Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?

2003-04-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: >On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:56, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The FHS is about more than just providing a system that technically >> allows you to mount different filesystems as needed. There are also >> aesthetic concerns in the heirarchy (in the broad sen

Bug#190679: ITP: bioperl-run -- Perl wrappers for applications used by bioperl

2003-04-24 Thread Matt Hope
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: bioperl-run Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Various <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.bioperl.org/ License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Description : Perl wrappers for applications used by bioperl Bioperl-run p

Re: viruses

2003-04-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > do u know how to send them? I think you use the command "deltree C:\", it may ask you some questions, but say yes to them all if you really want to send that virus out! -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux pac

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:44:58AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > Repetitive, largely useless to the user messages like those should > > be removed and put in a file like SPONSORS or whatever. I would > > NOT use any program that is

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:44:58AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > Repetitive, largely useless to the user messages like those should > > be removed and put in a file like SPONSORS or whatever. I would > > NOT use any program that is going to spew out poinless stuff > > when I do not want to se

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:46:03PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names > > upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously, > > because they have no i

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names > upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously, > because they have no intention of trying to recompile GNOME 1 against a > different libpng.

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Repetitive, largely useless to the user messages like those should > be removed and put in a file like SPONSORS or whatever. I would > NOT use any program that is going to spew out poinless stuff > when I do not want to see it. one co

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having a one or two liner message > during startup of a command line utility is fine by me. Having > 5 pages of stuff is not fair to the user. Period. > > The job of a maintaier is to make the software as usable to a u

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:03:53PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Q: Why don't we just say goodbye to binary-compatibility with other > > distros on those few corner cases ? > > A: I'm not against that, but some people in the proje

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:58:08AM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote: > Hello, all. > > Ideally, I think, including the verbatim message in a separate file > ("SPONSORS"?) and including a reference to that file in mkreiserfs' > output should serve as an acceptable balance. I'm willing to reconsider > that

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Q: Why don't we just say goodbye to binary-compatibility with other > distros on those few corner cases ? > A: I'm not against that, but some people in the project seem to be. > Anyway, this is certainly not a move we can make with

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 19:26]: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:27:34PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > A bug on the lack of a debian-x86-64 mailing list has been opened (162668). > > > > All that can be done has been done -- it's out of our hands now :) > > > > The pressure

libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
As some people were asking for it, and the situation is pretty unclear, I think it is time for a few answers to the questions that can be asked about libpng. This mail is targetted to maintainers of packages using libpng. Q: Why are there 4 versions of libpng on my system ? A: In fact, there are o

Re: Does your upstream know you? They should. (Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian)

2003-04-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:02:02PM +0200, Andrea Capriotti wrote: > "A big part of your job as Debian maintainer will be to stay in contact > with the upstream developers..." > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-developer-duties.en.html#s-upstream-coordination I thought

Re: viruses

2003-04-24 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 00:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > do u know how to send them? please add this guy to spamassassin's black lists. cheers

Re: Accepted xt 0.9.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:07:10 +0100 > Source: xt > Binary: xt > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.9.1-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed-By: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTE

Bug#190656: ITP: freedroidrpg -- a clone of the classic game "Paradroid" on the Commodore 64

2003-04-24 Thread Eric Dorland
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: freedroidrpg Version : 0.94 Upstream Authors: Johannes Prix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reinhard Prix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/ * L

Re: Accepted cyphesis-cpp 0.2.0+0.2.1rc1-4 (i386 source all)

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:30:39 + > Source: cyphesis-cpp > Binary: cyphesis-cpp-mason cyphesis-cpp cyphesis-cpp-clients > Architecture: source i386 all > Version: 0.2.0+0.2.1rc1-4 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Mic

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:27:34PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > A bug on the lack of a debian-x86-64 mailing list has been opened (162668). > All that can be done has been done -- it's out of our hands now :) > > The pressure, as you put it, could be increased by modifying the bug's > severi

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 17:18]: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > > I meant "in the meantime". I think that the list in lists.d.o must be > > created, but as this will take some time and seems that there are some > > people interested in this, I th

Problems mixing debconf and ucf in a perl script

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm trying to implement ucf in a perl postinst script, but I'm running into problems due to debconf's fuckage with the file descriptors, I think. I call stop() as soon as I'm done interfacing with debconf, but that doesn't seem to be good enough when I get to ucf. First, I tried system("/usr/b

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 16:36]: > ...But IA64 is the name for the platform, as opposed to a specific > implementation. We also refer to the Pentiums, Athlons and their smaller > cousins as x86 or i386 chips[1]. The right naming should follow the > architecture's name, not a specif

viruses

2003-04-24 Thread Gunfreak923
do u know how to send them?

Weird bug with debmirror + libpam_ldap ?

2003-04-24 Thread Daniel Serpell
Hi! I'm hit by a strange bug, and I really don't know to wich package report, nor how to further debug it. Mi personal machine runs sid and I have an i386 Debian mirror, updated dayly with debmirror in a cron job. At 2003/04/21 debmirror stopped working, with the logs showing nothing. This machi

Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

2003-04-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:28:06PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > How about ensuring that all addresses on the Debian keyring are > > > whitelisted by default? > > As well as all gpg signed mail? > Spammers are starting to u

Re: libpng breakages

2003-04-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 22:57, Jérôme Marant a écrit : > Hi, > > It seems that libpng12-0-dev has been silently replaced > by libpng12-dev, and packages depending on it are broken > now. > > Shouldn't a libpng12-0-dev depending on libpng12-dev have > been kept, for transitional purpose? As libpng12-

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > When I read http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain correct, all > Software that contains cryptographic functionality must be registered > before it can legally be distributed. So the ftp-master must check if > a new package cont

Re: Does your upstream know you? They should. (Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian)

2003-04-24 Thread Andrea Capriotti
Il gio, 2003-04-24 alle 21:07, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > A Debian maintainer should not be a stranger to the upstream maintainer. > Your (active) upstreams should _already_ know who you are and that you are > responsible for the Debian packaging of their software. The one thing that > they need to k

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:50PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > > Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be > > > checked by ftp

libpng breakages

2003-04-24 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, It seems that libpng12-0-dev has been silently replaced by libpng12-dev, and packages depending on it are broken now. Shouldn't a libpng12-0-dev depending on libpng12-dev have been kept, for transitional purpose? Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > I meant "in the meantime". I think that the list in lists.d.o must be > created, but as this will take some time and seems that there are some > people interested in this, I think that it's better this way. I perfectly understand your int

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Stephen Frost
* Frank Lichtenheld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I read http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain correct, all > Software that contains cryptographic functionality must be registered > before it can legally be distributed. So the ftp-master must check if > a new package contains cryptographic f

Re: libpng3 upgrade will remove kde development packages [SOLVED]

2003-04-24 Thread Josh Metzler
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 06:17 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mer 23/04/2003 à 22:23, Josh Metzler a écrit : > > Shuttle:/home/josh# apt-get -s install libpng3 > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following extra packages will be installed: > > libpng

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 April 2003 20:00, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > Good point... it is probably best to follow the decisions made at the > kernel/gcc layer. And since both of these call the platform x86-64, > that is what will stick. No, they don't both use

pbuilder and sid.

2003-04-24 Thread Shaul Karl
How can I create a base.tgz which will be useable for pbuilder with sid? 1. pbuilder update --distribution sid --logfile /var/cache/pbuilder/sid/log/update --override-config --basetgz /var/cache/pbuilder/sid/base.tgz where /var/cache/pbuilder/sid/base.tgz is the one I use for sarge gi

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> > I think they're right this time. Most of the press releases that have gone > > out mention AMD64 instead of x86-64, and the marketing info at amd.com all > > mentions AMD64 as well. > > Most of the press releases I've read also mention 'Itanium' and not > 'ia64'. ...But IA64 is the name for

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:50PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be > > checked by ftp-masters first. > > I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone befo

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread John Hasler
christophe barbe wrote: > I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before being > checked by ftp-master. I don't said I disapprove that (for what it would > worth) but I don't understand the logic. Can someone explain? There is no logic involved. Just US law. Cryptographic softwar

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Stephen Frost
* christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be > > checked by ftp-masters first. > > I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before being > checked b

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joey Hess | Hmm, you might have to do something mildly tricky with the limits stuff; | if the user did not turn it on you would have to manage | commenting/uncommenting the lines in the config file. Still seems quite | doable. db_get mailman/gate_news || true if [ "$RET" = "no" ]; then

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:50PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be > > checked by ftp-masters first. > > I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone befo

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:01:52PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > > I thought this was a good idea. And since there was no such list yet I > > requested the creation of 'debian-x86-64'. It will take 72 hours to > > setup, I will reply to this thread

Credits (Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...)

2003-04-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:46:56PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > BTW, I just thought about it again and the screensaver code is here > already ;) There is screensaver that displays random fortunes (executes > fortune(6)). Create fortune's database consisting of credits information > and you are don

Does your upstream know you? They should. (Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian)

2003-04-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:17:16AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > Imagine you are the developer of some random piece of free software. You > don't necessarily use Debian; you certainly don't understand all its > systems and protocols. > The conventional way to get in touch with the developers of a

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 21-Apr-03, 21:16 (CDT), John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > I (apparently incorrectly) presumed that debconf was also intended to > > allow for the eventual automation of replicated Debian installations. > > I distinctly remember reading exactly that. I remember

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 14:17]: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > > I thought this was a good idea. And since there was no such list yet I > > requested the creation of 'debian-x86-64'. It will take 72 hours to > > setup, I will reply to this thread when it's

Re: Non-debian running DD's (Was: Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* LapTop006 | I use both Mutt and OE to read my E-mail (mostly mutt). The one feature | OE has (on both mac and windows) that NO other client I've seen matches | (Mozilla 1.0 came close, haven't tried since then) is its support for | offline IMAP. use isync or something similar? Or try gnus (wh

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be > checked by ftp-masters first. I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before being checked by ftp-master. I don't said I disapprove that (for what it

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:43:54PM -0400, Rich Payne wrote: > > The Inquirer is not always right, so I am not sure if I should take that > > as truth or just rumors. > > I think they're right this time. Most of the press releases that have gone > out mention AMD64 instead of x86-64, and the market

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 13:55]: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > > * Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 13:43]: > > > > On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped > > > > in favor of 'AMD64'. > > > > > > > > http://

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread rdp
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > * Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 13:43]: > > > On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped > > > in favor of 'AMD64'. > > > > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9133 > > > (7th paragraph) > > > > > > The In

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 April 2003 19:05, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped > in favor of 'AMD64'. True, at least SuSE and MicroSoft are only talking about AMD64 on their product pages. OTOH, the

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-24 Thread Hans Reiser
Oleg Drokin wrote: Hello! On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that would be nicest of all. BTW, I just thought about it again and

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 13:43]: > > On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped > > in favor of 'AMD64'. > > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9133 > > (7th paragraph) > > > > The Inquirer is not always right, so I am not sure if I should t

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-24 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks > a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that > would be nicest of all. BTW, I just thought about it again and the screensaver c

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > I thought this was a good idea. And since there was no such list yet I > requested the creation of 'debian-x86-64'. It will take 72 hours to > setup, I will reply to this thread when it's ready. While it is good that your problem of creating a list i

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have also sent directly to me despite my not having requested this... > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote: >> Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); >> have you tried 2.4 with the 2.3 drums files? > I be

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Rich Payne
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > * Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 03:56]: > > Though I think that a debian-x86-64 list is worth you can open a > > project in alioth in the interim. You could use it also to have a CVS > > repo for patches or packages you need t

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > That's more or less what I was hoping - however, checking > /usr/share/doc/fortune-mod doesn't show any references to 'language', or > any obvious references to i18n or l10n, at least on stable (my chroots are > currently down due to one machine having some

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030424 03:56]: > Though I think that a debian-x86-64 list is worth you can open a > project in alioth in the interim. You could use it also to have a CVS > repo for patches or packages you need to build. I thought this was a good idea. And since th

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Joel Baker
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:35:41AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > > > larger sense, is whether there is a way to have the translations available > > in some easily selectable format. > I think the i18ned fortune makes this simple. That's more or less what I

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Björn Stenberg wrote: > 1) Debcheck often reports "Package declares a build time dependency on [pkg] > which cannot be statisfied on [port]." Must all such build time dependencies > be resolved before a package is accepted into testing? No. testing doesn't care about Builddeps. and you can sa

Re: Bug#190562: ITP: splashutils -- User-space programs to manipulate the framebuffer splash logo and bootlogo.

2003-04-24 Thread Robert Nagy
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:37:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeu 24/04/2003 ŕ 15:02, Robert Nagy a écrit : > > * Package name: splashutils > > Version : 1.0 > > Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh. > > * URL : http://www.bootsplash.org > > * License : GPL > >

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:55:31PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > I know about the five rules, valid candidates, the excuses page(s) and > packages.qa.debian.org. I'm mostly looking at valid candidates and there are > a few things that I don't understand: I have a feeling you want to discover upda

Re: Bug#190562: ITP: splashutils -- User-space programs to manipulate the framebuffer splash logo and bootlogo.

2003-04-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 15:02, Robert Nagy a écrit : > * Package name: splashutils > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh. > * URL : http://www.bootsplash.org > * License : GPL > Description : User-space programs to manipulate the framebuffer splash > l

Bug#190560: ITP: kernel-patch-bootsplash -- This is the home of the graphical boot process for the linux kernel

2003-04-24 Thread Robert Nagy
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: kernel-patch-bootsplash Version : 3.0.7 Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh. * URL : http://www.bootsplash.org * License : GPL Description : This is the home of the graphic

Bug#190562: ITP: splashutils -- User-space programs to manipulate the framebuffer splash logo and bootlogo.

2003-04-24 Thread Robert Nagy
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: splashutils Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh. * URL : http://www.bootsplash.org * License : GPL Description : User-space programs to manipulate the framebu

Bug#189659: will adopt dnrd

2003-04-24 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24 Followup-For: Bug #189659 * Package name: dnrd Version : 2.10-8 Upstream Author : Brad Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://users.zoominternet.net/~garsh/dnrd/ * License : GPL Description : Proxy

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:53:12PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Really? As I explained already, I will put generated texmf.cnf under > /var, because it is not a file for a user to modify it. I believe > there are many such files under /var which don't preseve direct user > modifications.

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:04:51AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > I wonder why only the .changes files are readable in the NEW queue. > Is there a reason for this? Crypto-in-main. Michael

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I wonder why only the .changes files are readable in the NEW queue. > Is there a reason for this? Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be checked by ftp-masters first. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: libpng3 upgrade will remove kde development packages

2003-04-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 13:12, Junichi Uekawa a écrit : > On the other hand, it will break any package that has a > versioned dependency on libpng12-0-dev (I don't know if there are > any). It looks like there are no such packages. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread christophe barbe
I wonder why only the .changes files are readable in the NEW queue. Is there a reason for this? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Björn Stenberg
Hi. I'm trying to understand the dependency system so I can find the complete and correct answer to questions in the form "why is the latest version of package X not in testing yet". I've been annoying some of you with wrong assumptions previously, sorry about that. I'll avoid that this time and j

Re: libpng3 upgrade will remove kde development packages

2003-04-24 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > Shuttle:/home/josh# apt-get -s install libpng3 > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following extra packages will be installed: > > libpng12-0 > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > kdelibs4-dev kdesdk kspy libarts1-dev libartsc0-dev libpng

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I tried to investigate the problem a little bit deeper. The problem seems to be hidden in the configure script and I have no idea how to fix that. This is from a build which I tried at crest.debian.org in an unstable chroot > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checkin

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 05:39:25PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Can't you understand that as an author you would like that messages > like this are not removed without your consent? The internet > robustness principle says: Be liberal in what you accept and > conservative in what you send. Modifiy

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:52:33 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > the new mechanism might be okay if it first checks whether > texmf.cnf is an admin's file or a file generated by update-texmf > before generating texmf.cnf and overwrites it only in the case it >

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 05:37, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > I agree. I am not trying to defend Hans's diplomatic skills. > > Diplomatic skill? It is not a feat of extraordinary diplomacy > not to accuse your correspondent of various acts theft and piracy > while initiating a dialogue. Has c

cupsys testing : missing cupsomatic : fix

2003-04-24 Thread John Mettraux
upon apt-get dist-upgrading, I couldn't print to my hp4050 anymore. Cups was looking for /usr/lib/cups/filters/cupsomatic which doesn't belong to the upgraded version. Quick fix : cd /usr/lib/cups/filters ln -s foomatic-rip cupsomatic and it works like a charm my versions : ii cupsomatic-ppd

Re: libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

2003-04-24 Thread Markus Amersdorfer
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:41:33 +0900 GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So everytime we have to restart all binaries which use a library > > > > involving security-problem. In additionm this problem affects > > > > not only debian packages, but user-built binaries. > > I also think i

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El día 23 abr 2003, Robert Millan escribía: > > CCing debian-devel.. > > hi! > > as noticed in DWN [1] and debian-devel [2], Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > has actualy started work [3] on the x86-64 port by using Bochs' x86-64 > emulation. > > it's likely that debian-x86-64 developement di

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > larger sense, is whether there is a way to have the translations available > in some easily selectable format. I think the i18ned fortune makes this simple. > I suppose that simply having multiple text/index files with a language > designation as part of t

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Tim Potter
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > -- > "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal." Igor Stravinsky (-:

Re: Autobuilder locale setup

2003-04-24 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:02:45PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if > > they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset. Can the > > autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-24 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:51:23 -0500 > Not quite. a) even if the file was generated by update-texmf, > and the user modified it later, the user changes *must* be > preserved. Really

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:38:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > > > What I was wondering is whether there is a way to do translations of > > the fortune data, without having to have 'fortunes-debian-hints-' > > packages. Granted, I probably won't be able t

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:04:00 +1000, Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:43:24 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:46:32 +1000, Martin Pool >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:53:14 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I was >>> intenti