Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-05 Thread Morten Werner Olsen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:27:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Just a reminder that these maintainers still have packages that depend > on debconf by itself without an alternate dependency on | debconf-2.0. > As I mentioned in my original post, I plan to file bugs on all of these > soon, which, omit

Re: dpkg -L dpkg-query -L do not find all the files from a package

2005-09-05 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:18:01PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: [...] > I was told on #debian-devel that, yes it is in-precise, so I am just > wondering why would it *not* list all the files? What defines if a file > is included or excluded from this list. [...] A quick look through the dpkg sou

dpkg -L dpkg-query -L do not find all the files from a package

2005-09-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
I am not sure if this is a bug, and oversight or by design but dpkg -L or dpk-query -L do not always list every single file the package installs. I was told on #debian-devel that, yes it is in-precise, so I am just wondering why would it *not* list all the files? What defines if a file is incl

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>>I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are >>>spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (packa

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 05, Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Drop not, but reject. It would be the best, if you can reject spam in > the SMTP dialog. Actually it's the only possible solution, a 100K msg/day backscatter source would be quickly widely blacklisted. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Blars, Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are >>spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (package >>name, version, etc) is not followed; the b

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > I wonder if it would be possible to appeal to google to have them > manually edit that search so that l.d.o doesn't appear. (Same for > [replaced with "string instrument" to avoid another google hit]'s) What I think I would rather see is targeted moderation of anything

Bug#326813: ITP: doom-data -- Installer for doom data files

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: doom-data Version : 1 Upstream Author : Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://jon.dowland.name/code/doom/doom-data/ * License : GPL Description : Installer for

Re: migrating wiki content from kwiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 05 September 2005 22:36, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > I gave this a quick go, after finding the real location of the tarball. > The result is at wiki.wolffelaar.nl, and the simple formatting works > reasonable. [...] > Any help is appreciated -- improve formatting conversion, and findin

Re: migrating wiki content from kwiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-05 22:36:26]: > Any help is appreciated -- improve formatting conversion, and finding bugs. > For bugreports and patches, please mail me privately or address me on IRC > (jvw). Once I'm reasonably content with the conversion, I'll prepare a tarba

Re: Debian OpenSolaris port, exchange with Sun folks in webforum/MailingList

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-05 21:14:20]: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:59:10PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > I just chatted with Sun's FOSS embassador Simon Phillips and i > > asked if Sun would switch to a LGPL compatible license even for > > openSolaris in the course of the r

Re: migrating wiki content from kwiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > But anyway, what's needed is someone who uses some perl (or whatever) magic > on that tarball, to get moin-compatible data/pages files that can be > unpacked in the wiki.debian.org installation by a DSA member. I wonder > whet

Bug#326797: ITP: pentagram -- Engine for Ultima VIII: Pagan

2005-09-05 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pentagram Version : CVS snapshots Upstream Author : W. J. Palenstein, P. Burke, M. Horn, R. Nunn, D. Reichardt, M. Jimenez * URL : http://pentagram.sourcef

Re: KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, any idea of when this will be fixed, and if it takes long, maybe we > should inform our users about it. This affects all sarge installs, or only > powerpc and some other minority arches ? FWIW, it's also blocking work on #325421, which affects mo

Re: Debian OpenSolaris port, exchange with Sun folks in webforum/MailingList

2005-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:59:10PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > I just chatted with Sun's FOSS embassador Simon Phillips and i > asked if Sun would switch to a LGPL compatible license even for > openSolaris in the course of the recent announcement. > > However he said it would stay with the CD

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-09-05 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> I'd like to have a debian-planet list that would receive blog > postings from planet.debian.org. > > The main reason is that after postings expire on the planet website, > it's very hard to find old postings if you cannot remember who wrote > it. Think of "there was some nice sh script snippet"

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Wouter: El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: [...] > > "spam", as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular > brand of corned beef. See http://www.spam.com/ Not exactly. Spam, as unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular Monty Python's Fly

Debian OpenSolaris port, exchange with Sun folks in webforum/MailingList

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I just chatted with Sun's FOSS embassador Simon Phillips and i asked if Sun would switch to a LGPL compatible license even for openSolaris in the course of the recent announcement. However he said it would stay with the CDDL and was not aware how that would hinder a debian port of openSolaris. Cou

Re: KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:35:41PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Sven Luther [Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:02:12 +0200]: > > > This is another instance of the braindead single desktop task and KDE > > breaking > > the install. KDE packager should all die :) > > Watch your typos. Indeed, it should ha

Re: KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Sven Luther [Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:02:12 +0200]: > >> This is another instance of the braindead single desktop task and KDE >> breaking >> the install. KDE packager should all die :) > > Watch your typos. Yes, it should be "packagers". :) ::duck::

Re: KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Sven Luther [Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:02:12 +0200]: > This is another instance of the braindead single desktop task and KDE breaking > the install. KDE packager should all die :) Watch your typos. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 Listening to: Mecano - Dalai La

Re: KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 05:59:47PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Brian May [Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:32:05 +1000]: > > > Is this a known problem? > > Yes, and the Security Team is aware of it (#325254). It would be great if we would get an official errata or otherwise a recomendation on how to fi

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:42:47PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi Matt, > Am 2005-09-05 15:54:47, schrieb Matthew Garrett: > > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... > > > I think, the filter trash around 99% of the

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
David Pashley writes: > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. If these people read the messages they find with their searches they wouldn't post here. They don't. They just grab the address and spam us. And helping people get off C4LL W4VE is not our job. > I b

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Matt, Am 2005-09-05 15:54:47, schrieb Matthew Garrett: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... > > I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. > > That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods > Co

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Proulx wrote: > David Pashley wrote: > >>> Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. >> >> No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on >> Google. > > > That is exactly the point. We DO NOT WANT people to find the > Debian mailin

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 18:14, Bob Proulx praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley wrote: > > > Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. > > > > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. > > That is exactly the point. We DO NOT WANT people to find the Debian > mail

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
David Pashley wrote: > > Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. > > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. That is exactly the point. We DO NOT WANT people to find the Debian mailing lists in any relation to that search. Every time someone references it in a

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 17:13, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley writes: > > I believe it is far more useful to follow up to these emails providing > > useful information how to remove themselves and in particular link to the > > rather informative email from Josh Metzler[0] so t

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: > No, Hormel only claim the capitalised form. In capitalised form it's a > clear reference to the food product, and as such is potentially > infringing under various circumstances. I'm quite certain that if you brought out a brand of canned pork under the label "spam" that

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
David Pashley writes: > I believe it is far more useful to follow up to these emails providing > useful information how to remove themselves and in particular link to the > rather informative email from Josh Metzler[0] so that they might find out > how to do it themselves rather than emailing the l

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 16:31, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: > Please do not follow up to these messages. These idiots apparently Google > the phrase and then spam all the addresses they find. Posting about the > subject here just creates more hits. I believe it is far more useful to foll

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett writes: >> That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods >> Corporation. > > Only when used to sell food (in which case "spam" would also infringe the > mark). No, Hormel only claim the capitalised form. In capitalised form

Bug#326768: ITP: libscriptalicious-perl -- Make scripts more delicious to SysAdmins

2005-09-05 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libscriptalicious-perl Version : 1.10 * License : Perl (GPL/Artistic) Description : Make scripts more delicious to SysAdmins This module helps you write scripts that conform to

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Please do not follow up to these messages. These idiots apparently Google the phrase and then spam all the addresses they find. Posting about the subject here just creates more hits. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: > That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods > Corporation. Only when used to sell food (in which case "spam" would also infringe the mark). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Michelle Konzack] > Are you happy ? Sure, I am happy. :) > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... I > think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. I will? I do not know if gmane uses the debian spamfilters, but it seem to do quite a good job filtering out spam. :) I

Re: REMOVE ME FROM CALL WAVE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] praised the llamas by saying: >I notified you, electronically a month or more ago to cancel my >subscription to CALL WAVE. >This billing has continued on my VISA bill for two or more months. > >Will you acknowledge receipt of this current

Re: REMOVE ME FROM CALL WAVE

2005-09-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 05 September 2005 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I notified you, electronically a month or more ago to cancel my > subscription to CALL WAVE. > This billing has continued on my VISA bill for two or more months. > > Will you acknowledge receipt of this current message? I would like a >

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... > I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

REMOVE ME FROM CALL WAVE

2005-09-05 Thread Dover2
I notified you, electronically a month or more ago to cancel my subscription to CALL WAVE. This billing has continued on my VISA bill for two or more months.   Will you acknowledge receipt of this current message?  I would like a credit memo for the last month or two, but I know this action will

Re: Bug#326578: ITP: bashpodder -- Easy to use RSS aggregator bas h script

2005-09-05 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
* Hamish Moffatt :: > I just packaged podracer last week, which is a derivative of > bashpodder. > Is there any benefit to having both? > > The podracer license is MIT/BSD-style, so if the bashpodder license is > GPL, something's not quite right! Does a 14-line bash script (*) contains enough c

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-09-01 20:20:39, schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Allyn, MarkX A] > > I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing > > on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive > > for me in my work environment. > > The debian lists are not doing a great job in

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-05 10:04:54]: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 01:34:29AM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > The wiki markup languages of twiki and moin-moin are not > > compatible. Still it would be nice to have some content moved > > from the old .net wiki to the new .org one

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. > > > > A question: why using file locking inst

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the proble

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. > > > > A question: why using file locking inst

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Francesco P. Lovergine: >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads >> doesn't. > > A question: why using file locking instead of thread mutexes (which > is the proper answer to syncronization issues i

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Blars Blarson wrote: >> I've been working on the spam filtering for the BTS. We are getting >> over 100,000 spams/day and about 50/day get through the filters. > >are these numbers available somewhere? (the spam/day ratio for example) >it w

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:07:56PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Florian Weimer: > > > * Adeodato Simó: > > > >> Also, I have no idea what's the case for Debian: "On some versions of > >> Linux, a thread is not able to override locks created by a different > >> thread in the same process.

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-05 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Blars Blarson wrote: [snip] > > I've been working on the spam filtering for the BTS. We are getting > over 100,000 spams/day and about 50/day get through the filters. are these numbers available somewhere? (the spam/day ratio for example) it would be interesting to graph the data. filippo --

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:41:40AM +0200, Andreas Fester wrote: > I thought that the wiki was to be moved to mediawiki? > > http://wiki.debian.net/?HelpMoveDebianWikiToMediaWiki > > Will w.d.org be a replacement for w.d.net? With the latter > leading to the same page once the migration is done?

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 01:34:29AM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > The wiki markup languages of twiki and moin-moin are not > compatible. Still it would be nice to have some content moved > from the old .net wiki to the new .org one. This is the first I've heard of plans for a wiki under the offi

Re: KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:32:05PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > According to http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libkscan1>, > this package requires "kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.3.2-6.2)" on the powerpc, > however the latest version in stable appears to be 4:3.3.2-6.1. > > Many other KDE applicat

Bug#326711: ITP: python-gammu -- Python module to communicate with mobile phones

2005-09-05 Thread Michal Čihař
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michal Čihař" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-gammu Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cihar.com/gammu/python * License : GPL Description : Python module

Bug#326710: ITP: wammu -- Mobile Phone Manager

2005-09-05 Thread Michal Čihař
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michal Čihař" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wammu Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cihar.com/gammu/wammu * License : GPL Description : Mobile Phone Manager

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:47:21PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > spamscan is single-threaded, and the latency of DNSBL lookups is the > main delay. We have less than 1 second to process each message on > average. Any good recomendations for a perl inter-process > communications library? Once it b