Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-22 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:46:25 +0200 "Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/22 Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:39:29 -0700 > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > Is there any reason this isn't the default behaviour? > >> > >> It is the de

Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
Installing fontconfig (or just fontconfig-config) in a sid cowbuilder chroot results in neither symlink being installed. This correlates with my memory of having to tweak the fontconfig directory after installing lenny/amd64 just before DebConf8. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-22 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:19:07 +0800 "Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installing fontconfig (or just fontconfig-config) in a sid cowbuilder > chroot results in neither symlink being installed. This correlates > with my memory of having to tweak the fontconfig directory after > installing len

Re: bitmap fonts: Can they be rejected by default instead of with manual intervention?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:19:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Installing fontconfig (or just fontconfig-config) in a sid cowbuilder > chroot results in neither symlink being installed. This correlates > with my memory of having to tweak the fontconfig directory after > installing lenny/amd64 just be

Re: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Andreas Henriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The previous discussions has lead nowhere. No use in discussing it yet > again, instead it's time to act! Put down that crack pipe. Now. > I offer to fix up all packages to exim4 | mail-transport-agent *and* > when there is a working default-mta pr

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale > came up with during Debconf that we write a hardware compatibility test > of sorts that hardware vendors could run on their own hardware I think this is a great idea, and I generally agree with your d

Re: Downloading packages with AptPkg (libapt-pkg-perl)

2008-08-22 Thread Mark de Vries
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:18 +0200, Mark de Vries wrote: [ I'm not subscribed to the list, will look at archives, but if you ] [ can please cc me in replies. Thanks ] Hi, I'm trying to use libapt-pkg-perl to [log story sho

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-22 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale Yes, I find the talk very interesting. > So, after more than twelve hours of boredom on an airplane and half a > night of not-being-able-to-sleep-due-to-jetlag, which is certainly > enough to t

Help supporting Debian on a Kurobox

2008-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, Thanks to Charles Plessy, I have now a new PowerPC based machine, which is a Kuro Box [*], an embedded system/NAS with a Linux kernel and a kind of stripped down RH-like system (no compilers, no chroot, no NFS server etc). I obviously want to run Debian on it so that I downloaded the

Re: Help supporting Debian on a Kurobox

2008-08-22 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > Thanks to Charles Plessy, I have now a new PowerPC based machine, which is > a Kuro Box [*], an embedded system/NAS with a Linux kernel and a kind of > stripped down RH-like system (no compilers, no chroot, no NFS server etc). > > I ob

Re: Help supporting Debian on a Kurobox

2008-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Sven. On Aug 22 2008, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:14:04AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Since this is my first incursion into the embedded arena, I would welcome > > any help (and, BTW, learn and collaborate with the emdebian project with my > > own packages). > > > > It

Re: Help supporting Debian on a Kurobox

2008-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Guennadi. Thanks for your answer. On Aug 22 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hi, > > ask on #linkstationwiki on FreeNode, or talk on > http://www.nas-central.org/ forums, or post to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (might need to subscribe). Visiting the site, it seems that some people there seem t

Re: Help supporting Debian on a Kurobox

2008-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 22 2008, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:05:33AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 22 2008, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Can you get access to the dmesg output of this board, or otherwise can > > > tell us what cpu is used inside ? > > > > Sure, the dmesg is attached here.

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > I'm a bit worried that this needs to be fixed for > > xpdf-chinese-simplified > > xpdf-chinese-traditional > > xpdf-korean > > xpdf-japanese > > > > packages. The fix would probably be simple. It should probably be > > hardlinks rather than symlinks considering dpkg behavior wrt symlink

Re: Help supporting Debian on a Kurobox

2008-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 22 2008, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:43:40AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Here is the output: > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > cpu : 82xx > > revision : 16.20 (pvr 8081 1014) > > bogomips : 129.84 > > vend

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-22 Thread Deng Xiyue
在 2008-08-22五的 07:51 -0700,Junichi Uekawa写道: > 1. poppler was theoretically self-contained, poppler-data was REJECTed > once and not yet part of non-free as of today. Which is now sitting in NEW queue again for approval[1]. IMHO, It doesn't worth to put effort in something to solve problem that i

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-08-22 Thread André Luís Lopes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Bastian Blank escreveu: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:34:28PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> That SLES forward-port for 2.6.26 is not acceptable based on Debian kernel >> patch policy: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelin

Re: Help supporting Debian on a Kurobox

2008-08-22 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Rogério! Please don't Cc: me, I read the debian-devel list. On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:11:45 +0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 22 2008, Sven Luther wrote: >> 1) U-boot is able to boot a uimage. > > Right, but how does one generate this uImage? Will it be side-by-side > of a normal kernel imag

Re: On changelogs and version tracking

2008-08-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Be careful when you reorder or add back changelog entries. If you > return to a previous version by means of an epoch (or something else) > you can either just tack the new upload/version at the top of the > changelog or elide the other entries in th

Bug#107862: I've already emailed you please respond.

2008-08-22 Thread Ida Valdez
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Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:26:53PM +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote: > 在 2008-08-22五的 07:51 -0700,Junichi Uekawa写道: > > 1. poppler was theoretically self-contained, poppler-data was REJECTed > > once and not yet part of non-free as of today. > > Which is now sitting in NEW queue again for approval[1]. IMH

Bug#496112: ITP: paros -- proxy for evaluating the security of web applications

2008-08-22 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: paros Version : 3.2.13 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.parosproxy.org * License : Clarified Artistic License Programming Lang: Java Descript

how to keep the latest linux-doc package installed?

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
How do you pros keep the latest linux-doc package installed, like linux-image-2.6-686, but for linux-doc? Too barfy: # set linux-doc-2.6 #virtual package # dpkg-unhold $@ # apt-get purge linux-doc-2.6.25 #by hand each new version # apt-get dselect-upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade #both not strong enou

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Giacomo Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi, As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale Yes, I find the talk very interesting. So, after more than twelve hours of boredom on an airplane and half a nig

newer sub package zaps main package instead of waiting

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
Say, often a developer upgrades a group of related packages, but they don't hit the mirrors at the same time. This causes apt-get dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade to remove the older parts instead of holding back for the newer parts. One must use apt-get upgrade for the many days the condition pers

newer sub package zaps main package instead of waiting

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
I.e., here we see apt gets it right for php5, but not for gimp: # apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade Investigating php5 Package php5 has broken dep on libapache2-mod-php5 Package php5 has broken dep on libapache2-mod-php5filter Package php5 has broken dep on php5-cgi Or group

Re: newer sub package zaps main package instead of waiting

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
AP> apt-get dist-upgrade is not meant to be run on a daily basis on sid, but AP> only as needed and for when you actually look at the output to make sure AP> it doesn't remove something you actually want. Second of all, "real men" AP> use aptitude, which handles these kinds of dependencies in a sma

Re: newer sub package zaps main package instead of waiting

2008-08-22 Thread The Fungi
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:07:46AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used to use aptitude, and even dselect, but I found one needed to > use their full screen modes to use them to their full extent, which > was too exciting for me, so retreated to the simpler apt-get > dselect-upgrade to stay on

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi, On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:51:36AM -0700, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > I'm a bit worried that this needs to be fixed for > > > xpdf-chinese-simplified > > > xpdf-chinese-traditional > > > xpdf-korean > > > xpdf-japanese > > > > > > packages. The fix would probably be simple. It should probabl

Re: newer sub package zaps main package instead of waiting

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
TF> aptitude safe-upgrade TF> aptitude dist-upgrade OK works good and I am sold. Maybe I can even use aptitude to solve my other posting today "how to keep the latest linux-doc package installed?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Looking at http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest >, I see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible, I suspect this mean that 0.25% (1 of 400) of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looking at > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest >, I > see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org > have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible, > I suspect this mean that 0

Re: how to keep the latest linux-doc package installed?

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:58 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you pros keep the latest linux-doc package installed, like > linux-image-2.6-686, but for linux-doc? Sounds like you want to file a wishlist bug asking for linux-doc-2.6 to become a meta-package built from the linux-latest-2.6

Re: how to keep the latest linux-doc package installed?

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
>> How do you pros keep the latest linux-doc package installed, like >> linux-image-2.6-686, but for linux-doc? PW> Sounds like you want to file a wishlist bug asking for linux-doc-2.6 PW> to become a meta-package built from the linux-latest-2.6 source PW> package. Bugs 347284, 480060 -- To UN

Re: how to keep the latest linux-doc package installed?

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> How do you pros keep the latest linux-doc package installed, like >>> linux-image-2.6-686, but for linux-doc? > > PW> Sounds like you want to file a wishlist bug asking for linux-doc-2.6 > PW> to become a meta-package built from the

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-22 Thread Deng Xiyue
在 2008-08-23六的 11:39 +1000,Hamish Moffatt写道: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:51:36AM -0700, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > I'm a bit worried that this needs to be fixed for > > > > xpdf-chinese-simplified > > > > xpdf-chinese-traditional > > > > xpdf-korean > > > > xpdf-japanese > > > > > >

Re: html2text with utf8 support: please test

2008-08-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Utility html2text, version 1.3.2a-6, with "utf8" patch was just >> uploaded to experimental. The patch allows to process UTF-8 files >> when '-utf8' option supplied. Input should be in UTF-8 and output will >> be in UTF-8 too. >> >> Please tes

Bug#496171: ITP: python-recaptcha -- implementation of reCAPTCHA and Mailhide in Python

2008-08-22 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-recaptcha Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Ben Maurer * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/recaptcha-client * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Descript