[just some minor additions.]
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:20:14PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> > No, I argue that because you've pried chips off the board, the
> > hardware is broken.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:39:59PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> Er, no. Flash can be overwritten with i
Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> I've sent messages to various [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses many
> times for various reasons, and they have all always been ignored.
Me too, for values of ignored that include "may have resulted in some
action, but never got a reply email".
I think that we need BTS pseudo-pa
I wrote:
> If you also want to prevent the service from being started on a runlevel
> change you have to do something else such as checking $0.
Init exports RUNLEVEL, PREVLEVEL, and INIT_VERSION. Thus INIT_VERSION will
be set if you are booting or changing runlevels.
--
John Hasler
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:37:45AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > No, there's a very concrete reason: given an installation of Debian
> > main, the driver works. Drivers that require non-free firmware don't
> > work out of the box;
>
> The vast, v
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:24:06AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> * Package name: ms-sys
>
> [...]
>
> This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The
> program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:"
> to a floppy or FAT partiti
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:20:14PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> >> No; the hardware is damaged. No driver can drive that. The driver
> >> you have is a driver for Foomatic Quxer cards. You don't have a
> >>
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, there's a very concrete reason: given an installation of Debian
> main, the driver works. Drivers that require non-free firmware don't
> work out of the box;
The vast, vast majority of drivers require non-free firmware.
> Your sarcasm and condesce
Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> No; the hardware is damaged. No driver can drive that. The driver
>> you have is a driver for Foomatic Quxer cards. You don't have a
>> Foomatix Quxer; you have a broken pile of junk.
>
> So here you argue that because
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I wrote:
> Your script should check [$PREVLEVEL]. It will be N if you are booting.
Nicolas writes:
> That's a nice idea, but do you know how fine it would behave with things
> like file-rc?
It should work fine. Note that this method _only_ controls script
execution at boot time. If you also wa
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:16:00AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > if the package is removed, the init script should just exit with 0
> > status. removing the links during purge would also be appropriate.
>
> So you think lintian is wrong to complain?
no, i think lintian is correct to complain
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:07:44PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:13:11AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > I think Wouter is only asking for reciprocity here. If they don't care
> > about his concerns why should he care about theirs ? Or alternatively
> > "not caring" is a
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:13:11AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> I think Wouter is only asking for reciprocity here. If they don't care
> about his concerns why should he care about theirs ? Or alternatively
> "not caring" is a freedom.
We care because our priorities are our users and free softwa
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:13:43AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2004 00.34, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> [de-installing run-level links that weren't installed]
>
> How about installing links as /etc/rc?.d/K??foo - so the links are there and
> are properly manageable,
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:53:27AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:34:21AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > But a user felt concerned that, in the future, he may remove the package
> > and forget to delete the links. Then I thought I could remove the links
> > in postrm on
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:32:08AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>
> Well, you could have a message saying that you need to enable foo and a
> 'force-start' action that started it regardless of what's in /etc/default.
That might be a solution. Users would certainly be less con
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:47:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Your script should check $PRERUNLEVEL. It will be N if you are booting.
That's a nice idea, but do you know how fine it would behave with
things like file-rc?
Nicolas
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why should elf-aggregation always mean to be part of a derived code, and
> fs-level aggregation mean that not? Even e.g. Linus writes that there
> _are_ examples where elf-aggregation does not mean a derived work (well,
> of course: the default assumptat
>Unfortunally, some distributions don't seem to be willing to do more
>than the minimal changes to adhere to the LSB. I did some patches for
>RedHat - and the bugreport is still open (I don't know whether the
>patches still work).
Failing some required tests seems to be quite a motivator
to at
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Grabbed
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:51:54PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:25:38PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Op do, 16-12-2004 te 14:46 -0500, schreef Ian Murdock:
> > > We've heard
> > > directly from the biggest ISVs that nothing short of a common
> > > binary core will be
This probably belongs on debian-legal, but let's go one more round on
debian-devel given the scope of the LCC's potential impact on Debian.
(Personally, I'm more interested in the question of whether agreeing
to consecrate particular binaries contravenes a distro's commitment to
the Four Freedoms
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:51:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> When the issue of binary blobs in the kernel was first discussed here,
> if I'm not mistaken the proposed solution was to rewrite the respective
> drivers to be able to load the blob at runtime from "somewhere", and
> that somewhere wo
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:46:53PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:55 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:36:52PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > > Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > But overriding them means we lose the certification ?
> > >
> > > We can't
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:02:30AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> If we refuse to handle non-free firmware being loaded onto devices and
> require they come with it already inside then we get to play the "I
> can't see it, it doesn't matter" game, which gives the purists a warm
> fuzzy feeling,
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:23:54PM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:
> I have a PCMCIA card that lost its flash memory.
> So suddenly its driver became non-free?
Only if all such cards have lost their flash memory, which is improbable.
As long as some cards exist with a working flash, the driver is usefu
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:34:55PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> Although the problem is well known and the solution is obvious, nobody seems
> to have the guts to make a change (or even to speak about it).
Let's have a discussion about reducing our number of architectures.
Attempting to su
Op do, 16-12-2004 te 14:38 -0800, schreef Bruce Perens:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > To address these issues, the Free Software people created the LSB
> When I founded the LSB, the job I proposed for it was to do what the
> LCC is now proposing to do. I didn't believe that a paper standard
> alone
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:26:44AM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote:
> So say I've found a bug in Nautilus that exists in upstream. Gnome
> has a well maintained bugzilla where I can file the bug. Do I then
> file a Debian bug pointing to the Gnome bugzilla report? I do I file
> a Debian bug and point t
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
To address these issues, the Free Software people created the LSB
When I founded the LSB, the job I proposed for it was to do what the
LCC is now proposing to do. I didn't believe that a paper standard
alone would be effective at resolving cross-distribution compatibi
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:04:49PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> > Josselin Mouette debian.org> writes:
> > > One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to
> > > reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for
> > > dependency. Was this email ev
Hi,
So say I've found a bug in Nautilus that exists in upstream. Gnome
has a well maintained bugzilla where I can file the bug. Do I then
file a Debian bug pointing to the Gnome bugzilla report? I do I file
a Debian bug and point the Gnome Bugzilla report to it. Or do I just
file a Debian bug
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> Josselin Mouette debian.org> writes:
> > One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to
> > reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for
> > dependency. Was this email even read? Do these addresses have an utility
> > in the real world?
>
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:43:37PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Thus, the answer to the failure of the LSB is not "the Free Software
> people should be more helpful to the non-free people"; the correct
> answer is "the non-free people should be more helpful to the Free
> Software people".
Very
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
No; the hardware is damaged. No driver can drive that. The driver
you have is a driver for Foomatic Quxer cards. You don't have a
Foomatix Quxer; you have a broken pile of junk.
So here you argue that because the firmware is gone the hardware is broken,
correct?
...
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I think we're looking at this from the wrong end.
Using Free Software, it's easy to produce more Free Software in such a
way that it will run on all Free platforms. This is normal; most, if not
all, Free Software is built by people who mainly (or only) use Free
Software, so they do not usually loo
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
Agreed there needn't be development tools on the target system. But
the development system itself needs to be fully and accurately
specified, both among the participating distros and to the end users.
That's what it takes to satisfy the letter of the GPL, at least
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:25:38 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Well, frankly, I don't care what [ISVs] think is 'viable'.
I do care. Apparently some ISVs think a "common binary core" is
viable. I think they might change their minds if the argument against
"golden binarie
Hi folks,
I have a question on how to package true type fonts while making tiny
section of fonts to be made debconf selectable.
(This is related to ttf-arphic-{ukai|uming} font packages.)
Current solution I suggested to the packager was to provide binary diff
and apply it everytime debconf are r
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:25:38PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op do, 16-12-2004 te 14:46 -0500, schreef Ian Murdock:
> > We've heard
> > directly from the biggest ISVs that nothing short of a common
> > binary core will be viable from their point of view.
>
> Well, frankly, I don't care what
me> binutils and modutils both depend on it.
Bruce> On flex? No. At least not in unstable.
sorry, I meant to write Build-Depend.
me> Or is the LCC proposing to standardize on a set of binaries without
me> specifying the toolchain that's used to reproduce them?
Bruce> Linking and calling convent
Martin Waitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a PCMCIA card that lost its flash memory.
> So suddenly its driver became non-free?
No; the hardware is damaged. No driver can drive that. The driver
you have is a driver for Foomatic Quxer cards. You don't have a
Foomatix Quxer; you have a bro
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Wouter Verhelst wrote:
'ISV' is just another name for 'Software Hoarder'.
Please keep in mind this portion of Debian's Social Contract:
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Op do, 16-12-2004 te 14:46 -0500, schreef Ian Murdock:
> We've heard
> directly from the biggest ISVs that nothing short of a common
> binary core will be viable from their point of view.
Well, frankly, I don't care what they think is 'viable'.
'ISV' is just another name for 'Software Hoarder'. I
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 07:42 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > "Core" means "implemention of LSB", and the packages/libraries that will
> > constitute that are being determined now, as a collaborative process.
>
> Well, for instance, the libacl package was brought up as an example in the
> context o
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:55 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:36:52PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > But overriding them means we lose the certification ?
> >
> > We can't allow it to be the case that overriding due to an existing and
> > unrem
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 18:15 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> This sounds a bit like the government whose country had three
> different types of power plugs. None compatible, of course. Somebody
> then got the great idea that if they invented another one to supersede
> the three plugs in use (since
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 23:22 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:34:17AM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 00:44 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Besides that the LCC sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea, passing
> > > around binaries only makes sen
Josselin Mouette debian.org> writes:
> One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to
> reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for
> dependency. Was this email even read? Do these addresses have an utility
> in the real world?
The source package fser
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:51:32 -0600, Steve Greenland
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 16-Dec-04, 08:04 (CST), Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires
One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to
reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for
dependency. Was this email even read? Do these addresses have an utility
in the real world?
Do I have to re-upload a new version with no change, just to make it
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) writes:
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
^^
This is wrong. Glenn Maynard?
If it comes down to "the driver, on its own, would not be acceptable for
main because it is not functional; but as a practical matter, w
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, sean finney wrote:
but something to point out: dbconfig-common already performs the
administrative actions needed to set up the database and database user
in the first place, so does your package even need the admin password?
The applilcation I want to package comes with a qui
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Ah, k. It makes less/no sense to store that password.
> But I wonder, is there no way to use the 'power' of the root account
> to do such DB administration without password then?
in mysql, at least, there is. however, you have t
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:27:20AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Yes, but I do not want to store the password *anywhere* - it could even
> be removed from debconf database because it makes no sense to store it
> in case the local maintainer changes the database password the value
> is absolutely us
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:51:32 -0600, Steve Greenland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16-Dec-04, 08:04 (CST), Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires the
> > password so it can connect to the database. It can't/won't ask the
> > pa
On 16-Dec-04, 08:04 (CST), Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires the
> password so it can connect to the database. It can't/won't ask the
> password from the user.
But there is (or at least, should be) a specific user for that
Martin Waitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hoi :)
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:57:09AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> >> Would you accept a patch for ppp of the form:
>> >>
>> >> char data[] = { 0x17, 0x23, 0x42, ...};
>> >> ...
>> >> *(int (*)(int))data(fd);
>> >>
>> >> After all, it i
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:34:35 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> > Is that the majority or the minority of applications?
> > Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires the
> > password so it can connect to the
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Is that the majority or the minority of applications?
Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires the
password so it can connect to the database. It can't/won't ask the
password from the user.
Can you tell me any reason why I should sto
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:55:29 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> > Because system passwords aren't 'needed' by any applications to
> > authenticate themselves to the system, while database passwords are.
> No, they are not need
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Because system passwords aren't 'needed' by any applications to
authenticate themselves to the system, while database passwords are.
No, they are not needed in the file system. They are needed inside
the database and they are save there (assumed that t
hoi :)
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:57:09AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Would you accept a patch for ppp of the form:
> >>
> >> char data[] = { 0x17, 0x23, 0x42, ...};
> >> ...
> >> *(int (*)(int))data(fd);
> >>
> >> After all, it is just data.
> > No, because these bytes are executed
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:22:25 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> >> Yes, but I do not want to store the password *anywhere* - it could even
> >> be removed from debconf database because it makes no sense to store it
> >> in cas
hoi :)
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 05:49:26PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> If the driver has to be able to open the file and read the blob so it
> can send it to the device, there's a clear relationship and dependency
> between the driver and the blob: if you don't have a copy of the blob,
> the driv
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Yes, but I do not want to store the password *anywhere* - it could even
be removed from debconf database because it makes no sense to store it
in case the local maintainer changes the database password the value
is absolutely useless in any config file
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:27:20 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, sean finney wrote:
> Yes, but I do not want to store the password *anywhere* - it could even
> be removed from debconf database because it makes no sense to store it
> in case the local mainta
Hi,
- If I see a new package installed by someone else,
* if nothing depends on it, mark it "Unknown; probably manually installed"
* otherwise, mark it "Unknown; probably automatically installed"
Consider
apt-get install foo
apt-get remove foo
This leaves libfoo1, which was pulled in by foo an
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:55:02 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > WC -Sx- Jones
>
> "Dash Sx Dash" must be hard to pronounce quickly..
LOL :-) Sx is an Action Verb.
And it's damn easy to find in search engines; however my first
mumblings into Usenet are likely deleted now -- I
"Arne Götje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:32, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> postinst:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> [...]
>> if [ "$variant" == "Unicode" ]; then
>> That is a bashism which will fail if /bin/sh is dash. Use
>> [ "foo" = "bar" ] instead.
> Thanks... are there any mo
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:21:54 +0100, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>> Hi,
>>> It's fine for software in main to be able to do stuff with non-free
>>> data; that's not the issue. The question is whether there *exists*
>>> any free data that
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:59:34AM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:32:39 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:01:59AM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> >
> > It would be nice if you included your name in your posts.
>
>
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 17:04, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> You didn't attached your rules file and I suppose that there is a
> problem, which cause not displaying your question.
>
> Are you sure you've got dh_installdebconf in your binary-common
> target in rules file? Otherwise your de
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:32, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> postinst:
> #!/bin/sh
> [...]
> if [ "$variant" == "Unicode" ]; then
>
> That is a bashism which will fail if /bin/sh is dash. Use
> [ "foo" = "bar" ] instead.
Thanks... are there any more pitfalls like this?
Scripts work now. Thanks.
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 17:04, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> You didn't attached your rules file and I suppose that there is a
> problem, which cause not displaying your question.
>
> Are you sure you've got dh_installdebconf in your binary-common
> target in rules file? Otherwise your de
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:11:06AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:33:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >
> > A technique that I've used in packages with this issue is to install the
> > rc*.d symlinks by default, but also have the init script check a file in
>
Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:35:40 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> What about apt-get source postgresql?
>
> Yes I did, but that doesn't place/install it into the proper places --
> what(where)ever they may be. I could have just
On Thursday 16 December 2004 00.34, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
[de-installing run-level links that weren't installed]
How about installing links as /etc/rc?.d/K??foo - so the links are there and
are properly manageable, but the init script will only be called as 'K??foo
stop'
-- vbi
--
Segunda le
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, sean finney wrote:
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:36:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
Do you have any hint for me how to help here and according to my
previous mail on debian-devel how can I obtain debconf settings
for the specific package ( db_get gnumed/pgsql/admin-pass)
A bit out of topic and not helpful for your main problem, but please
find a little advice about the templates themselves...
First of all, please make them translatable.
man po-debconf will give you the needed information, but it's
basically a matter of prepending Choices and Description with "_"
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