Re: removal syncing among official and amd64 archive

2005-11-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:42 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While we are it ... I noticed that removal of packages from the official debian archive are not propagated to the amd64 archive. E.g. query packages.debian.org for the editex source

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:17 AM, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:11:45PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: [...] On that score, the description for d-d-c says that it includes buildd logs, Then that description is wrong. It never did include buildd

Re: packages.debian.org service stop ?

2006-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:59 PM, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've dug out some information from IRC logs: saens was overloaded around 5 Jan 2006, with load average of 140 or something, and eventually apache stopped. Since saens is one of ftp.debian.org, it had a

Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:35 AM, Jérôme Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the last update of OOo in Sid (aka Unstable), I wonder if it is generally considered acceptable to keep obsolete packages in experimental (currently, Sid has 2.0.1-2 and Experimental 2.0.1-1). Further to

Re: missing packages

2006-03-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:53 AM, Wolfgang Lonien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an 'apt-cache stats' today, and it was very nice to see that we have 17519 packages total. 3635 packages are missing, however. An 'apt-cache unmet | grep -c unmet dep: brings out 662 packages with unmet

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Duncan Findlay wrote, Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:03 PM On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:51:46PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: [...] And, BTW, since version 2.64 we have: - Rules backported from 3.0.0 So though SA3 can make other things better (bayesian and so), SA2 is not so

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:00, George Danchev wrote: Normally I wouldn't mention it but if you're going to pull people up on their grammar please at least get it right. :-) p.s. s/an MTA/a MTA Nope. An MTA, an SOS, a UPS. It's dependent on vowel /sounds/ rather than vowels. Adam

Re: packages.debian.org version discrepency

2004-10-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 5:06 PM, Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The unstable link at http://packages.debian.org/freeguide shows version 0.8, but http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/freeguide shows version 0.7.2. Why is this? gluck ({people,packages}.d.o}) became severely

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx at buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:42 AM, Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding James Troup... [...] I still believe that it would be better for the project when he would retire from some of his many positions, because he's too loaded with them. I'm assuming you haven't spotted

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx at buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:05 AM, Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] When Joerg Jaspert is already doing the dirty daily work, why does James still needs in place then? (Except he just stays in that position for a transitional period until Joerg is taking over that task

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:59 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: [...] AFAIK, vilolating policy always waarent a serious bug: [...] This is not what Steve

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [breaking circular dependencies] Dpkg does it the way policy says it should do it and even slightly better since it checks for postinst files. That's unsurprising, given that the relevant sections of policy and dpkg were written by

Re: huge wnpp bug report page

2006-08-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, I tried to take a look at the wnpp bug page but neither Konqueror nor Firefox were able to handle it on my system. Really? Galeon handles it fine, as does Firefox (the latter on win32). 3182462 bytes for the HTML code of a single web page is a bit much, isn't it? Possibly. It's also 25%

Re: dresden-ocl missing orig.tar.gz

2006-08-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 14:50 -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: I'm not quite sure how to report this. A user noted that whatever mirror he used to create his own mirror (using debmirror) he got a problem with dresden-ocl-1.0.1_orig.tar.gz. If he uses - --nosources then

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Friday, August 05, 2005 3:42 PM, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:45:12PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: What's the maintenance status of the net-tools package? It is maintained. Patches are welcome.

Re: http://www.debian.org/security/

2005-09-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:08 AM, Aaron Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having the same problem with a sources.list file that reads as follows [...] deb http://security.debian.org stable updates [...] Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Packages 404 Not Found That's

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 23:56 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: Alfie Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:32:41 +, Gerrit Pape wrote: | | ...but try come up with a rule of thumb for '%%' (big suffix), '#' | (small prefix), etc.? Maybe the 'p' in percent is for Prefix -- but

Re: Testing-watch emails

2005-11-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:17 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're interested in making this happen I'll be happy to give you any info I can; OK, here are some questions. 1) The copy of britney in merkel:/org/ftp.debian.org/ does not seem

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:18 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Because I don't wanna play by the rules! is not a rationale. So you have to specify a path -- so what? The way things stand at the moment, if I were to drop a gettext.sh in my

Re: problems with public keys

2005-06-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:52 AM My qa page http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] looks like this: General information for Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (click to collapse) GPG key id not found! (key id was not found neither in the Debian keyring nor on a public

Re: Questions on how to handle this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: httperf_0.8-3_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-06-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote, on Friday, June 17, 2005 6:37 AM: Below I have included the text rejecting my httperf package. I am taking over as maintainer and uploaded a new version that also closed a couple of bugs and moved it from non-US to main. If linking with libssl is

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Bastian Venthur wrote: is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. I made a quick search on my system and I only found the texlive packages using getkey to force a user to read a text before the script is executed.

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Cyril Brulebois wrote, Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:51:46 +0200: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net (25/06/2009): On 25/06/09 at 10:32 +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: Checkbashisms is a lintian check, right? No, it's in devscripts. Yes, it is also a lintian check. Although not as complete, see

Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still remains in oldstable. Question:

Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

2007-06-01 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/07 04:59, Kari Pahula wrote: I'd like to file a wishlist bug on people who file FTBFS bugs. It would be nice if you checked first whether there's a package pending in NEW or incoming and see if that might resolve the issue already. I'm looking at you, #426867.

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

2007-06-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 21:33 +0200, Izak Burger wrote: [...] But no-one said english was logic :-) What with unkempt (no such word as kempt though) I didn't think there was, but http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/kempt?view=uk disagrees ;) Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:08 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:13PM +, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:42:08 -0300 Paulo Marcondes wrote: billion = 10^6 * 10^6 (IIRC, as used in Portugal - no jokes here!)

Re: Problems with closing certain bugs

2007-06-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:58 -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: I appear to be unable to close certain bugs lately, while others work fine. One earlier example was #205163, which I was trying to close as it was fixed a long time ago. Then yesterday closing #379237 and #387587 worked, but in the

Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings

2007-07-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Neil Williams wrote, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:07 AM On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:13:23 +0530 Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] OK. It's in the NEW queue. Could you please tell me the procedure to prevent it from entering the archives? Retitle the ITP to a RM

Re: bug closed by spam for the second times

2008-09-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this reopens and also reports. [...] echo reopen $bug| mail -s Reopening $bug closed by spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] w3m -dump http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugspam.cgi?bug=$bug;ok=ok; else echo If you've got devscripts installed, then bts reopen $bug .

Re: bug closed by spam for the second times

2008-09-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Vincent Danjean wrote: Adam D. Barratt wrote: If you've got devscripts installed, then bts reopen $bug . reportspam $bug will do the same. I suppose that the 'reportspam' command does the same thing as the link 'Send a report that this bug log contains spam' on the bts webpage ? Yes

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 05:56 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 06/10/08 at 18:36 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [...] Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] firmware-nonfree (U) mklibs (U) openldap (U) php5 (U) Steve stepped down from php's

Re: Britney error with the gossip package?

2008-10-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 20:21 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: $ rmadison libloudmouth1-0 libloudmouth1-0 |1.4.0-1 | testing | alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc libloudmouth1-0 |1.4.2-1 | unstable | alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa,

Re: Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to add this functionality to OpenVPN to auth on OpenLDAP. There's already a package of openvpn-auth-ldap (packaged by Debian's openvpn maintainer) in the NEW

Re: Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Thanks, How can I close this bug? Just e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've done that with this mail, so the bug should now be closed (or will be in a few minutes time). Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Bug#503367: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2008-10-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:18 +0300, Teodor wrote: Since renaming seems to be the only solution, than IMO it is more appropriate to rename 'plink' in putty-tools than in the plink packages since this is exactly the source/binary package name. [...] This has been done already in putty-tools for

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-10-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:47 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: Peter Palfrader wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Patrick Matthäi wrote: You should report a bug against qa.debian.org / www.debian.org. Neither of those is the correct contact/package regarding buildd.debian.org. I guess we

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:28:59 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: From the lintian hacker desk: $ lintian -I --exp-output format=letterqualifier [...] Other *experimental* output formats are 'xml' and 'colons' (currently b0rken). It's fixed in HEAD (well, it now works for me). Adam -- To

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 12:51 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented as a warning and then moved to minor/certain

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:00 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: In reality, it is an endangered mechanism, as it was deprecated in January 2008. I'm not sure what you're referring to here. I'd guess Charles meant the following addition to

Re: debhelper = 7.2.3, doc-base, and lintian

2009-03-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:33 -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: I just built a new version of one of my packages, and I got some lintian errors like this: E: qpdf: prerm-does-not-call-installdocs usr/share/doc-base/qpdf-manual [...] Once I know where the problem is, I can either fix my packages or

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:53 +, Oleg Verych wrote: [...] What about having more secure Debian's sshd_config by default? PermitRootLogin no You'll have to convince the openssh package maintainers first - see #105571, #298138 and #431627 for their opinions on whether that change is more

Re: Releasing packages with 'pending' RC bugs

2007-09-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Daniel Baumann wrote, Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:43 AM out of curiousity.. imagine a package where: * the Debian maintainer is also upstream maintainer * the package has practically no users (popcon 10) * the package has RC bugs * the RC bugs are fixed upstream * the RC bugs are

Re: reportbug and usertags

2007-11-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:14 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: [User: and Usertags: in reportbug-generated mails not reaching the BTS] Sounds like a bug in reportbug to me; it's probably stripping out unknown pseudoheaders. Indeed; see #418677 and #445144, both currently filed at wishlist against

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:03 AM In a fresh package (edac-utils) I have closed a bug in recent upload (proper Closes statement and a Closes in .changes). But bug remains Done but not closed: #456644. From edac-utils' bug index: Debian Bug report logs: Bugs

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 22:39 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Well... as Neil pointed it seems not to be the case -- m68k arch is still -1 but now it is resolved. Where are you seeing it as resolved? It's still listed as outstanding on

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

2008-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The script basically uses find on those directories (under /usr/share it only searches for '*.sh') and then uses file on those to get a new list of those file being shell scripts which

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

2008-02-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 16:39 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Atm, checkbashisms only complains with this: _From_: bashisms-amd64-2.10.15/libtool_1.5.26-1_amd64.deb possible bashism in ./usr/bin/libtool line 1218 (trap with signal numbers):

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

2008-02-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 16:59 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Atm, checkbashisms only complains with this: _From_: bashisms-amd64-2.10.15/libtool_1.5.26-1_amd64.deb possible bashism in ./usr/bin/libtool line 1218 (trap with signal numbers): It's

Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[nutshell version for those who can't be bothered to read the full mail :-) - what version number should a security upload of a native package have] Hi, devscripts 2.10.19 (soon to be uploaded) will modify the behaviour of debchange --nmu to version an NMU of a native package as X+nmu1 rather

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 03:47 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: The current binNMU numbering scheme was selected explicitly to allow security uploads to sort later by numbering as last_version+releaseserial; e.g., 1.2-5.1+etch1. That makes sense, although doesn't seem to match current practice. Was

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 09:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: [Adding bug #437392 to Cc, which deals with this issue for normal NMUs, because I'm making a suggestion about them.] On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:52:55PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: devscripts 2.10.19 (soon to be uploaded) will modify

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 09:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: [...] Good idea. Even better, IMO, would be to use a system which is in line with non-native packages. How about this rule: [using X.1

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

2008-03-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Ed Falk wrote, 2008-03-28 01:35: For the nth time squared, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already stopped service. How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop it... If the service is

Re: uscan download URL mangling

2008-04-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Michal Čihař wrote, Monday, April 07, 2008 11:16 AM I currently have following, but it does not seem to work and the #md5= is not removed. opts=downloadurlmangle=s/#.*// \ http://pypi.python.org/simple/python-mpd/ \

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote, Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:24 AM On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: do you have updated devscripts? debsign signs the dsc then updates the md5 hash in the changes before signing that. It needs to update the sha checks as well. The latest

Re: NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflowsfor Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Raphael Hertzog wrote, Friday, April 25, 2008 3:16 PM On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, James Vega wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: This DEP is available on the Debian Wiki[1]. The version must be the version of the last upload, plus +nmuX, where X is a counter starting

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Russ Allbery wrote: Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1 pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-browser, iceape-browser, and half of

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recommend to always do an upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade (or install of something pulling in 200mb). The upgrade will never install new or remove packages so it is save. It usualy

Re: morse package is Architecture: any but build daemons won't act

2008-05-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:45 +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: It looks like the morse package isn't built by the build daemons, even though it is Architecture: any in the control file. I think this might be caused by the morse package in oldstable, which was a totally different package with the

Re: db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:50 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Recent openssl issue lead me to http://db.debian.org/password.html and made me wonder why script example uses DSA key while main text only talks about RSA key. The text talks about RSA keys as they are

Re: possible mass-bug filing on fc-cache-using packages

2008-05-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
martin f krafft wrote, Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:41 PM also sprach Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.05.20.1323 +0100]: Le mardi 20 mai 2008 à 12:05 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit : if [ $1 = configure -a -x /usr/bin/fc-cache ] Note -that the $1 = configure check is wrong, see

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Michael Meskes wrote, 2008-06-23, 10:07:27 +0200: With our move to dash as sh we have to remove all bashisms from scripts run by /bin/sh. However, checkbashism seems to moan about clauses that work in dash as well. I don't know in which shells a trap with a signal number is guaranteed to work,

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 19:28 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:39:07PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: It's not guaranteed to work in any shell implementing POSIX without extensions, which is what Policy says you're allowed to rely on (well, plus a few extensions

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 19:45 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:33:21PM -0400, James Vega wrote: From this I'd say for Lenny using trap with a signal number is fine. Also they same question comes up with the local keyword. Dash seems to support this, while it is

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Supporting local x would be relatively simple; suggestions for a reliable regex to catch use of -a/-o welcome... :) There was a fairly good one in Lintian that I took out once Policy blessed

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:34 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Supporting local x would be relatively simple; suggestions for a reliable regex to catch use of -a/-o welcome... :) There was a fairly good one in Lintian

Re: bashism question

2008-06-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:36 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Assuming not-POSIX-but-supported-by-policy checkbashisms already has a flag to indicate whether echo -n should be flagged for exactly this reason; otherwise it errs

Re: bashism question

2008-06-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Adam D. Barratt wrote: [...] The next release of checkbashisms will include a --posix flag which will allow the non-POSIX behaviours permitted by policy to be flagged. Currently neither set of local checks flags local x, y; I seem to remember there being a discussion relating to that syntax

Re: bashism question

2008-06-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Lars Wirzenius wrote: To clarify: is local foo=bar policy-compliant or not? (If not, *sigh*.) To the best of my knowledge, no, it's not compliant. The relevant section reads: snip * `local' to create a scoped variable must be supported; however, `local' may or may not

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: The package was removed after noone was interested in maintaining it for four(!) years. Huh? [...] * Orphan package (see #228074). -- Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:38:42 +0100 That's about 6 month

Bug#161978: this really should be checked by lintian

2008-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Mon, August 25, 2008 11:56, Holger Levsen wrote: downgrading severity, as this is about an old issue with tetex and because there is probably even a lintian check for this already. (Too lazy to confirm now, thus I'm also not reassigning the bug to lintian yet.) As far as I can see,

Re: Bug#605912: runit: Upgrade failure lenny - squeeze

2011-01-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
# CC to debian-devel for squeeze blocker user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertag 605912 + squeeze-is-blocker thanks Hi, Thanks for looking at this bug. I think the patch you've suggested is the wrong solution, however. On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 01:14 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: I

Re: /etc/profile.d

2011-01-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, January 10, 2011 09:57, Nicholas Bamber wrote: According to #370348, since 5.3 base-files has supported /etc/profile sourcing /etc/profile.d. I am using version 6.0. However /etc/profiles seems to be doing no such thing. When was the system in question installed? The changelog for

Your pdf-presenter-console upload

2011-01-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, I was just having a look at the diff for your upload of pdf-presenter-console 1.1.1+git.02dfcf-3, fixing #609608, to check if it was suitable for unblocking for squeeze. Firstly, thanks for fixing the bug so quickly. Unfortunately, the upload included a couple of other changes which aren't

Re: Your pdf-presenter-console upload

2011-01-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Gah, that was intended for debian-release, not debian-devel; please direct follow-ups to -release. On Tue, January 11, 2011 13:18, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, I was just having a look at the diff for your upload of pdf-presenter-console 1.1.1+git.02dfcf-3, fixing #609608, to check

Re: Mass (non invasive) NMUs planned to fix debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 19:43 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: My plans are to upload before the end of the upcoming week-end an NMU for each of the affected package(s). I currently have: fwiw, from a quick look at the list, at least boxbackup would need a t-p-u upload in order to get fixed

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, January 20, 2011 03:18, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed in stable? If a stable

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-21 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 20:58 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: until today our Release files included 3 Hashes for all their entries: MD5SUM, SHA1, SHA256. I just modified the code to no longer include MD5SUM in *all* newly generated Release files. When will that affect Release files for stable?

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
severity 615476 important tag 615476 + unreproducible thanks On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question depends on libtiff at all; I'm therefore

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 13:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question depends on libtiff at all; I'm therefore

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 14:33 +0300, sergey wrote: Is it possible that this problem exists because I have some old programs in /usr/local that I moved from my previous Slackware system? Yes, I suspect that's the problem; specifically: /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0: The version of

Re: Pushing tzdata updates to stable in time

2011-03-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 16:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: On Fri Mar 11, 2011 at 13:11:52 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Chile was supposed to leave the Summer daylight savings period this coming weekend, but it was pushed to April

Re: Pushing tzdata updates to stable in time

2011-03-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 13:54 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Martin Zobel-Helas dijo [Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:31:36PM +0100]: Chile was supposed to leave the Summer daylight savings period this coming weekend, but it was pushed to April 2nd. The fixes have been accepted to the package in Sid,

Re: Pushing tzdata updates to stable in time

2011-03-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 20:07 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Assuming everything goes according to plan (adding packages to squeeze-updates hasn't actually been tested yet) I'm planning on pushing the tzdata update in tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, that didn't happen yet. Adding packages

Re: Pushing tzdata updates to stable in time

2011-03-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:09 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 20:07 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Assuming everything goes according to plan (adding packages to squeeze-updates hasn't actually been tested yet) I'm planning on pushing the tzdata update in tomorrow morning

Re: new Contents generator on ftp-master

2011-03-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 11:01 +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: we have disabled the contents generator of apt-ftparchive and replaced it by a new implementation in dak. There are some visible changes: [...] The new implementation is currently only used for suites that are not marked as untouchable.

Re: new Contents generator on ftp-master

2011-03-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, March 15, 2011 21:40, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The new implementation is currently only used for suites that are not marked as untouchable. Oldstable and stable will switch during the next point release. Have you (or anyone else) verified that any tools in {old,}stable parsing contents

Re: expected stable-updates but got squeeze-updates

2011-03-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 20:45 +, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Using the following in sources.list: deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib non-free The above is not

Re: expected stable-updates but got squeeze-updates

2011-03-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 22:38 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 20:45 +, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Using the following in sources.list: deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable

Re: expected stable-updates but got squeeze-updates

2011-03-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, March 31, 2011 09:18, David Kalnischkies wrote: Its simpler: The Release files tell us which Codename and Suite this archive is for - if thats different from the one you mentioned in sources.list you will get this lovely warning… And yes, Christoph is right, something is wrong with

Re: Packages upgraded to same version in Testing Excuses

2011-04-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:24 +0200, Johan Walles wrote: Look here: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses/2011040311.html.gz Look at the following line: lia id=asymptote/amd64 name=asymptote/amd64asymptote/amd64/a (2.02-2 to 2.02-2) Why is asymptote being upgraded both

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 12:12 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, April 04, 2011 12:05:09 PM Neil McGovern wrote: I also note a lack of replies to feedb...@release.debian.org - these mails are definately useful, but I really would appreciate any comments going there, so I don't have to

Re: some suggestions towards a Debian .desktop policy [Was: Warm up discussion about desktop files]

2011-04-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, April 20, 2011 09:57, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: .. as validated by the desktop-file-validate utility, as used by lintian. desktop-file-validate is not used by lintian, perhaps there should be a test similar to the

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, April 28, 2011 19:03, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 28/04/11 at 12:05 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: And at the same time, having a non-frozen rolling release available during freeze time could easily distract people from working on testing/frozen at all, because a shiny rolling release that they

Re: 0-day NMUs for RC bugs without activity for 7 days?

2011-05-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:38 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:14:55PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: - Doing an NMU without trying to contact the maintainer beforehand could be considered an aggressive behaviour, or a way to punish the maintainer for not

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Brian May wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:57:35PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: - statically-linked-binary This is not always a bug. e.g. dar-static is supposed to be statically linked! Lintian intentionally doesn't warn about binaries with names ending -static, hence the

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:48 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: * gupnp - libnice not yet rebuilt/reuploaded libnice was binNMUed as part of this transition so shouldn't be a blocker. The remaining issue that I can currently see here is gupnp-igd being out-of-date on mips. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 15:45 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: [...] Le dimanche 08 novembre 2009 à 12:48 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : [...] - empathy not built on kfreebsd* It’s waiting on geoclue, which in turn needs disabling of gammu support on !linux. There does not

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