Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2009-12-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 08:25 +1030, Ron wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:12:44PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Why would you install gdb on a (non-development) system, rather than a gdb stub? Maybe I'm missing something cool and obvious here, but in the particular case this came to my

Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2009-12-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
this will be of benefit to far more people than the number who'll need python scripts to use gdb. Am I? Really, what am I missing here? What you're missing is that gdb's scripting facilities were pathetic, and Python integration finally fixes that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Automated build and test This might be a useful tool in the future and work is ongoing. Don't know. Experimental Some upload experimental uploads of the 2.6.31 version will be made. Done, but irrelevant now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: OSS --- This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be disabled for squeeze Done. with mechanisms put in place to deal

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 19:39 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant breakage though some packages may rely on deprecated and removed stuff in procfs

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
are finished with major changes to 2.6.32 (such as the libata transition) the ABI version will change from 'trunk' to '1' and we will then try to avoid unnecessary ABI changes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2009-12-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
. There are far too many programs breaking or doing stuff I do not want if it is loaded. I trust you have filed bugs on these applications? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Intel 845G Card not working on SID..

2009-12-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Run 'reportbug linux-2.6'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
(or Xen) with QEMU. 2) I believe KVM needs CPU support, and this is not yet available on all modern computers. It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors sold in the last few years have them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a result, the xen-flavour kernels for lenny are very buggy, particularly for domains with multiple vCPUs (though that *may* be fixed now). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way

Re: Minimal kernel version raised to 2.6.27

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Kernel people, should I change it? ver=$(echo $pkg | sed -nr s/^.*linux-image-(2\.6\.[0-9]+)-[0-9]+-.*_.*_.*\.deb$/\1/p) Please do. We won't use 'trunk' in an actual release but it will be helpful to people using testing. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too

Re: lxc linux image flavour

2010-01-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
, there is no sign of a patch for 2.6.32, nor any schedule like it happened to be for Lenny). I expect that it will be released after the first beta of RHEL 6. [...] I believe there already has been a beta, just not a public one. RH seems to be very secretive about this release. Ben. -- Ben

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
this and system administrators can make their own choice. There is some ongoing work on enhanced TCP cookies, but it will not be available for squeeze. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 18:24 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I'm going to agree with Bastian here. Single-user systems won't need this and system administrators can make their own choice. I do not really disagree with your argument, but can

Re: Possible problems in your Debian packages

2010-02-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
for those architectures yourself. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
the package to avoid confusing people. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#520668: TCP SYN cookies

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
in sysctl.conf * Something everyone should have - reassign to the kernel [...] Thanks, Craig. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
, some of our buildds are also on the slow end of an ADSL line and would have the same problem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
? If so, what should they use? [...] I would discourage use of the xen-flavour in lenny. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett signature.asc Description

Re: offering for adoption: newLISP interpreter

2010-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
, if true. In any case, the proper way to request a new package is with 'reportbug wnpp'. Someone already had the idea though they didn't get very far with it: http://bugs.debian.org/425456. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 00:01 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: [...] I think there's a good case for including it in the 'laptop' task, but not in the standard system (desktops and servers generally don't need

Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
of this command that hurt performance. * EDAC on the amd64 platform has had many fixes, allowing monitoring and control of EEC ram. Pre-2.6.33 kernels don't support EDAC at all on many common systems. Might be possible to backport. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
on the mirrors, but they are there. Not that you'll be able to verify most of them, since the keyring only contains keys that are accepted for new uploads. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description

Re: libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 13:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 12:03 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The primary problem with using OpenSSL with OpenLDAP is NSS and PAM modules, which pull the libraries into just about any GPL'd

Re: lxc in squeeze

2010-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
2.6.26 and higher, but the 2.6.32 kernel fails a config check (Cgroup memory controller). [...] See bug #534964. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Processed: ipv6 release goal

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
ipv6 This bug affects support for Internet Protocol version 6. This is *not* the same as the release goal, which is about fixing networking programs that don't support IPv6 at all. Many of these bugs should not be release-critical. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
squeeze. [2] Mostly successfully. Ben. Well, that's just random week-end thoughts - you know, world domination and the like :) Best regards, -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
from upstream Xen developers (particularly Ian Campbell), but it will still lack the wide support that KVM gets as a project that has been merged into the kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
with a letter or digit [...]. [...] It is not ignored; the standard was updated by RFC 1123 (STD 3). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 00:39 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:35:33PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: [...] But I'm not aware of a git tree holding the debian kernels - SVN is still listed as the VCS for the linux-2.6 package (which, BTW, continues to surprise me). It's

Re: Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

2010-03-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
conflating 'works with this device' and 'recommended on systems with this device'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Handling optimization flags in Debian packages

2010-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
functions that can benefit from SIMD extensions and that automatically select the right version at run-time. Perhaps this package can use that? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
with the possibility to use a FreeBSD kernel. Then the Debian FreeBSD maintainers should fix this in their kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus

Re: Re: Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?

2010-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
never have to answer any questions when it installs build-dependencies. This also applies when you use 'pbuilder login', and that is why he did not see the debconf questions he was expecting. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: Bug#411617: ITP: ivtv-firmware -- firmware for the ivtv kernel driver

2007-02-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
to and only useful for their hardware? I've never understood this. Perhaps it's something the lawyers put in by default.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates

Re: Bug#411617: ITP: ivtv-firmware -- firmware for the ivtv kernel driver

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:59, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:51 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:06:45PM -0500, Edward Allcutt wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-20

Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE

2010-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
is normally debian-ker...@lists.debian.org. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
good reasons to use them (for example the relatime mount option), but we should be wary of doing so. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Architecture Nomenclature

2010-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
packages that are named using the suffix '-686' or '-i686', and their descriptions explain what this means: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.32-4-686 http://packages.debian.org/sid/libc6-i686 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse

Re: Architecture Nomenclature

2010-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
? It must be 'i386'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
thinking is going to change this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
aren't you talking to ftp-master about this, or using the alternative suggested in http://bugs.debian.org/575361#10? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus

Re: chromium-browser from experimental has included h.264 by default?

2010-05-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
. As an example, see what I do in dvswitch to work with different ffmpeg versions: http://git.debian.org/?p=dvswitch/dvswitch.git;a=blob;f=src/avcodec_wrap.h;hb=master Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
in the environment? [...] Environment variables do not override variable definitions in a makefile. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
mp3 files of them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 19:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago. The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the opinion

Re: setgid umask override versus global umask change

2010-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
acceptance. I suggest you don't waste your time trying to do that. Can anyone see any downside? Aside from a surprising change that will lead to security holes, no, none at all. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc

Re: new lilo package maintainer? (was lilo removal in squeeze or please test grub2)

2010-06-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
possible bootloader in their script. Can't lilo provide a script here ? It could, but that should be redundant in squeeze since update-initramfs already runs lilo. This appears to be a problem in lenny, where by default neither the kernel postinst nor the initramfs builder runs lilo. Ben. -- Ben

Re: new lilo package maintainer? (was lilo removal in squeeze or please test grub2)

2010-06-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:00 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:39 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote: But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the kernel

Re: MAKEDEV, postinst and udev

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
and bound to devices. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
in initramfs-tools development. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
there are any upgrade issues I have not addressed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:19 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:02:35AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install hook scripts in /etc/kernel

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please reply to debian-kernel only. On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:16 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:02:35 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] The environment variable DEB_MAINT_PARAMS will contain the arguments given to the kernel maintainer script, single-quoted

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 18:45 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: [...] please get your facts right before spamming the world. Max, this is rude and unjustified. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: Bug#587514: ITP: cpupowerd -- daemon for frequency and voltage control of AMD K8 CPUs with undervolting/overvolting capability

2010-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
insist on packaging this, please ensure that it does: echo 64 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted on startup. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

[DRAFT v2] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-07-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
or postrm_hook in /etc/kernel-img.conf. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Slow signal delivery to server process with heavy I/O

2010-07-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
. This is about development of the Debian system, not development of programs using Debian. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
is a nasty hack that makes various features impossible, and it is too much work to maintain both models. And with my present hardware, nv appears to be my only viable solution. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
that you're trying to solve? [...] I would think almost all init scripts depend on /dev and /proc! Certainly start-stop-daemon uses them. But only init scripts in rcS.d need to explicitly depend on these, and they should presumably depend on $mountkernfs (if not on $local_fs). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We

Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
, but currently a kernel update can easily leave the system unbootable and this did need to be addressed before release. A later version of this policy may also cover FreeBSD and GNU Mach kernels. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
its module has not been installed for the default Python version. But I agree that there is no need for Pre-Depends. I also wonder whether a distribution package of dkms really needs to use lsb_release at all. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 17:03 +, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2010-07-17, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: The postinst for nvidia-kernel-dkms invokes dkms, which invokes lsb_release. lsb_release hasn't been configured at this point so its module has not been installed for the default

Re: KVM and 2.6.32-5-amd64

2010-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
with a 2.6.32-4-amd64 kernel everything worked correctly. I'm not sure whether this is a bug in the kernel or kvm - maybe bugs in both. Any suggestions for what I should do to debug this? You know we have a BTS, right? It tracks... bugs... such as #588426. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
than the commercial distributions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
desktop task. Yes, if it supports bug scripts properly now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 23:50:36 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: [...] and b.) IMHO reportbug-ng should be installed by the default desktop task. Yes, if it supports bug scripts properly now

Re: mass bug filing: packages not installable on any architecture

2010-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
should consider only the latest version of each binary package available in the suite. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: mass bug filing: packages not installable on any architecture

2010-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 09:27 +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [100804 04:42]: http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/results/unstable/latest/every/list.php I think some of these are old versions of arch:all packages that for some reason

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
the draft release notes for the next release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

2010-08-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:01 -0400, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (09/08/2010): This information belongs in the release notes. I'm not sure where one should look to see the draft release notes for the next release. Sounds like it? http://www.debian.org

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
need to worry about the minority of cases where autodetection fails. PDFs have titles too, and they can't be snarfed in any way I know of. [...] pdfinfo from poppler-utils can show the title. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse

Re: More advanced home directory creation in Debian?

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
option. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
, adsb!) reading an unstructured diff. There is a convention for git of adding the branch name as a fragment identifier, e.g.: git://foo.bar.org/meow#debian Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
to stderr is not logging (modulo use of e.g. systemd to capture stderr). They need to open an application- and user-specific log file and write to that instead. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
, ht, tm, ia64, pbe Use nested subdirectories to specify multiple flags. The library in the most specific directory (i.e. the one which selects the most flags, all satisfied by the current hardware) will be used. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 01:52 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Wed 18 Aug 2010 00:07:58 +0100, a écrit : The dynamic linker does the run-time selection for you. All you need to do is to install the optimised libraries in subdirectories that specify the hardware they require

Re: watch file help

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
=filenamemangle=s/\?format=raw$// \ http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz\?format=raw Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please stop filing ITPs and concentrate on packages that should be included in squeeze. The sooner squeeze is out, the sooner you can add stuff to the next release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
feel qualified to make such a claim. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
treated specially. I expect the DDPO maintainers would be happy to add links to other distributions' bug trackers if they have per-package information. My understanding is that Ubuntu is the only one that has such information that can be linked to. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit

Re: questions on packaging .deb files

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Libre Kernel .deb -- Looks for a Mentor

2010-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
. The Debian Linux kernel package is already free, according to the DFSG. There is no need for a seperate package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: why experimental latest Release file hasn't NotAutomatic: yes

2010-09-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
apt-get upgrade; we're fixing it now Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

2010-10-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
INIT INFO ... # Should-Start: bind9 ... ### END INIT INFO Clearly any installed name server should be started before nfs-kernel-server, but that might not be bind9. I don't know how and where the dependency should be specified. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

2010-10-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 04:15 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk schrieb: Clearly any installed name server should be started before nfs-kernel-server, but that might not be bind9. I don't know how and where the dependency should be specified. Does

Re: Xen dom0 (core) merged to upstream Linux 2.6.37 and other new features

2010-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
enhancements for domU in the default kernel images for squeeze. In generic kernel, we can build in pv_ops support. If users want to use Xen, just install xen core and configure GRUB, then they can run Xen Dom0. That's the plan. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
-based hardware. Why is that driver not in the standard kernel package? Because it's not upstream. So the next question is, why is it not upstream (in staging)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 04:02 +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote: 2010/11/5 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: [...] Because it's not upstream. So the next question is, why is it not upstream (in staging)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes

Re: persistent naming of network interfaces

2010-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
this in a package uploaded to Debian. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
, though that is not yet an official service) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
to support it as an alternative. But since 0.5 is now specified in that protocol then SPICE clients and servers will need to support it for a long time to come. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
implementation in Debian. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#604186: ITP: ministat -- basic statistics for a set of samples

2010-11-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk * Package name: ministat Version : 2007-12-20 Upstream Author : Poul-Henning Kamp p...@freebsd.org * URL : http://www.freebsd.org/ * License : BSD / Beer-Ware License Programming Lang

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