Re: Adopt a removed package: how to ?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > I plan to adopt a removed from archive package (see #183373). > > How can I do ? > > I have marked myself as ITA of 183373. It is the right way ? Since it will be a new package, that probably should be an ITP. > I plan to download prev

Re: Build logs (was: Sourceful uploads)

Le Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:45:56PM +0100, gregor herrmann a écrit : > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:09:05 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > getbuildlog(1) from devscripts downloads (almost, if you ignore a > > > small header/footer) text-versions of build logs. > > it is exactly that header and footer

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

On 2011-02-16 01:34:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:01:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2011-02-14 16:43:11 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > When LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8, programs which attempt to print unicode > > > characters to stdout should use UTF-8. That's wh

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:01:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-02-14 16:43:11 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > When LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8, programs which attempt to print unicode > > characters to stdout should use UTF-8. That's what LC_TYPE means. > > So, "cat", "grep", etc. are all brok

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 00:44 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:43:23PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:19:37PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: [...] > > > With m-a it was and is possible to create nice debian packages for > > > custom modules which can be in

Re: OT: Python

On 2011-02-14 13:11:04 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Perl is specifically documented to not do this for backward compatibility > reasons. In Perl, which is the one I know best, you are required to > decode input and encode output if you want to have UTF-8 handling. Or better, use the -C option. p

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

On 2011-02-14 16:43:11 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > When LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8, programs which attempt to print unicode > characters to stdout should use UTF-8. That's what LC_TYPE means. So, "cat", "grep", etc. are all broken. :) -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessibl

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:43:23PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:19:37PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Am So den 13. Feb 2011 um 23:21 schrieb Patrick Matthäi: > > > since we have got a stable release with dkms now, I am asking myself, if > > > it is stil

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

On 2011-02-12 17:44:27 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > How do we square that with the FHS, then? The FHS says: > > If directories /lib or /usr/lib exist, the equivalent > directories must also exist in /usr/local. > > That seems to require /usr/local/lib64 even if we *don't* include > /usr/li

Re: Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg

>> This is a good reason to forbid source-only uploads, but there is another, >> which actually leverages what we do now, and the idea of not using the >> maintainer-provided binary packages in order to have better determinism on >> the build: > [...] > Sounds like a great idea, yes. > If ftpmaster

Re: Should pam_unix log non-interactive sessions? [c...@taz.net.au: Bug#612382: pam, non-interactive-sessions, and pam_unix spamming the auth log]

On 02/13/2011 11:50 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 13.02.2011 23:45, schrieb Steve Langasek: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a bug report objecting to pam_unix logging all PAM sessions, >> interactive and non-interactive alike, to syslog. Should pam_unix be >> dropped from /etc/pam.d/common-session-non

Bug#613569: marked as done (general: I can set in sleep mode my pc, but when I release my computer from sleep, my screen stay dark...)

Your message dated Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:06:28 + with message-id <20110215190628.gg28...@decadent.org.uk> and subject line Re: Bug#613569: general: I can set in sleep mode my pc, but when I release my computer from sleep, my screen stay dark... has caused the Debian Bug report #613569, regarding

Re: Bug#612229: ITP: maradns2 -- new major release of the Simple Security focused DNS server

Nicholas Bamber, 2011-02-06 23:03 UTC+: > * Package name: maradns2 > Description : new major release of the Simple Security focused DNS > server For now, it is the new major release of Maradns, but when the version 3 is released it will not be new anymore. I think this description w

Bug#613569: general: I can set in sleep mode my pc, but when I release my computer from sleep, my screen stay dark...

Package: general Severity: minor -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (999, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/das

Bug#613559: marked as done (general: Sound not working without gnome-media not installed by default)

Your message dated Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:23:39 +0100 with message-id <1297794219.20234.119.camel@meh> and subject line Re: Bug#613559: general: Sound not working without gnome-media not installed by default has caused the Debian Bug report #613559, regarding general: Sound not working without gnome-

Bug#613559: general: Sound not working without gnome-media not installed by default

Package: general Severity: important Sound doesn't work on the Gnome desktop without the gnome-media package which isn't installed when installing from the CD-ROM -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Lin

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Mark Hymers wrote: > Could we choose to document that it can only be used in wheezy (enforced > by dak if necessary) and above and then have the release notes state > that users must upgrade dpkg and apt to the latest point release before > doing the dist-upgrade?

RFA: bglibs -- BG Libraries Collection

Hi, I'm looking for a new maintainer for the bglibs package. Package: libbg1 Section: libs Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: libbg1-doc Suggests: libbg1-dev Description: BG Libraries Collection This package contains a collection of libraries written by myself [Bru

RFA: dietlibc -- diet libc - a libc optimized for small size

Hi, I'm looking for a new maintainer for the dietlibc package. Package: dietlibc-dev Section: libdevel Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 sparc Recommends: dietlibc (= ${source:Version}) Suggests: dietlibc-doc Description: diet libc - a libc optimize

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

On Tue, 15, Feb, 2011 at 08:55:50AM -0800, Steve Langasek spoke thus.. > > [*] It's also a bit of cheating if we allow such updates into stable. > > Why didn't we add other compression formats and other source formats to > > dpkg in stable then; we did claim that you need to wait a cycle fo

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:30:29AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Of course I'm not taking it for granted that you would accept these packages > > into squeeze and intended to ask you if this would be ok, once there were > > actual patches to be considered. But since you're here: would targeted >

Build logs (was: Sourceful uploads)

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:09:05 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > getbuildlog(1) from devscripts downloads (almost, if you ignore a > > small header/footer) text-versions of build logs. > it is exactly that header and footer that I was reffering to when I wrote > “withouth HTML processing”. Ok. It do

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

On Mon, 14, Feb, 2011 at 01:08:51PM -0800, Steve Langasek spoke thus.. > I'm happy to file bug reports against the appropriate components if that's > the right thing to do here; I'm raising it on the list first because I'm not > sure whether dak is actually affected, and if so whether ftp.debian.or

Adopt a removed package: how to ?

Hi, I plan to adopt a removed from archive package (see #183373). How can I do ? I have marked myself as ITA of 183373. It is the right way ? I plan to download previous debian package, the new source and to do some adaptation. Should I use the process of a new package or an adopted package

Bug#613525: ITP: [PACKAGE] -- metakit

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: metakit Version: 2.4.9.7 Upstream Author: Jean-Claude Wippler j...@equi4.com URL: http://equi4.com/metakit/index.html License: MIT Description: Metakit is an efficient embedded database library with a sma

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:28:49PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:52:32PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 01:08:51PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > And although for the most part the roll-out of multiarch is intended to be > > > backwards-compati

Bug#613517: ITP: libsbsms -- Subband Sinusoidal Modeling Synthesis

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung * Package name: libsbsms Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Author : Clayton Otey * URL : http://sbsms.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Subband Sinusoidal Modeling Synthe

Re: FFmpeg 0.6 transition

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.release as well. On Di, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:31:33 (CET), Reinhard Tartler wrote: > BTW, where has mehdi's excellent transition tracker gone? It is here: http://release.debian.org/transitions/f

Re: New libgphoto2 in sid

David Paleino wrote: Hi, > There's a package currently in experimental, and I'm now asking maintainers of > dependant packages (BCCed) to check whether their package compiles and works > fine with it. A dd-list is attached. This would have been most useful with a quick list of what to watch out

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

On 15/02/11 at 11:35 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 15, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > - with a lot of disc space > How many TB? > > > - and a lot of spare CPU cycles > Is sbuild able to scale linearly to 16-32 CPUs in a single VM or does it > need many smaller servers? > And how long would this

Re: Re: Re: chromium-browser is taking over all URLs

Le mardi 15 février 2011 à 11:30 +0100, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : > > The disappearance of this applet in git master is very concerning, but I > > just received mention on IRC (thanks fredp) that the functionality will > > be back soon. > > I see, it will most probably become part of the System

Re: Re: Re: chromium-browser is taking over all URLs

The disappearance of this applet in git master is very concerning, but I just received mention on IRC (thanks fredp) that the functionality will be back soon. I see, it will most probably become part of the System Information tab: http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/SystemInformation

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

On Feb 15, Roger Leigh wrote: > - with a lot of disc space How many TB? > - and a lot of spare CPU cycles Is sbuild able to scale linearly to 16-32 CPUs in a single VM or does it need many smaller servers? And how long would this take with e.g. 96 2.1 GHz Opteron CPU cores? Depending on the har

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

]] Roger Leigh | If there are any project machines available that could do this, that | would be great! I have a couple of machines that I'd like to get burned in properly. They're not .d.o machines (they're freedesktop.org), but I'll happily give you access to play around. Please grab me on IR

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

On 15/02/11 09:15, Michael Biebl wrote: > That said, the upstream unstable branch of tracker apparently has a port of > tracker-search-bar using libpanelapplet-3.0, which I assume is the new D-Bus > based panel in GNOME 3.0. > > I can't seem to find such a package in Debian just yet. > Joss, when

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:53:13PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > However, in order to understand the implications, we need concrete > > data about exactly how they differ, and under what situations. What > > I would like to do is a rebuild of the squeeze archive (since it

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

On 14/02/11 20:46, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:17:36PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> The panel remains, but it will be a GTK3 / D-Bus panel. In its current >> state, it doesn’t support the good old GTK2 / bonobo applets, of which >> we have a lot in the archive. Upstrea

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

Am 15.02.2011 09:59, schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 14.02.2011 18:17, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > >> >> Michael Biebl >>tracker > > The search bar applet can be disabled via a configure switch. > I still do hope that search (and therefore) tracker is integrated more deeply > into the new gnome

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

Am 14.02.2011 18:17, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > Michael Biebl >tracker The search bar applet can be disabled via a configure switch. I still do hope that search (and therefore) tracker is integrated more deeply into the new gnome shell so such a applet would be kinda obsolete anyway. Ch

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:06:42AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > > You'd lose the notion of it being useful on other architectures (that's the > > arch:all -> arch:i386 Raphael's talking about), though. But then packages > > like qemu-system would just

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 20:46 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : > Will the existing GNOME 2 gnome-applets be ported to GNOME 3? After > all, they are part of GNOME. They're also not listed in your dd-list. Yes, they have already been ported - apart from invest, which is in Python, but which

Re: question of switch to KDE

Hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:43:20PM +0800, jia hao wrote: >I am use Debian squeeze 6.0.0, and how to switch from GNOME to KDE ? Please ask this question on debian-user, debian-devel is for development related discussions. Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel