Bug#291432: RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
efers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.pr

Bug#341110: tetex-extra: Should remove /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem on purge | remove?

2005-11-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
File: preserv tetex-extra recommends no packages. -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 --

Bug#340555: Non-DFSG TeXLive stuff [was: Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t; > Sincerely Yours > > Shinsaku Fujita Just noticed that someone's opened an RFP bug #340555 for XyMTeX, so CC-ing this there. (To answer a question in the RFP, upstream's email address is fujitas (at) chem.kit.ac.jp if anyone wants to try convincing him to license it DFSG-freely.)

Bug#340555: Non-DFSG TeXLive stuff [was: Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ter; and he finally gave the brief reply I quoted earlier. Apologies for the top-quoting in this exchange. I wasn't quite sure what to make of his reply so I didn't follow up further. Probably TeX Live or someone else distributing XyMTeX should do so, though. -- Kevin B. McCar

Bug#340555: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
really useful tool. Let's hope that when Dr. Shinsaku considers XyMTeX more polished, he'll reconsider the license. regards to all, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Bug#340555: [tex-live] Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Reinhard Kotucha wrote: >>>>>>"Kevin" == Kevin B McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'm very sorry to hear that my inquiry resulted in the removal of > > XyMTeX from TeXLive. :-( It is a really useful tool. > > >

Bug#301509: mn-fit should compile and work on amd64 soon

2005-12-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rived from Harald Vogt's AMD64 page and are amd64-specific. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#338961: escputil: Would really like a newer CVS snapshot supporting Epson C88

2005-11-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
some point :-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Bug#346405: debhelper: dh_link doesn't work for a symlink that links to the directory containing it

2006-01-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
magic" ii html2text1.3.2a-3An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.7-10Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 0.9.2 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -

Bug#344317: interdiff for NMU

2006-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ackage) . octave2.9 (ditto) CC'ed to debian-devel in case anyone wants to add to or disagree with this suggestion. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
il subscribers, something strange is going on (I read the list through the web archive so I don't know whether or not this is the case). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public k

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the headers packages I mentioned in the original email. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:04:44PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > >>benjo (sid)[126]:~% ls -l src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb >>-rw-r--r-- 1 kmccarty kmccarty 1300680 2006-01-11 11:58 >>src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb >>

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:19:05AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >>Without this or a similar text, it is not clear to me that source >>packages creating -headers binary packages are in compliance >>with Po

Bug#345699: reportbug: Crashes when reporting bug on metapackage with or'ed dependencies

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
reportbug.) [begin transcript] benjo (sid)[9]:~% reportbug x-window-system-core *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Using '"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as your from address. Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is inco

Bug#302635: openoffice.org-gtk-gnome: Bug apparently fixed in openoffice.org 2.0

2005-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- Kevin B. McCarty <[

Bug#339513: ITP: feynmf -- LaTeX macros for creating Feynman diagrams

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: feynmf Version : 1.08 Upstream Author : Thorsten Ohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/feynmf/ * License

Bug#338961: escputil: Would really like a newer CVS snapshot supporting Epson C88

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Roger Leigh wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>>It would be really nice if you could package a version of gutenprint >>>from CVS that supports the most recent Epson inkjet printers, the C88 >>>and C68. Support

Bug#150186: adduser,deluser screw up /etc/passwd NIS "+::::::" entry

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
1:100::/home/testuser: test2:x:1019:1019:,,,:/home/test2:/bin/bash +::0:0::: I attach the contents of my /etc/adduser.conf and /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local. Please let me know if you need further information (NIS config files, etc.) and I will be better about replying quickly. regards, -- Ke

Bug#150186: [Adduser-devel] Bug#150186: adduser, deluser screw up /etc/passwd NIS "+::::::" entry

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
reassign 150186 passwd 1:4.0.3-31sarge5 thanks Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:47:03AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > >>maia[45]:~# adduser test2 > > > Please retry with the --debug flag, so that we can see the exact > command lines passed to the low-

Bug#150186: Reassigning to libpam-modules in sarge and CLOSING

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
asswd from sid (recompiled against sarge), libpam-modules and libpam0g from sarge ==> bug So thankfully this bug has been FIXED in or before the latest version of libpam-modules in sid. I am accordingly finally reassigning to the right package and then closing it. Thanks to all. -- Kevin B.

Bug#340433: Some non-free FLUKA code still present in source package and libgeant* binaries

2005-11-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Package: cernlib Severity: serious Justification: non-free code Original Message Subject: FLUKA/Cernlib licensing questions Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:38:30 +0100 (CET) From: Alfredo Ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Alfredo Ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevi

Bug#314495: Invalid linda error on complex menu file

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
The on-line manual pager ii python2.3.5-2An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83

Bug#290438: acknowledged by developer

2005-05-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
;fixed in 3.4/4.0" (if this is in fact the case) and/or "sarge", so people can find it in the BTS. I am not going to re-open it myself since it's your package ("you" == GCC maintainers) and I don't wish to start a game of BTS ping-pong, but please consider this r

Bug#302476: cernlib: [INTL:pt_BR] Please consider adding the attached debconf template translation

2005-05-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > This template includes multiple mistranslations, and shows no understanding > of .po file formatting. Please do not include this .po file in your > package. OK. Thank you for the heads up. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics

Bug#304714: ITP: xymtex -- LaTeX classes for producing molecular structural formulas

2005-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xymtex Version : 4.02 Upstream Author : Shinsaku Fujita * URL : http://imt.chem.kit.ac.jp/fujita/fujitas3/xymtex/indexe.html * License : TeX-style

Bug#302635: Any news on this bug (gtk-gnome filepicker crash on powerpc)?

2005-04-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Is there any news on this bug? I just tested that it's still present in the 1.1.3-9 OOo packages on powerpc. thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key I

Bug#292752: tetex-base: Ships subdirectories of /usr/local in .deb, against Policy

2005-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
tem for on-line i ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv -- debconf information excluded regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Bug#292638: openoffice.org: Reports CRITICAL assert in terminal

2005-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
wish the OOo maintainers luck in finding the solution. It may be that this should be reassigned to gtk2-engines-spherecrystal. By the way, this bug should probably be set to severity 'minor' since you didn't notice any UI problems, just the terminal output. regards, -- Kevin

Bug#266687:

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:52:15PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: For the last year or so I have been getting messages such as the following. Each time I have diligently replied, saying that my package's control fields are correct an

Bug#299926: ntp-server: ntpd can't edit its log files

2005-03-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
1:4.2.0a+stable-6 Network Time Protocol: network uti ii ntp-simple 1:4.2.0a+stable-6 Network Time Protocol: daemon for -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Univ

Bug#299926: Acknowledgement (ntp-server: ntpd can't edit its log files)

2005-03-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hmm, I can't seem to get start-stop-daemon's --chuid flag to work (even after realizing that the --chuid flag needs to be before the -- in the call to start-stop-daemon). Don't know what the problem is. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics

Bug#300263: linda: Spelling error in "Shared binary object has no dependency information" warning

2005-03-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii man-db2.4.2-21 The on-line manual pager ii python2.3.5-1An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph

Bug#145495: acknowledged by developer (Re: mozilla-browser: MathML css should put Times ahead of Symbol)

2005-03-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
at I mentioned in the original wishlist request. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Bug#315956: libmathlib2-dev: gen.h includes nonexistent prototypes

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Package: libmathlib2-dev Severity: normal Original Message Subject: debian cfortran package Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:59:52 +0900 (JST) From: Tim Gershon To: Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I am trying to use your package, and have hit a problem with linkag

Bug#315960: menu is destroyed after I run wmakerconf->convert menu to new format

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e to follow the steps in /usr/share/doc/wmakerconf/README.Debian to get your menu back. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Bug#315984: wmaker menu-method tries to include obsolete wmmacros file

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Extension client libra ii xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prince

Bug#315960: menu is destroyed after I run wmakerconf->convert menu to new format

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ot, - Replace the contents of $HOME/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu with the single line of text "menu.hook" (quotes included), - Try using wmakerconf to convert the menus again. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~

Bug#319363: linda: Linda complains that command in menu file is missing when full path not given

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
etermines file type using "magic" ii man-db2.4.2-21 The on-line manual pager ii python 2.3.5-2An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department

Bug#301392: linda: False positives on object (.o) files

2005-03-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
2.3.5-2An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 foo_0.0.1.tar.gz Description: Binary data

Bug#301509: mn_fit: FTBFS on 64 bit arches: Segmentation fault.

2005-03-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
s-arch-specific. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Bug#302439: Successful RC3 install on current 32-bit Athlon system

2005-03-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
les are no longer in Sarge, only in unstable. I suspect this may confuse a lot of new users. Fortunately the unstable nvidia driver package matches the kernel version in Sarge. Despite that, this was the smoothest Debian install I've ever done! Kudos! -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#302439: erratum

2005-03-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. Fortunately the unstable nvidia driver package matches the kernel version in Sarge. And now it looks like I have to retract even this since the nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2- packages showed up in Sarge just now. Cool! :-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW

Bug#302635: openoffice.org-gtk-gnome: Crashes on powerpc when using GTK/Gnome dialog to open/save files

2005-04-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
fice suite binary ii xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Bug#302635: openoffice.org-gtk-gnome: Crashes on powerpc when using GTK/Gnome dialog to open/save files

2005-04-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ugzilla appears very relevant: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166852 and "alexthelion" at the end of that OOo issue page says the fix didn't go into Gnome until 2.9.x (not yet in Debian). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://

Bug#315984: wmaker menu-method tries to include obsolete wmmacros file

2005-07-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
but I think that's strictly for security stuff, which means sarge is going to be stuck a few years with this bug :-( Well, let's hope it's more like the 15-18 months currently being estimated till Etch release. Although it's hard to believe ;-) regards, -- Kevin B.

Bug#303098: cernlib: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): static declaration of 'token' follows non-static declaration

2005-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#303098: cernlib: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): static declaration of 'token' follows non-static declaration

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
tch system! Sometime after the sarge release I will try to move cernlib to dpatch to be a little less weird. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 P

Bug#323850: sed: In-place editing (-i flag) breaks symlinks

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Bug#324902: cannot use ntuples

2005-08-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
o blame. In the meantime you ought to be able to use the version of Paw from Sarge as a workaround, although this may be annoying to install since it uses different versions of several libraries. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.ed

Bug#325008: harden-servers: Please add Conflicts against pawserv package

2005-08-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
f pawserv (part of the cernlib source package). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: htt

Bug#325050: gcc-4.0: [4.0 regression] GCC 4.0 mis-compiles code leading to segfault

2005-08-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
libmudflap0-dev (no description available) -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 #inclu

Bug#329207: bug in paw printing ?

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
le macro inside the BeginSetup ... EndSetup section. Does it make any difference if you manually edit a copy of the original PAW-created postscript file so that the above lines instead read as follows %%EndProlog %%Page: number 1 %%BeginPageSetup newpath gsave 20 28 t .25 .25 scale gsave %%En

Bug#329207: bug in paw printing ?

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e any way you could test the original (bad) PS file using CUPS with a different kind of printer? It's conceivable that the printer is ignoring Begin(Page)Setup ... End(Page)Setup sections rather than CUPS ignoring them. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Departm

Bug#329207: bug in paw printing ?

2005-09-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rver, debian+cups, I could reproduce exactly > the same behaviour, problem plus fix ). > > That about sums my little research. Excellent - thanks for your thoroughness. I've passed on your comments upstream and will have this fix included in the next Debian release of Cernlib. best re

Bug#325371: ITP: binfmtc -- a binfmt_misc hook for running C programs as scripts

2005-08-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hello, I tried sending the following to debian-devel but it bounced for some reason: Original Message Subject: Re: Bug#325371: ITP: binfmtc -- a binfmt_misc hook for running C programs as scripts Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:43:40 -0400 From: Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#320362: Please add symlink /usr/bin/gmake -> make

2005-07-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
6 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages make depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAI

Bug#393092: Sarge -> Etch upgrade: no way to prevent removal of running kernel

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Etch 2) Make available 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel images for a new Sarge point release that don't depend on initrd-tools 3) Make available udev and/or yaird packages built against the Sarge libc6 4) Remove the initrd-tools conflict from libc6 in Etch (might not work due to #364338) 5) Others? regards, -

Bug#405298: bugs.donarmstrong.com down?

2007-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
lem. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#396331: Update on results of attempting Sarge -> Etch dist-upgrade

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ade" to work. Then upgrading libfam0 and libfam0c102 on the other hand causes aptitude dist-upgrade dependency resolution to go into a loop again. The circumstances under which aptitude succeeds in finding a solution seem rather fragile and hard to predict. I did not go through with a compl

Bug#354463: confirming

2007-01-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, I can confirm #354463 is still the case with refblas3-dev 1.2-8 and lapack3-dev 3.0.2531a-6 on Debian "sid". This bug in some cases causes static linking of binaries against liblapack.a to fail. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Depa

Bug#379288: #379288 release-critical?

2007-01-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
OOo Calc, and is the only reason left on my > Desktop PCs for keeping gcc-3.x packages. Really? Aren't there a number of GNOME packages that use FFTW? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Bug#399829: Also confirmed here

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I also see the spurious conffile questions reported in #399829. The upgrade in question is in Etch from firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2 to iceweasel 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 (I believe this is the first iceweasel package to enter Etch). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P

Bug#401881: archive section mismatch is over-zealous

2006-12-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
T into Debian in the near future once the naming issue is resolved. [1] http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root [2] http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/dists/unstable/root/binary-amd64/#ttf-root-installer Anyway, one more data point for you to consider. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <

Bug#400657: texlive-metapost: Please integrate feynmf more in TeXLive packages

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
If both packages are installed, the FeynMF from texlive-metapost will be put under /usr/share/texmf-texlive, while that from the feynmf package will be available under /usr/share/texmf. The latter directory takes precedence. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 27 Nov 2006

Bug#400657: example feynmf package

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/~kmccarty/dists/sid/main/source/feynmf_1.08-3.dsc Again, please let me know your thoughts on this. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ

Bug#400657: texlive-metapost: Please integrate feynmf more in TeXLive packages

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Frank Küster wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>b) Remove _all_ FeynMF stuff from the texlive-metapost package, and make >>texlive-metapost Depend on feynmf instead. If this would be preferable, >>I can very quickly

Bug#400657: example feynmf package

2006-11-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Frank Küster wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>An example feynmf source package implementing option (c) of this bug >>report is now available here: >> >>http://borex.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/dists/sid/main/source/fey

Bug#400657: example feynmf package

2006-11-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Frank Küster wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>fixes. Could you please test that version instead? I've done some >>tests to make sure that apt-get/aptitude do the right thing in various >>installation scenarios. If everythin

Bug#396331: upgrade-reports: sarge to etch removes kernels

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
thing to the effect of "Install the aptitude from Etch *before* dist-upgrading." (The Sarge release notes contained a similar instruction, BTW.) CC'ed to debian-release and aptitude maintainer for their consideration. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#396331: upgrade-reports: sarge to etch removes kernels

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:57:25AM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> This problem (automatic removal of old kernel packages) is apparently >> fixed in the version of aptitude in Sid, 0.4.4-1. If this version was >> allowed to pass into Etch (currentl

Bug#396331: upgrade-reports: sarge to etch removes kernels

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:04:49PM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Sorry, maybe I didn't make myself understood well, or else I didn't >> understand the bug report. If I read correctly, the submitter is >> complaining that his dist-upgra

Bug#395382: Maintainer upload planned for this bug soon?

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Pawel, Daniel, Haven't seen an upload for giflib 3 yet ... would you two mind if I went ahead and uploaded the proposed 3.0-12.1 NMU? Or should I wait a bit longer? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.ed

Bug#399236: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org links to copyright and changelog files are broken

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ectory that should contain the changelog and copyright files for the version of cernlib in Sid). I've checked the entries for several packages on p.d.o and all of them I checked have this problem. So this does not seem to be just a matter of p.d.o lagging behind ftp.d.o. Is this the same problem

Bug#399186: Debian Package Tracking System: changelog links not working

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
this. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Bug#293881: xlibs-static-dev: Bug confirmed on i386 but not on powerpc

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ment files ii zlib1g-dev [libz-dev]1:1.2.2-4 compression library - development -- no debconf information -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton

Bug#291432: status of cint

2005-02-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
see bugs 96234 97691 123022; purged by RM > -- The above bugs were FTBFS reports on m68k and hppa. They could be worked around (if they still exist) by initially restricting cint and depending packages to a set of better-supported arches, maybe "i386 powerpc sparc"

Bug#294890: manpages-dev: Typo in wait(2): "watpid"

2005-02-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
E=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: ii manpages 2.01-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/P

Bug#290438: produces wrong code on i386 compiling with -fno-automatic -O1

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
v 1:3.3.5-6GNU Fortran 77 library development -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 test-g77-bug.tar.gz Description: Binary data

Bug#290438: produces wrong code on i386 compiling with -fno-automatic -O1

2005-01-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,

Bug#290102: g77-3.3: Please recompile with MXUNIT in fio.h increased to >= 1000

2005-01-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
of course always create locally modified g77 packages (and have already done so for our cluster running woody); it's just a little inconvenient, and I'll have to do it again when we upgrade to sarge. If you think it's unwise to change the default I certainly understand. Thanks

Bug#290438: produces wrong code on i386 compiling with -fno-automatic -O1

2005-01-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
extra precision by spilling > data from floating-point registers into memory and this typically > involves a big performance hit. (from the g77 Info manual). I'll still try to come up with a closed test case, but it looks like this has been fixed in upstream's lat

Bug#296085: wmakerconf: Provides incorrect list of fonts

2005-02-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
me! > Otherwise, I should say that wmakerconf is much nicer than WPrefs, and I > use it almost exclusively. Thanks for the praise, although almost all of it is deserved by the original author, Ullrich Hafner. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department W

Bug#296501: mime-support: Copious unnecessary output on upgrade

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ng') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University G

Bug#296939: libpango1.0-0: pango_color_parse() should accept color format "rgb:RR/GG/BB"

2005-02-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#297019: wmaker: WindowMaker default menu includes calls to non-free applications

2005-02-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ient libra ii xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeto

Bug#396496: Suggested upgrade path to put in Etch release notes

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ded if aptitude was removed by step 3. Step 7 is for picking up Recommends and/or removing unused obsolete packages. Users should take note of whatever gets removed in steps 3-7 (hopefully not too much) that is still available in Etch, and reinstall it at the end. Hope this is useful informat

Bug#415738: [john] FTBFS on mipsel

2007-03-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
no longer working. (This package was already not a candidate for Etch, so it unfortunately looks like it will not be part of the Etch release at this point anyway.) I really have no idea what the problem could be so I'll tag this as "help". -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAI

Bug#415738: Acknowledgement ([john] FTBFS on mipsel)

2007-03-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
be possible to build on the regular and security buildds! regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#416008: cernlib-base-dev: cernlib-debian.mk typos "-" as "_" in directory name in orig.tar.gz

2007-03-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
are moved out of experimental. Submitting this to the BTS so I don't forget. (This problem is also the case for the paw and mclibs source packages in experimental, since the typo originated in the cernlib-debian.mk shipped in cernlib-base-dev. I will rebuild them all with versions 2006.dfs

Bug#412006: dvidvi: Please Replace texlive-extra-utils (<< 2005.dfsg.2-12)

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dvidvi depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dvidvi recommends no packages. -- no debconf information best

Bug#366355: #366355: Bad pixmaps in some cases here, too

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
86Config-4 and xorg.conf files for both machines if that would be of any use. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- T

Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> sucrack is a multithreaded Linux/UNIX tool for cracking local user > accounts via wordlist bruteforcing su What advantages does this tool have over John the Ripper (Debian package "john")? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department W

Bug#403855: Please NMU john

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
.dsc et al for the NMU, and I will sponsor the upload. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: O

Bug#403855: Please NMU john

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
MU if that's OK with you. Since you went to the trouble of working out patches for these bugs, I feel your name ought to be on the changelog entry for proper credit. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princet

Bug#375850: Planning to go ahead with NMU tomorrow morning

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
x27;t mind! [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/03/msg00012.html best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 0

Bug#375850: Planning to go ahead with NMU tomorrow morning

2007-03-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:25:27PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Hi Justin, >> >> Not having heard from you yet, since there is now a new urgency >> resulting from the latest release announcement [0], I am planning to go >> ahead and N

Bug#409621: [INTL:gl] Galician debconf templates translation for cernlib

2007-02-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
want to see it in Etch. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#420384: [dch] Python warnings about uninitialized values

2007-04-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d 4.1.5-1The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.7Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princet

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