Re: Sharing data between maintainer scripts and debian/rules

2011-11-05 Thread Frank Küster
. The original idea is from Davide Salvetti in his auctex package, but I wouldn't recommend this any more - the packaging may be "aesthetic", but it is overcomplicated. In particular, newer upstream versions probably don't need much more than ./configure; make; make inst

Re: Debconf syntax error message that I don't understand

2011-07-13 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> OLD_IFS="$IFS" >> IFS=$OLDIFS > > s/_// :-( -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer (TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debconf syntax error message that I don't understand

2011-07-12 Thread Frank Küster
stalled post-installation script returned error exit status 20 Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-base With IFS=' ' it works, but that doesn't look right? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffe

Debconf syntax error message that I don't understand

2011-07-12 Thread Frank Küster
oo" at the end, but that doesn't change anything. Probably I'm missing something trivial... Regards, Frank P.S. Script at http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-tex/texlive2009/trunk/texlive-base/debian/texlive-base.libpaper?view=log -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Milt

Re: svn.debian.org ???

2011-06-17 Thread Frank Küster
Date: 2011-05-10 18:09:45 +0200 (Di, 10 Mai 2011) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer (TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-12 Thread Frank Küster
Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:05:40PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Not at the same time, but someone might allow a user of a laptop to >> access their WLAN, but neither accept that an other user of the laptop >> should be able to use the same network wit

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
ept that an other user of the laptop should be able to use the same network without asking, nor that the keys be written in a system-wide configuration file. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Vorstand B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-10 Thread Frank Küster
d make sure their documentation is findable both in /usr/share/doc/package (for Debian Policy) and /usr/share/texmf/doc (for the TeX tools). If one package installs it as a directory, might files from other packages also be installed there? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster VCD Milte

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
> file. > > Does the issue happen for dvips ? dvips does not use gs - it creates input for gs. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: German Debian

2010-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
with english vocabulary. I don't care anymore for german translations. May the ones who cannot read the english original *and* have trouble with the german text discuss with them. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
nd that not everyone is using a "Desktop envirnoment". In my window manager, there's only one menu, and that's the Debian one. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUB

Using ucf other than from maintainer scripts

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Küster
work? TIA, Frank P.S. In that case, can I pass "--debconf-ok" to ucf even for the case where it is invoked manually by the admin with no debconf already running; I mean, will debconf still *check* whether there's a debconf instance running? -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeX

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >>> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin >>> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary >>

Re: Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-07 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin >> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary >> manually. What should I do in this

Policy conformant conffile handling...

2009-12-03 Thread Frank Küster
that, too, I guess. I have not followed this field in the last years; I guess ucf is still the method of choice if a maintainer script needs to do a specific manipulation in an otherwise not-generated configuration file? TIA, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffen

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Küster
own notion of warning/error and having the naming > overloaded by dak messages that are based on lintian outcome can be > quite confusing. ACK -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 04:54:54PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> assume a binary package A has been built from source package X, but a >> new upload of source packages X and Y moves it, and it is now built from >> Y.

Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-03 Thread Frank Küster
changes file is processed? To make things even more complicated, the first upload of the new packages would be to experimental... TIA, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
think the approach with a /usr/share/$packagename/bin/ that contains the old names as links, and can be added to PATH, is the best we can do for supporting scripts that assume extensions. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg

Re: What is this rule for?

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
un it on both systems as GreatPerlScript. Yes. And those scripts that would run on Windows and expect GreatPerlScript.pl, but do not run on Unix *only* because the pl is missing - those script probably don't exist. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenbu

Re: Auto Backporting

2009-09-25 Thread Frank Küster
version number, and it switched some patches and build-deps (in particular, poppler wasn't available in stable, and we resorted to build with the embedded copy of xpdf code). Maybe that could help with some other packages, too - then the target should be standardized for those autobuild

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Küster
reformat the context diff to unified, in case the upstream patch contains nothing but RC (and translation) fixes. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Küster
; Then you'll need to write your "own" patch system that calls patch(1) to > apply the patches, à la cdbs-simple-patchsys. Why should he need to do that? If you'd had written "submit patches to dpkg", I could get a meaning out of it, but here? He doesn't want t

Re: binNMUs for arch:all packages too

2009-07-07 Thread Frank Küster
(e.g. failing to make the necessary dh_foo calls) might also mean that some packages need to be rebuilt. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: BTS and the missing 'invalid' tag

2009-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
avior is intended to a more prominent, visible place. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-17 Thread Frank Küster
ven for non-tools (read: people). When adding a new patch, empty fields remind you to write *something* instead of just dropping the diff into debian/patches... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg --

Re: Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
Luk Claes wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> Luk Claes wrote: >> >>> Norbert Preining wrote: >>>> On Do, 04 Jun 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >>>>> Except for arguing, mixing (non?) bugs and resisting to upload an easy >>>>> workaround

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
a depends on package b > > # dpkg --unpack a > # dpkg --purge a > > can be done without "b" present. And you do not need any --force option. Yes, I see. We'll have to make an upload of texlive-2007. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD As

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
oot, texlive-base was installed without tex-common being installed, or even unpacked, is NOT A BUG OF tex-common. It seems it is a bug of policy, or dpkg. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenbe

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
Luk Claes wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> Luk Claes wrote: >> >>> Fine, though taking the trouble to talk to the porters might still be >>> worthwile. >> >> Yes, but definitely not after I've spend hours of my little Debian >> arguing

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > >> Fine, though taking the trouble to talk to the porters might still be >> worthwile. > > Yes, but definitely not after I've spend hours of my little Debian

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-06-04, Frank Küster wrote: >> And what would be the criterion for "solved"? After an analysis of >> N build logs of random packages on that buildd show no segfaults any >> more? I am not going to do that. >> >> It's

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
t explaining why. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
> installs packages without installing their dependencies. > > A patch is appreciated, thanks for your cooperation. Excuse me - that should already be guaranteed by dpkg, or am I missing something? If it isn't on that machine, what kind of patch should I write? Regards, Frank -- Dr. F

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
and looks to be easily solved > by making sure that the maintainer scripts don't fail when the missing > command is not available. ? It could be easily solved by making sure that nothing on the buildd installs packages without installing their dependencies. Regards, Frank -- Dr. F

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
ally do in such a case? What should we do? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
pecial header needs to be included, and look up which in the developer's reference. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to satisfy a patched build-dependency in debuild / pdebuild

2009-05-20 Thread Frank Küster
uld generate a package for building a backport, including correct changelog entries. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: texlive restrictive licence in main prevents derived works?

2009-05-09 Thread Frank Küster
blem with that package? > > Emdebian Grip drops Recommends No problem to lower tl-base's dependency on tl-base-doc to Recommends. But still, what's the problem with downloading and installing a package with Installed-Size: 1216 ? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Develope

Re: texlive restrictive licence in main prevents derived works?

2009-05-08 Thread Frank Küster
with that package? Package: texlive-doc-base Priority: optional Section: tex Installed-Size: 1216 I don't think the dependency's needed - I think it was just because we found it easier to have texlive-base Depend on it, instead of every doc package (which Depend's on texlive-base a

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-08 Thread Frank Küster
Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 08 May 2009 11:59:27 +0200 > Frank Küster wrote: > >> Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> >> > The development documentation for libraries and programming languages >> > should not be installed by the runtime. >> > >>

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-08 Thread Frank Küster
n't usually install a TeX system because something needs it - but because they want to right texts. Only in the special case of software documentation does it happen that the documentation is completely written, and the "user" (developer or buildd) just needs the "runtime"

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-07 Thread Frank Küster
f them, just as anyone receiving a "complete binary distribution" is able to rm -rf the doc directory. > Would there be any objections to filing minor/wishlist bugs against these > packages? We'll just add wontfix tags, so you might as well not bother to file the bugs against the

Re: file permissions on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

2009-04-24 Thread Frank Küster
er to do the change, if you cannot get agreement with the apt maintainers soon. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Frank Küster
ter tested non-free one. Not that I know of any efforts, or even whether that would be realistic. Just a principle thought. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
nce there are no original files in the package. They are only created temporarily while postinst is run. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-22 Thread Frank Küster
Jörg Sommer wrote: > Right, but when I hook into apt-get, I can get the configuration file > shipped with the packages. You cannot, since the very purpose of ucf is to give dpkg-conffile-like behavior for configuration files *not* shipped in the package. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-21 Thread Frank Küster
ge) ucf to make etc{git,keeper} usable with it: It would have to commit the file to the correct branch of the repository (and then update it's own database by doing something similar to what was proposed originally). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Mi

Re: Bug#514751: ITP: pgfplots -- TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
o works on this regularly. Of course I'd prefer your working on TeXLive 2008, but if you do prepare packages for pgfplots, are you willing to keep on maintaining them when TL 2008 is in the archive? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Mil

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
377580] I do not understand. The upstream item exists and has the state Closed, with the comment that there was already an upstream request for this which had been closed already. What should we do about that? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenber

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-28 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Frank Küster wrote: > >> http://christian-morgenstern.de/dcma/Der_Werwolf > > Try > > # apt-get install fortunes-de > $ fortune -m Werwölfe > > to see even the plural version ...

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-25 Thread Frank Küster
rks in English too, as I've just learned, but then it's not a WERwolf, but a banSHEE (the second english version). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Bits from the buildd.debian.org world

2008-11-24 Thread Frank Küster
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * the role address for the wanna-build team is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > However, a buildd.debian.org pseudo-package has been requested in the > BTS, Many thanks for these improvements, especially the one I cited! Regards, F

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-24 Thread Frank Küster
and the entire message discusses women as some kind of reward > being offered to customers. Undead customers, that is to say. Have fun, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
urce available as a LaTeX file, but LaTeX will typeset the document using a non-free font. Here, you can even modify the content as you like, you just can't reproduce the original PDF, and it would maybe be hard to make sure that the typesetting still looks nice and readable with a free replac

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
"Jeff Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 09:21, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How can that be? (That is an ernest question) > > Because that's how the hardware works. If you are making a widget and > you

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
would be doable, and you could generate a PDF file from it and ship it in a separate source package, with its LaTeX source. If the PDF is frozen documentation, it's probably worth the effort. If upstream changes the PDF with every new version, you should ask them for their sources instead. Re

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2008-10-25 Thread Frank Küster
should be possible to install and use both at the same time. Conflicts are useful if a package takes over files from an other one, or if the maintainers decide that you need to make a choice (e.g. each package providing mail-transport-agent installs /usr/sbin/sendmail and conflicts with the o

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-25 Thread Frank Küster
eated as the source, then? I mean, your argument seems to be "there is no such thing as source for firmware, so we cannot possibly require it". But isn't that description of the function just the source? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B9

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
auditing and found several, just look at texlive's most recent RC bugs -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

closing bugs for packages no longer in unstable (was: Bug#500607: Debian APT Packages/Sources file(s) contains illegal byte sequences in this package's segment)

2008-10-19 Thread Frank Küster
ompletely removed from our ftp servers? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
-duper-hyper-grave, I leave the judgement to the linux maintainers. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-30 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Am 29.08.2008 um 23:44 schrieb J.A. Bezemer: Boot with "init=/bin/sh" and wait. Still hangs? -> kernel or hardware problem. It didn't hang for nearly an hour, and now again with the first couple of scripts in /etc/rcS.d executed it is running for 20 minutes. I'll give it 15 minutes af

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-30 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Am 29.08.2008 um 20:20 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: pe, 2008-08-29 kello 19:51 +0200, Frank Küster kirjoitti: Any ideas how I can start debugging this? My first suspicion would be about the hardware. Mine too. You could run memtest86+ for at least 12 hours or until the first error

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-29 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Am 28.08.2008 um 22:41 schrieb Frank Küster: Package: general Severity: grave Since late last week, my system completely hangs - it stops accepting any input from keyboard or mouse - after 3 to 5 minutes after booting. This happens both in a text console and when running X. I should

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-28 Thread Frank Küster
Package: general Severity: grave Since late last week, my system completely hangs - it stops accepting any input from keyboard or mouse - after 3 to 5 minutes after booting. This happens both in a text console and when running X. Of course I suspected a hardware problem first, but the manufacture

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-04 Thread Frank Küster
s of what they use/require... [3] Thank you, good idea! Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-03 Thread Frank Küster
Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 18:44 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Therefore I asked upstream whether they'd be willing to add more paper >> sizes, and they said they would accept patches. However, they also said >> that they

Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-03 Thread Frank Küster
nothing else stayed unanswered). Some argued that every paper which can be fed to a printer on the market might be used as default size on a particular system. Do you have any suggestions? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: glib inconsistencies in testing

2008-07-20 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, the bug is that libglib-perl is second-guessing glib's package > dependencies and spitting out warnings that it shouldn't. And it's already reported? Thanks, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

glib inconsistencies in testing

2008-07-20 Thread Frank Küster
ckage: libglib2.0-0-dbg Version: 2.16.3-2 It seems like some package which is frequently used in postinsts declares insufficiently strict dependencies on libglib. Before I start playing around with postinst scripts, is this issue known and reported? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (

Re: tarball in tarball: opinions

2008-07-10 Thread Frank Küster
othing "wrong" about an upstream tarball extracting into > "" instead of "-". Or into ., even. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

2008-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
"Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 3. I was suggested libopensync for cmake/debian packa

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

2008-06-23 Thread Frank Küster
a new system for building packages if you are not familiar enough with Debian Policy to know that yourself. Sorry, but that's how it is. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: ODBC, local changes to config files, and policy

2008-06-22 Thread Frank Küster
nd (because the differences involve the driver and the changes they made themselves). You could even use ucf's --three-way option for merging changes. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Frank Küster
disallowed? > > Maybe a common, group maintained, debian-unofficial-keyring package? Err, no. I might want to trust the maintainers of backports.org to handle their keys well, but not necessarily others. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: too many conflicts/replaces

2008-04-08 Thread Frank Küster
Nikita V. Youshchenko debian.org> writes: > > > 2008/4/4, Nikita V. Youshchenko debian.org>: > > > Martin Schr?der wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a package that will when installed > > > > automatically replace all TeX packages on the system with our > > > > version of TeX. > > > > > >

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
Timothy G Abbott MIT.EDU> writes: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Frank Küster wrote: > > > Uh, you can dpkg-divert conffiles, but not generally configuration files, > > since many won't even be known to dpkg. I must admit I'm a bit sceptical > > about

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
Timothy G Abbott MIT.EDU> writes: > Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've > tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating > Debian configuration packages. By configuration packages, we mean > packages that configure an existing Debian system

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
sean finney debian.org> writes: > while i don't have any specific knowledge or interest in the details of this > particular problem, i'd just add since you haven't mentioned it as an > alternative that you could always Conflict with the package in question while > waiting for a resolution. Th

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Michlmayr cyrius.com> writes: > In > the past, I closed all bug reports from packages that were removed. > Some people were unhappy about this but it was the best solution we > had. This changed with the introduction of version tracking. The > idea now is to close them with a fake versio

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Küster
Maybe also something along tetex -> teTeX Tetex -> teTeX TeTeX -> teTeX (but any mention of teTeX, bless its memory, is probably a bug anyway) tex[-]*live -> TeX Live TeX[-]*live -> TeX Live TeX[-]*Live -> TeX Live and even TEX[^tT] -> TeX which may give many semi-false positives: Lots of thi

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-06 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava debian.org> writes: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:11:53 +0100, Matthias Klose cs.tu-berlin.de> said: > > > IIRC we cannot assume that debian/rules is a makefile and pass them as > > macros directly, so we have to pass them as environment variables. > > I think you rememb

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Küster
Don Armstrong debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > > - the source is present, no freedom is taken: The document is present, > > > > the source code. > > > > - the pdf can be regenerated albeit with minor quality

Re: debian-infrastructure-announce (was: dupload failed)

2007-11-09 Thread Frank Küster
Holger Levsen layer-acht.org> writes: > > So why should I subscribe to an additional list? > > Because not every infrastructual bit should/needs to be announced on d-d-a?! I didn't see any infrastructure announcement so far on d-d-a that should not have been there. Furthermore - although I agre

debian-infrastructure-announce (was: dupload failed)

2007-11-09 Thread Frank Küster
Kevin Mark verizon.net> writes: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:08:30PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote: > > > I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload > > > because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.or

Re: Bug#449317: ITP: zekr-quran-translations-ur -- Zekr Quran Urdu translations

2007-11-06 Thread Frank Küster
brian m. carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> writes: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:10:58PM -0500, Mohammad Derakhshani wrote: > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > >X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel lists.debian.org > > > >* Package name: zekr-quran-translations-ur [...] > > There is no authentic

Interpreting testing excuses

2007-09-17 Thread Frank Küster
ut why the scripts think that, and find out whether there's a real issue? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-09-11 Thread Frank Küster
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11139 March 1977, Frank Küster wrote: > >> - Packages are buggy, even copyright files are. We should add a >> machine-readable field that indicates that the rest of the machine-readable >> information might not be

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-09-11 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Sam Hocevar zoy.org> writes: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: [initial comment moved here to fool gmane's "you seem to be top-posting" message] I've come across this intersting thread only today (I was without network access in early August). Although I haven't read everything, it

Re: menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

2007-09-04 Thread Frank Küster
Stefano Zacchiroli debian.org> writes: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:19:43PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > > The Debian OCaml maintenance team is looking at how to organize the > > HTML documentation provided by the various OCaml packages. Our first > > Right, to add some details to that: > - e

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-28 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 08:25 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : > >> Could you give guidelines how a maintainer of an application should >> classify their app, > > Using categories described in [0] is a good start. The ma

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-28 Thread Frank Küster
tos. But in fact, I think a user can both be a newbie to Linux (and even to serious computer usage) and still have a quite focused interest, be it "administration of a non-profit organization", a particular field of science, game development, ... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-28 Thread Frank Küster
at you want: Is it particular categories that you want to hide, or is it the sheer number of applications, and the fact that there are going to be multiple applications for (approximately) the same task, that bothers you? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-28 Thread Frank Küster
and what you want: Is it particular categories that you want to hide, or is it the sheer number of applications, and the fact that there are going to be multiple applications for (approximately) the same task, that bothers you? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
the real world? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 25 juillet 2007 à 19:35 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : >> >> Menus, by their nature, are inherently unusable for the most frequently >> >> used apps, and we should not be trying to make them more usable at

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
of type B after only using it for type A for three weeks, everything that is only used for B will be hidden. No, thanks. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
s are not contradictory. I don't deny that many users > make use of their toolbar, but I think we should keep the menu usable > for users who don't. I don't use a toolbar, but for me "usable" means that everything is there... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:56:11PM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:50:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL &

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