Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Weimer, le Tue 27 Apr 2010 09:15:12 +0200, a écrit : > * Julien Cristau: > > > +#if defined(ENABLE_IPV6) && defined(IPV6_V6ONLY) > > + if (ai->ai_family == AF_INET6) { > > + int zero = 0; > > + if (setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_V6ONLY, &zero, > > sizeof(zero))

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
James Y Knight, le Wed 28 Apr 2010 11:32:36 -0400, a écrit : > After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across one example > of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is GPLv2-only, and is linked > against GPLv3 libreadline6 in testing. (filed bug 579494). Worse than that: a p

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nikita V. Youshchenko, le Sun 02 May 2010 21:18:26 +0400, a écrit : > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 15:30:37 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:46:23 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > (To actually statically link without the .la (or with an .la > > > > > 'mangled

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nikita V. Youshchenko, le Sun 02 May 2010 23:54:02 +0400, a écrit : > > > > > > Static linking is resolved by providing a foo.pc file so that > > > > > > "pkg-config --static --libs foo" is all that's needed to find > > > > > > the right libs. > > > > > > > > > > This does not clarify the question

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hendrik Sattler, le Wed 05 May 2010 10:47:24 +0200, a écrit : > Zitat von Josselin Mouette : > > >Le mardi 04 mai 2010 à 10:31 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : > >>Sorry I don't know what you're talking about. If you can explain it > >> I'll try to > >>look at the problem. > > > >It’s not

Re: extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2"))

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le Wed 26 May 2010 10:45:49 +0200, a écrit : > Just comparing http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git with > http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ should IMHO give more > than enough information to choose extlinux over grub2 I don't understand what you mean her

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit : > In article , > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything > >which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the > >Syslinux and the Grub mailing lists. I suppose it w

Re: ITP: php-recaptcha -- PHP interface to recaptcha.net

2010-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Goirand, le Sun 20 Jun 2010 09:06:28 +0800, a écrit : > As I see it, php-recaptcha should be sent to non-free (which means > anything depending on it would go in contrib). I'd be happy to see > others expressing themselves here, in order to make sure I don't hold an > extreme view on this.

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Harald Jenny, le Fri 09 Jul 2010 23:41:45 +0200, a écrit : > I'm maintaining the amavisd-milter package and have a question: Due to the > unavailability of libmilter-dev on HURD (it uses PATH_MAX which is not defined > there) my package can't be built for this OS. Then it's fine: amavisd-m

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Harald Jenny, le Sun 11 Jul 2010 21:01:47 +0200, a écrit : > > This doesn't sound like fixing it is rocket science. > > Hmmm at least this one not but I don't know what other problem may lurk in the > dark as I don't have a HURD system to test ;-). You now have one: ssh harald-jenny-gu...

Bug#590638: ITP: liblouisutdml -- UTDML to Braille translation library

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: liblouisutdml Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : John J. Boyer * URL : http://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml * License : GPL and LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : UTDML to

Re: Bug#593260: ITP: bar -- Show information about a data transfer

2010-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Georges Khaznadar, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 21:57:28 +0200, a écrit : > Is pv able to do the same? for example how can I use pv to monitor the > transfer which is done by modifying a command such as: > > dd if=someImageFile of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 killall -USR1 dd Samu

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 22:45:50 +0100, a écrit : > Why can't this be fixed the correct way: > by building all optimised variants for a given architecture and > selecting the appropriate variant at runtime based upon the system's > capabilities e.g. from CPUID on i386/amd64? Because atlas

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 15:13:15 -0700, a écrit : > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Roger Leigh, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 22:45:50 +0100, a écrit : > > > Why can't this be fixed the correct way: > > > by building all optimised varia

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Wed 18 Aug 2010 00:07:58 +0100, a écrit : > The dynamic linker does the run-time selection for you. All you need to > do is to install the optimised libraries in subdirectories that specify > the hardware they require. Currently the following platform and > capability flag names

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 17:24:05 -0700, a écrit : > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 15:13:15 -0700, a écrit : > > > All of these are things that can be detected at run time and > > > appropriate libraries dlo

Bug#593973: ITP: mbrola-fr1 -- French male voice for Mbrola

2010-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2010-08-22 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mbrola-fr1 Version : 2.050-1 Upstream Author : Faculte Polytechnique de Mons - mbrola team * URL : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis * License : see the file readme.txt in th

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
posion bit, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:09:49 +0200, a écrit : > > (/etc/mc/mc.menu) > >          case "$i" in > >            *.tar.gz)  D="`basename $i .tar.gz`";; > > > In that case, name-spaced filenames should work, because the > string is a _quoted_ multi-word string. Not in the basename cal

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:21:06 +0200, a écrit : > On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: > >look one so simple in /etc/init.d/rc > > > > for i in /etc/rc$runlevel.d/K$level* > > do > > # Check if the

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:36:11 +0200, a écrit : > On 27.08.2010 10:27, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 27 Aug 2010 10:21:06 +0200, a écrit : > >>On 27.08.2010 10:09, posion bit wrote: > >>>look o

Bug#594834: ITP: cicero -- French and English Text-To-Speech for MBROLA

2010-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: cicero Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : Nicolas Pitre * URL : http://pages.infinit.net/fluxnic/cicero/ * License : GPLv2, but depends on non-free MBROLA, thus targetting contrib

ITP: mbrola-{br1,de4,de5,es2,fr1,gr1,us3} -- Voices for Mbrola

2010-09-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
- Forwarded message from Samuel Thibault - From: Samuel Thibault To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: ITP: mbrola-br1 -- Brazilian Portuguese male voice for Mbrola Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:50:24 +0200 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2010-09

Re: Bug#596511: ITP: simon -- Open source speech recognition

2010-09-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Peter Grasch, le Tue 14 Sep 2010 22:22:42 +0200, a écrit : > I haven't really thought about it but the license shouldn't be an issue > afaik. > > This topic has come up multiple times already but have a look at theses > discussions on why I think this should be ok: > Comment section: http://lwn.

Re: ITP: mbrola-{br1,de4,de5,es2,fr1,gr1,us3} -- Voices for Mbrola

2010-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Georges Khaznadar, le Fri 17 Sep 2010 19:34:51 +0200, a écrit : > when I checked it one year ago, the license of mbrola's voices did not > allow redistribution. > Does this license allow to redistribute them now? It does permit if you ask. I have asked, upstream agreed, so it's ok. See the note in

Re: [MBF proposal] Empty packages in the archive

2010-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luca Falavigna, le Sun 17 Oct 2010 16:41:31 +0200, a écrit : > Julien Danjou > XCB Developers > Jamey Sharp > Josh Triplett >libpthread-stubs0 (U) That's expected on linux ports. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: [MBF proposal] Empty packages in the archive

2010-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luk Claes, le Sun 17 Oct 2010 18:50:58 +0200, a écrit : > On 10/17/2010 04:47 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Luca Falavigna, le Sun 17 Oct 2010 16:41:31 +0200, a écrit : > >> Julien Danjou > >> XCB Developers > >> Jamey Sharp > >> Josh Triplett

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Neil Williams, le Fri 29 Oct 2010 09:57:23 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) via the network needs > > 460MiB free on /, so you don't really have room for swap. Once the > > .debs cleaned, you're still

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Mon 01 Nov 2010 12:03:51 +0100, a écrit : > Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > > Hello, > > > > Actually, partman will even just refuse to setup partitions. > > Additionnall, a test today with beta1, on a 1GiB disk (virtual > m

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Armstrong, le Sat 30 Oct 2010 06:54:16 -0300, a écrit : > On 30/10/10 05:11 AM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > Is there an easy way to see what is in the tasks without reinstalling? > > From /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc it would seem that web- > > server only pulls apache2-mpm-prefork, and

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

2010-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mark Goldshtein, le Wed 03 Nov 2010 17:58:45 +0300, a écrit : > Sorry, if something like that looks stupid and obvious. It is because > WPA absence for the year 2010 A.D. makes me feeling sad. The quasi-absence of developers in the debian-boot and debian-x teams makes be feeling _very_ sad. Samue

Installation manual review for kFreeBSD needed!

2010-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, The current kfreebsd version of the installation manual is lacking review: a lot of things have been fixed (e.g. "Linux" doesn't appear where it shouldn't), but quite a few things still need to be fixed, and we need kfreebsd-knowledgeable people to provide information. Basically, the whole

Re: Bug#603938: debian-installer: The 1st CD doesn't contain desktop nor laptop tasks

2010-11-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
reassign 603938 general thanks Kjö Hansi Glaz, le Thu 18 Nov 2010 18:01:29 +0100, a écrit : > Steps to reproduce the problem: > > - download debian-squeeze-di-beta1-i386-CD-1.iso > - boot it on a computer without any access to the network > - use all default options (but french localisation) unti

Bug#603938: debian-installer: The 1st CD doesn't contain desktop nor laptop tasks

2010-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kjö Hansi Glaz, le Fri 19 Nov 2010 20:06:46 +0100, a écrit : > > > Expected result: the desktop and laptop tasks are available. > > > > It seems we unfortunately can't expect that any more. We can still > > probably check that they fit on the 1st+2nd CDs. > > > > I think that it should then made

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mike Hommey, le Tue 30 Nov 2010 10:07:55 +0100, a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:18:17AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > What's going on here? sync_file_range() is a Linux specific system > > > call that has been around for a while. It allows program to control > > > when writeback happen

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Dec 2010 14:08:48 +, a écrit : > While I do find this a rather annoying violation of encapsulation, > you will find (e.g. with "nm -C -D") your binary will have > boost::system symbols in it which are only satisfied indirectly > via libboost_filesystem and which would res

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-12-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is an updated report on task size: Samuel Thibault, le Wed 27 Oct 2010 18:00:16 +0200, a écrit : > - Base+Standard grew from 397MiB to 491MiB > (we install libdb4.{5,6,7,8} !?, and since openssh-client recommends > xauth, x11 stuff gets installed) Still 492MiB. One n

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-12-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
And here are the values for amd64: Samuel Thibault, le Wed 15 Dec 2010 02:34:00 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault, le Wed 27 Oct 2010 18:00:16 +0200, a écrit : > > - Base+Standard grew from 397MiB to 491MiB > > (we install libdb4.{5,6,7,8} !?, and since openssh-client recomme

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joey Hess, le Wed 15 Dec 2010 14:02:38 -0400, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > - Gnome grew from 1830MiB to 2409MiB, > > still can't fit on just CD1. > > This should fix itself once both tasksel 2.88 and gnome-core 1:2.30+7 > reach testing. Should happe

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-12-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mehdi Dogguy, le Thu 16 Dec 2010 10:17:05 +0100, a écrit : > On 12/15/2010 07:02 PM, Joey Hess wrote: > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> - Gnome grew from 1830MiB to 2409MiB, > >> still can't fit on just CD1. > > > > This should fix itself on

Re: Bug#518696: ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

2010-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Time has passed and parallel became a GNU project: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ I guess packaging it can be reconsidered? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Tue 04 Jan 2011 07:33:04 -0800, a écrit : > In what way is it not already possible to symlink /usr to /? We've abandoned that for the GNU/Hurd port notably because as of now it messes up library resolution, e.g. a library is found in /lib/libfoo while it's actually packaged in /

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Tue 04 Jan 2011 09:34:45 -0800, a écrit : > I don't agree. dpkg doesn't need to care that /usr/lib/libm.so really > unpacks to /lib/libm.so due to /usr -> / symlink, dpkg doesn't care, but shlibdeps does care, hurd-i386 has been bitten by that enough to make us give up with /us

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Olaf van der Spek, le Tue 04 Jan 2011 18:46:47 +0100, a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Steve Langasek, le Tue 04 Jan 2011 09:34:45 -0800, a écrit : > >> I don't agree.  dpkg doesn't need to care that /usr/lib/libm.so really > &g

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Olaf van der Spek, le Tue 04 Jan 2011 19:21:18 +0100, a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > We kept fixing it, and at some point (where it became really not obvious > > to fix it, or would have made it very cpu-consuming to solve the path > >

Re: memset(x,y,0) bug audit

2011-01-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:11, Silvio Cesare wrote: > I performed an audit of Debian stable for memset(x,y,0) bugs. These should > typically be corrected with memset(x,0,y). > > The results can be found > https://github.com/silviocesare/Automated-Audits/blob/master/Debian5.05/Memset0Count/06-01-20

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michal Čihař, le Mon 31 Jan 2011 16:01:54 +0100, a écrit : > Dne Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:25:11 +0100 > Max Kellermann napsal(a): > > > I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and > > receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users > > who use the outdated

Bug#611686: ITP: festvox-mbrola -- mbrola voices support for festival

2011-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: festvox-mbrola Version : 1.95 Upstream Author : Centre for Speech Technology Research University of Edinburgh, UK * URL : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ * License : BSD

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Tille, le Fri 11 Feb 2011 10:19:07 +0100, a écrit : > PS: I assume that a spell checker can be configured that way that it > can distinguish between writing an English text with some / several > mistakes and a text with say 50% error rate which is probably not > understandable a

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Goetze, le Sun 13 Feb 2011 19:21:32 +0100, a écrit : > On 02/07/2011 12:10 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > >On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >>* get rid of hurd (or discuss this) > > > >Why? GNU/Hurd has made vast improvements during last year. Even the > >Debian installer is functional.

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 13 Feb 2011 19:51:07 +0100, a écrit : > Michael Goetze, le Sun 13 Feb 2011 19:21:32 +0100, a écrit : > > On 02/07/2011 12:10 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > > >On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > >>* get rid of hurd (or discuss this) > >

Re: Automatic debug packages

2011-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
> * Do we want users which build private packages to build also DDeps and >TDeps? DDeps from private builds are useful to track bugs. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Bug#513633: ITP: liblouisxml -- XML to braille translation library

2009-01-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: liblouisxml Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Author : John J. Boyer * URL : http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : XML to braille

Bug#513757: ITP: gnome-mousetrap -- webcam-based head tracking mouse control

2009-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: gnome-mousetrap Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Flavio Percoco Premoli * URL : http://live.gnome.org/MouseTrap * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : head

Re: coreutils wc count multi bytes question

2009-02-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Neo Anderson, le Fri 06 Feb 2009 15:18:51 -0800, a écrit : > this is a 文件 vi 打的 > > The manual words count are 8 characters. How do you count that? > But the output of wc -w is 6. It seems like it is separated as token by white > space. So the characters of Chinese which concatenates to

Re: coreutils wc count multi bytes question

2009-02-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Neo Anderson, le Fri 06 Feb 2009 15:50:34 -0800, a écrit : > If I remember correctly that there is a mapping table, so possibly this can > be done. But of course, perhaps this is just my wishful thinking. The problem is that posix says `The wc utility shall consider a word to be a non-zero-lengt

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Wed 25 Feb 2009 16:16:53 +0100, a écrit : > Anyone up for hacking libc to always fail on the 32bit wrappers for > seek, stat, ...? Or looking for binaries with a U lseek ? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joerg Jaspert, le Thu 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100, a écrit : > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > >[...] > > The new sections are: > > ruby Everything about ruby,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joerg Jaspert, le Fri 27 Feb 2009 09:02:11 +0100, a écrit : > > Maybe it could be interesting to open an accessibility section? > > Maybe, maybe not. What packages would you put into it? Just a quick rough list (90 bin packages): accerciser at-spi at-spi-doc big-cursor brltty brltty-flit

OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Quite a few packages support only OSS, not ALSA. Nowadays there's quite little probability that your sound board only has an OSS driver, and so there is quite little probability that quite a few packages work out the box. Of course, there are solutions: fix the apps, load snd_pcm_oss, or

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 03 Mar 2009 20:27:54 +0100, a écrit : > Quite a few packages support only OSS, not ALSA. > [...] > > Are there plans on this issue? Drop packages? Always load snd_pcm_oss? Put another way: how severe should bugs like #517853 [G|M| ] [saytime] saytime: de

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Cristau, le Tue 03 Mar 2009 20:36:23 +0100, a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 20:27:54 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Are there plans on this issue? Drop packages? Always load snd_pcm_oss? > > > Make those packages depend on oss-compat? Ah, didn't know that

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
brian m. carlson, le Wed 04 Mar 2009 15:43:47 +, a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:25:48AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >Paul Wise (04/03/2009): > >>Is ALSA supported by kFreeBSD or hurd or other unofficial ports? > > > >Last time I checked, GNU/kFreeBSD provided with OSS, not with ALS

Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
[Sorry to debian-accessibility people, re-sending with proper To:] Hello, It has been suggested a few times (471410, 511329, 516723) to add an "accessibility" item to tasksel, which would e.g. install gnome-accessibility. The task would be automatically selected when accessibility features was u

Re: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Tille, le Thu 05 Mar 2009 13:16:22 +0100, a écrit : > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >It has been suggested a few times (471410, 511329, 516723) to > >add an "accessibility" item to tasksel, which would e.g. install > >gnome-accessibility.

Re: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Tille, le Fri 06 Mar 2009 10:09:36 +0100, a écrit : > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> $ apt-cache search accessibility > >> > >>which is quite weak. > > > >Tags FTW. Look for Accessibility tags and you'll find a lot of

Re: Bug#471410: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tzafrir Cohen, le Sat 07 Mar 2009 11:29:56 +, a écrit : > > `What if, for example, you walk up to a friend/coworker and talk about > > some issue. You end up wanting to show them something, so you'd > > actually like to login on tehir Linux machine with accessibility enabled > > so that you ca

#518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2009-03-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name: parallel Version : 20090218 Upstream Author : Ole Tange * URL : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ * License : GPLv3 Description : build and execute command line

#518880 ITP: dots -- braille translation user interface

2009-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2009-03-09 Severity: wishlist * Package name: dots Version : 0.0.20090222 Upstream Author : Eitan Isaacson * URL : https://github.com/eeejay/dots/tree * License : GPLv3 Description : braille translation user interface

Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
clone 518696 -1 reassign -1 findutils retitle -1 Add "parallel" somewhere in the description of -P thanks Andreas Rottmann, le Mon 09 Mar 2009 11:25:11 +0100, a écrit : > Did you know about the `-P' option of GNU xargs? Herm, I would have found it if the manpage didn't lack keywords like "paralle

Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chuan-kai Lin, le Mon 09 Mar 2009 12:46:35 -0700, a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:40:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > A lot of applications (including md5sum) would not necessarily print > > their output atomically and then you get mixed output. Either we add &g

Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chuan-kai Lin, le Mon 09 Mar 2009 12:46:35 -0700, a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:40:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > A lot of applications (including md5sum) would not necessarily print > > their output atomically and then you get mixed output. Either we add &g

Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ole Tange, le Wed 11 Mar 2009 17:05:34 +0100, a écrit : > One of friends alerted me to your discussion of 'parallel' and whether > other tools can replace it. The question could also be rephrased: can't we just extended xargs into supporting what parallel does? Having two separate tools will alwa

Re: Jack Audio Connection Kit transition

2009-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Felipe Sateler, le Mon 23 Mar 2009 23:02:00 +1100, a écrit : > [1] This actually surprised me. Could someone explain to me why are there > SONAMEs when they are not actually used? They are used when linking a program, to know which NEEDED should be put. > % ldd /usr/bin/creox | grep jack >

Re: Jack Audio Connection Kit transition

2009-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Mon 23 Mar 2009 13:17:36 +0100, a écrit : > No problem here. But objdump -p /usr/bin/creox | grep jack shows NEEDED > libjack-0.100.0.so.0, that's where the linker looks. Oops, here, by linker I mean ld.so, not ld. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Mon 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200, a écrit : > Ia32-apt-get provides wrappers for dpkg.deb and apt-get that allow > installing deb packages from an i386 repository (or local file) > directly. Mmm, couldn't there be any possible relation with the multiarch support mentioned e

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

2009-04-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Milan P. Stanic, le Wed 01 Apr 2009 18:54:22 +0200, a écrit : > 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 n

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
> I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition > (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but > without capability to rescue something). Also rescue disk + > reconfiguring + update-grub did nothing. Err, did you re-run install-grub? Samuel -- To UNS

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo Catenazzi, le Wed 08 Apr 2009 19:47:55 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition > >> (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but > >> without capability to rescu

ITP: mbrola-{af1,br3,cr1,cz2,de7,gr2,hu1,id1,it3,it4,la1,nl2,pl1,pt1,ro1,sw1,sw2} -- various voices for Mbrola

2009-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is a list of ITPs for various mbrola voices. This completes the set up to what espeak is able to use, except a few duplicates (there are a lot of german voices, I only kept a good male and a good female voice). Samuel #527758 ITP: mbrola-af1 -- Afrikaans male voice for Mbrola * Pack

Bug#529081: ITP: oss-libsalsa -- Libsalsa is a library providing an ALSA interface on top of OSS

2009-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: oss-libsalsa Version : 4.1-build1052b Upstream Author : 4Front Technologies www.4front-tech.com * URL : http://developer.opensound.com/sources/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C

Re: Bug#529183: ITP: gcc-mingw32 -- The GNU C compiler (cross compiler for MingW32)

2009-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Neil Williams, le Sun 17 May 2009 23:25:36 +0100, a écrit : > On Sun, 17 May 2009 23:33:29 +0200 > Robert Millan wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Robert Millan > > > > * Package name: gcc-mingw32 > > Version : 4.4 > > * URL : http://gcc.gnu.org

Re: Bits from the Eee PC team, Spring 2009

2009-05-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Ben Armstrong, le Sat 23 May 2009 10:38:51 -0300, a écrit : > Accessibility > > we understand that some users also need software synthesized >text-to-speech, something for which there is no support yet in the >standard Debian-installer. We understand this isn't an easy thing >

Bug#530432: ITP: natbraille -- A braille typesetting program

2009-05-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: natbraille Version : 1-5 Upstream Author : Bruno Mascret , Frédéric Schwebel, Vivien Guillet * URL : http://natbraille.free.fr/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang

Re: New "libc" project libposix

2009-06-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henrique Almeida, le Sun 07 Jun 2009 10:33:28 -0300, a écrit : >  I know debian has just switched it's libc implementation, but I've > created a project that will hopefully lead core Unix functionality > into a new direction. What's the difference with newlib's libc? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: New "libc" project libposix

2009-06-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henrique Almeida, le Sun 07 Jun 2009 13:06:20 -0300, a écrit : > newlib has embedded systems as main targets, Err, not necessarily, as cygwin's usage shows. > while libposix targets general purpose computers. And thus will _have_ to support the old standard and the extensions, do not dream. > t

Bug#533414: ITP: vite -- Efficient visual trace explorer

2009-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: vite Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : vite-developpe...@lists.gforge.inria.fr * URL : http://vite.gforge.inria.fr/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Efficient

Re: Bug#533414: ITP: vite -- Efficient visual trace explorer

2009-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 17 Jun 2009 11:56:04 +0200, a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Samuel Thibault > > > * Package name: vite > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : vite-developpe...@lists.gforge.inria.fr > * URL :

Re: Configurable debian/control & debian/rules

2009-06-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mathieu Malaterre, le Mon 22 Jun 2009 16:13:58 +0200, a écrit : > My question is simply: how do express that only one Binary package > requires a particular Build-Depends package, but the other remaining > Binary package should be fine ? Mmm, I guess that's more a question for debian-mentors? d

Re: Configurable debian/control & debian/rules

2009-06-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mathieu Malaterre, le Mon 22 Jun 2009 17:36:31 +0200, a écrit : > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Mathieu Malaterre, le Mon 22 Jun 2009 16:13:58 +0200, a écrit : > >>   My question is simply: how do express that only one Binary package > >>

Re: Bug#534398: ITP: libposix -- unifed implementation of core functionality of all Unix systems

2009-06-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pierre Habouzit, le Thu 25 Jun 2009 00:41:43 +0200, a écrit : > > > Why would they use less memory? > > > > Since they don't link against a large library. > > Which is a ridiculous argument given what the S in .so means. And linking against a 100MB library will generally _not_ eat 100MB memory d

Bug#534612: ITP: ttf-tagbanwa -- font for the Tagbanwa script

2009-06-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: ttf-tagbanwa Version : 1.001 Upstream Author : Samuel Thibault * URL : http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/download/tagbanwa * License : CC Attribution 2.5 Programming Lang: fontforge

ITP: mbrola-{ic1,tr1,tr2} -- various voices for Mbrola

2014-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is a list of ITPs for various mbrola voices. Samuel Bug#751616: ITP: mbrola-tr2 -- Turkish female voice for Mbrola Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: mbrola-ic1 Version : 0.0.20061202 Upstream Author : Faculte Polytechnique de

Re: [accessibility] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jordi Mallach, le Thu 07 Aug 2014 23:57:33 +0200, a écrit : > Accessibility: GNOME continues to be the only free desktop environment that > provides full accessibility coverage, right from login screen. Just to poll on the accessibility side: do we prefer gnome 3.12 over xfce? (note that we are t

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jonas Smedegaard, le Fri 08 Aug 2014 16:11:58 +0200, a écrit : > The following is on a wheezy chroot: > > root@bastian:/# aptitude install task-gnome-desktop > The following NEW packages will be installed: > [...] > Need to get 370 MB of archives. After unpacking 1099 MB will be used. > > root@ba

Bug#759251: ITP: ibus-sharada-braille -- Braille input engine for IBus

2014-08-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: ibus-sharada-braille Version : 0.1.2.99 Upstream Author : Nalin.x.Linux * URL : http://ibus-sharada-braille.blogspot.in/ * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
> You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to > implement auto-migration of the old default mailer's configuration to the > new one. Also, we didn't switch to a different default mailer because the > new one offered a heap of features and infrastructure which the other >

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > And you are saying that you can do all those tweaks, but you cannot > pin systemd-sysv to not install? No, I'm saying that if I hadn't noticed "systemd" among the upgrades, I would have gotten all these changes all of a sudden without ask

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > switch the default init to systemd as Debian > maintainers who would like to keep their sanity would do. I have lost my sanity about system boot & shutdown since when I have switched to systemd. Really. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 13:10:48 +0200, a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, at 11:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ondřej Surý, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > > > And you are saying that you can do all those tweaks, but you cannot > > > pin

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 13:19:31 +0200, a écrit : > > > I believe most our users prefer to stay with sysvinit when upgrading from > > > wheezy > > > > And I believe that most our users don't care. > > I believe most of our users care about

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