Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Simon Richter > That is not a 32 bit bug, but an indication of something else being broken. It is the same problem in the sense that 64-bit architectures are fine, and something (probably in some autoconf script) is broken on 32-bit. The point here is that these are always weird bugs in weird

Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: To debian-devel > it has probably been a decade since I've last seen a PostgreSQL > installation in the wild on a 32-bit machine. PostgreSQL itself works > fine there, but more and more extensions are not compatible anymore, > either deliberately, or (more common) because of subtle bugs in prin

The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi debian-devel, it has probably been a decade since I've last seen a PostgreSQL installation in the wild on a 32-bit machine. PostgreSQL itself works fine there, but more and more extensions are not compatible anymore, either deliberately, or (more common) because of subtle bugs in printf pattern

postgresql-16; wrong NMU versions (Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress)

2024-02-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steve Langasek > Christoph Berg >postgresql-16 (U) Please do not upload postgresql-16 before I ack the diff. I'll also note that *ALL* nmu diffs I've seen so far are using the wrong version number in debian/changelog, missing the "~exp1" upload from the actual

Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Helmut Grohne > Is it ok to call upgrade scenarios failures that cannot be reproduced > using apt unsupported until we no longer deal with aliasing? > > If the answer is yes here, we'll close #1058937 (Ben's libnfsidmap1 bug) > with no action calling the scenario unsupported. I think we shoul

Re: fatal: Unable to create '/srv/scratch/qa.debian.org/vcswatch/.../shallow.lock': No space left on device

2022-07-27 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Domenico Andreoli > fatal: Unable to create > '/srv/scratch/qa.debian.org/vcswatch/g/golang-github-flowstack-go-jsonschema/shallow.lock': > No space left on device > > Some machine needs maintenance due to a full disk. Hi, adsb added more space to the partition, and I triggered a re-run

Bug#1014403: RFH: slony1-2 -- replication system for PostgreSQL

2022-07-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Control: affects -1 src:slony1-2 I request assistance with maintaining the slony1-2 package. The package is in maintenance mode upstream with very little activity, but the Debian integratio

Re: PostgreSQL debug symbols no longer available?

2021-12-06 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, You want either debuginfod or debian-debug, see https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace.

Re: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net

2021-02-24 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Sergio Durigan Junior > I would like to announce a new service that I have just configured for > Debian: https://debuginfod.debian.net. Very cool! > Currently, the elfutils and GDB packages in unstable and testing have > native support for using debuginfod. I will soon propose a change to >

Bug#946627: ITP: js8call -- Amateur Radio Digital Mode providing weak signal keyboard to keyboard messaging

2019-12-12 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Berg * Package name: js8call Version : 2.0.1 * URL : http://js8call.com/ * License : GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Programming Lang: C++, Fortran Description : Amateur Radio Digital Mode providing weak

Bug#945468: RFH: pgq, pgqd, pgq-node, python-pgq, python-skytools -- Queuing for PostgreSQL

2019-11-25 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request help with maintaining the pgq family of packages. They implement a queuing mechanism on top of PostgreSQL, but I'm not using them myself. Packages are: pgq pgqd pgq-node python-pgq python-skytools Previously, this was a single package, skytools3, but upst

Re: Help, I broke sso.debian.org for chrome

2017-09-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Enrico Zini 2017-09-05 <20170905163334.2mi5tzacykzja...@enricozini.org> > I should have managed to do it, but chrome still doesn't seem to like > it. Can you generate a new certificate and see if you still find > differences? "openssl x509 -text -noout" doesn't show any differences anymore exc

Re: Help, I broke sso.debian.org for chrome

2017-09-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Enrico Zini 2017-09-05 <20170905093701.xncmprl2x4so6...@enricozini.org> > I refactored the certificate generation code for sso.debian.org, and the > certificates it generates now still work in Firefox but not in Chrome. My guess is that the new-style certificates are missing some attributes:

Re: Adding postgresql as pre-depends for gitlab

2017-04-17 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Ondrej Novy 2017-04-16 > Hi, > > 2017-04-16 15:08 GMT+02:00 Peter Palfrader : > > > > Having the DBMS on a different host should be a supported way of setup. > > You should not depend on a postgres server on the same machine running > > gitlab, and therefore neither should you pre-depend on

Re: oldoldstable on DDPO

2015-06-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Luca Falavigna 2015-06-13 > Would it be also possible to exclude from the view packages no longer > maintained in the selected suites (see #736715) ? That'd be more involved change. We used to only look at unstable/experimental to gather maintainer information. The problem with that is if a

oldoldstable on DDPO

2015-06-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, over the past days, DDPO grew the ability to also show oldoldstable (aka squeeze) versions, mostly for the benefit of those working on squeeze-lts. To use, append &version=oldoldstable to your DDPO URL, or set it via the usual display configuration dialog at the bottom of the page. https://q

Re: Possibilities to merge some parts of some of the daemons-that-need-to-be-restarted checkers (was: Re: Bug#776628: ITP: needrestart-session -- [...])

2015-02-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Axel Beckert 2015-02-20 <20150220221043.gh3...@sym.noone.org> > > > Just FYI. Guido Gunther has done something similar with whatmaps > > > > > > https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/projects/whatmaps > > > > I count at least 6 implementations of the concept now: > > > > checkrestart (from debian-goo

Bug#777617: RFH: phppgadmin

2015-02-10 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: normal The phppgadmin package is in need of someone maintaining it who's actually using it as well. Outstanding issues are the apache 2.4 transition (my objections against the original patch are mostly irrelevant now), and most probably some general QA on the package. It s

Bug#772047: RFH: pgpool2 -- connection pool server and replication proxy for PostgreSQL

2014-12-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the pgpool2 package in the PostgreSQL team. I'm not using the package myself - someone with more experience in actually running pgpool2 would be welcome to take care of getting the more advanced features (e.g. memcached support)

Re: versions / suffixes in experimental

2014-09-25 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Adam D. Barratt 2014-09-25 <3653b875c93fd474b8b354b4c76f4...@mail.adsl.funky-badger.org> > On 2014-09-25 8:16, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >Or should my next upload > >to unstable by 2.2.5-8? Or do I just ignore the version numbers I > >uploaded to experimental and use 2.2.5-6 as the next version

Bug#757770: RFH: pgadmin3 -- graphical administration tool for PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, pgadmin3 is maintained in the PostgreSQL team, but we aren't using the package ourselves, so it is getting less love than ideally. We would be glad if someone would step in for co-maintaining it. [*] Currently there is a crash to be resolved, likely due to the

Introducing vcswatch

2014-07-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, I am maintaining too many PostgreSQL packages, and I keep forgetting which package has changes committed that have not yet been uploaded. To fix that, there's now a service running at qa.debian.org which grabs the Sources files from unstable and experimental, notes all Vcs-* URLs, makes check

Removing PostgreSQL server headers from libpq-dev

2014-03-12 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, I've just uploaded postgresql-9.3 which includes a fix for a very old bug: #314427. For compatibility reasons long forgotten, we have been shipping some "server" include files in libpq-dev in /usr/include/postgresql/ that should rather only live in /usr/include/postgresql/9.3/server/. These a

Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Paul Wise 2013-09-20 > The format doesn't appear to be very efficient, the plain SQL commands > are much smaller: > > pabs@wagner:~$ pg_restore -l postbooks_empty-4.1.0.backup > foo.sql > pabs@wagner:~$ ls -Ssh > total 5.6M > 5.3M postbooks_empty-4.1.0.backup 344K foo.sql pg_restore -l wil

Re: 7.0-> 7.1: any reasons for switching from {4,5,6}.0.x scheme?

2013-06-17 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Neil McGovern 2013-06-17 <20130617111457.gg22...@halon.org.uk> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:32:47PM +0530, Praveen A wrote: > > Many were curious on diaspora about the change[1]. There is no > > rationale given in release news[2] about this change. Was there some > > major change in this releas

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql-* package namespace

2012-08-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Nod. We do have some weirdness there. The schema is that packages built from postgresql itself use postgresql-*-x.y (mostly), and all others use postgresql-x.y-*. Arguably, that's confusing. I have some plan in the back of my brain that extension modules should ship .so files for all postgresql

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql-* package namespace (was: Re: Bug#683486: ITP: barman -- Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL)

2012-08-01 Thread Christoph Berg
Fwiw, I'm not saying packages must not use the postgresql namespace, I'd just leave it to the maintainer to decide. Martin Pitt schrieb: Hello Ansgar, Christoph, Christoph Berg [2012-08-01 21:12 +0200]: > The various postgresql-* packages are mostly plugins (PL/something) Righ

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql-* package namespace (was: Re: Bug#683486: ITP: barman -- Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL)

2012-08-01 Thread Christoph Berg
I usually prefer packages to use the upstream name so they are easy to find (think other distributions). The various postgresql-* packages are mostly plugins (PL/something) which follow the example of postgresql-plperl-x.y (built from PG core). For real applications like barman, that's not real

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Bernd Zeimetz 2010-06-30 <4c2b6f9b.8030...@bzed.de> > > I have another question: backports-user is quite high traffic, but to upload > > backports it is required to be subscribed. Will this change for > > backports.debian.org? Will the users be invited to use the BTS? > > 80 messages in a mont

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Joachim Breitner 2010-06-14 <1276516697.2751.7.ca...@kirk> > > at the moment, the Debian installer creates a /etc/hosts file > > containing the local host name¹, so that this name is resolvable even > > if not registered in the DNS. Unfortunately, this is a possible cause > > of problems when t

Re: auto-tools and debian/source/Makefile.am file

2010-06-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Peter S Galbraith 2010-06-07 <12003.1275931...@mixed> > I maintain the debian directory in the upstream sources of a package > (gri) that uses auto-tools. So far, it seems to need the files: > > debian/source/Makefile.am > debian/source/Makefile.in Something like EXTRA_DIST = $(wildcard

Re: Is Paul Dwerryhouse MIA?

2010-01-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2010-01-18 <4b5446ba.7070...@debian.org> > >I am worried if perhaps Paul Dwerryhouse is > >Missing In Action. > > Have you tried to contact him directly? If not, try to do so, and if > he doesn't answer in some time, notify the MIA team. Btw, it is considered good styl

Re: For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

2008-10-31 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Pierre Habouzit 2008-10-30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:52:58PM +, Christoph Berg wrote: > > Re: Pierre Habouzit 2008-10-30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Anyways, the information is: I don't intend to maintain or run bts-link > > &g

Re: For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

2008-10-30 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Pierre Habouzit 2008-10-30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyways, the information is: I don't intend to maintain or run bts-link > anymore[2], it is up for adoption. If the BTS people wish to inherit the > beast they come first, but any motivated group of people are welcomed. If the BTS folks don't wa

Bug#463807: RFH: wxwidgets2.6 -- wxwidgets2.8 may be packaged

2008-02-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Following this afternoon's discussion on #debian-devel, I'm filing this RFH bug to note that Ron, the wxwidgets2.6 maintainer, does encourage people wanting to actively work on getting 2.8 into Debian to do so. Bear in mind that there are lots of open issues that sh

Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Christoph Berg
tags 438712 + wontfix thanks Hi Christian, Cc'ing -devel since I don't think there is a consensus about this issue. Re: Christian Perrier 2007-08-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This package's description mentions the upstream project web page. I suggest > it uses the de facto standard of mentioning it

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steinar H. Gunderson 2007-07-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:02:02AM -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Description : Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools > > What exactly does this mean? What is the software good for? And what does it do differently from the followi

Re: Adrian Bridgett, second try

2007-06-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Peter Holm 2007-06-18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > b) Why do you state an invalid adress for the maintainer, even if the > program is in the testing branch? That's what listed in the package. As it looks, Adrian's packages should probably all be orphaned, the address has been bouncing since at lea

Enter Postpone

2007-06-11 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, 316 + 0,9K Jun 10 22:32 Debian Installe cb+myon=de postpone_0.1_amd64.changes is NEW 320 + 0,4K Jun 11 12:30 Debian Installe cb+myon=de postpone_0.1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED looks like postpone got fast-tracked in the NEW queue (thanks Joerg!), so here's what I posted in my blog yesterd

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Stefano Zacchiroli 2007-04-02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I share the feeling of "niceness" of the personal touch, but this isn't > a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's > easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid > one. If we want to (

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Robert Millan 2007-04-02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over > > > the > > > world, IMHO it is better if these dates are in UTC to make it easier to > > > figure out when it was uploaded in comparison to other events (such as the

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-03-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Russ Allbery 2007-01-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is what I'd do. Yes, it's a bunch of extra packages, but it clearly > expresses the actual dependency structure, rather than an approximation of > it, and that's usually a good thing in the long run. As a very late follow up, here's what the

Bug#407721: ITP: dds -- double dummy solver

2007-01-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dds Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Bo Haglund et al. Section : games * URL : http://web.telia.com/~u88910365/ * License : GPL Programming Lang

Bug#407666: RFA: gv -- PostScript and PDF viewer for X

2007-01-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: normal The 'gv' package deserves more care than I did spend on it since I adopted it. It should be in a reasonable shape, but the BTS needs a thorough cleanup and there's a bunch of patches that should be synced with/forwarded to upstream. I'd be glad to hand it over to som

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-08 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Pierre Habouzit 2007-01-08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The perl team, on the other hand, uses the different scheme: > > Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package" > > Uploaders: the team mailing list, + members who actually care for the > > package (who have touched it in the past,

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Mike Hommey 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Then remove the libc6 parts and use ^^ > > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${mysql:Depends} | ${postgres:Depends} | > > ${sqlite:Depends} ... and make sure there's only one package left. > Not exactly what you'd like...

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Metzler 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Which does not seem to be properly translateable into a valid single > fasel|(foo | bar, blah) Depends relation[1]. It won't work if a plugin needs more than one dependency, right. > You could move the plugin's additional dependencies into Rec

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Mattia Dongili 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is it in this case ok if I replace ',' by '|' there? This would allow > > the user to really choose what database backend he wants. > > Yes, why not? does yada handles gracefully the absence of a library (eg. > if incorrectly configured or such

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Kurt Roeckx 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | Depends: [...], libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2), libpq4 (>= 8.1.4), > > libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.3.8) > > >From the subject, I seem to understand that those are added by shlibs? > This seems to suggest that something in the package is linked to all

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Hendrik Sattler 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The thought should not be how many files are in each package but what the > average client saves by not pulling all dependency chains. Just tried installing in pbuilder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get install libmysqlclient15off The following NE

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Mike Hommey 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How good does it support it when its plugins can't load, which is going > to happen if you load, for example, the mysql plugin and don't have the > libmysqlclient installed ? Yada returns ENOENT like it does if the user specifies a non-existant plug

Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, I'm packaging a database wrapper library (http://oss.devit.com/yada/). Its purpose is to provide one single API to a program and let the user configure if the database used is actually postgres/mysql/sqlite. The actual interfacing with the databases is done by .so plugins that are dlopened at

Bug#398601: ITP: retty -- lets you attach processes running on other terminals

2006-11-14 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: retty Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Petr Baudis, Jan Sembera * URL : http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/retty/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C and i386 asm (it d

Re: Thanks!

2006-10-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Eike Nicklas 2006-10-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So I think it is about time to send a big THANK YOU to ALL of you who > created this great distribution. Debian was the first distribution that > persuaded me of the advantages of linux and of free software and by now, > it has been my favourite ope

Re: incoming locked?

2006-10-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-10-13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > packages.debian.org is lagging almost a whole day (bug #335011), you > should use madison on merkel or "apt-cache show" on a up to date sid > system to check the available version. 'rmadison' in the devscripts package queries the database remote

Bug#365918: Suggestion: raise the severity to important.

2006-10-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Raúl Sánchez Siles 2006-10-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I don't think this bug could only be considered as a minor bug, since it > prevented me to enter into kde and once you are used to apps inside a > graphical environmnet it's quite difficult to find a solution yourself. Do you have an idea w

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-27 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Tille 2006-09-27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The hint to non US keyboard is *very* important. I would love if > *every* string a user (not a hacker) has to type at the boot prompt > would work on *any* keybord according to its marking, which means only > letters (no =_/ etc.) are allowed. G

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steve Langasek 2006-09-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What I would expect at least: > > Rename the task from "Desktop" to "Desktop (Gnome)" so more experienced > > users know what's coming up. > > Should we also have "Mail Server (exim4)" and "Mail Server (postfix)" for > the same reason? Sarge'

Re: Intent to "hijack" the dhelp package

2006-09-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Esteban Manchado Velázquez 2006-09-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have even rewritten dhelp_parse, one of the main utilities, in Ruby [4] > (mostly because it's a huge PITA finding and fixing bugs in a largely text > processing program... written in C). It maintains compatibility with the > doc

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Christian Aichinger 2006-09-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As a start, I've written a script that searches for unnecessary > dependencies and reports them. Results are available here: > http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib DDPO (aka developer.php) has a link to the list of checklib results per maintaine

Work-needing packages report for Sep 22, 2006

2006-09-23 Thread Christoph Berg
[sending manually, the cron mail got stuck somewhere] The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 309 (new: 20) Total number of packages offered up for

Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Tille 2006-09-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The situation you described qualifies for a group maintained upload. > You might keep the original maintainer in the Uploaders field for the > sake of politeness because a complete hijack is regarded rude (even > if the facts you describe would jus

Re: Bug#387385: ITP: shed -- Hex editor using ncurses, with a friendly pico-style interface

2006-09-14 Thread Christoph Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Re: Ron Johnson 2006-09-14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 09/13/06 20:15, Adam Cecile wrote: > [snip] > > It includes the following features : > [snip] > >- Can handle files up to 2Gb. > > That's a feature? No, a bug (or rather, doesn't meet a release

Re: claiming bugs, BTS delay, planning BSPs

2006-09-08 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: martin f krafft 2006-09-08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please see #385957, and the discussion between Julian and myself. > > Basically, we thought about two solutions, and I came up with > a third one last night. > > 1. Julian proposes to simply to encode the information about a BSP > into t

Re: need for your services

2006-08-23 Thread Christoph Berg
st of companies who do so, though: http://www.debian.org/consultants/ Please refer to them. (On a sidenote, Linux ES is a Redhat product, you might want to check www.redhat.com.) Yours, Christoph Berg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#380328: ITP: pdfcrack -- PDF files password cracker

2006-07-29 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What could be the best section for this package? 'admin' like > "john" (pdfcrack has got a similar behaviour) or 'utils'? Cracking pdfs is not something an admin would usually do. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-07-29 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Tatsuya Kinoshita 2006-07-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Should `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11' be added to the list of > virtual package names? > > I've discovered that the virtual package `pinentry' is provided by > pinentry-curses, pinentry-gtk, pinentry-gtk2 and pinentry-qt, and > the virtual pack

Re: ITA: lcdproc

2006-07-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: José Luis Tallón 2006-07-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is mostly to let ftpmasters know that he has indeed agreed to > these terms so that the upload won't be rejected. > Jon, just give an ACK on-list and that should be it. Unless you are building new binaries, your upload won't be NEW

Re: status of application for reinstatement of my developer account

2006-07-23 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Britton Kerin 2006-07-23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there any reasonable hope of getting my account reinstated? debian-keyring.gpg: pub 1024D/E3A0213C 2000-07-26 uid Britton Leo Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid Britton Leo Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/D0

Re: Virtual PPPoE

2006-07-23 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, please try asking on the debian-user-german list; this list is not meant for user questions. Re: Yura 2006-07-23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I started pppoeconf but the system at once searches a modem and does not > find. > Is it needed how to connect a network modem (service), using pppd? > My pr

Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

2006-07-22 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Marco d'Itri 2006-07-22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Instead of moving libpcre and making it quasi-essential, why not > > slightly modify grep so that it can dlopen libpcre if present. Not > Since grep is already modular this would be very easy to implement by > moving the Pcompile() and Pexecute()

Re: Bug#379089: Configuration file shadowed?

2006-07-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Frank Küster 2006-07-21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I believe that we need to rephrase the TeX Policy. But this requires > not just to specifiy that each "cfg" file must be in /etc. Instead, I > think we need to find a distinction between > > - files that can be used to modify the behavior of prog

Re: Bits from the Package Tracking System

2006-07-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Wouter Verhelst 2006-07-18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On the contrary people who want to have the "derivatives" keyword on all > > their subscriptions can use one of those commands: > > keywordall + derivatives > > keywordall [EMAIL PROTECTED] + derivatives > > This is so cool that I immediately

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-12 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steve Langasek 2006-06-10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is it no longer a requirement of NM that applicants demonstrate themselves > capable of putting together a source package without the use of rules > helpers? Not in that length. The template question used by most AMs is: Write a small shell sc

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: martin f krafft 2006-06-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > also sprach Jean Parpaillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.09.1118 +0200]: > > I want to migrate my package (wormux) to CDBS. > > Why? I was just about to ask the same. Which packaging scheme do you use now? > This is my opinion and others will

Re: drupal orphaned?

2006-05-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Erik Steffl 2006-05-21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > is drupal debian package effectively orphaned? It is already two > major upgrades (more than a year) behind upstream (and upstream > recommends to upgrade from one version to next so the upgrades to > current might get complicated). No, please

Re: Packages violating policy 8.2

2006-05-19 Thread Christoph Berg
ave files in (/usr)/bin. > sdate Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bogus. (sdate is a fakeroot fork and needs a .so in /usr/lib/ for technical reasons.) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Kevin B. McCarty 2006-05-17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In case anyone is interested in filing mass bug reports (I am not > sufficiently interested, sorry), here are the -dev packages in > unexpected sections, obtained as follows: Isn't that more a matter of updating the override files? Christoph

Re: gnokii: unmaintained

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It seems the gnokii package is unmaintained and its maintainer doesn't do > anything. > Should the package be orphaned so other interested developers can take it? It is already orphaned (with a pending ITA). Please so some research before pos

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Joey Hess 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I won't discuss here the goodwill of this change, I just want to > > point out that by now, 110 packages are RC bug candidates because of > > this [2] (422 files installed inder `/usr/lib/cgi-bin'). > > Policy uses a "should" for this, so at most th

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, Re: Pierre Habouzit 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * as of tags, it only touches (like I explained) : >- upstream: ensure it's always set >- wontfix: try to guess if upstream tagged that bug wontfix, and >set/unset it accordingly >- fixed-upstream: >

Re: gpg

2006-04-28 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Jason D. Clinton 2006-04-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In short, your key is gone and with the current long delays in getting new > keys added to the keyring, that's a big problem. You can't recover a GPG > password. If you had read the keyring.d.o changelog you would have seen that these long de

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: To debian-devel@lists.debian.org 2006-04-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [*] Though I don't think "we" ever said Manoj's wish to rename the > package was unethical - "we" just think that it confuses users more > than it serves them. But as said, that's up to the maintainer to > decide. Hrm, I missed

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Russ Allbery 2006-04-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Must we decide on a policy? Can't Manoj just package gnus-dfsg and > > be done with it? Is that really such a big problem? > > > I think not. > > Amen. > > I can understand people disagreeing with Manoj's choice, but am completely > mystified b

Re: Is Jose Luis Tallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Oleksandr Moskalenko 2006-04-18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wonder if anyone has knowledge of the whereabouts of Jose Luis Tallon as far > as his Debian involvement is concerned. His packages have several RC bugs, > have not been updated for while, and some of them have been NMUed a while ago. Hi

Re: Philipp Matthias Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Olaf van der Spek 2006-04-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Does anyone know whether Philipp Matthias Hahn is MIA? Hi, please Cc: the person in question when asking about MIAness. At the same time, Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to make sure the MIA tracking team is aware, we might miss your message on -de

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 14, 2006

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Felipe Sateler 2006-04-14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Shouldn't package maintainers close these bugs when they have > received help? Yes, definitely. If you are aware of any "solved" RFH bugs, could you ping the maintainers? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Des

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm not aware of any package inserting its system users into > > /etc/aliases, and in fact, my sid chroot doesn't even have that file. > > They shouldn't, unless they want to receive mail for the system-user > account. If they _don't_ want to

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > #1 sane packages redirect mail via /etc/aliases > #2 un-aliased mail to systemusers (e.g. spam) is not accepted and > dumped into /var/mail/systemuser but rejected immediately (at SMTP > time). I'm not aware of any package inserting its system u

Re: MIA: Thomas Fasth? (was: Re: About the maintainance of monotone)

2006-04-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Adrian von Bidder 2006-04-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > QA/MIA people: are you reading this (below)? Or Thomas - perhaps you have > time to dropa a quick note yourself? We are reading -qa, yes. (And -devel, but things are harder to spot there.) You could have checked the pinging going on current

Re: dpkg support for solaris-i386 architecture

2006-04-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Erast Benson 2006-04-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Attached is the first in the series of dpkg patches which adds > solaris-i386 architecture support used by NexentaOS. > > We would like to start submitting patchsets for core packages like dpkg, > apt, debhelper, coreutils, gcc, xorg, and many othe

Re: atftp patch

2006-03-29 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Michael Martinez 2006-03-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Might want to consider adding the following patch to the distribution: > > http://atftplocalnet.sourceforge.net/ > > I wrote an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't know if that's the right > email for him. The right place for requests concernin

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-28 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please correct me if I'm wrong :-) That's what I intended to say, sorry if I made the impression of contradicting you. The point was that some people new to packaging seem to think that they don't have to include the full license, and if the licens

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-28 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just to be sure, is the following enough for the BSD license? > > This software is licensed under the terms of the BSD license, > which can be found on Debian systems in the file > /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD or from > http://www.opensource.

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-28 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Bill Allombert 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please always keep the full Debian changelog information in the package. > Of course, you can move very old changelog entry to changelog.old or > changelog.1 if they cause problems, but ship them in the deb. Please don't even do that, the changel

Re: Test Packagesearch without debtags installed

2006-03-27 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Benjamin Mesing 2006-03-27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You can download the package from > http://www.mesing.de/packagesearch/packagesearch_2.1_i386.deb > and a pgp signature from: > http://www.mesing.de/packagesearch/packagesearch_2.1_i386.deb.sig Usually people want the source package here. I see

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Raphael Hertzog 2006-03-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Each package with translations has several dozens of copyright holder, > we don't have to keep that list in the copyright file, do we ? And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steve M. Robbins 2006-03-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wouldn't it be nice if you could simply "sudo apt-get install " > yourself? Is it feasible to have at least some of the sid chroots > allow this? Alternatively, how about "sudo pbuilder login ..."? I was ranting about that on irc before,

Re: X installation trouble report

2006-03-06 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Daniel Haude in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > again I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but let me ask anyway. Please don't hijack random threads. Start a new one. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recommending an image viewer

2006-02-14 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Henning Makholm in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (On a related note, will I lose my position in the NEW queue by > uploading improved versions of the package before it is accepted?) As I was told, no. The order in the html NEW summary will change, but the order in which lisa presents the packages to t

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