Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:44:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think it would hurt if maintainers whose packages are in this state > > would email the relevant @buildd.debian.org addresses and cc: > > debian-release on the message -- n

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-26 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:27:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > and if we relax this to only require "within 10 days of any source upload, > assuming the source isn't buggy, there must be a binary upload for this > security bug", we would be kicking out > alpha arm mips mipsel powerpc sparc I

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:09:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > - security response time (more builds to do) > > Which DSAs came out later than they should have because of this > > supposed delay? Nor could this possibly slow release. > DSAs are occasionally delayed waiting on builds. The prive

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:54:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was quoting a post with actual download numbers that actually demonstrate > > that the vast majority of users are on i386: see http://blog.bofh.it/id_66. > But that doesn't

travel to DC/Baltimore-area March 13-20 / keysigning?

2005-02-26 Thread Brian Russo
Anyone in the DC-area want to meet for keysigning March 13 - 20th? I'll be there for work, but will have some free time. Please cc replies or just mail directly - bri -- Recursivity. Call back if it happens again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-02-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still >>> be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatic

Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

2005-02-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:15:30 -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:28:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Chances are that it was uploaded together with the library it depends >> on, relying on ftpmasters doing their work, as in processing new >> packages in reas

Re: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-02-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:43:41PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still > be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatically > build as many of these packages. I know where I can read about setting > up a bu

Bug#297063: ITP: specter -- packet logger for netfilter's ULOG target

2005-02-26 Thread Grzegorz Bizon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Grzegorz Bizon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: specter Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Michal Kwiatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://joker.linuxstuff.pl/specter/ * License : GPL Description : packet logge

Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

2005-02-26 Thread sean finney
hi josh, On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:18:19PM -0500, Josh Metzler wrote: > I seem to recall hearing that NEW processing is based solely on binary > packages, so that the new source package would not need to go through NEW > if it creates a binary package that is already in the archive. > > I coul

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:59:49PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The version in experimental has -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, and it works > > > on files larger than 2GB, but I have only tested it on the i386 > > > architecture. > > Please use the value

Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

2005-02-26 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El sÃb, 26-02-2005 a las 14:18 -0500, Josh Metzler escribiÃ: > On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:45 am, sean finney wrote: > > hi, > > > > i'm maintaining a source package that produces two binary packages. > > however, one of the packages is built from a seperately distributed (same > > author, sam

Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

2005-02-26 Thread Josh Metzler
On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:45 am, sean finney wrote: > hi, > > i'm maintaining a source package that produces two binary packages. > however, one of the packages is built from a seperately distributed (same > author, same website, but different tarball and versioning scheme) > tarball. > > so

Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

2005-02-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:28:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:16:57 -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >That said, any package that is uninstallable in testing for such a long > >period of time almost certainly has an RC bug that should be filed. In the > >

Re: svn.debian.org: Automatically putting log message into debian/changelog?

2005-02-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
|| On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:09:07 +0100 || Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tl> Hi Joey, tl> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >> I've done this for years using the attached script (which will work with >> both svn and cvs (less well), and can also tag release

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Daniel Burrows [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:42:28 -0500]: > On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:37 pm, Adeodato Simó wrote: > >   I remember that I once modified my dh_install to use cp -al. That will > >   make each file be a hardlink, even if you copy a dir. It's fast. > >   I wouldn't mind that dh_insta

Re: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still >> be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatically >> build as many of these packages. I know wh

Re: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Friday 25 February 2005 18:43, Frank Küster wrote: >> in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still >> be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatically >> build as many of these packages. > > Take a look

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:37 pm, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Frank Küster [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:34:45 +0100]: > > I didn't look closely, but I think it might need quite some changes to > > the code. It seems dh_install uses cp -a for directories, and you cannot > > use hard links with directories

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is that half the reason why dh_install was introduced instead > of dh_movefiles is to copy files, not move them, and it seems odd that > now there's a thread asking how to get dh_install to move files. If you > want to move files, don't use dh_ins

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Frank Küster [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:34:45 +0100]: > I didn't look closely, but I think it might need quite some changes to > the code. It seems dh_install uses cp -a for directories, and you cannot > use hard links with directories (at least not generally, here on my ext3 > $HOME it does not work.

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:25 +0100, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> > Correct. So, why not use mv? >> >> Add a new "--move" flag to dh_installfiles, come up with some exact >> numbers showing th

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2005-02-26 Thread Roman Pruckmoser
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2005-02-26 Thread alexandar_angelov
I have Trust 3011A Wireless optical deskset mouse and keybord and use Debian sarge. I tried in XF86Config-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier"Configured Mouse" Driver"mouse" Option"CorePointer" Option"Device""/dev/psaux" Option"Proto

Re: list of packages on private website

2005-02-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-26 16:07]: > Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That's rather OT, but I wanted to target my question at developers, cause > > I suppose that's the only group which would be able to help me. > > > > I would like to put on

Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

2005-02-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:56:29 +0100, David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:45, sean finney wrote: >> so i'm thinking these two packages should be generated from their own >> respective tarballs (and i'm not sure why they weren't in the first >> place). however, o

Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

2005-02-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:16:57 -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That said, any package that is uninstallable in testing for such a long >period of time almost certainly has an RC bug that should be filed. In the >case of gpe-contacts, this is definitely so; the package currently in

Re: Problems with - and ' in some man-pages

2005-02-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, thanks to both Clint and you for the help. In /etc/groff/man.local, I removed the comments in front of: . if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ .char - \N'45' and removed the negation ! in front of the first condition: . if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ .tr \[oq]' (I could have removed the condition alltogether) You

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The version in experimental has -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, and it works > > on files larger than 2GB, but I have only tested it on the i386 > > architecture. > > Please use the value of $(getconf LFS_CFLAGS) instead; it appears (based on > past exim4 bu

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2005-02-26 Thread Kasket Kyle
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Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:27:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 10:23 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > I have several reports saying procmail does no

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 10:23 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > I have several reports saying procmail does not support mbox folders > > > larger than 2GB. Questions: > > > > OT

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I have several reports saying procmail does not support mbox folders > > larger than 2GB. Questions: > > OT here, but WTF are people smoking, to have 2GB mbox files? Consider

Re: Updating config files: permissions!?

2005-02-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:12:31AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > During upgrades the slapd package (for example) has to do some > adjustments on config files (it asks the user for permission of course). > > Problem: How do I make sure the new config files have the same > permissions!? Curren

Re: Problems with - and ' in some man-pages

2005-02-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Eric Lavarde [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:04:45 +0100]: > I'm pretty sure, it's somehow due to the fact that I have set > LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 (unicode being important of course). > Nevertheless, I don't know if it's a problem of the manpage system or of > the manpage writers, and how the writers could ci

Re: Problems with - and ' in some man-pages

2005-02-26 Thread Clint Adams
> Nevertheless, I don't know if it's a problem of the manpage system or of > the manpage writers, and how the writers could circumvent/solve the > problem. And this information would be useful before I start filing > bugs, or!? This is a bug in the manpages themselves. The unformatted source s

Problems with - and ' in some man-pages

2005-02-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, in some man pages (e.g. ImageMagick, dh_installmime but I've met other ones), the dashes and single quotes are not really what they look like, but some other unicode letter. This has two major drawbacks: - search for options become nearly impossible (try searching for -m, without using -). -

Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

2005-02-26 Thread David Schmitt
On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:45, sean finney wrote: > so i'm thinking these two packages should be generated from their own > respective tarballs (and i'm not sure why they weren't in the first > place). however, one thing that's not clear to me is whether or not the > new second source package

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:32 -0800, Oliver Kurth wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:25 +0100, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:54:27PM +0100, Frank KÃster wrote: > > > > > Correct. So, why not use mv? > > > > Add a new "--move" flag to dh_installfiles, come up with some exact > >