Re: Bug#329425: RFA: psutils -- A collection of PostScript document handling utilities

2005-09-23 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I use these and would be happy to adopt the package. > > OK, that sounds good, and thanks. I just uploaded 1.17-19 which seems > to be doing fine with the autobuilders. Sounds good. I'm at the tail end of

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:11:05PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said > >From memory, lyx is a major mess that FTBFS with gcc4 in very horripilant > ways, uses yada, and is otherwise NMU-unfriendly IMHO. But it has been some > time since I tried to build it. > > It is also outdated (1.3.6 is

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:52:02PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > >> been rebuilt with the new versions. What

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy > for such packages? Please don't NMU it, I'm the maintainer and tried to have it upload

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:09:23 18:11 -0300]: > From memory, lyx is a major mess that FTBFS with gcc4 in very horripilant > ways, uses yada, and is otherwise NMU-unfriendly IMHO. But it has been some > time since I tried to build it. The build system has been change

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:09:23 11:19 -0700]: > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy > for such packages? Hi Thomas, AIUI, there are lyx packages ready, but there was a p

Re: Bug#329425: RFA: psutils -- A collection of PostScript document handling utilities

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Browning
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use these and would be happy to adopt the package. OK, that sounds good, and thanks. I just uploaded 1.17-19 which seems to be doing fine with the autobuilders. (I had also wondered, if further upstream development still isn't likely, if there mig

Re: Reviving the Debian FAQ

2005-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:01:48AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > The Debian FAQ [0] has been, unfortunately, unmaintained for quite some time > and needs a thorough review. True. > I updated information in the FAQ in preparation for the sarge release when I > noticed that it

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy > > for such packages? > > I understand th

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Steve Greenland wrote: > "Evil" seems a strong term. There are other issues that sheer execution > speed, and for init scripts, like most things, readability and Let's not forget that using stuff from /usr in an early initscript, or in one that could work without /usr (e.g. be

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't >> been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy >> for such packages? > > I understand that

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Blech. The current team hasn't responded to my emails, but my complaint > is that it has bugs marked "pending upload" for nearly two weeks now. I mark bugs as pending when I've committed the patch to fix the bug to the package repository (in fact

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy > for such packages? I understand that the maintainer (or most active uploader, whatever)

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't >> been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy >> for such packages? > > At this point in time?

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 21-Sep-05, 03:41 (CDT), Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Conclusion: usage of many (even simple) external programs is evil, though > it may improve readability for "some people". Replacing setting /bin/sh > link to dash instead of bash and having more than 100 init scripts I can > assu

Re: Katie email from a package I didn't upload

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:40:44PM -0700, Brett Cundal wrote: > I just got this email from katie... But it's in reference to a package > I didn't upload. I'd love to know what's going on and who attempted to > upload my package without checking with me first (especially since > I've been looking f

Katie email from a package I didn't upload

2005-09-23 Thread Brett Cundal
I just got this email from katie... But it's in reference to a package I didn't upload. I'd love to know what's going on and who attempted to upload my package without checking with me first (especially since I've been looking for a sponsor for quite some time)... How would I get more info about

Bug#329853: ITP: griffith -- A film collection manager

2005-09-23 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: griffith Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Vasco Nunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://griffith.vasconunes.net/ * License : GPL Description : A film collection m

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy > for such packages? At this point in time? Do it if you are up to it, and it can even be 0-day if you're sur

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Why has it taken three months for the reverse dependencies to be rebuilt? Because of the gcc 4 transition and C++ transition, which screwed us all over since we needed to wait for the full dep-chain to be transitioned, and a lot of libs took thei

Re: Work done on the WNPP front

2005-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, David Moreno Garza wrote: > All of these closings will be done permanently once a day from now on. Why once a day? Once a week would be more than often enough. Heck, even once a month is good enough :-) That said, thanks for the nice cleanup work, it is appreciated! --

Re: UNINSTALL

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Marks
i was sorry to see others have had the same difficulty i have. callwave is a pain in my neck trying to unistall it. it is not compatible with my computer system. please e-mail me back with instructions on how to get rid of this cursed program. i was able to remove some of it but it is near im

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > dependencies won't help for this problem. The only real option is to > change libc/portmap/all RPC services to consult a blacklist of ports > shipped in libc/portmap. Given that none of the upstream libc maintainers who I've seen

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The same is true for other RPC servers. It's the libc that restricts the port numbers (look at glibc-2.3.5/sunrpc/bindrsvprt.c, currently, it seems it's port = (PID % 424) + 600). And, as I've said,

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 9/23/05, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > On 9/23/05, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It appears like MySQL does that. It seems to check the IP address of the > > > connecting client to find the per

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Well, my idea is to fix only the rpc servers which cause trouble (ie. > started early). and if this is only ypbind it needs to be modified to use a > fixed port and register itself with pmap_set. Most of the NIS services (includin

Processed: Re: Bug#329833: BTS "fixed" tag: RC-buggy packages may end up in testing due to NMU

2005-09-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 329833 important Bug#329833: BTS "fixed" tag: RC-buggy packages may end up in testing due to NMU Severity set to `important'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrat

Bug#329833: BTS "fixed" tag: RC-buggy packages may end up in testing due to NMU

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 329833 important thanks On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:40:23PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > NMUing a package to fix RC bugs can allow the RC-buggy version of the package > into testing. My guess is that this is occurring between the bugs being > tagged as "fixed" and the newer version enterin

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:15:57PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: >> > graphics/gem_1:0.90.0-17: Dep-Wait by buildd_m68k-kiivi >> > [optional:out-of-date] >> > Dependencies: libjack0.80.0-0 (>= 0.99.0) >> > Previous state was Building until 2005 A

Bug#329834: ITP: mozilla-firefox-adblock -- adblock extension for the Firefox web browser

2005-09-23 Thread Jacek Politowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jacek Politowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mozilla-firefox-adblock Version : 0.5.2.039 Upstream Author : AdBlock Team * URL : http://adblock.mozdev.org/ * License : Mozilla Public License 1.1 Description :

Re: can we do uploads of arch: amd64 yet?

2005-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:34:52PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > i guess i could just do it and find out, but figure asking first doesn't > exactly hurt. can we build/upload amd64 binary packages to unstable yet? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep amd64 katie/katie.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ No, not yet

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:15:57PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:52:06AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > And sure, other buildd maintainers occasionally set a bogus dep-waits, but >> > it seems to be m68k where I most

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Christoph Haas
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 9/23/05, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It appears like MySQL does that. It seems to check the IP address of the > > connecting client to find the permissions in it's internal `users` > > table. So it sees "127.0

can we do uploads of arch: amd64 yet?

2005-09-23 Thread sean finney
hi, i guess i could just do it and find out, but figure asking first doesn't exactly hurt. can we build/upload amd64 binary packages to unstable yet? sean -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#329833: BTS "fixed" tag: RC-buggy packages may end up in testing due to NMU

2005-09-23 Thread Darren Salt
Package: general Severity: serious NMUing a package to fix RC bugs can allow the RC-buggy version of the package into testing. My guess is that this is occurring between the bugs being tagged as "fixed" and the newer version entering the archive (as opposed to merely being in one of the upload que

lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy for such packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Thomas Bushnell BSG [Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:14:47 -0700]: > AFAICT there weren't bugs filed against those packages telling them to > be rebuilt, because the libjack people believe their libraries don't > conflict. http://people.debian.org/~adeodato/transition/libjack0.80.0-0 (And those are n

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 9/23/05, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:59:52PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:47:58PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > ..warning: connect to mysql server foobar: Access denied for user > > > 'whoever'@'localhost.localdomain' (

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:02:41PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > FWIW, this bug has only been reported once (and reassigned to portmap) > see #261484 so its seems Debian users don't get beaten by this too often. There's at least two people who have reported this against nis too.

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Christoph Haas
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:59:52PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:47:58PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > ..warning: connect to mysql server foobar: Access denied for user > > 'whoever'@'localhost.localdomain' (using password: YES) > > Well, I had seen several machines ha

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > No, you design the protocol from the beginning to have the first token be a > > protocol version, followed by a magic number(which could be different per > > version). > > Presumably it's too late for that. :) Stupid programmers. -- To UNSUBS

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:14:47AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> This has been going on for three months. > > Why has it taken three months for the reverse dependencies to be rebuilt? > > That shouldn't really be acceptable, whether or not there's some reason for > > (effective) conflicts

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > How else do you handle the case of a library which implements a line >> > > protoco

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > How else do you handle the case of a library which implements a line >> > protocol (presumably Unix sockets, in this case), and that protocol has >> > ch

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How else do you handle the case of a library which implements a line > > > protocol (presumably Unix sockets, in this case), and that

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How else do you handle the case of a library which implements a line > > protocol (presumably Unix sockets, in this case), and that protocol has > > changed incompatibly? > > You implement the new pr

JzP BD Magazine #6 NOW is out !!! with 4in 1 gAH

2005-09-23 Thread Best Offer
Title: OFFER 4in1 PRESENT YOU ... Hello Debian-devel-announce, At this time we can offer a small update at our system - BD-MAGAZINE Issue N6! Wow a whole 2 hours of live video? Well, maybe, but probably not. Feauturing fresh girls had fun in dressing room changing clothes, dressing and un

Re: jack still broken

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How else do you handle the case of a library which implements a line > protocol (presumably Unix sockets, in this case), and that protocol has > changed incompatibly? You implement the new protocol on a new port, so that both the old and new jackd can

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Gernot Salzer
> This was already brought up to debian-devel. This thread has more > solutions, but addresses less problems: what if the service is to be > started when the package is installed but a RPC programs already > listens there? The solution of shipping port reservations or of init > dependencies

The Debian package name for the ppc64 architecture is 'ppc64'

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Sep-23 15:54, Sven Luther wrote: > (and btw, i may have posted about in favour of ppc64 in the paste, but > powerpc64 is indeed what looks best :) Hello Sven, six month ago the Debian package name for the ppc64 port was discussed on debian-devel and you voted for 'ppc64' in that discussion

Re: The Debian package name for the ppc64 architecture is 'ppc64'

2005-09-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:19:17PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > On 05-Sep-23 15:54, Sven Luther wrote: > > (and btw, i may have posted about in favour of ppc64 in the paste, but > > powerpc64 is indeed what looks best :) > > Hello Sven, > > six month ago the Debian package name for the ppc64 p

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, This was already brought up to debian-devel. This thread has more solutions, but addresses less problems: what if the service is to be started when the package is installed but a RPC programs already listens there? The solution of shipping port reservations or of init dependenci

Re: Reviving the Debian FAQ

2005-09-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: one use? I wrote an FAQ on that and is currently hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html It would be nice if you can include this in the Debian FAQ. Needless to say, I would be happy to hear comments on the above d

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:11:03PM +0200, Gernot Salzer wrote: > It is not ypbind that is broken but the service that hands out > the port numbers and that is called by ypbind (and by other > services). It just happens that most clashes occur in connection > with ypbind, due to its prominence and i

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:47:58PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > ..warning: connect to mysql server foobar: Access denied for user > 'whoever'@'localhost.localdomain' (using password: YES) Well, I had seen several machines having "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" in /etc/hosts and runn

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Gernot Salzer
> FWIW, this bug has only been reported once (and reassigned to portmap) > see #261484 No. See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306465 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=257876 In each thread several people report of similar problems. > so its seems Debian user

Re: Patch² : Maintaining a patch for a debian package

2005-09-23 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 03:10:34PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:03:08PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:32:48AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > >> I got an issue though, but I think it is related to glibc itself: > >> after installing the

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:20:21AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Gernot Salzer wrote: > > - Modify portmap/bindresvport such that certain blacklisted > > ports are skipped even if they are not yet in use when a > > new priviledged port ist requested. > > Sinc

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Gernot Salzer
> why not request a fixed port for ypbind? It is not ypbind that is broken but the service that hands out the port numbers and that is called by ypbind (and by other services). It just happens that most clashes occur in connection with ypbind, due to its prominence and its place in the init sequen

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Gernot Salzer wrote: > Starting ypbind later during boot is no solution in general since some > services rely on ypbind AND fixed priviledged ports. > Possible solutions are: > > - Modify portmap/bindresvport such that certain blacklisted > ports are ski

Re: newbee network question

2005-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > newbee - newbee - newbee (no shell, compile, write ect...) In that case please try debian-users. > i had redhat with kde before and it was very easy to access the network > cards. did they remove this feature to keep linux to the diehard users? The sys

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I propose to modify Debian in this way. why not request a fixed port for ypbind? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch² : Maintaining a patch for a debian package

2005-09-23 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:03:08PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:32:48AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > I got an issue though, but I think it is related to glibc itself: > > after installing the built source packages, aptitude/apt-get > > absolutely want to upgrad

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Gernot Salzer wrote: > - Modify portmap/bindresvport such that certain blacklisted > ports are skipped even if they are not yet in use when a > new priviledged port ist requested. Since the braindamaged one here is portmap, that's probably best. Modify it to never use anyt

newbee network question

2005-09-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newbee - newbee - newbee (no shell, compile, write ect...) i just installed debian and run KDE 3.3 with it. i can't find anywhere to access my networkcards. i have one card for the ADSL modem and one for the home network. i had redhat with kde before and it was very easy to access the network c

localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Christoph Haas
Howdy... is there a reason that the default entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts reads "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost"? This has hit me several times and is especially problematic when accessing a MySQL database locally. MySQL quickly complains like this: ..warning: connect to mysql serv

Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Gernot Salzer
On boot some daemons (like nis/ypbind) obtain priviledged ports via portmap/bindresvport(). Portmap assigns ports that are not in use at the time of request, usually above 600. This strategy sometimes conflicts with daemons that rely on fixed ports and that start after ypbind (like cups, slapd): t

Bug#329795: ITP: zpkg -- a tool to build software distributions based on the Python distutils package.

2005-09-23 Thread Brian Sutherland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: zpkg Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Fred Drake * URL : http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/zpkgtools/ * License : ZPL Description : a tool to build software distributions based on the Python distutils pa

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:12:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Then again, maybe the m68k buildd maintainers do have time to > periodically review stale dep-waits that they've set, to check them > for correctness; that would be a pleasant surprise. We do this, but it gets deprioritized when the

Re: Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3vanished forSparc)

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Petr Salinger wrote: In fact, there is a successful attempt of package build: http://experimental.ftbfs.de/build.php?arch=&pkg=openmotif But only alpha, arm, mips and initial i386 version are already in unstable, sparc and powerpc are now in incoming. Thanks for the hint

Re: Patch² : Maintaining a patch for a debian package

2005-09-23 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:32:48AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > I got an issue though, but I think it is related to glibc itself: > after installing the built source packages, aptitude/apt-get > absolutely want to upgrade them with the binary versions: :: The following packages will be upgraded:

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:15:57PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > > I still believe this definition is far too strict (without being precise). > > > You can't say, you have to be 98% uptodate without saying what you > > > understand by "being uptodate". As already outlined during the last > >

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:22:27 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That's not only "must have 50 users" but more a "must have 50 users that do >stuff on those machines". Dormant accounts do not qualify as "users", I think. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3vanished forSparc)

2005-09-23 Thread Petr Salinger
Hi. In fact, there is a successful attempt of package build: http://experimental.ftbfs.de/build.php?arch=&pkg=openmotif But only alpha, arm, mips and initial i386 version are already in unstable, sparc and powerpc are now in incoming. Regards Petr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#329770: ITP: kern2deb -- Convert RedHat kernel-VER.src.rpm to a Debian package

2005-09-23 Thread Russell Stuart
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kern2deb Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/sarge/kern2deb/ * License : GPL Descript

Re: Patch² : Maintaining a patch for a debian package

2005-09-23 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 05:26:37PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:12:44PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > I have a couple Debian packages that I need to patch with custom local > > changes. The patches are small and I hence can follow the security > > updates fr

Re: Announcing an intention to produce an armeb port of Debian

2005-09-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:45:26AM +0930, Debonaras Project Lead wrote: > We are looking for help from interested Debian Developers to get > a buildd system up and running and building the rest of the Debian > packages from source for armeb. Hi, I just discussed this with Andreas Barth here at th

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Debian-armeb Porting Team ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050922 14:26]: > On 9/21/05, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These criteria do _not_ control addition of an architecture to unstable, > > but rather apply to architectures which the ftp-masters have accepted > > into unstable and ar

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:45:35PM +0930, Debian-armeb Porting Team wrote: > We are keeping patches[7] for the armeb port separate, and are ready to > contribute them now, or at any future time that is more appropriate. > Another chicken-and-egg - are package maintainers expected to accept > patch

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:15:57PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:52:06AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > And sure, other buildd maintainers occasionally set a bogus dep-waits, but > > it seems to be m68k where I most frequently have to ask for their removal... > > W

Failed to build openmotif for sparc (Was: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished forSparc)

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, my question why the sparc port for openmotif vanished was more or less ignored and thus I guessed there is no real reason except that nobody cares. So I tried my best to fix this. 1. Failed to compile on vore. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dchroot unstable (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]: