Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

2006-09-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:23:35PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:04:14PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: > > Because of recent changes in my Real Life, I cannot spend enough time on > > libtorrent and rtorrent as I would like. Whoever want to adopt are >

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

2006-09-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:04:14PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: > Because of recent changes in my Real Life, I cannot spend enough time on > libtorrent and rtorrent as I would like. Whoever want to adopt are > welcome to take over their maintenance. I would recommend them be > adopted together, bec

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:52:58PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > I have to my annoyance noticed that several of the doc packages > > (especially development packages) contains files that are gzipped. That > > is either example

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > J?rg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Package name: xindy > > Version : 2.2-beta2-1 > > Upstream Author : Joachim Schrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://xindy.sourceforge.net/ > > * License

Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded

2006-03-28 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:35:23PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For now I suggest you contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > OK, thanks; I considered that, but wasn't sure it was focused enou

Re: Re: ?????????? ????????!

2006-03-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:33:35AM -0800, Hex Star wrote: > boredom :P Please don't spam next time your bored. Some of us have better things to do. -- gram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attractive platform for Debian people interested in ARM: NSLU2

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:01:46AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > One reason why few people are working on ARM is probably the lack of > a cheap platform that can be used for development. Fortunately, this > problem has now been addressed. Over the last few months, I worked > (in collaboration

Re: Preparing the m68k port for the future.

2006-01-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:05:10PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Enabling `-j' will probably expose concurrency problems in the build > system for lots of packages. > > What about building different packages in parallel instead? Isn't that what is done currently? -- gram -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: not getting CCs from the bugs I reported

2006-01-03 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 28 d?cembre 2005 ? 23:49 -0600, Adam Heath a ?crit : > > You'll only get mails if the sender sends to ###-submitter. Mail sent to > > just > > ### is not forwarded, and only stored. > > > > This is not a bug in the s

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:57:08AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > No, I'm not against syntax highlighting, I use it in emacs. The problem > is that the colors[1] are unreadable except on when the terminal > background is black and there are no lights on in the room. I realize a > lot of hackers wo

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:54:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:38:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > There are obviously users who will prefer nvi to vim (and others who > > prefer some other vi), but I get the impression there are rather more who > > prefer vim, it's

Re: Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts

2005-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:45:58AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 17, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After installation you should have a tmpfs mounted on /run. > > I do not remember a consensus about this. Changes in Debian are generally decided by package maintainers, not by co

Re: Stephen Frost MIA?

2005-11-30 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:48:44AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > how about sending this to Frontdesk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or MIA, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> instead of spamming debian-devel with that? Since when is a message that is on topic (or at least relevant) to Debian development spam? -- g

Re: My IP address seems listed as a spammer address by bugs.debian.org

2005-11-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:44:15AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > If you need to access the BTS data from a program, there is an LDAP > interface available and a copy of entire BTS database on one of the > developer accessable machines. Wouldn't it also be possible to subscribe to debian-bugs-dist

Re: Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:37:46PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > This software is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Tony Robinson > > and SoftSound under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or &g

Re: Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:31:38PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > * Package name: shorten > > Version : 3.6.0 > > Upstream Author : Tony Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL

Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Graham Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: shorten Version : 3.6.0 Upstream Author : Tony Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : non-free (see below) Description

Re: Bug#324861: ITP: pptpproxy -- a small app that forwards PPTP VPN connections through a Linux firewall

2005-08-24 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:41:10PM +0200, Michel van der Klei wrote: > * Package name: pptpproxy > Version : 2.0 > Upstream Author : Emmanuel Mogenet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.mgix.com/pptpproxy > * License : Public Domain > Description : a s

Re: libxslt1 / libxslt1.1 clean-up, comments welcome

2005-08-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > Now that no package depend on it, I am going to remove it, but that > leaves a libxslt1.1 package alone, not really respectful of the debian > standards for package naming. How is it not respectful of Debian standards for package namin

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-26 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:12:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think overall it serves the users more to default to running missed > cronjobs on boot than not. If that causes you problems you can always > purge anarcron or fcron or protect the jobs itself. There might eb > cases where it

Re: G++ transition page revived

2005-07-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:43:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:27:34PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > I think this has proven very helpful so I set up a only slightly > > modified version for the current transition from 3.3 to 4.0. > > You can find it at http:/

Re: sphor (aka bugs.debian.org) going down twice due to power maintenance

2005-06-29 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:30:04AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > A UPS upgrade is being performed this week in the machine room that > houses sphor.debian.org (aka bugs.debian.org) hosted at the Oregon > State University's Open Source Lab. Part of this upgrade will require > 2 complete power outages

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:45:17PM +0200, Martin Mewes wrote: > Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > You might want to obscure those a little bit. You should probably > > munge the Return-Path from those emails, and possibly the top > > Received: header. > > Munging works are in queue. The

Bug#295331: O: fetchmail

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I haven't been able to take good care of the fetchmail package, and therefore I'm orphaning it. I'd like whoever adopts it to be able to spend a good amount of time with the package. Upstream has been slow lately, and the adopter would likely end up working with ups

Re: Bug#286027: ITP: ms-sys -- tool for writing Microsoft compatible boot records

2004-12-16 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:24:06AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > * Package name: ms-sys > > [...] > > This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The > program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" > to a floppy or FAT partiti

Re: Bug#285234: ITP: unlzx -- unarchiver for *.lzx archives

2004-12-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:53:10PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: unlzx > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?unlzx > * License

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:37:01PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:24:11 -0600, Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The line is not as easy to draw as you might think. > > On the contrary, the line is not so arcane. Computer related stuff is

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:10:13AM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > If it is a program, it is software. And so my Python code that includes docstrings is what? What are PostScript files? The line is not as easy to draw as you might think. -- gram

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:31:51PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > Two bugs will be filed on packages that meet criteria in both 1) and > > 2). If the release managers would like, I will be happy to auto-tag > > the bugs in 1) sarg

Re: Debian menu and GNOME (request for help)

2004-11-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:43:44AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 00:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 1) Current gnome-panel do *not* support XDG menus (only KDE does). > > (Debian menu has XDG menu support through menu-xdg.) > > It's very much in the works, check out

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > > scripts and not logrotate. > > Try to convert it to logrotate and soon you will understand why it still > uses savelog. It seems

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-25 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:35:57PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Nikita V. Youshchenko [Sun, Oct 24 2004, 03:53:23PM]: > > Probably there are non-technical problems with the uncoming release. But > > There are, as described before. For example, I cannot see any life sign > of our FTP masters. How

Re: Does the Debian gpg key infrastructure support multiple sub-keys?

2004-10-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:09:53PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Rob Browning wrote: > > If I added a new sign/encrypt sub-key to my Debian key, would I be > > able to use that to sign and upload packages? Would the Debian > > Yes, mostly. Some stuff (db.d.o an

Re: Mail Delivery (failure dailyhoroscope@mailer1.astronet.com) (KMM1187634

2004-10-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:07:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > "Today will not be a good day. You will receive many snarky responses to > your message to debian-devel complaining about your missing horoscope. > More bad news to follow in other messages". Please, don't not make the spam problem wo

Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:01:44PM +0200, Michal Politowski wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and > > Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit >

Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and > > Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit > > tag

Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:45:24AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > Description: viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files > > EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing > > the ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg file

Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-18 Thread Graham Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tagtool Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Pedro Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ * License : GPL Description : tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files Audio Tag T

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:40:06PM -0800, D. Starner wrote: > > I just installed the textedit.app package; it pulled in a few GNUstep > > libraries, but not a complete desktop environment. > > Do the GNUstep libs still start a demon at startup? Last time I > checked, they did, instead of starting

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:00:56AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I said "without GNOME installed," I meant without the entire GNOME > > desktop environment installed: nautilus, gnome-session, metacity, etc. > &

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-04 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:44:12PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:27:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> I don't mind what it's called as long as I can see by its name that it > >>

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:03:00PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:44:58PM -0800, Nunya Who wrote: Oh, its our good friend Tom Ballard. Maybe you could get back to working on Debian and stop trolling now? -- gram signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:44:58PM -0800, Nunya Who wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > He did not say that all Christians are religious fanatics. > > > > Godwin. > > Copout. Yes, it is too bad he is copping (sp) out on discussing all sorts of things immed

Re: Bug#224232: ITP: yahoo2mbox -- retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:15:59PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: yahoo2mbox > Version : 0.15 > Upstream Author : Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html >

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:19:58PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:03, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What would be unacceptable about it, and why is it only a "borderline" > > > case? What would push it over the borderline? > > > > Demons are evil, and the BSD m

Re: experimental codename

2003-12-16 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:03:57AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >> it's a bit different and for different arches. What about the arches > >> `a

Re: No list archives getting updated at all

2003-12-16 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:12:57AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:52:50PM +0100, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > > I'm wondering if there's some IMAP (read-only) access to the lists? It > > recently occured to me that that would be a Nice Feature(tm), or do I > > have a flaw in t

Re: BTS and maintainer changes

2003-12-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > I recently adopted autotrace, and had a package with an updated > control file uploaded; it has now been in the archive for several > days. I am in the same situation with hostname. > Nevertheless, the BTS persists in giving the Q

Re: experimental codename

2003-12-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If this would lead to more developers and beta-testers being able to > > use experimental, then I think this would be a good idea. People might > > upload ther

Re: experimental codename

2003-12-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:10:22PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think that's the way it should be. Experimental isn't a complete > > distribution in the sense that the others are, so it doesn't really > > deserve a codename. > > Isn't it possible th

Re: (last) Assurance measures: AMA (coping with the speed of OSS development)

2003-12-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:50:43PM +0100, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > I hope that at least some of you were listening. (First I thought > there would be some feedback, at least like "stop it, this is > boring!", or "why do you write to a mailing list which does not even > exists?".) What was your int

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > Unfortunately, my experience with the topic tends to indicate that the > same folks who care are very likely to consider there mere *concept* of > a 'daemon' to be anathema, evil, foul, unclean, and all sorts of other > descriptives. Cf

Re: Proposed change to debian release system

2003-12-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:41:22PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Everybody seems to agree that new stable versions *should* be out > about every 6 months. I don't think that is true. I think developers (and users) have a wide range of opinions as to how often there should be a new Debian release

Re: adopting/kidnapping plucker, any objection?

2003-12-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:44:40PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Le vendredi 05 décembre 2003 à 12:38:10, Amaya a écrit: > > I was out to the movies with him yesterday, he is not MIA or anything. > > We even talked about plucker's state. He is in the proccess of fixing > > the bugs. > > [...] >

Re: [RFC] adding system users: which is the best way??

2003-12-03 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Please, please, use debian- or some other prefix! That shouldn't confuse > any rational person What about sys- as a prefix? -- gram signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packages/projects/positions up for adoption

2003-12-03 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 20:49, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Okay, if I'm counting correctly, gnome-mag and xml-resume-library have > > not been taken yet. Is anyone interested in these packages? Note > > that gnome-mag has a RC outstan

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:42:20AM -0800, Tom wrote: > Let me tell you a story about a job I had one time: I worked for a guy > (in his basement -- don't ask) who bought your personal credit card data > and other publicly available information. He would pay about $10,000 or > $15,000 for lists

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-03 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:57:11AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:54:24AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > The only way to have avoided this kernel vulnerability from day-0 of > > discovery/fix release would have been to be constantly upgrading to > > pre-release kernels

will we freeze?

2003-11-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:58:17AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > It would be really nice to have 7.4 in sarge.. Personally I think > there should probably be enough time given the lack of messages on > d-d-a regarding freezes and the like. 7.4 adds alot of nice things > and speeds up a number of

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-09 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:02:07AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of debian-installer, the > >new installation system for sarge. > > We want screenshots! Seconded!

Re: rename linux-kernel-headers to system-headers

2003-11-07 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:37:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:45:32AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:55:03PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > > > > What not rename linux-kernel-headers to simple system-headers-linux? > > > > This will

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:56:37AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:53:36AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer > > > than about 2 years old. > > > > It would be he

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:49:39AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > [...] Please, guys, don't have your discussion here. I don't think we really care about the differences between PaX and exec-shield. Debian is not, and, to the best of my knowledg

Re: Bug#216492: FTBFS (unstable/all) missing build-dep

2003-10-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:22:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > It is noteworthy that the split build-arch/build-all seems to be next > to useless, as dpkg-buildpackage invokes build (because the former two > a optional) and "the build target should depend on those of the > targets build-arch an

Re: search-citeseer_0.1-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2003-10-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:22:33PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > James is ftp-master, DAM, autobuilder admin, and part of the > debian-admin team as well. Wow! -- gram signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Re: Bug#213897: ITP: libclass-dbi-abstractsearch-perl -- Abstract Class::DBI's SQL with SQL::Abstract

2003-10-06 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:49:25PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:06, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > > It's::not::like::this::sort::of::jargon::is::difficult::to::understand,::or > > > > ::that::writing::package::descriptions::which::rely::entirely::on::one's > > > > ::understandi

Re: Kernel source 2.4.22 and ipvs problems

2003-10-06 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:10:18PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:12:03PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > You can either use a vanilla kernel, or unapply the IPSEC patch as > > documented in the README.Debian file. > > Why is the ipsec patch applied by default in th

Re: bug data mining

2003-10-06 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:37PM -0400, John Belmonte wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >Generally, I think people are using > >http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ and looking through the bugs > >with ids lower than x. I think you'll find that the majority of older > >bugs there fall into th

Re: /usr/doc symlinks

2003-10-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:50:41AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Does anyone have a good estimation about the number of packages which > currently do this? (That is, assume *blindly* that /usr/doc exists). I have 687 packages on my system and 35 of them have symlinks in /usr/doc. If the number on

Re: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-04 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:18:58PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Aptitude is nice power tool for dealing with 6000+ packages (or > whatever it is now) try twice that: $ apt-cache search .\* | wc -l 12204 -- gram, who wonders if this could be getting out of hand signature.asc Description: Di

Re: Accepted mini-dinstall 0.6.8 (all source)

2003-09-29 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:28:16PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2003 19:32, Graham Wilson wrote: > > Changes: > > mini-dinstall (0.6.8) unstable; urgency=low > [...] > >* Change DTD in manpage and manual to locally installed version. > > W

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-24 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op wo 24-09-2003, om 17:05 schreef Gunnar Wolf: > > And I insist... Do you want to stop every mail which is (peeking at my > > inbox) between 1887 and 2183 bytes long just because it might be a > > virus? > > Hm. I was under the i

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-23 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:18:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While /var/log/mail.log is rotated nicely on my (woody) boxes, > I have no idea which package is responsible for that. > Any suggestions ? logrotate. -- gram signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: IMPORTANT: your message to html-tidy

2003-09-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:09:30PM -0500, david nicol wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 04:02, Craig Sanders wrote: > > sorry, a system that only works sometimes (or even most of the time) > > is a broken system. > > > > i prefer to know that my system's behaviour will be consistent and > > correct.

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Mike Hommey wrote: > > helps catching 95%... But the bandwidth is still used... I'm still > > looking for a pure MTA solution... > > A pure MTA solution would still need to scan the body and thus would still > eat your bandwid

Re: FWD: Bug#200905: dh_installdocs: don't install empty doc files

2003-07-12 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:07:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This strikes me as a good idea, unless someone has a legit reason to > include an empty documentations file in a package. So speak up if you > do. Maybe a zero length TODO could be considered to have some implied > meaning, in my mind, i

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective > Packages wrote: > >py-xmlrpc (#161224), orphaned 296 days ago > > Description: Implementation of the XML-RPC protocol for Python > > Let me guess.

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective > Packages wrote: > >judy (#172772), orphaned 210 days ago > > Description: C library for creating and accessing dynamic arrays > > Reverse Depe

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective > Packages wrote: > >gnome-objc (#165642), orphaned 263 days ago > > Description: objective-c bindings for gtk/gnome (obs.) > > Reverse Depends:

trouble debugging a bug on m68k

2003-07-04 Thread Graham Wilson
im wondering if anyone can help me with bug #196563. the bug says that xmllint is segfaulting on m68k. the reporter can reproduce the segfault. i asked him for a backtrace, but gdb segfaulted. he was able to provide strace output however. it seems that the bug manifests before the program's main()

Re: Upstream requires forked Date::Manip

2003-06-30 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has > temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says: > >Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to >the Date::Manip module

Re: Bug#194705: ITP: yavipin -- daemon for creating secure tunnels

2003-05-26 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:42:52AM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 08:49:06PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > * Package name: yavipin > > How does it differ from OpenVPN? nothing, apparently. i will play with both in the next couple of days and

Bug#194705: ITP: yavipin -- daemon for creating secure tunnels

2003-05-25 Thread Graham Wilson
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: yavipin Version : 0.9.6 Upstream Author : Jerome Etienne * URL : http://yavipin.sf.net/ * License : GPL [1] Description : daemon for creating secure tunnels Yavipi

Re: Orphaning my packages

2003-05-25 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:16:21AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Goulais, Raphael wrote: > > On Friday 23 May 2003 03:52, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > > Morgon Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > None taken. And no, I

Re: Orphaning my packages

2003-05-25 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Goulais, Raphael wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2003 03:52, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > Morgon Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > None taken. And no, I am not. > > [a DD] > > > > OK, then, I'm going ahead and taking fltk1.1. > > Does this mean that debian po

Re: donations wishlist?

2003-05-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:51:05AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > At http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html, the FreeBSD > > developers have a list of computer-related stuff they could use to > > improve their work on the FreeBSD operating system. I think this is

Re: Bug#193399: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:15:07PM +0900, TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: latex209 > Version : 25.mar.1992 > Upstream Author : Leslie Lamport > * URL or Web page : > ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/obsolete/macros/latex209/distribs

Re: Debian MIA check

2003-05-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:55:44AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Fielder George Dowding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-13 09:34]: > > I note that Yasuhiro Take ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is not listed in your > > missive. > > Yes, because the criteria outlined in the first paragraph of James' > messag

Re: Debian MIA check

2003-05-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Here is a list of packages in unstable maintained by people on James's > lists. May not be complete, but I grepped for names and for emails > seperately so probably found most of them. [...] > No reply: [...] > Tor Slettnes > mindi

Re: started to make changelogs and copyright file online available

2002-12-08 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:04:00PM +0100, tomas pospisek wrote: > On 8 Dec 2002, No?l K?the wrote: > > I started to make the changelog and copyright file of the Debian > > packages online > > Ah! Wondeful. Would be nice to have it integrated in the frontends ... > "do I want/need to update this to

Bug#171720: general: Evolution1.2 does not compile on testing

2002-12-04 Thread Graham Wilson
reassign 171720 evolution thanks On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:20:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: general this should be filed against the evolution package. -- gram

Re: ecartis up for adoption

2002-12-03 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:46:01PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > I have decided that since my mailing lists are not currently hosted on > Debian, I don't have the time/resources/testing platform that I used > to for maintaining Ecartis, and I would like some qualified person to > take over maintenan

Re: Bug#171351: RFA: xmlto -- XML-to-any converter

2002-12-02 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:16:20PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 09:00, Christophe Barb?? wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-01 > > Severity: normal > > > > I request an adopter for the xmlto package. > > Between stuff like this, and our lack

Re: Mozilla Calendar?

2002-12-01 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:29:28PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > If not, I might take it up since I think asd-ng (which I'm supposed to > be maintaining) is in limbo at present. what is asd-ng? -- gram pgpPEqEM5v6xH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#171116: ITP: tsclient -- GNOME2 frontend for rdesktop

2002-12-01 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:52:01PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:36:02AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > > gnome 1 probably is not going to be in sarge, so the difference > > between gnome 1 and gnome 2 arent going to matter to someone > > installing

Re: Bug#171116: ITP: tsclient -- GNOME2 frontend for rdesktop

2002-11-30 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:22:01PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 21:09, Andrew Lau wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-29 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: tsclient > > Version : 0.56 > > Upstream Author : Erick Woods <[EMA

Re: Orphaning xmlto

2002-11-24 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:51:14AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > So if someone is interested and feels he can do a better job, I would be > happy. i would be interested in packaging it, but seeing as im not a developer yet, i would need a sponsor (though i can ask david and see if he might be w

Re: NM application

2002-11-24 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:07:22AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > -newmaint-discuss is probably better. > > Dead list according to lists.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not though, and there has been some discussion there in the past. -- gram pgpW8

Re: Test package apt repositories, and "Release" files.

2002-11-21 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:36:07PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:19:50AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > And/or, has katie advanced to the point where mere mortals can actually get > > it installed and working without taking a 3D6 SAN loss? > > > > For all of it's limitati