developers reference revisited

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Barth
. Also, if there are topics you want to have in the developers reference, please feel free to submit patches to the bug tracking system. If there are any issues or suggestions, please don't hesitate to speak to me. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85

Release update: debian-installer, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Barth
Hello, world, Kernel updates -- A kernel/d-i team meeting was recently held to review the status of 2.6.8. The team leads involved eventually decided to stay with kernel 2.6.8 and 2.4.27, rather than bumping the 2.6 kernel to 2.6.10. This decision was made upon review of the

Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

2005-04-01 Thread Andreas Barth
Hello world, Let's take a break from talking about etch plans to talk about sarge again, shall we? Debian Installer RC3, kernels - The RC3 release of the debian-installer has been published. As Joey Hess mentions in his announcement[0], this has been the

Release update: Are we there yet? (infrastructure, no major changes (please), ...)

2005-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
Hello world, Since the most recent release update, there have been a couple of improvements. First of all, the most important one for most of you is that thanks to the hard work of Ryan Murray and the other buildd admins, the infrastructure for testing-security is more or less in place and

Proposal: Bringing volatile in shape for sarge

2005-05-24 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, finally, sarge is about to release. As that happens, we had some more discussions with people as volatile is going to be really live soon; volatile is also mentioned in the release notes. Some topics have been brought to our attention, and we plan to solve them all in May, so that we are

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

2005-05-27 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, Well, just in case it wasn't obvious to everyone from looking at the release-critical bug stats, we should probably come out and say it: the the count of release critical issues affecting sarge is still going down, but it's not yet down to zero, which means no release this weekend. But we

release policy changes for etch

2005-06-27 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, All, there are some release policy changes for etch: One change was quite automatic with the so called editorial changes to the social contract - it is now required that all content in main and contrib is DFSG-free. This mail is not a call for mass bug filing - please see Frank's mail about

please fix your RC bugs

2005-07-31 Thread Andreas Barth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, we currently have almost 800 RC bugs in etch due to small glitches that started to make code FTBFS with the new gcc version. It is urgently necessary that maintainers start to fix their own packages, and that whoever has some time at their

Transition status; please no new shlib bumps

2005-08-28 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi all, we currently have a couple (or rather: way too many) transitions already ongoing. Please, don't upload shlib bumps or lib renamings unless required by one of these transitions. glibc 2.3.5 === This is the transition that blocks almost all packages from reaching testing.

architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi all, It has been discussed for a while already. While we have release criteria for packages, up until now we don't have any for the architectures. However, decisions made about an architecture affect both our users (and developers) and the release cycle much more than decisions about an

Bits from the Darmstadt QA team meeting

2005-09-27 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi all, We had a very productive QA Team Meeting in Darmstadt from the 9th to the 11th of September[1]. The participants had a lot of fruitful discussions during the weekend. Besides minor bits that just happened, the following major issues progressed significantly: * Mass package removal

Re: bts2ldap down?

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henry Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051117 10:13]: This morning I cannot reach the LDAP server - again. Has something changed again or is bts2ldap.debian.net just down? it was just down, and is restarted right now. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: My IP address seems listed as a spammer address by bugs.debian.org

2005-11-21 Thread Andreas Barth
be part of the history. However, sadly, it's still only project and not product quality. Any help on that would be welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what does Enhances *really* mean?

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Barth
case, of course, if foo Depends: foo-data, then foo-data Enhances: foo is already implied. Agreed. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-23 Thread Andreas Barth
some new wording available, or do you want till I find time to fix it myself? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Barth
:19PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels N-110 = Mon 7 Aug 06: freeze base, non-essential toolchain (including e.g. cdbs) Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it should

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060103 23:02]: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:31:38PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: the other hand side, the difference is only one week - and if nothing is broken by that, we can freeze the kernel at N-110 also. i think comparing the kernel with the toolchain

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Andreas Barth
/12/msg00678.html Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Barth
the debian archive. These people can IMHO sign the key. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
with not shipping the package. No. Shipping unsupported packages no developer cares about is a bad idea. Well, by definition if a package is too broken to support it, the bug is RC. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 18:11]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Christoph Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 16:28]: Re: Thomas Viehmann in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Really, how about just automatically[1] removing orphaned packages without maintained rdepends from

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 19:36]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 18:11]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Christoph Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 16:28]: Re: Thomas Viehmann in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Really

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* David Nusinow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 21:47]: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:35:18PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: However, on the other hand feel free to create a common maintained packages team that adopts such packages :) Isn't that pretty much what the qa team does? Not really. All qa

Re: Anthony Towns: What I did today

2006-01-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060115 10:00]: If you remove cruft from one of your packages, do you start notifying developers on d-d-a? In case of the developers reference, I did. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
, etc.). Only because you have a prejudice against volatile doesn't mean its the wrong place. Volatile is rather the exactly right place for this kind of update. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 09:52]: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 04:34]: I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of data -- it isn't part of the default apt.sources

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
on how to do it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Andreas Barth
, I would agree with you. However, s-p-u contains any kind of packages right now. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060305 14:44]: * Andreas Barth [Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:16:50 +0100]: Well, if s-p-u would *only* contained approved packages for the next point release, I would agree with you. However, s-p-u contains any kind of packages right now. Right, I've

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Daniel Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060309 19:53]: Please point me to a candidate who is claiming that 'there is no problem and that we should all be friends'. krooger. Sorry, couldn't resist. :) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Andreas Barth
thing to do. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060312 12:24]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, in case stockholm gets elected, Sorry, where's the Wiki page describing codenames for DPL candidates? Sorry for using the IRC name. I try to avoid that in mail, but failed this time

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

2006-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
person got busy or demotivated. I suspect NEW Well, that person is currently on the CeBIT and manning the Debian booth there. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which packages are older/missing?

2006-03-22 Thread Andreas Barth
the best way to read a package list into python?) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#188564: ITP: exim-mysql -- An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) with mysql backend support.

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Barth
the backports are really usable and have a _very_ nice configuration setup. I can't say anything about experimental, as I haven't tried them yet.) Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe des Schienenverkehrs

Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-19 Thread Andreas Barth
, but also in most other (roman) Languages for law. Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe des Schienenverkehrs #1 von Marc Haber in dasr Alles wird billiger: 50 % Preiserhöhung für

Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-19 Thread Andreas Barth
. If I ask an only-user with an university graduate, he will probably say law. Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe des Schienenverkehrs #1 von Marc Haber in dasr Alles wird billiger: 50

Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-20 Thread Andreas Barth
for an english word when there is a much better international alternative that is understand by jurisprudent people all over the world - the potential users. Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe des

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
very unfriendly. (I'm not speaking formally whether the removal is allowed, and consequences for the freedomsnes of the software in respect to debians guidelines. That's a totally different discussion.) Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
in making changes against the will of the upstream maintainers. (Formally everytihn is different. But the world doesn't work with only viewing the formal points.) Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe des Schienenverkehrs #1 von Marc Haber in dasr Alles wird billiger: 50 % Preiserhöhung für Stammkunden.

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030424 02:50]: On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Andreas Barth wrote: Can't you understand that as an author you would like that messages like this are not removed without your consent? The internet robustness principle says: Be liberal in what you accept

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030424 05:20]: On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:41:58 +0200, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You can. The _moral_ right is compatible with free software, the _formal_ right not. (And in some, rare cases the moral right is ignored. mkreiserfs could

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-25 Thread Andreas Barth
-devel and not hans-reiser-devel, so I spoke not about Hans Reisers behaviour (what does not mean that I like his behavior). Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe des Schienenverkehrs #1 von

Re: Symlinking /usr/share/doc/package is not allowed

2003-05-20 Thread Andreas Barth
bugs. But you really should get a consensus before mass-filling. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Symlinking /usr/share/doc/package is not allowed

2003-05-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030521 02:35]: On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: The policy vetoe to symlinking intends (in my interpretation) two goals. One is to ensure that the licences don't change unintendidly. This could e.g. happen if there is a global

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Andreas Barth
. The developers references tells that both methods are allowed in 5.11.4 http://www.debian.de/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-ack-nmu I for myself prefer the changelog entry because it shows direct which bugs are closed by the maintainer. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism echo -e)

2003-06-01 Thread Andreas Barth
, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism echo -e)

2003-06-01 Thread Andreas Barth
, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism echo -e)

2003-06-02 Thread Andreas Barth
... Perhaps you just shouldn't try to enforce your point of view. That would make it easier. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism echo -e)

2003-06-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030604 08:20]: On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 21:50:45 +0200, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You should really accept the decision of a package maintainer. Why so, if they are not doing the right thing? In real life there a three categories: Right

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread Andreas Barth
, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Andreas Barth
, and also add an i386 distribution which does not support C++ at all 5. like 4, but support C++ in a way incompatible with other Linux distributions in the i386 distribution. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Andreas Barth
enough reason to me. Sorry, but I can find no RFA/O-entry for this package. That should be done first before kicking it off. And I don't remember to read anything from the current maintainer either. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread Andreas Barth
. Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for modifying other packages conffiles. When did you fill an rc bug against tar for modifiying other packages conffiles? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B

subarchitectures? (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-25 Thread Andreas Barth
that. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

[proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030626 08:20]: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: What does oppose us to make subarchitectures quite more easy than now? (That would also be useful for the AMD Opteron and the like that could use normal i386-code, but can

Re: Counter-Proposal: Architecture Versions and Architecture Features

2003-06-29 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: 469 packages still using dh_undocumented, check if one is yours

2003-07-04 Thread Andreas Barth
used by libapache-mod-dav. (And 1.0.3-6 is also in sarge for a while now.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: 469 packages still using dh_undocumented, check if one is yours

2003-07-04 Thread Andreas Barth
no need for a extra tool. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
not ftpmaster. So ... If you're too cool to do proper ITPs then don't complain about the debian processing for new packages not working for you. ... is not right. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030705 12:05]: On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:08:04AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030705 10:50]: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:51:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Additionally, I would like to seriously propose establishing

Close old RFP/ITPs?

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Close old RFP/ITPs?

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sam Hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030705 14:50]: On Sat, Jul 05, 2003, Andreas Barth wrote: is it usefull/ok to close old RFP/ITP-entrys? old means for me more than year since the last mail for ITP, and 2 years for RFP. Of course I would write mail first whether the package is still

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
saves volunteer time for more usefull things. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-06 Thread Andreas Barth
, and that's not the case. So the recommendation is right, but it doesn't solve the problem Marc spoke of. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Close old RFP/ITPs?

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
step (that is sending mail asking for other opinions). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#200332: O: netpbm -- Graphics conversion tools

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
existing) packages). [1] usable means: have usable licences and a manpage. This would also mean that bugs to netbm are usually not fixed, and new versions not integrated in debian. As speaking alone doesn't help I have ITAed netpbm. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024

Anyone to adopt LingoTeach - a language teaching programm?

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
. There is sound, too. Well, does anyone stand up for this cool application? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#200163: ITP: png2ico -- command-line PNG to ICO converter

2003-07-08 Thread Andreas Barth
reports and discussion on d-d. The title of 200332 is ITA: netpbm -- Graphics conversion tools. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jesus Climent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030723 18:50]: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:45:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: That applies to data-files (or very similar things) like spamassasin. There should be in the README.Debian given a location for the backport by the maintainer. Spamassassin

Re: lvm2 maintainer needed

2003-07-28 Thread Andreas Barth
first according to reference, and this maintainer is not MIA. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-31 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

2003-08-02 Thread Andreas Barth
for the text interface was just too bad, I don't know. Printer is a HP Laserjet 4L, and CUPS is that of woody. LPRng did go to working instantly.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-08-03 Thread Andreas Barth
in the train bistro could get enough juice. :-/ This is still valid, e.g. on Munich - Zürich, as the German goverment declines to electrify this line (and also declines to let the Swiss do it). But we're now heavily off-topic. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
want me I stopped fixing it. Sad. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
in a while, e.g. because of holidays.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
. The danger is already there and should not be ignored. Why is this a danger? This is one of the freedoms provided by free software, which we work hard to promote. Because it would be a waste of work, time and energy. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
of course. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 16:20]: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:33:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 14:50]: Why is this a danger? This is one of the freedoms provided by free software, which we work hard to promote. Because

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
-a] Yes, I can see the problem. However, it would have helped me much if this policy would have been clearly stated at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/ (should I open a bug, or can it be fixed without?). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
, as long as anyone volunteers to keep the package in a good state, and it doesn't put burden on debian, it's ok to keep it.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-07 Thread Andreas Barth
they are being delayed, then the fact that this information is not published on the website does not indicate that the process is broken. According to the mails I get from more than one applicant they're not always informed to the causes of the delays. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Andreas Barth
should consider to re-introduce spamassassin 2 as spamassassin, and the version 3 as spamassassin3. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041006 15:05]: On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:32:09PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Just for record, I and a few other people removed spamassassin 3 on my workstation due to performace

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Andreas Barth
that already before that it was said no new upstream versions? Spamassassin 3 is a new upstream version - so, no spamassassin 3 in sarge. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041006 22:40]: also sprach Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.06.2234 +0200]: I guess spamassassin3 won't be added to sarge. Can you remember the upload of the latest kde to unstable, and the explicit NO from the release masters? Can you remember

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Andreas Barth
unstable. We are talking about a package aimed for next stable. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-06 Thread Andreas Barth
up (and have also already volatile.d.n ;), but there are some issues that needs to be considered before doing a public announcement. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Barth
api by providing it as spamassassin. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Barth
. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * paddy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041008 16:05]: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:15:29PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * paddy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041008 15:10]: What are the pros and cons for volatile-{stable,release,or-whatever-you-call-it} as an all-at-once release model, rather than

about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Barth
, they may contact me. That's all for now. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Barth
. virus scanners typically have this behaviour. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041008 18:25]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - volatile is not just another place for backports, but should only contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep them functional; I think your proposal looks good, but I

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