Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
in the process. Additionally, you so *don't*. The config file is a config file enough that it's only removed on purge not remove (not that the remove is necessary as you claim). -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like libgdbmg1 should be required, [ ... ] No; perl shouldn't depend on libgdbmg1. libgdbmg1 is obsolete and deprecated. I asked the perl maintainer if he could fix this back in March or so, apparently it hasn't happened.

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
ade process issues ominous sounding threats. > > This situation is better avoided. ``This situation'' is similar to that of almost all libc5->libc6 shared library upgrades. Avoiding it might be non-trivial. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN (sic)

1998-06-06 Thread James Troup
very silly to release hamm with 0.99.xx and not 1.0.0 (0.99.xx has been bug-fixes only for a while and 1.0.0 is too). -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread James Troup
not a good reason. Certainly nothing like a good enough reason to justify us shipping with an *out of date* pre-release. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread James Troup
> reason to justify us shipping with an *out of date* pre-release. > > Sorry? > > What I tried to say is that latest JDK does not work with glibc from hamm, > but DOES work with (more recent) glibc from slink. And I proposed to move > slink glibc into frozen (hamm). *blink*..

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-07 Thread James Troup
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raul Miller, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No; perl shouldn't depend on libgdbmg1. libgdbmg1 is obsolete > > > and de

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-07 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know perl, and am only going on what Ray has been telling > > me. It was my understanding that perl could be made to > > dynamically load it's gdbm p

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

1998-06-07 Thread James Troup
e different issues, and can be done on radically separate and different machines. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-07 Thread James Troup
#x27; will let you look inside of and install `.deb' files also. Gosh, what a revolutionary concept. I did hear about something else that could do that though. What was it? dekg? dplg? I can't remember. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: RETRACTED msql 2.0.3-4

1998-06-08 Thread James Troup
/toy with users? > The problem is that the _preinst_ might use the programs useradd and > groupadd. These are not in the base system nor essential. No, they _are_ part of the base system and they _are_ Priority: Required. > Is there another way to solve this? Possibly not. -- J

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-08 Thread James Troup
base system for the minimal or non-existent ``gain'' it offers and b) *not* a suitable replacement for what has been proposed to be removed. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Documentation/License freeness

1998-06-08 Thread James Troup
row? Your FAQ becomes worse than useless to anyone who wants to carry on the fine job you've been doing. Legally, they have to start from scratch. That's a losing situation. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread James Troup
p Paul. You have zero idea how well (or otherwise) I know mc, so please stop the FUD. Adding a smiley does not justify childishness. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-09 Thread James Troup
has to be turned back on by default before release and that after that, although still a bug, this becomes less than release-critical. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Away for ~ a week

1998-06-10 Thread James Troup
week (I hope no more), and will be completely without computer (never mind net) access. If any severe bugs in my packages turn up, please feel free to do NMUs. -- James - hoping /var/mail/ survives on comp.brad.ac.uk :| ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-12 Thread James Pearson
ofs and mkhybrid-1.12a4.0 is available from ftp://ftp.ge.ucl.ac.uk/pub/mkhfs James Pearson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-16 Thread James Troup
in slink. Of course, I agree, but my point was that gdbm *Shouldn't* be required and although it will need to be made so in hamm as a kludge, I tried to get this fixed properly back in March. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNS

Re: tempfile and dependencies

1998-06-16 Thread James Troup
Francesco Tapparo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my question is: must I add Depends: debianutils (>> 1.6), or I'm > guaranteed that will be upgraded the essential packages first? Is > this bug-fix worthy of an hamm release? Yes, no, IMO no. --

Re: GNUPLOT [does not] break GPL

1998-06-17 Thread James Troup
, gnuplot doesn't break anything. We would be violating the GNU GPL by distributing a gnuplot linked with readline but gnuplot is not per se breaking the GNU GPL. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
n contrib?\end{just checking} -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
still?). No. elvis is non-free; elvis-tiny is not. Look at the copyright files. AIUI elvis-tiny is a much earlier version of elvis which was still free. Or something. Of course the copyright files may be ``inaccurate'', I'm disillusioned enough to r

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-20 Thread James Troup
of the funcationality of JDE > would be lost if jdk1.1-dev wouldn't be installed. I agree, as I say, I was just checking. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug-System: Why no mail to maintainer on reassign?

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Later someone will reassign that bug to the correct package, but the > maintainer of that package won't get any mail. That's simply not true. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
the AOL, but...) Well said; I wish people would get over their epoch-phobia already. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Jun 1998, James Troup wrote: > > > (Sorry for the AOL, but...) Well said; I wish people would get > > over their epoch-phobia already. > > And I wish people would stop suggesting a poor solution. How is it a ``poo

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Or anyone using epochs is opting for the ``poor'' solution? [1] 2.9.1-0.1.this.is.really.2.8.1 anyone? -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding dependency order to emacsen add-on install/remove process

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
s postinst before foo's. Try it and see. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eh? Almost any version-number problem can be solved by a version > > suffix[1]. > > Not where 1.0 follows 3.14, for example. You clearly can, as I demonstrated in my foo

Re: slang, newt, whiptail

1998-06-24 Thread James Troup
Michael Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but i didn't find SOURCE OF WHIPTAIL at all, what's going on there?? You didn't look very hard. Package: whiptail Version: 0.21-8 [...] source: newt -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~

Intention to do a(nother) NMU of dpkg

1998-06-24 Thread James Troup
updated for glibc, reported by Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. [#13140] * debian/control (dpkg-dev): depend on perl as POSIX (not a part of perl-base) is needed by most of the perl dpkg-* scripts, noticed by Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. [#22115] -- James Troup

Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?

1998-10-02 Thread James Troup
r can be counted on the fingers of a very mutilated hand. -- James

Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?

1998-10-03 Thread James Troup
27;ve ``proved'' absolutely nothing about Debian's rejection policy. -- James

Re: formal documents

1998-10-03 Thread James Troup
Kikutani Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ? Yes. [Though if there is any opportunity to meet another developer in real life and cross sign each others keys, this is the preferred method, where it's viable.] -- James

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times. Took 5 days, like, but it compiled ``properly''. -- James

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in gratuitous QP: > On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. > > > > Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
a [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the mother of all brain dead motherboard designs which slows it down by a factor of 2 or so. As you can see, I'm not overly proud of the machine, quite the opposite in fact. -- James

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about pop stars? We could have Debian sporty, Debian Ginger, Debian > Posh... *bang* -- James

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-06 Thread James Troup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(James A. Treacy) writes: > Should apt have to download the dsc file for a package before it > knows what the source files are? Why on earth not? If it's going to download the source, the .dsc file is part of the source and has to be downloaded anyway. &

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-07 Thread James Troup
[ Please don't Cc me on replies to a public mailing list ] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (James A. Treacy) writes: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(James A. Treacy) writes: > > > > > Should apt have to download the dsc file for a package before it > > > knows what

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

1998-10-09 Thread James Troup
s:Depends=libc6, libc6 (>= 2.0.7u) >^ ^ Look at fakeroot's shlibs file. This is not a bug (or certainly not the one you're claiming it is). -- James

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

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Friday, October 9 1998, at 21:19:38, James Troup wrote: > > : Look at fakeroot's shlibs file. This is not a bug (or certainly not > > : the one you're claiming

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
g -m with dpkg-genchanges) should > be discussed on -devel. Blah; debian-devel has _way_ too much traffic already, so much so that several porters don't read it. -- James

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
too and mass cross-posting is offensive. -- James

Re: Fix buildd@powerpc.debian.org bounces!

1998-10-11 Thread James Troup
just fine and you haven't been bothered by it so far (afaik). -- James - [Actually glad cookie-monster is in .nl and not .de and thus free from MTA-prejudiced admins]

Re: New maintainer for es, done right this time

1998-10-12 Thread James Troup
509e50aba59a6eebbe14b 3880 shells optional es_0.90beta1-3.diff.gz > 9430833e4c1353fb17206394d6e87423 97390 shells optional > es_0.90beta1-3_i386.deb Ehm, no. I've removed this package from Incoming. It's customary to contact the maintainer of a package before taking it over; package hijacking is not appreciated. -- James

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

1998-10-14 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Moving this to debian-devel, discussion doesn't belong in the bug report. ] [ Killed the Cc: line. ] > James Troup wrote: > > There is no i386 port in as much as i386 maintainers 99.5% of the time > > _don't_ compi

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

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup wrote: > > They don't compile from freshly unpacked source. > > How odd. Other maintainer must work substantially differently than I, then. If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a fr

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

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup said: > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > James Troup wrote: > > > Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip waiting, while > > > a normal NMU does not? Why a

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

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
get over this GPL obsession, there is *plenty* of software in main _not_ covered by the GPL. -- James [Want to know how Debian violates the GPL all the time? Check how many GPLed packages in Debian have modifications yet don't obey 2(a).]

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. > I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6... 2.x; we don't accept later stuff. -- James

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

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
all ? That would be a big fat no. (1) is patently untrue, (2) is not happening any time ever and (4) is, with all due respect, stupid beyond belief. -- James

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

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > 1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity > > Probably. Wrong. -- James

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

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
binary-only NMUs (which you seem to want to ignore) [see my bash example in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]. > I think I could dig up complaints form *you* saying that. That would be a cunning trick. -- James

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

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Each day you autobuild say, 30 packages from Incoming. Building (especially auto-building) packages from Incoming is a bad idea, please don't encourage it. -- James

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

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup wrote: > > > Who said [binary-only NMU's for i386] were bad? > > You did. No, I said binary-only NMUs as a whole were not ideal; I didn't say anything about binary-only NMU's for i386. Please try to

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:23:38PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > >Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. > >> I'm currently using

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the status of gnupg? Not yet used in Debian. > Is there a Debian package available? Yes, on non-US. -- James

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
t bothered to think about it very hard. If it really is a problem nowadays, I could, of course... [Off the top of my head: enforcing a new numbering policy for bin-only NMU's (e.g. 3.5-1 -> 3.5-1.0.1 (and not 3.5-1.1)) would solve the problem and would also solve the problem of bin-only NMU's being clobbered by source NMU's; I did mean to propose this to debian-policy several months ago, but apparently I never got round to it] -- James

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
#x27;s not PGP5 that Debian has an issue with, it's non-RSA keys. Not true; gnupg keys are surely not RSA but they're accepted in some ways (i.e. we have a keyring for them and dpkg-dev supports the use of gnupg, but dinstall doesn't yet). RSA keys are actually something we want to get away from. -- James

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than > two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Perhaps because the more you whine about it the more prone we are to ignore you? -- James

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
As Brian has said to Santiago already (those he chooses to ignore it so he can whine more effectively), we do not need more help, and we certainly do not want his ``help''. Personally, I'd like to get on with the slink release and other things, so please, don't carry this thread on. -- James

Re: cracklib-runtime NMU

1999-01-20 Thread James Troup
architectures are screwed. I've been meaning to mark all problems with building source packages (that I find on m68k) for frozen as release critical for a long time actually, I just keep forgetting. -- James

Intent to package: bnlib

1999-01-21 Thread James LewisMoss
m Author(s): Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright: GPL. Please see /usr/doc/copyright/GPL for full text. Dres -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.ioa.com/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James LewisMoss
What we do about the logo (with options a) keep current, b) keep current for some amount of time, c) get new one in some manner). Dres -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.ioa.com/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: libtool & rpath

1999-01-27 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +case ${host} in > + *-pc-linux-gnu) ^^ s/pc/*/ (pc==non-i386 unfriendly) -- James "Never trust trucks"

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread James Troup
"Edward John M. Brocklesby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think so - Octopi can't fly! Someone who obviously hasn't read RFC 1925... -- James "Never trust trucks"

Re: libtool & rpath

1999-01-28 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:29:42PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > +case ${host} in > > > + *-pc-linux-gnu) > >^^ > > > > s/pc/

Re: dinstall can now announce packages & close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread James Troup
up, the announcements won't > > come until the package is installed, which in some cases can be > > several weeks. > > Um, hopefully it isn't several weeks any more now that Richard and > James are helping with day-to-day work. It isn't, even when Richard'

Slink compiles [was: Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)]

1999-05-12 Thread James Mastros
autobuilders do it (with a source-only upload)? -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I said nothing because I wasn't a drug dealer. Then they came for the sixth amendment, but I kept quiet because I wasn't guilty. Finally they came for the first amen

Re: Splitting debian-devel-changes to separate lists

1999-05-14 Thread James Mastros
space:]]\((alpha|arm|powerpc|m68k|sparc|hurd-i386)\) /dev/null This is more specific, and therefor less likely to catch other mail. (also, I added hurd-i386 to the list -- forgot that one.) -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I said nothing because I wasn

Re: Compiling wordinspect for potato

1999-05-17 Thread James Mastros
selete libraries is a Bad Thing when at all avoidable. BTW, debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org is the cannonical place to ask debian-related gtk questions, and it's low-volume now that the Great GNOME Copy is done. (CCed/Reply-toed there.) -=- James Mastros -- First they came for

Re: Hints about future improvements

1999-05-19 Thread James Mastros
d significantly decrease the bulk of packages that need to be upgraed (glibc-doc and libc6-dev especially). -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I said nothing because I wasn't a drug dealer. Then they came for the sixth amendment, but I kept quiet because I

Re: Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

1999-05-19 Thread James Mastros
erstand -- but I assume that they are good). I'd suguest subtracting .01 from the debian-version and concatinating '.slink' to the end (somthing like 1.0-0.99.slink); that seems to be standard pratice. -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I s

Bug#38057: general: libgtop0: Depends: libglib1.1.13 (>= 1.1.13-1) but it is not installable

1999-05-20 Thread James Mastros
top1. gnome-utils 0.99.3-1 depends on it -- but gnome-utils 0.99.3-1 is also obselete, but I cannot find a replacement, even though I have the replacement installed! Is it still stuck in Incoming? -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I said nothing because I w

Source-depends?

1999-05-21 Thread James Mastros
to use them fairly easily, and lintian could allow them trivialy. (I would tend to say that apt-get source shouldn't use them, as getting the source as a reference, without wanting to compile it, is probably fairly common. Anyway, that's a call for apt's maintaner.) So how does this all

Re: Source-depends?

1999-05-23 Thread James Mastros
buggy. A soultion to number 1 that was tossed around included using libtricks to get a list of files accessed, and is therefor (IIRC) obselete. (And in any case is prohibitively slow.) -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I said nothing because I wasn't a

Intent to package: xplanet

1999-05-25 Thread James Troup
lib1g (>= 1:1.1.3) | Installed-Size: 50 | Maintainer: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Description: render images of the earth | xplanet is similar to xearth, where an image of the earth is rendered | into the X root window. Both mercator and orthographic projections | can be displaye

Re: apt-get install wordperfect?

1999-05-27 Thread James Mastros
tomers use apt's slickness, and perhaps they will... and we certianly wouldn't mind. -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I said nothing because I wasn't a drug dealer. Then they came for the sixth amendment, but I kept quiet because I wasn'

XEmacs 21

1999-09-18 Thread James LewisMoss
apel xemacs21" after xemacs is installed. 3) The info pages are a bit messed. (Working on it.) 4) Yes I plan on splitting out the -mulesupport and -basesupport into separate "packages" (in the xemacs sense), but haven't gotten to it yet. I think that's about

Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

1999-09-19 Thread James LewisMoss
done (the configure.in file was modified. Know any other way to recreate the configure file?). As it is this is no longer neccessary and will go away (patch upstream fixes the problem I was having). At least I did remove the configure file so that the patch wasn't ungodly large. Dres

Re: RFC: yet another list of data duplicated: public-suffix.txt

2018-10-31 Thread James Cowgill
s to create a data package and get a MBF > after getting a consensus here. > > Any volontuers for the packaging ? It's already packaged: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/publicsuffix Do you have a list of packages which need fixing? Can you add a lintian check for this? James signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-11 Thread James McCoy
e to the visibility aspect of your email. In terms of visibility, it doesn't matter where the repo is hosted or whether it's in Salsa's debian org or one's own namespace -- Vcs-Git clearly tells people where to find it. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB

Re: Bug#913766: ITP: librsvg-c -- the pre-Rust version of librsvg

2018-11-14 Thread James Clarke
roblem that we have is that it's not possible to upload a package >> to Debian which does not build any binaries on the release architectures, >> the archive would be removed from the archive immediately. >> >> I assume what we could do is maybe have a package that is built

Re: Bug#913766: ITP: librsvg-c -- the pre-Rust version of librsvg

2018-11-14 Thread James Clarke
build any arch:all package. > > If you say, that this should not be possible, why did this work for > consolekit? Because it's not non-release, it's non-ftp-master, and hurd/kfreebsd are on ftp-master despite being very non-release. James

Bug#914230: ITP: git-imerge -- incremental merge and rebase for git

2018-11-20 Thread James Clarke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Clarke * Package name: git-imerge Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Michael Haggerty * URL : https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : incremental

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New GNU/kFreeBSD Porterbox

2019-02-22 Thread James Clarke
-kbsd) or via email. Thanks for your future porting efforts! Regards, James [0] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=lemon [1] https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

2019-05-10 Thread James Cloos
(1) is the only thing I've ever used to look inside a deb(5) file. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

2019-06-07 Thread James Lu
icts with user settings if they prefer something else.[2] Another complaint I've heard is how many toolkits we should be installing in a base system, since adding qt5ct will obviously pull in Qt 5. We don't want it to be a hard dependency of any GTK-based desktop either, since that's not really the right place. [2]: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5440 > > In general: could we please do something to appearance beyond choosing a > wallpaper once a release? I'm a code hacker not a theme maker, so I see > this only once it gets in my way -- but text readability does matter. > > (Discussing before filing bugs.) > > > Meow! > Best, James signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

2019-06-07 Thread James Lu
On 2019-06-07 12:09 p.m., Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:24:03AM -0700, James Lu wrote: >> As far as I know, Debian mostly uses default upstream desktop defaults, >> so these concerns apply there too. Evidently some DEs (Plasma, Cinnamon) >> focus on look

Bug#933907: ITP: erlang-mimerl -- Erlang library to handle mimetypes

2019-08-04 Thread James Valleroy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Valleroy * Package name: erlang-mimerl Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Benoit Chesneau * URL : https://github.com/benoitc/mimerl * License : Expat Programming Lang: Erlang Description : Erlang library to

Bug#902288: GNOME/nautilus thumbnail helper script from /usr/share/thumbnailers fails with ENOENT due to bwrap

2019-08-17 Thread James Lu
wraps around imagemagick, icotools, and msitools to do the bulk of its work, so it be one of its subprocesses too.) [1]: https://github.com/exe-thumbnailer/exe-thumbnailer/issues/13 Best, James signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Git Packaging: Native source formats

2019-08-30 Thread James McCoy
security fix. Rather than having distinct patches for most of those commits, they were mostly munged into a single "debcherry fixup" patch. [0]: https://sources.debian.org/src/neovim/0.3.4-3/debian/patches/ Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB

Bug#1034075: ITP: tree-sitter-lua -- Lua grammar for tree-sitter

2023-04-07 Thread James McCoy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James McCoy X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: tree-sitter-lua Version : 0.0.14 Upstream Contact: Munif Tanjim * URL : https://github.com/MunifTanjim/tree-sitter-lua * License : MIT

Re: RFC: More C errors by default in GCC 14 (no more implicit function declarations etc.)

2023-04-18 Thread Sam James
Oskari Pirhonen writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 16:07:45 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Gentoo has been fixing various packages for building with Clang, which >> covers a superset of the issues that need to be addressed: >> >> [TRACKER] Support LLVM/Clang as

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-28 Thread James Addison
ugs with 'Breaks+Replaces' in the title) https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=na&merged=ign&keypackages=only&fnewer=only&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&rc=1&cpopcon=1&chints=1&ckeypackage=1&ctags=1&cdeferred=1&caffected=1&sortby=last_modified&sorto=asc&format=html#results Thanks, James

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-28 Thread James Addison
On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 at 17:52, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > > Hi James, > > * James Addison [2023-04-28 14:54]: > >To make sure we don't miss any packages out accidentally: could you > >confirm that those hundred-or-so errors occurred from 27 or so > >distinct p

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-16 Thread James Addison
On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 04:22, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > It did look like a veto to me. More importantly, isn't relying on > > passersby to spot alleged harmful changes dangerous, especially for > > undocumented, uncodified and untested use cases, like unspecified and > > vague cross-compatibility

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread James Addison
On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 12:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > I'm planning on stopping publishing installer images for i386 > soon. Why? We should be strongly encouraging users to move away from > it as a main architecture. If they're still installing i386 on 64-bit > hardware, then that's a horrible mi

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