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and fixing the 200-odd
release-critical bugs that remain, either by making minimal changes to
packages or by removing them.
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, but I haven't seen any status update about this.
Are there even people working on it?
Apparently so:
http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/11/16#2005-11-16-dak
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I think the description needs to be improved; perhaps it means dot (.)
immediately before at-mark (@), which *is* invalid in RFC822.
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obviously sensible and desirable thing to have.
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:01:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
A lintian-like test to see if the listed bugs match the package before
uploading seems more useful to me. It would have prevented this
particular problem.
yaclc provides this.
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My impression is that these days maintainer scripts are much better
about not mixing up debconf interaction with normal use of stdout, and
so it's still possible that the fd 3 hack will be removed some day.
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On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:43:19AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on 3, so any
scripts writing to stdout only need
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:51:00AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on 3, so any
scripts writing to stdout only need
no update is needed when Debian keys change.
That doesn't mean we (Ubuntu) have solved the problem of how to rotate
*our* keys in the event of a key compromise. (To my knowledge, we
haven't.)
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personal wiki page, so changing it directly would be a bit rude), so
hopefully we can stop going round in circles on this one.
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| grep socket
-rw-r--r-- root/root 49608 2006-01-17 12:59:02
./usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socket.so
-rw-r--r-- root/root 12876 2006-01-17 12:58:18
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Enhances was invented as a reverse-Suggests was to allow all
references to non-free packages to be removed from main's metadata.
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:27:48PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:32:46AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
It's common for e.g. network card manufacturers to provide their images
on a floppy disk. If ndiswrapper were integrated into d-i, then it would
be possible to let
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:59:02AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-02 05:08]:
Joey has been campaigning [1] for a while to get everything in the
archive changed to depend on debconf | debconf-2.0 or similar rather
than just debconf, in order that we
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:51:25PM -0800, Mark Shuttleworh wrote:
(In case it wasn't clear, this wasn't Mark Shuttlewor*t*h posting.
Please don't feed the troll.)
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this by poking PAM to use MD5 passwords,
but it's not enabled by default. This might be because other Unix
systems don't necessarily support it, which can cause problems if you're
using something like NIS and sharing crypted passwords around (or so I
understand).
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the grep-dctrl package and use something like:
grep-available -FSource -nsPackage xfree86 | sort
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- please mail me
if you want to help!
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to
something acceptable.
it's not that bad. if newbies can pick up emacs' horribly contorted key
bindings then mutt's a doddle.
FWIW, I picked up mutt's keybindings from pine inside two days. I don't
find them a problem.
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with some people's mail filters, to change
list names behind their backs..
A little, yes ... Couldn't we keep debian-devel-changes as is and simply
copy the mail to debian-devel-*-changes, for backward compatibility?
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Shame on me...).
I agree. Trial-and-error helps.
I find 'update-alternatives --help' more useful, myself. It's mainly
intended for developers, though - I only used it when I wanted to fix
broken man page links in various packages.
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These both still seem to be in woody.
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place is dpkg, but am I being too
arrogant there? It feels too small for its own package, though.
Thanks, and please let me know if you think I'm in over my head,
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On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
3) Where should this go? The obvious place is dpkg, but am I being too
arrogant there? It feels too small for its own package, though.
I like the idea, but I think it should go in its own package, like
the output from init.d scripts.
(I usually recommend Ctrl-S (stop output) and Ctrl-Q (restart output).)
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, accurate details, you should look in section 2.3.5 of the Debian
Policy Manual (package debian-policy) and section 8.4 of the Debian
Packaging Manual (package packaging-manual).
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rather than being partially maintained upstream; not always,
but usually. In that case you can fetch just package_version.diff.gz
from the source directory of the Debian archive and apply it to an empty
directory, or something similar.
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of coming up with almost-free but restrictive licences.
:( Any questions about those would probably be best answered on
debian-legal.
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Robert van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't like crossposting to mailinglists, so i post this to debian-devel,
as well as a Cc to the original author.
Maybe you should have *really* Cc'd the original author :) (Read the
article again; he isn't Juhapekka, that's for sure ...)
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there ever be another vaguely widely used
package in main providing c-compiler or c++-compiler ...
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into stable.
New packages would not be allowed into stable until x days had passed in
unstable status without a Release Critical Bug.
[etc.]
Those who do not understand ajt's testing distribution are doomed to
reinvent it, poorly. :)
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which prompts the user in a
maintainer script.
Are you also reporting bugs against packages whose priority is higher
than that of debconf? Is the plan eventually to raise debconf's priority
to 'standard' or higher?
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more than my connectivity. I'm lucky
enough to have a not-too-badly-obsolete machine at home, and even it
creaks quite a bit under the load dpkg puts on it with over 1500
packages installed.
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. It's one of the stranger things I've ever done. It would,
again, be interesting to see how far you could go in terms of
crowbarring one metaphor into the other.
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Happy day, though.
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discussed, because
I don't really like making a fool of myself in front of hundreds or
thousands of people. From just two days ago, see:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0009/msg00329.html
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-editor and
/usr/bin/sensible-pager instead.
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-v grep' kludge usually taught should be avoided.
I usually prefer this:
ps acx | grep daemon-name
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hack to stop any of them being started; I could perhaps
have pretended I was in runlevel 1 or something. I don't doubt you'll
provide a cleaner solution in your local policy RFC, but I would
certainly like to see the current system implemented for woody.
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would be foolish.
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hope that last line is merged with the one before it in the uploaded
version ...
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in unstable:
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Package: coldsync
Priority: extra
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 372
Maintainer: Bradley Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.4.6-2
[...]
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). Is Chris
Fearnley still working on Debian?
I'd ask for a sponsor to help me adopt it, but I really haven't a clue
what it does, even if it looks cool. :)
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amor amphetamine an
anarchism andrew ant apache apt aptitude archie arena ark arrow artist
ascii ash asp at august ava axe ...
(OK, so 'ascii' is a bit dubious.)
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me in the meantime? If so, I'll file an ITA.
[1] Linux 2.2 has a more flexible way of handling it, but the userspace
tools are much more difficult to use.
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francine.
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at the end, even in devfs - I'm not familiar with that).
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at
all? :( (Unless there's an exception I'm not aware of ...)
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Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* (Colin Watson)
| Contrary to the subconscious assumption many people make, the first
| priority for a regex is to match earliest, not to match longest.
| regex(7) specifically mentions this:
For a non-POSIX regex, that is.
Could you point me to some
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Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail-Followup-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
ARGL, /me should really get glasses or whatever.
Any reason you ignored my MailFup2 header?
D'oh. All things considered
...
...
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Yes, there's no MANDB_MAP entry in /etc/manpath.config for
/home/eb/test. 'MANPATH=/home/eb/test manpath -c' will tell you the
catpath corresponding to a given manpath.
I don't know if it's possible to subvert this.
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of such
'important' bugs are going to need to be upgraded to 'serious'.
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problem. See the sequence of events in #81327.
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than for debian-devel subscribers to try to work it out at a
distance.
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?
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it's worth, I discovered entirely by accident that if you
install telnetd-ssl then the telnet client in Windows 98 and above will
connect to it and seamlessly do SSL negotiation, while of course
non-SSL-capable telnet clients will still be able to connect insecurely.
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: check in
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other people
through a little more quickly than that.
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be a
killer for me.
(Given this, compressing /bin/rm would be extremely foolish. :))
Incidentally, I assume the temporarily decompressed executables created
by UPX are mode 700?
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to the Maintainer:
field, i.e. the buildd so it can be processed.
I thought the Changed-By: field was meant for the porters?
No, Changed-By: is always the person who made the most recent changelog
entry, for the benefit of NMUs.
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around somewhere, although I haven't
dared to upload it to Debian yet. :)
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Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Previously Colin Watson wrote:
Erm, I have a package of that lying around somewhere, although I haven't
dared to upload it to Debian yet. :)
http://vim.sourceforge.net/vimgor/
fear.
Wouldn't that be less painful than the original nvi-based one
this bug, creating more work for me than
if he had just asked me in the first place.
There seems to be a rash of this going on lately. I'm not pleased.
Marcelo Magallon, I'm talking to you!
How ironic ... http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0104/msg00089.html
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code directly,
but through a wrapper).
makes sense
Not if UPX were to be an option for all binaries. Having to add stuff to
every package's postinst is evil (see /usr/doc, although that was
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, to help distinguish between problems on one or two
architectures and problems on everything. The last time I looked they
just showed the lexically first architecture that was causing problems,
so for a while I was scratching my head and wondering why does alpha
have so many problems?.
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. Mailing the previous
maintainer once or twice should be part of the process; this makes it
quite a lot of work and bookkeeping.
Martin does indeed mail maintainers several times before resorting to
marking unmaintained packages as orphaned.
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woody is released.
I'm cc'ing this to -devel as doc-linux-text is Priority: standard.
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joking, don't take it the way it reads philippe, I _AM_ gratefull! :)
Can I get more language translating, I'll upload asap.
I didn't think package maintainers were supposed to upload packages with
the translated descriptions?
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sid's dupload?
You can safely try it and find out. I think the only thing to note about
potato's dupload is that you have to add ftp-master to /etc/dupload.conf
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to each other
as possible.
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/fsck in its own small essential
package and have it depend on fsck-backend, which *fsprogs can provide.
fsck does link against libext2fs, though ... it uses
ext2fs_find_block_device() to get around a devfs problem. That function
doesn't seem inherently ext2-specific.
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:53:51PM -0800, Marc Singer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:02:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Marc Singer wrote:
I'm tracking a memory leak that appears to stem from regexec().
Hmm. What makes you think
me.
It's easy to be effective if you don't care about false positives.
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:26:34AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:13:42PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
/dev/null is the most effective filtering solution at present, and these
days happens to be equivalent to these filters when applied to mail from
me.
It's easy
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] must be using broken software
too, I guess. Similarly, people don't always use one of my canonical
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name' (or just 'grep-excuses' with
GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER='your name' in ~/.devscripts) in your crontab.
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.12.04.1319 +0100]:
It's easier to notice these things in a timely fashion if you put
'grep-excuses your name' (or just 'grep-excuses' with
GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER='your name
are a sign of insanity. ;-)
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include a NAME section, but place free-form text there
rather than \(oqname \e\- description\(cq.
However, any syntax resembling the above should be accepted.
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that their output looks better with two spaces, at which
point it's trivial to do so.
(Easy things should be easy, and hard things possible.)
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in hexadecimal, you
know; people have better things to do than write machine code directly.
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.
This is realy bizzar !!!
Not really. How do you do preconfiguration otherwise?
How can you configure a package which need pre-depends ?
You don't. You can only use essential packages in a .config script.
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is running regularly, shouldn't we?
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just
Content-Type: foo/bar\n\n.
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those
messages to stderr when the host is klecker.debian.org, but this fails
for some reason. Assuming my fix solves it, somebody needs to look into
that to stop it happening in future.
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is, is this a bug?
It's not mandatory, although most new packages have it for convenience.
I'd cal it a wishlist.
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... or:
Build-Depends: libc-client2002-dev | libc-client-ssl2001-dev, libkrb5-dev |
libc-client-ssl2001-dev
(If libc-client2002-dev needs libkrb5-dev, shouldn't it depend on it? Or
is it only for certain specialized cases?)
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:14:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Would someone care to tell Mr. Sheinberg about the new submitter
feature?
I did, before his e-mail address started bouncing.
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no commom
files?)
None, due to /usr/share/doc/package/copyright and changelog.Debian.gz.
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about the
details though ...
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:43:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:39:25PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
Reg pressure is pretty bad on x86; and int is still 32 bit on x86-64
(IIRC, long is 64 bit and of course any T* ). So yes, anything which
plays with pointers
-server: won't uninstall unless the server is
running!
This package has is taged patch to one bug and in fact includes another
patch in the text of the other bug which is tagged pending. Moreover
it contains an offer from Colin Watson to sponsor the package from
half a year ago. I guess someone
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