Away from my mail

2006-11-28 Thread anne_dunn
I'm away from my office until December 11. I am accessing my email but there may be some delay in your receiving a reply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conditionally applying an architecture-dependent patch

2006-11-28 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Shaun Jackman wrote: > When using CDBS, what is the best way to conditionally apply an > architecture-dependent patch. I'm using CDBS, but not yet using a > patch system such as simple-patchsys, dpatch, or quilt, so > recommendations of a patch system are welcome. Currently I

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Jan Wagner
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:53, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > This new package is a major change compared to the old version. > Therefore, we want people to test it as much as possible! Hi Fabian, can you explain short, what are the changes? Thanks and with kind regards, Jan. -- Write never mail

Mirror pulses now twice a day

2006-11-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. It seems testing and unstable change twice a day now, which is fantastic. Is it going to be announced somewhere or it is still a beta feature? [ I didn't find anything about this in debian-announce or debian-mirrors ]. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Mirror pulses now twice a day

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Santiago Vila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 11:34]: > It seems testing and unstable change twice a day now, which is fantastic. Also britney runs now twice per day, and ftp-master host has changed (now ries). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Bug#399284: gettext-el: loads other packages' site-files when byte-compiling for xemacs

2006-11-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 05:56:55PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > *) should there be a lintian warning for this? > > I took a look at the /u/l/e-c/p/i/* files in my sistem. There are as > many different ways to write them as there are file

RC class bug, dataloss grade, No 398373

2006-11-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
Hallo, I don't intend to do any advocacy. I just wish to politely point Your attention to the bug 398373 that IMO is critical to be resolved before Etch reach stable statute (that is every day closer and many people are happy because that, including myself :-) Best regards Peter Tuharsky

Re: RC class bug, dataloss grade, No 398373

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Barth
severity 398373 grave thanks * Mgr. Peter Tuharsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 12:07]: > I don't intend to do any advocacy. I just wish to politely point Your > attention to the bug 398373 that IMO is critical to be resolved before > Etch reach stable statute (that is every day closer and many p

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:05 +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:53, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > This new package is a major change compared to the old version. > > Therefore, we want people to test it as much as possible! > can you explain short, what are the changes? Sure.

Re: RC class bug, dataloss grade, No 398373

2006-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 28 novembre 2006 à 12:16 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : > severity 398373 grave > thanks > > * Mgr. Peter Tuharsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 12:07]: > > I don't intend to do any advocacy. I just wish to politely point Your > > attention to the bug 398373 that IMO is critical to be reso

Re: RC class bug, dataloss grade, No 398373

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 12:29]: > Le mardi 28 novembre 2006 à 12:16 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > * Mgr. Peter Tuharsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 12:07]: > > > I don't intend to do any advocacy. I just wish to politely point Your > > > attention to the bug 398373 that

Re: RC class bug, dataloss grade, No 398373

2006-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 28 novembre 2006 à 12:30 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > FWIW, fixing this bug requires changes in the kernel. > > Why that? AFAICR, umount must not return before not everything is > written down. I don't think this is always the case. Of course, if the applet is saying things are OK

Re: RC class bug, dataloss grade, No 398373

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 12:36]: > Le mardi 28 novembre 2006 à 12:30 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > > FWIW, fixing this bug requires changes in the kernel. > > > > Why that? AFAICR, umount must not return before not everything is > > written down. > > I don't think this

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:54:11AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > Although SWT uses Java, it is not entirely platform independent. It > requires one jar for 32-bit architectures and one jar for 64-bit > architectures. I could change libswt-gtk-3.2-java to be an What do you mean here? Do you mean

Re: Conditionally applying an architecture-dependent patch

2006-11-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:21:53PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I would normally recommend quilt, but I'm not sure it has a concept of > > conditional patches, which may make things awkward later if further patches > > are req

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:53:23 +0200 Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, Fabian, > If you've been using cyrus-sasl2, please consider spending an hour or > so upgrading to version 2.1.22.dfsg1-4 (currently in unstable), > testing, and submitting bug reports indicating suc

Re: Automatically collect hardware information from users?

2006-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:56:53 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> [Goswin von Brederlow] >>> Shouldn't that be included in popularity-contest? >> >> Well, I have had the same idea, but never found time to implement >> it. It could be added as

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Shaun Jackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although SWT uses Java, it is not entirely platform independent. It > requires one jar for 32-bit architectures and one jar for 64-bit > architectures. I could change libswt-gtk-3.2-java to be an > Architecture: any package -- it's currently an all pac

Bug#400739: ITP: whitedune -- Graphical VRML97 viewer, editor and animation tool

2006-11-28 Thread Philippe Coval
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philippe Coval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: whitedune Version : 0.29beta483 Upstream Author : Stephen F. White (and others) * URL : http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/vrml/dune/ * License : GPL Programming Lang

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:58:12 -0500 Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, that install went fine. I hope today to install it on my > primary mail server which has postfix and cyrus-imapd-2.2, both > authenticating against an LDAP db, installed; that should be more of a > workout

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:54:11AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: >> Although SWT uses Java, it is not entirely platform independent. It >> requires one jar for 32-bit architectures and one jar for 64-bit >> architectures. I could change libswt-gtk-3

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:13:26PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ...CUT... > The package is architecture independent except for the > register/address size. > > So i386, m68k, ppc, mips all can use the 32bit version. > S390x, amd64, ppc64, mips64 can use the 64bit version. > > I think ha

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: libswt-gtk-3.2-java32 libswt-gtk-3.2-java64 libswt-gtk-3.2-java Any other suggestions, or completely different approaches? This seems like a really bad solution. The package is architecture independent except for the register/address size.

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthew Johnson writes: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > >>> libswt-gtk-3.2-java32 > >>> libswt-gtk-3.2-java64 > >>> libswt-gtk-3.2-java > >>> > >>> Any other suggestions, or completely different approaches? > > This seems like a really bad solution. > > > The pa

Re: Conditionally applying an architecture-dependent patch

2006-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:21:53PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > I would normally recommend quilt, but I'm not sure it has a concept of >> > conditional patches, which may make t

Re: Mirror pulses now twice a day

2006-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Santiago Vila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 11:34]: >> It seems testing and unstable change twice a day now, which is fantastic. > > Also britney runs now twice per day, and ftp-master host has changed > (now ries). > > Cheers, > Andi Unfortunately that

Re: Conditionally applying an architecture-dependent patch

2006-11-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:04 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > I would normally recommend quilt, but I'm not sure it has a concept of > conditional patches, which may make things awkward later if further > patches are required. I've never used it but I think that what the "guards" feature of quilt 0.

Popularity-contest passes 20000 submitters

2006-11-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I'm happy to report that today Debian popularity-contest passed 2 participants/machines. On http://popcon.debian.org/> you can see 20005 submissions considered. :) >From the stats, one can see that these are the 10 most used non-Debian packages (http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote):

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:41:22PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: ...CUT... > >I think having two arch:all packages is better than having 12 arch:any > >packages where they fall onto two sets of identical apckages. > > > > I'd actually go for 12 arch:any packages myself, it's an implementation

Re: Conditionally applying an architecture-dependent patch

2006-11-28 Thread Shaun Jackman
On 11/28/06, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you use simple-patchsys, you can prepend before any "include" line: ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),m68k) DEB_PATCHDIRS = debian/patches debian/patches/$(DEB_HOST_ARCH) endif to add debian/patches/m68k to the list of directories with patches t

ITP: stardict-xmlittre

2006-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, do you have any news from this ITP? There haven't been any news for 6 months, and no reply to the long description request. I have prepared a package and intend to upload it in a few days if no one objects. Here is the complete ITP information. * Package name: stardict-xmlittre Version

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Shaun Jackman
On 11/28/06, Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But you will have complicated dependency problems. Or at least users will install the wrong version, or do you intend to only release the 64 bit version on 64 bit systems? and the 32 bit version on 32 bit systems? I do not really see the point

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Shaun Jackman
On 11/28/06, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm personally leaning towards to two arch: all packages (one 32-bit, one 64-bit) and a meta-package which depends on the right one. I am considering and open to the one arch: any package though. If it affects the decision, the binary package

Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Shaun Jackman
Here is my list: 64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64 The rest are 32-bit. Am I missing any? Perhaps this is a suitable feature for dpkg-architecture. Cheers, Shaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar, 2006-11-28 at 14:41 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > Am I missing any? sparc64, ppc64, ... -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Shaun Jackman wrote: > On 11/28/06, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm personally leaning towards to two arch: all packages (one 32-bit, >> one 64-bit) and a meta-package which depends on the right one. I am >> considering and open to the one arch: any package though. If it >> affects

Re: Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:41:13PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > Here is my list: > 64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64 > The rest are 32-bit. > Am I missing any? Nope. > Perhaps this is a suitable feature for dpkg-architecture. You could just as well do a build-time test of the system. :) Cheers, -- S

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-11-28 Thread Frank S. Thomas
On Monday 11 September 2006 11:11, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:22:08AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 10.09.2006, 21:22 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > > > For my part, I find it pretty offensive that a mailing list that's set > > > as the maintainer of a pack

Re: Mirror pulses now twice a day

2006-11-28 Thread Simon Paillard
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:04:13PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Santiago Vila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061128 11:34]: > > > It seems testing and unstable change twice a day now, which is fantastic. > > > > Also britney runs now twice per day, a

Re: apt hangs for ever

2006-11-28 Thread Brian May
> "Henrique" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henrique> Use --save-after-login and pbuilder login to open the Henrique> chroot, add the new apt key, and only then run the Henrique> update. I tried that, it didn't help. The only solution I found when I ch

Re: Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Shaun Jackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64 mips/mipsel, sparc, s390 and powerpc can all come in a 64-bit flavors, iirc. Thanks, Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:41:13PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > 64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64 > > The rest are 32-bit. > > > Am I missing any? > > Nope. *smirk > > Perhaps this is a suitable feature for dpkg-architecture. > > You could just as well d

Re: Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:03:33PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Shaun Jackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64 > mips/mipsel, sparc, s390 and powerpc can all come in a 64-bit > flavors, iirc. None of which are full Debian ports, nor TTBOMK do we ship JVMs for any of the

Automatic bootstrap?

2006-11-28 Thread Pierre THIERRY
As I just installed an amd64 system, I discovered that the cmucl is not already available for that port. If I'm not mistaken, cmucl needs some manual bootstrapping. Wouldn't it be useful to make it possible for a package needing bootstrap to specify it, so that an unattended bootstrap be possible,

Ftpmaster bug reports are not processed nearly fast enough.

2006-11-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
To start with, congratulations to the ftpmasters for keeping up with the NEW queue. Unfortunately, this email is going to be a case of damning with faint praise I'm seeing bugs which were filed as removal requests as early as August 14 which are still waiting for processing. Unfortunately, t