mdadm 2.4.1-1 ready for tests

2006-05-16 Thread martin f krafft
Hi all, I have finished mdadm 2.4.1-1 and would like some people to look at it before I upload it, since I made some significant changes (no more mdrun, for instance (but it's not yet deprecated until initramfs-tools syncs)). Here's the changelog: mdadm (2.4.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

I want to modify the gnome panel deb package

2006-05-16 Thread Indraveni
Hi,  we are working for a  distro which is using debian pacakges. By default the gnome panel is having no colour. I want to change the look and feel of the panel, Applications menu backgroud color, Window title background color..,etc. Just to make it look diferent with diffrent colors. I dont want

Re: Moving GFDL documentation to non-free

2006-05-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Hi. I'm just a lowly user with a bandwidth problem. Certainly was a shock to get back from town to find the documentation gone from the debs I brought back. However, I am to make one last trip to town so it's my one shot chance to download the new additional debs where that documentation now lies.

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:39 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > >> The point is that they could if the wanted to. And if they did, it > >> would work for _all_ programs, not just particular perl

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:01 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 5/15/06, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:19:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen w

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
> > But say you have the old i486 ls installed in /bin/ls and now you > install the new amd64 ls in /bin/ls/x86_64. > > Wait a second. How do you create the dir when the file already exists? > dpkg has to specialy handle this case for every package. > That's probably a bit of a problem. But tha

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 19:24, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? >> >> Upstream reports that the SQL subsystem is known not to work. S

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:24 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send > >> > email

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > reportbug sends mail to wherever it is configured; the default > > setup should be to send mail to bugs.debian.org, not the ISP's > > smtp server, since that can't be known in advance. [I don't know > > if this is the default

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:14:48PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I don't see it as a general issue either; if you have problems of this >> > type, >> > you should report them to the bug tracki

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Lets say we do add special dirs for binaries and let dpkg manage >> them. How would that work with old and new debs mixed together? Should >> dpkg move all binaries into subdirs on upgrade once? Should it move >> binaries into subdirs when a s

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send >> > email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing, >> > because,

Daily built images for i386 include graphical installation option

2006-05-16 Thread Frans Pop
At Debconf Joey Hess and I have integrated support for the graphical installer into the main build system for d-i. For now the support is for i386 only, but amd64 [1] and powerpc will follow very soon. This means that the daily built images [2] of the installer now include an option to boot the

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #include > * Matt Taggart and others [Wed, May 10 2006, 02:00:47AM]: > >> http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch > > Looking at all that I have a simple question: do we need a such kind of > invasive multiarch integration. There only things I have to use whi

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/15/06, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Le Dim 14 Mai 2006 21:11, Olaf van der Spek a écrit : >> > > - Why would you want to have both types installed simultaneously >> > > anyway? >> > > >> > > For libraries the answer is simple

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/15/06, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:19:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> >> I so far haven't seen any compelling arguments for multiarchify

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> honnestly, please find *ONE* application where alternatives can't >> solve your problem, and where upstream design would still allow to >> have both instances installed. I've though hard enough, and I've >> found none. > > Y

master/murphy downtime

2006-05-16 Thread Adam Heath
Master and murphy are changing colos. This entails a shutdown, de-rack, move across town(not far, tho), and power back up. Est. time is 2 hours. Nat rules will be installed, so that access can continue at the old addresses. DNS will be updated after the move. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> The point is that they could if the wanted to. And if they did, it >> would work for _all_ programs, not just particular perl scripts that >> happen to use some obscure perl module to send mails

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 19:24, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? > > Upstream reports that the SQL subsystem is known not to work. So that > means that until it gets to working, I cert

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: > Hi Lars! > > You wrote: > > > > The usage is mendantory (aka a must clause) but the bugs are not RC? > > > This does not fit. > > > > It violates policy, but not in a way enumerated on > > http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt,

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send > > email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing, > > because, for a long time, reportbug did not have that fe

Re: How to detect the active debconf frontend?

2006-05-16 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Küster wrote: > "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The alternative would be to check for $DEBIAN_FRONTEND, and if unset > >> parse "debconf-show debconf", but this doesn't look clean. > > > > Shouldn't a clean solution be done in debconf code and not in your package > > c

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > >> Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: [snip]

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:18 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Krzysztof Krzyzaniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> That would be accessible to _all_ programs whether they are written in > >> Perl or not. > > > But I still not get it why not to use Email::Send and choose method > > there? > > B

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't work for me. > > # grep apt.config /etc/pbuilderrc > APTCONFDIR="/etc/pbuilder/apt.config/" > # cat /etc/pbuilder/apt.config/apt.conf.d/allow-unauthenticated > APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated 1; > > but the same errors persist. Apparently

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Presumably the problem is that the packages cannot be authenticated. >> Presumably that's because the key inside the chroot is the old 2005 >> one? How do I fix that? > > $ grep apt.config /etc/pbuilder

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Presumably the problem is that the packages cannot be authenticated. >> Presumably that's because the key inside the chroot is the old 2005 >> one? How do I fix that? > > $ grep apt.config /etc/pbuilder

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presumably the problem is that the packages cannot be authenticated. > Presumably that's because the key inside the chroot is the old 2005 > one? How do I fix that? $ grep apt.config /etc/pbuilderrc.sid APTCONFDIR="/etc/pbuilder/apt.config/" $ cat

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/sbin/pbuilder update --override-config --configfile /etc/pbuilderrc.sid Ok, this gets me a good sid chroot. But I can't build with it. When I try to build, using, say, pbuilder build gnucash_1.9.6-3.dsc, I get seemingly normal pbuilder output, lot

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 5/16/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here's an idea: store the configuration meta data in the file itself, >> say, in the first line, following a comment starting with an exclamation >> mark. > This would kill MD5 ch

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> >> Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chro

bluez-pin: Crashes when used with --dbus

2006-05-16 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
severity 363425 serious thanks Seems that package which advertises 'Bluetooth PIN helper with D-BUS support' in description should at least don't crash when used with D-BUS, so I think this bug is at least 'serious'. -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Krzysztof Krzyzaniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> That would be accessible to _all_ programs whether they are written in >> Perl or not. > But I still not get it why not to use Email::Send and choose method > there? Because one might not be programming in Perl. > Email::Send is not another s

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No solution to the bug, but an easy workaround: Create a sarge chroot > tar.gz on your sarge machine, change pbuilderrc to point to sid (I have > copies for each distribution), and then update the tar.gz to sid, like > this: > > /usr/sbin/pbuilder update

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? Upstream reports that the SQL subsystem is known not to work. So that means that until it gets to working, I certainly won't be building it for Debian. Thomas -- To UNSUBSC

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:20 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > reportbug sends mail to wherever it is configured; the default setup > > should be to send mail to bugs.debian.org, not the ISP's smtp server, > > since that can't be known in advance. [I don't know if this

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
> > I don't think so. I see at least a few possible uses for this : > > > > 1) have a shared filesystem between machines of multiple architectures > > 2) test your programs on architectures you don't have by using qemu > > It might have its use there but it can't be simply done. The files > from t

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pardon me if I've missed something obvious or misunderstood > something. No solution to the bug, but an easy workaround: Create a sarge chroot tar.gz on your sarge machine, change pbuilderrc to point to sid (I have copies for each distribution), an

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Being able to install multiple versions is some use to multiarch, but >> > could also be used for other things, such if two packages provide the >> > same binary (git for example). >> > Or to install multiple 'version 'numbers' of the same p

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:11:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> I have just uploaded gnucash 1.9.6, > > And you should've used pbuilder to check if it is buildable. So I would love to use pbuilder on my fancy fast computer. It runs sarge. So w

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:08, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? >> >> I think so. > Great. If you want someone to test the builds ple

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 16, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Except that many ISPs now block outbound port 25 (at least on > consumer-level service), except for what is relayed through their mail > servers. Agreed. It's not reasonable to expect that port 25 connections from large consumer ISPs wil

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Romain Beauxis
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:53, Gabor Gombas wrote: > However, you can take this idea further: provided you have multiarched > binaries, you could create a small file system using FUSE that generates > such a wrapper on-the-fly based on the requested file name, and you > could mount this file system

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Don Armstrong wrote: > > reportbug sends mail to wherever it is configured; the default setup > should be to send mail to bugs.debian.org, not the ISP's smtp server, > since that can't be known in advance. [I don't know if this is the > default now, but it should be the default.] > Except that m

reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send > email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing, > because, for a long time, reportbug did not have that feature, and > people who don't know how to configure MTAs were no

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:41:54AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Apart from supporting more file formats, summain differs from the > traditional md5sum and sha1sum utilities by providing progress > reporting, and via convenience features such as automatic recursion > into directories, and look

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:11:08PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > That's great. Could you tell me how to use those so that script A uses > python 2.3 and script B uses python 2.4 without modifying the scripts? That's trivial. Create a wrapper that somehow decides which python version to run an

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
> > The obvious problem here: The scheme is incompatible with non-multiarched > software. It would at least require a package manager which specialcases > /bin directory, a one-time conversion which moves the binaries, and > some trickery for alternatives. Plus some more things which don't co

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060516 15:14]: > > Then something else. One can easily envisage installing as > > /usr/bin/sendmail something that reads an email, immediately > > sends it to a smarthost via SMTP and exits with an error if a problem > > happened. No daemon, no local spool. > > N

Re: How to detect the active debconf frontend?

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The alternative would be to check for $DEBIAN_FRONTEND, and if unset >> parse "debconf-show debconf", but this doesn't look clean. > > Shouldn't a clean solution be done in debconf code and not in your package > code? Yes, #367497 Thanks, Frank

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/16/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: > That depends on the implementation but I don't think it's not solvable. There's a bunch of claims from people who have worked on multiarch-related problems for a few years. You seem to think those claims are bogu

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Pierre Habouzit wrote: honnestly, please find *ONE* application where alternatives can't solve your problem, and where upstream design would still allow to have both instances installed. I've though hard enough, and I've found none. You might want to have, say, multiple installations of apach

Re: Buffer Image

2006-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I don't know. But it looks like this problem was discussed on the "full-disclosure" mailing list last year; see http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031928.html Hamish On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 06:11:10AM +0100, Indraveni wrote: > How we can blank the RAM of Video Card.

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Olaf van der Spek wrote: That depends on the implementation but I don't think it's not solvable. There's a bunch of claims from people who have worked on multiarch-related problems for a few years. You seem to think those claims are bogus, so I suggest you write up a solution which does all

Bug#367500: ITP: quackle -- graphical Scrabble-like crossword game and analysis tool

2006-05-16 Thread Alec Berryman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: quackle Version : 0.92 Upstream Authors: Jason Katz-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John O'Laughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: Laptop support: acpi-support

2006-05-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Gah, resent with a valid d-devel in the Cc: line ] Buxy writes: >Hello everybody, > >Ubuntu has made some efforts to better support a wide range of laptops and >this resulted in some changes that are still not completely integrated in >Debian. > >One of the changes is that they install automati

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > >> Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's > >> /usr/bin/sendmail? E.g. nullmailer

Re: Creation of custom "configured" packages?

2006-05-16 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 12:10, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:28:57 +0200, "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1) use multilevel/modular config where available: > > usually in the form of a /etcc/.d directory > > (e.g. /etc/apt/conf.d), or stacked config se

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/16/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/16/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I don't care about the implementation details, but if it requires >> > kernel support, then yes. >> >> How should

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/16/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I don't care about the implementation details, but if it requires >> > kernel support, then yes. >> >> How should the kernel (or any other implementation) know which script >> req

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak
Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > >>> Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's >>> /usr/bin/sendmail? E.g. nullmailer. > >> nullmailer is, in general, bro

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/16/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't care about the implementation details, but if it requires > kernel support, then yes. How should the kernel (or any other implementation) know which script requires which python version without the scripts declaring it?

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/16/06, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:11:08PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> >> See the system calls link(2) and symlink(2). The (Essential) coreutils >> >> package provides a userspace binary

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/16/06, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:11:08PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> See the system calls link(2) and symlink(2). The (Essential) coreutils >> package provides a userspace binary /bin/ln which makes these calls >> available to shell scr

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:11:08PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> See the system calls link(2) and symlink(2). The (Essential) coreutils >> package provides a userspace binary /bin/ln which makes these calls >> available to shell scripts. > That's great. Could you tell me how to use those so th

Re: How to detect the active debconf frontend?

2006-05-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/16/06, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, how can I find out in postinst which debconf frontend is active? In case some particular command fails in postinst, we cannot proceed, and let it "exit 1". However, to inform the user, we display a debconf error, telling him how to fix th

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/16/06, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scripsit "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Not true. For example, the kernel could be changed to pick the right > Python binary if it sees #!/usr/bin/python. There is already a hook for doing that that in the kernel; no patching is

Re: How to detect the active debconf frontend?

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
Rudolf Weeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:47:13PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how can I find out in postinst which debconf frontend is active? > debconf-show debconf > and some filter meight work. You should have read my question to the end: , |

Re: How to detect the active debconf frontend?

2006-05-16 Thread Rudolf Weeber
Hi, On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:47:13PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > how can I find out in postinst which debconf frontend is active? debconf-show debconf and some filter meight work. CU, Rudolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Not true. For example, the kernel could be changed to pick the right > Python binary if it sees #!/usr/bin/python. There is already a hook for doing that that in the kernel; no patching is required. See the system calls link(2) and symlink(2). T

How to detect the active debconf frontend?

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, how can I find out in postinst which debconf frontend is active? In case some particular command fails in postinst, we cannot proceed, and let it "exit 1". However, to inform the user, we display a debconf error, telling him how to fix their system. But if the frontend is noninteractive, th

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's >> /usr/bin/sendmail? E.g. nullmailer. > nullmailer is, in general, broken. Then something else. One ca

Re: Re: screenshot with package description

2006-05-16 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
>I mean, all pics are in the same location, but can easyly installed >using apt and friends and noone must download the whole tarballs. >Even Modem or ISDN-Users would like to see screenshots of some >packages/programs and huge tarballs are no sulution. $ apt-cache rdepends libx11-6|wc -l 2237 2

Re: Creation of custom "configured" packages?

2006-05-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:28:57 +0200, "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1) use multilevel/modular config where available: > usually in the form of a /etcc/.d directory > (e.g. /etc/apt/conf.d), or stacked config sets (e.g. the major desktop > environments, see desktop-pro

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > > Being able to install multiple versions is some use to multiarch, but > > > could also be used for other things, such if two packages provide the > > > same binary (git for example). > > > Or to install multiple 'version 'numbers' of the same package. > > > > T

Re: Laptop support: acpi-support

2006-05-16 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > Hello everybody, > snip > Since I'm definitely not an expert on this subject, I would welcome > co-maintainers for this package and of course testers! I'm willing to help for this, feel free to tell me if I can give a hand Raphael. Best regards,

Processed: Re: Bug#367456: general: text missing in menus and buttons inside window when using utf-8 locale (en_US.utf8)

2006-05-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 367456 libgtk1.2 Bug#367456: general: text missing in menus and buttons inside window when using utf-8 locale (en_US.utf8) Bug reassigned from package `general' to `libgtk1.2'. > reassign 365678 libgtk1.2 Bug#365678: xmms: Text in all menus a

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-16 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Lars! You wrote: > > The usage is mendantory (aka a must clause) but the bugs are not RC? > > This does not fit. > > It violates policy, but not in a way enumerated on > http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt, which means that it isn't > release critical, unless I've misunderstood somet

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:16:32AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > verbose and chatty about seemingly normal occasions. In general, I've only > seen problems with it; even sendmail seems easier to get to work. With > hand-written config file. Written in ed. With or without the Sendmail bible?

Re: Creation of custom "configured" packages?

2006-05-16 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 15 May 2006 09:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > in case I am in the wrong list, I beg you pardon, but I asked this > already in debian-user without success. > > I would like to build customized, configured packages (for example > additional bash script for the bash package, some def

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:08, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? > > I think so. Great. If you want someone to test the builds please let me know when they are ready and where I can d

Re: Bug#367456: general: text missing in menus and buttons inside window when using utf-8 locale (en_US.utf8)

2006-05-16 Thread Roger Leigh
reassign 367456 libgtk1.2 reassign 365678 libgtk1.2 severity 367456 important severity 365678 important severity 287520 important merge 287520 365649 365678 367456 thanks Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I reported an issue with Cinepaint(#365801) and it occurs also with my > instance of

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? I think so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]