Re: Is gcc-3.4 in the unstable chroot on crest.debian.org OK?

2005-09-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
ease downgrade binutils in > all chroots to a working version? Thx. I've downgraded the user unstable chroot; testing and buildd unstable were fine. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:33:29PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > The remapping features seems not to work with deb-src entries. > > > (SID)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-get -o > APT::URL-Remap::http://merke

Re: Interfaces for dpkg/deb packages

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Vogt
ame, Version, Release, etc... ? [..] libapt_inst (from the apt package) provides a interface in C++ and python-apt (module apt_inst) provides a interface in python. Attached is a example using python-apt. Cheers, Michael -- Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo #!

Bug#329918: ITP: powersave -- backend for kpowersave

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: powersave Version : 0.9.25 Upstream Author : Danny Kukawka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/ * License : GPL

Bug#329922: ITP: kpowersave -- frontend for powersave

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kpowersave Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : Danny Kukawka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#329922: ITP: kpowersave -- frontend for powersave

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Steinar H. Gunderson schrieb: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:57:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Description : frontend for powersave > > > And the powersave description reads: > > Description : backend for kpowersave > > You wouldn't

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Poole
same flames are possible with blogs -- a blog's distinction is that it is clumsier to find a whole exchange, since trackbacks do not have the shared locality of a mailing list. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Biebl
on, which, omitting all the lg-issue* packages, comes to about 550 >>bugs. > [..] > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >lksctp-tools >partimage > Updated packages (lksctp-tools_1.0.3-3/partimage_0.6.4-14) are ready

ITP: dares -- rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs

2005-10-01 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dares Version : 0.6.5 Upstream Author : Oliver Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/dares.tgz * License : GPL Description

ITP: fsl -- analysis tools for FMRI, MRI and DTI brain imaging

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fsl Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : Analysis Group, FMRIB, Oxford, UK. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/ * License : non-fr

Re: Bug#333120: ITP: icu4j -- International Components for Unicode for Java

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Koch
; you consider maintaining it under the > umbrella of the pkg-java Alioth's project? > > http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/ > > You are welcome to join us. Already cleared up on IRC. It will be uploaded under the Debian Java Maintainers umbrella. I already reviewed the e

Bug#334225: ITP: libmodelfile -- library to handle quake .md3 files

2005-10-16 Thread Michael Koch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmodelfile Version : 0.1.92 Upstream Author : Al Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.worldforge.org/ * License : GPL Description : libra

Re: Bug#334225: ITP: libmodelfile -- library to handle quake .md3 files

2005-10-16 Thread Michael Koch
e a bit: Source: libmodelfile Section: libs Priority: optional Maintainer: Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 4.1.0) Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Package: libmd3-1 Architecture: any Section: libs Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: library to handle Quake .

gcc 4.1 with stack smashing protection in etch?

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Meyer
Hi, now that Steve Langasek has published July 30th as the toolchain freeze, do you already know if you will include gcc 4.1 instead of 4.0 as the standard gcc in etch? If yes, etch could profit from the ProPolice-like stack smashing protection in gcc 4.1. If it will be 4.1, will every debian pac

hal/dbus transition - packages in experimental

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Biebl
rresponding packages in experimental. E.g. the aforementioned kdebase package in experimental doesn't use hal/dbus from experimental. It even fails to compile if you try to build it with pbuilder in an experimental chroot due to broken dependencies. I hope somenone can comment on this.

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-01 Thread Michael Vogt
cate that that is not the case. Only the md5sum of the unpacked data.tar file matches, not from the gzip file (or the deb). This is a serious showstoper IMHO. Cheers, Michael [1] I would love to hear results from other people testing it with different packages and different changes. -- Linux is

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
and > tell us a few words about yourself. We'll respond with a > user/password. I suggest you discuss things on this list (if they are technical) or debian-project (if they are non-technical). This will make it much easier for you to cooperate with the Debian project, if this is your in

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
e FSF or GPLed-work copyright owner to demonstrate that "contains" unambiguously includes "references". [1]- Since neither statute nor case law has to my knowledge defined treatment of "pure copyright licenses", traditional contract law seems most applicable. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There is clear tension between this and the "mere aggregation" clause. >> However, given that source code is only required for *contained* >> modules, shared libraries or the ker

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It is not clear to me that >> standard library header files qualify as "associated interface >> definition files". > > Wrong. Library header files that you link against ar

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
For example, MJ Ray's comment in that debian-legal thread that the CDDL looks non-free when the software is covered by a patent: Has anything in the CDDL changed about that? Does Sun represent that OpenSolaris is unencumbered by patent claims? What about CDDL's choice-of-venue and cost-shifting clauses? Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Then we will have to disagree on this point. When the restriction >> supposedly kicks in only by virtue of two pieces of software existing >> on the same disk[1], and would not apply to se

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
any number of other flaws, but it is neither incomprehensible nor gibberish. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Andrew Suffield writes: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:07:58PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: >> Andrew Suffield writes: >> >> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:48:53PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: >> >> CDDL works similar way, except on per-file basis. >>

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The first says that it does not apply to works derived from the GPLed >> work -- but the C library (and its interfaces) are not derived works >> of an application that uses them. The C

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Section 3 requires that you distribute the source code for a work (or, >> in the non-DFSG-case, a written offer to provide the source code). >> "Source code" is defined to be the

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Treating system headers as part of the source code means we would be >> awash in GPL violations, since almost nobody includes all the >> necessary system header files with their applicat

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Poole
Frank Küster writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrew Suffield writes: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:48:53PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: >>>> CDDL works similar way, except on per-file basis. >>> >>>

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:47:22AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Banck wrote: > > Do you plan to use debian-installer for installation? > > And do you realize that the debian installer is largely GPL licensed and > would present the same license incompatability issues as e

Bug#338026: ITP: gnormalize -- gnormalize is a front-end to normalize, an audio converter, encoder, ripper, meta data (tag) editor and audio cd player

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Stilkerich
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Stilkerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnormalize Version : 0.46 Upstream Author : Claudio Fernandes de Souza Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gnormalize.sourceforge.net/ * License

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Poole
recipients) of software, not to preserve anyone's physical property rights. Infringing those copyrights or hoarding those freedoms may be moral or legal wrongs of a degree similar to theft but they are _not_ theft. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Bug#338635: ITP: kde-style-polymer -- Polymer widget style and kwin decoration for KDE3

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kde-style-polymer Version : 0.5.5 Upstream Author : Marco Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27968 * License

Bug#338784: ITP: openrpt -- SQL report writer

2005-11-12 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: openrpt Version : 1.1.1beta Upstream Author : Chris Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ned Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pierce Tyler <[EM

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Michael Biebl
ainer scripts. This would avoid to copy the scripts from http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling over and over again. Regarding run-parts: There is no problem afaik. I quickly tried this: # mkdir test # touch test/foo # touch test/foo.dpkg-old # touch test/foo.dpkg-bak # run-parts --list test

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread Michael Biebl
ite a debhelper command for this. Another way would be, to make dpkg smarter about such cases. As you want to write a special utility for this, how would you hook this up into the install/upgrade process? If you have to edit maintainer scripts again, you haven't gained a lot imho. Cheers, M

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Michael Biebl] Why do you think, debhelper is not the correct place to handle this? Imho it would be fairly easy to write a debhelper command for this. Another way would be, to make dpkg smarter about such cases. As you want to write a special utility for this, how

Re: dependencies for autoconf

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Biebl
mends. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Banck
o document in some place (devref?) why > quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's > obvious for everybody :) And there I thought we'd use whatever we like until wig&pen lands, which will have native patch support. What's the status of

Re: xen-utils installation failure

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:52:20PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Package: xen-utils-3.2-1 > Version: 3.2.0-1 > Severity: important Why do you CC debian-devel for a regular bug report? If every bug report would be copied to debian-devel, the list would be totally flooded. cheers,

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-26 Thread Michael Biebl
age of the weird AC_PATH_XTRA macro in configure.in Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-27 Thread Michael Biebl
nning really quick and hassle free. A real plus is also upstream, who is very responsive and active and it's a pleasure to work with him. As maintainer of rsyslog, I'd really like to see rsyslog become the default for lenny and I think it would be a very good choice. Cheers, Micha

Bug#462971: ITP: odtwriter -- convert reStructured Text to OpenDocument Text files

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Schutte
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: odtwriter Version : 1.1a Upstream Author : Dave Kuhlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/odtwriter.html * License : MIT Prog

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Patrick Winnertz wrote: Am Montag, 28. Januar 2008 01:55:23 schrieb Michael Biebl: rsyslog is also a drop in replacement, even more so, as it can understand the syntax of sysklogd. The default rsyslog config file /etc/rsyslog.conf is basically a copy of /etc/syslog.conf. So if you have a custom

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Banck
and thus opt-out. On the other hand, maybe the set of packages is orthogonal, i.e. packages which might use hardening before the toolchain does by default is probably a different set to the packages which want to disable hardening after the move, due to some issues, not sure. Michael -- To UNS

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
patch for the release notes - Get the priorities fixed by a ftpmaster (assistant) Should, I file a lenny release goal first and wait for it's approval, or can I take this thread as consensus that I can pursue changing the default system-log-daemon to rsyslog? Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: The list of syslogd sorted by Installed-Size: Package: socklog-run Installed-Size: 148 This one requires runit (430k) and socklog (291k) for operation Package: sysklogd Installed-Size: 212 This one requires klogd (139k) for kernel logging. Package: inetutils

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Guillem Jover wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:11:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: For 12.) and 28.), I'd file a wishlist bug providing a config file snippet for /etc/rsyslog.d/ Can we please use /etc/syslog.d/ instead? this way we don't get locked in any specific implement

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-31 Thread Michael Meskes
. My guess it that quite some people out there install virtualbox (without OSE) to get those additional features that weren't open-sourced or because they simply didn't notice that a free version is in the archive. And yes, they also provide a deb file. Michael -- Michael Meskes E

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [Michael Biebl] That's mostly because of lots of documentation in /usr/share/doc/rsyslog. If you think that's an issue, I could split out the doc into a separate package. This is probably a good idea, for those that need a

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-02-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: > Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> [Michael Biebl] >>> That's mostly because of lots of documentation in >>> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog. If you think that's an issue, I could split >>> out the doc into a

Re: s390 buildd?

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Koch
debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=gcc-avr says "Not for us" so the s390 buildd admins decided to not build the package. You should contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: s390 buildd?

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
t. What might be the problem? > > http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=gcc-avr says "Not for us" so the > s390 buildd admins decided to not build the package. You should contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this. > Good luck. Michael, who has tried that for ages. pgpn382W3F0zV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Banck
ch mandates a description in the header, we can probably continously improve the description of patches as well. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: toolchain issue makes qt3 drop symbols ?

2008-02-11 Thread Michael Meskes
contains not only a > fix for this issue but for some other issues, too. ??? Which other issues do you think you fix in an binNMU? Keep in mind that we talk about rebuilding 1.5.4-dfsg-4. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ

Re: toolchain issue makes qt3 drop symbols ?

2008-02-11 Thread Michael Meskes
? The big question here is, what exactly happened. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go VfL Borussia! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

Re: toolchain issue makes qt3 drop symbols ?

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:01:47PM +0100, Fathi Boudra wrote: > if we choose the binNMU needed packages way, > virtualbox-ose binNMU will become useless in case of a 1.5.4-dfsg-5 > upload is pending. Yes, I got confused by this email talking about a new version and binNMUs. Michael --

Re: Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Tautschnig
; > > "dialect" is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable > for a package description. > I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here. Best, Michael pgpdUcZWdzlMt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#466078: RFP: sourcenav NG -- source code analysis tool

2008-02-16 Thread Michael Tautschnig
nsidering the two main features (call trees and class relationships) in this context, eclipse could call itself a "source code analysis" tool as well, which I guess they would never claim. Instead, this is just what makes up for a nice IDE today. If this is something else

Re: Idea for package name instead of "build" (ITP)

2008-02-16 Thread Michael Banck
gt; > But, slightly more seriously "mentioning" Gnu Make might also be a > possibility: e.g. gmbuild or mkbuild or makebuild or mfbuild. It's unclear to me what your answer has to do with the question. AFAICT, Raphael was asking for feedback on how to name some random bui

Bug#466556: ITP: python-mvpa -- multivariate pattern recognition with Python

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-mvpa Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Bug#466823: ITP: rush -- Ruby replacement for a shell

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Schutte
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rush Version : (no official release yet) Upstream Author : Adam Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rush.heroku.com/ * License : (needs to

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Biebl
. Imho it's also not ok to insult DDs publically in the way jidanni did. We are all volunteers after all and ranting on a public mailing list doesn't help to improve the motivation (and doesn't magically fix the bugs). Just my 2¢, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeki

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Tautschnig
ew teams/corporations for whatever else is to come. Hopefully at least one of each team will have the necessary environment to reproduce the bug. Anotherone might have the required knowledge of $LANG. Well, just an idea. Michael pgpGdY9Llrshx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Tautschnig
we could maybe set up kind of a bug-frontdesk taking over _all_ new bug reports for a moment and checking them for a the bit of information that seems crucial to fix/reproduce the bug. Well, just another idea. Michael pgpjReEeT1VWA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Koch
robably I've just been lucky). You should re-read about Pre-Depends again. It's not about the order. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Tautschnig
is some kind of automatism, forwarding bugs that have not been acted upon from some time to a mailing list or the like. No idea what the proper way of implementing this would be, but I guess the technical part is the easiest to solve. Best, Michael pgpQWWaN5xfGM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:49:32PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:48 +0100 > Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:

Re: Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

2008-02-23 Thread Michael Biebl
EFICAS, so I guess there is a reason why Sylvestre wrote the short description the way it is ;-) Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Banck
be used? The point of the discussion is that we agree on a patch-exchange format, without forcing an implementation on people. People who like the quilt implementation will still be able and encouraged to use quilt with it. Others might just use vi to edit quilt patches, or git, or something else.

Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
I am logged in as root, and i try to su as a user : user1 ; I get the following error: rmachine:/home/user1/Maildir/cur# su user1 Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Re: Bug#468820: ITP: soothsayer -- intelligent predictive text entry platform (tools and demos)

2008-03-01 Thread Michael Biebl
ce package, not ITPs for every single binary package you build from the source package. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS buildd backlog.

2008-03-02 Thread Michael Banck
your posting will look strange. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS buildd backlog.

2008-03-02 Thread Michael Casadevall
break everyone else. Michael On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:57:03 +0100 From: Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS buildd backlog. Resent-Date: S

Re: Bug#469173: spread: Unavailability of newer version - Spread 4

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Mende
8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > > spread recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- Kind Regards, Michael Mende http://www.menole.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFH: wireshark, libgphoto2, exif, etc.

2008-03-07 Thread Michael Biebl
ds. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Michael Casadevall
had a similar slowdown installing texex packages on a slower powerpc That being said, I neither agree nor disagree with the hijacking of dpkg, but triggers are important, especially for slower architectures. Michael On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Adam Borowski wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:07:15 +0100

Re: ITP: aptlinex -- Web browser addon to install Debian packages with a click

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Banck
ian.org for easy installation after browsing/searching through (maybe along with some fancy icon like you see for the 1-Click-Install from OpenSuse on some blogs). Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#470621: ITP: nxcl -- NX X compression client library

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Biebl
org/Xfree86 sources (which understandably didn't make our security team happy). Is nxcl a reimplementation that solves this problem? Does it allow to implement the NX server as an extension for Xorg? Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#446030: ITA: kbd -- Linux console font and keytable utilities

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schutte
on > console-tools. Because of this kbd needs to be properly maintained. I know about kbd building a udeb, and the consequences of that, and I think that I have enough knowledge about a maintainer’s duties to cope with kbd’s issues. Best regards, -- Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#470995: ITP: devotee -- Debian voting system

2008-03-14 Thread Michael Casadevall
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: devotee Version : 0.1patch2 Upstream Author : Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.debian.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-16 Thread Michael Biebl
intainer scripts [1] If xserver-xorg doesn't correctly remove the obsolete conffile, you should file a bug against it (unless there isn't already one). Cheers, Michael [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in

Re: s390 buildd?

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Banck
> Similar the ia64 buildd admin, see #464932. Or is there anything I could > do myself about this? That package is only n-f-u on s390, it's in p-a-s for some other architectures. It seems to indeed FTBFS on a couple of architectures, so why do you think the p-a-s is wrong? Michael

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Biebl
ner scripts. (Only ones that don't need to pass > install-info any options.) > - insserv/update-rc.d Looks like a possible candidate too (without knowing much about triggers). Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Michael Biebl] >> - insserv/update-rc.d >> Looks like a possible candidate too (without knowing much about >> triggers). I have to add, that I don't know much about insserv either ;-) > > I doubt it, as boot script updates need to be

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Sune Vuorela wrote: >> Michael Biebl wrote: >>>> - update-icon-caches >>>> - update-desktop-database >>>>These are not very slow, nor used by a great many packages, >>>>but triggerizing them would allow getting rid of dh_icons and=20 &

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Biebl
ramfs. Packages that update the initramfs are e.g. udev, cryptsetup or uswsusp, splashy/usplash Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Josselin Mouette schrieb: > On lun, 2008-03-31 at 02:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> update-icon-caches/update-desktop-database would have to be made >> triggers-aware and install a triggers control file >> (e.g. interest /usr/share/icons or interest /usr/share/applicatio

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
gt;> can I take this thread as consensus that I can pursue changing the >> default system-log-daemon to rsyslog? > > Or was it already too late for this? Dunno. We should bring this topic up on debian-release I think to get more input there. If you want to kick of the discussi

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
ll gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/$subdir for the directory that has changed. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
ld ship a triggers file, none of the (GNOME) applications would then have to call dh_icons anymore imho (which would also make the recent change to cdbs/gnome.mk obsolete). (Given that (GNOME) applications only install icons into either /usr/share/icons/gnome or hicolor). Cheers, Michael --

Re: Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: chkconfig > Version : 10.3-90 > Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * License

Re: Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> What's the advantage over exisiting tools like sysv-rc-conf? > > 1. chkconfig works solely on the command line. sysv-rc-conf has both a command line interface and a ncurses based interface. I do

Re: Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

2008-04-11 Thread Michael Biebl
ves and if I should reconsider using sysv-rc-conf (which I have used and recommended to others up until now). If insserv is really enabled by default for lenny, and chkconfig is the only tool working properly with insserv, then we should recommend chkconfig over other tools. Cheers, Michael --

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
nresolved issue about sysvinit being essential and upstart conflicting with it). But claiming that initng was more mature than upstart (or upstart way more experimental) is FUD, sorry. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed

Re: ITP: initng -- full replacement of the old sysvinit init system

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:14:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: David Paleino wrote: Firstly, it's not obsolete, since we only have sysvinit available (if we had upstart, or something similar to initng, I could've agreed here -- and upstart in Debian is way more ex

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi fellow DDs, I had two separate discussions today with Alistair and Michael, about the state of console-tools and kbd in Debian. I decided to take this discussion to debian-devel to get more feedback on this matter. Following are the relevant parts of the discussion: Michael Schutte wrote

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Schutte
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:51:36PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > (keeping CC, just in case) You can drop me at least. > > console-tools is currently preferred over kbd and installed by default > > (on 97.41% of all machines according to popcon). > > > > Given

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Schutte
le-setup more widely used. Best regards, -- Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Banck
se it themselves) is always welcome, regardless of any other action or non-action by the maintainer. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can we remove sylpheed-claws?

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Meskes
ers software that is no longer supported by upstream. The last meaningful maintainer upload was in 2006. On top of this sylpheed-claws is the only package needing cryptplug and gpgme, two packages with no upstream activity since 2003 both of which have a release goal bug open. Michael -- Michael Mes

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