Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Michael Banck may or may not have written... > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:09:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> But one they forgot when making the spec was some kind of date >> information. > Just subscribe to debian-devel-changes. You can get all the necessary > information from t

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03:09 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Sure, "you don't need to know the date, as you are using sid and did > > apt-get update, you are assured it's the latest version". Well, one > > doesn't need the maintainer field either etc. > > Are you implying that

Re: Security procedures

2003-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
I just want to thank the security team for doing such a stellar job lately, with both the enormous kernel fixes, and the constant stream of advisories on other packages. Though I kinda hope that will taper off sometime, or we're going to look bad on the security issues per year metrics.. And I can

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:09:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > But one they forgot when making the spec was some kind of date > information. Just subscribe to debian-devel-changes. You can get all the necessary information from there. HTH & HAND, Michael -- BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA MOAHAHAHA

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03:09 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Sure, "you don't need to know the date, as you are using sid and did > apt-get update, you are assured it's the latest version". Well, one > doesn't need the maintainer field either etc. Are you implying that knowing the date you last update

Re: whereis libsensors1?

2003-06-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:40:15PM +0200, Angathule wrote: > > > > I'm trying to install KDE on a Sid Machine, but I can't, this is what I > > do: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ apt-cache show libsensors1 > Package: libsensors1 > Status: install ok installed Yes. It is inst

no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
There are tons of information categories in the apt Packages file. But one they forgot when making the spec was some kind of date information. For unless a maintainer somehow smuggles it in, say in the version number, $ apt-cache policy icom Installed: 19990819-3 Candidate: 20020923-2 otherwis

Call for Qt GUI developer

2003-06-17 Thread Erik Winn
Hello, A couple of weeks ago I posted with some considerable pleasure an announcement asking for developers for a multi-media project based in Portland, Oregon. See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg02155.html I received a few responses of interest and have f

Re: whereis libsensors1?

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:09:44PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > I've got: > [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ apt-cache show libsensors1 > Package: libsensors1 > Status: install ok installed ...whcih is a locally-installed package not available in the archive. Whatever package is depending on libse

Re: whereis libsensors1?

2003-06-17 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Neil McGovern: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ apt-cache show libsensors1 > Package: libsensors1 > Status: install ok installed > Priority: optional > Section: libs > Installed-Size: 123 > Maintainer: David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Source: lm-sensors > Version: 2.7.0-3 lm-sensors (2.7.0-4)

Re: whereis libsensors1?

2003-06-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:40:15PM +0200, Angathule wrote: > > I'm trying to install KDE on a Sid Machine, but I can't, this is what I > do: > I've got: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ apt-cache show libsensors1 Package: libsensors1 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed

Re: Security procedures

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:33:58PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I urge anyone who participates in package maintenance to read this section > > in the Developer's Reference: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-

whereis libsensors1?

2003-06-17 Thread Angathule
I'm trying to install KDE on a Sid Machine, but I can't, this is what I do: Lorien:~# apt-get install kdebase [ ... ] he following packages have unmet dependencies: kdebase: Depends: ksysguard (>= 4:3.1.2-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Lorien:~# apt-get install ksys

Re: Security procedures

2003-06-17 Thread Florian Weimer
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I urge anyone who participates in package maintenance to read this section > in the Developer's Reference: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-security For political reasons, I'd rather like to file bug reports usin

Re: strange build-deps

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Micha? Drozd wrote: > Latest I've tried to apt-build xserver-xfree and i got error because > apt-build couldn't find any candidates to install openbsd. > (apt-get build-dep has similar problems) > In .dsc file there is : > > Build-Depends: ..., ,

strange build-deps

2003-06-17 Thread Michał Drozd
Hi, Latest I've tried to apt-build xserver-xfree and i got error because apt-build couldn't find any candidates to install openbsd. (apt-get build-dep has similar problems) In .dsc file there is : Build-Depends: ..., , .. ..., kernel-headers-2.4 | hurd | freebsd | netbsd | openbsd but i

Re: Packages preventing other packages from going into testing (fwd) (fwd)

2003-06-17 Thread christophe barbe
Looks like your KMail is doing strange things with the In-Reply-To header (using a wrong Message-ID). Your last mail contains: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In reply to: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ie you break all threads you are replying to. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAI

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:22:54AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Yep. That's the point of my proposal. They would be. When you changed a > package to use the new c103 (or whatever the next ABI is), you'd change > the library dependencies to the c103 versions. This will work, but it will sto

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 16:43 US/Eastern, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:46:13PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Now, if we changed sarge to use g++-c102 (as I briefly suggested), would that prevent this problem in sarge+1 or sarge+2 or whenever the ABI changes again? no, be

Re: Packages preventing other packages from going into testing

2003-06-17 Thread Jacob Hallén
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 11.30, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 06:44:12PM +0200, Jacob Hallén wrote: > > Essentially, it is a count of packages that directly and indirectly > > depend on a package with at least one RC bug before they can go into > > testing. > > > > My idea is to show

Re: gcc 3.3 - what problems should I expect?

2003-06-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:24:03PM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > Quoting Krzysztof Kajkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm intending to move to SID from my woody box. I was wondering what > > problems should I expect while building packages using new gcc 3.3. Does > > kernel 2.4.21 build cor

Re: Packages preventing other packages from going into testing (fwd) (fwd)

2003-06-17 Thread Jacob Hallén
Peter Mathiasson wrote: >On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:58:09PM +0200, Jacob Hallén wrote: >> My program answers the question "Where will an extra effort produce drastic >> results?" I'm sure I could have modified Björns program to yield this output, >> but I don't read and write Perl programs for

Re: packaging of libpcre4

2003-06-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:30:15AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Hello, Mark has uploaded it yesterday in the evening. The bad news is >> that 4.3 seems to be broken on m68k, ia64 and alpha, "make test" >> fails. > Even if autobuilders have starte

Re: packaging of libpcre4

2003-06-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:30:15AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Hello, Mark has uploaded it yesterday in the evening. The bad news is > that 4.3 seems to be broken on m68k, ia64 and alpha, "make test" > fails. Even if autobuilders have started rebuilding packages I can't see them in the pool di

Re: Packages preventing other packages from going into testing

2003-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:30:03PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Take kdelibs as an example. When the RC bugs for kdelibs are fixed, > kdelibs still can't goto testing, because all other kde applications > have to be RC free and compile on all supported platforms. And since > kdebase is creating inte

Re: packaging of libpcre4

2003-06-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:30:15AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Mark has uploaded it yesterday in the evening. The bad news is that > 4.3 seems to be broken on m68k, ia64 and alpha, "make test" fails. Yes, thanks, I get in touch with him on this subject, but I forgot to Cc debian-devel. Regard

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:17:37PM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > get the rgzip package into debian. This patch is 100% stable (read > it, it is short). The only problem with it is it can only be used in > 99% of situations, so to avoid unexpected bugs it probably should be > off by default (e.g

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Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available on allplatforms

2003-06-17 Thread Herbert Xu
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Huh? POSIX is the same as SUSv3 now? They used to be separate. http://lwn.net/Articles/15697/ -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/

Re: packaging of libpcre4

2003-06-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:34:56PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> http://bugs.debian.org/182570 > Thanks, I missed it. I've looked for bug reports only on the binary pcre > packages BTS' pages, sorry. > Anyway from the BTS isn't clear (to me) what

Re: Packages preventing other packages from going into testing

2003-06-17 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 06:44:12PM +0200, Jacob Hallén wrote: > Essentially, it is a count of packages that directly and indirectly depend on > a package with at least one RC bug before they can go into testing. > My idea is to show where the low hanging fruits are, so that people able to > len

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-17 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 17:35, you wrote: > Is there a link to just the changelog so I can see if they added this > before I spend the modem time downloading? http://packages.debian.org > doesn't seem to have links to changelogs, not are they in separ

Re: gcc 3.3 - what problems should I expect?

2003-06-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Krzysztof Kajkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm intending to move to SID from my woody box. I was wondering what > problems should I expect while building packages using new gcc 3.3. Does > kernel 2.4.21 build correctly? Yes. > What about other progs like mplayer, > mozilla etc? Can I instal

Re: Packages preventing other packages from going into testing (fwd)

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:58:09PM +0200, Jacob Hallén wrote: > My program answers the question "Where will an extra effort produce drastic > results?" I'm sure I could have modified Björns program to yield this output, > but I don't read and write Perl programs for pleasure. http://bjorn.haxx.s

rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Re: Package Lists and Size, linux.debian.devel Cor> Some of the servers run rsync, which works well for the Packages Cor> file, but does not work for the packages themselves. OK, will putting rsync in one's sources.list as you say below just affect the Packages file fetching, or also the fetchi

Re: Every spam is sacred: tagging mails because of their content or their supposed origin?

2003-06-17 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:33:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Today I noticed those summaries were getting spamassassing scores in the > 30 range. I ended up whitelisting myself, though that doesn't feel like > a good idea -- now SA might mislearn spam subjects as ham, and any > spammer who forge