Re: Bug#195948: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate andfaststatistical spam filter

2005-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are doing a disservice to our users by doing that, IMHO. Others > are welcome to comment as well. I tend to agree. However, is it possible to set the Submitter of a bug to more than one person? Then one could close the duplicate and still make

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:50:11PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:41:15AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > > "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Along similar lines, if a have a "closes: #

Re: Status of libpng transition

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:13:30AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > I wonder, when latest wxwindows2.4 packages will be moved to testing. > > As soon as subversion and rapidsvn are fixed and subversion gets into testing. > Currently wxwindows2.4 is held up only because the new version breaks th

Re: Status of libpng transition

2005-10-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> I wonder, when latest wxwindows2.4 packages will be moved to testing. As soon as subversion and rapidsvn are fixed and subversion gets into testing. Currently wxwindows2.4 is held up only because the new version breaks the old rapidsvn, and the new rapidsvn depends on new subversion (and has a

Re: apt 0.6 in experimental

2005-10-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:04:54PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > An old issue that resurfaced, now that APT 0.6 entered Testing: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:33 -0800, mdz wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 23:38, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > Oh. Also, you're expected to have entries for the md5

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-24 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Stanford still uses Kerberos 4. Would removing kerberos4kth Ben> be tantamount to dropping Kerberos 4 support? When I've Ben> tried to use Debian's other implementations of Kerberos in Ben> the past at Stanford, I've had n

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:13:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> That is indeed the problem. But how would a wraper help? You still >> have to somehow tell the wraper if gcc will later be invoked with -m32 >> or -m64. > > Whatever build system y

Re: Bug#195948: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate andfaststatistical spam filter

2005-10-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* David Moreno Garza [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:32:56 -0500]: > On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 04:11 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > There is no need at all, to have more useless duplicated bug reports, > > > specially on wnpp. Only those duplicated bug reports with useful > > > information in it should remain

How can I help debian?

2005-10-24 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi there, I was planning on purchasing some HD's and hardware to make a release mirror or a apt-get mirror for Debian users... you know, to be of some help like others have done. Because of my limited bandwidth, 1mb/512 or 2mb/1mb I was thinking that I could do a local mirror for my country (Cost

Re: Bug#195948: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate and faststatistical spam filter

2005-10-24 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 04:11 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > There is no need at all, to have more useless duplicated bug reports, > > specially on wnpp. Only those duplicated bug reports with useful > > information in it should remain open. > > I disagree with this: bugs should always be merged

Re: Status of libpng transition

2005-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder, when latest wxwindows2.4 packages will be moved to testing. > If I look at > > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=wxwindows2.4 > > it is a valid candidate and the dependency from libpng should be fine > as well > > http://qa.debian.org/dev

Bug#335591: ITP: notification-daemon -- a daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications

2005-10-24 Thread Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: notification-daemon Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Authors : Christian Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://g

Bug#335590: ITP: libnotify -- sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon

2005-10-24 Thread Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnotify Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Christian Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://galago.sf.ne

Status of libpng transition

2005-10-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I wonder, when latest wxwindows2.4 packages will be moved to testing. If I look at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=wxwindows2.4 it is a valid candidate and the dependency from libpng should be fine as well http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=libpng I know that a li

Bug#335572: ITP: python-iplib -- Python library to convert amongst many different IPv4 notations

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-iplib Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Davide Alberani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://erlug.linux.it/~da/soft/iplib/ * License : GPL Description : Python

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:20:16PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > > $ pkg-config --libs a > > > -la -lb > > ^^^ > > > > It should not link to libb if you only request it to link to > > liba. liba should have a DT_NEEDED for libb, and the linker > > should find the symb

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-10-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > I'm afraid I have to ask the same question again (three months later). > What's the status of this package in general and my patch in particular? > There was some discussion about it, but nothing really happened. > > http://bugs.

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:03:51PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:15:38PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > Pretty please don't suggest that unless you first fix pkg-config. > > > It's always linking in the libraries required for st

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > Unless packages ship the pkg-config binary itself. Even then, the Debian > > mode could be dependent on dpkg-architecture existing or somesuch, so people > > could still use Debian as upstream developers without hassle. > > I do not think pkg-config sh

Re: Versioned BTS question:

2005-10-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 23 October 2005 21.48, Ken Bloom wrote: > I'm tracking through some old bugs I submitted, cleaning up. I'd like > to close bug 256715, because jpilot and gtk-engines-smooth no longer > interact (because jpilot uses GTK+2 now). What's the appropriate > version to specify to the BTS? If yo

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:03:51PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:15:38PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > 3D > > Pretty please don't suggest that unless you first fix pkg-config. > > It's always linking in the libraries required for static linking > > even if you don't reque

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:13:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > That is indeed the problem. But how would a wraper help? You still > have to somehow tell the wraper if gcc will later be invoked with -m32 > or -m64. Whatever build system you use, there must be some logic somewhere to decid

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:15:28AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I can see potential problems with that last part regarding upstream >> developers whose software happens to depend on packages for which >> pkg-config support remains Debian-

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:37:41PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > That said, it is sort of on-topic anyway. Can pkg-config be told which arch > to build to? If it doesn't, it is high time to fix this, and it would fix > the problem of getting .pc files to be installed to the right p

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:24:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> The problem is that pc files are architecture dependent. With >> multiarch there will be >> >> /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/glib.pc >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib.pc > > Well, pkg-c

Bug#335555: ITP: tango-icon-theme -- Tango icon theme for GTK+ 2.x

2005-10-24 Thread Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tango-icon-theme Version : 0.3.2.1 Upstream Author : Tango Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.

Bug#335553: ITP: libemf -- drawing toolkit for window metafiles (wmf/emf)

2005-10-24 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libemf Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Allen Barnett * URL : http://libemf.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : drawing toolkit for window metafiles (wmf/e

Re: changing default ping

2005-10-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 24, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my opinion, it is time to make a virtual package and specify which We already have one: Package: iputils-ping Provides: ping > interfaces a ping command must support in order to provide this virtual > package. Feel free to work on it, if

Re: changing default ping

2005-10-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Of course. So let's have one ping package that provides the feature on systems where the headers say "yes, we have this feature." Unfortunately, exactly that is not going to happen because the iputils upstream does not care about compatibility and cannot be bo

Bug#335536: ITP: nepenthes -- versatile tool to collect malware by emulating widespread vulnerabilities

2005-10-24 Thread Luciano Bello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nepenthes Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Nepenthes Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nepenthes.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : ve

Bug#335508: ITP: qa-assistant -- checklist assistant

2005-10-24 Thread Steffen Joeris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qa-assistant Version : 0.4.90.4 Upstream Author : Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://developer.berlios.de/projects/qa-assistant/ * License : GPL Descript

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:41:15AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Along similar lines, if a have a "closes: #nnn" in my changelog for > > package X, but the bug is for package Y

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it time to think about removing kerberos4kth from the archive > anyway? Stanford still uses Kerberos 4. Would removing kerberos4kth be tantamount to dropping Kerberos 4 support? When I've tried to use Debian's other implementations of Kerberos in the p

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gabor Gombas wrote: > Who talked about _arch_ autodetection? I think the discussion was about Sorry, my bad. I thought that mentioning "arch" and "configure" and "auto-detection" in the same post meant the kind of runtime arch autodetection buggy debian packages (and non-buggy

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-24 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:32:45PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > If so, we need an adduser interface which properly handles LDAP and > > NIS. This is something that our current adduser does not do, and the > > corresponding bugs are o

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:36:08AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > May I humbly remind people that allowing any sort of arch autodetection in > a Debian package build *IS* *A* *BUG*. Who talked about _arch_ autodetection? I think the discussion was about packages that previously only

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:15:28AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > > I can see potential problems with that last part regarding upstream > > developers whose software happens to depend on packages for which pkg-config > > support remains Debian-specific becaus

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-10-24 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/2/05, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What's the maintenance status of the net-tools package? > It has 88 bugs: > Serious policy violations - outstanding (1 bug) > Important bugs - outstanding (8 bugs) > Normal bugs - outstanding (38 bugs) > Minor bugs - outstanding (9 b

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:15:28AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I can see potential problems with that last part regarding upstream > developers whose software happens to depend on packages for which pkg-config > support remains Debian-specific because upstream doesn't accept the patch. > It's poss

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:15:38PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: 3D > Pretty please don't suggest that unless you first fix pkg-config. > It's always linking in the libraries required for static linking > even if you don't request it. See for instance bug #254290, > which was closed, but didn't reall

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:24:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The problem is that pc files are architecture dependent. With > multiarch there will be > > /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/glib.pc > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib.pc Well, pkg-config already places .pc files under /usr/lib instead

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:10:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > And where do system accounts generated by packages on installations go > to? adduser's interaction with LDAP and NIS is abysmally bad, and > nobody seems to care. It is a very bad idea to add system accounts to LDAP/NIS automatically u

Re: apt 0.6 in experimental

2005-10-24 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
An old issue that resurfaced, now that APT 0.6 entered Testing: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:33 -0800, mdz wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 23:38, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Oh. Also, you're expected to have entries for the md5sum & size > > > of the uncompressed Packages files *even if you only distr

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:22:44 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Marc Haber] >> If so, we need an adduser interface which properly handles LDAP and >> NIS. This is something that our current adduser does not do, and the >> corresponding bugs are open for many years. > >Well, it

Re: changing default ping

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns writes: >> No, the point is that the Hurd developers should write that feature in >> the standard tar so that it can be turned on and off with a normal >> configure test, > > Well, why not say "the Hurd developers should write that feature in the > standard Linux kernel so that it

Re: changing default ping

2005-10-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:51:15PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > Going too far on the "consistency" side of things makes working on > > alternative OSes pointless: if Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd do > > the exact same thing, why bother putting in the effort