Re: Mass bug filing for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes

Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As explained in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00438.html, I plan a > mass bug filing for packages using debconf "notes" templates and > display them at low or medium priorities. 135 bug reports have been files on Saturday Sept.

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 05:40:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > So what you seem to say is: If you copy the libc6 or static libraries > between distributions you deserve to fail. Thats fine if you say it > straight out. That's what I was trying to do! > Does the same apply to libX11. Or c

Results for Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

Greetings, This message is an automated, unofficial publication of vote results. Official results shall follow, sent in by the vote taker, namely Debian Project Secretary This email is just a convenience for the impatient. I remain, gentle folks, Your humble servant, De

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:42:25AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The proposed meaning is: a URL meaningful for the given VCS so that a > user seeing it is able to find the source code. Sorry, I should have said more on this. That was the original intended meaning (to me), listening to Joey su

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 05:20:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Before we go on statndardizing it and writing coed to make > part of of infrastructure do stuff with it, can we have a clear idea > of the semantics of the field? > > As I currently understand it, the format is >

Re: Media players in Debian

On 9/24/06, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In other words, the fastest way to get legal issues with mplayer clarified would be for someone who cared specifically about getting mplayer into Debian putting together a list of the specific questions that need to be resolved before Debian can

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Thanks, my preference is now for XS-Vcs-* > > While the name is still in flux, could I suggest XS-Repo-*? > > I tend to get VCS and RCS confused :-) On the other hand, "repo" is ambiguous and doesn't necessarily suggest "reposi

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:08:55 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:02:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> > Thanks, my preference is now for XS-Vcs-*, it requires changes >> > which only affect the code I'm able to change right now and it's >> > nice lookin

RFH: tpctl/thinkpad-source

Dear collagues, when I took over the thinkpad package from Thomas Hood, I did not know that mdadm and hibernate were going to keep me *that much* occupied. It turns out that I found no time to work on the thinkpad package, despite all my great plans for it. It does not look like I'll find the time

Bug#388569: general: always printed in letter format

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:00:28PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: >On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:13:27 +0200, gerhard oettl wrote: > >> Since updating to etch some weeks ago i was not able to print >> from firefox, because always letter format is requested on the >> printer panel. > >Do you have /etc/paper

Re: Why are all packages getting so much bigger?

I'm guessing translations. They eat up space really fast. Is there a way to compare packages after localepurge runs? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

2006/9/23, Arnaud Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin> How about comaintainership? Could you two (or three looking Goswin> further in the thread) work well together? Hey, Why not? I'm interested by co-maintainership.

Work-needing packages report for Sep 22, 2006

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: 309 (new: 20) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 99 (new: 6) Total number of packages request

Bug#389091: ITP: obexpushd -- program for receiving files via Buetooth or IRDA

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: obexpushd Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.hendrik-sattler.de/self/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C De

Re: Problem including (linux-kernel-headers 2.6.17)

>> /usr/include/linux/seqlock.h:76: error: expected '=', ',', ';\ >> ', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'unsigned' >> /usr/include/linux/seqlock.h:91: error: expected '=', ',', ';\ >> ', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'int' > > This comes from the __always_inline that is not defined. To define it

Re: Bug#388805: RFP: please package mod_auth_xradius

reassign 388805 libapache-mod-auth-radius retitle 388805 Please build apache 2 version kthxbye On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:10:04PM +0200, Ond??ej Sur?? wrote: > retitle 388805 RFP: please package mod_auth_xradius > reassign 388805 wnpp > severity 388805 wishlist > thank you > > You have filled bug

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.23.2108 +0200]: > I don't like XS-Repo-* because "Repo" is neither an acronym nor > a full word. What about XS-Repository-*? I like it. But this > choice still leaves me puzzled about the name "repository", is it > a significant name acr

Bug#388805: RFP: please package mod_auth_xradius

retitle 388805 RFP: please package mod_auth_xradius reassign 388805 wnpp severity 388805 wishlist thank you You have filled bug at wrong package. Apache 2.X doesn't contain module for radius auth. However I was able to find mod_auth_xradius, so I am changing your bug to RFP (Request For Package)

Work-needing packages report for Sep 22, 2006

[sending manually, the cron mail got stuck somewhere] 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: 309 (new: 20) Total number of packages offered up for

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:02:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Thanks, my preference is now for XS-Vcs-*, it requires changes which > > only affect the code I'm able to change right now and it's nice looking. > > I will send a new patch for the PTS and try to document it. > > While the name is sti

Re: stale lock files

Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le samedi 23 septembre 2006 à 10:33 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> What do you do on fuse, afs, coda, oracle fs, lustrefs? Do they all >> have fcntl? > AFAIK, afs, fuse and ocfs2 have (although recently introduced) posix > locking support.

Re: Media players in Debian

Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd prefer number 3, until there is an alternative that can play > absolutely everything Mplayer can it would be great to have it in > Debian. However given the fact that 99.999% of Debian people are not > subscribed to the MPlayer dev list (and there

Re: stale lock files

Le samedi 23 septembre 2006 à 10:33 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > Of course, but you get that extra feature "for free". Why would that > > be a be something to avoid? > > Because NFS isn't everything. > > What do you do on fuse, afs, coda, oracle fs, lustrefs? Do they all > have fcnt

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:25:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > file without the XS- prefix. Am I wrong? Request for help on this ... > > > Vcs: svn svn://... > > > > My preference is either the above or XS-Vcs-* > > Thanks, my preference is now for XS-Vcs-*, it requ

Re: Media players in Debian

On 10786 March 1977, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > Many people contributed much time to make mplayer ready to enter our > archives and as far as I can see they are simply ignored. > Please tell me what's wrong with *current* package and what can we do to > make it better and stop saying me it'

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:29:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:50:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> But running Debian binaries on other distribut

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:33:18 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:21:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I commit changes to a local repo behind a couple of firewalls that >> do not accept external connections. > That settles this. If your repo doe

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:37:20 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:09:11AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> The role of arch is to make life easier for me, the developer, not >> to fit some arbitrary criteria like all projects must be >> describable by

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:29:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:50:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> But running Debian binaries on other distributions remains a > >> problem. For example static binar

Re: bts behaviour - versioning issue?

On Saturday 23 September 2006 11:17, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] Ok, thanks everybody. (Steve, I hope you do something today besides explaining things to me ;-) cheers -- vbi -- Protect your privacy - encrypt your email: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro pgpBWHkmganv2.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

Am Freitag 22 September 2006 13:21 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > I've heard these claims (ÿÿplayer X should be more than good enough, what > > do you need mplayer for these days?ÿÿ) for at least the last five years > > -- it's a difficult claim to ref

Re: Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

Hi, Am Samstag, den 23.09.2006, 13:07 +0200 schrieb Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo: > Please tell me what's wrong with *current* package and what can we do to > make it better and stop saying me it's license issue. IIRC, one of the things that lead to the rejection of the mplayer package last time: ht

Re: Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:23:58AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I agree, but understand and accept that the license issues need to be > checked before it is accepted into debian. I understand that, but mplayer inclusion is a problem since I remember that mplayer exists. I really don't kn

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:28:02PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > and reverse engineering. The out-of-tree patches at the > time of 2.6.17 result in much faster transfers to SDHCI > devices. I don't know if dapper has these, and I don't > know if they made 2.6.18. I think that was

Bug#388738: ITP: bongo-el -- buffer-oriented media player for Emacs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bongo-el Version : 20060922 (darcs snapshot) Upstream Author : Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.brockman.se/software/bongo/ * License : GNU GPL D

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:09:11AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The role of arch is to make life easier for me, the developer, > not to fit some arbitrary criteria like all projects must be > describable by a single URL. If you think lacking that characteristic You are stretching t

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:21:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I commit changes to a local repo behind a couple of firewalls > that do not accept external connections. That settles this. If your repo does not accept external connections, your users have no point in knowing it exists.

Re: Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > Mplayer comes with his friend mencoder. I doubt that koffeine, totem, xine, > vlc have something to offer in that regard. You seem rather mistaken. VLC has more encoding and streaming features than mencoder. http://www.videolan.org/stream

Bug#388731: ITP: libnetfilter-queue -- Netfilter netlink-queue library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Max Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnetfilter-queue Version : 0.0.12-1 Upstream Author : Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue/ * License : GPL De

Bug#388730: ITP: libnetfilter-log -- Netfilter netlink-log library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Max Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnetfilter-log Version : 0.0.13-1 Upstream Author : Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_log/ * License : GPL Descri

Re: Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

[Bartosz Fenski] > Mplayer comes with his friend mencoder. I doubt that koffeine, > totem, xine, vlc have something to offer in that regard. Yes, I believe you are right there. I suspect ffmpeg is the closest "replacement" for mencoder, thought the feature set is different. :) > And if I can't p

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:20:15 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Still I see your point, it can be that not all repository layouts > can be expressed with it. My point on this is still the same: where > do you use to commit patches to the packaging? I commit changes to

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:58:39 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.23.0936 > +0200]: >> Seems to me that this is fit for centralized single branch >> repositories only -- at least, I fail to see how I can represent my >> mlti-

Re: bts behaviour - versioning issue?

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:01:58AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > When I look at , I'm confused at the > information for #309511, which is listed as outstanding (wishlist), > but "Done" and "Archived". "outstanding" means "not fixed in the current version (fo

Re: bts behaviour - versioning issue?

Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > When I look at , I'm confused at the > information for #309511, which is listed as outstanding (wishlist), > but "Done" and "Archived". > Can anybody tell me why? The version tracking code uses branches. The b

Re: Media players in Debian

On 9/23/06, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Considering your contributions to this thread, I see 3 possibilites: - you are interested in not having a mplayer package in debian, then please clearly say so. I don't have that impression - you are not interested in having a mplayer

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin> How about comaintainership? Could you two (or three looking Goswin> further in the thread) work well together? Hey, Why not? I'm interested by co-maintainership. Bye, Arnaud Fontaine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: bts behaviour - versioning issue?

also sprach Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.23.1101 +0200]: > When I look at , I'm confused at the > information for #309511, which is listed as outstanding (wishlist), > but "Done" and "Archived". > > Can anybody tell me why? It was only fixed in

bts behaviour - versioning issue?

Yodel! When I look at , I'm confused at the information for #309511, which is listed as outstanding (wishlist), but "Done" and "Archived". Can anybody tell me why? cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys pgpdhdKKN92N8.pgp Description:

Re: Media players in Debian

FWIW, I found your mail unnecessarily offensive. "Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/22/06, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Upstream does care for legal issues, and patents in particular. Check >> the mplayer development mailing list archive for the last months.

Re: Bug#387813: ITP: gpar2 -- A GUI for verifying and repairing PAR and PAR2 recovery sets

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 21:24 +0200, Khalid El Fathi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Khalid El Fathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: gpar2 > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : John Augustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://sourceforge.net/

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:23:35PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:04:14PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: >> > Because of recent changes in my Real Life, I cannot spend enough time on >> > libtorrent and rtorrent as I would like. W

Re: stale lock files

Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Write the pid and host to the lock file. When you detect a lock and the lock is on the local

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:50:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> But running Debian binaries on other distributions remains a >> problem. For example static binaries that use libnss* plugins will >> fail to find those plugins on other systems

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:36:46AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Seems to me that this is fit for centralized single branch > repositories only -- at least, I fail to see how I can represent my > mlti-branch (no yet multi-repository) configs that need at least 3 > different branches f

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:25:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > file without the XS- prefix. Am I wrong? Request for help on this ... > Vcs: svn svn://... > > My preference is either the above or XS-Vcs-* Thanks, my preference is now for XS-Vcs-*, it requires changes which only affect the code I'

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> XS-Vcs-XXX was in my mind a one-size-does-fit-all solution, assuming >> the target of the information is a human. YMMV. > > Seems to me that this is fit for centralized single branch > repositories only -- at least, I fail to see how I can r

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.23.0936 +0200]: > Seems to me that this is fit for centralized single branch > repositories only -- at least, I fail to see how I can represent my > mlti-branch (no yet multi-repository) configs that need at least 3 > different br

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:43:37 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:21:22PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> I would also like to raise a question: does it make any sense to be >> able to list two URLs, one for the Debian branch and one for the >> upstream

Re: gfdl gcc documentation packages for non-free: update

Nikita V. Youshchenko writes: > > > Nikita V. Youshchenko writes: > > > Hello. > > > > > > I've updated gcc-4.1 documentation packages (Section: non-free/doc). > > > Packages are no longer debian-native, also several issues have been > > > fixed. > > > > > > Also, I've created gcc-doc-defaults pac