Re: How to get rid of unused packages (Was: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0)

2022-03-19 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Andreas, hi all, [I'm not subscribed to d-d, the long discussions on d-p are enough for my inbox ;-), so please address me directly if I should read your reply] Am 16.03.22 um 14:11 schrieb Andreas Tille: I'm not sure whether there are any PalmPilot devices out there. At Yes, there are

How to close a Ubuntu bug?

2011-02-14 Thread Erik Schanze (Debian)
Hi, one of my packages (antiword) has an open bug in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/antiword/+bug/237918 that was fixed for a while in Debian http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464490. I'd like to help them and would close it, but did not found how. (I'm not member

More information about Archive Keys and recovery from comprimised keys

2011-01-17 Thread Erik Schanze (Debian)
Hi all, I wouldn't stress the FTPmasters directly with my question and hope this is the right list. Is there any additional information beside http://ftp-master.debian.org/keys.html regarding keyhandling in Debian and what to do if key(s) (one or both) will be compromised? What are the rules for s

Re: Bug#513575: ITP: fswebcam -- Tiny and flexible webcam program

2009-01-31 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Luca, Luca Niccoli Luca Niccoli : > 2009/1/30 Erik Schanze : > > What about dvgrab? > > Not sure if it works for you, give it a try. > > Dvgrab is mainly for capturing video and audio data, and supports > only DV and HDV formats, so it doesn't work with most

Re: Bug#513575: ITP: fswebcam -- Tiny and flexible webcam program

2009-01-30 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Luca, Luca Niccoli Luca Niccoli : > 2009/1/30 Julien Cristau : > > how many of those do we need? why this one in particular? > > I've been looking in Debian for a command line tool that takes > pictures from a USB video capture device that doesn't support MJPEG, > and couldn't find one (beside

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-17 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Piotr, "Piotr Roszatycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > sudo pbuilder build --debbuildopts="-sa" *.dsc use: sudo pbuilder build --debbuildopts "-sa" *.dsc Kindly regards, Erik -- www.ErikSchanze.de * Bitte keine HTML-E-Mails! No HTML mails, please!

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Carl, "Carl Fürstenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The major problem with the current system, is that it requires that > the reporter has access to a mail server, if they want to use the > more easier variant by using reportbug script. their other > alternative is to send an email from their webma

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi, Christopher Crammond Christopher Crammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Suppose you have a repository stuffed full of binary packages, in > this case Debian Packages. If you were unlucky enough to have them > in a rather un-organized fashion, I was just wondering if the package > file itself would p

There are buildlogs for amd64 packages?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi, there can I find the build log for dvgrab_1.7-1 on amd64? http://buildd.debian.org/ doesn't list amd64 at all and http://amd64.ftbfs.de/ has only 1.8-1 and higher. Because amd64 is listed on http://packages.debian.org/ build logs should also be (easyly) available for packages of this archit

Re: pbuilder status update

2005-09-28 Thread Erik Schanze
Hello Junichi! Junichi Uekawa Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > pbuilder is doing as usual; it's now switched over to > cdebootstrap and cdebootstrap has been working fine. > Not for me. I maintain my own small mirror by apt-move together with apt-zip because I own a small modem line, but ca

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-24 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please help the install team and others get a better view on the use > of packages in Debian. To do this, install the popularity-contest > package and say yes to participate. > Perhaps more will participate if you zip the report, to reduce tra

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-23 Thread Erik Schanze
Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Scribit Bas Zoetekouw dies 15/03/2005 hora 10:37: > > I find it a bit hard to believe that Debian isn't able to support 11 > > architectures while for example FreeBSD and NetBSD seem to manage > > fine. > > - FreeBSD: 6 ports, 12646 packages > - Debian: 11 por

Re: Two thougts about testing

2005-03-22 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Joerg! Joerg Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > reading larger parts of the recent threads triggered by the > 'Vancouver proposal' brought me to write this mail. > > Over the last two years testing became more and more a second > (almost) stable distribution instead of being a preparation area fo

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-14 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Sean! sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:30:54AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > o gpg-agent support in the same manner as ssh-agent would be neat. I > > > understand that this requires gnupg 2.0 though. > > > > While gpg-agent is built from the gnupg 2.0 sourc

Re: Bug#297121: ITP: wmail -- WindowMaker docklet watching your inbox

2005-03-05 Thread Erik Schanze
Ludovic Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le Sunday 27 February 2005 à 10:08:02, Julien Danjou a écrit: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: wmail > > Version : 2.0 > > Upstream Author : Sven Geisenhainer <[EMAIL

Please make Moria free (was: Moria, as in the Author of)

2005-02-15 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi all! Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Do you think moria still has a place in Debian? Or do you gather it > > might be better removed? > > A better question is whether Mr. Koeneke is willing to relicense his > code under a free software license so that moria and angband and > derivatives ca

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Erik Schanze
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Miscellaneous > - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward) I like afio for my compressed backups and use it very often. I'd like to take over maintainership for it, if no otherone has already asked for. Kindly regards, Erik --

Re: removed start links are back after upgrade

2005-01-12 Thread Erik Schanze
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Given that this comes up so often, is there a reason not to add an > option to update-rc.d that does this? The problem here is that > "remove" sounds like "disable this". > > I'm thinking have "update-rc.d -f foo disable" do the same thing as > "update-rc.d -f foo

Re: removed start links are back after upgrade

2005-01-12 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Michal! Michal Politowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:41:34 +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: > > As I understand, deleting start links with 'update-rc.d -f apache remove' > > is the Debian way of removing start calls for services at boot time. >

removed start links are back after upgrade

2005-01-12 Thread Erik Schanze
Hello! As I understand, deleting start links with 'update-rc.d -f apache remove' is the Debian way of removing start calls for services at boot time. After every package upgrade of e. g. apache, I must call this command again, because start links were be installed again. Is it the normal behavi

Re: debconf temlate encoding

2004-12-04 Thread Erik Schanze
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Erik Schanze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (CC'ing -i18n) > Please set me on CC in this list. > > > Are we moving to UTF-8 for sarge? > > > > > AFAIK most parts

Re: debconf temlate encoding

2004-12-04 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Osamu! Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:27:31PM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: > > Package: ipmasq > > Severity: wishlist > > tags: l10n, patch > > Thanks but I have question. > > "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" > -"Con

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-27 Thread Erik Schanze
Oded Shimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 27 October 2004 05:23, Daniel Burrows wrote: > OK, either I am misreading, or you just prooved me right: > > * free packages which require [..] packages which are not in our archive at > > all for compilation or execution > > My program == free prog

Some more pressure on maintainers (was: Drop testing)

2004-10-27 Thread Erik Schanze
Clemens Schwaighofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/25/2004 12:44 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > |  - all the packages are out of date? Well, though luck, this is what the > |    whole issue is about. We need to release faster. Faster releases are > |    only feasible if enough developers are motivated. T

Re: Wanted BTS feature: subscription to individual bug reports

2004-10-13 Thread Erik Schanze
Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:37:37 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > I can't find a way to track more-or-less easilly all bugs in BTS that I am > > somewhat involved into. > > > > If by 'involved' you mean submitted, then this might be useful: > > http://bugs