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

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

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

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Fujita Just noticed that someone's opened an RFP bug #340555 for XyMTeX, so CC-ing this there. (To answer a question in the RFP, upstream's email address is fujitas (at) chem.kit.ac.jp if anyone wants to try convincing him to license it DFSG-freely.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-quoting in this exchange. I wasn't quite sure what to make of his reply so I didn't follow up further. Probably TeX Live or someone else distributing XyMTeX should do so, though. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. Let's hope that when Dr. Shinsaku considers XyMTeX more polished, he'll reconsider the license. regards to all, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
would have no way of knowing whether to say (e.g.) package bar, package libbar1, or package libbar-dev. I think this functionality would have to be implemented on the BTS side. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

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

2005-12-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Reinhard Kotucha wrote: Kevin == Kevin B McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm very sorry to hear that my inquiry resulted in the removal of XyMTeX from TeXLive. :-( It is a really useful tool. Let's hope that when Dr. Shinsaku considers XyMTeX more polished, he'll reconsider

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

2005-12-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the former. (I wrote and submitted the patch myself, since it's how I reply to d-d without being subscribed :-) One still has to fix the subject, any quotes, etc. by hand of course. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the final responsibility for fixing bugs in the package, updating it to new upstream versions, and so on. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
curiosity) unless you are planning to join the Gnome team yourself. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Packages still Depending on xlibs-dev

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

Re: apt-get search?

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

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

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
) CC'ed to debian-devel in case anyone wants to add to or disagree with this suggestion. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

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

2006-01-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/distros/ubuntu/+source/cernlib/+bug/6588 (the user who filed the bug was nice enough to add my emailed response to him as the second reply in the Launchpad entry) regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

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

2006-02-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
any harm right now. However, it would be better for you to find a sponsor on the debian-mentors list so the Debianized package can be uploaded into Debian proper. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

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

2006-02-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Sebastien Estienne wrote: On 2/1/06, Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastien ESTIENNE wrote: Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #349419 Owner: SÃbastien ESTIENNE [EMAIL PROTECTED] The debianization has been sent upstream If by debianization you mean the debian directory, and not just

Re: ATT Korn Shell

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to change its name (Policy, Section 10.1 - ugh, this will create a mess when applied to libraries). This may be why the ksh maintainer(s) decided to link it statically, avoiding the problem. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

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

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
blank. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Documentation for upstream software authors

2004-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
statement, I hereby license the entire contents of that HTML file (not including images or CSS) under the BSD license (found in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD on a Debian system), substituting my name for The Regents of the University of California and the University. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty

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

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

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

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. As far as I'm concerned you can have lapack99 removed right now, since it's not just one, but two sonames behind the current version. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: resources for packaging

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
between -Wl,-Bstatic and -Wl,-Bdynamic: gcc -o something foo.o bar.o -lsystemlib -Wl,-Bstatic -lownlib -lthirdpartylib -Wl,-Bdynamic -lpthread -Wl,-static ... -Wl,-dy are equivalent and shorter :-) -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

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

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
:-) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: SAL

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
How would this do as a mass RFP :) http://sal.kachinatech.com/ SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux) is a collection of information and links to software that will be of interest to scientists and engineers. The broad coverage of Linux applications will also benefit the whole Linux/Unix

Re: Users, groups, rights and apache please advice

2003-10-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I got the following situation: A server (debian stable) running a number of domains For each domain I've create a group, and everybody that has something to do with this domain is in that group I want everybody in the group to be able to change the website of that domain, and

Does /etc/shadow exist in an sbuild environment?

2006-04-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
whether my sponsoree can force the packages to include shadow password support even if /etc/shadow doesn't exist. Thanks in advance! -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] db4.2 db4.3 db4.4 Debian DSPAM Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] dspam Debian Java Maintainers pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org commons-daemon kaffe Bradley Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnokii Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] cernlib

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case anyone is interested in filing mass bug reports (I am not sufficiently interested, sorry), here are the -dev packages in unexpected sections, obtained as follows: grep-aptavail -r -P '.*-dev$' -s Section

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Re: Kevin B. McCarty 2006-05-17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case anyone is interested in filing mass bug reports (I am not sufficiently interested, sorry), here are the -dev packages in unexpected sections, obtained as follows

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, etc. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: About MIA maintainers

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. Nothing private in this e-mail. Nor (obviously) mine. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sending debian-private postings to gmail

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, for each subscriber to the list, be encrypted individually to the public key on file for her/him. Come to think of it, (2) isn't a bad idea. Is it feasible for this to be done transparently? Mailing list admins, any comments? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW

Re: Patch cplay to use mplayer with speed-control

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
it is susceptible to a very trivial DOS attack. You ought to fix this before submitting the patch. I don't know Python well so I imagine others may also have comments. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: piuparts unprocessed failed logs page

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

New source packages sometimes bypassing NEW?

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

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

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

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

2005-01-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
just that. I don't have any productive remarks about the ITP, but I just wanted to give kudos for the awesome name you chose! regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

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

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
of xclass is very aware of our work and ROOT is referenced from the xclass web pages. Anyway, stay tuned for the announcement of ROOT being completely OS. I guess this is good news! Very cool! I'm CC-ing this to Ricardo Yanez, the latest person to ITP Root. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
of the owner and look up the reports by it? IIRC the version of popularity-contest in woody didn't report the architecture, so those 620 machines probably haven't updated to sarge yet. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable

2005-07-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
are the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file; what happens if you try apt-get install xlibs-dev or aptitude install libmotif-dev; etc. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

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

2005-08-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: Upstream Author : Gabriel Puliatti (predius) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.predius.org/ regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ

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

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
non-linux ports from the requirement. Doesn't the type-handling package do what you guys are looking for? Looks like it needs to be used somehow in combination with sed and a debian/control.in file, perhaps in debian/rules clean... regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics

g77 - gfortran transition and AMD64 g77 bugs

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

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

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

Watch Wizard minor bugs: whom to contact?

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
related is that said web page also has a problem with Debian Version; it is listed as 5.12 but should actually be 5.12-1. I suppose this is why the Copyright link on that page is broken. Whom should I contact about these bugs? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW

Re: due1ing b4nj0s sheet music

2005-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/001399.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mess in BTS

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
packages that do not produce a binary package of the same name, but for which porters have filed bugs against the source package. It was true for my multi-binary source package cernlib (before I introduced a cernlib binary meta-package). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics

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

2005-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
with autotools? etc.) I'm afraid the above isn't nearly enough information to decide if it would be a useful tool for me. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

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

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

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

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

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

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
start doing it *before* any such requirement was imposed). -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
tool for cracking local user accounts via wordlist bruteforcing su What advantages does this tool have over John the Ripper (Debian package john)? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public

Re: Using dpkg-statoverride

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-- note that use of fakeroot is mentioned in chapters 1 and 6 of the former document. Also, debian-mentors is a better place for this sort of question. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http

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

2007-05-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
more complicated, unless we are satisfied with just providing the g95 compiler but not providing sets of libraries that work with it. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
those enormous off-topic flamebait threads became common. I read the mailing lists mainly via the Web archive, to avoid massive bandwidth going into my inbox, so I can't just filter out useless threads. Even the never-ending S*** L* threads were more related to the project.) regards, -- Kevin B

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

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

Re: GCC 4.2 transition

2007-06-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-compliant implementation of a FORTRAN 77 compiler), all the build infrastructures of FORTRAN packages will need to be altered so that they call gfortran instead of f77 / g77 / $(FC) / $(F77). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu

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

2007-07-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, data, and applications hidden within. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
files, please set up symbolic links from the original locations, so that you don't frivolously break scripts that work everywhere else. Assuming that qmail-1.03.tar.gz contains all the code written by DJB that's needed to build qmail, that seems pretty explicit. best regards, -- Kevin B

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

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

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

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ambiguous as to whether it really reverts patch. My implementation does. Mike Likewise. If someone knows about a dpatch script that doesn't do the right thing with unpatch, I'd go so far as to recommend filing a bug. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http

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

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
string to contain only digits and decimal points: http://download.gna.org/adun/Adun-((0\.[^7]|[^0])[0-9.]*)\.tar\.gz best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description

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

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
in another directory would bloat the Debian diff a lot more, and be much harder to keep in sync with upstream changes (not that cernlib is really changing anymore, admittedly). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2008-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to experimental) and 5.13-4 (uploaded back in 2006). As one might imagine, the new re-ordering wasn't that helpful in seeing what dependencies had changed between the two uploads :-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org

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

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

Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
project, but on closer look I see that the Sage Wiki page mentions that you don't want to use alioth just yet. Also, let me suggest that you re-send your email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- a lot of science and math folks read that list who might not read debian-devel very often. best regards, -- Kevin B

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

2008-05-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
of it.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ssl security desaster

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

Re: ssl security desaster

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

Re: extensive patching

2008-05-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the best that can be expected. But this is a lot better than nothing! The larger the project, the more this is so. Time is unfortunately a scarce commodity in the community. Responding to some of your more recent email: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Uecker wrote: At least

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

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the release of Lenny? Otherwise it makes life somewhat difficult for those (and their sponsors :-) who maintain such packages and want to keep them in a good release status for Lenny. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org

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

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

Orphaning my packages...

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

Re: Orphaning my packages...

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

Re: Orphaning my packages...

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
at http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/09/msg00066.html in case you also wanted to adopt the Cernlib on Debian web pages. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Retiring from Debian

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
arguments?) FYI, I've now filed this as #383493. (Filed as important rather than serious to avoid stepping on the toes of release people.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Orphaned wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data

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

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

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
://bugs.debian.org/386500 , the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00187.html , and the NEWS.Debian file of sysvinit (= 2.86.ds1-18) if you haven't already. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is not long enough for me; and most Ubuntu packages are in universe where (AFAIK) they only get support in a stable release on a best-effort basis by a small and overworked MOTU team. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

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

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

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to ignore this library? I suspect if this was done, the proportion of problems in your pie chart would shrink a fair bit. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

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

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = download ] ; then wget -r --level=1 'http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib

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

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
) to ensure you avoid http://bugs.debian.org/320697 . regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

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

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
slowly be reduced. No annoying relibtoolization, no potentially dangerous use of ld's --as-needed flag, and no editing of pkg-config or .la files required! [**] I hope someone out there knows how a library maintainer can reliably determine this! best regards, --=20 Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

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

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

2006-10-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-Iceweasel' and they'll reprehend Debian for maintaining technically superior and stabler free software rather than just Free Software(TM). Plus, they'll relicense all the documentation to GFDL and we'll have to move it to non-free. ;-) -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department

Re: Bug mass filling

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

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
sponsors the most packages on debian-mentors, a task that would be decidedly more difficult without a key ;-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton

Accepted cfortran 4.4-11 (source all)

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:16:31 -0500 Source: cfortran Binary: cfortran Architecture: source all Version: 4.4-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted feynmf 1.08-3 (source all)

2006-11-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:41:29 -0500 Source: feynmf Binary: feynmf Architecture: source all Version: 1.08-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted cernlib 2006.dfsg.2-3 (source all i386)

2007-12-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
cernlib-core-dev cernlib-base-dev cernlib-base kxterm pawserv libpacklib1-lesstif dzedit libmathlib2-dev libpacklib1-lesstif-dev Architecture: source all i386 Version: 2006.dfsg.2-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Accepted cernlib 2006.dfsg.2-4 (source all i386)

2008-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
cernlib-core-dev cernlib-base-dev cernlib-base kxterm pawserv libpacklib1-lesstif dzedit libmathlib2-dev libpacklib1-lesstif-dev Architecture: source all i386 Version: 2006.dfsg.2-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

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