Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, the release notes need to contain a note to users using the german locale along the lines: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround, switching to a

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround, switching to a UTF-8 based locale will avoid the problem. Um, why

Re: QA packages for release

2004-08-31 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello dia2code has now been uploaded (again). Hope this really fix the problem. Regards, // Ola On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:02:36PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: For a while I've been tracking the sarge inclusion of QA-managed packages. Here is a status report. Some of you are getting

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:26:28PM +0200, you wrote: A) Using the same quotes as in english, i.e., Once again, the english quotes are also stupid: mv -iv foo bar `foo' - `bar' It is not clear why german users are the only ones who need an apology because they get stupid-looking quotes.

Removal suggestions (ROM)

2004-08-31 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
The following packages should be removed from testing on RoM: rrdcollect (see #267585) omlcs (see #269192) xsim (see #267291) removal requests filed for unstable (but perhaps we want to remove them from testing faster) vis5d talksoup Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040831 12:55]: Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround,

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:26:28PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: the release notes need to contain a note to users using the german locale along the lines: The contact address for the release notes is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hinting nagios and nagios-plugins?

2004-08-31 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Hi. AFAICT the only thing nagios and nagios-plugins need to migrate to testing is hinting them together in. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-31 06:59]: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:26:28PM +0200, you wrote: A) Using the same quotes as in english, i.e., Once again, the english quotes are also stupid: mv -iv foo bar `foo' - `bar' It is not clear why german users are the only ones who need

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#262236: Acknowledgement (apsfilter: FTBFS: Please replace 'exim' with 'exim4' in Build-Depends)

2004-08-31 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:10:02PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 04-Aug-31 15:47, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:33:04AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: severity 262236 serious Bug#262236: apsfilter: FTBFS: Please replace 'exim' with 'exim4' in

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#262236: Acknowledgement (apsfilter: FTBFS: Please replace 'exim' with 'exim4' in Build-Depends)

2004-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
severity 262236 normal thanks On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:17:00PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:10:02PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: Maybe I am misinterpreting something, but in http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt it says: Release

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Mario Lang
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:26:28PM +0200, you wrote: A) Using the same quotes as in english, i.e., Once again, the english quotes are also stupid: mv -iv foo bar `foo' - `bar' It is not clear why german users are the only ones who need an apology

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#262236: Acknowledgement (apsfilter: FTBFS: Please replace 'exim' with 'exim4' in Build-Depends)

2004-08-31 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-31 15:25, Colin Watson wrote: Normally, build daemons have a package that provides mail-transport-agent already installed; ssmtp is the usual choice. Andreas, I suggest you configure your build daemon this way. I don't think this is RC for sarge. Thank you for the clarification

Bug#269235: after woody to sarge upgrade, dvipdfm cannot be removed

2004-08-31 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: tetex-bin Version: 2.0.2-20 Severity: important Hello, I have just made a woody to sarge upgrade. At this point it is not possible to remove dvipdfm: meli# apt-get remove dvipdfm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:

Re: boost 1.31 in sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Martin Waitz
hi :) On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:30:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: No, qt needs to be in sync on all architectures first. Currently, we're only waiting on an upload of the m68k build. Does anyone know what's the matter with the arm build? All 3.3 versions failed for various reasons. The

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:05PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Once again, the english quotes are also stupid: mv -iv foo bar `foo' - `bar' It is not clear why german users are the only ones who need an apology because they get stupid-looking quotes.

Re: boost 1.31 in sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-31 Martin Waitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:30:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: No, qt needs to be in sync on all architectures first. Currently, we're only waiting on an upload of the m68k build. Does anyone know what's the matter with the arm build?

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:26:28 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround, switching to a UTF-8 based locale will avoid the

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's hardly a workaround--it seems to me that we should encourage UTF-8 wherever we can. So we do support German, we even support it correctly, with correct quoting, and the way to get it is to turn on the UTF-8 based locale. In my opinion, this

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#262236: Acknowledgement (apsfilter: FTBFS: Please replace 'exim' with 'exim4' in Build-Depends)

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Jochens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What would be the correct bug severity for 'Arch: all' packages which do not autobuild because of missing or incorrect Build-Depends? My understanding is that these are release critical bugs according to the published release criteria, if they are

Re: noteedit 2.7.1/sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just noticed a mail in the debian-release archive regarding noteedit. I'm glad to know someone else is keeping an eye on this. That was me. :) The situation with noteedit is that it's frozen out of sarge by KDE. I have uploaded 2.7.1-1 to

Re: QA packages for release

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:02:36PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The noteedit package is waiting on four autobuilds, but also on kdelibs, which has release critical bugs. This is presumable the KDE 3.3 problem. However, the new version should get in (at least one of the 2.7.1 packages,

Re: Removals not worked?

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:30:53PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: AFAICT these two removals seems not to have worked or the packages propagated back to testing... # 20040823; done 20040824 remove libapache-mod-dtcl/1.0.1-2 remove oftc-hybrid/1.1.1-4 Re-hinted. No idea how they got back

Re: Bug#269235: after woody to sarge upgrade, dvipdfm cannot be removed

2004-08-31 Thread Frank Küster
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: tetex-bin Version: 2.0.2-20 Severity: important Hello, I have just made a woody to sarge upgrade. At this point it is not possible to remove dvipdfm [...] Since this affect the sarge release, I have X-D-CC: debian-release. It seems we are

Re: Removal suggestions (ROM)

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:58:36PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: The following packages should be removed from testing on RoM: rrdcollect (see #267585) omlcs (see #269192) xsim (see #267291) removal requests filed for unstable (but perhaps we want to remove them from testing faster)

Re: Hinting nagios and nagios-plugins?

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:58:26PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: AFAICT the only thing nagios and nagios-plugins need to migrate to testing is hinting them together in. Hinted. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: noteedit 2.7.1/sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have a strategy for fixing the problems, or in your judgment would it be better to just drop noteedit from sarge? I don't think I can fix the problems myself -- they look to me like problems in the various buildds/archs (for instance, it

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Jens Nachtigall
It's not good idea to enforce your opinion to the release announcements because even some German guys do not think it's acceptable currently. Can you give some pointers to this? If you follow the long bug report [1], you'll see that there is agreement that the current ,, quoting is by far

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:28:14PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: It feels to me as if you are intentionally failing to get my point. Likewise. :) I have no problems reading ``this'' as double quotes, but ,,this is just a double comma. Well, `` isn't a double quote any more than ,, is--it's a

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jens Nachtigall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you give some pointers to this? If you follow the long bug report [1], you'll see that there is agreement that the current ,, quoting is by far the worst transliteration. 2 opinions stated that the transliteration towards »« might be

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:28:14PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: It feels to me as if you are intentionally failing to get my point. Likewise. :) I have no problems reading ``this'' as double quotes, but ,,this is just a double comma. Well, `` isn't a

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Mario Lang
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:05PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Once again, the english quotes are also stupid: mv -iv foo bar `foo' - `bar' It is not clear why german users are the only ones who need an apology

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Mario Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It feels to me as if you are intentionally failing to get my point. I have no problems reading ``this'' as double quotes, but ,,this is just a double comma. Can you explain the difference? Both seem ugly to me. Though: ,,this is inconsistent. It should

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:35:58PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: No apology is necessary, because of (1). No apology is necessary because it's a ridiculous concept. Are you just trying to make it as difficult as possible to solve the problem? If

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I'm aghast that the concept of including an *apology* in the release notes for a typographical ugliness is being given any consideration at all. Talking about solutions is fine, but singling something like this out for an apology is ludicrous.

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't be an ass. I replied with a real technical reason why you might not want hordes of people switching to UTF-8 and you suggest *that* as a reasonable response? I had thought better of you. Actually that's not a real technical reason. If you could

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:33:00PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Are you just trying to make it as difficult as possible to solve the problem? No, I'm aghast that the concept of including an *apology* in the release notes for a typographical ugliness is being given any consideration at

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:09:36PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Are you willing to compromise? What is there for me to compromise about? I pointed out a potential *technical* problem with your proposal and you jumped all over me and suggested

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't say it did. I pointed to a potential problem. For all I know, in an exclusively german context UTF-8 won't cause problems at all. What I did say is that full multibyte compliance isn't guaranteed. So how about a release note that describes the

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The XXX locale for German unfortunately uses a bad way of representing open quotation marks. We have retained it this way in order to preserve compatibility with other Linux distributions, and we hope that in the future it will be fixed. Meanwhile, the YYY

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:29:21PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: But the problem here is that you seem totally unable to seek compromise. I'll try again. Good grief, this isn't personal. Maybe you should just relax and come back tomorrow. I

Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roland Bauerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The XXX locale for German unfortunately uses a bad way of representing open quotation marks. We have retained it this way in order to preserve compatibility with other Linux distributions, and we hope that

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:14:48PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Actually that's not a real technical reason. If you could point to a package with a bug that would be a serious problem if people used UTF-8, then that would be a real technical reason. But saying it isn't required for sarge

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:29:21PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: But the problem here is that you seem totally unable to seek compromise. I'll try again. Good grief, this isn't personal. Maybe you should just relax and come back tomorrow. Mike Stone

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:36:25PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I agree that an apology isn't necessary, but *some* kind of advice, given that sarge will be *removing* support for a large class of users, That's not true. Something is changing,

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:36:25PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I agree that an apology isn't necessary, but *some* kind of advice, given that sarge will be *removing* support for a large class of users, That's not true. Something is changing, arguably for the worse. Nobody is being

Re: Bug#228486: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:21:05PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Perhaps you could write down some of the more frequent problems that users with UTF-8 might expect to see No. I have no interest in this problem and don't care to work with you. I've reassigned the coreutils bug to libc6 and