Bug#440482: ITP: python-application -- Basic building blocks for python applications

2007-09-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-application Version : 1.0.8 Upstream Author : Dan Pascu * URL : http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python-application * License : lgpl Programming Lang:

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
intrinsicly longer password: that's what libpam-cracklib is for. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
packages - it would be worth the work. But I'm not willing to spend my free time on closed source if there's no really good reason to do so. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
use linda and lintian (-iI) to check your packages, that should help a lot. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/rules and environment variables

2007-09-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ly if you need to pass CC and other options to upstream's build system, which is just a bunch of Makefiles in this case. Although I doubt that anybody would cross-compile this package, I'd appreciate some general hints. Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ing IPv4 are changed. Including browsers, IM clients and all daemons which usually connect to addresses outside of the own computer. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#441302: ITP: getxpath -- extract a value from a XML file using a XPATH expression

2007-09-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ing a XPATH expression same here, do we really need a package for a wrapper around xsltproc, where the GPL header is larger than the script itself? -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#441302: ITP: getxpath -- extract a value from a XML file using a XPATH expression

2007-09-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Ondrej Certik wrote: >> same here, do we really need a package for a wrapper around xsltproc, >> where the GPL header is larger than the script itself? > > Why not to put that script inside the xsltproc package instead of > creating a new one? sounds like an good idea. --

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o school computers should boot from network and/or use COW anyway, so it's just a reboot to restore the original system. And the kid's data can be backuped. That's pretty much different in University networks of course - but I guess people there are old enough to learn to use proper

Re: Package lists for (stable) distribution CDs/DVDs (integrating to package.d.o)

2007-09-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e jidgo files, which is not a very easy way. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ant > amount". My favourite one is the admin page of Scalix. But indeed, I never run into any bigger trouble in the www during the last time, the only annoying things are pages using java and flash - they either make my browser crash or just eat memory. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAI

Re: Package lists for (stable) distribution CDs/DVDs (integrating to package.d.o)

2007-09-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
?" I think that would be nice if it would be integrated in packages.d.o. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
em. Why don't you start to send patches then. Seems you have enough free time to look after such issues. Fixing Kernels to work on more (sometimes even important machines, like buildds) is a much more important job than to get rid of oh so non-free firmware. -- Bernd Ze

Re: ML improvement proposition (Re: SMTP 550 on replies to bugs)

2007-09-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
roken machine. If you don't want to have mails at all, use some kind of validation before you receive a mail. Your theories may work for your personal inbox, but neither for MLs nor for the BTS. YMMV. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
pped with Debian), right? In fact I can't see any reason why a program should check for the name of the avaiable MTA at all (except you're building an extension/... for this MTA). Cheers, -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/>

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
show, ) and dpkg -L are much more useful than such a manpage. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#443370: ITP: asmutils -- coreutils replacement written in i386 assembler

2007-09-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ice to have this package at least in mips assembly, too, which is at least at my university used to teach assembly. It would also allow to compare the same implementation for different architectures. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/>

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
some useful hints, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
re where the package is being built on. Is there anybody working on an arm7 cross-compiler yet, if so, are there plans to get it into Debian's main? I guess you want to support every arm cpu in main!? Or is there any other possible way to get this package into main? Best rega

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ian-2.0.0.6-1) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 I still can't see any fault of Debian here. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ill build-dep. on the gcc source, build the compiler and build the firmware. - all new versions of the package will build-depend on the old package and just copy the binary blob from it. Any objections to this? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 30 September 2007 00:25, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> What about the following plan: > > It's not only pointless, but will also result in FTBFS errors once the old > package is not available anymore. not if you build-depend on ol

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> not if you build-depend on oldpackge | gcc-source and just build the > firmware again if the old package is not available. Well, I just learned that this is broken. #403246, which is obviously not planned to be fixed soon. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Automatic retrieval of information from qa.debian.org

2007-10-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ess you're not interested on everything which is displayed there, but only in specific parts? Chances are good that there're much better ways to access them then parsing the qa page. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de

Re: Testing parallel builds

2007-10-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en. Since that time I've avoided to use -j, except to test things. But probably those problems were fixed in the meantime Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing parallel builds

2007-10-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
magic which results into $(MAKE) beeing make -j ? -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intend to hijack gpsd

2007-10-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
pare a new version within the next 1-2 weeks. Thanks, Bernd [1]: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
on to handle 5 computers in _one_ frontend) and several other opensource and commercial systems - but I'm not sure which one is capable to handle so many hosts. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Intend to hijack gpsd

2007-10-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o accept that this was > wishful thinking. > > Good luck and much fun with the package! Thanks for that, and thanks for taking care of the package so far! Hope I didn't bother you too much with all the mails the BTS must have send to you during the last days. Cheers, Bernd

Re: how to find out the sponsor of an upload?

2007-10-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the tooltip which shows up after a few seconds. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's up with sparc?

2007-10-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ortunately still not fixed, although I didn't check the kernel.org logs during the last few weeks. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

2007-10-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
he BSI[1], I wouldn't think much about taking any action here in Germany Cheers, Bernd [1]: http://www.bsi.de/produkte/boss/index.htm -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hinkpads which can't handle acpi. Thinkpads had a well working APM implementation for a long time, at least up to the R/T40 series. http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/ -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; Wouldn't this make it more difficult for people to report > bugs using reportbug/ng? reportbug is able to talk smtp to bugs.d.o directly, reportbug-ng allows the user to select a MUA to edit and send the mail. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hile starting it the first time? IMHO that's more than sufficient. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ambiguous build-dependencies

2007-10-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
al package involved) sbuild will fail if the first package is not installable - #403246. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
better ways to handle spam than pyzor these days, also it seems to be pretty dead by upstream (last release September 7, 2002). > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms will be gone, too. Cheers, Bernd --

Re: Bug#448972: ITP: plumi -- Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone

2007-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Do you have any ideas on how to handle that? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#449035: ITP: pyicu -- Python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API

2007-11-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pyicu Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Open Source Applications Foundation * URL : http://pyicu.osafoundation.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: c++/

Bug#449034: ITP: parsedatetime -- Python module to parse human-readable date/time expressions

2007-11-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: parsedatetime Version : 0.8.4 Upstream Author : Mike Taylor and Darshana Chhajed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetim

Re: Bug#449098: ITP: natpmp -- NAT Port Mapping daemon

2007-11-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
sd.org/draft-cheshire-nat-pmp.txt Out of curiosity: What does natpmp have in common with upnp, and where are the differences? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass bugs filing: bogus debian/watch files

2007-11-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > [1] http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/no_upstream.html could you add the Maintainer of the packages to this listing? Makes searching for your own packages much more simple. Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> --

Re: Mass bugs filing: bogus debian/watch files

2007-11-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> However, if you are interested in that stuff, it could be a good idea to > contact the DEHS maintainer: there might be a way to integrate this into > DEHS, and avoid the HTML parsing ;) Didn't look into them, but http://qa.debian.org/data/dehs/ looks interesting. -- Bernd Z

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
porting-nodocs > and > package-runs-make-check-without-supporting-nocheck Not sure how lintian should check for this, nodocs could be handled in a completely different file which is included/called/... somehow from debian/rules. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:42:03PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> nocheck | notest should also be supported whether or not the package is >>> actually being cross-built. emdebuild currently passes 'nocheck' as >>> part of the D

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e and rebuild it later for the targeted architecture, using the file which was generated before. Sounds ugly, but it should work. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
on build time if the test did not go trough. Otherwise running tests is useless - or do you check all build logs with every upload? -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:48:55PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> If you run a test you usually *want* to have it fail on build time if >> the test did not go trough. Otherwise running tests is useless - or do >> you check all build logs with ev

Re: Mass bugs filing: bogus debian/watch files

2007-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r.gz > I found the uscan manual page slightly confusing, but perhaps it is > just me. :) It's you :P Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#450615: ITP: opennms -- Open-source Network Management

2007-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e in the description, too. There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can handle Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
pe that 3.0 will be better... -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
; mlocate should. > * However, I don't think any locate should have priority standard. > Why not remove locate from findutils instead of putting it into a separate package? I can't see any reason why one would need it if there's mlocate. Probably add a Recommends: mlocate to findutils

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
aries it _IS_ our problem - because we'll get the bug reports of annoyed users. So adding a broken libraries to Debian doesn't make sense at all. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than optional. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Not sure if anybody is still using the old BSD printing stuff - at least >> I can't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than >> optional. > > I am. It's simple and

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
can say that if I am on a UNIX like > machine, and I can't just say lpr foo.txt and have it printed on the > default printer, I would find the system deficient and un-UNIX like. That works well with cups if you have the cupsys-bsd package installed. -- Bernd

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> Why not remove locate from findutils instead of putting it into a >> separate package? I can't see any reason why one would need it if >> there's mlocate. Probably add a Recommends:

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
a > serious problem. Definiteyl not a feature I'm missing. I hope exim caches the reply from the final MX for some time, otherwise this sounds like a good way to run a DOS attack. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNS

Bug#451561: ITP: navit -- Car navigation system with GPS tracking

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : navit Version : 0.0.2 (alpha quality, will go to experimental first) Upstream Authors : Michael Farmbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Schaller <[EMAIL PRO

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
f upstream's original document is the pdf - or if the pdf was created from xml/tex/... source. It's not common to create documentations as pdf file in pdfedit or Adobe Acrobat, but it may happen, and then they should be allowed in main (probably after checking for embedded fonts). Cheers,

Bug#452093: ITP: geopy -- Geocoding toolbox for Python

2007-11-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: geopy Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Brian Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy/ * License : MIT Programming

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
packagename/ available, even if there're no arch independent modules in the package. If I remember right python-support uses the directory to be able to clean up /var/lib/python-support if necessary - or something like that. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ith somthing matched by /var/lib/zope[0-9.]+ -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About dpkg-shlibdeps checks

2007-11-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
was announced often enough. If packages run into trouble with it now, it's imho not the problem of the dpkg maintainer (except there're bugs in dpkg, of course). -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Contents-source.gz

2007-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
#x27;d find a Koders-like search trough all sources much more interesting, especially if it comes with a way to retrieve diffs between releases or uploads. /me goes and puts Debian into git. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Packages with httpd needs

2007-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
HP, so the applications you mentioned > can't be use with it. lighttpd supports php for example, using fastcgi. Imho the best thing here would be to add the libapache2-* stuff to Recommends, so it will be installed in default configurations, but it also allows the admin to ignore th

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
rt-ability? After > all backports is not an official part of Debian. YMMV. > for a backport you have to add a changelog entry anyway, fixing the Homepage field is not that complicated, so I can't see a problem here. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2007-12-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Hm, looks bad indeed. I'll try to see if Bernd Eckenfels is still alive > but if I can't reach him in a week I'll adopt the package. Sure I am alive. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2007-12-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
cally the Debian version (since that version is quite ok, must of the open bugs are kernel/technology related. As you can read in the archives the last few attempts to help me with those ended with the inresponsiveness of net developers (those consider net-tools obsolted by iproute). Greetings

Bug#454189: ITP: brad -- Blender based user interface for Radiance

2007-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: brad Version : 0.2_2007-01-08 Upstream Author : Francesco Anselmo * URL : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/brad/ * License : GPL Programming Lang:

Re: uploading as Debian Maintainer - rejected

2007-12-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ainers? Since when is Ondrej == Kartik? -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tandard on a lot of systems, including OSX, it is 'bashed' for being bad in Debian's policy. But I wanted to send a bug about that anyway... -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
and no license information at all in the randeom ~10 source files I looked into. Looks like http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package is still correct - but it would be a good thing to convince upstream to fix that. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
independent point of view can decide if 2.8 should/needs to be shipped with Lenny. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, ...

2007-12-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
shed on me. Same here, using it at home in smarthost mode, and on several machines with a lot of mail traffic, and I never had any trouble at all with postfix. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2009-12-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
you only want the node name, and if the node name is fqdn, you can use "hostname" or "hostname -s" to get it with or without the domain. Besides that, I would allow FQDN in /etc/hostname Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: git-core maintenance

2010-01-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e maintainer in the hope to get some more informations from him. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e. Something is broken in your way of packaging this library. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3

Re: debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hitectures and the buildds used sudo. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95

Re: JPEG 8 transition

2010-02-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
can't do that. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 43

Re: klibc only initramfs

2010-02-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Add more network cards to your boot-server. Add a second bootserver if necessary. Or just don't boot all machines at the same time (hint: that might also save your building's power supply...). -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linu

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
missing) so it seems out > of scope for squeeze. Maybe squeeze+1. I think its about time to require to generate checksums for packages and make all packages which do not do so RC buggy. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
u being a > coward who does not deserve to be heard in the future. > > Please be responsible and do help us out here. Are you sure you're the person who should write such an email? Instead of writing such emails you should spend your time on doing a *PROPER*

Re: Hadoop in Debian, was:Re: Hardware trouble ries.debian.org

2010-04-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
nd HDFS is optimized for very large files, only. You would have to build a filesystem inside for the typical FTP case - or maybe use HBase, not sure if it can store large enough blobs. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-04-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
y straight forward. Comments, bugreports and patches are welcome! Hope its useful! Bernd - -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-04-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nsfer the domain into the hands of SPI anf just take care of the software... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test - ciabot script added

2010-04-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/03/2010 01:52 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: [...] > And if you want to give it a try now, log into alioth.debian.org and have a > look > into /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/bzed/godebian-client - the usage is > documented in the README file and should be pretty straight forward.

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

2010-04-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <4bcc77a3.9080...@student.ulg.ac.be> you wrote: > And what do you suggest if one wants some real protection _and_ the > benefits of a format like PDF? Thanks. It is simply not possible to publish something and protect it. The best protection in that case is reputation.

Re: /usr/bin/mail policy

2010-05-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article you wrote: > Since heirloom-mailx (and any mailx following the POSIX spec) doesn't > have a way to specify extra headers What about using /usr/sbin/sendmail? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e) here. Exactly. I gain much more from moving the start of $many_daemons behind the start of kdm on my desktop. The speed difference with/without CONCURRENCY=makefile is not really noticeable for me. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-05-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/03/2010 01:52 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So I'm happy to announce the public beta test of http://deb.li (also available > under http://go.debian.net)! Please note that neither the content of the pages > nor the CSS is finished... :) Just a short update: Everything is runni

Re: chromium-browser from experimental has included h.264 by default?

2010-05-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
thing to do in such cases is to report a bug as this ensures that the maintainer will see it or somebody else will be able to handle it. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints:

Re: How to set ulimit (nofile) for a daemon

2010-05-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
su doing the pam chain typically. For the daemon package I think it is not using pam sanely. Too bad it does not support setting ulimits directly. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ow that there are a lot of arguments against the 3.0 format out there, so please do not enforce such changes without discussing them first. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/26/2010 11:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Environment variables do not override variable definitions in a makefile. You can't believe how messy upstream stuff can be. Messing with $(LDFLAGS) and $${LDFLAGS} and simmilar stuff just happens -- Bernd

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-16 Thread Bernd Schubert
e to send a mail to this list requesting to remove this package from Debian. IMHO, it is wrong to list me as "Maintainer", if it impossible to maintain it... Cheers, Bernd -- 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/201006170342.20269.bernd.schub...@fastmail.fm

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ages in a month is a high traffic mailing list for you? debian-bugs-dist is high traffic, or LKLM, or sometimes debian-devel, but not backport-users. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org G

The state of root-system in Debian

2010-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
me if Squeeze would ship without it. As I've sponsored the package I know that maintaining it will take a lot of time, so imho the best would be to maintain it in a team. The debian-science team would be the best home for it I guess. Is anybody interested in adpoting it? Cheers, Bernd

Re: "dh" and dh_installxmlcatalogs

2010-07-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence for examples. Obviously that is not a quick fix and needs an xml-core upload. The other way would be to override one of the dh_* calls, for example override_dh_install: dh_install dh_installxmlcatalogs There are other ways for sure :) Cheers, Be

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
iously > think they can ignore the policy just as they like (this issue is really > unbelievable,... wonder why we have all that policy crap...) in order to > save them work... Full ack. If the policy does not fit reality, then it should be changed *or* (which is what I'd prefer), the pa

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