Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 12:40]: > * Andreas Barth > | (And, BTW, newraff is a quite mature box. Of course, there is always > | more and better hardware available, but newraff is already a very good > | machine. And, we want to give the testing migration

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
sufficient algorithm knowhow in the debian developer community > to solve the scalability problems. Anyone who provides better scalability for britney is welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
ments. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ben Collins wrote: I have an e3500 to replace both auric and vore (and the raid), but I Suddenly it occures to me that we might have no stable release for some important machines in our infrastructure once etch is out. H Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Schuldei
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:31:01PM +, Dave Holland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:36:17AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > As you might have noticed or not we are working on getting OpenLDAP 2.2 > > into unstable. The packages are mostly working fine (as available in > > experimental)

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 20:15]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number > > | required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > > The reason for this p

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Barth
ant to become a release assistent. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
ckages from the Debian unstable distribution compiled. That number is still (slowly) rising. Every help will be appreciated, of course. Please help the ppc64 port by including support for the ppc64 architecture in 'dpkg' and other packages. Many thanks to all package maintainers who

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. > > > Which group? According to Sven Luther's e-mail to debian-devel there > are curren

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > > > > > This i

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
kernel build will soon > require this. The compiler in the current ppc64 archive is fully biarch, i.e. it can produce 64 bit and 32 bit binaries. There is also a 64 bit and a 32 bit glibc version in the archive. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
iled, you do not accept that decision. You are basically saying: "Take the name 'powerpc64' which I like best - or that architecture will not be supported." But you do not have any convincing reason for not accepting the choosen name. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
that deviating from the standard was a bad thing in this case. I did not yet hear a single vote for the package name 'powerpc64' from anybody who is actively involved in the p(ower)pc64 port. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
project itself is running some important servers on Sparc hardware. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Source of LPhoto

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
sign of a downloadable source. Am I to stupid to find the source or do the people at this site have a different opinion about downloadable source than I. I wanted to issue an ITP if it is worth but wonder which link to the source I should use. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Jochens
ich are already in version 2.3.4 have been dropped for this. Only about 30 patches out of more than 100 had to be kept. The newer glibc version works quite well so far. Two other packages needed a small patch to properly run with glibc-2.3.4. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050316 20:55]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > >If that happens for a too long period, we might consider such an > >architecture to be too slow to keep up, and will eventually discuss > >about kicking it out of the architectures we wait for testin

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
ok from James to do so yet. > > That would cut the number of sparc buildds down to one, when two are > > required for RC archtectures under the new proposal. > That's ok because two buildd's can run on the one machine. It has 6 cpu's. That still doesn't suffic

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
e down now for some time now? If it's so easy to replace a broken machine, why don't you just do it? (And, BTW, you might be on vacation, sick, ... - we need more than just one machine.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050317 10:54]: > Ah, so why is vore down now for some time now? If it's so easy to that should read as auric of course. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE

Re: Relaxing testing requirements (was: summarising answers to Vancouver critique)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
chitectures we actually release) instead of 1. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050317 19:30]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > >If we don't wait for an arch, it gets out-of-sync quite soon, and due to > >e.g. legal requirements, we can't release that arch. (In other words, if > >an arch is too long ignored for test

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: > Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do > apt-get install debconf6-doc you will, and most likely it will be 100% complete. if someone packages it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bts2ldap down?

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henry Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051117 10:13]: > This morning I cannot reach the LDAP server - again. > Has something changed again or is bts2ldap.debian.net just down? it was just down, and is restarted right now. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUB

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
. - Which is easy for me as this is just my personal mail and I know which hosts forward to me. - I guess this is next to impossile for Ian. cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2005/11/19, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> FWIW he currently does a. Rejecting at SMTP time causes backscatter on >> forwarded mail, as the forwarding host cannot reject because it >> already has accep

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-21 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-21 08:55:52]: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:29:19 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I seriously hope the non-elected people blocking and slowing down > >several important processes in Debian soon realize that there is a > >problem and t

Re: My IP address seems listed as a spammer address by bugs.debian.org

2005-11-21 Thread Andreas Barth
nd should be part of the history. However, sadly, it's still only project and not product quality. Any help on that would be welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: >> The real problem with these bounces is not that they fill up the >> forwarding host's queue but that they are usually unwanted. Think Joe >> Job. > This thread is about email that is obviousl

too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Orfanos
modules, it was clear that the incremental list of compiled components on the screen was moving up slow. I remember kernel builds where ultra fast, couldn't watch on screen what it was compiled. Thanks Andreas

Re: what does Enhances *really* mean?

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Barth
age. > > In which case, of course, if "foo Depends: foo-data", then "foo-data > Enhances: foo" is already implied. Agreed. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Jaakko Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-22 17:12:00]: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i have not given up that hope yet and i invest a considerable > > > amount of time working

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-22 08:52:25]: > * Andreas Schuldei: > > > i have not given up that hope yet and i invest a considerable > > amount of time working on this issue as part of my work on the > > DPL-Team. others there do so, too. > &

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-21 23:33:48]: > If the DPL team is actually addressing that issue, it is not doing so > transparently. That was on purpose. we thought that there was something to be learned from threads on public mailinglists that lead nowhere and wanted to try private m

Re: too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Orfanos
thousands of object files. I was using a 2GHz Pentium for the builds. Thank for your replies. Andeas On 11/22/05, Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le mardi 22 novembre 2005 à 10:54 +, Andreas Orfanos a écrit :> The delay was not due to lots of new modules, it was clear that the>

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-23 Thread Andreas Barth
ntly. Do you have some new wording available, or do you want till I find time to fix it myself? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Meanwhile, I am using this: unversioned depends and two conflicts: (<< > {Upstream-Version}), (>= {Upstream-Version}.1). Depends: foo (>={Upstream-Version}), foo (<< {Upstream-Version}.1) instead should also work without the need for

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] >>> Meanwhile, I am using this: unversioned depends and two conflicts: (<< >>

Re: Bug#341702: ITP: ppower4 -- generator of presentations for LaTeX

2005-12-02 Thread Andreas Tille
l than things we just have. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-09 00:30:09]: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:08:58PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > Intel is so generous to provide Debian with ten notebooks (besides > > some server hardware), which we would like to give to develop

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-09 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Andy Teijelo Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-09 11:52:07]: > Does a country considered by the U.S. government as terrorist, or with which > having commercial relationships is forbidden for american companies, apply > for this offering? I got some wise advice about not to make the contry the

Re: ${Source-Version} without revision

2005-12-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
;}') [...] dh_gencontrol -i -- -VUpstream-Version=$(UPSTREAMVERSION) [...] dh_gencontrol -a -- -VUpstream-Version=$(UPSTREAMVERSION) cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
a non-free country prevent this lets try to find an alternative in the free world and try to find a solution to serve people who need a box to work for Debian will finally get a box to work for Debian. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: i'm still seeing archived bugs

2005-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
gards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-14 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-15 00:02:01]: > David Nusinow wrote: > > >>>What are you talking about Debian Style? > >> > >>Color scheme, artwork (default wallpaper, login screen, even CD covers). > >>All those little things that would make a user say "Yep, that's Debian". > > >

Checking package builds on hppa/arm/m68k?

2005-12-17 Thread Andreas Fester
other package version with the build dependencies re-added again if it still fails)? Or are there any sandboxes (I am no Debian Developer) to try it on specific architectures before uploading? Thanks & Best Regards, Andreas - -- Andreas Fester mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.

Re: Checking package builds on hppa/arm/m68k?

2005-12-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Fester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > what is the proper way to > "Please (re)check, if the package can be built by g++ > 3.4 > on [hppa/arm/m68k]"? > Do I simply remove the explicit build dependency on g++, > upload the package and wait if it succe

Re: Checking package builds on hppa/arm/m68k?

2005-12-18 Thread Andreas Fester
built" I was just wondering what the proper way of checking is. Best Regards, Andreas - -- Andreas Fester mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.littletux.net ICQ: 326674288 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
bzip2. - Have you perhaps run some benchmarks? cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for

Re: c2a transition: libraries still needing transition

2005-12-20 Thread Andreas Fester
load. I will provide the final package today. Regards, Andreas - -- Andreas Fester mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.littletux.net ICQ: 326674288 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.o

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
se it does change _when_ in the process vim is built. However, the nvi is evidently a lot simpler than vim and less likely both to show from rc-bugs to suffer from being kept out of testing due to rc-bugs in its build-depencies. This might make a difference the base-freeze slightly more dif

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > bootstrapping, because it does change _when_ in the process vim is ^ not -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andreas Fester
continue their work once they reached the first stage. And, finally, I think that "... maybe because things are working fine just the way they are ..." is reasonable, but I usually prefer "... there is always room for improvement" :-) Just my two cents, best regards

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-02 01:43:47]: > There are a lot of people out there that are willing to help Debian, but > "Help Debian" does look a bit like a horror detective story. > > I like the idea of an official title for contributers, but I am not so > keen on I-did-this-a

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andreas Fester
Apache Software Foundation, for example, there is the "Committer" wo has write access to one or more CVS/SVN repositories, and who also has an @apache.org email address. But no voting rights. For Debian, for example, the permission to upload packages should still be restricted to the mo

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-02 22:26:46]: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:02:34AM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > > there are parts that provide a much easier and smoother entry to > > helping debian. The debian-installer, the inofficial security >

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Alejandro Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-02 09:21:43]: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:06:59 +0100, Frans Pop wrote > > On Monday 02 January 2006 15:42, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > > so should we try to compile such a list and advertise it better, > > &

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-03 12:24:29]: > They are right: most probably they will find it easier to make contributions > to other > projects. we need to promote the easy entry points to contributing to debian more prominently and should hide the "how to become a DD" in comparison

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Barth
at 09:24:19PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels > > N-110 = Mon 7 Aug 06: freeze base, non-essential toolchain (including > > e.g. cdbs) > > Why do you put the kernel together with th

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060103 23:02]: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:31:38PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > the other hand side, the difference is only one week - and if nothing is > > broken by that, we can freeze the kernel at N-110 also. > i think comparing t

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Andreas Barth
Please see the discussion starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/12/msg00678.html Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-03 22:30:09]: > >> They are right: most probably they will find it easier to make > >> contributions to other projects. > > > we need to promote the easy entry points to contributing to debian > > more prominently and should hide the "how to become a

Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
ential? > There are several things in the package that one might > want to run from one of the maintainer scripts from > debconf, like useradd, groupadd, userdel, ... [...] Actually maintainer script shouldn't run these commands, they should use (and depend on) adduser.

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Barth
o have first-hand knowledge that this key is used for the usage written in the key id, i.e. sign the debian archive. These people can IMHO sign the key. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Barth
i.e. spohr) means something. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help: Experts of dict format wanted (Was: wordnet_2.1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED)

2006-01-08 Thread Andreas Tille
mine the presence or properties of (a substance)) 7. test -- (undergo a test; "She doesn't test well") I'm absolutely uneducated about the dict format and have no idea why some words were found but some others are not found. For the moment I decided to upload the new WordNet pa

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wordnet wordnet-base A new version of WordNet was uploaded just yesterday to experimental. It also solves this issue but there is something wrong with the dict-wn: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
ignorant", ... If a maintainer would not manage to respond to an RC bug for three months the package is obviousely not maintained and should be taken over by somebody else, IMHO. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
e* is handling them, nor will do so. Well "no one" is kind of a meta-"someone else" and is equal to droping the package. (I know that this is not always reasonable.) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
named above which brings the measure below the threshold we defined. Just my 2 Euro cents Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
just copy into my hint file. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
service with shipping > > than with not shipping the package. > No. Shipping unsupported packages no developer cares about is a bad idea. Well, by definition if a package is too broken to support it, the bug is RC. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 18:11]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Christoph Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 16:28]: > >> Re: Thomas Viehmann in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > Really, how about just automatically

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
ix things you have the responsibility to tell your users why - at least this is my point of view in maintainership. So for simplicity lets test the measure I suggested above for packages with priority extra, right? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 19:36]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 18:11]: > >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > * Christoph Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 16:2

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* David Nusinow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060112 21:47]: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:35:18PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > However, on the other hand feel free to create a "common maintained > > packages team" that adopts such packages :) > Isn't that pretty much w

Re: Debian Games Team

2006-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
some interesting meta packages. You might also consider to join the Custom Debian Distribution effort which might help to make your target better visible for the users. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Anthony Towns: What I did today

2006-01-13 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-13 20:34:20]: > ...and no one can complain afterwards. you underestimate your fellow nagg^Wdevelopers. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Anthony Towns: What I did today

2006-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-13 20:34:20]: ...and no one can complain afterwards. you underestimate your fellow nagg^Wdevelopers. Well, there are always people who complain. But posting development related mails to

For those who care about Andrew Suffield

2006-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
he subject and people will not start just another flame war which makes just another duelling banjos case. Thanks Andrew for your continuos very helpful contribution Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Anthony Towns: What I did today

2006-01-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060115 10:00]: > If you remove cruft from one of your packages, do you start notifying > developers on d-d-a? In case of the developers reference, I did. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: How to determine complete reverse dependencies?

2006-01-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
le; urgency=low [...] * debian/control: Use shlibs information to generate Depends line for imagemagick binary package. --- cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work d

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
ly exception is it isn't build against other libraries but it is installed by different cd set and downloaded from another location in many cases. If it is a CDD than it is installed from a Debian mirror and nothing else. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To U

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Otavio Salvador wrote: Debian-EDU is available in Debian but also outside of it since they Well, that's a "temporary" hack until we have implemented solutions which makes this superfluous. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de --

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
e to change the maintainer field of Debian internal packages. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Anthony Towns [2006-01-19 19:21:07]: > > In Ubuntu, we've split the package in > > order to make -minimal essential, but never install it alone (both are part > > of base). > > Then what's the benefit of having python(-minimal) be essential at all? you are able to do init.d scripts, pre- and p

Re: Backports

2006-01-19 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 17:02:03]: > * Joseph Smidt wrote: > > Do you think we will ever see backports officially supported by > > Debian? > > No. i remember a conversation where you pointed out some principal problems (security support, manpower) but in general were

Re: Backports

2006-01-19 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 17:38:45]: > * Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > * Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 17:02:03]: > > > * Joseph Smidt wrote: > > > > Do you think we will ever see backports officially su

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-20 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Anthony Towns [2006-01-21 06:06:36]: > No, we have real problems with video codec stuff in Debian and they need > to be resolved thoroughly, not expediently. i was under the impression that the ftp-master team had started to work on that several month ago, shortly before the last mention of thi

Re: Bug#349534: ITP: pyntor -- flexible and componized presentation program

2006-01-23 Thread Andreas Tille
falls into this large group 3. GUI-based - ooimpress - kpresenter - (what was the name of the thingy many people call a standard? ;-) ) I guess pyntor falls in group 1 and a comparison with members of this group might be nice. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.

Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas Hoenen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dblatex Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Benoit Guillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description :

Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas Hoenen
From: Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:26:27 +0100 > Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wish

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
different upgrade paths, etc.). Only because you have a prejudice against volatile doesn't mean its the wrong place. Volatile is rather the exactly right place for this kind of update. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 09:52]: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 04:34]: > > > I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of > > > data -- i

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
glibc people) agree on how to do it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#353802: ITP: gcom -- Option GlobeTrotter and Vodafone datacard control tool

2006-02-20 Thread Andreas Gredler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Gredler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gcom Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Paul Hardwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.pharscape.org/content/view/46/70/ * License : GPL Description

Wide and narrow streams library configuration

2006-02-22 Thread Andreas Fester
the library, one compiled for wide streams, the other for narrow streams. Any other suggestions? Anyone knows other libraries which have the same issue and solved it in some cool way? Thanks & Best Regards, Andreas - -- Andreas Fester mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.littletux

Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

2006-03-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
onnect) if test x$ac_cv_func_connect = xno; then AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, connect, socketlibs="-lsocket $socketlibs") fi fi ) AC_SUBST(socketlibs) Perhaps somebody with strong autofoo can see the bug. cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undert

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Andreas Barth
e it as suitable. Well, if s-p-u would *only* contained approved packages for the next point release, I would agree with you. However, s-p-u contains any kind of packages right now. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060305 14:44]: > * Andreas Barth [Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:16:50 +0100]: > > > Well, if s-p-u would *only* contained approved packages for the next > > point release, I would agree with you. However, s-p-u contains any kind > > of packages

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