Re: Bug#619396: ITP: geant321 -- Particle detector description and simulation tool

2011-03-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
.copyright http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mclibs/mclibs_2006.dfsg.2-5/montecarlo-base.copyright best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Retiring from Debian

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Regarding unofficial packages or my people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ web pages, anyone who wants to take them over, please contact Axel Naumann for Geant4, or me for anything else. After my Debian email forwarding expires I will be reachable at kmcca...@gmail.com . With best wishes to the project, --

Re: Orphaning my packages...

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
before uploading a cfortran package that fixes this, it would be good to make sure that all the dependent packages still build. Finally, just wanted to double-check that you saw my other email to debian-science at http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/09/msg00066.html in case you also wanted

Re: Orphaning my packages...

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Le mardi 29 septembre 2009 03:04:25, Kevin B. McCarty a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> I unfortunately don't have the free time at the moment to do much for >> the Debian Project, so I'm orphaning my packages. [...] >> Cernlib-rela

Orphaning my packages...

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rancois, if you still do, please reply to debian-devel. cernlib - #508413 cfortran - #508500 geant321 - #508496 mclibs - #508498 mn-fit - #508501 paw - #508495 Other packages: feynmf viewglob best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccar

Re: Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
would it be possible to postpone this redesign until after the release of Lenny? Otherwise it makes life somewhat difficult for those (and their sponsors :-) who maintain such packages and want to keep them in a good release status for Lenny. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL P

Re: extensive patching

2008-05-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ode, building up a large set of patches to keep things working, is often the best that can be expected. But this is a lot better than nothing! The larger the project, the more this is so. Time is unfortunately a scarce commodity in the community. Responding to some of your more recent email: &g

Re: ssl security desaster

2008-05-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Martin, Martin Uecker wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you see packages for which a Debian-specific patch seems unnecessary, >> please by all means file a bug (severity wishlist) requesting that the >> patch be either re

Re: ssl security desaster

2008-05-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Mikhail, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > Twas brillig at 10:30:44 15.05.2008 UTC-07 when Kevin B. McCarty did gyre and > gimble: > > KBM> Believe me, there are lots of upstreams for which extensive > KBM> patching really is necessary. (I have no idea whether OpenSSL is >

Re: ssl security desaster (was: Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA)

2008-05-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
her OpenSSL is one of those, as I have no familiarity with its code nor the Debian packaging of it.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t of science and math folks read that list who might not read debian-devel very often. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Architecture not in legend in %-built graphs on buildd.d.o

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
2 in the legend. The 13th arch is represented by a light gray, circled X and is currently at about 87.5% built packages, a bit below the line for "mips". Is this the symbol for armel? It should be added to the legend, whatever it is. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
that I was trying to do a debdiff between mn-fit versions 5.13-5 (just uploaded to experimental) and 5.13-4 (uploaded back in 2006). As one might imagine, the new re-ordering wasn't that helpful in seeing what dependencies had changed between the two uploads :-) best regards, -- Kevin B.

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Minor correction for my example 2: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Note that liblapack.so.3 (both > versions) requires libblas.so.3; but liblapack.so.3 from lapack3 can use > either version of libblas, while liblapack.so.3 from atlas3-base needs > the libblas.so.3 from atl

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
el Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> I've just noticed that packages I've built recently have had the list of >> Depends reorganized into ASCIIbetical order in the generated binary >> .debs. I guess this was the next logical step after

dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
be very nice if dpkg maintainers (and everyone else, of course!) could warn developers in advance when new features may cause unexpected changes in Debian package behaviors. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmcc

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Raphael Geissert wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >paw-demos This is a false positive: % checkbashisms bin/paw-demos.in possible bashism in bin/paw-demos.in line 54 ('select' is not POSIX): echo "(Or use the --dir option to the script t

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: a dumb syslog > dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog daemon, which supports infinite > rules and expandability through it's purely modular design. This should be "its" (possessive pronoun), not "it's" (contract

Re: Fixing watch file (Was: Bits from DEHS)

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
kage the rc versions, you could for instance require the version string to contain only digits and decimal points: http://download.gna.org/adun/Adun-((0\.[^7]|[^0])[0-9.]*)\.tar\.gz best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debi

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
>> >> and generally i'm skeptical of doing such a thing in the "patch" phase, >> because it immediately makes "unpatch" ambiguous as to whether it really >> reverts "patch". > > My implementation does. > > Mike Likewise

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e files from one directory and resurrect them in another directory would bloat the Debian diff a lot more, and be much harder to keep in sync with upstream changes (not that cernlib is really changing anymore, admittedly). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://w

Re: Bug#453680: ITP: djbdns -- Replacement for BIND, written by Dan Bernstein

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Assuming that qmail-1.03.tar.gz contains all the code written by DJB > that's needed to build qmail, that seems pretty explicit. My apologies, I briefly confused qmail and djbdns. Good news for the qmail maintainers, at any rate. I have not yet found an

Re: Bug#453680: ITP: djbdns -- Replacement for BIND, written by Dan Bernstein

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
that's needed to build qmail, that seems pretty explicit. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#433472: ITP: dirbuster -- Directory & file brute forcing, with a twist

2007-07-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
#x27;s default installation page actually has real web pages, data, and applications hidden within." best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: GCC 4.2 transition

2007-06-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is not a complete standards-compliant implementation of a FORTRAN 77 compiler), all the build infrastructures of FORTRAN packages will need to be altered so that they call gfortran instead of f77 / g77 / $(FC) / $(F77). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phys

Re: Large static datasets like genomes (Re: Reasonable maximum packagesize ?)

2007-06-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rested, the email was here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/02/msg00430.html best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#422297: ITP: g95 -- The G95 fortran compiler

2007-05-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
in Debian is going to become even more complicated, unless we are satisfied with just providing the g95 compiler but not providing sets of libraries that work with it. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: Put files in package

2007-05-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nk maybe you ought to read the New Maintainer's Guide again. And please direct further questions like this to the debian-mentors list. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4

Re: Using dpkg-statoverride

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ntainer's Guide [0] and the fakeroot man page -- note that use of fakeroot is mentioned in chapters 1 and 6 of the former document. Also, debian-mentors is a better place for this sort of question. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAI

Re: Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> sucrack is a multithreaded Linux/UNIX tool for cracking local user > accounts via wordlist bruteforcing su What advantages does this tool have over John the Ripper (Debian package "john")? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department W

Re: How to close ITP bug which is a duplicate of one marked done?

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
reportbug, devscripts, etc. could then be set up to do this automatically (well, presumably they should start doing it *before* any such requirement was imposed). -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG:

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t; don't need a key (but see below). Probably you missed that Daniel is likely the person who sponsors the most packages on debian-mentors, a task that would be decidedly more difficult without a key ;-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WW

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ty hole. [0] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
>> Why it is unfortunate? > > Because they'll want Debian to call it 'Gnu-Iceweasel' and they'll > reprehend Debian for maintaining technically superior and stabler > free software rather than just Free Software(TM). Plus, they'll relicense all the documenta

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ugh, somehow one of Thunderbird, Enigmail or my SMTP server mangled the quoted part of my last email at Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, maybe also the GPG sig. Sorry about that! Everything I wanted to say went through OK though. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics De

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
s of packages were recompiled and uploaded, the problem of unnecessary library dependencies would slowly be reduced. No annoying relibtoolization, no potentially dangerous use of ld's --as-needed flag, and no editing of pkg-config or .la files required! [**] I hope someone out there knows how

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Christian Aichinger wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:36:08AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> In case it's of interest to anyone, I went through the checklib >> logs available on the web page for "problems" and found the >> libraries that are most often lis

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
n package, you'll want to have a versioned Build-Depends on binutils (>= 2.16.1cvs20050902-1) to ensure you avoid http://bugs.debian.org/320697 . regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
an through the log files. It is pretty dependent on the exact file format of the logs, though. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
y be hard for anyone (except maybe the gcc maintainers) to do anything to fix this; could you have an option for libcheck to ignore this library? I suspect if this was done, the proportion of "problems" in your pie chart would shrink a fair bit. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL

Re: Possible regression in teTeX due to license problems: Please check whether your package is affected

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d by maintainer. Any chance you could also post the list of those with Build-Depends or Build-Depends-Indep on these packages? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Debian/stable. Did you mean to imply that Ubuntu/stable is an acceptable replacement for Debian/stable? At least for me, this is not true. Most Ubuntu stable releases are only supported for a relatively short time, which is not long enough for me; and most Ubuntu packages are in "univer

Re: Why udev does not use update-rc.d in its postinst

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> don't use, or only a kill link? Or possibly you've been bitten by the recent bug in sysv-rc? See http://bugs.debian.org/386500 , the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00187.html , and the NEWS.Debian file of sysvinit (>= 2.86.ds1-18) if you

Orphaned wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data

2006-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
eam web page is http://starplot.org/wmakerconf/ and anyone taking over the package is welcome also to hijack all the WMakerConf-related files there. If someone does, let me know and I'll change that web page to redirect to the new site. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Why no /usr/local/etc in Debian?

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
uot;must" directive of the FHS. (Any arguments?) FYI, I've now filed this as #383493. (Filed as "important" rather than "serious" to avoid stepping on the toes of release people.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://ww

Re: Why no /usr/local/etc in Debian?

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
existence of /usr/local/etc is a "must" directive of the FHS. (Any arguments?) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

New source packages sometimes bypassing NEW?

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
s for this discrepancy, and is it something that should be looked into? (I'm certainly not complaining about paw and geant321 bypassing NEW, mind you, but the discrepancy might indicate something going wrong in the infrastructure.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROT

Re: piuparts unprocessed failed logs page

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/etc/X11/rstart/contexts /etc/X11/rstart/contexts/@List /etc/X11/rstart/contexts/default /etc/X11/rstart/contexts/x11r6 Other common packages that left junk on the system included libcupsys2, cupsys, gs-esp, libcupsys2-gnutls10, gsfonts, defoma, gs-common. Hope this is helpful. -- Kevin B

Re: Patch cplay to use mplayer with speed-control

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
sumes that if it (or another file of the same name) already exists, it may be deleted by the current cplay user. Hence it is susceptible to a very trivial DOS attack. You ought to fix this before submitting the patch. I don't know Python well so I imagine others may also have comments. b

Re: sending debian-private postings to gmail

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
and (2) all mail passing through debian-private should, for each subscriber to the list, be encrypted individually to the public key on file for her/him. Come to think of it, (2) isn't a bad idea. Is it feasible for this to be done transparently? Mailing list admins, any comments? r

Re: About MIA maintainers

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
list like [EMAIL PROTECTED] for random little applets, etc. > Nothing private in this e-mail. Nor (obviously) mine. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
er did it intentionally as a result of a license change, etc. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ving dash be Essential instead of bash: a savings of 1.7 MB disk space on a minimal Debian system. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton,

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Re: Kevin B. McCarty 2006-05-17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> In case anyone is interested in filing mass bug reports (I am not >>> sufficiently interested, sorry), here are th

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In case anyone is interested in filing mass bug reports (I am not >> sufficiently interested, sorry), here are the -dev packages in >> unexpected sections, obtained as fo

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rman Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kdevelop3 Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> svgalib Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> plplot Debian Berkeley DB Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> db4.2 db4.3 db4.4 Debian DSPAM Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dspam

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ-v1.1.txt > http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ-v1.1.pdf best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Does /etc/shadow exist in an sbuild environment?

2006-04-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
antime I'll see whether my sponsoree can force the packages to include shadow password support even if /etc/shadow doesn't exist. Thanks in advance! -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Univers

Re: ITP: ldtp -- LDTP is the Linux Desktop Testing Project

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
o that it refuses to submit an ITP if any of these fields are left at the default value or left blank. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton,

Re: AT&T Korn Shell

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
iding the ksh libast in Debian would require one of the two libraries to change its name (Policy, Section 10.1 - ugh, this will create a mess when applied to libraries). This may be why the ksh maintainer(s) decided to link it statically, avoiding the problem. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Bug#349419: I packaged mod_dnssd, and sent the result to the main developper

2006-02-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Sebastien Estienne wrote: > On 2/1/06, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Sebastien ESTIENNE wrote: >>>Package: wnpp >>>Followup-For: Bug #349419 >>>Owner: "SÃbastien ESTIENNE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>>The

Re: Bug#349419: I packaged mod_dnssd, and sent the result to the main developper

2006-02-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
uess since mod_dnssd is not currently in Debian, it doesn't do any harm right now. However, it would be better for you to find a sponsor on the debian-mentors list so the Debianized package can be uploaded into Debian proper. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics De

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ian bug report I filed on gcc: http://bugs.debian.org/325050 [3] the Ubuntu bug report on paw: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cernlib/+bug/6588 (the user who filed the bug was nice enough to add my emailed response to him as the second reply in the Launchpad entry) regards, - -- Kevi

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ackage) . octave2.9 (ditto) CC'ed to debian-devel in case anyone wants to add to or disagree with this suggestion. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: apt-get search?

2006-01-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kai Geek wrote: > hello, > what is database searching apt package ? > #apt-cache search packet Judging by the output of "strace apt-cache search packet", one or more of the following: /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/lib/dpkg/status regards, -- Kevin

Re: Packages still Depending on xlibs-dev

2006-01-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
u please check that the wiki page is up to date at http://wiki.debian.org/DependsXlibsDev ? Thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
or yourself. But I don't understand why you need this information (aside from curiosity) unless you are planning to join the Gnome team yourself. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
his machine, check to make sure that it meets Debian Policy and doesn't do anything evil, and upload it to Debian. But you as the maintainer have the final responsibility for fixing bugs in the package, updating it to new upstream versions, and so on. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty

In-Reply-To [was: Re: buildd administration]

2005-12-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
n Debian at least does the former. (I wrote and submitted the patch myself, since it's how I reply to d-d without being subscribed :-) One still has to fix the subject, any quotes, etc. by hand of course. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: h

Re: [tex-live] Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Reinhard Kotucha wrote: >>>>>>"Kevin" == Kevin B McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'm very sorry to hear that my inquiry resulted in the removal of > > XyMTeX from TeXLive. :-( It is a really useful tool. > > >

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ngelog doesn't specify which binary package the bug applies to, so katie would have no way of knowing whether to say (e.g.) "package bar", "package libbar1", or "package libbar-dev". I think this functionality would have to be implemented on the BTS side. -- Kev

Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
really useful tool. Let's hope that when Dr. Shinsaku considers XyMTeX more polished, he'll reconsider the license. regards to all, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Re: Non-DFSG TeXLive stuff [was: Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ter; and he finally gave the brief reply I quoted earlier. Apologies for the top-quoting in this exchange. I wasn't quite sure what to make of his reply so I didn't follow up further. Probably TeX Live or someone else distributing XyMTeX should do so, though. -- Kevin B. McCar

Non-DFSG TeXLive stuff [was: Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t; > Sincerely Yours > > Shinsaku Fujita Just noticed that someone's opened an RFP bug #340555 for XyMTeX, so CC-ing this there. (To answer a question in the RFP, upstream's email address is fujitas (at) chem.kit.ac.jp if anyone wants to try convincing him to license it DFSG-freely.)

Bug#339513: ITP: feynmf -- LaTeX macros for creating Feynman diagrams

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: feynmf Version : 1.08 Upstream Author : Thorsten Ohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/feynmf/ * License

Re: due1ing b4nj0s sheet music

2005-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is not always the one you want: http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/001399.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UN

Watch Wizard minor bugs: whom to contact?

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
aintainer.php?name=mn-fit Possibly related is that said web page also has a problem with "Debian Version"; it is listed as 5.12 but should actually be 5.12-1. I suppose this is why the "Copyright" link on that page is broken. Whom should I contact about these bugs? regar

Request: Anyone able to test printing with CUPS on *woody*?

2005-09-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ple of one-page PostScript files), please email me privately for further details. Thanks, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 ---

g77 -> gfortran transition and AMD64 g77 bugs

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
eventually be fixed in the g77-3.4 available in Debian? If so, in what timeframe? The latter is fixed upstream, but the former is apparently unfixed. It can apparently be worked around with the -fno-f2c flag. But this (from the first half of my email) will be incompatible with any current FOR

Re: Build-Depend'ing on libasound2-dev just for Linux

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
f simple test like "linux-kernel-headers (>=foo) [linux]" in > dpkg, so I had to explicitly remove non-linux ports from the requirement. Doesn't the type-handling package do what you guys are looking for? Looks like it needs to be used somehow in combination with sed and a debi

Re: Bug#320918: ITP: clex -- CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface.

2005-08-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
iginal message -- as the upstream author: > Upstream Author : Gabriel Puliatti (predius) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.predius.org/ regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable

2005-07-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
n-user, you might want to give a little more information than was in your first mail. For instance: what are the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file; what happens if you try "apt-get install xlibs-dev" or "aptitude install libmotif-dev"; etc. Good luck, -- K

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e > one can send a nickname of the owner and look up the reports by it? IIRC the version of popularity-contest in woody didn't report the architecture, so those 620 machines probably haven't updated to sarge yet. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Depa

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e, if ever; certainly not before the release of Sarge. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#304714: ITP: xymtex -- LaTeX classes for producing molecular structural formulas

2005-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xymtex Version : 4.02 Upstream Author : Shinsaku Fujita * URL : http://imt.chem.kit.ac.jp/fujita/fujitas3/xymtex/indexe.html * License : TeX-style

Re: Bug#304570: ITP: codeblocks -- Code::Blocks is a free C/C++ IDE built

2005-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
abilities it has (built-in debugger? skeleton code generation? integration with autotools? etc.) I'm afraid the above isn't nearly enough information to decide if it would be a useful tool for me. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www

Re: mess in BTS

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ads this e-mail > and knows of a source package that has no binary package by the same > name, please check it Probably this "situation" is the case for all source packages that do not produce a binary package of the same name, but for which porters have filed bugs against the source p

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

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nd-paste the relevant text to debian-devel :-) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
? > > Yup, just enclose the libraries you want to link statically against > between -Wl,-Bstatic and -Wl,-Bdynamic: > > gcc -o something foo.o bar.o -lsystemlib -Wl,-Bstatic -lownlib > -lthirdpartylib -Wl,-Bdynamic -lpthread -Wl,-static ... -Wl,-dy are equivalent and shorter :-)

Re: resources for packaging

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
n.org which has an FAQ here: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 0

Re: Would like to remove blas/lapack/atlas2/lapack99 at some point

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e, I have no objections. As far as I'm concerned you can have lapack99 removed right now, since it's not just one, but two sonames behind the current version. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
uration mechanism in Debian substantially different from >> upstream's. > > I have made similar changes, but I also patched the documentation. Many > DDs do not do so, confusing users. Please consider filing bugs against the packages you know of where the documentation hasn't be

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
el for this to work!" if uname -r prints 2.4.something. Hope this suggestion is at least vaguely helpful. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
eneric" code for most arches, and specialized code on a few subarches of powerpc and i386? Hmm, if it's a static-only library, that doesn't help gTybalt any unless it also is packaged in generic and optimized versions. Thoughts? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EM

Bug#291432: RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
efers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.pr

Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
o print on currently defined output file.* > //*-* - The functions SetObjectFit(TObject *obj)/GetObjectFit() can be * > //*-* used inside the FCN function to set/get a referenced object * > //*-* instead of using global variables. * > //*-*

Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ed in one single library libGui. The author of xclass >> is very aware of our work and ROOT is referenced from the xclass web pages. >> >> Anyway, stay tuned for the announcement of ROOT being completely OS. > > I guess this is good news! Very cool! I'm CC-ing t

Re: Bug#290666: ITP: kdoomsday - countdown timer panel applet for KDE

2005-01-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ould sit in my KDE panel and do just that. I don't have any productive remarks about the ITP, but I just wanted to give kudos for the awesome name you chose! regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

RFA: wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data -- GTK+ based configuration tool for Window Maker

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
http://bugs.debian.org/182586 . For more information of use to prospective adopters, see the RFAs in the BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/290350 http://bugs.debian.org/290352 regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

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