Re: Example for use of dh_strip --dbg-package=... and CDBS?

2005-03-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
= --dbg-package=libfltk1.1c102 clean:: rm -rf autom4te.cache build/fltk1.1-doc:: cd documentation && make fltk.ps && make fltk.pdf binary-predeb/fluid:: binary-fixup/libfltk1.1c102 [Likewise for ncbi-tools6, but its rules file is much hairier.] -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +pcsx: i386# i386 > assembly AFAICT, this is only because its Linux/Makefile forces CPU to ix86 unconditionally. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-08 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
- I built it mainly because I'm a packrat. ;-) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. diff -u pcsx-1.6df/debian/control pcsx-1.6df/debian/control --- pcsx-1.6df/debian/control +++ pcsx-1.6df/deb

Re: c2a transition: libraries still needing transition

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ds because tight dependencies between binary-all and binary-arch packages yielded broken binNMUs: cinepaint kgeography pingus (maybe others, those are just the ones I've run into that haven't been fixed yet). Surprisingly, only pingus has a bug open about the matter (#3422

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
n! :-/ > Which package gets the bug report? Looks like libgconf2-4, for lacking proper dependencies (on libpango1.0-0, at the very least). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Heimdal and openssh

2006-01-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Juha Jäykkä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> * Interoperate with ssh-krb5 << 3.8.1p1-1 servers, which used a >>> slightly >>> different version of the gssapi authentication method (thanks, Aa

Bug#351276: ITP: python-dsv -- Python module for delimiter-separated-value files

2006-02-03 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Aaron M. Ucko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-dsv Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-dsv/ * License : standa

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-02-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Were can I read up on how and why I should do this? AFAIR, the policy /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz has advice on how to run configure scripts sanely. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Fing

Re: AT&T Korn Shell

2006-02-28 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
performance improvement for perl applications if sfio > (provided by libast) is used instead of stdio. There are sfio-dev and sfio2000 packages, though nothing in the archive appears to be built against them at present. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [E

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-09 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ow, > unfortunately. Any suggested solutions? I believe Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.12), libselinux-dev [linux-any], ... is supposed to work nowadays. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more in

Re: Bug#292572: ITP: praat -- program for speech analysis and synthesis

2005-01-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
# É 242 U+0334 # Ì 243 U+030C # Ì 244 U+030C # Ì 245 U+0299 # Ê 246 U+0268 # É 247 U+0273 # É 248 U+0272 # É 249 U+02D0 # Ëshootingrange [ËÊuËtÉÅreÉndÊ] 250 U+0266 # É 251 U+0199 # Æ 252 U+0291 # Ê 253 U+029B # Ê 254 U+0255 # É 25

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Florian Zumbiehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> FLTK Please consider this ambiguous (like FAQ), as upstream favors the pronunciation "fulltick" (and makes a point of noting so on the main http://www.fltk.org/ page because a lot of users nevertheless do spell it out). Than

Re: Bug#303609: ITP: libdata-dumper-perl -- stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval

2005-04-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
uch, I see no reason to package it separately. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked

2005-04-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just one question, how do we access the box if the .ssh directory has been > disabled ? AFAICT, it still consults LDAP (db.d.o) for authorized keys. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTE

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ments: #!/bin/bash -norc cmd=git-$1-script if command -v "$cmd" >/dev/null 2>&1; then shift exec "$cmd" "$@" else exec -a "$0" /usr/bin/git.not-cogito "$@" fi (You'd likewise need to divert /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.

Re: wiki.debian.net brokenness?

2005-06-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
> However, it doesn't provide a link to log in (or maybe I'm just missing > the link?). This makes it rather difficult to actually update wikis. AFAICT, you just need to follow the link labeled AnonymousUser and enter some other username... -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at a

Re: Running x86-64 debian inside i386 pbuilder on AMD64

2006-08-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sander Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quick question: Do I only need the AMD64 linux-image package, or also > the linux-restricted-modules package? You need corresponding versions of whichever modules package(s) you currently have installed. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sander Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think Debian should do that, but perhaps the process to install > them after the fact could be easier for people who are not full blown > Linux admins? Are you aware of module-assistant? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu a

Re: Is lack of UTF support an RC bug?

2006-09-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
27;t get me wrong, I'm not against UTF-8, but just dropping everything > that doesn't support it, without a former warning, sounds ridiculous. Agreed. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more

Re: gcc-4.2 build-depends?

2006-10-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
while it is still only in experimental. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Looking for a program which generates binary formats decoders from a high-level description

2006-12-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
s is. The resulting decoders (and encoders, should you have need of them) are in Python. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: [OT] Looking for a program which generates binary formats decoders from a high-level description

2006-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
talled in /usr/share/bitpim/code/phones). You should also be able to ask questions on the bitpim-devel mailing list; only subscribers may post, but volume's pretty low. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for m

Re: GFDL question

2006-03-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ssion > ^ >> | to remove them is explicitly granted), are suitable for the main >> | component of our distribution. > > That includes both front- and back-cover texts. Perhaps Thomas meant "excludes from main" rather than "excludes from eviction." -- Aa

Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded

2006-03-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Yee-ha! This makes a wonderful (if moderately belated) first birthday present for my em64t workstation. :-) One question, though: what's the contact address for the new buildd's administrators? I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] (to call #359023 to their attention), but it bounces. -- Aar

Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded

2006-03-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
-devel isn't that focused either, but it is more developer-oriented.) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#360163: ITP: libannexlib-ocaml -- Library of miscellaneous OCaml code

2006-03-31 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Ewan Mellor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do I need to do anything to the ITP to reflect this, or should I > just close it any start again? I'd say it's sufficient, and not even strictly necessary, to retitle the bug. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
this file. Likewise for mindi and mondo, at least. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: id gives conflicting results

2006-05-19 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ne (but neglected to report it previously). To wit, my regular user account is a member of group adm, and id(1) confirms so, but the kernel reports EPERM on log files that only group adm can read when I have a PAG. :-/ -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EM

Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain

2006-07-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anybody else run into this? Is there something I can do that's > cleaner and closer to The Debian Way than manually making symlinks? Install the Debian toolchain-source package and go from there. -- Aaron M. Uck

Re: Version woes (packaging SWT milestones)

2005-01-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
r notation for FLTK prereleases.) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#194515: ITP: debdivert -- Debian packaging aid to create patch packages

2003-05-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ute because dpkg still doesn't support versioned provides. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
p, as opposed to merely knowing other developers with that stance. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Orphaning my packages

2003-05-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
be a better place to start, inasmuch as they are easier to deal with in many respects and accidentally breaking them may not necessarily affect anything else (though it obviously depends on the program in question). > - David Nusinow Any relation to the Nusinoviches? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1C

Re: buildd failure

2003-06-03 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
in paer's sid chroot? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]

2003-06-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
nf.d/20listchanges yourself. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: package descriptions dummy/transitional

2003-06-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
t you can't yet remove. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: kernel 2.5.73+, fakeroot, debuild - a small problem

2003-06-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
possible as an ordinary user? > 5. Influence the XFS/kernel maintainers to change the default value of > restrict_chown to enabled. I agree that this is the best solution. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Accepted java-gnome 0.8.0cvs20030627-1 (source)

2003-06-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
If you're going to leave out any architecture-specific packages from your uploads, please still include at least the arch-all packages, since the autobuilders skip them. Thanks. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e

Re: Debootstrap, Sid, and console-tools-libs

2003-07-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"Matthew P. McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > E: Couldn't download console-tools-libs You need a newer version of debootstrap; it looks like 0.1.17.29 corrects console-tools-libs to libconsole. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at d

problem setting up interlibrary dependencies

2003-07-12 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
really prefer to avoid the dependency bloat if I can.) [1] I am simultaneously renaming the package to libvibrant6, so please refrain from commenting on its archaic name. ;-) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: problem setting up interlibrary dependencies

2003-07-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
f the GL variant shows up at runtime in any fashion, the process should not use any symbols from the non-GL variant, even if it pulls it in indirectly. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Using reportbug with Gnus

2003-07-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
eportbug.el fixes it, at least on my system. Incidentally, you might also be interested in debbugs-el, which provides a nice report-debian-bug command. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Using reportbug with Gnus

2003-07-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That would be `M-x debian-bug'. :-) Oops, so it would; I crossed it with report-emacs-bug. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Nick Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I havn't offered them for general Debian machines is that there > are already (generally better) machines available on better connections. Last I checked, there weren't any public mips or mipsel machines. -- Aaron M

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
get account on another mipsel system for you. Nah, no rush. Thanks, though (and thanks to Noah for actually making it happen ;-)). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
proposed conference in DC next spring I asked about a few weeks ago is still planned. Meanwhile, I doubt I'd make it to anything in Vienna, but I'm fine with people meeting there, or anywhere else they can find critical mass. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.o

Re: package name change (moviemate -> mediamate)

2003-07-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
d say "as well as" rather than "instead," though of course you'll need to limit the conflict to pre-transition versions so that the dummy package is actually installable Otherwise, yeah, just make the change as smooth and transparent as you can. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC

Re: package name change (moviemate -> mediamate)

2003-07-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
onally point out dummy packages you can safely remove. At any rate, having a dummy package installed isn't a big deal; they aren't exactly huge. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Bug#205471: [rene@debian.org: Bug#205471: devscripts: running debuild could lead to deleting _all_ backup dirs/files on the system]

2003-08-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really like this idea, thank you! I will accept directory names Thanks. :-) > matching the regexp /^$package(-.*)?$/ - does that seem reasonable? Yep, though I might change the * to a +. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.

Re: [rene@debian.org: Bug#205471: devscripts: running debuild could lead to deleting _all_ backup dirs/files on the system]

2003-08-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
tarts with the name of the source package would allow your other cases while still avoiding things like $HOME (unless your username happens to match the package name, but that's probably too much of a corner case to worry about). BTW, no need to Cc: me. (No big deal, though.) -- Aaron M. Uc

Re: Accepted fltk 1.0.11-11.1 (i386 source all)

2003-08-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Congratulations, you've just broken binary compatibility by (implicitly) rebuilding with G++ 3.3. I'm preparing a new NMU that switches back to G++ 2.95 (except on IA64, which needs 2.95, and HPPA, which needs 3.0). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.o

Re: Accepted fltk 1.0.11-11.1 (i386 source all)

2003-08-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
dant bug; why was it not filed when g++ 3 became the > default? Good question. Lameness? At any rate, I have uploaded an -11.2 which should (I think...) restore sanity and keep -11.1 from making it out of incoming. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger

Re: where to install additional kernel modules?

2003-08-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where then should comedi install itself? comedi drivers are for data > acquisition cards. /lib/modules/VERSION/misc? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail addre

Re: where to install additional kernel modules?

2003-08-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
load fine. No need to Cc me, BTW. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Bug#208313: RFA: alsa-xmms -- ALSA 0.9 output plugin for XMMS

2003-09-01 Thread Aaron M . Ucko
n versions have generally been fairly small. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-03 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
e 0-day NMU period generally went quite well. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

2005-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > unfortunately heimdal bug #316980 makes curl FTBS :( :-/ Can you use MIT krb5 instead? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UN

Re: MIT krb5 vs. Heimdal for curl's GSSAPI support (Re: Who needs libcurl3?)

2005-07-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
n/build-gssapi && ../../configure ${CONFIGURE_ARGS} --with-gssapi=/usr endif touch configure-stamp -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
João Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone knows what package brings the todos command? $ apt-file search bin/todos sysutils: usr/bin/todos -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
f version 1.0.6) supports a path_map directive that allows for symbolic names. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>libncbi6-dev > > (Just a sample of the -dbg and -dev packages) This was genuinely buggy (oops), as it ships a couple of utilities alongside the other content; I've just up

Re: Intent to hijack gtkglext

2008-02-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've already prepared an upload for this. It should hopefully go > sometime today. Great; thanks for taking it off my DDPO page. ;-) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | htt

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
an.org/?p=users/rfrancoise/rcs.git Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/users/rfrancoise/rcs.git I can't say I entirely blame its maintainer, though. ;-) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

2008-02-29 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sylvestre Ledru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you want me to put as an author ? Electricité de France would be > OK ? In that case, I might give both the current legal form and a clarifying comment: EDF S.A. (historically named Electricité de France) -- Aaron M. Ucko,

Re: where to register TeX related software with doc-base?

2008-03-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ster the docs of some my TeX-related packages there :-) > Has this section been removed on purpose? If yes, where should > TeX-related documenation go now? Good question; with the currently declared hierarchy, I'd suggest Programming/TeX, but I acknowledge that that's still not en

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

2008-03-31 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
/12/msg00090.html ) gave testing -Bsymbolic-functions as a potential use case, but *NOT* as an actual proposed default (at least AFAICT). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSU

Re: Specification for the 'Bugs' field in 'debian/control'

2008-05-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
r this package. The current used format is ://,like deb- bugs://bugs.debian.org. You might also find /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers to be of interest. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http

Re: Correct way to rename a binary package

2008-06-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
gt; Am I correct? I believe so, modulo one typo (Replace: vs. Replaces:). Thanks for taking care to allow a smooth transition. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Laurent Léonard writes: > Description: detect if we are running in a virtual machine What does it offer over the existing imvirt package? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?...@monk.mit.

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

2009-08-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
und could be to follow gtk+-2.0's lead: keep the actual binaries in the lib package, but place them under /usr/lib and have the bin package just ship symlinks to them. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cg

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Magnus Holmgren writes: > * Self-contained, no dependencies (except libc), thanks to code included > from the PolarSSL project. >From a Debian perspective, that's a policy violation, not a feature! Please arrange for it to use an external PolarSSL installation. -- Aaron M

Re: Bug#556643: ITP: togl -- a Tk OpenGL widget

2009-11-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
portion you quoted is simply a reminder that it's legal to produce non-free derived works. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: Bug#412570: ITP: fldigi -- digital modem program for hamradio operators

2007-03-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would suggest adding a word about the interface - is it a GUI or > console program? FLTK is a GUI toolkit. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) f

Re: [Help] AMD64 specific bug on libblitz0 (#424644)

2007-05-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
sion of g++-4.1 *currently* in sid, but last week's version is another matter entirely. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: [Help] AMD64 specific bug on libblitz0 (#424644)

2007-05-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That means if I would ask for a binary only upload for AMD64 this bug > would be fixed? I believe so. > How can I ask for this? Per http://zomers.be/~luk/blog/content/binNMU.html , simply email a rebuild request to debian-release. --

Is Ron Lee MIA? (was Re: wxwidgets2.8)

2007-05-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
sign of him since? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Ron Lee MIA?

2007-05-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sounds reasonable, though I'm spread too thin already to participate myself; wxWidgets is rather large and popular for anyone to take on solo, even with close ties to upstream. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-ma

Re: Bug#480563: Doesn't strip binary NMU version (+b1, +bN etc.) when reporting bugs

2008-07-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
to agree -- better to err on the side of sending extra information, which the BTS can presumably at least arrange to ignore for the time being if fully handling it is too involved. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.e

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ou want to widen the set slightly). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need g++-3.4 package in lenny

2008-08-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
to port to the modern .h-less headers; iostream.h predates the standard, and has been deprecated for years. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig with a -dev package because of .so development files ?

2008-08-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
libs -X/usr/lib/httrack/libtest -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changelog and patche

2008-10-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"Sandro Tosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can ask lintian to be more verbose, adding -v option to its call. I'd suggest -i, as -v merely traces lintian's activity in more detail. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) ht

Re: (UPDATED) mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2009-01-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Kees Cook writes: > Aaron M. Ucko >ncbi-tools6 Not any more; I uploaded a fixed version (6.1.20080302-4) more than a week ago, and it's even propagated to lenny because the release team honored my request to unblock it. (Thanks!) I just hadn't previously bothered replyi

Re: Bug#512834: ITP: ocaml-autoconf -- autoconf macros for OCaml

2009-01-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Adeodato Simó writes: > Package: autoconf-archive I agree that that makes sense as a long-term location. If you're impatient, perhaps you could (temporarily?) add it to ocaml-tools. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu

Re: How to track down the data of package installations

2007-11-03 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
That sounds like the xfwm4/gtk-2.12 deadlock fixed in xfwm4 4.4.1-3, which evidently hasn't actually made it into testing yet despite its high urgency. :-/ -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-08 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
F tag that ld could set and the kernel and ld.so could check; while this would be more involved, it would be less hackish and would avoid introducing new potential vulnerabilities. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.ed

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-08 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ld be nice to be able to create a protected executable for personal use without having special privileges, or to be able to mount a filesystem nosuid without losing process protection. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
bout that; I read most debian lists via GMANE, and have not yet worked out how to tweak Gnus to honor it automatically. I'll try to keep an eye out, and have taken care to include you directly on this reply. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://ww

Re: APT: Errors when replacing syslog by syslog-ng

2003-10-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, but why are there _two_ identical messages for both klogd and anacron? Probably once for the real package "sysklogd" and once for the virtual package "system-log-daemon", since the dependencies explicitly list both. --

Re: XMMS doesn't like itself much...

2003-10-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
n favor of the new xmms version. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: XMMS doesn't like itself much...

2003-10-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
just only chooses to mention the latter relationship, at least on that screen. I agree that its interface could be better, and personally favor aptitude; however, it doesn't have explicit conflict-resolution screens at all. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger

Re: XMMS doesn't like itself much...

2003-10-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
gest giving aptitude a try. BTW, debian-user might have been a more appropriate list. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Changes in t1lib.

2003-11-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
b/libt1-/ (yielding libt1-1, etc.)? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Changes in t1lib.

2003-11-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
felt it would be better to keep the upstream name.) At any rate, only the ftpmasters can raise binding objections; since they evidently didn't, I will let it drop and wish you (and the packages) well. -- Aaron M. Ucko (Ucho, historically, AFAICT.)

Re: Victory Abah

2003-11-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
to transfer > 152 million dollars to your account. Is this a guy ligit, did you pursue > this? The offer is almost certainly a scam; please see <http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/nigeralrt.htm>. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL P

Re: Bug#221492: ITP: smile -- [Biology] Find statistically significant patterns in sequences

2003-11-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
trary sequence alphabets, which may even be degenerate. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"X&calc -rpn" Execxcalc -rpn + "&Galeon" Execgaleon -- Aaron M. Ucko, who'd be happy to hack together converters if he had reason to believe it would put an end to this perpetual bickering.

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-09 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
queues, especially queue/new, can also be interesting to inspect, but mirror delay there would hardly be the end of the world. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-09 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:37:55PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: >> - how to verify that katie will process uploads as expected (I'd been >> running dinstall -n, via dput -D; I suppose it would be possible to >> upload s

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-09 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - how to run madison and wanna-build I thought the idea was for the unrestricted mirror to include a read-only copy of the database madison consults. wanna-build presumably needs more real-time access, though. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJ

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