Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, > The maintainers of the xmms package in Debian are proposing the removal >of the aforementioned package. Please read on. The rationale given does not seem to clarify why the proposal is for removal instead of the maintainers just orphaning the package? * There are a number of oth

patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-07 Thread Brian May
Hello, Now that Heimdal 0.8 has finally entered experimental, could I ask somebody to please check the patch to add versioned symbols in the shared libraries? The patch from previous versions wouldn't apply cleanly, so I had to kludge a patch that would cleanly apply, and I am not sure I have cor

Re: Please all dependency info into your init.d script

2007-07-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:43:31PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > For this to work properly, all init.d scripts need to provide > dependency information. [snip] > Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >blootbot Blootbot requires a mysql database to be up and running, or it will fail. However,

Re: FTBFS if built twice in a row

2007-07-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Lucas Nussbaum] > The problem is that it isn't required to have exactly the same source > tree after "./configure ; make ; make clean". It's just required that > "./configure ; make ; make clean ; ./configure ; make" works. It is > possible that the first build modifies some files, but that the p

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: > O etch it hits one bug in rpm, so you need to mkdir /var/lib/rpm outside the > chroot. Doh! See the BTS for more info. Right; in fact, it's presumably both a feature and a bug of our RPM packages: "RPM Transaction Sets" don't work properly when rpmlo

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 07 July 2007 08:30, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like > debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be > somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). mock worked for me to setup Fedora Core 6, haven#t tried 7 yet.

RFP: tijmp -- memory profiler for java 6

2007-07-07 Thread Jiří Paleček
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tijmp Version : 0.3-pre1 Upstream Author : Robert Olofsson * URL or Web page : http://www.khelekore.org/jmp/tijmp/ * License : GPL Description : memory profiler for java 6 TIJMP is a memory profiler for Java 6. It is

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:30:43PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:06:56PM +, Peter Makholm wrote: > > "Christian Convey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, > > > or do they typically fire up a

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

2007-07-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Michael Biebl] > That's not quite correct. Upstart not only handles the relationship > between hardware events and services (start ntpdate when network > interface is available and configured) but also between services and > services (start hal when dbus is available etc). Upstart handles the > co