Work-needing packages report for Jul 6, 2007

2007-07-05 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: 394 (new: 4) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 89 (new: 3) Total number of packages requeste

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alan Ezust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.06.0017 +0200]: > Yes, I see it is indeed only prompting me for conffiles that I > manually modified. In my particular situation, and I realize this is > unusual/dangerous, I still would like to to clobber my handmade > changes with newer versions

Re: upstart (Re: Bug#417118: ntpdate: Start sequence problem for some network setups)

2007-07-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.05.1957 +0200]: > Unless i will see any kind of implemented proposal, i.e. tar or deb > that i can use/test on base installation, it's a *technical* problem. So why don't you use your time to help solve the problem instead of harping on mailing

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:17:12PM -0700, Alan Ezust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alan, you know that it should only be prompting you on conffiles you >> actually >> modified? Do you really want those overwritten? > > Yes, I see

Bug#431912: ITP: hex-a-hop -- puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles

2007-07-05 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hex-a-hop Version : 0.0.20070705 Upstream Author : Tom Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.aceinternet.co.uk/~mokona/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ezust
On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: > > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a > > situation where the package has a configuration f

Bug#431908: ITP: libwmfview-java -- library to load and display wmf images

2007-07-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwmfview-java Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Author : Marco Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://latexdraw.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Descriptio

Bug#431907: ITP: java-imaging-utilities -- library to load, analyze, process and save pixel images and sample application

2007-07-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: java-imaging-utilities Version : 0.14.2 Upstream Author : Marco Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://schmidt.devlib.org/jiu/` * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ja

Bug#431905: ITP: latexdraw -- vector drawing program for LaTeX using PSTricks

2007-07-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: latexdraw Version : 1.9.3 Upstream Author : Arnaud BLOUIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://latexdraw.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Descrip

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: > > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a > > situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer > > than what it is about to replace

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apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ezust
Hi - i was wondering, I'm trying to run apt-get upgrade in a non-interactive shell. I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just replace the configurat

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a > situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer > than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just rep

Re: long arithmetics in dash, dash fix 4`The Shell: arithmetic comparison with void'

2007-07-05 Thread Oleg Verych
* me (Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:22:21 +0200) > > Maybe somebody interested in making dash use "long int", thus enabling > wider range on 64bit platforms, while still having same on 32bit ones? #329025 has a link to the standard, that states: Precision and Operations , with the following exceptions:

upstart (Re: Bug#417118: ntpdate: Start sequence problem for some network setups)

2007-07-05 Thread Oleg Verych
* Hamish Moffatt (Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:28:20 +1000) > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:26:43AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Jul 05, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Marco> Hope that some day we will switch to upstart. >> > Ok, so when do we switch to upstart? >> Probably at the same t

Re: Source package containing HTML-only form of texinfo doc

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Weber
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 16:02:13 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Am I misunderstanding what you're saying? octave2.9-htmldoc contains > > this exact documentation that upstream is distributing. > > Yes, but built from source, and the source of octave2.9-htmldoc contains > the texinfo so

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:28:05PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: >>> Running debian-rules can always have side effects and can actively >>> rely on them so a "--has-target" can not be implemented cleanly in >>> make. >> >> I am proposing hooking into the

Re: Source package containing HTML-only form of texinfo doc

2007-07-05 Thread fourmond
Hello, On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:49:24PM -0400, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote: > On 01/07/07, Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >upstream source ships with HTML-only form of the octave's texinfo > >documentation, which is licensed under GPL. This documentation is > >actually not in

Re: Any problems with mips/mipsel?

2007-07-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:16:38AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > the latest package of tipptrainer was not builded on mips(el) since > 55 days according to > > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=tipptrainer > > Did I missed anything? How can I trigger the building on this > archi

Re: file mounted after debootstrap + udev

2007-07-05 Thread zferentz
On Jul 5, 12:20 pm, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - How come the build process starts an apache ? i thought it should > > just install it... > > because apache does no detect if he is in a chroot or not; use policy-rc > (see /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.p

Any problems with mips/mipsel?

2007-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the latest package of tipptrainer was not builded on mips(el) since 55 days according to http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=tipptrainer Did I missed anything? How can I trigger the building on this architecture? A similar situation is there for phylip http://bjorn.hax

Re: file mounted after debootstrap + udev

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - How come the build process starts an apache ? i thought it should > just install it... because apache does no detect if he is in a chroot or not; use policy-rc (see /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d) to avoid that. > - what's the "standard procedure" for build

Re: Debian Menu transition

2007-07-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:25:06AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > [Please CC me. Thanks] > > -=| Bill Allombert, Wed, 4 Jul 2007 18:45:23 +0200 |=- > > With the upload of menu 2.1.35, the transition to implement the new > > menu hierarchy discussed in bug #361418 officialy start. > > Shall package

file mounted after debootstrap + udev

2007-07-05 Thread zferentz
Hi, I've been using debootstrap to produce my live linux based on debian 2.6.18 . At first, my system was built with devfs and everything was fine . Recently, i moved to udev (i added kernel support + udev package) and although the live linux works just fine , after the "build process" - there ar

Bug#431824: ITP: morla -- GTK+ RDF editor

2007-07-05 Thread Luca Brivio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: morla Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Andrea Marchesini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.morlardf.net/ * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: C Description : GT

Re: Bug#417118: ntpdate: Start sequence problem for some network setups

2007-07-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:26:43AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 05, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marco> Hope that some day we will switch to upstart. > > Ok, so when do we switch to upstart? > Probably at the same time when we will switch from exim to postfix. That's just

Re: Debian Menu transition

2007-07-05 Thread Damyan Ivanov
[Please CC me. Thanks] -=| Bill Allombert, Wed, 4 Jul 2007 18:45:23 +0200 |=- > With the upload of menu 2.1.35, the transition to implement the new > menu hierarchy discussed in bug #361418 officialy start. Shall packages implementing the new menu policy conflict with menu (<< 2.1.35) ? -- dam