New members of the archive maintenance team

1999-11-09 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ Please don't reply to debian-devel-announce ] Hi, I'd like to publicly welcome Gergely Madarasz and Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho who are joining Guy, Richard and I as members of the archive maintenance team. Even though we originally only asked for one

New science section

1999-11-17 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ Please do not reply to debian-devel-announce ] Hi, There is now a new 'science' section in potato. If you have a package which belongs in there or know of one which does, please either file a bug against ftp.debian.org or (preferably) just reply

Problem with all upload queues (including master)

2000-08-23 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Due to a nasty brown-paper-bag bug on my part with the keyring all the upload queues effectively became convinced that there were was no longer any Debian developers and fastidiously rejected every upload they received as a result. So if you

Do NOT upload crypto or crypto-dependents to main

2002-02-22 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sorry to beat this half to death but I'm concerned by how many people already think it's okay to upload crypto (despite the big blink style warning in the NI proposal mail) and how many more are going to confuse themselves with the warning that

6 new sections in the archive

2003-03-31 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The following new sections were recently added to the archive: o embedded o gnome o kde o libdevel o perl o python 'embedded' was added in response to the recently added opie packages; but there's more that can be moved there. The other

gluck.d.o (i.e. people.d.o, cvs.d.o) downtime

2003-08-15 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, gluck is currently down. A hardware upgrade (machine replacement necessitated by a CPU fan fault in the existing box) went pear-shaped when it came to moving the external RAID array from oldgluck to newgluck. For now people.debian.org and

more details on the recent compromise of debian.org machines

2003-11-27 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, *NB* bear in mind that: a) the information on the break-in in comes from compromised machines and thus has to be taken with appropriate skepticism. b) the investigation is still ongoing - as I was writing this draft further

recovery status update

2003-12-04 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [To any press/general public type folks who might be reading this: this mail is really aimed at developers, hopefully a more (coherent etc.) public announce will go out soon through the normal channels for the relevant to non-developer bits (e.g.

recovery update: accounts unlocked and the queue daemon

2003-12-07 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, If you haven't already, please read: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200312/msg1.html for context. Accounts - All accounts (that were active prior to the compromise) have now been

HP debian.org machines scheduled shutdown May 29-30 (people, qa, cvs, www-master)

2004-05-27 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, HP has a scheduled power outage for the building that hosts several debian.org machines. The outage will occur 1pm GMT May 29 through to 1pm GMT May 30. This will affect: gluck.debian.org (people, cvs, www-master) paer.debian.org(hppa

New Debian Maintainers

2000-05-31 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ Please do not reply to debian-devel-announce ] I've no idea if this mail is appropriate for this list. Every time I've bought the issue up on IRC, I've had at least 3 suggestions for which list I should send it to. If you think

RFC: implementation of package pools

2000-10-18 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, For the last month and a half, I've been working on re-implementing dinstall and switching to package pools. Here are the details. Comments would be appreciated, _but_ I'm really not looking for Wouldn't it be nice if or this small detail is

experimental cleanup

2001-01-30 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ Please reply to debian-devel@ (i.e. obey the Reply-To) and don't Cc me on replies, I read the list. ] Hi, I've gone on a cruft cleaning exercise in experimental for three reasons: o It was long overdue... o I've got a bug report requesting

Changes to experimental, proposed-updates and orphaned distributions

2001-02-10 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The following changes have taken place as of today's daily archive run. (1) Experimental is dead, long live experimental. As mentioned in an earlier email, I've cleaned a lot of the cruft out of experimental. What remains has been migrated

gluck (cvs, people, planet, etc.) downtime - ongoing raid problems

2005-04-04 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sunday evening gluck.debian.org started experiencing problems writing to it's disks. The local admins investigated and after physically power cycling machine it became apparent that the RAID controller was deeply unhappy - it claimed to have

ftp-master, ftp and db .debian.org moving - hosting sought

2005-06-22 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm sorry to say that Debian's hosting of machines at Above.Net has come to an end. Michael Shields and Steve Osborn have hosted critical Debian machines for over 6 years now in what's been one of the best and hassle-free donated hostings we've

ftp-master.d.o, db.d.o down due to relocation

2005-07-21 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As previously mentioned[1], newraff and newsamosa have lost their existing hosting and are being relocated. They've now been shutdown and are in the process of being FedEx-ed back to HP. Because a) that shouldn't take long and b) our inability

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-16 Thread James Troup
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know perl, and am only going on what Ray has been telling me. It was my understanding that perl could be made to dynamically load it's gdbm part on request and that way perl need only recommend or (better) suggest gdbm. Is this

Re: tempfile and dependencies

1998-06-16 Thread James Troup
Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my question is: must I add Depends: debianutils ( 1.6), or I'm guaranteed that will be upgraded the essential packages first? Is this bug-fix worthy of an hamm release? Yes, no, IMO no. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~

Re: GNUPLOT [does not] break GPL

1998-06-17 Thread James Troup
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 15:37:30 $ ldd `which gnuplot` libvga.so.1 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) libreadline.so.2 = /lib/libc5-compat/libreadline.so.2 (0x40048000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4006a000) libc.so.5 =

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: Package: jde [...] Depends: emacs20 | xemacs20-bin ^^ Why? We run JDE on Emacs 19.34 here in the department just fine. Recommends: jdk1.1-dev \begin{just checking}You realise, of course, this puts it in

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time around Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:07:24 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: elvis-tiny is small enough to fit on too (although that may have changed now that we use slang rather than ncurses - can elvis-tiny use slang??) and provides a

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-20 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: Depends: emacs20 | xemacs20-bin ^^ Why? We run JDE on Emacs 19.34 here in the department just fine. According to the requirements as listed on http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/, to get JDE to work with [x]emacs 19.x,

Re: Bug-System: Why no mail to maintainer on reassign?

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Florian Hinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Later someone will reassign that bug to the correct package, but the maintainer of that package won't get any mail. That's simply not true. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RANT If people weren't being childish about the addition of 2 characters to the changelog, which the users generally never see, we wouldn't be having this discussion. [...] Use the tools provided! /RANT (Sorry for the AOL, but...) Well said; I

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jun 1998, James Troup wrote: (Sorry for the AOL, but...) Well said; I wish people would get over their epoch-phobia already. And I wish people would stop suggesting a poor solution. How is it a ``poor'' solution? I'll tell you what _is_

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current problem can be solved by a version suffix and therefore does not require an epoch. Eh? Almost any version-number problem can be solved by a version suffix[1]. What's your point? Are you saying we don't need epochs? Or anyone using epochs is

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh? Almost any version-number problem can be solved by a version suffix[1]. Not where 1.0 follows 3.14, for example. You clearly can, as I demonstrated in my footnote. Anyway, this is obviously somewhat

Re: slang, newt, whiptail

1998-06-24 Thread James Troup
Michael Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but i didn't find SOURCE OF WHIPTAIL at all, what's going on there?? You didn't look very hard. Package: whiptail Version: 0.21-8 [...] source: newt -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~

Re: Debian is not a main distro?

1998-10-03 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 05:36:37PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Assuming, of course, that Debian will accept them as a developer. Are people with legitimate packaging interests being rejected? That's a ridiculously simplistic question that I won't

Re: formal documents

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Kikutani Makoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ? Yes. [Though if there is any opportunity to meet another developer in real life and cross sign each others keys, this is the preferred method, where it's viable.] -- James

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times. Took 5 days, like, but it compiled ``properly''. -- James

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes in gratuitous QP: On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote: Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent with only 14Mb (don't ask

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your mighty 386/25 ^ a) cut out the sarcasm, it's uncalled for. b) get your facts right, it's not a 386, it's a 386/25 equivalent[1] as I said already. with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution and custom kernels

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about pop stars? We could have Debian sporty, Debian Ginger, Debian Posh... *bang* -- James

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-06 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED](James A. Treacy) writes: Should apt have to download the dsc file for a package before it knows what the source files are? Why on earth not? If it's going to download the source, the .dsc file is part of the source and has to be downloaded anyway. If there are plans to

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-07 Thread James Troup
[ Please don't Cc me on replies to a public mailing list ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James A. Treacy) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED](James A. Treacy) writes: Should apt have to download the dsc file for a package before it knows what the source files are? Why on earth not? If it's going to

Re: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work within fakeroot

1998-10-09 Thread James Troup
Roberto Lumbreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.4.0.30 $ dpkg-shlibdeps src/fortify; cat debian/substvars shlibs:Depends=libc6 (= 2.0.7u) $ fakeroot dpkg-shlibdeps src/fortify; cat debian/substvars shlibs:Depends=libc6, libc6 (= 2.0.7u) ^

Re: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work within fakeroot

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: Roberto Lumbreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday, October 9 1998, at 21:19:38, James Troup wrote: : Look at fakeroot's shlibs file. This is not a bug (or certainly not : the one you're claiming it is). Ok. Of course, you are right

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Do you think this list would be useful or that the already existing lists can carry the load (namely debian-devel)? This list is not needed and I don't consider it useful at all. (As a porter) I disagree; I've often wanted

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So you want to force all porters to join another list? HTH does one force volunteers? No, I want the list to be available if porters want to join it. Why not contact them in their native lists? Because these lists are for users too and mass

Re: Fix buildd@powerpc.debian.org bounces!

1998-10-11 Thread James Troup
[ Why on earth is this on devel? It's not relevant here. ] Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It provides: [ Gratuitous advertisement for smail snipped ] The same setup should be installed on kullervo. If not, I might get over and remove exim there in order to install Smail, too.

Re: New maintainer for es, done right this time

1998-10-13 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Format: 1.5 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:03:31 -0400 Source: es Binary: es Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.90beta1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: es - An extensible shell based on `rc'.

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-14 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Moving this to debian-devel, discussion doesn't belong in the bug report. ] [ Killed the Cc: line. ] James Troup wrote: There is no i386 port in as much as i386 maintainers 99.5% of the time _don't_ compile packages from scratch, which is when over

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup wrote: They don't compile from freshly unpacked source. How odd. Other maintainer must work substantially differently than I, then. If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a freshly unpacked foobar_1.1-3.dsc? Another

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup said: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup wrote: Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip waiting, while a normal NMU does not? Why are they different? Because I'm not forcing my changes on anyone

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: binary-only MNU hits only one arch normal NMU hits possible all archs=20 A binary-only MNU violates the GPL, end of story. FUD, FUD, FUD and more FUD. The source changes for our binary-only NMUs are _always_ sent to the BTS. Also, please get over this GPL

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6... 2.x; we don't accept later stuff. -- James

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Hartmut Koptein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity 2. every NMU must be with source 3. Porters needn't to ask maintainers for permission 4. a NMU fixes bugs; no need to forward this to the BTS or the maintainer ok for all ? That would be a big fat no.

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hartmut Koptein wrote: 1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity Probably. Wrong. -- James

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a freshly unpacked foobar_1.1-3.dsc? Yes. Congratulations; you're in the minority. Binary-only and normal NMU's are the same thing, No they're not. Why do you insist on this

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each day you autobuild say, 30 packages from Incoming. Building (especially auto-building) packages from Incoming is a bad idea, please don't encourage it. -- James

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup wrote: Who said [binary-only NMU's for i386] were bad? You did. No, I said binary-only NMUs as a whole were not ideal; I didn't say anything about binary-only NMU's for i386. Please try to stick to the facts. They are very rarely

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:23:38PM +0100, James Troup wrote: Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6... 2.x; we don't

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the status of gnupg? Not yet used in Debian. Is there a Debian package available? Yes, on non-US. -- James

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody goes around compiling

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-19 Thread James Troup
Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not discouraged, it's simply not allowed or usable. New maintainer don't accept PGP 5 keys; PGP 5 keys don't go in the Debian keyring and dinstall doesn't accept them. I find it strange that you would make this mistake. I've looked at PGP 5

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Perhaps because the more you whine about it the more prone we are to ignore you? -- James

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bugs against ftp.debian.org are often important - these ones are holding up slink's release (granted, they're not the only things holding it up). No, it's not these ones. Santiago is whining (again) about other bugs. The release critical bugs for

Re: cracklib-runtime NMU

1999-01-20 Thread James Troup
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Previously Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: As I mentioned in an earlier posting, there's no reason for this bug to be release-critical. This is another bug. Not being able to compile a package at all *is* a release-critical problem and violates the

Re: libtool rpath

1999-01-27 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +case ${host} in + *-pc-linux-gnu) ^^ s/pc/*/ (pc==non-i386 unfriendly) -- James Never trust trucks

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread James Troup
Edward John M. Brocklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think so - Octopi can't fly! Someone who obviously hasn't read RFC 1925... -- James Never trust trucks

Re: libtool rpath

1999-01-28 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:29:42PM +, James Troup wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +case ${host} in + *-pc-linux-gnu) ^^ s/pc/*/ (pc==non-i386 unfriendly) Good point. However, /usr/doc/lintian/libtool

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread James Troup
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, is it really a good thing to have dinstall announce the uploads? I often depend on the announcements to alert me to new versions in Incoming. In the new setup, the announcements won't come until the package

Intent to package: xplanet

1999-05-25 Thread James Troup
) | Installed-Size: 50 | Maintainer: James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Description: render images of the earth | xplanet is similar to xearth, where an image of the earth is rendered | into the X root window. Both mercator and orthographic projections | can be displayed as well as a window

Re: Hosed potato/main/Packages...

1999-09-30 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 30 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, just uploaded some new packages which fix the typo. I just hand-edited my available file. :-) Maybe it should be trapped by dinstall I tend to

{R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

1999-09-30 Thread James Troup
Hi, OpenBSD have started working on the last free SSH (1.2.12 was under a DFSG free license AFAICT[1]), they also, (again AFAICT [I'm going by the CVS commits]), are ripping out the patented algrothims (IDEA, etc.). Unfortunately, I'm chronically busy with work and haven't had time to look into

Re: bash package removing /bin/sh on upgrade

1999-10-01 Thread James Troup
Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If somebody could come up with a better method of handling this it would be most welcome. Don't do it (muck around with /bin/sh links). Guy made a comment in the bug report about this and AFAIK didn't do it yet in case of breakages like this. --

Re: {R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

1999-10-01 Thread James Troup
Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 09:55 +0100 1999-10-01, Philip Hands wrote: James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OpenBSD have started working on the last free SSH (1.2.12 was under a DFSG free license AFAICT[1]), they also, (again AFAICT [I'm going by the CVS commits

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-01 Thread James Troup
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am pretty sure that SSH was never free software. Could you show me the license on the version that they started with? - This file is part of the ssh software, Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread James Troup
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They use libssl, which begs the question why isn't libssl in non-US/non-free? Uh, because I keep forgetting. I've been meaning to do that since Guy split non-US up... I guess I'll go file a bug against ftp.debian.org. -- James

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-21 Thread James Troup
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Six days ago I discovered that one of the Debian system administrators had made a deliberate and highly unusual configuration change which predictably broke mail from or via master to: Err, no. Mail was _already_ bouncing, but after reaching the retry

Re: whence netcomics?

2000-03-12 Thread James Troup
Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody know what happened to netcomics? I'd been assuming it was pulled from potato but left in woody, but I just looked and that doesn't seem to be the case. The only normal or archived bug on it doesn't say anything about pulling the

new-maintainer and delays (was Re: [some idiot troll who should have been ignored])

2000-09-13 Thread James Troup
Christopher C. Chimelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like quite a backlog has been created by NM being shut down for so long. Actually, no, way less than half the current backlog are applicants from the shut down period. But, after picking a few people to look at that are currently

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although I'm not proposing a particular format): From my point of view, such information would ideally be: o not centrally controlled, but package/maintainer(s) controlled[0] o trivial

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-03 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a hard time getting it to work though. I tried Uploaders with dpkg 1.9.17 and no go: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field Uploaders in input data in general section of control info file It needs to be in the source section of the

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-03 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's how I tried it, no go. dpkg-gencontrol does not contain the word '[Uu]ploaders' on my system either. Oh, right, yah, okay; it appears it was only dpkg-source that was patched. The dpkg-gencontrol is just a warning though, the Uploaders field still

Re: IA64 buildd status ?

2001-09-04 Thread James Troup
Richard A Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see this status at the excuses page: Bogus dep-wait; I've given it back so the buildd will actually try it. -- James

Re: file format for debian/copyright

2002-12-07 Thread James Troup
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:04:40AM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl may fail to understand that GPL is only mentioned in the copyright notice, and is not the type of the license

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a database). That complicated and undocumented mess has been running the Debian archives successfully and without major

Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I were to clean things up and make DAK easier to use for private archives (eg. by isolating all Debian specific stuff, ideally into a limited number *.conf files), would somebody be willing to commit the changes to CVS? No one sane agrees to pre-commit

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Change paths to config files in utils.py. Sigh, you don't need to do that. See /etc/katie/katie.cnf on e.g. auric. - rose creates initial directories (actually some where missing; I can't remember which onces were missing and which ones were

Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5. What is the dsync-flist used by mkchecksums, and where can I get it from? Google search returns nothing. http://cvs.debian.org/?cvsroot=dsync -- James

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that will fix the problem. *sigh* all the mail sent by the python scripts is done by utils.send_mail(); if you want to ensure they don't send any mail make that function a nop. But it's becoming increasingly clear to me that the source should

Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:11:08AM +, James Troup wrote: Err, bullshit, there's doc/*.1.sgml and --help for most of the key scripts. [1106] [snoopy:unstable:bam] ~/cvswork/dak helena --help helena is not a key script. Try again. grep -lir 'Options

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First you were encouraging us to learn to use it, now your discouraging us from even trying Err, no I wasn't. I don't encourage people to use katie, in fact I actively discourage it. Even the README now tells people to use something else and that's

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - rose creates initial directories (actually some where missing; I can't remember which onces were missing and which ones were misconfigured though now). rose uses the provided config file; it'd be hard for her to misconfigure a directory

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-04-22 Thread James Troup
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps the most important part of the build log shoulc be quoted as well: Or not. The following central src deps are (probably) missing: libglib1.2-dev (= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2-dev (= 1.2.10-4) Which is just that the central src deps are out of

Re: Autobuilder locale setup

2003-04-23 Thread James Troup
Adam Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh wrote: This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset. Can the autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is only C available? Autobuilders

Re: fixed libstdc++5 package

2003-04-30 Thread James Troup
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Btw, looking at the reports, I see 30 submitted from i386 architectures, one from a powerpc machine, none from other architectures, although all architectures are affected. Conclusions? ;-) Well, duh, let's see. Several architectures' build were

Re: new bug tags

2003-06-01 Thread James Troup
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:52:02AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: The BTS now has lfs (large file support) and ipv6 tags. http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian.org/tag:ipv6

Re: new bug tags

2003-06-01 Thread James Troup
Rene Engelhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure, but the architecture tags can be used n ot only for buildd failures? No, that's my point, IMO they shouldn't be used _at all_ for FTBFS bugs, because they'd be useless and misleading - and if these tags are available people will try to use them

samosa (aka db.debian.org) problems

2003-07-01 Thread James Troup
Hi, As many of you will have already noticed samosa is down and has been for a while. Unfortunately the machine is in a bad way - the motherboard just beeps constantly when the machine's powered on. The local admin has taken it out of it's rack and home with him to try and fix it. However even

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-01 Thread James Troup
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having bugs not fixed in 4 years (3 years even with a patch provided) Don't be such a disingenuous troll. The patch for that _wishlist_ bug has been there since April. Not for 3 years. -- James

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-03 Thread James Troup
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:36:10 +0200, Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 07:57:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what is the single command to apt-get install all the GNU versions of everything? Just create and maintain a

Re: Suspicious reply from katie

2004-10-09 Thread James Troup
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just uploaded another version, which resulted in receiving the attached message. Note the NEW status, and the warning. Is this a katie bug? Or did I do something wrong? It's a James-is-a-moron problem. I broke (read: deleted) experimental's

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-22 Thread James Troup
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What didn't work about anonymous FTP? The queue daemon can no longer handle PGP 2.x keys; I don't know why and since a) the number of developers still using these kind of keys for uploads can be counted on the fingers of a mutilated hand, b) there are

Re: some packages from incoming are not going into sid

2003-11-07 Thread James Troup
Noèl Köthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there any reason why packages, which are already accepted and now are in incoming.d.o are not moving to the archives? for example http://incoming.debian.org/wget_1.9-1_m68k.deb is there since 2003-11-04. Other packages like xmule or webmin are having

Re: ftpmaster accepts packages that have been rejected a few days ago

2003-11-11 Thread James Troup
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had to wait almost three weeks to have the package REJECTED by ftpmaster 20031023144719~jennifer~Moving to new~linux-atm_2.4.1-10_i386.changes 20031103144602~lisa~rejected~linux-atm_2.4.1-10_i386.changes Hmm, that doesn't even look like 2 weeks to me...

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-25 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My memory is horrible, but IIRC James Troup (ie, our keymaster..) did some similar study at the DebConf5 KSP and ended up with a list of people whose GPG signtures he didn't trust anymore because of whatever trick they fell for. Err, for the record, no I

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