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: 296 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 81 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requeste
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:54:57AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Wait a second. Optimizing for size should decrease speed.
>> That is the whole idea of size/speed optimization tradeoffs.
> A lot of the time the reduced ram requirement can stop swa
Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then, I don't understand why we have this discussion _after_ the policy
> has been changed...
> I thought the policy was a trustable document, where developers could
> find guidelines for their work, it seems that it's not always true. Sad.
debian-pol
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:29:25PM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> fusesmb is a filesystem client based on the samba file transfer protocol.
> .
> It is based on FUSE (userspace filesystem framework for Linux), thus you will
> have to prepare fuse kernel module to be able to use it.
Please expl
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at
> least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably
> trust gcc not to screw up.
If gcc generally generates faster code wi
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:21:41PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> * the forward canonization is vital for things like tracking bugzilla's
>"merges" (it in fact rewrites a $(uri)/show_bug.cgi?old_nnn into the
>$(uri)/show_bug.cgi?new_nnn)
Out of curiosity, how does it handle un-merges i
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Once you update apt it does. That is when you notice that suddenly you
> need the key for authentication.
As I said, you have to install debian-archive-keyring first.
> Also on every key upgrade you have to install an untrusted package.
No, you merely have to upgrad
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi there.
>
> I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with
> computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer
> countries seem to
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Having the key in the debian-keyring package was a nice idea but
>> ultimatly useless. Sarge users can't fetch the new etch keyring
>> package because the signature doesn't match and the signature doesn't
>> match because the s
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Having the key in the debian-keyring package was a nice idea but
> ultimatly useless. Sarge users can't fetch the new etch keyring
> package because the signature doesn't match and the signature doesn't
> match because the sarge keyring doesn't have the key. Fun fun fu
"Frank Küster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, version 3.7.2.0 is neither in unstable nor at
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
Both only have version 3.7.1.0. How comes that the PTS has a newer
version
th
"Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there.
I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with
computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer
countries seem to have.
It seems to be that a good amount of peopl
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: fusesmb
Version : 0.8.4
Upstream Author : Vincent Wagelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.ricardis.tudelft.nl/~vincent/fusesmb/
* License : mainly GPL (+ BSD)
Pro
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - secure apt
> secure apt is now part of testing. However, we need to do something for key
> management etc - so some small issues need to be resolved.
>From a usability standpoint I find this the largest problem in debian
today. Finding the right key
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:08:46PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Yes, http://bugs.debian.org/365597
>
> Although the bug is still marked open, it's at least "fixed enough" now
> that the package builds again.
No it isn't.
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /etc/profile is only used by bourne-compatible shells (of which tcsh
> isn't one). Most things can be writte in a way that's valid for all
> bourne-compatible shells, and any bits that can't can easily be wrapped
> in an appropriate if-state
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: python-pastedeploy
Version : 0.5
Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://pythonpaste.org/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Python
Descriptio
Kurt Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was the happy user of Emacs on Debian unstable. After a normal
> apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
> Emacs disappeared and has not been seen later. I'm I the only one to
> miss it?
>
> Could this be the reason:
>
> # apt-get install emacs21-nox
>
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, version 3.7.2.0 is neither in unstable nor at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
> Both only have version 3.7.1.0. How comes that the PTS has a newer version
> than all the other sources?
http://incoming.debian.org/
--
Frank Küster
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: python-paste
Version : 0.9
Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://pythonpaste.org/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Python
Description
Hi,
In the PTS I see:
The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy
(Standards-Version 3.7.2 instead of 3.6.2.0).
However, version 3.7.2.0 is neither in unstable nor at
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
Both only have version 3.7.1.0. How comes that the PTS ha
I was the happy user of Emacs on Debian unstable. After a normal
apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
Emacs disappeared and has not been seen later. I'm I the only one to
miss it?
Could this be the reason:
# apt-get install emacs21-nox
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
e
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:30:55 +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>The downside is that anything that doesn't work on entire .debs is
>>very likely to change them at the byte stream level (you only need to
>>use slightly different zlib versio
On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:30:55 +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The downside is that anything that doesn't work on entire .debs is
>very likely to change them at the byte stream level (you only need to
>use slightly different zlib versions or parameters). This means that
>the chain
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:42:46 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>At a guess: He doesn't mean ship the pristine upstream, he means to ship
>a shell script that derives the Debian .orig.tar.gz from a pristine copy
>of upstream obtained separately so that the process is reproducible. Thi
On May 04, Juha Jäykkä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eh.. excuse me, but did I get this right? Does this mean that there would
> be no way of deconfiguring a network device which is not hot-pluggable?
> What I mean is, how do I generate a hotplug event for, e.g. a NIC that's
> integrated to the mot
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank wrote:
>> >> The
>> >> CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript
>> >> printer.
>> >
>> > Not on my computer. The CUPS queues (and default postscript for that
>> > matter) are broke in latest firefox on my system. "Pape
Mark Hindley hindley.org.uk> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Mark Hindley hindley.org.uk>
>
> * Package name: pfm
> Version : x.y.z
> Upstream Author : Name example.org>
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MI
On 5/3/06, Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Using the path component "cgi-lib" which will even be visible to users
of the web server looks like a big chunk of NIH to me. Even worse, it
will break existing URLs when CGIs start to move to their location.
To be honest, I thought this poli
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Frank wrote:
>> >> The
>> >> CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript
>> >> printer.
>> >
>> > Not on my computer. The CUPS queues (and default postscript for that
>> > matter) are broke in latest firefox on my system. "Pap
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:56, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53:01PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:26, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > What we need and what should have been done a long time ag
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Mark Hindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
Sorry!
Other details should read:
* Package name: pfm
Version : 1.2.5
Upstream Author : Willem Herremans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL
Dan writ:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:15:36AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > >
> > > Err. You're saying Xprint is the only print implementation that can
> > > print non-latin stuff properly and reliably?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that's right.
> >
>
> I didn't set Mozilla up with anything special at
Frank wrote:
> >> The
> >> CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript
> >> printer.
> >
> > Not on my computer. The CUPS queues (and default postscript for that
> > matter) are broke in latest firefox on my system. "Paper size not
> > supported", bug #344401. Time to c
> Unless you can persuade the kernel developers to "fix this" then the
> correct solution is to configure network interfaces as an effect of
> hotplug events.
Eh.. excuse me, but did I get this right? Does this mean that there would
be no way of deconfiguring a network device which is not hot-plug
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:15:36AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:23 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > Wouter asked:
> > > > Just out of curiosity, could you point me to arguments in favour of
> > > > Xprint?
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> This tool lists every BTS bug that is forwarded to a remote Bug
> Tracker. If it knows how to get a Status and possibly a Resolution (if
> the Status is a closing Status), it gets them, and:
> * sets upstrea
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mark Hindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: pfm
Version : x.y.z
Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.example.org/
* License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
Description : Postgresql clie
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:43:24AM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
>I know this is not an amd64 specific problem since it also appears
> on i386 but I have tired to send a bug report and without success.
I am sorry, but debian-devel is not the right place for such a request
(unless you want
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> In the meantime, do you suggest to use lintian overrides for fixing this
> in webapp packages or purely ignoring the lintian complaints?
Given that there is no support for this from webserver maintainers and no
proposed migration pa
* Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait :
> >As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that
> >web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin'
> >anymore:
>
> Given that apache2 has almost a magnitude more installations than all
> the other web serve
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:44:13PM +0200, Joost Yervante Damad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will be in Helsinki from 8/5 till 14/5.
>
> If someone wants to meet for a drink or some keysigning drop me an email.
You're almost a year late ;-)
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