On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:55:51PM +0200, Andrea De Iacovo wrote:
> How do you think a maintainer should manage security issues when he is
> not the package developer? Should he/she either work alone to make
> patches or wait for the upstream patches/relases that solve the bug?
As ever, the best
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:37:57PM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote:
> gnupg is important package. PTS says:
> "The package is of priority standard or higher, you should really find some
> co-maintainers."
> Suggestion: Can we replace 'should' with 'must'?
Wrong problem - we don't need more maintaine
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:06:15PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:28:23PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> >> > I bet that multiarch gets included into Ubuntu about two weeks after
> >> > we released lenny without multiarch.
> >>
eports, so please
forward any comments you have on the copyright file etc...
Perhaps in the longer term we could consolidate in a debian printing team,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/ but given the amount of work
(outstanding BTS) each team has any contributions are welcome.
Mark
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:17:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > > I want a consistent versioning scheme, thus +nmuX for both native and
> > > non-natives packages.
> >
> > I'd be very unhappy about that. For one, I think using such suffix in a
> >
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > * Package name: funpidgin
> > Version : 2.4.1
> > Upstream Auth
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:41:52PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:30:45AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > When we see spam getting through to the lists, we already adjust the
> > spam filters. If you think you can do a better job, the spamassassin
> > rules are all public
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:14:10AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The solution to this problem is to fix the mailing list code of conduct to
> stop creating this expectation. We don't enforce it anyway, and all this
> provision seems to do in practice is create these annoying arguments
> periodical
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:08:23PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> public list that end up in their main INBOX. If those can't make the
> effort to setup Mail-Followup-To, they should post less and not _more_
> just for the sake of complaining about the copies.
Of course, MFT brings up the whole
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:23:25PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:21:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Of course, MFT brings up the whole "it's not a standard, why should I
> > follow it, my MUA never heard of it" thing... You can't
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> So I am running the relevant autotools at build time but I still get the
> warning.
If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure that the
changes which autotools makes are reverted in the clean target. This
means that
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:06:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > With these gtk-doc files, it's not so much that the tmpl/*.sgml files
> > are generated but that a tool essential to the build modifies them in a
> > way that cannot be patched because the
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joerg Jaspert skrev:
>> - Packages in main need to be installable and not cause their (indirect)
>>reverse build-depends to FTBFS in the absence of data.debian.org.
>>If the data is necessary for the package to work and there is a small
>>datas
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:34:31PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The real issue is not that you [Francesco Poli] were posting without
> > disclaimers.
> The issue that led to those disclaimers was *exactly* that some
> thought Francesco should make it c
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 17:30:35 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > So strike option 1 and 2 and what are you left with?
> Figure out an acceptable option 4.
Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread.
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:12:20PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread.
> Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug),
> but all that "multiarch" blabla and
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:31:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Mark Brown writes:
> > There seems to be at least some crossover between the people who were
> > looking at multiarch and the people doing this stuff.
> But not the people blocking the inclusion of pat
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 06:56:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Mark Brown writes:
> > Then bring that up and try to move the discussion forward (as now seems
> > to be happening). The approach that's currently being pused seems like
> > a blind alley.
On Sat, 04, Jul, 2009 at 02:41:12AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow spoke thus..
> Simple. The ia32-apt-get/ia32-aptitute will allow users that have
> already installed ia32-apt-get to update their ia32-lib* packages to
> ones that "Provide: ia32-abi".
>
> Then when Mark la
2-apt-get version 22
ia32-libs-tools version 22
No other ia32 packages on my system right now.
Thanks for any suggestions
Mark
e
OSE version is GPL, is it not?)
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Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Mark Allums wrote:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25 2009, Joe Smith wrote:
"Manoj Srivastava" wrote:
Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the
difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, r
At the moment, Virt-what can detect VMWare, Microsoft Versions of
Virtual PC, OpenVZ, Xen-HVM, Xen-DomU, Xen-Dom0, KVM, and QEMU.
That looks like Virt-what does not detect VirtualBox. Is it likely to
be added in the future?
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Chris Lamb wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
That looks like Virt-what does not detect VirtualBox. Is it likely to
be added in the future?
Your question is better redirected at the Fedora-virt mailing list; they
develop this software, not us:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt
Right now, bringing it up in a forum can bring ridicule,
but I can see that in time, those people won't be smiling.
Thanks again,
Mark Allums
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ser works on the same names, does iceweasel keep a
dns cache?
at home if i use the stock debian kernel (2.6.26-17) there
is an arp loop on the wire interface asking who has 169.*
addrs. i have been too lazy to figure out ip6tables so i
turned off ipv6 in my own kernel.
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~ % ls /dev/disk/by-id/ | head -n 1
ata-G.SKILL_64GB_SSD_MK0C090311452@
That's all I see. I'm using zsh by the way.
Mark
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:28 PM, wrote:
> Started happening last week, this became doubled:
>
> $ ls /dev/disk/by-id
I have a program that depends on 2.6 but I can't seem to get the
required modules to install in squeeze/sid. The ones in the package
management system only work for 2.5. Is there some big transition
coming?
Mark
On Aug 27, 2009, at 21:05, Russ Allbery wrote:
Josselin Mouette w
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:32:55AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:21:50PM +0200, 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 rewarding bug repo
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:04:19AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > What would be really useful here is the ability to set up the BTS to
> > subscribe you to bugs you've filed by default. That avoids the issue
>
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:08:00PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Not the reverse. This is a major (if not _THE_ major) annoyance with the
> BTS. FWIW this is a long discussed issue, and the BTS maintainers do not
> share this opinion (that mailing @ should also mail the submitter)
> so we're
on it.
(Besides, my system is not too weird, and I expected since it was a
startup crash, it surely would have been filed by now. At any rate, I
would have filed it as an Eclipse bug, not a Java bug.)
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with
bits) and install flash-nonfree, the corresponding Mozilla plugin, etc.
Sorry I'm being vague on this, but I'm minus some hours on sleep and
really should be in bed. Someone can corroborate me or correct me.
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Patrick Matthäi wrote:
Mark Allums schrieb:
Patrick Matthäi wrote:
Games on www.playray.de also do not work with openjdk, e.g.:
http://www.playray.de/spielen/klassische/yatzy/
With iceweasel I only get a grey window, also for every other game on
this site.
That's a Flash issue. Unin
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:59:52PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote:
> I completely disagree with this lintian warning and prefer to use
> "Author(s)".
I do agree that rejecting on this is probably excessive but I'm curious
as to why you think it's incorrect?
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:00:12PM +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I'd like to ask you guys for some help.
>
> Here in Moscow State University there is a course "Software
> maintenance in Linux Distribution." It is dedicated to general question
> of software packaging. As exam
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:51:12PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote:
> I prefer "Author(s)". Less text to update when a new author is
> added. It does no harm and affects nothing in the end result. I'm
> curious as to why you think "Author(s)" is a bad thing?
It's the sort of thing you get in automatical
x27;m hoping to the archive-side support done in the next week or so.
Cheers,
Mark
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confusion here between source and binary formats.
The announcement was referring to bzip2 when used as part of a source
upload. As far as I can tell from looking in the git logs, dak has
supported data.tar.bz2 since 2005, so I'm surprised that this has never
been an issue before if debootst
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:44:18PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>
>
> While I like the "source + trow away" solution, I'd also like to ask
> you to please consider some methods to allow the "throw away" step on
> the developer machine, for example having dput/dupload not upload the
> .debs (so .chang
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:40:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> If we mean to attract such users, I do not think that the best strategy would
> necessarly be having a pre-existing MIPS support of bioinformatics, which I
> think is completely beyond our reach and expertise. I think that what woul
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 07:54:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > First of all an objection to the basic principle: the fact that the
> > project "does not seem" to be able to have constructive discussion is
> > not an argument for not having them. I believe that given you
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:56:05AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > I guess oss4-dkms will be enough to take care of these users,
> > hopefully it will reach squeeze in time.
> Hopefully not. OSS4 on Linux is part of the problem, not part of t
It might help if you changed
the user agent string (in about:config) from Iceweasel to Firefox. That
makes a lot of websites work better.
Also, you might give Google Chrome a try.
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:54:24PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:38:29 +0100
> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > At the very least, if we're going to translate log messages, then there
> > should be an easy swi
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: tripod
Version : 0.7.0
Upstream Author : Seb Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.sebruiz.net/tripod
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C++
Descriptio
x27;t vote are shown to be very active when
measured against other metrics.
Remember voting is a benefit of membership not compulsory. Developers should
not be singled out because they choose the freedom not to vote.
Mark
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WaT queries should be prepared against a good indication of an inactive
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:35:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> ... I mean, getting ones
> status reverted is an inconvenience, but surely an active DD should
> not be afraid of passing something we ask of every new developer?
IIUC if A is the number of people expelled from Debian and if B
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Amaya wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > So what is your oh-so-elegant solution to the MIA account problem?
>
> Humans problems have no technical solution.
As I understand it, the 'MIA account problem' is not about finding a
solution to the 'humans pro
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:52:10AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> My understanding is that compat is mode to allow the +/- syntax which
> is considered obsolete these days...
Why do you say it is considered obsolete (beyond the whole "being NIS"
thing)? It gives slightly more control than using the N
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:08:59PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Why do you say it is considered obsolete (beyond the whole "being NIS"
> > thing)? It gives slightly more control than using the NSS module
&g
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:41:23AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:10:44 +0100, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> >> But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping'
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:37:39AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:28:45PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> > So maybe asking for help on debian-kde, where there's people around who
> > might be convinced to pitch in a little time and effort once or twice would
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:12:52AM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > message to its intended target is a hard thing. How about having 'text
> > ads' on the pages of the Debian site that showcase a 'request for help
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:43:39PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> It will likely be one of my last post on that matter because I feel
> that valuable contributors left it long ago.
Would it be useful to personally email those people and 'ask them why' as
a way to address the issue?
>
> You
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:07:00PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello
>
> My name is Lara Thynne and I am a PhD candidate at Deakin University
> Australia. I am currently researching the boundary between work and
> leisure activities directly related to the open source community and
> open s
Hi,
this is the opening of the bts page for subversion:
===
Debian Bug report logs: package subversion in unstable (version
1.4.2dfsg1-2)
Maintainer for subversion is Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
You may want to refer to the followin
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 02:19 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Since folks visit this page to learn about Debian bugs, I thought why
> > not add a pointer to places where they can help fix the bugs (and make
> > othe
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:24:32AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Fri, March 9, 2007 22:09, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Mar 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> >
> >> I have seen the PTS and I see info like: info about the stable,
> >> testing, unstable packag
fakechroot is a great idea for reducing the privileges needed for
pbuilder builds, and thus simplifying developer builds of packages.
However, if you look at the current bug set, it turns out that there
are half dozen bugs that actually get in the way of using it for that
purpose (there are anoth
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> quoting http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSystem#systemadministration
>
> "Debian has been qualified as a OMG operating system for administrators,
> primarily because of its ease of use, security and straight-forward
> co
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:09:43AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Considering team work and stuff like this, an assigned status would be
> good too, with possibility, like forwarded, to specify an email address
> of the person dealing with the bug. That would make it clear, in teams,
> if bugs are de
Hi,
I was mulling over a 3-tiered Debian contributer system:
Debian contributer(non-software contributer)
Debian maintainer(software contributer with limited upload rights)
Debian developer(software contributer with full upload rights)
where a a DC and DM would not have access to debian.org machine
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:41:32AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I was mulling over a 3-tiered Debian contributer system:
> Debian contributer(non-software contributer)
> Debian maintainer(software contributer with limited upload rights)
> Debian developer(software contributer with
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:02:27PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 05:41 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > And if its large, then could this be reduced in some way by having the
> > more common tasks be replaced by a we
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:51 -0400, Mark Eichin wrote:
> So:
> * does anyone else find fakechroot useful and would benefit from the
> heavily-repaired version?
I use fakechroot daily to build an installer cd distro based on debian
(of course) and I honestly couldn't live wi
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:17:23AM -0400, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
>
> My distro is Debian Etch.
> kernel is 2.6.18
> I have post it to pthread mailing list,They said me that i reinstall
> libc6-dev package,i reinstalled it,But i see given errors.
> installed packages in the work-in-progress root, etc.) with one which
> can be run entirely as a normal user. fakechroot was integral to
> making this happen. I'd be thrilled to see fakechroot frilled out and
woohoo :-) Current status: Piotr turned up and has given me access to
the tree on al
> It works perfectly at the moment so I'm not sure that I'd benefit from a
> heavily repaired version, however this may change when I get to do more
> with the script in the future - I really should look at the bugs I guess.
Given that you run a specific set of operations, it is plausible that
yo
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:41:26PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:54:45PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > You only need to delete /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent*.rules before udev
> > runs. That should be doable and could be a configuration option. The
> > default
>
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 00:04 -0400, Mark Eichin wrote:
> I certainly have seen lots of packages build correctly with fakechroot
> as-shipped - and these fixes should significantly raise that number.
The more people that use fakechroot the better, but I suppose the thing
that scares me a lit
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:11:32PM +0200, Luigi Gangitano wrote:
> 1. Some ethernet cards like Sun QuadFE share the same MAC address
> (even if global OpenFirmware option is set to different MAC-address)
> and PCI id and udev blocks while renaming them, leaving with an
> unusable systema eac
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:17:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm willing to support being more aggressive than we currently are about
> changing maintainers when someone else steps up and is willing to do the
> work, but I'm not willing to support any proposal that automatically
> orphans packa
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:27:55PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > *what's* in it. Just because it has a patch tag doesn't mean it's
> > necessarily any higher-quality of a bug unless it's been triaged.
> It may not be higher quality,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> But then what happens in the case (that was already pointed out) where a
> bug languishes without attention for a year or more, someone NMUs to fix
> the bug and the mainainer immediately uploads to revert the NMU? It
> seems t
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:43:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> >> The maintainer is not MIA, but does not actively develop anymore.
>
> > Packages like this should have a message to the current maintaine
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:51:52AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:13:47AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > >Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > >So, here's a possibly weird proposal.
> > > >
> > > >What
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I share the feeling of "niceness" of the personal touch, but this isn't
> a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's
> easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid
> one.
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:49:44PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> Hmm and my gut feeling is that the vast majority of maintainers just use
> dch instead of manually writing the changelog skeleton (it's faster and
> less error prone). But until we have verifiable numbers it's all moot.
I tend to
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:57:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> If anyone has any mysterious contacts at Sun that they could talk to about
> this, that'd be great.
isn't there this new guy at Sun called 'ian murdoch' ;-)
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> That's an argument in favor of making the base library package built
> with debug symbols and then stripped[1], not of requiring -dbg packages.
Depends what you put in the -dbg package; it could be the symbols
stripped out of the
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> If there are concerns over archive size, why don't we drop all static
> .a libraries at the same time. Given that in Debian we typically
> always link dynamically, is there a need for .a libraries in all but a
> handful of cases?
I'd
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:39:26PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4
> binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and
> a -doc package. (Libraries for perl or other non-compiled languages
> would be exempt from
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:22:40PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 22-Apr-07, 17:01 (CDT), Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think libraries should be encouraged to provide significant
> > documentation - what we have now is simply not enough.
> You seem to be arguing that the ma
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:23:03AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> docs", but I'm convinced it will be quantitatively small). My approach
> to this is first to decide whether API docs in the policy is something
> we want in debian or not. Then, if it is the case, to state it in the
> policy. Th
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:22:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Francois-Denis Gonthier wrote:
>
> >>Beware that in (at least fr_FR) french, "gastro" is also a shortcut
> >>for "gastroenteritis" and is strongly associated with its symptoms!
> >>It may really hamper your succe
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:55:40PM +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> Ask somebody, what distro would he install at desktop for novice or M$
> refugee? Why many are choosing Ubuntu instead of Debian, and even
> worse, abandon Debian in favor of Ubuntu? Why do most people consider
> Debian to be u
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> > > Do you realize Debian's stable is classified as this:
> > >
> > > Stable means stable package list. No changes in API and ABI
> > > names or versi
rs saying "issue has been confirmed,
> solution is available and will be included with the next upload".
>
> It would IMO not be correct to mark a bug pending if it is fixed but not
> yet been released upstream (unless you plan to upload a fixed version
> based on current up
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:01:54AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > would it be useful for some process to periodically poll the bts for
> > 'pending' tags that are unusually old [ say
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:29:16AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what I am really missing in the current dependency scheme is WHY some
> packages
> define Recommends and Suggests on specific other packages.
>
> My problem with the current situation that you either do the policy of alw
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 11:58, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Package: mutt
> > Suggests: ispell [adds spell cheking while composing emails]
> > Suggests: urlview [extracts urls from email and can lanuch a web browser]
&g
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:04:24AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > The description should not explain what the other package is but
> > _what_ it does to the selected package.
>
> In order to explain what the recommended package does to the
> recommedi
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:04:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> A desktop user is perhaps not the best example, since recommends might
> as well be depends to such a user -- they're both things that aptitude
> installs when the software is selected. Such a
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:01:18AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:08:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Now as for the need for re-classification of 'recommends' to say
> > 'suggests' to trim (mega|giga)bytes from the basic install sou
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit as well as 64-bit userland. Otherwise
The plan is to continue the existing port, dropping support for 64 bit
kernels and allowing use of SPARC v9 instructions rather than to do a
new port with 64 bit
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:44PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> The plan is to continue the existing port, dropping support for 64 bit
> kernels and allowing use of SPARC v9 instructions rather than to do a
I, of course, mean *32* bit kernels there.
Sorry.
*sigh*
--
"You grabbed
dated dependant libraries.
Mark
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
> > I suspect this is because you have setup apt to 'prefer testing'
> >
> > Please try either removing your /etc/apt/preferences file or
> > # apt-get install digikam
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