Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

for at least a year before I was invited to join the project. The additional 11 months I waited in the NM queue didn't stop me doing useful work. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org

Re: Using buildds only

-A'. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

applied, or at least carefully reviewed and applied amended patches, is a pity. As the bug lists at http://bts.turmzimmer.net show, most of the RC bugs currently have patches. Grab yours today! Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp

Re: More pbuilder use!

throw away the snapshot. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: More pbuilder use!

, than Debian is NOT free. I think you got that backwards ;-) Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: More pbuilder use!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:57PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Not a kernel feature, but see http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/schroot Does not help, each chroot needs to be setup by root and you

Re: More pbuilder use!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I often do debuild -us -uc -nc outside the chroot till i get the package to build and then build just source and dump it into the local buildd to confirm a full

Re: a place for a package directory in root

, unrelated, use. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: incoming

.20010818-0.1woody1_ia64.changes 20-May-2005 04:32 You could upload a .commands file. See the README in incoming. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key

Re: a place for a package directory in root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:26:16PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some packages chose to place random junk in there (e.g. resolvconf). This is wrong. This location

Re: Do we still need libc5?

/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/ No trace. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/i586/ No trace. - From what I can see, we are the sole distributors of libc5, and IMO dropping it (and its toolchain) would be a wise move. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: Do we still need libc5?

Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Roger Leigh: We can't provide proper security support, and by now, libc5 is likely full of holes, so IMO it's best if we drop it. It's not like there's any active maintenance or we can do any serious work on it: it's dead code. If users need

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

of the locking issues properly. The scripts allow one to customise and configure the chroot quite easily, so it can (for example) mount block devices on demand, and (later tonight, once I write it) create, mount and destroy LVM snapshots on the fly. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Notice that the /etc/schroot/setup.d/30passwd was used to sync the passwd and related files by copying them into the chroot from the main system. While it's a simple

Re: localhost.localdomain

fixed upstream. See http://www.cups.org/str.php?L989+P0+S1+C0+I0+E0+Qrleigh.debian The sad thing is, this is special cased primarily because of broken /etc/hosts files preventing reverse name lookups... Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp

Re: bogus lintian warning

be ignored 99.9% of the time. You could add a lintian override. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: New XTerm package, independent from X.Org, in experimental.

:-) Built and uploaded to experimental for powerpc. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

. Your many (somewhat confused) posts seem to be asking us to be doing a lot of relicensing *for you*, but quite what we gain is not clear. Working on proprietary software is not what we do. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: UTF-8 for debian/control

as soon as this is fully mandated by Policy (what happened to the proposal for that we discussed last year? I don't recall any objections). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Ubuntu Patches

also lower your packaging overheads, since you won't have to re-patch for every new Debian revision. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG

Policy for devfs support

furthering the integration of the system. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail

Re: Policy for devfs support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 26, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm asking because of obstruction (from upstream) regarding the application of a simple patch to allow yaboot to support it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Re: How to output Unicode?

place to ask this sort of question. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN

Re: Bug#304521: ITP: wanna-build -- Database management for package (re-)compilation/status control

might like to pick up the manpages I wrote from here: http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/buildd/ I posted this to the buildd-disc list quite some time ago, but they were never committed. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

relating to Debian. It was announced quite some time ago, and so it would be rather inconsiderate [gross understatement] to change it at this late stage. Have you considered the huge impact of changing the version number? It's to no-one's advantage to do this. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

existing practice, it should be in there on that count alone. Every libexec-using package in Debian has been reconfigured not to use it; upstreams do use it, and I'd like to use it myself. I'd personally be very glad to have it, and would support using it in Debian. Regards, Roger - -- Roger

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

committing the sin of using it have to be specially patched or configured to remove the taint. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: Debian as living system

should be a requirement to be treated nicely on a development list... I *could* have simply ignored him. That would have been much better; please do so in the future. If you don't have anything worthwhile to contribute, silence is preferable. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU

Re: Debian as living system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 18 May 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:46:33PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote: I agree that the previous mail was not very easy to read

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

to unstable, I have to manually reopen it and tag it sarge. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:07:50PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: The BTS does not currently support this. For example, if I upload a fix to unstable, I have to manually reopen it and tag it sarge. or, you

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

, anyway. I agree strongly with this. However, it's only fair to post the patch to the BTS to give the maintainer a chance to respond before uploading at all. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

, and wouldn't consider it mass bug filing (they are mostly separate issues, to be dealt with separately). The worst I can do is disagree with the change and close it, but the norm would be reviewing and applying the patch ASAP. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

that the DocBook toolchain is quite broken WRT text encoding support. It doesn't put the encoding in the generated HTML, which nowadays is not acceptable. See gnupg-doc for examples. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 22:10, Roger Leigh wrote: - When UTF-8 is the default locale, it shouldn't need a .UTF-8 suffix, e.g. en_GB will be UTF-8, and en_GB.ISO-8859-1 will be Latin-1 (the opposite way round

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Roger Leigh | - When UTF-8 is the default locale, it shouldn't need a .UTF-8 suffix, | e.g. en_GB will be UTF-8, and en_GB.ISO-8859-1 will be Latin-1 (the | opposite way round to the current

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:02, Roger Leigh wrote: Existing installs are already configured with debconf. Their /etc/locale.gen will not be touched. If you do dpkg-reconfigure locales, then users could have

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

was released. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:28:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eh? You can't change that around just like that, it will break in the cases where people ssh in from

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jun 08, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong. The problem is packages which need to interact with text files, mail and usenet messages generated by broken software, and for which assuming UTF

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23.32, Roger Leigh wrote: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:02, Roger Leigh wrote: Existing installs are already configured with debconf

Re: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

search-and-replace. Plus, if you don't bother with the full conversion, there's quite a lot of compatibility functions to make things easier. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: That's true, but for the majority of code, which just uses existing GtkObjects, conversion is no much more involved than search-and-replace. Plus, if you don't

schroot: a replacement for dchroot

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Bug#315104: ITP: schroot -- Execute commands in a chroot environment

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: schroot Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot/ * License : GPL Description : Execute commands

Re: Bug#315104: ITP: schroot -- Execute commands in a chroot environment

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Upstream Author : Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot/ * License : GPL The above URL is temporary. It should shortly be moved from a local

Lintian tar error outdated?

formats? Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

. Please CC any other maintainers you feel might be interested.] Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

of this, but AFAIK you could just do (manually) something like /usr/i386/bin and /usr/ppc/bin The whole cpu-manfr-opsys triplet would be better. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

? No, but it doesn't hurt to exercise restraint before packaging every tiny utility out there. Debian is already too big. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public

New gimp-print packages in experimental

, integration with other packages etc. will also be very helpful. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:02:48PM -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Mike O'Connor s...@debian.org wrote: To me, it seems like since one has to go through all of the source files anyway, creating a list of copyright holders while you are doing it

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

can be a huge amount of work). Given that both should have a common ancestor (the original upstream commit), if the initial import also does an upstream-master merge for each new upstream, prior to adding the debian changes, it would work wonderfully. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Re: packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

packages from downloading anything not in the original source packages. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

! Likewise, I didn't realise this was possible. This is, however, something I would like to see the git-import-* tools be doing by default, rather than something I need to do manually afterward to fix up their work. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

a different story, but we aren't quite there yet. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your

Re: Want to work with a Linux Group

--you could do it in Perl just as well. If you don't find a proper package in C++ then C might be an option. There are nearly uncountable packages using C in Debian, finding one you are interested in should not be a problem. Agreed. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

possible. #370186 might have been closed, but it's still present on all my hardware, and it's still IMO a grave bug. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:52:41PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: hal does not poll removable disks, it does though poll cd-rom drives for new media and afaik there is no way around that if you want

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

, making you delete the useless Documents before you can actually type in something useful. Is this part of some desktop conspiracy to force us to use these Capitalised folder names?! -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

this automatic HAL notification, you can still easily access the CD without any manual mount command. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:59:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: I was horrified to discover in the last few weeks that Emacs now also defaults to ~/Documents when you start it up, making you delete the useless Documents before you can actually

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

) handle this by having a public news server with an (optional) mail gateway for backward people who prefer mail. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

be a hard change, but I do look forward to dpkg-source 3.0 (git) becoming allowed officially to allow this type of repo to be supported natively by the build infrastructure. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: What about default-syslog [Re: new release goal default-mta?]

is being created it looks like we are still looking for a solution. It would be great if we can have a general method for specifying distribution-wide virtual package defaults, of which mail-transport-agent-default is just one. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: What about default-syslog [Re: new release goal default-mta?]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:07:34PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:52:29AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:36:51AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: martin f krafft wrote: [moving debian-rele...@l.d.o to Bcc, continuing discussion in bug log] ... I

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

-separable, maybe this would be the way to go. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:49:47PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 mai 2009 à 17:24 +0100, Roger Leigh a écrit : That might have been a traditional reason for a shared /usr. However, the package manager can't cope with this setup since you have some components of a package

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:50:47PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:41:06PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Marco d'Itri a écrit : I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning forever large changes to packages for no real

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

-- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

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

-buildpackage could do this too. Full ACK. So long as the build logs don't get held up by dak for processing with the rest of the uploaded files and just get forwarded to buildd.debian.org, this could make the buildd code a bit simpler. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

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Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

be a few other minor issues, but a read-only root is well in reach for Squeeze if people try it out and report any remaining cases. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

? -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

:) If it's just a matter of applying the patch for #501230, that's easy enough. I should have applied it a while back, but it just slipped under the radar. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux

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

in wanna-build to track arch-all packages and sources AFAICT, but it's not a huge task. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key

Re: how to satisfy a patched build-dependency in debuild / pdebuild

. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

are the exact same document.] Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

up initially. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

for multiple distributions, which it won't cater for. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail

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

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 09:06:13PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:29:30PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Exactly. Such a package can automatically debootstrap and set up a suitable chroot environment without any hand-holding by the user. It can even borrow all

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

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:36:31PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: As I see it, there are two major hurdles: 1) Initial creation of the chroot. As above, I think a simple script to integrate with the existing tools would work just fine

The wider implications of dbus breakage

, had I the facility to do so, I could have logged in via the network. However, *unknown future bugs* in these services have the potential to seriously cripple our systems, and we do seem to becoming slowly and unwittingly dependent upon them. That's all, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

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

a security update. If it's shared, that won't normally be required. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please

Re: piuparts and sbuild integration (was: piuparts run by every uploader)

to automatically run lintian as well. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc

Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Orphaned: Gutenprint (if you care about inkjet printing, please read)

the new upstream release (5.2.4), but it has had *no* testing other than that it installs (given that I lack the capability to do proper testing). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux

Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:39:46AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Roger Leigh | Having working local networking is important. We wouldn't consider | broken IPv4 loopback acceptable, and broken IPv6 loopback is just as | bad. Sure, having it working is important. Is it more important

Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 03:53:48PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Roger Leigh | On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:39:46AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | Anyway, IIRC this is now solved in glibc by sending out the queries in | parallel and returning the first answer you get. | | OK. What

Re: Status of new source formats project

inside the build environment, so there's no restriction there. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

to something else. But the Debian default should remain UTF-8. Those not willing to pay the flexibility/performance tradeoff are the exception, and will need to customise their environment accordingly. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

to specify that when creating it i.e. overriding the default. If it doesn't do that already, it's already broken since it's currently unspecified. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

there isn't a more compact UCS encoding, though UTF-16 /might/ be more compact for certain languages, albeit without any 8-bit backward compatibility. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

they just go in a separate debug section/component?) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:55:51PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: nor for keeping the packages separate from the main archive (if the size of the Packages file is an issue, can't they just go in a separate debug section/component?) The Packages file

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

/NN/NN.debug ^ Why the need for a hidden directory in a public location? What's wrong with /usr/lib/debug/build-id? I don't think the unnecessary obfuscation is warranted. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

to the width of wchar_t. This documentation is bogus BTW. It should read UCS-4 or UCS-2. It's strictly correct according to the standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32/UCS-4 for an overview. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

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