Re: what happened to g77-3.4-doc?

2007-07-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:43:23 -0400 > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >>Can someone tell me what happened to the g77-3.4-doc package? > > GFDL problems, AFAICT. > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/g77/Getting-Started.html > Thanks for th

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:13:26 +0200 "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a few days, I'll start filing bugs against packages that build > unpredictably when extra build-dependencies are present. (More > precisely, packages where the dependency or file list differ between > a clean

Re: what happened to g77-3.4-doc?

2007-07-19 Thread Luis Matos
Qui, 2007-07-19 às 02:43 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi escreveu: > Hi >Can someone tell me what happened to the g77-3.4-doc package? Or better, > How can I get a manual page for g77? > > Why I need this:- I was trying to compile refblas3 package with gfortran > instead of g77. reflblas3's debia

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:09:49 +0100 Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:13:26 +0200 > "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In a few days, I'll start filing bugs against packages that build > > unpredictably when extra build-dependencies are present.

Re: what happened to g77-3.4-doc?

2007-07-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 19/07/07, Neil Williams wrote: > Why I need this:- I was trying to compile refblas3 package with > gfortran instead of g77. That would be very useful for one of my sponsored packages. Deviating slightly from the topic, could someone point out to a timeline for the gfortran transition[1]? [

Bug#433727: ITP: freeplayer -- wrapper around vlc for French ADSL FreeBox

2007-07-19 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: freeplayer Version: 20070531 Upstream Author: Clement Vasseur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://adsl.free.fr/multimedia/freeplayer/ Li

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:09:49AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > As other have noted, the logs are in error. I've checked the log for > deb-gview in meld and the only difference in the two Depends line is: > zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1) > zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) > > That is NOT a bug!!! Ouch. It seem

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Based on the arguments I've seen so far, I'm opposed to using the >>> package's Standards-Version for this purpose. I think it conflates >>> different mean

Re: FTBFS if built twice in a row

2007-07-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Not if you use pdebuild or similarly build in a chroot, which IMO >>> everyone should be doing. > >> I use xen instances and that changes nothing at all. >

Re: RFC: declaritive diversions

2007-07-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 11:55 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Did you see my earlier mail about the very same thing? > > No I didn't, sorry. > > I'm glad the concept seems to have positive reactions regardless. > > -Rob I have the problem that I

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>sident > > Hm. I don't know best to fix this. The problem is that there's now a > libgssapi2 package which provides a generic GSSAPI layer but no actual > imp

Bug#433774: ITP: xdelta3 -- Xdelta3 is a set of tools and APIs for reading and writing binary deltas

2007-07-19 Thread A Mennucc
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xdelta3 Version : 30q Upstream Author : Josh MacDonald * URL : http://xdelta.org/ * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: C, Python Description : programs and libraries t

Bug#433777: ITP: mkelfimage -- utility to create ELF boot images from Linux kernel images

2007-07-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: mkelfimage Version : 2.7 Upstream Author : Eric Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/mkelfI

Bug#433791: ITP: telaen -- simple and fast webmail

2007-07-19 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: telaen Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : The Telaen Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.telaen.org * License : GPL Description : simple and fast w

Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pssh Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : Brent N. Chun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.theether.org/pssh * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:02:02AM -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Description : Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools What exactly does this mean? What is the software good for? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Chinese charity sought for proceeds from laptop sale

2007-07-19 Thread martin f krafft
[ please excuse the cross-post ] [ I would appreciate if you forwarded this message to appropriate forums ] Hi, remember the free laptop I got [0], which I wanted to sell and donate the proceeds to a Chinese charity? 0. http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2007.03.24_a-thinkpad-x60-for-free Well, I f

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:16]: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:02:02AM -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Description : Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools > > What exactly does this mean? What is the software good for? Quoting the website from the ITP: "Wh

Re: Chinese charity sought for proceeds from laptop sale

2007-07-19 Thread martin f krafft
I will post updates here: http://blog.madduck.net/misc/2007.07.19_chinese-charity-sought Please include the link if you forward my message. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 19 July 2007 18:28, Nico Golde wrote: > * Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:16]: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:02:02AM -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > Description : Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools > > > > What exactly does this mean? What is the so

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.1828 +0200]: > "What are these tools good for? Mainly for controlling large > collections of nodes in the wide-area, where faster > alternatives such as GEXEC and PCP are not available. For > example, I use these tools on a fairly routine ba

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:40]: > also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.1828 +0200]: > > "What are these tools good for? Mainly for controlling large > > collections of nodes in the wide-area, where faster > > alternatives such as GEXEC and PCP are n

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-12 05:32:37, schrieb Lionel Elie Mamane: > I say that, because while I really don't intend to make you angry, as > a casual user of xmms, I don't see the difference. As far as I'm > concerned, xmms's goal was to be a sound player. And your goal, in > your FAQ is to develop a "media playe

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 19 juillet 2007 à 10:28 +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > PS : what is wrong with XPM ? If it is inferior to PNG, I can convert > the icons in the packages I maintain. But XPM is a text file, which is > convenient since we (unfortunately) use this .diff.gz which requires to > uuencode any

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:53:50 +0200 "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:09:49AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > As other have noted, the logs are in error. I've checked the log for > > deb-gview in meld and the only difference in the two Depends line > > i

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:02:02 +0200, Andrew Pollock wrote: > * Package name: pssh [...] > Parallel scp (pscp) FYI (and if you don't already know) /usr/bin/pscp is also provided by putty-tools. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I would much prefer to see a new control field that explicitly lists >> the supported features. We're going to need that *anyway* for any >> feature that's only a should or recommended and not a must (s

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:47:59PM +0200, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:40]: > > also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.1828 +0200]: > > > "What are these tools good for? Mainly for controlling large > > > collect

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the libraries have different names then there should be > --with/--without switches possible for configure. (I'm also upstream for several of these packages.) I don't know of any Kerberos software, among dozens of packages, that works this wa

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we need package descriptions anybody can understand even > without knowing anything about the topic or what? I think it's reasonable that if the package short description matches a search for "OpenSSH", someone who knows OpenSSH should be able to work

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 20:05]: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:47:59PM +0200, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:40]: > > > also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.1828 +0200]: > > > > "What are th

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Russ, * Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 20:12]: > Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do we need package descriptions anybody can understand even > > without knowing anything about the topic or what? > > I think it's reasonable that if the package short description matc

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.1847 +0200]: > Do we need package descriptions anybody can understand even > without knowing anything about the topic or what? That would be ideal. Most of the time, all it takes is just a short sentence. -- Please do not send copies of lis

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:37:55PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Didn't mean to sound accusatory - more surprised. It was strange that > one package is commonly affected and others that also changed versions > were not. Maybe something to do with pattern matching failing when a > version includes d

upstream version of refblas3 package

2007-07-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Can someone tell me where the upstream version of the refblas3 package is located? Looking at refblas3-1.2/debian/copyright says that the package is downloaded from ftp://ftp.netlib.org/blas/blas.tgz . However when I downloade blas.tgz from the above location, it is different from refblas3_1.2.orig

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steinar H. Gunderson 2007-07-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:02:02AM -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Description : Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools > > What exactly does this mean? What is the software good for? And what does it do differently from the followi

considering removal of fireflier

2007-07-19 Thread Martin MAURER
Hi all, I wanted to ask you about your opinion regarding fireflier removal. I personally have been main upstream developer and debian maintainer of fireflier. Fireflier is a tool for interactive firewall administration. As I meanwhile don't have any time to spend on my former project and nobody

Re: considering removal of fireflier

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:23:58 +0200 Martin MAURER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The project has been dead for more than a year now. Anyways, apart from > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433817, which I can > easily solve by removing fireflier-client-gtk, there are no known > problem

Re: considering removal of fireflier

2007-07-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:46:15PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:23:58 +0200 > Martin MAURER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The project has been dead for more than a year now. Anyways, apart from > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433817, which I can > >

libquicktime transition

2007-07-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi, finally (and thanks to Lioc Minier a.o.) the new upstream version 1.0.0 of the libquicktime library has made it into Debian unstable. The library involves an ABI change relative to its successor 0.9.7 and had its soname bumped. I already asked all maintainers of rdepending packages to test-bu

Bug#433847: ITP: kydpdict -- a frontend to YDP Collins dictionary

2007-07-19 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kydpdict Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Maciej Witkowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrzej Para <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://members.elysium.pl/ytm/html/kydpdict.html * Licen

Bug#433849: ITP: libydpdict -- a library for reading YDP dictionaries

2007-07-19 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libydpdict Version : 0.99 Upstream Author : Wojtek Kaniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://toxygen.net/ydpdict/ * License : LGPL 2.1 Programming Lang: C Descripti

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
>> Parallel scp (pscp) > > FYI (and if you don't already know) /usr/bin/pscp is also provided by > putty-tools. That's something I'm still wondering about - I can't see the advantage of pscp over scp. Putty is nice to have for all the people who switch from Windows to Debian and who're used to

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:57:35PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Parallel scp (pscp) > > > > FYI (and if you don't already know) /usr/bin/pscp is also provided by > > putty-tools. > > > That's something I'm still wondering about - I can't see the advantage > of pscp o

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 19 juillet 2007 à 20:12 +0200, Nico Golde a écrit : > > The problem here is that even people knowing something about the topic > > can't guess what the package can be useful for. > > Its like have to know what parallel computing is just > because you know what a computer is? Well if you

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 19 juillet 2007 à 09:02 -0700, Andrew Pollock a écrit : > Description : Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools > These tools are good for controlling large collections of nodes, where faster > alternatives such as gexec and pcp are not available. What does this software bring ove

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> I don't know for the unix version, but the windows version of pscp can > load putty configurations, which makes it quite easy to do fancy setups > (like going through proxies and such) and be able to use them with pscp. ah ok, seems I've missed some years of putty development since we have cygw

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Nico Golde wrote: > Do we need package descriptions anybody can understand even > without knowing anything about the topic or what? Compare the description for pssh as posted with the descriptions for what I assume are similar tools, clusterssh and dsh. Description: administer multiple ssh or r

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Steinar H. Gunderson schrieb: > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >knetworkmanager >kpowersave These two are affected because of unsermake being installed and so the build fails completely. unsermake though is scheduled/requested to be removed [1]. So please, don't file bugs for these two

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl schrieb: > Steinar H. Gunderson schrieb: > >> Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>knetworkmanager >>kpowersave > > These two are affected because of unsermake being installed and so the > build fails completely. > unsermake though is scheduled/requested to be removed [1]. >

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Ben Finney
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we need package descriptions anybody can understand even without > knowing anything about the topic or what? A description that gives someone who has looked at the package because they *might* be interested, enough information to decide whether they wan

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:37:55PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Didn't mean to sound accusatory - more surprised. It was strange that > one package is commonly affected and others that also changed versions > were not. Maybe something to do with pattern matching failing when a > version includes

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:47:59 +0200, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:40]: >> also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.1828 +0200]: >> > "What are these tools good for? Mainly for controlling large >> > collections of n

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-19 Thread Oleg Verych
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:40:27 +0200 > Maybe is it time to adopt some required tags in the mail subjects to filter > spamming activities? Something already adopted for the RT system indeed. I also am thinking about something new in anti-spam case. While i'm newbie, let me express the idea. Do

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-19 Thread Oleg Verych
> This require some work from sender's side, how is using plain MUA<->ML > interaction. For things like Gmane or reportbug anti-spam rules are > customizable and known at least. While defending against spam is being long enough on user's side [0], why not to apply this little addition to sender's

Re: [Debian Installer] Experimental support for Serial ATA RAID (dmraid)

2007-07-19 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Frans Pop wrote: [1] To confuse the general public, this is also referred to as ATA RAID, BIOS RAID, fake RAID and software RAID, as well as a number of vendor specific terms such as "Intel Matrix Storage". Actually, ATA RAID is more appropriate since dmraid isn't limited to Serial ATA in any w

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Perrier
> > Do we need package descriptions anybody can understand even without > > knowing anything about the topic or what? > > To an extent, yes. The expectation is that the target audience, > which is a typical Debian user installing packages on a machine, should > be expected to figure o

Work-needing packages report for Jul 20, 2007

2007-07-19 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: 388 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 89 (new: 7) Total number of packages requeste