Re: [RFC] How should rsyslog handle .0 logfiles from sysklogd

2008-09-19 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Michael Biebl wrote: > 2.) Try to log rotate the .0 files for the default Debian log files in > postinst. I feel a bit uneasy about this approach, for several reasons: > - It adds fairly reasonable complexity to the maintainer scripts, if you > want to consider all corner cases. > E.g. if you swit

[RFC] How should rsyslog handle .0 logfiles from sysklogd

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, as rsyslog will be our default syslogd for lenny, I'd like to fix bug #491672 [1], I'm just undecided about which solution is best. rsyslog, in contrast to sysklogd, uses logrotate to rotate the default log files. Unfortunately sysklogd uses a custom log rotate mechanism, which starts the log

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 ? 17:29 -0400, Thomas Dickey a ?crit : agree - I don't know how to guarantee that five years from now there'd be no ABI change - the best I can do is maintain API compatibility. You can maintain ABI compatibility by using

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Friday 19 September 2008 20:31, Russ Allbery wrote: > > In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start > > to make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend our > > time fixing RC bugs meanwhile? > > Uh, I can name several that use that aspect of the GPL

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
"Thijs Kinkhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, September 19, 2008 11:25, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:58:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 17:29 -0400, Thomas Dickey a écrit : > agree - I don't know how to guarantee that five years from now there'd > be no ABI change - the best I can do is maintain API compatibility. You can maintain ABI compatibility by using opaque structures by using constructor/getter

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Sep 19 2008, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/9/19 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made >>> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I f

Danish developers *do* care about Debian being installable in their language

2008-09-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Thanks to Sune who relayed my noise in his blog, Jesper Dahl Nyerup and Henrik Christian Grove complete Debian Installer translations for Danish very quickly and even reviewed the existing translations. I think they deserve big kudos from Danish native speakers and D-I developers. Thanks as well

Re: Bug#489132: Still relevant?

2008-09-19 Thread Wolf Wiegand
Hi, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Is it still correct that dpkg needs to be upgraded first before doing a > > dist-upgrade from Etch? With perl-base 5.10.0-14 pre-depending on a > > fixed version of dpkg, that should not be the case anymore, AFAICS. > > I

Bug#499537: ITP: iw -- tool for configuring Linux wireless devices

2008-09-19 Thread Kel Modderman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kel Modderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: iw Upstream Author : Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C Description : tool

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-09-18 19:19, Robert Lemmen wrote: > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: Where is it already discussed? At least not on d-d, as far as I can see/find... Thanks, Johannes NB: Google finds only some ubuntu discussions for me... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-09-19 Thread Teodor
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This kernel have a critical problem: > > | Bad pte = 11764060, process = vsftpd, vm_flags = 100071, vaddr = b7f85000 > | Pid: 8129, comm: vsftpd Not tainted 2.6.26-1-xen-686 #1 > | [] handle_mm_fault+0x61b/0xe78 > | [] mp

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:41:57AM +0100, Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:27:44AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start to > > make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend ou

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Robert Lemmen
about click-through EULAs: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:16:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > It makes sense. The same way that we're not allowing GFDL packages > > with invariant sections, we might not want this feature/bug of GPL to > > be used for that either. I would support making such a dec

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:27:44AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start to > make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend our time > fixing RC bugs meanwhile? of course, but the issue came up because of the mozill

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Miriam Ruiz: > 2008/9/19 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made >>> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear. >> >> That doesn't m

Processed: this sounds like a nice problem to be solved with UDD :)

2008-09-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/9/19 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made >> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear. > > That doesn't mean we should accept tho

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, September 19, 2008 11:25, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:58:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Robert Lemmen: >> >>> still: can we make this a policy item? >> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >> disclaimers, without being allow

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:58:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Robert Lemmen: > > still: can we make this a policy item? > > The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty > disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made > more obnoxious than