Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brian May] > > See bug #87371. The title is wrong. devfs is not the issue, > > /dev/pts is (I think). I don't think there is any intention to fix > > the bug. Over 4 years old. Perhaps this is grounds to drop the > > package from Debian. [Miles Bader] > I'd say so. Or fix the bug. Kind of qu

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Alex Ross dies 08/11/2005 hora 11:36: > Overnight we actually did remove the downloads. I'm downloading the LiveCD image right now from a link in the download page[1]. Do I have to understand that you corrected the GPL violation problem and that I can find all the sources the GPL gives me

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-09 Thread Miles Bader
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See bug #87371. The title is wrong. devfs is not the issue, /dev/pts > is (I think). I don't think there is any intention to fix the > bug. Over 4 years old. Perhaps this is grounds to drop the package > from Debian. I'd say so. Or fix the bug. -miles --

Re: Licenses for DebConf6 [was: Re: DebConf6: Call For Papers]

2005-11-09 Thread Francesco Poli
[replying to a message that was directed to debian-devel only, but readding debian-legal in Cc:] On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:38:07 +0100 Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-08 00:28:07]: > > "The authors have the freedom to pick a DFSG-free license" means > > that th

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-09 Thread Brian May
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> In any case, does anyone else know if there are really such old Miles> applications still around? snoopy:/etc/postfix# apt-cache show ttysnoop Package: ttysnoop Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 52 Maintainer:

Re: cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-11-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > Maybe this is to avoid somebody from changing SystemAuth or other values. > (e.g. can you check if the CVSROOT/config files still contains > UseNewInfoFmtStrings=yes) (The real CVSROOT/config file, not the one > source controlled you can get with a checkout). > > Can anybody confirm. > > M

Bug#338382: ITP: python-formencode -- FormEncode is a validation and form generation package.

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-formencode Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://formencode.sf.net * License : PSF Description : FormEncode is a valid

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2005-11-09 às 13:12 -0800, Christopher Crammond escreveu: > I was wondering if someone could provide me with some additional > information related to Debian packaging. Specifically, I would like to > know if there is a way to determine which version of Debian that a > package belongs to?

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 09 novembre 2005 à 13:12 -0800, Christopher Crammond a écrit : > Hello: > > I was wondering if someone could provide me with some additional > information related to Debian packaging. Specifically, I would like to > know if there is a way to determine which version of Debian that a >

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Christopher Crammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if someone could provide me with some additional > information related to Debian packaging. Specifically, I would like to > know if there is a way to determine which version of Debian that a > package belongs to? Any version of D

Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-09 Thread Christopher Crammond
Hello: I was wondering if someone could provide me with some additional information related to Debian packaging. Specifically, I would like to know if there is a way to determine which version of Debian that a package belongs to? For instance, the control file of the dpkg_1.10.28_i386.deb file l

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:55:41PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > many of Erast's responses were at best antagonistic, > > and at worst showed a complete disregard for what Debian is all about. > > Speaking of antagonistic...

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-09 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 03 November 2005 22:26, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:55 -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > It really seems like you jumped into this "base our system on Debian" > > thing without really understanding what Debian is about. Consider what > > you're asking for. You're

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread Christian Perrier
> To be fair, I must admit that I'm not a DD and I don't hold copyright to > any of Erast's software. But I believe strongly in the way Debian does > things, and I use a *lot* of Debian software in my work. So I justify > my participation in this thread based on my interest in protecting > D

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread Erast Benson
> George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sorry, this is another violation. The source comes first, then binaries >> next >> to it. Hm, I wonder how could you make people believe (trust>) in your >> "open >> source" project ? > > George, I don't think there's much point in repeating objectio

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, this is another violation. The source comes first, then binaries next > to it. Hm, I wonder how could you make people believe (trust>) in your "open > source" project ? George, I don't think there's much point in repeating objections that have

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread Erast Benson
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 02:26, Erast Benson wrote: >> > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If you do not see something specific, or newer versions, like(you can >> >> find >> >> debarchiver-0.3 but we have debarchiver-0.4 packaged), that means it >> is >> >> not committed yet and w

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 02:26, Erast Benson wrote: > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you do not see something specific, or newer versions, like(you can > >> find > >> debarchiver-0.3 but we have debarchiver-0.4 packaged), that means it is > >> not committed yet and we are test

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 02:09, Erast Benson wrote: > David, > > this is the place were source code lives: > > http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/gnusolaris1/gnu > > or > > http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/gnusolaris1 > > If you do not see something specific, or

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-09 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 03 November 2005 18:45, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:51 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (a) to ship packaged OpenSolaris core on "main" CD, and the rest of > > > GPL-filtered software, will go on "Companion" CD, or throug

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-09 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:25, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:32 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > If your core feature is GPLd code coming from Debian, I'd kindly > > > suggest to take the concerns of Debian developer

Bug#338341: ITP: ccbuild -- A C++ source scanning build utility

2005-11-09 Thread A. Bram Neijt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "A. Bram Neijt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ccbuild Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : A. Bram Neijt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccbuild * License : GPL-2 Description : A C++

Re: Debconf problem

2005-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Küster wrote: > Sorry for still being dumb. When it's reconfigure, I have just learned > that the config script is run only once, so I need not handle this case > specially. But when its an upgrade, it is run twice, and I need to > discriminate between the first pass (check existing permiss

Re: iso2mirror

2005-11-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"=?UTF-8?B?Q2FuIEthdmFrbMSxb8SfbHU=?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > Some time ago I searched for a tool to convert my already downloaded and > mounted stable Debian CDs into a mirror structure. However I failed (the > ways was able to find didn't seem feasible or couldn't find the actual

Re: cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-11-09 Thread Nicolas François
Hi! On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:30:38PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a 'loginfo' file configuration that works > for alioth. > I thought I have found a solution few days ago, but when > I came back, it no longer seems to work correctly: I think there is a cron job that

Re: Are pure virtual Depends/Recommends entries bugs?

2005-11-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steinar mentioned problems with pure virtual build-deps. Those should > work too. In the past bugs have been filed about those, but I think > those are a problem because of bugs in the auto-build tools, rather than > being an intrinsic problems with the

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 8< > Read data.tar.gz. Target 34.1% complete. > used 1056768 local, fetched 938415 > 8< > The size of the data.tar.gz is 1210514. So your simple test shows 34% savin

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Zsync checksum files are, depending on block size, about 3% of the >> file size. For the full archive that means under 10G more data. As >> comparison adding amd64 needs ~30G. After the scc split ther

Re: Bug#338058: ITP: markdown -- text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers

2005-11-09 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Pierre THIERRY dies 08/11/2005 hora 01:04: > * Package name: markdown Sorry for that invalid ITP (markdown *is* packaged). It seems reportbug check the archive when doing a RFP, but not an ITP. Maybe on the supposition that when you do an ITP, you know more what you're doing and follo

cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-11-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I'm looking for a 'loginfo' file configuration that works for alioth. I thought I have found a solution few days ago, but when I came back, it no longer seems to work correctly: CVSROOT/loginfo contains: DEFAULT /usr/bin/cvs-mailcommit --mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] --from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: New version of kernel-package to create image packages using debconf

2005-11-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:49 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > it would be convenient if 'vmlinux' is included > somewhere like /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux > (which seems to be the case with RedHat[2]). in a separate linux-image-dbg package? $ du -h vmlinux arch/i386/boot/bzImage

Re: New version of kernel-package to create image packages using debconf

2005-11-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > A new version of kernel-package is imminent, it is undergoing > boot camp out in experimental. Congratulations; nice to see some hot action :) I've been pondering on using kernel-package to generate debug 'vmlinux' images which are used in tools like kernel crash dump analysis

Re: Debconf problem

2005-11-09 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> I found no way to cleanly solve the problem of >> >> - writing the current state into the debconf database, so that >> noninteractive installs don't change anything >> >> - actually reflect changed answers in the system. > > The co