Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:15:21AM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-10 23:11]: >> there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release >> team whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. > I'm in favour of gcc 4.1 as it would provid

Re: Bits from the 2IC

2006-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:10:16AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Unfortunately, other mailing list discussions have been less > happy. A somewhat acrimonious argument between Sven Luther and members > of the d-i team spread out across various lists, starting at > [3]. There has been quite lot of p

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Why would that not fly? > Both versions of the arch-independent package could be installed at > the same time. /usr/share/foo/bar can't point to two different files at the same time, so you can't install multiple package version

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 08:59]: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team > > whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. As we're heading to > > freeze etch rather soon

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:00:46AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 08:59]: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team > > > whether we could switch gcc to

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/11/06, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Why would that not fly? > Both versions of the arch-independent package could be installed at > the same time. /usr/share/foo/bar can't point to two different files at the sa

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi, hi, > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team > whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. As we're heading to what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch is go

Re: Bits from the 2IC

2006-05-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:10:16AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Unfortunately, other mailing list discussions have been less >> happy. A somewhat acrimonious argument between Sven Luther and members >> of the d-i team spread out across various lists, sta

libgnutls (was: gcc 4.1 or not)

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 11:00]: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > hi, > > > > > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to th

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 10:09 +0200, Domenico Andreoli a écrit : > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch > is going to ship with 2.3? An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked during the last months, and it was ignored by the maintainer.

python version? (was: gcc 4.1 or not)

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 10:48]: > Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 10:09 +0200, Domenico Andreoli a écrit : > > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch > > is going to ship with 2.3? > > An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly as

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Hi, > > hi, > > > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team > > whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for e

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Lars, On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:35 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the > contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before > you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily > check the

Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:07:27, John Goerzen wrote: : Hello, : : I intend to take over the Bacula package. I would first like to say : thanks to Jose Luis Tallon for initially packaging it for Debian and : maintaining it for these years. : : A brief history of why I intend to do this: : : * Bacul

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-11 Thread Jari Aalto
Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:12:35AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: >> > The rest of the system accounts are happily running with /bin/false >> >> There is now /bin/nologin which is more secure > > I think you mean /usr/sbin/nologin, right? Please define "more sec

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
> I didn't hit this problem myself yet, but it has been mentioned on > sparclinux list that 4.1 currently miscompiles the sparc kernel. Do you know if this still happens, and if so, whether someone has tracked it down? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 09:13]: > I'd certainly prefer we shipped with the least bugs, rather than with > "fairly recent" software; I don't know if these goals contradict or > concur in this particular case. FWIW, the GCC 4.0.3 Status Report (2006-01-15) says, "It's in

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Ok, the maintainer has not fixed the bugs, has not packaged the last > version of it in time, etc, but he has done a great job anyway, and I > still don't see the point of hijacking the package. So he has done not one of the things expected of

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't agree, all those things are not in my opinion enough for the > hijacking. Thankfully, you're wrong. > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. It's *n

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Andi, On Wednesday, 10 May 2006, you wrote: > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team > whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. As we're heading to I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting to know, how other architectu

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-11 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> I am strongly against compressing PDFs To add insult to injury, PDF 1.5 introduces ``object streams'' which allow compressing arbitrarily long chunks of a PDF file without giving up the random-access properties of PDF. All current Free PDF readers grok PDF 1.5, although as far as I know no Free

Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: general Severity: wishlist It would be great if we could move to GCC 4.1 for etch. The release managers have now given us a concrete target we have to achieve before this can happen: the majority of outstanding 4.1 specific bugs in packages have to be fixed by mid of June [1]. The RC bu

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-05-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 3/9/06, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/6/06, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I think you can tell pretty clearly that Bernd has no objection at all > > to NMU's. > > yes, but please not for wishlist bugs. Again:

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. Uh no. I find it scary that you share this same idea as the original bacula maintainer. Unstable is

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. No, it isn't. Maybe experimental is for that; but unstable is for software that is targetted to be moved to etch and to

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked >> during the last months, and it was ignored by the maintainer. I'm not >> aware of anything preventing this upload currently. > The maintainer is not ignoring it, but the t

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > rover, Jose Luis's sponsor and uploader of many of his packages including > bacula, you can blame me also if you want Others have pretty well addressed the rest of your message already. I'd like to expand on this point. I've be

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ganesan Rajagopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 14:12]: > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked > >> during the last months, and it was ignored by the maintainer. I'm not > >> aware of anything preventing this

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 13:38]: > I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting > to know, how other architectures behave. Also i have not seen any > comments from doko yet. I built mips and amd64, and in the mean time also powerpc and most o

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:46:33AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: : : Roberto, : : Your mailer is busted. You might want to fix it- it's setting an : invalid Reply-To address. Below is the bounce (including my reply, if : you don't see it on d-d). My fault, I misplaced the msgid of the mail

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 14:20]: > > I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting > > to know, how other architectures behave. Also i have not seen any > > comments from doko yet. > I built mips and amd64, and in the mean time also powerpc and m

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Speaking about your mail, I think it's your opinion, mine is different. Sure, but you're looking through some very rosy glasses. > Jose Luis doesn't want just his name in some place, he has worked a lot > in bacula in the past, and I don't know why

Processed: track GCC 4.1 bugs; part 2/4

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 366820 by 357961 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was blocked by: 355163 355352 355396 355598 355841 355983 355989 355997 356004 356093 356109 356110 356116 356160 356228 356232 356238 356246 356248 356303 356304 356366 356370 356436 3

Processed: track GCC 4.1 bugs; part 1/4

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 366820 by 355163 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was not blocked by any bugs. Blocking bugs added: 355163 > block 366820 by 355352 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was blocked by: 355163 Blocking bugs added: 355352 > block 3

Processed: gcc 4.1

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 366820 by 366821 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was blocked by: 275774 355163 355165 355189 355325 355326 355352 355396 355463 355598 355599 355663 355738 355739 355741 355744 355841 355980 355983 355986 355988 355989 355990 355992 3

Auto-trace

2006-05-11 Thread lee . s . isbell
Martin, Is this auto-trace program available for public use? Thanks, Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 10:00]: > > One: What's the easiest way to extract the list of gcc-4.1 related bugs > > from the BTS? > > There is none I know - I asked Martin already yesterday on IRC to > provide such a way. I've created the following meta bug: 366820 -- Martin

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the > contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before > you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily > check the CD at any time: just comp

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/11/06, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 10:00]: > > One: What's the easiest way to extract the list of gcc-4.1 related bugs > > from the BTS? > > There is none I know - I asked Martin already yesterday on IRC to > provide such a way.

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 11:20]: > Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > managed by email, usertags are. What can not be managed by email? -- Martin Michlmayr http://w

Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Kari Pahula
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cxxtools Version : 1.4.1pre2 Upstream Author : Tommi Mäkitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.tntnet.org/ * License : GPL v2 or later Programming Lang: C++ Descri

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > * License : GPL v2 or later That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. Why don't you choose (if possible) a less "viral" licence? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .'

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > > * License : GPL v2 or later > > That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. Non-GPL compatible applications, you mean? > Why don't y

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: >> > * License : GPL v2 or later >> >> That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. > > Non-GP

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Frank Küster wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > >> also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > >> > * License : GPL v2 or later > >> > >> That will make it pretty useless for

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > * License

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >>> also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: >>> > * License : GPL v2 or later >>> >>> That will make it pr

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. [...] > As a derived work of a GPL'd work, the aggregate is covered by the GPL > license. So the aggregate, in other words the *application* would be a GPL-application, right? Which make

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Frank Küster wrote: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: screenshot with package description

2006-05-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Sorry for the late answer... > 3) How would synaptic (for instance) know which packages have which > images? I suppose you would need a Packages-like file with this > information... (This will not be incorporated in the main Packages > file... not before this idea being proved as possible and usef

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> I am strongly against compressing PDFs > To add insult to injury, PDF 1.5 introduces ``object streams'' which > allow compressing arbitrarily long chunks of a PDF file without > giving up the random-access properties of PDF. A

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/11/06, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 11:20]: > Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > managed by email, usertags are. What

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 14:39]: > >> Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > >> results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > >> managed by email, usertags are. > >What can not be managed by email? > The metabug itse

Bug#366859: ITP: libwiki-toolkit-perl -- A toolkit for building Wikis

2006-05-11 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwiki-toolkit-perl Version : 0.70 Upstream Author : The Wiki::Toolkit team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic D

Bug#366862: ITP: libwiki-toolkit-formatter-usemod-perl -- UseModWiki-style formatting for Wiki::Toolkit

2006-05-11 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwiki-toolkit-formatter-usemod-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : The Wiki::Toolkit project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/ * License : D

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/11/06, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 14:39]: > >> Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > >> results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > >> managed by email, usertags ar

Processed: closing dead old bugs

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # This bug is from 2000, and the submitter failed to give the requested > # followup information. Furthermore devfs is dead meat. > close 78282 Bug#78282: DevFS incompatabilities 'close' is deprecated; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing.

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:20:29PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 13:38]: > > I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting > > to know, how other architectures behave. Also i have not seen any > > comments from doko

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team >

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread neroden
>I have created a new page in the wiki to track info and status > > http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch I looked at the "upstream standards proposal": http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/multiarch/ It's good. I am particularly pleased by the specification: "The terms arch and os represent the Archit

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Ganesan Rajagopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 14:12]: > > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked > > >> during the last months, and it was ignored by the mainta

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1702 +0200]: > > That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. > > Non-GPL compatible applications, you mean? Yeah well. IMHO that pretty much excludes all sensible licences. > > Why don't you choose (if possible) a less "vi

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 15:05]: > >Well, I've no idea what you mean by "manage". You can add new > >blockers to the meta bug and remove them, which is all I want to > >do. > by mail, really ? Yeah, "block xx by foo". -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UN

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:37:35AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: : * Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : > Speaking about your mail, I think it's your opinion, mine is different. : : Sure, but you're looking through some very rosy glasses. hey, I've tried to be fair... : > Jose Luis doe

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 11 May 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "The terms arch and os represent the Architecture and Operating System > as defined and provided by config.guess." Well, config.sub is the one whose function is to provide canonical names, config.guess might not do so for one reason or another (but

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:30:40PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > He has packaged the last version of bacula, and it is not uploaded > because it's not ready, then a new version was showed up... he has a > personal apt repository that users from bacula mailing list uses, and > packages (not yet

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:56:04PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > > > PRO

Why isn't gnome in testing?

2006-05-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
Does anyone know why the binary package gnome is no longer in testing? The source package meta-gnome2 is there Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 16:46 +0200, martin f krafft a écrit : > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > > * License : GPL v2 or later > > That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. Why don't > you choose (if possible) a less "viral" licence?

Re: Why isn't gnome in testing?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julian Gilbey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 22:17]: > Does anyone know why the binary package gnome is no longer in testing? > The source package meta-gnome2 is there Seems like an accident currently. We're researching the matter. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- T

Bug#366879: ITP: libodbc++ -- C++ library for ODBC SQL database access

2006-05-11 Thread Ondřej SurÜ
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libodbc++ Version : 0.2.4pre3 Upstream Author : Manush Dodunekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libodbcxx.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ D

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Matt Taggart and others" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi debian-devel, For a couple years now a few of us have been talking about an idea called "multiarch". This is a way to seamlessly allow support for multiple different binary targets on the same system, for

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Thiemo Seufer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have created a new page in the wiki to track info and status > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch > > I looked at the "upstream standards proposal": > http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/multiarch/ > > It's good. > I am particularly pleased by the specification: >

Re: screenshot with package description

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 5/10/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Better to create 15.000 additional DEB's with pics and additonal descriptoons (per screenshoot) and make Meta packages to instal with apt-get install aptpics-all (for installing the whole

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:30:40PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > >> He has packaged the last version of bacula, and it is not uploaded >> because it's not ready, then a new version was showed up... he has a >> personal apt repository that users from bacula mailing list

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-05-11 às 09:56 +0200, Gabor Gombas escreveu: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Why would that not fly? > > Both versions of the arch-independent package could be installed at > > the same time. > /usr/share/foo/bar can't point to two different fil

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:07 +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > > John has managed to not only update to the latest upstream version in his > > upload, but he's also managed to fix 24 bugs by my count. It is notable > > that he has managed to achieve so much while Jose struggled just to update > > to

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> Ok, the maintainer has not fixed the bugs, has not packaged the last >> version of it in time, etc, but he has done a great job anyway, and I >> still don't see the point of hijacking the

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> Hi, > > hi, > >> there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team >> whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. As we're heading to > > what about the t

python 2.4?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:54]: > Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch > > is going to ship with 2.3? > > Yeah, what about it? > > There is an open bug, it's blocking lilypond which should

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 10:48]: >> Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 10:09 +0200, Domenico Andreoli a écrit : >> > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch >> > is going to ship with 2.3? >> >> An upload of pytho

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.2219 +0200]: > I think this is the whole point of licensing a library under the GPL. For me the point of a library is code reuse. Putting a library under the GPL is more of a political statement. > There's not much point in using a copy

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:54]: >> Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch >> > is going to ship with 2.3? >> >> Yeah, what about it? >> >> There

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:56]: > So, what are the issues that need to be fixed? Currently #360851 > doesn't say it's blocked by anything, and two packages are blocked > waiting for it. As said, I put it on my "need to work on"-list, and you'll get results in May (and ho

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060512 00:00]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:54]: > >> Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch > >>

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 20:21]: > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Ganesan Rajagopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 14:12]: > > > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked >

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:07:55PM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: [ snip ] > I have myself fixed in excess of 40 bugs in my packages in the last 48h, > when I have been back to speed. > So what??? I had already checked the packages you posted on sf.net and have not been able to find bug fixes an

Bug#366893: init.d stopping messages not standardized or even always logged

2006-05-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: general Severity: wishlist Looking at the myriad ways of starting messages in /var/log/boot, Starting X TrueType font server: xfstt. Starting /usr/sbin/chronyd... Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: anacron. Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. Starting periodic command scheduler (e

Re: Why isn't gnome in testing?

2006-05-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:32:36PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Julian Gilbey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 22:17]: > > Does anyone know why the binary package gnome is no longer in testing? > > The source package meta-gnome2 is there > > Seems like an accident currently. We're researching th

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:30:40PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:37:35AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > : > Jose Luis doesn't want just his name in some place, he has worked a lot > : > in bacula in the past, and I don't know why he can't remain as > : > maintainer or

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-05-11 kello 07:13 -0700, Ben Pfaff kirjoitti: > It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does > that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not. It handles .dsc, .changes, and Sources files. But I also forgot to mention the main reason I wrote it: it gives progress feedba

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-05-11 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Hi, I'd add localepurge - witch save my >25 % disk space on 6-700 mb installation. Thanks! Eugen Paiuc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:49:26PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > On the other hand, if we continue that thought process we could end up > with all headers and libraries in /usr/share/, which is absurd. Why? This is exactly what's beautiful, especially if EVERYTHING ends up in /usr/share/ at one day,

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
Steve Langasek wrote: > It is the responsibility of a package maintainer to ensure that fixes for > bugs are uploaded in a timely manner. If José Luis isn't able to do this, > because he doesn't have a sponsor or for any other reason, then he is not an > effective maintainer for the package. >

Bug#366900: ITP: asterisk-prompt-es-co -- Colombian Spanish voice prompts for the Asterisk PBX

2006-05-11 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Santiago Ruano Rincón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-prompt-es-co Version : 0.0.20060503 Upstream Author : Avatar Ltda. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.avatar.com.co/ * License : GPL Description

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thursday 11 May 2006 01:25, Frank Küster wrote: > The only things that should be installed separately are > probably aptitude, apt and dpkg, then just dist-upgrade. > From memory, upgrading apt + friends seperately isn't possible whilst synaptic is installed. In sarge, the gnome meta package

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
Stephen Frost wrote: >> If the maintainer still wants to maintain it, help him, do NMUs, whatever, >> but I'm still looking for one reason you can take over the package against >> the maintainer's opinion. >> > > He wants to have his name on the package w/o doing the work > (apparently). What

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jos? Luis Tall?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Actually, we've heard in this thread that Stephen (his AM) *did* offer to > > sponsor bacula uploads, and José Luis did not avail himself of this. > When the offer did come, I wasn't able to prepare the upload anyway. > I sus

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