Wanted: volunteer to test amd and findutils

1997-12-27 Thread Kevin Dalley
ed against findutils and describes this problem. Unfortunately, I don't run amd. Other parts of this bug do not match what I see. I need a second opinion. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: NEW queue and ftp-master approval

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:28:25PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello. > > > > Our NEW queue is quite big and time needed to get package into unstable is > > rather long. Nothing wrong with that for me, I know that ftp-masters are

debian development diagram: major rework!

2005-03-20 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi all you folks who have exercised your fingers and eyes because of 'vancouvor', In my quest to see how things work, I have made some major revision to my diagram. http://debian.home.pipeline.com/ the new diagram is newdebian2.png any comment appreciated (before the whole shebang is outdated) Als

ubuntu!

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi tired and weary folks, after such long and heated dicussions, I, ironically, think Debian needs UBUNTU (at least the african concept of humanity towards others and reconciliation)! Lets work towards a solution together and help all of our users and all of our porters and all of our maintainers,

Re: HOWTO Help (was: Debian DPL Debate Comments)

2005-03-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:24:49AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:25:51PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 22:08, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > (...) > > > AFAIK we don't have a good "What you can do to help us" documentation > > > (please

Re: debian development diagram: major rework!

2005-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:05:28PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 20 mars 2005 à 08:48 -0500, Kevin Mark a écrit : > > Hi all you folks who have exercised your fingers and eyes because of > > 'vancouvor', > > In my quest to see how things work, I h

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:46:37PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:50:23PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > For people who don't use SE Linux the support in those programs will only > > take > > a few K of disk space and will not give a performance ov

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:20:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 08:31 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > The reason: "I just rewrite an application because the language it is > > written in." sounds a very stupid reason to me. > > Why? When you don't know Perl, and you

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:24:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Given the fact that the current standard installation installs both gcc, > > > gdb and other development packages weighting more than that (see #301138, > > > which nobody wants

OT Building a Linux / Debian based dev team

2005-04-27 Thread kevin . kempter
All; First let me apologize if this is the wrong thread to post this request. If I'm out of line let me know (preferrably without flaming me) I've been in talks with a group of folks interested in starting a new Linux/Debian based company. This new company to be successful will need the abilit

www.debian.org and users information

2005-05-04 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folks, Sarge is now approaching zero kelvin and folks are scrambing to get the last few bugs squashed. I was recently thinking about why the non-clued folks bash Debian with incomplete or inaccurate facts and a way to address that. I think there should be a section on the main page that conta

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:10:41AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Andrea Mennucc] > > me, I do my part of the work in Debian > > > > and nobody ever contacted me regarding the choice of the number > > What that...? Why on earth would you think you should be contacted > before this sort of d

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:02:32AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Kevin Mark] > > that would suggest that its the RM who has decided such issues in the > > past unilaterilly. > > Conventional wisdom is that release management involves so much > drudgery and so

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers

2005-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:46:43AM +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > El Martes 24 Mayo 2005 01:42, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo escribió: > > El Martes 24 Mayo 2005 01:27, Thomas Bushnell BSG escribió: > > > Cesar Martinez Izquierdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For example, the maintainer

Re: Proper use of Replaces

2005-05-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 08:35:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:59:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:43:26PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I am working on taking over toshutils. One of the things I would like > > > to do is i

Re: [offline] June 2nd-6th

2005-05-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 07:10:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I will not be online between June 2nd and 5th. Don't release without me! ;-) > > -- > see shy jo is that the day that you fly a kite with a built-in webcam (kitenet?) cheers, kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be

Re: please help a poor student

2005-05-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 02:12:27PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2005, ratikanta rath wrote: > > >Note- I began liking debian after i heard of it. > >Please help this poor student by mailing me the CDs if > >you have > > > > How far away are you from Bhubaneswar? There is a Linu

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:21:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That's still requiring /manual intervention/, and lying about the true > > state of the bug to the BTS. Ideally the BTS should understand that the > > bug was closed by a particular versi

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:45:00PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 02 June 2005 10:47, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > --cut-- > > We are doing what we can, with the resources available to us, to make our > > work available to Debian, through the patch publishing mechanism, and > > cooperation w

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:56:33PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greeting lists, > > Today Kevin Mark poitned out[0] that I should turn a brief outline I > gave[1] on how to customize Debian pacakges into a full blown HOWTO. I > have done that and the result [2] is now a

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 08:48:31AM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hey Adeodato, > > Am Sonntag, den 05.06.2005, 04:29 +0200 schrieb Adeodato Simó: > > but on the > > packaging side they work as closely as possible: common VCS repository > > and whatever. > > This sounds really cool. > > >

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Perhaps that issue needs to be brought up more directly with the port

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:50:58PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Hi folks, I have a noob question for you. I maintain the Cogito package > (my first), and it wants to install an executable as /usr/bin/git. The > GNU Interactive Tools package (git) also wants to install an executable > as /u

Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:49:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > For buildds there are 3 mechanisms in place: > > 1. no auto list of the buildd > > Per buildd setting to avoid packages not suitable for a specific > buildd (e.g. needs more ram/disk than this buildd has). > > 2. not-for

Why target Debian developers with Windows worms?

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Rosenberg
I receieved a windows worm in a zip file with a message about my Debian account being suspended[1]. It seems odd that someone would bother targetting Debian developers with a Windows worm. -- Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] Dear user kmr, It has come to our attention that your

Re: Why target Debian developers with Windows worms?

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Rosenberg
Florian Weimer wrote: > The string "Debian" was simply copied from your email address (and > capitalized). The worm doesn't target Debian specifically. That's far more sensical than expecting Debian developers to be using MS Outlook. -- Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTE

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:12:09AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:03:12AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > wrote: > > So, without further delay, here's my "Etch-wishlist", it's biased on some > > of the things I've personally worked on and would like to keep worki

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:08:57PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > than the pictures in any sexual education book). So we have to do > > something about it, because it's a given. I was thinking that maybe > > debtags would provide a solution. You can i

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 03:19:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Is this process "correct"? Or did something go seriously wrong > >> here? If it was correct, why was it correct? If it was wrong, > >> why was it wrong? > >

Re: Testing package installation, upgrading, and removal

2005-06-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:45:34AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2005-06-18 kello 22:53 -0400, Joey Hess kirjoitti: > > I want to run a test that installs each package in woody in turn, > > upgrades them to sarge, then to sid, then purges it, then looks for > > /usr/doc and /usr/info stuff tha

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:08:56PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Margarita Manterola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050623 16:45]: > > On 6/23/05, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there a better solution to this? > > > I think that there have been proposals for a new header that > > >

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:28:30PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Sex, 2005-06-24 às 23:57 +0200, Ondrej Sury escreveu: > > One thing is very clear: > > > > 1. this is (a sort of) abuse of Depends field > > Yes. > > > 2. we need reverse Suggest/Recommends field, ie. something like > >

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:39:53AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do we really need this in the archive? Can we not add this to another > > package under games? > > Er, why? This sounds like a great utility, it seems silly and > artificial to force it to

Re: DEBIAN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY.

2005-07-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:53:20PM +0200, Michaël Vicente wrote: > Hello, > > > We are a team of researchers from the ENST (an engineering school of > telecommunication in Paris), and we are doing a sociological survey on > Debian in order to better understand the Debian community. > > After a

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-07-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:36:49AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > While I do find the above idea very useful, how does it help with the > circular dependency issue? Could there be another tag > ``In-Case-Of-Ci

Does Debian need a press office?

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi members of Debian at large, With the recent article from Zdnet, does Debian need a press officer or www.debian.org/press? If harm is done to the reputation to the Debian organization by word or deed, should there be someone to respond to this? Any legitimate news organization should do adequet f

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:47:45 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > If these are good settings for dupload, why is it not included in > > the package as the default configuration for dupload? > > Go

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 03:01:41PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Michael Banck writes: > > Couldn't you get the problematic outdated packages (I assume this is > > the case if you're talking about [testing?] transitions) removed > > temporarily? > > No, that would not solve the problem. The prob

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:18:06PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Kurt Roeckx writes: > But it's not you I need to convince, it is Ryan or whoever admins the > CVS pserver where P-a-s is. I am also curious, like Kevin Mark, to > understand the buildd infrastructure better. >

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:49PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:17:52PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > it is my understanding that each arch has its own wanna-build that uses > > its own copy of a p-a-s file. So, that would mean that there

Re: Buildds still not picking up new architectures, why?

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:08:10AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:38:20PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > So there is ONE w-b for {i386,ppc,...) and there is one buildd for each > > arch that connects to that ONE w-b? > > No. There is one sys

Re: Bug#382796: ITP: python-alsaaudio -- Alsa bindings for Python

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:02:22PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.1418 +0100]: > > * Package name: python-alsaaudio > > Sweet. An ITP for a package already in unstable... > does that imply that an ITP is not checked against the curren

Bug#384093: ITP: python-excelerator -- A module for reading and generating Excel and OpenOffice Calc files

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin Coyner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-excelerator Version : 0.6.3a Upstream Author : Roman V. Kiseliov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator * License

Re: claiming bugs, BTS delay, planning BSPs

2006-09-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:16:05PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 02 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > we're in the middle of the BSPMarathon[0]. Among the things new this > > year (as opposed to the sarge BSPs) are usertags for claiming bugs > > [1]. Unfortunately, the

Re: Bug#386706: ITP: hellanzb -- Nzb downloader and post processor

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:22:42AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Description : Nzb downloader and post processor > > > > Python application designed for *nix environments that > > retrieves nzb files and fully processes them. The goal being

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Petter, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the > update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it > would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks > existed

Re: A few problems in sight switching to Debian

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:33:00AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > I'm not a developer and I'd just like to point a few issues to check > for the next release. I'm planning to switch to Debian when Etch > comes out but, for now, my findings are from Knoppix. > > My monitor, a Viewsonic VX922, i

Re: Using debconf

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:02:24PM +, Rodrigo Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I read many tutorials about debconf, but i?d like to > know ro create the packages using debconf . > I know the build package must be postinst, preinst, > prerm, postrm, conffiles and config. > Taking this tree, how i c

Bug#388607: ITP: python-htmlcalendar -- Python module for creating calendars in HTML format

2006-09-21 Thread Kevin Coyner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-htmlcalendar Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Hamish Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/htmlcalendar.ht

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >"tasks=kde-desktop" is a bit rude to type (try it on a non US > >keyboard...). > > The hint to non US keyboard is *very* important. I would love if > *every* string a user (not a h

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:42:17PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerS

Re: Call for votes for "GR: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader"

2006-10-07 Thread Kevin Rosenberg
Debian Project Secretary wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > a65763d3-b1e2-4530-8ff8-aa5915274eb4 > [ 2 ] Choice 1: Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Re-affirm DPL, do not endorse nor support his other projects >

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:22:05PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 22:58 schrieb James Westby: > > The default level when doing dpkg-reconfigure is low, so that it wont be > > seen on installation, but if the user tries to reconfigure exim4 they > > will be directed to th

Re: Debian GNU/Minix?

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:22:29PM +0200, HXC wrote: > I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If > so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix > version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) ) Hi HXC, with FLOSS, there is nothing preventi

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:30:14AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > In general debian builds everything for every architecture. This is a > very good plan and finds a lot of bugs. Hi Wookey, endian bugs, 32/64 bit bugs, int size bugs, more eyes on bad code, more users on bad code, low-mem compiling, low-mem

Re: Looking for Debian Packaging expert

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:26:04PM -0700, Mahmood Sheikh wrote: > Hi all, > I work for ACCESS, Inc. here in Sunnyvale, California. We are looking > for someone who is adept in Debian Packaging. This person would deliver > 3 or 4 hourly sessions to our employees just to educate them on benefits > of

Re: your mail

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:21:39PM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote: > retitle 376431 RFP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler/IDE that make > efficient, portable code > submitter 376431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > severity 376431 wishlist > thanks > > It looks unlikely I will manage to package this. It's too big a > pa

Re: New source package

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:47:10AM +0100, David Moore wrote: > Hi, > > I have developed some new software, an audioscrobbler client for > _l_a_s_t_._f_m, which > I would > like to see included, probably under Multimedia. > > It consists of two simple C source files - how do I go about ge

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:37:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 22:29]: > > [another agression] > > Sorry, but enough is enough. I'm fed up about your sudden agressions > towards me for no reason at all. Welcome to my killfile. > > Hi Andi, from my pers

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Javier, On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:05:58AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > I'm not sure if anybody else is seeing this but I have seen (just today) 28 > spam messages sent to the BTS. I've received them because they were all sent I've seen BTS spam before and ask the list admi

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:18:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:37:36PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > That's not correct. [serious, grave, and critical] are the "release > > > critical" severities, though some release critical issues won't be > > > fixed for any

Re: HI, I am a honest user of China, I love linux especially Debian distribution , I think Debian is the greatest linux distribution , but nowdays, the debian weekly news was not updated , I think Deb

2006-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:32:01AM -0400, ?? wrote: > HI, > I am a honest user of China, I love linux especially Debian distribution , > I think Debian is the greatest linux distribution , but nowdays, the > debian weekly news was not updated , > I think Debian will become more and more popula

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:04:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:00:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Well, I did say that it was a very rough draft. ;) > > > > Second try: > > > "... However, this is not a direct mapping, and the release > > > managers dete

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Roland Mas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061025 22:38]: > > Luk Claes, 2006-10-25 18:51:26 +0200 : > > > > > It was not meant that way at all. I just don't like that people > > > start to discuss topics that are long overdue near release ti

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:21:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Ron Johnson a écrit : > >> > >> On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >>> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: > [

Bug#395309: ITP: labyrinth -- Labyrinth is a powerful but simple mindmapping tool which supports images, drawings, and text.

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin Kubasik
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Kubasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: labyrinth Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html * License : LGPL Description : Labyrint

bts solution to rc status via metatags

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi folks, after reading a recent reply from Manoj to Ian about whom is the intended audience of bug reports, I arrived at a different perspective than I previously had and with it came a new approach to address the situation of bug severity and rc status. Below is the relevant snippet:

apt-file: Looking for a sponsor for NMU (#397381)

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Glynn
Is anyone interested in apt-file? I have a proposed NMU that fixes severity important bug #397381 and I am looking for a sponsor. There is also a more detailed patch that closes another four bugs and (I think) makes apt-file pattern matching much less broken. See the patch attached to bug #3823

Re: Seattle Area Debian Gnomes

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:53:20PM -0500, Paul Ford, O'Neil wrote: > Hello Debian OS, Hi Paul, Debian is the uviveral os and a Free software Community. Welcome! > > I live in Everett, 25 miles North of Seattle and am looking for a > Debian Gnome to provide me with a hard copy of Debian to operate

Re: apt-file: Looking for a sponsor for NMU (#397381)

2006-11-11 Thread Kevin Glynn
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo writes: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:36:08AM -0600, Kevin Glynn wrote: > > > Is anyone interested in apt-file? I have a proposed NMU that fixes > > severity important bug #397381 and I am looking for a sponsor. > > > > There is a

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread Kevin Locke
sh in the respects that it does not represent policy?[1] -- Cheers, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin| http://kevinlocke.name | kevinoid on freenode 1. Of course, if the policy decision is to list supported shells this becomes somewhat less meaningful...

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:30:09PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi all, > > from the bash manpage: > /dev/tcp/host/port > If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port > is an integer port number or service name, bash attempts >

Re: Removing sodipodi

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Bube
seems quite dead now. Regards, Kevin -- publickey 2048R/0AFDFB19 available at: http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1BF55C710AFDFB19 fingerprint: 542B 1378 04AA AF1F 572E 78BF 1BF5 5C71 0AFD FB19 pgputmQmFgnWC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:40:06PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Wookey a écrit : > > On 2006-12-20 17:39 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> For those who don't know, I have setup 8 emulated ARM build daemons and > >> started to upload packages. To know why and for more information, s

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 06:40:46PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > > What other kinds of gender are there? It would be interesting to see > > some examples. > > I paste some email I already privately answered. > > Someone wrote: >

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:18:36PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > Whats the use for such data? for postal mail? For gift giving? I've > > yet to see anyone in cyberspace address someone as 'genderqueer' or

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 09:57:31PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > --- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Hi Amaya, > > I was considering: sex & gender options and realized that the only > > reasonabl

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:06:55AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > 1) I don't see any relevance in having a gender field. The only exception I > might find is for genderifying the texts in web pages and mails, or maybe for > statistics. > > 2) I see ev

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:15:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was considering: sex & gender options and realized that the only > > reasonably non-changing question would b

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 06:35:02AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_%28December_2006%29 > > Quote:"The goal of the Summit is to bring together the key people in > the Linux packaging world and ISVs to discuss the future of Linux > packaging. Topics wi

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b'cn=Subschema' -x -s > > base '(objectClass=*)' attributeTypes | grep gender > > attributeTypes: ( 1.3.6.1.4.1

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:47:48PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:31:26PM +0200, Debian Oracle wrote: > I hope that this explains everything, Kev. You owe the Oracle an e-mail > quotation trimming device. Greetings O great Oracle, I did manage to extract most of the meaning out of the consise phrases electronically transmitted by the my

Re: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:03:48PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi, > i just noticed woody is gone which is *aehm* a problem for me but thanks > archive.debian.org not unfixable (Expect couple of hundret machines). Hi Florian, Debian supports each stable release for a set time(about a year aft

Re: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:39:48AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Is there a schedule for non-US and security fixes to disappear and where > > > will they disappear to ? > > After Woody, non-US was r

Re: Politeness was: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:15:13AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-08 10:09]: > > > is it really necessary to start flames in this list? Kevin Mark did > > answer completely objectiv

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:38:40PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:07:48PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 10603 March 1977, A. Mennucc wrote: > > > I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > > > work hard to this end). > > > > We wont, im sure. >

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi *, > > I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing > > that "I'll be in MN in US from MAR 01 thru 05" and I'd like to have

Re: deb src

2006-04-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:22:25AM +0600, krot wrote: > Good afternoon! Prompt where it is possible to find diff.gz for assembly gcc > 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12? There Is such resource where are > stored{kept} all diff.gz for all versions of source codes? > Hi, All binary packages have as

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:20:13PM +0300, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > Z > > If so, I would be happy to add this to tasksel, so that the desktop task > > automatically installs it if it detects a system that is not easily > > capable of running kde/gnome. Tasksel has the infrastructur

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:00:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 11.46 +0200, Eduard Bloch ha scritto: > > [...] > > > > - evince > > > > > > As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pull

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:06:17PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Just saw this thread mentioned on DWN. > > Do you know about "bts reportspam NN" or "bts spamreport NN" > in the devscripts package? Might do just what you want :) > >Julian Hi Julian, thanks for the update! It seems th

Re: List of bugs opened by "my" email address

2006-05-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:52:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to get a list of bugs opened by me, so that I can close > any that should be closed. > > Is that possible with the BTS? > > Thanks > Hi Ron, I make a hack to download someones bugs to an mbox. http://debian.home.pip

Bug#367456: general: text missing in menus and buttons inside window when using utf-8 locale (en_US.utf8)

2006-05-15 Thread Kevin Mark
Package: general Severity: normal I reported an issue with Cinepaint(#365801) and it occurs also with my instance of Dillo. Not the SIGFPE but the font issue. Two instances of the same bug I felt warranted a general report. If I find a third data point, it will really solidify this. If I use 'LC_A

Re: Bug#373571: ITP: mugshot -- Client for integration between Mugshot and the Linux desktop

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:39:42PM +0200, Heikki Henriksen wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Heikki Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Package name: mugshot > Version : 1.1.5 > Upstream Author : Mugshot Developers (http://developer.mugshot.org/) > URL

Re: Hello and request for sponsor (DomainKeys packages)

2006-06-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:13:18PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Greetings, official and unofficial Debian developers! > > So, what do you think, and is anyone willing to sponsor these tiny packages? Hi Magnus, Welcome to Debian! Here are a few notes: 1. you can create debian packages and host t

Re: Transfer Maintainership From MIA Maintainer

2006-07-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:26:30AM -0700, Jason Self wrote: > The listed maintainers for the Webmin package > (http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/webmin) and the associated > packages like webmin-core, Usermin, etc. are MIA. They are not fixing > bugs or responding anymore. > > Jamie Cameron

Re: MacBook graphics support

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > MacBook has a i945 integrated graphic device. To configure, I chose > 'intelfb' (not imacfb driver, which seems only to garble the screen > for me) driver for the kernel. > > For X, I managed to make a dual-screen setup, s

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin Bube
rted to solve the frequently recurring arguments about the licensing and the device adressing scheme cdrtools use. I don't know how far it got with its efforts, though. Maybe someone can comment. Regards, Kevin [1] http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools -- publickey 2048R/0AFDFB19 avai

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin Bube
seems quite okay (i.e. GPL) to me. Regards, Kevin [1] http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools/browser/releases/0.3.1/dvdrecord/cdrecord.c -- publickey 2048R/0AFDFB19 available at: http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1BF55C710AFDFB19 fingerprint: 542B 1378 04AA

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