Re: german debian mirror with 700mb paris.avi file...

2005-01-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Weimer wrote: > Would debian-admin or the security team like to act as a contact for > such problems (i.e. potential compromise of Debian infrastructure)? > Perhaps http://www.debian.org/security/ could be updated accordingly? Anything but a non-public list/forum/whatever would be fine and

Re: Orphaning some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
> > > > yes. Please take it. > > okay, when i return from VAC in three days i'll start packaging the new > upstream release for it, and take over the package with a new upload. What's the status of this? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Orphaning some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ystrace frontend invoked by systrace It sems nobody is interested in those. Should we reassign the WNPP bugs to ftp.debian.org to ask for removal? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orphaning some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
would simply closing the wnpp bug > be enough? Just close the WNPP bug with the new upload. I just wanted to make sure this hasn't been forgotten about. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-16 11:26]: > > | - time (dead upstream) > > > > I'd like time, please. > > All yours. Are you going to make an upload soon? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Or maybe not. Did you keep track which packages have been spoken for and for which you still need to file RFA or O reports? It seems at least tob is still outstanding. Gunnar Wolf seemed interested in some of the Perl packages but it's not quite clear to me which he'll actually adop

Any objections? -- Bug#293149: Please install libsysfs in /lib

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Pitt
sr/ is not yet available) are reasonable, so I'm not opposed to doing this. Is there any opposing opinion? Should this be done now / post Sarge / never? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian G

Bug#293349: ITP: libpam-smb -- Pluggable Authentication Module authenticating from NT server

2005-02-02 Thread Martin Orr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libpam-smb Version : 1.9.9+2.0.0-rc6 Upstream Author : Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_smb/ License : GPL

Re: dpkg-preconfigure error messages

2005-02-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
nf (1.4.44) unstable; urgency=low . * Fix a rogue quotation mark intorduced in the translatable string patch in the previous version. Closes: #293666 (and approximatly 2e5 other bugs that will be filed before dinstall tomorrow). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To U

Re: Packaging status of Xen 2.0(.4)

2005-02-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
00217.html and in particular http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/02/msg00261.html -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Schulze
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 virus scanning software and such similar sof

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Or see and follow the instructions summarised on > > http://master.debian.org/~joey/misc/webwml.html#ddp > > > > > PS: If you are in rush, I or javi sh

Re: Bug#295045: qucs: Excellent package - not in deb but should be: easy to compile too.

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
me. Debian doin't have spice3 (and > I'm still looking for that, since ngspice and spicep08s have compile > environment glitches - the annoying kind). It's better to put separate issues into their own bug reports, but I'm CCing the maintainers of these packages so they can c

Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin, We need help by competent developers who work on apt 0.6 with the goal to get it supported properly and eventually enter sid and sarge. There is a good chance the release will happen before the issues with apt 0.6 are resolved, so this may be a task that cannot address sarge in time but onl

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-15 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.14.1851 +0100]: > > We need help by competent developers who work on apt 0.6 with the goal > > to get it supported properly and eventually enter sid and sarge. > > Thank you, Joey! &g

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > > You still need to deal with key revocation and a new key being needed, > > anyway. Yearly changes will not make it more difficult, it will make sure > > those codepaths are tested (and used at least once an year). > I can understand that

Re: debian-devel-changes question/request

2005-02-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Marek Habersack wrote: > It's just a simple question/request. Would it be possible to include > custom headers in the messages sent to debian-devel-changes that would > contain the package name, version and distribution, like so: > > X-Debian-Package: foo > X-Debian-PackageVersion: 1.2.3-1 >

Re: dehs will stop

2005-03-06 Thread Martin Quinson
[Why to cc on policy? Cut] On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:32:30AM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: > >If people don't care as much about this as you think they should, > >perhaps it would be a good idea to try explaining why they *should* > >care, instead of just lamenting their lack of a telepathic > >under

Re: dehs will stop

2005-03-06 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 06:44:37PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:32:30AM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: > > > > > I'm not a debian developer, so i could not po

Re: announcing first release of common database infrastructure package

2005-03-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
Sean, sounds really good. How do your scripts relate to the db management scripts provided by wwwconfig-common, maintained by Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? I suspect your package should be either supercede wwwconfig-common or be rolled into it. cheers, martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Dickopp
the question is: Should usbmount be included in Debian? Thanks, Martin PS: Rafael has asked that all mails regarding this topic are CC'ed to him, please. M-F-T header set accordingly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: announcing first release of common database infrastructure package

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:28:39 -0500, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my code is a superset of what's done in wwwconfig-common. That sounds great! thanks for your work on this front. I'll be reading your doco in more detail, as I have to sort out the path forward

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Martin Pitt
etely) implement "sync". Just try it: copy a big file onto a VFAT stick mounted with "sync" and immediately remove it. The file will be truncated. Also, if you immediately execute "sync" after copying something, a big bunch of data will still be wri

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-10 Thread Martin Orr
upgrade apt-get install x-window-system-core kdebase mozilla-firefox openoffice.org apt-get install cupsys-bsd cupsys-driver-gimpprint gs-esp and installed a home-compiled 2.6.11 kernel. I do not have xprt, xprt-common or xprt-xprintorg installed and can print fine from both Firefox and OOo. --

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

2005-03-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I'll follow up with more information on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
apt-listchanges is only invoked when you use apt-get to install the package. Maybe you were using dpkg to test the upgrade? (At least that's what I did once...). Also, NEWS.Debian has to be in the right format. What does yours look like? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To U

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
*, not installs. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

2005-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
LilyPond packages, and a potential > new maintainer (Pedro Kroger) with his sponsor going mia. Who was going to sponsor him? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITO: oftc-hybrid, bubblefishymon

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi! Due to lack of time and since I stopped using it quite a while ago I intendo to orphan oftc-hybrid. The package is outdated, current upstream version is oftc-hybrid-1.4.0pre4. Since nor weasel nor I use bubblefishymon we intend to orphan this one as well. There is no more upstream work in pro

Re: Orphaning three packages

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
pplications ... > If no one wants them, I'll ask for their removal. It has been over a month and nobody has indicated interest. Since these packages have never been part of a stable release, I think removing them would make sense. Is it okay with you to go ahead with this? -- Martin

Re: orphaning some of my packages

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
userspace logging daemon These packages have not been adopted yet. Can you please file proper WNPP bugs for them (see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- 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 Martin Michlmayr
* Aurélien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 10:56]: > Would it be possible to have a list of such proposed architectures? amd64, s390z, powerpc64, netbsd-i386 and other variants, sh3/sh4, m32r -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

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

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ateways, and you don't really want to run unstable in such environments. testing+security updates might be a compromise, but unstable is clearly not an option for a S390 box or a mipsel Cobalt gateway. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Edge and multi-arch (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
supposed to happen. Can one of you take what I said just, put this in some more coherent form and post it to -devel? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
d. So please consider this an invitation to adopt lilypond if you're serious about maintaining it. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

powerpc64 (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
herefore it would make more sense to call the 64 bit port powerpc64. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal to remove archs (comments by Ben Collins on sparc)

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
> > Remove one architecture, and you remove an entire userbase. Remove 10% of > our least used packages and I bet you wont lose but a handful of users. > > -- > Debian - http://www.debian.org/ > Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ > Subversion - http://subversio

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
port for those architectures). This is a problem for every new architecture, but not existing architectures are facing the same problem. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-16 Thread Martin Pitt
the long run I think it would be easier to apply for vendor-sec subscription. Joey is already subscribed, but since he does not deal with unstable updates, it would be good to have Andres on board. Personally I would apreciate and support Andres' subscription to vendor-sec. Martin -- Mart

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

2005-03-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: > First, the news for sarge. As mentioned in the last release team > update[1], deploying the testing-security queues has been held up > pending some infrastructure enhancements, without which > ftp-master.debian.org cannot handle the load of the added wanna-build > queues fo

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

2005-03-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
le (just one randomly grabbed from the archives). See http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/ for more information, especially http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/README -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: manpages-zh/cman

2005-03-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
-locale-zh-cn also needs attention as do other -zh packages. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ication of what I said given Thomas' response but please don't waste time reading it.] > Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One problem, as you say above, is that random people building packages > > are more likely to break

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

2005-03-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: > > not to mention the time spent by the DSA/buildd admins and the security > > Thanks for asking the security team how much work it is to support 11 > architectures. Err... Huh? I wasn't asked? Uh? > > However, to clarify this for the read

Announcing PostgreSQL 8.0 packages and a new PostgreSQL infrastructure

2005-03-17 Thread Martin Pitt
el--1 postgresql-transition--devel--1 If you want to work on them, either just check them out and send me patches, or do it the arch way and branch off to your own repository and tell me where to merge from. Happy testing and databasing! Martin P.S. This is _not_ Sarge stuff. The detaille

Re: [RFH] Test of new grub package

2005-11-16 Thread Christopher Martin
I can't test it myself, but was thinking of running XFS in future. Thanks, Christopher Martin pgpenipfzRHE0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a 'loginfo' file configuration that works > for alioth. > I thought I have found a solution few days ago, but when > I came back, it no longer seems to work correctly: > > > CVSROOT/loginfo contains: > DEFAULT /usr/bin/cvs-mailcommit --mailto [EM

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
sen during installation. Once Bob User has > turned into Bob Hacker he can switch back to the detailed form. So having a menu-simple that only displays the default foo-application as defined via the debian alternative system with the option to switch to the (current) menu system might be a

Re: kernel 2.6.14

2005-12-15 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:16:52PM +0100, Zejn Gasper wrote: > I've had the same experience yesterday, i didn't have time, so i downgraded > to > 2.6.12. > > But there's something wrong with the kernel. Others wrote: > > > > Waiting 2 seconds /sys/block/hda/dev to show up. > > > > /bin/cat:/sy

Re: Archive architecture qualification

2005-12-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
s mean that archs not listed (such as alpha, i386, and powerpc) are > already qualified? "Given release architectures have de-facto requalified" suggests so. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345909: ITP: qtodo -- Todo List Manager

2006-01-04 Thread Martin Meredith
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : qtodo Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://qtodo.berlios.de/ * License : GPL Description : Todo List Manager QTodo is a todo-list manager. It is desig

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Martin Meredith
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:19:42 -0500, Frans Jessop > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if >>all DD's worked through it on their projects? > > > Sure, as long as they change lauchpad to meet my workf

Bug#346569: ITP: idjc -- simple console for broadcasting/recording Internet Radio shows

2006-01-08 Thread Martin Meredith
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: idjc Version : 0.5.7 Upstream Author : Stephen Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.onlymeok.nildram.co.uk * License : GPL Description

immodule in Qt problems

2006-01-10 Thread Martin Meredith
Apparently - theres a major problem with immodule in Qt at the moment - which causes KeyReleasedEvent ro return a value of 0 for any QKeyEvent ... which is bad - and means that anything that relies on it will have problems processing the keypresses. I found this out after my app in ubuntu had pr

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-11 Thread Martin Meredith
Ok - I'm going to reply to the first post i found on this whole - thing, so apologies if it shows up in some weird place in threaded view. Basically the way I see it isnt the fact that ubuntu isn't giving back to debian - or debian isn't willing to have the stuff from ubuntu. The way i see it is

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Meredith
hat I first thought it was) 2) I am not lumping all Ubuntu Devs into one boat - nor all Debian Devs - I'm jsut saying that I think it's the few people out of the large who arent willing to cooperate for whatever reason that are causing this tension. Martin Meredith wrote: > Ok - I&#

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
es from unstable if this makes sense. I've regularly removed orphaned packages from unstable in the past but I've been a bit busy with other work recently. If you, Thomas or Christoph (or someone else), could help a hand, it would certainly be appreciated. -- Martin Michlmayr http://

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Meredith
Please read my first couple of lines in the email - as quoted below >>Ok - I'm going to reply to the first post i found on this whole - >>thing, so apologies if it shows up in some weird place in threaded >>view. Manoj Srivastava wrote: > OK. Since you selected my post to reply to -- are

Re: Debian Games Team

2006-01-13 Thread Martin Meredith
Ben Finney wrote: > On 13-Jan-2006, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > >> --- Eddy Petriºor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> >>>Can ome packaging can be done for non-free games? >> >>To be honest, I'm not particulary interested in non-free software at >>all, including games, but I have nothing against it if w

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Meredith
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I have only said that I would like Ubuntu to clearly label > which is the Debian maintainer and which is the Ubuntu maintainer. Thing is, in ubuntu - we don't neccesarily have "maintainers" for packages. We use a collaborative process - anyone who had access can modif

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
sed. But you know the rules. regards, martin

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
than nothing at all, no? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-19 Thread Christopher Martin
atter, but cannot impose that view on the general shape of the vote. If the Secretary views the amendment as insufficiently clear as to what it is attempting to establish, then he or she can always request clarification. Cheers, Christopher Martin pgph1yVPpXsNM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-19 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 19 janvier 2006 à 18:05 -0500, Christopher Martin a écrit : > > Rather, it simply promulgates the interpretation that the GFDL, minus > > invariant sections, while not perfect, is still DFSG-free. > >

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ate, but I'd rather > not see us piss off the python community for making a similar mistake. I definitely agree we should listen to the Python community, especially with the lovely Martin v. Löwis doing so much good work for us. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-19 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 19 January 2006 20:39, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Christopher Martin wrote: > > No, because as I wrote the whole point of the amendment is to make > > officially acceptable the interpretation of the license which views > > the license as flawed

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Agustin Martin
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:14:19AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > If you won't acknowledge that, then know that upstream also object to the > name "python-base" for something which has a stripped-down standard library. Both pythol-minimal and python-base sound to something an end user would expect

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-21 Thread Martin Meredith
However, if you were to request it - either through a member of core-dev - or through the person who last updated the package, then as long as yourdebian package worked exactly as it is intended to in ubuntu - I'm sure they'd not have a problem with syncing and using your package from debian. The

Re: Bug#345091: ITP: checkgmail -- Alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Sandro Tosi wrote: > > I looked at the homepage, and while this does appear useful, is it really > > nescessary to be packaged all by itself? > > > > Think about a collection package; I don't think debian should be overloaded > > with tons of single-program packages. > > I'm getting used to packag

Re: NEWS.Debian abuse

2006-01-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
what features you backported. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
_legitimate_ fashion. And I take umbrage at your insinuations. If an issue is highly controversial, then I can think of no better way of settling it in a way that most developers will accept than a vote. People respect votes much more than decrees, even if they don't agree with them. Christopher Martin pgpd94iDbUiVN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 15:26, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm getting sick and tired of hearing this over and over again. The > > last two votes were not about the GFDL. > > Why did we take the second vot

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 15:25, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the developers are (as a whole) too untrustworthy to be able to vote > > on such matters without 3:1 training wheels attached by their elders, > >

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 16:41, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What I do see are a handful of single-minded individuals (only a small > > subset of those who wish to have the GFDL removed, I stress) who seem > >

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
an software must meet. They may also include position statements about issues of the day." The GFDL sounds like an "issue of the day" to me. Christopher Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But what you are saying is that the developers don't have that > > right. > > Quite wrong. I'm saying they *do* have this right, and it is a ri

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
doing these things. > > And we're following those procedures. > > So where's the problem? The problem is that in the course of this procedure, the Secretary overstepped his authority, as I've explained above. You may not agree with that view, but I don't see why you should be so confused about my complaint. Christopher Martin pgpfcjJGjfqhb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 20:18, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > But what you ar

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:27, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > To impose the 3:1 requirement requires, beforehand, a judgment > > concerning the DFSG. Since no one has found a Secretarial basis for > > that power, it

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
roposal. > > How can he say "because this does not change the DFSG, it requires a > majority" without making a judgment that it does not change the DFSG? A simple majority is the default, and so allowing the default margin is hardly a bold judgment. It's a refusal to make an extraordinary judgment, namely, that a supermajority is required. Christopher Martin pgpUsq9IJZfuN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Martin
On Thursday 09 February 2006 20:26, Raul Miller wrote: > On 2/9/06, Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But why does the Secretary get to decide whether this barrier should be > > set or not? > > The constitution says: > > "... the final de

Security update modifies (inofficial) ABI and hidden API

2006-02-11 Thread Martin Schulze
We could use some advice and help with the GnuTLS / libasn1 update that would fix the vulnerabilities reported recently. The fix for libasn1 adds arguments to exported function. However, these functions are named _asn_* and should not be used outside of this library. Unfortunately GnuTLS is doin

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-20 Thread Martin Wuertele
also be obtained from packages.debian.org (currently use pdo.debian.net). yours Martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operating System -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysklogd -17.1 NMU build broken in mips/mipsel

2006-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
lots of syncing going on recently. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-27 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-27 14:21]: > ndiswraper is to allow users to write drivers, which they may or may > not have written themselves and which may or may not be free software. Wrong, its purpose ist to let them run these drivers. yours Martin -- <[

Re: debconf and cdebconf are coinstallable now

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ting what the rationale is behind this migration.) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debconf and cdebconf are coinstallable now

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ay. Thanks, that list was exactly what I was looking for! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sending letters

2006-03-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi Henrique! The debian/changelog file is a file to document changes in the respective package and not an arbitrary file to collect letters to the stable release manager or anybody else. The latter should be reached via mail. Also, talking to the release manager before uploading a package, best

Re: New packages.debian.org

2006-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Montag, 6. März 2006 18:29 schrieb Martin Schulze: > > The Debian project happily announces the re-availability of the > > packages.debian.org service on a new machine. The system has been > > donated by Schlund + Parner where it is hos

Re: New packages.debian.org

2006-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > really cool and thanks to schlund and partner, but the links to the > > changelogs and the copyright file at the bottom of each packages page > > don't work. probbaly just something really minor... > > Didn't such things us

Re: The Debian Backup Server

2006-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > The services in the backup are: > > Are there any plans to add svn.debian.org / alioth to this set? No. Alioth will have its own backup facility. > (/me is glad he's still backing up his svn repos on his own..) Good.

[hardware-donation] Rackmountable 19" case(s) [Utrecht, NL]

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
od, Debian-related use for it. Do you know of any > need for such cases? > > Please let me know in the short term (let's say, two weeks), especially > if *not* interested, because I would then get rid of them in another > way. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin M

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-09 18:46]: > Build-Depends: [...] libselinux1-dev [alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k > mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc linux-any] Yes, that's the way to go for now. But please add "armeb" too. -- Martin Michlmayr http

Re: Bug#356241: FTBFS with G++ 4.1: no matching function for call to 'simplify_indexed(...

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
the archive. I'll report my findings in detail when I'm done. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#356241: FTBFS with G++ 4.1: no matching function for call to 'simplify_indexed(...

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
st=unstable Status * 76 Outstanding * 1 Forwarded * 1 Fixed in NMU * 2 Resolved * 3 From other Branch Classification * 55 Patch Available * 21 Unclassified -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
inux so I think i386-uclibc is fine. There could be kfreebsd-i386-uclibc in the future, I suppose, or something like that. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
d not process NEW so fast to not grow much more in a short term. something like that more. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Backup Server (was: Questions to the candidates)

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: > Moving this to -devel, it's off-topic for -vote; Cc to -admin. > > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> At some place where it can be found even if you don't want to look up a > >> month-old announcement. What abo

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > It looks approximately as though nothing has been examined since a month ago. > Although that doesn't explain the packages listed up top. DWN permanently lists new packages, have this always been false positives? Regards, Joey -- The only stupid question is th

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Nico Golde wrote: > > > Could be, but I believe I heard that most NEW processing is done by > > > one of the assistants while the mirror split is done by someone else. > > > I guess that one person got busy or demotivated. I suspect NEW > > > > Well, that person is currently on the CeBIT and mann

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