Re: Building windows versions of debian packages

2005-11-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Aaron Isotton wrote: As far as I can see at least for the packages using autotools this should not be too difficult; it should be enough to adapt debian/control to generate the mingw32 packages and debian/rules to pass an appropriate '--host' parameter to configure. If the package is

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Andreas Metzler wrote: The real problem with these bounces is not that they fill up the forwarding host's queue but that they are usually unwanted. Think Joe Job. This thread is about email that is obviously not legitimate just looking at the envelope. In this day and age, everyone

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Rolf Kutz wrote: emails because of obviously nonexistent envelope addresses, that doesn't count those systems where we don't accept mail from *at all* because they are dialup systems. This, however, is a small system with 10 email How do you define dialup systems and tell dialup

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I guess it is a philosofical question about the functionality provided by foo-data. If the provided functionality is a set of data usable by other packages, for example package 'foo', then it is providing its functionality without a depend on foo. If it is

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Darren Salt wrote: There is a database where ISPs can register the ranges they assign for dialup users. Isn't that for dynamic-IP dial-up only? AFAIK there are two lists, however only few static dialup IPs are registered -- after all, the interesting attribute is whether the

Re: Remove

2005-11-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Frank Maffia wrote: I have also asked to be removed from 'Call Wave'. I am also on Comcast broadband but my Visa card is still being billed. You have reached the Debian project. As such, we are not affiliated in any way with them, however Google shows our pages as especially relevant

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Well, assuming .changes is not snake-oil, then why should in-deb sigs be called snake-oil? After all, according to you they essentially do the same job. Not exactly. .changes files say that the archive should be changed. If the archive were to accept

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Anthony Towns wrote: The problem is that using gzip and ar is complicated, which adds possibilities for errors. You might find yourself not putting the deb together again and getting false signature mismatches, or worse, you might find yourself only verifying part of the .deb, and having

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb: We really need another substvar with different semantics. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/09/msg01251.html Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Jérôme Marant wrote: What is this supposed to mean? If no comments have been made by the author for eight weeks, messages will be automatically declassified? It looks like a kind of opt out to me. True. It may be an idea to have another proposed amendment reversing the logic, and see

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Jérôme Marant wrote: - the list of posts to be declassified will be made available to developers two weeks before publication, so that the decisions Two weeks is too short to review, IMO. I didn't read that as a hard time limit between announcement and publication, but rather as

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Matthew Palmer wrote: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add this functionality. grin You can use package foo as a command to control@ to tell it ignore everything that does not affect

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Joey Hess schrieb: A lintian-like test to see if the listed bugs match the package before uploading seems more useful to me. It would have prevented this particular problem. The problem here would be that said test requires network connectivity, while the rest of lintian does not.

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: But what would you gain from that? In my experience, the mirrors are fast enough to saturate anything but the fastest (100Mb) links. I think the idea is a) load-balancing over multiple DSL lines b) checking a bunch of apt-proxy servers whether they can provide

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Christian Perrier wrote: From the D-I team point of view: there are certainly tons of things to improve in our default installs, especially when we exit the real domain of D-I and enter the domain of general setup of a default system. The point is that this is not the a task for d-i. If

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Josselin Mouette wrote: [Permissions on device nodes] Currently, there are two ways of handling this situation: - The Debian way, where this is controlled by Unix groups, and where the default user belongs to these groups. Your message seems to imply the opposite, and I welcome you to

Re: Your Confirmation Required

2005-12-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Wouter Verhelst wrote: What's the chance of someone owning a domain with the intended use of sending out Islamic preaches in eight different languages would be interested in subscribing to -devel with an email address in that domain? Yet the proper response may be to tell them that

Re:

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Mary Helen schrieb: Please remove me from Call Wave. I now have a cable connection and no longer require the service. You have reached the Debian project, which is in no way in the business of selling Internet services. I presume you reached us because you searched for the words

Bug#346216: ITP: ussp-push -- OBEX PUSH file transfer program

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ussp-push Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi davidel@xmailserver.org * URL : http://www.xmailserver.org/ussp-push.html

Bug#348775: general: terminal emulators' alternatives settings' priorities annoy users

2006-01-18 Thread Simon Richter
Package: general Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The problem at hand is the proposed (and implemented) solution for http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332223 . I'm unconvinced that bumping the priority on the other terminal emulators is an

Re: Bug#348775: general: terminal emulators' alternatives settings' priorities annoy users

2006-01-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Loïc Minier wrote: Rationale: you don't want to see konqueror launched as the default browser in GNOME but you want GNOME to be integrated with Debian. Ah, I remember that one as well. It is simple to extend this scheme with: - gnome-www-browser for browsers with GNOME support

Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, while I must admit that I was not at the latest IRC meeting where this topic came up, I am now bitten by this problem. I maintain a bunch of kernel modules that can be either patched onto a kernel tree or built out-of-tree. No problem, have arch:all packages for patch and source and

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Xavier Roche wrote: I fully agree. The Holier than Stallman stuff is really getting ridiculous. After the firmware madeness, now the documentation madeness. And after that, the font madeness maybe ? (after all, fonts ARE also software, and they shall be distributed with their original

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Raul Miller schrieb: This is silly. It seems like the constitution effectively says if the resolution passes it required a simple majority; if it failed, it needed 3:1. The only silliness is the verb tenses. Once some concept passes supermajority it doesn't need to pass again, because

Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?

2006-02-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Frank Küster wrote: In short: May a package assume that package builds are performed with root-like rights, and thus use non-world-writable directories for caching purposes? Absolutely not. The only assumption you may make is that the binary* targets are called in a way that allows

Re: debian zeroconf group?

2006-02-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Joey Hess wrote: With avahi in unstable we seem to have a fairly capable set of zeroconf/mdns tools in Debian now, albeit with some holes. There are for example some things like mod_dnssd that are not packaged yet and some interesting patches that aren't applied to some apps. And adding

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Kevin Mark wrote: If someone differentiated it into a simple triaged state: unseen, seem and expect to process soon and seen and requires more processing, it may alleviate some anxiety -- or maybe not. Hm, I am wondering how the internal communication between the ftpmasters works (i.e.

Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-09 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: One possible technique we could employ is to require that the list address appear visibly in the headers (to: or cc:). This would prevent Bcc'ing the lists which is a shame (and care would need to be taken with -private, which is also security),

proper place for perl modules

2000-08-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, as I'm going to install buildd on a large number of machines soon, I thought I'd redo the build scripts to use automake. Right now I'm working on the .pm files, and I'd like to know what would be a good place to put them. My suggestion would be @libdir@/perl5/Debian/Buildd . Simon --

Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-19 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: I want to learn the total innards of dpkg/apt. I recently filed a bug complaining about the fact that dpkg is too slow, but I want to actually _do_ something about it (other than ordering other developers around). Actuallu the slowest thing

Braille devices

2000-08-19 Thread Simon Richter
[CCed to linux-kernel, as IMO the best idea would be to implement this at kernel level] On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, VZW AUDIO/BRAILLE wrote: Hi, I have on one pc the very great chance to use Debian 2.1 with a hardware braille-display. But actually on another pc I'm suffering from the refusal of my

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-01 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote: Shadow passwords make your system more secure because nobody is able to view even encrypted passwords. Passwords are stored in a separate file that can only be read by special programs. We recommend the use of shadow passwords. If you're going to use

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-01 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote: Yup, this question is senseless. If you happen to have encrypted passwords in the passwd file, the shadow file is not looked at for these accounts. So having shadow passwords will not break NIS. The question is about the default setting. Maybe, but I

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-03 Thread Simon Richter
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, David Starner wrote: It's about 25% can be saved in download. Standards reasons - gzip is essential: yes on Debian, and is required for dpkg anyway. bzip2 is still priority optional, and it hasn't gained enough usage through other channels to be raised to standard. For

Re: modutils-2.3.11-8 request change

2000-09-11 Thread Simon Richter
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Michael Beattie wrote: [modutils bug report] Your patch would fall perfectly in the wishlist category. There is (or rather should be, I haven't checked whether this bug still exists) an open bug concerning modutils being unremovable and update-modules failing for

Two debconf issues

2001-05-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions have arised: - At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial, for some, I need rather complex text processing. Since

RE: Two debconf issues

2001-05-01 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: If you use debconf you are using perl (-: of course awk is your friend and mine. Hrm, since that stuff will also tend to get ugly when written in awk, I think I'm going to use perl then. Simon -- GPG public key available from

Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, While debconfiscating :-) uptimed, I also added a note to uprecords-cgi so that the sysadmin would be informed where the CGI would show up in his webtree. In this note, I'd like to use substitution, but this apparently doesn't work. The templates file says: Description: uprecords.cgi has

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Simon Richter wrote: While debconfiscating :-) uptimed, I also added a note to uprecords-cgi so that the sysadmin would be informed where the CGI would show up in his webtree. In this note, I'd like to use substitution, but this apparently doesn't work. Addendum

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-04 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: Perhaps hostname --fqdn is failing? Try DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer Hrm, the hostname command works (as verified by echo $hostname). I'll try the debug option as soon as I get home. Simon -- GPG public key available from

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: [Substitution in long description] I see nothing wrong with this, it should work. Hrm, I just tested with a description of: Description: ${hostname} ${hostname} long The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm running testing instead of unstable at home. I'll try unstable debconf now. That sounds similar to a bug I fixed in 0.9.36. Indeed the version from unstable works.

ITP: wmfinder -- A graphical file manager for WindowMaker

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
retitle 80278 ITP: wmfinder -- A graphical file manager for WindowMaker thanks Hi, I intend to package wmfinder, which is a Qt based file manager for WindowMaker. The packaging will take some time, as the program currently uses Qt 1.45, which has been dropped. I'm talking to upstream about

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
- What would source packages look like for such a system? It /is/ possible to continue to use the old .orig.tar.gz + diff.gz, but automatic updates for new translations would invalidate the maintainer's signature. Should we seize the opportunity to switch to a more flexible

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
The translation archive can contain a control and a templates file. These files have much the same format as the corresponding files from the control.tar.gz file but with the exception that they contain only the identifiers (Package: xyz for control and Template: foo/bar for templates)

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
Step 1: Signed archives --- Quick note from vacation: signed packages are already designed and implemented. No need to reinvent the wheel. Do they allow unsigned/separately signed parts? Simon

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
You should all realise that GNU ar supports long filenames, so there is no need to obfuscate filenames from ar's point of view. GNU ar, yes. dpkg, no. Simon

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
I don't think translations should be in the source package at all, I'm opposed to this! Yes, not including the translations in the source package makes things much easier, but I think they still should be there at all costs. Yes, I can agree with that. I think we have to put them in a

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
which uploads? There are no extra uploads. There have to be, in my eyes. Consider this scenario: katie can pretend there has been an upload. OK, but re-diffing will invalidate the maintainer's signature on the diff! Hm, I guess this doesn't matter as long as that sig's sole purpose is to

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
Also problematic is the idea of packaging all the translations into one package. This would never be up-to-date, and more frequent updates are not nice. I prefer a solution similar to the current system in ddts. This could be included in the current FTP archive, in the subdirectories for each

Re: new proposal: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-04 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: After I read some more mails and write some comments myself, IMHO it is time to write a newer hopefully better proposal. Not all is new. But I add some new thoughs and some parts from some comments. We can reduce the download size by 50% by letting

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Simon Richter
Colin, http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html Well, I'm not sure there should be a template -- people will use it (and thus try to squeeze information into it). I usually tell my sponsees that a description should answer the following questions, roughly in that order: - What does

Re: Planned mass-filing of bugs: java packages only depending on java-common

2002-12-05 Thread Simon Richter
Stephen, Ola, we go round and round on this. Having java1-runtime only mean the java.* classes doesn't add anything. Packages shouldn't have to depend on two virtual packages; java1-rutime should be a superset of the functionality of java-virual-machine not a disjoint set. I think the

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, 4/ many of us millions would very much like to have the option of using both systems on our computer. They actually have. 1/ we don't want to have to know the technical details of how to get to the step4/ above (in the given table above). This is being worked on. A long

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-14 Thread Simon Richter
Joachim, I am considering going to DebConf 3. Now Oslo is not really close (I live in southern germany), and being a High School student, I would have to argue with my principal whether I may go or not during school time, so it should be worth the money and effort. I cannot help you on that

Bug#279494: ITP: apache2-redirtoservname -- Apache module to redirect browsers to the canonical server name

2004-11-03 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: apache2-redirtoservname Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.hogyros.de/misc * License : GPL + exception to allow linking against Apache Description : Apache

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Package: misdn-utils Version: 0.0.0+cvs20041018-4 Severity: serious misdn-utils contains a utility loadfirm, for loading firmware onto ISDN devices. Unless this firmware is Free Software with source, which did not appear to be the case after a large amount of searching, this utility should

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, It's fine for software in main to be able to do stuff with non-free data; that's not the issue. The question is whether there *exists* any free data that it works with, and if not, whether that's a problem. I don't believe that is a problem. We don't ship the non-free data, we just allow its

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-15 Thread Simon Richter
Package: aptitude Severity: wishlist Hi, [aptitude not properly handling packages installed by other tools] ACK. I very much prefer the way debfoster handles this: if there are new, unknown packages on the system, it will ask, rather than assume, whether a package is wanted or not. And will only

Re: Bug#285768: dselect survey

2004-12-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, - If I see a new package installed by someone else, * if nothing depends on it, mark it Unknown; probably manually installed * otherwise, mark it Unknown; probably automatically installed Consider apt-get install foo apt-get remove foo This leaves libfoo1, which was pulled in by foo and

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Jeroen van Wolffelaar: Steve was probably referring to the burden of fixing and debugging packages that fail to work/build on a specific architecture, and not to the buildd stuff. It is currently the package maintainer of a package that doesn't work on a specific architecture that's faced with

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Richter
Sander, in principle, I agree that fixing those bugs by backporting patches is not worth the effort, but let me suggest an alternative plan (which the SRM will hate me for, so you should probably ask him before): - Check which of those bugs are really fixed in the newest version - Upload a

Re: localisation français-espagnol

2003-08-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, first of all: Please don't post HTML to mailing lists. Apart from using more bandwidth, your mail are more likely to be filtered by some anti-spam or anti-virus software. I am going to be teaching a class on localisation from FRENCH to SPANISH. I would like to know if you could assign me

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 29, 2003

2003-08-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, [NEW] 3dwm (#206870), orphaned 5 days ago Description: libzorn development files Reverse Depends: 3dwm-pickclient 3dwm-texclient 3dwm-csgclient libcelsius-dev libpolhem-dev libgarbo-dev libnobel-dev 3dwm-vncclient libsolid-dev 3dwm-clock 3dwm-server libzorn-dev

Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution

2003-08-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, A quick summary of this bug: Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to associate certain files with it: /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop This sounds like you may want to use an alternative here, so that

Re: why do I need EMail to install some debs?

2003-09-06 Thread Simon Richter
Harald, Would it be possible to get rid of the need to install EMail (e.g. exim or sendmail) by default? A lot of packages need at least the /usr/sbin/sendmail program, to be able to send email to the admin, for example cron or at, which send the output of the program they ran. You should

Re: why do I need EMail to install some debs?

2003-09-07 Thread Simon Richter
Harald, I am not talking about runtime, but installation time. AFAIR the interface to use is called debconf. Obviously some packages want to be very sure that I get some important messages, and try to send me an EMail instead (or in addition). Ah, I see the problem now. Well, it could be

Re: Anyone interested in libical?

2003-10-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Is anyone interested in adopting libical? It has been orphaned for 193 days (#187030). I wouldn't mind removing it, but mozilla build-depends on it (perhaps this can be changed, tho?). Mozilla builds fine without libical. What does happen, then? Will it still be able to read

Re: Anyone interested in libical?

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Mozilla builds fine without libical. What does happen, then? Will it still be able to read iCalendar events? I just uninstalled libical and mozilla calendar still seems to work fine for me. Sounds like it is okay to remove the build-dependency on libical, then. I just wanted to point

Re: Bug#220289: general: make a new section: gis, for Geographic Information System packages

2003-11-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Debian needs a new Packages section, named gis, or perhaps geography or cartography, to prevent the mapping related packages from being scattered in sections graphics and science, and misc, etc.? as at present. I'd consider this section much too special. Why not sort out which

RFA: A lot of packages

2003-11-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I'm totally swamped in work even though I haven't started learning for the next round of exams yet, so I'd like to give away my packages: - amap - pingus - uptimed (sponsor needed for Daniel Gubser, who helped out) - python-imaging(*) Simon (*) Gerhard Hring expressed interest, but

Re: process timeslice

2006-04-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Robbie schrieb: I'm trying to determine if their is an API that allows the user program to change the scheduler timeslice. Is there any? Changing the slices doesn't make much of a difference -- I'd just give the process with special needs some realtime privilege. Simon -- To

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Andreas Fester schrieb: I create a new package with the new name which will get uploaded to the NEW queue. This package replaces the old package and conflicts with the old package: Replaces: oldPackage Conflicts: oldPackage ( firstVersionOfNewPackage) IIRC the correct way to do that is

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, * NTP server (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) I'll take it. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Steve Langasek schrieb: Package: oldpkg Depends: newpkg Description: transitional dummy package Package: newpkg Replaces: oldpkg Conflicts: oldpkg Description: ... *NO* *NO* *NO* *NO* *NO*. Look closely at the package relationships you've specified. Why would you upload a package

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Christoph Haas schrieb: * NTP server (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) I'd take my chance on this one. There is a large number of bugs open and I believe that this package is very important. Still I'd

Re: Bug#376588: ITP: cryptomount -- a utility for accessing encrypted filesystems

2006-07-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Joe Smith schrieb: X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org AIUI, there is no need to CC debian-devel with ITP's, as debian-devel normally gets them anyway. Not quite. X-Debbugs-Cc: is how debian-devel gets a copy of ITPs. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Andreas Barth wrote: Suggests is *way* weaker. The Needs would trigger automatic installation with any tool. Actually, if A-B (depends), B-C(depends), and C-B(Needs), then A won't be configured until both B and C are installed. What stops us from using Recommends for that. The

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Katrina Jackson wrote: I am concerned Debian isn't trying to meet people's needs enough. That depends on whose needs you consider. Debian has a much wider target audience, among them distribution builders such as SkoleLinux or Ubuntu. It is true that we do not follow the

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Gustavo Franco wrote: * The package that contains only the Maintainer field with the name of a person and not a group can be uploaded by any DD. ping the current maintainer is good but not required; I propose that under that policy, if someone NMUs a package without clearing the patch

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, martin f krafft wrote: Subversion, in conjunction with alioth, has risen dramatically in Debian to accomodate team-based maintainance. There are of course plenty of challengers, but subversion seems to beat them all. I'd be interested in your thoughts as to why subversion beats them

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Anthony Towns wrote: It worked because I was awake at 4:20am localtime, on IRC to notice, and willing to do something about it... While that's more common than is probably good, it's not something I like to see the release depend on... Well, if you hadn't been awake, the maintainers

Re: (Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, If not, please can you correct this Bug ? As soon as someone provides a patch (a lot quicker) or I create one myself. Thanks and I think, this error should be solved before SARGE is released There is also a tool called esmtp, which seems to be able to do authentication, even with TLS,

Re: Bug#290799: ITP: libspandsp -- Library which provides DSP functions for VoIP.

2005-01-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, * Package name: libspandsp Version : 0.0.2pre9 Upstream Author : Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : ftp://ftp.opencall.org/pub/spandsp/ * License : GPL Description : Library which provides DSP functions for VoIP. Already in NEW, see also Bug

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)? Most browsers can handle uncompressing these on the fly and it makes accessing these lists MUCH faster. As a porter I often use update_excuses for tracking down packages

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-15 Thread Simon Richter
Package: debhelper Version: 3.0.44 Severity: normal On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Most of the esound packages have a 'esound-common (= ${Source-Version})' dependency in debian/control. Is there any generic solution for the problem? You could manually tweak debian/substvars

OCELOT SQL DBMS is now free open source (fwd)

2001-09-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I just came across this, perhaps someone is interested in packaging it. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB8D 1F35 4F44 2934 7583 DBB6 F98D 9198 3292 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to

Please move autoconf and autoconf2.13 into testing

2001-09-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, it seems those two packages are depending on each other and are thus stuck. php4-dev depends on autoconf2.13 and is also stuck therefore. Could you move these two packages into testing manually? Thanks, Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2002-01-02 Thread Simon Richter
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: This is bogus, anything can die in an OOM situation. Are you going to put all daemons into inittab? True, true. However, sysklogd and klogd are logging daemons. They deserve some special treatment IMHO. Actually, I am pondering

Re: Release notes

2002-04-06 Thread Simon Richter
On 6 Apr 2002, Rob Bradford wrote: * Split/Renamed packages *since* Potato - Have any of you packages been renamed or split. Note this includes merges as the net result is a rename. The python-imaging documentation has been split, as not all of the documentation is in the upstream archive.

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-15 Thread Simon Richter
On 14 Apr 2002, Roger Leigh wrote: I have added autoconf/make support, and repackaged it using debhelper. Whoa. I tried the same two years ago, and failed. That's why I started a rewrite in C++, based on APT, which should be ready for general use in about three to six months (hopefully our IT

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-15 Thread Simon Richter
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Roger Leigh wrote: [buildd in C++] Thet sounds very cool. Would you like any help with this? Difficult, since if this gets to be my project, I'm supposed to do it without outside help. :-/ At the very least, I can help document it and fix bugs (I can write troff,

ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Hi, I intent to package libsocket++, a small C++ library that abstracts network sockets. It provides buffered reads/writes and address family independent handling of sockets. I am the upstream author, this is basically split out of the buildd in C++ project

Re: ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I intent to package libsocket++, a small C++ library that abstracts network sockets. It provides buffered reads/writes and address family independent handling of sockets. You may want to look into the Common C++ library; it seems to do a superset

Re: ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-17 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I intent to package libsocket++, a small C++ library that abstracts network sockets. It provides buffered reads/writes and address family independent handling of sockets. Could you tell me why you are using -release @RELEASE@ instead of -version

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-17 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Whoa. I tried the same two years ago, and failed. That's why I started a rewrite in C++, based on APT, which should be ready for general use in about three to six months [...]. Anyway, pbuilder is one such project, that seems to be working

Re: ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-17 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [Own socket library vs. CommonC++] We're trying to get away from CommonC++... :-) What sort of problems did you have with it? Well, it adds too many dependencies, doesn't compile too well on architectures other than GNU/Linux (it failed on Solaris

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-17 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Well, my project goes much further, it is basically a generic autobuilder with a plugin for .dsc/.deb (just like APT is a generic package library with plugins for Debian). The most lacking part is the problem of source not building. buildd needs

Re: ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-17 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Could you tell me why you are using -release @RELEASE@ instead of -version 0:0:0 ? The regular libtool versioning scheme is only good for C libraries, i.e. where you can exactly tell when an interface has been added, changed or removed. For

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-17 Thread Simon Richter
On 17 Apr 2002, Roger Leigh wrote: In addition to this, have you considered adding support for periodic rebuilding of existing packages e.g. when buildd is idle? Sort of. One could request it through the admin interface. The autobuilder will only recompile something if it sees a need for it

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