Re: Time to package simpleinit?

2003-04-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:23:34 +, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Ignoring a dependency is probably bettter than a deadlock which makes > the system unusable, to be sure There's a third option. Make "need" exit with nonzero status if it's called recursively. Then the script just says set -e need f

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, look at my patch again. If you build without i486 optimization, > the compiler will see only the extern declaration for > __exchange_and_add(). I see. What sonames do you suggest to give to the two copies of libstdc++? You once said you'd call them

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-29 Thread Björn Stenberg
Stephen Ryan wrote: > there is no substitute for testing in the *exact* environment that you > plan to release in. Period. My point exactly. We should test packages in the environment we plan to release: sarge. We should not let new uploads hold other packages hostage. Because then we are only te

Re: FVWM 2.5.x debs

2003-04-29 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Alex, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: Hello. Recently I was reported [1] by Marco d'Itri that FVWM from stable branch (2.4.x) does not work with GNOME2, so he requested 2.5.x packages from me. Olivier Chapuis clarified the situation in his reply [2] to my question in fvwm-workers mailing list. FVWM

Re: Bug in apt-get ? [replace essential package / Yes, do as I say]

2003-04-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:12:00AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > It seems that currently apt is not able to replace an essential > > package. Well in fact the package I am trying to replace isn't > > even really essential... > > It is able to, as you

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Erich Schubert
> > - policy should require that tags are added > > This is going to be problematic. I think it would be better to have an > override system where missing tags can be added by a central authority, > rather than trying to force all maintainers to add tags or be NMUed. Of course. they can be overr

Re: Yet Another Debianisation Aid - new features

2003-04-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:36:27PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > Hi, > > A few days ago I've uploaded new experimental version of yada. This is > alternative way of building packages which doesn't use debhelper and > doesn't require editing of Makefile. > > The last release introduces macro pr

Re: Bug#191167: ITP: oooqs-kde -- OpenOffice.org QuickStarter applet for KDE

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:25:27AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [1] the package will be called 1:0.99+1.0_rc3-1 to ensure upgradability > to 1.0 and from the woody backport which was versioned > 1.0_rc3-0woody1 :( nothing against upgradability to 1.0, but introducing epochs right from th

Re: FVWM 2.5.x debs

2003-04-29 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:11:58 +0200 > "HD" == Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HD> HD> Hi Alex, HD> Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: >> Hello. >> Recently I was reported [1] by Marco d'Itri that FVWM from stable >> branch (2.4.x) does not work with GNOME2, so he requested 2.5.x >> pack

Re: OpenEXR packages

2003-04-29 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 06:08:50PM -0700, Drew Hess wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm the upstream maintainer of OpenEXR. Is there anything I can do to > help expedite getting OpenEXR into Debian? Not much has happened since > the original ITP as far as I can tell. If something's broken on our side, > le

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:23:24PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > [1] One of the difficult things in the future might be to generate new tags > or associate new packages to tags already available. Automatising (sp?) > this would be useful and TFIDF (and similar IA-related techniqu

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Graham Williams
Received Tue 29 Apr 2003 2:35pm +1000 from Alexander Wirt: > Hi folks, > > i have written a small wrapper for apt-get that makes it possible to > install all recommended and/or suggested Packages for a Package too. > ... I've also got the same functionality in my apt-get wrapper, wajig, as in:

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:38:18PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:23:24PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > wrote: > > > [1] One of the difficult things in the future might be to generate new tags > > or associate new packages to tags already available. Automatising

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:13:38AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi folks, > > i have written a small wrapper for apt-get that makes it possible to > install all recommended and/or suggested Packages for a Package too. > A simple Call of: aag -rs would install all recommended and > suggested P

Re: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-29 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>... and those who have tried to explain why it's a bad idea or have >>concerns have been brushed off. So I've given up for now trying to >>explain to you folks why I'm not convinced, since I do

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath from autotools

2003-04-29 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> W: gnunet-gtk: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/gnunet-gtk > /home/bug1/0.5.3/gnunet-0.5.3/debian/tmp/usr/lib > > ./configure and the Makefile.in's mention -rpath, but rpath isnt set > directly by configure.ac or Makefile.am, i dont know how to > stop autotools from setting it. My wild

RE: Form0.iv

2003-04-29 Thread Riggs, Mary
Title: RE: Form0.iv Cannot read this. -Original Message- From:   debian-devel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:   Monday, April 28, 2003 10:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:    Form0.iv  << File: now_app_gaining_cmd[1].htm >>

libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Nick Burkett
Hi, I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... I've got an essay due in 24 hours which (was) being written in lyx (which now doesn't work). Does anyone know where I can get a pre5 version of libstdc++ from (my local cache doesn't have it)

Re: Root can't run X programs

2003-04-29 Thread David Krider
Cameron Hutchison wrote: The next bit of juju is to set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to ~/.Xauthority, where is the user that started the xserver. This is great. What about taking it to the next level? What I mean is that I had been thinking about actually extracting the cookie from the s

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Domenico Andreoli
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2003/04/28/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libstdc++5_3.3-0pre5_i386.deb On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:02:38PM +, Nick Burkett wrote: > > Hi, > I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > I've got an es

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Nick Burkett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Hello Nick, >I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > I've got an essay due in 24 hours which (was) being > written in lyx (which now doesn't work). Does anyone know > where I ca

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Nick Burkett
Thanks for the help everyone... now on to the essay. From: Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nick Burkett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: libstdc++... Help please Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:39:55 -0300 "Nick Burkett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Hell

Backporting a package from unstable to stable

2003-04-29 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, To use an example, I'd like to take the source package for Snort (2.0.0-2) in unstable and rebuild it against stable so that I can update my otherwise stable installation with a newer version of Snort, without dragging in all the other dependencies from unstable that just installing the Sn

Re: Root can't run X programs

2003-04-29 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 07:10:06AM -0500, David Krider wrote: || Cameron Hutchison wrote: || || >The next bit of juju is to set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to || >~/.Xauthority, where is the user that started the xserver. This shouldn't be necessary, since X clients default to $HOME/.X

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 April 2003 07:50, you wrote: > Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, look at my patch again. If you build without i486 optimization, > > the compiler will see only the extern declaration for > > __exchange_and_add(). > > I see

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Nick Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > I've got an essay due in 24 hours which (was) being > written in lyx (which now doesn't work). sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > Does anyo

Re: Backporting a package from unstable to stable

2003-04-29 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> To use an example, I'd like to take the source package for Snort (2.0.0-2) > in unstable and rebuild it against stable so that I can update my > otherwise stable installation with a newer version of Snort, without > dragging in all the other dependencies from unstable that just installing >

ITA: nail -- BSD mail(1) supporting MIME, SMTP, POP3/SSL and UTF-8

2003-04-29 Thread Hilko Bengen
Hi, as the subject says, I intend to adopt nail. A new version, 10.5-1, will be uploaded shortly. -Hilko

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Nick Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > > I've got an essay due in 24 hours which (was) being > > written in lyx (whic

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Die, 2003-04-29 um 13.08 schrieb David Nusinow: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:13:38AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > i have written a small wrapper for apt-get that makes it possible to > > install all recommended and/or suggested Packages for a Package too. > > A simple Ca

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath from autotools

2003-04-29 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:28:51 +0900 Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wild guess is that the build script is setting prefix rather > than DESTDIR ? You are correct, i should know better than to make such basic mistakes. Thanks Glenn

Re: Dropping/splitting (proper) i386 support

2003-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 04:32:37PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > This is an attempt to summarize some points. > > 1. Why do we have a problem, other than performance issues? > > * To maintain binary compatibility with other distributions for C++ > packages, Debian needs to use the i486+ version

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread David Starner
> sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically test our distribution if the only people running it are those with many computers who put it on one they aren't really using. Please don't give our testers crap for actually testing the

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Nick Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > > I've got an essay due in 24 hours which (was) being > > written in lyx (whic

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a eh? aptitude install aptitude remove aptitude purge from command line. > package. Additionally it seams that aptitude is currently broken in Sid. > So this are two good reasons for me. apt 0.5.

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Kai Weber
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Why not just use aptitude?[1] > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > package. Additionally it seams that aptitude is currently broken in Sid. > So this are two good reasons for me. aptitude ca

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:04:06AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Nick Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > > > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > > > I've

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:58:16AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Of course. they can be overriden the same way the section "gnome" was > overridden for these packages. So no uploads would be required, but the > packages can just be updated with their next uploads. Maybe some will stay > in the ov

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend andsuggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Am Die, 2003-04-29 um 13.08 schrieb David Nusinow: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:13:38AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Why not just use aptitude?[1] > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > pack

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Die, 2003-04-29 um 17.01 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > Hi, > > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > > eh? > > aptitude install > aptitude remove > aptitude purge I'm really sorry, but this sound very new to me. But its very nice to kn

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Re: Dropping/splitting (proper) i386 support

2003-04-29 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 29 April 2003 16:40, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 04:32:37PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > * i486 guarantees a 32-bit external data bus (386SX has a 16-bit bus.). > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg02043.ht > >ml Not sure if ther

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread David Roundy
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:46:47PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:06:14 -0400, David Roundy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > probably wouldn't hid mp3blaster. Maybe novices should only be > > shown gui programs after all. They probably don't want to be using > > a shell

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-29 Followup-For: Bug #148421 Since this ITP is almost a year old and there is a package available under http://kopete.creativa.cl/debian/sid/ and the packages applies for NM and I am willing to sponsor him, I hope no one opposes us to go ahead a

Re: Bug in apt-get ? [replace essential package / Yes, do as I say]

2003-04-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > There are a lot of wonky things that can happen during most of the essential > > package remove scenarios that can completely screw your system so it doesn't > > boot or can't run programs, install scripts or something er other. > > > > Your

Re: Bug#191037: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:32:46 +0200, Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:54:37PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> I'd certainly feel better if there were a broader consensus than >> just Debian before moving in this direction. > I think if Debian comes up with a

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> > sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > > We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically > test our distribution if the only people running it are those with many > computers who put it on one they aren't really using. Please don't give > our testers crap for actually

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Re: Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted

2003-04-29 Thread Thomas Hood
I agree with Manoj when he says: > I think it is premature to [r]atify into policy an action > that has not been fully decided upon, and has not yet had > all the kinks ironed out [...] However, there does need to be some discussion of what properties /run/ will have. Early in the debian-devel d

Announcing second release of Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello. I'm announcing it again in debian-devel because it contains new infrastructure to support proposals that are being discussed here, and to ask a small testing run: if I see no big showstoppers, this is the version that tomorrow I will upload to unstable. I have made a bunch of neat addition

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:24:19 -0400, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:46:47PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:06:14 -0400, David Roundy >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > probably wouldn't hid mp3blaster. Maybe novices should only be >> >

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:42:20AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I'm not sure where you get that from; woody was released July 20th last year, > which is a little over 3/4th of a year ago, and uploads were being accepted > into testing without special consideration up until pretty much a year ago >

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > > > > We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically > > test our distribution if the only people running it are those with many > > computers who put it on one they

Re: Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted

2003-04-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:26:07PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > * Files stored in /run/ are not "reaped" I would supplement this by saying that programs which use /run/ may not depend on state being preserved across reboots. This permits the use of a ramfs for those who desire it. Otherwise, I t

Re: FVWM 2.5.x debs

2003-04-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 29, Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually, I would like to close #189664 without uploading any fvwm2.5 >packages to unstable, if no one objects. I object, as the problem (fvwm not working with gnome2) still exists. The open bug will help other users to find the soluti

Re: Bug#191036: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 29, Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do you think having programs write to /etc is a bad thing? Yes. >Where would you put /etc/mtab, to keep /etc sacrosanct? I would teach mount to follow the /etc/mtab. Actually, I remember that somebody already did this as he wrote about it o

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) The patch gets merged upstream. It won't hurt anyone who is > building i486+ optimized binaries and fixes a real bug. Upstream won't accept the patch, because of the performance penalty. Even if upstream accepts the patch, that won't be before

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Jérôme Marant
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In general I don't think its a good idea for a package to having only > one maintainer. It may work for smaller packages, but even then many > times maintainers vanish or forget to update their packages. I think > having a rcs system that contained all t

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-29 Thread Morgon Kanter
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin v. L) wrote: > I think the performance loss for applications like KDE will be > significant. I doubt that providing two versions of KDE (i386 > and i486+) would be feasible. Not starting a flamewar here, but in all honesty, who is going to try

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically > test our distribution if the only people running it are those with many > computers who put it on one they aren't really using. Please don't

libstdc++-pre6 vs build machines

2003-04-29 Thread Jack Howarth
I was wondering if any effort was being made to hold the build machines from installing the broken libstdc++-5_3.3-0pre6 packages. If there are missing symbols in those new libstdc++ libs I am wondering what the impact will be for any c++ code built against pre6 when the symbols return in the n

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-29 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Morgon Kanter wrote: Not starting a flamewar here, but in all honesty, who is going to try to use KDE on a 386 anyway? Actually, while we are on that, who is even going to try to use X at all on a 386? Probably nobody will. IMO, it is the worse that the KDE binaries have to be built for i386 comp

Re: Bug#148421: kopete 0.6.1a

2003-04-29 Thread Chris Cheney
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Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 29 April 2003 11:05 am, Andreas Metzler wrote: > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > > > > We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically > > test our distribution if the only people running it are those with many

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > package. Additionally it seams that aptitude is currently broken in Sid. > So this are two good reasons for me. apt is broke

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Morgon Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin v. L) wrote: >> I think the performance loss for applications like KDE will be >> significant. I doubt that providing two versions of KDE (i386 >> and i486+) would be feasible. > Not starting a flamew

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:05:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > > > We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically > > test our distribution if the only

Re: FVWM 2.5.x debs

2003-04-29 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:57:54 +0200 > "Md" == Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Md> Md> On Apr 29, Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Actually, I would like to close #189664 without uploading any fvwm2.5 >> packages to unstable, if no one objects. Md> I object, as t

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:05:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > > > We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically > > test our distribution if the only people running it are those wit

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 April 2003 21:22, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > That won't help anything. "Compiling without threads" isn't really > supported on Linux: if threads are not used, this is always a > link-time/runtime issue, not a compile time issue. Right, fo

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > > package. Additionally it seams that aptitude is currently broken in Sid. >

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:23:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Its interactive, I don't want to launch a GUI if I want so simple add a > > package. Additionally it seams that aptitude is current

Re: Backporting a package from unstable to stable

2003-04-29 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:41:13PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > To answer the question, the answer is 'no, not always'. > > You need some try-and-error, and usually backporting one package > requires backporting of another. However, many people do it due to > their needs. > > The biggest st

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread EspeonEefi
Daniel Burrows wrote: apt is broken in sid now too. Isn't unstable fun? :) Did you get this from the line in the topic of #debian @ irc.freenode.net? I jumped as well at first, but the apt that's MIA is the bot in that channel, not the program in sid, I think.

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 14:32, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:24:19 -0400, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > To be precise, you said "Maybe novices should only be shown > gui programs after all". Not that novices should be allowed to decide > to only view gui progra

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030423 23:38]: > I just had the idea of translating these hints myself and thus I talked > with Grisu about using the DDTP server for this purpose. He promised > to think about this ... Well, did I missed something, hasn't anybody translated them, yet? I was

Re: Backporting a package from unstable to stable

2003-04-29 Thread James D Strandboge
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 19:09, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:41:13PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > To answer the question, the answer is 'no, not always'. > > > > You need some try-and-error, and usually backporting one package > > requires backporting of another. Howeve

Re: Bug#148421: kopete =?utf-8?q?0=2E6=2E1a

2003-04-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 29 April 2003 09:59, Michael Meskes wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-29 > Followup-For: Bug #148421 > > Since this ITP is almost a year old and there is a package available > under http://kopete.creativa.cl/debian/sid/ and the packages applies for > NM and

Re: debian.org machine with pbuilder/debootstrap?

2003-04-29 Thread Neil Roeth
On Apr 28, Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Many have chroots but don't tend to have the relevant build-deps > > installed. > You can always send a mail into the direction of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for the packages which are missing. > You don't have

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-29 Thread Neil Roeth
How about "obsolete" and "deprecated" tags? This information is not currently captured for packages anywhere, so it is hard to tell if packages are obsolete, or if there is a transition going on from an older one to a newer one. -- Neil Roeth

Dropping/splitting (proper) i386 support

2003-04-29 Thread Neil Roeth
Nice summary. Comments below. On Apr 27, Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is an attempt to summarize some points. [snip] > 3. How much impact will this have on users? > * Two people have reported live 386 systems (not clear if they're using > Debian): > 4. Conclusion. > T

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Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:59:17AM +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:23:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:58:34PM +0200, Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Its interactive, I don't wan