Re: debootstrap+udev+sarge fails to remove mountig point

2007-07-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a live-CD that i'm building with debootstrap + udev . > everything is fine with the live-CD , however when i try to remove the > "working directory" - i can't remove it due to an existing mounting > point caused by udev . the etch udev package does detect that it

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > Also, why don't we create a meta-package in the BTS for priority > changes? It would actually just be enough to create a set of usertags for priority changes, usertag bugs involving priority changes, and then separate them out. What it basically needs is

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a bunch of override change requests outstanding, mostly because > the ftpmaster alias is so absurdly heavily spammed that they get lost in > the noise; having more structured checking of priorities/sections that > someone actually took the time t

Re: debootstrap+udev+sarge fails to remove mountig point

2007-07-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
HI, > # debootstrap --include=udev sarge /sarge-root > # rm -rf /sarge-root/ > rm: cannot remove directory `/sarge-root//dev/.static/dev': Device > or resource busy why do you use sarge? Etch is stable since the beginnign of April, and it supports udev just fine out of the box. Also there'

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:02:32AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > People really do use both package priorities and sections still for > > selecting packages in the package management tools, and it would be great > > to have them fixed. > Seconded. I tried once to install all "optional" packages a

debootstrap+udev+sarge fails to remove mountig point

2007-07-09 Thread zferentz
Hi , I have a live-CD that i'm building with debootstrap + udev . everything is fine with the live-CD , however when i try to remove the "working directory" - i can't remove it due to an existing mounting point caused by udev . the (simplified) scenario goes like this: # debootstrap --include=

ITP: unmass -- extract game archive files

2007-07-09 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unmass Version : 0.9 Upstream Author: Mirex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mirex.mypage.sk/index.php?selected=1 * License : GNU GPL Description : Extract game archive files This is a tool to extract

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/07/07 at 14:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sam Hocevar wrote: > > >> The tasks > >> - > > > [...] > > > what about override adjustments? I have packages where I've fixed > > clearly wrong overrides and was answering many times the aut

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sam Hocevar wrote: >> The tasks >> - > [...] > what about override adjustments? I have packages where I've fixed > clearly wrong overrides and was answering many times the automatic > 'override disparity' mails without any answer for years. S

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
Sam Hocevar wrote: > The tasks > - [...] what about override adjustments? I have packages where I've fixed clearly wrong overrides and was answering many times the automatic 'override disparity' mails without any answer for years. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, C

Re: kile

2007-07-09 Thread Art Edwards
This is a courtesy rejoinder: Today kile installed without problem. Last time I think that texlive was not completely loaded into testing. Art Edwards Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:06:36PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: In testing, kile has been removed. That doesn't

Re: Bug#432310: ITP: umtsmon -- Use it to control UMTS/GPRS cards in notebooks

2007-07-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +0200, Andreas Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: ITP: umtsmon -- Use it to control UMTS/GPRS cards in notebooks > Version: 0.6-1 > > Hi! > I use this tool for configuring my UMTS card with a GUI. As it is not > (yet) in the debian repositories I creat

Re: patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 cl

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Mueller wrote: > Also true, but as I frequently need to backport packages to (old)stable, > I would really like people only to increase the debhelper compat level > if they really _use_ new features in the new level. > > While I backported packages to sarge during the etch release cycle, I >

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Sven Mueller
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote on 09/07/2007 16:57: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:48:05PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: >> Hello, >> what is the policy about file debian/compat ? > > It's a part of the interface to debhelper, and as such is documented in the > debhelper documentation. True. >> I was

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Bruno * Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-09 16:53]: > what is the policy about file debian/compat ? There is no policy for compat since compat specifies the compatibility level of the debhelper tools and you don't need to build your packages with debhelper. > I was not able to f

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:48:05PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > what is the policy about file debian/compat ? It's a part of the interface to debhelper, and as such is documented in the debhelper documentation. > I was not able to find any policy about it in 'Debian Policy Manual' on

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:48 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > what is the policy about file debian/compat ? > > I was not able to find any policy about it in 'Debian Policy Manual' on > debian.org. It seems it should contain package version mentionned in > field 'Build-depends:' in debian/control

Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, what is the policy about file debian/compat ? I was not able to find any policy about it in 'Debian Policy Manual' on debian.org. It seems it should contain package version mentionned in field 'Build-depends:' in debian/control for building from source package ? Ie. if my package is buil

Bug#432325: RM: gnotepad+ -- RoM; Buggy, Gnome 1 only, no upstream

2007-07-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: ftp.debian.org As maintainer of gnotepad+ (and gnotepad+-help) it is my opinion they are past the end of their useful life and should be removed from Debian. 1) It has some annoying bugs nobody intends to fix (78247, 97764) 2) I severely doubt anybody is using it anymore (it never achie

Bug#432302: ITP: rebuildd -- build daemon aiming at rebuilding Debian packages

2007-07-09 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rebuildd Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://julien.danjou.info/rebuild.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Des

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled: > GTK+ 1.2 (and GLib 1.2) were abandoned upstream over *six years* ago. > It's rather probable (nay, doubtless) that there are unidentified and > unfixed security problems with these libraries. > > Given that upstreams have had over five years to port th

Bug#432298: RFH: elvis

2007-07-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, The editor "elvis" is a vi clone that has almost (see below) all features that one would nowadays demand of a vi-like editor. It is also significantly "lighter" than the popular "vim" editor. -rwxr-xr-x root root 451796 2006-10-11 08:13 /usr/bin/elv

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-09 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Joseph Neal a écrit : Well, my reasoning was, that we just try to wild guess about user capabilities. I have just learned that user behave very unexpected and exactly these users happen to be quite vocal how broken Debian is. I just would like to give them lesser chances to be correct when they