Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Milan P. Stanic
[ Off-Topic, sorry ] On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:43:51AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > If it's not renamed, we can't legally ship it. What, IYO, should be > done to ship the existing program currently known as Firefox? FoxFire or FoxInFire, maybe ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: The Debian cyrus-sasl2 team is in need of your help!

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:14AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 16:09 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Ok. If I have not managed to scare you off yet, then I hope you would > > like to get the packages and help us find bugs. Here is what you do: > [...] > > Also: >

Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?

2006-10-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * sean finney > > | is this even remotely acceptable? i had the impressions that packages > | must not assume the inner workings of dpkg. but, i can't back this up > | with anything in policy from what i can tell, hence the posting of > | this quest

Bug#393317: ITP: teamspeak-client -- Very good Voice Chat

2006-10-15 Thread Le_Vert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: teamspeak-client Version : 2.0.32 Upstream Author : TeamSpeak Systems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.goteamspeak.com/ * License : non-free Description

Re: The Debian cyrus-sasl2 team is in need of your help!

2006-10-15 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 16:09 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Ok. If I have not managed to scare you off yet, then I hope you would > like to get the packages and help us find bugs. Here is what you do: [...] Also: * The project web page is at http://pkg-cyrus-sasl2.alioth.debian.

I forgot to set M-F-T!!! [WAS: Re: New cyrus-sasl2 packages]

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Argh. I forget to set Mail-Followup-To properly on the last message. Please don't reply to every single package's address. Regards, -Roberto On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:18:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings all, > -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http:/

New cyrus-sasl2 packages

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Greetings all, As part of the transition to the new cyrus-sasl packages I have built all the package which expressed some sort of dependency on any of the cyrus-sasl2 packages. These were built in a clean Sid pbuilder. I have created a chart that show each source package name, whether the depend

Hola

2006-10-15 Thread Fanny Carrasco J.
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Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:25:28 +0200, Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Il giorno dom, 15/10/2006 alle 11.41 -0500, Manoj Srivastava ha > scritto: >> >> If taking a stand on principle is childish, thank god I do not >> agree with your camp. > Don't generalize my words trying to ha

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
"Sam Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is unfortunate because of the user confusion that it will > cause. IMO, the firefox package should not be renamed to iceweasel. If it's not renamed, we can't legally ship it. What, IYO, should be done to ship the existing program currently known as Fi

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > It will be a fork in the following senses: > > > > * no inclusion of trademarked Mozilla artowrk > > * backporting of security fixes to declared stable version > > Wouldn't it be easier to just do the usual .dfsg-dance with the original > upstream tarball? I still fail to see why we ne

Re: [OT] Your opinion about...

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Allombert
> I have been reading about Dunc Tank. I did it because I'm seeing lots > of messages of disgusting, lots of packages have been orphaned, and > blog entries that have a kind of upset, too. > > I would be glad if you give me your opinions about Dunc Tank, or > whatever is causing problems. I think

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/06 14:28, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:10:33PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Why *shouldn't* KDE, GNOME, Firefox/Iceweasel, Tbird, and anything >>> that requires Mesa/OpenGL, and all o

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:22:53 +0200, Lech Karol Pawłaszek wrote: > On Monday 16 October 2006 00:07, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: >> El domingo, 15 de octubre de 2006 a las 22:06:21 +0200, Bastian Venthur >> escribía: >> > I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of >> > FireFox and

kernel package removal

2006-10-15 Thread Russell Coker
Does anyone know the cause of the following? I haven't filed a bug report as I'm not sure which package to file it against. It appears that a grub config file problem may be preventing package removal. Please CC me on replies. Removing linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 ... Purging configuration files

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il giorno dom, 15/10/2006 alle 11.41 -0500, Manoj Srivastava ha scritto: > > If taking a stand on principle is childish, thank god I do not > agree with your camp. Don't generalize my words trying to have me say what I didn't say. It is a old and well-establsihed practice [sophists wher

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Lech Karol Pawłaszek
On Monday 16 October 2006 00:07, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: > El domingo, 15 de octubre de 2006 a las 22:06:21 +0200, Bastian Venthur escribía: > > I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of > > FireFox and not just on vanilla FireFox. Is this true and if yes, why? > > AIUI, i

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El domingo, 15 de octubre de 2006 a las 22:06:21 +0200, Bastian Venthur escribía: > I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of > FireFox and not just on vanilla FireFox. Is this true and if yes, why? AIUI, it will be vanilla Firefox minus logo, minus "Firefox" name, pl

Re: [VAC-RFH] tagcoll2 on Alpha

2006-10-15 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:33:48PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > I'm now working on producing something that looks like a gcc test case. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393275 I'll now upload a new version of tagcoll2 that builds with -O1 on Alpha, working around the problem. The

Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?

2006-10-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* sean finney | is this even remotely acceptable? i had the impressions that packages | must not assume the inner workings of dpkg. but, i can't back this up | with anything in policy from what i can tell, hence the posting of | this question. Before responding, please read the bug report (390

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:06:21PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of >> FireFox and not just on vanilla FireFox. Is this true and if yes, why? >> >> I hope this will not result in a flamewar, I

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Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:06:21PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi, > > I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of > FireFox and not just on vanilla FireFox. Is this true and if yes, why? > > I hope this will not result in a flamewar, I'm just interested in the > reas

The Debian cyrus-sasl2 team is in need of your help!

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Greetings fellow Debian users and developers, The Debian Cyrus SASL Team is working at a breakneck pace to try and get the new upstream version ready in time for Etch. For that to happen, we need the help of brave souls to test these packages. Here are some reasons why you might want to help us

Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi, I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of FireFox and not just on vanilla FireFox. Is this true and if yes, why? I hope this will not result in a flamewar, I'm just interested in the reasons if an why we prefer the fork over the original source as base for our IceWe

malsync ready for adoption

2006-10-15 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
Hello, Package: malsync Description: Allows a PalmOS PDA to synchronize to a MAL server MalSync is a command line tool that allows Palm Pilots to synchronize to the AvantGo (http://www.avantgo.com/) or Puma Technologies (http://www.pumatech.com/is_desktop_main.html) servers or any other Mobile

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:10:33PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Why *shouldn't* KDE, GNOME, Firefox/Iceweasel, Tbird, and anything > > that requires Mesa/OpenGL, and all of Charles Plessy's scientific > > packages be marked do_not_build on 68k/Coldfire & ARM

[OT] Your opinion about...

2006-10-15 Thread Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez
Hi *, I have been reading about Dunc Tank. I did it because I'm seeing lots of messages of disgusting, lots of packages have been orphaned, and blog entries that have a kind of upset, too. I would be glad if you give me your opinions about Dunc Tank, or whatever is causing problems. I think Du

Re: Can someone explain : " wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian!"

2006-10-15 Thread Fabrice Lorrain
Sam Hocevar a écrit : On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Fabrice Lorrain wrote: Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org... Your version of wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian! Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? Just packages.debian.org that's not up to date. Thanks

Re: Experiment: orphanining some of my packages (fourth round)

2006-10-15 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Miriam Ruiz a écrit : --- Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:56:56AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The following packages are also available: - sdcc If you're serious about all this, I might be interested in sdcc. I am really serious about that. I am

Re: [VAC-RFH] tagcoll2 on Alpha

2006-10-15 Thread Enrico Zini
Some extra info: The GDB stack trace of that abort call: http://paste.debian.net/14928 shows what looks like a gcc problem. (note that I use -gstabs+ instead of -g to get the code linked in a bearable time, but gdb can usually cope with that) Rebuilding with -O0 shows no problems, and the test

mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?

2006-10-15 Thread sean finney
hey all, i recently saw that apache2.2-common's prerm script has the following block of text: = = = = = # YAY, MORE EVILNESS rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-common.postrm = = = = = and the following from the changelog: = = = = = apache2 (2.2.3-2) unstable; urgency=low * rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/

Re: Experiment: orphanining some of my packages (fourth round)

2006-10-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:56:56AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The following packages are also available: > - sdcc If you're serious about all this, I might be interested in sdcc. Miry __

Re: Orphan party, relax...

2006-10-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:38:16AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > But now, I can stop! There will be people doing my work! And they will > > win money! They will do my translations on debian installation manual, > > on the debconf templates, they are going to close my RC bugs and other

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
Ron Johnson wrote: > Why *shouldn't* KDE, GNOME, Firefox/Iceweasel, Tbird, and anything > that requires Mesa/OpenGL, and all of Charles Plessy's scientific > packages be marked do_not_build on 68k/Coldfire & ARM? Well, just for example, I know of people who run firefox on arm. -- see shy jo

Re: Orphan party, relax...

2006-10-15 Thread Miguel Gea Milvaques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My work is in Catalan translations, not Spanish, and I was talking ironically. I really think Debian project is more important than all this. The time will show anyone on its place. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8D

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:27:14 +0200, Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Il giorno dom, 15/10/2006 alle 13.18 +0200, Josselin Mouette ha > scritto: >> Are you willing to maintain these packages or what? > Sincerely no. I just felt extremely insulted by your (and other > people) chil

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 octobre 2006 à 16:27 +0200, Federico Di Gregorio a écrit : > that very people just quit. Why? because the vote didn't turned > out as they wanted. I find it extremely insulting that after weeks of discussions there are still morons trying to reduce the outcome to something like "peo

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are wrong. The people who quit after the vote decided to quit >> *before* the vote took place, whatever the outcome. > > Why they quit after, then? And especially, why they voted? Maybe because they felt it was important for the future of th

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il giorno dom, 15/10/2006 alle 16.43 +0200, Julien BLACHE ha scritto: > > childish attitude. During the last few months I've seen people talk > > about principles and democracy and other moral stuff and now, after the > > vote, that very people just quit. Why? because the vote didn't turned > > out

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > childish attitude. During the last few months I've seen people talk > about principles and democracy and other moral stuff and now, after the > vote, that very people just quit. Why? because the vote didn't turned > out as they wanted. Because ther

Re: Experiment: orphanining some of my packages (fourth round)

2006-10-15 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:56:56AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:21:45AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > > >As Debian^WDunc-tank experiments with funding, I have loosed motivation > > >to spend so much time on my packages. I h

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il giorno dom, 15/10/2006 alle 13.18 +0200, Josselin Mouette ha scritto: > Are you willing to maintain these packages or what? Sincerely no. I just felt extremely insulted by your (and other people) childish attitude. During the last few months I've seen people talk about principles and democracy

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Re: Orphan party, relax...

2006-10-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:38:16AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > But now, I can stop! There will be people doing my work! And they will > > win money! They will do my translations on debian installation manual, > > on the debconf templates, they are going to close my RC bugs and other >

Re: did you hear our boss got fired?

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Group for camera users

2006-10-15 Thread Frederic Peters
Hello, I maintain libgphoto2 and way back when I adopted the package it has manual instructions and they were about creating a 'camera' group and so on. I added default hotplug (and now udev) support and created 'camera' group in postinst. At the same time there was much work on 'project utopia'

Re: Can someone explain : " wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian!"

2006-10-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ reportbug wmaker [...] > Getting status for wmaker... > Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org... > Your version of wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian! Do you > still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? > H, how come ? [...]

Re: Can someone explain : " wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian!"

2006-10-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Fabrice Lorrain wrote: > Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org... > Your version of wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian! Do you > still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? Just packages.debian.org that's not up to date. -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Experiment: orphanining some of my packages (third round)

2006-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The results of *all 4 GR* show me that I don't share the goals of the Well, I read the 4 GRs so that only one of them is connected to the goal of the project which was stated as "building a free operating" system and the other three GRs just decide ab

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:33:51AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > If an Amiga (using the unaccelerated fb driver?) is running as an X > > Terminal for a powerful, modern box, the Amiga would need to process > > the OpenGL commands, no? > > There are no amigas with unaccelerated FB driver I

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 octobre 2006 à 11:38 +0200, Sam Hocevar a écrit : > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > * libpng - nightmare of the security team. Upstream developers > > seem to have recently understood some packaging issues, but with > > their erratic behavio

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 octobre 2006 à 10:44 +0200, Federico Di Gregorio a écrit : > Il giorno dom, 15/10/2006 alle 02.56 +0200, Josselin Mouette ha scritto: > > I'm orphaning the following packages. I'm no longer interested in > > maintaining them unless the project pays me for it. > > Ah ah ah. *Wath* *

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Re: Can someone explain : " wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian!"

2006-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Fabrice Lorrain wrote: > $ reportbug wmaker > *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** > Detected character set: us-ascii > Please change your locale if this is incorrect. > > Using 'Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as your from address. > Getting status f

Re: Orphan party, relax...

2006-10-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote: > > But now, I can stop! There will be people doing my work! And they will > win money! They will do my translations on debian installation manual, > on the debconf templates, they are going to close my RC bugs and other > non important bugs. Y

Re: Orphan party, relax...

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:38:33AM +0200, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote: > Hi *, > > I've been working to get Etch out more than I never did. > > > But now, I can stop! There will be people doing my work! And they will > win money! They will do my translations on debian installation manual, > on th

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > * libpng - nightmare of the security team. Upstream developers > seem to have recently understood some packaging issues, but with > their erratic behavior and stupid things libpng-using > applications do, it is likely to

Can someone explain : " wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian!"

2006-10-15 Thread Fabrice Lorrain
$ reportbug wmaker *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Detected character set: us-ascii Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as your from address. Getting status for wmaker... Checking for newer versions at packages.debi

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/06 04:24, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:16:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > I don't think this is good. Basically a user should be able to choose if > s/he would like to use Gnome or KDE. Wookeys proposal was

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Kevin Mark | IIRC the buildds do not have a weight attached to each package to | determine its order in the buildd queue. Would the introduction of a | weight, where resource intensive packages get put on the bottom and are | built at 'slow' periods help? This will easily cause problems for

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/15/06 02:33, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On 10/15/06 00:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Holg

Re: Orphan party, relax...

2006-10-15 Thread Miguel Gea Milvaques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi *, I've been working to get Etch out more than I never did. But now, I can stop! There will be people doing my work! And they will win money! They will do my translations on debian installation manual, on the debconf templates, they are going to

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:35:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > However there are some packages which are clearly not sensible on some > > arches. Numerical analysis software in general on arm is a good > > example of this class. Arm hardware is generally slow and more > > seriously has no floatin

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:16:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Because it is perfectly fine to run kde on such a system. Anything > > that can run gnome can run kde. Anything that can run X can run kde I > > would even say. Kicking one alternative for something (like kde) but > > not others (lik

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Miguel Gea Milvaques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Come on! I'm helping to this Orphan party! The people are going to win in Debian can maintain this one too: * libmatheval. As h5utils as been orphaned, and libmatheval has it as reverse depends, It will be a good idea that the same person maintain t

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:03:59AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think it should be in the porters control what packages to build for > an arch with some guidelines what sort of packages can be removed > without loosing release status. For example removing KDE would not be > OK. Removal s

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:51, Wookey wrote: > > Nevertheless I think it is clear that we do need mechanisms to keep > > the load and package set appropriate for slower arches. If we design > > the mechanism properly I would hope

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:51:49AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > On 2006-10-14 12:06 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > It doesn't make much sense to build all Desktop related packages for an arch > > that is mainly used remotely or as an embedded device. I don't think that > > anyone will run KDE on to

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > * libpng - nightmare of the security team. Upstream developers > seem to have recently understood some packaging issues, but with > their erratic behavior and stupid things libpng-using > applications do, it is likely to break at each new upstream > rele

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il giorno dom, 15/10/2006 alle 02.56 +0200, Josselin Mouette ha scritto: > I'm orphaning the following packages. I'm no longer interested in > maintaining them unless the project pays me for it. Ah ah ah. *Wath* *a* *dork!* (Or did I miss a smiley?) -- Federico Di Gregorio

Re: Orphan party

2006-10-15 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Josselin, On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:56:52AM +0200, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm orphaning the following packages. I'm no longer interested in > maintaining them unless the project pays me for it. > > * h5utils > * hdf5 - very useful tool for finding ICEs in

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/06 02:33, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 10/15/06 00:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Holger

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> The interest with debtags is that it allows to change the policy for a >> package without needing an upload or the intervention of the maintainer. >> This way, the decision of not building could be taken by t

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/15/06 00:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > [snip] >> I think it should be in the porters control what packages to >> build for

Re: SOAP interface documentation needed

2006-10-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > I need documentation on what kind of state a bug can be in. > > pending: field looks like what I'm looking for, but it is not the same > as what the index.db file has. > > pending -- 'open' bugs > done -- 'done' bug > forwarded -- 'forwarded' bugs > > Is this intentional and where is this