Summary of the LSM Free Software Printing Summit

2004-07-17 Thread Roger Leigh
. The conference was attended by these printer manufacturers: Glen Petrie (EPSON) David Chamberlin (Kyocera) And these developers: Kai-Uwe Behrmann (CinePaint) Ralph Giles (Ghostscript) Jody Goldberg (GNOME-Print) Till Kamppeter (Foomatic/xpp) Hin-Tak Leung (epsonepl) Roger Leigh

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-24 Thread Roger Leigh
by the infrastructure or by policy. ACK. I certainly care about security, and I'll sign my packages just as soon as debsign supports it. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-24 Thread Roger Leigh
). BTW, are there any good reasons why the autobuilders don't use the packaged version anywat? The differences are minimal. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-26 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:02:36AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you NEED to do a manual binNMU it is probably best to use sbuild (the cvs, not deb

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-28 Thread Roger Leigh
through the remaining huge diff by hand will take some time. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
. Specifically regarding bullets: We now have UTF-8 encoded control files, so why not simply use the UCS bullet character (U+2022)? Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
in there. /dev/shm is reserved. Because of this, it's *actively harmful* for /dev/shm to be used by initscripts, or indeed anything except the glibc POSIX shm_*() and sem_() implementation. Where was it ever written down that any package could use /dev/shm? They can't. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 18, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How strongly can I put this? /dev/shm is for *shared memory*, not for random junk. /dev/shm is for POSIX shared memory and semaphores /dev/shm is a tmpfs

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
are talking about. On the contrary, he made several good points, which you would do well to fully consider before dismissing them out of hand. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: [no need to CC me; I'm subscribed to the list] On Dec 18, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian guarantees that it exists on debian systems. But what about the future, and what about it being

Re: Please test the new sysvinit

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
wants to test them. I did file a bug about tmpfs size limits (#344001), but this is really a wishlist item. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
, since there are many other uses too for a tmpfs. There are many uses for an ext3fs, but that doesn't mean we only have one ext3 filesystem. What exactly is your reasoning here? - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 19, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If in the future glibc decides to choose some other implementation for shm_open(), then it has no reason to stay. But it has no reason to go away either

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
pretty. Sure, you can call it handwaving, but to me it's something that's going to break at some point in the future. I can't believe you are condoning that, especially when the fix is so simple. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 19, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With this example, it's trivial to trigger namespace conflicts and break shm_open(). mkdir /dev/shm/foobar, for example, or create a symbolic link

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any other defenders of /lib/run? Of /run? I prefer /run. It certainly doesn't belong in /lib (IMO). - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-20 Thread Roger Leigh
for /run (or /lib/run or whatever) being empty at the end of the boot process, and complain if it isn't (possibly also remounting it r/o so abusers break noisily). Wouldn't that break mtab, or will that be moved under /var at the end of booting? - -- Roger Leigh Printing

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Roger Leigh
for being written in C using GLib/GObject. I have however spent the last week converting it to C++, and I'm just finishing that up now.] Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ke, 2005-12-21 kello 10:28 +, Roger Leigh kirjoitti: For this task, you might find schroot(1) useful. It's a means of accessing chroot environments, but it supports LVM snapshots as one method. Does

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-28 Thread Roger Leigh
of. The fact of being group-maintained /should/ make it simpler for third-party changes to get into a package anyway (since there are more maintainers to review and commit changes). This should lessen the need for 0-day NMUs. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Roger Leigh
/dev. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: ITK: debmake

2005-12-31 Thread Roger Leigh
to use debmake. --- I should remove last sentence from all translations. It might be better changing it to It is a bug to use debmake in new packages. New packages using debmake will be rejected from the archive. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
them for the time they took to identify and investigate a bug. I treat both fellow developers and non-developers the same in this respect. Realistically, what more can we do? Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: Bug#345977: ITP: polld -- Polling demon

2006-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
? If the partition table is being changed, the tool that changed it should issue a BLKRRPART ioctl, like fdisk does for example (see linux/fs.h). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Cooperating With Canonical Employees

2006-01-09 Thread Roger Leigh
own I see that each upload has been by a different person almost every time, which makes it difficult to firstly know who I should contact, and secondly I have doubts about their familiarity with the package if there's no one who really cares for it. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-12 Thread Roger Leigh
for my own package, because each time it has been uploaded to Ubuntu it was done my a different person, so I don't know who I should be cooperating /with/. For large and important packages, this isn't a problem, but for others it's difficult. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Roger Leigh
, I'll be more blunt: this isn't the first crass stunt you've pulled by any means, and you are now right at the limits of many peoples tolerance. Pull another one again, I may be forced to file a request for your expulsion. That might happen for this one yet. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 08:40, Roger Leigh wrote: Andrew, do you understand just how inappropriate and offensive your mail was? Nothing justifies abuse of our lists like that. d-d-a is a widely-read list both

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:51:03PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: If you still can't take the hint, I'll be more blunt: this isn't the first crass stunt you've pulled by any means, and you are now right

Re: Better communication between projects

2006-01-15 Thread Roger Leigh
are discarded, rather than being merged back into the Debian changelog (though I can appreciate this is not an easy problem to solve in an automated fashion). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Linux and memory leak

2006-02-03 Thread Roger Leigh
to see memory usage; this should show any memory hogs. (Acroread is a likely candidate.) Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
require and uphold the same set of freedoms of both, which obviously includes the ability to modify without restrictions on what is modifiable. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: documentation types

2006-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
. Is the docbook toolchain is yet robust enough to be able to do that? Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Roger Leigh
/; it's not hard to see long-term maintenance problems with this. See the debian-vote archives for more detail. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
. For the second, I remain to be convinced that documentation is less deserving of freedom than software. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key

New sbuild release 0.38

2006-02-15 Thread Roger Leigh
schroot. - Recommend cdebootstrap rather than debootstrap. * debian/README.Debian: Update information about src-deps and schroot. -- Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:13:23 + sbuild (0.37) unstable; urgency=low * Sync with upstream SVN: - avg-pkg-build-time, avg

conffile purging and maintainer scripts

2006-03-10 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainer scripts do not, with some removing perhaps .dpkg-old only. This is inconsistent, and it would be nice to have some guidelines or recommendations about how maintainers should handle conffile cleanup, so that maintainer scripts could do it more reliably and uniformly. Regards, Roger -- Roger

Re: conffile purging and maintainer scripts

2006-03-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh wrote: Until last month, dpkg forgot about conffiles which were removed or moved on package upgrade. As a consequence, maintainers had to remember to purge these conffiles by hand in the package postrm script. I just want to highlight

Re: conffile purging and maintainer scripts

2006-03-11 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh wrote: Until last month, dpkg forgot about conffiles which were removed or moved on package upgrade. As a consequence, maintainers had to remember to purge these conffiles by hand in the package postrm

Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog

2006-03-30 Thread Roger Leigh
this for chroots would be for syslog packages to provide a file e.g. /etc/schroot/setup.d/50syslog which would create the socket on the fly when the chroot is used. This does require using schroot to access chroots, however. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Roger Leigh
setup? I certainly have read the docs from CVS, but I'm stuck at the installation stage. I can see what installs where from the debian/* packaging, but what I need to do to setup the archive and database isn't clear. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Liberty and Livelihood - Support

Re: NOTICE: libcupsys2 splitting

2003-04-21 Thread Roger Leigh
and foomatic-bin are re-built. I'll be uploading new cupsys-driver-gimpprint packages in a few days, once I've rebuilt and fully tested it. In the mean-time, installing libcupsimage2 should make it work again. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp

Autobuilder locale setup

2003-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
.) This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset. Can the autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is only C available? Thanks, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp

Re: Autobuilder locale setup

2003-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
necessary. That's fine--I can just generate those that I really need (~20). Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

2003-04-27 Thread Roger Leigh
this not allow to have several packages, each targetted for different processors? -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: inews path question

2003-07-01 Thread Roger Leigh
(and FHS) will allow the use of libexec some day... -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: Bug#201023: dosemu: purging doesmu wipes out all user data

2003-07-22 Thread Roger Leigh
) appropriate. There is no technially valid reason for doing this, since the conffiles and symlinks that might exist are known by name. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-28 Thread Roger Leigh
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:42:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: ... I contacted the SRM about the possibility of inclusion of gimp-print 4.2.5-1woody0 in a point release, but I've not had any reply yet. It doesn't meed the usual criteria for a stable

Re: Bug#203653: ITP: autoconf-archive -- The GNU Autoconf Macro Archive

2003-08-03 Thread Roger Leigh
be the case that they are co-ordinating better, but there was some disagreement between the maintainers, which led to the initial fork. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82; bug #235522?

2004-10-07 Thread Roger Leigh
state. If you can't get the basic Gimp-Print CUPS driver going as above, please file a bug report against cupsys-driver-gimpprint. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: NMU for libpaper

2004-10-22 Thread Roger Leigh
/printdef $(srcdir)/printers.xml print-printers.c CLEANFILES = print-printers.c Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Roger Leigh
to be set rather higher than it is at the moment, and if it doesn't add any value over existing equivalents or have much general use it doesn't get in. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Roger Leigh
in any way. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
to UTF-8 (where it makes sense). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP

Re: Bug#287839: ITP: mxml -- small XML parsing library

2005-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
embedded currently). I also have uses for it in other projects, where libxml2 is not suitable. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key

Re: Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-02-28 Thread Roger Leigh
many different things. Perhaps you mean it implements ISO-6429 (ECMA-48) SGR control sequences, or maybe something entirely different? Either way, it would help if you were much more specific. (This applies equally to the other ITP.) Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing

Looking for Greg Hookey

2003-11-06 Thread Roger Leigh
three bugs in the NMUs. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-19 Thread Roger Leigh
to that... would it be acceptable to upload the new stable libpqxx release (2.0.0) built against 7.4 once 7.4 has entered unstable. It would be fantastic to have the new libpqxx in sarge, too. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
-built library to be installed for shlibdeps to be computed). This sort of automated source building is a very good idea--it will root out a lot of build bugs, and will improve the quality of Debian. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Roger Leigh wrote: In late 2001, I spent several weekends hand-building quite a large chunk of woody (over 200 source packages). I found quite a number of serious bug in several packages, including missing Build-Deps

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: apt-fu installs binary packages of build-depends first to avoid circular build-dependencies, and then builds and installs the build-depends from source if -R

Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?

2003-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
to get ENOSPC than a kernel panic. The installer could pick a sensible limit based on, for example, 20% of the combined core+swap size. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Roger Leigh
with an alternate name, which didn't have such unpleasant and unholy connotations. I don't have any good ideas as or an alternative right now--it's worse than a tiebreaker! Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
be hard pushed to find another book with Manw, Orom, etc. in it. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [I am not subscribed to debian -bsd.] On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:30:48PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Nathan Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not opposed to anything else you've said. I do believe these particular names are a bad idea, however

Re: pkg-config including too much crap

2006-04-04 Thread Roger Leigh
from pkg-config or should I just parse the .pc file myself? The .pc file needs converting to use Libs.private for libraries which are only indirect dependencies. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU

Re: pkg-config including too much crap

2006-04-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/4/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to get sane output from pkg-config or should I just parse the .pc file myself? The .pc file needs converting to use Libs.private

Re: pkg-config including too much crap

2006-04-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Even then, -lgtk-x11-2.0 still needs to come from the Requires, but should still be private. For this, a Requires.private would be the best solution (but its Cflags should still remain public). This needs implementing in pkg-config

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Roger Leigh
in an unclean build environment. Because tools like sbuild need a dsc, I always build the package on the host and then rebuild the new .dsc/.diff.gz in the sbuild chroot. This ensures it will build in both environments, and also ensures the source will unpack and autobuild properly. -- Roger Leigh

Re: Bug#367456: general: text missing in menus and buttons inside window when using utf-8 locale (en_US.utf8)

2006-05-16 Thread Roger Leigh
patching up abandoned code. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. pgpLnhU6VP8R7.pgp

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-20 Thread Roger Leigh
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Re: glibc built with gcc-4.1 (update)

2006-05-31 Thread Roger Leigh
: error: expected ',' or ';' before '{' token You've probably hit #340871: [m68k] packages ftbfs due to mathinline.h in libc6-dev. I posted a patch there, but it needs someone with both m68k glibc knowledge to complete the work. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Roger Leigh
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Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Roger Leigh
things easier. While historical reasons are acceptable for users' dotfiles, I remain to be convinced that there is a logical rationale for them in any system location, or even anywhere under $HOME except the root. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http

Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
that 99 char limitation.s Why can't dpkg use the newer ustar or pax formats? -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: xmgrace ddd again

2006-07-07 Thread Roger Leigh
from sources and have exactly the same problem. For what it's worth, I have exactly the same problem in fedora core 5, but not on Fedora Corre 4. They both have the lesstif widget toolkit in common. That's probably where the bug lies. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Roger Leigh
is found, please report it and it will get fixed. It can't be fixed if the maintainer is not made aware that there is a problem. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-13 Thread Roger Leigh
be GPL (or compatible with the GPL). That is, the mechanism used to build GPL code is an intrinsic part of a GPL licensed work, and so cannot be licensed in an incompatible manner. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh

ARM toolchain is not up-to-date

2006-07-27 Thread Roger Leigh
0720 europa FAIL (no GCC 4.1; libstdc++ iterator bug) All the failures after 0.2.10 are due to the buildd not having g++-4.1 installed. After this is fixed, please could you requeue schroot for a rebuild? Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Roger Leigh
packages. As an example, there are many packages not registering their documentation with doc-base, and doc-base itself could do with some work on better supporting documentation formats other than HTML. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Roger Leigh
building and allow individual users root access to individual xen hosts. [I need the powerpc support so I can run a Xen system; if anyone else wanted to take up the challenge, it could be done much sooner.] Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Roger Leigh
schroot to manage the chroot). I prefer it to pbuilder, but I may be a little biased ;-) -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Roger Leigh
/schroot Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail. pgpvazcFrBsYK.pgp

Re: cdrtools

2006-08-07 Thread Roger Leigh
would even pay the first hour! Please keep non-constructive messages and flaming off debian-devel (and the same applies to you, Joerg Schilling). Take this off debian-devel to private mail or to a more appropriate list. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-10 Thread Roger Leigh
netkit-inetd is doable. Any thoughts or comments? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-11 Thread Roger Leigh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 10, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: installed, all using the same configuration file. Is this a use case we really want to support? Are there really setups running multiple inetds for a good reason? Having a virtual A good reason

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-11 Thread Roger Leigh
to leave it installed by default for etch, I think fixing up all inetd-using packages to have proper dependencies, and then removing the dependency from netbase would be a worthy goal for etch+1. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-11 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: It would be good to get rid of inetd from the basic install at all. Those No, it would not. UNIX systems are supposed to have an inetd installed. I see no reason why *Debian* systems should have an inetd

Bug#141476: ITP: ijs-dev -- IJS raster image transport protocol

2002-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-06 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ijs-dev Version : 0.33 Upstream Author : Raph Levien [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.linuxprinting.org/ijs * License : MIT Description : IJS raster image transport

RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-14 Thread Roger Leigh
, but what I have done so far is available from http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rl117/buildd/ (source and i386 debs). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:52:48AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Does anyone who uses buildd/wanna-build/rbuilder have any comments? I don't yet have a big enough HDD to run an autobuilder offline, so I have not tried to use it yet. I

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:40:32AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: On 14 Apr 2002, Roger Leigh wrote: I have added autoconf/make support, and repackaged it using debhelper. Whoa. I tried the same two years ago, and failed. That's why I started a rewrite in C++, based on APT, which should

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-17 Thread Roger Leigh
is fixed. -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

2005-07-05 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:27 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: At Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:11:22 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: This mail is just to test the water to see if there is any interest in forming a printing group

Re: [Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

2005-07-11 Thread Roger Leigh
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 05 Jul 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: Rob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:27 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: At Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:11:22 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: This mail is just to test the water to see

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-11 Thread Roger Leigh
in unstable (gcc272). Does anyone actually use this anymore, or could it be removed for etch? - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Roger Leigh
://people.debian.org/~rleigh/Screenshot.png Galeon is also similarly afflicted. It's either a GTK+ bug, or a Radeon bug (ati driver). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: New gimp-print packages in experimental

2005-07-16 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:24:18PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: gimp-print (renamed to gutenprint) is near its 5.0 release. I've uploaded a prerelease to experimental, which is also available here: Hi Roger

Gutenprint entering unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Roger Leigh
any maintainers of printing or printing-related packages to subscribe to debian-printing. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key

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