Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-02-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > But as this would hardcode exim4 as the default MTA for Debian in a number > of packages, some better solutions have been proposed in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00381.html with the best > choice appearantly be

Work-needing packages report for Feb 27, 2009

2009-02-26 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 397 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 113 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Feb 27 02:00, Enrico Zini wrote: > Putting java libraries into 'java' instead of 'libs' would just make > it harder for a package manager to hide libraries. Debtags will work > for that, so no big deal, but at the moment 'libs' is nice because it > allows me to auto-tag packages from th

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Feb 27 02:10, Darren Salt wrote: > > I'd prefer "localization". > > Whereas I'd prefer "localisation"... > > > - We use en_US in general -> "ize" > > ... unless you're localising for en_US. OTOH, given that that section is for > localisation, "localization" is probably right, being locali

YouBundle Invitation

2009-02-26 Thread YouBundle
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Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... >> Joerg Jaspert wrote: [...] >>> The new sections are: >>> localisationsLanguage packs >> I'd prefer "localization". > Whereas I'd prefer "l

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Sam" == Sam Hartman writes: Sam> OK, so I think we're all set. The plan now is to Sam> 1) Build twice, once into build and once into build-krb4. We Sam> only pull libkrb4.so out of build-krb4. 2) This works at least. Sam> 3) Make libkrb53 depend on all the libraries

Bug#517346: ITP: openmeeg -- library and tools for solving EEG and MEG forward and inverse problems

2009-02-26 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: openmeeg Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : OpenMEEG Team * URL : http://www-sop.inria.fr/odyssee/software/OpenMEEG/ * License : CeCILL-B Programming Lang: C++ Description : lib

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Daniel Moerner writes: > chicken-bin Ah, yes, I meant to list that but forgot; good catch. > mzscheme and drscheme are just plt-scheme transitional packages by now True; in that case, perhaps they should go to oldlibs until they retire altogether. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.ed

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Joerg Jaspert may or may not have written... [snip] > The initial set of packages moved into the new sections will be found > using the following matches: [snip] > video [snip] > *xine* Slightly over-broad, unless you want to move library packages too (but I see that

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... > Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid >> growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > Great. >> The new sections are: > [...] >> localisations

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
David Paleino writes: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:36:07 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille wrote: >> and at the same time fix all packages that only have a menu but no >> desktop file." > This could easily be added as a lintian check, I believe. FWIW, the reason why Lintian doesn't have such a check is be

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > While we acknowledge that something like debtags will make a better > long-term solution, we do not think that it is ready yet to completly > replace sections (e.g. because it isn't assured that all packages have > tags). This is why

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Joerg Jaspert writes: > >> Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as >> well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. > > As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this > me

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that John Goerzen may or may not have written... > Joerg Schilling wrote: [snip] >> The code that was taken by Debian for the fork WAS free but now it is no >> longer because Debian did apply changes that are forbidden by law. > When will you enumerate these? What, and leave him without

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Morris
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:13:48 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette >> wrote: >> > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : >> >> ruby Everything

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > >> ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object > >> oriented > >>

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Joerg Jaspert writes: > Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as > well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. One more: ikarus (which I initially overlooked because it's only available on i386 :-/). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.ed

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : >> ruby                     Everything about ruby, an interpreted object >> oriented >>                          language. >> java                     Everything about Java > >

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Joerg Jaspert writes: > Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as > well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this message, I'd argue that my goo package is a (somewhat exotic) candi

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 16:34 -0600, John Goerzen a écrit : > So please do not tell us to adopt your source tree for main because a > fork is illegal. The cognitive dissonance in that statement is amazing. For someone who can invent contents of PGP-signed emails, inventing legal breaches is li

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Edward Betts
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Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Tille wrote: > This discussion comes up once or twice per year. In most cases it is > triggered by users of freedesktop.org based environments. They fail to > see the fact that there are other environments which do not support > freedesktop.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Luciano Bello
El Jue 26 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert escribió: > ruby                     Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented >                          language. > java                     Everything about Java Have sense to inaugurate a section with all the R modules? Nowadays many of them are i

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
Joerg Schilling wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >>> The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious: >>> >>> - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be >>> legally distributed. >> If your code was Free Software, then it is

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jög, On Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, > now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. [...] Cool, nice! > The new sections are: I think an r section would be useful, there ar

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented > language. > java Everything about Java How about a "cli" section about everything related to Mono and the

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that John Goerzen may or may not have written... [snip rebuttal of "fork is not legally distributable"] > So please do not tell us to adopt your source tree for main because a > fork is illegal. The cognitive dissonance in that statement is amazing. I've just worked it out. He's an Elec

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Brett Parker may or may not have written... > On 26 Feb 15:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Brett Parker wrote: >>> On 26 Feb 11:27, Joerg Schilling wrote: - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be legally distributed. >>> Err, it's a fork of t

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Goerzen wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > > The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious: > > > > - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be > > legally distributed. > > If your code was Free Software, then it is perfectly legal for De

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:48:18PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which is your call, but > > if it does, well, ... heads up :-) > > Get me a short description for it. "Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language implementatio

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> lisp Everything about Lisp > Is this just about Common Lisp, or other Lisp dialects as well? I'm > mainly referring to Scheme here, as it is another Lisp dialect in > (relatively) widespread use (the third one being Emacs-Lisp). Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just li

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> database Databases > [...] >> database >> postgresql* >> pg* >> sqlite* >> mysql* >> libmysql* >> db4.* >> libdb4* >> firebird* >> sql-

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Frans Pop wrote: >> localisationsLanguage packs > I'd prefer "localization". > - We use en_US in general -> "ize" Well, I dont really care. Fine, adjusted. > - Having the section name plural seems inconsistent with other > sections. Dito. >> video > [...] >>

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
Joerg Schilling wrote: > > The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious: > > - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be > legally distributed. If your code was Free Software, then it is perfectly legal for Debian to do what it does. If your

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Joerg Jaspert [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100]: > >> database >> libmysql* >> libdb4* > I'm not sure these (and possibly *some* of the other lib* packages > included in the listing) should be moved out of Section: libs.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joerg Jaspert, le Thu 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100, a écrit : > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > >[...] > > The new sections are: > > ruby Everything about ruby,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 > OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are > libraries for OCaml development. > I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which is your call, but > if it does, well, ... heads up :-) Get me a short descrip

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > The new sections are: [..] > videoVideo viewers, editors, recording, streaming What about renaming sound as audio? (if we introduce the video one, ) Since the (perl|python|ruby|...) sections should contains libraries, m

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, dan wrote: > > > search and other privacy concerns so that people can make rational > > > decisions based on reality instead of sensationalism. > > > > Sensationalism like > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/08/us_government_p.html > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/a

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > lisp            (no, not in brackets) >                cl-* >                *-lisp >                *-el Two things: First, if by Lisp you mean everything related to Lisp, then this should probably also include scheme*, not just Common Li

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> The new sections are: > > Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 > OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are > libraries for OCaml development. > > I don't i

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > java Everything about Java {...} > gcj* *gcj, too probably. > database > postgresql* > pg* > sqlite* > mysql* > libmysql* That also hits database libs.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Joerg Jaspert writes: > The new sections are: [...] > lisp Everything about Lisp [...] > Is this just about Common Lisp, or other Lisp dialects as well? I'm mainly referring to Scheme here, as it is another Lisp dialect in (relatively) widespread use (the third one being Emacs

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100 Joerg Jaspert napsal(a): > database Databases [...] > database > postgresql* > pg* > sqlite* > mysql* > libmysql* > db4.* > libdb

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > The new sections are: Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are libraries for OCaml development. I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful > anymore. Great. > The new sections are: [...] > localisationsLanguage packs I'd prefer "localization". - We use en_US

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:07:30PM +0100, sean finney wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:14:23AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Well, it depends on how dpkg currently handles merges. My impression > > (as a user, never looked at the actual code) is that it not even tries > > to merge, it sim

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-26 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56:30PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > BTW, I have a set of patches you might want to consider. I'll file > > them in BTS if you're currently making make-kpkg. > > Please. I have been thinking about the request you made for > debugging symbols being package

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joerg Jaspert [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100]: > database > libmysql* > libdb4* I'm not sure these (and possibly *some* of the other lib* packages included in the listing) should be moved out of Section: libs. I can see how having a database section to browse c

Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hello world, As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of this archive, but the action we talk about now is: We plan on changing t

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-26 Thread dan
On Thursday 26 February 2009 08:08:50 Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:31:24PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > Further, we're definitely going to be giving people invitation > > letters and other advice to make sure they present themselves in > > the best (accurate) light they can

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
[WARNING: THIS MESSAGE IS PGP/MIME SIGNED, DON'T BLAME MY MUA ;)] The only thing I remember is an ancient (2006) discussion on heise online (and probably elsewhere too) [0] (German only, sorry) about this topic and all this has been brought forward and not backed up by any proofs. Back then the la

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread sean finney
hiya zack, On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:14:23AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Well, it depends on how dpkg currently handles merges. My impression > (as a user, never looked at the actual code) is that it not even tries > to merge, it simply discovers that the local file is not pristine and > t

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:59 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit : > > The email you are replying to declares: > > > > Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-QLLn2OxCNRVAvKDPZ8Na" > > [snip] > > --=-QLLn2OxCNRVAvKDPZ8Na > > Content-Typ

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Please don???t forward private replies to a public mailing list: this is > very rude behavior. Well, this is an open discussion and I see no reason not to share your rude replies with others. > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit : > >

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Brett Parker
On 26 Feb 15:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Brett Parker wrote: > > > On 26 Feb 11:27, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be > > > legally distributed. > > > > Err, it's a fork of the GPL2 code, before you went insane and relicenced > >

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Please don’t forward private replies to a public mailing list: this is very rude behavior. Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit : > ** > If you are using a coding other than 7-Bit ASCII or ISO-8859-1, you need to > properly declare your transfer encoding. Pl

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
** If you are using a coding other than 7-Bit ASCII or ISO-8859-1, you need to properly declare your transfer encoding. Please fix your mail client! ** Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 13:55 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette wrote

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Harald Braumann writes: >> I fail to see the differences (no pun intented) between "the last >> version I've merged" and the current file ... > > I mean the last maintainer version I merged into the installed version, > not the result of the last merge. ok > But there are 3 possible situations

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> Luke L writes: >> >>> Something to think about: Shouldn't SQL databases and web servers, and >>> file servers, be under /srv/? /srv/www, /srv/mysql, /srv/smb, etc.? >> >> The current FHS reserves /srv's name

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-26 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: Luke L writes: Something to think about: Shouldn't SQL databases and web servers, and file servers, be under /srv/? /srv/www, /srv/mysql, /srv/smb, etc.? The current FHS reserves /srv's namespace for the local administrator. My guess is that people won't want to go back

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:25:33PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > Also, there is of course no guaranteed that no conflicting changes > > lead to a configuration file semantically sound, > That's the main problem I see with VCS like merge. The main problem is > that the merge result *should* be

Bug#482921: reassign

2009-02-26 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 482921 glibc thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Processed: reassign

2009-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 482921 glibc Bug#482921: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages Bug reassigned from package `general' to `glibc'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking syste

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brett Parker wrote: > On 26 Feb 11:27, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be > > legally distributed. > > Err, it's a fork of the GPL2 code, before you went insane and relicenced > half of it to CDDL and added random "Don't change t

https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/ (Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA)

2009-02-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
FYI: Although people from many countries (Japan, Europe, ...) are not required to have visa, US now requires to fill some web form in advance. PLEASE do not forget to do Travel Authorization: https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/ Also ... On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:08:50AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On W

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:13:31 +, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Thu Feb 26 12:57, David Paleino wrote: > > > You will never manage to "force" upstream authors of different > > > environments to support freedesktop.org standard because you have no > > > handle to force anybody in Free Software. > >

Processed: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 508644 Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess Bug#508644: general: installing mdadm pulls in citadel-server as depedency Changed Bug title to `Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess' from `general: installing mdadm pulls in citadel-server a

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-02-26 Thread Holger Levsen
retitle 508644 Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess thanks Hi, I'd like to close/reassign this bug... :-) A better description of what this bug is about can actually be read in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474999 and the solution would be to file bugs against those 8 packa

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez may or may not have written... [snip] > I don't think removing Debian menu is a good idea, as many people are still > using it, but when you're using a freedesktop.org environment, this menu is > really ugly, useless and duplicating entries. There are som

Processed: reassign

2009-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 512401 metacity Bug#512401: general: Java, Tk and Tkinter applications broken in Metacity window manager Bug reassigned from package `general' to `metacity'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance.

Bug#172318: marked as done (apt: Automatic appends to sources.list via webpages.)

2009-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:22:32 +0100 with message-id <200902261522.38235.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line wontfix has caused the Debian Bug report #172318, regarding apt: Automatic appends to sources.list via webpages. to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the

Bug#517229: ITP: libghc6-extensible-exceptions -- Extensible exceptions for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler

2009-02-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: libghc6-extensible-exceptions Version : 0.1.1.0 Upstream Author : Haskell Libraries Maintainers * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/extensible-except

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 12:58 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl a écrit : Please, not again. The arguments have been exchanged ad invinitum a couple of times already. So if there is nothing new to bring up, please don't restart the discussion. Why? It’s quite funny t

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Manoj Srivastava writes: > /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, for example, is in Perl. You may define > functions, variables, closures (given enough make-kpkg-fu) and have it > all work. Agreed. But this is valid for power user that would not really need the safe merge capability provided by Config::Model

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:48:35AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Agreed. If we can identify all libraries (perhaps with a simple grep over > the lintian lab?) containing these types, and make sure LFS is enabled in > all of them, it should then be possible to switch once all dependencies > are rebu

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 12:58 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl a écrit : > Please, not again. The arguments have been exchanged ad invinitum a couple > of times already. So if there is nothing new to bring up, please don't > restart the discussion. Why? It’s quite funny to discuss with Joerg S

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Feb 26 12:57, David Paleino wrote: > > You will never manage to "force" upstream authors of different environments > > to support freedesktop.org standard because you have no handle to force > > anybody in Free Software. > > Sure you can't, but standards exist for this reason. And sane upst

Re: handling group membership in and outside d-i

2009-02-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:31 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > HAL is just querying the group database directly. Any process can of > > course do this. But it's asking a different question, namely: > > what groups is this user a member of in the group d

ucf --three-way (was: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades)

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Well. If the maintainer so desires, ucf does have this to say: > ,[ Manual page ucf(1) ] > | --three-way [ ... ] > Seems like this is what is desired; however, the reason this is > not on by default is that some configuration files can be huge, an

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Brett Parker
On 26 Feb 11:27, Joerg Schilling wrote: > - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be > legally distributed. Err, it's a fork of the GPL2 code, before you went insane and relicenced half of it to CDDL and added random "Don't change this" invariant sections - how

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > Well, it depends on how dpkg currently handles merges. My impression > (as a user, never looked at the actual code) is that it not even tries > to merge, it simply discovers that the local file is not pristine and > then asks the user. On the contrary, every VCS I'm aw

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:02:29PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > >> I am considering starting a discussion within the KDE team to stop >> supporting the Debian Menu. >> >> It becomes more and more useless - and it is also very ugly, as the menu >> itsel

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:36:07 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > > What about making all environments out there support the freedesktop.org > > standard instead? > > The situation is different. It is not that all environments support > Debian menu b

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Ben Hutchings schrieb: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 09:28 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> [..] cdrecord [..] >>> [..] wodim [..] Please, not again. The arguments have been exchanged ad invinitum a couple of times already. So if there is nothing new to bring up, please don't restart the discussi

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, David Paleino wrote: What about making all environments out there support the freedesktop.org standard instead? The situation is different. It is not that all environments support Debian menu but many of them invented their own menu system. The Debian Menu system just pr

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 11:12 +, Tzafrir Cohen a écrit : > The "Settings" top menu is now mostly unusable, as it is one long list that > includes both KDE and GNOME settings. And it will, as long as the KDE maintainers don’t fix their broken .desktop entries to add the missing OnlyShowIn en

Bug#517206: ITP: libgd-svg-perl -- Seamlessly enable SVG output from scripts written using GD

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Hello everybody, Here is another Perl library that is needed for the Generic Genome Browser (version 2). I will inject the package soon in the pkg-perl repository. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Source: libgd-svg-perl Section: perl P

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:12:25 +0100, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > 2009/2/26 Andreas Tille > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > I am considering starting a discussion within the KDE team to stop > >> supporting the Debian Menu. > >> > >> It becomes more and more useless

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:14:34AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-02-26, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > --Sig_/b/o0j06x1Maj8m.BfPK65gn > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > Is that a violation of a must directive and therefore a b

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez
2009/2/26 Andreas Tille > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > I am considering starting a discussion within the KDE team to stop >> supporting the Debian Menu. >> >> It becomes more and more useless - and it is also very ugly, as the menu >> itself specifies icons that are nonexistant i

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: I am considering starting a discussion within the KDE team to stop supporting the Debian Menu. It becomes more and more useless - and it is also very ugly, as the menu itself specifies icons that are nonexistant in all icon themes. This discussion come

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:20:50PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:52:30PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > Personally, I would prefer the glibc headers to just set the LFS > > macros to the 64 bit versions by default, so that rather than > > taking extra steps to enable L

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 09:28 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >xcdroast is looking for cdrecord, which does no longer exist in Debian > > >Sid (apparently). And wodim does no longer provide a symlink as cdrecord > > >or something (apparently). > > > > >So: xcdroast does

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-02-26, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > --Sig_/b/o0j06x1Maj8m.BfPK65gn > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Is that a violation of a must directive and therefore a bug that will > need fixing ASAP? AIUI packages that have a GUI are requir

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Is that a violation of a must directive and therefore a bug that will > need fixing ASAP?  AIUI packages that have a GUI are required to have > debian menu, but I'm not sure if the window manager / desktop has the > same requirement. The

LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Is that a violation of a must directive and therefore a bug that will need fixing ASAP? AIUI packages that have a GUI are required to have debian menu, but I'm not sure if the window manager / desktop has the same requirement. -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way ea

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:03:03PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > > Actually, this is something I've been pondering about for a > > while. Having /etc under some VCS (as many of us, I presume, already > > have by the means of etckeeper and similar tools), diff file m

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-26 Thread Harald Braumann
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:28:39 -0500 Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video > card that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but > as the subject says I want to know what video cards will still have > acceleration whe

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