> auditing things. Most of the Ubuntu changes, for example the reworking of
> the xserver debconf configuration scripts, I kept almost completely
> (merging in whatever fixes went in to the xfree86 tree after the Ubuntu
> branch). The remainder of the changes are either re-branding to Debian or
>
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> Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>
>
>>Hi folks, I have a noob question for you. I maintain the Cogito package
>>(my first), and it wants to install an executable as /usr/bin/git. The
>>GNU Interactive Tools package (git) also wants t
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 198 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requeste
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:34:46PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Charles Fry:
>
> > I discussed the matter with Joshua Kwan, who recommended that I send
> > this email, asking whether or not it would be acceptable for me to
> > hijack the abandoned libhtml-mason-perl package.
>
> Don't forget
Adam Majer wrote:
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
woody's kernels are vulnerable to CAN-2004-1235, a uselib() race
condition.
Will this be fixed for Woody?
I thought the plan was to provide security support for Woody for
another year?
AFAIK, there is no security support for Woody kernels for s
Hello folks,
I'm working on the next release of the OpenAFS packages, and I'd really
like to resolve a long-standing annoyance to the buildds that the package
at present currently causes. But I'm not sure the best way to do it.
Of the architectures that Debian supports, OpenAFS does not support
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:38:06PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Package name: shish
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> * URL : http://www.blah.ch/shish/
> * License : GPL
> Description : the diet shell
>
> shish i
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:58:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm working on the next release of the OpenAFS packages, and I'd really
> like to resolve a long-standing annoyance to the buildds that the package
> at present currently causes. But I'm not sure the best way to do i
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:16:50AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:03:50PM -0400, Anonymous wrote:
> >
> > >>Can't the remainder of the third DVD be filled up with multimedia
> > >>propoganda files or other fluff?
> > >
> > >Or 3vil planz for world dominat
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Hello Olaf,
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> ifconfig is in /sbin and only in root's path. But ifconfig is runnable
> and useful for normal users, so it'd be nice if it could be added to the
> path of normal users too.
The problem here is that ifconfig must be
Le Vendredi 10 Juin 2005 10:40, Bernd Eckenfels a écrit :
> The problem here is that ifconfig must be in sbin by FHS and by
> history (would break too many scripts). So moving is not an option. I
> can however put a symlink in /bin, however I am not sure how other
> DDs think about it, as this will
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:58:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Right now, therefore, the buildds for those four platforms try to build
> every OpenAFS release, install all its dependencies, and then error out in
> the configure script. This is doubtless a bit annoying to the buildd
> admins, is a
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:15:19PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am an active user of the libhtml-mason-perl package, and am quite
>interested in seeing it continue to progress in Debian.
>
>Unfortunately, as outlined in my [1]message to debian-qa in January, the
>package appears to have been
On Friday 10 June 2005 05:59, Steve Langasek wrote:
> We're leaning towards possibly keeping udeb-generating packages frozen
> during etch still because they require manual intervention for syncing
> udebs into testing; this means separating the source packages that create
> udebs (which as a clas
On Jun 10, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem here is that ifconfig must be in sbin by FHS and by history
> (would break too many scripts). So moving is not an option. I can however
> put a symlink in /bin, however I am not sure how other DDs think about it,
> as this will se
On 6/10/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > ifconfig is in /sbin and only in root's path. But ifconfig is runnable
> > and useful for normal users, so it'd be nice if it could be added to the
> > path of normal user
[Matthias Klose]
> As Steve did explain, the first class is a non-issue. Because you
> brought up the topic, I was asking you for a real-world example of
> your so defined second set.
I am trying to figure out if there might exist a problem with this
approach, as I am trained to predict and fix p
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:24:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> And anyway ifconfig is deprecated,
While I don't have a very strong opinion on this matter either way, I
feel I should point out that
a) ifconfig is an application that exists not only on Linux, but on many
other (free or non-free
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:47:00PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> b) The mere fact that there is something newer which performs the same
>function does in no way imply that the older implementation is
>"deprecated". This is true for many things -- kernels, network
>configuration softwa
On Jun 10, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a) ifconfig is an application that exists not only on Linux, but on many
>other (free or non-free) unices as well; it would be fair to say
And indeed this is the only reason to keep it around.
> b) The mere fact that there is something n
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:01:03PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:15:19PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am an active user of the libhtml-mason-perl package, and am quite
> >interested in seeing it continue to progress in Debian.
> >
> >Unfortunately,
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:15:39AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> David, this reminds me that the x.org packages probably need some big
> push when it comes at their l10n for debconf stuff.
>
> Indeed, I intend to add the "whatever X thing etch will use by
> default" packages to the "level 5" o
Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jun 10, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem here is that ifconfig must be in sbin by FHS and by history
(would break too many scripts). So moving is not an option. I can however
put a symlink in /bin, however I am not sure how other DDs think about it,
Le jeudi 09 juin 2005 à 18:03 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit :
> > How would these runlevels be "wasted"? We're only talking about the
> > default configuration, not about something a system administrator
> > couldn't change.
>
> In theory.
>
> In practice, many third-party applications will make
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:16:05PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote:
> Bill
>
> Just out of curiosity, when testing the upgrade procedure how do you
> select the mix of packages installed prior to the upgrade?
So far I was using the set of packages provided by the submitters of
upgrade-reports, so I co
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I demand that Rich Walker may or may not have written...
>
>> Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> How common was that problem you were trying to solve, again?
>
>> Presumably, you never used an S3 video card.
>
>> (Locks up on leaving X in many
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On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:05 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> This is an update to the CD and DVD images of Debian 3.1r0.
>
Colin,
is there any good reason why this announcement was not made to
debian-announce@lists.debian.org ?
Drew
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:24:05PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2005 05:59, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > We're leaning towards possibly keeping udeb-generating packages frozen
> > during etch still because they require manual intervention for syncing
> > udebs into testing; this means
On Friday 10 June 2005 15:27, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm in the process of adopting a package (freetype2) that builds a udeb.
> > Would updating this package now require manual intervention from the
> > release team?
>
> Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team
> approv
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Adam Majer wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, there is no security support for Woody kernels for some time now.
>> Use kernel.org and compile your kernels for security sensitive machines.
>
>
> What's the reason for this lack of support?
>
>
I think after Herbert Xu left so did security
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Jun 10, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> a) ifconfig is an application that exists not only on Linux, but on many
>>other (free or non-free) unices as well; it would be fair to say
> And indeed this is the only reason to keep it arou
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:31:06PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2005 15:27, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team
> > approval (which is unlikely to be withheld - it's just so that the udeb
> > can be synced at the same time).
>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:05 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > This is an update to the CD and DVD images of Debian 3.1r0.
>
> Colin,
>
> is there any good reason why this announcement was not made to
> debian-announce@lists.debian.org ?
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:34:07AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> I guess this can go... or be changed to not be so specific.
No, it can't go. Note that it has been changed to talk about etch, not
sarge. There's no reason to stop squashing high-severity bugs just
because we aren't in a freeze any mo
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:24:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Don't bother. This could be applied to most other programs in /sbin too...
> And anyway ifconfig is deprecated, everybody should always use iproute
> which *is* in /bin.
This is only true for linux, not for anything else.
Bastian
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:15:31PM +0400, Roman Pastukhov wrote:
> I am wondering whether it's possible to include Sedna in Debian
> distribution.
You can make this happen yourself!
You would need a sponsor who would help you, check your package for
obvious errors, and, eventually, upload your pa
Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The cogito /usr/bin/git is a tiny little helper script hardly worth its
> inode, but it's in the upstream package and I dont want to remove it or
> rename it.
As others have asked, why not? Does anything actually rely on the
script existing by th
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem here is that ifconfig must be in sbin by FHS and by history
> (would break too many scripts). So moving is not an option. I can however
> put a symlink in /bin, however I am not sure how other DDs think about it,
> as this will set a bad pre
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 16:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:34:07AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > I guess this can go... or be changed to not be so specific.
>
> No, it can't go. Note that it has been changed to talk about etch, not
> sarge. There's no reason to stop squas
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:45:42AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:36:25AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > I'm sorry, this turned out to be very long-winded, but since many people
> > are interested in what's going on with X.Org, I may
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> * Package name: texlive
> Description : The TeXlive system packaged for debian
>
> TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It includes all
> major freely-available TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts,
> including s
On Fre, 10 Jun 2005, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > * Package name: texlive
> > Description : The TeXlive system packaged for debian
>
> The website looks like that's a "live" tex CD. What's the difference
> to a normal "apt-get install tetex-extra" installation on Debian?
It is one the one
> Branden runs the svn repo, so you'll have to ask him for access.
Hmmm, I may already have it, then...s I used to be listed in Alioth
project for xfree packages, IIRC (but never really made use of it, I'm
afraid).
>
> > And, of course, some sync with the Ubuntu fellows is likely to avoid
> > d
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Ucko) wrote:
> > The cogito /usr/bin/git is a tiny little helper script hardly worth its
> > inode, but it's in the upstream package and I dont want to remove it or
> > rename it.
>
> As others have asked, why not? Does anything actually rely on the
> script existing b
Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hm, given that git-from-cogito seems to have a fatal flaw (it doesnt
> shift the script name out of the arguments list), I'm guessing it's
> not widely used. I'll request that the upstream people remove it from
> the distribution.
Oops, my fingers
On Fri 06/10/05 15:24, Rich Walker wrote:
> What *single* command in the iproute package can I call to get the same
> information as I get from ifconfig -a? Until there is one, I don't see
> you can replace it.
Not that I support replace ifconfig, but:
$ ip -s link
lists (in a different, but
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Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23.32, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:02, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> >> Existing installs are already configured with debco
Hello.
Is the TODO list for etch available anywhere?
I think that it would be great to have current status available on a known
place, and probably posted regulary (weekly?) to -devel-announce, where
issues currently pending for etch are described, so interested people could
know what exactly the
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:39:16PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Hello.
>
Hi.
> -
>
OpenOffice.org 2 will be a fairly large undertaking, AIUI.
-Roberto
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:54:08AM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:12:04AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > - sparc: one buildd which is not consistently able to keep up with the
> > volume of incoming packages; no backup buildd, no additional porter
> > machine.
> how
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
>Since I can't find such a list, I'll try to write (a beginning of) one.
>
>- Complete transition to g++ 3.4/4.0 ABI
>- Resolve FDL issue
>- Get Xorg and KDE 3.4 into the archive. [as time passes, the version number
>may change]
>- (?) multiarch
>
>
I'm not sure abou
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So your package correctly fails to build on unsupported architectures.
> The only problem is wasting buildd time on it -- in this case, the
> correct course of action would be to ask the Packages-arch-specific[1]
> file maintainers to include thi
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:01:31PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > The second most significant area of concern, for me, is having people being
> > proactive about dealing with per-architecture build failures. There's no
> > particular reason that should be the buildd admins' or the release team'
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Wrong. iproute does much more than route/ifconfig, which cannot support
> all the features of >= 2.4 networking stacks.
However this is neighter something which cant be fixed nor is this the
question.
Gruss
Bernd
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:42:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> I don't understand what would be wrong with having a symlink in /bin ...
Because this applies to most of the programs in /sbin. It would be easier
to just merge both directories.
Gruss
Bernd
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On Saturday 11 June 2005 00:56, Adam Majer wrote:
> Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> >Since I can't find such a list, I'll try to write (a beginning of) one.
> >
> >- Complete transition to g++ 3.4/4.0 ABI
> >- Resolve FDL issue
> >- Get Xorg and KDE 3.4 into the archive. [as time passes, the version
On Jun 11, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > Wrong. iproute does much more than route/ifconfig, which cannot support
> > all the features of >= 2.4 networking stacks.
> However this is neighter something which cant be fix
Bug #153070 [0] was reported a few years ago. I am now the maintainer
of toshutils and am trying to resolve this bug. I can reproduce it
very easily. Thing is I am not sure if this is really a bug or if it is
the correct behavior. Essentially, if the pid file already exists in
/var/tmp and the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> the pid file exists and the program is already running, it sends a
> SIGUSR1 and exits with status 1.
This is the normal way you do pid file locking, beside you use kill(pid, 0)
instead of usr1. More advanced code will check the inode of the binary or
so
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:59:11PM +0100, Stephen Quinney wrote:
>
>Please be very careful with uploads of libtext-iconv-perl it is an
>important package, changes may well affect debconf-i18n which depends
>on libtext-iconv-perl. In particular, if any new version introduces an
>API change, however
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Moin Goswin!
> Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Donnerstag, den 19. Mai 2005:
>
>> IMHO debian-installer in unacceptable as it causes GPL violations.
>> Interlocking the debian-installer builds with the exact source
> ...
>> Any ideas? Comments? Solutions?
"Eddy Veenstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Debian team,
...
> The installation asked for my video-card (Nvidia GeForce 5700LE)and
> my monitor ( CTX S962 19'' LCD ). I selected the correct driver (NV)
> and gave the horizontal and vertical frequencies ( 30-80 hor, 59-75
> vert ) for my m
The new cogito package (0.11.3+20050610-1) is on its way into sid.
It does not install /usr/bin/git or /usr/bin/cg, and so it does not
conflict with git or with cgvg.
I made a note about this in /usr/share/doc/cogito/README.Debian, and I
updated the git docs to remove all the mentions of those
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello folks,
>
> There was one suggestion in the bug log from Goswin von Brederlow:
>
> | 1. Build-Depend/Conflict on the architecture
> |
> | Build-Depends: type-handling
> | Build-Conflicts: mips, mipsel, ia64
> |
> | That way an attempt to build on a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Jun 11, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> > Wrong. iproute does much more than route/ifconfig, which cannot support
>> > all the features of >= 2.4 networking stacks.
>> How
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