Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 03:34:34PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:09:12PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > Care to describe how without using your SCM but apt-get source instead ? > apt-get source packagename > Really, what is the problem here? With a system like dpatch

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 03:01:41PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Michael Banck writes: > > Couldn't you get the problematic outdated packages (I assume this is > > the case if you're talking about [testing?] transitions) removed > > temporarily? > > No, that would not solve the problem. The prob

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:18:06PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Kurt Roeckx writes: > But it's not you I need to convince, it is Ryan or whoever admins the > CVS pserver where P-a-s is. I am also curious, like Kevin Mark, to > understand the buildd infrastructure better. >

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:49PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:17:52PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > it is my understanding that each arch has its own wanna-build that uses > > its own copy of a p-a-s file. So, that would mean that there

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:08:10AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:38:20PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > So there is ONE w-b for {i386,ppc,...) and there is one buildd for each > > arch that connects to that ONE w-b? > > No. There is one sys

Re: Bug#382796: ITP: python-alsaaudio -- Alsa bindings for Python

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:02:22PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.1418 +0100]: > > * Package name: python-alsaaudio > > Sweet. An ITP for a package already in unstable... > does that imply that an ITP is not checked against the curren

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

2006-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:47:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:39:51AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > * E-mail generally has a "wider reach" -- it gets past corporate > > firewalls, (my company has never allowed external nntp connections), > > works even on

Re: autotools and programming style (was: Remove cdrtools)

2006-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:11:21PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > No, you don't #ifdef all the users, you write multiple versions of a a > generic function that hides the differences, and compile the appropriate > one. Read the reference I gave. > Sure, you *could* do this with autoconf driving

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:48:31AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Out of curiousity, if this is such a good thing why are Alioth and > SourceForge the only two services (of the dozens of mailing lists from > half dozen or more services) which use this setup? Also, why is the > error message r

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:44:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1330 +0200]: > > This may be a good time to remind maintainers that often > > a versioned conflict may be more appropriate than a versioned > > dependency. > Right. Most of

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:28:43AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > > invoke-rc.d. IIRC doing something more obvious caused upgrade issues at > > the time due to issues with having both sysv-rc and file-rc. > invoke-rc.d wa

Re: claiming bugs, BTS delay, planning BSPs

2006-09-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:16:05PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 02 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > we're in the middle of the BSPMarathon[0]. Among the things new this > > year (as opposed to the sarge BSPs) are usertags for claiming bugs > > [1]. Unfortunately, the

Re: Bug#386706: ITP: hellanzb -- Nzb downloader and post processor

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:22:42AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Description : Nzb downloader and post processor > > > > Python application designed for *nix environments that > > retrieves nzb files and fully processes them. The goal being

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Petter, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the > update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it > would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks > existed

Re: A few problems in sight switching to Debian

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:33:00AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > I'm not a developer and I'd just like to point a few issues to check > for the next release. I'm planning to switch to Debian when Etch > comes out but, for now, my findings are from Knoppix. > > My monitor, a Viewsonic VX922, i

Bug#387502: ITP: zope-ldapuserfolder -- LDAP user and group source for Zope/Plone

2006-09-14 Thread Mark Hymers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hymers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-ldapuserfolder Version : 2.7 Upstream Author : Jens Vagelpohl * URL : http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapuserfolder * License : Zope Public License (ZPL) Versi

Bug#387504: ITP: zope-ldapmultiplugins -- LDAP plugin for Zope/Plone

2006-09-14 Thread Mark Hymers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hymers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-ldapmultiplugins Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Chris McDonough and Jens Vagelpohl * URL : http://www.dataflake.org/software/ldapmultiplugins/ * License : Zope

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filing?for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > As a conclusion and combining both, I would really like to unsderstand > why so many fellow developers insist on using LOW priority NOTES in > their debconf templates and use them in maintainer scripts. Speaking for my own packa

Re: Using debconf

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:02:24PM +, Rodrigo Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I read many tutorials about debconf, but i?d like to > know ro create the packages using debconf . > I know the build package must be postinst, preinst, > prerm, postrm, conffiles and config. > Taking this tree, how i c

[Fwd: Bug#387557: pcre3: Please ship pcre_internal.h]

2006-09-25 Thread Mark Baker
ure it will work; what is it that emboss wants it for? --- Begin Message --- Package: pcre3 Severity: wishlist Dear Mark, I am building packages for EMBOSS, the European Molecular Biology Software Suite (www.emboss.org). They ship an old version of pcre, and build against it. As a result, the pa

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:28:50PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Christian Aichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maintaining such information somewhere within the library package would > > be possible, but that sounds like a more complex plan, and I doubt that > > many library maintainers know

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically > linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's statically linked > against zlib1g or something like it. So the question is, how can the > exact compression a

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
Followup to the other lists too... On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:15:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > > > It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically > > linked with anything except gli

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:50:53AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > It turns out that the zlib1g-dev package contains a program called > "minigzip" in source form. This is what's needed; "minigzip -9" > reproduces exactly the compression used by dpkg-deb, unlike regular > gzip. This may not produce iden

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >"tasks=kde-desktop" is a bit rude to type (try it on a non US > >keyboard...). > > The hint to non US keyboard is *very* important. I would love if > *every* string a user (not a h

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:42:17PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerS

Bug#390591: ITP: libzrtpcpp -- ZRTP extension for GNU ccRTP

2006-10-01 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libzrtpcpp Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Werner Dittmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ccrtp/libzrtpcpp-0.9.0.tar.gz * License : GPL

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:22:05PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 22:58 schrieb James Westby: > > The default level when doing dpkg-reconfigure is low, so that it wont be > > seen on installation, but if the user tries to reconfigure exim4 they > > will be directed to th

Re: Debian GNU/Minix?

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:22:29PM +0200, HXC wrote: > I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If > so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix > version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) ) Hi HXC, with FLOSS, there is nothing preventi

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

2006-10-14 Thread Kevin Mark
ldd > time particularly, for slow arches, is a resource we don't have a huge > abundance of. > > So, 'is pretty much pointless' has not to date been deemed a reason to > mark a package 'not for us'. However, It seems to me that if the porters > _and_ the p

Re: Looking for Debian Packaging expert

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:26:04PM -0700, Mahmood Sheikh wrote: > Hi all, > I work for ACCESS, Inc. here in Sunnyvale, California. We are looking > for someone who is adept in Debian Packaging. This person would deliver > 3 or 4 hourly sessions to our employees just to educate them on benefits > of

Re: your mail

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:21:39PM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote: > retitle 376431 RFP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler/IDE that make > efficient, portable code > submitter 376431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > severity 376431 wishlist > thanks > > It looks unlikely I will manage to package this. It's too big a > pa

Re: New source package

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:47:10AM +0100, David Moore wrote: > Hi, > > I have developed some new software, an audioscrobbler client for > _l_a_s_t_._f_m, which > I would > like to see included, probably under Multimedia. > > It consists of two simple C source files - how do I go about ge

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:37:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 22:29]: > > [another agression] > > Sorry, but enough is enough. I'm fed up about your sudden agressions > towards me for no reason at all. Welcome to my killfile. > > Hi Andi, from my pers

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Javier, On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:05:58AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > I'm not sure if anybody else is seeing this but I have seen (just today) 28 > spam messages sent to the BTS. I've received them because they were all sent I've seen BTS spam before and ask the list admi

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:18:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:37:36PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > That's not correct. [serious, grave, and critical] are the "release > > > critical" severities, though some release critical issues won't be > > > fixed for any

Re: HI, I am a honest user of China, I love linux especially Debian distribution , I think Debian is the greatest linux distribution , but nowdays, the debian weekly news was not updated , I think Deb

2006-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:32:01AM -0400, ?? wrote: > HI, > I am a honest user of China, I love linux especially Debian distribution , > I think Debian is the greatest linux distribution , but nowdays, the > debian weekly news was not updated , > I think Debian will become more and more popula

Re: planet.debian.net and DWN (was: HI, I am a honest user of China, I love linux especially Debian distribution , I think Debian is the greatest linux distribution , but nowdays, the debian weekly ne

2006-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:45:01AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > IIRC, he sent an email out a few days ago saying that > > http://planet.debian.net/ now serves most of the purpose of DWN. > Unfortunately, at least for me, planet.debian.net cont

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:04:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:00:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Well, I did say that it was a very rough draft. ;) > > > > Second try: > > > "... However, this is not a direct mapping, and the release > > > managers dete

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Roland Mas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061025 22:38]: > > Luk Claes, 2006-10-25 18:51:26 +0200 : > > > > > It was not meant that way at all. I just don't like that people > > > start to discuss topics that are long overdue near release ti

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:21:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Ron Johnson a écrit : > >> > >> On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >>> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: > [

bts solution to rc status via metatags

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin Mark
Ian Jackson A very developer centeric view. But there are other people in the community; and as a general statement this falls far short of the mark for which bug severities are actually useful for. Bug severities have one other purpose, and perhaps the most important of all: It lets p

ITP: python-chardet -- Automatic character encoding detection in Python

2006-11-08 Thread Mark Pilgrim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-chardet Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Mark Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://chardet.feedparser.org/ * License : LGPL Programming

Re: Seattle Area Debian Gnomes

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:53:20PM -0500, Paul Ford, O'Neil wrote: > Hello Debian OS, Hi Paul, Debian is the uviveral os and a Free software Community. Welcome! > > I live in Everett, 25 miles North of Seattle and am looking for a > Debian Gnome to provide me with a hard copy of Debian to operate

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 01:51:18PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:10:52PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > It is my opinion that we would be better off dumping this > > whole shell specification thing in policy, standardizing on bash, and > > let it go. >

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:30:09PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi all, > > from the bash manpage: > /dev/tcp/host/port > If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port > is an integer port number or service name, bash attempts >

[Fwd: XS-X-Vcs-Svn or XS-Vcs-Svn was: [Pkg-kde-extras] Re: rev 4976 - kde-extras/digikam/trunk/debian]

2006-11-24 Thread Mark Purcell
Original Message Subject: XS-X-Vcs-Svn or XS-Vcs-Svn was: [Pkg-kde-extras] Re: rev 4976 - kde-extras/digikam/trunk/debian From:"Mark Purcell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Fri, November 24, 2006 11:54 am To:

Re: Why not scan for unmaintained packages and orphan them?

2006-12-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:41:18PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: > I have started doing some l10n work about a month ago. Some of the > bugs I filed have not seen any reaction from the maintainer. While > that is not yet surprising I came across a number of l10n bugs > providing translations tha

Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?

2006-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:01:58AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:08:56 +0100, Andreas Metzler > >Afaik there are no changes in behavior. blocks are only > >informational. > If this is true, it is a _TOTAL_ surprise for me. We need better > documentation. IIRC it also generates

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:47:57AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > I have at least one server machine where allow-hotplug does not reliably > bring up the interface ever. I had a bug report from a NIS user which turned out to be a result of them experiencing the same symptoms. They said they mig

Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:40:06PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Wookey a écrit : > > On 2006-12-20 17:39 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> For those who don't know, I have setup 8 emulated ARM build daemons and > >> started to upload packages. To know why and for more information, s

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 06:40:46PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > > What other kinds of gender are there? It would be interesting to see > > some examples. > > I paste some email I already privately answered. > > Someone wrote: >

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:18:36PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > Whats the use for such data? for postal mail? For gift giving? I've > > yet to see anyone in cyberspace address someone as 'genderqueer' or

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 09:57:31PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > --- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Hi Amaya, > > I was considering: sex & gender options and realized that the only > > reasonabl

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:06:55AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > 1) I don't see any relevance in having a gender field. The only exception I > might find is for genderifying the texts in web pages and mails, or maybe for > statistics. > > 2) I see ev

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:15:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was considering: sex & gender options and realized that the only > > reasonably non-changing question would b

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 06:35:02AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_%28December_2006%29 > > Quote:"The goal of the Summit is to bring together the key people in > the Linux packaging world and ISVs to discuss the future of Linux > packaging. Topics wi

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b'cn=Subschema' -x -s > > base '(objectClass=*)' attributeTypes | grep gender > > attributeTypes: ( 1.3.6.1.4.1

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:47:48PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:31:26PM +0200, Debian Oracle wrote: > I hope that this explains everything, Kev. You owe the Oracle an e-mail > quotation trimming device. Greetings O great Oracle, I did manage to extract most of the meaning out of the consise phrases electronically transmitted by the my

Re: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:03:48PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi, > i just noticed woody is gone which is *aehm* a problem for me but thanks > archive.debian.org not unfixable (Expect couple of hundret machines). Hi Florian, Debian supports each stable release for a set time(about a year aft

Re: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:39:48AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Is there a schedule for non-US and security fixes to disappear and where > > > will they disappear to ? > > After Woody, non-US was r

Re: Politeness was: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:15:13AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-08 10:09]: > > > is it really necessary to start flames in this list? Kevin Mark did > > answer completely objectiv

Release Date Update

2006-03-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworh
year release cycle wher you maximize your time over the summer to add new features. -- Mark -- ubuntu-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce _ FREE pop-up blocking with

Re: We want to honestly apoligize to the whole Debian Community

2006-03-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
We also want to apoligize specifically to Mark Shuttleworth whoes name we forged in a post. Accepted, no harm done. Elmo is a MUCH better mail forger, though, you could get some useful tips there. And maybe, one day, a statue. Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:38:40PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:07:48PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 10603 March 1977, A. Mennucc wrote: > > > I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > > > work hard to this end). > > > > We wont, im sure. >

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi *, > > I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing > > that "I'll be in MN in US from MAR 01 thru 05" and I'd like to have

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:42:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > FTBFS. All of those you can probably summarize under bit-rot. The > Debian-amd64 team has now started doing some aggressive porter NMUs > (policy allows them after 7 days so don't come screaming if we NMU > some month old bug)

Re: deb src

2006-04-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:22:25AM +0600, krot wrote: > Good afternoon! Prompt where it is possible to find diff.gz for assembly gcc > 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12? There Is such resource where are > stored{kept} all diff.gz for all versions of source codes? > Hi, All binary packages have as

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:20:13PM +0300, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > Z > > If so, I would be happy to add this to tasksel, so that the desktop task > > automatically installs it if it detects a system that is not easily > > capable of running kde/gnome. Tasksel has the infrastructur

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:00:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 11.46 +0200, Eduard Bloch ha scritto: > > [...] > > > > - evince > > > > > > As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pull

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:06:17PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Just saw this thread mentioned on DWN. > > Do you know about "bts reportspam NN" or "bts spamreport NN" > in the devscripts package? Might do just what you want :) > >Julian Hi Julian, thanks for the update! It seems th

Bug#365995: ITP: pfm -- Postgresql client application using Tcl/Tk to design forms to input data and link between related tables allowing easy navigation within a database.

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pfm Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description

Re: Bug#365995: ITP: pfm -- Postgresql client application using Tcl/Tk to design forms to input data and link between related tables allowing easy navigation within a database.

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mark Hindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sorry! Other details should read: * Package name: pfm Version : 1.2.5 Upstream Author : Willem Herrem

Re: List of bugs opened by "my" email address

2006-05-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:52:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to get a list of bugs opened by me, so that I can close > any that should be closed. > > Is that possible with the BTS? > > Thanks > Hi Ron, I make a hack to download someones bugs to an mbox. http://debian.home.pip

Bug#367456: general: text missing in menus and buttons inside window when using utf-8 locale (en_US.utf8)

2006-05-15 Thread Kevin Mark
Package: general Severity: normal I reported an issue with Cinepaint(#365801) and it occurs also with my instance of Dillo. Not the SIGFPE but the font issue. Two instances of the same bug I felt warranted a general report. If I find a third data point, it will really solidify this. If I use 'LC_A

Re: Uploading packages built against testing? (was: openssl will block bacula into etch?)

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:27:45AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Would it be acceptable to build bacula (or any other package with that > problem) in an etch environment, or on sid with manually installed > libssl from etch, and upload that to unstable? After checking that it > works in unstable,

Bug#372113: ITP: codeine -- Simple, uncluttered KDE video player

2006-06-08 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: codeine Version : 1.0.1-3 Upstream Author : Max Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.methylblue.com/codeine/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:06:28AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: > Well, how do I know if I have to deviate from the debhelper scripts at > some point in the future? In fact, if I bump up the compat level, I > might very well need to change my scripts. That's a bit different: updating the debhelper

Sgt Mark From Iraq

2006-06-12 Thread Mark Hanson
Attn: I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to you before. My name is Sgt. Mark Hanson, a U.S. Army 1st Armored Division, which was deployed to Iraq in the beginning of the war in Iraq. I would like to share some highly personal classified information about

Re: Bug#373571: ITP: mugshot -- Client for integration between Mugshot and the Linux desktop

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:39:42PM +0200, Heikki Henriksen wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Heikki Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Package name: mugshot > Version : 1.1.5 > Upstream Author : Mugshot Developers (http://developer.mugshot.org/) > URL

Re: Hello and request for sponsor (DomainKeys packages)

2006-06-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:13:18PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Greetings, official and unofficial Debian developers! > > So, what do you think, and is anyone willing to sponsor these tiny packages? Hi Magnus, Welcome to Debian! Here are a few notes: 1. you can create debian packages and host t

Bug#374791: ITP: ortp -- Real-time Transport Protocol library

2006-06-21 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ortp Version : 0.10.0 Upstream Author : Simon MORLAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://linphone.org/ortp/sources/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Re: code cpustat.c

2006-06-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:18:58PM +0300, Ozgur Karatas wrote: > ps and top command gives the ram state. i am doing this to see cpu's load > and usage. top reports these. For example: | Tasks: 112 total, 2 running, 109 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie | Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni,

Re: Transfer Maintainership From MIA Maintainer

2006-07-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:26:30AM -0700, Jason Self wrote: > The listed maintainers for the Webmin package > (http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/webmin) and the associated > packages like webmin-core, Usermin, etc. are MIA. They are not fixing > bugs or responding anymore. > > Jamie Cameron

Re: MacBook graphics support

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > MacBook has a i945 integrated graphic device. To configure, I chose > 'intelfb' (not imacfb driver, which seems only to garble the screen > for me) driver for the kernel. > > For X, I managed to make a dual-screen setup, s

Re: Bug#377697: New version of squid hangs at startup

2006-07-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:42:08AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > 4. Make it a runtime startup decision. More work to implement, but for > things like this, it seems like a reaonably sane choice. Having done this before it's fairly straightforward to achieve, even if you can't assume libc support

General question about releases

2005-01-18 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DDs, I was just wondering about the number of packages that go through the debian flavors per release. X packages went in stable, Y packages went in testing, Z packages went in unstable, where X < Y << Z for potato, woody and sarge(so far). IE. woody(x)=8000 and sarge(x)=15000 Any pointers to w

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:14:56PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > || On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:08:49 -0500 > || Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > km> Hi Folks, > km> I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > km> appre

Re: Is Daniel Lutz MIA?

2005-01-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:52:29PM +, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know the status of Daniel Lutz? I had mailed him a while > ago asking if he needs any help with the synergy package; the last > upload of the package was 14 months ago, with quite a few bugs open > that had n

Re: Is Daniel Lutz MIA?

2005-01-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:56:23AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Kevin Mark wrote: > > It seems some developers dont know the status of other developers, > > at least some of the time, as this and other messages I have read > > from time to time. Is there

Do all frontends use the dpkg binary?

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folken, I simple question. In my quest to log package installation, I wrote a wrapper script for dpkg. I 'mv dpkg dpkg.real' and 'vi dpkg' with a wrapper[0]. When I use aptitude and apt-get, these commands seem to call dpkg for all of there package installation and query needs. Do others (wa

Re: Do all frontends use the dpkg binary?

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:22:36PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 05:21:02AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Also, is there a way to avoid a dpkg upgrade overwriting /usr/bin/dpkg > > and (IIRC) divert /usr/bin/dpkg -> /usr/bin/dpkg.real, so that I dont >

Re: not starting packages at boot

2005-01-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:53:48AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > /etc/default/foo. I could tolerate it if packaged defaulted *on*, but it > seems the habit is to default off. And more importangly, as others have > said (every single time this comes up), there is an *existing* mechanism > to acco

Re: Do all frontends use the dpkg binary?

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:13:08PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Kevin Mark > > | In my quest to log package installation, I wrote a wrapper script for > | dpkg. I 'mv dpkg dpkg.real' and 'vi dpkg' with a wrapper[0]. When I use > | aptitude and apt-get, t

Re: Do all frontends use the dpkg binary?

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:01:11PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:19 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:11:42PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > In my quest to log package installation, I wrote a wrapper script for > > > > dpkg

Bug#1931: less" doesn'

1995-12-07 Thread Mark Nudelman
yours and the one from Raul Miller). I will try to incorporate these into my next release (although it bothers me to have to put cruft in my code to workaround kernel bugs). Thanks again, and let me know if you find any other problems. --Mark

Bug#3323: MakeTeXPK mis-invokes ps2pk

1996-06-19 Thread Mark Eichin
package: mflib Version: 1.0-5 Maintainer: Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> possibly also: Package: xdvik Version: 18f-5 The remaining possibly related items are: ii dvipsk 5.58f-5TeX DVI-driver for Postscript ii ps2pk 1.4-4 Create pk fonts from type1 fonts

Bug#3321: libgdbm.so version number...

1996-06-19 Thread Mark Eichin
could you give me more information on this? (I'm the current libgdbm maintainer.) Calling it libgdbm.so.2.0 would really seem like a mistake, since after all, libgdbm itself is only at 1.7.3... but I can probably put in a compatibility link if there's enough evidence for it (namely, programs which

Re: Bug#3318: traceroute doesn't work with 1.2.13

1996-06-19 Thread Mark Eichin
Wouldn't it be easier to do something like I did with BIND -- detect the "protocol not available" (ENOPROTOOPT?) and don't use the feature, instead of calling it an error...

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