Re: Bug#437392: debhelper: subroutine "isnative" in Dh_Lib.pm is confused by NMU of native package

2007-08-14 Thread luk
contradict explicitly on the > > version numbering of an NMU of a native package. > > The developer's reference chose to ignore or change a longstanding practice > of never using debian revision numbers in native packages. Changing this > breaks software that has relied on

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Luk Claes
> > My inclination would be decline requests to add unrelated packages to > psutils, but I thought I'd solicit input from others in case someone > has some perl (oops, pearl) of wisdom that I have overlooked. Thanks! Maybe you could consider to add a package psutils-addons or some

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Luk Claes
r", "package libbar1", > or "package libbar-dev". I think this functionality would have to be > implemented on the BTS side. It could however say package bar,libbar1,libbar-dev and any package from the list will do :-) Cheers Luk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Requesting NMU for toshutils

2006-01-09 Thread Luk Claes
identifier is reported only once thotswap.c:187: error: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [thotswap.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/luk/tmp/toshutils-2.0.1/src' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/luk/tmp/toshutils-2.0.1' make: *** [b

Re: yorick package maintainer

2006-01-09 Thread Luk Claes
sign the > current yorick-1.5.14-1 package.) you might want to have a look at [1] as that is the procedure to follow to have a new key added to the keyring when you don't have any existing valid key anymore AFAICT. > Thank you very much for any help you can provide; I apologize for >

Re: Trivial bug on apt-file (Was : Re: Development standards for unstable)

2006-01-12 Thread Luk Claes
pond to my intention to NMU... > You could of course disagree about whether it's a bug or not, but in that > case, you would want to appeal to the tech-ctte, not debian-devel. ...before going to the Technical Committee. Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG k

Re: Trivial bug on apt-file (Was : Re: Development standards for unstable)

2006-01-13 Thread Luk Claes
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:48:38PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > >>>But if you read this bug (#307833), you'd see that the maintainer doesn't >>>consider it a bug, and has documented why in the README file. >> >>It is a bug as

Re: Debian Games Team

2006-01-13 Thread Luk Claes
> problems related to game development and games packages in Debian. You can > join that list at: [...] > You're welcome to join the group, or say whatever you think about this > project. I think it's a marvellous idea as gaming is one of the aspects that is IMHO still

Re: Trivial bug on apt-file (Was : Re: Development standards for unstable)

2006-01-13 Thread Luk Claes
wget. The current intent to NMU is proposing curl | wget which doesn't need any modification to the config file if curl is installed. Though you're right that you still need to change the config file when curl is not installed. This is IMHO however not a *severe* bug as some packages need conf

Re: What's wrong with update-excuses?

2006-01-23 Thread Luk Claes
s this just a bug in the qa scripts, or worse? It's just a matter of britney not been running the last couple of days AFAIK (though it has run today... so it will probably be shown as 1 days old tomorrow?). Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fi

Re: What's wrong with update-excuses?

2006-01-23 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Frank Küster wrote: >>>http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=tetex-base >>> >>>says that tetex-base is 0 days old. However, unstable has 3.0-13 which >>>was uploaded

Re: Request for key signing help

2005-05-20 Thread Luk Claes
an register a keysigning request on [1] (which looks very similar as [0] indeed). I'll also contact the remaining DDs in the neighbourhood and ask them to contact you. Cheers Luk [1] http://nm.debian.org/gpg.php PS: The contact address for keysigning coordination is [EMAIL PROTECTED] as list

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-10 Thread Luk Claes
e upstream package and I dont want to remove it or >>rename it. >> >> > > rename /usr/bin/git to /usr/bin/cogito-git or whatever. It is not that hard. Or why not usr/bin/cogit or usr/bin/git-common or something like that? Cheers Luk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Transitioning packages to testing that are not built anymore on some arches

2006-08-26 Thread Luk Claes
tures where the package is not built anymore which is the other solution to get these kind of packages into testing. Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D signature.asc Description:

Firmware poll

2006-08-28 Thread Luk Claes
in main, I put it above NOTA. Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Buildd maintenance for dummies

2006-09-05 Thread Luk Claes
host and wanna-build [1] [2] [3]. Don't hesitate to add or improve content of the page, it's a wiki page after all... Cheers Luk [0] http://wiki.debian.org/Buildd/BuildLogs [1] http://kmuto.jp/open.cgi?buildd [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/ [3] https://db.farm.ftbfs.de

Re: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-17 Thread Luk Claes
the RFC differ from the authentic RFC >6 FETCH-FAIL Note that not all authentic RFC documents have the same license, some of them are probably even DFSG compliant... So there can be more than 79 false positives... Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 102

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-24 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, Hi Manoj Can everyone please focus on the release and discuss things that don't help to release on December 4th at all till after that date? Thank you very much. Luk PS: For those people that seem to think they can't help: there is still a long li

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Dear Luk, > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:16:59 +0200, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> Hi, > >> Hi Manoj > >> Can everyone please focus on the release and discuss things that >>

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Luk Claes
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10818 March 1977, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Can everyone please focus on the release and discuss things that don't help >> to >> release on December 4th at all till after that date? > > No, the release is no reason to stop everything els

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:51:26 +0200, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Joerg Jaspert wrote: >>> On 10818 March 1977, Luk Claes wrote: >>> >>>> Can everyone please focus on the release and discuss things that >&g

Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-11 Thread Luk Claes
tp-master.d.o AFAIK. Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-20 Thread Luk Claes
he first place or did he not ask for it... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#322762: no blocking bugs anymore

2007-01-06 Thread Luk Claes
inst inform? important Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Luk Claes
blems you think will not be solved on time? Cheers Luk PS: Please, don't send this kind of messages if you can't elaborate or at least put a smily behind it so we know you don't really mean it :-) -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerpri

Re: Keysignings and other "meetups" (Was: etch before vista)

2006-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
ss old data. > > > You might want to check https://www.biglumber.com/ which contains > already a very nice interface for all of this. Or you might want to use https://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php. Have a look at https://nm.debian.org/gpg.php if you want to be listed... Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
g and in the uid of your key... If the "John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" doesn't match 100% you'll get the above failure... >>From man dpkg-buildpackage: > >-kkey-id > Specify a key-ID to use when signing packages. This is only needed when

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
ally build the packages more than once before > uploading as I often find some last-minute bug, and don't like to > type in my gpg-passphrase more frequently than necessary. Even than you should not need to specify the -kkeyid... Cheers Luk - -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian

Bug#362809: ITP: libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl -- Perl module to access OpenSSL multipresicion integer arithmetic libraries.

2006-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Ian Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.org/ * License : same as Perl Programmin

Bug#362956: ITP: libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl -- Perl module providing basic RSA functionality.

2006-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl Version : 0.23 Upstream Author : Ian Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.org/ * License : like Perl Programmin

Bug#362953: ITP: libcrypt-openssl-dsa-perl -- Perl module which implements the DSA signature verification system.

2006-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcrypt-openssl-dsa-perl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : T.J. Mather, E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.org/ * License : like Perl Programmin

Bug#362957: ITP: libcrypt-openssl-random-perl -- Perl module for RSA encoding and decoding, using the OpenSSL libraries.

2006-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcrypt-openssl-random-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Ian Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.org/ * License : like Perl Programmin

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread Luk Claes
ally taken care of near a release because of the transitioning problems... If the meta packages get to testing earlier it's very probable they will not be installable for a long time... Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B

Re: NMU procedure and /usr/bin/nmudiff defaults

2006-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
uploaded to the (not zero days) delayed queue or when the package enters the NEW queue. Because of this some people might prefer to send the patches to existing bugs when NMUing even if there are many bugs involved... To summarize: I would like the patch to be applied and I propose to not change

Re: Getting the buildds to notice new architectures in a package

2006-07-15 Thread Luk Claes
; for a general solution and not one that only applies to asis. This is already known by the Release Team, I'm not sure if the news has already reached the P-a-s maintainers... > PS. Please reply to me directly, as well as to the list. Ok. Cheers Luk [1] These maintainers are list

Disturbing uploads (Re: release update: Etch 4.0, Blockers and Goals, Arch status, kernel 2.4, etc)

2006-07-17 Thread Luk Claes
her unless they will still be installable in testing and the version in unstable is not ready to enter testing yet (not old enough, RC bug, not built on all release arches...) To conclude, please try to avoid linking transitions together and try to avoid making packages instantly uninstallable i

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-07 Thread LUK ShunTim
Miles Bader wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > >>>I presume that default kernels need legacy ptys to support older systems >>>that don't use udev, right? >> >>Wrong. Nothing needs BSD ptys but some *very* old applications (I would >>not even know where to find one). > > > I was

Re: [rfc] mass-mod old ita/itp bugs back to rfa/rfp?

2008-01-19 Thread Luk Claes
hough it takes into account any follow-up on the bug report to reset the timer which you clearly don't... > click this to get a quick overview: :-D > http://debian.binera.de/wnpp/?type%5B%5D=ITA&type%5B%5D=ITP&sort=age;desc Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Removal of xmms and its reverse-dependancies - what is the status?

2008-01-20 Thread Luk Claes
I ask > for xmms-xf86audio removal now, or wait? xmms removal was decided some time ago. Yes, if the package is useless without xmms and cannot be adapted to one of xmms' alternatives, you should ask for removal of your package. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Removal of xmms and its reverse-dependancies - what is the status?

2008-01-20 Thread Luk Claes
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> xmms removal was decided some time ago. > > i am working on a project partly depending > on parts of xmms. in case it is removed > i will need at least backups of all > related package sources so i can still > have the pack

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Processing of ip4r_1.03-1_multi.changes]

2008-02-11 Thread Luk Claes
o? > > I uploaded the package again last night but it similarly disappeared. > > [0] http://people.debian.org/~edmonds/ip4r/ It was rejected with the following message: Rejected: ip4r_1.03-1_multi.changes: Missing mandatory field `description'. You should have got a REJE

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Luk Claes
ke you said, it's production, so there is no need to upgrade at all... Any decent argument left? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Luk Claes
ment unless necessary for new features AFAICT, so for someone who is used to backport it should still be straight forward either way AFAICS. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Luk Claes
;t have the core packaging > software maintained by an obstructive and naive programmer supported > by someone who is more interested in pretty revision logs than good > code. Confrontation is not going to solve this dispute in your advantage, on the contrary... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: s390 buildd?

2008-03-18 Thread Luk Claes
r is there anything I could > do myself about this? Hmm, you do realise that lcd4linux is mentioned in P-a-s because it includes sys/io.h, right? So this is not similar at all... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread LUK ShunTim
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> By the way, is there a way to install package with all the 'Suggest'ed >> dependancies, something like aptitude install bioperl --with-suggested >> ? I have >> not found anything in the manpage. > > Neither did I in man apt-ge

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread LUK ShunTim
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, LUK ShunTim wrote: > >> "man apt.conf" points you to >> /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. Maybe it has something >> you want. :-) > > Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Luk Claes
which means this is a security upload >> Or any other stable upload, yes? > > Yes, sorry. I forgot that those exist as well. :-) Why are we bothering to make something up if everyone is using etch etc? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#472468: RFH: bash-completion -- programmable completion for the bash shell

2008-03-24 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the bash-completion package. Upstream has handed over the maintenance, so working on the package is also working on upstream... I've set up an alioth project to coordinate, but the import of the history and current state still n

Bug#472470: RFH: update-inetd -- inetd.conf updater

2008-03-24 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the update-inetd package. I've quite recently taken over the maintainership of update-inetd. Any help on bug triage and/or co-maintainership would be welcomed. The package description is: This package provides a program used b

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-07 Thread Luk Claes
bian services (yet?). Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-07 Thread Luk Claes
Peter Jordan wrote: > Luk Claes, 04/07/08 20:05: > >> Peter Jordan wrote: >>> Hi, >> Hi >> >>> why are the keyrings of debian-multimedia.org and debian backports not >>> in the official repository of debian? >>> >>> At

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-07 Thread Luk Claes
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/07/08 13:20, Luk Claes wrote: >> Peter Jordan wrote: >>> Luk Claes, 04/07/08 20:05: >>> >>>> Peter Jordan wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>> Hi >>>> >>>>> why are the keyrings of debian-multi

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
> response to the patch have just been ignored. According to the bug log the patch was not ready when the maintainer wanted to apply it and nobody bothered to start an NMU process... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> The way I understand it, they HAVE been pushing... and pushing... for >>>> a long

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
oublesome signing is done in a production/desktop environment (oldstable/stable/whatever). Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-21 Thread Luk Claes
or policy for such hard-to-reach Developers with > regard to hi-jacking or NMU? There is a guideline for doing NMUs which kind of includes this case in the Developer's Reference... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extending the update-rc.d API to change runlevel and disable scripts?

2008-04-26 Thread Luk Claes
ut back a service I've disabled. (Sure this > won't be needed with dependency based boot system, but in the meantime > it still is.) Isn't this just a matter of stopping the service and renaming the S (K) links to s (k) links so one can easily revert? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: clive: volatile or not-for-stable?

2008-05-11 Thread Luk Claes
e RC bug "Should not enter testing" and forget about > the problem with clive in stable releases forever? I guess the question is rather debian-volatile or backports.org and maybe it would be better to use volatile-sloppy? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-14 Thread Luk Claes
t; > If main text is s/RSA/RSA\/DSA/g , I understand script example but ... > > Is there any reason to use DSA key insted of RSA key(~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) ? On the contrary, it's better to use RSA keys as they can be bigger and are faster. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Current build status of the mips port

2008-05-19 Thread Luk Claes
mips mipsel powerpc sparc) > edenmath.app > gnome-chemistry-utils > virt-manager > gsynaptics > ucspi-proxy > epiphany-extensions What does this list mean? > Should be in in P-a-s (or not-for-us?) > -- Did you contact P-a-s administrators (and buildd maintainers) about it? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Luk Claes
sync everything unless explicitely stated differently and will keep working without intervention for the time being? Because otherwise it's like Joerg said not an option IMHO. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Luk Claes
Raphael Geissert wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Are you sure that the current sync scripts make that possible and won't >> sync everything unless explicitely stated differently and will keep >> working without intervention for the time being? Because otherwise it's &

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Luk Claes
nce in the list you get from rc-alert might prevent your apparently changing view... > Artificially lowering the RC count in Testing is not always > preferential to keeping Testing in a state amenable to testing. You say yourself that it's not artificially as RC bugs in "n

Re: Time to phase out net-tools?

2008-06-17 Thread Luk Claes
Robert Edmonds wrote: > On 2008-06-13, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Martín Ferrari wrote: > rarp is obsolete. It's not, I do use it from time to time, do you have a replacement? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Luk Claes
m is the only way to get a trusted path to the bpo > repository is by fetching debian-backports-keyring from it, checking your > signature in its .dsc, etc. So this is what I'm trying to solve. Hmm, are there not 2 other ways documented on backports.org as you can see below? Cheers Lu

Re: Bug#489132: lenny release notes, upgrade dpkg first

2008-07-03 Thread Luk Claes
for comments > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] as they'd have to do it. > > I'd like to also note that dpkg conflicts with the old version of > apt/aptitude, so this will also force the upgrade of apt/aptitude. Requiring from everyone wanting to upgrade to first manually upg

[Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)]

2009-06-30 Thread Luk Claes
sign that we already lost against spammers? Cheers Luk Original Message Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Date: 30 Jun 2009 23:05:42 +0200 From: Mail Delivery System To: l...@debian.org The following message to was undeliverable. The reason for the problem:

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-07-01 Thread Luk Claes
an extra source of errors. It should also only affect external scripts that are bash specific AFAICS and they would be easily 'fixed' by changing bin/sh to bin/bash in the shebang (can even happen unconditionally). Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Re: Coordinating efforts to get a new kernel in testing?

2009-07-11 Thread Luk Claes
g issues solved soon after it would be forced in. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Coordinating efforts to get a new kernel in testing?

2009-07-11 Thread Luk Claes
maximilian attems wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> It needs quite some work to get reverse dependencies handled and getting >> it built on all architectures. Both of which are the main responsability >> of the kernel team... > > it

Re: mail server broken: are debian reject messages logged ?

2009-07-13 Thread Luk Claes
hem on merkel:/srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/reject/*.reason Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to orphan a package without being the maintainer

2009-07-17 Thread Luk Claes
er of retitling the ITA bug to RFA again. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-17 Thread Luk Claes
... Please do note that I'm talking about errors, not about warnings. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-17 Thread Luk Claes
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:19:50AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: Not? Was the originally uploaded package correct? Amazing. Hm. Then, it should be lintian errors that denote a build as a

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-17 Thread Luk Claes
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:10:56PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: Right. However, having sbuild run lintian would allow a buildd maintainer to assess issues with packages by looking at *warnings*, rather than 'just' errors. This isn'

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-20 Thread Luk Claes
u're letting people install it now, so on first _install_ it's going to divert it without prompt? Or is that part of the "interactive upgrade"? No, on first installation it will ask. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Luk Claes
quite some bashisms around... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-23 Thread Luk Claes
now and we did not want to bother people during d-i or debootstrap and having bash depend on dash made that easier. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-23 Thread Luk Claes
proposal. However, I think I and a lot of other people would appreciate clarity, so far not expressed, about why dash needs to be essential. You do not want to give the possibility to remove /bin/sh from the system. Currently this is done by making the default system shell essential. Cheers Luk

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-26 Thread Luk Claes
y to avoid depending on bash features. Currently the one in shadow is already being taken care of and the one in libpam0g is being considered. Cheers Luk PS: Please be a bit more positive, we now that things are moving slowly, but at least they are moving. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-26 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A faster and smaller default system shell is important to a lot of our users. I see this asserted a lot. I am pretty sure that the average user very likely does not care. The embedded system

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:08:20PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: On upgrades you are asked if you want to have dash as default system shell unless you have dash already installed, then we leave it as is. On my unstable box I received dash a few days ago, because an upload

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
tion that works in a more flexible way is far from trivial and it does not seem like anyone is interested enough to work on it. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
ts it is being updated from a system that has bash as /bin/sh. Didn't see a plan for that. If that is planed then be a step forward. It's what has been implemented. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Luk Claes writes: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A faster and smaller default system shell is important to a lot of our users. I see this asserted a lot. I am pretty sure that the average user

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 "Squeeze" release goals

2009-08-02 Thread Luk Claes
specific CPUs or similar. > Will there be a Build-Arch field or a way to override discarding > uploaded .debs? There will be a Build-Arch field or some other way to make sure the arch:all packages can be built reliably. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 "Squeeze" release goals

2009-08-02 Thread Luk Claes
386. This will be solved by an extra field which tells on what arch the arch:all package should be built (or a similar solution to the same effect). Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Launching and l10n NMU campaign for the squeeze release cycle

2009-08-22 Thread Luk Claes
e specific reasons why the maintainer seems to be inactive. Also note that there is a process for tracking possible orphaning or removal of a package by the QA Team which is called bapase [1]. Cheers Luk [1] http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/bapase -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-25 Thread Luk Claes
line: 6-8 months (can be done in tandem with a, if here were > more people working on it) Are the issues identified already or do you have an idea about how many issues there are to tackle? Do you have any documentation for possible contributors to help you with this? Cheers Luk -- To UNS

Re: Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.

2009-09-03 Thread Luk Claes
ve is perfectly okay, after having > considered those downsides. That's pretty much what I was saying in my > previous mail. Yes, though only after considering all the downsides, including having these discussions and people requesting you to reconsider from time to time. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Luk Claes
ly a shame to see > weeks of work going down the drain due to political restrictions. Hmm, nothing is black and white. The current way of uploading clamav-data is suboptimal and ftpmasters don't want that to continue when volatile is integrated in the main archive. Though that does no

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Luk Claes
bly better spent by talking to ftpmas...@d.o and implementing a solution btw. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Python2.6 in unstable?

2009-09-28 Thread Luk Claes
e issues so 2.6 can at least be in Squeeze, but > apparently this list does not exist. AFAIK the process of filing and fixing bugs to be able to build with python 2.6 is already happening. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: different .diff.gz for different platforms (armel) prohibiting upload

2009-10-04 Thread Luk Claes
1] and file bugs where necessary (please don't file duplicates nor file bugs when fixing the build chroot or setting a dep-wait would suffice). Cheers Luk [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status (click on the architecture you are interested in and look at the Failed, Build-Attempted and M

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-01 Thread Luk Claes
ny packages not conforming. So either policy is wrong there or policy is normative which would mean that there are a lof of other bugs in policy that noone cares about fixing (or even filing). Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-01 Thread Luk Claes
" severity. We should not be > blocking packages from the archive for such low-severity issues; please drop > this check. It would indeed be good to have consensus first on the severity and certainty of a lintian check before auto rejecting on it IMHO. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-01 Thread Luk Claes
they fit the way he can use them at the moment he needs them. As long as that continues I'm not going to even try to get the Debian Policy and RC bug policy consistent and the Debian Policy will remain not useful for anything release related as it will be incomplete and sometimes conflicting wit

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Luk Claes
Russ Allbery wrote: > Luk Claes writes: > >> As before Manoj seems to interpret things and word things so they fit >> the way he can use them at the moment he needs them. As long as that >> continues I'm not going to even try to get the Debian Policy and RC bug

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Luk Claes
Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Mon Nov 02 11:40, Luk Claes wrote: >> For the actual matter at hand I think it's very wrong to do a MBF >> without going through d-devel for several reasons: > >> > > Otoh, this is a slightly special case, since they are things

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