Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#425381: (Re: digikam: 0.9.2~beta1-2 uninstallable on amd64)

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Purcell
digikam was linked against libexiv2-1, but kipi-plugins was linked against libexiv2-0.12 which seems to crash.. Mark pgpWG9FRDxLOE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:15:28PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On ti, 2007-05-22 at 13:30 +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > > 1. The GPLv3: the latest draft did not raise major objections from > > > -legal and despite its concerns with the strategies

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > > >Because software under the GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2-only > > > software, while "GPLv2 or above" software is compatible with both. > > Coul

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from the > > > shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and tha

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that > >for a webdesign professional even a redesign wo

Re: Write access on the Debian website.

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 11:13, Charles Plessy wrote: > > By the way, does anybody knows if it is possible for non-DDs to get > > write acces ? > > Yes it is. The procedure to request commit access describes the difference > between DDs an

Re: Platform for strategy/simulation games

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:44:36PM +0200, Tobias Nadler wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on a program (called "MyUniverse") that has reached a > point, where it can show its very basic abilities, but still needs > much programming effort to fullfill its aims. It is a platform for > strategy/simula

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > What you're saying here appears to be that you find Frans' response > > unhelpful and unconstructive. > I didn't read it that way. I th

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 09:39:31AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, if I did use emdebian, I would be mirroring > > anything I need, and would be rather upset if emdebian tools would > > insist on clogging my network connection (which I might not

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:20:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 12:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > ... > > > This is only my (ill-informed) opinion - I am neither a German, nor a > > > German lawyer :) > > > >

Re: dh_installman problems

2007-06-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:04:44PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to teach myself to package up a program for debian, but can't get > the manpage I have written to work properly. > It has the line '.TH CAJUN 1 "June 10, 2007"' near the top of the file and is > named cajun.1 in t

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Mark Reitblatt
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Re: SCSI drives for donation

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:46:08PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > I personally have 6 or 7 U320 73GB 10K RPM SCSI drives that I am not using > for > anything interesting. Can anyone tell me if these would be useful to Debian > or recommend another free software group to donate them? As shipping m

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:20:17PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > I would like to ask you interested in our next release to stop and > look at 'testing' for a while. I believe that now, during the start of > a development cycle and during debcamp/debconf we've a interesting > opportunity to review

Re: SCSI drives for donation

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:19:00PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007 21:52:09 Kevin Mark wrote: > > As shipping may be a consideration, in the cost-benefit analysis, it may > > be useful to say where in the world you are, in a general way, so that > > som

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:56:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This assumes that experimental is used by a lot of people, which I > doubt, especially given the default apt pins and the numbers above. There's also the fact that if you remove experimental it's easy enough for people to set up their a

Re: Best practices for cron jobs?

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:46:42PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2007 06:28:09 Duncan Findlay wrote: > > I imagine it would be relatively simple to have the postinst generate > > a random time during the day for a cron script to run, but this > > doesn't work with anacron -- man

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:20:33PM -0400, Zachary Palmer wrote: > Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian > package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it > to be fr

Re: I don't understand Debian

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:24:22PM +0200, ignatius wrote: > I have two questions that really concerned me. > > - Why it's Debian that fixes bugs and security holes? There are lots of differences between: upstream and Debian release goals upstream and Debian build environment (debian has 10+ arch

Re: Bug#429514: ITP: openoffice.org-ctl-he -- Turns on OO.org CTL support, and sets Hebrew as the default CTL locale

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:11:04PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +0100, Lior Kaplan wrote: > > > Description : Turns on CTL support & sets Hebrew as the default CTL > > locale > > > > This package installs an OO.org extention which turns on CTL support, and

Re: Bug#430176: ITP: sorting-hat -- program to sort Debian Developers

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:50:44AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: sorting-hat > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL :

Re: key sign

2007-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:04:30PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > Em Qua, 2007-06-27 às 19:28 +0330, Amin Shali escreveu: > > Hi :) > > Can anyone please sign my key? > > No. > > Quoting http://www.debian.org/events/keysigning: > > "You should never sign a key for somebody else you hav

Could someone clarify this...

2007-06-28 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi, I was just reading an interview[0] of someone from the 'Freetype' project and he said: ... Also, I still don't understand why Debian and Ubuntu keep distributing patent-infringing code in FreeType, while they keep MP3 and DVD playback out of their normal installs. I'm not even sure it's DFSG co

Re: FTBFS if built twice in a row

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This check would fail many packages that can still be built twice in a > >> row (any package that runs autotools during the build process without > >> doing a complicated dance to

Re: Any problems with mips/mipsel?

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:53:05AM -0600, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > show uninformative assembler failure messages. I also made several unanswered > requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for build-depends installation on > any developer accessible mips/mipsel machine to try looking at the build to > fi

Re: Any problems with mips/mipsel?

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:03:09PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Mark Brown] > > Did you do this by mailing debian-admin or by using the request > > tracker[1]? Requests sent via RT should have less chance of being > > missed. > Perhaps the link https://rt.deb

Re: debdelta service back on track

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:23:53AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > The problem was due to a subtle change in zlib1g: in newer versions, the > compressed output has 0x02 instead of 0x00 at the 10th byte (that is in > the header). This change occurred somewhere between version 1.2.3-13 and > 1.2.3.3.dfsg-

Re: Help: Strange 64bit issue

2008-07-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 02:40:17PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote: > >With these fixes it still did not build on my system. I needed to change > >the Build-Depends on lib64z1-dev into zlib1g-dev to get it to build in a > >clean pbuilder chroot. > Well, I gue

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:21:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > This seems to happen to me most often on the s390 build daemon, and has > happened with at least 3 to 5 different packages now. (Current example > is hpodder). In fact, I don't think I've ever seen it happen elsewhere. > It seems t

Re: disappointed ... APT HowTo removed from sid

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Hymers
ian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493787 -- Mark Hymers "That's why the good die young; it's because Death can't be bothered to check the paperwork." Andy Hamilton, Old Harry's Game -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:06:50PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:57:49PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I would rather have maintainers spend time improving their packages > > instead of wasting it trying to figure out why some architecture > > fail/refuses t

Re: cipux-storage_3.4~svn2489-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2008-08-09 Thread Mark Hymers
earching manually. Sorry about that. Please re-upload and I'll re-process it. Mark -- Mark Hymers "But Yossarian *still* didn't understand either how Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five cents." Catch 22,

Re: cipux-storage_3.4~svn2489-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2008-08-09 Thread Mark Hymers
), > and waiting a month for each of them, well, is quite a drag. You can upload all of them one after the other. We're usually intelligent enough to process them as a batch. Mark -- Mark Hymers "I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and,

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Allums
n (mostly) but still is a bit green/"wet behind the ears" when it comes to something like a rescue. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Mark Hobley
. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or

Bug#497316: general: Building entire system from source

2008-08-31 Thread Mark Hobley
could then be configured to allow source builds of all additional packages. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (char

RE: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#498263: kaffeine: please provide debian/README.source

2008-09-08 Thread Mark Purcell
value! Mark -original message- Subject: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#498263: kaffeine: please provide debian/README.source From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09/09/2008 07:23 Package: kaffeine Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: normal Hi, policy version 3.8.0 recommends that packages using a

Re: Change the format of /usr/share/bug/*/script

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:21:30PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Come on, we are not trying to imitate Vista. Why do you need to ask tons > of questions just to report a bug? Their only purpose is to confuse the > guy reporting a bug and who doesn???t know what this /etc/apt/sources.list > file

Re: Spam-Problem with linux.debian.user.german

2008-09-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:46:11PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I had posted a followup to linux.debian.user.german. Now I got a very > strange mail from a italian host telling me that the post was canceled > and that I have to subscribe a mailing list. > What the hell is that about? I did not po

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:55:00AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I object to a second round of this. I was ok with it once, as a > compromise, but the understanding I had then was that it was a one-time > thing, to give time to actually *fix* the problem. Note that there is currently activ

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:22:25PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 19:11 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:55:00AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > We need the relevant maintainers to be told "your unwillingness to

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:49:40PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 22:26 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > If they were actively stopping people working on these issues then that > > would be different but I have not seen them doing this. > Great, so since

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:17:37PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:47 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Doing so would be a violation of basic NMU policy. > The claim was, hey, nobody is stopping anyone from fixing it, if it's > not fixed, it's lame for people to complain,

Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: general > Severity: serious > Justification: DFSG > > raff.debian.org uses a Compaq Smart 5i RAID card. A flash memory is used > to store the firmware. While the firmware is freely downloadable (as in > beer) on HP website

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:10:19AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:31 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Because that's how the hardware works. If you are making a widget and > > you need a fpga or hybrid chip of any sort, then you generate a binary > > blob using the chip manufac

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:41:29PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think that we should drop the legal review (that would probably > > be dangerous). However, NEW reviews seem to cover a lot of other > > aspects currently, which might explain wh

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:18:59PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm not advocating that we just stop doing reviews. But IMHO, NEW > processing should be about the legal problems, not about the random > lintian warning/errors, and the various other packaging malpractices. At least package namesp

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:06:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >powertweak > => Is that still relevant with modern power management policies? It's nothing to do with power management. I'd rather let it stay until lenny is rel

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:25:17AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 d?cembre 2008 ? 22:49 +0000, Mark Brown a ?crit : > > It's nothing to do with power management. I'd rather let it stay until > > lenny is released, though if it were the only thing keeping

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:12:04PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 d??cembre 2008 ?? 11:46 +0100, Tim Dijkstra a ??crit : > > It still works, some people still use it... so I do not see any need > > to remove it now. If the time comes to remove gtk+1.2, digitaldj can > > go too IYAM.

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:34:39PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Romain Beauxis wrote: > > I think you completely forgot about the fact that this project is run by > > people who aren't payed for that. > > > > And, yes I didn't fix any RC bug today, nor yesterday. I even have now 3 on > > medi

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:27:55PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Steve McIntyre schrieb: > > I'm curious about that myself. We've tried that in the past, and a > > 3-year release cycle was what happened. Experience tells us that we > > have much too big a system to suddenly one day declare "rele

Bug#509242: ITP: lensfun -- LensCorrection editor plugin

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell * Package name: lensfun Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Andrew Zabolotny * URL : http://lensfun.berlios.de * License : GPL, MIT/X Programming Lang: C++ & C Description : LensCorrection ed

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:20:28PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:11:01AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > FSF), Dynebolic, Musix GNU+Linux, BLAG, and Trisquel. So not only is > > there one such distribution that takes free software of cardinal > > importance, there are six

Re: Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:37:55PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Didn't mean to sound accusatory - more surprised. It was strange that > one package is commonly affected and others that also changed versions > were not. Maybe something to do with pattern matching failing when a > version includes

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 02:44:45PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 21.07.2007 13:36 schrieb Brice Goglin: > > reportbug-ng does *not* gather all the information about the reporters > > system... see #422085 > This bug is about replicating a reportbug specific feature. In my As Steve pointed o

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 04:42:48PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html > /usr/share/bugs was in my opinion a reportbug specific feature, since it > wasn't documented on the above site on how to report bugs and since it > was the only program I knew wh

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 06:11:19PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 21.07.2007 18:04 schrieb Frans Pop: > > $ less /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers > At least now it should be clear why I assumed it is a reportbug > *specific* feature. The first line of that document indicates that t

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:57:03AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I don't know exactly how it happened, but a large number of maintainers > apparently ignored the discussions on this list and added to their > packages a dependency on update-inetd. > This is *TOTALLY WRONG* because the /usr/sbin/updat

Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news

2007-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:29:52AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > > I wish for an include mechanism! :) ... > applicable if you use an include mechanism. Duplication is bad, but it may > be easier to manage. Realisitically I expect that if an include

libosip2 move to pkg-voip-maintainers

2007-08-19 Thread Mark Purcell
Anand, ARAKI, We are in the process of moving libosip2 over to the pkg-voip-maintainers team on alioth. You are welcome to join the pkg-voip-maintainers team and we will keep you listed as maintainers of the package. Mark signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:03:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Let me explain to you the why I have decided to start the project. I > have searched for a lightweight distribution and none of what is > available has been what I wanted for one reason or another. I also > have used IceWM

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:11:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I came up with nothing on Google for stem linux., and DeliLinux > looks to be turkish so I don't know if we would even be to > communicate. I should try talking with them, their desktop looks > pretty nice. I have already d

Re: Dependencies on shared libs, news and difference between archs

2007-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:19:02PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 5/ Fifth example, it looks like 64 bits ports tend to have differences in > common > like on libneon2.6 where various functions suffixed by "64" disappear on those > arches (ne_get_range64, ne_set_request_body_fd64, > ne_set_requ

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated anyone > into packaging a given piece of software? I packaged TenDRA as a result of an RFP (this predated using the BTS for WNPP). I'd just packaged it for

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:03:05PM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote: > This means, in practice, that many sites will be able to track Debian > users by their User-Agent, even if (say) the user is blocking cookies or > limiting them to a single session and is changing IP address regularly. I would str

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:39:25PM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:36:41 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > I would strongly expect that any user sufficiently concerned about > > these issues to take active steps like those would be willing to use

Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?

2007-09-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:57:52AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > > I suppose that everyone are busy today, so do I. I'm a little tired > > with sponsoring his packages and I know he could to upload his > > packages by his own. > > > > I really don't u

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:11:56AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, well, despite all arguments developed by Joey in this thread, I > still think that mass pings can really help maintainers in their work, > particularly when someone takes over a package that has been neglected > for some time

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:16:28PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:47:40AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > It might help to do something like use the confirmed tag to flag reports > > which can readily be reproduced or which otherwise don't need

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:27:40PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I don't miss the point, you miss the fact that the way exists, and is > marking the bug as "found" in a specific version. It's not a task that > only the submitter can perform, the maintainer can do that, and it will > prevent pi

Re: pristine tarball generator

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:09:56PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > situation, only makes it more complex as I think the OS field > of the header zlib generates changed with the versions). I can't remember if it included the OS field but there were several informational things that it started ini

Re: Bug#445180: ITP: libpuzzle -- A library to find similar pictures

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:14:37PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote: > >> * Package name: libpuzzle >> Description : A library to find similar pictures > > The lib sounds very interesting but I would ask the authors to choose > a not so generic nam

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:41:51AM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > This is most likely apocryphal. If there is any truth in the above link, it > has been blown way out of proportion. Nobody gets arrested for using lynx, > which is what that link says. There is little evidence to corroborate the

Re: Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:38:12AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Package name: detach > Version: 0.2.3-1 > Upstream Author: Robbert Haarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL: http://inglorion.net/software

Re: Compiling all packages with debug information?

2007-10-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:27:40AM +0200, Philipp Marek wrote: > How about compiling all programs with debugging information, and strip them > into a "-dbginfo" package, or something likewise for "apt-get source"? Like > the "-dev" packages only people who think they need them would install them

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:13:11AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > This mail tries to address the problem of not orphaned, poorly maintained > or useless packages in Debian. The proposal below tries to address both > cases, because they are often related. (useless packages tend to be poorly

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 06:05:39PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:33:41PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > If I am a user of one of these packages who may have the skill to adopt > > it or may know someone who can, I may want to know about its orphaning. >

Re: [Probably OT]Debian on a biostar p4m900 motherboard

2007-10-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:38:50PM +0200, Andrea Ferraresi wrote: > Hello folks, > I want to install debian lenny on a biostar p4m900 motherboard micro > ATX on a touchscreen pc...have you ever tried it? what abuot linux > support? > > Thanks AF. > > Please cc me i'm currently off list and sorry

Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - made easy

2007-10-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:44:30PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:15:42AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > [...] > > I suggest that, if such a repository will be created for patented > > codecs, that e.g. sponsored uploads will not be allowed to this > > archive. I know t

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:54:29PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > The size of the test suite is completely irrelevant. Executing a single > compiled binary will cause any cross build to break, even if it is a > 1kb no-op. Attempting to execute a binary not supported by the host will obviously fail

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:48:55PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > If you run a test you usually *want* to have it fail on build time if > the test did not go trough. Otherwise running tests is useless - or do > you check all build logs with every upload? In the particular case I'm thinking of the

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:46:52PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:54:29PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > The size of the test suite is completely irrelevant. Executing a single > > > compiled

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:19:52AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So there should be a way to disable them if the tests can't work in the > current build environment. Don't get me wrong - I think the basic idea is a sensible one, it's just the making it mandatory bit. -- "You grabbed my hand and

Re: dh_installinit

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:33:58AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sounds like a bug in the init script. In particular, it sounds like the > init script is starting some program that's waiting for input on standard > input. This would be bad when the init script is run during system boot > as well.

Re: dupload failed

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:08:30PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote: > > I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload > > because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22. > > ftp-master is tempo

Re: MicroImages Leaving LINUX

2007-11-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:23:32PM -0500, Gene Kersey wrote: > Mr Hocevar: > > This is my first time communicating with anyone in the Linux > community, so please forgive me if I have breached some sort of > protocol. I have been a Linux dabbler, user and supporter for some > time. One of the de

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:55:50PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > What I'm suggesting is to grep for them in maintainer scripts. Any empty > directory created in /etc and which isn't used in the maintainer scripts > is likely to be a mistake. You'd need to check binaries as well - quite a few t

Bug#452703: ITP: merkaartor -- openstreetmap.org map editor

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: merkaartor Version : 0.0.8 Upstream Author : Bart Vanhauwaert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Merkaartor * License : GPL Progr

Re: IPT: merkaartor - packages available from buildserver.net

2007-11-25 Thread Mark Purcell
I have now got packages building and available from buildserver.net http://status.buildserver.net/packages/status.php?email=&packages=merkaartor&arches=&dists=&subdist=pkg-kde-extra http://archive.buildserver.net/pool/main/m/merkaartor/ Mark signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: Bug#452703: IPT: merkaartor - packages available from buildserver.net

2007-11-25 Thread Mark Purcell
On Sunday 25 November 2007, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > On 25/11/2007, Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have now got packages building and available from buildserver.net > > There is no man page, desktop icon or menu. Thanks Jeffery, I didn't say they

Bug#456427: ITP: zope-ploneldap -- LDAP integration for Plone

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Hymers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hymers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-ploneldap Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Wichert Akkerman * URL : http://plone.org/products/ploneldap * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Descr

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:42:53PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: > > That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was > > attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches > > since then? > Only by the kernel folks which believe all of the crap that the KVM

Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
to the current state but none of them seem to have a summary of what the intention is - does anyone have any information here? Daniel Baumann doodle (U) Mark Brown nis Tim Cutts am-utils Debian QA Group unfs3 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta netkit-bootparamd netkit-rusers n

Re: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:52:43PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > I see that nfs-common depends on portmap | rpcbind. However, nis only depends > on portmap, and can therefore not be installed at the same time as rpcbind. Yes, this is the root of the issue - if we're changing what we're doing with

Re: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:17:16PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Ehm, the reason was a bug. nfs-common was broken, if connecting to localhost > it was only trying ::1, but without a fallback on 127.0.0.1. > There wasn't any indication in the package that this breakage was on purpose. > I guess i

Re: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:45:27PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > As discussed by a number of people in bug #562757 it appears that > nfs-kernel-server has kicked off a transition to the use of rpcbind - at > least, nfs-kernel-server has switched to needing rpcbind and we can't >

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:11:25AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Marco d'Itri] > > I maintain the package providing it, but I fear it is the result of > > cargo cult sysadmining. A driver will not engage the watchdog > > anyway until /dev/watchdog is opened. > If I remember correctly, the

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:51:24PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > (BTW, is there any other watchdog daemon? The watchdog package reliably > > fails to detect when the system is half-killed by OOM.) > How about explaing your problem

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:57:29PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 09 Feb 2010, Michael Meskes wrote: > > This looks like a workaround for some other problem to me. Patting at 0.1Hz > > should be sufficient if the kernel expects a change at 0.016 Hz. I don't > > have > > any r

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