Re: svn.debian.org: Automatically putting log message into debian/changelog?

2005-02-23 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Hello Torsten, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > I wonder if it would be possible to write a script that automatically > updates debian/changelog each time somebody updates any files belonging > to the package. I can't stand writing stuff in debian/changelog and then > pasting it into the svn log messa

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-07 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Steve Langasek wrote: > Hmm, I'm pretty sure the box is running stable, so this should be a > non-issue (for now). I see; thanks for the clarification. I just wanted to make sure... Roland

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-05 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
James Troup wrote: > As part of the recovery process, db.debian.org has migrated, both to a > new host (because the old box was on it's last legs and HP kindly > donated a shiny new one to replace it), and to a newer version of LDAP > (because it was still using potato's OpenLDAP). Which exact ver

Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-02 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
The number of bugs on the adduser package has constantly increased for the last few months, though none of them is release critical. Since I was busy with other stuff (mostly OpenLDAP and related stuff) I didn't keep up with all the feature requests and non-critical bugs. This is also partly due to

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Steve Greenland wrote: > for ct in * ; do > chown $ct:crontab $ct > done This will also fail with usernames that include spaces. I'm sure you already have a solution, but I'd go with something like this: find /var/spool/crontab -maxdepth 1 -type f -print | while read ct; do

Re: New maintainer process

2002-11-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
H. S. Teoh wrote: > "Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public FTP-server > and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds So let's hope that somebody mirrored it... I hope a public HTTP-server is alright, too. -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: old ITP's

2002-09-03 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
tuff. Isn't it possible to rather rename the "new" version of xplot to, say, xtcpplot or something? -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: OpenLDAP with TLS support

2002-08-28 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hmm.. so diverting is a bad idea, right ? Why? slapd depends on libldap2-tls which will divert libldap2 and install the TLS version as libldap2 instead. -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

2002-08-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
AP support on upgrades. Now that woody is released, couldn't that dependency be dropped? /me runs Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: list of valid distributions in Debian changelog file.

2002-08-15 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make > uploads to? Wouldn't that be unstable, woody-proposed-updates, and experimental? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: MailMan Security patch for Woody Broken?

2002-08-15 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
right", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> type('foo') >>> type("foo") >>> -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: RFD: Architecture field being retarded? [was: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?]

2002-08-11 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Andreas Rottmann wrote: > I think in the light of upcoming *BSD ports, the HURD port and the > (hopefully not too distant ;-)) possibility of getting the HURD ported > to other CPU families, we really need improvement here. http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt -

Bug#141494: ITP: fuse -- Filesystem in USErspace

2002-04-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
rspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the linux kernel. -- Roland Bauerschmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-11 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Joey Hess wrote: > Still doesn't work for me. What IMAP server are you using? courier-imap-ssl. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
this wasn't working. I wrote Michael Elkins about it, but never got a reply. With isync 0.5 it actually seems to work. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Woody Freeze Plans - Progress Report II

2001-05-07 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
for all ten architectures (six in potato > plus the four you mention here)? http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/testing_outdate.txt (resp. unstable_outdate.txt) shows which packages are out of date and at the end there seem to be some statistics... Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
John Hasler wrote: > The chrony mailing list is a "Yahoo Group" at the moment. This less than > optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for a (free) > home? Sourceforge? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
package to be removed. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
task-abc, abc, bcd, cde, def Please, NO! This is a pretty ugly hack and there are better ways to do this, e.g. the debfoster aproach. I don't agree at all with you that this is the "generally agreed best idea". Rather the opposite. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

VA Debian banner old

2001-04-25 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
The Debian banner that is shown on VA / SourceForge or whatever pages, still says Debian 2.1. Don't we have something more up to date? http://www2.valinux.com/images/ads/2.gif Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: IA-64?

2001-01-09 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > HP, via Matt Taggart, is planning to put a IA64 box and a HPPA box for us > at their Fort Collins, Colorado facility. That sounds good. I wasn't aware of it. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: News about Debian Conference... and have an happy new year !

2001-01-09 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
to Debian? Btw, you tried to reply directly to -devel-announce. See your message header: > X-Debian-Message: Cannot post to debian-devel-announce, bounced to > debian-devel Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
client... it's easier. Well, what I did in school before I could convice them that we needed some Debian boxes, was using one of those free Java-SSH clients with one of the proprietary Java-capable browsers that were installed on the machines... Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Debconf is installed? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Need server

2001-01-05 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Bart Schuller wrote: > download.sourceforge.net Funny: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host ftp.debian.org ftp.debian.org A 64.28.67.101 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host download.sourceforge.net download.sourceforge.netA 64.28.67.101 Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-05 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
s change is confusing and unreasonable IMHO. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dpkg-statoverride vs. suidmanager

2001-01-03 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
ld just check for the versioned conflicts and warm, maybe refuse to build, but not edit that file automatically. I don't know debhelper very well, but couldn't it go in dh_suidregister? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-28 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:13:32AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > $ find /usr/man -exec dpkg -S {} \; |cut -d: -f1 |grep -v , |sort |uniq Just parse a Contents-ARCH.gz file to find all packages that still have /usr/man. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#79950: updating to potato from Linux2.0.34( i believe it was hamm)

2000-12-23 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:21:39AM -0500, basic wrote: > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Is your RAM ok? How much RAM do you have? Do you have a swap partition? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:04:26PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > base/update I uploaded a NMU for this already. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
oad the NMUs? Honestly, they had enough time to tranist to /usr/share/doc. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Best way to depend on an xserver but conflict with XF86 v4 ?

2000-09-13 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
be other xservers than XFree. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: build question

2000-09-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +, michael d. ivey wrote: > my main server is potato. is it "bad" for me to be building packages > there if they are destined for woody? should i start building on a > woody box? You could do source only uploads. Roland -- Roland B

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-02 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Priority: optional [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% dpkg -p debconf | grep \^Priority: Priority: optional [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% dpkg-deb -I /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.3.66_i386.deb | grep Priority: Priority: standard Never mind, Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-02 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers. -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
ult behaviour, if you still want 755 home-directories you just have to change the value in /etc/adduser.conf. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
. Any comments? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple dependancies on the same package?

2000-09-02 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols. . [...] Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rfp: galeon

2000-08-30 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
could I install the package > if this is a dependency? Opps. Mozilla was forgotton in the dependencies... ;-) Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFP: galeon

2000-08-30 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:26:06PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: > I would like to take it, however, I am not a developer, yet, so you'd > have to sponsor it. Sure. If nobody else object it's yours. Just send me the package if you are done with first packaging. Roland -- Rol

Re: Rfp: galeon

2000-08-30 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
ttp://www.debian.org/~rb/galeon/, but unfortunately I think that I don't have the time to maintain it at the moment. I would be glad if somebody would do this. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFP: galeon

2000-08-30 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:30:39PM -0500, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist Sorry, /me is a fool. I should have looked in the bug database before reporting this. :-/ Nevertheless I've made a galeon package which should work ok. You can find them

Re: aptitude

2000-03-14 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
s, but most Linux beginners will go away and install another distribution because all of the main other distributions have nice easy-to-use graphical installation now. Greetings, Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt -- Freiberger Str. 17, 28215 Bremen, Germany e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: +49 4

Re: Becoming a developer

2000-03-14 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
t least > use such programs via source)? Why not? If I understood it right, KDE isn't included because of an invalid license (GPL-programs linked against QT). QT has a valid license. There are a lot of other non-free packages in Debian, too. For which reason should qt not be included? Gre

Re: New LILO for >1024 cylinders in potato, PLEASE!

2000-03-12 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:31:56PM -0800, Erik wrote: > I think this should go in, but should have extensive testing first, in a short > time if possible. Yes, I think so, too. I just install lilo 21.3 here (that's the version number) and it works fine. Roland -- Roland B