Bug#126897: RFP: php4-rrdtool -- php4 module for accessing RRDtool databases

2001-12-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Since it appears being actively maintained and distributed separately from RRDtool, it would make most sense for someone to package it in its own right. * Package name: php4-rrdtool Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Joe Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#124624: foiltex: Spelling error in description

2001-12-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:04:42PM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: > MoiN > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:44:19PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > - font, options for setting normalsize at 20pt (default), 17pt, 25pt or >

Re: [Evms-devel] Re: RFP: EVMS

2001-12-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:33:26PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > On Friday 28 December 2001 23:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I have been using LVM for some time, and I am eager to start working > > with EVMS. Once I have working packages, I will be migrating some of my > >

EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2001-12-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:33:26PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > On Friday 28 December 2001 23:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I have already grabbed the latest release and started work on evms > > packages for Debian, though I haven't touched them for over a week since >

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:57:40AM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > On Monday 31 December 2001 19:23, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > - Shared library versioning > > I thought libevms did have a version number. There ought to be a > libevms-0.2.4.so, with libevms.so as a link to the sp

Re: Bug#123887: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:32:28AM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > On Tuesday 01 January 2002 14:39, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I would recommend libevms-0.2.4.so, as you said above, over the current > > libevms.0.2.4.so, since many other programs use that convention. > > I ha

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:18:07PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > What if we used libevms.so.x as the soname, and libevms-x.y.z.so as the > filename for the library (where x is the version major number, y is minor, > and z is patchlevel)? This seems to be common on many of the libraries on > my syste

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:00:21PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 14:35, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > It would sacrifice a little bit of bloat (libdlist.so on my i386 system is > > about 10k) for not having to worry about shared library management for this &

Re: how to move a config file during package upgrade

2002-01-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:17:09PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Thomas Lange wrote: > > my package fai will have a new location for its configuration file > > /etc/fai.conf. The next version will use /etc/fai/fai.conf. How can I > > handle this in a preinst script during an upgrade

BitKeeper

2002-01-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
(crossposted to debian-legal for input on the license; please direct followups to -devel or -legal as appropriate) Has anyone looked into packaging BitKeeper (www.bitkeeper.com)? The license[0] is obviously non-free due to usage restrictions, but people seem to like it, and some of the licensing

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-03 Thread Matt Taggart
atform over dpkg-cross. Debian was not meant to be xcompiled :( For now maybe you could just publish them somewhere and submit a pointer to the BTS. If the maintainer isn't responsive you can follow the proper NMU procedure I guess. -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:26:11PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Sorry if that has been asked before. I mistakenly deleted quite a bit of > Debian mail. I did check the archives for the past month though... > > Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper 3.0.51): What comma

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:59:55PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Marcus Brinkmann > > | Sure, evms seems only to be available on GNU/Linux, too. But just > because | it happens to work by chance it is no excuse to do the wrong > thing. People | might take it as an example and use it in the

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Michael De Nil wrote: > I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) > I think it's

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:04:53PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper > > 3.0.51): > > > > What command did you run to do this? What you probably meant was > > dpkg-buildpackage. > > I did use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > > Her

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:07:48PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run- > time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the > directories specified on the command line, in the file >

Re: .dsc not generated during package build?

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:49:05PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Since it was trying to tar up 'icu' (which is a symlink) for whatever > > reason, it may be that dpkg-source tried to create a tarfile containing only > &

Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-guide

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: maint-guide Severity: wishlist On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:45:17PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > > if test -d build -a build != source; then rm -f -r build; fi > > > dpkg-source -b icu > > > dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./icu' is not > > > - `icu-2.0' > > > dpkg-source: bu

Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:35:20PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > A Debian native source package is one which has no .diff.gz, because the > > > Debian source code and the upstream source code are the same thing. This > > > means th

Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:06:46PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > So I guess that as long as the explanation in maint-guide says that a > > > native > > > Debian package is a package that builds with no modifications, not just a

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really desired? > > Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default to > mode 660 and group plex86? I would say that it should default to 600 and

Re: why is 'dbf' in non-free?

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:46:47PM -0600, DvB wrote: > I ran a search for dbf (xbase) packages in debian and came up with the > 'dbf' package which is in non-free. > If it's in non-free because of licensing issues with the Xbase format, > I'd like to know since I'm currently finishing up a dbf lib

Re: Question before buying GNU Debian

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:57:59PM +0100, Christian Banik wrote: > I would like to install GNU Debian Linux on my computer, actually my PC is > running with SuSE Linux 7.3. My question: I have a 32 MB NVIDIA Riva TNT 2 > Modell 64 / Modell 64 PRO Graphic Card, which is full supported by SuSE > Lin

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:28:58AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:07:02 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I would say that it should default to 600 and be adjusted by the local > > admin. Or is it possible for plex86 to set things up correctly at > > installati

Re: [kde] anti-aliasing is *NOT* supported!

2002-01-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:50:27PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > That said, *please* make mention of whether you're using AA or not in > your bug reports, because it makes my life easier. You might be able to make this happen more often by installing a hook for bug (does reportbug support somethin

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:09:14PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:37, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Have you ever seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an > > "apt like" package fetcher + installer? "urpmi". Hahah. > > What makes Debian's package management

Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-guide

2002-01-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:02:26AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I've already discussed several times why this it is bad to package > programs as native packages although they aren't written specifically for > Debian. Consider e.g. the following examples: > - To fix a missing build dependency you ha

Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

2002-01-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:18:09AM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > Policy only mentions them in two places, and doesn't explain the term > > anywhere. Under 'dates in version numbers': > > > > Native Debian packages (i.e., packages which have been written > > especially for Debian) whos

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:13:48PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: > > So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when > > Grave bug against mime-support IF it is the package that generates > /etc/mailcap. It must be

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:27:51PM +, Pete Ryland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > quake2-data should prompt the admin where to download the files, since > > TMPDIR is not expected to have such large amounts of space, wherever i

Bug#128666: ITP: aris-extractor -- Log parsing tool for the ARIS Incidents Database system

2002-01-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name: aris-extractor Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : SecurityFocus * URL : http://aris.securityfocus.com/ * License : See below (PLEASE COMMENT on freeness) Description : Log pars

Re: Scheduled downtime for murphy.debian.org(lists.debian.org)

2002-01-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:51:53PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > Brainfood is scheduling downtime for murphy.debian.org(which is also > lists.debian.org, and runs all the mailing lists), to do a disk upgrade. This > is just the addition of a new drive, with no copying of the existing data. We > exp

Re: Why does this program segfault?

2002-01-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:11:53PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > pkgDepCache cache = *cachefile; > for (pkgCache::PkgIterator it = cache.PkgBegin(); !it.end(); it++) > { > if (it->CurrentState == pkgCache::State::Installed) > { > std::cout << it.Name() << ' ' << it.CurrentVer

Re: ccache for the autobuilders?

2002-04-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:10:14PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > The ones that could use it, are the ones that can't take it :) I seriously > doubt the m68k can hold 4 disks. I'm pretty sure the m68k's run scsi too. Perhaps architectures which are slow enough to really benefit would still benefit i

Re: Debbugs and ACK messages

2002-04-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:20:31PM -0500, Doug Porter wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyone out there who actually appreciates the storms > > of "Information received" acks that debbugs generates? If not, > > it is fairly simple to turn them off - we just

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:34:45AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:17:02PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Yes, of course. It only says a newer version is in sid, and that it will > > be considered tomorrow. > > It also says: > > Depends: galeon mozilla > > galeon 1.

Re: Request for NMU: sidplay-base

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > I've had no reply so far. Is anyone willing to NMU this? The fixes are all > straightforward. You might try debian-mentors@lists.debian.org -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Python module for debconf

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:36:23AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > I guess that the package will have to predepend on python, right? > > > So, unlike the current debconf usage, a debconf dependency is no > > > lo

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:06:44AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello everybody, > > release is coming soon ... and we need a bit of feedback about > a new feature we plan to use on CD1 of Debian woody for i386. On CD *1*? Surely you don't plan to introduce new features in such a core compon

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:33:00PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 10:45:35AM: > > > On CD *1*? Surely you don't plan to introduce new features in such a core > > component mere weeks before the scheduled release? There is no w

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 04:45:08PM: > > 10 days != long enough to test a completely different _primary_ way of > > booting the installation system. > > a) isolinux is n

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:07:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > Other distros (such as slackware and mandrake) are already using isolinux > in their installers. I don't hear too many people complaining that those > distro fail to boot from CD... Do you follow those distributions' user and suppo

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > It seems to work for a large number of users, and that is its only job, is > > it not? > > Well, no. :) idepci is known to fail for people

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:15:08AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 09:31:12PM: > > I have installed many SCSI systems (including the one that I'm using right > > now) with potato CD #1, which I assume has a simil

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:55:03PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:45:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman écrivait: > > On CD *1*? Surely you don't plan to introduce new features in such a > > core component mere weeks before the scheduled release? There i

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:12:28AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Did YOU help introducing ANY new features in boot-floppies? I18n? Kernel > 2.4, other filesystems, RAID support, lots of bugfixes in the existing > code, etc. etc.? Either you can continue your mission of distruction, or > you stop c

Re: Python module for debconf

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:30:08PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The byte compilation should be done when the package is built, not > > at runtime, not at install time. > > So you're saying that the maintainer should need to either create > separate pac

Re: Imp 3.0/3.1 debian packages?

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:18:42PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > What's the status of newer imp packages for woody/sid? The first place to check when you have questions about the status of a package is http://bugs.debian.org/. In this case, you would have found: * #92698: IMP3 yes it is a

Re: Faster Release Cycle = More Up to date Packages...

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > At the current pace 3.0 may be out right around May 1St 2002. > At that time it will have been more than 1 year and 6 months since > the previous point release, which by then contains packages more than > 1 year and 6 months

Re: Python module for debconf

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:52:54PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:20, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > And build-depend on all available versions of emacs... > > That'd be silly. Instead, we should just add them to build-essential. Adding them to build-es

Re: rsync and debian -- summary of issues

2002-04-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:19:07PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > What I'd really like is to have access to one of these machines and be > able to attach debuggers to rsync and see what it's doing. (In this case, > that would mean being able to ssh in as 'nobody', or something > equivalent.) I real

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
I tested the isolinux boot image on 3 random workstations (Dell and HP) as well as an IBM ThinkPad T21. All of them worked fine with both idepci and bf24 kernels. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:49:03PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I tested the isolinux boot image on 3 random workstations (Dell and HP) as > well as an IBM ThinkPad T21. All of them worked fine with both idepci and > bf24 kernels. Also tried a Compaq Deskpro, both idepci and bf

Re: ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:15:23PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > I intent to package libsocket++, a small C++ library that abstracts > network sockets. It provides buffered reads/writes and address family > independent handling of sockets. > > I am the upstream author, this is basically split out

Re: ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:22:04PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > I intent to package libsocket++, a small C++ library that abstracts > > > network sockets. It provides buffered reads/writes and address family >

Re: ITP: libsocket++ - Socket abstraction library for C++

2002-04-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:01:54PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > What sort of problems did you have with [Common C++]? > > Well, it adds too many dependencies, doesn't compile too well on > architectures other than GNU/L

Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?

2002-04-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:11:51AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: > > Hallo? > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:20:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, [...] > ^^

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Matt Arnold
As the silent co-maintainer of lilo I believe I should now voice my thoughts on this I too believe that lilo should belive that lilo should be remove *at some point* but now is not the time. So I restate my willingness to take over fully publicly. Upstream made a release of a bootloader in 2007 a

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Matt Arnold
for now and just let things flow as they will. Belive me i'm not about to let another XMMS style nightmare happen On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:21 PM, William Pitcock wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:05 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: >> As the silent co-maintainer of lilo I believe I should now vo

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-25 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Reducing the size of Packages.xz by 11% or 22% would leave room for quite >> a lot of small packages while not making the problem any worse than it is >> today. > > But the problem with lots of small packages is not that the > Packages.xz has

Re: Automatization

2014-08-22 Thread Matt Wheeler
quotings.” > “Le vrai n'est pas plus sûr que le probable.” > > Diogene Laerce > > -- Matt Wheeler http://funkyh.at -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID typo? adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID -mz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: ITNMU nfdump

2014-10-13 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm planning to NMU nfdump, and have been unable to contact the maintainer > (his > MTA says I'm a spammer). Has anyone else been in contact with Erik lately? I packaged up nfsen a while ago (maybe 16 months) and asked Erik about s

Bug#768156: general: dpkg frontend inconsistent

2014-11-05 Thread Matt Wheeler
;ll have a look through the logs to see if I can spot a pattern. Thanks -- Matt Wheeler http://funkyh.at

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Hi Pat, On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:06:08PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> >> > For the record, I really don't care about the init system per-say. I am >> > more annoyed with the systemd insistence on logging to binary files than >> >

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:10:24PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: >> >> As said many times, node is an interpreter used in shebang. Using a >> different name would just upset its user base. Debian will be seen, >> again, as the one harming

Re: Packaging entirely via git

2012-06-12 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: > El 12/06/12 12:40, Enrico Weigelt escribió: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> >> is there already a way for maintaining debian packages entirely >> with git - without the orig tarball ? I use something like this in the gbp.conf: [DEFA

Re: Have NetworkManager disabled by default when...

2012-07-18 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 18.07.2012 22:32, Wookey wrote: > >> wicd is easy to disable as it has a ENABLE/DISABLE option in >> /etc/defaults. N-M doesn't so you either have to remove it properly or >> resort to nobbling the init script. > > Nope, you don't have to

Re: tasksel: Default desktop: Gnome→Xfce

2012-08-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi, > > On 03.08.2012 23:28, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Seriously, I'd just drop our CD1 installs and only provide a net-install >> image and a DVD image for desktop installations. > > Is there any serious survey how established DVD drives (and write

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:33 PM, The Fungi wrote: > On 2012-09-07 16:40:07 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the >> software itself and the primary client binary that users invoke. >> [...] I don't think there's another UNIX/Linux

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Martin Wuertele writes: > >> Seems like you haven't realised yet: only if a maintainer makes >> controversal decisions and several others disagree such a case comes >> before the CTTE. > > Having decisions appealed to the CTTE is not a punish

Re: Debian naming scheme

2013-06-17 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Nikolas Kallis wrote: > Hello, > > > > I think Debian should stop releasing products as I.E 'Debian 7.0', and > instead release them simply as I.E 'Debian 7', where its Debian version > would be 7.0. > > It makes it hard for me writing documentation for applicatio

Re: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

2013-07-30 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > >> - The system hostname (and domainname if any) should ALWAYS be >> resolvable, whether a network is up or not, regardless of which. >> (Assuming that lo is always up, if not, many things break anyway.) > >

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Matt Kraai
ould be happy to include a wrapper for unar that provides an unrar-like interface. Thanks for working on this. -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/25/2013 11:02 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>> Supporting two different init systems is something I don't think >>> *anyone* wants to get into. Remember they use different files, so this >> >> Erm, we already support sysv-rc, file-rc, s

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >        Saving a dozen of bytes in ${PATH} doesn't seem like an >        astonishing idea, anyway.  What's the point, then? There are good arguments in the following link (Marco provided it with his initial email.) https://fedoraproject.org

Re: Bug#655230: ITP: pushkey -- ITP: pushkey - Pushes your ssh key to a remote location. It tries to create a .ssh folder remotley then it adds your ssh key to authorized_keys.

2012-01-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Hi Al, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Al wrote: > OK I guess I am partially incorrect, however if .ssh or authorized_keys is > wrong permission, ssh-copy-id doesn't fix it.. > I set .ssh folder to 777 and ssh-copy-id did not change it. That is the sane behavior here. The utilities that come in

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I, for one, have even more of a problem > contributing to FSF projects that require copyright assignment than I > would contributing to upstart. Hi Russ, Would you comment on why you have issues with the FSF contributor agreement? Thanks,

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
ite knowledge to heed said advice. If there are users out there who can distill their knowledge regarding codecs and improve the wiki page, then that would be much appreciated. Thanks! -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Milan P. Stanic wrote: >>>> For me d-m.o was (a

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
round (or without) systemd. Cheers, -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caolfk3wjmrcomksb4quq5w7fuqmlbx08+++nafebxyjkgcp...@mail.gmail.com

Re: NM without X (general: users vs developers)

2012-03-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:29 +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> This is completely off-topic for -devel. Please take it to debian-user >> if you want to continue. > > No it is not, this is as important as the systemd/upstart/sysvint\ > issue, now b

Bug#666961: ITP: milter-regex -- sendmail milter plugin for regular expression filtering

2012-04-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matt Zagrabelny * Package name: milter-regex Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Daniel Hartmeier * URL : http://www.benzedrine.cx/milter-regex.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : sendmail milter

Re: debian mate

2012-11-20 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Hi Michael, On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Michael Schmitt wrote: > Am 20.11.2012 23:14, schrieb Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez: > >> On 20/11/12 22:55, Michael Schmitt wrote: >>> >>> If one likes Gnome2.x or MATE or not is a question of taste, to >>> acknowledge that many users are just mad about

Re: Ubuntu have done it again,

2012-12-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 12:09:10AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: >> this time installing surveillance code. > >> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/07/1527225/rms-speaks-out-against-ubuntu >> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what

Re: GFDL in main

2012-12-12 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Serafeim Zanikolas , 2012-12-12, 10:30: > >> If I understand correctly, the way to go is to split every problematic >> source package in two different source packages, one for main (shipping >> programs) and another for non-free (shipping docu

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:35 +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: >> fails to load in the much-respected SVG-based graphics editor Inkscape >> (which I use daily and which works fine also for svg files not >> produced by itself). > In mine

Bug#703816: ITP: unyaffs -- Extracts files from a YAFFS2 file system image

2013-03-23 Thread Matt Fischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Fischer * Package name: unyaffs Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : Bernhard Ehlers * URL : https://github.com/ehlers/unyaffs * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Extracts files from a YAFF

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: >> >> The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be used >> as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I intend to >> maintain it under the Debian Javasc

Bug#705897: ITP: dateutils -- nifty command line date and time utilities

2013-04-21 Thread Matt Fischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Fischer * Package name: dateutils Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Sebastian Freundt * URL : http://www.fresse.org/dateutils * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : nifty command line date and

epoch fix?

2013-05-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Hello world, I've grepped the d-d list, but didn't find any threads regarding fixing epochs in package versions. First, is there a consensus or quorum that believes that unnecessary epochs is undesirable? If so, could we add a field to debian/control such as "Supersede-Epoch". If set to 'yes', t

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > On Martes, 7 de mayo de 2013 22:55:39 Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >> If so, could we add a field to debian/control such as >> "Supersede-Epoch". If set to 'yes', then dpkg considers this package

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Matt Zagrabelny d.umn.edu> writes: > >> Use the mechanism of "really": > > That is *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* > *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* *much* more

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2013-12-31 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 03:50:06AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: >> Apart from the termination clause, the GPLv2 is far more concise, >> I don't see tivoization as a problem (it's the software I want to >> protect, not anyone's combination of i

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > vita...@yourcmc.ru: >> Because I want logs to be plaintext in my system, not binary. >> > Why? (Seriously.) To use standard text based tools, eg. grep. -mz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:25:14 -0500 > Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > >> > If they have decided on systemd as default [...] >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg5.html >> >> Can we please end this thread? > > Sure but

Re: Bug#738839: ITP: mps -- Poor Man's Spotify - Search and stream music

2014-02-13 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poor_man%27s > > I knew that :) I still don't think it's appropriate nor helpful to describe > software with these attributes. (Hints: free software

Re: Idea for apt-get : getting source code instead getting binaries

2014-03-06 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Solal Rastier wrote: > Hello! I've an idea for a new apt-get package style : > > Developer side : > -The developer create a ./install script in the source code. > -The install script executes all commands necessary for install the software. > Also, it getting depen

Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Grant
is required, but how compatible does any intentional replacement for ifupdown have to be, especially if the system a firewall or a router? Regards, Matt Grant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Grant
ms may be better depending on your tastes for firewall/packet filtering. Nftables are coming to replace iptables in the kernel. Lets get some more sense into ifupdown, making it more versatile and take the corners off it operationally. I'd like to be able to send netscript to its grave in a fe

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