On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:17 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
>well, what is experimental for then?
Experimental is for stuff you DON'T plan to be in next stable. Or for
stuff which could break next release (which is not case right now).
F.E.: GNOME 2.6->2.8 transition was done in experimental in fi
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:56 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
>
> So you're complaining that this jackd bug is exemplary of
> "unneccessary" breakages in unstable, and yet you don't even know if
> there is a good reason for this bug. You don't know if this is tied to
> the gcc change.
I believe that #
* Erik Steffl [Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:01:16 -0700]:
> mini rant
debian-devel is not your blog. Please do refrain from ranting here in
the future, at least while being a guest.
This thread has made me want to scream. Please educate yourself about
the details of our development model before
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:30:22PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> Small, stable system add-on that continuously and automatically adapts
> available virtual memory space to your actual memory needs. Claims disk
> space
> for use as swap space when needed; frees it up for use by the
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Hello,
I wont to ask if there is something with the maintainer of unison. There
are at least 3 important bugs where at least one of them can be fixed
very easy as there is a working patch in the bug report. But nothing
happens.
The bugs are 309908, 3
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Hi,
I have a PostScript resource that I am intending to package with the aim of getting it into Etch. There are an increasing number of front-end applications that are using this resource and each of these currently embeds their own instance of it. To prevent this duplication and effectively mana
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:49:12PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote:
> On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Testing and BTS version tracking haven't been updated to play properly
> > together yet.
>
> If i'm not mistaken, you could tag the bug etch, of course, this is a
> very nasty/di
On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:49:12PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote:
> > On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Testing and BTS version tracking haven't been updated to play properly
> > > together yet.
> >
> > If i'm not mistaken,
Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:30:22PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>> [Jeroen, you can be the owner of this ITP, if you wish so.]
> I'm not a Debian developer, so I'm probably not a useful owner.
You can maintain a package for Debian without
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Hello,
since the move of ftp-master there are some zlib* packages staying in
incoming. After the dinstall run they are still there and have file
dates 2005-07-06 and 2005-07-20. Maybe they just have to be removed.
thx.
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> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:02:17PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> > * Package name: tablix
> > Version : 0.1.2
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> > * URL : http://www.tablix.org
> > * License
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:56:21PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> David Nusinow wrote:
> >Where would you like us to do our work? This is exactly what unstable is
>
> errr... where would YOU like to work? In intentionally broken
> unstable becuase "it's just unstable"? You surprise me.
No. But th
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:17:21AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> I should ask, though, why this program has to be tailored to high school
> timetables. It seems that the algorithms are likely already generic
> enough to be used in a number of other situations where resource
> constraints are involv
Robert Lemmen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:17:21AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
>
>>I should ask, though, why this program has to be tailored to high school
>>timetables. It seems that the algorithms are likely already generic
>>enough to be used in a number of other situations where resourc
> > I would _NEVER_ recommend someone install Debian Unstable as a
> > desktop... Testing, yes, Stable even more so.
In my experience, sid breaks less than testing when used as a desktop.
OTOH, I avoid doing apt{-get,itude} upgrade... I generally enter the
interactive aptitude screen, press U, an
Okay. I've created a Debian package for Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/libpostscriptbarcode.deb
.
Are there any DDs willing to examine this and, if all is well, upload it for me?
Thanks,
Tez
On 10/08/05, Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Terry,
* Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 16:36]:
> Okay. I've created a Debian package for Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript at
> http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/libpostscriptbarcode.deb.
> Are there any DDs willing to examine this and, if all is well, upload it
>
I appreciate your efford, but please let me tell you, that it isa) highly uncommon to ask for a package sponsor without an url to the
source packages.
PostScript is an interpretted language, so I fail to understand what you mean by source packages in this context.
b) your package is far from
Terry Burton wrote:
> PostScript is an interpretted language, so I fail to understand what you
> mean by source packages in this context.
That word is part of the Debian jargon. You need to learn the
essentials of that jargon before you can effectively package anything
for Debian. The main sourc
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 16:37 +0100, Terry Burton wrote:
> I appreciate your efford, but please let me tell you, that it
> is
> a) highly uncommon to ask for a package sponsor without an url
> to the
> source packages.
>
> PostScript is an interpretted lan
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Scripsit Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> And actually I fail to see what the benefit is of having a small
> postscript document showing me something about barcodes as a debian
> package? Or am I missing something? The package I just took a
> quick view at just contains a postscript file,
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> If you ask on http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=tetex-bin
> why tetex-bin isn't in testing yet, one of the reasons is
> # tetex-bin has release-critical bugs
> Clicking on the "release-critical bugs" link brings you to a page that
> o
Basically this is a postscript file that is used more or less as a shared
library. It is debians policy to have shared libraies used by more thasn one
debian program to be seperated out into its own package, and linked against.
That is the goal of this. Terry is mainly asking if packaging this as
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Do the Solaris Dance:
> if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then
> exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@"
> fi
Umm.. Ick it woudl be better as
if [ -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ;
> [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Do the Solaris Dance:
> if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then
> exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@"
> fi
>
sigh.. okay, my "correction" had bugs, too :-)
better as
if [ ! -d ~root -a -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ; then
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Em Ter, 2005-08-09 às 19:17 -0700, Erik Steffl escreveu:
> > That is wat unstable is for.
>
>well, what is experimental for then? And what would you offer to
> desktop users?
Stop that. That's how our release process works; using unstable (maybe
even testing, for that matter) for "common-use
I am working on taking over the bibtool package, QA-orphaned last
week. I find to my surprise that the source package builds not only a
'bibtool' package, but also 'bibtool-dev' which contains a static
library.
I question the utility of the bibtool-dev package:
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Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
Em Ter, 2005-08-09 às 19:17 -0700, Erik Steffl escreveu:
That is wat unstable is for.
well, what is experimental for then? And what would you offer to
desktop users?
Stop that. That's how our release process works; using unstable (maybe
even testing, for that
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:56:21PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
...
No. Summarizing the above, experimental is there for people to break on
purpose, while unstable is there for people to break by accident. Since
that's all I was saying! Don't break it intentionally and s
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> that's all I was saying! Don't break it intentionally and say "it's
> only unstable, deal with it".
There are perfectly legitimate reasons to deliberately break
unstable. For example, I might choose to upgrade a new version of a
shared library, knowin
For for the first time since potato, I reinstalled Debian from scratch
on my main box. Hoorah for dist-upgrade! One experience I took away
from the installation is how impressed I was with partman, the
debian-installer partition management tool. This was my first time
using SATA, LVM, and RAID -- I
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:41:17PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> I am working on taking over the bibtool package, QA-orphaned last
> week. I find to my surprise that the source package builds not only a
> 'bibtool' package, but also 'bibtool-dev' which contains a static
> library.
> I question t
> On 2005-08-10 17:06 PDT, Shaun Jackman writes:
Shaun> My sense of it is that there isn't a tool packaged in
Shaun> Debian to fill this need -- although feel free to give
Shaun> suggestions at this point.
Evms is the best all-in-one tool for disk management I've found.
However, D
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:06:41PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
[...]
> I suggest one of two things, or if there's time both! 1. Port partman
> from debian-installer to make it a full fledged utility. 2. Port
> whatever tool Red Hat uses [2] for this same task and package it for
> Debian. I haven't
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:10:04PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Hello.
>
> As it is being currently discussed on debian-security [1], security team
> has hard times supporting mozilla family of packages, because of
> unfriendly upstream policy - they don't want to isolate security fixes
Em Qua, 2005-08-10 às 15:12 -0700, Erik Steffl escreveu:
>well, OK but _now_ the best option is unstable. All I was saying that
> IMO developers would help a lot by not using "it's just unstable" as an
> excuse to break it (or sort of break it, like jackd does). I was not
> asking for unstab
Yet another thread about cogito-vs-git, sorry folks. Just killfile me
if I've worn out your patience.
Still there? Great!
Background: I'm the guy who maintains the cogito package. I had a problem
a while back because my upstream package wanted to install a program with
the same name as a pro
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> Yet another thread about cogito-vs-git, sorry folks. Just killfile me
> if I've worn out your patience.
>
>
> Still there? Great!
>
>
> Background: I'm the guy who maintains the cogito package. I had a problem
> a while back because my upstream package wanted to
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:12:52PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >That, of course, when we're not busy handling unhelpful "ideas" or
> >complaints from people who do not really understand what's going on. How
> >many times more this same discussion is going to happen?
> why do you assume I don't
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