Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:55:30AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > I have seen cases of maintainers that have packages with may bug reports, > > without any indication of an intent to fix them. > > Exactly. It is a frustration to have a bug filed for, say, almost one year > (Lack of time during on

Re: Changes to the weekly WNPP posting

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-20 11:48]: >> One could decide to let RM: bugs on ftp.d.o always linger a certain >> amount of time before processing, for complete removals, in any case. > > That's someone I wanted to suggest anyw

lxdoom: help wanted

2005-05-22 Thread Joe Drew
For some time I've been more or less MIA, but in the past month or so it became impossible for me to do debian work: the processor in my desktop, my only Debian machine (the only other machine I own has a proprietary, non-Linux compatible (Airport Extreme) wifi card) released its magic smok

Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 22 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > In my very humble and uninformed opinion, some maintainers should > > really give up maintaining their packages or should try to get other > > people as co-maintainers, if they lack the time to fix their > > packages. :-( > > > >

Re: why so much spam on the devel list?

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > I am subscribed to debian-user, debian-mentors and debian-devel > lists. I am finding that typically debian-devel and debian-mentors is > way more spammed than debian-user. Why is it so? Am I just day dreaming > or is there any reason? Is

Bug#78782: No way back once you try it.

2005-05-22 Thread Fern
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why so much spam on the devel list?

2005-05-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I am subscribed to debian-user, debian-mentors and debian-devel lists. I am finding that typically debian-devel and debian-mentors is way more spammed than debian-user. Why is it so? Am I just day dreaming or is there any reason? Is there anything we forgot to implement on d-d lists that

Bug#53121: When you get it you don't regret.

2005-05-22 Thread Young
Much more better than usual, believe me. http://GVGdfcfTWtwx.mfek.com/ph/sevy/procrustean.htm Young

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:46:09AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > As far as I understood it, the missing infrastructure for > testing-security was the reason why the release of sarge was delayed by > more than half a year. > As far as I have seen, it seems most security updates go either through >

Bug#72140: Much more better than usual, believe me.

2005-05-22 Thread Deanna
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Re: mdadm+udev needs MORE testing!

2005-05-22 Thread Jan Dittmer
martin f krafft wrote: >>You can get mdadm 1.9.0-2.2 for i386 as well as the source package >>from Works for me. $ ls -l /dev/md* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 22 22:56 /dev/md0 -> md/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 22 22:56 /dev/md1 -> md/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 22 22:56 /dev/md2

Re: mdadm+udev needs MORE testing!

2005-05-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jan Dittmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.22.2305 +0200]: > Works for me. assembled by the kernel. udev nodes are created correctly. Thanks. a newer version, -2.3, will make it into sarge. Thanks to everyone who helped. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list

Bug#310290: ITP: libccl0 -- Interface to configuration files containing key/value pairs

2005-05-22 Thread Juergen Salk
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libccl0 Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Stephen F. Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sbooth.org/ccl * License : GPL Description : Interface to configuration

Re: FW: Processing of tla-load-dirs_1.0.21ubuntu1_source.changes

2005-05-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:56:35PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Can anyone tell me what this means, and who is trying to upload this to > Debian without even sending me a patch first? This gpg key belongs to Jani Monoses (Cc'ed). Perhaps he can tell what happened (looks like an accidental upload

FW: Processing of tla-load-dirs_1.0.21ubuntu1_source.changes

2005-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
Can anyone tell me what this means, and who is trying to upload this to Debian without even sending me a patch first? - Forwarded message from Archive Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Archive Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 14:30:38 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROT

Bug#310258: ITP: nautilus-open-terminal -- open terminal in any folder from Nautilus

2005-05-22 Thread Dan Korostelev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nautilus-open-terminal Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/nautilus-open-terminal/ * License

Re: [frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]

2005-05-22 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:35:59AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches > > and per-arch patches). > > I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune

Re: [frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]

2005-05-22 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:40:26AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches > > and per-arch patches). > > I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-22 Thread Niklas Vainio
I'm the (previous) maintainer of unrar. Jose Carlos Medeiros has offered to adopt it. On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:36:50PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:41:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > - rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar > > - rename the free unn

Re: depending on shared libbfd from binutils-dev

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:24:28PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > The package description for binutils-dev says the following: > >Description: The GNU binary utilities (BFD development files) This > > package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build > > programs which use the

depending on shared libbfd from binutils-dev

2005-05-22 Thread Micah Anderson
The package description for binutils-dev says the following: >Description: The GNU binary utilities (BFD development files) This > package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build > programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of binutils. > Note that building Debian

Re: Bug#310194: ITP: schism -- Impulse Tracker clone

2005-05-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 06:36:01PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> The old days? Those still exist :-) > Yes, but the original spirit has gone. Tsk. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Bug#310194: ITP: schism -- Impulse Tracker clone

2005-05-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:12:27PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> Wow. It reminds me the old days of Demo parties :-) > > The old days? Those still exist :-) Yes, but the original spirit has gone. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Changes to the weekly WNPP posting

2005-05-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-20 11:48]: > One could decide to let RM: bugs on ftp.d.o always linger a certain > amount of time before processing, for complete removals, in any case. That's someone I wanted to suggest anyway. While I'm happy to see removals happening much m

Re: Changes to the weekly WNPP posting

2005-05-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-20 09:55]: > Throw in a link to the full list for RFA/O/RFH too? Apart from that, > I'd love to see it on d-d-a. OK, I'll add links. Note sure about d-d-a or d-d yet. Someone also suggested an RSS feed. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Debian Sarge

2005-05-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Eddy Veenstra wrote: > > Dear Debian team, > For the future: this question and others like it would be better asked on debian-user. Debian-devel is essentially a list for Debian developers and others to discuss the development of Debian - including off-t

mdadm+udev needs MORE testing!

2005-05-22 Thread martin f krafft
We have revamped the mdadm fix in a much cleaner way, using a patch by Erik van Konijnenburg to fix the --auto command line option. Also, some fixes to mdrun (which is deprecated but must still work) and device node permissions have been committed. Lastly, a README.udev file is now provided. If yo

Debian Sarge

2005-05-22 Thread Eddy Veenstra
  Dear Debian team,   For several years I used Debian 2.2R5 'potato' and was a happy user. In the meantime I've tried on that system Xfree 4.2 (download version), but it wasn't an easy task to get it properly installed. So I went back to my 'good-old' 2.2R5 and decided to wait until Debian 

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-22 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:41:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > - rename the unrar-nonfree package back to unrar > - rename the free unnrar package to unrar-free (it can even be left out > of sarge (version 0.0.1 that is the one year old latest upstream > version...)) > - get the non-free pack

Re: Bug#310194: ITP: schism -- Impulse Tracker clone

2005-05-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:12:27PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Wow. It reminds me the old days of Demo parties :-) The old days? Those still exist :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Bug#310194: ITP: schism -- Impulse Tracker clone

2005-05-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: schism > Version : 0.2a > Upstream Author : chisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://rigelseven.com/schism/ > * License

Bug#310194: ITP: schism -- Impulse Tracker clone

2005-05-22 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: schism Version : 0.2a Upstream Author : chisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rigelseven.com/schism/ * License : GPL Description : Impulse Tracker clone Source:

Re: Inconsistent handling of sourceless packages in main

2005-05-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Goswin! Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Donnerstag, den 19. Mai 2005: > IMHO debian-installer in unacceptable as it causes GPL violations. > Interlocking the debian-installer builds with the exact source ... > Any ideas? Comments? Solutions? Relax, there is no problem. (The same was as there

Re: mdadm+udev needs testing!

2005-05-22 Thread Andreas Gredler
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:47:07AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andreas Gredler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.22.1052 +0200]: > > brw-rw 1 root disk 9, 2 May 22 10:31 /dev/md2 > > brw-r--r-- 1 root root 9, 20 May 22 10:31 /dev/md20 > > > > I'm not sure why some devices are g

Re: mdadm+udev needs testing!

2005-05-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andreas Gredler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.22.1052 +0200]: > Now I was able to create my RAID without the -auto=yes option. Good. > brw-rw 1 root disk 9, 2 May 22 10:31 /dev/md2 > brw-r--r-- 1 root root 9, 20 May 22 10:31 /dev/md20 > > I'm not sure why some devices are group

Re: big usermem kernel patch

2005-05-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 19 May 2005 12:26, Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! It seems that we are in need of a 'big usermem' kernel > patch in Debian, so I am considering contributing such a package. It > appears there are two approaches on the net, both in various > incarnations of redhat

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:59:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then the new program should still have a higher version number, to allow > > people who currently use the non-free program to upgrade to the free > > program. > > That's why there's the

Re: mdadm+udev needs testing!

2005-05-22 Thread Andreas Gredler
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:51:44PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > [Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mdadm has three udev-related RC bugs (#294404, #273182 and #301560), > which I seem to have been able to fix using previous work by Steve > Langasek and Marco d'Itri. Since mdadm is a critical piece of >

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 08:33:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:20:47AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > Repairing this issue by simply renaming the non-free package back to > > unrar and giving the free program a different name should be pretty > > straightforward

Bug#310165: ITP: bkchem -- Python based free chemical drawing program

2005-05-22 Thread Li Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Li Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bkchem Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Beda Kosata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bkchem.zirael.org/ * License : GPL & LGPL Description : Python based free chemic

Re: [frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches > and per-arch patches). > I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune at this stage. > IMHO patches which cannot be applied to debian kernel-