Three steps to the software you need at the prices you want

2005-06-05 Thread Eugene
Super software, swell prices, splendid service. http://fnavi.4b81pl4fjwmbj5m.impynjimpy9.com Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Television: chewing gum for the eyes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Bug#696848: general: USB flash drive unmount problems (both squeeze/wheezy)

2012-12-27 Thread Eugene
Package: general Severity: normal Working both in squeeze/xfce/thunar and wheezy/lxde/pcmanfm (both up-to-date). Three computers: Old 1.3GHz/i386, New 2x2.2GHz/amd64 and eeepc 0.9GHz. Tested on Transcend jetflash 4Gb and Kingston DataTraveler 4Gb. When I eject the USB flash drive (by right-clickin

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread Eugene Konev
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:44:20 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: SL> 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of /usr/X11R6/, SL> packages providing fonts for X should now install to /usr/share/fonts/X11 SL> instead of to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. The heirarchy is the same as SL

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-18 Thread Eugene Konev
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:05:38 +0200 Norbert Preining wrote: NP> So I let the package depend on debhelper >= 5.0.31, but: NP> /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/foo.scale NP> or NP> /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/Type1/foo.scale NP> ? /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/Type1/foo.scale NP> I would say that the fo

new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
Hi all I've read the debian news announcement today (http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090730). What got me very interested was the part about a new package format (in my oppinion this area can be vastly improved, and I'm interested in contributing). Searching the list archives I was unable to find

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
2009/7/31 Giacomo A. Catenazzi : > Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: >> >> Hi all >> I've read the debian news announcement today >> (http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090730). What got me very >> interested was the part about a new package format > > There a

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
2009/7/31 Giacomo A. Catenazzi : > Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: >> >> 2009/7/31 Giacomo A. Catenazzi : >>> >>> Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: >>>> >>>> (in my oppinion >>>> this area can be vastly improved, and I'm interested in con

Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)

2009-07-31 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
Is there any way to actually make it harder to spam the list? I just subscribed and already see spam and phishing attacks... 2009/8/1 Unex Webmaster : >        Unex Webmail Technical Services- > > Account Subscriber, > > We are currently performing maintenance on our Digital webmail Server

Re: new package format

2009-08-01 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
2009/8/1 Tollef Fog Heen : > ]] Eugene Gorodinsky > > | I also think some abstraction from the actual filesystem is a good > | idea. For example currently the only way to install a lib in a > | directory other than the one it was intended for is by using a hack > | that would loo

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-01 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
2009/8/1 brian m. carlson : > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:24:28AM +0300, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: >> Is there any way to actually make it harder to spam the list? I just >> subscribed and already see spam and phishing attacks... > > Yes.  There are infinitely many ways to make

Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-19 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
A while ago I participated in a discussion here about the debian package format. Quite recently I tried to spark up a discussion about package formats on the LSB list but did not get any replies, hopefully this discussion will be more welcome here. Constructive crticism is welcome, so feel free to

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
I believe RPM is not suited well enough for this job, it tries to do everything rather than doing one thing and doing it well. The package format I'm proposing has a few features rpm does not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
>Not to mention that the package format is not the only thing that matters. >It is the contents of the package, the rules, specs and standards that are >followed that cause the most differences. I aggree, and I'm hoping to resolve this issue >Oh and I guess I'm missing something, otherwise why wo

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
> I've read that several times, but I still must be missing something. >My impression is that your poins is essentially the following: 1. it's >too much work for "small distros" to use any new format instead of one >of the big established ones; 2. let's reduce the number of big >established format

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
Sorry for the delay, I've been very busy last week. >> A while ago I participated in a discussion here about the debian >> package format. Quite recently I tried to spark up a discussion about >> package formats on the LSB list but did not get any replies > >Can you point to the message (preferabl

Bug#607821: ITP: haskell-strptime -- Haskell binding for strptime with some extra features

2010-12-22 Thread Eugene Kirpichov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eugene Kirpichov X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: haskell-strptime Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Eugene Kirpichov * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/strptime * License : New BSD

debian/watch problem

2014-06-13 Thread Eugene Zhukov
https://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/downloads/list [1] https://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/source/browse/#svn%2Ftags%2FV20131210 Thanks, Eugene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

virtual machine from USB stick (virt-manager & qemu/kvm)

2014-06-30 Thread Eugene Zhukov
Hello, I know this question probably doesn't belong to this list, and I tried debian-user@ first, but didn't get a single response. I'm trying to create a VM with Windows 7. Is there a way to do that from USB stick? It is a ~10GB corporate Windows package. Thanks, Eugene --

Bug#686380: ITP: asn1c -- ASN.1 compiler for C

2012-08-31 Thread Eugene Seliverstov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eugene Seliverstov * Package name: asn1c Version : 0.9.21 Upstream Author : Lev Walkin * URL : http://asn1c.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : ASN.1 compiler for C This ASN.1

uscan connection error

2013-05-15 Thread Eugene Zhukov
/ (\d.*)/ debian debian/orig-tar.sh uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage https://www.saxonica.co.uk/repos/archive/opensource/tags/ failed: 500 Can't connect to www.saxonica.co.uk:443 -- Scan finished Any clue? Thanks, Eugene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: uscan connection error

2013-05-16 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Eugene Zhukov wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to download sources using d/watch and uscan.

Re: uscan connection error

2013-05-16 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Eugene Zhukov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to download sources using d/watch and uscan. Here is the >> output of uscan --verbose --force-download: >> -- Sc

Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Eugene Lychauka
ple assure me that not. Thank you, Eugene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAALuUm+yWVms9byd+cmb-zewRHXpq=XNVWG41RaB4cZx_an=q...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Eugene Zhukov
n is all you have. > Have you tried asking them (the upstream) for a tag? I have a couple of times asked politely for a tag from some upstreams and was lucky to get one, even though the upstream hasn't had a tag in years. Eugene

credentials config at pkg install

2014-12-11 Thread Eugene Zhukov
s and other configurations I plan to put under /etc. If that's OK solution, could you please point me to some example package doing similar thing? Thanks, Eugene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: credentials config at pkg install

2014-12-11 Thread Eugene Zhukov
Thanks for quick replies! I'll go forward with AICCU and debconf way. Not sure if I will eventually upload my package to Debian though, since this dynDNS provider is only for Finland and user base would be small. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Who gets an email when with bugreports [was: Re: Unauthorised activity surrounding tbb package]

2015-01-19 Thread Eugene Zhukov
tainer doesn't get mail about a bug. For example I'm listed as a maintainer of epubcheck package, but I didn't receive any email about reported bug #773366. I've sent a mail to ow...@bugs.debian.org asking about absence of any notification about reported bug, but no response since

Re: oauth2 sprint at DebConf?

2015-03-19 Thread Eugene Zhukov
probably more fun when done in a group, so this > looks like an idea for a DebConf Sprint[3]. > > Who would be interested in joining this? > I've already booked my flight to DebConf. Eugene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Rebuilding package reverse build-dependencies

2017-02-09 Thread Eugene Zhukov
one go in a more-or-less clean environment (chroot/container/vm)? Thanks, Eugene

Re: Rebuilding package reverse build-dependencies

2017-03-13 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 03:24:48PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: >> I have a package (saxonhe) whose newer versions are not backwards >> compatible and break other packages (build)depending on it e.g. >> epubcheck. I g

Package removal from testing for bug in stable

2016-06-17 Thread Eugene Zhukov
Hello, The package is marked for autoremoval from testing, however the RC[1] bug is reported against version in stable (testing has a newer version, without a bug). How autoremoval is relevant in this case? [1] Although my question is generic, #826864 triggered this question Thanks, Eugene

Re: Package removal from testing for bug in stable

2016-06-19 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 17.06.2016 09:31, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > >> The package is marked for autoremoval from testing, however the RC[1] >> bug is reported against version in stable (testing has a newer >> version, without

Is xforms0.86 save to install?

1998-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
BY the way, I don't feel comfortable about posting to the developers's list, although I do lurk there. I had some trouble installing some packages that needed xforms0.86. xforms0.86, in turn, needed elf-x11r6lib, which apparently is obsolete. Is it safe to install xforms0.86, not including th

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
system directories, right? Yes, that's what I mean: what's wrong with making rm -i the default behaviour? We could do that by simply patching coreutils. William And, after this change, each system script that uses rm will ask user for the confirmation? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackY

Bug#475834: ITP: nlkt -- non-linear visual keyboard trainer

2008-04-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nlkt Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nlkt/ * License : GPL

Re: RFH: Chrony goes into endless loop on x86_64

2008-04-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
. Package works. Have installed chrony 1.23 - bug doesn't appear too. Package works. Saw no any endless loops. - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: Bug#479553: ITP: thinkcspy2 -- free Python book for beginning programmers

2008-05-05 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evgeni Golov wrote: >> * License : GFDL >> Description : free [...] > > As far as I understand, GFDL is non-free for Debian :( Does it (thinkcspy2) contain unmodificable sections? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/

Bug#482913: ITP: daptup -- see changes in new & upgradeable lists after aptitude update

2008-05-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: daptup Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sf.net/projects/daptup * License : GPLv3

Re: Inconsistent archive

2008-06-03 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi, > > today I just searched for the ITP: oss4 mail [1]. Unfortunately I was not > able to find in in my own debian-devel inbox. So I went to the archive > http://lists.debian.org/devel.html to search for it and it seems not to

Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
y maintainer with note "it is not a bug". Is he right? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485759 - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gn

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:57:13PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Recently I've noticed that 'Recommends' chain for package 'banshee' leads to >> packages, >> non-

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Greenland wrote: > On 12-Jun-08, 13:57 (CDT), "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bug was closed by maintainer with note "it is not a bug". Is he right? > > Banshee's maintai

multiarch: dependency-oriented vs package-oriented

2009-07-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
dependencies as multiarch 'same' to allow foreign dependencies to be satisfied with less number of packages in the system in the long run. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: multiarch: dependency-oriented vs package-oriented

2009-07-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Eugene, > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:34:42PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >> Moreover, this is not the only exception. Thousands of desktop and server >> packages that contains executable binaries (applications) compiled

Re: multiarch: dependency-oriented vs package-oriented

2009-07-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: >> What the multiarch spec proposes now is package-oriented approach: the >> package >> should define whether it is 'same' or 'foreign' kind. This is not >> straightforwar

Re: multiarch: dependency-oriented vs package-oriented

2009-07-30 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: >>> 2) Tagging package relationships instead of packages means extending >>> the syntax of package relationsships, trusting the binary packages to >>> get the depends right >> You'll

Re: multiarch: dependency-oriented vs package-oriented

2009-07-30 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: >>>>> 2) Tagging package relationships instead of packages means extending >>>>> the syntax o

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.1

2009-07-30 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Except saying "apt sucks", I currently do not have more idea. Someone > else maybe? > /me suggests to try cupt and hides -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer signature.asc D

Re: multiarch: dependency-oriented vs package-oriented

2009-07-31 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
r maintainers of reverse depends, opposing to your. It has discussed drawback too, of course. That's all my arguments. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
n't be first-class Debian packages Fully agree. While I support automatic generation of debug packages, creating a new format for them sounds for me as creating new RFC for e-mails which bodies contain no spaces and no Bcc header allowed. Why? To filter 'automatic debug mails'. --

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Hello thread! /me puts on a package manager developer hat. >> >> Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread, it's huge. >> >> I think that diversion of debug packages out of current deb format is a

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-08-13, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>> Maybe you should spend some time and read the thread before stating such >>> things. >> Really? So, they are already first-class deb packages? > > Maybe you should spend some time and re

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Andreas Tille wrote: > I even failed to grep "man apt-get" for the string "suggests" so > I think I can not do something like > >apt-get --include-suggest install > -o 'Apt::Install-Suggests=1' -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jack

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:35:10AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>>apt-get --include-suggest install >>> >> -o 'Apt::Install-Suggests=1' > > Ahh, I remember I was formerly wondering about this option which might > be

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
he same > version), > and one package can of course supersede many others. > I support this, however with not implying Conflicts/Replaces/Provides when Supersedes is specified. Supersedes would be just a 'proposal' to a package manager to remove old package name and install the n

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On fredagen den 18 september 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Magnus Holmgren wrote: >>> I propose a new control field called e.g. Supersedes that will provide >>> the same semantics. In its simplest form, a renamed package will declare >

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
flicts >>> foo} > foo should now be marked as removeable, bar should be marked as > manually installed (i.e. take the state associated with foo) > > Can any of that be achieved with postinst scripts? That's a very bad idea IMO. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Anton Piatek wrote: > 2009/9/19 Eugene V. Lyubimkin : >> Anton Piatek wrote: >>>> This should really be done by the package management, not by the user. >>> It sounds like you are describing the following: >>>>> $stable: package foo >>> manu

Re: ITP: sandbox -- Collaborative 3D game editor for education

2009-10-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
is too generic. Can you change it to 'sandboxgamemaker'? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat

2009-10-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
kage. Many > of those either Recommend the relevant package or declare no > relationship at all. > 'perl-modules', unlike usual binary/data split, contain executable code that depends on executable code from 'perl', so it is not another foo-data package. -- Eugen

Re: usplash-theme-debian uploaded to sid

2009-10-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
:-) Would be nice to see also 1280x800. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: git-buildpackage could use get-orig-source, uscan ?

2009-10-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
original tarball works better IMO. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

unused parameters passed to maintainer scripts

2009-10-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
prerm, postinst) - for sure; - (postrm) - most probably, checked only a part so far. So, the question: how do people think, is a goal to deprecate&remove these params in dpkg and policy worthy? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian

Re: unused parameters passed to maintainer scripts

2009-10-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
ure or in other places. I always wondered how this params can be used by maintainer scripts, even in theory. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: unused parameters passed to maintainer scripts

2009-10-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
gt; future or in other places. >[...] > > A failure of imagination on our art should not be used to block > this functionality for cases where it might be needed. With that kind of arguments, the standards cannot ever rid of unused bits. I am giving up on this proposal

Re: unused parameters passed to maintainer scripts

2009-10-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
It gives examples of where things can be put in, were you > inclined to do different things based on how the script is called. It gives only a code template to do different things, but actually does nothing. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
and it won't be pulled for Recommends/Suggests). To summarize: if I am not mistaken, this DEP cannot be implemented due to technical reasons in its current form. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
David Paleino wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> No, it doesn't. Dpkg and any sane high-level package manager won't >> consider installing/upgrading/keeping some package (meta or not) without >> all Depends installed. > > We can always change our tools

Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
the bugs or this situation can be resolved through different approach? Regards, - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh82RgACgkQchorMMFUmYymIQCgsQnmJ7pIIBJifTBebGYf

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-16 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Eugene V. Lyubimkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Should I mass-file the bugs or this situation can be resolved through >> different approach? > > > While you're technically right, app

Bug#492106: ITP: qmmp -- xmms-like audio player with support of many formats

2008-07-23 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qmmp Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Ilya Kotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/qmmp/ * License : GPLv2+

Re: Lenny frozen

2008-07-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
For example, new version of 'libpqxx' package is now in NEW, and it fixes RC bug (serious, recently appeared), but contains another changes. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: libpqxx in NEW fixes RC bug (was: Re: Lenny frozen)

2008-07-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Eugene V. Lyubimkin [Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:56:37 +0300]: >> For example, new version of 'libpqxx' package is now in NEW, and it >> fixes RC bug (serious, recently appeared), but contains another changes. > > I don't see any mention in t

html2text with utf8 support: please test

2008-08-05 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-8 support is a good feature, especially for processing non-English documents. Regards, -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
subdirectory of /tmp >> that is only accessible by that user, and then sets TMPDIR and other >> variables to that. Hence, it doesn't matter nearly as much if you >> create a non-random filename, because nobody but you can access it. > > Yes, but > scripts must use $TMPDIR ins

Re: html2text with utf8 support: please test

2008-08-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Kenshi Muto wrote: > Hi Eugene, > > At Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:34:18 +0300, > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Utility html2text, version 1.3.2a-6, with "utf8" patch was just uploaded to >> experimental. >> The patch allows to process UTF-8 files when '-

Re: html2text with utf8 support: please test

2008-08-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Utility html2text, version 1.3.2a-6, with "utf8" patch was just >> uploaded to experimental. The patch allows to process UTF-8 files >> when '-utf8' option supplied. Input should be in UTF-8 and out

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
almost no doubt this report should be marked 'wontfix'. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Anyone looked at Chromium for Debian yet?

2008-09-03 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
as of yesterday evening, no one had filed an ITP. > > Best, > Google stands it doesn't available under Linux, what do you suggest to package? :) -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Anyone looked at Chromium for Debian yet?

2008-09-03 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
g RC bugs in >>> iceweasel/xulrunner instead. >> >> >>That's right, but at the same time some of us also want to have >>some fun in Debian. > > I want fun, too. Maybe I should orphan these packages. I don't think so. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#498046: ITP: qorganizer -- featured lightweight graphical organizer

2008-09-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qorganizer Version : 3.1.3 Upstream Author : Balázs Béla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sf.net/projects/qorganizer * License : GPLv2

html2text: remove limited built-in http support?

2008-09-07 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
do (requested in [4]). Can we remove html2text's http support for squeeze? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285378 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307425 [3] http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/faq.shtml#sect4 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-08 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
n be done for squeeze (may be, as squeeze release goals?..). It's my humble view. Does it sound reasonably? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-08 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2008-09-08, Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My proposal is make the new file named, for example, debian/divergences, = [snip] > I think you are trying to overengineer something. > I really prefer the documentation of debian patche

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ben Finney wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Many of Debian packages have a patches that fixes some important >> bugs which have not accepted by upstream for some reasons, some of >> them also contains improvements, Debian-

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Reinhard Tartler wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I failed to fetch a human-readable patch info for psi in testing from >> patch-tracking.debian.net, for example. > > Okay, take another example then: > http://patch-tra

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 14:33 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Reinhard Tartler wrote: [snip] >>> http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/ffmpeg-debian >> Well, how can users go this site? Is it described in debian policy, >> devreference, so

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ben Finney wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >>>> But how can users know about this changes in Debian packages? >>> By the existing README.Debian and NEWS.Debian conventions (for >>> persistent and version-sensiti

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 14:57 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>> BTS and online changelogs linked from the PTS ? >> For upstream, for Debian people - enough. My proposal is to make >> user-oriented list. Long changelog entries with some inner pac

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,09.Sep.08, 15:53:16, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > [...] > >> README.Debian contains notes about important changes that made in >> Debian's variant of package for a long time of package' lifecycle. >> NEWS.Debian is especia

Re: Packaging shell functions

2008-10-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
a look on packaging of 'apparix' tool, it relies on shell aliases too for its work. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#506461: ITP: qprint -- encoder and decoder for quoted-printable encoding

2008-11-21 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qprint Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : John Walker <http://www.fourmilab.ch/> * URL : http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/qprint/ * License

Why acroread is popular (Was: Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main)

2008-12-02 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Michelle Konzack wrote: > ..because I do not use GNOME and KDE and it does not suck several > 100 MByte of useless GNOME and KDE libs! 'evince-gtk' package pulls much less dependencies, I am using it with XFCE. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(m

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
William Pitcock wrote: > Unless you're talking about the ugly XMMS GUI. In which case, I believe > QMMS is available for packaging. You meant 'QMMP'? It reproduces XMMS GUI and it is in unstable already. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)

Bug#508644: general: installing mdadm pulls in citadel-server as depedency

2008-12-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
t that is another discussion :-) Actually, apt-get is more often used as non-interactive package manager, so I would not add interactive "asker" to it. Aptitude, however, has all chances and opportunities to implement it. All above is IMO. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jac

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
we have not-so-excellent, but rather good apt, and significant amount of Debian users choose Debian just only because of apt. IMO. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
isn't backed by facts, One big fact is: Debian have tens (or even hundreds) of tools that use apt infrastructure, including both user side and archive maintenance side. Nix, in any way it operates, suggests other API to maintain packages. Who is supposed to rewrite all this stuff for Nix? >

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Artyom Shalkhakov wrote: > 2008/12/24 Eugene V. Lyubimkin : >> Which means that "find all dependencies with no exceptions" is not true. > > This is how Nix developers put it: > >> Runtime dependencies are found by scanning binaries for the hash parts >&

Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in the next releases of > Debian when the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before > they are out. bug-maint-info.txt file is in package 'doc-debian', reassigned -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)

Re: Possible MBF due to DBus security issue

2009-01-04 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
nacceptable to drop fbreader from Lenny. Please coordinate with me. (BTW, I was not anyhow pinged and noticed this only right now and only by good chance. Badly.) -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT

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