Two Delegations

2002-07-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am pleased to announce two new Project Leader's Delegates as per section 8.2 of the Debian Constitution. First, as some of you may be aware, in May of this year I began looking for someone to help me handle the details of donations to Debian,

Bits from the DPL

2002-09-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is another in my ongoing series of messages as your DPL. I certainly didn't intend to get from mid May to mid September without a message! I'll try to be more regular about these in the future... Rather than try to tackle every subject

LWN subscription for Debian developers

2002-10-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. Some of you noticed that the Linux Weekly News, aka lwn.net, changed to a subscription model for full access, and wondered if Debian developers could arrange some sort of group access. I'm pleased to report that the answer is yes! LWN

Soliciting Applications and Nominations for the SPI Board

2002-11-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Below is a message from Martin (Joey) Schulze, the current Vice President of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). SPI is the non-profit corporation that was formed to provide Debian with a legal and financial existence in the United States, and

SPI membership / vote

2003-01-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc, which is a non-profit corporation under US law that was created to provide legal and financial existence for projects like Debian. More information about SPI is available on the

SPI Board of Directors election

2003-02-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In early January, I pointed out that Debian is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc, and that all Debian developers have the right to be contributing members of SPI. SPI is now electing new members for the Board of Directors.

Independent Vote Count

2003-03-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This message failed to be delivered to debian-devel-announce initially, trying again since all Debian Developers should know about this... Moshe Zadka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Debian Project Leader, As one of the candidates in the DPL

LWN subscription for Debian developers

2003-08-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. Last October, I announced a group subscription to lwn.net for Debian developers, sponsored by HP. I've recently received numerous queries about whether this deal was still available, and/or whether HP intended to continue sponsoring the

SPI Board Candidates Debate

2003-11-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have agreed to moderate an online debate among the candidates for SPI's board of directors. Information about the election is available at: http://www.spi-inc.org/news/2003/20031023 The debate will take place on Monday, 17 November 2003,

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: It's too bad upstream developers are so diverse in their attitudes about how to number things... such that we have to deal with stuff like this. However, that's a fact of life. : 2) Use the Epoch system for the purpose it was intended, and move libc6 :

Re: premature closing of bugs

1998-06-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I was looking at the list of release-critical bugs and noticed some bugs : were closed. A lot of those closed bugs are for packages that are still : sitting in Incoming. I would like to remind people that you have to wait : with closing a bug until the

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I see versions numbered 2.0.7 and 2.0.8 as release versions, because that : is the way the upstream authors see them. The tarballs that appear before : those releases are given numbers like 2.0.7pre1 specifically to indicate : that they are NOT releases,

Re: New web pages are finally up!

1998-06-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : The latest version of the Debian web pages are complete. I like them. Good work! A few nits. The link on the developer's corner page that I think should go to the list of developers instead brings up the xearth image. The visit the sponsor image on

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : 21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs : The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are : correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is evil. I'm not sure I completely understand what the links

Re: dpkg port to HP-UX

1999-01-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hmmm. swinstall (HP-UX native I think) seems to support dependencies. It's pretty ugly though and I don't know if there's a command line version. Yes, you can drive swinstall from the command line. It's not pretty, but it works. Unfortunately, there's

Re: Freeze date for potato?

1999-05-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I suppose that we could go to a release candidate model during the freeze, but that's something for another discussion. Of course, until we discuss this, we're doomed to perpetuation of the current, incredibly broken freeze process. [shudder] Not that

Re: intent to package gcpegg

1999-05-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Since the sources include an explicit copyright assertion but no explicit distribution license The upstream maintainers indicate in email that the GPL is their choice, which is wonderful news. Now that this is resolved, I'll upload a package to main

Re: NOTICE: USENIX/FREENIX '99 in Monterey, CA, June 6th - 11th: Debian BoF, and My Free Software Talk.

1999-05-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'll be at Usenix again this year As will I. Flying in Tues evening, back Fri evening. Will, as usual, have some of my PGP fingerprint slips of paper with me in case I run into anyone. Bdale

Re: Dents v0.0.3 - DNS server

1999-05-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I wonder if s/o is already working on this or if it doesn't make sense to package it. Given the BIND package will move to non-free in version 8.2 due to the license on the RSA code used for DNSSEC, it's good to see an alternative that will be in main...

Re: Dents v0.0.3 - DNS server

1999-05-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Given the BIND package will move to non-free in version 8.2 due to the license on the RSA code used for DNSSEC, it's good to see an alternative that will be in main... even if it's less functional. Is it possible to keep an older version of Bind in

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-23 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out. Can the script please be disabled. Absolutely. I've asked before for the nag widget to be turned off, and I strongly support turning it off now. Yes, I have a couple of packages

packages for adoption

1999-05-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
I would like to offer the following two packages for adoption or removal: upsd- I don't use it, but others apparently do, and there are no open bugs that I am aware of jaztool - I don't use it, I'm not sure anyone does. Rumor has it that a

ITP satlink

1999-09-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
I'm going to package the software used with the Planet Connect satellite Usenet feed service. We've been using it for a while, but there was no explicit copyright/license terms in the upstream sources. A new version is in the process of being released, and the author has agreed to resolve this,

your note about DNS and Debian on LWN

1999-09-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
Hi John. I just read your LWN backpage letter, http://lwn.net/1999/0916/backpage.phtml. I'm the Debian BIND package maintainer. I am aware of no intention on the part of Debian to undermine the goal of a public key infrastructure centered on DNS. We simply cannot ship the RSA code in our

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for September 17, 1999

1999-09-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Package: dump (main) Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 44061 dump: Appears to be unable to dump rev 1 ext2fses with sparse super I'm not an expert on ext2 filesystem internals. If someone who is wants to have a look at this and give me some

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We don't have a way for you to access them directly but there's an official location in the database where they're being archived. We're trying to decide how to serve them up... by requesting a bug number, obviously, but

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: What do other think, and have you seen seeing the same runaway bug severity inflation I have? Yes. Submitters seem to think that if they crank up the severity, the bug will get more/quicker attention. At least in my case, that just isn't true. I'm not

Re: couple of nits/warnings

1999-10-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: tar -zxf control.tar.gz control ./control You can also use tar -zxf control.tar.gz *control which does not produce an error, and extracts either one. This is the fix I supplied for lintian when the tar upstream changed the way pathname

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 10, 2000

2000-03-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Bug stamp-out list for Mar 10 03:04 (CST) Package: dump (debian/main) Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59935 dump: dump segfaults A number of bugs have been fixed since the 0.4b12 snapshot that's in potato now. I agree with the submitter

Re: 14 days till bug horizon

2000-03-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Package: sawmill (debian/main). Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59760 sawmill: Sawmill fails to load -- missing file /usr/lib/rep/0.11/i686-pc-linux-gnu/timers.so This is filed against version 0.25-1. The version in potato is

Re: 14 days till bug horizon

2000-03-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Package: pilot-manager (debian/main). Maintainer: Darren Stalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59202 pilot-manager: Method GetRecord missing in SyncPlan The pilot-manager package is quite useful even if SyncPlan doesn't work, which I can neither confirm nor deny.

Re: Embedded(/RT) Debian? Embeddian GNU/Linux?

2000-03-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: does anybody know, wether there are ideas or plans to make an Debian GNU/Linux especially for embedded and/or realtime systems, i.e. Embedian GNU/Linux? The problem is that embedded covers such a huge range these days. I've built several embedded

Re: A progressive distribution

2000-03-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: After reading this nice diskussion with all it's aspects, I want to complete the mess and suggest a distribution called e.g. progressive beetween stable(frozen) and unstable. I gather you haven't read the discussion of package pools in the archive?

Re: A progressive distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: You know, the whole concept of 'a release' is orthogonal to the way I think about Debian. We've been through that before, too, and I understand the various reasons that it's important for us to make a release from time to time... but I doubt any of my

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: It might be he wants to talk about -changes ? There he's right (and I do totally agree with him). I'm not excited about a list per architecture, but I've often wondered if only posting to the lists messages for uploads that include source might not be

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Package: bind (debian/main) Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59649 bind: Gives core dump Closed by 8.2.2p5-9, now in potato. Package: inn2 (debian/main) Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 61030 inn2: fresh potato install

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story: Some folks at work saw similar weirdness with the negotiation on some HP switch products, their solution was to configure the switch to

ITP: pcrd

2000-03-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
I have packaged 'pcrd', which is a utility for controlling an Icom PCR-1000 radio receiver. It is probably mostly of interest to amateur radio folk, and so will go in the hamradio section. The upstream site for this package is http://www.mv.net/ipusers/cdwalker/pcrd.html The PCR-1000

RFP: bidwatcher

2000-03-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
I've built a package of bidwatcher, which is a tool for users of eBay, that assists in placing and monitoring bids. I don't really want to maintain the package, though, so I'm calling for a volunteer to package this for real and upload it. I'm happy to provide what I've done so far, but it's

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-04-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Bug stamp-out list for Mar 31 03:06 (CST) Package: bind (debian/main) Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 61129 base: bind upgrade leaves two named's running I see how this can happen in some odd cases. Should have a fix uploaded in a day

Re: Debian bind chroot option?

2000-12-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Lee) writes: Are there any thoughts to a chroot install option for bind?? Its not that hard to setup, but I wonder how it would fit into the debian policy. I've been thinking about it after 9.1.0 releases, and after I add debconf support. I don't run chroot'ed,

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-31 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) writes: Bdale hates dbs, doesn't know what it is I don't hate dbs. I just get annoyed when packages with complicated build-time patching schemes won't build. My sense is that each of these schemes increases the probability of build-time failures by deferring

BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
It was just pointed out to me that there is a new RFP for bind9 packages filed to the wnpp part of the BTS. As the BIND package maintainer, I indicated many months ago my intention to package BIND 9.X for Debian. Unfortunately, the BIND 9.0.0 and 9.0.1 releases contained sources for required

Re: BIND 9.X, shared libraries, and package pools

2001-01-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian May) writes: Does bind come with multiple libraries? Yes. Four, I think. Ok, I haven't looked at our policies for shared libs for a while, and I obviously have some reading to do. Thanks for the warnings. Bdale

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: gzip --rsyncable, aloready implemented, ask Rusty Russell. I have a copy of Rusty's patch, but have not applied it since I don't like diverging Debian packages from upstream this way. Wichert, have you or Rusty or anyone taken this up with the gzip

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Zimmerman) writes: As you know, it's been eons since the last upstream gzip release. On advice of the current FSF upstream, we moved to 1.3 in November 2000. I think it is entirely reasonable to talk to upstream about this before contemplating forking. Bdale

resolution of the tar -I issue

2001-01-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: can we get rid of -I entirely, please? From: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:18:51 -0700 After lots of discussion on the Debian developer mailing lists, the solution that I think makes the most sense is: the -I

Re: News about Debian Conference... and have an happy new year !

2001-01-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roland Bauerschmidt) writes: Speaking of IA-64: Do we have a machine yet? AFAIK not. Several Debian folk have acces of one kind or another to IA-64 hardware. I am not aware of any IA-64 systems fully dedicated to Debian development. I am in possession of an IA-64 box from

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herbert Xu) writes: kernel where all options were compiled into separate modules so simply choosing the right modules constructs the optimal kernel. Guess what, that's how the current 2.4 kernel images are constructed. Well, not really. All of the drivers and other

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bas Zoetekouw) writes: If a package requires any binary package in order to be build from source, it must declare a dependency on that package. It isn't *quite* that simple. Explicit build dependencies should only be for packages that are neither essential nor

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It isn't *quite* that simple. Explicit build dependencies should only be for packages that are neither essential nor build-essential. But it's entirely harmless to mention them; this is an area

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rahul Jain) writes: maybe there should be meta-packages for packages that have embedded version numbers like that. In the general case, yes. In this case, there is no need for one, since the package in question is build-essential, and so need not be listed in a build

Re: account on IA-64 sought.

2002-12-08 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes: 12. http://testdrive.hp.com/ Yes, this can be a good resource. I also invite anyone working on ia64 porting issues to the #debian-ia64 channel on irc.debian.org. There is very little activity visible there, but people who can help are often

help wanted with 'ntp' packages

2003-07-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
I am unable to spend as much time updating the 'ntp' packages as they deserve, and so I would like to find someone suitable to either join me in working on them, or take them over outright. There are a number of open bugs that need to be addressed, and I'm completely unhappy with the current

Re: SPI Board Candidates Debate

2003-11-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vince Mulhollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't participate in the debate at that time and date. Will a log of the debate be available via http and if so, where? Yes, I'm sure a log of the debate will be made available online after the event.

new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
The new tar behavior with respect to wildcards is not a change I introduced just for Debian, it's a new upstream change that appears to be quite intentional and well documented, as per this text from the tar info docs: The following table summarizes pattern-matching default values: Members

Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:09 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: But on the other hand, according to the 'be strict in what you send, liberal in what you accept' mantra, it makes sense for tar to not create tarfiles which in the past have caused issues for certain programs while there's a

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:36 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Here, the only way seems to be putting an entry in NEWS.Debian (for users script, ie things not under our control). Good idea, Christian. In addition, I would suggest we reinstate the previous behaviour, but display a warning when

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards (proposed middle ground)

2006-06-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barak A. Pearlmutter) writes: As a compromise that addresses some of the issues I would suggest the following: go with upstream, but add some convenience code, to whit: (1) Hot-wire tar to check an environment variable TAR_WILDCARD_DEFAULT and activate the --wildcard

where to put packages?

1995-10-23 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : ... and the expected destination of those files. That raises an interesting question for me, my apologies if it's docuemented somewhere that I haven't found yet. What's the protocol for picking a directory to dump a new package in? It was pretty easy

Bug#1750: tar doesn't handle default remote arguments

1995-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: tar Version: 1.11.8 When attemping to do remote tar operations using the archive name systax specified in the info file, which is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file, if user is not specified, tar core dumps, when it should use the current username as the default. This is probably part of the same

Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends

1995-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: trn Version: 3.6-2 It's not clear to me why trn uses 'recommends' for a mail transport and a news article injector, while tin uses 'depends'. I think that depends makes more sense, so I'm filing this against trn. Bdale

Re: inverse of `adduser'?

1995-10-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : * delete mail spool file (what if it's nonempty?) Tell the person running the script it's non-empty, and ask if they want it deleted, anyway. : * delete home directory. What do we do about saving : files?

Bug#1780: mh looks in the wrong place for 'more'

1995-10-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: mh Version: 6.8.3-2 The 0.93R6 MH mail user interface package causes it to be impossible to read any mail, since the default moreproc is '/usr/bin/more', and the current Debian release appears to put more in '/bin/more' instead. You end up with errors like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~:

filesystem question for cross-devel tools

1995-11-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
This is sort of long. Don't bother unless you care about what /usr's contents look like, and/or you're desperate for reading material... I've alluded in the past to my intention to package for Debian the cross development tools we're using for AMD 29200 embedded systems development. I care

Re: Bug#1887: cfengine 1.2.14-2: documentation errors

1995-11-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : We should document what we ship as we ship it. : No argument, but that implies lots of work for maintainers : when initially building packages and when upgrading to new : upstream releases. I'm not sure that it's practical. I think it's necessary. If

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Kenny Wickstrom writes: : My X server is : on my Win 95 machine. So to get xtet42 to install I needed to add the : --force-depends to the dpkg command line. : xtet42 depends on X11R6 and recommends xserver. This is what Ian Murdoch : said all X

Re: One question upon INN (and syslogd)

1995-11-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
I accidentally sent this to just Ian the first time, here it is again... In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Martin Schulze writes (One question upon INN (and syslogd)): : These logfiles are not turned with savelog by cron.sysklogd. Are they : turned by cron.inn? If not I might have to

Re: Bug#1978: man: default pager should be less

1995-12-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Something ought to be done though, since more(1) can't be made to go : backwards through manpages. This is rather a serious deficiency. : HP-UX's more(1) doesn't allow you to go back at all. Ever. :) Until HP-UX 10.X, at which point it has very less-ish

Re: solving some of our FTP problems

1995-12-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I think we should arrive at a happy medium - uploads : are verified against their .changes file and moved into an accessable : area that is not their final resting place. Ian can then move them, with : the confidence that their integrity has been checked,

Re: Announce: new libgdbm, libdb and libreadline

1995-12-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Here are new versions of libgdbm, libdb and libreadline. I can't find these anywhere, and it's been a couple of days since the announcement? I really, really, want to install libreadline-2.0-9 ASAP. Bdale

Bug#2058: showpicture requires csh

1995-12-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: metamail Version: 2.7-1 The script /usr/bin/showpicture provided with the metamail package, which is used by Netscape, et al, to launch xv or xloadimage to display graphical objects, is a csh script. There is no dependency specified by the metamail package, and csh is not part of the

Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: source Version: 1.3.43 The file drivers/scsi/hosts.c defines the sequence in which different SCSI controller cards are identified. The AHA152X driver appears early in the list, which is unreasonable if there is another, smarter, SCSI controller in the system... since it will result in

Bug#2064: aha1740 driver only supports one card

1995-12-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: source Version: 1.3.43 The SCSI device driver for the AHA1740 only supports one card in a system at one time. This is annoying. Bdale

Bug#2065: single user isn't

1995-12-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: base Version: 0.93.6-13 It is utterly unreasonable for the system to try and do fsck's when the system is booted with 'linux single'. The whole point of a single user boot is that something is wrong that needs reasoned attention from a system adminitrator. A single-user boot should do

tar-1.11.8-3

1995-12-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
This release fixes the problem with specifying a null username when a remote tape is specified to the 'f' argument. Previously, unless the fully qualified form of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/tapename was used, a segmentation violation and core dump would result before anything else happened.

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : It doesn't really matter if a 152X gets detected before a high-power : whiz-bang SCSI-matic 2010 PCI adapter, because you can still put root : on any SCSI controller you like. You are correct, of course, Jeff, but the problem with having a card like a

Bug#4057: compress package install additional zcat

1996-08-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
Hmmm. This is somewhat more complex than it looks like. I cannot just remove /usr/bin/zcat because it is intimately linked with compress. I disagree. The job of a package maintainer includes the process of doing things like this to a package. I have to do the same thing for the tar package,

Re: Releases other than by the package maintainert

1996-08-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : When mainstream is updated, hello-1.3 - hello-1.4 : Non-usual-maintainer updates, hello-1.3-8 - hello-1.4-0.1 : Usual-maintainer updates, hello-1.3-8 - hello-1.4-1 : : Usual-maintainer should never use -0 for revisions. : : I think this seems

Bug#4259: files in wrong directories?

1996-08-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: ftp.debian.org It appears to me that some files are incorrectly placed directly in the buzz-fixed tree, instead of being in buzz-updates with appropriate symlinks in buzz-fixed... all on master.debian.org. The files in question: buzz-fixed/source/manpages-de_0.1-4.tar.gz

Re: BSD lpr vs. LPRng

1996-08-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : : The only incompatibility is that you might have to add a :bk: entry to : the printcap in order to print to a BSD-lpd-based network printer. I care a lot about compatibility with other BSD'ish lpd-based systems. I could live with this easily. Bdale

Re: Bug#4378: incomplete Packages files and incomplete distributions

1996-09-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I don't know of a longterm solution short of : duplicating the contrib and non-free trees into stable and unstable : versions. During the time when I was master of master, I was working on a proposal for restructuring the hierarchy... and this is the same

Bug#4391: gzip -cd gives incorrect output

1996-09-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: gzip Version: 1.2.4-11 Execute these commands on the gzip file attached: gzip -cd a.gz gunzip a.gz; cat a The output of the former is clearly incorrect. I can't seem to duplicate your problem. Note that if the output is redirected or piped then the errors

Bug#4391: gzip -cd gives incorrect output

1996-09-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
What happens is that the first page is displayed over and over again. The effect should be obvious if you are able to reproduce it. Aha. Nothing like that here. Some more info about my system: kernel: 2.0.13 libc5: 5.2.18-10 I've tried this on a 1.2.8 machine with the same gzip and it

Bug#4618: lyx libraries have wrong permissions

1996-09-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: lyx Version: 0.10.3-1 This package installs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lyx/ and all child directories with permissions 750, which prevents lyx from being able to read its own config files at startup. My quick hack fix was to run find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lyx -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Re: New Source Formats and Source Package Verification

1997-05-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : BTW: Do you know anybody who really needs to put all the tools needed : to build source packages onto floppies? :-) Yes, I do. A friend has an older laptop that has a floppy drive, and that's his only current path of getting bits in and out. He may

build dependency alternatives sequencing

2001-09-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
Fellow Debian folk. Those of us who run autobuilders have started seeing more cases of a new class of problem showing up in our buildd email that we'd like your help resolving. It is possible in the Build-Depends specification of a package to give alternatives using syntax like:

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin F Krafft) writes: i don't think a global solution is a good choice here. if i install bind9-chroot (hypothetically speaking), then bind9 should not possibly ever run non-chrooted again. this should be done via diversions. Eee. Diversions are so, well, messy. I

Re: dpkg logging

2001-09-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: Previously Steve Greenland wrote: Stdout and stderr from the maintainer scripts. (This may be obvious, but you didn't explicitly list it.) No, they should use debconf. Regardless of whether packages are using debconf, I have wondered for *years*

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: But I think the point here is that the presence of a jillion normal bugs, unaddressed for years, constitutes a release-critical bug While that's an interesting assertion, the real question is what it means to address a bug. There are packages

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Olsen) writes: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-23/msg01353.html, which says there's a lintian error/warning called ancient-standard-version, which I believe can detect when a debian package is far behind the upstream version. Nope, it tells

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Wolfe) writes: Actualy, I believe that the mkisofs maintainer should have seen that a new option was created and notified the maintainers of anything that depended on mkisofs ... That's pushing it, I think. I've had several experiences as a maintainer where

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lenart Janos) writes: On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:30:28PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: You wrote: As you might already have noticed Debian begun to bloat - so many unneeded, unused, unmaintained(!) packages. My opinion is that one DD alone couldn't upload NEW package,

Re: VIM features

2002-01-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: It does, depending on the environment. If many users of a system have used normal vi for a long time, and you want to convince them to install vim instead, it better behave the way they expect. Why do people insist on installing 'vim' as 'vi'? It isn't vi,

Re: Help with configure failure on ia64 [ogle: misdetect libxml2 version]

2002-01-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Hedin) writes: ogle doesn't build on ia64, and I don't understand what's causing it. ... The configure script stops when testing xml2-config, but the correct version is on the system. This often indicates that the configure script is trying to run a small test

Re: Please compile treetool for ia64

2002-04-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tille, Andreas) writes: Could any kind soul please do the job or just poin to an ia64 box with installed build dependencies? Done. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shared library defines a RPATH

2002-08-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: Generally speaking, Debian packages aren't relocatable anyway. Many of them (unavoidably) end up with paths compiled into binaries. We may have to deal with this for things like allowing ia32 binaries to run on ia64 systems... though so far, all of the

Re: MAKEDEV Replacement status

2002-08-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Armstrong) writes: If not, I'll just file a bug w/ patch. That's the right thing to do for now, regardless. Bdale

Re: testing script

2002-08-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
aj@azure.humbug.org.au (Anthony Towns) writes: On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:40:09PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: I was just told the script updating testing doesn't run at the moment. Is that true? If so, is there a reason? Are we already in freeze? :-) It's running, but it's not doing any

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
on my list right now. Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda dump Change made to both packages in my CVS for the next upload. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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