Re: Drop testing

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:47:49PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I have a simple question for you: have you actually talked to those > currently managing our releases before drafting this GR? For comparison, when drafting the proposal for package pools and testing, the folks actually managing th

Debian installer and non-official drivers

Hiho! Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in order to detect the additional hardware. Would this udeb ge

Re: Drop testing

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:05:51PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > * One of Testing's goals was to be 95% releasable at all times. > > * It hasn't been. > > * Why not? > >(a) RC bugs > >(b) Can't install it > >(c) Security vulnerabi

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:44:19PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Even if the file is updated only by the postinst, it is useful to know > that you can recover a broken system from scratch by having: > > * A backup copy of /etc, /var, /home, /usr/local, etc. (but not /usr). > * The list of installe

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 16:16 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX > packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? Isn't /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fo

Debian installer and non-official drivers

Hiho! Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in order to detect the additional hardware. Would this udeb ge

Re: A localisation success: French po-debconf translations briefly reached a full "virtual" 100%

[please remember Debian list policy: no cc:s unless requested] On Wednesday 27 October 2004 17.54, Christian Perrier wrote: > > But does anything warn me (linda/lintian?) when I update debconf > > templates and/or package descriptions and forget to post to > > debian-i18n? (which would be: it shou

Re: Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:22 +0200, David Schweikert wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 13:07:34 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > * Package name: ibm-acpi > > > > This has been integrated into the acpi.sf.net patch, so is fairly likely > > to end up in the mainstream kernel before too long. >

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.26.2057 +0200]: > You should probably tell us non-chatters what "The software" is... I believe the original post had the reference: apt-spy, pciutils, usbutils, possibly others. Note that usbutils and apt-spy are already fixed. -- Please do

Re: Debian installer and non-official drivers

Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for hardware > not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy disk (in form of > an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file during the installation in > order to detect the additional hardw

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

'ello Debian On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:40:30PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > asking Google for this problem just leaded to hints of some broken X > resources but I have no real clue what might have caused the failure > of at least three important applications which I'm running on a laptop > with

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

On Thursday 28 October 2004 01:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > A package in main must not depend on any software outside of main, and > > must be DFSG-free; A package in contrib must be DFSG-free; A package in > > non-free must be legally distributable by Debian. > > > > There are no further restricti

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

* Clemens Schwaighofer [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:02:44 +0900]: > Hi, > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > scripts and not logrotate. albeit both are Priority: important, sysklogd is Section: base. and, iiuc, base should be self-contained (that is, packages in base

Re: Subversion / swig1.3

* John Lenz [Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:02:43 +]: > On 10/26/04 16:35:35, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:39:15PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > >> subversion depends on swig >= 1.3.22-2 which is in unstable. but it's > >not > >> in testing yet because swig cannot be put into testi

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal

Brent has already a packaged libical here: http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/gnustep/ yours, Gürkan

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

* Erik Schanze [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:31:35 +0200]: > If your program depends on MPlayer, it must go into non-free. > If your program depends on a program in non-free, it must go into contrib. > But MPlayer isn't even in non-free. not exactly. packages in contrib can depend on packages not availa

Bug#278620: ITP: tecnoballz -- A breaking blocks game ported from Amiga

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tecnoballz Version : 0.90.6 Upstream Author : TLK Games * URL : http://linux.tlk.fr/games/TecnoballZ/ * License : GPL Description : A breaking blocks game ported from Amiga This is a

Re: Drop testing

Thomas Bushnell writes: > So the RC bugs should not be blocking release unless they are *new* RC > bugs which don't already exist. I'd word that a bit differently: the definition of an RC bug should *never* allow a bug still present in stable now (+ security.stable) to reach the level of RC. Jan

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:53 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > paddy wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > 5)== > > > > > > > > User specific configuration files for applications are store

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's > home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a "dot file"). If Speaking of which: there used to be some proposed addition to FHS about r

Re: Debian installer and non-official drivers

Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2004 10:38 schrieb Joey Hess: > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Just one question. Lets say I'd put some extra driver modules for > > hardware not officially supported by the debian installer on a floppy > > disk (in form of an a .udeb) and let the installer load this file du

Re: Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:44:18 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > Even if it gets integrated in the kernel (which I am not 100% sure about), > > having a package would make it work on older kernels. Also, an init script > > is needed to configure what events you are interested in and the package >

Bug#278246: 278246 -- does not reproduce for me.

In both KDE (e.g. Konqueror, Kmail) and GNOME (e.g. gedit) applications Cyrillic letters are displayed as double-width. Ah, that was a long time ago that I had that problem. (But for me mozilla used to have the problem too, not any more though) I just tried again with gedit, and I cannot reproduce

Bug#278627: ITP: childsplay-base -- base package for childsplay, a suite of educational games for children.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-base Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkieiwcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : base package for childsplay, a suite of educational games

Bug#278630: ITP: childsplay-games -- collection of games for childsplay-base.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-games Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : collection of games for childsplay-base. This package pr

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

> However, if you > upload a package to contrib that build-depends on a package not in > contrib or non-free, you'll get a FTBFS RC bug filed against you > before you blink. Hmm, I didn't, back in the days when regina-normal built against java2 (which wasn't in the archive at the time). Though t

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Simon Huggins wrote: Is this a Transmeta Crusoe based laptop? No. It is centrono based and I guess this is rather a problem of some pure X applications, because Gnome and KDE applications and also Mozilla are behaving fine. The only thing is that sometimes fonts are not rende

Bug#278633: ITP: childsplay-games -- games for childsplay, a collection of games for young children.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-games Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : Additional games for childsplay, a collection of games fo

Bug#278631: ITP: childsplay-base -- base package for childsplay, a collection of educational games for children.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: childsplay-base Version : 0.80 Upstream Author : Stas Zytkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://childsplay.sf.net * License : GPL Description : base package for childsplay, a collection of educational

Bug#278634: ITP: libdigest-crc-perl -- Generic CRC functions for Perl

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libdigest-crc-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Oliver Maul * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~olimaul/Digest-CRC-0.09/lib/Digest/CRC.pm * License : public domain Description : Generic CRC functions for Pe

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > User specific configuration files [...] > If an application needs to create more than one dot file then they > should be placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' ... > I have no idea if we comply, but this is a new requirement. S

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 22, 2004

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:41:42PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Could the script that generates the RC bug list be modified to show two > additional numbers for each bug: first, how old it is (in days), and > second, how old (in days) is the last message posted to the bug? > > This w

NMU on sysklogd

Hello guys, I'm having a problem with sysklogd on Sarge: everytime it rotates logs, it fails to log in the new file, it continues in the previous, renamed one. I introduced bug #275111 about that. It is really annoying since every log analysis tool is failing on this every week at least? By "log

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

On Thursday 28 October 2004 01.53, Joey Hess wrote: > paddy wrote: > > what about ~/Desktop and friends? > > I don't know if Desktop falls under the heading of being a configuration > file or directorty. Not that I much like that directory, but like > Maildir, it seems out of the scope of this FHS

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09.20, Ian Bruce wrote: > Can anyone explain why rsync is no longer considered an appropriate > method for fetching Packages files? IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so while the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to 1

Versioned bugs in the BTS (was: Drop testing)

Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides, we'll have a bug database which tracks version numbers. This in > turn means that we have a nice distinction between bugs that are actually > RC in the "fix this if we'd want to release Etch tomorrow" sense, and bugs > that are RC in the "keep

Re: Drop testing

* Jan Nieuwenhuizen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041028 14:05]: > Thomas Bushnell writes: > > So the RC bugs should not be blocking release unless they are *new* RC > > bugs which don't already exist. > I'd word that a bit differently: the definition of an RC bug should > *never* allow a bug still prese

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

Jaldhar H. Vyas asks, > I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some > TeX packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? I do not pretend to have the full answer to the question, but I

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

On Oct 26, Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone explain why rsync is no longer considered an appropriate > method for fetching Packages files? It's the only mechanism I'm aware of Because it's hard on servers, for a start. -- ciao, | Marco | [8782 diFcw3LT7Erlw] signature.asc Desc

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX > packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? If the fonts are meant to be used by T

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.26.2057 +0200]: >> You should probably tell us non-chatters what "The software" is... > > I believe the original post had the reference: apt-spy, pciutils, > usbutils, possibly others. The origi

Package name eMail or not?

There was some discussion [1] about an ITP I filed last year for a package called email [2], which suffered from an inappropriate license and name problems. The upstream has since released a newer version under the GPL and has indicated to me a willingness to have the package called eMail. M

Bug#278648: ITP: kkbswitch -- keyboard layout indicator for KDE3

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kkbswitch Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Leonid Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : keyboard layout indicator for KDE3 KKBSwitch is useful

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update [Oct 24]

Am 2004-10-26 09:27:22, schrieb Martin Schulze: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello Martin and *, > > > > Am 2004-10-24 11:24:26, schrieb Martin Schulze: > > > Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update > > > == > You should first c

aide 0.8-2 moved /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf

Hello, I've just installed aide for woody but it was required to move /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf. Can someone reproduce this if it's a bug or not ? -- Best Regards, Mark

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:04:51 +0200 Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brent has already a packaged libical here: > http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/gnustep/ Yeah, but that's not in the archive :) And even having that one it wouldn't serve, as vcalendar plugin needs specifically the

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

Le lundi 25 octobre 2004 Ã 16:16 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas a Ãcrit : > I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX > packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? Generally, fonts sho

Re: Bug#278255: ITP: rdflib -- A python library for working with RDF

Le mercredi 27 octobre 2004 Ã 20:12 +0200, Alberto Rodriguez Galdo a Ãcrit : > deb http://www.igaelica.com/debian ./ > > It's name is python2.3-rdflib as it depends on python > 2.2 Please, don't do that. You should name it python-rdflib and use ${python:Depends} to generate the python dependency.

d-i using kexec

Has anybody ever considered the possibility of a 0-reboot installation? It seems that this should be possible with (or without?) kexec. I think the reason the installer presently reboots is to load the *real* kernel (which will be used during normal runtime) rather than the installer kernel. Reb

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:28:26AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.26.2114 +0200]: > > What software writes to /usr ? > > As noted in the OP, apt-spy, pciutils, and probably others. My apologies, I only just got that post today! I dived in a littl

An important lesson

Developers, do not allow http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg to happen to you. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update [Oct 24]

Hello Joey, > You should first check whether they exist no the original security server. > If they do, you'll have to contact the ftp.de mirror maintainer. OK, checked... I have changed the Server to ftp://security.debian.org and gotten the same problem: ( 'stdin' )___

Re: Versioned bugs in the BTS (was: Drop testing)

* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041028 17:00]: > Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Besides, we'll have a bug database which tracks version numbers. This in > > turn means that we have a nice distinction between bugs that are actually > > RC in the "fix this if we'd want to releas

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps that's true -- I must do a little reading. However, if you > upload a package to contrib that build-depends on a package not in > contrib or non-free, you'll get a FTBFS RC bug filed against you > before you blink. Are there any (inofficial) bui

special request - no spam - seriously!

Hi I know that this is for sure an usual request posted on this list. Sorry for that. But I am desperately looking for Debian hacker which are also engaged in Linux. I know that Linux is not far from Debian. Anyway. For my final thesis dealing with “coordination mechanism and coordination succes

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:53 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: paddy wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 5)== User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's hom

Re: An important lesson

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Developers, do not allow > > http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg > > to happen to you. And it's better to repeat it three times: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/wanna-build/secring.gpg http://ftp.beln

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:03:43PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > For those of you interested, I've uploaded resmgr 1.0-1 to > experimental (must go through NEW, etc.). > > I'll upload a version of sane-backends built with resmgr support to > experimental when sane-backends 1.0.15 will be released

Re: An important lesson

Matthew Garrett wrote: Developers, do not allow http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg to happen to you. I haven't checked lately, but at least some of those used to be: (a) secret keys used in regression tests, (b) honeypots and (c) findable via google but not downloadable cheers stu

Re: An important lesson

On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Warning: The signature is bad. I guess this was unavoidable in a posting about a security related issue with GnuPG... greetings -- vbi -- Oops pgpsZSnPddRmR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USE flags ??

On Thursday 28 October 2004 07:18, Jon Dowland wrote: > > i still like them both and still run both on servers, > > You run gentoo on *SERVERS*!?!?! I guess someone would have to define servers in this context. A news server for downloading "special" avi files is not really a server in the sense

Re: d-i using kexec

Justin Pryzby wrote: > Has anybody ever considered the possibility of a 0-reboot > installation? > > It seems that this should be possible with (or without?) kexec. > > I think the reason the installer presently reboots is to load the > *real* kernel (which will be used during normal runtime) rat

Re: aide 0.8-2 moved /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > >I've just installed aide for woody but it was required to >move /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf. > >Can someone reproduce this if it's a bug or not ? > > > # apt-cache policy aide aide: Installed: 0.8-2 Candidate: 0.8-2 Version Table: **

deletion of xpackman dir

hi, today i checked my local debian mirror and i saw that var/www/debian/pool/non-free/x/xpacman/ is an empty directory. can someone delete it? regards nico -- Nico Golde - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ngolde.de GPG: FF46 E565 5CC1 E2E5 3F69 C739 1D87 E54

AMD64 Archive Key compromised!

Matthew Garrett wrote: >Developers, do not allow > >http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg > >to happen to you. > > > Yeah. debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/wanna-build/secring.gpg is Forbidden, but ftp.be

Re: Bug#278255: ITP: rdflib -- A python library for working with RDF

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 28 de Octubre de 2004 16:24, Josselin Mouette escribió: > Le mercredi 27 octobre 2004 à 20:12 +0200, Alberto Rodriguez Galdo a > > écrit : > > deb http://www.igaelica.com/debian ./ > > > > It's name is python2.3-rdflib as it depends on pytho

Re: SourceForge.net PR-Web Upgrade Notice.

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i'm forwarding this to debian devel for people's attention because it would appear that debian has lost a quite large opportunity - by not having selinux available. PR choices, not much else. It is also entirely possible the last of the Debian faithful have left

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Simon Huggins wrote: Is this a Transmeta Crusoe based laptop? No. It is centrono based and I guess this is rather a problem of some pure X applications, because Gnome and KDE applications and also Mozilla are behaving fine. The only thing is that sometime

Re: An important lesson

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:08 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Warning: The signature is bad. > > I guess this was unavoidable in a posting about a security related issue > with GnuPG... > Verifies fine here. Scott

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

> and before anybody asks, I already but all the things into logrotate. I > just curious why its not there from beginning. With current default configuration, if I add some more log files info /etc/syslog.conf (e.g. to catch localN facilities), they get rotation automatically. Can the same be achi

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

> Speaking of which: there used to be some proposed addition to FHS about > re-locating all dot-files into ~/etc or some directory like that. Does > anybody know what happened to that? I'm aware of the problems (sharing > $HOME over several different machines etc.), but but I'll be glad if the > me

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >> I plan to have SANE built with resmgr support for Etch, and I hope >> other applications will support resmgr too. It can make life a lot >> easier, and changes to the code are really minimal. > > It is, however, a security hole; it's functionally

Re: d-i using kexec

I demand that Justin Pryzby may or may not have written... > Has anybody ever considered the possibility of a 0-reboot installation? > It seems that this should be possible with (or without?) kexec. > I think the reason the installer presently reboots is to load the *real* > kernel (which will b

Re: Drop testing

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:03:31AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Trivial analysis: () > The release managers have been putting some effort into (a)(1) over the > past year, and there's four of them now instead of just one. How much effort > has the project been putting into the other factors?

Re: Waiting for unfinished jobs....

El Martes, 26 de Octubre de 2004 02:06, Anibal Monsalve Salazar escribió: > Package harbour is FTBFS on alpha, s390, m68k, powerpc and mips, as > you can see at: > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=harbour > > Could someone shed some light on this problem? Hi Anibal. I'm the maintainer of

Re: Bug#262507: ITP: resmgr -- resource manager library

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:46:18PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > >> I plan to have SANE built with resmgr support for Etch, and I hope > >> other applications will support resmgr too. It can make life a lot > >> easier, and changes to the code are really minimal. > > > > It is, however, a security

Re: Drop testing

* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041028 22:00]: > Also note that there are _many_ patches in the BTS for RC (and many other > bugs). But RC bugs do not get fixed in time [0] this also shows that a > number of packages are not being properly maintained and we maybe could > maybe

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:15, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > Hello Oded. > > > > Again, good luck. If and when you find an > appropriate sponsor, let me know the good news. Wow, honestly, that was some damn great advice... And it does sound very accurate and I do understand it. I don't know if

Re: Drop testing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2004 01:43 AM, Christoffer Sawicki wrote: > The Debian Desktop Distribution will be something like this. I believe more > details will be available soon. Until then, http://debiandesktop.org/ has a > concept paper. Is this a fork from the

Re: NMU on sysklogd

[Jerome Warnier] > Could someone go through the list and NMU this? I'm willing to help, > if necessary. The maintainer of sysklogd have a problematic relationship with NMUs. Have a look at bug #225895 for an ironic view on this. :)

Re: NMU on sysklogd

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 00:46 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Jerome Warnier] > > Could someone go through the list and NMU this? I'm willing to help, > > if necessary. > > The maintainer of sysklogd have a problematic relationship with NMUs. > Have a look at bug #225895 for an ironic view on t

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:10:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps that's true -- I must do a little reading. However, if you > > upload a package to contrib that build-depends on a package not in > > contrib or non-free, you'll get a FTBFS RC bu

Re: Waiting for unfinished jobs....

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:06:48AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Hello, > > Package harbour is FTBFS on alpha, s390, m68k, powerpc and mips, as > you can see at: > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=harbour > > Could someone shed some light on this problem? > > A build log extr

Re: An important lesson

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:08 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder > wrote: > > On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Warning: The signature is bad. > > > > I guess this was unavoidable in a posting about a security r

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 5)== > > User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the > user's home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a > "dot file"). If an application needs to create more than one dot file

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so > while the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to > 100s of users, they don't have the (CPU) resources for a few dozen

Bug#278741: ITP: unalz -- The unalz tool is the utility used for decompressing alzip format file.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unalz Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : hardkoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kipple.pe.kr/win/unalz/ * License : BSD Description : The utility used for decompressing alzip format file. The una

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:20:19AM -0700, Ian Bruce said > Now that gzip has the "--rsyncable" option, wouldn't it be feasible to > rsync against compressed Packages files rather than having to keep the > uncompressed ones around for this purpose? You have to explicitly enable this option, which i

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

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