [256], PyObject**&, i

raptor.debian.org down

2006-07-25 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor.debian.org, the s390 developer machine, is down. The data center which hosts them have major problems with the air conditioning system. As the whole zSeries is down, this affects any host within the domain zseries.org. Bastian -- "We have the right to survive!"

Re: Is OSS only support to be considered a bug?

2006-06-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:20:34PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > With the 2.6 kernel programs using OSS for sound are not working > anymore. Sound that is. Incorrect. The kernel includes OSS emulation. > My question is if it is legitimately to open bugs against applications > that only support O

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 05:07:16PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > When the talk about the hijacking of Bacula was up, the consensus was > 'who cares about the m68k? If they can't keep up, get more machines'. You can also get the same from the other arches if you prefer. Bastian -- There are

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:36:08PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > It has come to my attention that the gem package is currently built > using 'make -j 4', to have four compiler processes running at the same > time. This is a bit troublesome for the poor m68k buildd, which is now > suffering under

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:59:37PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > The fix should be somehow unclumsified, though. Currently I inject > some horrible runtime testing in the configure script to find out > whether the clib supports the %zu format of C99, but that breaks > crosscompilability (which I'

Re: Choice of gcc versions for kernel modules

2006-06-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:44:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm not sure what to do with bug #374367 against OpenAFS, so I'm asking > for advice. The short version (slightly longer version in the bug log) is > that the archive has switched from gcc 4.0 to gcc 4.1, but the AMD64 > kernel (at le

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 07:40:13AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Philip Brown skrev: > >So to deliberately ignore an issue, becuase > >"we dont support big-endian 64bit *right now*", would seem to be rather > >short sighted to me. > ia64 has been supported for quite a while and is a pure 64 bit

Re: GBit performance problem with nfs client

2006-06-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:53:48PM +0200, Gordon Grubert wrote: > Problematic Debian-Client (structurally identical to Suse-Client): > - Linux DEBIAN-CLIENT 2.6.15.1 > - Yukon Gigabit Ethernet with default drivers (Debian Sarge AMD64) Sarge don't have a kernel 2.6.15. But this is a known and unfix

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:53:24PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > The others are trivially fixable; of these, the one in libavcodec is already > fixed in CVS. I've committed the rest (they're basically s/int/long/) and am > forwarding them appropriately. long is not appropriate to save pointers, you

Re: Plugin using packages and multiarch

2006-05-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 05:31:46PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:18:47PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > e.g. /etc/x86_64-linux-gnu/pango/pango.modules > > or /etc/pango/x86_64-linux-gnu.modules > > I'd prefer the architecture be a suffix, e.g. > /etc/pango/pa

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:11:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I have just uploaded gnucash 1.9.6, And you should've used pbuilder to check if it is buildable. > Is there any particular thing I should do to have the series in the > experimental distribution deleted? Ideally, they should

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:10:52AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I propose to file bugs against the packages before the end of this week, > and, after a couple of weeks, for packages that haven't been fixed > already, start making NMUs (via DELAYED/7, since they're not RC) to get > the packages fi

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:28:42PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > How about providing this access only in a Xen guest? We have vserver enabled kernels for some arches in the archive. Bastian -- I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

Re: 3rd party modules in the archive

2006-03-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:38:30PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > However, I have been told that it is no > > > longer allowed to upload binary packages that do not appear in control > > > files of the source package that are claimed to be the source of the > > > uplo

Re: 3rd party modules in the archive

2006-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:51:05PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > WTF has this to do with Sven now? Maybe because Sven and I worked on a solution for this problem. > However, I have been told that it is no > longer allowed to upload binary packages that do not appear in

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:09:54PM -0600, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > gcc has the -fno-builtin and -fno-builtin-FUNCTION options. Which does not change the state of a hosted compiler. Bastian -- Schshschshchsch. -- The Gorn, "Arena", stardate 3046.2 signature.asc Description:

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:43:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > This is a warning and not an error, because using one's own strdup() > function (that would take ints) is perfectly legal. No, it is not. At least not with a compiler in hosted mode. In this mode, the compiler is allowed to have an

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Since these libraries would depend on the blkid library, > which is used by fsck, e2fsck, and other e2fsprogs programs, this > essentially would drag in these libraries into everybody's systems. This means that this libs

Re: 4GB address space

2006-03-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 06:56:24PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Why not just buy a amd64/em64t cpu and run a 64bit kernel with 32bit > userland? i386 have no 64bit kernel currently. Bastian -- Warp 7 -- It's a law we can live with. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:25:57AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > The current package from pkg-xen is not releasable. > Then why don't you just join and commit your fixes before anybody tried to > release

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > xen 3.0 is out since the 6th of december! > so it has seen considerable amount of production use since. > as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, > it makes a lot of sense to release both in the same run. Th

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:56:35PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: > On the other hand Xen is not the > kernel, so isn't it better if there is a team for it, even if strongly > connected > with the kernel one? It is a sort of kernel. And no, I don't think i

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: > As far as I understand, you will just maintain Xen kernel images. (for > dom0 only ?). No. The kernel team will maintain xen (in variants 3.0 and unstable). Bastian -- Vulcans worship peace above all. -- McCoy, "Re

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:22:23PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: > This is great! In the meantime we are working on uploading xen 3.0 to > unstable, > and our packages I think are almost ready too! This is insufficient. Either maintain both 3.0 and unstable or none. In the meantime, the kernel team

Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:02:57PM +1300, Matthew Grant wrote: > I am a Debian Maintainer who is seriously considering getting Xen into > Debian and Ubuntu. The debian kernel team will maintain xen images with the linux-2.6 source. I currently prepare both xen 3.0 and unstable packages, which can

Re: sysklogd -17.1 NMU build broken in mips/mipsel

2006-02-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:00:19PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > So far so good, but why is it allowed for a kernel header to include a file > that does not exist? mips is not managed in the tree of linus. So it is likely that it regulary breaks. Bastian -- I'm a soldier, not a di

Re: sysklogd -17.1 NMU build broken in mips/mipsel

2006-02-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:55:12AM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > It is probably (also?) a sysklogd bug, userland code isn't supposed to > use the kernel's atomic operations. It is only a sysklogd bug. Userland code is not allowed to use kernel headers directly. Bastian -- We do not colonize. W

raptor.debian.org down

2006-02-17 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor.debian.org, the s390 developer machine, is down for general maintenance until monday. skuld, the s390 experimental autobuilder is also affected. Bastian -- There are certain things men must do to remain men. -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4 si

Re: Seeking new maintainer for EVMS

2006-02-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:32:20PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > As it looks like my laptop is permanently dead, and it was the only system > where I could ever test EVMS properly, it looks like I'll have to orphan > EVMS. May it an option to integrate evms into the pkg-lvm group which main

raptor.debian.org down

2006-02-09 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor.debian.org, the s390 developer machine, is down because of disabled storage. I'll try to fix that tomorrow. Bastian -- There are certain things men must do to remain men. -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4 signature.asc Description: Digital signa

RFH - Debian/S390

2006-01-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I wrote a TODO[1] and RfC for a possible etch release of the s390 port about 2 months ago, and did not get any usefull reply. As I'm the last person working on the core (and lack of time), there is a large need for help. The main problems are currently hardware configuration and debian-i

Re: Bug#340428: octave2.9 - lists mailing list as uploader in changelog

2005-11-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:01:24AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-24 23:45]: > > | Maintainer: Debian/IA64 Build Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | Changed-By: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Co

Re: Bug#340428: octave2.9 - lists mailing list as uploader in changelog

2005-11-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:48:39PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Yes, I have been doing things wrongly in the past, but this is not the > case anymore. The Changed-By fields are correct now. See, for instance, > my last upload: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2005/11/msg01

Re: Bug#340428: octave2.9 - lists mailing list as uploader in changelog

2005-11-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:21:27PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-24 10:21]: > > And the autobuilders get this value from where? They use the common way > > by looking into the changelog. > They get the correct entity, which

Re: Bug#340428: octave2.9 - lists mailing list as uploader in changelog

2005-11-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:36:53PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > As regards the copy of this information into the Changed-By field of the > changes file, we are already requiring that the developers of the DOG > use the -e option of debuild (cf the DOG Guidelines, at And the autobuilders get

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:04:20AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > What doko meant, if I understand this correctly, is that, if a package > has already been uploaded when an ftpmaster modifies the overrides, the > maintainer will not get to know about it until s/he uploads a new > package a

Re: pbuilder status update

2005-10-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 02:12:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > AFAIK the plan is to not constantly bother the ftp masters with override > changes, Which makes the whole packages buggy according to the policy. Bastian -- A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect her.

Re: attention to bug 321435

2005-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:33:09AM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: > It's not clear to me that the buildd > maintainer's duties exactly are, or, critically, how much time per > week it takes. I'm able to handle the buildds. I already did that some time ago. Bastian

Re: Future of s390 port

2005-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:25:55PM +0200, Gerhard Tonn wrote: > Due to lack of time I am not able to do the s390 porting work anymore. I > am looking for someone > who is interested to take over the s390 port. I'm interrested in taking over the s390 port. Bastian -- The best diplomat I know is

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