Re: Bug#489132: Still relevant?

2008-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
retitle 489132 upgrade apt/aptitude first thanks On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > Is it still correct that dpkg needs to be upgraded first before doing a > dist-upgrade from Etch? With perl-base 5.10.0-14 pre-depending on a > fixed version of dpkg, that should not be the case anymore, A

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I upgraded a dom0 I maintain to Lenny, the kernel got upgraded and I had > of course a boot failure when trying to boot Xen 3.2 and linux 2.6.26. > I'm not really sure about the reason since it is a remotely hosted box, > but

Re: Do Danish developers care about Debian being installable in their language?

2008-09-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-09-18, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The situation is now critical, indeed. Even though the decision is not >> yet taken, there are risks that we (D-I team) finally decide to >> de-activate Danish. >

Bug#499365: ITP: python-wordaxe -- germanic (and basic) hyphenation algorithms

2008-09-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Trent W. Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The rst2pdf utility (see #496864) cannot create hyphenated output without this library. Therefore I wish to package it for Debian. Attached is a minimal, draft .diff.gz that I have created. I do not intend to do further

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:57:40PM -0300, André Luís Lopes wrote: > Bastian Blank escreveu: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:52:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Next try: http://194.39.182.225/debian/xen/try2. > >> Checksums: | facc08ef408b745052189d99e971ee0d0c01450c linux-headers-2.6.26-1-xen-6

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 19:52 -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > [Josselin Mouette] > > Yes, but that could be worked around by making libncurses6 conflict with > > libncurses5 (<< version.with.symbols). > > That only works if you rebuild everything that uses ncurses5 so the > symbol _user

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Bastian Blank schreef: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:57:40PM -0300, André Luís Lopes wrote: >> Bastian Blank escreveu: >>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:52:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Next try: http://194.39.182.225/debian/xen/try2. > Checksums: > | facc08ef408b745052189d99e971ee0d0c014

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:20:19AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Bastian Blank schreef: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:57:40PM -0300, André Luís Lopes wrote: > >> Bastian Blank escreveu: > >>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:52:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > Next try: http://194.39.182.22

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Jan Wagner
On Thursday 18 September 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:20:19AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > Bastian Blank schreef: > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:57:40PM -0300, André Luís Lopes wrote: > > >> Bastian Blank escreveu: > > >>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:52:38PM +0200

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Bastian Blank schreef: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:20:19AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> Bastian Blank schreef: >>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:57:40PM -0300, André Luís Lopes wrote: Bastian Blank escreveu: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:52:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >>> Next try:

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:52:09AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I have it running on my amd64 machine! Okay. > - the VM's do not start automatically, but they start with "xm create". Hmm. Please show the xend log (/var/log/xen/xend.log) from before the manual start. > - I can ping and SSH

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Bastian Blank
Next try: http://194.39.182.225/debian/xen/try3. Checksums: | 5d551622550b95be67a33711f6691c92df9e6bc5 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-xen-686_2.6.26-6_i386.deb | 18e74571304130b05b15343b6cca3f428f60c958 linux-headers-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64_2.6.26-6_amd64.deb | f623276521dcf23416c12f1923015629e93f246c li

Re: Trademarks

2008-09-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
[nothing in this email is private] On 18 Sep 2008, at 11:53, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 18 September 2008 06:57, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: Except that, as reported by Jimmy, the version of the open use logo with the "Debian" name *does* suffer from this problem; which I think is a

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Jurrit de Vries
Hi, Bastian Blank wrote: > Next try: http://194.39.182.225/debian/xen/try3. > This fixes a warning in the PCI registration and again uses xencons. I tried both try2 and try3 amd64-debs on a Lenny server (without previous xen install). After some initial errors (probably issues with the bridge I f

Release Note, Promise TX4 and Linux kernels >= 2.6.22

2008-09-18 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed to d-release. I cc:ed d-devel FYI, but I think this discussion belongs to d-release, please continue there. I just discovered a "bug" with the etch-and-a-half kernel [1]. Actually, it's not really a bug, but it clearly needs an entry in the release not

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 19:52 -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > [Josselin Mouette] > > > Yes, but that could be worked around by making libncurses6 conflict with > > > libncurses5 (<< version.with.symbols). > > > > That only works if you re

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Daniel Baumann: > > > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> In that case: no, please fix your ncurses 6 package to provide a proper > >> transition path by adding Provides: libncurses5-dev. > > > > that won't work in all cases, the soname ma

Is this another headsup: lenny+1=squeeze

2008-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:01:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Mabye it would work if we'd add symbols to the current ncurses, rebuild > > everything, then introduce the new one with the new symbols? > > Unless we do this step /before/ the release of lenny, there will still be > issues on par

Re: Is this another headsup: lenny+1=squeeze

2008-09-18 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:20:16 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:01:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Mabye it would work if we'd add symbols to the current ncurses, rebuild > > > everything, then introduce the new one with the new symbols? > > > > Unless we do this step /

Re: Is this another headsup: lenny+1=squeeze

2008-09-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi, On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 15:20, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm... lenny+1=squeeze yeah, it was announched by Luk at here[1]. Cheers, Sandro [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg0.html -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website

Re: Is this another headsup: lenny+1=squeeze

2008-09-18 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Osamu Aoki schrieb: > Hmmm... lenny+1=squeeze > > This is my first sighting :-) Sometimes it's worth to read these "Release update" mails comming in till the end: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg0.html ;) Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Is this another headsup: lenny+1=squeeze

2008-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm... lenny+1=squeeze > > This is my first sighting :-) In Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, posted 2008-09-01: We are happy to publish yet another issue of our highly successful motivational status updates. This month's issue contains, as

Re: nut package freeze exception request (dependency based boot)

2008-09-18 Thread Kel Modderman
Hi all, On Wednesday 17 September 2008 23:08:27 Anton Martchukov wrote: > On 9/17/08, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If we need virtual package scripts in init.d than I see now to options: > > > > > > 1) Use a script instead of symlink with different lsb headers (this > >

Re: nut package freeze exception request (dependency based boot)

2008-09-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Anton Martchukov] > Can we work out a common solution for the problem? Now apcupsd, > genpower, nut (in testing), powstatd create ups-monitor symlink in > init.d since they provide ups-monitor virtual package. However, > insserv cannot solve dependencies since it discovers several init > scripts p

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hello, I'm subscribed, no need to CC me. On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:01 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > > I upgraded a dom0 I maintain to Lenny, the kernel got upgraded and I had > > of course a boot failure when trying to boot

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:39 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility? > > http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libncurses.html > > seems to say libncurses.so.5 is the required one, will we lose LSB > compatib

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:02:14PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:39 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility? > > > > http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libncurses.html > >

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Upstream is doing that change; ncurses can't be forever stalled because >> of LSB, you see. > > As I understand it, upstream simply mandates either libncurses.so.5 or > libncurses.so.6 based on the configure flags for enabling mouse-wheel > support. T

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 17:20:54 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > So the obvious solution seems to me then to build ncurses twice, > providing both libncurses5 and libncurses6 packages. What point do I miss? > The crashes that will happen when both are loaded in a process's address space. Cheers

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:07:01PM +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:02:14PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:39 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > > Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility? > > > > > > http:/

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:28:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Next try: http://194.39.182.225/debian/xen/try3. > This fixes a warning in the PCI registration and again uses xencons. This kernel have a critical problem: | Bad pte = 11764060, process = vsftpd, vm_flags = 100071, vaddr = b7f85000

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mike Hommey: > ... and they couldn't add mouse-wheel support without breaking ABI ? AFAICT, the issue is that there aren't enough bits in an int to express all the button events in the same way as before. The new ABI reshuffles the bits to make more room. It should be possible to make this ch

RFC: Security permissions for /var/log/audit/* and */bin/* files

2008-09-18 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! While working on a new version of the audit-package, I stumbled upon the problem that /sbin/auditd explicitely checks several files and directories for file-permissions, which are less than Debians standard 0755 and 0644. Here a list of those 6 files and the corresponding description from t

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Mats Wichmann
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:39 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility? http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libncurses.html seems to say libncurses.so.5 is the required one, wi

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Kegel
[+dickey] On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> So the obvious solution seems to me then to build ncurses twice, >>> providing both libncurses5 and libncurses6 packages. What point do I miss? >> >>The crashes that will happen when both are loaded in a >>pro

EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi everyone, while the EULA topic is already being discussed: there is at least one other package in the debian archive which displays a click-through EULA, namely xsane. could we agree on a policy addition that states that individual packages may not do this, and be over with this nonsense for

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: there is at least one > other package in the debian archive which displays a click-through EULA, > namely xsane. The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GN

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Banck
Julien, On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:18:52PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? If you are unsure of this and have to ask, you can look it up in the changelog, maybe. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:18:52PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: there is at least one > > other package in the debian archive which displays a click-through EULA, > > namely xsane. > > The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? yes, i didn

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? > > If you are unsure of this and have to ask, you can look it up in the > changelog, maybe. I'm XSane's maintainer, in case you missed that. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EM

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Dan Kegel wrote: [+dickey] On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the obvious solution seems to me then to build ncurses twice, providing both libncurses5 and libncurses6 packages. What point do I miss? The crashes that will happen

Re: Do Danish developers care about Debian being installable in their language?

2008-09-18 Thread Christian Perrier
(private CC just in case, sorry if that's a small abuse, Sune) Quoting Sune Vuorela ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 2008-09-18, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> The situation is now critical, indeed. Even

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thomas Dickey: > Then in that case, it should be possible for someone to submit a patch > which does that. Yes, but ... > I don't recall anyone mentioning it recently (other than this thread, > for example). The ABI=6 code's been there a few years. ... from the upstream POV, this would be an

Bug#499448: ITP: libcommons-jci-java -- common Java interface for various compilers

2008-09-18 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcommons-jci-java Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://commons.apache.org/jci/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang:

OT: php

2008-09-18 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
HI I know if this mail is an Off Topic Why there is not a devel php mailing list, It is different from other packages building, different configuration, .. thanks -- Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto ( KrLoS ) Free and OpenSource Software Developer GNULinux Registered User #379182 GNULinux Registered

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Florian Weimer wrote: * Thomas Dickey: Then in that case, it should be possible for someone to submit a patch which does that. Yes, but ... I don't recall anyone mentioning it recently (other than this thread, for example). The ABI=6 code's been there a few years. .

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition. > > If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then. Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this by maintaining better ABI compat

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 13:40:14 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition. > > > > If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then. > > Going forward, though, can

Re: OT: php

2008-09-18 Thread Raphael Geissert
Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote: > HI > I know if this mail is an Off Topic > > Why there is not a devel php mailing list, It is different from other > packages building, different configuration, .. thanks > Have you...? $ dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Maintainer}\n' php5 Debian PHP Maintain

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:40:14PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition. > > > > If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then. > > Going forward, though, ca

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this >> by maintaining better ABI compatibility between versions? >> i.e. when you add a libncurses.so.7, can you make it so >> that all apps that linked against

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 13:40:14 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition. If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, th

Bug#499466: ITP: libcommons-javaflow-java -- Java implementation of Continuations concept

2008-09-18 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcommons-javaflow-java Version : 0.0~svn20060411 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/javaflow/ * License :

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Robert Lemmen: > still: can we make this a policy item? The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#499474: ITP: duhdraw -- ncurses-based ASCII-art editor

2008-09-18 Thread asmith
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: asmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: duhdraw Version : 2.7.9 Upstream Author : Ben Fowler, Pekka Enberg * URL : http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/duhdraw/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description :

Bug#499478: ITP: libmodule-starter-plugin-cgiapp-perl -- template based module starter for CGI apps

2008-09-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmodule-starter-plugin-cgiapp-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter-Plugin-CGIApp/ * Li

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:07:19PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this > >> by maintaining better ABI compatibility between versions? > >> i.e. when you add a libncu

Work-needing packages report for Sep 19, 2008

2008-09-18 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 460 (new: 15) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 122 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques