Work-needing packages report for Sep 21, 2012

2012-09-20 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: 454 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: symbols file: To hide or not to hide...

2012-09-20 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thu 20 Sep 2012 13:59:52 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > So I finally managed to get my C++ symbols file generated. However > > > > before shooting myself in the foot, I'd like to know if I need to > > generate the symbol f

Re: Handling /etc/modprobe.d and module load order

2012-09-20 Thread Amit
Marco d'Itri Linux.IT> writes: [snip] > > Or just: > > echo ' ' > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/remove_id > modprobe your_driver > Tried this but it seems the PIC is buggier than I thought. There are times when it disconnects and reconnects itself. As soon as the reconnect happens, usb

Re: packages with E: md5sum-mismatch in the archive

2012-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-09-20 18:52, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2012-09-18 09:30, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Just to give a short impression what we can find here: > >> guile-1.6-dev_1.6.8-10.1 >> /usr/lib/libguile-ltdl.la >> /usr/lib/libguile.la >> /usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.la >> /usr/lib/l

Re: packages with E: md5sum-mismatch in the archive

2012-09-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Andreas Beckmann , 2012-09-20, 18:52: Actually, we have lintian errors on the packages in the archive: E: guile-1.6-libs: md5sum-mismatch usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-1.la E: guile-1.6-libs: md5sum-mismatch usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.la E: guile-1.6-libs: md5sum-mismatch usr/lib/li

Re: symbols file: To hide or not to hide...

2012-09-20 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > So I finally managed to get my C++ symbols file generated. However > before shooting myself in the foot, I'd like to know if I need to > generate the symbol file using -fvisibility=hidden or not ? Theoretically, it is much bette

packages with E: md5sum-mismatch in the archive (was: Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files)

2012-09-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-09-18 09:30, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Just to give a short impression what we can find here: > guile-1.6-dev_1.6.8-10.1 > /usr/lib/libguile-ltdl.la > /usr/lib/libguile.la > /usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.la > /usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-1.la > /usr/lib/libguilereadlin

symbols file: To hide or not to hide...

2012-09-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, So I finally managed to get my C++ symbols file generated. However before shooting myself in the foot, I'd like to know if I need to generate the symbol file using -fvisibility=hidden or not ? The output of pkgkde-gensymbols/pkgkde-symbolshelper[1] seems to be drastically affected by having/

Re: status of eligibility of dug lists on lists.debian.org

2012-09-20 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> martin f krafft writes: […] > So the solution was to get one or two additional people, and > eventually I was even able to invest in more fail-proof hardware. > … and then you ask yourself what to do with all the spare cycles and > wouldn't other LUGs profit from your setup… And you

Re: status of eligibility of dug lists on lists.debian.org

2012-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
Personally, I think l.d.o would be an appropriate home for such things, but I believe the decision is one for the list server admins. Having said that, I think efforts are underway so that the alioth-hosted lists are moved to the l.d.o infrastructure, precicely because it is recognised that running

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
Hello, Thank you for your mail. The reason MATE is not in Debian is that nobody has put the work in to make it so. In Debian, things happen thanks to developers putting effort in, usually in their spare time. Whilst it's true that some people believe MATE should not be included in Debian, they d

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/20/2012 01:58 AM, superuserlaptop wrote: Mate Desktop environment (http://www.mate-desktop.org) I am writing in support of Mate DE. In less than a year a few people have designed an alternative to Gnome 3. I have been averaging one reconditioned HP Compaq nc6400 laptop per quarter year, f