Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
veloper of the software has the power to revoke the license, without your doing anything to give cause, the software is not free." -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Fwd: RFS: eaccelerator - PHP script cacher]

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Jonathan Oxer wrote: > [CCd to relevant parties including the eAccelerator developers] > > Hi Roberto, > > Just a quick update on distributability of Turck-MMCache / eAccelerator: > I've now contacted Jeremy Malcolm of iLaw (who also happens to be a DD!) > and provide

Bug#309722: ITP: xwc -- lightweight Explorer-like file manager

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xwc Version : 0.91.5a Upstream Author : Maxim Baranov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xwc.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Descrip

Bug#309723: ITP: webcpp -- configurable utility to convert source code to HTML

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: webcpp Version : 0.8.4 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://webcpp.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Descript

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Peter Samuelson wrote: >>>Yes, I'm aware that if it's possible to revoke the GPL, it fails >>>the Tentacles of Evil test, and GPL software would be completely >>>unsuitable for any serious deployment. > > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > >

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Michael K. Edwards wrote: > not. Does anyone happen to have a six-month-old copy of the FSF FAQ? > >From 11-2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20041130014304/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html http://web.archive.org/web/20041105024302/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Request for key signing help

2005-05-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
would appreciate it. Please reply off-list and we can make arrangements to meet. -Roberto [0] http://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Request for key signing help

2005-05-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Luk Claes wrote: > Hi Roberto > > >>>I am looking for someone to sign my gpg key. I have contacted >>>the three people listed as offering to sign keys in Ohio [0], >>>but I have received no response after a few days. Anibal >>>suggested I ask

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
n-free version of unrar. The newer releases are of a free version that is going into main. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#310006: ITP: releaseforge -- alternative to SourceForge's File Release System (FRS)

2005-05-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: releaseforge Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Phil Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://releaseforge.sourceforge.net/ * License

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ge no longer exists? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ing the package control files (everything in debian/) under a source control system accessible to all of the package co-maintainers. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
in gnome is actually GNOME. They are components that are useful in a GNOME environment. Likewise, every package in a multimedia section does not specifically need to provide all multimedia functions itself. It simply has to be useful in a multimedia environment. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpIK3lqylp7G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Proper use of Replaces

2005-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
TK2 version and press ahead with a GTK+ only package. I would like to know what everyone thinks. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpf54b2OU5j2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proper use of Replaces

2005-05-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:59:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:43:26PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I am working on taking over toshutils. One of the things I would like > > to do is incorporate a patch that updates it from GTK+ to GTK2. The

Linda warnings

2005-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ress the warning. Is this OK? What about the other files that it says are not there? 2) Should I do anything about the timestamp warnings on config.guess and config.sub? 3) I already discussed the warning about depending on automake and autoconf with Anibal and he seems to think it is justified. Are there any disagreements? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpUPvboM63An.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linda warnings

2005-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:31:31PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > > W: toshutils; Package Build-Depends on automake* or autoconf. > > > This package Build-Depends on automake* or autoconf. This is almost > > > never a good idea, as t

Re: Linda warnings

2005-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
No problem. Based on the SubIDs in your GPG key, I consider myself fortunate you did not also answer in French :-) (Sorry, I really couldn't resist). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpRRQWeoK2dR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#311219: ITP: ipkungfu -- iptables-based Linux firewall

2005-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
> included in ipkungfu, although IPv6 support is still not included. > I would change "are not high on IP security knowledge" to read "have only limited knowledge of proper security and IP filtering practices." The phrase "high on IP security" seems

Re: Linda warnings

2005-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
idling on my sarge box or in clean Sarge and Sid chroots. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpO6b7ISHPzI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linda warnings

2005-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:03:14PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 06:40:26PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > > > I don't think a dependency on automake and autoconf are almost always >

Re: Linda warnings

2005-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
proach, rather than patch and "rerelease" the upstream source. The reason for that is that I don't want to give the impression that I am taking over upstream maintenance unless that is what I really intend to do. In this case, everything is working out OK with the build requirin

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

2005-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
successfully build on all architectures *prior* to being admitted to the archive. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpI8C5czx4iR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
y people disliked/wer uncomfortable with it because of the complex way in which it employs makefiles. Wouldn't your packages be more accessible (in terms of other developers being able to patch/fix bugs/etc.) in a more universal format? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sa

Bug#311874: ITP: vncsnapshot -- A utility that takes JPEG snapshots from VNC servers

2005-06-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: vncsnapshot Version : 1.2a Upstream Author : Grant McDorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://vncsn

New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
developers and users will review it and provide some feedback. After a week or so, I will probably submit it to some Debian-related wikis and websites. But, I first want to make sure that it is in reasonable shape before I *really* present it to the world :-) -Roberto [0] http://lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#311997: ITP: gaim-latex -- gaim plugin wich translate LaTeX code into image in conversation

2005-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
by tex2im script (imagemagick) and the image is sent to > your contact. > This totally rocks! Please get this in soon. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpoP5ofdewUy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:53:06PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Roberto, > I read it and it seems great! Haven't had a change to build anything yet > but I'm sure it will help me when I do. a minor typo, search for > 'since'. As someone commented, I believe pbui

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roberto C Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Today Kevin Mark poitned out[0] that I should turn a brief outline I > > gave[1] on how to customize Debian pacakges into a full blown HOWTO. I > > ha

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
package similar in function to pbuilder) to ensure that every package is built in a clean environment (note: some slower architectures do not actually clean after every package build, but the concept is the same)." -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpfelO3unE7Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
y official packages without rebuilding and without a clean > environment. > Which is why I finally changed it :-) Thanks. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpOH3D88NAW0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
o avoid furhter confusion, I have removed any mention of buildds and sbuild and simply discuss the policy requirement that dictates that pacakges build with only build-essential + Build-Depends and why that is a good idea even for non-official packages. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://f

Re: The story of speex/vorbis-tools, or how not to be disservicing to our users

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. That way, by sending one message, the maintainers of all dependent packages ar notified. This would be especially good for packages which have many dependents. Just my $.02. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpVSE94E3p4i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#311997: ITP: gaim-latex -- gaim plugin wich translate LaTeX code into image in conversation

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
; about it). > I thought the same thing. Really, it is a 200+ line bash script, including comments and blank lines. Martin could always include in giam-latex until he can get it into another related package. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpryS5MTezg5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
iosity, what was that? > Out of even greater curiousity, how was something in the public domain "stolen"? That seems contradictory. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgprdytFTunXq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#311997: ITP: gaim-latex -- gaim plugin wich translate LaTeX code into image in conversation

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
g on your machine, else you may as well unplug it and find something else to do. I understand what you are saying, but we can't put everyone in a small padded room. Based on your assessment, we would have cause to seek the removal of latex, vi, emacs, cat and less. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpIZmnbSAqka.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#311997: ITP: gaim-latex -- gaim plugin wich translate LaTeX code into image in conversation

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:28:55PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > At some point, you do need to execute something on your machine, else > > you may as well unplug it and find something else to do. I understand > > what you are saying, b

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ere all here to help this project build the > best OS ever. > Please don't forget world domination. I really decided to start the process of becoming a NM after Branded told me about his plans for total world domination :-) Nothing like a good session of planning to take over the world to

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
om person comes along they know which bugs are considered high priority for a particular package and which need the most help. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpbAOd74WpCW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Is Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis MIA?

2005-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. -Roberto [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=httperf [1] http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=luca%40debian.org -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpVmBmyvBMzD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis MIA?

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:52:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I am wondering what the deal is with Luca and his packages, > > specifically httperf. > > Yeah, I'm about to orphan his packag

Re: Is Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis MIA?

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:52:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I am wondering what the deal is with Luc

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

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
"/etc/init.d/networking stop", which is > all that you are proposing. > I agree. I rather like being able to configure run levels to my liking. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpufaQVeDlUh.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
, or both. I have already adopted toshutils and will be adopting/uploading toshset next week with a new version that is supposed to (according to upstream) handle both APM and ACPI variants. Let me know what I need to do. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpNPdDeqfGfd.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Why? What if I prefer to have something from inetd only when necessary > > instead of constantly running daemons everywhere? > > Why on

Re: Packaging of freenx

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 at 10:16 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I asked a while back (on IRC) about packaging the NX components that are > > under the GPL. Someone pointed me to Fabian's packages in Sko

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

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:51:46PM -0400, Brendan wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09:37 am, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I agree. I rather like being able to configure run levels to my liking. > > I'm sorry, but this sets off my "Give me a break" reaction... >

Re: Is Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis MIA?

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:50:58AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:52:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>I am wondering what the deal is with Luca and his packages

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

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Brendan wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 07:09 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > Roberto C. Sanchez writes: > > > Where, pray tell, is a newbie going to learn about [runlevels]? > > > > a) By having used Red Hat. > > b) By read

Re: Packaging of freenx

2005-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
admin of the pkg-nx > repo, so I'm able to give access to everybody who is interested. > If you could grant me access, I would appreciate it. My Alioth username is el_cubano-guest. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgp0Ry5Pu9J23.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ed the issue. > Is that not the purpose of single user mode or run level 1? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpXehaC3rFGT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:39:16PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hello. > Hi. > - > OpenOffice.org 2 will be a fairly large undertaking, AIUI. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpjmspx9bgke.pgp Description: PGP signature

I need some advice on Bug #153070

2005-06-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
behave. I would like to know if there is a better way to handle this. -Roberto [0] http://bugs.debian.org/153070 -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpHTyVBjt0W9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Processed: wnpp

2005-06-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
iba laptop utilities > Changed Bug title. > (By the way, that Bug is currently marked as done.) > I adopted [0] this package. Is there anything else I need to do? -Roberto [0] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/toshutils/toshutils_2.0.1-12/changelog -- Roberto C. Sanc

Re: ~ in package versions

2005-06-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
conflicts with dpkg's use of it in versions. > > So, to those wondering, this is more than just removing some simple > forbiddince check. It also requires not just completely allowing it; ~ can > only be allowed for uploads into testing and unstable. Doesn't that a

Questions on how to handle this: [ftpmaster@debian.org: httperf_0.8-3_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-06-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
new license becomes part of the package in Sarge? -Roberto - Forwarded message from Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: h

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
* Orphaned 520 days ago > * Package orphaned > 360 days ago. > I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next week (via Anibal). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpNfAq6XxJaG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Questions on how to handle this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: httperf_0.8-3_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-06-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote, on Friday, June > 17, 2005 6:37 AM: > > > Below I have included the text rejecting my httperf package. I am > > taking over as maintainer

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:57:13PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Friday 17 June 2005 07:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] > > > * Orphaned 520

Re: Orphaning packages

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
850) > stl-manual (bug #314845) I'd like to take stl-manual since I use it. I'll prepare an upload this week. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgp5j1iQb5WWV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Excuses page showing incorrect dependencies

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ed -n '/^Depends/p' Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libjpeg62, libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), vnc-common Why is this? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpKgadZFwRcZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Excuses page showing incorrect dependencies

2005-06-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 08:17:43AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The excuses pages are showing that my vncsnapshot package is being held > > back for two reasons. First, it is only 4 of 10 days old, which is > > acce

Why is PTS complaining about the new standards version?

2005-06-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
package to reflect the new version prior to uploading. Is the PTS just not caught up yet? -Roberto [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/toshset.html -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpBKI9nEv1nY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#315349: ITP: rote -- a simple C library for VT102 terminal emulation

2005-06-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: rote Version : 0.2.6 Upstream Author : Bruno Takahashi C. de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http:

SONAME and package version question

2005-06-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ut the version number? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgphBnOaUmRaA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SONAME and package version question

2005-06-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ed to change? Is there an automated way to do that? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpvLZ3ZvzSVt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Question about replacing obsolete packages.

2005-06-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
;next version." That is, after it goes into sid, someone with iceme or icepref installed should see a new version, which brings in icewmcp. What is the best way in which to accomplish this? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgp3gnqbVX6QZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
But, if I also make icewmcp Replace and Conflict with iceme and icepref, will that not cause problems (since the new dummy versions of iceme and icepref will depend on icewmpc)? The thing is, I would like to be able to package icewmcp and request the removal of iceme and icepref and know that all

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:38:34PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 6/23/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. How would I make use of this. I was going to adopt iceme and > > icepref, but then I saw that they are abandoned upstream. They have

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:22:28PM +0300, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:02:44PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > Right. However, what I would like is to be able to do it *without* > > using dummy packages. I think that what I want is not possi

resolution of licensing with httperf

2005-06-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
updates become necessary to httperf, the Sarge users won't get them. Does this situation need to be dealt with? Is this the correct way of going about it? -Roberto [0] http://packages.debian.org/httperf -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpjhtQCGBG71.pgp Descri

Question about kill(1)

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
there any advantage to avoiding the built-in? * why the different implementations? Incidentally, the script is a bash script. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpwEvRbk8cHn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
of Debian is not to appease the unwashed masses. However, it seems logical (and warranted) to bump the major version number to indicate the dramatic differences between Sarge and (the to be released) Etch. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpCfnl0moASN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:24:07PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I was reading the kill man page today looking for some information for a > > script I am writing. The man page mentioned that some shells have a > > kill built-in command. On fur

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update (I)

2005-07-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I posted this to debian-release yesterday, but have received no replies. I would like to know if it is possible to get httperf back into Sarge (for the reasons stated below), or if I should simply not worry about it. -Roberto On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:18:16AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update (I)

2005-07-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 07:56:55PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:33:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I posted this to debian-release yesterday, but have received no replies. > > So you decided to post it to debian-devel? Seems odd to me.

Re: resolution of licensing with httperf

2005-07-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:04:49PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I have been corresponding with the developer and maintainer of httperf > > [0], which I intend to adopt. The issue was that a libssl linking > > exception was needed for t

Re: dh_python and python policy analysis

2006-07-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
006 > Not sure if I missed it, but you seem to claim a copyright but not give an explicit license. I imagine you meant to put it under GPL or a free version of the GFDL. Could you please clarify and also add it to the document? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dh_python and python policy analysis

2006-08-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Frank Küster wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Not sure if I missed it, but you seem to claim a copyright but not give >>an explicit license. I imagine you meant to put it under GPL or a free >>version of the GFDL. Coul

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
s is not "official" development since backports are not officially supported, but I know I occasionally backport packages for my own use. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ng in > > that moment. > > Then don't call it renice*d*, please. > Agreed, the name makes me think that it is a daemon that monitors for new processes starting up and *then* renices the processes based on the provided regex. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez

Use of generic init script names [WAS Re: Status of inetd for etch]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
name (as they all conflict with each other anyways). The same should probably go for pop3d, httpd, inetd and so on. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
r was to the right of the decimal, making the zero significant. I think you will be hard pressed to find a mathematician who supports dropping significant zeros for no good reason. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:21:04AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:47:36 -0400]: > > > Except that the final comparison ignores that the number was to the > > right of the decimal, making the zero significant. > > Er, read Policy 5

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
r, to put it another way: your numbers are not our numbers. > I never said I was a mathematician :-) The original comparison, though, was 0.09 and 0.9. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
emu, bochs e.g.) ? Because the performance of qemu is quite bad without the non-free accelerator module and bochs is generally very slow and targeted at hobbyists. I'm not trying to say anything bad about them, just that their target markets are generally different than the target market

Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ecific machine in order to send mail to Alioth. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:18:12AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Roberto C. Sanchez said: > > Is the mailing list software on Alioth broken or misconfigured? If I > > send from any host on my network other than the one which happens to be > > t

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. I remember > dealing with this once by getting mutt to add an explicit Sender > header, but perhaps you can configure the mail server to rewrite the > header to your normal email. > Interesting. > Hope this helps, > I added this to my muttrc: my_hdr Sender: <[EMAIL P

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
; purely-informative Sender header. :-) > Interesting. My previous attempt at solving this was to have mutt explicitly set the Return-Path header. However, it did not work. I don't know if it was because postfix on my gateway host stripped it or rewrote it, or if it is j

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:06:37AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:45:30 -0400]: > > > Interesting. My previous attempt at solving this was to have mutt > > explicitly set the Return-Path header. However, it did not work. I > &

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:59:21AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > accessible mail server. The point is that I only experience this > > problem with Alioth and SourceForge lists, where they use braindead call > > back mecha

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:24:31AM -1000, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:10:22 -0400]: > > > > Nope, that won't help. Knowing you use Mutt, and unless your MTA is > > > configured in a quite restrictive way, this should solve your pr

Re: Bug#387926: ITP: eaccelerator -- PHP opcode cacher and compilation optimizer

2006-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
problem is that the GPL is not compatible with the PHP license. There is no way around it, other than a clean rewrite of eacclerator by people who have not seen the mmchache-derived code. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#387926: ITP: eaccelerator -- PHP opcode cacher and compilation optimizer

2006-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. If you are interested I can provide you with the source package that I created so that you are not reinventing the wheel. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#388278: ITP: doc-debian-uk -- Debian Manuals and other documents in Ukrainian

2006-09-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I would have guessed that -uk refers to the > United Kingdom. > UA is also the ISO standard two-letter code for Ukraine: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html#sz Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: local copies of libs

2006-10-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ecurity. If a vulnerability is discovered in ffmpeg, then the seucrity team knows that they have to update ffmpeg. However, if five other packages are vulnerable and the security does now know about them, we have a bad situation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
er --force-badname to > create accounts with @ in user names? > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug submitter make to with +, ., and other such characters? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:39:39PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:34:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might > > possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug s

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
3DFC603) Then, on the receiving mail server, it stripped off the @the.real.host and then proceeded to deliver it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, I don't know the effect if that were a system account, but it certainly works with virtual accounts. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http:/

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