Re: removal of svenl from the project

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:01:09PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > Hi, > > I am going through the expulsion process to have Sven Luther removed > from the project. The process is outlined here: > , > and I have already completed

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Simon, On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >If someone differentiated > >it into a simple triaged state: unseen, seem and expect to process soon > >and seen and requires more processing, i

Re: Maintainer for fftw 2.1.3 requested

James A Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, how does one go about getting their name removed from being > listed as the maintainer of a package(s)? Bugs were filed against wnpp > in Aug 2004 to orphan the fftw packages listed above but I still am > getting all mails related to them. You hav

Maintainer for fftw 2.1.3 requested

1.5 years without a maintainer is too long. Although orphaned in Aug 2004 no one has yet stepped forward to package fftw version 2 (as well as its cousins k6fftwgel, k7fftwgel and p4fftwgel which should be maintained by the same person). I am surprised, as fftw is an excellent fft package and is

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

#include * Goswin von Brederlow [Tue, Mar 14 2006, 10:11:43PM]: > >> What is a depends? Do you mean dependency or dependents? > > > > I think he means dependents: If package foo depends on library foobar, > > dpkg/apt can unpack and configure-without-ldconfig all packages that > > don't depend o

Re: GFDL question

Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:30:04AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > So it is still not distributable. >> ... in main. > The Debian distribution _is_ main (and only main). The jargon in debian-legal trad

Re: removal of svenl from the project

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:01 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] > Sven has always been a nuisance to deal w/, but up until now I have not > considered this action. In the past two weeks, the following comments > made by him have changed my mind: > > 2006-03-07: > jonas: i hope we never again meet

removal of svenl from the project

Hi, I am going through the expulsion process to have Sven Luther removed from the project. The process is outlined here: , and I have already completed step 1. Step #2 requires the support of some 15 developers. I am attemptin

Bug#356930: general: X adding bad info in last -d -i

Package: general Severity: normal When you start an X-server, it appears to add bad info to last -d -i tested with 2 different boxes, it adds a line like the following scot pts/2192.168.1.5 Tue Mar 13 20.19 still logged in scot :0 148.33.21.64 Tue Mar 13 20.10 still logged i

Bug#356950: ITP: python-pyepl -- library for coding psychology experiments

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-pyepl Version : 1.0.9 Upstream Author : Ian Schleifer, Per Sederberg, Aaron Geller, Josh Jacobs * URL or Web page : http://pyepl.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL v2.1 Description : library for coding psychology e

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

Hi, Thomas, 2006/2/28, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have uploaded gnucash 1.9.1 to the experimental archive today. This > is the long-awaited GNOME-2 version of gnucash. Oh, yes! A new toy for the weekend :) It compiles just fine in i386 and appears to work. There are things t

Re: Regarding the NEW queue (Was: Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?)

Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ma, 2006-03-13 kello 14:59 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar kirjoitti: >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:20:38PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> > Is there a reason why the question should be made in private? >> >> It seems as if only problems and annoyances end up on mailinglists

Re: GFDL question

Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear all! > > Now that the GFDL resolution has been done, I have the following > question: > > Most (some) documents of the FSF have the following license for the > docs: > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document > under the terms of th

Re: GFDL question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:30:04AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > El martes, 14 de marzo de 2006 a las 08:27:25 +0100, Norbert Preining >> > escribía: >> > >> >> Ok, there are no invariant sections, bu

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> dpkg-hook /usr/lib/man/update-manpages - run only once in total >>> dpkg-hook --on-depends foobar ldconfig - run once before depends of foobar >> >> What is a depends? Do you mean dependency or dependents? >

Re: GFDL question

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:30:04AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > El martes, 14 de marzo de 2006 a las 08:27:25 +0100, Norbert Preining > > escribía: > > > >> Ok, there are no invariant sections, but there is (a short) front and > >> back cover text. >

News from the pkg-fonts project

The Font packaging project is slowly progressing. After setting up an Alioth project and a SVN repository, we now have a mailing list on Alioth: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fonts-devel The point is now gathering the interested people in this mailing list and make the projec

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

On 13-Mar-06, 17:11 (CST), Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brr, there was no such decision, so no need to inform anything anywhere. > > It was more a "try to not grow that fast for now, and try to remove > stuff when you add new things". That was after the archive growing > superfast i

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

On 13-Mar-06, 15:27 (CST), Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Not if the relevant header hasn't been included. No "#include > > ", no compiler messing with "strdup()." > > You are misinformed. First, note that strdup() is not in the > standard

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

#include * Bill Allombert [Tue, Mar 14 2006, 04:20:28AM]: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > I just wondered why exactly my laptop uses that much time for updates > > and I think that calling ldconfig is a main problem. In theory, it > > should

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg would then run any pending hooks (with diagnostics as proposed by > Eduard in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) by calling: I would like to add a wish WRT diagnostics: There should be a commandline option (handled with --add-option) that has the effect that the

Re: ITP: moleinvasion -- Jump'n run game with Tux

Scripsit Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please consider the following patch: Which, however, will not stop the code from dying horribly if $LANG does not contain an underscore (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias), or if it contains an underscore that comes so late that there is no room for th

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

* Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If someone happens to install sonamed libfoo.so only but rely on > > ldconfig to create the libfoo.so.N symlink > It takes about 20 seconds to find out that Debian policy does forbid > such a packaging - see the last pa

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:20:28AM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: >I offer to implement a update-ldconfig program that would work the same >way update-menus work, by checking a lock and forking in the background >and waiting for the dpkg lock. It's more than just update-menus and ldconfig. update-m

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

Hi, Kevin Mark wrote: If someone differentiated it into a simple triaged state: unseen, seem and expect to process soon and seen and requires more processing, it may alleviate some anxiety -- or maybe not. Hm, I am wondering how the internal communication between the ftpmasters works (i.e.

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

Scripsit Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If someone happens to install sonamed libfoo.so only but rely on > ldconfig to create the libfoo.so.N symlink > Ralf (no I don't know whether Debian policy already forbids this setup) It takes about 20 seconds to find out that Debian policy does

Bug#356837: ITP: nino -- NINO - a network management solution using SNMP and WMI

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nino Version : 4.1.8 Upstream Author : Jorgen Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nino/ * License : GPL Version 2 Description : NIN

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hi people, > > I just wondered why exactly my laptop uses that much time for updates > and I think that calling ldconfig is a main problem. In theory, it > should not cost much time because VFS cache has the relevant file parts. > How

Re: cross-compiling Debian packages

[ Please Cc: me on replies ] > So, why should the autoconf have this cross-compiling mode, when what > is in fact needed is a way to let it still work despite the inability > to execute built test programs? Many tests done by Autoconf-created configure scripts do not need to execute the created b

Re: ITP: moleinvasion -- Jump'n run game with Tux

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:51:51AM +0100, G?rkan wrote: > * Package name: moleinvasion > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Guillaume Chambraud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://moleinvasion.tuxfamily.org/ > * License : GNU General Public License, version 2 >

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

#include * Frank Küster [Tue, Mar 14 2006, 09:52:06AM]: > Registering the TeX fonts, on the other hand, is a good candidate for > delayed execution: It takes long each time it is done, many packages do > it in their postinst, and it will fail with the first package that is > configured, no matter

Re: Bug#353693: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert:Unnecessarily linked libraries

[ Please Cc: me on replies ] Hi Frank, > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But even after fixing this, tetex-bin seems to be using some obscure and > > obsolete feature of autoconf 2.13 that replaces "ac_include $file" in > > Makefile.in with the contents of that file in the output Ma

ITP: moleinvasion -- Jump'n run game with Tux

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: moleinvasion Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Guillaume Chambraud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://moleinvasion.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GNU General Public License, version 2 Description : Jump'n run gam

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

[ Please Cc: me on replies ] > Therefore it is crucial that only commands > > - that cannot sensibly be assumed to fail, und any circumstances > including f'cked up filesystems, > can be allowed. That would exclude ldconfig then. If someone happens to install sonamed libfoo.so only but rely o

Re: GFDL question

Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El martes, 14 de marzo de 2006 a las 08:27:25 +0100, Norbert Preining > escribía: > >> Ok, there are no invariant sections, but there is (a short) front and >> back cover text. >> How do we proceed with these documents? > > From the text of the GR itsel

Re: versioned symbols in shared libraries (upstream != Debian)

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:25:21AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Now MySQL finally closed my bug report to them and provides symbols > in their upstream source. Sadly they look like: > f280 gDF .text 000b libmysqlclient_15 mysql_row_tell > f4d0 gDF .text 0043 lib

Re: versioned symbols in shared libraries (upstream != Debian)

Le mardi 14 mars 2006 à 01:25 +0100, Christian Hammers a écrit : > Hello > > During the last month I have build my libmysqlclient15 with > shared symbols that looked in "objdump -T" like: > 0013a154 gDO .bss 0004 MYSQL_5.0 my_dont_interrupt > 00026d70 gDF .text 02fa MYSQ

Re: cross-compiling Debian packages

> Libary locations and library search paths. dpkg-cross and every other > crosscompiling solution moves libraries to unexpected locations. You no > longer can "just apt-get" the target arch libs you need. This is > managable as long as you stick with autoconf -based software, but you'll > go nuts w

Re: GFDL question

El martes, 14 de marzo de 2006 a las 08:27:25 +0100, Norbert Preining escribía: > Ok, there are no invariant sections, but there is (a short) front and > back cover text. > How do we proceed with these documents? From the text of the GR itself: This means that works that don't include any Invar

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * delayed execution > * instantaneous execution (purges cache) > * instantaneous execution if an operation is pending, nothing else >(purge the cache). > > e.g. If a package uses tex to build some sort of documentation at > install time (I know

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - there are no dangerous transitions (libc5->libc6) that would >> require having updated ld.so.cache immediately - all >> applications should follow the ld.so.conf paths if something is >> not in the cache. No pro

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

Le Lun 13 Mars 2006 19:46, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > #include > > * Pierre Habouzit [Mon, Mar 13 2006, 07:16:22PM]: > > > What is a depends? Do you mean dependency or dependents? > > > Further, I would not depend on package installation operations > > > but instead invent something like "dpkg-hook