Re: Re: Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Svante Signell
Looks like it was a false alarm, all is normal again at {http,ftp}.us.debian.org. Is ftp.us.debian.org the master node? > Same problem now also at {http,ftp}.us.debian.org? > > W: Failed to fetch > bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Paul Wise [Tue, Mar 15 2011, 08:58:47AM]: > > > What was the reason for adding InRelease anyway? > > I guess (repeating: *guess*) the main reason is that GPG signature needs > to be verified for the exact file contents. If you put them int

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-15, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Apt would then accept either version. > > Of course this only makes sense for unstable which updates regularly. > For security we might consider doing it also, but re-issue a new > InRelease a few hours after the first mirror pulse that gets rid of the > old

Bug#618460: ITP: php-opendocument -- Read, create and modify OASIS OpenDocument office files in PHP

2011-03-15 Thread Olivier Berger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Berger * Package name: php-opendocument Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Christian Weiske , Alexander Pak * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/OpenDocument * License : LGPL Programming Lang: PHP Description

Bug#618473: general: Problems to handle NIS group names

2011-03-15 Thread Christian Andretzky
Package: general Severity: important Tags: squeeze I've really no idea, which package(s) are responsible for this problem. In my log files I can find messages like: Mar 15 14:56:09 oedibus automount[1983]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to get group info from getgrgid_r As the result the output fro

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/13/2011 05:53 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:20:21 +0100 > David Kalnischkies wrote: >> Unfortunately many mirrors doesn't use the newest version of ftpsync [0] >> and therefore their two stage update of the mirror is flawed: > > I wonder why does anyone package it? If w

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/03/11 at 16:05 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 03/13/2011 05:53 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:20:21 +0100 > > David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> Unfortunately many mirrors doesn't use the newest version of ftpsync [0] > >> and therefore their two stage update of the mirror

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/15/2011 04:17 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Indeed, I don't know why we bother with packages at all. Thanks for your constructive comment. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Finger

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 03/15/2011 04:17 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> Indeed, I don't know why we bother with packages at all. > > Thanks for your constructive comment. He's right though. With packages, you can receive automatic notification of available updates

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/15/2011 04:54 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 03/15/2011 04:17 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> Indeed, I don't know why we bother with packages at all. >> >> Thanks for your constructive comment. > > He's right though. With packages,

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 17:52:31 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > And for packages you either have to do stable updates all the time, or > add an additional repository, or use unstable on a server. Whatever you > prefer. > Not to mention debian mirrors don't have to run debian. Cheers, Julien --

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:29:08AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:55:47PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > > One missing feature is that it needs to send along info about the > > release/arch its looking for or the returned list needs to be extended > > to include this in

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-15 Thread Jari Aalto
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:52:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87k4g0fc8a@picasso.cante.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain --text follows this line-- > Andreas Barth > > > I agree that starting with the current scripts is for starters. But we > should do it in a way that is prepared for doi

Re: new Contents generator on ftp-master

2011-03-15 Thread Torsten Werner
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I mean, I really don't understand why you can't atleast list the > other files from the package. I've added a de-duplication mechanism. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jari Aalto (jari.aa...@cante.net) [110315 19:57]: > What is the status of this ITP opened 2010-10-03, 6 months ago? To my > understanding winetricks: > - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. > > - is a single utility that helps quite a bit to install WINE related >

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-15 Thread Austin English
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 13:52, Jari Aalto wrote: >    - is DFSG compliant. The current license is GPL. Nitpick, but winetricks is LGPL (same as Wine). >    - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. Winetricks can do some things without external help (change the emulated windows

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 04:05:59PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 03/13/2011 05:53 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:20:21 +0100 > > David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> Unfortunately many mirrors doesn't use the newest version of ftpsync [0] > >> and therefore their two stage update

Re: new Contents generator on ftp-master

2011-03-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 11:01 +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: > we have disabled the contents generator of apt-ftparchive and replaced > it by a new implementation in dak. There are some visible changes: [...] > The new implementation is currently only used for suites that are not > marked as untouchabl

Bug#618520: ITP: proftpd-mod-tar -- ProFTPD module supports on-the-fly creation of tar files.

2011-03-15 Thread Fabrizio Regalli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabrizio Regalli * Package name: proftpd-mod-tar Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : TJ Saunders * URL : http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_tar.html * License : GPL-2 Description : The mod_tar module suppor

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> git clone https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/archvsync.git> >> Easy enough to keep updated. > The point is that every now and then somebody decides to rewrite > and as a mirror admin i need to find out how the current way will > work, the current configuration looks like and how to fit it > into

Re: new Contents generator on ftp-master

2011-03-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> The new implementation is currently only used for suites that are not >> marked as untouchable. Oldstable and stable will switch during the next >> point release. > Have you (or anyone else) verified that any tools in {old,}stable > parsing contents files are compatible with the new structure (

Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-15 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hello, The current best practice for dealing with packages using GNU autotools (as described in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz) is to run autoreconf in a prerequisite of a build target, and to remove its results in the clean target. However that README does not give any hints on ho

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-15 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Dear Marcin, Marcin Owsiany schrieb am 15.03.2011 23:29: > However that README does not give any hints on how to best do the > cleaning. How are others doing it? in puf we're using dh-autoreconf in the dh(7) sequence, which creates a list of modified files, backs them up and restores them later ag

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-15 Thread Josue Abarca
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:29:57PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Hello, > > The current best practice for dealing with packages using GNU autotools > (as described in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz) is to > run autoreconf in a prerequisite of a build target, and to remove its > res

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:29:57 + Marcin Owsiany wrote: > The current best practice for dealing with packages using GNU > autotools (as described > in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz) is to run > autoreconf in a prerequisite of a build target, and to remove its > results in the cle

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-15 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 15/03/11 22:29, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > The current best practice for dealing with packages using GNU autotools > (as described in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz) is to > run autoreconf in a prerequisite of a build target, and to remove its > results in the clean target. > > Howe

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:55:54PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:29:57 + > Marcin Owsiany wrote: [...] > >Since I use (or plan to use) git-buildpackage, I don't have a > > tarball which could serve as an authoritative whitelist. Thus an > > additional whitelist refre

Transitional packages with conffiles

2011-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, after this problem came up on irc I thought I would mention it to a larger audience: After upgrading to squeeze the dhcp client suddenly started to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf again while before it was configured not to do so. Looking into the cause we discovered that the problem is that dhcp

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Pentchev writes: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: >> > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most >> > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild >> > r

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:42:32PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> > > I disagree here. >> > > Alternatives in build-* relationships *are*

Re: Transitional packages with conffiles

2011-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On a somewhat related note: If a package is manually installed, then replaced with a transitional package, then apt should mark the transitional package's dependencies as manually installed and the transitional package as automatically installed. Otherwise, when one removes the transitional packa

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: > On 02/03/11 04:24, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> It seems to me not worth a mass bug filing. This doesn't seem like >> something >> that would affect user's systems. Is there a rationale for imposing this >> ordering other than puiparts can't deal with it? > > If

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mike O'Connor writes: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:41:00 -0500, Scott Kitterman > wrote: >> On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 04:53:46 am Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > >> > If you have non-free enabled and install a package from main, it should >> > install the dependencies from main. So you should hav

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > don't even use Debian as there system. And then those that do use Debian > use stable usually (or even oldstable), meaning you have to put every > update inside there. Good luck, it's not something I want to do. I would have thought it woul