Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Christian Perrier
> > is Martin Schulze; [...] > > Yes, but he prefers to be called Joey. But has "Martin" in his From line, which is pretty confusing for people who are not hardcore Debianers since the origins of computing...:-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Does /etc/shadow exist in an sbuild environment?

2006-04-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kevin B. McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > Does anyone know whether the default sbuild environment includes the > file /etc/shadow? I am sponsoring a package ("root", cf. #325306) whose > configure script tests the existence of /etc/shadow to decide whether or > not to support sh

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 25 Apr 2006, Bernhard R. Link outgrape: > * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060425 18:09]: >> On what basis are you making this decision? I explained that it is >> important, for debugging and development reasons for the free >> software community, to be able to easily build upstream vers

Bug#364976: ITP: facter -- a library for retrieving facts from operating systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: facter Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Luke Kanies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://reductivelabs.com/projects/facter * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Descr

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:08:50PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:28:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > That's why we have FTBFS bugs. > > The efficiency of that is far lower. FTBFS bugs are manually submitted, > more then once I experienced a gap of weeks betwee

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:28:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That's why we have FTBFS bugs. The efficiency of that is far lower. FTBFS bugs are manually submitted, more then once I experienced a gap of weeks between the actual FTBFS and the bug report. Having the possibility of subscribing

Re: Does /etc/shadow exist in an sbuild environment?

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:07:37PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know whether the default sbuild environment includes the > file /etc/shadow? It might, if the admin set it up inside the chroot. It's not guaranteed, though, as sbuild functions without it, too (though it

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:07:58PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:13PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Those cases can be treated differently than failures due to other > > > reasons, though. > > Uh, yes; and they are. But that's not the point. > > > > The poi

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:32:00PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-04-21 11:54:47, schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:14:10AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > > Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > > How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? > > > > Use a rope? > > > >

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Luigi Gangitano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il giorno 26/apr/06, alle ore 15:25, Joerg Jaspert ha scritto: experimental is autobuild, thats no reason to not use it. And you dont break the existing squid package in unstable/testing with an upload to exp. I think I wasn't clear when I explain

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Luigi Gangitano
Il giorno 26/apr/06, alle ore 12:35, Eduard Bloch ha scritto: How would that interact with running squid installations? Please tell us what the actuall constraints are instead of repeating "needs to stay here, needs to stay there". I assume you want to: - make a package name more clear to sh

Does /etc/shadow exist in an sbuild environment?

2006-04-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, Does anyone know whether the default sbuild environment includes the file /etc/shadow? I am sponsoring a package ("root", cf. #325306) whose configure script tests the existence of /etc/shadow to decide whether or not to support shadow passwords. This is a compile-time setting, so I'd li

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Robert Collins wrote: > Wearing my upstream hat, I'd like to see squid3 packages that *do not* > conflict or replace squid packages in a release. > > Squid3 has many features that are simply not available to squid 2.5, and > I think parallel installs are really quite reasonabl

ndiswrapper update

2006-04-26 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, I've redone the packaging for ndiswrapper, starting with 1.8-2. My goal is to allow utils packages to be installed in parallel, and to allow a smooth upgrade from both 1.1-4 (the version that's in sarge) and 1.8-1 (the version that's in sid). If you are running ndiswrapper 1.8-1, please upgr

Bug#364940: ITP: libkwiki-plugins-perl -- Plugins for Kwiki

2006-04-26 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libkwiki-plugins-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Various. Compiled by Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : N/A * License : GPL+Artistic Description

Re: Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 26, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FYI, this will probably horribly break the udev configuration. > There may well be situations where Udev breaks but I haven't seen There are, I am sure about this. You MUST purge and reinstall udev to have a chance for it to work. If you do not i

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:13PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Those cases can be treated differently than failures due to other > > reasons, though. > Uh, yes; and they are. But that's not the point. > > The point really is that build failures rarely need maintainer > intervention. Botheri

Re: Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:56:36AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:31, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Apr 26, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In working on (unsupported) dist-upgrades from Ubuntu/Breezy > > > to Debian/Etch I ran into a lot of failures due to missing > > F

Re: Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:31, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 26, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In working on (unsupported) dist-upgrades from Ubuntu/Breezy > > to Debian/Etch I ran into a lot of failures due to missing > FYI, this will probably horribly break the udev configuration. There

Re: Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 26, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In working on (unsupported) dist-upgrades from Ubuntu/Breezy > to Debian/Etch I ran into a lot of failures due to missing FYI, this will probably horribly break the udev configuration. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: screenshot with package description

2006-04-26 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-04-26 às 18:49 +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder escreveu: > On graphic software websites, in general the most visited page is the one > with > the screenshots because it give a good overview of the software. > In general a screenshot is better that the limited description provided by > the

screenshot with package description

2006-04-26 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
Hello, On graphic software websites, in general the most visited page is the one with the screenshots because it give a good overview of the software. In general a screenshot is better that the limited description provided by the Debian control file. I think that tools like synaptic or Debian I

Re: Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:14:40AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > How else should I report this, if at all? > > In working on (unsupported) dist-upgrades from Ubuntu/Breezy > to Debian/Etch I ran into a lot of failures due to missing > gconf-schemas. A lot of gnome software uses gconf-schemas > in pos

Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Mike Bird
How else should I report this, if at all? In working on (unsupported) dist-upgrades from Ubuntu/Breezy to Debian/Etch I ran into a lot of failures due to missing gconf-schemas. A lot of gnome software uses gconf-schemas in postinst but depends on gconf2 >= 2.10.1-2. gconf-schemas seems to have a

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10636 March 1977, Luigi Gangitano wrote: >> Upload to experimental, not as new source. > Why not? Just from what i read in the thread... > Since I'd like to make squid3 easily available to all those that want > to try the new features, without braking the existing squid package, > unstable is

Re: RFA: lirc - Linux Infra-red Remote Control support

2006-04-26 Thread Amaya
Steve Langasek wrote: > In that case, you probably want to open a RFA bug rather than an O bug. Yep. I got #364606 now. Really, people, nobody wants a beautiful lirc package? -- .''`. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think : :' : I have ended up where I needed to be -- D

Re: Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread David McGiven
Dear Steinar, I'm not an expert on NFS/SunRPC so I cannot say it would be good or bad to assign fixed port numbers on debian BY DEFAULT. Regards, David - Original Message - > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:36:59AM -0500, David McGiven wrote: > > The newer 2.6 series kernels support configu

Re: Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, David McGiven said: > > Dear Debian Developers, > > The newer 2.6 series kernels support configuring the TCP/UDP port number > of the kernel lockd via the files /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_tcpport and > /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_udpport. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf

Re: Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread David McGiven
Marco, Most probably you're right, but take a look to this scenario : You want to change the lockd ports. For this you have to stop->start the nfs-common service, echo "port" > /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_tcpport and start again. When you're sure you want those ports, and if you want to preserve this

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: To debian-devel@lists.debian.org 2006-04-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [*] Though I don't think "we" ever said Manoj's wish to rename the > package was unethical - "we" just think that it confuses users more > than it serves them. But as said, that's up to the maintainer to > decide. Hrm, I missed

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-22 01:27:18, schrieb Henning Makholm: > Scripsit Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > And for those who still are complaining about the installer not being > > graphical: please, guys, there's more than your x86 machines. Keep that > > in mind. And where is the difference between a

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-21 11:54:47, schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:14:10AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? > > > Use a rope? > > > -- Seen on #Debian > > > > That was a good one! Was it Joey H. or Joey S.? A

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-21 07:07:56, schrieb Andrew Donnellan: > Babelfish says the other email was complaining that the resolution > should be higher and criticising the installer for being 90s-era. If > he wanted help he could have actually asked...at least some people > like Barry appreciate how easy it act

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Russ Allbery 2006-04-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Must we decide on a policy? Can't Manoj just package gnus-dfsg and > > be done with it? Is that really such a big problem? > > > I think not. > > Amen. > > I can understand people disagreeing with Manoj's choice, but am completely > mystified b

Re: Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:36:59AM -0500, David McGiven wrote: > The newer 2.6 series kernels support configuring the TCP/UDP port number > of the kernel lockd via the files /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_tcpport and > /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_udpport. Actually, I've been considering locking both lockd, mountd

Re: Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 26, David McGiven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having a look on /etc/init.d/nfs-common and /etc/default/nfs-common (On > Debian Sarge) I don't find any smart way to specify those ports. It would > be great if we had an option to specify the ports on the file : > /etc/default/nfs-common No,

Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread David McGiven
Dear Debian Developers, The newer 2.6 series kernels support configuring the TCP/UDP port number of the kernel lockd via the files /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_tcpport and /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_udpport. Having a look on /etc/init.d/nfs-common and /etc/default/nfs-common (On Debian Sarge) I don't find any

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:42 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:13:32AM +0200, Luigi Gangitano wrote: > > Squid 3 is not release ready. And with current plans should not > > release with etch. So squid 2.5 needs to stay in unstable/testing at > > least until etch is relea

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Luigi Gangitano [Wed, Apr 26 2006, 12:21:52PM]: > >>Squid 3 is not release ready. And with current plans should not > >>release > >>with etch. > > > >Upload to experimental, not as new source. > > Why not? Since I'd like to make squid3 easily available to all those > that want to

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:13:32AM +0200, Luigi Gangitano wrote: > Squid 3 is not release ready. And with current plans should not > release with etch. So squid 2.5 needs to stay in unstable/testing at > least until etch is released and can be installed on production > machines. Well, then t

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Luigi Gangitano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joerg, Il giorno 26/apr/06, alle ore 12:06, Joerg Jaspert ha scritto: On 10636 March 1977, Luigi Gangitano wrote: I don't think people will install unstable on production machines, so don't see how that would be a problem. Squid 3 is not relea

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Luigi Gangitano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il giorno 26/apr/06, alle ore 11:13, Christian Perrier ha scritto: I don't think people will install unstable on production machines, so don't see how that would be a problem. Unstable, maybe not. Testing, well, I can bet a few beers (preferrably

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10636 March 1977, Luigi Gangitano wrote: >> I don't think people will install unstable on production machines, so >> don't see how that would be a problem. > Squid 3 is not release ready. And with current plans should not release > with etch. Upload to experimental, not as new source. -- bye

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Christian Perrier
> You're about to upload a separate squid3 package (to unstable) because > you think people should continue to use squid 2.5 on production > machines. > > I don't think people will install unstable on production machines, so > don't see how that would be a problem. Unstable, maybe not. Testing,

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Luigi Gangitano
Il giorno 26/apr/06, alle ore 08:06, Wouter Verhelst ha scritto: Would you really install unstable on your production machine? No, and this is exactly my point. Then I'm afraid I don't get your point. You're about to upload a separate squid3 package (to unstable) because you think people sh

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060425 20:45]: > > For me a changed .orig.tar.gz means I no longer can easily verify what > > exactly is changed. So I have to not only to download the original > > This is a bug. debian/copyright might be in the diff, but it still needs to > des

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

2006-04-26 Thread Daniel Hermann
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On 4/19/06, Daniel Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the very least, could you please reopen bug #325971 so that people > > can find out what's wrong with their server. > > AIUI, anybody can reopen a bug report. > T

Bug#364856: ITP: newpki-php -- PKI based on the OpenSSL low-level API (php module)

2006-04-26 Thread Pierre Chifflier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: newpki-php Version : 2.0.0+rc1 Upstream Author : Frederic Giudicelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.newpki.org/ * License : GPL with openssl exception Program