Re: Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
a bunch of packages *in* Debian: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-multimedia-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org Have a nice weekend, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
released, there is zero chance that another package will be added. The only chance for ardour to be part of a stable Debian release is Squeeze, not Lenny. -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB

DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of same licence and share copyright holders

2009-06-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
License: GPL ? If I understand the sentence in question correctly then the proposal really requires me to create all three stanzas... that's insane! Please tell me I am wrong and I may combine the stanzas in to one. cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Re: Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
There's already a report open on os-prober to make it really read-only #417407 IIRC Colin Watson already thought in an Ubuntu bug report about implementing a blacklist for os-prober. With the namespace issue fixed and a blacklist to avoid mounting partitions in a virtualization environment,

libquicktime transition

2007-07-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi, finally (and thanks to Lioc Minier a.o.) the new upstream version 1.0.0 of the libquicktime library has made it into Debian unstable. The library involves an ABI change relative to its successor 0.9.7 and had its soname bumped. I already asked all maintainers of rdepending packages to

Re: libquicktime transition

2007-07-21 Thread Fabian Greffrath
The timing is unfortunate, because smilutils is already tied to the glib1.2 transition and had not yet been built on all architectures. Hey, at least we waited until after the ffmpeg transition. ;) @Loic: Opps, sorry for the typo! Cheers, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
in arch-indep data packages that are also referenced by big-endian arch packages? While not being perfect, it is convenient and (most importantly) it actually works -- somehow. Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und

Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
them and see how it looks. ;) So -devel, what do you think about this approach? Cheers, Fabian PS: Please keep me in CC: as I am not subscribed to -devel. Thanks! -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
to do so, let alone to be specifically encouraging this behavior with debian/control fields! Alright, this speaks clearly against Build-Recommends. However, would you consider at least Build-Suggests useful enough to support them? Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum

toolame: remove from unstable, update in stable

2009-03-12 Thread Fabian Greffrath
be satisfied. 5. What else can you imagine/recommend...? Thank you very much for your suggestions. Cheers, Fabian [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/toolame/toolame_02l-7.dsc -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und

Re: toolame: remove from unstable, update in stable

2009-03-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
. To which dist should I upload, stable or stable-proposed-updates? Which version number should I choose? Mark Purcell schrieb: As the current twolame maintainer. I would be happy with this approach. Great, thank you very much! Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Re: toolame: remove from unstable, update in stable

2009-03-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Cyril Brulebois schrieb: Yes, you can! And yes, i did! ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
/From/: Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:biebl%40debian.org AFAIK, Ubuntu has introduced a new package called ghostscript (as successor of gs-gpl) which supersedes gs-esp, gs-gpl and gs-afpl and provides dummy/transitional packages for gs-esp/gs-gpl which depend on the ghostscript package

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hello Osamu, thank you very much for your reply! Osamu Aoki schrieb: Latest news here. http://www.mhatta.org/blog/ He is planning and working on its new release :-) Well, both the blog entry and the packages he was working on are from May. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Osamu Aoki schrieb: Well, I see new upload of gs-* ... by Lucas Nussbaum Yes, a NMU for gs-common that fixes a bug which the original maintainer has introduced in May. Since then he has not answered to the BTS about this... As I see his Japanese blog, he is alive :-) I only see that

Enabling and installing of risky (patented) codecs - made easy

2007-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
**/ -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Enabling and installing of risky (patented) codecs - made easy

2007-10-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Thank you very much for your replies to my concern. However I'd like to comment on some of them until the thread dies acknowledged and forgotten... Daniel Baumann: It's not actually dead, but in a kryogenic freeze. [...] Thanks for your answer. I hope you don't mind if I take over (active)

Re: Enabling and installing of risky (patented) codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Sam Morris: I don't see why users in countries where software is not patentable should be forced to jump through hoops to get access to multimedia software. If this repository is not added to the user's sources.list file by default then there is no advantage in setting up yet another

Re: Enabling and installing of risky (patented) codecs - madeeasy

2007-10-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Jeremy Stanley: As a sponsoree myself, I'm not entirely certain I understand why it's any more likely that a sponsoring DD will overlook and upload a package with the wrong section, than that a DD will upload a similarly incorrect package he or she directly maintains. Hm, that's true...

idea: allow package combinations as alternatives, e.g. a | b + c

2008-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
if you allready have both xv and ghostscript installed. Yes, I know there's a meta-package for this situation so you might simply depend on 'ghostview | postscript-viewer'. I hope I made my point nevertheless. ;) -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für

Re: idea: allow package combinations as alternative dependencies, e.g. a | b + c

2008-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
if you allready had oo.o installed and install you g-o otherwise. Nevertheless I consider this far less obvious than 'g-o | oo.o + oo.o-g'. Have a nice day, too. ;) -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT

Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-03-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear all, well, the subject line allready asks the question. Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar. Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to provide the dependency on

404 Errors on http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

2010-12-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
will it be fixed? Best Regards, Fabian Greffrath -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: greffr

Re: Does it matter that the squeeze installer...

2011-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Please do manually run os-prober (as root) on your system and report the output as a bug against os-prober if it still says Vista. Did you upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 or was it a clean install? - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#611880: ITP: webkit2pdf -- export web pages to PDF files

2011-02-03 Thread Fabian Greffrath
There is also webkit-image, which currently only exports to PNG image format, though. [0] http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/webkit-image -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Re: chromium-browser is taking over all URLs

2011-02-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
There will be a default selected in gnome-session, that can be changed by user action. Without a session-wide default (any session manager can set one, of course) a random choice (possibly alphabetical) is used. It seems the panel to set the preferred applications has been removed from future

Re: Re: Re: chromium-browser is taking over all URLs

2011-02-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
The disappearance of this applet in git master is very concerning, but I just received mention on IRC (thanks fredp) that the functionality will be back soon. I see, it will most probably become part of the System Information tab: http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/SystemInformation

Bug#615056: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-02-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com * Package name: wolf4sdl Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Moritz Ripper Kroll http://www.chaos-software.de.vu * URL : http://www.stud.uni- karlsruhe.de/~uvaue/chaos/downloads.html (403, please

Re: Bug#615056: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-03-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 22:39 +0100 schrieb Michael Goetze: regardless of the license it may be illegal to distribute this in Germany. I don't think this will be an issue. Installing the wolf4sdl package won't give you the whole game, only the engine. In order to actually play the game

Bug#617214: ITP: cantarell-fonts -- Humanist sans-serif font family

2011-03-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com * Package name: cantarell-fonts Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com * URL : http://abattis.org/cantarell/ * License : SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26

Re: Bug#615056: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-03-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Unfortunately, upstream has vanished by the end of last year. I have reviewed the source code together with Hans de Goede of Fedora fame and he has already uploaded his RPM package, which includes our common patch set, to RPMFusion. We agreed to keep sharing patches among each other and even

Re: Bug#622931: libav: pkg-config files implies possible static linkage

2011-04-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 17.04.2011 12:43, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Neil, thank you very much for your insightful summary of the matter. Now it seems pretty clear that this issue cannot be handled in the libav package, but needs to be solved at the pkg-config level. I'm therefore reassigning this bug to pkg-config.

Re: Re: debian/rules make -f restriction

2009-10-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
(or the same script with different parameters) from a debian/rules Makefile depending on the environment variable? -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234

Re: please test with tiff 4.0.0~beta4 from experimental

2009-11-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
I tried to build John Bradley's XV 3.10a with Greg's Jumbo Patches of 20070520 and it worked flawlessly. It's not in Debian but one of the few packages that I personally use that build against libtiff. ;) Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für

Re: Bug#555393: ITP: pidgin-skype -- Skype plugin for libpurple messengers

2009-11-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
This plugin communicates with the Skype application in the background to perform its work, so it's necessary to have Skype installed and running. If it really needs the non-free skype application to work properly, I would say it's a clear candidate for contrib. -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian

Re: Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Even if it doesn't add much to the discussion, I think the following is fun to read: http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/ Relax ;) -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3

Re: Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
the packaging details which it - strictly speaking - indeed is. Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32

Re: Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
* Current situation is far from perfect. * New GDM upstream, as is, is completely broken. Would it be possible to just stick with GDM 2.20 and maintain it as a fork (just as you do until now)? -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen

Re: Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
syntax (or even implementation) of such configuration files, but it should be easy to adopt them to the user's individual needs. I am not an expert and this is just a craze idea, but what do you think about it? -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 15.11.2009 16:15, schrieb Joerg Jaspert: multiple outstanding and intrusive patches got merged. We also discussed various outstanding topics, a few of which we can report about already, a few others where we still have to gather more information. This process, either asking our lawyers or

Re: Bug#559039: ITP: snmp-mibs-downloader -- Downloads RFCs and IANA Docs containing MIBs and extracts them

2009-12-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
, but they contain names and descriptions for the SNMP OID tree. a non-technical user won't understand even one word of this package description. Please do at least tell what the abbreviations stand for. Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für

Re: Can quilt delete files?

2009-12-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Put all the *jar files in the debian/clean file and they will be removed by the clean rule. You'll need debhelper compat 7 for this, though. Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3

Re: Debian vs. Ubuntu source control file

2010-01-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
webbrowser and on the virtual package alternatively, e.g. Depends: iceweasel | x-www-browser or even Depends: iceweasel | abrowser | x-www-browser to also cover the ubuntu case. Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und

GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi, it seems that some buildds occasionally have libssl-dev installed in their chroot. A friend of mine has found out that the netatalk package depends on libssl0.9.8 [sparc] in sid and [hppa, mipsel] in squeeze. Other architectures are not affected. For GPL-licensed software like netatalk this

netatalk: Please avoid accidental linking against libssl [was: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!]

2010-01-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: netatalk Version: 2.0.5-2 Severity: important Holger Levsen: how about the compromise and doing both, except that for (1) we file the bugs with severity important? Hi Jonas, as recently pointed out on debian-devel [1], the netatalk package is accidently linked against libssl on

Re: Re: Bug#565969: netatalk: Please avoid accidental linking against libssl [was: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!]

2010-01-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
/include/openssl -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: greffr...@leat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Re: Re: correct/ideal way to obtain root from a shell script

2010-02-02 Thread Fabian Greffrath
-- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: greffr...@leat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-02 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi -devel, The Mozilla extension packaging team decided to use xul-ext- (instead of mozilla-, iceweasel-, etc.) as prefix for all Mozilla extensions [1]. This will group the extensions visually. There are currently 18 extensions that use this naming scheme already. Please rename the binary

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I file wishlist bugs against the affected packages? What's the opinion of the affected packages' maintainers? - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 04.02.2010 11:01, schrieb Rene Engelhard: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:13:40AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 03.02.2010 07:14, schrieb Mike Hommey: I'd go for the -browserplugin suffix. Fine, but what now? Can we already call this a consensus? Shall I file wishlist bugs against

Re: Missing libstdc++5 for 3rd party software

2010-02-12 Thread Fabian Greffrath
always got a i386 version of this package laying around somewhere. -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E

Re: Re: Bug#571255: udev_151-3_amd64 failed at apt-get install

2010-03-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
The preinst code which guaranteed lockstep upgrades of udev and kernel packages does not work reliably anymore, apparently because apt now tries to install the kernel and udev packages with different dpkg runs. We need a new solution which does not require users to manually disable the check...

Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname

2010-03-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: general Severity: important Dear all, I've found something that is most propbably a bug in Linux's resolv system, when trying to open a specific page with Epiphany (but any other browser will fail as well, please try out yourself). To reproduce, please visit http://www.deviantart.com/

Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent]

2010-03-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
[Resent, because reportbug somehow ate my line breaks, sorry!] Dear all, I've found something that is most propbably a bug in Linux's resolv system, when trying to open a specific page with Epiphany (but any other browser will fail as well, please try out yourself). To reproduce, please

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

2010-03-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
reopen 575209 reassign 575209 eglibc found 575209 2.10.2-6 found 575209 2.11-0exp6 severity 575209 important retitle 575209 Please resolv domain names with hyphens as border chars tags 575209 + patch thanks Hi Holger et al (please drop -devel out of the list of CCs if you feel this is getting

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

2010-03-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.03.2010 14:15, schrieb Ben Hutchings: So if Windows accepts it then it must be OK? I don't think we have to follow that rule. Otherwise you should be demanding support for NMB and WINS in glibc. Mac OS X, too, BTW. But that's not what I wanted to say. I wanted to say that I consider

Re: Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-04-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
It seems that we could also read the requested versions of automake and autoconf from debian/control and export them automatically using: [...] Does this sound like a good idea? IMHO this sounds like a very good idea. Consequently, dh_autoreconf should become a no-op if autoconf is missing

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

2010-04-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hmm, thanks to bwh for pointing out my mistake, sorry for the noise. So, what's the matter? Please enlighten us all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Common handling of browser plugins?

2006-09-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
java-gjc-compat-plugin does not recommend or suggest any browser In my opinion this should be matched, too. Thank you! Nice greetings, Fabian Greffrath -- Fabian Greffrath Institut für Experimentalphysik I Ruhr-Universität Bochum D-44780 Bochum Raum: NB 2/28 Tel.: +49(234)32-27691 Fax: +49

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi! You might want to check my xv packages at http://ftp-master.debian-unofficial.org/debian-archive/packages/xv/ They have the so-called 'jumbo patchset' applied and compile well with gcc-4.0 (not tested with gcc-4.1 yet, but should compile, too). The packages were compiled before the xorg

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Personally, *I* think that still fails the DFSG, as you can't convey the right to distribute, but what do I know? Definitely this failes the DFSG. These packages will probably never enter Debian again, but at least _we_ (at d-u.o) are explicitely _allowed_ to redistribute them. Wow...

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
With Mozilla disregarding H.264, the community needs a full browser capable of H.264 video playback without the privacy issues of Chrome. http://packages.debian.org/sid/epiphany-browser You may need to install some additional gstreamer plugins, though. Cheers, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.05.2010 18:02, schrieb Ryan Oram: Epiphany has iffy tabbed browsing support and the Javascript engine is incomplete (I can't edit posts on many forums for example). It's a great browser and should be worked on, but we should take as many avenues as possible. I don't see what you mean by

Re: Re: when to split a package into architecture: all and architecture: any halves

2010-05-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Personally I base my splitting on lintian's warning. The package has a significant amount of architecture-independent data (over 4MB, or over 2MB and more than 50% of the package) in /usr/share but is an architecture-dependent package. This is wasteful of mirror space and bandwidth since it

Re: Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-31 Thread Fabian Greffrath
There must be a good *reason* why Christian still maintains ffmpeg and mplayer in d-m.o even though same-named packages are also in Debian. Maybe he likes the extra work?? Maybe because he activates some 5 more built-in encoders in ffmpeg and links it against some 5 more libraries like

Re: Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-31 Thread Fabian Greffrath
So, you say, concern myself with patent issues, and Reinhard says, ignore the patent issues. No! If feel the need to quote us, please do it at least correctly! Reinhard did not say to ignore the patent issue. He asked you to stop throwing oil on the fire, as the whole media patent story has

Re: Fw: Bug#587620: (wishlist) debian packages: add an optional Why field to suggest entries (in the dependency field)

2010-07-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
It would be nice to add an optionnal why field to explain what features are enabled in package A when installing package B1. IMHO if the suggests isn't obvious, this should be part of the package description. Something like this package can also handle postscript files if ghostscript is

Re: Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-08-02 Thread Fabian Greffrath
I don't see how you can really have packages maintained by more than one person. I reckon the always has to be one person responsible. So I was wondering exactly what extra privileges those persons would have. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders -- To

segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

2010-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi, since yesterday I get a series of segmentation faults on my system which makes it impossible to install or upgrade packages or even start X. The system is inside a virtualbox so I don't think that hardware errors are the cause. I don't remember having changed anything fundamental in this

Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

2010-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 04.08.2010 11:30, schrieb b...@bc-bd.org: I have seen something similar on my NC10 running testing (native, no virtualization) after hibernating/resuming it. A reboot fixed that. Also, that problem fixed itself before I could get a clue on what was causing it. Unfortunately, a reboot did

Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

2010-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
I think you want reportbug here. Except for the fact that reportbug dies with a segmentation fault. :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

2010-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
More information on this issue: The segfault in /u/s/debconf/frontend occurs as soon as the command mx $frontend=make_frontend(); in line 14 is executed. I found this out by cutting off the tail of this file from line 15 on and running it via 'perl -w'. If I cut off from line 13 on the

Re: Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

2010-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Found a workaround: In the Name: debconf/frontend section of /usr/cache/debconf/config.dat I manually changed the Value: Gnome field to Readline and now I can run apt-get -f install and finally have my system back in a usable state. Sorry for the noise, - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Re: Re: Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

2010-08-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Simon et al., thank you very much for your answers! Do you have GLib 2.25.12-1 from experimental, which is known to be crashy (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591075)? Yes, you are exactly right. I forgot to mention in my first post that the package mixture on my

Re: Seeking fellow developers feedback for iceweasel in squeeze (transient homepage

2010-08-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
So maybe these transient homepages (remember they only show up when the xulrunner version changes, which won't happen in squeeze stable/security updates or when running iceweasel for the first time) should just thank users, and point to some useful links/rss feeds and be done with it. On the

Re: Bug#595202: ITP: felix -- Latin-French dictionary, by Felix Gaffiot

2010-09-03 Thread Fabian Greffrath
the data come from Felix Gaffiot's Latin-French dictionary which was published in year 1934, so it is now in the public domain. The scans of Felix Gaffiot's Latin-French dictionary have been made available by user Zyephyrus at fr.wikisource.org and are part of the Public Domain. If the

Re: Bug#595202: ITP: felix -- Latin-French dictionary, by Felix Gaffiot

2010-09-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Georges, Am 03.09.2010 22:46, schrieb Georges Khaznadar: You are right, a set of scanned pages is a bold package. So, which would be the most reasonable thing to do: cancel the upload of felix into Debian, or upload only the reader, and suggest to get the data from some other place? I'd

Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel - is there more to it?

2010-09-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear kernel team and -devel, Oracle recently announced [1] their own 2.6.32-based Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for their RHEL derivative called Oracle Linux. The announcement promises severe performance improvements compared to the stock RHEL kernel. Do you know what patches they applied

Re: Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
I definitely agree that we need to get this change into squeeze and that we need to be careful to not get into bikeshedding about names. On the other hand, choosing a group for a purpose like this should imho be done carefully as changing the name later is hard if not impossible. Since this

Re: Re: Whether should grub2 write MBR automatic

2011-06-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
The second behavior means that: when update/reinstall grub or update/install/reinstall kernel will call update-grub but not call grub-install. What if the updated grub is incompatible with the bootloader installed by a previous version of grub? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Re: ifupdown package interfaces include function

2011-08-31 Thread Fabian Greffrath
ifupdown 0.7~alpha5 was uploaded to unstable rather than experimental by mistake. Since version numbers aren't allowed to go backwards, we now have 0.7~alpha5+really0.6.15 in unstable, but for the purposes of Don't we have epochs for this? I know they are annoying and should be avoided, but

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
how can I teach aptitude to not be sooo incredible stupid? In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press Maybe experimental (where gnome3 currently resides) has the wrong priority set in /etc/apt/preferences? Mine looks like this and I regularly upgrade (through apt-get, though)

Re: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-10-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
I have prepared a new package of upstream SVN snapshot r262 that replaces the non-free MAME OPL2 emulator with a GPL'ed one from DOSBOX. Furthermore, I got a confirmation email by John Carmack himself of iD software stating that the original Wolf3d source code has been relicensed under the

Re: Re: Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: And I believe that NM should not be something gnome should depend on as there are various other ways to configure your network. Imho it should Recommend network-manage | wicd-gtk | similar-tools-if-they-exist. Those packages do not provide the NetworkManager DBus interface

The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear -devel, is there a reason why we have both a mingw32 and a gcc-mingw32 package in Debian? Both seem to contain the same, i.e. the GCC from the MinGW project (please note they dropped the 32 for a while), but the version in gcc-mingw32 is newer than the one in mingw32. For the 64-bit

Re: Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Thanks for your answers! On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: Does mingw[32] have any particular advantages over mingw-w64, I wonder? Not that I know. mingw-w64's CRT is more complete (it includes LFS, which mingw32 does not, for instance), includes more

Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 09.11.2011 17:04, schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles: Yes, that would be my advice. Unfortunately mingw32 is now too far behind mingw-w64. The fork has become better than the original project. I still love it for the MSYS bundle, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Stephen, The history has been explained by others. I've been working for a while on dropping at least gcc-mingw32; see #644769 which tracks the various packages build-depending on gcc-mingw32 and/or mingw32. There are only three packages left now; see #623400, #623402 and #623526. Patches

Re: Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
gcc-mingw32 is no longer a build-dependency of any package in Debian so I'll probably dispose of it with the next gcc-mingw-w64 upload (which will include a transition package). That's great news! I was thinking more along the lines of mingw-w64-win32 and mingw-w64-win64 so that the API names

Re: Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
gcc-mingw32 is no longer a build-dependency of any package in Debian so I'll probably dispose of it with the next gcc-mingw-w64 upload (which will include a transition package). That's great news! I was thinking more along the lines of mingw-w64-win32 and mingw-w64-win64 so that the API names

Re: Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
probably generate more confusion with the similarity to mingw32. I'd vote for mingw-w64-i686 and mingw-w64-x86_64 in the end, based on the following: Me too! How about the following base description: MinGW-w64 provides a development and runtime environment for 32- and 64-bit (x86 and

Re: Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
To provide all the binaries in gcc-mingw32 it will have to depend on {gcc,g++,gfortran}-mingw-w64-i686; its only contents will be the compatibility symlinks you mention (and the usual /usr/share/doc contents). It will pull in mingw-w64-i686-dev indirectly, and binutils-mingw-w64-i686 too. This

Re: /etc/mtab and /lib/init/rw migration; libpam-mount breakage

2011-12-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
anymore, which itself is linked against libcryptsetup). Please find this issue fixed in the attached patch. However, libpam-mount is still missing Build-Depends on libmount-dev and libblkid-dev. Cheers, Fabian Author: Fabian Greffrath fabian+deb...@greffrath.com Description: Link pmt-ehd against

Re: Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Please let's not forget that this is not about systemd: we have not even started yet the flame war to decide if we should use systemd or upstart. Well, In find the overall reception of systemd in upstream projects and the current state of upstart in Debian quite convincing. Even OpenSUSE who

Re: Bug#671302: Circular Build Dependencies (was Bug#671302: libav: circular dependency between libav and opencv)

2012-05-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
libav - x264 - libav AFAICT the x264 frontend uses libav whereas libav uses the libx264 shared library. So theortically (!) this issue could be solved by two separate source packages for the x264 frontend and the library. - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
By the way, I find it enlightening to realize that gnome only recommends network-manager-gnome whereas gnome-core depends on it. That was at gnome 2.30 times... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: solving the network-manager-in-gnome problem (was Re: Re: duplicates in the archive)

2012-07-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Recommends is wrong for metapackages because it gets upgrades very wrong. This is why it is used very marginally. Couldn't this get fixed if Depends: network-manager-gnome (= 0.9.4) was replaced with Recommends: network-manager-gnome Breaks: network-manager-gnome ( 0.9.4) -- To

Re: [CTTE #681834] network-manager as Recommends or Depends

2012-09-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 17.09.2012 18:54, schrieb Don Armstrong: 7. The Technical Committee overrules the decision of the gnome-core metapackage maintainers. The dependency from gnome-core to network-manager-gnome should be downgraded to Recommends. Maybe the attached patch should also get applied against

Re: Bug#693040: libav: Strange build failure on several archs

2012-11-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 13.11.2012 16:45, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: The problem is upstream and has been identified now. Reverting upstream commit 468ea9d5b14f92fe61f47f034e67066f65163f5f seems to fix the issue, albeit a better solution is currently being worked on. Good to know that you've succeeded to narrow

Re: Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

2012-12-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
OK. I maybe can try to add a fontconfig script or something like that. If you want to keep them in place, a fontconfig script as simple as ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig dir/usr/share/javascript/mathjax/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/otf/dir /fontconfig will be

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