Re: Brain dead package management?

2006-09-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.01.2257 +0200]: > Still, not being smart enough to realize that lpr needs to be removed in > order to satisfy the cupsys-bsd pre-dependency sounds kinda like a bug > to me. pre-dependencies are a hack to solve some twisted problems related

Re: Brain dead package management?

2006-09-01 Thread Michael S. Peek
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.01.1953 +0200]: tiem-cups-cfg: PreDepends: cupsys-bsd but it is not installable There's your problem. APT is made for software packages, not configuration packages. Use cfengine or puppet for those. Or u

RE: Debian ISOs

2006-09-01 Thread Anthony L. Bryan
> which indicates that a Metalink file for Debian could be over 150k; > (for CDs) x 12 (11 arches and source) x (>)15 images per release. > Giving ~9M of HDD overhead if each download needed its own Metalink > file, <2M for one Metalink file per release, with reality > somewhere in > between. >

Re: Brain dead package management?

2006-09-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
;aptitude -y -o Aptitude::Log=/var/lib/tiem/log-20060901-120519.txt >>install kernel-image-2.6-686-smp+ >>kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp+ >>tiem-adduser-debconf-cfg+ Are you reinventing pkgsync? =) > What gives? Does anybody understand why aptitude is behaving this way? Sounds like

Re: Brain dead package management?

2006-09-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.01.1953 +0200]: > > tiem-cups-cfg: PreDepends: cupsys-bsd but it is not installable There's your problem. APT is made for software packages, not configuration packages. Use cfengine or puppet for those. Or ucf or something. Since you PreDe

Bug#385627: ITP: libstring-format-perl -- sprintf-like string formatting capabilities with arbitrary format definitions

2006-09-01 Thread Stephen Quinney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libstring-format-perl Version : 1.14 Upstream Author : darren chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~darre

Brain dead package management?

2006-09-01 Thread Michael S. Peek
mutually exclusive -- lpr conflicts w/ cupsys-bsd). Now, you would think that apt-get and/or aptitude would be smart enough to understand this, but apparently it's not: (The packages named tiem-* are custom packages for our site.) aptitude -y -o Aptitude::Log=/var/lib/tiem/log-20060901-1

Install packages automatically based on the detected hardware

2006-09-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Would you like to have gtkpod installed automatically if an ipod is in the machine? Or 915resolution if your video card is supported by it? Or perhaps mpt-status if your RAID controller uses the mptscshih kernel module? Until yesterday, this was not possible in Debian. Now it is. Recently, I h

Bug#385609: ITP: obexfs -- mount filesystem of ObexFTP capabable devices

2006-09-01 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: obexfs Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Christian W. Zuckschwerdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://openobex.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1156986534 past the epoch, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > to be fair with Mgr Tuharsky, I think that it is > > important to remind that the bug he is talking about in > > not affecting OpenOffice only, that it was introduced by > > a security update, and that for various reasons the fix > > takes m

Re: debian-devel-announce

2006-09-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Cryptic message and, if that meant that you joined Canonical, definitely the wrong venue to announce it. Use your blog via the Planet for that. On Fri, September 1, 2006 3:23, Adeodato Simó said: > Puedo morir en paz. > I just shook hands with my Benevolent Dictator. > 20060831171819+"CEST" is n

Resuming the packaging of EMBOSS

2006-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-med@lists.debian.org reopen 156276 usertag 156276 + wnpp med-bio med-bio-dev thanks bts Dear all, I and others have tried to contact Matt Hope in the past, to ask him if he is interested in resuming his packaging of EMBOSS (www.emboss.org), but we could not get an answer. I am theref

ITP: lsjk -- development files for arbitrary-precision numeric evaluation

2006-09-01 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lsjk (source package name) Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Authors : M.Yu. Kalmykov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. Sheplyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://thsun1.jinr.ru/~varg/dist/ * License : GNU GPL De

Work-needing packages report for Sep 1, 2006

2006-09-01 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 310 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 106 (new: 9) Total number of packages request