Bug#321054: ITP: mls -- Mls is a linux clone of Mdir.

2005-08-03 Thread Ki-Heon Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ki-Heon Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mls Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Byoung-young La <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://kldp.net/projects/mls * License : GPL Description : Mls is a linux clone of Md

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-08-03 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, I agree with you, that the documentation review team should have the debtags approach in mind. Also debtags-edit being able to edit descriptions would be desirable - however someone would need to implement this, and Enrico is very busy ;-). Being able to edit the package information in one

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Joey, > Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >sane-backends >tilp I'll drop the dependency on debconf on these two packages, as it's only used to purge some old debconf questions from the database. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Develop

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Hood
Joey Hess wrote: > Unless, of course, it's a shell library that would like to be reasonably > portable without being wholey crippled by lack features that have been > in every shell worth the name for ages. I know that the debconf library used "local" (#242011) and I agree that "local" is an exam

What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
In short: The udev from sid breaks ugrade process because it doesn't support kernels < 2.6.12. There is no kernel 2.6.12 packages in the distro, yet. As far as the more packages depends on newer udev (i.e. alsa-base, usbmount) I have to hold on more and more packages. See Bug#317332. It seems

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Adam Mercer
On 03/08/05, Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In short: > > The udev from sid breaks ugrade process because it doesn't support kernels < > 2.6.12. There is no kernel 2.6.12 packages in the distro, yet. As far as the > more packages depends on newer udev (i.e. alsa-base, usbmount) I ha

Re: How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-08-03 Thread W. Borgert
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:49:54PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Look down the thread -- your question was answered: > > Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:03:03 +0200 > From: Arjan Oosting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It is, the orig.tar.gz is created if you do a > FORCEEXPORT=yes svn-buildpackage Works

Re: How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
W Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:49:54PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >> Look down the thread -- your question was answered: >> >> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:03:03 +0200 >> From: Arjan Oosting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> It is, the orig.tar.gz is created if you

building own package

2005-08-03 Thread Tomas Davidek
Hello, I am trying to build my own package (containing only few shell scripts) to make easier the system maintainance specific to our department. I followed the instruction in the Debian New Maintainer's Guide, but I probably misunderstood something, since I have the following problems: * I

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-08-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Clément Stenac wrote: > When several packages have more or less the same goal (in the news case, > there are many news grabers and local servers), should their > descriptions include a comparison to the other ones ? I'd say yes: This information will be /very/ useful to the user. > > I don't th

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-08-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
A random observation: Every day, a few ITP's come in to -devel, and often their descriptions need work. If we can't even keep up with the new packages entering the archive, we don't stand much chance of catching up with the over 10,000 description backlog already in the archive. And, I suspect it

Re: building own package

2005-08-03 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
(You may - or may not - have more luck on [EMAIL PROTECTED] for that kind of questions.) On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Tomas Davidek wrote: > * I store all the scripts in a tarball, Do you mean the .orig.tar.gz or do you mean a tarball in the unpacked Debian sources (the result of d

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way tofix security issues.

2005-08-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Joe Smith wrote: > How about if it meets the folowing critieria: > > 1. it has been in testing for 10 days (been in sid at least 20 days) This means the security hole was disclosed at least 20 days ago, probably more. > 2. Iff it fixes a critical security problem, uploaded to security (This > re

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote: > I'll drop the dependency on debconf on these two packages, as it's > only used to purge some old debconf questions from the database. You can do that only if those old debconf questions were never in a stable release (i.e. they existed only during 'sid'

Re: building own package

2005-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Tomas Davidek wrote: > * since the pakcage contains only few shell scripts, it should be > architecture-independent. Therefore, I specified "Architecture: any" in > the "control" file and also moved all the action in the "rules" file > into the binary-in

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-03 Thread Tomas Fasth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek skrev: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:01:39PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: >> Andreas Barth skrev: >>> * Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050802 13:41]: And even then, appearently the DAM works like this: I approve person X, let

Re: Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please check your Debian E-Mail.

2005-08-03 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > I was finally able to acquire an SSP Build Host for you. > If you are still interest. Please contact me. A bit quick off the mark there, Greg! I think I've replied to all your previous mails within a day or two...? Anyway for

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:56:36PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > Steve Langasek skrev: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:01:39PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > >> Andreas Barth skrev: > >>> * Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050802 13:41]: > And even then, appearently the DAM works like this: I >

cotton

2005-08-03 Thread Tushan
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Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:46:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Since so many packages need to be fixed, I may resort to additional > private mails (or d-d-a mail) before I begin filing bug reports. The A mail to d-d-a would probably be a good idea in any case - I can't be the only person who's neve

Debian Installation process

2005-08-03 Thread Jean-Matthieu Buton
Dear Debian Support,   We have just bought a brand news Dimension 5100 which contain a built-in Intel E100/V ethernet card (Windows driver : e100b325.sys).   - While installing Debian La Sarge 3.1r0a the process did not recognize any Network Ethernet card. We have tried several proposed driver : no

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:12:40AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > More likely, the implication is that giving someone the necessary write > access to LDAP is *equivalent* to giving them root access on the Debian > servers. No, only if the person is allowed to write the uidNumber entry. > You'd ne

Re: Debian Installation process

2005-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 13:36, Jean-Matthieu Buton wrote: > Dear Debian Support, This is not a user support list. > We have just bought a brand news Dimension 5100 which contain a > built-in Intel E100/V ethernet card (Windows driver : e100b325.sys). For installation issues, please file an i

Re: Debian Installation process

2005-08-03 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
(debian-user@lists.debian.org looks more appropriate. Please send followups there _and_ to me. debian-devel is for development issues and debian-user-french for user support issues in French.) On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:36:09PM +0200, Jean-Matthieu Buton wrote: > We have just bought a brand new

Re: I need to know how to create and use Driver Update Disks

2005-08-03 Thread Horms
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:03:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 17:35, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: > > We have some patches that have already be open sourced (ICH7) and are > > in the 2.6.11 and above kernels. > > > > What we need to do is to provide a Driver Update Disk so that so

Re: Another gnutls ABI change / (small) mass bug filing

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > gnutls changed their ABI again. ... > Gnutls in Debian is properly versioned (as opposed to Upstream, which > dropped the versioning script for no good reason), and thus I am The change was discussed on the mailing list: http://thread.gmane.

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Michael writes: > Adam, I'm kind of curious what you mean by that I took it for a joke. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another gnutls ABI change / (small) mass bug filing

2005-08-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Simon Josefsson: > > Gnutls in Debian is properly versioned (as opposed to Upstream, which > > dropped the versioning script for no good reason), and thus I am > > The change was discussed on the mailing list: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/464 > > If you

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-08-03 Thread Dustin Harriman
Benjamin Mesing wrote: However I have to say that I disagree with you in some points. You are correct, that the package description should be as non technical as possbile, without underminining the usefullness of it. Yes, I agree. Instead of the "absolutes" I proposed, perhaps it still make

Ihre Anfrage an das Hood.de Support-Team

2005-08-03 Thread info
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Re: building own package

2005-08-03 Thread Tomas Davidek
Hello again, thanks to all who replied to my previous mail. Using your advice I solved/correct all the problems/bugs, but still there is one thing I don't understand: Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Tomas Davidek wrote: * I store all the scripts in a

Re: Another gnutls ABI change / (small) mass bug filing

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The change was discussed on the mailing list: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/464 >> >> If you had reported this problem to us, we would fix it. >> > Sorry about that -- I didn't read the list consistently. > M

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Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Aug-05, 04:11 (CDT), Adam Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it has been renamed from kernel-image to linux-image Oh, sweet Jesus. Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came up with that idea. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came > up with that idea. Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change? Hint: check the archives of the kernel mailing list. Cheers, FJP pgpyA

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On 8/2/05, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for > > advertisments on Debian mailing lists. > > Adam, I'm kind of curious what you mean by that. What, if any, actual > or propo

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, John Hasler wrote: > Michael writes: > > Adam, I'm kind of curious what you mean by that > > I took it for a joke. So you take all spam for a joke? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 8/3/05, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came > > up with that idea. > > Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change? > > Hint: check

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 18:48 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came > > up with that idea. > > Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change? > > Hint: c

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:04, Ben Armstrong wrote: > ... which, for the lazy and/or impatient starts here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/07/msg00192.html To be honest, I was thinking more of: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/05/msg00403.html pgpwqNMtXaRDY.pgp Descr

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:02 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > Closing, it isn't a bash against the kernel team. It isn't my point, > my problem is with this "didn't you know, read X stupid!" approach. I don't think pointing at the mailing list was an unreasonable reaction to the "genius" comment, whi

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 19:16 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:04, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > ... which, for the lazy and/or impatient starts here: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/07/msg00192.html > > To be honest, I was thinking more of: > http://lists.debian

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:02, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 8/3/05, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who > > > came up with that idea. > > > > Did you even think

Re: building own package

2005-08-03 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0200, Tomas Davidek wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Tomas Davidek wrote: >>> * I store all the scripts in a tarball, >> If you are using the .orig.tar.gz directly, you have misunderstood >> the structure of a Debi

Re: Debian Installation process

2005-08-03 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:23:14AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:18:01PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >>> Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger >>> Téléchargez le ici ! >> Non merci, je ne suis pas intéressé. Par contre, Debian

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-08-03 11:53:33, schrieb Adam Heath: > So you take all spam for a joke? YES me too, because I do not know, what I can do with p***s for a longer thing, bought diploms (I have already BAC +12) and I do not need millions of Dollars. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux

Re: Debian Installation process

2005-08-03 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:18:01PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > - > > Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger > > Téléchargez le ici ! > > Non merci, je ne suis pas intéressé. Par contre, Debian est assez > opposé à ce qu

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 8/3/05, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Closing, it isn't a bash against the kernel team. It isn't my point, > > my problem is with this "didn't you know, read X stupid!" approach. > > Just reply or let anyone else help the developer or user asking us. > > Didn't he asked the ra

OT: Bruce Perens spamming -devel?

2005-08-03 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 02:16, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:32:44PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for > > advertisments on Debian mailing lists. > > Y'know, it's fine if you think that Bruce's mail was inappro

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:18:01 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:02 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: >> Closing, it isn't a bash against the kernel team. It isn't my point, >> my problem is with this "didn't you know, read X stupid!" approach. > > I don't think pointing at the mail

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: >> Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came >> up with that idea. > > Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change? >

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Aug-05, 11:48 (CDT), Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came > > up with that idea. > > Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change?

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread Adam McKenna
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:32:44PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for > advertisments on Debian mailing lists. It appears as though this fee is no longer policy[1].. Looks like you're going to have to block Bruce from posting and/or re

Re: OT: Bruce Perens spamming -devel?

2005-08-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 02:16, Steve > Langasek wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:32:44PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: >> > Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for >> > advertisments on Debian mailing lists. >> Y'know,

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Y'know, it's fine if you think that Bruce's mail was inappropriate for the > list, and there's nothing wrong with saying so; but claiming that a message > that isn't selling anything is UCE, and attempting to enforce against a > member of the community

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/2/05, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for >> advertisments on Debian mailing lists. > > Adam, I'm kind of curious what you mean by that. What, if any, actual > or prop

Bug#321178: ITP: x3270 -- IBM 3270 terminal emulator for the X Window System

2005-08-03 Thread Lior Kaplan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: x3270 Version : 3.3.4 Upstream Author : Paul Mattes * URL : http://x3270.bgp.nu * License : other Description : IBM 3270 terminal emulator for the X Window System x327

Bug#321180: ITP: sim4 -- tool for aligning cDNA and genomic DNA [med-bio]

2005-08-03 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sim4 Version : 2003.09.21 Upstream Author : Liliana Florea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/ * License : GPL Description : tool

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-03 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:49:31AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Unless, of course, it's a shell library that would like to be reasonably > > portable without being wholey crippled by lack features that have been > > in every shell worth the name for ages. > > I know that t

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:16 pm, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for > > advertisments on Debian mailing lists. > > Y'know, it's fine if you think that Bruce's mail was inappropriate for the > list, and there's nothing wrong with saying

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Brossier
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:51:19AM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > In short: > > The udev from sid breaks ugrade process because it doesn't support kernels < > 2.6.12. There is no kernel 2.6.12 packages in the distro, yet. As far as the > more packages depends on newer udev (i.e. alsa-base, usb

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-03 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, sean finney said: > hi, > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:49:31AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > Unless, of course, it's a shell library that would like to be reasonably > > > portable without being wholey crippled by lack features that have been > >