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2006-05-02 Thread Ondrej Sury
(added openldap2.2 + gnutls to SummerOfCode2006 page) Status of sending notification mails: [fr] PhilBat: (421, 'Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later.') [en] PhilippKern, RaphaelHertzog, AlphaPapa, AlexanderSchmehl, SteveMcIntyre, DavidMorenoGarza, aba, ChristianKuelker, Ba

Re: no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-02 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 19:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > [...] > You can't right now because GnuTLS support is only available for 2.1. 2.2 > and later will need substantial reworking of that support, and without it, > the OpenSSL licensing issues cause too many licensing conflicts in Debian > fo

Re: no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-02 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can't right now because GnuTLS support is only available for 2.1. 2.2 > and later will need substantial reworking of that support, and without it, > the OpenSSL licensing issues cause too many licensing conflicts in Debian > for it to be safe to provid

Re: no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
John v/d Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I install the development files for libldap, I always get the > libldap2-dev package, version 2.1.30. It also seems from the > debian/control file in openldap2.2 that there is no libldap2.2-dev (or > something) package that gives the new headers and

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-02 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:45:56AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: this may be a dumb question, but I really wonder if there's a policy (which I obviously haven't found) about which system users should get a valid shell and which shouldn't. Yeah, I had the sa

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:04:50PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > libxaw8 is abandoned upstream and there are no plans to fix it for the Xorg7 > > transition. This is a >= serious bug for any package still build-depending > > on libxaw8-dev, a

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Hi, > > I recall that it was announced that libxaw8 should be dropped, but I > can only find discussions on the X list and > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/01/msg00409.html. > > Packages are starting to FTBFS because libxaw8

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:45:56AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > this may be a dumb question, but I really wonder if there's a policy > (which I obviously haven't found) about which system users should get > a valid shell and which shouldn't. This is bug #330882, and is basically because I'm excepti

System users and valid shells...

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, this may be a dumb question, but I really wonder if there's a policy (which I obviously haven't found) about which system users should get a valid shell and which shouldn't. I get tons of warnings like this when I run tiger(8): NEW: --WARN-- [pass014w] Login (bin) is disabled, but has a vali

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > libxaw8 is abandoned upstream and there are no plans to fix it for the Xorg7 > transition. This is a >= serious bug for any package still build-depending > on libxaw8-dev, as they FTBFS and this isn't going to be fixed on the xaw8 > side. Or, a Debian

kudos to ftp-masters

2006-05-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Yes, seriously. We always complain about the NEW queue. I would just like to give some kudos to ftp-masters dealing so well with the bumpy xorg transition and for taking us down from 180 packages last week to 90 this week. Keep up the good work, guys. pgpr8qByuBRfe.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Interim maintainer needed for thinkpad and tpctl

2006-05-02 Thread Thomas Hood
I plan to cease maintaining the thinkpad and tpctl Debian packages very soon. Martin Krafft kindly agreed to take them over, but he will only be able to start work at the end of May. A new version of the thinkpad package needs to be uploaded soon in order to close a bug that is rated severity: cri

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread Frank Küster
clone 365714 -1 reassign -1 xaw3dg-dev retitle -1 Depends on libxaw8-dev and breaks building packages thanks Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My question is now whether to switch away from libxaw8 is a wishlist >> issue or in fact a fixed plan? What's the appropriate severity for >>

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > I recall that it was announced that libxaw8 should be dropped, but I > can only find discussions on the X list and > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/01/msg00409.html. > Packages are starting to FTBFS because libxaw8 has not ye

Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-02 Thread Christian Perrier
(reply-to: debian-boot) Debian Installer team meeting number 11 has been held from 16:00UTC to 17:30UTC on Saturday April 29th 2006. There were about 75 people connected to the channel during the meeting and 12 of them spoke during the meeting at least once. The full log of the meeting is availa

Re: screenshot with package description

2006-05-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2006-05-01 às 17:54 +, Gonéri Le Bouder escreveu: > I did some test. My repository is here: http://gloria.rulezlan.org/debian/ > update_tarballs.pl updates the index_* files and the tarballs. > For the moment it doesn't create index for testing. It doesn't try to deal > with pixmap Dep

XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, I recall that it was announced that libxaw8 should be dropped, but I can only find discussions on the X list and http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/01/msg00409.html. Packages are starting to FTBFS because libxaw8 has not yet been adapted to the new Xorg directories (http://bugs.debian.org

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Darren Salt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060502 19:03]: > I demand that Andreas Barth may or may not have written... > > * Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 19:21]: > >> On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Or you could create the diffdebs before upload or on ftp-master, and >

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Andreas Barth may or may not have written... > * Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 19:21]: >> On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Or you could create the diffdebs before upload or on ftp-master, and >>> include the diffdebs somehow in the Packages file (so t

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Pierre Habouzit may or may not have written... [snip; delta packages?] > The real question is: do people clean their apt cache or not? I do, because > after a full X.org/kde/openoffice upgrade, it takes quite a lot of disk in > /var (that is small on my computers). And with that cach

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm wrote: >> Can tasksel tasks be manipulated programmatically with the same >> apt/aptitude inferfaces that metapackages can? > This question does not have a yes or no answer, the situation is rather > more complex than that. Concretely: In

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Lun 1 Mai 2006 15:31, Brian Eaton a écrit : >> On 4/30/06, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Look at zsync and help develope it far enough so it can look into >> > debs. Without that the gain is practicaly 0 or less. >> >> It's entirely possible tha

Bug#365734: ITP: svn2bzr -- Converts a Subversion repository to a Bazaar 2.0 repository

2006-05-02 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: svn2bzr Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bazaar-vcs.org/svn2bzr * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Des

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Goswin von Brederlow: >> > Look at zsync and help develope it far enough so it can look into >> > debs. Without that the gain is practicaly 0 or less. > > The other thing to do would be to lobby for dpkg-deb and dpkg-source to > use 'gzip --rsyncabl

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bittorrent has a per chunk hash so it can validate each chunk when it >> recieves it instead of waiting for the full file. It won't see if a >> chunk is present at some other position in the file, not

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread A Mennucc
hi I did a similar thing some time ago; I used 'xdelta' on two versions of kernel and of tetex; the results were impressive; I could prepare a 'debdiff' that was < 10% (AFAICR) of the size, and that would recreate an exact copy of the new version of the package, given the previous version of the p

no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-02 Thread John v/d Kamp
Hi, When I install the development files for libldap, I always get the libldap2-dev package, version 2.1.30. It also seems from the debian/control file in openldap2.2 that there is no libldap2.2-dev (or something) package that gives the new headers and /usr/lib/libldap.so that points to the new l

Re: fonts prbl in sid

2006-05-02 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Vega wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:22:42AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > >>hi >> >>I use sid and Gnome ; I upgraded my box (after 3 weeks in which I did >>not have time to) ; now I have serious problems with fonts. > > > Have you reconfigur

Re: fonts prbl in sid

2006-05-02 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:38:43AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > >>>almost unusable ; including 'emacs-snapshot-gtk' 'display' 'xmms' >>>('xmms' is missing fonts for the menus but not for the main display); > > > Not sure if t

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-05-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 30 avril 2006 à 22:43 +0200, Marcus Better a écrit : > Is there a way to use fc-match to locate a Type1 font (pfb) and also its > associated font metrics (the afm file)? I may be wrong, but as fontconfig was designed for Xft which doesn't make use of the .afm file but only uses the .pf

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-05-02 Thread artefact
Le 30.04.2006 22:43, Marcus Better a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >How about using fontconfig ? Even without using the API you can use it > >to look for a font: > >$ fc-match --verbose sans | awk '$1=="file:"' > >file: "/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Sans.ttf"(s) > > > Is t

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-05-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Luigi Gangitano dijo [Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:14:46PM +0200]: > > Il giorno 25/apr/06, alle ore 07:12, Norbert Tretkowski ha scritto: > >>squid 3.0 is not yet 'stable'. Squid 2.5 is still the stable series. > > > >Why not just uploading squid 3.0 to experimental? > > Because it's not a short term