Re: Bug#292813: ITP: construo -- 2D construction toy using wireframe objects and physical forces

2005-01-29 Thread Brian May
> "Miriam" == Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miriam> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) It is licenced under all of these licenses? Seems a very flexibly approach... Presumably the user picks which ever one the like the most. This removes all these potential nasty

Bug#292813: ITP: construo -- 2D construction toy using wireframe objects and physical forces

2005-01-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: construo Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : 2D construc

Bug#292757: marked as done (openoffice.org: uninstallable on powerpc)

2005-01-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:00:12 -0800 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line openoffice.org: uninstallable on powerpc has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is no

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 30 January 2005 08:58, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > neither childish nor unreasonable, though it is possibly not actually > much fun for Rusty and others. Receiving a flame that you can display at a conference dinner is something to be proud of! Some people are (in)famo

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 30 January 2005 07:47, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For those of you who don't know Rusty has a fine collection of flames > > (and other silly messages) written to some very skillful Linux > > programmers. You can write excellent code and be nice and still get > > flame

Re: Bug#292759: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:28:53AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > "Because I don't wanna play by the rules!" is not a rationale. > > You are mistaken. I want to play by the rules, but the rules say > executables should go to /usr/bin, *not* that eve

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 15:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Jesus, > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:49:20PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:22:13AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > > an advice for "they": > > > > > > > > 1) make a script to mirror from http://www.d

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: | Mike, I would like to make pbzip2 part of the bzip2 package. May I | take over your ITP report? Sure, that would be fine, take it. Since the RFP cc'd you and I didn't hear from anyone in a couple of days, I wasn't sure

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiemo Seufer wrote: | AFAICS this feature should be added to bzip2, and not go into a | separate binary/package. Since it does just use libbz2 this is a possibility. I will inquire to pbzip2 upstream if you plans to submit this feature to bzip2 upstre

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath wrote: | Is there a library version? No, perhaps the short description is misleading. pbzip2 works by splitting up a file into chunks and then encoding each chunk with a separate thread(via libbz2), so it is perhaps more described as a paral

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:42:36PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: >Mike Furr wrote: >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation >>thanks. >> >>Package name: pbzip2 >>Version: 0.9 >>Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Henning Glawe
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:26:45PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > There is one case in which users can be bitten by this: when using apt-get > > dist-upgrade to sarge, so when documenting the woody-sarge upgrade, it > > should > > be at least mentioned that the user can run into this and should

Re: Bug#292759: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > "Because I don't wanna play by the rules!" is not a rationale. You are mistaken. I want to play by the rules, but the rules say executables should go to /usr/bin, *not* that everything in /usr/bin should be executable. > So you have to specify a path

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > > > I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys > > apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of > > circular depending packages (N

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation > thanks. > > Package name: pbzip2 > Version: 0.9 > Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ > Lic

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Jesus, On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:49:20PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:22:13AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > an advice for "they": > > > > > > 1) make a script to mirror from http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/ > > > 2) unplug "their" computer from the network

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Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:40:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: > > > [...] > > My question: does anybody have further references for the question > > whether it is ok or maybe even preferable to install non-programs in > > /usr/bin? > > You forgot to quot

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys > apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of > circular depending packages (Note: "dpkg --configure blah blubb", where blah > depe

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Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Mike Furr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation > thanks. > > Package name: pbzip2 > Version: 0.9 > Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ > License: BSD-style lice

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Helen Faulkner
Helen Faulkner wrote: > Please don't CC me. > I am on this list, and I therefore did not request to be CCd. > > Russell Coker wrote: [...] For those of you who don't know Rusty has a fine collection of flames (and other silly messages) written to some very skillful Linux programmers. You can wri

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Cesar Martinez Izquierdo
El Sábado 29 Enero 2005 22:47, Helen Faulkner escribió: > Ahh, it's the "I can deal with it therefore it's OK" line. What if > there is another solution? Are you even prepared to consider that > possibility? > > What would you prefer: > 1) - a community where people are pleasant to each other, wh

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation thanks. Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.9 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ License: BSD-style license, same as bzip2 Description: parallel

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Helen Faulkner
Please don't CC me. I am on this list, and I therefore did not request to be CCd. Russell Coker wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:26, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who are very agressive or insulting should be a r

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Frank Küster
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Jochen Voss writes: >> Any references for this? I was a little bit disappointed that the FHS >> was so unclear about /usr/bin and I do not know where else to look. > > While the FHS is not as explicit as it might be, with the application of a > bit of co

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Jochen Voss writes: > Any references for this? I was a little bit disappointed that the FHS > was so unclear about /usr/bin and I do not know where else to look. While the FHS is not as explicit as it might be, with the application of a bit of common sense it is sufficiently clear. -- John Hasle

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Santiago, On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:06:31PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Because we already have /usr/bin for that and there is no need to > change every script that uses gettext. The "for that" is my question. Do you have any reference for this usage of /usr/bin? Is this suggested to pu

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Frank Küster
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, sean finney wrote: > >> why not do something like this in >> any script that uses gettext: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> >> PATH=${PATH}:/usr/share/gettext/scripts >> . gettext.sh > > Because we already have /usr/bin for that and there is no

Bug#292770: O: cacti -- Frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services

2005-01-29 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Subject: O: cacti Package: wnpp Severity: normal I orphan the cacti package. I have no longer time maintaine this package. Package: cacti Description: Frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services Cacti is a complete frondend to rrdtool, it stores all of the necessary information to c

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello John, On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Jochen Voss writes: > > until now I was under the impression that /usr/bin/ should only contain > > programs which are expected to be directly called by users. > > > In bug #292759 the maintainer of gettext-base claims, th

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, sean finney wrote: > why not do something like this in > any script that uses gettext: > > #!/bin/sh > > PATH=${PATH}:/usr/share/gettext/scripts > . gettext.sh Because we already have /usr/bin for that and there is no need to change every script that uses gettext. -- To

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Jochen Voss writes: > until now I was under the impression that /usr/bin/ should only contain > programs which are expected to be directly called by users. > In bug #292759 the maintainer of gettext-base claims, that it is also ok > to install shell script sniplets, which are not executable on its

question about packaging kernel module packages

2005-01-29 Thread sean finney
hey list, i'm looking at sponsoring a particular foo-source style kernel module package, and haven't been able to find good documentation on packaging tips/practices for this kind of package. the package i'm looking at is already lintian/linda clean, and, well, it works, but there are a few una

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:40:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > You forgot to quote last thing I said when closing the bug. > > > > So I'll repeat: Please read the logs for non-bug Bug#292759, where the > > author explains the rationale for putting gett

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:40:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > So I'll repeat: Please read the logs for non-bug Bug#292759, where the > author explains the rationale for putting gettext.sh in /usr/bin. you want ". gettext.sh" to work, which means you want it somewhere in the default system path.

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:40:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > You forgot to quote last thing I said when closing the bug. > > So I'll repeat: Please read the logs for non-bug Bug#292759, where the > author explains the rationale for putting gettext.sh in /usr/bin. Sorry, I did not find relevant

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Jorge Bernal
El Sábado 29 Enero 2005 14:59, Ron Johnson escribió: > As I said in another post, there will come a time when they can > do that. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. I don't want to feed the flame but.. I've tried dosage and it's not much easier to use. first you have to discover that t

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:31:52AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > looking at the script snippet in question, all it does is set a couple > functions/variables, so it certainly should not be in /usr/bin. hell, > it's not even executable. Yes, this was my point. All the best, Jochen -- http://seehuh

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: > [...] > My question: does anybody have further references for the question > whether it is ok or maybe even preferable to install non-programs in > /usr/bin? You forgot to quote last thing I said when closing the bug. So I'll repeat: Please read the logs

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:18:30PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: > In bug #292759 the maintainer of gettext-base claims, that it is also > ok to install shell script sniplets, which are not executable on > itself into /usr/bin/ > > This is not a bug. > > The file gettext.sh is meant to be sou

shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, until now I was under the impression that /usr/bin/ should only contain programs which are expected to be directly called by users. In bug #292759 the maintainer of gettext-base claims, that it is also ok to install shell script sniplets, which are not executable on itself into /usr/bin/

Re: debconf5 registration is open

2005-01-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050129 12:13]: > | go to http://comas.linux-aktivaattori.org/debconf5 and register. > On the registration page, under Accomodation in Helsinki, one of the > options are «Lodging at HUT, with my BF/GF/wife/family». Does this > cost anything? Should my girlfr

Processed: Re: Bug#292757: openoffice.org: uninstallable on powerpc

2005-01-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 292757 general Bug#292757: openoffice.org: uninstallable on powerpc Bug reassigned from package `openoffice.org' to `general'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administra

Re: dh_installinit and update-rc.d start vs. restart

2005-01-29 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > File a serious bug against package Y. initscripts have to exit with a > successfull status if the daemon is already running. OK. As this package Y is not (yet) part of Debian, I just changed it: I added --oknodo to start-stop-daemon and

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-29 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sat, Jan 29, 2005: > What I'm saying is that -- in the same way that some people insist on > Debian Policy to be followed blindly -- there are already some people > insisting that this document be followed blindly. "Raising" the status >

ZD1211 Linux Driver now hosted on SourceForge

2005-01-29 Thread Markus Karg
+++ ZD1211 Linux Driver Project + Press Report +++ +++ http://zd1211.sourceforge.net + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ --- ENGLISH The Linux driver for the ZyDAS ZD1211 chip (802.11b/g USB WLAN) is now hosted on SourceForge (see http://zd1211.sourceforge.net). The initial code was contributed b

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:20:25PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > I haven't read the document in question in a rather long time, so > > I can't actually object (on some sort of serious basis, I mean), > > but I would nevertheless request that the document be handed to > > the -english ma

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 13:49 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:22:13AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > an advice for "they": > > > > > > 1) make a script to mirror from http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/ > > > 2) unplug "their" computer from the network > > > 3) stop

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-01-28 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It would also probably be a good idea to transition these packages at the > same time: > dovecot-common > exim4-daemon-heavy > libnss-mysql > libnss-mysql-bg > libpam-mysql > libsasl2-modules-sql [...] Hello, These four p

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:22:13AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > an advice for "they": > > > > 1) make a script to mirror from http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/ > > 2) unplug "their" computer from the network > > 3) stop bothering the rest of open-minded people > > I'm saddened that a supp

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:25:47PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > I'm not really in favour for this proposal but would you at least read > the rest off the thread. Splitting the packages off makes it easier for > the person responsible for installing packages (i.e. the one with root) > to decide wh

Re: dh_installinit and update-rc.d start vs. restart

2005-01-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, W. Borgert wrote: > config, restarts daemon of Y, finally Y tries to start its > daemon, but fails, as it already runs. File a serious bug against package Y. initscripts have to exit with a successfull status if the daemon is already running. -- "One disk to rule them all

dh_installinit and update-rc.d start vs. restart

2005-01-29 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, for some kind of CDD I have created a package "X" that changes another packages "Y" config file (using cfengine) and restarts the respective daemon. That works well, if I upgrade package X only or Y only. Problem: If I upgrade both package X and Y at the same time the daemon of package Y wil

circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Henning Glawe
Moin, I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of circular depending packages (Note: "dpkg --configure blah blubb", where blah depends on blubb and blubb depends on blah works; if you try to run it

Re: debconf5 registration is open

2005-01-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Andreas Schuldei | go to http://comas.linux-aktivaattori.org/debconf5 and register. On the registration page, under Accomodation in Helsinki, one of the options are «Lodging at HUT, with my BF/GF/wife/family». Does this cost anything? Should my girlfriend register as well? (And you should p