Work-needing packages report for Oct 21, 2005

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: 205 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 86 (new: 1) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

(CC in case you don't follow -devel that closely given your current situation, Manoj. Please accept my apologies in advance if you do...) > At this point, most of the major packages that have to be > modified to enable a bare SELinux Debian system are in place, with > coreutils being th

Re: pbuilder help (bug 334877)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >I'm trying to solve bug 304932/334877. > >I can reproduce the build failure using pbuilder, but not when I build >on my own system directly. > >I would like to do the pbuilder build and then examine the failing >filesystem, but pbuilder

pbuilder help (bug 334877)

I'm trying to solve bug 304932/334877. I can reproduce the build failure using pbuilder, but not when I build on my own system directly. I would like to do the pbuilder build and then examine the failing filesystem, but pbuilder always deletes the build directory, and the manual gives no clear

Re: buzz/rex binaries/install media?

[vbi] > > Now, does anybody know if buzz/Linux 2.0.0's 'ne' driver didn't > > support realtek PCI network cards, or if it's a qemu problem? (I > > suspect the latter, as the ne2k-pci of 2.0.38 also doesn't work.) [Simon Richter] > No, the "ne" driver only handles ISA NE1000 and NE2000 cards. T

Re: localhost.localdomain

Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a fresh OpenBSD 3.7 install: > > ::1 localhost.home localhost > 127.0.0.1 localhost.home localhost Heh, I'm just surprised it's not: 127.0.0.1 OpenLocalHOST localhost -miles -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... [snip] > So I propose a different solution, which is not perfect, but is better than > the current situation: > - -dev packages should only Depend: on other -dev packages neccessary > for shared linking > - -dev packages should Recommend

Re: buzz/rex binaries/install media?

Hi, Adrian von Bidder schrieb: > Now, does anybody know if buzz/Linux 2.0.0's 'ne' driver didn't support > realtek PCI network cards, or if it's a qemu problem? (I suspect the > latter, as the ne2k-pci of 2.0.38 also doesn't work.) No, the "ne" driver only handles ISA NE1000 and NE2000 cards.

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

Scribit Stefano Zacchiroli dies 19/10/2005 hora 11:06: > 1) once a bug as been closed - erroneously I would say - mailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] without the "Version:" pseudo header, is > there a way to push the version information to the bts? It seems. I did it for #297927: after sending a 'close 29

Bug#334927: ITP: hoichess -- xboard compatible chess engine to play chess with

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I will have a package ready for hoichess in a few days * Package name: hoichess Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : Holger Ruckdeschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.hoicher.de/hoichess/ * L

Re: buzz/rex binaries/install media?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:41:07PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19.40, Matej Vela wrote: > > > See > > for buzz disks. > > Thanks. > > Now, does anybody know if buzz/Linux 2.0.0's 'ne' driver di

Debian

What is different about debian 3.1r0 and r1 r2 through r6? I do not know whether to get r0 or something else because I do not know the difference. What is the difference between those and Debian Sarge?

There are buildlogs for amd64 packages?

Hi, there can I find the build log for dvgrab_1.7-1 on amd64? http://buildd.debian.org/ doesn't list amd64 at all and http://amd64.ftbfs.de/ has only 1.8-1 and higher. Because amd64 is listed on http://packages.debian.org/ build logs should also be (easyly) available for packages of this archit

Dependencies of -dev packages

Hi, (Parts of this topic has been discussed before, but the issues were not solved, so let's try again). Today I wanted to install libcurl-openssl-dev, because I wanted to build an application locally that can utilize libcurl (and for the curious, I choose libcurl-openssl-dev because the applicat

Re: buzz/rex binaries/install media?

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19.40, Matej Vela wrote: > See > for buzz disks. Thanks. Now, does anybody know if buzz/Linux 2.0.0's 'ne' driver didn't support realtek PCI network cards, or if it's a qemu problem? (I suspect the

Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051019 meeting)

(reply-to: debian-boot) The minutes of the October D-I (Debian Installer) team IRC meeting are now available from the Debian Installer Meetings wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerMeetings Minutes: http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/irc-meeting-20051019/minutes Log: http://peopl

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:02:17 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Pet release goals > ~ > There are a number of other systematic improvements on the drawing > board for etch which we consider worthwhile even if we don't > consider them blockers. We would like as man

Bug#334907: ITP: php-htscanner -- htaccess file parser for PHP in CGI mode

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: php-htscanner Version : 0.1 * URL : http://files.zoeloelip.be/ * License : PHP License 3.0 Description : htaccess file parser for PHP in CGI mode When using a CGI v

Re: ITP: zim -- a desktop wiki

On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:35, Emfox Zhou wrote: > Package name: Zim Hmm. That takes me back to my university days where Zim was one of the earlier relational DBMSs with its own 4GL development environment... pgpz43U3YpkiD.pgp Description: PGP signature

ITP: zim -- a desktop wiki

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: Zim Version:0.0.5 Homepage: http://zoidberg.student.utwente.nl/zim/ License:Perl License Description: a desktop wiki Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor written in Gtk2-Perl. It aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to yo

Re: NMU policies for etch

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >>On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> >>>Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> - don't NMU for feature requests (i.e., wishlist bugs) without the mai

Re: localhost.localdomain

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Do den 20. Okt 2005 um 16:01 schrieb Gabor Gombas: > No, MySQL is happy to use whatever name the loopback interface has; it > is the MySQL _documentation_ that stresses the "localhost" string > without mentioning that it depends on the naming servic

Re: localhost.localdomain

On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:01, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > MySQL definitely chokes on localhost.localdomain. And although MySQL > > will adopt to distributions using "localhost.localdomain" instead of > > "localhost" doesn't mean it'

Re: localhost.localdomain

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:25:53AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Well, that's not quite true. As someone else pointed out earlier, AIX > lists "loopback localhost". On a fresh OpenBSD 3.7 install: ::1 localhost.home localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.home localhost ("home" is the domain used on m

Re: localhost.localdomain

On 10/20/05, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:16:40PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > Wouldn't the proper fix be to not use source address based authentication? > > This is not authentication. INN just need a string to uniquely identify > a host. Using a FQ

Re: localhost.localdomain

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:16:40PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Wouldn't the proper fix be to not use source address based authentication? This is not authentication. INN just need a string to uniquely identify a host. Using a FQDN is OK, it's just the way of obtaining that FQDN that is prob

Re: localhost.localdomain

On 10/20/05, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The proper fix would be to enumerate all IP addresses of all network > interfaces and select one that has an appropriate name. Unfortunately > this is non-trivial and highly OS-dependent, although the libdumbnet1 > package provides a platform-i

Re: localhost.localdomain

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:35:11PM -0700, Jeff Stevens wrote: > 1 -- When configuring DNS, 127.0.0.1 must resolve to localhost and vice > versa [1]. No, the RFC does not say "must", it only says "should" (and it is not even a "SHOULD"). And regardless if localhost.localdomain is removed from /et

Re: localhost.localdomain

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > MySQL definitely chokes on localhost.localdomain. And although MySQL will > adopt to distributions using "localhost.localdomain" instead of "localhost" > doesn't mean it's correct. MySQL by default expects "localhost" as the > hostn

Re: localhost.localdomain

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:18:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > * Obtain the system host name with gethostname(). > * Look up an IP address for that host with gethostbyname(). The bug is here. This is completely wrong but sadly very common practice. It is common because it is portable and works

Re: gcc 4.1 with stack smashing protection in etch?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:45:21PM +0200, Michael Meyer wrote: > Hi, > now that Steve Langasek has published July 30th as the > toolchain freeze, do you already know if you will > include gcc 4.1 instead of 4.0 as the standard gcc > in etch? If yes, etch could profit from the > ProPolice-like sta

Bug#291562: i wish to package openev for debian

Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #291562 Owner: alex bodnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the process of debianizing postgis, i wish to package openev for debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell:

Bug#195948: URL for workaround list

Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #195948 Owner: Mark Nipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just in case someone gets to the end here like I did and is wondering where the workaround list is, the URL is: --- http://workaround.org/pipermail/dspam-debian/ Hopefully that is okay to give out. Wasn't too