Bug#699656: general: System freezes while using multimedia via DRI [Intel 82865G chip] on kernels above 3.2.0-3-686-pae

2013-02-02 Thread marc
Package: general Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear developers, Almost everytime [it happens randomly] I try to see some video content via DRI [VLC/XBMC, etc] on kernels with version higher than 3.2.0-3-686-pae the whole system freeze [screen goes black, system is unre

Re: DEP17 /usr-move: debootstrap set uploaded

2024-06-06 Thread Marc Haber
bian that was managed on this professional level. I especially praise the way you have communicated the progress. Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rh

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2024-06-09 Thread Marc Haber
f the problematic toolchain features. I'm open for arguments though. Please also see #1043281 which has most of the technical points there. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2024-06-09 Thread Marc Haber
still in >production use, etc.? It is not enough to be willing. It is necessary to actually do. I think that once i686 (re)qualifies as release arch, it will be (again) one. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | &qu

Re: Suggestions about i386 support

2024-06-14 Thread Marc Haber
t into the update-grub kernel snippet, with the advantage that it would be easier to get rid of the warning locally. Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im H

Re: default network management tools (was: ifupdown maintenance)

2024-07-10 Thread Marc Haber
t reached the ease-of-use-level¹ of ifupdown paired with ifupdown-scripts-zg2 that I maintained and used in the 2000 years, but I eventually decided to drop that easy-of-use for networkd, lowering my workload significantly. Greetings Marc ¹ ifupdown-scripts-zg2 cached commands needed for the takedo

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-10 Thread Marc Haber
plementations of DHCP client, the Linux world seems to be without a working DHCP relay implementation in those days. That's REALLY bad for an installation with Linux routers. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber |

Re: default network management tools

2024-07-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:48:06 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Jul 11, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> On 11.07.24 08:13, Marc Haber wrote: >> > Therefore, you could change >> > configuration while the Interfacce was up and then just say "ifdown ; >>

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-15 Thread Marc Haber
(and NetworkManager), so we would >actually have more minds knowledgeable about our network stack. Other than being fully RFC 1925 6a compliant, why do we need that layer then? And why do we need it in the installer, which is only geared to supposed the most easy ne

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-01 Thread Marc Haber
x27;s praised way to communitate in an MR is VASTLY inferior to a decently threading mail client like mutt or even Thunderbird. I violently disagree with the rest of the message as well and am not willing to spoil the rest of my day by replying in detail. I'd prefer learning a bit more Slowfoxt

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 18:36:29 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 18:16, Marc Haber wrote: >> >> On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:23:43 +0100, Luca Boccassi >> wrote: >> >The vast majority of people who >> >are forced to use emails do so for work via a &

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-25 Thread Marc Haber
of d/changelog, and successfull of the previous) or >will there be a need for salsa CI successfully completedon the specific >release commit? CI could skip if only changelog changed. That would be helpful for

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Marc Haber
anager on my mobile boxes that need Wi-Fi, and systemd-networkd on everything else. I happen to LOVE the orthogonality of systemd-networkd: One file per network layer, one file per interface, and the cross product of that. That makes con

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Marc Haber
d contains way to much not-invented-here code regarding IPv6, or ifupdown, which is outdated if I'm being friendly, and a Debianism. Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadre

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-05 Thread Marc Haber
e default install and we remove it from the beginner- and intermediate-level docs. Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of W

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-05 Thread Marc Haber
installs. As a distribution that supports upgrades, we have to. We are not Red Hat where the recommended way to go from one major release to the next one is a full reinstall. Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | "

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-24 Thread Marc Haber
es like "now I have downloaded all 7 woody CDs, and what do I do with them?". Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Debconf is not a registry (was: Right Way to make a configuration package)

2004-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
installation stored persistently in the first place? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://ww

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
d be easy if all syslogd log files were in a single directory, which is not the case. It would be easier for logrotate if it would support backticks in a logrotate config file: `syslogd-listfiles` { } Geez, one more point for the logrotate++ todo list. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:29:36 +0100, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please send me the patch. Honestly, looking at sysklogd's bug list doesn't make people get the impression that it makes sense to file patches against the sysklogd packa

Re: sarge security (was: Re: Release update: please upload to unstable; toolchain; buildds; ...)

2004-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
an-announce, press >> contacts, ...) > >No. Why should it? Because it was widely announced to start on September 15, and many people are already running sarge. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Q

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:00:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >3314kB, including pdumpfs itself. I'll donate a 32MB USB key to store it >all on for anyone that is *truly* that starved of space. Low-Memory systems are unlikely to have USB

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:07:42PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > I'm trying to trim my system a little bit. I wanted to purge Evolution > from my system since I use Mutt for email. But doing that wants to > remove Gnome. So it wants to remove the Gnome meta-package. So wh

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Sherman
ame thing this morning: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=288763 If you have any suggestions on how to implement that, I'm all ears. - Marc

Re: GtkMozEmbed with Firefox not Mozilla

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Wilson
ueless horde do exactly that, install Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird. And then somehow think they're superior for not simply installing Mozilla. -- Marc Wilson | Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it [EMAIL PROTECTED] | passes off and I'm a

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Wilson
to a 2.6 kernel. Not even if you're using devfs. Only people unfortunate enough to be using Gnome 2.8 are required to have udev running. Udev. Just say no. -- Marc Wilson | Those who can't write, write manuals. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
ld approve them, but that is (a) unlikely to happen and (b) likely to be solved swiftly. Jörgs Appointment as DAM is a Good Thing[tm], I congratulate him, and his actions on the job have already shown to be effective. Keep it up, guys! Greetings Marc -- -- !

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
" with potato and woody, and that sarge is an even bigger one is as clear as one can see. I suspect a tendency here. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Maila

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
ease cycle. Additionally, Maintainers refrain from updating unstable because they need unstable to update testing. See exim4, which has a grossly outdated version in unstable because there is no testing-proposed-updates yet. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
>buggy non-RE packages out of testing. That would leave testing users who happen to have such a package installed alone because they wouldn't notice their package vanishing from the mirrors, continuing to use a potentially vulnerable package. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
s (or users) that we *want* to release >Debian that frequently. We should, however, concentrate all available effort on keeping etch's release time _well_ below 24 months. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
logic, Spamcop is not a reputable DNSBL. If a site does not originate legitimate e-mail to english speaking users in copious quantities, it is trivially listable in the Spamcop BL. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Please test exim4 4.43 in experimental

2005-01-09 Thread Marc Haber
running 4.43 for weeks without any problems, and we would like to have broader testing before uploading to sid and asking the release team to hin 4.43 into sarge. Thanks for your consideration. Greetings Marc -- - Marc

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:26:51 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ,>scp to a Debian host (like gluck or merkel) and ftp from there. Or >just scp it to the DELAYED queue on gluck (1day) and let it ftp it for >you ;) Does it ftp in time for the daily dinstall?

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > During the Solutions Linux expo in Paris, the DD's present at the > Debian booth have been approached by a representative from Trend Micro > Corp. who develops and sells security software (the most well known > being probably a vi

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:57:08PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > > people ? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > > >

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:25PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > > incompatibilities are really kernel and driver issues and not issues &g

Which group to use for system users (adduser bug #290623)

2005-02-05 Thread Marc Haber
"sys" which will be confusing if paired with sysusers. May I ask for comments? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names, another wants usernames to start with numbers. May I ask for your opinion before denying or following the requests? Gree

Plese test new adduser in experimental

2005-02-05 Thread Marc Haber
ories, and it will stop deleting at a mountpoint. I would appreciate your comments and bug reports before I upload to unstable and start pestering the release team to push adduser to sarge. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:21:28 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why not make it an configurable RE? I am quite reluctant with a so big change in a base package, ranking at #1 in popcon, so soon before sarge release. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Marc Haber
duser "binary" to allow their user names. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:38:36 +0100, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name >rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names, >another wants usernames to start with numbers. >

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
ory that, like >/usr/share/doc or others, can safely be purged by the local admin if they >don't want the disk bloat. I would not like to see this in Debian before dpkg can be configured to exclude subtrees (like /usr/share/doc, for example) fro

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
d reject them, just to be sure >(and maybe a few more funny characters). Just being sure will prompt strange bug reports. There is always useradd doing its own checks behind though. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc

Why didn't #290810 hold eximdoc4 from sarge?

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, #290810 was filed to keep eximdoc4 from moving to sarge. However, after reaching the proper age, eximdoc4 moved to sarge despite of the bug. What did we do wrong? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:06:17 +0200, Petri Latvala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable >> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The >

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
nburg and Klaus Ethgen. (mh) | Closes: #293559, #271829 You should have received this in a "fixed-in-experimental" message from the BTS after I uploaded the new version. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
a default account. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature |

Re: Why didn't #290810 hold eximdoc4 from sarge?

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 19:38:58 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> #290810 was filed to keep eximdoc4 from moving to sarge. However, >> after reaching the proper age, eximdoc4 moved to sarge

Please test adduser 3.61 in experimental (was: About valid and invalid user names)

2005-02-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:06:17 +0200, Petri Latvala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable >> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The >

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:31:13 +0100, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It works since more then 4 years :-) For you. Greeting -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadr

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:51:18 +0100, Christophe Chisogne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc Haber a écrit : >> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable >> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The >> --force-badname option

Re: Bug#293785: ITP: gnomebaker -- CD/DVD writer for the GNOME desktop

2005-02-14 Thread Marc Wilson
filebrowser_setup_tree () #13 0x08057d9f in filebrowser_new () #14 0x08058b09 in gnomebaker_new () #15 0x08051315 in main () -- Marc Wilson | If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: /etc under svk

2005-02-15 Thread Marc Haber
tself is, as it contains passwords and other system confidential data. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom "

Re: /etc under svk

2005-02-16 Thread Marc Haber
h _some_ files under version control and others not is a pain, even with subversion. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginni

"The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
Is it really necessary to take our internal issues to upstream's mailing lists? Can't we have internal flamage internally? Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >To: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:16:24 -0500, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Except I'd rather see --keepcomments as >default and changed to --removecomments. My only gripe, pretty minimal. And fixed soon. #295735. Greetings Marc -- -- !! N

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
ners. Maybe I missed some great documentation out there, but using Google, I >found no such documentation. May I ask if you did the obvious thing, searching in /usr/share/doc? Did you find the rather verbose README.Debian.gz file? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No cou

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
4 hours is that people do not bother to read available documentation, regardless of where it is stored. You have to hurl it right into the user's face. I begin to understand the blurb of rants that cdrecord prints on invocation. Greetings Marc -- -- !

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
ggestion to exim package people: if someone chooses the big config >file, don't even install the little ones. How do I do this with current dpkg? >I promise I won't respond to any further condescending comments. That is a bad thing. Greetings Marc -- -----

Re: problem of savelog

2005-02-18 Thread Marc Haber
can be done "today's morning". Is the configuration >migrated to the new version (mine is pretty simple), or does one have to >start anew? If your exim 3 configuration was generated by eximconfig, exim4 will try to guess your answers you have given when configuring ex

Re: problem of savelog

2005-02-18 Thread Marc Haber
s is deprecated. The Debian Exim 4 maintainers strongly recommend using the debconf-driven setup scheme. See /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | &quo

Re: problem of savelog

2005-02-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:25:18 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> If your exim 3 configuration was generated by eximconfig, exim4 will >> try to guess your answers you have given when configuring exim3, a

Re: problem of savelog

2005-02-18 Thread Marc Haber
e script upstream, and upstream said that convert4r4 is not being used any more and that it is too much work to fix that bug. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im He

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
e. |[11/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/chroot/sid-exim4/home/mh/exim4/trunk$ find debian/po -name '*.po' | wc -l |40 |[12/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/chroot/sid-exim4/home/mh/exim4/trunk$ The translators would kill us for doing that to them at this stage of the

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
gt;Perhaps a tool could generate the single-file config for easier >double-checking of the split-file config. That tool is already there. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
rs. >Really big sites will have their own config files anyway, so nothing >done by Debian matters much to them. Really big sites will probably roll their own exim4-config package if they bother to see what advantages that will bring to them. Greetings Marc --

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
cely gives hints about the scope of a change. The bells and whistles would also need to include mechanisms to allow dropping the ban on maintainer scripts modifying dpkg-conffiles, including dpkg-conffiles belonging to other packages. Greetings Marc -- -- !!

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
this has caused. I would consider it a feature to have mailman work immediately after installation on a default system, and the exim4 configuration scheme has explicitly invented with that possibility in mind. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, plea

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:06:46 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At least make enabling the change a Debconf >question. Impossible with current policy since maintainer scripts are forbidden to mess with dpkg-conffiles. Greetings Marc --

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:15:58AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > But to the best of my knowledge, Marco's (blog) post from a few months > ago which showed download from ftp.it.debian.org by architecture stands > undisputed: essentially all users are on i386 clearly dominating all other > ar

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Marc Singer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:56:27PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It does seem prudent to find a way to permit a release on x86 and > > ppc before all architectures are complete. Especially if this > > tactic w

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Marc Haber
s. I have a dedicated opinion about this time of service the major arches received during this time, but I do not want to voice it here as I am only talking about a rumour and I do not want to start yet another flame war. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copi

Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

2005-02-26 Thread Marc Haber
doing their work, as in processing new packages in reasonable time. Please note also, that currently there is no official statement that the NEW queue is frozen, and queries regarding the obviously stalled NEW queue are - as usual - ignored. Greetings Marc --

Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

2005-02-26 Thread Marc Haber
f the package will be totally broken when the other >> is updated. > >Upload it to experimental. When the packages reach it after NEW-processing, >you can re-upload them to unstable without any delay. Even uploads to experimental are currently stalled by ftpmasters not proce

Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

2005-02-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:15:30 -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:28:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Chances are that it was uploaded together with the library it depends >> on, relying on ftpmasters doing their work, as in processi

Re: self-depending packages

2005-02-28 Thread Marc Haber
osen was random and unpredictable. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nord

Re: Bug#298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-06 Thread Marc Haber
eam developers find our arrogance endearing? > >(Specifically yours.) I seldomly agree with asuffield, but having worked for a law office for seven years has given me sufficient legal experience to know that he is right this time. If you want to put down something legally binding, go see a

Re: Is NEW processing on hold? (was: Question for candidate Towns)

2005-03-07 Thread Marc Haber
ible refuse - as usual - to communicate. So nobody knows about the reason. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom

Re: Is NEW processing on hold? (was: Question for candidate Towns)

2005-03-07 Thread Marc Haber
e that this "bits from foo" is the first article of that kind I have ever read that was not being posted by a member of the foo team. IMO, this actually _proves_ the case that ftpmaster is one of the biggest problems that Debian has at the moment, now that the DAM problem has been

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-07 Thread Marc Haber
>security/usability of my own setup based on the best practices offered up in >reply to this thread. I would suggest putting the script in the Debian wiki. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Ques

Which .debconfrc is actually used?

2005-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
voking apt-get via sudo? Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
s have empty > needs-build queues, it is harmless to force them to execute a > recompile and costs no scarce resources. I did check this before > uploading. Did you also check how much network traffic would be wasted by rolling out the unnecessary package to

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:04:17 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The current practice and trend is going the other way, >but I strongly recommend for using autoconf/automake in build scripts. Does cdbs do it right? Greetings Marc --

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
re I believe it is today. You are, however, at the same time, basically pulling the plug on important resources without which the porters will have an awfully hard time to even keep up with scc requirements. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copi

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
longer "officially supported", means that people will >view this as a negative thing. Additionally, they are being excluded from having access to important resources, and the possibility of filing RC bugs which is the only way to get lazy maintainers moving is being taken away. Greeti

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
Debian roles they still hold without having time to fulfil them. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &q

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:16 +, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:38 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> It does a significant number of other things, one of them being paying >> a number of Debian developers to work on Ubuntu and obviously k

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
. This is bad. People who are not doing any actual work should resign and allow themselves to be replaces with people who are eager to do work and to take responsibility. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Ques

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
th doable and >likely to be good enough to meet the standards outlined. If you are able to get the new buildd recognized by the empowered ones. Which has proven to be hard or impossible. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Ha

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
emember, dak is in the archive now) so they can run their own testing in >parallel to the mainline one. What a huge waste of manpower, done seven times in a row. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Ques

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
s notifications won't >> be available. > >Why can't porters join the security team? Then everyone benefits. Established Debian teams are traditionally extremely reluctant to allow new people joining in. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
t; >No testing and release support by the current RMs and no security support by >the current security team. And existing infrastructure no longer available, needing hardware solicitation and re-inventing some wheels. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No cou

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:11:01 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, it just calls for smarther mirroring tricks. Do not expect mirror admins to run Debian, and to be willing to pull smart mirroring tricks. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
y have to lie about what the printer supports in order to get CUPS + xprint to *not* produce either fantastically large printing, or microscopically small printing. -- Marc Wilson | This font is starting to come out very [EMAIL PROTECTED] | nicely Knghtbrd: oh dear, are you hack

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
to how poorly Mozilla supports non-English character sets unless you use Xprint instead of its built-in postscript support. -- Marc Wilson | But it does move! -- Galileo Galilei [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
and OOo. > > Xprint works perfectly fine out of the box. Apparently you missed the flamage when Mozilla's maintainer went insane and started requiring it. :) -- Marc Wilson | No purchase necessary. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
ari unstable/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~ari unstable/ Maybe he'd take over xscreensaver. :) -- Marc Wilson | Needs are a function of what other people have. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:51:40 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:04:53PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:11:01 +0100, Sven Luther >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Well, it just calls for smarther mi

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