Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-12-12 Thread Heiko Müller
Hi, thanks for all the comments. I will do tests with gcc-4.x and, if the regression is still there, file a bug report upstream. Heiko On Saturday 10 December 2005 20:03, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Heiko Müller wrote: > > Dear Thiemo, > > we very much appreciate your work on the gcc-2.95 debian packa

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Christian Perrier wrote: > > (hey, this is why "desktop" installs the whole bloat of KDE *AND* Gnome ). > > It's possible that this statement is false, and that some change might > have been made in this area under less than clear circumstances as a > kind

named pipes programming problem

2005-12-12 Thread abottchow
Hi all, I'm new to the group and am seeking your advice on my Debian Linux C++ programming problem with named pipes. Two programs are involved. One is myProgram.cc, which reads user's input from keyboard and prints to the screen. The other program is main.cc, which wants to communicate with myPro

Merry Christmas! : Newsletter Vol. # 5 and Embedded Tools Offer from GAO Engineering

2005-12-12 Thread David Ou
Hello, Seasons Greetings from GAO Engineering Inc! Here are a few updates for our customers, affiliates and newsletter subscribers: We have recently spun off our Electrical Engineering Development Tools division into a new, easier to use Embedded Tools Online Store, http://www.gaoengineering.

[D-I] [MEETINGS] Next Debian Installer meeting TOMORROW: Wednesday Dec. 14th 21:00 UTC

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Perrier
(crossposted to -devel and -i18n to trigger attention by people who maybe loosely follow debian-boot) This mail is a reminder for the next D-I team monthly meeting which is scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday Dec. 14th 21:00UTC. This IRC meeting will be held on the #debian-boot channel on freenode (

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Or at least fall back to the other IPs if the first one gives an > > > error? > > I hope that this already happens... > > apt doesn't know anything about round robin dns, and especially with > secure apt, if one mirror gets out of s

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Samuelson] > Hm. That brings up the minor point of whether N should ever be > anything but (2 * nest_level). Or if you consider nest_level to be zero-based, (2 + 2 * nest_level). It occurs to me, though, that some might prefer the raw presentation look of (2 + 3 * nest_level). I migh

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Burrows] > (1) The first line begins with N >= 2 spaces, > (3) Each subsequent line begins with at least N + 2 spaces. Hm. That brings up the minor point of whether N should ever be anything but (2 * nest_level). I don't feel strongly about that one, though. Also, in the Best P

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed exten

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:21:41AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Extensions to the syntax of Description blocks: > > > > As mentioned above, all lines beginning with two or more spaces are

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the > > Description field to explicit

Report from foss.in/2005

2005-12-12 Thread Kartik Mistry
Hello,Since, I am not 'valid' poster of this list, my mail me be blocked by listadmin! I asked DWN to report for foss.in/2005 conference in India and Debian activity during event. Joey can answer about this post. Thanks Joey to encourage me. Background: foss.in/2005 was earlier known as Linux Ba

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:49:02PM -0600, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > [Daniel Burrows] > > (1) The first line begins with N > 2 spaces, > > Don't you mean N >= 2? > > > (2) The first non-space character of the first line is a bullet > > character, and > >

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the > Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. The extended > syntax allows list items to be treated specially by frontends (for > instance, bullet charac

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:38:59PM -0500, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the > > Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. The exte

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the > Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. That's quite a complex document for something I believe should be quite simple.

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Burrows] > (1) The first line begins with N > 2 spaces, Don't you mean N >= 2? > (2) The first non-space character of the first line is a bullet > character, and > > (3) Each subsequent line begins with at least N + 1 + M spaces, > where M is the number of spaces immed

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the > Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. The extended wow! that's quite a document. i'm glad to see that people are focusing on the Really Big pro

Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. The extended syntax allows list items to be treated specially by frontends (for instance, bullet characters can be replaced with graphics, and the body of the list item can be

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Joey Hess [Mon, Dec 12 2005, 03:53:02PM]: > This kind of disconnect between what an installed Debian system actually > does, what some developers think it does, and results like Debian > developers passing out Ubuntu CDs instead of contributing more fixes to > Debian is intensely frust

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:37:31PM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > >>David Moreno Garza wrote: >> >> >>>What are you talking about Debian Style? >> >>Color scheme, artwork (default wallpaper, login screen, even CD covers). >>All those little things that would make a user say

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-12-12 às 23:37 +0200, Linas Zvirblis escreveu: > David Moreno Garza wrote: > > > What are you talking about Debian Style? > > Color scheme, artwork (default wallpaper, login screen, even CD covers). > All those little things that would make a user say "Yep, that's Debian". The desk

In-Reply-To [was: Re: buildd administration]

2005-12-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > This is an omnibus reply. Sorry about the thread-breaking, but I'm on > yet *another* computer, and I can't seem to find a mailer which > respects the In-Reply-To headers from the web pages or lets me add my > own. Off-topic, but Moz Thunderbird in Debian at least does t

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:37:31PM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > David Moreno Garza wrote: > > >What are you talking about Debian Style? > > Color scheme, artwork (default wallpaper, login screen, even CD covers). > All those little things that would make a user say "Yep, that's Debian". Check

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Linas Zvirblis
David Moreno Garza wrote: What are you talking about Debian Style? Color scheme, artwork (default wallpaper, login screen, even CD covers). All those little things that would make a user say "Yep, that's Debian". A user should get the same visual feeling whether he chose GNOME or KDE for h

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 December 2005 21:25, Joey Hess wrote: > It's possible that this statement is false, and that some change might > have been made in this area under less than clear circumstances as a > kind of experiment just to see how long it takes for someone to notice > and what traspires if they do

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread David Moreno Garza
On 20:25 Mon 12 Dec 2005, Simon Richter wrote: > This is also related to the clash of the two approaches ("multiuser > system with capable admin" versus "single-user personal system where all > users need admin priviledge to associate to new APs as they roam with > their laptop"). What we need i

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Or at least fall back to the other IPs if the first one gives an > > error? > I hope that this already happens... apt doesn't know anything about round robin dns, and especially with secure apt, if one mirror gets out of sync things break horribly. This recently happened wi

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread David Moreno Garza
On 21:01 Mon 12 Dec 2005, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Replying to Christian Perrier. > > I see what you mean. But who is going to create The Debian Style? Maybe > a contest is needed? What are you talking about Debian Style? -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > >-default sound setup > > > > Sound is symptomatic of a much larger class of problems, namely that > > there is no system service that forwards resources other than display

Re: Packages up for adoption: gnokii, coldsync

2005-12-12 Thread David Moreno Garza
On 15:03 Sun 11 Dec 2005, George Wright wrote: > * on Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:21:28PM +1000, Bradley Marshall wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is the right process to follow, so please > > let me know if there's something else I should be doing. > > ditto for me - shall I fill in an ITA? I'm not

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >-default sound setup > > Sound is symptomatic of a much larger class of problems, namely that > there is no system service that forwards resources other than display > and keyboard to the user curre

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > (hey, this is why "desktop" installs the whole bloat of KDE *AND* Gnome ). It's possible that this statement is false, and that some change might have been made in this area under less than clear circumstances as a kind of experiment just to see how long it takes for so

Reminder: pre-Christmas bug squashing ends Wednesday

2005-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
Dear fellow developers and contributors, This is a reminder that the bug squashing period I announced on 24 Nov 2005 is ending this coming Wednesday, 11:59 CET. For more information, please see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00019.html Kind regards, -- Please do no

Re: Packages-arch-specific

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right, well, as noted, it's generally a fairly low priority to get > packages added to P-a-s -- even though it's an eventual goal, the waste > just really isn't so much (in the usual case) to warrant a rush job. So > from that standpoint, as long as th

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Christian Perrier wrote: From the D-I team point of view: there are certainly tons of things to improve in our default installs, especially when we exit the real domain of D-I and enter the domain of general setup of a default system. The point is that this is not the a task for d-i. If a

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Even if the current software isn't publically available for whatever > reason (personally, I'm putting my money on "hacked into place over time > and not particularly easy to massage into a form someone else could run," That's one pa

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Replying to Christian Perrier. I see what you mean. But who is going to create The Debian Style? Maybe a contest is needed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, lets take an example: Where is the source thrown at you for > www.debian.org? > It isn't. You have to ask around, get to know or dig deep along the > links to find cvs.debian.org. Funny, I just did a Google search for site:www.debian.or

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Linas Zvirblis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >Yeah, and let's draw from the work by the Ubuntu guys, rather than > >doing it a different way! > > But doesn't Ubuntu use Debian installer? Yes, but they don't use tasksel...which is the one installing a "desktop" task. >From the D-I team point of

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: But what would you gain from that? In my experience, the mirrors are fast enough to saturate anything but the fastest (100Mb) links. I think the idea is a) load-balancing over multiple DSL lines b) checking a bunch of apt-proxy servers whether they can provide the

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Ivan! You wrote: > > As far as I read the proposal, it is about downloading _different_ > files from different mirrors - if you have 25 packages to get for your > 'apt-get update' operation, download 5 packages from each of 5 > different servers, with one connection to each se

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Ivan Adams wrote: My goal is using more bandwidth with apt-proxy servers on my friends, who have other internet connection. And I want to download first packet from my internet and second packet at the same time from the apt-proxy with my friend internet connection. Now, I can only download all

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Ivan Adams
My goal is using more bandwidth with apt-proxy servers on my friends, who have other internet connection.And I want to download first packet from my internet and second packet at the same time from the apt-proxy with my friend internet connection. Now, I can only download all packets from my intern

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/12/05, Ivan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As far as I read the proposal, it is about downloading _different_ > > files from different mirrors - if you have 25 packages to get for your > > 'apt-get update' operation, download 5 packages from each of 5 > > different servers, with one

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Ivan Adams
As far as I read the proposal, it is about downloading _different_files from different mirrors - if you have 25 packages to get for your 'apt-get update' operation, download 5 packages from each of 5different servers, with one connection to each server active at atime.That is what I mean ...  

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Yeah, and let's draw from the work by the Ubuntu guys, rather than doing it a different way! But doesn't Ubuntu use Debian installer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and the desktop (was: Re: Complaint about #debian operator)

2005-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.12.12.1405 +0100]: > I don't understand why for Etch, if a user chooses "Desktop" during > tasksel, they shouldn't get the just works[tm] experience. Yeah, and let's draw from the work by the Ubuntu guys, rather than doing it a different way! >

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Henning Makholm wrote: > As far as I read the proposal, it is about downloading _different_ > files from different mirrors - if you have 25 packages to get for your > 'apt-get update' operation, download 5 packages from each of 5 > different servers, with one connection to each

Bug#343082: ITP: netgen -- automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator

2005-12-12 Thread Denis Barbier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: netgen Version : 4.4 Upstream Author : Joachim Schoeberl * URL : http://www.hpfem.jku.at/netgen/ngs44.tar.gz * License : LGPL Description : automatic 3d tetrahedral

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > True, but that's not what's being asked here. If multiple URLs could > > serve requests for a single repository---i.e., if you've got both > > deb http://ftp1.CC.debian.org/debia

Removing gtksee package

2005-12-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, I intend to request the removal of the gtksee package from the archive. So let me explain why. I adopted the package in July 2004 and had a pretty active assosiation with the upstream author. During the time upstream authors absence became more and more frequent and after some time he maile

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1. We care about a large lot of people a lot more than we care for an >individual's downloading speed > 2. Thus we try to keep the mirror load down, and downloading hundreds of >megabytes using multiple connections to multiple sou

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 12, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > use more than a single server by itself... I didn't think it common > > > practice > > > for large mirror to configure multi-megabyte windows... > > TCP/IP windows? Or user bw shapin

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 12, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > use more than a single server by itself... I didn't think it common practice > > for large mirror to configure multi-megabyte windows... > TCP/IP windows? Or user bw shaping? He means the TCP window size, and it *is* common pra

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 12, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not open 3 connections one to each host? Why do? > Or at least fall back to the other IPs if the first one gives an > error? I hope that this already happens... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packages-arch-specific (was: Sparc build failure analysis)

2005-12-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:52:04AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > >> Again: what can I do with such a list? See the list below. > > Changes to the P-a-s list should be sent to the contac

Debian and the desktop (was: Re: Complaint about #debian operator)

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Banck
(Dropping Josh and moving to -devel, as this is discussion is going elsewhere) On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:59:05PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > However, some users just want a computer that works (the "plain > users"). They don't want to have to learn too much about Linux or > Debian, they just

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > 2005/12/12, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > We don't want them to open multiple connections even to MULTIPLE > > servers... > > That's odd though, because apt *does* open connections to multiple servers > all the time. To fe

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2005/12/12, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > We don't want them to open multiple connections even to > MULTIPLE servers... > > > That's odd though, because apt *does* open connections to multiple servers all >

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Ivan Adams
Can have option in /etc/apt/apt.conf or apt-get (install || upgrade) with -? some char here for parallelism.And by default can be disabled ...

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:45:50AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Dec 11, Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > But if multiple URLs could satisfactorily serve requests for a single >> > repository, only one of them is currently used. >> Wh

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:22:37PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Heiko M?ller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > We found that gcc-2.95 -Os produces object code of acceptable quality >> > within reasonable compilation times. gcc >=3 is less e

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-12 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That's still a bit of time wasted, but it's not really bad. The really > problematic version is when a package is downloaded, build-deps are > installed, and /then/ sbuild figures out that some version isn't recent > enough. According to the intersection of the debcheck bui

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-12 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That's still a bit of time wasted, but it's not really bad. The really > problematic version is when a package is downloaded, build-deps are > installed, and /then/ sbuild figures out that some version isn't recent > enough. According to the intersection of the debcheck bui

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:50:26PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> And when you try you get screamed at and flamed as witnessed in the >> huge buildd flame fest the last time. Iirc some 3000 packages were >> build outside the official buildd netwo

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > [snip] >> A similar issue I noted in the past is the big number of build failures >> that don't get tagged 'Failed'. I tried working on classifying them, but >> got bored so increadibly fast that I gave up, and decided for

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:40:11PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Anthony Towns writes: >> > Requeue requests are part of handling logs... You get a failed log, you >> > analyse it to say "oh, that's a transient error due to other things" >> > then you requeue it...

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> C'mon, this is a free software project. The obvious first step for >>> providing better infrastructure would be to make that infrastructure >>> publically

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:24:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > That sort of information is helpful to tell you when there is a problem, > but that's only the first step. ATM, the corresponding thing would > be to (gosh!) setup a webpage tracking whatever issue you

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns writes: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> It got proposed because no one was able to give correct explanations >> about why it hadn't been included. > > Heh. I'm almost morbidly curious enough to ask what you think the > "correct" explanation of

Re: i'm still seeing archived bugs

2005-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Domenico Andreoli wrote: why i'm still seeing lots of archived bugs in my packages? hmm.. also the http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ form does not work correctly. I guess it is because bug #339141 is just open. It seems that nobody really cares since 27 days. Kind regards

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
2005/12/12, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We don't want them to open multiple connections even to MULTIPLE servers... That's odd though, because apt *does* open connections to multiple servers all the time. To fetch packages lists, or if a package is only available on one of the

i'm still seeing archived bugs

2005-12-12 Thread Domenico Andreoli
hi, why i'm still seeing lots of archived bugs in my packages? hmm.. also the http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ form does not work correctly. please, what am i doing wrong? i'm accessing the logs with the following url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=curl thank you domenico -

Re: Packages-arch-specific (was: Sparc build failure analysis)

2005-12-12 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 08:52 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > So I followed the instructions at the top of that file and requested a > P-a-s entry, after asking people here what to do. No response. Hm. I > wasn't sure what to make of that -- maybe this request is too trivial to > bother with, it's fi

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Ivan Adams
Thanks ...We don't want them to open multiple connections even to MULTIPLE servers...

Re: Bug#342959: Package explicitely build-depends on g++-3.4

2005-12-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Steve M. Robbins writes: > Howdy, > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:18:29AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > We will get rid of g++-3.3 for the etch release and remove the > > g++-3.3 package. > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:54:22AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > We would like to get rid of g