Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Joe Nahmias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivo Marino wrote: Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE - -- Start of PGP signed section. On Tue, 13 May 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: It appears as though anyone who has an account can upload any package they like. While this isn't a

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread tony mancill
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:36:12AM +1000: *very* serious problem for anyone who starts relying on the binary packages uploaded to m.d.n. What sort of protections do you have in place or plan to put in

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:48:03PM +0200, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote: --- Debian Mentors Project The mentors core-team is: Christoph Haas (ChrisH)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ivo Marino (eim) [EMAIL

new package - don't know how to compile

2003-05-13 Thread Matthias Hofer
Hello out there! I use Debian GNU/Linux since quite some time now and want to package SGI's failsafe (Bug #126514), which seems to be the most complete and mature HA-solution for GNU. But i've problems to compile failsafe-mgr, the graphical GUI (written in Java) for configuring the cluster.

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:29:00AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:41:40PM -0600, Jack Moffitt wrote: Perhaps an easy thing to do would just be to show whether or not a pckage is signed by a key which is signed by a real debian developer. Surely getting that signature

Re: new package - don't know how to compile

2003-05-13 Thread Marc Leeman
what can I do? I do not recognise the error, I would suggest you try a crash test in the GNU/autotools, which is never a bad idea for a develper anyway. This is an overview: http://lesbos.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~mleeman/downloads/athens-opensource-0.4.pdf -- greetz, marc because of

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Anthony... On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:51:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Uh, as far as I can tell, of the above only Daniel is even in the n-m queue; Christoph, Ivo and Christoph appear to not be developers, applicants, or even sponsored maintainers of any packages in the archive. You

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:30:03AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:29:00AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:41:40PM -0600, Jack Moffitt wrote: Perhaps an easy thing to do would just be to show whether or not a pckage is signed by a key which is

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:51:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Daniel K. Gebhart (con-fuse) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christoph Siess (CHS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why are we giving debian.net addresses to people who don't want to go through the pain of authenticating themselves to

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:02:11AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: Please bear with me but from what I was told by a number of package maintainers it is a really long way until one has become a DD. Just because Daniel was assigned an AM does not mean there is a guarantee he will get his DD access

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:34:08AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:02:11AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: Please bear with me but from what I was told by a number of package maintainers it is a really long way until one has become a DD. Just

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:51:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:48:03PM +0200, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote: --- Debian Mentors Project The mentors core-team is: Christoph Haas (ChrisH)

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emile, On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:07:12PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: I think there is a niche for such non-DD contributors. Not only in bugreporting and bugfixing, but also in packaging work. I would not emphasize on DD vs. non-DD but on

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:02:11AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: You are right. I do plan to apply in a few weeks. However the service was created especially for people who e.g. have written an application themselves and do not care about becoming a DD. Is that such a good thing? It might get

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However the service was created especially for people who e.g. have written an application themselves and do not care about becoming a DD. I object to the conept of people who do not care about

Re: ldapsearch with db.debian.org no more work (?)

2003-05-13 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:38:00PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Hello, ldapsearch does not work for me anymore with db.debian.org: (both woody and sid version) $ cat ~/.ldaprc HOST db.debian.org BASE dc=debian,dc=org $ ldapsearch uid=ballombe ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: No such

Re: ldapsearch with db.debian.org no more work (?)

2003-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:38:00PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: ldapsearch does not work for me anymore with db.debian.org: (both woody and sid version) $ cat ~/.ldaprc HOST db.debian.org BASE dc=debian,dc=org $ ldapsearch uid=ballombe ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: No such object Is it

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:48:49AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:07:12PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: [...] Regardless, I actually think it's a wonderful scaleability measure to provide some infrastructure that allows DDs to delegate some of

Re: new package - don't know how to compile

2003-05-13 Thread Pete Ryland
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:22:48AM +0200, Matthias Hofer wrote: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc but when I after all give ./configure, the is an error: loading cache ./config.cache ./configure: line 534: syntax error near unexpected token

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:41:12PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: That's not mutually exclusive. Also, you ask who would ever wish to delegate the maintainership of a package. I think the answer is every DD who has filed a RFA on a package. RFA is a Request For Adoption, not a delegation.

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Tue, 13 May 2003 14:11:05 +0200 Bastian Kleineidam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If there are people willing to adopt a package, they should start renaming the O: bug to an ITA:. If the bug is still O:, there is nobody caring for that packge. I have attempted to indicate my willingness to

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I'm glad to see this service. The Developer's Reference lists http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ as being a place to co-ordinate the sponsoring of packages. Currently it's unavailable to me (down?). Other problems I have with it include: no place to upload packages and it's for

Re: webCDwriter: Native vs. Non-native package

2003-05-13 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Saturday 10 May 2003 05:43 am, José Luis Tallón wrote: It needs to be able to run cdrecord / mkisofs / growisofs / ... and access the devices with the unprivileged user it runs as. Your approach would help if the upstream did not check the permissions to ensure they are SUID root, mode

Re: new package - don't know how to compile

2003-05-13 Thread David Z Maze
Matthias Hofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But i've problems to compile failsafe-mgr, the graphical GUI (written in Java) for configuring the cluster. There is no configure-script out of the box, the doc says to give aclocal autoheader automake --add-missing autoconf

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Daniel, On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote: We are very proud to announce the opening of the mentors project. We have been working very hard[1] on this project since beginning of 2003. Now the time has come to test and use it! Really nice job but the first side effect is

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Fabio... On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:16:38PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Really nice job but the first side effect is already there: Package: icaclient Thanks for the hint. That was a test package I was uploading to stress test the dupload process on the server. It wasn't really

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Really nice job but the first side effect is already there: Package: icaclient Version: 6.30-2 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: libxaw7 And that looks like it is f*cked. Is this Depends: done

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:16:38PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: I think upload must be moderated somehow. Even the uploader himself claim that he is unsure about licence of the product. Well, if the packages can only be downloaded by registered DDs, then the problem's solved I'd

RFS: pysol, pysol-cardsets, pysol-sound-server

2003-05-13 Thread Alexander Nofftz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks! Thanks to the aid of mentors.debian.net, my adopted and bugfixed packages are now downloadable at: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main apt-get source pysol pysol-cardsets pysol-sound-server But I'm still

jni li not linked against libc

2003-05-13 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello, I've run lintian and linda on the latest eclipse packages. eclipse contains some jni libs, which are placed in /usr/lib/jni and lintian/linda complains, that they are not linked against libc: W: libswt-java: library-not-linked-against-libc

Eclipse: /usr/share or /usr/lib?

2003-05-13 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello, I'm the new maintainer of eclipse, a IDE written in java. Eclipse is currently put into /usr/lib/eclipse directory, as eclipse contains some JNI code, which is arch dependent. JNI nativ libs (*so) are put into /usr/lib/jni (reusable parts: SWT) and subdirs of /usr/lib/eclipse (File

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:40:04PM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote: If I may make a suggestion, a user should only be able to upload a package that either: a) doesn't appear in the repository - -or- b) already has the uploader as maintainer - -or- c) has a RFA/O bug filed in WNPP

Re: Eclipse: /usr/share or /usr/lib?

2003-05-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:13:42AM +0200, Jan Schulz wrote: My current thinking is, that I will change the base directory from /usr/lib/eclipse to /usr/share/eclipse, but will put all 'arch dependet' code (about 10 files from various places) directly into /usr/lib/eclipse and then set

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 12 May 2003, tony mancill wrote: Appropos of this and Colin's statement, my suggestion is to make only a deb-src URL available on the site, and to only host source packages. For That would be one way to solve the problem. packages destined for the Debian archive, it's critical that