Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:23:56PM +, Michael Schutte wrote: > > As d-i has been brought up: Moving from console-tools to kbd does not > > affect the installer; > > localechooser would need to be changed to install kbd rather than > console-tools. >

Bug#476209: ITP: mage2tab -- MAGE-MLv1 converter and visualiser

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: mage2tab Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Junmin Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), John Brestelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL : https://www.cbil.upenn.edu/magewiki/index.php/mage2tab Licen

Conditional dependency

2008-04-14 Thread Ove Kaaven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wine on amd64 has a problem with bug #430845. If libnss-mdns is installed, Wine won't work properly without lib32nss-mdns, but works if neither is installed. Since I haven't seen any signs of the nss-mdns guys being in a hurry to fix the problem, I w

Bug#476202: ITP: libbio-mage-utils-perl -- Extra modules for classes in the MAGE package: MAGE

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libbio-mage-utils-perl Version : 20030502.0 Upstream Author : The MAGE-Perl Hackers URL : http://mged.sourceforge.net/ License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Perl Desc

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:23:56PM +, Michael Schutte wrote: > As d-i has been brought up: Moving from console-tools to kbd does not > affect the installer; localechooser would need to be changed to install kbd rather than console-tools. > console-tools needs libconsole, which is too large fo

Bug#476189: ITP: gimp-dds -- DDS (DirectDraw Surface) plugin for the gimp

2008-04-14 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gimp-dds Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C Descript

Re: Are Sha* checksums accepted by dak ?

2008-04-14 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:08:41PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Raphael Hertzog debian.org> writes: > > Anthony Towns has applied a fix to dak and Format: 1.8 is accepted now. > > He also resurrected the uploads which have been rejected due to this check > > only. > > I am seeing my uploads

Re: Are Sha* checksums accepted by dak ?

2008-04-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Raphael Hertzog debian.org> writes: > Anthony Towns has applied a fix to dak and Format: 1.8 is accepted now. > He also resurrected the uploads which have been rejected due to this check > only. I am seeing my uploads rejected too as of right now. I just got back from a short trip and was tryin

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-14 Thread Robert Edmonds
On 2008-04-12, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:48:19 + (UTC), Robert Edmonds ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Yes, there is a much better way: do not perform name resolution to >>determine the host's FQDN. It is wrong. > > This is what exim does to determine the loc

Bug#476153: ITP: phpicalendar -- iCal file web viewer

2008-04-14 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: phpicalendar Version : 2.24 Upstream Author : Chad Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://phpicalendar.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description

Plib, shared libraries issue.

2008-04-14 Thread Bradley Smith
Hi, I'm currently in the process of adopting plib and would like some advice regrading it's shared/static libraries. Upstream, plib is built as a set of static libraries due to the nature of it's use, i.e. a set of helper libraries that programs will only use part of. The Debian package currently

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Schutte
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:51:36PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > (keeping CC, just in case) You can drop me at least. > > console-tools is currently preferred over kbd and installed by default > > (on 97.41% of all machines according to popcon). > > > > Given the comments of Michael and Ali

Bug#476136: ITP: squirrelmail-logger -- SquirrelMail plugin: Add logging functionality to your webmail interface

2008-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 * Package name: squirrelmail-logger Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://www.squirrelmai

Re: Initial configuration and installation through d-i

2008-04-14 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Monday 14 April 2008 12:28:33 pm Raphael Hertzog wrote: > When the database is hosted on the same server, it means that the database > server needs to be running and functional. But that's not the case if you > install the packages directly within debian-installer (the /target chroot > is

Re: (English-speaking) Canadian users: default to US or "Canadian multilingual" keymap?

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:28:12AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > I'm seeking advices for #475482. > > console-data recently got a new keymap, namely "ca-multi", which > features the "Canadian multilingual" keymap. This keymap is > standardized by standard bodies in Canada and seems to be avail

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Christian Perrier
(keeping CC, just in case) > console-tools is currently preferred over kbd and installed by default > (on 97.41% of all machines according to popcon). > > Given the comments of Michael and Alistair, it seems clear to me that we > should move away from console-tools (back) to kbd. Also, Michae

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi fellow DDs, I had two separate discussions today with Alistair and Michael, about the state of console-tools and kbd in Debian. I decided to take this discussion to debian-devel to get more feedback on this matter. Following are the relevant parts of the discussion: Michael Schutte wrote:

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Anyone out there? On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On dim, 2008-03-30 at 16:25 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Things I want to see use triggers, in approximate prior

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Gabor Gombas said: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead? > > _Which_ FQDN? A machine may have several IP addresses, in the DNS there > may be multiple A records for every IP address (and

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-14 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead? _Which_ FQDN? A machine may have several IP addresses, in the DNS there may be multiple A records for every IP address (and the reverse PTR records may be completely meaningless placeh

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:14:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: David Paleino wrote: Firstly, it's not obsolete, since we only have sysvinit available (if we had upstart, or something similar to initng, I could've agreed here -- and upstart in Debian is way more experimental tha

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:14:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > > Firstly, it's not obsolete, since we only have sysvinit available (if we had > > upstart, or something similar to initng, I could've agreed here -- and > > upstart in Debian is way more experimental than initng)

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Firstly, it's not obsolete, since we only have sysvinit available (if we had upstart, or something similar to initng, I could've agreed here -- and upstart in Debian is way more experimental than initng). I doubt you can back up this claim. My experiences with both initng

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:48:26 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * David Paleino [Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:26:08 +0200]: > > > it didn't give me much > > problems. Sometimes happened that an upgrade failed (probably it could be > > handled better via postinst), so I had to reboot with sysvinit to fix > > th

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:48:26 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * David Paleino [Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:26:08 +0200]: > > > it didn't give me much > > problems. Sometimes happened that an upgrade failed (probably it could be > > handled better via postinst), so I had to reboot with sysvinit to fix > > th

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* David Paleino [Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:26:08 +0200]: > it didn't give me much > problems. Sometimes happened that an upgrade failed (probably it could be > handled better via postinst), so I had to reboot with sysvinit to fix > things up (both systems can cohexist! :)). Uh. That doesn't sound suita

Initial configuration and installation through d-i

2008-04-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, some packages require initial configuration of an external service. The most common case is the creation of a dedicated database (relational or LDAP). This is usually done in the postinst. When the database is hosted on the same server, it means that the database server needs to be running

ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (CCing debian-devel@ for comments on this) * Package name: initng Version : 0.6.10.2 Upstream Author : Jimmy Wennlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ismael Luceno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-14 Thread Vincent Danjean
Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:58:24 +, The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> [...] >>> Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead? >> [...] >> >> You can't, necessarily. > > So it needs to be in /etc/hosts.