Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I'm really upset that 5 years are not enough to accomplish the move. So how many of the bashism bugs did you fix? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
several times per day... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#537499: RFP: weaveserver -- Secure data sharing server for firefox/iceweasel

2009-07-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: weaveserver Upstream Author : Mozilla Labs. * URL : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave * License : MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 Programming Lang: php, perl Description : Secure data sharing server for firefox/iceweasel

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>>> and it has numerous RC bugs. >>> Lets see: >>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ia32-libs-tools.html >>> >>> RC bugs: 1 >> There were 6 bugs

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
uld have added another one - breaking apt completely while removing the ia32 packages is not nice. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
mess, the idea is broken by the design and it has numerous RC bugs. Do you *really* want to have more reasons? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D4

Re: [DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

2009-07-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
confirmed only by ftp-masters and mirror > maintainers. There were some discussions in the past about a data > providing infrastructure, but I missed the whole thread conclusion > (if any). > We're still waiting for the necessary hardware (mainly: storage) to be sponsored... --

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t; Report a critical bug against the package. Arrange so that it can never > migrate to testing. > >> Is there any chance of Wine becoming functional on amd64 in the forseeable >> future? > > Yes: hijack the ia32-libs package. > please do so. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Bug#530280: RFH: pyro -- distributed object system for Python

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ining the package would be appreciated. If nobody will step up and help out, the package will be orphaned. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ld block spam very well there. Its not really possible to use such restrictions on the mailtainer contact mail, though. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

VMBuilder for Debian

2009-05-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, are there any plans to adopt https://code.launchpad.net/vmbuilder for Debian? Being able to create ec2, vmware or similar images easily would be nice to have for Debian, too. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
art touching the real world where the rest of Debian lives in, kthnxgoodbye. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
iable names upstream may be using, otherwise you'd add new problems while adding new vars. > > > So I think for next dpkg upload we should make dpkg-buildpackage stop > setting any flags by default, and switch the setting to go through the Please do so! +1 from m

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> David Paleino wrote: >> >>> * The image postinst no longer runs the initramfs creation >>> commands. Instead, there are example scripts provided that will >>> perform t

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ey're kinda weird. initramfs-tools installs proper hooks there, at least since 0.93.2. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

[Fwd: RFP: ingex -- tapeless television production software]

2009-04-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
reportbug forgot to CC it to d-devel... Original Message Subject: RFP: ingex -- tapeless television production software Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:47:26 +0200 From: Bernd Zeimetz To: Debian Bug Tracking System Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ingex

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
rmware). This still does NOT warrant to post such things on debian-devel-announce. It is more than offtopic there. Bernd - -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Bits from the 2nd Debian Groupware Meeting

2009-04-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
eeting announced? I was pretty surprised by the posting to d-d-a, as I didn't even know such a team exists. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

2009-04-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-04-12, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Artur R. Czechowski wrote: >>> Programming Lang: PHP >>> Description : wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client >> A php wrapper around the svn command-line client sounds like an

Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

2009-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ing to svn for another language. Please use that instead of the command line client. - -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> >> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=ardour >> > So this should be fixed, wait till it hit testing and then make an > backport? Yes. That's the best way to go. -- Bernd Zeimetz De

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
om the changelog as commit date, this worked well enough for me. Probably needs some fine-tuning, but I hope that's something you can work on. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ith the latest upstream version. Importing tarballs is manual work, but it is possible... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
're still used through > /dev/sgX. Actually, all high-volume, high-speed scanners are > SCSI. Some have a USB interface too, but it's slower. I also know some fancy damn expensive scanners with firewire, but I doubt they're supported in sane - unfortunately. -- Bernd Z

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s what it the group is used for at one of our customers. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
otkey-setup, which runs a daemon as root to handle polling the nvram state, > so the group permissions don't matter. What way use other programs like pidging-blinklight these days? I remember that /dev/nvram was needed to get a blinking keyboard light years ago... not sure what the curr

Re: group nvram

2009-03-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
urity hole in my opinion. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: group nvram

2009-03-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
with an agent nor you want to run everything as root. The idea behind policykit is not bad, but it should be introduced with care and not by breaking well working ways of handling access. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C

Re: DebianWiki migrated

2009-03-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ution. If I remember right, the GUI editor messed up several pages, so it was recommended not to use it (and I always hated it with a passion), so the question is if it is really needed to have it enabled again. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Devel

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
dev. Being able to rename an interface without messing with udev is a feature, not a bug. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> No, please don't just add another watch file just for the sake of it, >> using these files is more or less like living in the last >> century. People are able to get the current source from the Debian pool, >> i

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> a) Run a upstream version check from cron, which mails me if there are >>> new upstream versions of something I have. >> What happens if your watc

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
es in my git, usually named upstream-svn/upstream-cvs or similar. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
w working with the repository works, which branches are used for what, and so on. At least that would fit *todays* way of handling packages, at least for a lot of people. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Josselin Mouette wrote: > The only thing for which you’ll need Schily-based software in Debian is > for burning CDs. For DVDs and Blu-Rays, we have dvd+rw-tools already. > What about libburn + cdrskin and similar tools? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
affic is limited Use gdb, get a backtrace and upload that. I doubt anybody wants to have the core file. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. It plays on the same level as this thread here. And the only thing that will happen is that I run out of popcorn and become fat. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
27;t see the sense in spenting time to write a .dekstop file for an application *and* a menu file. That's just a waste of time. Nothing against supporting old-fashioned environments, but please use methonds from 2009 to do so. Thanks, Bernd - -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
lopment. > > I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which is your call, but > if it does, well, ... heads up :-) b...@think:~$ apt-cache search liblua | wc -l 84 So I guess we should have a lua section, too? liblua.* would fit into that section

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tool, which gets more testing and will have less bugs than > current concurrent solutions. Ack. Please guys, get together, discuss it in a *sane* way (why do I fear that's not possible...) and merge both tools or drop both of them and do something else useful - together. -- Bernd Zeim

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
anks for for your work! Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Bug#509113: ITP: opensourcepacs -- OpenSourcePACS is a free, open source image referral, archiving, routing and viewing system

2008-12-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ionality. This i snot really a descriptions, sounds more like an advertising. Also it is not obious what PACS is, and why read functiones need to be wet Please fix this before uploading the package. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en if I can see where you're coming from in merging it into the "current" GR, that's not what was asked for. Do we now need a GR to tell the secretary that a proposed and seconded GR should not be merged into other GRs? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > | Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | | | | | I think you've missed to count <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> here. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93

Re: procinfo maintainership

2008-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tabris wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Thanks for the info. As I wasn't able to find any other email adress or >> activity from the maintainer, I've orphaned the package and it will be >> listed within the orphaned packages on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ >

Re: procinfo maintainership

2008-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tabris wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>>> So who do I need to contact to find a debian package maintainer for a) >>>> procinfo-18 b) procinfo-ng ? >>>> >> >> did you try to contact the maintainer of procinfo? If they're not

Re: procinfo maintainership

2008-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
>> So who do I need to contact to find a debian package maintainer for a) >> procinfo-18 b) procinfo-ng ? did you try to contact the maintainer of procinfo? If they're not interested, look at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ -- Bernd Zeimetz

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

2008-07-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
anual > hinting by luk) ) > > Greetings, > > [1] > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux-image-2.6.25-2-vserver-amd64 Where does this patch come from? I can't find anything about it on http://linux-vserver.org -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian G

Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector)

2008-06-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ll be used by ispell's (L)ookup command. Tag: interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses, works-with::dictionary -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#487020: ITP: libtext-wikicreole-perl -- Convert Wiki Creole 1.0 markup to XHTML

2008-06-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtext-wikicreole-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Jason Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-WikiCreole/ * License :

Bug#486909: ITP: python-creoleparser -- Parser for the Creole common wiki markup language

2008-06-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-creoleparser Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Stephen Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://creoleparser.googlepages.com * License : MIT Prog

Re: VLC 0.8.6a - Why hasn't the package been upgraded?

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > If you want to use very latest softwares (even with some trouble), use > * testing (now lenny) or > * unstable (sid) or create a backport, or look at backports.org if there's one already. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#478167: ITP: cowpoke -- Builds a single Debian source package with a remote cowbuilder

2008-04-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
builder package, too. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building with -msse

2008-04-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Does any Athlon64 support sse3? yes, since Venice Stepping E3 and San Diego Stepping E4. But thanks for the reminder, there were indeed CPUs before that. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C

Re: Building with -msse

2008-04-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> And check if there is any sse3 support. That one needs cpu suport on > amd64 too. Are there amd64 machines which do *not* support sse3? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: intend to hijack GnuPG

2008-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tatus here? Is there a team being setup, or anybody else working on gnupg? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#475971: This is caused by LDFLAGS being set in the environment (by dpkg-buildpacakge)

2008-04-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
with that. For one package I used unset on all this environment nonsense in the build target, for one LDFLAGS was renamed to LINKER_FLAGS. I'm pretty much annoyed that those hacks are necesary at all. Just another, untested change in dpkg which resulted in a lot of unnecessary FTB

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
work, and he keeps sitting on way too many packages, stopping progress in Debian. Thanks for the fish. Multiarch should indeed go into Lenny, please consider an exception for it. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B

Re: Package maintenance in $HOME os an NFS share? (best practices survey)

2008-04-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hen svn up ${dir} else svn co ${URL}/${dir}/trunk ${dir} fi done =schnapp== NFS is something I avoid if possible. Hope that helps, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EA

Re: python-sphinx or sphinx?

2008-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
odule in my eyes, so python-sphinx Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help required regarding bug - #436681

2008-04-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hi, > >"Debian Bug report logs - > #436681 > backuppc: Web interface password > publicly visible " >link > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archi

Re: ITP: nagiosql -- Web based administration tool for Nagios

2008-03-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > NagiosQL is a web based administration tool for Nagios 2.x. It helps you Is it compatible with Nagios 3? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug#473354: ITP: winhardware -- hardware summary report from a Win32 host

2008-03-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
sent him an email ;) The package is maintained by me in the Zenoss team... If you want to provide such a script, as examples or for /usr/bin (with manpage then please), I could give you access to the svn, so you can maintain it in the debian directory of the package, not a big problem. Cheers, Bernd

Re: Bug#473354: ITP: winhardware -- hardware summary report from a Win32 host

2008-03-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the WMI interface. are you going to use wmic and/or winexe for that? Then I'd suggest to add teh script to the wmi-client package instead of wasting a full package for a single shellscript. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bz

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Unfortunately, I'm dumb when it comes at Python stuff, so, while I'd > happily give some help, imagining to package this myself would be too > ambitious... I'll help out if there're Python problems. Cheers, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Do you prefer your git, or the Debian SVN or maybe git.debian.org? I think using alioth's services would be the best way to go. We'd prefer git, but svn is fine, too. What's your favourite? I'd offer to spend the time to merge your and our work. As the old packaging never had a copyright

Re: Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> There *is* a pkg-rrdtool team in alioth, and a public SVN (that you see > was > having commits as of two days ago). I had problems to access my @debian.org > address and just saw your mails today. I've offered to help you with the package several times during the last months, I don't

Re: Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Heya, after so many positive responses we've decided to upload rrdtool today, also not to loose time as it has to go trough NEW. It is team-maintained and living in a git repository now. Maintainer: Debian RRDtool Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vcs-Browser: http://git.snow-crash.org/?p=pkg-rrdtool.git

Re: Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > [CCing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as he is listed as Uploader] > > Hi, > > as rrdtool is a vital part of a lot of system monitoring solutions and > should not go into Lenny in its current unmaintained state, I intend to > hijack it. After a lot of positiv reac

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-02-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> rsyslog could of > course read configs from syslog.d and rsyslog.d, and admins could > install those under /etc/rsyslog.d/ or edit /etc/rsyslog.conf to make > use of those additional features. This would also be a way to solve #311812. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[

Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nd heavily overworked package in about two weeks as the very soft freeze for Lenny will be in the early march, so there's at least some time left for intensive testing. Best regards, -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
you should not list this as a problem. If a script is not a sh script, there's no reason to check for bashisms imho, especially if you have scripts for psh, ksh, csh or other weird shells. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ht

Bug#462879: ITP: python-cssutils -- CSS Cascading Style Sheets parser and builder

2008-01-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-cssutils Version : 0.9.5a2 Upstream Author : Christof Hoeke * URL : http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, ...

2007-12-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
shed on me. Same here, using it at home in smarthost mode, and on several machines with a lot of mail traffic, and I never had any trouble at all with postfix. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
independent point of view can decide if 2.8 should/needs to be shipped with Lenny. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
and no license information at all in the randeom ~10 source files I looked into. Looks like http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package is still correct - but it would be a good thing to convince upstream to fix that. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tandard on a lot of systems, including OSX, it is 'bashed' for being bad in Debian's policy. But I wanted to send a bug about that anyway... -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: uploading as Debian Maintainer - rejected

2007-12-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ainers? Since when is Ondrej == Kartik? -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#454189: ITP: brad -- Blender based user interface for Radiance

2007-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: brad Version : 0.2_2007-01-08 Upstream Author : Francesco Anselmo * URL : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/brad/ * License : GPL Programming Lang:

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
rt-ability? After > all backports is not an official part of Debian. YMMV. > for a backport you have to add a changelog entry anyway, fixing the Homepage field is not that complicated, so I can't see a problem here. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Re: Packages with httpd needs

2007-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
HP, so the applications you mentioned > can't be use with it. lighttpd supports php for example, using fastcgi. Imho the best thing here would be to add the libapache2-* stuff to Recommends, so it will be installed in default configurations, but it also allows the admin to ignore th

Re: Contents-source.gz

2007-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
#x27;d find a Koders-like search trough all sources much more interesting, especially if it comes with a way to retrieve diffs between releases or uploads. /me goes and puts Debian into git. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSC

Re: About dpkg-shlibdeps checks

2007-11-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
was announced often enough. If packages run into trouble with it now, it's imho not the problem of the dpkg maintainer (except there're bugs in dpkg, of course). -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ith somthing matched by /var/lib/zope[0-9.]+ -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
packagename/ available, even if there're no arch independent modules in the package. If I remember right python-support uses the directory to be able to clean up /var/lib/python-support if necessary - or something like that. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#452093: ITP: geopy -- Geocoding toolbox for Python

2007-11-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: geopy Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Brian Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy/ * License : MIT Programming

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
f upstream's original document is the pdf - or if the pdf was created from xml/tex/... source. It's not common to create documentations as pdf file in pdfedit or Adobe Acrobat, but it may happen, and then they should be allowed in main (probably after checking for embedded fonts). Cheers,

Bug#451561: ITP: navit -- Car navigation system with GPS tracking

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : navit Version : 0.0.2 (alpha quality, will go to experimental first) Upstream Authors : Michael Farmbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Schaller <[EMAIL PRO

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
a > serious problem. Definiteyl not a feature I'm missing. I hope exim caches the reply from the final MX for some time, otherwise this sounds like a good way to run a DOS attack. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNS

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> Why not remove locate from findutils instead of putting it into a >> separate package? I can't see any reason why one would need it if >> there's mlocate. Probably add a Recommends:

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
can say that if I am on a UNIX like > machine, and I can't just say lpr foo.txt and have it printed on the > default printer, I would find the system deficient and un-UNIX like. That works well with cups if you have the cupsys-bsd package installed. -- Bernd

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Not sure if anybody is still using the old BSD printing stuff - at least >> I can't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than >> optional. > > I am. It's simple and

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than optional. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
aries it _IS_ our problem - because we'll get the bug reports of annoyed users. So adding a broken libraries to Debian doesn't make sense at all. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
; mlocate should. > * However, I don't think any locate should have priority standard. > Why not remove locate from findutils instead of putting it into a separate package? I can't see any reason why one would need it if there's mlocate. Probably add a Recommends: mlocate to findutils

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
pe that 3.0 will be better... -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

2007-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e in the description, too. There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can handle Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed

Re: Mass bugs filing: bogus debian/watch files

2007-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r.gz > I found the uscan manual page slightly confusing, but perhaps it is > just me. :) It's you :P Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:48:55PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> If you run a test you usually *want* to have it fail on build time if >> the test did not go trough. Otherwise running tests is useless - or do >> you check all build logs with ev

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
on build time if the test did not go trough. Otherwise running tests is useless - or do you check all build logs with every upload? -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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