Re: Bug#311215: RFP: gajim -- a GTK Jabber client

2005-05-29 Thread Nigel Jones
If you read their downloads page they actually have some debs on their own site, maybe instead of getting another lot of packages around the world, convince them to get a sponsor and upload it to debian directly... Heres some links: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html - how

Re: Bug#311219: ITP: ipkungfu -- iptables-based Linux firewall

2005-05-29 Thread Nigel Jones
True I must say, it's not very user-friendly which we want debian to be. On 30/05/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:53:24PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owne

Bug#311219: ITP: ipkungfu -- iptables-based Linux firewall

2005-05-29 Thread Nigel Jones
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ipkungfu Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Rocco Stanzione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.linuxkungfu.org/ * License : GPL Description : iptables

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

2005-05-30 Thread Nigel Jones
Unless there is a related RC bug there, I don't think it's gonna matter when the change is to get it in sarge (i personally have not seen any RC bugs though...) On 30/05/05, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi *, > > People following the OpenLDAP packages might remember this change

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-05-30 Thread Nigel Jones
http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?ignore=sid&ignsec=on&fullcomment=on&new=7 thats a decent unoffical count... On 30/05/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:57:52PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > >... > > Timeline > > > >... > > 1 June 2005 > > ~1

Re: Dear Adrian Bunk, Please hold off a week or two

2005-05-30 Thread Nigel Jones
I noticed that Adrian moved a bug report for a kernel in sid (2.6.10 (BIIRC) to the 2.6.8 kernel so it appeared as a Sarge RC Bug? I didn't (Bsee anything that showed that it was a 2.6.8 problem, maybe it is, but (Bit looked like second guessing to me... (B (BHow is this helping Sarge? If it

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-06-01 Thread Nigel Jones
On 01/06/05, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IOW, it doesn't (directly) give meaningful predictions about the rate > > at which a given piece of hardware becomes obsolete. > > > > It also has no capacity to predict an organization's *ability* to > > replace hardware. > > ok, true >

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-06-01 Thread Nigel Jones
On 02/06/05, Thaddeus H. Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Langasek: > > > I challenge anyone to do volunteer release management > > for a project with Debian's size and complexity ... > > No. After seeing what Steve does, I'd sooner volunteer > to spar with Darth Maul than to manage a re

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Nigel Jones
On 06/06/05, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ensuring that packages build and run properly on a wide variety of > > architectures is _work_. I happen to think that it's worthwhile work, > > It is work, but it's up to the maintainer

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

2005-06-06 Thread Nigel Jones
On 06/06/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:13:50AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-05 12:55: > > > I don't think there exists a bug tracking system which meets this need > > > today, which is why Canonical is developin

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

2005-06-06 Thread Nigel Jones
On 06/06/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:45:59PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > On 06/06/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:13:50AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > > > Is

Possible idea towards future package handling

2005-06-07 Thread Nigel Jones
I've just been reading on the wiki that someone things there should be a pretesting branch for Debian, (good idea in my opinion), but why don't we try and stop rouge packages at unstable. Some maintainers obviously make mistakes every now and then while packaging "z", sometimes (if not all the tim

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Nigel Jones
It's been implied that people will be basicly *forced* to use selinux, so couldn't it be easier to have a coreutils-selinux package on the side? just like how the kernel team maintain a couple different branches of the kernel at the same time. There are people that *REFUSE* to use selinux (persona

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Nigel Jones
On 08/06/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Nigel Jones] > > if "coreutils" is made absolutely dependant on libselinux1, then the > > user gets no choice... > > One think is depending on the library, another is actually using > selinux.

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Nigel Jones
On 09/06/05, Manoj Srivastava va, manoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:44:30 +1200, Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > It's been implied that people will be basicly *forced* to use > > selinux, > > Where on earth did

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Nigel Jones
On 17/06/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] > > * Orphaned 164 days ago > > * 1 RC bugs. > > Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? there is kppp (?) for KDE, and

Re: Orphaning packages

2005-06-18 Thread Nigel Jones
On 19/06/05, Ivo Timmermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm orphaning these packages: > > alsaplayer (bug #314841) > dutch (bug #314839) > dvorak7min (bug #314844) I have interest in this, I really liked using this program > libauthen-radius-perl (bug #314851) > libarchive-zip-

Re: Orphaning packages

2005-06-19 Thread Nigel Jones
ow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 19/06/05, Ivo Timmermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm orphaning these packages: > >> > >> dvorak7min (bug #314844) > &g

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 8, 2005

2005-07-08 Thread Nigel Jones
On 08/07/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested > through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the > last week. > > Total number of orphaned packages: 222 (new: 12) > Total number of packages

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-09 Thread Nigel Jones
On 08/07/05, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:57:25AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > I'm already seeing documentation referring to "Debian 3.2 (etch)". > > Where is this? It's certainly wrong for documentation to make assumptions > about the release version n

Re: multiarch?

2005-07-09 Thread Nigel Jones
On 08/07/05, Nikita V. Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:03:09PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> Le Jeu 7 Juillet 2005 21:17, Josselin Mouette a ?crit : > >> > If we don't start the multiarch effort now, it won't be good for > >> > etch. Are we postponin

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-10 Thread Nigel Jones
On 10/07/05, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:57:54 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > I suggested "Debian IV" > > Are release numbers really needed? Why not do away with them altogether? > > -- > Thomas Hood > you mean, just stick with code names? That wouldn't

Re: Alioth Tracker: no correspondence to BTS?

2006-07-09 Thread Nigel Jones
On 7/10/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 09 July 2006 21:29, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > I've just poked around a bit in Alioth for a project I'm working on > > and found a bug report with a bug number that has no resemblance to > > anything in BTS, quite contrary to my initial a

RE: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-24 Thread Nigel Jones
> -Original Message- > From: Loïc Minier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 24 July 2006 2:32 a.m. > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5 > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 23 juillet 2006 à 0

Re: interacting with the press

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Jones
On 13/07/05, Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I just read this article[1] in the SMH. I think there are a few points that > you should keep when talking to the press in future: > > - don't "slag" them off / don't complain aobut the press I don't see how his commen

Re: interacting with the press

2005-07-15 Thread Nigel Jones
On 15/07/05, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Anand Kumria: > > > > > [1]: > > http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/debian-debates-support-for-ports/2005/07/12/1120934228145.html> > > > > Apparently, this is subscription o

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Nigel Jones
On 19/07/05, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Nico Golde [2005-07-19 12:21 +0200]: > > Heyho, > > why is mentors.debian.net powered by Ubuntu? > > This gave me a good laugh, and it's certainly way better than "SuSE" > or "Micro$$$ IIS" :-), but still a bit embarrasing... > I thin

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Nigel Jones
On 20/07/05, Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:49:37AM +0100, Stuart Yeates wrote: > > Maybe a good place to start would be to cross reference BTS with the > > popularity-contest database. This doesn't measure annoyance, of > > course, but it's a a great measure

Re: Reopening bug closed due to SPAM

2005-07-21 Thread Nigel Jones
On 21/07/05, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:31:48 +0200]: > > > If spam e-mail is going to start closing our Bugs in the BTS then we > > should start thinking about implementing authentication checks in the > > BTS... like for examp

Re: The BTS and bug subscriptions

2005-07-22 Thread Nigel Jones
On 22/07/05, Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > One of the oft-requested features for the BTS had been the ability to > subscribe to bugs. > > It is now possible to subscribe and unsubscribe from individual bugs in > the Bug Tracking System. To do so, simply send an email

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

2005-07-27 Thread Nigel Jones
On 27/07/05, MaXeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 23:09, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > ti, 2005-07-26 kello 21:36 +0200, Moratti Claudio kirjoitti: > > > Description : Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams > > > by selectively copying audio and subpicture trac

Re: Debian Weekly News - July 26th, 2005

2005-07-27 Thread Nigel Jones
On 27/07/05, Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Greylisting for Debian Hosts. Santiago Vila would like the project to > > [5]consider using greylisting, a technique to delay mails, on Debian > > hosts. Rich Walker [6]explained that some mail

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Nigel Jones
On 02/08/05, Stepan Golosunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:24:30PM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > > Nothing. It was just a question, as Nikita sounds to be a female name, > > but as I'm not sure about it, I was just interested. At least for me, a > > Hungarian, it so

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Nigel Jones
On 02/08/05, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:31:36PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > On 02/08/05, Stepan Golosunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:24:30PM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > > >

Re: OT: Bruce Perens spamming -devel?

2005-08-07 Thread Nigel Jones
Has anyone considered that all these personal attacks/claims the original is spam... is actually in itself spam, in exactly the same way, actually Joe Bloggs down the street could subscribe by accident and claim it's all spam because it's "un-wanted". On 04/08/05, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread Nigel Jones
On 09/08/05, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >mini rant: what's the point in breaking important packages in > unstable for significant periods (e.g. the bug above was filed > 2005/07/13)? Isn't experimental more appropriate for stuff like this? > Same for udev (requiring linux kernel 2.6

Re: experimental bugs preventing testing transition?

2005-08-09 Thread Nigel Jones
On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:15:13PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > #320980: tetex-bin: Updmap error because a map file has not been found > > Package: tetex-bin (tetex-bin 3.0-5.0.sarge1); Severity: serious; Reported > > by... > > > > but 3.0-

Re: experimental bugs preventing testing transition?

2005-08-10 Thread Nigel Jones
On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:49:12PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Testing and BTS version tracking haven't been updated to play properly > > &g

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

2005-08-14 Thread Nigel Jones
On 15/08/05, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-15 00:49]: > > The following is a list by maintainer of the 497 packages that still > > contain code in their postinst to create links in /usr/doc/. That's been > > a bug since 2002, and most of thes