ITP: pcmanx-pure-gtk2 -- user-friendly telnet client mainly targets BBS users

2005-10-29 Thread Emfox Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pcmanx-pure-gtk2 Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Hong Jen Yee, http://pcman.ptt.cc/ * URL or Web page : http://pcmanx.csie.net/ * License : GPL Description : user-friendly telnet client mainly targets BBS users PCMa

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

2005-10-29 Thread Philippe Troin
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:24:28AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 27-Oct-05, 04:39 (CDT), Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > it produces at least a bloated passwd/group/shadow file. > > > "Bloat"? The /etc/passwd on my development

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

2005-10-29 Thread Brian May
> "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:54:18 +1000, Brian May Marc> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the code "just" calls adduser, this would seem to be a bug, >> as adduser will exit with a warning if the user already exists >> (s

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-10-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Michael Vogt: > > > When fully supported by the archive, the diff support will be > > completely transparent, no changes on your side necessary. The index support is broken for file urls. It works the first time(ie, removing all the files in /var/li

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:11:00AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: >> >> If the .deb files were compressed using the gzip "--rsyncable" option, >> then fetching them with zsync (or rsync) would be considerably more >> efficient than straight HTTP transfers. > > N

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-10-29 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 10/25/05, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > I'm afraid I have to ask the same question again (three months later). > > > What's the status of this pac

Re: Can we just finish the C++ transition for crying out loud?

2005-10-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matthias Klose wrote: > Nathanael Nerode writes: >> And now, a new gcc-4.0 bumped the shlibdeps for libstdc++ -- and worse, >> depends on new binutils and new glibc. This will undoubtedly mean that >> either forced package breakages, significant numbers of package removals, >> or months more of wa

Re: is the Debian mail server healthy?

2005-10-29 Thread Frank Küster
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only just now (Saturday) received the message from a mailing list I > had sent last Tuesday. I know the message reached the mailing fine > since I already received replies to it on the Tuesday. But the original > message only just came in. There were

is the Debian mail server healthy?

2005-10-29 Thread Drew Parsons
I only just now (Saturday) received the message from a mailing list I had sent last Tuesday. I know the message reached the mailing fine since I already received replies to it on the Tuesday. But the original message only just came in. The headers say the message was received by master.debian.or

FLAX/LINEN FIBERS

2005-10-29 Thread Walid Abbas
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Apache 2 maintenance status?

2005-10-29 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Hi. Does anyone know the Apache2 maintenance status? Lots of bug reports appear to be 'ignored'. Examples are: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267477 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=288615 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289868

Re: [Debtags-devel] Re: Dummy packages and metapackages (call for consistency in the descriptions)

2005-10-29 Thread Justin B Rye
[originally to debtags-devel, reposted to CCs] >> Enrico Zini wrote: Thanks for this, Enrico! >> * Dummy packages It may be too late to standardise on "transitional packages", but I've always thought that was more self-explanatory. >> * Metapackages Adeodato Simó wrote: > Would

Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?

2005-10-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:33:21PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:10, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...and hope that nobody wants forward e-mail from those domains using a > > virtual table or equivalent to somewhere doing SPF checks. > The only situation i

Bug#316238: ddrescue renamed to gddrescue

2005-10-29 Thread Ayman Negm
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #316238 Owner: Ayman Negm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The upstream agreed to have GNU Ddrescue in debian as gddrescue. So I renamed it. I have tested the GNU ddrescue and its really a great tool and work much better, faster and more saver than the exist Garloff's ddresc

Re: [Debtags-devel] Re: Dummy packages and metapackages

2005-10-29 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 04:18:44AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Metapackages > > > A metapackage is one of those packages used to pull in other packages. > > If they are removed, it's likely that something goes wrong. They are > > used for various reasons, such as ensuring that one out of

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-10-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Vogt: > When fully supported by the archive, the diff support will be > completely transparent, no changes on your side necessary. When downloading the Index file, APT does not send instructions to bypass the proxy cache: T 212.9.189.177:51459 -> 212.9.189.169: [AP] GET /debian/d