Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 8, 2005

2005-04-08 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-08 14:05]: > [...] > >acl-installer (#297344), orphaned 38 days ago > > Description: Installer for Franz' Allegro 6.2 Lisp Trial Edition > > Reverse Depends: acl-mlisp acl-m

Re: Right of a maintainer not to respect FHS

2005-04-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Don Armstrong dies 04/04/2005 hora 01:09: > > Otherwise, all you're doing is abusing the BTS, no matter how correct > > your actual appraisal of the severity bug is. > > Downgrading a bug that is a clear violation of the policy just to > have a

Re: Right of a maintainer not to respect FHS

2005-04-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Don Armstrong dies 04/04/2005 hora 01:09: > Otherwise, all you're doing is abusing the BTS, no matter how correct > your actual appraisal of the severity bug is. Downgrading a bug that is a clear violation of the policy just to have a package in the next stable release IS abusing the BTS.

Re: Right of a maintainer not to respect FHS

2005-04-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Steve Langasek dies 04/04/2005 hora 00:42: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300765&msg=14 > > He has the approval of the release team. I didn't notice this mail in the time I was discussing with the maintainer. And it lacks explanation. When I read it recently, I thought

Re: Bug#303725: specter: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): syntax error before '{' token

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias Klose
Verdan writes: > Hello > > > With the attached patch 'specter' can be compiled > > on amd64 using gcc-4.0. > > It's not so easy. It was done that way to allow specter compile on gcc > 2.95. This patch makes it impossible, so I hesitate to apply it. > Moreover fourth version of gcc is real

Bug#303811: ITP: net6 -- Network access framework for IPv4/IPv6

2005-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: net6 Version : 1.0.0 (currently 0.9.9.20050408) Upstream Author : Armin Burgmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://darcs.0x539.de/net6 * License : GPL Description :

Bug#303810: ITP: mpdscribble -- Music Player Daemon interface to Audioscrobbler

2005-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mpdscribble Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Kuno Woudt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://scribble.frob.nl/ * License : GPL Description : Music Player Daemon interfa

Re: popcon files are corrupted (Was Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked)

2005-04-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:15:40AM +0200, Igor Genibel wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2005 19:06, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Hi all, > > [...] > > popcon.debian.org verified > > qa.d.o/developer.php gathers information directly from popcon.d.o and the > backend crashed today. > At le

Re: Bug#303725: specter: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): syntax error before '{' token

2005-04-08 Thread Verdan
Hello > With the attached patch 'specter' can be compiled > on amd64 using gcc-4.0. It's not so easy. It was done that way to allow specter compile on gcc 2.95. This patch makes it impossible, so I hesitate to apply it. Moreover fourth version of gcc is really experimental, and if I had to choose

lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-08 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Mads, * Mads Lindstrøm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-08 14:08]: > I am writing this email as I think there could be done more to > automatically test Debian packages. This would improve quality, as > discovering errors is the first step in correcting them. I am not a > Debian maintainer, but

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 8, 2005

2005-04-08 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-08 14:05]: [...] >acl-installer (#297344), orphaned 38 days ago > Description: Installer for Franz' Allegro 6.2 Lisp Trial Edition > Reverse Depends: acl-mlisp acl-mlisp8 acl-alisp8 acl-alisp acldoc-el > >admesh (#297345), or

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-08 Thread Eric Dorland
* Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > This raises a valid point; maybe the maintainer can comment on > > > > this? Since we already receive no security updates to php3 from > > > > upstream, is it feasible security-wise to keep it in the > > > > distribution for

Re: Automatic testing of Debian packages

2005-04-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michael Schiansky dies 08/04/2005 hora 11:44: > None of my maintained packages do provide such things. For all of them > any automatic test is impossible as they require user interaction. apt-get install expectk > IMHO it's not worth the efford to implement such an autotest-system > just

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:43:52PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:13:55AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:22:51PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Given some options: > > > > > > 1. Don't distribute the firmware blob at all; > > > 2. Provid

Re: Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-08 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:27:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > This is bcron, a new cron system designed with secure operations in mind. > > Neat! Any chance of adding fcron-like functionality? I got used to its very > advanced anacronis

Re: Detecting the installed MTA

2005-04-08 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050407T172533+0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > (Don't use grep-status or grep-available in package scripts.) Since I've been asked, here's some more about that from /usr/share/doc/grep-dctrl/Compatibility : 8<-- If you use grep-dctrl in a Debian package, you should depend on the grep-dc

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > - sarge is around the corner, and keeping it in means maintaining > > > it for possibly another 2-4 years! if it's *already* > > > no longer maintained upstream... > > > > This raises a valid point; maybe the maintainer can comment on this? Since > > we already rec

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Don Armstrong wrote: > > > This raises a valid point; maybe the maintainer can comment on > > > this? Since we already receive no security updates to php3 from > > > upstream, is it feasible security-wise to keep it in the > > > distribution for some years to come? > > > > I think the opinion of t

Re: Bug#303667: ITP: cycle -- calendar program for women

2005-04-08 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 08, 2005 at 01:20, Miriam Ruiz praised the > llamas by saying: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: cycle > > Version : 0.3.0 > > Upstream Author : Ole

Re: Bug#303667: ITP: cycle -- calendar program for women

2005-04-08 Thread David Pashley
On Apr 08, 2005 at 01:20, Miriam Ruiz praised the llamas by saying: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: cycle > Version : 0.3.0 > Upstream Author : Oleg S. Gints <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://cycle.

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:45:19AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: > > You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check > > while you're at it. Both are cronable. > > ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not

Are there any problems with mirrors.kernel.org/debian?

2005-04-08 Thread Shaul Karl
Am I right that according to mirrors.kernel.org/debian, the archive was not updated for several days? Is that related to the fact that mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ls-lR* have time stamps of 30-Mar-2005? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Quinney
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my > > machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure > > a program in use isn't orphane

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Birch
Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: > You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check > while you're at it. Both are cronable. ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not wnpp-check. Thanks for the tip. Perfect, thanks! Steve -- To UNS

Re: Automatic testing of Debian packages

2005-04-08 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi Mads! On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:37:27AM +0200, Mads Lindstrøm wrote: > It would be nice if packages were automatically tested under different > setups, like language settings or other things that may affect a package. > Also each package maintainer could supply a script which should test if t

Re: Automatic testing of Debian packages

2005-04-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mads Lindstrøm] > Do there exist, any other kind of automatic tests that I have not > mentioned here? More automatic testing would be good. Some packages run self-tests as part of the build process. More packages should do that. A long time ago, I wrote a prototype for testing package upgrades

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my > machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure > a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. > Ideally the program would be run fr

Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Birch
I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. Ideally the program would be run from cron about once a week and email a status report. Is there a progra

Automatic testing of Debian packages

2005-04-08 Thread Mads Lindstrøm
Hi I am writing this email as I think there could be done more to automatically test Debian packages. This would improve quality, as discovering errors is the first step in correcting them. I am not a Debian maintainer, but have been using Debian for 4+ years. As I am not an insider, I am likely t

popcon files are corrupted (Was Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked)

2005-04-08 Thread Igor Genibel
On Thursday 07 April 2005 19:06, Martin Schulze wrote: Hi all, [...] > popcon.debian.org verified qa.d.o/developer.php gathers information directly from popcon.d.o and the backend crashed today. At least the by_inst file is seriously corrupted Cheers. -- Igor Genibel ÂNon bene pr