Re: maverick package indexing broken...

2010-07-10 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-07-10 08:15:22 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: When looking at the maverick package lists at http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ , we get an error, also searching for packages in the maverick repos returns nothing, and has done for a while now. Known problem and it's being worked on.

Re: [maverick] mercurial broken for amd64...

2010-07-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-07-04 17:11:27 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: At present in maverick, there is an inconsistent upload of the mercurial-common (1.54-1) and mercurial (1.52-1) packages on amd64, leading to inability to install it - see http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mercurial/ .

Re: Aptitude included in Maverick by default

2010-06-12 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-06-12 00:10:57 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Debian aptitude is at 0.6.2.1-2, while ubuntu's aptitude is at 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu10 I don't know why there is such a large version difference though and how much work needs to be done to merge these two together. Lucid synced preferrably

Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

2010-05-07 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-05-06 21:42:40 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Debian is not using public gpg servers. Instead they maintain their own keyring shipped in the debian-keyring package. You cannot add signatures to that from non-dd's. And DD's are only keeping real signatures on their keys from key signing

Re: lucid testreport upgraded 24 march 2010 from karmic

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-03-25 13:10:32 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Michael Bienia mich...@bienia.de wrote: On 2010-03-24 09:22:45 +0200, Rene Veerman wrote: - i'm against moving the window buttons to the left. it'll be annoying AS HELL, having to change a habit that's used

Re: lucid testreport upgraded 24 march 2010 from karmic

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-03-24 09:22:45 +0200, Rene Veerman wrote: - had my compiz set to put my 2 screens in a left/right, shared desktop config. i had a desktop of 3360x1050 on which i put single-file backgrounds that span both screens. under lucid, my backgrounds (same file) are zoomed in and what's on the

Re: proper procedure regarding bug reports

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2010-01-06 11:36:09 +0100, Patrick Freundt wrote: We dont talk about an unpleasant background color or desired or unwanted functionality. We talk about a default configuration of a browser that goes online to download data without my consent. And the very least to expect is that its

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-11-21 17:37:46 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screens/gparted_1_big.jpg Oh, perhaps you prefer command line disk partitioning over gparted as well. It's doable and much more flexible :-) gparted is probably a good GUI (hadn't have to repartition my disk

Re: Save Icon modernization needed

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-11-15 19:22:16 +0100, Remco wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 23:37 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote: My favourite method of saving a document was in RiscOS; when you opened the 'save' dialog, it was just a small window with the document icon, a filepath and an OK button. When you were

Re: Build issue with why and libfloat-coq

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-08-18 10:18:56 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: Hi, For transition to OCaml 3.11.1 in Ubuntu Karmic, the only remaining package having an issue is why. It fails to build because its dependency libfloat-coq is not installable: The following packages have unmet dependencies:

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-08-04 13:14:25 -0500, C de-Avillez wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 17:56 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: On 2009-08-01 19:49:33 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: When you add a repository to your computer, then remove that repository, it's not obvious how to downgrade packages

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-08-04 18:28:17 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: You make a good point about breakage when packages are downgraded. But it seems a little disingenuous for us to bend over backwards to make unsupported upgrades possible (adding a software sources menu item, putting PPAs in Launchpad,

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-08-01 19:49:33 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: When you add a repository to your computer, then remove that repository, it's not obvious how to downgrade packages that are no longer available. Downgrades are not supported, while in practise they work in most cases. Offering such a

Re: Transition to OCaml 3.11.1...

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-06-12 22:06:20 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 20:07, Sylvain Le Gallgil...@debian.org wrote: I think we are too tigh regarding time. I prefer that Ubuntu ship a good 3.11.0 release than to have to fight for months to get a 3.11.1. I need to think a bit more

Re: Status of OCaml packages on Ubuntu Karmic - 2009-06-10

2009-06-11 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-06-11 01:25:58 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: When will it happen, by the way? According to [1]: The syncs are done automatically on daily basis until DIF date. However, pycaml has been uploaded more that 48 hours ago in sid, and it has still not been updated in karmic... or maybe

Re: Extremely large -data packages

2008-07-21 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2008-07-21 13:36:18 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: If everything else fails, you may ask LP admin if you can have it initially on a PPA (i dont know the quota limit on PPAs, sorry), and if it can handle safely, then ask Ubuntu reps to store it. The initial limit for PPAs is 1 GB but

Re: Automatically sync new packages until feature freeze

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2008-01-20 23:19:58 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I'm not 100% sure it's a good idea, but what about doing the same for packages which aren't a new upstream release? If the Debian maintainer uploaded a new debian-specific version, it's likely to be a bug-fixing upload. It might be harder to

Re: ghc6 (Haskell compiler) becoming old

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2008-01-06 02:15:18 -0500, Paul Dufresne wrote: One of my new year resolution is to become a not too bad Haskell programmer in 2008. That said, I would like to have latest development version of ghc6 (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) which is the most well known Haskell compiler in Haskell

Re: new packages freeze policy

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2007-08-31 00:12:41 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: On this note, I got completely confused by the deadline. I read that the upstream version freeze deadline was August 30th, so I planned to upload my packages on the 30th. I guess you mixed up UpstreamVersionFreeze and NewPackage for Universe

Re: installing sources to make binaries out of it.

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2007-07-23 21:15:17 +0530, shirish wrote: Now obviously this is for debian, do we have something like that for ubuntu. There are packages which don't have binaries. For instance these games :- Why do you have the impression that this package won't work on Ubuntu?