RFH: libs11n (serialisation for C++)

2005-08-11 Thread martin f krafft
Hi folks, libs11n[0] is a nice C++ serialisation library. The author makes no secrets about shortcomings (e.g. when compared to boost's libs11n), but also has some funky stuff in place no other serialisation library offers. Quickly: serialisation is saving and storing data from C++ programmes. 0.

Work-needing packages report for Aug 12, 2005

2005-08-11 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 174 (new: 13) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 100 (new: 5) Total number of packages reques

Re: libxslt1 / libxslt1.1 clean-up, comments welcome

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > I'm about to remove the libxslt1 package, which has been created a long > time ago for backward compatibility, when upstream did screw up ABI and > removed support for the libxsltbreakpoint library. > Now that no package depend on it,

Bug#322666: ITP: eyeos -- personal content management system based upon the style of an operating system

2005-08-11 Thread David Moreno Garza
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eyeos Version : 0.6.2.3 Upstream Author : Pau Garcia-Milà <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.eyeos.org/ * License : GPL Description : personal CMS based upo

Re: what happened to RunDinstallHourly proposal?

2005-08-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* kamaraju kusumanchi [Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:04:18 -0400]: > I need not wait for one day to erect my broken sid machine. Indeed, you need not. In case of breakage, fixed packages would be available right after upload in http://incoming.debian.org. (Except during that special hour or now ho

Re: what happened to RunDinstallHourly proposal?

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:04:18PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I was just browsing through the wiki and came across this very > interesting idea. It would be really useful if the mirrors are updated > more frequently. I need not wait for one day to erect my broken sid machine. > http:/

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Qingning Huo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I suggest dpkg-divert /usr/bin/git, and install a shell script as >> /usr/bin/git, which will invoke either program depending on a certain >> environment variable[1] or a configuration file. > Does this

Re: alioth down ?

2005-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:18:10AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I see that alioth/haydn is down in the IRC channel topic, > and trying to ssh to the server seems to confirm the situation. > > Is this a scheduled downtime that I missed an annoucement for or > some unexpected breakage? (

alioth down ?

2005-08-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I see that alioth/haydn is down in the IRC channel topic, and trying to ssh to the server seems to confirm the situation. Is this a scheduled downtime that I missed an annoucement for or some unexpected breakage? (i.e. How long should I wait for it to come back up) regards, junic

Re: what happened to RunDinstallHourly proposal?

2005-08-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/11/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Processing time to do a dinstall cycle and pulse all mirrors is quite > high. You would hit mirrors with the next pulse while the old one > still runs a lot of the time and, even worse, update the master mirror > between phase1 and phase

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:00:59PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > >> On the other hand integrating Debian's *packaging* infrastructure >> (i.e., the debian/ subdirectory) in upstream source cannot be >> recommended. It only creates trouble for develo

Re: what happened to RunDinstallHourly proposal?

2005-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi >I was just browsing through the wiki and came across this very >interesting idea. It would be really useful if the mirrors are >updated more frequently. I need not wait for one day to erect my >broken sid machine. > > http://wik

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10-Aug-05, 13:38 (CDT), Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: >> > >> > #!/bin/sh >> > # Do the Solaris Dance: >> > if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then >> > exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@" >> >

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/11/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:23:12AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Just one more question: what happened to my original emails? > > I read them. Most likely I saved the wrong one for further processing. Thats > why it is a good idea to c

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 17:37]: > > Documentation in /usr/lib/foo? > Sorry? I don't understand what documentation you mean. The .ps file _is_ > the resource. Ah, okay. Sorry, I missunderstood that. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.o

Re: libxslt1 / libxslt1.1 clean-up, comments welcome

2005-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:40:41PM -0500, Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Now that no package depend on it, I am going to remove it, but that > > leaves a libxslt1.1 package alone, not really respectful of the debian > > s

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >phpbb2 For the curious: fixed in svn, will be included in next upload. Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Qingning Huo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest dpkg-divert /usr/bin/git, and install a shell script as > /usr/bin/git, which will invoke either program depending on a certain > environment variable[1] or a configuration file. It is possible to achieve > the following objectives. > > (1) Inst

Bug#322615: ITP: libmodule-find-perl -- Find and use installed modules in a (sub)category

2005-08-11 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmodule-find-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Christian Renz, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~crenz/Module-Find-0.04/ * License

Re: libxslt1 / libxslt1.1 clean-up, comments welcome

2005-08-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > Now that no package depend on it, I am going to remove it, but that > leaves a libxslt1.1 package alone, not really respectful of the debian > standards for package naming. How is it not respectful of Debian standards for package namin

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:23:12AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Just one more question: what happened to my original emails? I read them. Most likely I saved the wrong one for further processing. Thats why it is a good idea to copy the bug report. Sorry for your double work. Gruss Bernd --

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:18 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > all in all, if you offer a distro that is several years old it's not > suitable for _general_ desktop use (I'm sure it would be OK for _some_ > dektop users), regardless of how much you dislike people running unstable. Then stick with tes

libxslt1 / libxslt1.1 clean-up, comments welcome

2005-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
Hello, I'm about to remove the libxslt1 package, which has been created a long time ago for backward compatibility, when upstream did screw up ABI and removed support for the libxsltbreakpoint library. Now that no package depend on it, I am going to remove it, but that leaves a libxslt1.1 package

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:00:59PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> On the other hand integrating Debian's *packaging* infrastructure >> (i.e., the debian/ subdirectory) in upstream source cannot be >> recommended. It only creates trouble for develop

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:28:48PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:20:23AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > Qingning Huo suggested using diversions to make /usr/bin/git a little > > selector script that lets the admin & user choose between git-the-shell > > and

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Conflicting is Not An Option. So policy says, for good reasons. OK, bad idea. > There is precedence to consider. Sarge already contains a git package > that provides /usr/bin/git. Users who update from sarge to etch would > not be served well if the

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Either rename the executable to /usr/bin/git-the-scm (or > whatever) or conflict with the other git. Conflicting is Not An Option. So policy says, for good reasons. > Or ask the other git people to rename their binary. Maybe > git-the-scm is (or will

what happened to RunDinstallHourly proposal?

2005-08-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I was just browsing through the wiki and came across this very interesting idea. It would be really useful if the mirrors are updated more frequently. I need not wait for one day to erect my broken sid machine. http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly I have also read the corresponding

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:20:23AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Qingning Huo suggested using diversions to make /usr/bin/git a little > selector script that lets the admin & user choose between git-the-shell > and git-the-scm. This sounds good to me, who objects? What are you going to do a

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've pushed the "rename it upstream" idea on the upstream maintainers > twice now and it gets shut down by both Linus (the original author) > and Junio (the current maintainer). [2] There is still the option to rename it for Debian only, without c

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Marco d'Itri] > > Reality? git is the kernel SCM and GNU Interactive Tools is an > > obscure package, and you should just install /usr/bin/git. > > If the GNU Interactive Tools maintainer refuses to rename the other > > program then just conflict wi

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > All packages which supply an instance of a common command name (or, in > general, filename) should generally use update-alternatives, so that > they may be installed together. If update-alternatives is not used, > then each package must use Conflicts to

Bug#292222: ITH: ibuild -- custom LiveCD creator

2005-08-11 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #29 Owner: "Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I notice that this ITP is already 192 days old and still has not been acted upon. Meanwhile, I have been spending the last few hours helping the upstream author

Re: Bug#322534: ITP: mpfi -- multiple precision floating-point in terval computation

2005-08-11 Thread Laurent Fousse
* Humberto Massa Guimarães [Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:39:56AM -0300]: > Yeah, but what does it *DO*? If it is a library, it oughta be called > libmpfi ... and it should be stated. It is a library. The source package is called `mpfi', the binary package is called `libmpfi-dev' (only a static library

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Aug-05, 13:38 (CDT), Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > # Do the Solaris Dance: > > if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then > > exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@" > > fi > > > > sigh.. okay, my "correction" had bugs, t

RE: Bug#322534: ITP: mpfi -- multiple precision floating-point in terval computation

2005-08-11 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
> * Package name: mpfi > Version : 1.3.3 > Upstream Authors: Nathalie Revol, Fabrice Rouillier (email ommited) > * URL : > http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/nathalie.revol/software.html > * License : LGPL 2.1 or later > Description : multiple precision floating-poin

Re: Partition, LVM, and RAID management utility

2005-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For for the first time since potato, I reinstalled Debian from scratch > on my main box. Hoorah for dist-upgrade! One experience I took away > from the installation is how impressed I was with partman, the > debian-installer partition management tool. Th

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] > Reality? git is the kernel SCM and GNU Interactive Tools is an > obscure package, and you should just install /usr/bin/git. > If the GNU Interactive Tools maintainer refuses to rename the other > program then just conflict with it. Ah, conflict resolution by the use of force. The

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 11, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People who just want GNU Interactive Tools get what they want. People who > just want Cogito get what they want. People who want both have to learn > a new name for one of them. Seems good to me. Am I missing anything? Reality? git is

[EMAIL PROTECTED] no longer exists

2005-08-11 Thread Wayne Christopher
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Bug#322534: ITP: mpfi -- multiple precision floating-point interval computation

2005-08-11 Thread Laurent Fousse
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Laurent Fousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mpfi Version : 1.3.3 Upstream Authors : Nathalie Revol, Fabrice Rouillier (email ommited) * URL : http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/nathalie.revol/software.html * License : LGPL 2.

Re: libnss-db and /usr/lib/* libraries

2005-08-11 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:17:27 +0200 Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. The problem is important not only for libnss-db package but also > for libnss-ldap, libnss-mysql and others. > > $ ldd /usr/lib/libnss_db.so.2 | grep /usr > libdb-4.3.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.so (0xb7e100

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Qingning Huo
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:09:44PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > So, I'm proposing this: > > GNU Interactive Tools installs /usr/bin/git.shell (or something) > > Cogito installs /usr/bin/git.scm (or something) > > update-alternatives is used to make one of those appear as >

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sigh.. okay, my "correction" had bugs, too :-) better as if [ ! -d ~root -a -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ; then Better yet, be POSIX compliant: if [ ! -d ~root ] && [ -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ; then -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

libnss-db and /usr/lib/* libraries

2005-08-11 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Hi. The problem is important not only for libnss-db package but also for libnss-ldap, libnss-mysql and others. $ ldd /usr/lib/libnss_db.so.2 | grep /usr libdb-4.3.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.so (0xb7e1) So the system can't unmount /usr partition on poweroff process. I wonder if I shoul

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-11 Thread Jeroen Vermeulen
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:00:59PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > On the other hand integrating Debian's *packaging* infrastructure > (i.e., the debian/ subdirectory) in upstream source cannot be > recommended. It only creates trouble for developers when the policy > and environment they are pack

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Bump. On 8/6/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Didn't I (also) send you a much later version? > > Hmm.. I cant find that, but yes I thin u did. Can you dig that up? Sure: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222324&msg=19 J