Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

2024-06-07 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 07:11:46PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I would prefer that dpkg-buildpackage provides a "sane" build environment by > default (which I think includes a LC_ setting pointing at a .UTF-8 locale) > and fewer packages explicitly setting those things via debian/rules. same her

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

2024-06-07 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 02:32:14PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > And I think forcing a locale on buildds makes perfect sense, because > we want easy access to build logs. But forcing LC_ALL from the build > tools implies that no tool invoked will get translated messages at > all, and means that use

reproducible Debian containers exists today (Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild)

2024-06-26 Thread Holger Levsen
hi, On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 02:02:11PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I have to ask: > > Could we use a container framework that is also used outside the Debian > bubble, rather than writing our own from first principles every time, and > ending up with a single-maintainer project being load-bear

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 05:17:09PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I would use an epoch. yes. [...] > Basically, you'd be burning a lot of social capital with upstream for no > really good reason and you probably still wouldn't be able to convince > them. I don't think it's worth it. yes. > I wo

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
hi Alec, please stop mailing this thread and just use an epoch. Before adding^wintroducing an epoch one should consult debian-devel@l.d.o, you have done this, arguments were exchanged and (IMNSHO) no better solution was found, so please do what has done to >1000 source packages in the archive alr

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2024-08-11 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 10:32:13PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Nicolas' implementation (https://lintian.club1.fr/) to list all tags > on one page and link to UDD seems like a reasonable compromise in > functionality and maintenance effort. any DD can point lintian.debian.net to that machine (o

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:44:30PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Advertise widely and frequently that there is a pool of people which is > > happy to help investigating the failed CI jobs. > > Then start personally advocating the benefits of CI to the maintainers > > of these packages: I expect

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I also like us to remove more broken and unused packages from unstable. On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Maybe we could also reduce the cost of removals for users and potential > new maintainers, by improving the information provided in various places > on how

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2024-09-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 08:21:04AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > After lintian.debian.org went unmaintained (beginning of 2022) [...] > After providing stale data for a long time, which confused many people, > lintian.debian.org was shutdown in September 2023. in Debian timeframes, this is basica

Summary / new quik available (was Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver has made some new updates to the quik - you can get it (.deb and source) at the http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ changes include: - manpage tells about initrd - compiles with gcc3 - sprintf bug fixed - ANS raid supp

Re: Summary / new quik available (was Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
. Do you need help in packaging a proper quik_2.0e-12.deb (or 2.0f?) ? This is still needed (ASAP) for the d-i/release people to review the changes and to be able to decide wether to allow it into sarge or not... On Friday 03 December 2004 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ce jour Fri, 03 Dec 20

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, first I'd like to thank Kevin for his nice diagram! On Wednesday 05 January 2005 20:38, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Very nice! I expect to use it at some conferences (BTW: Looks like a > nice addition to Debian Eyecatcher[1], I'll add it :) ) but then I also got one concern, especially if this diag

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 08 January 2005 07:45, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, if we imagine we release sarge at February 1st (ahah), just > immediately announce that etch will enter the first freeze stages > (base packages frozen, testing-security checked, d-i frozen) on August > 1st. > > This will give a

Re: german debian mirror with 700mb paris.avi file...

2005-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 31 January 2005 20:36, Martin Schulze wrote: > Anything but a non-public list/forum/whatever would be fine and better. > In fact I have had already informed the admin after a user informed me. > > Since http://www.debian.org/security/ is about the security in Debian > packages techni

good signature... Re: Diversion of APT tools by dpkg-cross (apt-get,apt-cache,apt-config)

2005-02-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 02 February 2005 10:21, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > Warning: The signature is bad. > > Something's broken somewhere... > > Can anybody confirm so I can stop worrying about my set up? I cannot confirm this, the signature is valid here. I have no valid trust path to the key, but

Re: Moin 1.3.x: Status of the package moin

2005-02-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Raphael, you had a typo in Jonas' email address, maybe that's why he didn't answer ? :) regards, Holger On Sunday 13 February 2005 14:04, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Jonas, > > I'm writing you again after my last email was not answered. > I would like to help you out packaging moin 1.3.x. Co

etch release plan (was Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team)

2005-12-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:06, A Mennucc wrote: > In my opinion, considering that the release of etch is 15 months away, Please don't consider this :) No matter whether it's a lack of knowledge or disbelieving in the etch release plan (a la "it's scheduled for december so it will becom

yet another mass bug filing on GFDL issues ?

2006-01-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, no, this is not really about the GFDL issue currently discussed, but about using the unmodified GFDL template in debian/copyright. Besides not being able to tell who has the copyright, it makes it also impossible to tell if there are invariant sections and/or cover texts. Lots of packages

please provide releasenotes (Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts)

2005-05-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Package: www.debian.org Hi, On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:46, Steve Langasek posted a fine mail about a fine change (thanks for both to whom it may apply). Whohoo! :-) Regarding testing upgrades from woody, I would like to propose mentioning more visible that the suggested upgrade tool is aptitud

Re: Bug#307570: please provide releasenotes (Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts)

2005-05-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Javier, On Wednesday 04 May 2005 13:49, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > This might be related to the fact the they're somewhat hidden, at least > > to ./google "sarge releasenotes" - > > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes isn't helpful atm > > either. > Why not? Isn't

Re: Changes to the weekly WNPP posting

2005-05-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 19 May 2005 18:43, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > What do other people think of this? Do you want a shorter WNPP > posting with only new entries on -devel? less frequent, maybe every four weeks ? i've got wnpp-alert in my cron for weekly mails - if people reaaally care, they can put

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 02 June 2005 07:13, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > If Ian were to approach Ubuntu (rather than, say, Slashdot) with clear and > genuine concerns, I would be more than willing to discuss the situation > with him to explain what we're doing and why. Ian posted this to his blog, not to Slas

Re: kernel security bug #307900

2005-06-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 10 June 2005 04:02, Adam Majer wrote: > > > woody's kernels are vulnerable to CAN-2004-1235, a uselib() race > > condition. > > Will this be fixed for Woody? > > I thought the plan was to provide security support for Woody for > > another year? > AFAIK, there is no security support f

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 29 July 2006 08:43, Christian Perrier wrote: > And get a very nice random theme for gdm, making the system different > each time it's booted up. Very user friendly. I agree with Christian. Quite some people will be confused by this, and it's completly unnecessary to have a random

Re: Why no /usr/local/etc in Debian?

2006-08-18 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 383493 serious thanks Hi, On Thursday 17 August 2006 18:45, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > FYI, I've now filed this as #383493. (Filed as "important" rather than > "serious" to avoid stepping on the toes of release people.) I've learnt that not filing bugs with the appropriate severity does

Re: so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 08 September 2006 19:36, John Goerzen wrote: > I have no idea what Gnome, KDE, etc. are doing to my disk -- all I know > is that they seem to have business with it all the time, and it makes it > very difficult for the disk to spin down. do you mount with "noatime" und "nodiratime"?

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:08, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > Why not just stop using apt-get? aptitude can do everything the same as > apt-get and even supports the same command line parameters. aptitude neither understand "build-dep" nor "source" as command... regards, Holger

Re: Bits from the DPL: Looking forward

2006-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:12, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > 2007 join as support team to Debconf > 2008 propose Japan as Debconf candidate > 2009 hold Debconf in Japan. This timeline won't work :-) At least the debconf-team hopes so: From 2007 we want to decide the venue two years in advance,

Re: Lack of transparency of automatic actions

2006-10-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 13 October 2006 17:18, John Goerzen wrote: > Even worse, you again have to use KDE or Gnome to take advantage of > network-manager. Why are we leaving CLI users out in the cold? It is > quite possible to use mutt, ssh, and ftp on a laptop. And it's > frustrating to know that my ne

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:51, Wookey wrote: > Nevertheless I think it is clear that we do need mechanisms to keep > the load and package set appropriate for slower arches. If we design > the mechanism properly I would hope it could be useful for various > categorisation/subsetting purpose

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 06 November 2006 18:07, Russ Allbery wrote: > + required under POSIX, hence this explicit addition. Also, > + rumour has it that this shall be mandated under the LSB > + anyway. I dont think the debian policy should spread rumours about the LSB.

Fwd: Re: #397716 - please provide a debian-icon on the default desktop install, not an ubuntu one

2006-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 397716 serious thanks -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: #397716 - please provide a debian-icon on the default desktop install, not an ubuntu one Date: Friday 10 November 2006 13:52 From: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTE

#397716 - please provide a debian-icon on the default desktop install, not an ubuntu one

2006-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I filled this as #397716 and have received no reply yet, thats why I bring it up here. Besides the issue brought up in the report it also brings up another interesting question: is there a way to detect if a buildd is building for debian or ubuntu? I can make up a rules file for manual buil

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 22 December 2006 11:07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > I'm not sure if this is done (I assume it's not) but I would really like > the DVDs / CDs to have a 'documentation media' which could be used to read > documentation without having to install the system. I like the ide

Re: adding ddccontrol to debian

2006-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 31 May 2006 01:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > The current ITP is not frozen :-) > > I have a package ready at the moment. However, it only cleanly builds > with the version of gcc in Sarge. I have been assured by upstream that > a new release is forthcoming which fixes the buil

Re: Debconf videos (was: cdrtools)

2006-07-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 10 July 2006 10:20, Frans Pop wrote: > > http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/ > But most are still missing there :-( I am painfully aware of this. And I am doing and have been doing what I can do, which is not much (*). There is some light on the horizon now, so

debconf5 - videos of the talks and BOFs available

2005-07-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, "the mighty video team", in boring alphabetical order (but you who where there know who they are), Andrew McMillan, Chris Halls, Erik Johansson, Henning Sprang, Herman Robak, Holger Levsen, Javier Candeira, John Lightsey, Kalle Boess, Martin Langhoff, Noel Koethe, Peter de Schri

Re: Work-needing packages report for Sep 2, 2005

2005-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 02 September 2005 08:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested > through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the > last week. Something is wrong with this list: > The following packages have been o

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata (was Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org))

2005-09-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:13, Jon Dowland wrote: > I would like to make a desperate plee that some attempt is made to > incorporate a clear indication of the licence under which material on > this wiki is available under, either with a user-readable prompt or > machine-readable metadata

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2005-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 26 September 2005 23:39, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Don't know why, but the content is supposed to be moving to > wiki.debian.org real soon now. For moving the contents help is still needed (perl skills prefered), please see http://wiki.debian.org/MigrationStatus regards,

Re: Bug#331072: ITP: cinelerra-cvs -- non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux.

2005-10-05 Thread Holger Levsen
is a year old, I would like to ask upstream and the maintainers of the fork to comment on the current situation. Have those issues been addressed ? (Yes, i'm too lazy to check this myself now. Thats why I'm asking the people who should know whether they did that work ;) >A

changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, Debian Edu will be switching its syslog for Lenny and as we want to differ the least possible from Debian, we are wondering, what the default syslog will be in Lenny. The main reason is that we need/want to configure syslogd via debconf (or any other policy complient way) for remote loggi

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-01-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 28 January 2008 11:03, Holger Levsen wrote: > Could you add an explaination of "dust" on the page, too? I'm pretty sure > it means "age in days", but as there seem to be 23 wnpp-bugs from today, I > checked half of them as I couldnt believe there

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-01-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sebastian, On Saturday 26 January 2008 02:13, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > thanks to lucas nussbaum the address >http://debian.binera.de/wnpp/ > is now accessible through >http://wnpp.debian.net/ . Heh, cool, I tried wnpp.debian.net last week and it was not there yet :-) Could you add a

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Javier, hi Joey, On Monday 28 January 2008 10:51, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > 2008/1/28, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The main reason is that we need/want to configure syslogd via debconf (or > > any other policy complient way) for remote log

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 29 January 2008 00:55, Russ Allbery wrote: > Of course, since other syslog implementations are potentially better in > larger ways, there may still be good reason to switch the default syslog > to another implementation. It seems to me that everybody replied in favor to this idea

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 30 January 2008 18:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > What do you think about that lucas? Why only a redirect in the first > > place? > > 1. http://people.debian.org/~nion/net-domains.html > Lucas offered that to me but the host the site runs > on cannot handle a new IP for free. I

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-02-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:11, Michael Biebl wrote: > > - Involve the rsyslog maintainer in the work > I'm here and all ears. I'm willing to work on the necessary steps. > Ok, here we go... I just wish to say a big thanks to you for all the work you've already done on this. You

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 11 February 2008 11:48, Mike Bird wrote: > > > On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot which > > > may occur once a year for a kernel security update is not worth a > > > single broken script, nor a single failed backup, nor a single lost > > > data bit. > > Since

Re: Bug#436267: Firewire support in lenny

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 12 February 2008 12:31, Guus Sliepen wrote: > I do not see why making the old stack available again, but blacklisted > by default, discourages testing of the newer stack. If you have both > available, then yes, users can switch to the new stack more easily, but > at least they will

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. > >[¹] Technically speaking it was a penguin. But it was a youthful > >penguin, rebelling agains

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-03-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Tim, On Monday 17 March 2008 10:45, Tim Cutts wrote: > http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html > > Click on its "triad" button, and it automatically picks three > contrasting colours which work in all forms of colour blindness That page/tool rocks! Thanks for sharing! :) regar

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 13 March 2008 23:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Therefore > http://wnpp.debian.net/ > is no longer a HTTP redirect but Great! > Since the page has reached a "stable" state > I would like to ask if there is a chance > to point to it from somewhere on > http://www.debian.or

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, (sorry for the bad quoting ratio, but I figured it's nice to bring back the context...) On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:11, Michael Biebl wrote: > rsylogd provides linux-kernel-log-daemon and system-log-daemon, so it > replaces both klogd and sysklogd. The only package depending on kl

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (Please don't cc: me, I'm subscribed.) On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:20, Michael Biebl wrote: > Holger Levsen schrieb: > > Did you file those bugs? Is there a usertag for them? > > I tried to collect the information at http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog and > started

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 03 April 2008 07:19, Anibal Avelar wrote: > Totally I agree. Testing is fine for a personal Desktop machine. I disagree. It's fine for some persons desktops, yes. But it is neither "feature"-supported nor security supported, if users have problems they'll get "use stable if y

Re: How to deal with #402010?

2008-04-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 04 April 2008 09:18, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > to virtually any kind of web application accessing some kind of > database/ldap passwords somewhere in the filesystem. I dont consider a web application which is used to configure the LDAP database and FAI configuration (to install and

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 04 April 2008 00:35, Mike Bird wrote: > for sid's xserver-xorg.* 7.3 which has not yet made it to lenny, http://layer-acht.org/debian/xorg-etch-backports/ regards, Holger P.S.: If you wonder why there are no backports on bpo, please provide them. pgp1ZSidIna9I.pgp Desc

Bug#474321: Fwd: patch for gpart to support Windows XP NTFS

2008-04-04 Thread Holger Levsen
package: gpart severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: patch for gpart to support Windows XP NTFS Date: Friday 04 April 2008 16:33 From: "Trace Green" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 07 April 2008 19:57, Peter Jordan wrote: > why are the keyrings of debian-multimedia.org and debian backports not > in the official repository of debian? I guess this was answered already in this thread :-) > At the moment you have to install untrusted keyrings before you can use >

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joshua, On Saturday 12 April 2008 03:02, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > How close /are/ we to a freeze? Please send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], thanks. Current status of the release: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg2.html Timeline for the release: http://lists.de

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Roberto, On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > This is something that I propsed on January 3, 2007, on debian-devel. > There was a fairly lengthy thread that resulted and Thomas Viehmann even > offered to help. Of course, he and I both became very busy and so it > sort

Re: separate package for iotop?

2008-04-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Paul, thanks for bringing iotop to my attention! On Monday 21 April 2008 13:13, Paul Wise wrote: > Craig, do you think including the iotop python script in procps is a > good idea or should I create a separate package for it. moreutils might also be an option, it would also be a new dependen

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads

2008-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for starting an initiative to make NMs more useful and accepted! For now I just have two procedural remarks. On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:42, Bas Wijnen wrote: > [0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/ > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NmuDep Why isnt the second URL http://dep.debian.net/deps

Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, wow, great! You're aware that you need to be done in just a bit more than six weeks to achieve your goal of being part of lenny? http://release.debian.org/emails/release-update-200801 regards, Holger pgpanKqExinsP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marc, On Saturday 07 June 2008 11:51, Marc Haber wrote: > Shouldn't that be easier to do, Send patches?! ;) > and - most of all - documented? http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage regards, Holger pgprFz3NRVvRf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Automatic debiian installation

2008-06-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Tim, thanks for sharing your experiences. On Wednesday 11 June 2008 12:18, Tim Cutts wrote: > However, FAI usually depends on NFS -- yes, I know about fai-cd -- and > so isn't very appropriate for installing machines which are not part > of the same network (FAI: -1) This isnt really accurate

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 21 June 2008 15:52, Alexander Wirt wrote: > I'm still not that sure if its a good idea to add a non-offical debian repo > keyring into the archive... Nobody is forced to install it?! And AFAICS we regulary recommend backports.org to users, who need newer software. So I think it

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, while I'm actually in favor of adding this package because it makes it a lot easier to obtain a trustpath to the backports.org repo, which is important to our users, it's not true that there isnt a documented trusted path to install the key. It's documented here: http://wiki.debian.org/Debi

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Saturday 28 June 2008 02:48, Holger Levsen wrote: > It's documented here: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/HowTo/Administration#head-136bb7e75e07e8b6463e6b30761ac51776c5c27d now also with the correct order of commands :-) regards, Holger (see, it ain

Re: Bits from Testing Security team

2008-06-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Testing Security team, thanks for the announce-mail and your work! On Wednesday 25 June 2008 11:08, Nico Golde wrote: > General security support for testing > [...] > kernel. Also, we would like to state that packages that are not > security supported for

Re: Bug#489132: lenny release notes, upgrade dpkg first

2008-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 03 July 2008 12:25, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Given that the new dpkg also supports triggers, we should probably also > recommend to upgrade apt/aptitude at the same time otherwise those tools > might be confused by the new package status... #464559 (in apt) is also a problem for e

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 21. Juli 2009, Jonas Meurer wrote: > is there any chance to get that fixed by either removing the circular > dependency from perl directly or by adding code to manage circular > dependencies to piuparts? as a first approach to this problem I plan to make piuparts ignore circular

Bug#506481: please specify more info

2009-08-01 Thread Holger Levsen
tags 506481 -patch +moreinfo retitle 506481 wrong cpu optimisation, please specify more info thanks Hi Mark, as I understand it, this bug report of yours is a bit useless atm, as it specifies a workaround for a non-existing (general) problem, while there is no indication which packages are/wer

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > The press team are still announcing [1] this as a "decision to adopt the > policy of timed release freezes beginning with the next release", while > RT maintain that it is under consideration. Which is true? Both! ;-) Or the latter, ta

piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as announced at DebConf9 I'll now (slowly) start threads about different bug categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree on mass filing bugs with the correct severity. Having a piuparts clean archive is again a release goal for squeeze, currently http://piuparts.debian.org/squee

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi KiBi, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Holger Levsen (06/08/2009): > > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html and > > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html lists > > those packages. > Identical

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Roland, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Roland Mas wrote: > Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been too > frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my > laziness, would you consider doing continuous (or regular) runs of > piuparts on the whole archive,

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts/FAQ > I'm subscribed to > that page and would like to collect questions and answers there, instead of > repeating myself endlessly ;-) That might leave a wrong impression, so let me add:

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jonas, On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Jonas Meurer wrote: > at least for zope2.1[01]-sandbox, i don't know how to fix that issue. > invoking the initscript at postinst/prerm of the -sandbox packages will > cause _all_ zope instances on the system to be restarted, and that isn't > an option at a

piuparts-MBF: overwriting other packages files

2009-08-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as announced yesterday, I will now continue starting threads about different bug categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree on mass filing bugs with a sensible severity. Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the piuparts test because the package tries to

Re: piuparts-MBF: overwriting other packages files

2009-08-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Manoj, On Freitag, 7. August 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the > > piuparts test because the package tries to overwrite another packages > > files without de

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 9. August 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The link to the wiki page was missing > http://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages this link was also missing in #508585. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: piuparts-MBF: overwriting other packages files

2009-08-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 8. August 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > So am I correct in my assumption that only file conflicts with > packages installed on the once-clean chroot would be detected by the > test? Or am I missing something? Yes. for the rest there is edos.debian.net :) > > Yes, the

Bug#542369: please document how to install suggests

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
package: apt version: 0.7.22.2 x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org severity: wishlist On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > 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

piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real problem is that this prompt shows up in the first place, as there

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > The logs are linked from > > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/conffile_prompt_error.html > Not harmless at all. These are serious bugs. I'll

Re: State of developers-reference

2009-09-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 9. September 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: > If this was a popular choice (which it doesn't appear to > be); it would be blocked on sorting out the wiki.d.o > content licensing. No. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny has a very fine and sosorted licence situation. A

who should cleanup /var/lib/update-rd.d ? should it be cleaned up at all?

2009-09-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, today I noticed that quite many packages fail the piuparts test, because of a file left after purge in /var/lib/update-rd.d - who's responsibility is it to clean this up? Each package? Or? Or shouldn't those be cleaned on purge and piuparts should ignore those files? (I don't think the latt

Bug#545949: who should cleanup /var/lib/update-rd.d ? should it be cleaned up at all?

2009-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
package: sysv-rc severity: important x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o Hi Petter, On Mittwoch, 9. September 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > today I noticed that quite many packages fail the piuparts test, > > because

#545996: please inform submitters they need to subs cribe

2009-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
package: bugs.debian.org severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, On Donnerstag, 10. September 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > But reporters are sacrifing some of their time to help us make our > distribution better. Do you really think we should scare them away > by rew

Re: Bug#545949: who should cleanup /var/lib/update-rd.d ? should it be cleaned up at all?

2009-09-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I've just rescheduled piuparts testing for 233 failed packages in sid which were affected by #545949, which has been fixed now - thanks for that. No packages in squeeze were affected. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

/var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, currently munin ships some file(s) in /var/www/munin/ and also puts its generated graphs there. This location has been depracted and we, the munin maintainers, would like to come up with a new location for squeeze. The way I read http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVI

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sean, On Sonntag, 27. September 2009, sean finney wrote: > > > currently munin ships some file(s) in /var/www/munin/ and also puts its > > > generated graphs there. This location has been depracted and we, the > > > munin maintainers, would like to come up with a new location for > > > squeeze.

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-09-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 28. September 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > That said uploading missing binaries yourself is not the rigt way > > forward, official build daemons must be able to build it and you should > > work with buildd maintainers and porters to get your package built (and > > building). > If

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 28. September 2009, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I realise you've had good an constructive responses for webapps, so > commenting on /srv in particular: > > As I read it, putting stuff there is absolutely not fine. Where do you read this? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-10-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 28. September 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote: > I just said that there are buildd admins/porters who are hard to deal > with because they just don't care about build failures not caused by > the package to be built and neither with any package else but by > buildd/machine/arch issues. [

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-10-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Well, I think this reality sucks and should be fixed. > Hahaha. Good luck with that plan :) I find your lack of faith disturbing. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#544590: moreinfo

2009-10-13 Thread Holger Levsen
tags 544590 + moreinfo thanks Hi Praveen, what graphics card do you have and which driver do you use? (please post the output of "lspci -n" and "dpkg -l|grep xserver-xorg-video") can you try kernel 2.6.30 and see if the problem is still there? thanks, Holger signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Bug#551123: ITP: echinus -- lightweight tiling window manager

2009-10-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 16. Oktober 2009, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Most tiling WM are customizable by changing one configuration file. > On that regardi, dwm is quite unique. So you're arguing that echinus fixes this bug in dwm and echinus should conflict+provide dwm? ;-) regards, Holge

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