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Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:02:04PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > What if the packages tells to dpkg which files or directories it will > create on the user's home directory and when a package is purged the > user could run a program to purge the files of packages that no longer > exists. I have a b

Re: [proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Michael Banck wrote: > Also, please note that at least half of the dpkg-maintainers don't read > -devel, you probably want to post this to -dpkg. Incidently, there is a > proposal and patch by Gerhard Tonn for handling lib64 under > discussion[2]. Well, considering there are

inews path question

2003-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews, while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how is a program like slrn supposed to find an inews program to run? If it searches PATH it w

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Re: versions of -dev packages

2003-06-26 Thread Greg Stark
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is a script that finds different versions of installed binary packages > with the same source package name. > > Running this script on some of my systems gave me lots of interesting > information ... Indeed it seems to be finding me lot

Counter-Proposal: Architecture Versions and Architecture Features

2003-06-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, Andreas Barth wrote: > DRAFT - Subarchitectures for debian [0.1] First, thanks for creating a prototype proposal. I understand that the your proposed extensions to the Debian package system are based on the concepts of "sub-archs" and "meta-sub-archs" (I'd call these "pseudo-sub-archs" o

Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-26 Thread Millis Miller
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: email Version : 1.9.0 Upstream Author : Dean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/email * License : Custom Description : Send email from command line,

Re: [Stefano =)] Bug#198619: Could not perform configuration on libpam0g

2003-06-26 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > [Please cc me; I'm very behind on -devel] > > > I'm very confused by this bug and am sufficiently busy this week that > I'm not going to be able to diagnose it right now. > > Could anyone who has a chance to do so please look at e

Re: apt ignores -o DPkg::Options ?

2003-06-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hmm... > > Seems that apt-get ignores -o DPkg::Options. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /tmp/xxx > #!/bin/sh > echo dpkg $* > exit 1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> LANG=C apt-get -o 'Dir::Bin::dpkg=/tmp/xxx' -o > 'DPkg::Options={"--xxx";}' install nvi > R

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Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> It's pointless to go through this again. Instead, I'll offer a concrete >> example of the confusion this can create (the original submitter asks >> for clarification of how the bug was fixed): >> >> http://bu

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Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-26 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: The patch has been already written: http://lwn.net/Articles/8634/ I'm sure theere's a better link, but that's the best I could extract out of google without resorting to bribery :-) This patch is insufficient. It does not implement xaddl. Regards, Martin

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Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:53:39AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > >> 2. debian/changelog readers -- No change. They have lost a slight bit > >> information that is irrelevant for the purpo

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-26 Thread Mathieu Roy
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:21:22AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Tell me, you seriously think that there i

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:44:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new > > platforms. > > It's not that many actually. The only CPU that NetBSD claims to support >

Re: [proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:40:21AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030626 08:20]: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > What does oppose us to make subarchitectures quite more easy than now? > > > (That would also be useful for t

Re: apt ignores -o DPkg::Options ?

2003-06-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:11:07PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Seems that apt-get ignores -o DPkg::Options. http://lists.debian.org/deity/ > So dpkg is called without any options from DPkg::Options ... > Should this be reported as a bug in apt, or I am doing something wrong? It's a qu

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:23:04PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Tried mozilla recently? It's a thousand times better than Netscape 4.7x > > > was... Although I've still had it vanish a couple of times recently. It > > > doesn't hang like NS though

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Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-26 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Tried mozilla recently? It's a thousand times better than Netscape 4.7x > > was... Although I've still had it vanish a couple of times recently. It > > doesn't hang like NS though. > > There are some sites that still require Netscape 4.77. A good example

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:46:19AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:15:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > >>>Not all of it, but you can't object to duplicating a single sent

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2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Lau
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Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Is connecting files to packages like this part of cruft? A potential wishlist item for cruft? Drew Daniels

Bug#198924: ITP: gpe-julia -- Julia/Mandelbrot set generator for GPE

2003-06-26 Thread Moray Allan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gpe-julia Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Moray Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/GPE-games.shtml * License : GPL Description : J

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-26 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500 Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would > also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we > had support for subarchtectures, not only would the ix86 mess be able to > b

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Yes, I did it, but I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about a newbie user who doesn't understand why these files are in his home directory. This happens in the company I work... the administrative office works in debian and this people doesn't even know what is "ls". Imagine if they can unders

ximiam connector

2003-06-26 Thread Thomas E. Vaughan
Is there anyone else out there trying to run Connector on Debian (sid)? Although Ximian strongly discourages a direct download of Connector (because Ximian urges the use of Red Carpet), the binaries are available at . Unfortunatel

Announcement: APT Secure

2003-06-26 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings :) "APT Secure" is the working name of a project to add to APT the ability to verify the authenticity of Debian packages. It accomplishes this via a chain of trust which is initiated by the package maintainers and ends on the installing machine. This is a call to the community to help

Bug#189329: ITP: gnome-swallow - meta-applet to embed any application in the GNOME panel

2003-06-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
submitter 189329 [EMAIL PROTECTED] retitle 189329 ITP: gnome-swallow - meta-applet to embed any application in the GNOME panel thanks I've prepared packages for gnome-swallow at http://people.debian.org/~joss/packages/ and will upload them soon if everything is fine. * Package name: gnome-sw

Bug#198911: ITP: python-simpletal -- An independent implementation of the TAL, TALES and METAL languages

2003-06-26 Thread Fredrik Steen
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-simpletal Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : Colin Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/ * License : BSD(?) Description

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Dan Jacobson may or may not have written... > > > I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the > > package justice by giving an adequate description. > > "I have here a 20K package. Should it have a 1/3-line description?" I dunno, but I

postrm hangs after restart of apache

2003-06-26 Thread Uwe Steinmann
Hi, I'm currently trying to write a postrm file for a debian package containing a php4 web application. During postinst I did set up apache und PostgreSQL. When I try to purge or remove the package, the postrm bash script fails quite early after I had removed the included http.conf file of my appl

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:33:49PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > 2. debian/changelog readers -- No change. They have lost a slight bit > > information that is irrelevant for the purpose of documenting Debian > > changes. > > I am

[proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030626 08:20]: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > What does oppose us to make subarchitectures quite more easy than now? > > (That would also be useful for the AMD Opteron and the like that could > > use normal i386-code, but ca

Re: Open questions of package descriptions (Was: Bug#198665: ITP: pmk...)

2003-06-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:40:45PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > > > * lose the article > > > Why? > > > > > > > * do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper > > > > noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or acronym requires it > > > Why? > > Argh, we really should decide

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:21:22AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Tell me, you seriously think that there is a libc5 program still around > > > that uses DRI ? Hel

apt ignores -o DPkg::Options ?

2003-06-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hmm... Seems that apt-get ignores -o DPkg::Options. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /tmp/xxx #!/bin/sh echo dpkg $* exit 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> LANG=C apt-get -o 'Dir::Bin::dpkg=/tmp/xxx' -o 'DPkg::Options={"--xxx";}' install nvi Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The follow

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Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new > platforms. It's not that many actually. The only CPU that NetBSD claims to support but Linux doesn't is the pc532. Also the (umerged) Linux VAX and arm26 aren't r

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-26 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Morning .. On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would >also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we >had support for subarchtectures, not only would the ix86 mess be able to >be sp

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:02:04PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I had a problem of exceeded quota in my home directory, so I > went cleaning it, and I saw many and many files and directories with > configurations for applications that I've runned in the past, but that > packages

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-26 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:47:41AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:15:42AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:59 am, Emile van Bergen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > > Tell me when you u

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:35:53PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > I'm surprised that pthreads apparently doesn't use it. nptl doesn't support i386 anymore because of that.