Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:12:35PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Also, do we really need *any* printing system as priority: standard? It's > > not clear to me that printing is still really part of a standard Unix > > installation, even for desk

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Andreas Metzler [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:32:47 +0100]: >> I thought Breaks was not yet handled by dpkg/apt and was therefore >> pointless? > > apt supports it since 0.7.0. I thought we weren't supposed to use it until apt 0.7.0 reaches stable? -- Felipe Sateler -- T

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Metzler [Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:32:47 +0100]: > Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andreas Metzler [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:31:29 +0100]: > [...] > >> I did consider it, but afaik the pulled-in-by-dependency-szenario is > >> going to be rare. > > Well, dlocate has 2500 popcon insta

Re: buildds: "Authentication warning overridden."

2007-11-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:24:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:27:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Wouter Verhelst: > > > > That's inevitable because http://incoming.debian.org is not signed; The > > > update frequency of that repository (which is available onl

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:16:28PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:47:49 +, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > >> How many seconds until the "please make pidfile location configurable" > >> wishlist bug? > > > >Which is

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 12:40:16PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:00:13 +0100, Wouter Verhelst > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That is one way to look at it. The other way would be that these are > >just three lines of "code" being duplicated here, and that start_daemon > >is jus

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:13:20 +0100]: > 2. After verifying it works, we upload to unstable >(mlocate+conflicts, locate+conflicts, findutils+breaks), Forgot to say, the Conflicts: findutils (<= 4.3.8-1) need to be changed to use <= 4.2.31-1 when uploading to unstable. Ju

Re: Package not build on mips and mipsel due to python-gnome2-extras uninstallable

2007-11-14 Thread Julien Valroff
Le mercredi 14 novembre 2007 à 09:44 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > > After several months, the latest upload of my package listen[0] > hasn't > > yet entered to testing[1] due to missing dependencies on mips and > mipsel > > architectures. > > Due to missing /builds/ on these architectu

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Metzler [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:31:29 +0100]: [...] >> I did consider it, but afaik the pulled-in-by-dependency-szenario is >> going to be rare. > Well, dlocate has 2500 popcon installations, vs. slocate's 1500. So, I'm > still convinced findutil's

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 novembre 2007 à 17:48 -0600, Raphael Geissert a écrit : > Then why don't you do it The Right Way (tm)? > It isn't hard to read command line arguments with options, see man > getopt(3?). Oh yes it is, because getopt is an arcane and error-prone interface. -- .''`. : :' : We a

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Edmonds
On 2007-11-14, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:47:49 +, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: >>> How many seconds until the "please make pidfile location configurable" >>> wishlist bug? >> >>Which is another, wh

Re: Package not build on mips and mipsel due to python-gnome2-extras uninstallable

2007-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:07:15PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: > After several months, the latest upload of my package listen[0] hasn't > yet entered to testing[1] due to missing dependencies on mips and mipsel > architectures. Due to missing /builds/ on these architectures. > This is caused by

Re: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> "CW" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What I'm expected to do, then? (With respect to Debian BTS.) I >> believe, start filing multiple bug reports would be a bad idea (for >> me now.) May I suggest an explicit warning to be generated by Groff >> on unknown ``command'', s

Package not build on mips and mipsel due to python-gnome2-extras uninstallable

2007-11-14 Thread Julien Valroff
Hi, After several months, the latest upload of my package listen[0] hasn't yet entered to testing[1] due to missing dependencies on mips and mipsel architectures. This is caused by the fact python-gnome2-extras can't be installed on these archs whereas the package does exist[2]. Does anyone has

Re: debian archive integrity check tool?

2007-11-14 Thread Eric Cooper
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:13:39PM +0100, Václav Ovsík wrote: > So, is there some utility, that can verify checksums from archive index > files (integrity of archive)? The approx archive proxy that I wrote includes the utility "gc_approx", which garbage-collects its cache by verifying sizes and ch

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:48:45 -0600, Raphael Geissert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Then why don't you do it The Right Way (tm)? > > No time, not enough C skill. To much other things to do. > > If it is a requirement to be able to do bug-free C string opera

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:48:45 -0600, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Then why don't you do it The Right Way (tm)? No time, not enough C skill. To much other things to do. If it is a requirement to be able to do bug-free C string operations to be a DD, please remove me from the keyring

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:47:49 +, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: >> How many seconds until the "please make pidfile location configurable" >> wishlist bug? > >Which is another, what, 5-10 lines of code? I do not feel able to write C code fo

Re: debian archive integrity check tool?

2007-11-14 Thread Václav Ovsík
Thanks for your replies Simons :) On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > Václav Ovsík schrieb: > > >please, is there any utility/script, that can verify integrity of Debian > >archive? A maintainer of the ftp mirror ftp.linux.cz asks for this in > >a national m

Re: debian archive integrity check tool?

2007-11-14 Thread Simon Paillard
Hello, > please, is there any utility/script, that can verify integrity of Debian > archive? A maintainer of the ftp mirror ftp.linux.cz asks for this in > a national mailling list about Linux systems. He needs this for non > Debian system. rsync does MD4 integrity checks, so using this (recomma

Criminals in the Bush/Cheney cabal deliberately let 9/11 happen

2007-11-14 Thread Joey Robinson
The following facts are not being reported by the mainstream media: Hijacked airliners flew all around the eastern U.S. for hours without any military response??? How could Osama bin-Forgotten make our air force stand down, or did Cheney do that??? The Pentagon was struc

ITH: m17n-lib, m17n-db, m17n-docs deb packages

2007-11-14 Thread Harshula
Hi, I would like to update and maintain the m17n-lib[1] and m17n-db[2] debian packages. I am already maintaining scim-m17n and m17n-contrib debian packages. The m17n-lib (1.3.1) and m17n-db (1.3.1) packages have been neglected by the current maintainers for nearly 2 years. The upstream versions (

Re: debian archive integrity check tool?

2007-11-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Václav Ovsík schrieb: please, is there any utility/script, that can verify integrity of Debian archive? A maintainer of the ftp mirror ftp.linux.cz asks for this in a national mailling list about Linux systems. He needs this for non Debian system. The debmirror script has an option to ch

debian archive integrity check tool?

2007-11-14 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, please, is there any utility/script, that can verify integrity of Debian archive? A maintainer of the ftp mirror ftp.linux.cz asks for this in a national mailling list about Linux systems. He needs this for non Debian system. I reply him, that it should not be too dificult to generate input fo

Bug#451233: ITP: ocaml-ladspa -- O'Caml bindings for the ladspa sdk

2007-11-14 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-ladspa Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savonet.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL + Linking exception Programmin

Re: Trying to learn how to package a software

2007-11-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 21:18 -0300, Jean Silva a écrit : > It is written in PHP (maybe a bad choice for me because > i'm not a PHP programmer) Well this is a bad choice regardless of that. > and it has a subdirectory named db > where it stores some data. > I tried to put db in

Re: reportbug and usertags

2007-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Adam D. Barratt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:14 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > [User: and Usertags: in reportbug-generated mails not reaching the BTS] > > > Sounds like a bug in reportbug to me; it's probably stripping out > > unknown pseudoheaders. > > Indeed; see #4