Re: Bug#379089: Configuration file shadowed?

2006-07-23 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! Short comment from TeX live side, out of St. Moritz before leaving to mountains: On Fre, 21 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > >> - files that can be used to modify the behavior of programs, and/or > >> files that make sense to customize site-wide behavior on a multiuser > >> system (I j

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] MacBook iSight works?

2006-07-23 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:10:07 +0200, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Actually, I managed to get it working on MacBook with Ekiga. > I'm looking for success/failure reports now. I installed the following: linux-uvc-source_0.1.0-1_i386.deb linux-uvc-tools_0.1.0-1_i386.deb then run # m-a prepare # m-a a-

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 23 juillet 2006 à 01:07 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > Ian Jackson wrote: > > Didn't we already have the conversation where we explained that there > > is nothing necessarily wrong with a circular dependency ? > > Yes, and Bill continues to ignore it, as well as ignoring my > posts to hi

svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread Marcus Better
Hello, I've recently started to use svn for package maintenance, both in order to enable team maintenance and because it's a great way to keep track of the code. Previously I used dpatch or quilt for the Debian changes. However with svn (or any other version control system) it really doesn't make

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.23.1206 +0100]: > Previously I used dpatch or quilt for the Debian changes. However > with svn (or any other version control system) it really doesn't > make sense to use that. The VCS is great at keeping track of > changesets. Is it? Try keep

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] MacBook iSight works?

2006-07-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Davide Viti [Sun, Jul 23 2006, 10:03:18AM]: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:10:07 +0200, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > Actually, I managed to get it working on MacBook with Ekiga. > > I'm looking for success/failure reports now. > > I installed the following: > linux-uvc-source_0.1.0-1_i386.de

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread Marcus Better
martin f krafft wrote: > Well, ideally the support tool should not impose on the structure Yes, svn-buildpackage is quite nice since it's easy to tell it about your layout. Something like that could work here as well. > SVN does not track merges across branches, unless you do it in the > changelo

Re: kernel modules postinst script

2006-07-23 Thread Kel Modderman
Hi, Bernd wrote: > #!/bin/sh > set -e > > SYSTEMMAP=/boot/System.map-_KVERS_ > > if [ -f $SYSTEMMAP ] ; then > depmod -ae -F $SYSTEMMAP _KVERS_ > elif [ "`uname -r`" = "_KVERS_" ] ; then > depmod -a & > fi As of debhelper 5.0.37, dh_installmodules uses the System.map for the tar

Bug#379410: ITP: necpp -- NEC2 Evolution Antenna Modelling System

2006-07-23 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Quemener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: necpp Version : 1.2.4 Upstream Authors: Tim Molteno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Remi Sassolas<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://alioth.debian.org/projects/necpp/ * License :

Bug#379409: ITP: libsexymm -- collection of additional gtkmm widgets

2006-07-23 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libsexymm Version : 0.1.7 Upstream Author : Christian Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Trowbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Lib

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] MacBook iSight works?

2006-07-23 Thread zino
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:10:59PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > I installed the following: > > linux-uvc-source_0.1.0-1_i386.deb > > linux-uvc-tools_0.1.0-1_i386.deb > > How? Let me guess: you used dpkg --force-... because the architecture > did not match? Then it would be PEBCAK, AFAICS. dpk

Mozilla Mothballed now, is a Seamonkey package a possibility?

2006-07-23 Thread Rod Lovett
 As mentioned below by Joey from Debian weekly news, I personally would much appreciate Debian Developers/ package maintainers to consider discussing replacing Mozilla , now superseded and mothballed by Mozilla and replaced by the Seamonkey Council, and now Seamonkey 1.02 stable release. This e

Re: Mozilla Mothballed now, is a Seamonkey package a possibility?

2006-07-23 Thread Alexander Sack
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:56:50PM +1000, Rod Lovett wrote: > As mentioned below by Joey from Debian weekly news, I personally would > much appreciate Debian Developers/ package maintainers to consider > discussing replacing Mozilla , now superseded and mothballed by Mozilla > and replaced by th

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 23 juillet 2006 à 01:07 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > Yes, and Bill continues to ignore it, as well as ignoring my > > posts to his bug reports (such as #368481) asking for specifics of how > > individual instances of dependency loops cau

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hasn't there been enough random bugs caused by circular dependencies? > How many of them do you need before starting to fix your packages? There have been more and more serious bugs caused by programs being written in C, and I prefer to spend my time rewriting all my pack

Bug#379430: ITP: libview -- VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widgets

2006-07-23 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libview Version : 0.5.6 Upstream Author : Alex Graveley, Christian Hammond, Philip Langdale, Régis Duchesne URL : http://view.sourceforge.net/ License

Re: Bug#379430: ITP: libview -- VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widgets

2006-07-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: > libview is VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widgets, a useful collection of > GTK+ widgets used within VMware products, free for everybody's use. > . > This library consists of several widgets that are used by VMware in > Workstatio

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] MacBook iSight works?

2006-07-23 Thread zino
Hi Junichi, > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:10:07 +0200, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > > Actually, I managed to get it working on MacBook with Ekiga. > > > I'm looking for success/failure reports now. success!! after using a version of module assistant fixed by Eduard, all the steps you described in

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > SVN does not track merges across branches, unless you do it in the > > changelog. > > I know, it's a pain in the neck. But still it's a good step forward over > CVS, and seems to be quite popular in Debian. I hope svn will improve in > this area. svn/cvs et cetera are quite linear; dpatc

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] MacBook iSight works?

2006-07-23 Thread Junichi Uekawa
At Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:40:55 +0200, zino wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:10:59PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > I installed the following: > > > linux-uvc-source_0.1.0-1_i386.deb > > > linux-uvc-tools_0.1.0-1_i386.deb > > > > How? Let me guess: you used dpkg --force-... because

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:42:26PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > Well, ideally the support tool should not impose on the structure > > Yes, svn-buildpackage is quite nice since it's easy to tell it about your > layout. Something like that could work here as well. > > >

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 23 July 2006 20:28, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:42:26PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote: > > martin f krafft wrote: > > > Well, ideally the support tool should not impose on the structure > > > > Yes, svn-buildpackage is quite nice since it's easy to tell it about your > >

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > For example: > > > > Dovecot uses . > > > > This is a symbolic link to if > > the above file or link does not exist during configuration of > > dovecot. > > > > That way, the admin can easily replace the symlink with a real > > certificate if they want per-ser

Re: [Ping] Packages-arch-specific: please add architectures to Ada packages

2006-07-23 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Aurélien GÉRÔME writes: > Hi Ludovic, > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:56:06PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: >> So, my idea of a buildd pseudo-package in the BTS was a god one after >> all. Or, is the 'dak' package an appropriate place for such requests? > > An excellent one, indeed! OK, filed #3794

Re: [Ping] Packages-arch-specific: please add architectures to Ada packages

2006-07-23 Thread LaMont Jones
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:03:56PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > It has been a week since I sent the request below, and I received no > answer. I am resending to the three maintainers of > Packages-arch-specific, and CCing debian-devel. Been out for a bit - updated. lamont -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Virtual PPPoE

2006-07-23 Thread Yura
Help please to connect the internet. I in a local network. Connection to to the internet goes through a modem, or service which works on a sluice. Type of connection of pppoe. In Windows such connection is done through Connect of using and broadband connection that requires and user name and passw

Processed: Re: More bugs for the /usr/doc/transition

2006-07-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 322762 by 378647 Bug#322762: /usr/doc still exists (transition tracking bug) Was blocked by: 189856 190020 203278 254800 254913 254924 255590 302504 319726 320084 320103 321926 322749 322769 322772 322776 322778 322779 322781 322782 322783 32278

status of application for reinstatement of my developer account

2006-07-23 Thread Britton Kerin
I have applied and completed the questions I was supposed to complete months ago now. I've sent a couple of follow up emaile to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking just to know the status of my application. I've gotten no response whatsoever. Is there any reasonable hope of getting my account reinstated?

Re: Virtual PPPoE

2006-07-23 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, please try asking on the debian-user-german list; this list is not meant for user questions. Re: Yura 2006-07-23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I started pppoeconf but the system at once searches a modem and does not > find. > Is it needed how to connect a network modem (service), using pppd? > My pr

Re: status of application for reinstatement of my developer account

2006-07-23 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Britton Kerin 2006-07-23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there any reasonable hope of getting my account reinstated? debian-keyring.gpg: pub 1024D/E3A0213C 2000-07-26 uid Britton Leo Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid Britton Leo Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/D0

Re: [Ping] Packages-arch-specific: please add architectures to Ada packages

2006-07-23 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:56:09PM -0600, LaMont Jones wrote: > Been out for a bit - updated. You did not do mine. Pretty please, I am begging for it. Please remove the line concerning iroffer. Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net

Re: [Ping] Packages-arch-specific: please add architectures to Ada packages

2006-07-23 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:47:16PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > OK, filed #379451 (serious, because it blocks the Ada transition). I > note however that dak has 58 outstanding bugs, the newest of which is > 63 days old and the oldest is 4 years and 106 days old today. Your bug has already been

Bug#379475: [Etch] Should sysfsutils be added to the base system?

2006-07-23 Thread Frans Pop
Package: base Severity: wishlist As 2.6 will be the default kernel for Etch and /sys is playing an increasingly important role in system configuration, I was wondering if it does not make sense to add sysfsutils to base and thus install it by default on new systems. It can be used for example to

Mozilla Mothballed now, is a Seamonkey package a possibility?

2006-07-23 Thread Rod Lovett
  As mentioned below by Joey from Debian weekly news, I personally would much appreciate Debian Developers/ package maintainers to consider discussing replacing the Mozilla browser , now superseded and mothballed by the Mozilla foundation and replaced by the Seamonkey Council, and now I think S

Bug#379506: ITP: sladinstaller -- Graphical Installer for the Security Local Auditing Daemon

2006-07-23 Thread Meike Reichle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sladinstaller Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : DN-Systems Enterprise Internet Solutions GmbH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.dn-systems.org/slad.shtml * License : G

Re: Mozilla Mothballed now, is a Seamonkey package a possibility?

2006-07-23 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Rod Lovett wrote: As mentioned below by Joey from Debian weekly news, I personally would much appreciate Debian Developers/ package maintainers to consider discussing replacing the Mozilla browser , now superseded and mothballed by the Mozilla foundation and replaced by th

Re: Configuration file shadowed?

2006-07-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:12:46 +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've come across at least one example where it is: > \ProvidesFile{listings.cfg}[2004/09/05 1.3 listings configuration] > \def\lstlanguagefiles > {lstlang0.sty,lstlang1.sty,lstlang2.sty,lstlang3.sty} > If you have

Bug#379509: RM: tkpgp

2006-07-23 Thread Christian Surchi
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, in past I have maintained tkpgp (contrib), but its development died a few years ago and there are not traces of author and sources web pages. So, I think we should remove it. I think there are valid alternatives. :-) thanks Christian -- To UNSUBSC

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-23 Thread Miles Bader
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - "make install" is called with prefix=debian/tmp/..., this is usually >wrong Well, some packages screw things up of course, but in a package following the GNU coding standards (whence "prefix" comes) the Makefile is supposed to separate install-time