Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Fromme
On 07.03. 22:58, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > since about three weeks I observe problems when issuing halt > on three d

Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Perrier
(this mail is BCC'ed to many font packages maintainers, please respect the Reply-To field) After the initial proposal which I submitted a few days ago (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/02/msg00694.html), a small thread occurred on debian-devel which raised a few topics from my initial mai

Bug#355848: ITP: pcmanfm -- GPL'd lightweight file manager for X Window

2006-03-08 Thread Tetralet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pcmanfm Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Authors: 洪任諭 Hong Jen Yee (PCMan) from Taiwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Des

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So the question is: what package might be responsible that > entered testing for about three weeks and how can I get my > boxes working as expected again. Sysvinit migrated to testing on February 21, and was responsible for a similar error (#252547) fo

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Christian Fromme wrote: A friend of mine had the same problem once and IIRC he solved it by simply loading the apm module through /etc/modules. Well, the laptop is ACPI and if I'm not completely wrong ACPI replaces APM and I've read that I should not use APM and ACPI in para

Bug#355849: ITP: gcin -- a input method platform, supports GTK/QT immodule and XIM

2006-03-08 Thread Tetralet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gcin Version : 1.1.7 Upstream Author : Edward Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~cp76/gcin/ * License : LGPL Description : a input method platfo

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: Sysvinit migrated to testing on February 21, and was responsible for a similar error (#252547) for me a couple of years ago. However, the current sysvinit has no trouble shutting down my sid box. ~$ apt-cache policy sysvinit sysvinit: Installed: 2.

Re: Bug#355848: ITP: pcmanfm -- GPL'd lightweight file manager for X Window

2006-03-08 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description : GPL'd lightweight file manager for X Window The license does not belong in the short description. Users may generally assume that software they find in main is free - only a small fraction of users are interested in precisely which free

Re: missing packages

2006-03-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:53 AM, Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an 'apt-cache stats' today, and it was very nice to see that we > have 17519 packages total. > > 3635 packages are "missing", however. An 'apt-cache unmet | grep -c > "unmet dep:" brings out 662 packages with u

Re: missing packages

2006-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:53 AM, Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>Hmmm. That looks like a lot of work. But where to start? And who does >>that? The QA team? > > http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php Oh, ok - thx Adam... -- Key ID 0x728D9BD0 - public key

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Erich Schubert
Hello Christian, I'd join, but mostly to give up my maintainance of ttf-larabie packages. ;-) (read: a Debian Font Strike force is officially welcomed to adopt my package) > Bring improved maintenance of font-related tools > > The project could al

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Forwarding to the mailing list for the SysvInit maintainers (contacting me directly isn't nearly as effective, I am not even the most active of the sysvinit maintainers... ;-) ). On Wed, 08 Mar 2006, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: > >Sysvinit migrated to testing

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:33 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, I hereby propose building a Debian fonts team. I'm interested in participating in this, and would add ttf-khmeros and ttf-mph-2b-damase to the list of group maintained packages. I'm interested in order to communicate with and learn

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mit, 08 Mär 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, please follow up in -devel to show interest, criticism, laughs > and the like (if needed, temporarily subscribe to -devel...you'll see > it's not *only* made of trolls and flamewars). Good idea. I am willing to provide my (limited) knowledge wrt

Unidentified subject!

2006-03-08 Thread John Gee
marc writes: "Joseph Smidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Once every three months the new "Pre-Stable" distro will upload only those packages from testing that have had 0 RC bugs for at least month and have been flagged by their maintainers as a good version to entet stable. In other words: If y

Re: custom package error: dpkg -P tries to remove /opt

2006-03-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mike Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your help all, I think I'll work around the warning by > creating a "core-custom" package, which will hold the /opt, and be > required by all the other custom packages. I can also use that > package as a meta-package to install all the regular

Re: Bug#355849: ITP: gcin -- a input method platform, supports GTK/QT immodule and XIM

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:22:57PM +0800, Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: gcin > Version : 1.1.7 > Upstream Author : Edward Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-03-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, While we are talking about Xen development in Debian, I would be interested in help getting kernel-package optionally create Xen images. I had gotten stuff working back when Xen was a separate arch, but now that it is a subarch, having people who build and test Xen images would ma

Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I have recently received a patch which allows the blkid library to properly handle device mapper partitions. The problem is in order to do this, I have to link in libdevmapper, and by extension libselinux and libsepoll. Since these libraries would depend on the blkid library, which is used by fs

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Since these libraries would depend on the blkid library, > which is used by fsck, e2fsck, and other e2fsprogs programs, this > essentially would drag in these libraries into everybody's systems. This means that this libs

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have recently received a patch which allows the blkid library to > properly handle device mapper partitions. The problem is in order to do > this, I have to link in libdevmapper, and by extension libselinux

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Forwarding to the mailing list for the SysvInit maintainers (contacting me directly isn't nearly as effective, I am not even the most active of the sysvinit maintainers... ;-) ). Thanks fo the foreward but I'm afraid we might be on the wro

Re: Bug#355849: ITP: gcin -- a input method platform, supports GTK/QT immodule and XIM

2006-03-08 Thread Hou ZhengPeng
在 星期四 09 三月 2006 01:15,Mike Hommey 写道: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:22:57PM +0800, Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: gcin > > Version : 1.1.7 > > Upstream Author : Edward

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-08 Thread Pjotr Kourzanov
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:17:19AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Yes, but the point was that mainteners get a warning from the regular build system that their package is not cross-compile friendly. That needs to hook into dpkg-buildpack

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, Christian Perrier a écrit : This mail is CC'ed to all ttf-* font packages maintainers. Getting their reaction to this proposal is important, especially for those who didn't see the first initial mail. Oops, it seems I missed the first mail to debian-devel. I was trying to skip flam^Wsocia

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Is there any objections to my uploading a new e2fsprogs package which > does this? Please take into consideration that libselinux is not available on Debian's non-Linux ports. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [E

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, besides the fact that I agree with the people saying that this team is a unnecessary institution for *package maintenance*, and that ttf-opensymbol is built from the openoffice.org source package anyway ... Christian Perrier wrote: > Improve communication > - > This team

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:15:46PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the > >autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always > >a sane thing to specify, and usually saves you from upstre

ITH: silc-toolkit

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Schultheiss
I intend to hijack silc-toolkit. It has had three RC bugs open for 150+ days and another RC bug open for almost a year and a half. On August 14, 2005 in Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the current maintainer, Tamas Szerb, stated "I'm gladly give it to anybody who is interested in it" - see bug

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:15:46PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: >> Steve Langasek wrote: >> >Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the >> >autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always >> >a sane t

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and > configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're > cross-compiling." What signals that you are cross-compiling is a > disagreement between --host and --build. Tha

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Joe Smith
"Rene Engelhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enforcing this policy to existing font packages is not in the top priority of the team. What is a policy useful for when most packages are not following it? I think if there's a sane policy people should have to mi

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-08 Thread Miles Bader
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > `--host=HOST-TYPE' > the type of system on which the package will run. By default it > is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the > cross-compilation mode. > > There's a long archived discussion on the Autoconf mailing lis

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> `--host=HOST-TYPE' >> the type of system on which the package will run. By default it >> is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the >> cross-compilation mode. >> There's a long

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-03-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:35:59AM -0800, John Gee wrote: > marc writes: > If nothing else "Joseph Smidt" at least you seem to be someone who > cares enough about Debian to spend your time contemplating about it. But > this is a meritacrosy, and you are not a developer. I refer you to your

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael Banck] > Please take into consideration that libselinux is not available on > Debian's non-Linux ports. It's not libselinux you should be worried about, but libdevmapper. He's not depending on libselinux directly, but he notes that on Linux systems, the dependency chain will pull it in.

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Perrier
> Also if such a team is created I don't have a lot of time to help a lot, > so I won't refuse to give some help, but I probably will not be the most > active person in the team! > > What I really like in the proposal is having a font policy, and maybe a > sort of package skeleton for new font

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Perrier
> besides the fact that I agree with the people saying that this team is a > unnecessary institution for *package maintenance*, and that ttf-opensymbol > is built from the openoffice.org source package anyway ... I think I need to try making the point clearer as many people seem to hve concerns (o

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Half-way between the sarge release and the etch freeze the Debian kernel Aren't we closer from etch freeze than sarge release? :-) This is at least my feeling when I consider the packages and the proejcts I'm part of: we, developers, should b

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-03-08 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 3/7/06, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:11:29PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > (shortening cc:-list) > > > > clusterssh opens xterms with ssh sessions, multixterm opens multiple > > > xterms (with whatever contents). So if you want to control several >