Please, stop this hurting vendetta, don't you think enough time has passed ?

2008-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... This is the first time in the over-a-year that i have been banned from the debian mailing lists that i try to go around the ban to post an appeal to the whole debian community. And i am sorry to come again with this. I write this, because even despite what debian has done to me, i sti

Please stop this hurting vendetta against me ...

2008-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... This is the first time in the over-a-year that i have been banned from the debian mailing lists that i try to go around the ban to post an appeal to the whole debian community. And i am sorry to come again with this. I write this, because even despite what debian has done to me, i sti

Bug#497104: ITP: libpdfrenderer-java -- Java PDF renderer and viewer

2008-08-29 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libpdfrenderer-java Version : 0~20080829 Upstream Author : joshy, rbair, tomoke * URL : https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:51:13 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Any ideas how I can start debugging this? I had something similar a few months ago, and it was related to the kernel's clocksource setting. But that was with 2.6.21 and 2.6.22, so probably doesn't apply here. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. h

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Aug-08, 02:19 (CDT), Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, how would you check that a bug has not already been filed > manually by another user? Why, the same way all the manual duplicate bug filers[1] check :-) Steve [1] yes, I've filed a few duplicates in my life, no need to

Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
> What is the recommended procedure for changing from e.g. lilo to grub? > Since you plan to drop lilo post-lenny, I guess this will be a quite > common question during the lifetime of lenny. Users will notice that > lilo is being deprecated and wonder how to switch. Maybe something to > document

Bug#497090: ITP: libghc6-terminfo-dev -- Haskell bindings to the terminfo library

2008-08-29 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libghc6-terminfo-dev Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Judah Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.haskell.org/terminfo * License : BSD Programmi

Re: Section of the sendmail manual page

2008-08-29 Thread Michael Schutte
Lars, On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:50:23PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > pe, 2008-08-29 kello 20:42 +0200, Michael Schutte kirjoitti: > > sendmail(8) (citadel-mta has neither of them; I’m going to open a > > serious bug after receiving some replies to this mail). > > I don't think a missing manual

Bug#497082: ITP: libev-perl -- perl interface to libev, a high performance full-featured event loop

2008-08-29 Thread Maximilian Gaß
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Maximilian Gaß" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libev-perl Version : 3.43 Upstream Author : Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/EV/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Pe

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, Am Freitag, den 29.08.2008, 19:51 +0200 schrieb Frank Küster: > > Since late last week, my system completely hangs - it stops accepting > > any input from keyboard or mouse - after 3 to 5 minutes after booting. > > This happens both in a text console and when running X. > > I should have

Re: Section of the sendmail manual page

2008-08-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-08-29 kello 20:42 +0200, Michael Schutte kirjoitti: > sendmail(8) (citadel-mta has neither of them; I’m going to open a > serious bug after receiving some replies to this mail). I don't think a missing manual page is a serious bug. > Which section of the manual do you think sendmail belo

Section of the sendmail manual page

2008-08-29 Thread Michael Schutte
Hi everyone, Of the 13 packages in sid providing mail-transport-agent, four come with a sendmail(1) manual page, while the remaining eight ship with sendmail(8) (citadel-mta has neither of them; I’m going to open a serious bug after receiving some replies to this mail). I could barely care less u

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-08-29 kello 19:51 +0200, Frank Küster kirjoitti: > Any ideas how I can start debugging this? My first suspicion would be about the hardware. You could run memtest86+ for at least 12 hours or until the first error. Another idea: you could test the system with another version of Debian, or

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-29 Thread Lawrence Williams
This sounds like a kernel panic to me. Anyone else have any thoughts? - Lawrence On Friday, August 29, 2008 03:21:13 pm Frank Küster wrote: > I should have been more specific here. It's not only the input, it's   > the output as well. For example, if aptitude is downloading packages   > in an rxv

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-29 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Am 28.08.2008 um 22:41 schrieb Frank Küster: Package: general Severity: grave Since late last week, my system completely hangs - it stops accepting any input from keyboard or mouse - after 3 to 5 minutes after booting. This happens both in a text console and when running X. I should have

Re: Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

2008-08-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-08-29 kello 11:20 -0500, William Pitcock kirjoitti: > This is DFSG-free, and meets both requirements. Since I agree with William, I'm closing the bug. If Jari disagrees, he'll let us know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

2008-08-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 18:30 +0300, root wrote: > Package: lsb-base > Version: 3.2-19 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1 > > > Please investigate if files included in lsb-base conform to DFSG. A lincense > change to GPL would be better suited for Debian. > > Policy / 2.1. The De

Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

2008-08-29 Thread root
Package: lsb-base Version: 3.2-19 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1 Please investigate if files included in lsb-base conform to DFSG. A lincense change to GPL would be better suited for Debian. Policy / 2.1. The Debian Free Software Guidelines: ... Derived Works Th

Re: Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

2008-08-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-08-29 kello 18:30 +0300, root kirjoitti: > Please investigate if files included in lsb-base conform to DFSG. A lincense > change to GPL would be better suited for Debian. In what way do you think the lsb-base license does not conform to the DFSG? > Policy / 2.1. The Debian Free Software

Re: Unusual version numbering systems

2008-08-29 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:19:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:51:19 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > Hi, I have packaged a piece of software [1] which uses a version > > number system which is not compatible with Debian's ordering. > > > T

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:36:30PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > Once the move has been completed we expect to make gluck restricted to > > the people operating the services that will remain on gluck, so please > > clean out you

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-08-29 Thread Shobhit Jindal
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Re: Bug#496938: ITP: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl -- perl module to generate secure random passwords

2008-08-29 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:27:44 +0400, Alexander Gerasiov wrote: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alexander Gerasiov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl > Version : 0.03 > > I don't really know is this module is usefull for anybody e

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-29 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Looking at > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest >, I > see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org > have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible, > I susp