Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:18:00AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10469 March 1977, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used to > > be accepted in the past. > > Because people then fuck up their packages even more. > > No, they havent bee

Re: Debconf problem

2005-11-11 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> Because it isn't true that the previous version didn't use debconf. It >> just asked the questions totally differently and took an approach that I >> now would call flawed. But still it gave the users the impression that >> their ls-R

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
It's not all that unusual for conferences to require that the material submitted for the conference be licensed in a specific manner; if you plan on presenting, some DFSG free license of the material you present should be expected so portions of the work can be utilized in main or otherwise distrib

Re: Resignation and orphan list

2005-11-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Chip Salzenberg] > I see no point in trying to force my way (back) into a project that > shows no interest in allowing me to keep participating. Therefore, > I hereby resign from the Debian Project. Please, do not do this. "The project" is to large and fuzzy to have any interest, but there are

Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.11.10.1908 +0100]: > CVSsuck is a mirroring tool for CVS repositories. Unlike other > tools such as CVSup or rsync, it uses cvs command to access the > repository. So, it works well with remote repositories without > a special server or shell a

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:14:39PM +0100, Nicolas Fran?ois wrote: > Hi, > > In #276419, the bug submitter complained that when a command and some > arguments were passed to su, all these arguments were concatenated, and > provided to the shell -c option. > > This behavior differs from su on other

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-11 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:51:30 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, if it's recompressing like I think, there's no way to get the > same compressed md5sum -- even if the information could be > transferred, there's no guarantee the local gzip _can_ produce the > same output as the remote gzip -- ima

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 11 novembre 2005 à 00:55 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels a écrit : > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Why is this the case ? I'm running with experimental GNOME packages; if > > I upload a binary package depending on them, it will be uninstallable on > > unstable systems. > > How c

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 11/10/05, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Josselin Mouette] > > I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used > > to be accepted in the past. > > It's the first line of defense against people uploading things that > don't build, wasting various infrastruct

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:22:39PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are around 1000 developers out there. At the very least I am > > sure you would find several of them willing to sponsor your upload. > > That's not a fix, it's a bad workaround.

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: > Whatever you choose to do, you need to take care of partial upgrade. Not across released stable versions! Since when do we support stable/stable+1 mixed systems? Besides, depends/pre-depends and conflicts should be more than enough if done right. New

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brian Nelson] > Oh, so Ubuntu packages are fucked up more by their maintainers more > than Debian packages are? Yes, or so it's been alleged. Not being a user of ubuntu unstable, I can't confirm or deny. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:54:09AM -0500, Michael Vogt wrote: > > A problem is that zsync needs to teached to deal with deb files (that > > is, that it needs to unpack the data.tar and use that for the syncs). [Anthony Towns] > That seems kinda awkward -- you'd need to start by downloading the

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:26:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Why fight at all? If having a free license is so obviously correct, why > force people to do it? If some people are uncomfortable with it, why > fight that? Even within Debian, it's become clear to me that, if we want DFSG-free thing

Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > > We would now like to get rid of this bug. What do you recommend: > > > * keep a Debian specific implementation and tag this bug wontfix > > > * reapply the patch to fix this bug, and report bugs on the packages that > > >uses this "feature" > > > > Could you document and wait unti

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
> The ideal way to approach this is to announce a change, Which is what we are doing now. We neglected to do so the first time (mostly because we didn't anticipate this would break pbuilder so much) and this is why we reverted the change very quickly. > document that change, provide some envir

Re: altzone

2005-11-11 Thread lars
I never got an answer, and when upstream was presented with the problem OpenSCEP more or less died. Go figure. I lost interest in the packageing due to this. > Lars, If you ever got an answer to your question below could you > share it with me. I'm trying to compile a mixed fortran C code that

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op do, 10-11-2005 te 16:22 -0800, schreef Chip Salzenberg: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are around 1000 developers out there. At the very least I am > > sure you would find several of them willing to sponsor your upload. > > That's not a fix, it's a bad workaround. Yes

Re: due1ing b4nj0s sheet music

2005-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for the sheet music to the song due1ing b4nj0s from the > movie deliverance. It's for guitar. Can you tell me where I can > find it? Please see (for instance) http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/flatt-and-scruggs/due%6cing-b%61nj%6fs-6185.html http://www.sh

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-11 Thread alexander kemalov
Hi, I tried to download and run Live CD but without success. I think that collaboration of enterprise forces of Solaris-security,stable,expandable and usability of Debian platform is great idea. I'm a sys admin in Institute of Computer and Comm. Systems - Bulg. Academy of Science. Our effort

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > support for that change (like POSIXLY_CORRECT) > > > > Then change. > > > > We've got quite a bit of tools in sarge that doesn't work with > > this change, right? > > > >From what Nicolas investigated, not that much. He only found dchroot > and pbuilder up to now. Nicolas does not pret

getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, It seems that not every new maintainer is building a package on an unstable system which is recommended (or at least a version with the current policy version). So there are errors in packages which come to debian-mentors which are checked with an old version of the debian policy. So what a

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Nico Golde in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be > fixed. This doesn't make sense. You need unstable to build on unstable, and only upd

Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > CVSsuck is a mirroring tool for CVS repositories. Unlike other > > tools such as CVSup or rsync, it uses cvs command to access the > > repository. So, it works well with remote repositories without > > a special server or shell account. However it is inefficient and > > not perfect because

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
> FWIW, pbuilder in sid is fixed since 0.129 (17 August 2005), > and I am hoping that will > probagate into some stable backports, so that practically, > pbuilder side is ready for the new su. Well, this is actually great news as pbuilder was by far the main blocker for this change. Sorry for ha

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be > unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug > was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre > dependency. > > So please do not close bugs bevore it is available on

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Gatliff
Anthony: Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:56:32PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: And, I mean, seriously: using the threat of legal action to make people remove free software from the Internet? Whose side are we on here? No. The threat of legal action to stop the theft of

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 11 November 2005 06:48, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:07:33PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > > [0] Presuming the FSF's claims about dynamic linking hold up in this > > > case, anyway. > > > > I consider a Debian-derived distribution a derived work of the contained

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
> e.g. you cannot fix Sarge pbuilder anyway, so etch su must work with sarge > pbuilder. That why it would have been better to announce the change before > Sarge release. Maybe, but unfortunately, this bug was properly analysed a few weeks *after* sarge release. Remember, there were over 150 ope

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Poole
Bill Gatliff writes: > With all due respect, and a certain unwillingness to get distracted > from the main thread of discussion or to further inflame an already > pretty volatile situation, I think that "theft" may in fact be the > appropriate term to use here. Theft, n.: 1. (Law) The act of

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian & > linda packages for the stable distribution? Is it technical possible? > I mean becaused it should be fixed. It might not be necessary as an exception: perhaps the rul

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-11-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh > > scripts should work with dash too. > > That's incorrect. A correctly written /bin/sh script is allowed to

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
> Oh, and here's something else to ponder: Maybe, just maybe, James has > more time to go to Ubuntu below zero than he has to handle keyring > updates because he prioritizes by what gets the bills paid. As most of > us do, I suppose. Yep, this is something I was about to add. Most of us have mo

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread John Hasler
Bill Gatliff writes: > Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner is not being deprived of any property. > Whether Erast did so with malicious intent, that's another question > entirely. It is not. Theft requires

Bug#338635: ITP: kde-style-polymer -- Polymer widget style and kwin decoration for KDE3

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kde-style-polymer Version : 0.5.5 Upstream Author : Marco Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27968 * License : GPL Descri

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05 15:28]: > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be > fixed. Curently it's quite easy to run unstables lintian, debootstr

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:11:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Bill Gatliff writes: > > Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. > > Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner > is not being deprived of any property. There's something darkly amusing about

Bug#338634: ITP: libcommandline-ruby -- Ruby library to building a command

2005-11-11 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Esteban Manchado Velázquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcommandline-ruby Version : 0.7.10 Upstream Author : Jim Freeze * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/ * License : BSD-style Description

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr, 11-11-2005 te 15:28 +0100, schreef Nico Golde: > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. You need no just unstable's linda/lintian; you also need unstable's libraries

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Gatliff
Glenn: Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:11:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Bill Gatliff writes: Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner is not being deprived of any property.

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:09:22PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op do, 10-11-2005 te 16:22 -0800, schreef Chip Salzenberg: > > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are around 1000 developers out there. At the very least I am > > > sure you would find several of them willing to

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be > unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug > was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre > dependency. > So please do not clos

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] > Oh, and here's something else to ponder: Maybe, just maybe, James > has more time to go to Ubuntu below zero than he has to handle > keyring updates because he prioritizes by what gets the bills > paid. As most of us do, I suppose. Yes, most of us have changing priorities, and

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Hubert Chan
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:10:06 -0600, Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > No, the owner hasn't been deprived. But the rights said owner > conveyed via the GPL (which amount to some level of ownership, at > least philosophically) have been deprived from the GNU/Solaris end > users. It's

RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, while my regular "clean up RC-bugs"-work I noticed that the package krb4 is RC-buggy in more than one way. On further investigation, I also noticed that kerberos 4 is dying right now, and also that the bugs are not as easy to fix. Also, upstream doesn't look too active according to http://www.

Re: Resignation and orphan list

2005-11-11 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Over the past five weeks And guess how long will take to get your account removed. -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GPG: C671257D Este no es un capr

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-11-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, David Weinehall wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh > > > scripts should work with dash too. > > > > That's inco

testing migration: wtf?

2005-11-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
What is happening with testing migration of my package, sork-passwd? The various "testing migration" pages seem to be all confused: - http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?package=sork-passwd doesn't give me the "excuses" link anymore - http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=sork-passwd th

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-11 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 00:53, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: > > Here's the 2nd part of the answer: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The question is, are you going to pursue a legal action against Sun > > > Microsystems? > > To which m

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, my question is simple: should I push packages to go away from > kerberos-4-support? Unless there is a good reason to do not, I would > start to push into that direction. And of course, feel free to send me > things that need to be changed. As usual

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
> "Andreas" == Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> Hi, while my regular "clean up RC-bugs"-work I noticed Andreas> that the package krb4 is RC-buggy in more than one Andreas> way. On further investigation, I also noticed that Andreas> kerberos 4 is dying right no

Bug#338657: ITP: Buoh -- Buoh is a reader for online strips comics, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop

2005-11-11 Thread borg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: Buoh Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : * URL : http://buoh.steve-o.org/ * License : GPL Description : Buoh is a reader for online strips comics, designed to work well under t

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-11 Thread Christopher Crammond
Suppose you have a repository stuffed full of binary packages, in this case Debian Packages.  If you were unlucky enough to have them in a rather un-organized fashion, I was just wondering if the package file itself would provide said information to allow me to write a program to sort them out.

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi, Christopher Crammond Christopher Crammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Suppose you have a repository stuffed full of binary packages, in > this case Debian Packages. If you were unlucky enough to have them > in a rather un-organized fashion, I was just wondering if the package > file itself would p

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: [...] > So what about a special exception which provides updated > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be > fixed. That's imho wrong idea because of at least one

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 05:18:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:40:27PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:55:41PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > > > many of Erast's res

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working (assuming I > don't already have it). Well, what sort of AFS environment? The answer is different if you mean "AFS using kaserver" than if you mean "AFS using krb524 or native K5." -- Russ Allbery

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 21:47]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, my question is simple: should I push packages to go away from > > kerberos-4-support? Unless there is a good reason to do not, I would > > start to push into that direction. And of course, feel

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El jue, 10-11-2005 a las 23:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette escribió: > Le jeudi 10 novembre 2005 à 23:00 +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > > * Josselin Mouette [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:45:20 +0100]: > > > > > (And don't tell me to use pbuilder, I don't have the disk space nor the > > > bandwidth for it.) >

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You think that December 2006 (the expected release time of etch) is too > early to drop Kerberos 4? I'm not sure. I think it's going to be tight for some people, but on the other hand not shipping etch with MIT Kerberos 1.5 is not exactly appealing. I

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 23:26]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You think that December 2006 (the expected release time of etch) is too > > early to drop Kerberos 4? > I'm not sure. I think it's going to be tight for some people, but on the > other hand not s

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-11 23:41]: > Op vr, 11-11-2005 te 15:28 +0100, schreef Nico Golde: > > So what about a special exception which provides updated > > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > > Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. You n

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 11 November 2005 21:19, George Danchev wrote: > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 00:53, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: > > > Here's the 2nd part of the answer: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The question is, are you going to

Re: Resignation and orphan list

2005-11-11 Thread Joe Smith
"David Moreno Garza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Over the past five weeks And guess how long will take to get your account removed. Hmm... Doesn't a resignation require a message signed with a key on the

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 11 November 2005 19:36, Erast Benson wrote: > > On Friday 11 November 2005 06:48, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Let's consider this dpkg binary from the GNU/Solaris LiveCD, which I have > > loop > > mounted: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/gnusolaris/livecd-mnt/usr/bin$ ./dpkg > > bash: ./dpkg: No

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
> "Peter" == Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> [Miles Bader] >> I'd say so. Or fix the bug. Peter> Kind of quick and dirty, and not particularly tested, since Peter> I don't actually know how to use ttysnoop. Peter> But it's a proof of concept of how eas

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
> "Junichi" == Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Junichi> Hi, >> Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it >> can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no >> open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was >> completely b

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:19:07PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 21:47]: > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, my question is simple: should I push packages to go away from > > > kerberos-4-support? Unless there is a good reason to do n

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:26:58 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:49:36PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > FYI, a possible response might be: "we care about freeness, but we > > pick our battle, and our battle is Debian main". I care about > > starving children, but I don't dona

Re: testing migration: wtf?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:58:35PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > What is happening with testing migration of my package, sork-passwd? > The various "testing migration" pages seem to be all confused: > - http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?package=sork-passwd doesn't give > me the "excuses" l

Bug#338678: ITP: italc -- teaching tool

2005-11-11 Thread Steffen Joeris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: italc Version : 0.9.6.2 Upstream Author : Tobias Doerffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://italc.sourceforge.net/download.php * License : GPL Description : teachin

Bug#338676: ITP: python-turbogears -- front-to-back rapid web development

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-turbogears Version : 0.8a3 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/ * License : http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-li

[RFH] Test of new grub package

2005-11-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello folks, I prepared a new package of grub for upload in next days. It still needs some work but looks like a good improvement. Would be good if you could do a brief test of it and provide feedback directly to me. If it solve any previous bug that you had before, would be good if you could se

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:43:23AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:11:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Bill Gatliff writes: > > > Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. > > Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner > > is not be

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > It's not all that unusual for conferences to require that the material > submitted for the conference be licensed in a specific manner; OTOH, conferences usually ask for the minimal permission they actually need to do their job. >

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:00:55AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:26:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Why fight at all? If having a free license is so obviously correct, why > > force people to do it? If some people are uncomfortable with it, why > > fight that? > Even

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > >> Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it > >> can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no > >> open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was > >> completely broken as of the libpcre dependency. > >> > >> So please do

Re: testing migration: wtf?

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:58:35PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > What is happening with testing migration of my package, sork-passwd? sork-passwd |2.2.2-2 | testing | source, all sork-passwd |2.2.2-2 | unstable | source, all It migrated already... Cheers, aj signature.

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 10/11/2005 hora 22:45: > Le jeudi 10 novembre 2005 à 13:32 -0800, Debian Installer a écrit : > > Rejected: source only uploads are not supported. > I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used > to be accepted in the past. And I see a rational

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > It's not all that unusual for conferences to require that the material > > submitted for the conference be licensed in a specific manner; > > OTOH, conferences usually ask for the minima

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:46AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> Hi, while my regular "clean up RC-bugs"-work I noticed > Andreas> that the package krb4 is RC-buggy in more than one > Andreas> way. On further investiga

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:46:24AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Of course, within Debian DFSG-freeness isn't mandatory or enforced: you > can upload to non-free instead of main just by tweaking your control file. The response is predictable, but here it is anyway: non-free isn't within Debian; De

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Anthony Towns dies 11/11/2005 hora 16:43: > The problem is a technicality, not a moral or practical difference > from the GPL's expectations: you still have the source to OpenSolaris > libc, and you still have permission to modify it, redistribute it, > sell it, etc. Didn't someone ask for

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:48:20 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:07:33PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: >> > [0] Presuming the FSF's claims about dynamic linking hold up in >> > this >> > case, anyway. >> I consider a Debian-derived distribution a derived work of the >> con

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:26:52 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: >> [If this poses a problem,[1] you always have the option of not >> presenting, or presenting your work in an informal session.] > *sigh* > Does this really have to devolv

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:26:58 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:49:36PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> FYI, a possible response might be: "we care about freeness, but we >> pick our battle, and our battle is Debian main". I care about >> starving children, but I don't dona

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:29:56 +0100, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 10/11/2005 hora 22:45: >> Le jeudi 10 novembre 2005 à 13:32 -0800, Debian Installer a écrit : >> > Rejected: source only uploads are not supported. >> I can't see the rationale for rejecti

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:46:24 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:00:55AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:26:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> > Why fight at all? If having a free license is so obviously >> > correct, why force people to do it? If

Bug#338692: ITP: python-pyprotocols -- Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pyprotocols Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> * URL : http://peak.telecommunity.com/PyProtocols.html * License : http://www.zope

Bug#338698: ITP: python-ruledispatch -- Rule-based Dispatching and Generic Functions

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-ruledispatch Version : 0.5a0dev Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/download/eggs/RuleDispatch-0.5a0dev_r2097.zip * License

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Bug#338701: ITP: python-testgears -- TestGears extensions to unittest

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-testgears Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/testgears/ * License : http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php