Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:28 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:24, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >>> And if for whatever reason somebody wants to see your list disfunctional, >>> you open an easy way to do so by implementing a bot that reports every >>> message

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Siggy Brentrup (deb...@psycho.i21k.de): > > This can be done by *anyone*, DDs and non, and all are encouraged to > > do so. It's fundamental to have reports: without them we have a false > > sense of spam-free mailing lists, when we all know it's not true. > > And if for whatever reason s

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:33, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:28 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:24, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >> > And if for whatever reason somebody wants to see your list disfunctional, >> > you open an easy way to do so by implementing a bo

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:28 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:24, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > And if for whatever reason somebody wants to see your list disfunctional, > > you open an easy way to do so by implementing a bot that reports every > > message as spam.  Do you volunte

Bug#539861: ITP: madlib -- mesh adaptation library

2009-08-03 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,pkg-scicomp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org,debian-scie...@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: madlib Version: 1.2.2 Upstream Author: "Jean-François Remacle" ,

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:24, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:48 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 01:39, brian m. >> carlson wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:24:28AM +0300, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: >> >> Is there any way to actually make it harder to spam

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:48 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 01:39, brian m. > carlson wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:24:28AM +0300, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > >> Is there any way to actually make it harder to spam the list? I just > >> subscribed and already see spam and

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 03.08.2009, 16:51 + schrieb Anthony Towns: > amd64 has d-i support, surely? it did for lenny, despite lenny's > page... Yes it does and still works fine (at least for me). -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

2009-08-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:05:22AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Cyril Brulebois writes: > > > Goswin von Brederlow (03/08/2009): > >> Does it break aptitude too? > > > > I think that people involved in serious things like multiarch and glibc > > might appreciate your staying quiet at som

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

2009-08-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:21:53PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bastian Blank writes: > > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:38:32AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Bastian Blank a écrit : > >> > What happens if someone install libc-bin without a new libc6 then? > >> > Forgot about that vari

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-03 Thread Rob Browning
Daniel Pittman writes: > 403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access > /~rlb/tmp/emacs23/emacs23_23.1+1-2_i386.changes on this server. OK, that should be fixed now, though I may just take the packages down since it looks like they've made it to unstable. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defa

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > > The patch is not in unified format, which causes the failure of > > dpkg-buildpackage. It is trivial to refresh it with quilt to the unified > > format, but this introduces a divergence with upstream that I would prefer > >

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Goswin von Brederlow (03/08/2009): >> Does it break aptitude too? > > I think that people involved in serious things like multiarch and glibc > might appreciate your staying quiet at some point given the quite huge > mess you initially created. But maybe that's just me.

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:07 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > No, but maybe we can revive it? Would you write to the domain owner? It is now a spam site so that may be costly or impossible. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Goswin von Brederlow (03/08/2009): > Does it break aptitude too? I think that people involved in serious things like multiarch and glibc might appreciate your staying quiet at some point given the quite huge mess you initially created. But maybe that's just me. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Descri

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank writes: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:38:32AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Bastian Blank a écrit : >> > What happens if someone install libc-bin without a new libc6 then? >> > Forgot about that variant before as it is not forbidden by deps now. >> If it is not the same major vers

Re: maybe a problem with sid branch

2009-08-03 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
Hello Muammar I understand you also .. The only purpose of my post was to warn the person concerned had an error in package dependencies that uploaded to the sid branch in order that he might realize the problem and correct the package My intentions have been good at all times. El lun, 03-08-2

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Maximiliano Curia [2009.08.03.1529 +0200]: > distrodev.org seems to have died sometime around 2007, do you know > if there is any "replacement" for this? No, but maybe we can revive it? Would you write to the domain owner? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' :

Bug#539793: ITP: cl-fftw3 -- A Common Lisp interface to the FFTW3 Fourier Tranform library

2009-08-03 Thread Kevin M. Rosenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kevin M. Rosenberg" * Package name: cl-fftw3 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Kevin Rosenberg * URL : http://files.b9.com/cl-fftw3/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Common Lisp Description : A Common Lisp int

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 > (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it > would > be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed > is > the

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:39:23AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > So, http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html lists kfreebsd-* > and m68k as not release candidates, and arm, ia64, mips and powerpc as > "at risk" in addition to alpha and hppa. Only m68k is listed as having > RM concerns.

Bug#539783: ITP: libtest-subcalls-perl -- Perl module to count subroutine calls

2009-08-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-subcalls-perl Version : 1.09 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-SubCalls/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:31:57PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: > >> Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes > > > > I believe this is a positive step. ??However, I'm

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-03 Thread Adrian Perez
Great! Anything I could help with, please let me know. On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 13:52 -0700, Rob Browning wrote: > I've uploaded the first emacs23 packages (23.1+1-1) to unstable. Please > file bugs as appropriate. > > Note that we have also begun the process of removing emacs21 from > unstable/tes

Re: Why YAML is not a good choice for Debian control files.

2009-08-03 Thread Adrian Perez
Your explanation seems fine. In the meantime, I'll try to work on something more suitable, maybe getting build-depends as array or hash members, I dunno. anyways, thanks for you to answer. On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 11:12 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:01:36AM -0400, Adrian P

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
o<, so people noticed this discussion and brought it up on #blendercoders, where I just had a tiny chat. It looks like they agreed that the ffmpeg situation is quite unfortunate (that's the most problematic external embedded library we both could think of), but there are some technical stuff that

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: >> - >> The Debian Project                                 http://www.debian.org/ >> Debian adopts time-ba

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hola martin f krafft! El 03/08/2009 a las 10:48 escribiste: > Without doubt, upstream should be the place where cross-distro > integration happens. However, if upstream is not interested, then > the idea of vcs-pkg is to have a repo used by all distros, which is > suitable for everyone. It doesn't

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: > - > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Debian adopts time-based release freezes pr...@debian.org > J

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-02 10:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-02 09:58 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Rob Browning: >> >>> I've uploaded the first emacs23 packages (23.1+1-1) to unstable. Please >>> file bugs as appropriate. >> >> Has anybody else experienced the FTBFS related to the removal o

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2 (was Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.1)

2009-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:38:32AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Bastian Blank a écrit : > > What happens if someone install libc-bin without a new libc6 then? > > Forgot about that variant before as it is not forbidden by deps now. > If it is not the same major version, it will probably break, I'

Re: Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

2009-08-03 Thread Bjørn Mork
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Roger Leigh > > | Having working local networking is important. We wouldn't consider > | broken IPv4 loopback acceptable, and broken IPv6 loopback is just as > | bad. > > Sure, having it working is important. Is it more important than keeping > those (often new) use

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ok, you've got it unless you find someone else. Probably best to give > it a few days for others to raise their hand as well. Looks like I'm stuck with it :-) I'll first contact Goswin privately for some practical matters and then decide on how to maintain the packa

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2 (was Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.1)

2009-08-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Bastian Blank a écrit : > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:02:24AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> I have finally decided to remove the Depends: line in libc-bin, even if >> I don't really like that. My tests show that it works now, but don't >> hesitate to test it on your machine. > > What happens if s

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2 (was Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.1)

2009-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:02:24AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I have finally decided to remove the Depends: line in libc-bin, even if > I don't really like that. My tests show that it works now, but don't > hesitate to test it on your machine. What happens if someone install libc-bin without a

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Vincent Danjean wrote: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it would be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the on

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:36 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I doubt there is much style left in the code. Thanks for this helpful line :) Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I might not see either copy. bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Charles Plessy writes: > Another question that I would like to ask is on the auto-patching > functionality. One of the programs we package, EMBOSS, is released once a > year > every 15th of July, and other updates are made via patches. Currently it is > possible to just give the patch to quilt

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Cyril Brulebois [2009.08.02.2130 +0200]: > Before going deeper into it, I have to say I've been trying to > resist the urge of going public with it, and coping with my duties > as much as I could. But it's just too much now. Members of the > French Cabal (which of course doesn't exist)

Re: multiarch: dependency-oriented vs package-oriented

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:30:33PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> Moreover, this is not the only exception. Thousands of desktop and server >> >> packages that contains executable binaries (applications) compiled from >> >> C/C++/Pascal/etc. also have arch-depen

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Siggy Brentrup writes: > Hi, > > sorry for the late reply, we were celebrating my wife's birthday at > the seaside until yesterday late in the evenign. > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 17:53 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: >> On Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 18:47:58 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >> >> > Who wrote deb

Approaching non-integratable software, was: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread Reinhard Tartler
[ moving discussion to -project. Please follow up on -devel if you are contributing to the technical discussion and -project for the project wide parts ] Cyril Brulebois writes: > It's been a while and I'm now really wondering what to do with > Blender. So that everyone can understand, I'm