Re: Bug#172419: (no subject)

2002-12-09 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:08, Stefan Schimanski wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-09 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: geramik > Description : A GTK theme which imitates the KDE 3.1 look This package should follow the naming scheme for GTK+ 2 theme en

Developers LDAP settings for email forwarding to multiple places

2002-12-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi, Is it possible to configure email forwading in https://db.debian.org/ such that emails are sent to two addresses? I tried separating two addresses with a space and also with a comma, but it didn't seem to work. Thanks! Peter

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Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:29:38PM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote: > Hi, > > (sorry for the overlong subject). > > I originally sent this to debian-doc but I got no answers, so I > thought I'd post it here too. Because debian-doc was busy discussing other things and your proposed document had not mu

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Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:08:16AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > 1. For package installations, DAK will inform both the uploader and the >maintainer. For private archives should it inform the maintainer? >Maybe a message "Your package has been installed in the private >archive at http://...

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Roger Leigh
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented > > mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a > > database). > > That "complicated and undocumented mess" has been runni

Re: WNPP pages are now over one month out of date.

2002-12-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:37:53PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > Because $host is not initialized. I wonder where it should come from. > > IIRC, it was set in the script. It must have gone down the drain when I removed another chunk of code that relied on the hostname without any need.

Re: Kernel update for Debian 3.0/i386

2002-12-09 Thread Sam Hartman
Won't removing kernel-source-2.4.18 create a problem for other arches?

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:18:35AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Often I want to know "Should I install the unstable version or will the > stable version be sufficient?" > > Currently there is no way to tell, you can't see the Changelog until after > you have downloaded it. It should be possible to

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:26:14AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > 1. Put the .so symlinks in the libreiserfs-0.3-0 package. This breaks >policy (section 9.0 says that the associated development package >should contain the shared library without a version number). This is >also a really b

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:57:55PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > If there were a reliable and complete source of changelog data > programmatically available over the network, and a means by which > apt-listchanges could be launched by apt before any packages are downloaded, > it would be easy to m

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:09:44PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: > Which is inadequate; how do you tell whether the following lines access > the same > distribution? > > deb http://debian.lemon-computing.com/debian/ stable main contrib > non-free > deb http://debian.otago.ac.nz/debian/ stable main

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:03:07PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but > for the simple reason that this functionality already exists. > > The namespace of an apt repository is its URL, and any information > available in a "Rele

Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-09 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:21:09AM +, James Troup wrote: > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented > > mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a > > database). > > That "complicated and undocumented

Re: project: virtual partial mirror with CGI/dpkg-repack

2002-12-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Steve Dunham wrote: >The rebuilt package is likely to have the wrong md5sum. I believe >apt will reject it after download. That's true but apt seems to allow Packages files without any MD5sum: info without complaining. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is no record of the [EMAIL PROT

Re: ElectricFence question

2002-12-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Ravindra Sunkad] > I'm am trying to debug a memory corruption problem using > ElectricFence 2.1 on Linux I believe valgrind is better for this. Check out http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/>. Sorry, but I do not know anything about your mmap problem.

Re: WNPP pages are now over one month out of date.

2002-12-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-09 21:37]: > IIRC, it was set in the script. I don't recall the particular reason > why those messages weren't printed when ran on klecker, though. Err, cause those messages break the build.

Bug#172419: (no subject)

2002-12-09 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-09 Severity: wishlist * Package name: geramik Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Craig Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=3952 * License : GPL Description

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:42:43AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think not. Debian packages from *anywhere* are not under control of BTS > > and as a consequence they have no quality assurance. > > An offhand observation: In my experience,

Re: WNPP pages are now over one month out of date.

2002-12-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:38:49PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Because $host is not initialized. I wonder where it should come from. IIRC, it was set in the script. I don't recall the particular reason why those messages weren't printed when ran on klecker, though. -- Marcelo

Re: Missing fields in control files

2002-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:34:27PM -0600, J.E. Starr wrote: > After using debarchiver, for the first time, yesterday, I noticed 5 > deb's didn't get placed in the archive. I unpacked the deb's and > found they didn't have a section or priority field in the control > file. My question is, is this

Re: aspell

2002-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any plans to package the new GNU Aspell (0.50.x) for Debian? Yes. In fact, you can find packages here if you wish to test it out and see how it breaks gtkspell :) : http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ The main thing holding it back is I'm wai

Re: kernel-image-2.4.19-i386-udeb-2.4.19

2002-12-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:47:07AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:22:04PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > My preferred option is 3. However, by itself it is still not sufficient > > as it kernel-image-2.4.19-386 fails to install when making the initrd > > image (which ironical

Re: apt_preferences man page

2002-12-09 Thread Thomas Hood
(In reply to Travis Crump) Hello, and thanks for the feedback. I think that the original is right. It speaks of the priority assigned to an "instance" of a package (i.e., a particular version of that package coming from a particular source). So although coreutils (the package) is assigned three

ElectricFence question

2002-12-09 Thread Ravindra Sunkad
Hi, I'm am trying to debug a memory corruption problem using ElectricFence 2.1 on Linux (2.4.2-2#1 i686) and gcc version 2.96 2731. The program terminates with the following error message after the it runs for sometime. Any clues how I can get around this? ElectricFence Exiting: mmap() failed

__ia64_syscall

2002-12-09 Thread Russell Coker
I am getting link errors on compiling SE Linux programs on IA64 with the following: cc -I../include -I/home/etbe/selinux-small-2002102211/debian/lsm/security/selinux/include -O2 -g -L../src avc_enforcing.c -lsecure -o avc_enforcing ../src/libsecure.a(security.o): In function `security': /hom

Re: WNPP pages are now over one month out of date.

2002-12-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-09 17:22]: > Looking at the code, wnpp.pl is supposed to avoid printing those > messages to stderr when the host is klecker.debian.org, but this > fails for some reason. Because $host is not initialized. I wonder where it should come from. -- Martin Mi

aspell

2002-12-09 Thread Ari Pollak
Are there any plans to package the new GNU Aspell (0.50.x) for Debian?

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think not. Debian packages from *anywhere* are not under control of BTS > and as a consequence they have no quality assurance. An offhand observation: In my experience, merely having bugs handled by the BTS is no assurance of quality.

Missing fields in control files

2002-12-09 Thread J.E. Starr
After using debarchiver, for the first time, yesterday, I noticed 5 deb's didn't get placed in the archive. I unpacked the deb's and found they didn't have a section or priority field in the control file. My question is, is this a bug? I looked in the bts and didn't find anything listed. If

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 03:07 2002-12-06 -0800 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben: > > > The response I got to a simple > request for an DOS or Windows > based "SETUP.EXE" program which > loads Linux onto my hard drive, I have a vbs Virus taken from 'I-love-You.vbs' It do nothing, until it is 01:00 CET. Then it w

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Josselin, Am 10:00 2002-12-05 +0100 hat Josselin Mouette geschrieben: >> right, but isn't that what Pre-Depends is for? > >The configure script is usually launched before the Pre-Depends are even >installed. There is currently no way to ensure a package is installed at >configuration time. Th

Re: apt_preferences man page

2002-12-09 Thread Travis Crump
Thomas Hood wrote: If a target release has been specified, then APT uses the following algorithm to set the priorities of the instances of a package. Assign: priority 100 to the instance of a package that is already installed (if any)

Re: WNPP pages are now over one month out of date.

2002-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:24:02AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: > I just remembered that the WNPP www pages [1] have been stale > for one month and one day now. Their last update was on November 9, > and no one has yet looked into bug #171393: "WNPP pages are severely > out of date. Update mechan

Bug#172381: ITP: codestriker -- A web based collaborative code review tool

2002-12-09 Thread Nicolas THOMAS
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-12-09 Severity: wishlist * Package name: codestriker Version : 1.6.0 Upstream Author : David Sitsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://codestriker.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A web based collabor

WNPP pages are now over one month out of date.

2002-12-09 Thread Andrew Lau
Hey everyone, I just remembered that the WNPP www pages [1] have been stale for one month and one day now. Their last update was on November 9, and no one has yet looked into bug #171393: "WNPP pages are severely out of date. Update mechanism broken?" which I also filed. Anyone know what th

Re: guaranteed non-interactive installation and upgrades

2002-12-09 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Michael Piefel wrote: Is that the question that is asked again and again for all of the dictionaries I install? No, I don't particularly like it. The questions should only be asked once all dictionaries are there; how to do that is beyond me. No, what you mention is the old behavior. If you install

Re: guaranteed non-interactive installation and upgrades

2002-12-09 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 9.12.02 um 10:30:05 schrieb Agustín Martín Domingo: > That is already done in ispell dicts and wordlists in unstable. > [...] > Hope you like it Is that the question that is asked again and again for all of the dictionaries I install? No, I don't particularly like it. The questions should only

Re: apt_preferences man page

2002-12-09 Thread Thomas Hood
Because this matter was mentioned in the 26 November Debian Weekly News, it seems appropriate to post an update. Susan Kleinmann took the bull by the horns and rewrote the page from scratch. I have proposed some revisions and hopefully we'll have a finished product soon. I append the latest vers

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-09 Thread Yury Umanets
Timshel Knoll wrote: [CC to -policy removed, prolly is getting a little OT for them ...] On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:06:31PM +0300, Yury Umanets wrote: 2. Make parted dlopen() libreiserfs-0.3.so.0 rather than libreiserfs.so. This will solve the problem, but is not ideal solution since a minor ver

RFA: dhelp - Debian Online Help System

2002-12-09 Thread Stefan Hornburg
package: dhelp severity: normal Due to a high workload in general and other time-consuming Debian packages I would like to pass the maintainership for dhelp to another person/group. There are a lot of bugs for dhelp, several of them probably outdated. Some parts of dhelp need a complete rewrite

DR John cabor

2002-12-09 Thread john cabora
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Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-09 Thread Timshel Knoll
[CC to -policy removed, prolly is getting a little OT for them ...] On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:06:31PM +0300, Yury Umanets wrote: > >2. Make parted dlopen() libreiserfs-0.3.so.0 rather than libreiserfs.so. > > This will solve the problem, but is not ideal solution since a minor > > version upgra

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:06:41PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > I'm interested in writing the "How Software Producers can distribute > > their products directly in .deb format" manual, as listed on > > http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals. I thought to write the > > following, more or

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry | In the end it makes very little sense for a3rd party to provide | debs. The LSB requires rpm support only. Personally I would be | happy if they released a rpm for compliance and a tarball (binary or | source as they wish) for everyone else. I disagree with this, I find

Re: [Testing] Why isn't a52dec updating

2002-12-09 Thread Martin v . Löwis
- Original Message - From: "Mikael Hedin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.devel Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 11:00 PM Subject: [Testing] Why isn't a52dec updating > I see that the testing scripts are running again. Now I wonder why > a52dec isn't going in. In update_out

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-09 Thread Yury Umanets
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:01:29PM +1100, Andrew Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:02:12AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: I don't see why this is a problem, you'd only need to change the dlopen() code if there's a SONAME change

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-09 Thread Yury Umanets
Timshel Knoll wrote: [Please CC all replies to me] Hi all, I'm having issues with getting parted's reiserfs support to work in a way that complies with Debian policy. The issue is that parted dlopen()s libreiserfs.so and libdal.so (from the libreiserfs-0.3-{0,dev} packages) for its reiserfs support

Re: guaranteed non-interactive installation and upgrades

2002-12-09 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
sean finney wrote: also, the ispell package asks you which language you use by default. it wouldn't be so hard for these packages to ask the same things in debconf, or at least respect your debconf settings, and considering that they ship with stock debian you'd think that they'd have already done

Re: [console-data] upgrade problem in preconfigure

2002-12-09 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 22:16, Steve Greenland wrote: > > (re-arranged a little) > > > > Alastair, did you miss the "dselect just stop (I have to C-c to > > get out)" part of Arnaud's message? Because you can't just hang an > > installation run becaus

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Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for > > handling archives instead? > > Probably because it's too complicated to be of use unless you're > managing something on the scale of the debian archive. It

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:36:58PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools, > available at: > > http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/>. Interesting. > These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive > with m

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > It makes sense for the debian user, dont u think? I think not. Debian packages from *anywhere* are not under control of BTS and as a consequence they have no quality assurance. If the software is interesting for Debian users it should be integrated in

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone > > forces > > people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do that > > they should know tha

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 02:09, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 12:03 pm, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but > > for the simple reason that this functionality already exists. > > In part; it's not visible to

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Re: Kernel update for Debian 3.0/i386

2002-12-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> There is no pcmcia-modules-2.2.22-reiserfs, which looks like an > oversight to me. > > install kernel-image-2.4.19-i386 > remove kernel-image-2.4.16-i386 > remove kernel-image-2.4.18-i386 > > install kernel-source-2.4.19 > remove kernel-source-2.4.16 > remove kernel-source-2.4.18 Hmm... as

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 08 December 2002 20:00, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:03:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Which is why I ask for the second option -- a tarball. Let Debian, > > Gentoo, BSD, whoever do their own packaging. This includes any of those > > groups' users. > >