Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

OP: usually apt will tell you what exactly are the unmet dependencies, just try to install them directly along with gnome or reporting the exact error message. The exact output is: linux:~# apt-get -t unstable install gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some pa

debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

I have just added support to debbugs in cvs, and on master, so that the maintainer address for a package can be overriden. This allows the real maintainer to be someone different than the person or list that gets the bugs. This is useful, when the real maintainer is doing the upload, and dinstall

Bug#1074463: ITP: bashbro -- A Bash-based web file browser.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Danischewski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: bashbro Version : 1.04.1 Upstream Contact: Adam Danischewski * URL : https://github.com/victrixsoft/bashbro * License : GPL Programming

Re: aide 0.8-2 moved /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf

-2 Candidate: 0.8-2 Version Table: *** 0.8-2 0 No problems here. Aide conf file is in /etc/aide as it is suppose to be. - Adam -- Building your applications one byte at a time http://www.galacticasoftware.com

AMD64 Archive Key compromised!

Matthew Garrett wrote: >Developers, do not allow > >http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg > >to happen to you. > > > Yeah. debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/wanna-build/secring.gpg is Forbidden, but ftp.be

Re: Apt-Torrent project

n't make too much sense here. It is only useful for large files that do not change often, like woody iso images. - Adam -- Building your applications one byte at a time http://www.galacticasoftware.com

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

Will Newton wrote: >On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 09:27, David Weinehall wrote: > > >>>So far so sarcastic. IMO if it can be demonstrated that distributing >>>something is illegal we should think about not distributing it. >>> >>> >>And, as demonstrated elsewhere in the thread, whoops goes >>bib

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.08.0909 +0100]: > > Generally the dpkg-* namespace is reserved for features that are > > intended for integration into dpkg at some point. > > well, by all means then. If dpkg-repack and dpkg-

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.09.2053 +0100]: > > Probably yes on dpkg-repack. Definately not for dpkg-www. Which > > is a sucky name, btw. > > Agreed. However, if dpkg-repack goes into dpkg, why not

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Say, perhaps a "Date:" field could be added to Packages files. > > I mean even dog food has the date stamped on it these days. > > Even my crumby message has a Date: field. > > Sure, as your eyes scan the MD

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > Adam Heath wrote: > > Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I > > mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output. > > > > Ie, multiple input methods: .deb, .rpm, fil

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:51 +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > > Adam Heath wrote: > > > Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I > > > mean, is being able to use it in a filter,

Re: Linux Core Consortium

s of how you feel about proprietary software, it is someone else's work and they are free to sell or license it as they see fit. I don't see how someone advocating "freedom" can in the same (virtual) breath presume to dictate what other people do with their work. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Linux Core Consortium

s are our users and free software. Just because someone works for an ISV or develops on/for proprietary software does not make them a second class user. That said, I am not arguing for or against LCC, I just didn't like the tone of Wouter's e-mail, or the sentiment implied in it. --Adam -

Re: Linux Core Consortium

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:05:00AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op do, 16-12-2004 te 17:07 -0800, schreef Adam McKenna: > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:13:11AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I think Wouter is only asking for reciprocity here. If they don't care >

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Ballard wrote: > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > into his shell and refuses to discuss this problem. > > Since his package (and theoretically any package which generates > packages) may be uninstallable because there is no way to

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Ballard wrote: > > > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > > into his shell and refuses to discuss this problem. > > > > Since his package (and theoretical

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:02:40PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > > > into his shell and refuses to

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Sebastian Ley wrote: > * William Ballard wrote: > > [...crap...] > > Do you need the -utils apckage to build the -source package? No. So no Depends > and no Recommends for you. Period. Depends and Recommends have a certain > well-defined meaning and I am greatful that we are no

Bug#293055: ITP: rails -- MCV ruby based framework geared for web application development

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rails Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : David Heinemeier Hansson * URL : http://www.rubyonrails.com * License : MIT Description : MVC ruby based framework gear

Re: Bug#293055: ITP: rails -- MCV ruby based framework geared for web application development

deploy the framework for production environment (ie. no docs or unneeded parts of the framework). I will be using rails next week so the package will be ready by end of the weekend. What does your package look like? Do you have a place where I can download it? - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#293669: ITP: xen -- virtual machine monitor

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Thomas Wana wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > > * Package name: xen > Version : 2.0.4 > Upstream Author : University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/S

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: xen 2.0.x and debian

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: > > > Tom Hibbert wrote: > > > I think we are waiting on 2.6.10 to get accepted into testing. If > > > you're tired of waiting you can build the debs yourself (l

Re: Packaging status of Xen 2.0(.4)

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Adam, > > how are you? I'm writing again for a Xen 2 update. > > How does the packaging of Xen 2.0(.4) proceed ? I've started myself > the packaging in the hope I can help you with my work. Er, you aren't paying a

Re: Packaging status of Xen 2.0(.4)

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Adam, > > > It's still sitting in NEW however. > Nice. I've downloaded the 2.0.4-3 packages from people.d.o and created > kernel-image-2.6.10 packages with Xen applied. Everybody who is interesed > in Xen 2.0 can use th

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, David Mandelberg wrote: > GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > > ... which would mean that it would become unaccessible (and thus > > meaningless) as the real /var gets mounted later in the boot process. > > You cannot reliably put it under a directory that is not guaranteed to > > be on the

Re: Orphaning three packages

ve been filed for all of them. > >If no one wants them, I'll ask for their removal. > > > That should be O: not RFA:, especially since you will not maintain these yourself. - Adam -- The email address used to send this email is temporary. It is bound to disappear at any

Re: Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Please be so kind and keep the bug number address in the Cc > > Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:24:59PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Is any tetex package installed on the system, and can you give the > >> vers

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:38:08AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > >> Francesco P. Lovergine writes: > >> > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for > >> > either --help

immediate downtime for {master,murphy}.debian.org

Due to unforseen hardware issues with other machines we host, we need to take master and murphy offline, install them onto rails. We had planned on scheduling this, but other problematic hardware has forced to do this on short notice. The original rails sent with the machines didn't work in our r

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > files.downloaded percent > i386 1285422 70.5079 > all 504789 27.6886 > powerpc17754 0.9738 > ia64 10111 0.5546 > sparc 3336 0.1830 > arm 850 0.0466

Re: Add a videocard to Discover

do the trick. Just forward the report there. lspci -v is sufficient, but what you have is good too. The PCI ID of the card is: 10de:0185 (from /usr/share/misc/pci.ids). You can get that id directly if you run `lspci -s 1:0 -n` The -n option prevents lspci from translating the PCI id to the string v

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

l likely break again, >in exactly the same way it did before. > > Not necessarily. When I attempted to get mysql-query-browser requeued on arm two weeks ago, I sent an email to the arm porting list and James Troup as he is listed the buildd maintainer on http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/

Re: Tips wanted for debugging and testing Debian

second partition or is there any >possibility to run one Debian (or twice... ) for debugging in a virtual >server, like bochs? > > Read, http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot You don't even need a second partition :) - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: self-depending packages

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho > > | On 20050228T204520+, Andrew Suffield wrote: > | > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:49:41PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > | > > On 20050228T164806+, Andrew Suffield wrote: > | > > > Unfortunately apt breaks the c

Re: self-depending packages

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Adam Heath > > | On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > | > apt invokes dpkg on the command line and due to maximum command > | > line length it sometimes is split in an unfortunate place. > | > > |

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

e and I got that resolved upstream recently. Steve, should we be going ahead with the push to make this transition occur as soon as we can, now that the license mess is sorted? ... Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xend is stopped before xendomains in debs

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > >On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > >>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Henning Glawe wrote: > >>> > >>> Moin, > >>> just discovered a small problem in t

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Paul Hampson wrote: > * timestamp skew means that the autobuilt makefiles will try > to rebuild configure from configure.in even if configure is patched by > dpkg-source at the same time as configure.in > * A solution for this is in the above-mentioned README.Debian New

Re: discussing Debians qualities

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > > The time it takes to do a release nowadays might very well be related > > to the use of testing. I tend to think we did better before we > > introduced testing. > > Probably. On the other hand, I think that the coverage

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

ropose to 'ban' someone from d-d? --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ttf-antp Version : 0.51 Upstream Author : Bogus³aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk * URL : http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/poltawski-e.html * L

Re: Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Miros/law Baran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1 > > GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa Toru?ska etc.) - I think such a package > > will be redundant. > > Well, tetex-base only has the afm a

Re: how to deal with screwed up package

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: I'm working on new package for FUSE[1]. Sad to come clean, but I screwed previous package(s) up. There are plenty of bugs wrt debconf questions and actions after them. There is also request[2] to simplify or even remove questions at all. Now I

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Marc Haber wrote: > >In the archive, 525 out of 283283 .deb's are dpkg-sig'd (0.19%). There > >are 8 distinct keys used for those 525 .deb's, seven of which correspond > >to DD's[1]. > > So, most of the DD's do not care about security at all. Why does > Debian have a reputatio

Re: possible freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:37:19PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Due to upstream ABI changes, it looks very likely that libfreetype is > > going to have to undergo a library transition in the near future[0]. > > The details are still being settled, a

Re: Checksumming tool

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > File: foo%20bar/hellurei.txt > Size: 12345 > MD5: 012345667 > SHA-256: 0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a > Mode: 0644 Checksum: md5: 0123456789[B sha-256: 0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a Having the names of the checksums be t

Re: key please

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, c sojanc wrote: > sir, > i want user name and serial number to install Wildform > Wild fx 3 id10t 42 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: use nameif. This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations renaming eth0. Well, you just cant use existing names (this could be fixed, however i am not sure if this is needed) It

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 19, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there some reason we should be unable to provide a smooth upgrade path for users of sarge? Having your network devices scramble themselves on reboot is a Big Deal, whether or not it's in the releas

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Steve Greenland wrote: On 20-Dec-05, 09:56 (CST), Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:57:08AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: [1] Dark blue on black. Need I say more? The reality is that visibility of color combinations is heavily dependent on

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now, if your terminal pretends to be xterm but does not use the color scheme of xterm, how should vim know that? You can't. real console: TERM='linux' xterm: TERM='xterm' gnome-terminal: TERM='xterm' konsol

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > It would require some buildd hacking to get it to use gzip only for > those few debs so more human power. debs are created by debian/rules. So, only dependencies of dpkg would have to be modified. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, you are the expert, i said this, because the > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule script i use in mkvmlinuz and recomended by > debconf-devel says : > > # Redirect standard output to standard error. This prevents common > # mistakes by mak

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > debs are created by debian/rules. So, only dependencies of dpkg would have > > to > > be modified. > > I was talking about the hypothetical situation of dpkg defaulting to > !gzip compression and adding a Pre-Depends to the dpkg version > requ

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > No, the packages themselves would include such logic in their debian/rules. > > There's no way we'd want to keep buildds in sync with what the set of core > > packages is. > > That would realy defeat the purpose of not having to modify every deb

[OT: HUMOR] Re: stable aliases for CD drives

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:00:40AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > As you can see, %e will go away soon so /etc/udev/cd-aliases.rules will > > not be supported anymore. > > Some component of debian will have to install a rules file with static > > aliase

Re: Bug#345091: ITP: checkgmail -- Alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: checkgmail > Version : 1.4 > Upstream Author : Owen Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/ > * Li

Re: not getting CCs from the bugs I reported

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all >I might be acting paranoid here but just want to clarify couple of > things. I was under the impression that, if I report a bug to > bugs.debian.org, any future correspondence on that bug will be CCed to > me automatically. Is this corr

Re: dependencies on makedev

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > To prepare for the eventual removal of makedev, I propose that packages > currently depending on it will add an alternative dependency to udev. > Also, policy should be amended accordingly. Er, why is makedev being removed? Please clue me in. -- To U

Re: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Hi Milan, Jon, > > As discussed, 'the Debian project' as such has huge difficulties accepting > hardware donations - offers are often turned down. (tangent - in my opinion > donations should be accepted more liberally and if the Debian > administrato

Re: dependencies on makedev

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 29, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > To prepare for the eventual removal of makedev, I propose that packages > > Er, why is makedev being removed? Please clue me in. > "Eventual" is the

Re: dependencies on makedev

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 29, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because /eventually/ it will not be needed anymore (at least by most > > > users, which then will be able to remove it from their systems). > > Is there som

[RESOLVED] Re: dependencies on makedev

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Dec 29, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Because /eventually/ it will not be needed anymore (at least by most > > > > users, wh

Re: dependencies on makedev

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: > > How does persistance of the permission model work? Can I do chown/chmod on > > the dynamic files in /dev, and have them remain the next time? Even if a > > device node changes it's name? Or do I have to edit some alternative > > database? > > You edit

Re: dependencies on makedev

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's the wrong answer. > > > > What ever happened to standard unix tools? chmod/mkdir/chown/mv? > > > > You're suggesting doing things like some oth

brainfood outage today(master/murphy(lists.debian.org))

Today our main router's power supply bit the big one. However, it's back now. Sorry for the inconvience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bits from the release team

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 1/3/06, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it > > should be together with the rest of base, i believe. > > [...] > > We will have a kernel which is outdated by two

Re: apt-torrent (WAS: Re: apt PARALLELISM)

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Arnaud Kyheng wrote: > > Hello all and Happy New Year, > > > Thanks to George, apt-torrent has been mentioned in the Debian Devel > list :o) > > I've just noticed it, and the fun part of this discovery, is that I also > found why my ISP has closed sianka.free.fr: Too much hits

Re: Powerfulness

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? > > No, there's actually three classes: "Simple editors for newbies", > "not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors", and "religions". ae is the religion variety.

Re: For those who care about lesbians

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:00:40PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Since this sort of thing is apparently okay nowadays, and I know that > > a lot of you like looking at lesbians, I'd like to share this with > > you: > > > > http://www.flick

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

trivial as introducing new variables, but a lot simpler in the sort term and the long term. - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:45:29PM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: I saw today that the python-minimal package in unstable is tagged as Essential (and currently pulls in python2.3). According to policy, this is supposed to happen only after discussion on debi

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:28:07PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: I've changed the override to Priority: standard; I can't say I'm remotely impressed by how this has been handled. Could this be

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Joey Hess wrote: > Please consider ALL code written/maintained by me that is present in > Ubuntu and is not bit-identical to code/binaries in Debian to be not > suitable for release with my name on it. Then how would d-i+debconf have gotten some of the enhancments that you yo

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: > > What I find very dissapointing is that mdz asked on debian-devel twice > > for a decision from debian how ubuntu should handle the maintainer Field > > without any luck: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg00678.html > > http://lists.de

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Debian developers set the Maintainer field to themselves(or a team), when > > they > > upload to Debian. The upstream author is only mentioned in the copyright > > file. > > > > Ubuntu should do something similiar. Set the Maintainer field to someo

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Debian developers set the Maintainer field to themselves(or a team), when > > they > > upload to Debian. The upstream author is only mentioned in the copyright > > file. > > > > Ubuntu should do something similiar. Set the Maintainer field to someo

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Otavio Salvador wrote: > In my point of view, maintainer field just need to be change when > Ubuntu does a non-trivial change on it. Otherwise, at least to me, is > OK to leave the maintainer field unchanged. Directly imported source > (that will be just recompiled by Ubuntu)

Re: make-kpkg fails, Bug?

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > Hi, > > I just did an upgrade on Sid and an upgrade on Linus tree. Since > then, I can't create a kernel-image. > gcc version 4.0.3 20060115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-7) > Package: kernel-package > Version: 10.032 > > I just would love to

Re: make-kpkg fails, Bug?

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > >What does /bin/sh point to? > > > > > > > Could you please explain what is exactly what you need to check? ls -l /bin/sh In other words, what does /bin/sh point to? What shell is /bin/sh? bash? zsh(gods no)? posh? dash? -- To UNSUBS

Re: The klik project and Debian

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There seems to be a fairly good amount of Debian Sarge packages > > available via http://klik.atekon.de/. However, most of them are having > > unmaintained recipes and therefore some of them do not work > > properly. I think

[OT] Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The point, however, is that it's rather silly to add yet another > scripting language to the set of Essential packages. Sure, it'd be nice; > but then tomorrow someone else will come along who will claim that > Python is sucky and that Ruby is Teh Thin

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the "everything is software" vote as an "editorial change" and deceived many other developers should have tought about this. There are two different definitions of the word software: 1. something that can be represent

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

ssue. The changes could only have been referred to as 'editorial' if wide consensus and understanding had already been reached about their effects. I think it's fair to say that this was not the case at the time. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL P

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:54:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > No, like chosing ati over nvidia for graphic cards, or silicon image over > others for SATA cards. Wait a minute, did I miss a memo? ATI isn't the devil anymore? --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

ith non-free drivers (from floppy/cd) during the install process, I'd say that it makes even more sense for ndiswrapper to go into main (and maybe even into base). --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

The driver should stay in main and hooks should be written into the installer so that our users can easily enable their wireless cards during installation. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:13:15PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > The driver should stay in main and hooks should be written into the s/driver/package.. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:36:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:01:40PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > > IMHO, the main purpose of contrib is to avoid shipping things on CD that > > depend on programs in non-free. It is not a section that we put programs

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

und argument that is not similar to "CIPE, and Windows driver developers who want to test on Linux don't count." --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

te. "warez" is a slang term for software that has been copied illegally. It does not refer to non-free software that has been copied or obtained legally. Please get a clue. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

t have for this software, and since it unambiguously fulfills the requirements, it should stay in main. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

r they 'count'. They exist, and that is enough to fulfill the requirement. If you have a problem with that, you are free to try to change the rules. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

#x27;ve already > indicated I don't accept, than actually talk about it properly? Because you're wrong. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:20:47AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:32:26PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Well, yeah, I am, since I'm both on ftpmaster and on the tech ctte, the > > latter of which is considering a resolution to move it right now.

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

s the second statement being the reason that most of us want ndiswrapper in main, that may be true, but it is no excuse to ignore rules that are very clearly laid out in the SC and DFSG. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:55:01PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as the second statement being the reason that most of us want > > ndiswrapper in main, that may be true, but it is no excuse to ignore rules > &

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

oper's judgement in this instance would be an abuse of power, since the DFSG and SC (not to mention policy) clearly spell out the requirements for main, and ndiswrapper clearly meets them. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

ing with you, and I'm going to stop now. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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