Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > I am inclined to agree with the bug reporter, but I want to double check > > and ask if anybody has other arguments. > > I use ifrename to give useful names to interfaces and just because udev > may be able to do this now as well does not mean they s

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:05:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> I expect to be able to pipe stuff to $PAGER, or invoke $PAGER > >> on a text file, like so: > >> % cat~/.bash_profile | $PAGER > >> % $PAGER ~/.bash_profile > > That seems to be an awfully user-specific expectation, given

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > > to the Package Tracking System. A sample configuration file is provided > > and I can help if you have tr

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 19 Apr 2006, Steve Langasek uttered the following: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:12:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> which explicitely calls sh -c to handle pipes and quotes in the >>> expected way. > >> I expect to be able to pipe stuff to $PAGER, or invoke $PAGER >> on a text file, like

nasty libgnutls11 bug still present (affects exim4 and libnss-ldap)

2006-04-19 Thread Daniel Hermann
Hi, the nasty libgnutls11 bug described at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325971 is still present in the newest Sarge version 1.0.16-13.2 just released with Sarge 3.1r2, but the bug report is still closed. Already in January, I wrote an e-mail to the bug report to reopen the

Bug#363581: ITP: tremulous -- Team based FPS game with elements of an RTS

2006-04-19 Thread Damien Laniel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damien Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tremulous Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tremulous.net/ * License : GPL, CC Programming Lang: C, Asm Description : Team

Re: Common Position on RubyGems, stupid? what about /usr/local/ ?

2006-04-19 Thread Antony Lesuisse
Isn't that list for subversion commit messages ? I also saw that debian-ruby was very quiet that's why i posted to devel. I didn't say this is the official policy, nor that the page was stupid (the page is actually well done). I'm just asking a question, isn't it stupid not to support gem officia

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-19 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 20, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Besides the fact that ifrename is more of a hack, now that udev enables > > persistent naming of interfaces (z25_persistent-net.rules) udev should > > conflict with ifrename. Otherwise the user coul

Bug#363539: ITP: menhir -- Parser generator for OCaml

2006-04-19 Thread Samuel Mimram
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: menhir Version : 20060412 Upstream Author : François Pottier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yann Régis-Gianas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/ * Licens

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
If you have not noticed yet, the latest udev release by default automatically generates rules to have persistent names for network interfaces. I am inclined to agree with the bug reporter, but I want to double check and ask if anybody has other arguments. On Apr 20, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > to the Package Tracking System. A sample configuration file is provided > and I can help if you have troubles installing it. Are you proposing that exi

Re: Interesting article about flamewars

2006-04-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality >and Social Psychology, I've only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the >tone of any e-mail message. The study also shows that people think >they've correctly interp

Interesting article about flamewars

2006-04-19 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I was reading this: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 And I'm pondering how to extract some useful suggestions for the Debian Community Guidelines[1] out of this. I think the "Read messages smartly" part[2] almost gets it already, but can that article br

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-19 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:43:12PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi Frank, > > I wanted to try out myself whether there are any issues, but it fails > > to build with > > Can you send me the whole build log? Do you have automake or autoconf > installed? I've noticed that the build process fails if

Re: ip access pemit

2006-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:06, Murilo Bernardes wrote: > i've got a email server and i'd like to permit access only to a few ip > numbers. can anyone help with this? Please don't ask to ask a question, just ask the question. What MTA do you use? What is the desired end result? -- Paul John

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:12:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > which explicitely calls sh -c to handle pipes and quotes in the > > expected way. > I expect to be able to pipe stuff to $PAGER, or invoke $PAGER > on a text file, like so: > % cat~/.bash_profile | $PAGER > % $PA

Bug#363568: ITP: [RFS] lingot -- accurate and easy to use musical instrument tuner

2006-04-19 Thread Niv Sardi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niv Sardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: lingot Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Authors : Ibán Cereijo Graña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jairo Chapela Martínez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * UR

Re: ip access pemit

2006-04-19 Thread Murilo Bernardes
thanks!!! christoph by the way, i'm using postfix can you help anyway? ;' ))) 2006/4/19, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:06:40PM -0300, Murilo Bernardes wrote:> i've got a email server and i'd like to permit access only to a few ip numbers.> can anyone help with this

Re: ip access pemit

2006-04-19 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:06:40PM -0300, Murilo Bernardes wrote: > i've got a email server and i'd like to permit access only to a few ip > numbers. > can anyone help with this? Depends on the mail server (exim? postfix? sendmail?). Also please direct your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a

Re: Common Position on RubyGems, stupid? what about /usr/local/ ?

2006-04-19 Thread Eric Dorland
* Antony Lesuisse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Reading http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html was > disappointing. > > I might be completely wrong but i would like to know what you think about > this idea. I noticed that the ruby1.8 install supports the directory: > > /usr/l

ip access pemit

2006-04-19 Thread Murilo Bernardes
hello, i've got a email server and i'd like to permit access only to a few ip numbers. can anyone help with this?

Re: Common Position on RubyGems, stupid? what about /usr/local/ ?

2006-04-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/04/06 at 12:33 +0200, Antony Lesuisse wrote: > Reading http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html was > disappointing. The correct place to express your disappointment about this "stupid" page is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, since this is a web page written by the Debian/R

Delft Debian Booth, May 17th, @ SANE 2006

2006-04-19 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Invitation / Call For Help Debian Booth at SANE2006 Free Software Bazaar Delft, The Netherlands, TUDelft Aula Congress Centre Wednesday, May 17th 2006, 18:30 - 22:00 (local time = CEST) 25+ projects/communities represented; free entrance, free parking! Hi all, Debian has been offered

[MEETINGS] Next D-I team meeting on Saturday April 29th 16:00 UTC

2006-04-19 Thread Christian Perrier
The next Debian Installer team opened meeting is scheduled for Saturday Apr 29th 16:00 UTC. This meeting will be focused on the beta3 release. The Wiki page is opened for the meeting agenda. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings I will add timings to the agenda at the last minute, as

Common Position on RubyGems, stupid? what about /usr/local/ ?

2006-04-19 Thread Antony Lesuisse
Reading http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html was disappointing. I might be completely wrong but i would like to know what you think about this idea. I noticed that the ruby1.8 install supports the directory: /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8 So what about packaging a versio

Re: Is Jose Luis Tallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Oleksandr Moskalenko 2006-04-18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wonder if anyone has knowledge of the whereabouts of Jose Luis Tallon as far > as his Debian involvement is concerned. His packages have several RC bugs, > have not been updated for while, and some of them have been NMUed a while ago. Hi

Re: Build failure when autotools are installed (Was: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system)

2006-04-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Frank Küster said: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I wanted to try out myself whether there are any issues, but it fails > >> to build with > > > > Can you send me the whole build log? Do you have automake or autoconf > > installed? I've noticed that

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 01:37, Barry Drake wrote: > It is now far easier to install Debian than Windows XP - yes - really. And > I'm not a regular Linux user. And to all those who disagreed with me on this point about two years ago: I told you so... -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Goo

Build failure when autotools are installed (Was: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system)

2006-04-19 Thread Frank Küster
Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wanted to try out myself whether there are any issues, but it fails >> to build with > > Can you send me the whole build log? Do you have automake or autoconf > installed? I've noticed that the build process fails if they are, > because the configure f

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 18 Apr 2006, Loïc Minier uttered the following: > reassign 363250 man retitle 363250 Please clarify how $PAGER is > invoked in the man manpage stop > > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006, Rohan Dhruva wrote: >> export PAGER="col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist >> titlestring=MANPAGE' -" > > Thi

Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there .. It's about five or six years since I made an installation of Debian. It was not easy and took simply ages. This Easter, I wanted to test BibleTime, and decided to make a fresh start. Congratulations on your install system. The stable version installed so easily and well

hoi gia Ve may Bay!

2006-04-19 Thread TRAN DUC TAI
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Re: Philipp Matthias Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 4/19/06, Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder what very soon now (tm) means. :) > > I assume NMUs can be done (on the mytop package)? > > You can always NMU any package when you think it is necessary. We have > a procedure for that :) I think it's necessary for net-tools, but

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-19 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: > Policy does not really specify how to handle $PAGER and its friends Feel free to clone against policy, I agree that it would be cleaner to define how it should be called in policy (but it would still be nice to have man man document how $PAGER is i

Re: Philipp Matthias Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Olaf van der Spek 2006-04-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Does anyone know whether Philipp Matthias Hahn is MIA? Hi, please Cc: the person in question when asking about MIAness. At the same time, Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to make sure the MIA tracking team is aware, we might miss your message on -de

Bug#363447: ITP: libactiveldap-ruby -- An ActiveRecord inspired object-oriented interface to LDAP for Ruby

2006-04-19 Thread Nick Barkas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Barkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libactiveldap-ruby Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Will Drewry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dataspill.org/pages/projects/ruby-activeldap * License : Ruby's License

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-19 Thread Miles Bader
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Policy does not really specify how to handle $PAGER and its friends, > but I have always assumed that it was OK for a package to do things > like (error checking omitted for clarity): ... > In that case, PAGER has to be set to just the name of a program

Re: Philipp Matthias Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 4/19/06, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:19:58AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Does anyone know whether Philipp Matthias Hahn is MIA? > > Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:26:13 +0100: > "I'm very busy at the moment (univertity work), had deveral hardware > failures

Bug#363467: ITP: xfce4-dev-tools -- Script to help building Xfce from svn

2006-04-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-dev-tools Version : 4.3.90.1 Upstream Author : Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://foo-projects.org/~benny/projects/xfce4-dev-tools/index.html * Li

Bug#363466: ITP: xfce4-verve-plugin -- Verve (command line) plugin for Xfce 4.4 panel

2006-04-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-verve-plugin Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Jannis Pohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de * License : GPLv2 Programming L

Re: Philipp Matthias Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Florian Ernst
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:19:58AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Does anyone know whether Philipp Matthias Hahn is MIA? Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:26:13 +0100: "I'm very busy at the moment (univertity work), had deveral hardware failures and had a problem getting my new PGP key into the Debian keyrin

Philipp Matthias Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2006-04-19 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Hi, Does anyone know whether Philipp Matthias Hahn is MIA? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: So we got caught, so what? But we did the right thing.

2006-04-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
You are completely off-topic and you know it. Please continue this discussion somewhere else, e.g. debian-curiosa or, better yet, in private mail. Thank you. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: So we got caught, so what? But we did the right thing.

2006-04-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 22:11 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Still, regardless of whether the state of Utah recognizes a marriage, > >> that is surely a different question from whether the marriage has, in > >> fact, occurred. > > > > Making that d

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-19 Thread Frank Küster
Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here comes the usual comment: Please make sure to follow the Debian TeX >> Policy Draft in /usr/share/tex-common/. > > Xindy does not provide any tex, style or class files. Aren't there any index style files (like the ones passed to traditional makeind