Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:11:52PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I think Ben's point is that we don't know. > > You seem to claim that binary units (ie powers of 2) are natural > everywhere related to computers, but I disagree. It's natural for > memory and structures like it, but not for bitstre

Self healing Debian ISO downloads with multiple fallback URLs (mirrors & checksums)

2007-06-21 Thread Anthony Bryan
Hi, I've posted about this before, but Metalinks are available for Debian 4.0 ISOs now thanks to Manuel @ ftp.iasi.roedu.net. Metalinks contain checksums, mirror lists, and other metadata in an XML format. They're used by around 13 download programs such as download managers. http://download.pac

Bug#429914: ITP: openfire -- XMPP/Jabber server written in Java

2007-06-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: openfire Version : 3.3.1 Upstream Author : Jive Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ * License : mostly GPL, but there are

Bug#429913: ITP: oar -- resource manager (batch scheduler) for HPC clusters

2007-06-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: oar Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Nicolas Capit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://oar.imag.fr/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl mostly Description : resou

RE: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-21 Thread General
Dear Friends and colleagues, I am a newbie on this list and Linux but an oldie when it comes to IT industry. Can i highlight that the main attraction of ubuntu amongst all other Linux derivates is its accessibility to end users. For this feature to continue to flourish it is best if everything

Archive rebuild with improved dpkg-shlibdeps

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, Lucas just rebuilt the archive with my new dpkg-shlibdeps and the symbols file that I provided him (http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/symbols.tar.bz2) and that I auto-generated. The resulting Packages file is here: http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/Packages.gz (it contains only binary-i386

Processed: Re: Bug#429888: networking broken after install

2007-06-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 429888 general Bug#429888: networking broken after install Warning: Unknown package 'unknown' Bug reassigned from package `unknown' to `general'. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking sy

Bug#429941: ITP: grandr -- gtk interface to xrandr

2007-06-21 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: grandr Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Intel Corporation, hosted at X.org URL : http://www.x.org/ License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C Description : gtk interf

Re: Archive rebuild with improved dpkg-shlibdeps

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Raphael Hertzog] > If you encounter any strangeness, please report it so that we can > check. Those warnings could be the base of some mass-bug filings > althought we might want to start with the second one (those are real > bugs, while the other are not creating any technical problem (except >

Re: Archive rebuild with improved dpkg-shlibdeps

2007-06-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:59:53AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > Lucas just rebuilt the archive with my new dpkg-shlibdeps and the symbols > file that I provided him > (http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/symbols.tar.bz2) and that I > auto-generated. > > The resulting Packages file is

Bug#429950: ITP: sieve-connect -- A client for the MANAGESIEVE protocol

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sieve-connect Version : 0.33 Upstream Author : Phil Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.spodhuis.org/phil.pennock/software * License : BSD Programming Lang

Re: Nexuiz 2.3

2007-06-21 Thread Tartler
someone who prefers to remain anonymous writes: > Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> Sorry? Nexuiz 2.3 is already package by the debian games team, uploaded >> to unstable and requested to be synced to gutsy by my, and available in >> both distros. What are you exactly requesting? > > I'm on X86, 32-bit,

Re: Bug#429801: ITP: libclass-accessor-grouped-perl -- build groups of accessors

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:53:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:55:33AM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: libclass-accessor-gr

Re: Nexuiz 2.3

2007-06-21 Thread fourmond
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:39:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Both packages have been uploaded at the same time, and I could not > forsee that it has still not been built and uploaded on sparc on time. I > think to avoid this situation in the future the correct way was to use > a versioned "

Re: Nexuiz 2.3

2007-06-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 21/06/2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:39:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Both packages have been uploaded at the same time, and I could not > > forsee that it has still not been built and uploaded on sparc on time. I > > think to avoid this situation in the fu

ITP: mumble -- Voice chat client

2007-06-21 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mumble Version : 0.9.4 Upstream Authors: Thorvald Natvig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ * License : GNU GPL Description : Voice chat client This is a low-latency, high quality v

ITP: vtp -- Virtual Terrain Project

2007-06-21 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vtp Version : 070331 Upstream Authors: Ben Discoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.vterrain.org/ * License : see below Description : Virtual Terrain Project Software for the creation of tools for eas

Re: Bug#429941: ITP: grandr -- gtk interface to xrandr

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, David Nusinow wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Package name: grandr FYI grandr is also the name of the Gnome applet in gnome-randr-applet. This conflict is somewhat confusing (at least it was for me when I first

Re: Bug#429941: ITP: grandr -- gtk interface to xrandr

2007-06-21 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:05:45PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, David Nusinow wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Package name: grandr > > FYI grandr is also the name of the Gnome applet in gnome-randr-

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-06-21 Thread Michael Biebl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : >>> If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those >>> packages are poking at

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-06-21 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW the new documentation on the wiki [1] regarding dpkg-query was not > entirely > correct. It missed to strip of the "obsolete" keyword. I updated the wiki > accordingly. Ah, yes. Where is the meaning of that keyword documented? Regards, Frank --

transition of packages into testing

2007-06-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi I am trying to figure out why texmacs has not entered into testing. I visited http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texmacs but there I was not able to find any useful information. All it says is * trying to update texmacs from 1:1.0.6-11 to 1:1.0.6.10-1 (candidate is 31 days old)

Re: transition of packages into testing

2007-06-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2007-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I am trying to figure out why texmacs has not entered into testing. I > visited http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texmacs but there I > was not able to find any useful information. All it says is > > * trying to upda

Re: GSASL Maintainer Missing in Action?

2007-06-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:20:53PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know the whereabouts of Yvan? May I consider him missing in > action? > It's a good think to CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] in those cases for tracking. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-21 Thread Ivan Jager
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:11:23PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote: The problem is that *many* cases are incorrect; we can't say that *all* of them are. That uncertainty is not amenable to a mindless text substitution wi

Re: transition of packages into testing

2007-06-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On to, 2007-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> I am trying to figure out why texmacs has not entered into testing. I >> visited http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texmacs but there >> I was not able to find any useful information. All it s

Automated mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems

2007-06-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, During my talk today at debconf, I discussed the idea of sending mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems. The audience welcomed the idea, so I will send the first mails soon. You will receive a mail: * if one of your packages has RC bugs older than 30 days in unstable * if one

Re: Automated mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems

2007-06-21 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-22 00:17]: > During my talk today at debconf, I discussed the idea of sending mails > to maintainers of packages with serious problems. The audience > welcomed the idea, so I will send the first mails soon. That sounds good to me! > You will recei

Re: Automated mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems

2007-06-21 Thread Luk Claes
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, Hi Lucas > The main problem is with packages that have dummy RC bugs to prevent > them from migrating to testing (see #395332 for example). Such > packages are difficult to detect, and, for packages that have been in > that case for a long time, one might question if t

Re: Automated mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems

2007-06-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/06/07 at 00:37 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Lucas > > > The main problem is with packages that have dummy RC bugs to prevent > > them from migrating to testing (see #395332 for example). Such > > packages are difficult to detect, and, for packages that have

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:32:09AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:11:52PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I think Ben's point is that we don't know. > > > > You seem to claim that binary units (ie powers of 2) are natural > > everywhere related to computers, but I disagr

Re: transition of packages into testing

2007-06-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2007-06-21 at 17:01 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > 1) How can I request for a new build on ia64? or will it happen > automatically? This is outside my area of expertese, but I would assume that the buildds don't automatically re-try a failed build. Instead, they'll wait for the packa

Proposed new release goal: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-06-21 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
[Please keep discussion on -devel; -release is not a discussion list and I'm not subscribed to -qa :-)] Hi, As discussed during DebConf, I'd like to propose a new release goal: Packages should not only build in clean chroots, but also in non-clean environments. Specifically, adding extra package

Re: Proposed new release goal: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-06-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Steinar H. Gunderson schrieb: > To this end, I've set up the "build daemon from Hell" (BDFH) on my machine, > currently doing script testing. Would it make sense to run the build under auto-apt, to see whether it tries to access some file in another package? That would obviously not be a rep

Work-needing packages report for Jun 22, 2007

2007-06-21 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 396 (new: 12) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 83 (new: 0) Total number of packages request