Bug#708349: libglapi-mesa: overwrite shared file

2013-05-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: libglapi-mesa Version: 8.0.5-4+b1 Severity: serious Trying to upgrade libglapi-mesa fails with: Preparing to replace libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 8.0.5-4 (using .../libgl1-mesa-glx_8.0.5-4+b1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#641101: compiz-fusion-plugins-main: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev

2011-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
Source: compiz-fusion-plugins-main Version: 0.8.4-2 Severity: important Hello Debian X Strike Force, We are transitionning from libjpeg62 to libjpeg8. As mentionned on debian-devel-announce[1], please update compiz-fusion-plugins-main to Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev instead of libjpeg62-dev.

Re: Bug#362313: fixed in xorg-server 2:1.9.4-2

2011-02-18 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello X strike force, * Put an end to the dependency hell! Now that we have proper dependencies between drivers and the server, remove xserver-xorg from xserver-xorg-core's Depends (Closes: #362313). In a nutshell, one may want to choose between installing: -

Bug#428679: option to map taps separately from button

2011-01-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:34:51AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (04/01/2010): On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:56:15PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: Hi, I forwarded your request upstream, in the meantime I can try preparing a full featured patch

Bug#428679: closed by Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org (Re: Bug#428679: option to map taps separately from button)

2011-01-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:48:47 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:34:51AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (04/01/2010): On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:56:15PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: Hi, I forwarded your

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:05:25PM +, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-07-12 21:09 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: If nouveau set KMS by default, as the intel driver does, but did not *require* KMS, I would agree. But the last time I checked, using the nouveau driver *forces* KMS. I

Re: FHS and X manual pages

2009-09-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:29:21PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Please don't remove the debian-x cc… Sorry... On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 15:49:52 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:29:09PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Hi, it's been pointed out to me that we

Re: Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [090620 23:55]: I'm not sure either. This was already in Policy prior to this round of changes, of course, but maybe since we're revising this section

Re: Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:43:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: My comment would be that we should avoid implying that putting window managers config file in /etc/X11/.../ is a good idea... But of course it is not the time for policy

Re: Debian Menu transition

2007-08-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 04:12:28PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: Hi Bill, We've been discussing this menu transition for xbase-clients recently, and there are several programs that we don't know where to place in the new hierarchy. xclock/oclock are most problematic ones, we don't know what to

Re: Debian Menu transition

2007-08-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:09:50PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2007 at 18:45:23 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: REMOVED SECTIONS Apps/Tools Hi, I'm trying to figure out where most of the apps from xbase-clients should go in the new menu structure, since they all used

Bug#428679: option to map taps separately from button

2007-06-13 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Version: 0.14.6-1 Severity: wishlist Hello Mattia, I have a touchpad with only 2 buttons, and I want the following mapping Tap - button 1 Left button - button 2 Right button - button 3 (So I do not need to use Emulate3Buttons which give me the

Bug#413339: x11-common: /usr/X11R6/bin files remaining issue

2007-03-04 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.1.0-13 Severity: serious Hello X Strike Force, here is hopefully the last issues with the sarge to etch upgrade: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-13_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit

Bug#413281: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails

2007-03-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:02:40AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2007 at 00:41:16 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:15:40AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: Do you have any idea where hanterm comes from? Yes, it comes from hanterm-classic

Bug#413281: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: x11-common Version: 7.1.0-13 Severity serious Hello X Strike force, upgrade from sarge to etch fails with Removing xbase-clients ... Selecting previously deselected package x11-common. (Reading database ... 71210 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking x11-common

Bug#413281: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:15:40AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2007 at 23:37:49 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: # ls /usr/X11R6/bin/ hamsoft hanterm # dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/* hamsoft: /usr/X11R6/bin/hamsoft dpkg: /usr/X11R6/bin/hanterm not found. Thanks, I'll

Bug#396279: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails if xlbiff is installed.

2006-10-30 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.1.0-5 Severity: serious Hello Debian X Strike Force, When xlbiff is installed, upgrading x11-common from sarge to etch fails with Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-5_i386.deb) ... rmdir: `/usr/X11R6/bin': Directory not empty dpkg: error

Bug#362313: Dependency hell reintroduced in recent upload

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Allombert
found 362313 2:1.1.1-10 quit Hello X Strike Force, A recent xorg upload has reintroduced the circular dependencies. Here the details: There is a circular dependency between xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-input-all, xserver-xorg-input-evdev, xserver-xorg-input-kbd,

Bug#353865: Sarge to Etch upgrade with radeon

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 01:12:34PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:38 -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: I would like to point to bug #353865: * #353865: [ati/radeon] Fails to start up with DRI enabled because driver is incompatible with 2.4 kernel DRM since 6.9

Bug#390943: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails (/usr/X11R6 issue)

2006-10-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.22 Severity: serious Hello Debian X Strike Force, There is an error when upgrading x11-common from sarge to etch, Selecting previously deselected package x11-common. (Reading database ... 88175 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking

Bug#388633: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails (/usr/X11R6 issue)

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.22 Severity: serious Hello Debian X Strike Force, There is an error when upgrading from sarge to etch. Selecting previously deselected package x11-common. (Reading database ... 46949 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking x11-common

Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell

2006-08-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:43:03AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 1:7.0.10 Severity: important Hello X Strike Force, The new modular xserver-xorg create a circular dependency hell: Hello X Strike Force, What is the status of this bug for Etch? Thanks

twm and menu

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello David, The twm changelog say: twm (1:1.0.1-4) unstable; urgency=low * Point the menu method at /usr/bin/install-menu rather than /usr/sbin. Also bump the version of menu we depend on to = 2.1.26, which implements this change -- David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 21 May 2006

Bug#364255: twm: debian/rules is missing a call to dh_installmenu

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: twm Version: 1:1.0.1-3 Followup-For: Bug #364255 Hello X strike force, twm debian/rules file is missing a call to dh_installmenu. This cause the package to miss both a menu file and a menu-method script. While I am at it, could you add a declaration outputencoding=ASCII; in the twm

Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:50:21PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 18:57 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xserver-xorg-core - xserver-xorg-video-all - xserver-xorg-video-apm - xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-core - xserver-xorg-input-all -

Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell

2006-04-13 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 1:7.0.10 Severity: important Hello X Strike Force, The new modular xserver-xorg create a circular dependency hell: Here the dependency graph: http://debian.semistable.com/dot/xserver-xorg-video-vmware_unstable.png Here the list of packages involved:

Re: linux-2.4 deprecated

2006-04-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:14:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:06:21PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: A few weeks ago, the 2.4 kernels have been declared deprecated [1]. I would like to know what does this exactly mean: - That users are advised not to use them?

Re: Removal of the lspci -X option

2006-03-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:05:12AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: I proposed the lspci -X patch to Martin Mares (pciutils upstream) and he dislikes it and will not include it upstream. He thinks X should parse the information it needs from lspci -n, and I'm willing to go along with that. The

libxrender1 has still a Depends on | xlibs ( 4.1.0)

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello X Strike Force, I see you have removed most of the obsolete | xlibs ( 4.1.0) depdendencies. There is just one remaining: Package: libxrender1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libx11-6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0) I suppose it should be removed for consistency. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#334912: sarge to etch/sid upgrade trigger useless conffiles handling

2005-10-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: x11-common Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Severity: important Hello X Strike Force, When upgrading from Sarge to Etch or Sid (I tried both) in a clean chroot, x11-common trigger 2 dpkg conffiles handling: /etc/X11/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession.options I suspect this files have changed from

Bug#334740: binary-server target fail due to Xorg.1 -- Xorg.1x renaming

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xorg Severity: minor Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Hello X Strike Force, debian/rules binary-server fails because the manpage Xorg.1 was moved to Xorg.1x. Here a patch that fix that and allow debian/rules binary-server to complete. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large

new lspci support -X for XF86Config style output

2004-08-31 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello X Strike Force, Pursuing to a previous thread, I reported a wishlist item against pciutils asking for an option for lspci for XF86Config style output: Remco van de Meent has implemented it in 1:2.1.11-13. Now lspci -X output: PCI:0:20:0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc

Re: dexconf should default to PCI:1:0:0 ?

2004-05-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:56:03AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:03:24AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Hello X Strike Force, I have just made a sarge install and I found that dexconf default to PCI:0:1:0. That's just about completely incorrect. More

dexconf should default to PCI:1:0:0 ?

2004-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello X Strike Force, I have just made a sarge install and I found that dexconf default to PCI:0:1:0. I expect most box to have a video adapter on the AGP port nowadays, so PCI:1:0:0 seems a better default. Also it is unfortunate XFree86 and lspci does not use the same exact format for PCI ids,

Re: Trans-releases cut buffer problem

2004-05-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:48:45AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 01:55:27AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: I'm not sure what's going on, but I can reproduce it with stock 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1. With a stock woody X server and a stock sid client ? Please do file that bug

Bug#248860: Bug #248860: xterm missing from KDE menus

2004-05-14 Thread Bill Allombert
reassign 248860 kdelibs-bin thanks On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:33:27AM +0800, John wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: What I am asking is whether you have a Debian submenu in kicker: it should be between 'All applications' and 'Editors'. If you think a picture worths thousand words, look here http

Bug#248860: Bug #248860: xterm missing from KDE menus

2004-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:41:13PM +0800, John wrote: Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal A few updates ago xterm vanished from my KDE menus. As I use xterm fairly often I'm a little disappointed. Please, put it back:-)) Hello John, could you install menu-xdg ? I

Bug#248860: Bug #248860: xterm missing from KDE menus

2004-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:06:21AM +0800, John wrote: Hello John, could you install menu-xdg ? I expect that should fix the problem. It didn't automatically fix it (like it automatically disappeared) so I ran update-menus. Still no good. However, I did notice that rxvt (which I

Bug#248860: Bug #248860: xterm missing from KDE menus

2004-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:53:41AM +0800, John wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:06:21AM +0800, John wrote: Do you have a Debian menu at all ? xterm should be in Debian/XShells/XTerm. Umm. Careful here, I'm only a user. Does this answer you? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Trans-releases cut buffer problem

2004-05-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello X Strike Force, I have a problem involving cut buffer. My Xserver run on woody (but it is backport of 4.2.1-3). I use xcb -S 1 xcb -p 1 to display the content of the cut buffer. This work fine with the woody version. However inside a sid chroot, I get X Error of failed request:

Re: FTBFS of xfree86_4.3.0-0ds4v3 on x86/sid

2003-06-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:29:22AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: 2) line 584 of debian/rules for DIR in config extras include util \ lib/GL lib/Xau lib/Xdmcp lib/font lib/xkbfile lib/xtrans \ programs/Xserver; do \ mkdir -p

FTBFS of xfree86_4.3.0-0ds4v3 on x86/sid

2003-06-02 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, I have attempted to build from source on current sid on a x86 Daniel Stone experiemntal package xfree86_4.3.0-0ds4v3 at http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source/ but this fails miserably. 1) $ debuild -us -uc ... # make sure all the patches applied cleanly

Re: FTBFS of xfree86_4.3.0-0ds4v3 on x86/sid

2003-06-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:29:22AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: 2) line 584 of debian/rules for DIR in config extras include util \ lib/GL lib/Xau lib/Xdmcp lib/font lib/xkbfile lib/xtrans \ programs/Xserver; do \ mkdir -p

Bug#193759: twm: support for in menu entry title.

2003-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:47:00PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: BTW, I would like to take the oportunity to remind you that auto-generated menu files should be moved to /var. Where in /var should they go? Unless I'm

Bug#193759: twm: support for in menu entry title.

2003-05-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:45:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: IIRC, for this to work, twm is going to have to be hacked to look there. I suppose it should be possible to use a symlink ? Anyway, if it is too troublesome for you, don't bother. I do not have investigate the whole issue

Bug#193759: twm: support for in menu entry title.

2003-05-18 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: twm Version: 4.2.1-6 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello Branden, The following menu entry break twm menu completly. ?package(local.test):command=/usr/bin/bc needs=text \ section=Apps/Test title=test \ Here a patch that quote properly the character in menu title. This a

Bug#184092: [xbase-clients] Review of xbase-clients menu entries

2003-03-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.2.1-6 Severity: wishlist Hello Branden, In an attempt to improve menus in Debian, I have made a review of the menu entries provided by xbase-client. Here the result: Bitmap\ Editres\ Oclock\ Xbiff\ Xcalc\ Xclipboard\ Xclock (analog)\ Xclock

Bug#184092: [xbase-clients] Review of xbase-clients menu entries

2003-03-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.2.1-6 Severity: wishlist Hello Branden, In an attempt to improve menus in Debian, I have made a review of the menu entries provided by xbase-client. Here the result: Bitmap\ Editres\ Oclock\ Xbiff\ Xcalc\ Xclipboard\ Xclock (analog)\ Xclock

Bug#168289: xserver-xfree86: description refers to 4.1.0/Status.html instead of 4.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: minor Hello Branden, $dpkg -s xserver-xfree86 ... Version: 4.2.1-3 ... Description: the XFree86 X server ... The XFree86 server supports most modern graphics hardware from most vendors, and supersedes most version 3.x XFree86 X servers. See

Bug#168289: xserver-xfree86: description refers to 4.1.0/Status.html instead of 4.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: minor Hello Branden, $dpkg -s xserver-xfree86 ... Version: 4.2.1-3 ... Description: the XFree86 X server ... The XFree86 server supports most modern graphics hardware from most vendors, and supersedes most version 3.x XFree86 X servers. See

Bug#168139: [neomagic] man page should document Xv OverlayMem option

2002-11-07 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello Branden, Thanks to have include #000_stolen_from_HEAD_neomagic_driver. This works well on my MagicMedia 256AV. However this require adding Option OverlayMem829440 to the XF86Config, but this is

Bug#168139: [neomagic] man page should document Xv OverlayMem option

2002-11-07 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello Branden, Thanks to have include #000_stolen_from_HEAD_neomagic_driver. This works well on my MagicMedia 256AV. However this require adding Option OverlayMem829440 to the XF86Config, but this is