Re: What to do with new upstream releases before Lenny is out ?

2008-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nny was truly broken and the new one perfect (which is doubtful). Also in that case think twice, than give up: you are probably missing something and the result will be worst. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 15:18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:34:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > In case you see a good reason why the above is wrong, feel free to reply > > stating it. We currently can't see any of the packages living up to the > > policy definition of s

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
r remove to avoid breakages for other packages installed at the same time. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
to some degree of misnomers, with which we can cope > well as long as there are good descriptions of their meanings. > Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ce of old fashioned hardware with a more old fashioned owner ... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

2007-09-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t a soname and a more complex tree of dirs to pick up their stuff than a single directory. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing name of source package

2007-09-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
l required in stable/oldstable isn't it? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
added in debian/control to help tracking things. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
there known cases where this is a required condition? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ource package. Maybe something like Embedded-Sources: , ... Static-Build-Depends: , ... with usual version relationships. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
es, this list has always included apps linking statically. > > Cheers, > Moritz > Anyway having a way to distinguish source-embedded by statically-linked would be useful. IMHO the second case is almost always an error, but for special cases (static linked shell for instance). --

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; > > Additionally, packages with embedded sources require patching, while > packages which statically link only require rebuilding. > Yes, that was the ratio for distinguishing the two cases... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Bits from Tcl/Tk team

2007-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
a subdirectory of /usr/lib/tcltk or /usr/share/tcltk (not right > now). > /usr/share/tcltk/$package for tcl/tk scripts and /usr/lib/tcltk/$package for shared libs (extensions). -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
vable that the library is not backward compatible at every new release. Issues with specific versions should be managed and solved: having a new source for every release is simply not acceptable. BTW, this is not the only case of such a mess around for libraries (maybe some upstreams should be spanked...)

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t;. I'm not sure why the burden > here should be on BDB alone. > That remembers me some other cases where people insist to use a non stable C++ API instead of the C one. One could ask himself who is guilty: the upstream who releases as public his private functions, or developer who

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=unstable > > It appears to me that essentially it is a problem moving from 4.2 to 4.6, but I see nothing about the intermediate versions. Having 2 releases is largely better than having 5 versions around, isn't it? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBS

Re: use of "Uploaders:" field for team maintained packages

2007-10-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; the team. It more accurately reflects who's caring about the packages. > I agree, but how managing this thing is a team policy. In DebianGis we also remove uploaders after a reasonable period of non-contributing time. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Please all dependency info into your init.d script

2007-10-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
situation is worst than what it seems :) I guess mass bug filing should be tempted in order to change the current status and warns as many maintainer as possible. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2007-10-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
;s > 18k packages on our own. > Wouldn't be the case to add a suitable control field, as proposed in a previous thread for that case? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to track down the data of package installations

2007-11-03 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:05:51AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I update my laptop to recent testing more or less onm each working day > because I can easily sync a testing mirror. The first time I observed > the problem which is described below occured last Friday, so I would see > a connection

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
tons of developers and maintainers that need to build against 2.8, and I doubt a transition plan from 2.6 has sense due to API and behaviors changes. We have simply to cope with two different versions, as already happens for other libraries. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
choice of 2.6 instead of 2.8 or the future 3.0 is definitively a per-program ones, it is not a duty of the library package. Also if one is not able to cope with patches and bugs of a specific library, why not calling for helpers or giving up? Inaction is not a solution. -- Francesco P. Lovergin

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:03:56PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > So what about that? 2.8 is around since almost 1 year, and this delay > > is not justifiable IMHO. There are now tons of developers and > > maintainers that

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:52:47AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > future 3.0 is definitively a per-program ones, it is not > a duty of the library package. s/package/packager/ -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Help needed for bug #441794 on postgis

2007-11-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
manual dump/restore) at the time of etch->lenny transition due to geometry changes, too. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other

2007-11-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rt from here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelCustomCompilation -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#453680: ITP: djbdns -- Replacement for BIND, written by Dan Bernstein

2007-11-30 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:24:48AM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: "Robert S. Edmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: djbdns > Version : 1.05 > Upstream Author : Daniel J. Bernstein > * URL : http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.htm

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
long description. Support leve is generally subject to frequent changes, so why polluting descriptions with those things? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-09 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:42:02PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > > Mmmh. Strictly speaking, sysklogd logs mail to /var/log/mail.log, along > > with duplicating (!!) much of the content to (IIRC) /var/log/messages and > > /var/log/ma

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-10 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:37:17AM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > The problem is not that I'm too lazy to maintain the package. It is just > not a useful replacement for other syslog daemons because the file names > that metalog writes to are not configurable. Yes, sometimes that can be a big prob

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
memory does not fail) no contact by other supposed interested people in the meantime. I find quite superfluous waiting another month in the long way to a wxwidgets 2.8 package stabilization. It needs action and now. PS: I'm not personally interested in supporting wxwidgets because already heav

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:21:08AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Now, what are YOUR plans?" > > No answer. Sorry Ron, No _email_ answer. We talked in IRC about that indeed, I forgot that. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: List of packages defining a RPATH on amd64 (differs from i386/lintian.d.o)

2008-01-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
27;m not enable to manage the upstream messy building system... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#459776: RFP: manpages-cs -- Czech manual pages

2008-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
s-* packages because both provide manpages > > such as passd.1, passwd.5, etc. > > This is quite common among all translated pages. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mipsel is blocking wordnet migration to testing

2008-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; > to fix the problem that was reported by the ddpo daemon. This > worked for Sparc. Any hint what I could do to trigger a rebuild > of the latest package version on Mipsel (except of uploading an > unchanged package)? > > Kind regards > >Andreas. > Asking a gi

Re: Bug#461104: RFP: label -- Set or change label to partition disk

2008-01-17 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:32:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/17/08 13:19, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 16-Jan-08, 10:00 (CST), Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Package name: label > >> Version: > >> Upstream Author: [David Villa Alises <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > >>

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-29 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 20:56, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:47:40AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > As for mail, we already appear to have an /etc/mailname file for MTAs and > > > MUAs to use for finding out the 'canonical' name of the host for message- > > > IDs and the li

Re: Is Paul Dwerryhouse MIA?

2010-01-17 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 22:57, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I am worried if perhaps Paul Dwerryhouse > is Missing In Action. > > He is maintainer of kannel which I have a special interest in. For > some time now I have had to use an unofficial packaging of a newer > release due to the package in Debi

Re: Is Paul Dwerryhouse MIA?

2010-01-18 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:05, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:05:52AM +0100, Milan P. Stanic a écrit : > > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 22:57, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > I am worried if perhaps Paul Dwerryhouse > > > is Missing In Action. > > &g

Bug#571788: ITP: geographiclib -- A C++ library to manage some geodesic transformations and problems

2010-02-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" * Package name: geographiclib Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Charles Karney et al. * URL : http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent]

2010-03-24 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 10:50, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > [Resent, because reportbug somehow ate my line breaks, sorry!] > > Dear all, > > I've found something that is most propbably a bug in Linux's resolv > system, when trying to open a specific page with Epiphany (but any > other browser will fai

Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 13:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:21 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > - The advice in the cited RFC is already ignored. Domain names that > > start with a digit, e.g. 12345.foo.bar, can be resolved, whereas the > > RFC tells us "They [labels] must star

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e 8.4, as minimum requirement or die. Be warned ;-) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100401125245.gb4...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it

Re: Bug#577715: FTBFS: 7 of 7 tests failed

2010-04-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:03:51PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:47:37PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Source: netcdf > > Version: 1:4.1.1-2 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: FTBFS > > > > Hi, > > &

Bug#604141: ITP: libepsilon -- A library for wavelet image compression

2010-11-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
parallel in multi-threaded and MPI environments, can process huge images and much more. (Source package has been renamed to avoid collision wth an existing python package). -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: bug in ppp - grave

2010-11-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
configuration has some problems. Please ask on d-users. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101129142128.gc19...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d? > It definitively depends on the specific packageis. When ever it happened to me, I followed up all the maintainer(s) involved and we found all together a way to have a working pool of packages. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#608171: ITP: kmozillahelper -- Iceweasel-KDE integration

2010-12-28 Thread P. J. McDermott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "P. J. McDermott" * Package name: kmozillahelper Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Lubos Lunak * URL : https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=mozilla-kde4-integration&project=mozilla%3AFac

Bug#611023: ITP: gtk2-engines-oxygen-gtk -- A port of the default KDE widget theme (Oxygen) to GTK+

2011-01-24 Thread P. J. McDermott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "P. J. McDermott" * Package name: gtk2-engines-oxygen-gtk Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Bellegarde Cédric , Hugo Pereira Da Costa , Ruslan Kabatsayev * URL

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e, maybe some of them > should be orphaned or dropped instead? > +1 Very outdated debhelper versions, policy versions and very aged last upload dates could be signs of MIA developers and abandonware. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
discussions > around varoius Python helpers and so on). +1 this is exactly the reason why we adopted *one* default Tcl/Tk instead of the broken-by-design use of admin-changeable alternatives. Interpreters are not the right target for such an approach. We have to choose a safe default versio

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Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ct place to start this kind of flame wars :) In the meantime I'm afraid there is not another list, but for d-d, where discussion on this kind of things can be accepted. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
probably xtradius. System password checking is present for portability with non-linux platform essentially, and for historical reasons, too. A lots of those servers are derived from the original livingston's implementation, but all add alternatives forms of authentication and accounting. It's an admin's choice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#220401: ITP: linux-experimental -- Linux 2.4 kernel [EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE]

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
PROTECTED] is ok now. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: POSIX capabilities patch

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, doesn't it? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: ITO several packages

2003-11-13 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:20:06PM +1100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > cvs-conf > > cwwm > > jpegoptim > > libfork-perl > > metalog > > pip > > These packages still don't have a new maintainer. Sebastien, which > packages are "obsolete today"? I'll get those removes and properly > orphan the rest

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
re is a regression), so what's the problem? c. Very few packages are seriuosly broken on some archs. Their problems are generally due either to compiler/binutils problems or upstream coding. In both cases removing them on some archs could be a profitable solution for rele

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
uto-build it first and, if no upstream/package faults, we let it in, > > we > > get less RC bugs. > Exactly this was the idea. I'm unsure whether experimental could serve as > this kind of staging area. > A FTBFS for a new package is not a RC error. Only regressions are RC. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > b. They are already kept off testing (if there is a regression), > >so what's the problem? > The problem is that other packages which might dep

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
the benefit that it > doesn't require that often administrator action (and perhaps an staging > area where the newest things are in, and that is moved to stable once > everything is done). > Yep, that was the idea behind the need of a policy and a RM. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ed in respect with security.d.o is all in this pov. Incidentally, volatile could also be used to upgrade stable for interactive use, which is probably the major reason of obsolescence for stable, but that's questionable. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
problems. It is really a memory and cpu hog. I doubt it is usable as is on any box without a good deal of horsepower and memory. I would add at least a big warning in its NEWS file about this, until its problems will be not solved. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rs is a non-sense, plain and clear. The volatile archive is having more and more sense. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
s a program which just > can't run on that machine. > Just for your information SA3 was almost unusable on my P4 1.4Ghz with 128MB. It's not a dedicated box, but it's adequate for my workstation use with wmaker. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> I had -m2 and each child canibalized up 20M of VM in just a few minutes. With 128M that makes difference. I'm now quite happily using razor with only very few false positives and a very high success rate in filtering spam. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Package idea, Debian-Firewall.

2004-10-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Indeed currently iptables rules need to be loaded with pre-up scripting in /etc/network/interfaces. Old init.d scripts are deprecated and not installed at all. > There are a lot of ways to setup a firewall in Debian [1] I rather not have > yet another package to do this. > Agree. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
'm thinking to the pre-1.0 version of mozilla in woody: upgrading to a sane 1.0 version in stable by volatile could be considered, solving many functional problems and being a sane (and safe) possibility. Other major upgrades (e.g. mozilla-current) are backports.org concerns. We have currently a few software of large use in those conditions, e.g. firefox/thunderbird (but note that those programs are really in better conditions in respect with the old woody mozilla) -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Bug#277550: ITP: patcher -- perl script useful for managing patches

2004-10-20 Thread Alejandro Rios P.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: patcher Version : 0.0.20040521 Upstream Author : Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.holgerschurig.de/patcher.html * License : GNU General Public License or Artistic License Description : p

Re: Bug#277550: ITP: patcher -- perl script useful for managing patches

2004-10-21 Thread Alejandro Rios P.
Hi Dan El mié, 20-10-2004 a las 20:23, Dan Weber escribió: > How is this different from quilt? > I'll take my answer for that question from the upstream developer's README file: " SEE ALSO Andrew Morton's patch scripts at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/ I stole the idea

Bug#170518: ITP: libnet-easytcp-perl -- Easily create secure, bandwidth-friendly TCP/IP clients and servers

2002-11-24 Thread Shiju p. Nair
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libnet-easytcp-perl Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Mina Naguib, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/author/MNAGUIB/EasyTCP-0.16/ * License : Perl license

Request for Sponsor: [libnet-easytcp-perl]

2002-11-25 Thread Shiju p. Nair
;= 5.6.0-16) Installed-Size: 118 Maintainer: Shiju p. Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Easily create secure, bandwidth-friendly TCP/IP clients and servers This class allows you to easily create TCP/IP clients and servers and provides an OO interface to manage the connection(s). This

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2002-11-30 Thread Shiju p. Nair
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Bug#171688: ITP: lazy -- A console-based CD player with digital audio extraction support

2002-12-04 Thread Shiju p. Nair
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: lazy Version : 0.23b Upstream Author : Lucas Correia Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freshmeat.net/redir/lazy/5502/url_bz2/lazy-0.23b.tar.bz2 * License : G

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-25 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:50:35PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > >There is screensaver that displays random fortunes (executes fortune(6)). > >Create fortune's database consisting of credits information and you are > >done. [...] > Would debian be willing to do this as the default screensaver? I th

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:37:06PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > When booting, grub seems to find it, uncompress it, then it says 'OK, > booting the kernel' and nothing more. It just hangs. I don't see the > line announcing the kernel version or compiler etc. CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y Milan

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 06:45:42PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > * Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030427 16:59]: > > I've configured and built the kernel, using gcc-2.95, make bzImage and > > modules, installed modules under /lib/modules/2.5.68. Everything goes > > fine except for a bu

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:40:28AM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:37:06PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > When booting, grub seems to find it, uncompress it, then it says 'OK, > > booting the kernel' and nothing more. It just hangs.

Proposal of removing MOSIX stuff

2003-05-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
modifications without author's permission. OpenMosix is fully GPL, instead. I'm simply proposing the complete removing of mosix from archive, if none could adopt it and manage properly its moving in non-free. Ciao -- Francesco P. Lovergine pgpi5sg3X0F01.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
per use, see some old flames about similar cases. And it generally causes confusion in bug submitters' mind: how many of them knows the difference between a fixed and a closed bug? A brief note about NMU changes incorporation in changelog and closing those bugs in BTS by hand is more correct IMO. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Bug#111158: Kernel 2.4.5+ network timeouts

2001-09-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc does not solve the problem. Ideas? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#111158: Kernel 2.4.5+ network timeouts

2001-09-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:42:37AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:42:43AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > Package: kernel-image-2.4 > > Version: N/A > > Severity: important > > > > This is an issue for the kernel f

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome on Sid

2001-09-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
pt-get install kdm kdebase-crypto kde-devel This worked for me. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome on Sid

2001-09-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:07:01AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:06:13AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > What is the recommended way to install Gnome o

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome on Sid

2001-09-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
for task-tcltk-dev W: duplicate task info for task-tex Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package task-debug It seems really outdated in unstable. I do not know for testing. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
alias contains things like: > What if the gdm pkg cut off `plain' english? Maybe a choice among english_british and english_american could me more correct. What about english_italian also :) ? We speak brooklino instead of plain english, generally ... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

[RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t including OPL under /usr/share/common-licenses ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publication License. > > What do you think of a pseudo package `ebooks-dev' which collec

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publica

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
case HTML is preferred. But so many books are only available in PDF format - which can be printed in non-letter formats easily. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > It could be nice if all you send me a collection of ebooks you think > > is a must for a developer. Only HT

Re: Bug#112648: ITP: ebook-dev-html - [EBOOK-DEV] HTML 4.01 specification

2001-09-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
998. Latest NMU is in Nov 2000. I'll check if this package can be adopted. In this case I could close this ITP. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

what's wrong with last KDE update?

2001-09-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
but 4:2.2.0.20010822-1 is to be installed Depends: artsbuilder but it is not going to be installed Depends: noatun but it is not going to be installed Depends: libarts-mpeglib (>= 4:2.2.1-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Maybe, I'm missing somethings... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
lain with my upstream tomorrow morning for this, when I'll see him... in the bath, in front to the mirror :( -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e the developers some time to actually do something about it. > And _then_ _consider_ filing bugs (by discussing it here again). > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I agree. As for yardradius, the bug could be in fact secondary - programs works anyway. Severity level should be evaluated in every single case. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
too much maintainers are not really active and too much pkgs are built up without a RFP. Some packages are built starting from beta-quality sw, and this is not a good practice. Burocracy cannot solve these problems. Maintainers intelligence could. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: NMU sclient

2001-12-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
st seen more than 1 year ago at people.d.o. Maybe a proposal of adoption could be done... He mntns that pkg only. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
NMU. > > If you want to make it clear that the upload is sponsored an entry in the > changelog should be the right solution. Before I became a maintainer I > added to the changelog entry of every package that was sponsored for me a > line > > * Upload sponsored by Tony Manci

Re: Gnome 2 packages?

2002-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
; developer. > Broken, you could search in BTS for wnpp bugs in the meantime. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Please, have a look at #127948 (should merge #128195) which should be grave bugs IMHO. Is this solved also now? I removed KDE at all in my sid. To reinstall it, kpackage issue needs to be solved. This is a PIV 1400Mhz, maybe I could help :) Thanks for your efforts. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

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