Bug#60917: Request for NMU (console-tools)

2000-03-23 Thread dirson
About Bug#60917: I cannot upload a fixed version now. FIX: * replace the preinst code quoted in the report by the following (please test it first). Note that it uses evil "Press RETURN"s in case something is probably broken. = if [ -d /usr/local/share/keytables ] then if [ -d `readlin

Re: RFC: debhelper v2

1999-05-11 Thread dirson
ify things when moving some files from an "Arch: any" to an "Arch: all" package (no need to change debian/rules lines, just move them). -- /\ Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \\ \ \ \\ / Sun Microsystems Inc. <http://www.su

libdb[12] not DFSG-free ?

1999-05-25 Thread dirson
The http://www.sleepycat.com/packages/ URL in the debian/copyright in db2.diff seems to be outdated. When looking at http://abyssinian.sleepycat.com/db/ we MUST provide personal information (.../register.pl) in order to gain access to the package. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to automatically update files on alioth from svn

2005-11-29 Thread Yann Dirson
itory and the > webspace is on different machines. https or svn+ssh to access the repo should provide the level of authentication you need, or do I miss something ? HTH -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linu

Re: Sysvinit and System.map (Was: dangling symlink System.map)

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Guy Maor writes: > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Don't know either. But it's been some time I wonder why this link > > isn't updated on boot to point to "boot/System.map-`uname -r`", or > > suppress the link and issue a

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
re. I found nothing in the doc when I looked for it last year. On last resort, a specially-compiled CVS could be used ? Maybe we could use a $DebianId$ ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
x27;telinit 1' * that's not complete either. As already mentionned, the manpage tells about undocumented runlevels 7-9. It also poorly tells about those AaBbCc I never really understood. More about these ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson

Taking over e2fsprogs ?

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
To Michael: Has anybody postulated to take over maintainance of the package ? If not, I'm a volunteer... Please let me know. Regards, -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: > * that's not complete either. As already mentionned, the manpage tells > about undocumented runlevels 7-9. It also poorly tells about those > AaBbCc I never really understood. I just tried those runlevels 7-9, with sysvinit_2.71-2. It just need few modific

Re: Taking over e2fsprogs ?

1997-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Tom Lees writes: > On Wed, 28 May 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > > Has anybody postulated to take over maintainance of the package ? If > > not, I'm a volunteer... Please let me know. > > If you do take it, please try to get the e2compr patches into

locale errors

1997-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
n" inserts these error messages from perl in the buffer !!! -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
efl.h file, without necessarily the library installed. I think I reported this bug between 1 and 2 years ago to the autoconf upstream maintainers, but can't be sure anymore :) -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
=) I think you should still consider to add this field into Packages.gz: this will allow the information to find its way down to your (our) debian-machines, when upgrading through FTP. -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
definitely inacceptable: you forget network bandwidth, and phone communications to ISP for users (eg. french) who still have to pay for local calls :( -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
7;, aknowledging emacs' priviledged relation towards info, while still allowing sysadmins to just install HTML on their own mono-user PCs. -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
term all 6 (soon 7 ?) kernel-supported architectures. Further more, docs are definetely architecture independant files! Please support me, someone :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Philip Hands writes: > There is of course a problem with trying to install all the documentation on > a > machine, since some conflicting packages provide man pages with overlapping > names. I think that the 'alternative' mechanism could be used there. -- Yann Di

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-06-29 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi all of you... I've just been reading this (quite old for now) thread. What's the status of the discussion now ? Has there been some new feeback from other groups ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread Yann Dirson
comerr2g (from .../base/comerr2g_1.10-8.deb) ... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more power

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread Yann Dirson
a depend. Thus, e2fsprogs was assumed to be a package with libc5 libs, and I could not keep the name, without breaking dump and quota on a hamm upgrade. I thought that, e2fsprogsg being essential, would be flaged for installation as soon as it appears in the available packages. Is this not the case ? -

Re: Mailinglists documented

1997-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
27;s currently subscribed to. Is there such a mechanism, or is there only this stuff (what's its name, anyway ?) to be run on master to get the info ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | sup

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
progs", and just make it conflict with old "dump" and "quota" packages. There's not much chances anybody else will complaint, except for people having build local packages depending on it. Anyone has objections to this ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: (fwd) cutils version 1.5.2 - C language miscellaneous utilities

1997-12-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Hamish Moffatt writes: > ctangle and cweave - simple literate C programming tools These are already part of the "cweb" package. If there're different, you may use alternatives ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-

WARNING (Was: Uploaded e2fsprogs 1.10-9)

1997-12-10 Thread Yann Dirson
kipping. Unpacking e2fsprogs (from ../e2fsprogs_1.10-9_i386.deb) ... Setting up e2fsprogs (1.10-9) ... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL

Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-10 Thread Yann Dirson
f separately providing the symbols (for gdb at least), but the last time I tried, it wasn't supported on i386. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[E

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-12

1997-12-13 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: > James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > xemacs20-20.2-4 (Mixed dependencies; waiting for libcompface?) > xemacs19-19.16-1 (Mixed dependencies; waiting for libcompface?) libcompface has already been converted. -- Yann Dirson &l

Taking over tkman

1997-12-14 Thread Yann Dirson
If noone objects, I'll take tkman. The version we have seems to be obsolete since August. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Yann Dirson
n boot. * if we build such a system, a standard way of disabling parts of these directories (maybe like what /etc/init.d/rc allows with 'S' and 'K' names ?) -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[

Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Fabrizio Polacco writes: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables, > > not libs), and includes the libs symbols: > > > > But the real problem is that the sizes are ... unmanageable > the shared lib

Re: options for menu packages

1997-12-17 Thread Yann Dirson
see that before starting such work ;) But I must admit the current solution works OK for me, and is a very low-cost one ! Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux

Re: debian-kbd needs M4 hacker

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
27;m not really a guru, but I had the opportunity of writing some M4 macros to work with autoconf. I may help, if you wish. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian G

Re: Libc6 progress for contrib and non-free (Dec 1997)

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: > non-free: xforms0.86-0.86-2 xmysql (contrib) is not listed, but depends on both libc6 and xforms0.86. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debia

Re: Uploaded wwwoffle 2.0-1 (source i386) to chiark

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Federico Di Gregorio writes: >* Added cron job to purge wwwoffle cache. Isn't it automatically handled by wwwoffled ? There is a "Purge" section in /etc/wwwoffle.conf (v1.3) that seem to indicate there's an internal mecahnism for this. -- Yann Dirson <[EMA

tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
ch in font /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr10.600pk . [1] Here are the versions of tetex I'm using: base: 0.4pl8-4 bin: 0.4pl8-3 extra: 0.4pl8-2 BTW, I didn't find a way to access the changelogs from the packages WWW pages. It would be nice to add that, if I didn't miss t

Re: tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: > I cannot have the ygoth fonts to work correctly, and would appreciate > some very-very-quick help. OK, thanks to all for your quick answers, and especially to Olaf for the fix. For those interested by the fix, here it is: Manually apply thefollowing diff t

I LOST mail between 21 Dec and 24 Dec.

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi all of you, I had a mail problem with my ISP between the 21th and the 24th of december, which ended in >300 mails lost. If some of you emailed me any message during this period, there are good chances I didn't get it, and you should probably resend it. Thanks, -- Yann Dirson

Dependencies (Was: timezone/timezones problems)

1997-12-31 Thread Yann Dirson
ard of anyone else speaking on this) while upgrading e2fsprogs to 1.10-9. I thought it might have been a bug in dpkg's dependency mechanism; I guess I reported that, but can't find out a copy in my folders, neither can I find it from the headers in "Unanswered pbs"... Does so

Re: Dependencies

1998-01-01 Thread Yann Dirson
ies etc. change during package installation. Yes, that's how I interpret the problem with e2fsprogs. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[

My Epson Stylus (color 600) config

1998-01-07 Thread Yann Dirson
s a case-like structure on the printer-name. It will prevent to have many filters differing only by the resolution used. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-em

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-08 Thread Yann Dirson
esn't "LANG=C /bin/ls -b" do the right job for that ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Offering package tkman (non-free)

1998-04-07 Thread Yann Dirson
e upstream author of the usefulness of any of my suggestions, so I guess this will have to be done by the Debian maintainer of the package. I'll gladly offer my tkman mail folder, containing most of my ideas, to the new maintainer. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop

Re: ksymoops packaged ? System.map issues ...

1998-04-08 Thread Yann Dirson
be specified by using the -k switch on the command > # line. If a symbol file is not explicitly specified the > # following filenames will be tried: > # > # /boot/System.map > # /System.map > # /usr/src/linux/System.map The manpage is

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-09 Thread Yann Dirson
uot; that's sufficient to tell not every machine is a router. Same regarding all firewalling options in the kernel. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Yann Dirson
in the console-tools package (see slink - still in Incoming for now), as function findfile() in libctutils (/usr/include/lct/utils.h). Note that I stillconsider this to be in alpha stage - it has to be made more modular. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Yann Dirson
.tar file instead of the compressed-tar file's. This would allow arbitrary (as long as supported by dpkg-source) compression tools to be used. Let's say .bz2 files on ftp sites, and .gz files on CD's ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer &am

Re: Mirror of Incoming

1998-04-24 Thread Yann Dirson
There's one here: ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming Maybe some list of such mirrors could be added to the Developper's Corner ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Looking for xemacs20 user wishing to help

1998-04-27 Thread Yann Dirson
pt installed if possible) who would like to run some elisp code for me, and send me back the list of those files. Thanks by advance, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU

RFC: dpkg and handling of the Unconfigured state

1998-04-27 Thread Yann Dirson
e given special treatment in this case, in that they would not be subject to these manipulations. This proposal only concerns executables. Maybe other things can be done, eg. for shared libs, but I'm no expert here. Any comments on this ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: RFC: dpkg and handling of the Unconfigured state

1998-04-28 Thread Yann Dirson
configuring alot of stuff as it is unpacked. Ah. That may be another problem, which probably comes from the fact that dpkg is not able to do multiple install/configure cycles in one run. Once that is fixed, I think the problem you mention will go away. Right ? -- Yann Dirson <[

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Yann Dirson
arking it as a conffile, would be interesting. If this file is going to be modified only by the registering interface, then this should not be necessary. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Languages for Description (Was: language for changelog)

1998-04-29 Thread Yann Dirson
ng to deb-policy, so warn your CC: - I only added it in mine so that people who raised an interest in such issues in the previous thread read it] -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Deb

Re: Maybe alpha should be in hamm? (was: Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?)

1998-04-30 Thread Yann Dirson
release hamm/alpha or hamm/whatever later on, maybe even if slink/i386 is near release. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Nice stuff to package: Open C++

1998-04-21 Thread Yann Dirson
... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check

Wishing to maintain package 'dpkg-ftp'

1997-05-13 Thread Yann Dirson
that there's no opposition to that, and start releasing fixes. Is there any reason not to do so ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

e2fsprogs_1.07-1 still in 'experimental' !

1997-05-14 Thread Yann Dirson
"Package": master.debian.org Version 1.07-1 in experimental of e2fsprogs has been superceeded by 1.10-2 in unstable. I think it should be removed. (experimental shadows unstable on my system; I think this is normal...) -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.

RFC: a "Debian System Method" for dpkg

1997-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
n process would be interesting, for security reasons. * conffiles would have to be handled correctly: maybe default conffiles should be always kept (*.dpkg-dist), and repack should be able to recognize them (with md5 ?). etc., probably... -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ

RFC: a "debian-daemon" project

1997-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
s (and other) files up-to-date, removing old versions from experimental when a newer has come into unstable (noone told be I was wrong here, so I persist ;-), maybe automatically find out between what versions the rsync algorithm would be profitable, etc. -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-17 Thread Yann Dirson
Mark Eichin writes: > Granted, a *real* solution would be some way to point things off to > other disks and have dpkg "know" about it so it handles upgrades > cleanly. We've talked about this some but haven't gotten very far. Maybe a variation on dpkg-divert wou

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-17 Thread Yann Dirson
shell script until you decide to build the package -- which makes > it just as safe as things stand now. I'm not su sure: it seems you will still have to execute something to just *browse* to sources. Am I wrong ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-17 Thread Yann Dirson
uot;don't affect" whatever will be installed. I think some people do that, but maybe it should be written somewherer... -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Sysvinit and System.map (Was: dangling symlink System.map)

1997-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
But it's been some time I wonder why this link isn't updated on boot to point to "boot/System.map-`uname -r`", or suppress the link and issue a warning if the latter is absent. This would ensure correctness, I think. Is there a good reason not to do so ? -- Yann Dirson e-ma

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-08 Thread Yann Dirson
needs to be rewritten, which I have started to do - I did not put much time here however. Basically, /etc/console-tools/config should end up being generated by the postinst from debconf-entered information. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ?

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:39:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > Probably this should be discussed here and if noone objects changed ASAP, > > so that any problems get caught quickly. > > Don't

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Yann Dirson
ut this rationale into console-data's README.Debian. Best regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Cheaper, more Pow

Re: console-tools vs kbd

2001-01-04 Thread Yann Dirson
. If it is not fixed in your version of the package (hm, did I already upload a fixed one ?), just adding 2 dummy parameters at the end of the command-line should do the trick. HTH, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
ay, and having the various kernel-image-whatever build-depend on this kernel-source and any necessary kernel-patch packages. If this understanding is correct, I admit I don't see why the practice has diverged from this idea. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
s have proven deficient in some way, but I probably missed many things - I am even under the impression their construction is not even done by make-kpkg itself. Could someone elaborate on that ? (Herbert ? Manoj ?) Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill ric

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
which would by default contain the debian patch. Additionally, with things done this way, we're not even forced to update the whole kernel-source-2.4.20 seven times or more, we just have to update kernel-source-debian-2.4.20, which I believe would be good for the health of our network pipe

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
level architecture support, just like it does not use make-kpkg-level kernel-version support. Although that may not look like a big deal, that seems to show that at some time a redesign of the interface between make-kpkg and the patches themselves would be a good idea. Regards, -- Yann Dirso

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
a to work toward at this time, > however. Yes, a new generation of source packages is needed, but if we could settle the kernel-packaging issue without this, that would at least help to get it running for sarge... Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bi

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
f dh-kpatches will work in the same stage as make-kpkg does, it may make sense at some point to have a look at something like a merge of this part into make-kpkg. But since this is all about things yet to be written, we'll see later. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:37:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:23:27AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:00:06PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > > > We could get around Guido's point mentionned above by having a

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
s to order the patches by hand, instead of declaring explicit dependencies (much like sysvinit and others do, and like the patch-ordering facility in make-kpkg). If the above is correct, I'd see that as a step backwards. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why mak

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
may have noted that dh-kpatches supports declaring such patches since recently). I hope you're not suggesting all mixes of sub-patches of the debian patch should be supported - this idea would have no chance to survive long :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |W

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
t NMUs on arch kernel-patches to be quite rare anyway. And we could give a NMU numbering-space with 2 dots, by making the 1st revision of an arch patch to be -8.0 at first. Does it make sense ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related:

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
Adam wrote: > So doing bts work is worthless? :) Hey, someone once wrote similar scripts to count how many bugreports were reported by anyone ! /me rejoices recalling he was ranked 3rd by the number of open bugs :) Well, never mind :) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |W

What is the default gcc version ?

2003-06-30 Thread Yann Dirson
some light on this issue ? [please CC me on followup] Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratu

Bug#474254: ITP: tagua -- Board-game frontend for playing chess variants and other games

2008-04-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tagua Version : 1.0~alpha2 Upstream Author : Paolo Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://tagua-project.org/ * License : GPL Programming La

Bug#421745: RFA: bigloo -- A practical Scheme compiler

2007-05-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: normal My primary focus is on other things these days, and this package would benefit from someone using it more than I do, so this is the formal request for adoption for the bigloo package. Some of the work to do on the package: - package new upstream release - activate t

Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
[this and the following mails are resent versions, my mails did not make it to the list due to some config problem - sorry for any dups this may cause] Since April 2009, kernel-package has no use any more for the {kernel,linux}-patch-* packages (AFAIK the current recommended way of patching a kern

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:59 +0100 > Yann Dirson wrote: > > So the question is, is it time to request removal of those packages, > > or is there any remaining reason not to do so that I missed ? > >

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:57:01AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:39:00PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:28:33PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > >&g

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Yann Dirson
n systems. What's the problem with daily changing packages ? By nature, only different packages can change each day. That could make it a good compromise between stable and unstable, eg. for people in need for up-to-date desktops. But precisely, one of the problems for those people, is that

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
hat could be done either by a rebuild, or, less costly, by a simple unpack/edit-changelog/repack. In that case, if we had libfoo0_1.0-1 in pre-testing, and libfoo0_1.0-2 in unstable, we'd end up with libfoo0_1.0-2.0.1 in pre-testing, and libfoo0_1.0-2.0.2 in unstable, whether the latter was re

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
s is required to get rid of some bug. And since there's no guaranty that a buildd has all latest versions (see http://people.debian.org/~dirson/buildinfo/ for a demo), I (and probably others) tend to add versionned builddeps as >=, whereas it should probably be an unversionned build-dep, toget

Looking for a builder/uploader to fix RC bug on gcompris

2002-04-20 Thread Yann Dirson
y, it will be great - otherwise I'll do that monday, but every day counts for woody... TIA, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Bug#157729: ITP: gatos-drm-source -- DRM modules source from the GATOS project, with support for recent ATI chips

2002-08-21 Thread Yann Dirson
: DRM modules source from the GATOS project, with support for recent ATI chips -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultan

Bug#112478: ITP: thoteditor -- customizable editor for structured documents

2001-09-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-16 Severity: wishlist Package name: thoteditor Version : 2.1e Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://opera.inrialpes.fr/thot/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/editors/ Licen

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-03 Thread Yann Dirson
should give better euro support I guess. There's already an entry in the BTS. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, St

Bug#755957: ITP: git-reintegrate -- Git extension to manage integration branches

2014-07-24 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson X-Debbugs-CC: Felipe Contreras * Package name: git-reintegrate Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Felipe Contreras * URL : https://github.com/felipec/git-reintegrate * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby

Bug#759519: ITP: shogivar -- UI to play many shogi variants against human or computer

2014-08-27 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: shogivar Version : 1.55a+git Upstream Author : Steve Evans, H.G.Muller * URL : http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=shogivar.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/C-port * License : GPL

Bug#770384: ITP: sjaakii -- computer player for Chess and variants, including Shogi and XiangQi

2014-11-20 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: sjaakii Version : beta2 Upstream Author : Evert Glebbeek * URL : http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Sjaak II

Bug#770509: ITP: uci2wb -- XBoard protocol adapter for chess/shogi/xianqi engines speaking USI/UCCI/UCI-XQ

2014-11-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: uci2wb Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : H.G. Muller * URL : http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=uci2wb.git;a=summary * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : XBoard

Re: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1998-06-06 Thread Yann Dirson
the version when out of beta (I'll use this for fweb) * consider alpha/beta to be based on previous version. I use this for e2fsprogs 1.12-WIP, which I numbered 1.10-1.12-WIP- Note that the 1st one is not incompatible at all with other ones ;) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

An idea for the BTS (Was: Weeding out slink bug reports)

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
d take their values in the set current of severities. The still missing "Fixed" severity would be used to tell a dist is clear wrt this report. A bug will then be allowed to be closed only when all dists list "Fixed". Any comments ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
et into the LSB. Will this upgrade not imply that we recompile and test the whole of the dist, to make it sure hamm is self-compilable ? If not, every bugfix upload will possibly break something because of a possible glibc change... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-B

dpkg and alpha/beta versioning (Was: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1)

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
only be used IMHO as an internal (ie. for dpkg and developpers, and not for users) representation. If we're at last going to discuss these issues, I'm volunteering to coordinate the discussion and post summaries of the discussion's progress. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTE

RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
that I had the idea of packaging alsa myself, but I wanted to discuss these issues first... What do others think about this problem ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
ared libraries. Maybe, but 2.0.7pre3 is not what we have in hamm. It's pre1. I don't see it as a good idea to switch from pre1 to final while in the deep freeze. > [on Debian] the upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 goes very smoothly. Nice to hear that, anyway. -- Yann Dirson<[E

Re: ftp server layout

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
out to without success... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirso

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