Re: Diversion of APT tools by dpkg-cross (apt-get,apt-cache,apt-config)

2005-02-01 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi Paul, > I think that -a is only really useful if you can also easily specify the > --root option to dpkg. We use dpkg-cross as wrapper for installation. dpkg --root is not required for this APT wrapper. > So some way to do that would be a good idea, I think. The APT wrapper is used to installe

Re: Is GnuPG an orphan?

2005-02-01 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:16:59PM -0700, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote: >Is GnuPG an orphan? No, It isn't. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/02/msg0.html >Unstable has not changed for 6 months. GnuPG has considered version 1.4 >stable for a month and a half; Unstable is still at

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:06:14PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > Beyond that I think the other poster was right, really there > should be more focus on linking statically, packing in an open > format such as .tar.gz not .rpm and miminal links to the kernel > or OS. With the proviso that static

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:27 -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:25PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > > > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > > > incompatibilities are really ker

Is GnuPG an orphan?

2005-02-01 Thread Lance W. Haverkamp
Is GnuPG an orphan? Unstable has not changed for 6 months. GnuPG has considered version 1.4 stable for a month and a half; Unstable is still at version 1.2.5 Maintainer has not responded to email (politely) asking for status. Please CC me. -- Thanks! Lance W. Haverkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 719.495

Re: Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

2005-02-01 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:30:57 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:19:36PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > > I upgraded a Woody box last week to Sarge's glibc/apt/dpkg/ > > openoffice.org/perl last week. The result was that Woody's mysql does > > not work with Sarge's glibc. It c

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-02-01 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:09:49 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >> BTW: I wonder why hwcap decisions are not cached in the ld.so.cache? > > > > Why don't you check /etc/ld.so.cache? Hint: > > "strings /etc/ld.so.cache | grep /lib/tls" on i686. > > I know

Re: Diversion of APT tools by dpkg-cross (apt-get,apt-cache,apt-config)

2005-02-01 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Tuesday, Feb 1, 2005, Raphael Bossek writes: > >Hi, > >I'm a active member of the dpkg-cross package part of the www.emdebian.org >project. > >A long outstanding feature request was to support APT for dpkg-cross. The >realisation >result in diversion of apt-get, apt-cache and apt-config which

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:12:16PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > Anyway, your mail also says that if someone send you config for > dupload then you are going to include it in some README. Is this > README available somewhere? Something along the lines of the following in ~/.duploa

Re: list generated conffiles?

2005-02-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:06:36AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > A> Only /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg is shipped with the package > A> (so conffile) but the rest are generated with postinst > A> of lynx-cur-wrapper (so they are configuration files). > > Should I file a bug against > $ man dlocate > -co

Bug#293257: ITP: hobix -- flexible generator of static blogs

2005-02-01 Thread Paul van Tilburg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hobix Version : 0.3d Upstream Author : Why the lucky stiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hobix.com/ * License : BSD Description : flexible generator of static

list generated conffiles?

2005-02-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> Shouldn't all the files in /etc/lynx-cur be listed, and as conffiles? >> $ dlocate /etc/lynx-cur/|wc -l >> 1 >> $ ls /etc/lynx-cur/|wc -l >> 21 A> I believe no, they shouldn't be listed. A> Only /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg is shipped with the package A> (so conffile) but the rest are generated with

Bug#293248: ITP: rpa-base -- Ruby Production Archive's port/package manager

2005-02-01 Thread Paul van Tilburg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : rpa-base Version : 0.2.3 (but may well be the next version) Upstream Authors : RPA development team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/ * License

Bug#293240: ITP: mouseemu -- Emulate mouse buttons and mouse scrolling

2005-02-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: mouseemu Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.geekounet.org/powerbook/files/ * Lice

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Perrier
> I don't like to pass the buck, yet I can't see a way that Debian, as > it is can support them directly. Perhaps they ought to look to the I think they don't need support from Debian. They just need to know where to discuss the issues they are concerned with. In understand this is not really a

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:25PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > > incompatibilities are really kernel and driver issues and not issues > > with Debian per se. >

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:57:08PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > > people ? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > > >

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:57:08PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Well, I'm not the software vendor here..:-) > > As far as I've inderstood, this product induces some interaction at > kernel-level and the vendor developers may have concerns about the > kernel on the distribution they want to s

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > incompatibilities are really kernel and driver issues and not issues > with Debian per se. > > Can you be a little more specific? > Currently for instance Matlab 6.5+ canno

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Perrier
> > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > people ? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > > to support Debian ? > > It isn't clear to me what sort of compatibility iss

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Tim Cutts
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > to support Debian?

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Lars Wirzenius: > > > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: > >> This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 > >> and 3.2 series without any problems. This release is a big > >> im

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:46:51PM +, Stephen Quinney wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: > > > This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 > > > and 3.2 series withou

Diversion of APT tools by dpkg-cross (apt-get,apt-cache,apt-config)

2005-02-01 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi, I'm a active member of the dpkg-cross package part of the www.emdebian.org project. A long outstanding feature request was to support APT for dpkg-cross. The realisation result in diversion of apt-get, apt-cache and apt-config which is our CVS pending for a new release to experimental as s

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > During the Solutions Linux expo in Paris, the DD's present at the > Debian booth have been approached by a representative from Trend Micro > Corp. who develops and sells security software (the most well known > being probably a vi

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

2005-02-01 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-01 12:10]: > I have not adopted dbd-odbc, finance-streamer, inline-octave, > math-numbercruncher, statistics-descriptive inline-octave will probably be adopted by the Debian OCtave Group @ Alioth. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Perrier
During the Solutions Linux expo in Paris, the DD's present at the Debian booth have been approached by a representative from Trend Micro Corp. who develops and sells security software (the most well known being probably a virus scanning software and such similar software suites). We ended with a v

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yes, scp to gluck (or other debian machine) and use dupload/dput from > > there. > > Or just upload into glucks delayed queue into day 0. Which is the method I personnaly use since the Nov. 2003 compromise... IMHO, by far the easiest and simplest

Re: Bug#293055: ITP: rails -- MCV ruby based framework geared for web application development

2005-02-01 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:32:31PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > >I worked on a package for this throughout the weekend, and while it's not > >done > >I've made some considerable progress on it. If you'd like help or a > >comaintainer, let me know. > > > > > > For the pac

Re: Bug#293055: ITP: rails -- MCV ruby based framework geared for web application development

2005-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
David Nusinow wrote: >I worked on a package for this throughout the weekend, and while it's not done >I've made some considerable progress on it. If you'd like help or a >comaintainer, let me know. > > For the package, I essentially want to take rails and stuff it (minus the non-software stuff

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

2005-02-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Michlmayr dijo [Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:46:04PM +]: > * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: > > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if > > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports > > over the next few weeks,

Re: Any objections? -- Bug#293149: Please install libsysfs in /lib

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:10:16PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > libsysfs is small (about 39 KB), does not have any dependencies other > than libc6, and tools querying /sys during bootup (when /usr/ is not > yet available) are reasonable, so I'm not opposed to doing this. > > Is there any opposing

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lars Wirzenius: > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: >> This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 >> and 3.2 series without any problems. This release is a big >> improvement over previous versions and features many new features, >> substan

Re: Bug#293055: ITP: rails -- MCV ruby based framework geared for web application development

2005-02-01 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:52:01PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: rails > Version : 0.9.5 > Upstream Author : David Heinemeier Hansson > * URL : http://www.rubyonrails.com > * Li

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Stephen Quinney
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: > > This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 > > and 3.2 series without any problems. This release is a big > > improvement over previous vers

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: > This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 > and 3.2 series without any problems. This release is a big > improvement over previous versions and features many new features, > substantial performance improvem

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

2005-02-01 Thread Joel Aelwyn
[ Removing the Cc for the bug, adding -policy, and setting M-F-T, as this ] [ is really a policy question.] On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:45:57AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > If I do 'man ls' I can get the semantics for the ls command

Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Stephen Quinney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: request-tracker3.4 Version : 3.4.0 Upstream Author : Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-3.4.0.tar.gz * License : GPL version 2 Description : Extens

Re: Any objections? -- Bug#293149: Please install libsysfs in /lib

2005-02-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005, Martin Pitt wrote: > Is there any opposing opinion? Should this be done now / post Sarge / Please do it now. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie."

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Frank Küster
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Also I saw dput's config and it seems to be somehow universal, I mean it > doesn't include anything about [0123456789] queues... is it mean I have to > use some additional options in command line or maybe I should customize > this example con

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-02-01 Thread tim hall
Thanks for forwarding this Free. Last Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:56, Free Ekanayaka was like: > |--==> Paul Brossier writes: > > PB> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:35 -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: > >>With regards to GNOME panel icons. The "add to panel" option now no > >>longer offers "launcher

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:12:45PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > ,>scp to a Debian host (like gluck or merkel) and ftp from there. Or > | > >just scp it to the DELAYED queue on gluck (1day) and let it ftp it for > | > >you ;) > | > | > Does it ftp in time for the daily dinstall? > | > | The

Any objections? -- Bug#293149: Please install libsysfs in /lib

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Debian developers! - Forwarded message from Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Bug#293149: Please install libsysfs in /lib Reply-To: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL

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

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports > over the next few weeks, but doing this informally first may be > simpler. Or maybe not. Did yo

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

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-16 11:26]: > > | - time (dead upstream) > > > > I'd like time, please. > > All yours. Are you going to make an upload soon? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Orphaning some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-01 09:33]: > > What's the status of this? > > i haven't finished packaging the new upstream version, but am actively > working on it, albeit somewhat slowly. would you like me to follow > up with you when i have, or would simply closing the wnpp bug > be

Re: Orphaning some packages

2005-02-01 Thread sean finney
hi martin, On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:11:30PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > okay, when i return from VAC in three days i'll start packaging the new > > upstream release for it, and take over the package with a new upload. > > What's the status of this? i haven't finished packaging the new u

Re: Orphaning some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-01 16:14]: > If no one is interested on those packages, I ask for removal from > the archive: > >kernel-patch-systrace - Systrace kernel patch >systrace - Enforce system call policies for applications >xsystrace - Systrace frontend invoked

Re: Orphaning some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-06 13:58]: > > | i'm a cacti user myself and would be happy to take this one over. at > > | some point i even wrote up some code to help transition people from > > | the version in woody, which i could probably dig up. > > > > yes. Please take it. > > o

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Andreas Barth | * Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050201 10:10]: | > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:26:51 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > ,>scp to a Debian host (like gluck or merkel) and ftp from there. Or | > >just scp it to the DELAYED queue on gluck (1day) and let it ftp

Re: german debian mirror with 700mb paris.avi file...

2005-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 31 January 2005 20:36, Martin Schulze wrote: > Anything but a non-public list/forum/whatever would be fine and better. > In fact I have had already informed the admin after a user informed me. > > Since http://www.debian.org/security/ is about the security in Debian > packages techni

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:24:22AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > ,>scp to a Debian host (like gluck or merkel) and ftp from there. Or > > >just scp it to the DELAYED queue on gluck (1day) and let it ftp it for > > >you ;) > > > Does it ftp in time for the daily dinstall? > > The 0-day queue is

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.01.31.2019 +0100]: > You forget to notice one thing, these are debian specific. The gettext.sh > script, however, is meant to be used by just ". gettext.sh" by random > third party programs that can be expected to run on FreeBSD as well as See

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050201 10:10]: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:26:51 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ,>scp to a Debian host (like gluck or merkel) and ftp from there. Or > >just scp it to the DELAYED queue on gluck (1day) and let it ftp it for > >you ;) > Does it

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:26:51 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ,>scp to a Debian host (like gluck or merkel) and ftp from there. Or >just scp it to the DELAYED queue on gluck (1day) and let it ftp it for >you ;) Does it ftp in time for the daily dinstall? Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Frank Lichtenheld | scp to a Debian host (like gluck or merkel) and ftp from there. Or | just scp it to the DELAYED queue on gluck (1day) and let it ftp it | for you ;) As Andreas Barth writes -- uploading to the zero-day queue on gluck should work fine. (So you don't have to wait a day for i