Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:15:28AM +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > El Viernes 22 Abril 2005 14:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh escribió: > > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Maciej Dems wrote: > > > I have a simple question concerning the GFDL discussion. > > > > For which the simple answer is: > > Re

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Cesar Martinez Izquierdo [Sun, 24 Apr 2005 04:15:28 +0300]: > El Viernes 22 Abril 2005 14:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh escribió: > > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Maciej Dems wrote: > > > I have a simple question concerning the GFDL discussion. > > For which the simple answer is: > > Read http://peopl

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Cesar Martinez Izquierdo
El Viernes 22 Abril 2005 14:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh escribió: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Maciej Dems wrote: > > I have a simple question concerning the GFDL discussion. > > For which the simple answer is: > Read http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml I have the same questi

Processed: closing 305753

2005-04-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > close 305753 Bug#305753: general: 38 packages still use "Origin: debian" 'close' is deprecated; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing. Bug closed, send any further explanations to Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > End of message, stopping p

Bug#305753: general: 38 packages still use "Origin: debian"

2005-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Agney> mass bug filling is the worst way to do this. try to send a wishlist for Agney> lintian and linda. So on the next time that these packages use them the Agney> mantainers will be alerted about this. Naw, on 220098: 39 packages unnecessarily still use "Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org" I was t

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Brian May
> "Maciej" == Maciej Dems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Maciej> I have a simple question concerning the GFDL discussion. Maciej> Does the GFDL documentation which currently does not Maciej> contain any invariant section have to go to non-free as Maciej> well? It might be better

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:12:42AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : >> > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with our >> > mirr

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Branden J. Moore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:24:28PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:26:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: A silly question to you as release manager: What exactly are the technical reasons

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Bernd Eckenfels may or may not have written... > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with >> our mirrors > We dont need to have all architectures on all mirrors. And for the > less-often used architectures w

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050424 00:30]: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:12:42AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with > > > our > > > mirrors due to the

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:24:44AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050424 00:15]: > > Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with > > > our > > > mirrors due to t

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:12:42AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with our > > mirrors due to the size of the archive. > > Given that - if I believe the security

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050424 00:15]: > Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with our > > mirrors due to the size of the archive. > Given that - if I believe the security team [1] - w

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 15:18 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > If we dropped arm, it would be to drop arm, not to trade it for something -- > it's way too late to be talking about adding amd64 to the main archive for > sarge. Why? If the amd64 archive already uses the same sources as the main a

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:12:42AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with our > > mirrors due to the size of the archive. > Given that - if I believe the security t

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with our > mirrors due to the size of the archive. Given that - if I believe the security team [1] - we are not able to provide security updates for arm, even in woo

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with our > mirrors We dont need to have all architectures on all mirrors. And for the less-often used architectures we event dont need to care, since one or two mirrors can easyly hold a

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> A silly question to you as release manager: > >Silly indeed. Use the list archives. You cannot miss the monstruous threads >about it. > >> What exactly are the techni

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:20:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:24:28PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > A silly question to you as release manager: > > > What exactly are the technical reasons why amd64 can't simply be shipped > > as 12th architecture with sarge? >

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:24:28PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:26:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Well, the other big ones would be the installer, being synced up on sources, > > and the ability to do point releases. It seems the first two are addressed, > > and t

Bug#306028: ITP: gdpc -- program for visualising molecular dynamic simulations

2005-04-23 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gdpc Version : 2.2.4 Upstream Author : Jonas Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://koti.welho.com/jfrantz/software/gdpc.html * License : GNU GPL Descriptio

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I might have missed this email in the huge threads, but could you point > me to an email explaining why increasing the archive space by less than > 10% exacly hits a hard limit in mirror space? No, I cannot. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:40:03AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > A silly question to you as release manager: > > Silly indeed. Use the list archives. You cannot miss the monstruous threads > about it. I didn't miss the threads, but much o

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > A silly question to you as release manager: Silly indeed. Use the list archives. You cannot miss the monstruous threads about it. > What exactly are the technical reasons why amd64 can't simply be shipped > as 12th architecture with sarge? Mirror space

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:26:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Well, the other big ones would be the installer, being synced up on sources, > and the ability to do point releases. It seems the first two are addressed, > and the third seems to be more or less the same question as that of secu

Bug#305985: ITP: pystatgrab -- python bindings for a libstatgrab library

2005-04-23 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: pystatgrab Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/ * License

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 07:55:52AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Andreas Jochens wrote: > >> It will only be necessary to describe the current situation > >> in the official release documents and include pointers > >> to the separate amd64 archive, which will be provid

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 23, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every package has certain expectations about device node names. Since devfs > is now considered as a bad idea the naming scheme should be as well. No, it should not. Almost every package supports it and there is no reason to remove the suppor

Re: Minimizing ld dependencies with --as-needed

2005-04-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Ralf Wildenhues | * Tollef Fog Heen wrote on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:45:03PM CEST: | > * Ralf Wildenhues | > | > | I would be much happier if someone with time would just help to put | > | this into libtool properly as an option (and possible adjust pkg-config, | > | FWIW). I'm pretty sure i