Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Sean Middleditch writes: > What, pray tell, doesn't work? The menus never show all the items even when there are only three (the scrollbar works, though). It messes up the text in menus that work fine with dialog ('Properties of Provider', frex). Try 'pppconfig --xdialog'. > Also, since I would

Re: Wasteful packaging

2002-04-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > We _really_ should be packaging things like this better - the common > stuff should go into binary-all packages with appropriate > dependencies! This is apt to break unless you are careful, and causes dependency loops. Don't try to do it

Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 22:40, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > I haven't looked at xdialog lately. > > I just did. It almost works. What, pray tell, doesn't work? Also, since I wouldn't know what things to test, how badly is gdialog broken? There are no filed bugs on gnome-utils regarding miss

Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I haven't looked at xdialog lately. I just did. It almost works. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libusb and testing?

2002-04-14 Thread Ben Burton
Hi.. out of curiosity, does anyone know what's keeping the new libusb out of testing? I can't find anything useful in update_excuses.html and I can't make sense of the lines in update_output.txt. I ask because it seems to be holding a fair few things up (my particular concern is that it's hol

Bug#142932: ITP: globus -- Provides fundamental technologies to build computational grids

2002-04-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name: globus Version : 1.1.4 and 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Globus Project team (http://www.globus.org/about/team.html) * URL : http://www.globus.org/ * License : Globus Toolkit Public Lic

Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Sean Middleditch writes: > Perhaps bugs should be filed against them, for their lack of > compatibility, if indeed there are problems? I filed a bug against gdialog (gnome-utils, to be exact) with a complete set of patches a long, _long_ time ago. I haven't looked at xdialog lately. -- John Hasl

Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:03, John Hasler wrote: > Sean Etc. writes: > > So, back to my point (wow, I actually had one?), should there be an > > alternatives for dialog, so we can at least simplify the scripts to > > "launch xdialog when X11 is around, launch text dialog otherwise," and > > leave th

Re: Wasteful packaging

2002-04-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:21:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > sledge:~/debian/evolution$ du -s usr/* > 3660usr/bin > 6656usr/lib > 12 usr/sbin > 14548 usr/share > > Over half of the installed package is made up of stuff in /usr/share, > i.e. common arch-independent stuff like im

Wasteful packaging

2002-04-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
As I'm sat waiting for my local mirror to update so I can get some test DVD images created, I've been looking through some of the larger packages that have been taking a while. We have some huge packages that are wasting space on CDs for release and (more importantly) mirrors and their bandwidth.

Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Sean Etc. writes: > So, back to my point (wow, I actually had one?), should there be an > alternatives for dialog, so we can at least simplify the scripts to > "launch xdialog when X11 is around, launch text dialog otherwise," and > leave the actual GUI implementation of the xdialog program up to t

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Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that tony mancill may or may not have written... > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Darren Salt wrote: >> xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ > FYI, aviplay (in the avifile-player package) plays the animation just fine. Bug 141319 (no dependency on libavifile0.6) bit... but yes, it's

contrib and installability in testing

2002-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
I've noticed that several packages from contrib are unable to get into testing because (as allowed by policy's definition of contrib) they depend on packages not in the distribution. I appreciate that this is a bit of a pain to distinguish from normal uninstallable packages, but is there any chance

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.15.0056 +0200]: > Perhaps we can ask the people at Pixar if they want to give back to > community and render us a small movie starring woody. After all, they > use Linux for the render farm, no? if you're serious about this, i even have a coup

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:41:27AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > It looks a bit like a potato though... not quite right for the woody > > release? What about woody riding it? How long did it take to render? > > If you make me a woody model for povray? Just a few spheres? ;) > That would be no p

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > Does anyone who uses buildd/wanna-build/rbuilder have any comments? I > don't yet have a big enough HDD to run an autobuilder offline, so I > have not tried to use it yet. I won't be able to do much more till > June, but I'll have plenty o

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Erich Schubert
> It looks a bit like a potato though... not quite right for the woody > release? What about woody riding it? How long did it take to render? If you make me a woody model for povray? Just a few spheres? ;) That would be no problem... The wood texture of the comet isn't too visible after the compr

Bug#142905: ITP: hotswap -- register/deregister hotswappable IDE hardware

2002-04-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-15 Severity: wishlist * Package name: hotswap Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Tim Stadelmann * URL : http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ377/c600.html * License : HTML Description : register/deregister hotswappable IDE

Re: Release Process Information on http://www.debian.org/ correct?

2002-04-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:11:42PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Hello, > Quoting http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-frozen > | 5.4 What about "frozen"? FAQ is slightly old and some contents are still for potato. Needs to be updated for woody. Send in patch to CVS. See more

Bug#142901: ITP: med-tools -- Debian Med several tools

2002-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name: med-tools Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : local file * License : GPL Description : Debian Med several tools This meta package will

Re: Bug#142705: pgi default configuration WIPES OUT whole filesystems without asking!!!

2002-04-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:30:09AM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: > first and foremost: > you should upload immediatly a new version which comments out the > rm -rf > command: it is wy too dangerous to leave that out in the wild Sorry, the machine I was testing the package release on decided to

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:34:53PM +0100, Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 17:46, Darren Salt wrote: > > I demand that Erich Schubert may or may not have written... > > > > > I've been digging in my old PovRay stuff, and i played with an animation i > > >

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:20:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > >Either the game is made less addictive or it should be removed until > >after woody is released. > > There's a simple workaround. Once you finish level 50 it gets very boring. And yet, completing level 50 takes several hours.

RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-14 Thread Roger Leigh
The buildd source available from :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/CVS (module wanna-build) does not have a functional debian directory. I have also not been able to contact the maintainers so far--is this source actively maintained? I have added autoconf/make support, and repackaged it using debhelper

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
> so does xine. divx is better format than mpeg-2, because files compressed by divx are very small with very preety quality. Mati -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:55:33 -0700 (PDT) tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Darren Salt wrote: > > > xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ > > FYI, aviplay (in the avifile-player package) plays the animation just > fine. so does xine. -- Carlos Sousa

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 17:46, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Erich Schubert may or may not have written... > > > I've been digging in my old PovRay stuff, and i played with an animation i > > started a few years ago. The result is quite nice i think (but some weird > > rendering bugs occur here

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 14:53, Michael Banck wrote: > tags 140769 +unreproducible > thanks > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:20:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > >Either the game is made less addictive or it should be removed until > > >after woody is released. > > > > There's a simple workaroun

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:19:20PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > > > If you have troubles during the installation process, please report > > > > your problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Are people working on the dutch translation of the installation? If not, > > > I could do it. > > > >

dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
Hi all, Just out of curiosity, should there be alternatives for dialog/xdialog? I mean, on my system, I'd rather have gdialog used instead of xdialog (for GUI consistancy with my other apps, which are 95% gtk/gnome). For some scripts I've written, I've checked for X: if X exists, it thens find

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread tony mancill
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Darren Salt wrote: > xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ FYI, aviplay (in the avifile-player package) plays the animation just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release Process Information on http://www.debian.org/ correct?

2002-04-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-frozen > | 5.4 What about "frozen"? > | > | When the testing distribution is mature enough, it becomes frozen, > | meaning no new code is accepted anymore, just bugfixes, if necessary. > | Also

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-14 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 21:28, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:14:36PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > > If you have troubles during the installation process, please report > > > your problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Are people working on the dutch translation of the install

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Erich Schubert may or may not have written... > I've been digging in my old PovRay stuff, and i played with an animation i > started a few years ago. The result is quite nice i think (but some weird > rendering bugs occur here, like the Comet's tail disappearing during the > first fl

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Hereward Cooper
Twas Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:53:26 +0200, and Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> realized: > I've been digging in my old PovRay stuff, and i played with an > animation i started a few years ago. > The result is quite nice i think (but some weird rendering bugs occur > here, like the Comet's tail disap

Re: Requesting for comments: automatically and mechanically obtaining shared library package names

2002-04-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > hi Junichi, > > i think this could well be an option for debmake or dh_make in order > to help build initial debian/control file This method actually requires an already-built result. dh_make runs and scans the source files. The sour

Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Erich Schubert
I've been digging in my old PovRay stuff, and i played with an animation i started a few years ago. The result is quite nice i think (but some weird rendering bugs occur here, like the Comet's tail disappearing during the first fly-through) http://www.fachschaften.uni-muenchen.de/~erich/debian/woo

Re: Requesting for comments: automatically and mechanically obtaining shared library package names

2002-04-14 Thread Domenico Andreoli
hi Junichi, i think this could well be an option for debmake or dh_make in order to help build initial debian/control file On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:32:50PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > USAGE: > > $ libinfodump.sh /usr/lib/libdmachinemon.so.1.0.0 > Package: libdmachinemon1 > Section: libs

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 12, 2002

2002-04-14 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:00:03AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: > Maintainer: Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 139515 [ H] aspell: FTBFS: SEGV in aspell during build (hppa/unstable) > it seems a problem due to gcc 3.0 (the default on hppa). also on upstream mailing list somebody r

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Michael Banck
tags 140769 +unreproducible thanks On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:20:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > >Either the game is made less addictive or it should be removed until > >after woody is released. > > There's a simple workaround. Once you finish level 50 it gets very boring. How on earth is

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Rob Bradford wrote: >Package: frozen-bubble >Version: 0.9.2-9 >Severity: critical > >Frozen-bubble is holding up the release process as all the developers >are now hooked and are no longer working on woody, hence the RC status >as this package is single handedly holding

Release Process Information on http://www.debian.org/ correct?

2002-04-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, Quoting http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-frozen | 5.4 What about "frozen"? | | When the testing distribution is mature enough, it becomes frozen, | meaning no new code is accepted anymore, just bugfixes, if necessary. | Also, a new testing tree is created in the dists dir

Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
Package: frozen-bubble Version: 0.9.2-9 Severity: critical Frozen-bubble is holding up the release process as all the developers are now hooked and are no longer working on woody, hence the RC status as this package is single handedly holding the whole release process back. Either the game is ma

Re: David D.W. Downey - Old Key 42D8F306 Signed by New Key C5A76BF6

2002-04-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* christophe barbé | On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:02:15AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Manoj Srivastava | > | > | David> 4) Posted the NEW public key (C5A76BF6) to the following: | > | David> 1) public keyservers | > | David> 2) debian-devel@lists.debian.org | > | D

Bug#142817: ITP: dchub -- dchub is a DC (Direct Connect) hub clone

2002-04-14 Thread Grzegorz Prokopski
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name: dchub Version : 0.0.9 Upstream Author : Eric Prevoteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ac2i.tzo.com/dctc/ * License : GPL Description : dchub is a DC (Direct Connect) hub

Re: Bug#142705: pgi default configuration WIPES OUT whole filesystems without asking!!!

2002-04-14 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi first and foremost: you should upload immediatly a new version which comments out the rm -rf command: it is wy too dangerous to leave that out in the wild then, here is some discussion I think that CLEAN=1 should mean 'clean anything that pgi-build has created in the temporary directory

Re: [WARNING] Broken libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable

2002-04-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable is broken. In fact, it sounds like any package which was built against it might cause trouble with other version of libxml2. The change was reverted in 2.4.19-3, but please check if bug reports on pingus etc. are valid. The most important question is: do package