Re: Do not link GNOME1 apps with libpng3

ot;It's newer" is not a good reason :) We could discover new problems in linking qt2 with png3 we had not before. Anyway, it's done. Maybe something about these bad practices is already present in the Policy Manual. If not something should be obviuosly proposed. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

debmirroring...

Hi debfolks I'm using this command: debmirror /users/debian --nosource -h -d woody in order to have a local copy of i386 stuff for our net. What is the damn reason why it copies potato distribution instead? I'm missing something? Thanks PS: please cc me... -- Francesco P.

Re: cgroup mount point

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:41:53PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:52:46PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 18:00 -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > > > Hel

Re: cgroup mount point

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:30:28AM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that libvirt or Fedora did anything in > respect to the mountpoint themselves. But that they are supporting or > planning to support cgroups. And I think that one time we will need to > so

Re: inetd's status in Debian

rver configurations, but that's another problem... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#519175: RFH: proftpd-dfsg

Package: wnpp Severity: normal With the release of 1.3.2 of proftpd is finally in place prxs and the whole infrastructure for building third-parties modules. I know currently at least about 30 different modules available as non-core and some of them are sometimes requested by users. See http://

Bug#519251: ITP: spatialite -- A spatial extension of SQLite library.

that can be useful with all kinds of applications that manage spatial data. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) -- Francesco P. L

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > how to had new services in /etc/services database? > > ciao > cate Asking netbase maintainer(s)? Just read /etc/services about that. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: abiword package lacks maintenance

Do you agree? A monolithic source package simplies strict interdependencies. Splitting is pointeless if source packages have not different releasing road maps or you have not to encourage independent teams creations. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Bug#522142: ITP: Qoreutils -- Coreutils reimplemented using Qt libraries

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:09, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed April 1 2009 00:03:10 Sune Vuorela wrote: > > Qoreutils is a reimplementation of the classic tools from coreutils, > > such as ls, mkdir and cp > Thanks but this won't be necessary. We just uploaded a GCC patch > that converts coreutils to use

Re: Want to work with a Linux Group

[ Sorry for _little_ OT comment ] On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:32, Roger Preston wrote: > I am interested what you guys are doing with this new operating system. ^^^ Yes, besides the fact that it began in 1993 it is always new. :) > I am keen to wo

Re: dpkg-buildpackage

> Regards > -r Have a look onto the debian-gis svn repository where some gdal-ecw stuff resides. Ecw support can be done using by plugin support. -- 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: dpkg-buildpackage

, and anyway if I remember correctly you could experience some problems with older versions and ECW support. > I must say that running the standard configure && make works but I would > prefer not to do a make install against debian packages. > -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To

Re: simultaneous installation lib and lib-mpi

mplementation in our distribution is a viable possibility, but diverged by upstream: that should be done in the library package, while the serial and mpi -dev packages still should retain the same names (and conflict each other). This is what I will implement for the HDF5 case. -- 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: [DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

a data providing infrastructure, but I missed the whole thread conclusion (if any). -- 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: [DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

he same script in your documentation. Note that GMT coastlines format is quite known and used so i'm quite sure you can provide eventually some helper script for possible format conversions. -- 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: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 13:01, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014, at 08:15, Stefano Rivera wrote: > > Hi Matthias (2014.06.26_08:38:09_+0200) > > > Of these, roughly 20% have switched to systemd. And they apparently did > > > not > > > and do not have any problem with it, otherwise we'd hear

Re: RFH: Re: Bug#752075: daemontools-run: Add systemd support

ystem/runit.service [Unit] Descrip

Re: RFH: Re: Bug#752075: daemontools-run: Add systemd support

On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 15:55, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 04.07.2014 15:22, schrieb Milan P. Stanic: > > And for runit: > Thanks for sharing. > > > cat /etc/systemd/system/runit.service > > [Unit] > > Description=runit svscan > > After=syslog.target &g

Re: internationalized domain name (IDN) in Debian

On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 15:54, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 24.08.2014, 20:32 +0200 schrieb Ralf Jung: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/IDN > > > > Summary: webbrowser support it in general but email clients still lack > > > > the support of it. > > > > > > Why do you list Icedove

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

ns during startup which I can then track down and fix, and if > > this > > information is hidden then startup errors might not get noticed.  :-/ > > > > [I do like that systemd can be loaded and you can choose when to turn it > > on/off via passing &

Re: RFP: openjump -- OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) written in Java

issue by convincing Oracle to change license or even better by re-implementing the package. -- 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://

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 15:19, Miles Bader wrote: > Alexander Wirt writes: > > I am just speaking for myself as listmaster. But I don't think any > > DD has more "right" to talk on a mailinglist than anybody else. I > > won't support such a proposal nor want I participate in it. If you > > have a pr

Re: Bug#683934: ITP: publicsuffix -- An accurate, machine-parseable list of domain name suffixes

On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 11:18, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor > > * Package name: publicsuffix To me, name is vague, though I see that the upstream site name is the same. Something like 'public-dns-suffix-db' (or clearer name) woul

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 19:08, Harald Jenny wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:22:50PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > (Does anybody want to try removing net-tools and see what breaks?) > On my debian systems net-tools are removed, had to recompile openvpn > with ip support and run openswan from expe

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 22:18, Harald Jenny wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:08:24PM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 19:08, Harald Jenny wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:22:50PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > (Does anybody wan

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 12:14, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 08/08/12 12:11, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 08/08/2012 10:32 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: [...] > on any *nix. Furthermore the output formatting of ifconfig is more user > friendly than the one of ip. It depends of that

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 13:34, Ian Jackson wrote: > Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle"): > > I agree. One possiblity when packages A and B conflict for a program name > > would be to rename, but in addition to provide a wrapper that executes the > > program fr

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 14:42, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 05:14:41PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 01/01/2012 03:11 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Thomas Goirand writes: > > >> The other sane way is to mark files not in /etc as conffiles. It > > >> semantically sux a bit, b

Re: Bug#653894: ITP: mediainfo -- MediaInfo supplies information about a video or audio file

On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 16:21, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Chow Loong Jin > > > * Package name: mediainfo > Version : 0.7.52 > Upstream Author : i...@mediaarea.net > * URL : http://mediainfo.sf.net > * License : LGPL > P

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 20:45, Thomas Goirand wrote: [...] > This is why I think the solution of moving apache2 | http as > a Recommends: is a good compromise. > > Never mind, it seems there's more people against my idea > than some thinking it was a smart one, so I'll hack with equivs > (which I di

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 23:49, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 01/06/2012 02:46 PM, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > live with the idea that Debian must be usable for everyone in the > > world (which is impossible, IMHO) but that's the life. > > at least debian is equally bad for e

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

.8.4 | libhdf5-1.8.4, libquadmath0 (>= 4.6), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0) So at least at packaging level, that should be fixed to follow the previous criteria. That said, indeed NetCDF provides nc_create_par and nc_open_par in both serial and parallel versions, but needs to be built with --enable-paralle

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

if it is painful, perhaps > Debian could pioneer something and pass patches back to upstream? > > Thoughts? > I'm afraid it is quite difficult having such kind of proposal accepted by upstreams. It implies changes for both them in library use, that they could be not ready to in

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

access to the git repository, so a branch can be prepared for having a parallel flavor too. -- 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: htt

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 17:56, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/05/2012 03:40 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > But before getting there, the question is whether the existence of the > > website (and its popularity) poses problem to Debian reputation and/or > > to the activity of official Debian multime

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:45, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > For me d-m.o was (and still is) valuable resource. > > Some codecs missing in Debian packages because of the policy (I don't > > blame Debian for that) and

Re: On init in Debian

On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 13:07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:09:57AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> Well, wicd has its own bugs, such as preventing a laptop from > >> suspending. > Works for me; I've never had any trouble at all suspending my laptop and

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 19:13, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > As far as I can see Mr Crockford _enjoys_ being asked to change his > > license. So no, please don't feed the troll. > As much as I think this licence is stupid (from my free software point of

Re: Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 07:27, Norbert Preining wrote: > On So, 25 Nov 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > [crap] > > foo = bar > ... > > issue, even git uses that crap instead of something better like xml, > > > ??? Sorry, are you realistically proposing a convolutive pile of shit > like

Re: [OT] config file formats

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 15:31, Игорь Пашев wrote: > Guys, it looks like you are looking for The Silver Bullet. And, it is called YAML ;-) -- Kind regards, Milan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#702162: ITP: estonianidcard -- Metapackage installing all the packages for Estonian ID card support

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Siim P�der" * Package name: estonianidcard Version : 3.7.0: Upstream Author : ria * URL : http://www.ria.ee/ * License : LGPL 2.1 Programming Lang: metapackage Description : Metapackage installi

Re: Bit from the Release Team: I think I feel a song coming on... Yodel-ay-hee-hoo!

"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > Hi, > > As you may already know, we've passed responsibility for Wheezy to the > Stable Release Managers; in other words, we've released! > (snip) > > That's it for now; it's time for the celebrations to begin, whether at a > Release Party[PARTY] or otherwise. :-) > >

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 19:31, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2013-12-21 18:04:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> That said, the display managers in Debian other than kdm and gdm are not > >> ready for systemd at the moment. I had to switch to gdm3 to use systemd > >> (by whic

Re: Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!

lve the main problem i.e. simplify maintainer life. -- 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/20140217120451.gd4...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 16:15, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I was very proud of my fellow colleagues for not feeding the troll a > full 24 hours later. Thanks for breaking the record :( I had a hope that the no one will answer OP. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 09:47, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Cristian Henzel [2011-05-03 08:12]: > > I'm a bit new to Debian but just wanted to add my $0.02 to this discussion, > > since it's something that I personally find very interesting. > > Firstly, I think the question should be, "which users wo

Re: Bug#630977: ITP: raccoon -- preparation for ligand screening projects

On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 20:28, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > > * Package name    : raccoon > > That is one letter away from racoon, the IPsec IKE keying daemon. I > wonder if that would be too confusing of a name? It is, IMHO. When I saw ITP and ve

Re: Depends: logrotate (forever and ever and ever)

On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 22:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ivan Shmakov writes: > > It's therefore my long-standing opinion that the dependency on > > logrotate should be downgraded to Recommends:, unless, of > > course, postinst or prerm do actually use anything provided by > > the logrot

Re: CUT rolling release debian

On 03/06/2015 04:56 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: 2015-03-06 15:09 GMT+01:00 Jape Person : On 03/06/2015 06:12 AM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Hello, I was exited when I heard couple of years ago about rolling release debian - CUT. But there are not news on this topic anywhere ... is this idea still l

Re: debian github organization ?

On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 16:10, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 04/16/2015 05:04 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > I'd rather see gitlab.debian.net :) > or gitblit, which would be easier to integrate into ldap/sso/ssh imho. What about gitolite? It is in Debian, can be used with

Re: Debian 8 "Jessie" released

On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 10:03, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Debian 8 "Jessie" released pr...@debian.org > congrats everyone! And thank you for nearly twenty years of my experience with the best OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 19:41, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 04.06.2015 um 10:10 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > How about using only the last 3 bytes of the MAC? > > > > The probability of using, on the same system, *two or more* controllers > > from *different brands* with a collision in the last 3 byte

Re: Hamm install on laptop

On 5 Jun, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Steve Tonnesen wrote: > >> I'm getting unresolved symbol errors when cardmgr tries to insmod the >> 3c589_cs module for my 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card. Is this a problem with >> the boot disks, and/or is there a solution for this? The laptop

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List

for hamm release. (Although AFAIK, it's ok to have new version of boot floppies for hamm even after release date?) -- .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: p3nfs (was Bug #21488: p3nfs linked against libc5)

g. > > I did this several weeks ago and tried a upload into frozen/unstable. > It got rejected, since new versions aren't accepted... So, in summary, we either need to back patch 2.1, or just pull the package from hamm, and put patched 5.3 in slink, and leave it at that. I wou

Re: About 2.0.34 not being perfect

Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "There's always one more bug" > I got it. At least, I got one... > > Adam P. Harris writes: > > I know there were a few cyrix-specific fixes introduced in 2.0.34. > > Maybe some of the people experiencing

Re: About 2.0.34 not being perfect

at. (is removing Joliet support from the kernel the solution? is the newer (not yet in hamm mkisofs that I heard about the solution?) -- .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt and hamm

for upgrading via apt; I'd be happy to complete this if I have committment from someone (either Igor, or the apt maintainers I guess) that this document is needed and useful and will ship, and *where* it will ship. (d) document how to use apt for new installations, as an alternat

Re: apt and hamm

Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > > > (a) we need specific installation instructions for upgrading. Igor, > > is this supposed to be part of the install.sgml document, or is it > > separate? > >

Re: apt and hamm

Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > > Interesting. Apparently, there's going to be coverage of these topics > > in the release notes, not the install.sgml document. > > > > Volunteers? I'm a bit overc

Re: apt and hamm

At 16 Jun 1998 11:42:39 -0400, Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > > > > > Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I will be out of town after tomorrow for about a week, so I won't >

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

pport this already, i.e., /usr/man/de or something?). Someone who knows more about these matters might be able to inform us about the issues more thoroghly, however. -- .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

tched apache, i.e., wouldn't include netgod's stuff. It's all a nasty hack, but it's just temporary, right?? -- .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

I think we should re-PAM-ify everything (i.e., pam version of login, passwd, etc etc). I think PAM is stable now and should be embraced for slink. But I could certainly be wrong. -- .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

s used by RedHat and Solaris. -- .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

nt to have all this pain and suffering just because you think epoch's or 2.0.7r is "clutter"?? What clutter? It's just a number in a changelog; users don't even see it! BTW, Dale, thanks for the great work getting this out. -- .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

texconfig runs (was Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures)

TeX wizard, etc. I'll submit a bug against jadetex and also take a look at other packages which run texconfig. Any TeX gurus who have comments or ideas should please feel free to reply to me or to this list. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

7;t we plan on having a Debian 2.2 release very quickly, i.e., freeze again in January or Feb? Our main goal is an integrated, stable system. We shouldn't give into fetish for the newest versions, at the expense of stability. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Right way to sync

. I'd love to have some instructions for mirroring documented officially; I think the ftp maintainers would love it too... BTW, on 18 Sept Jason Gunthorp posted to this list some basic instructions. You should track that down in the list archives. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: what's after slink

be offended take labels > far too seriously, but then that's me. Hmm. Maybe Debian 4.0 could be "chubby"? .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: How can tell what priority a bug is?

software, its not officially your duty to fix it. You can forward the bug report to the upstream maintainers and mark the bug as "forwarded". You should read the developers-reference materials and /usr/doc/debian/bug* .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Automatic packages (was Re: "super" pkgs)

Hi. Some people mentioned last month that it would be nice to have the automatic removal of automatically selected packages (i.e., packages selected by dselect or apt in order to satisfy dependencies) as it would fit in nicely with meta-packages implemented using (otherwise empty) .debs with depen

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

hta look at writing a little bit of C code to read those files and write a GNU antivirus product using that. Possible? .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work within fakeroot

bug in libc6 which is now fixed. If so, I'd like to file an important bug against fakeroot to remove this file. I suspect an awfully large number of packages will be uploaded with this problem (which lintian doesn't detect, AFAIK). So if someone could advise me on how this ought to be f

Re: updates to Debian pages

VSROOT/addressbook debian/addressbook Then you add 'CVSROOT/addressbook' to robustly create the links. Cf my included file for an example. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> addressbook Description: Binary data

SUMMARY -- (was Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs)

go toddle off to the Developer's Reference and add a section for porters. I think a clearly documented practice for porters would be a good thing, i.e., less verbal lore for porters to have to know, so becoming a porter would be easier, and more comprehension of the process by x86-centric maintainers. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

d while my bug-fix patch sits). Perhaps we should think about making these porting bugs, for the slink architectures (i386, m68k, alpha), at level Important or higher? Then the bugs have to be cleared out before we release. Maybe we're too late to do this for slink, but IMHO a bug which prohbits compilation for a port should be considered Important or higher. I mean, if we don't think bugs preventing a package from running on non-x86 is *important*, then why are we releasing ports as part of Debian? .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Uploaded sysklogd 1.3-29 (source i386) to master

I was getting hangs opening /dev/log before (bind, ppp, etc) and now I'm not. Oh, and I'm running 2.0.35. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

ckages get automatically build on these > other platforms)? I believe people use quinn-diff plus dbuild plus god knows ? .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

> This means that we're willing to hold off on upgrades to all font packages > until the relevant apt support for package renaming is ready. > > I just hope the rest of the world agrees that this is wise. it's not. i'm new here, so i'm not sure if this is an old topoic or not, but debian distribut

Re: Debian logo & its license

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- is the name debian a registered trademark? if it is, wouldn't it be sensible to do the same for the logo? - --p. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: n

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

> Might it be possible to include fewer packages in each profile and then > present the user with a list of additional packages that might be of > interest to them given that they have chosen this particular profile? > Something like "You have installed the Scientific Workstation profile. The > fo

bug? with file-rc

dpkg -l file-rc ii file-rc 0.4.3 Alternative one-configfile boot mechanism i don't know if this is supposed to be the case or not, but contrary to file-rc's documentation, scripts are not run in reverse order for shutting down. is this a debian-specific thing or merely a bug? are

Re: Logo contest

the rationale behind two logos is that one is a "debian is cool" logo and another is a "this is official debian" logo. they should look different enough that you can tell whether someone is merely praising debian or actually shipping it. i agree, though, that there should be no restriction that the

Re: Haskell in Debian

Hi. On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:21:19PM +0200, Rui Zhu wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:00:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > In related note, according to unofficial information from Simon Peyton > > Jones (the primary author of GHC), the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) will > > becom

Re: Haskell in Debian

On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:10:48PM +0100, Giuliano P Procida wrote: > I've hit two problems so far: > > a) happy is unhappy [1] > b) ghc runs out of heap compiling its parser Well, I spoke to soon. I have a compile failure with no error message: ../../../ghc/driver/ghc -reco

Re: Haskell in Debian

Hi. On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:00:55AM +0200, Rui Zhu wrote: > Just FYI, accidently I found at the GHC site that this file can cause > trouble, there is memory leak. (see > ) I know, SPJ got fed up with all the reports so he

Bug#1039093: ITP: libalien-build-perl -- module to build external dependencies for use in CPAN

Package: wnpp Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libalien-build-perl Version : 2.80 Upstream Author : Graham Ollis * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Alien

Bug#1052224: ITP: libalien-base-modulebuild-perl -- subclass of Module::Build for building Alien:: modules and their libraries

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libalien-base-modulebuild-perl Version : 1.17 Upstream Contact: Joel A Berger * URL : https://metacpan.org

Bug#1053604: ITP: libgeo-gdal-ffi-perl -- foreign function interface for GDAL/OGR binding

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgeo-gdal-ffi-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Contact: Ari Jolma * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Geo-GDAL-FFI * License

Bug#1060757: ITP: libdata-find-perl -- Find data in arbitrary data structures

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-find-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Contact: Andy Armstrong * URL : https://github.com/AndyA/Data--Find * License

Bug#1061195: ITP: libgeo-wkt-simple-perl -- Simple utils to parse/build Well Known Text(WKT) format string

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgeo-wkt-simple-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Contact: Yuto KAWAMURA * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/KAWAMURAY/Geo-WKT-S

Re: xz backdoor

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 12:39:55PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: In summary: would running unstable instead of bookworm let me find more bugs than running bookworm with unstable chroots? For my specific work: yes, absolutely. Am I upgrading from bookworm to unstable or at least

Re: xz backdoor

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Sirius wrote: Hi there, This is quite actively discussed on Fedora lists. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 Worth taking a look if action need to be taken on Debian. Speaking ab

Bug#978705: ITP: ypbind -- Client daemon for working with Network Information System (NIS)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" * Package name: ypbind Version : 2.7.2 Upstream Author : Thorsten Kukuk * URL : http://www.linux-nis.org/ * License : GPL, LGPL, BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Client

Bug#978706: ITP: ypserv -- Server daemon for working with Network Information System (NIS)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" * Package name: ypserv Version : 4.1 Upstream Author : Thorsten Kukuk * URL : http://www.linux-nis.org/ * License

Re: Can aolserver4 be considered superseded and removed?

much better state. https://bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Can aolserver4 be considered superseded and removed?

st. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804043 [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-tcltk-devel/2018-February/003546.html Kind regards, Héctor -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#894551: ITP: fascism -- Exhaustive exploration of Fascist theory and practice

On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 14:55, vangelis wrote: > > > Στις 01/04/2018 01:03 μμ, ο Enrico Zini έγραψε: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Enrico Zini > > > > * Package name: fascism > > Version : 19190323 > > Upstream Author : Too many forks to list > > * URL

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