Re: system upgrade by systemd

On 08/27/2015 05:19 AM, Michael Meskes wrote: > >> Strange - then the install-updates mode should not have been entered in >> the first place. > Let me guess, the file was re-created by some software. As administrator of my own systems it would bother me that some random file /remove-my-packages wi

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

Hi Joey, Am 2014-11-07 22:04, schrieb Joey Hess: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Shocking. Thanks for all the great stuff you did and do, from a Debian user and de

Re: Module from /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf not loaded after systemd upgrade

Hi Ben, tl;dr: It was indeed blacklisted by a leftover config file from the fglrx-driver package. Am 2014-05-06 01:46, schrieb Ben Hutchings: Why radeon is not loaded at boot anymore is a mystery to me. All other modules from /etc/modules (symlinked as /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf) are ac

Module from /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf not loaded after systemd upgrade

Hi all, my development system running unstable failed to start X server after an dist-upgrade two days ago. After a bit of investigation I found out that the radeon module is not loaded at bootup anymore. To get the graphical login back, the following commands as root were needed: # modprobe

Virtual package dyndns-client

Hi everybody, Timur Birsh brought it to my attention that my package ddclient provides a virtual package "dyndns-client" that is not on the official virtual package list at http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt It seems that I have missed the requirement to r

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

as the libc5 version did not compile for him (closes: #34717, #43050, #43096, #10699). * Bumped the version number of libreadline and recompiled, hopefully in time before the dinstall run ;) -- Torsten Landschoff Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:26:20 +0200 Believe me, using update-alternatives to man

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:54:23PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a > > environment variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help. > > But, unsurprisingly, the tar manual does (under the --file

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:28:02PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > and reverse engineering. The out-of-tree patches at the > time of 2.6.17 result in much faster transfers to SDHCI > devices. I don't know if dapper has these, and I don't > know if they made 2.6.18. I think that was

Re: automatically install -dev packages

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:08:06PM +0200, George Danchev wrote: > In fact in cases like that you will find auto-apt quite useful. It wraps the > build process in its own environment, peeps around for the files access and > propose to install them on demand via apt-get. > E.g. try: auto-apt run

Re: Need for launchpad

Hi Stephan, On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > Hehe...well, it's a matter of working behaviour. I never said, that working > from the CLI is not faster or more productive sometimes. What I'm trying to > say is, that this "arrogant elite thinking" must go away. We

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:28:27PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > That's not too helpful. I don't really want to support code I did not > > understand. I'd rather write it myself or have Steve care about problems > > in it... > > The idea is to get upstream to include/support it... The theory so

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

Hi Stephen, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:53:02AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Working on that. At least theoretically - when I get time, yada, yada. > > Steve Langasek had offered to help with this too. I'll poke him about > it on IRC and see if he's still willing to help. That's not too help

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:29:46AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > > The same issues as with libcurl applied to libldap2. They were > > considered a bug in libldap2 back then because half the distribution > > links it. Gave me a lot of recurring head aches. > > yes, and the same with libmysqlclient,

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:06:20AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > No, that was *worse*. We tried that before. The answer really is > reasonably simple- just modify libldap2 to use GNUTLS. That was done w/ > an older version of things involved. I expect it'll be done for the > newer stuff. Wor

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

Hi Goswin, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:06:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I guess the savest way is to have a libldap-nossl-dev and > libldap-ssl-dev. The former should have anything ssl derived > removed. No problem. But then I can just build libldap without ssl as the library built

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:09:04PM +0300, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > apt-get remove --purge libssl0.9.7 gives me tons of packages. Just > > an estimation: We need to repack half of all packages then? > > NO.[1] > > All that needs to happen is that GP

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:19:54PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > > Why not building curl --without-sssl and --with-gnutls=/usr? Maybe a > > NMU? > > this is definitely NOT a reason to NMU libcurl. remember that it is > your package that is "broken". of course you could still file a The same issue

Re: [RFC] Auto-Accept libs with just changed SONAME?

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 05:22:04PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > And? Hows that bad? It means that volunteers have to spend time on this. In any case. And maintainer has to wait etc. I wonder why we don't automate more stuff in Debian. After all we have all the abilities to do it. > > I'd lik

[RFC] Auto-Accept libs with just changed SONAME?

Hi *, During one of the talks of Debconf (I think it was about shared library packaging) there was a complaint that tracking upstreams SONAME changes means that your library package will end up in NEW each time it really changed. I'd like to suggest fixing the scripts to only flag packages as n

Re: skills of developers

Hi *, What kind of discussion is this? We can't effort more bureaucrazy (typo intended) in the project. Let the people doing the work do the work instead of first measuring their ability. If you are not able to maintain a package basically you wont. Or you wont for long as somebody will take over.

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

Hi Anand, On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:32:54AM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > Thanks for your comments -- however I don't think anyone should be able > afraid to point out when a debian developer is obviously not able to > satisfy all the Debian-related demands on their time; let alone their > commit

Re: interacting with the press

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:40:17AM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > Or, should you find the demands on your time too pressing, why not use > this opportunity to step-aside as the Debian press contact. Suggestions like these are just way off. Please adjust your attitude. Greetings Torsten s

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

Hi Stephen, On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:16:15AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Have you actually got a specific problem with the changes I did, or > really, the results of them? There were a couple problems where people > had old libldap2's hanging around (which is a rather serious mistake > anywa

[HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

Hi *, People following the OpenLDAP packages might remember this change: openldap2 (2.1.30-7) unstable; urgency=high * Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + debian/move_files: make libldap a symlink to libldap_r, as carrying two versions of this library around is more trouble

Re: Recurring problems since upgrade of openldap2 (2.1 -> 2.2)

Hi Michael, On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:09:15AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > I don't know which package I should file this bug against, but since the > upgrade > of the openldap2-packages I'm seeing these errors quite frequently: > > chown: > /home/roland/debian/openldap/build/2.1.30/openl

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:08:50AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > How about having a new section, "open-source", or something, for the > things that fall in the category described above? (i.e. software that > is _almost_ free, but has some small limitation over some freedom) Let's call it

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:36:36AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > sausage-machine style. Then of course you need to keep it up to date as > > well. > > I think that last phrase is the major problem... Yep, likewise. I still think having each part of our infrastructure as a package would be a g

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:46:35AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > That's not true. If you can script it, FAI can do it. It just becomes a > > > post-installation task. Using packages.d.o as an example, it's just going > > > to > > > be a predominantly an Apache configuration and some scripts,

Re: Native package with two changelogs

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:16:08PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > I have a package which I develop on my own and which is debian native. > However due to historical reasons, I have a CHANGELOG file which is not > the debian/changelog file. > How should I handle this case? I am in favour of hand

Re: debconf and locale specific characters

Hi Alban, On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:15:34AM +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote: > > It is save to assume that the data from debconf is in the charset of the > > current locale? Then foo=`echo $RET|iconv -t UTF8` after the db_get > > would suffice. Of course the locale could change between config and >

Re: debconf and locale specific characters

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:50:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I agree there's a (slim) chance of the charset changing between config and > postinst, so recoding in the config script itself is best. After thinking about it I don't think anymore it is that good an idea to do that. If debconf a

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

Hi Andreas, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian > >infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. > Not only this, we need the possibility to setup an alternate machine quickly > in case

Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

Hi Adrian, On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:54:11PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [the usual discussion about release procedures] I'd like to point out that these discussions lead nowhere just as many others. Changing Debian is currently: - discussing the problems - discussing approaches to solve the

debconf and locale specific characters

Hi there, My OpenLDAP 2.2 packages have a problem if the user enters something using his locale specific character (like äöü) into the organization field which is queried using debconf cf. http://bugs.debian.org/236097 The LDIF RFC demands that character data is either in 7 bit ASCII or in UTF-8

Re: Right of a maintainer not to respect FHS

Hi Pierre, On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:28:22AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > I have a problem with a bug filed on r-doc-html (#300765). The > documentation was entirely in /usr/lib, and it seems that all R packages > have all their files under /usr/lib, whatever their type or purpose. How is tha

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

Hi Quanah, On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:58:01PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > You can find the patch for adding "-q" to slapadd on OpenLDAP 2.2 here: > > Great, thanks! Applied it to the subversion

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

Hi Quanah, On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:39:09PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > Is there a way to enforce this without editing DB_CONFIG? I'd rather set > > an environment variable or something like that. Writing that into > > DB_CONFIG in the maintainer scripts always poses the risk that it'

Migration back from libdb4.3 -> libdb4.2, libdb4.3 broken

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:38:31PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I think so. Jumping into a new BDB version like it was done for 4.3 is > *always* foolhardy at best, IMHO. > > But it would be a very good idea to track down some other opinions about BDB > 4.3 first, as people will no

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:10:23AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > In short, I cannot find a single reason to run OpenLDAP against BDB 4.3, > > and even the current OpenLDAP release notes that BDB 4.2 is required. I > > can find many reasons to not use BDB 4.3. > > Not good. That

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

Hi Quanah, On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:59:03PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > The patches for BDB 4.2.52 are freely available from Sleepycat. They are > required to be in place if you want a stable BDB 4.2.52 distribution. I > would be very surprised if the package maintainer hadn't already

Re: Another load of typos

Hi Christian, On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:11:11PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Sigh, I *knew* someone would say this..:-) > > Well, I may be unlucky enough for the tutorial about "i18n/l10n > handling for maintainers and translators" I proposed at debconf > to be accepted. If it is, I *wil

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

Hi Quanah, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:07:29PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > I currently maintain Stanford University's directory service, which is > based on OpenLDAP. I also am a member of the OpenLDAP core team, and I > hold down another job with Symas Corporation doing a variety of ta

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:04:26PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > >> The first. Basically upstream changes the database format quite often. > >> I am even not entirely sure if the database format stays compatible in > >> the 2.1 or 2.2 line but I'd expect it to. The 2.2.23 Debian packages > >>

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

mmend > reading through it. i'd also welcome any comments you have. I'll try to find some time. > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:36:17AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > a) the preinst checks if the database format has changed between the old > > version and the ver

[RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

Hi there, As you might have noticed or not we are working on getting OpenLDAP 2.2 into unstable. The packages are mostly working fine (as available in experimental) but what is missing is a really tested upgrade path from OpenLDAP 2.0 (in stable) and 2.1 (in testing, unstable). My proposal how i

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 05:19:25PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > And last I feel the sorting by name is actualy harmfull. That should > be exchanged with the time of upload, i.e. FIFO if the rest matches. > We all know FIFO isn't the best but it is simple, fair, predictable > and does not

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

Hi Kurt, On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 03:40:23PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > That's the point, actually: If I build-depend on autoconf, I *cannot* > > know that it will actually build after the next update to autoconf, > > because most likely nobody will try it. > > If it's known that a new major v

debconf in while read foo; ... loop?

Hi there, I am having a problem with using debconf in a maintainer script. Namely I am iterating over the list of directories configured for the ldap server and in the loop I am using db_get to query debconf. Problem: The answer from debconf never arrives since stdin is reading the pipe of the

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:18:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Like I said at the head of this thread I explicitly added xprt-xprintorg > to the deaktop task on user request. However, nothing I've seen so far > seems to be a solid reason to keep it. OTOH, if the high priority > debconf question goes

Updating config files: permissions!?

Hi *, During upgrades the slapd package (for example) has to do some adjustments on config files (it asks the user for permission of course). Problem: How do I make sure the new config files have the same permissions!? Currently I do chmod --reference=OLD NEW chown --reference=

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

Hi Joey, On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I've done this for years using the attached script (which will work with > both svn and cvs (less well), and can also tag releases). Thanks, that was exactly what I looking for. I already had scheduled some hacking for this. :

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

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:08:02PM +0100, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > 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

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

Hi *, 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 message. What I think of is this: - user com

Re: /etc under svk

Hi Enrico, On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:36:04PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > a tip to share: > ># Install svk >apt-get install svk > ># Initialize a depot in /root/.svk >svk depotmap --init > [...] Wanted to do that - but! Does svk handle symlinks? Thinking of /etc/rc?.d and /e

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:11:26PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Sorry, but the basic problem I'm speaking about has nothing to do with > > volatile - but just that requiring substancially more memory might be a > > bad idea. We still have inn1 and inn2 parallel (and I'm a happy user of > > inn1),

Re: kernel 2.5.73+, fakeroot, debuild - a small problem

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:30:32PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Running debuild as normal user under the 2.5.73+ kernel results in fakeroot > > actually setting the file ownership to root (or any other uid/gid for that > > matter). The result is that the parts which don't run under fakeroot - >

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:56:03PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one source > file > which have package descriptions like libfoo-dev = "dev files for libfoo", > libfoo-doc = "documention for libfoo", and libfoo = "runtime files for fo

Re: EPSON appreciates your feedback by June 30, '03 - Debian

Hi Farideh, On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:15:25PM -0700, Farideh Sherbaf wrote: > Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Farideh Sherbaf and I > am your contact for EPSON Worldwide Developer Relations for scanners > and All-In-One (Multifunction) products. The EPSON Developer > Relations

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Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 07:13:33PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I'm concerned that a single person has the power to dictate such dramatic > changes in our procedures. Why is the NMU procedure not codified in Debian > Policy? There, at least, we have a better mechanism of updating it. You mean

Re: More manpower to our core teams

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:02:08AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Anyway, I don't see the point of posting their email addresses. > > > > They're more or less public anyway, so that don't hurt. > > I for one wouldn't have liked if someone sent my @d.o address to -d-a, > because I don't use it fo

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:15:51PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > What amazes me here the most is that the first thing that pops into your > head as a solution is a non-maintainer upload. > > My god, sometimes I really think we need to raise the bar even higher. As long as people are only talking

Re: lack of libbz2 bindings [Was: Packages.bz2, ...]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:15:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The changes uncomrpessed -> .gz seems fine to me, but the changes .gz -> > .bz2 is IMO a bit risky. I'm thinking about the lack of binding for You misread the mail. .gz will continue to be available, .bz2 will be there as well

Re: Large file support?

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Its not. glibc takes care of it since like forever. > > Otherwise ls, dd, cat, tar, all would be broken. Thanks. That was what I would have expected, but anyway, better be sure what you are doing. Greetings Torst

Re: RFC: Handling of certificates in Debian

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:39:37PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Nope. We should do so, and have it added to the ca-certificates package I > think. > > Right now, every TLS-enabled package tries to screw it up in new and > never-before-tried ways. So it is okay if I do the same?

RFC: Handling of certificates in Debian

Hi *, Now that the LDAP packages support TLS I would like to do the next step: Get a sane debconf interface on first installation to setup the directory and generate the TLS key and certificate. But now I wonder if there is some established procedure for doing so. I know many users will not ha

Re: OpenLDAP with TLS support

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:18:43PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Using objdump -T to look at it, > ldap_pvt_tls_get_peer and other things that are ldap_*_tls_* > seems to be defined only on the TLS version, and not on the > other version. pvt -> private. I don't think a user application is all

OpenLDAP with TLS support

Hi *, For those who don't read long mails: Please test the ldap packages at http://www.ifg.uni-kiel.de/~torsten/preview/ I am about to upload new openldap packages with TLS support as requested frequently. Since it seems like in the short run there will be no libssl0.9.6 in base (or ex

Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

Hi Henrique, On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:16:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > Today I was convinced by Stephen Frost that I can just enable SSL support > > in the OpenLDAP packages I maintain. No problem so far, but

Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:52:12PM +0200, Oliver Kurth wrote: > Hi Torsten :-) Hi Oliver :) > I would suggest that you make an extra -ssl package, along the lines of > eg. fetchmai{,-ssl}l. It reduces dependencies and solves your problem. Maybe > people want ldap, but not ssl. I also like that

RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

Hi *, Today I was convinced by Stephen Frost that I can just enable SSL support in the OpenLDAP packages I maintain. No problem so far, but: - libldap2 is Priority: important - this change will make it depend on libssl0.9.6 - libssl0.9.6 is Priority: standard So - what should I do to handle thi

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: > One final point. We will almost definitely not switch the default > python in sid (current unstable), until there is talk that Sarge is > nearing a freeze. There is simply no point in undergoing the pain of > a major python release tw

Re: Faster Release Cycle = More Up to date Packages...

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:46:55PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > I am not a developer, and I am not suited for code development. > But I would like to spend untill 1St of May collecting additional > information about the release procedures. Currently that is black magic, mostly the relea

Re: Faster Release Cycle = More Up to date Packages...

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > The main proposal is to introduce a fixed short Testing development > period into the development cycle like this: > > 1. Feed Unstable packages to Testing for a fixed short period of time. > 2. Freeze, bugfix, release. > R

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:33:16PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > That's fine with me. At least I'll have a lot more leisure when using > > an available product instead of re-inventing the wheel. Even RMS used > > commercial software when the GNU software for it was not yet written. > > With you

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > If there are only proprietary programs that do a specific job, and it > is desired to have a free program for this job, then we are forced to > reinvent the wheel by the proprietary programs licenses. Forced to by whom? By Jeroen,

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:02:54PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > In such cases I sometimes decide to run the non-free tool if it saves > > me some time. After all I want to get my job done and I want to have > > some time left for leisure or for working on stuff like free software. > > You r

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

Hi Donald, On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:54:54PM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > Well, I didn't expect to inspire such a vibrant thread! A couple > of responses (not in anger, just adding some perspective). > > 1) free vs. non-free alternatives > > I use VMWare 2.0. If you think that bochs and

Re: Rant about the flaming here

Hi Jeroen, On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > I'm getting sick of people who can't read. Let's say the same thing > for the next time. Maybe a lot of people on this list just need > glasses, so I do it in upper case that you can easily read it: I have yet to see

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > s/refused/discouraged/ and I would agree. Isn't the goal of Debian > providing a free system so users don't have to run any non-free > software anymore? IMHO the "we support non-free software" clause was I think this is one of the g

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > * gs-common's license issues need to be resolved Just to keep people from wasting their time to fix this: My local gs-common edition has the following changes: * debian/control: Add dependency on gsfonts. Rationale: gs is

Bug#141206: Ghostscript: Copyright problem, possible reorg, upcoming maintainer change

Package: gs-common Severity: serious Hi *, I am filing this bug/writing this mail because there is a big problem in the gs packages in woody which needs fixing before release. I would like to get comments on the changes I want to implement. Currently I maintain the following set of Ghostscript

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:51:18PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > And what's more, it only indents two at a time. Heretics! From standards.info: For the body of the function, our recommended style looks like this: if (x < foo (y, z)) haha = bar[4] + 5; else You want to

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:03:59AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > I yet have to see a machine that does not use two's complement > > for integer arithmetic. > > Actually, the C standard does essentially guarantee two's complement > arithmetic. It specifies integer overflow behavior and >

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:23:51PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Moreover, the original depends on the fact that (MAX_INT + 1) < 0 > which, though true, is a guaranteed result. Were I to be running a 64 ... is not a guaranteed ... I yet have to see a machine that does not use two's complemen

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:00:30AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > I'll stop posting to -devel when you come up with the guideline that > says "don't post important stuff about one of the two major desktop > environments breaking hardcore". Gladly. > > It was an important issue that affected many.

Re: Help with configure failure on ia64 [ogle: misdetect libxml2 version]

Hi Joe, On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:51PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > > This often indicates that the configure script is trying to run a small > > test program and the test program is seg faulting at run time. > > Which is exactly the case here, but I'm not sure why: after looking into > it, gcc

Re: Java exception in netscape

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:04:02AM -0800, Robert Edmund wrote: > what to do to correct it. Fix the origin of the problem. cu Torsten pgpTWXXPvSxRk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help with configure failure on ia64 [ogle: misdetect libxml2 version]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:36:19AM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote: > ogle doesn't build on ia64, and I don't understand what's causing it. > See > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ogle&ver=0.8.2-2&arch=ia64&stamp=1010455931&file=log&as=raw > for the latest build log. Also look at > caballero.d.o

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:17:48AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > my concern is, that a timely uploaded python-gnome package wanting to > be built with libfoo-dev/libfoo2 get's built by an autobuilder which > has libfoo-dev/libfoo1 available (the python-gnome source gets built > before the new li

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:32:13PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Most people feel that not keeping older soname libs around for a certain > period is a bad idea, just for this reason. You as the package builder > shouldn't have to worry about it. Okay, thanks! cu Torsten pgp1j3ZQuywdc.

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > binary of the newest package of each build dep available in unstable > > before building the package. If that is not the case I would have to > > depend on at least the library version installed on my system it seems. > > If the bu

Build dependencies, libs and buildd

Hi *, I got a bug report on python-gnome because a) I did not yet conform to the new python policy (missed the dep, thanks Matthias), and b) I did not depend on at least 1.0.0 of libgtkhtml-dev. Now I am wondering if I have to make all dependencies of shared libraries more strict... I would e

Re: pre-dependency for fetchmail, fetchmail-ssl

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:51:51AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > So you can never have two packages that depend on each other? > > Correct. Isn't there this loop break hack in dpkg to allow for that? Not that I would suggest having two packages depend on each other... :) cu Torsten pgps

Re: Need some shell scripting help

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:58:31PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > I prefer > > print -l * What should this do in your opinion? For me, print is something quite different: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whatis print print (3ncurses) - ship binary data to printer print (1)- execute programs

Re: Preview of new Ghostscript packages - please test

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:43:41AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On my todo list for tomorrow: > > - Enabling the Omni driver > - gimp-print support (stp) > - Adding the wrappers to gs-common (ps2pdf etc.) Of course I did not finish this task in the planned time frame. An

Re: Preview of new Ghostscript packages - please test

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:09:34PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Is that a good idea? I know the scripts have changed between GNU and > > Aladdin GS, to make things somewhat more secure. You naturally won't > > be able to use the Aladdin versions in gs-common, but that means that > > you will los

Preview of new Ghostscript packages - please test

Hi *, Today I got a bunch of gs packages built - they are not ready but at least everything compiles and I have something to base the following work on. You can find them on klecker - apt line: deb http://people.debian.org/~torsten gs/ Available are i386 binaries and source. Please take a look

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:53:50AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Package: gsfonts > Maintainer: Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 91489 Package gsfonts still has at least one file in /usr/doc Package is ready so far and installed locally. But I can't build a ne

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:31:43PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > List of packages with Standards-Version < 3.0 > > <-- snip --> > [...] > Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gsfonts-other > Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gsfonts G

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