Re: Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives

Out of curiosity, how does this program is different from dirvish? * Reto Schuettel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Reto Schuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: bontmia > Version : 0.14 > Upstream Author : John Enok Vollestad

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

* David Moreno Garza [Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:59:22 -0600]: > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:52 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:20:13 +0100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > > Any input is welcome. > > It would be nice if the page indicated which of the binary packages is new. > The

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

> ... should all characters in the class [:space:] be > treated as a token seperator in shells/languages, or > just the ASCII SPACE? If it seems pertinent to you, the C language standard sets this precedent [1]: "The source file is decomposed into preprocessing tokens and sequences of white-space

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:25:41PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:17:44AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:34AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > > > Nice, so we should check that any linked GPL library directly > > >

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:52 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:20:13 +0100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > Any input is welcome. > > It would be nice if the page indicated which of the binary packages is new. The binary column indicates those created within the source package.

debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist Having no mp3 encoder in the archive, due to possible patent problems, i believe it would be a wiser idea to have "music-encoder" as a virtual package than "mp3-encoder". Tools that have a Depends: entry on mp3-encoder are: ecasound Too

Re: Bug#294845: ITP: holotz-castle -- platform game with high dosis of mistery

On 11-Feb-05, 15:17 (CST), Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: holotz-castle > Version : 1.3.1 > Upstream Author : Juan Carlos Seijo P?rez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 20:11 -0200, Lucas de Sousa wrote: > > > > Rules to live by: > > > > Look before you leap. > > > > Measure twice, cut once. > > > > Google it! > > > > > > This is a very good set of rules if all of our intendend users are > > > experts. > > > > So you are saying that the

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:20:13 +0100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Any input is welcome. It would be nice if the page indicated which of the binary packages is new. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: /etc under svk

* Torsten Landschoff: > Wanted to do that - but! Does svk handle symlinks? Thinking of > /etc/rc?.d and /etc/alternatives... Wrote my own scripts to handle svn > for /etc but they are still quite hackish... Subversion 1.1 and svk 0.18 both support symlinks natively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: what is /.udev for ?

> > > Rules to live by: > > > Look before you leap. > > > Measure twice, cut once. > > > Google it! > > > > This is a very good set of rules if all of our intendend users are > > experts. > > So you are saying that these are *not* good rules for amateurs? It is But is not wise to develop sof

Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Reto Schuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bontmia Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : John Enok Vollestad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://folk.uio.no/johnen/bontmia/ * License : GPL Description : backup ove

Bug#294991: O: sitecopy -- A program for managing a WWW site via FTP, DAV or HTTP

Package: wnpp Severity: normal The package lags 3 years behind upstream. It is based on upstream version of 13 January 2002, while the current upstream version is 0.14.2 of 3 January 2005: http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/ The upstream version probably corrects all or most of the bugs repor

Re: /etc under svk

Hi Enrico, On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:36:04PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > a tip to share: > ># Install svk >apt-get install svk > ># Initialize a depot in /root/.svk >svk depotmap --init > [...] Wanted to do that - but! Does svk handle symlinks? Thinking of /etc/rc?.d and /e

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:33 -0200, Lucas de Sousa wrote: > > > 'rm' is not a proper tool for file removal? > > > > Rules to live by: > > Look before you leap. > > Measure twice, cut once. > > Google it! > > This is a very good set of rules if all of our intendend users are experts.

Re: what is /.udev for ?

* Marco d'Itri wrote: > By popular request, the comment now states: > > # /.dev is used by /sbin/MAKEDEV to access the real /dev directory. > # if you do not like this then rmdir /.dev/ after unmounting it. Thanks. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: what is /.udev for ?

> > 'rm' is not a proper tool for file removal? > > Rules to live by: > Look before you leap. > Measure twice, cut once. > Google it! This is a very good set of rules if all of our intendend users are experts. :) And even to experts... If I have not readed this here I would look at it. An

Re: what is /.udev for ?

By popular request, the comment now states: # /.dev is used by /sbin/MAKEDEV to access the real /dev directory. # if you do not like this then rmdir /.dev/ after unmounting it. And for the benefit of another class of users who run commands without understand their consequences, I added this

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:17:44AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:34AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > > Nice, so we should check that any linked GPL library directly > > > > (obviuolsy) or > > > > indirectly (with N=1,2,3... levels of indirection) linke

Re: Orphaning three packages

Neil McGovern wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm orphaning three packages: >hawhaw-doc - the documentation for HAWHAW and HAWXY >hawxy - a script that makes PHP-enabled webservers to HAWHAW proxies >libphp-hawhaw - a PHP toolkit to create universal mobile applications > >RFAs have been filed for all of them.

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 23:16 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:05:15PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > "carefully remove with appropriate tools." Anyone who goes mucking > > around their filesystem removing potentially critical compenents > > without thinking about it

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

|| On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:50:56 +0100 || martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mfk> also sprach Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1842 +0100]: >> I think you might change this: >> >> incoming -> package source -> buildds -> package upload -> incoming mfk> Given that incoming

Re: mirror the Packages files _after_ the packages!

Hi Dan, On Wednesday, 09 Feb 2005, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know you Debian people think it's just hilarious when users try to > apt-get upgrade during the period after when the Packages files > arrive on the mirrors, but before the packages they describe have > fully arrived.

mirror the Packages files _after_ the packages!

I know you Debian people think it's just hilarious when users try to apt-get upgrade during the period after when the Packages files arrive on the mirrors, but before the packages they describe have fully arrived. "Haw haw haw, try again later", you say, never thinking that maybe writing the Packa

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

* martin f. krafft: > Based on the work of Kevin Mark (URL not available, sorry), I have > made a graph of the life cycle of a Debian package for inclusion in > my forthcoming book (http://debianbook.info). You can find the > sources and generated files at > > http://people.debian.org/~madduck/g

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

also sprach Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1842 +0100]: > I think you might change this: > > incoming -> package source -> buildds -> package upload -> incoming Given that incoming contains the source package (unless orig.tar.gz is pulled from unstable, should add that), the bui

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

|| On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:47:27 +0100 || martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mfk> Based on the work of Kevin Mark (URL not available, sorry), I have mfk> made a graph of the life cycle of a Debian package for inclusion in mfk> my forthcoming book (http://debianbook.info). You can find the

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:34AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > Nice, so we should check that any linked GPL library directly (obviuolsy) > > > or > > > indirectly (with N=1,2,3... levels of indirection) linked against > > > openssl adds the exception. > > No, we should simply no

Re: Debian mirror scripts

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > >> > mystery nobody ever will solve. > >> > >> It i

Re: Debian mirror scripts

Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a >> > mystery nobody ever will solve. >> >> It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. >>

RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

Based on the work of Kevin Mark (URL not available, sorry), I have made a graph of the life cycle of a Debian package for inclusion in my forthcoming book (http://debianbook.info). You can find the sources and generated files at http://people.debian.org/~madduck/graphs/package-cycle/en/ Additio

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Ingo Saitz wrote: > Just thought there may be a better place to put it: /dev/.dev > It just takes some more fiddling to mount it there: > > # mount the old /dev to /dev/.dev > # since /dev is hidden, I need to bind mount / somwhere else first > mkdir /dev/.dev /dev/.tmp > moun

Bug#294943: ITP: ssh-proxy-connect -- tunnel SSH/TCP connection through SOCKS and HTTP(S) proxies

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ssh-proxy-connect Version : 1.90 Upstream Author : Shun-ichi GOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.html * License : GPL Description : tunnel SSH/TCP connection through S

Orphaning three packages

Hi all, I'm orphaning three packages: hawhaw-doc - the documentation for HAWHAW and HAWXY hawxy - a script that makes PHP-enabled webservers to HAWHAW proxies libphp-hawhaw - a PHP toolkit to create universal mobile applications RFAs have been filed for all of them. There's new upstream availabl

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:46:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 09, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how does /.dev fit in with the fhs? > It does not, but there is no other place to put it. Just do not look at > it and it will not bother you. Just thought there may be a better pl

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:51:11PM +0100, Björn Krombholz wrote: > AFAIR the only device needed on my system was > /dev/null. /dev/null and /dev/console, since the kernel needs the latter to open the initial console and pass that to init. Until that kernelbug gets fixed, at least. Ingo -- $

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:54 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > > Don't you need to tell Python what charset you are using if you don't > > use ASCII? > > This is PEP 263 , its > purpose is to declare the encoding of Python source files but it > actually only

Re: Debian mirror scripts

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > > mystery nobody ever will solve. > > It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. > > If Debian would provide zsync files a zsync module

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

Ross Burton wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:18 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -c 'print "hello world"' > > File "", line 1 > > print "hello world" > > ^ > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Don't you need to tell Python what charset you are using if y

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

* Frederic Peters [Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:18:06 +0100]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ruby -e 'print "hello world\n"' > -e:1: Invalid char `\302' in expression > -e:1: Invalid char `\240' in expression Just to be fully correct, Ruby needs to be told it's dealing with UTF-8 in source: $ ruby -Ku -e '

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:18:06PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e 'printÂ"hello world\n";' > Unrecognized character \xC2 at -e line 1. 0xc2 is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX... Sounds like you tried to give UTF-8 to Perl without the "use utf-8" pragma to tell

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:18 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -c 'print "hello world"' > File "", line 1 > print "hello world" > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax Don't you need to tell Python what charset you are using if you don't use ASCII? Ross -- Ross

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

Alastair McKinstry wrote: > As this is not a shell-specific problem, I was really wondering if the > scripting languages had encountered it, particularly the 'we support > Unicode' ones... like Perl and Python... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -c 'printÂ"hello world"' File "", line 1 printÂ"he

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

On Sath, 2005-02-12 at 11:07 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno sab, 12-02-2005 alle 09:43 +, Alastair McKinstry ha > scritto: > [...] > > Does anyone have copies (or pointers to free versions of) SUS and any > > rulings on this matter? What are developers opinions on this: should > > thi

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

[Martin Zobel-Helas] > from the page: "Total package count: 356" > > is that the number of source package, or the number of binaries? It is the number of source packages, but I agree, the text should probably mention this explicitly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

Hi Anibal, On Saturday, 12 Feb 2005, Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:50:27PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: > >Package: ftp.debian.org > >Severity: wishlist > > > >Hello ftp-masters, > > > >It would be nice if there were a webpage (updated eg. once a day)

Re: what is /.udev for ?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:05:15PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > "carefully remove with appropriate tools." Anyone who goes mucking > around their filesystem removing potentially critical compenents > without thinking about it and using the proper tools for the job, > is not thinking straight

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

Il giorno sab, 12-02-2005 alle 09:43 +, Alastair McKinstry ha scritto: [...] > Does anyone have copies (or pointers to free versions of) SUS and any > rulings on this matter? What are developers opinions on this: should > this be treated as a shell (and other scripting language) bug, ie. > shou

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:20:13 +0100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > http://qa.debian.org/~anibal/debian-NEW.html > > The above page is based on previous work done by Peter Reinholdtsen. > > It still work in progress. > > Any input is welcome. Thanks for providing this page. It would be nice

#284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

Hi, I'm investigating #284724, which is about problems caused with NON-BREAK SPACE. This is a character (that can be typed as AltGr-Space in the French and some other keymaps) that looks like a space, but has the added semantics 'don't break a line here', in word processing and display software.

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:39:58AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Nice, so we should check that any linked GPL library directly (obviuolsy) or > > indirectly (with N=1,2,3... levels of indirection) linked against > > openssl adds the exception. > > No, we should simply not be linking libmysql

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:14:26AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:30:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:31:44PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > > > On 2005-02-11 sean finney wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:15:55AM +0100

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:30:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:31:44PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > > On 2005-02-11 sean finney wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:15:55AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > FYI: new mysql FLOSS includes OpenSSL licen

Processed: Reopening #242950

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 242950 Bug#242950: Please update libtool for GNU/k*BSD port. Bug reopened, originator not changed. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bug

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:30:13AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >[Anibal Monsalve Salazar] >>http://qa.debian.org/~anibal/debian-NEW.html > >Great. This is much better than my crude hack. If you plan to keep >this updated all the time, I'll close down my page and point people to >your page.