Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:38:18PM +0100, giskard said > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:01 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > * Package name: lopster2 > > > Versi

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:12:53PM +0100, giskard said > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:40:30 +1100 > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > * Package name: lopster2 > > >

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ken Bloom] > I'm confused. One making backports from sid to woody should backport > a package in such a way that it is buildable with woody's > build-essential. Yes. Same will be true backporting to sarge. But if sarge build-essential were to be updated to contain debhelper (>= 4), that would

Re: Bug#290652: ITP: kernel-patch-ibookg4-suspend -- patch to support for hibernation in new G4 ibooks

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Dorland
* Jorge Bernal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: kernel-patch-ibookg4-suspend > Version : test6 > Upstream Author : Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://gate.crashing.org/ ^^^

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-15 Thread Ken Bloom
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:21:38 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Frank KÃster > > | That's correct from the point of view of a buildd, or of a developer > | running a sid machine. But it is not correct for backporters: Imagine > | that packages are added to build-essential, or versioned dependencie

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
giskard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:59:13 +0100 > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, more importantly, this is archive bloat. Since apparantly the >> lopster maintainer is not upgrading his package, you intend to just >> add the new version to the

Re: Bug#290666: ITP: kdoomsday - countdown timer panel applet for KDE

2005-01-15 Thread Helen Faulkner
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Helen Faulkner wrote: kdoomsday is a KDE panel applet that counts the time down to or up from a specified event. I'm the author of kdoomsday. I wrote it because I wanted to count down to an awaited event and, to my suprise, I couldn't find anything that would sit in my KDE

Re: Bug#290666: ITP: kdoomsday - countdown timer panel applet for KDE

2005-01-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Helen Faulkner wrote: > kdoomsday is a KDE panel applet that counts the time down to or up > from a specified event. > > I'm the author of kdoomsday. I wrote it because I wanted to count > down to an awaited event and, to my suprise, I couldn't find anything > that would sit in my KDE panel and d

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-15 Thread Anthony Towns
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Anthony Towns writes: http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tpackage-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper.html Having the current debhelper be build-essential would fix the ~237 bugs lintian finds for build-deps on debhelper that should be versioned, but aren't. Aren'

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread giskard
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:59:13 +0100 Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, more importantly, this is archive bloat. Since apparantly the > lopster maintainer is not upgrading his package, you intend to just > add the new version to the archive, in stead of doing something about >

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:40:30PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: lopster2 > > Version : cvs pre3.9 > > Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at users.sourcefor

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync >> file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just >> the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to >> hi

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Dirk! You wrote: > * the gsl set: > - gsl > - gsl-ref-html > - gsl-ref-psdoc > > The two doc packages are currently a week behind packaging the new upstream > gsl. Well maintained upstream, maybe two releases a year. This should > probably go to another egghead ph.d. type, pre

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Erik Schanze
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Miscellaneous > - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward) I like afio for my compressed backups and use it very often. I'd like to take over maintainership for it, if no otherone has already asked for. Kindly regards, Erik --

Bug#290666: ITP: kdoomsday - countdown timer panel applet for KDE

2005-01-15 Thread Helen Faulkner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kdoomsday Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://alioth.debian.org/projects/kdoomsday/ * License : GPL Description : countdown timer panel applet for KDE kdoomsday i

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread John Hasler
Ok, I'll take bc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:12:05AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz? > > Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning > > is a potential problem. But lin

Bug#290652: ITP: kernel-patch-ibookg4-suspend -- patch to support for hibernation in new G4 ibooks

2005-01-15 Thread Jorge Bernal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kernel-patch-ibookg4-suspend Version : test6 Upstream Author : Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gate.crashing.org/ * License : GPL Descript

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:40:28PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I will take bc if no one else wants it. You'd need to talk to Lars, he came in a few minutes earlier. I'm sure between the two of you you can work it out. Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a pre

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2005-01-15 kello 11:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel kirjoitti: > > * bc (with binary packages bc and dc) > > > > Pretty stale upstream, has 5 open bugs most of which are feature requests > > that are unlikely to ever be addres

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread John Hasler
I will take bc if no one else wants it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help me test new pcmcia-cs

2005-01-15 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:00:00 +0100, Per Olofsson wrote: [...] > > It would be very nice if you could help me test it before I upload it > to sid. Since I've done a lot of changes, I suspect that there might > be some bugs in it. And don't forget to read NEWS.Debian and > README.Debian. > Works w

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
la, 2005-01-15 kello 11:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel kirjoitti: > * bc (with binary packages bc and dc) > > Pretty stale upstream, has 5 open bugs most of which are feature requests > that are unlikely to ever be addressed. Most of these have been forwarded. > > Given its "Priority: stan

[Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Given my available time and all the things competing for it (work, family, other hacking endeavours [quantian, a few small code projects, ...], running, ...), I have too many packages to continue to do a reasonable or better job at keeping the packages in shape. So from the 80+ packages I have, a

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:14:15PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > occurs when you have for example an ev56 library in lib/ev56, and a > > ev67 CPU. Then the loader looks in lib/ev67 and then falls back to > > lib. Since glibc is very carefully undocumented in this area [1], I > > didn't want

Re: (Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Simon, Am 2005-01-15 16:29:53, schrieb Simon Richter: > Hi, > There is also a tool called esmtp, which seems to be able to do > authentication, even with TLS, however it gets the authentication data > from the sending user's home directory and is more likely to be suited > for laptop in

Re: build problem on mips{,el}

2005-01-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:38:07AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The clean target should not need to be run as root and I think that is > a bug in sbuild and a handfull of sources. Sbuild has nothing to do with it. It just calls dpkg-buildpackage, which runs debian/rules clean, by using wha

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
> I'll dare to take the other route and ask: what is now holding back > software such as mplayer/mencoder, transcode and mjpegtools from > entering Debian? Last time mplayer came up on debian-legal (the proper place for questions like this), the problem was unclear licensing. If the unclear lic

Re: (Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread David Mandelberg
Simon Richter wrote: > There is also a tool called esmtp, which seems to be able to do > authentication, even with TLS, however it gets the authentication data > from the sending user's home directory and is more likely to be suited > for laptop installations only. I don't know about older versions

Re: (Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, If not, please can you correct this Bug ? As soon as someone provides a patch (a lot quicker) or I create one myself. Thanks and I think, this error should be solved before SARGE is released There is also a tool called esmtp, which seems to be able to do authentication, even with TLS, however

Re: (Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Anibal, Thanks for your fast answer. Am 2005-01-15 23:53:46, schrieb Anibal Monsalve Salazar: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:54:27PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > >Is "ssmtp" frozen ? > > No, it isn't. Uff... :-) > >If not, please can you correct this Bug ? > > As soon as someone prov

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread David Mandelberg
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync > file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just > the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to > his system on a daily, weekly, monthly, whatever basis

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread giskard
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:01 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: lopster2 > > Version : cvs pre3.9 > > Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at users.sou

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread giskard
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:40:30 +1100 Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: lopster2 > > Version : cvs pre3.9 > > Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at u

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-15 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:05:43 +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > If other libraries > > like mesa and libssl want to use /usr/lib/ev67 and so on, we may > > consider to add HWCAP_IMPORTANT. > > This should not be needed, since the library loader also looks in a directory > corresponding to the archit

Re: (Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:54:27PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: >Hello, > >because there is ne reaction of the "ssmtp" Maintainer I need >to ask here. > >Curently the version of "ssmtp" in SARGE is not working with >authentication which breaks many programs (like cron) which >can not set authent

(Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, because there is ne reaction of the "ssmtp" Maintainer I need to ask here. Curently the version of "ssmtp" in SARGE is not working with authentication which breaks many programs (like cron) which can not set authentication manualy like ssmtp -au -ap -t Is "ssmtp" frozen ? If not, pl

Re: Status of package Xen

2005-01-15 Thread Raphael Bossek
> I'm the maintainer, not Raphael. Yes, I'm not ;) > I've got xen 2.0.1(need to upgrade to .3), but can't upload, until > kernel-source-2.4.28 enters debian. 2.6.10 already exists, so that's not > a problem. I'm agog... -- Raphael Bossek -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More ++

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bazaar Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Bazaar Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bazaar.canonical.com/ * License : GPL Description : arch-based distributed revision control system GNU Arch is a revisio

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: lopster2 > Version : cvs pre3.9 > Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at users.sourceforge.net > * URL : lopster.sf.net > * License : GPL > Descri

Re: Status of package Xen

2005-01-15 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > what is the status of the xen package ? > > Where can I help you out if you need help on Xen 2.0 (bug #280773) ? I'm the maintainer, not Raphael. I've got xen 2.0.1(need to upgrade to .3), but can't upload, until kernel-source-2.4.28 en

OT: Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:40:56AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Afaik neither debootstrap, cdebootstrap nor rootstrap use dpkg -i to >> partially install packages. They explicitly use --unpack and >> --configure and use --force-* options to e

Status of package Xen

2005-01-15 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi Daniel, what is the status of the xen package ? Where can I help you out if you need help on Xen 2.0 (bug #280773) ? -- Raphael Bossek pgpZaonM10HDX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-15 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:20:54AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello > > > > Instead of doing all this by hand I can recommend my own package > > debarchiver. The latest versions of it do this pretty good in > > an automatic way. > >

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:40:56AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Afaik neither debootstrap, cdebootstrap nor rootstrap use dpkg -i to > partially install packages. They explicitly use --unpack and > --configure and use --force-* options to exactly say what they need. rootstrap doesn't inst

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > Anthony Towns wrote: >> Scott James Remnant wrote: >> >>> The stats: >>> 8,920 source packages in Debian unstable main. >>> 8,254 declare a build-dependency on debhelper >>> = 92% of packages build-depend on debhelper. >>> Is that sufficient to declare it build-ess

Re: binaries for different architectures in debian packages

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear DDs! > > [Please Cc me] > > I am one of the contributers to the TeXlive project and we are in the > process of packaging texlive as debian packages. Herein some questions > have arisen, the most prominent ATM is: > Are there any facilities to put

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:30 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > >> * Scott James Remnant [Tue, Jan 11 2005, 08:19:21AM]: >> >> > > dpkg complains that foo-utils is not installed and aborts the >> > > installation of foo-modules_2.0 >> > > >> > dpkg do