Work-needing packages report for May 12, 2006

2006-05-11 Thread wnpp
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: 299 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 80 (new: 2) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:05:17PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. > > Uh no. I find it scary that

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Miles Bader
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just because something is also political statement doesn't make it > evil or wrong. Yup. I think it's rather rude to respond to an ITP by publicly questioning the choice of license (as long as it's a valid license for Debian). -Miles -- I'm beginning

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 May 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.2219 +0200]: > > I think this is the whole point of licensing a library under the GPL. > > For me the point of a library is code reuse. Putting a library under > the GPL is more of a politica

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:36:18AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 11 May 2006 01:25, Frank Küster wrote: > > The only things that should be installed separately are > > probably aptitude, apt and dpkg, then just dist-upgrade. > From memory, upgrading apt + friends seperately isn't poss

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Ben Burton
> > Wow. First off, Kari does not appear to be upstream, so who are > > you addressing? > > Him. I think he's in the better position to talk to upstream about > it. Or in fact not make the package. Oh, come on. It's the author's perogative as to how the work is licensed, and since it adheres t

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-11 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:13:31AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: Jose, Before I comment on a few things, I want to make something clear to you. You have repeatedly accused me of having something personal against you, both in public and in private. I cannot recall ever having even *heard* of yo

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Daniel Ruoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em Qui, 2006-05-11 às 09:56 +0200, Gabor Gombas escreveu: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Why would that not fly? > Both versions of the arch-independent package could be installed a

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Adam Borowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:49:26PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: On the other hand, if we continue that thought process we could end up with all headers and libraries in /usr/share/, which is absurd. Why? This is exactly

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:22:18PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Usually, when I get problems with xpdf on a PDF, it is a PDF > 1.5. Either it simply doesn't work, or very slowly, or text search > doesn't work in the PDF. Please submit bug reports. I couldn't find any such reports at http://b

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Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
John Goerzen wrote: > Hello, > > I intend to take over the Bacula package. I would first like to say > thanks to Jose Luis Tallon for initially packaging it for Debian and > maintaining it for these years. > You have a funny sense of time, don't you? This is true; Years. Since October 2003. > A

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jos? Luis Tall?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > >> If the maintainer still wants to maintain it, help him, do NMUs, whatever, > >> but I'm still looking for one reason you can take over the package against > >> the maintainer's opinion. > > > > He wants to have his name on th

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jos? Luis Tall?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Actually, we've heard in this thread that Stephen (his AM) *did* offer to > > sponsor bacula uploads, and José Luis did not avail himself of this. > When the offer did come, I wasn't able to prepare the upload anyway. > I sus

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
Stephen Frost wrote: >> If the maintainer still wants to maintain it, help him, do NMUs, whatever, >> but I'm still looking for one reason you can take over the package against >> the maintainer's opinion. >> > > He wants to have his name on the package w/o doing the work > (apparently). What

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thursday 11 May 2006 01:25, Frank Küster wrote: > The only things that should be installed separately are > probably aptitude, apt and dpkg, then just dist-upgrade. > From memory, upgrading apt + friends seperately isn't possible whilst synaptic is installed. In sarge, the gnome meta package

Bug#366900: ITP: asterisk-prompt-es-co -- Colombian Spanish voice prompts for the Asterisk PBX

2006-05-11 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Santiago Ruano Rincón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-prompt-es-co Version : 0.0.20060503 Upstream Author : Avatar Ltda. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.avatar.com.co/ * License : GPL Description

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
Steve Langasek wrote: > It is the responsibility of a package maintainer to ensure that fixes for > bugs are uploaded in a timely manner. If José Luis isn't able to do this, > because he doesn't have a sponsor or for any other reason, then he is not an > effective maintainer for the package. >

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:49:26PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > On the other hand, if we continue that thought process we could end up > with all headers and libraries in /usr/share/, which is absurd. Why? This is exactly what's beautiful, especially if EVERYTHING ends up in /usr/share/ at one day,

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-05-11 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Hi, I'd add localepurge - witch save my >25 % disk space on 6-700 mb installation. Thanks! Eugen Paiuc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-05-11 kello 07:13 -0700, Ben Pfaff kirjoitti: > It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does > that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not. It handles .dsc, .changes, and Sources files. But I also forgot to mention the main reason I wrote it: it gives progress feedba

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:30:40PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:37:35AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > : > Jose Luis doesn't want just his name in some place, he has worked a lot > : > in bacula in the past, and I don't know why he can't remain as > : > maintainer or

Re: Why isn't gnome in testing?

2006-05-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:32:36PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Julian Gilbey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 22:17]: > > Does anyone know why the binary package gnome is no longer in testing? > > The source package meta-gnome2 is there > > Seems like an accident currently. We're researching th

Bug#366893: init.d stopping messages not standardized or even always logged

2006-05-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: general Severity: wishlist Looking at the myriad ways of starting messages in /var/log/boot, Starting X TrueType font server: xfstt. Starting /usr/sbin/chronyd... Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: anacron. Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. Starting periodic command scheduler (e

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:07:55PM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: [ snip ] > I have myself fixed in excess of 40 bugs in my packages in the last 48h, > when I have been back to speed. > So what??? I had already checked the packages you posted on sf.net and have not been able to find bug fixes an

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 20:21]: > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Ganesan Rajagopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 14:12]: > > > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked >

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060512 00:00]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:54]: > >> Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch > >>

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:56]: > So, what are the issues that need to be fixed? Currently #360851 > doesn't say it's blocked by anything, and two packages are blocked > waiting for it. As said, I put it on my "need to work on"-list, and you'll get results in May (and ho

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:54]: >> Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch >> > is going to ship with 2.3? >> >> Yeah, what about it? >> >> There

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.2219 +0200]: > I think this is the whole point of licensing a library under the GPL. For me the point of a library is code reuse. Putting a library under the GPL is more of a political statement. > There's not much point in using a copy

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 10:48]: >> Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 10:09 +0200, Domenico Andreoli a écrit : >> > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch >> > is going to ship with 2.3? >> >> An upload of pytho

python 2.4?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 23:54]: > Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > what about the transition to python 2.4? is it going to start or etch > > is going to ship with 2.3? > > Yeah, what about it? > > There is an open bug, it's blocking lilypond which should

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> Hi, > > hi, > >> there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team >> whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. As we're heading to > > what about the t

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> Ok, the maintainer has not fixed the bugs, has not packaged the last >> version of it in time, etc, but he has done a great job anyway, and I >> still don't see the point of hijacking the

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:07 +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > > John has managed to not only update to the latest upstream version in his > > upload, but he's also managed to fix 24 bugs by my count. It is notable > > that he has managed to achieve so much while Jose struggled just to update > > to

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-05-11 às 09:56 +0200, Gabor Gombas escreveu: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Why would that not fly? > > Both versions of the arch-independent package could be installed at > > the same time. > /usr/share/foo/bar can't point to two different fil

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread José Luis Tallón
David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:30:40PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > >> He has packaged the last version of bacula, and it is not uploaded >> because it's not ready, then a new version was showed up... he has a >> personal apt repository that users from bacula mailing list

Re: screenshot with package description

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 5/10/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Better to create 15.000 additional DEB's with pics and additonal descriptoons (per screenshoot) and make Meta packages to instal with apt-get install aptpics-all (for installing the whole

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Thiemo Seufer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have created a new page in the wiki to track info and status > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch > > I looked at the "upstream standards proposal": > http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/multiarch/ > > It's good. > I am particularly pleased by the specification: >

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Matt Taggart and others" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi debian-devel, For a couple years now a few of us have been talking about an idea called "multiarch". This is a way to seamlessly allow support for multiple different binary targets on the same system, for

Bug#366879: ITP: libodbc++ -- C++ library for ODBC SQL database access

2006-05-11 Thread Ondřej SurÃœ
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libodbc++ Version : 0.2.4pre3 Upstream Author : Manush Dodunekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libodbcxx.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ D

Re: Why isn't gnome in testing?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julian Gilbey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 22:17]: > Does anyone know why the binary package gnome is no longer in testing? > The source package meta-gnome2 is there Seems like an accident currently. We're researching the matter. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- T

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 16:46 +0200, martin f krafft a écrit : > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > > * License : GPL v2 or later > > That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. Why don't > you choose (if possible) a less "viral" licence?

Why isn't gnome in testing?

2006-05-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
Does anyone know why the binary package gnome is no longer in testing? The source package meta-gnome2 is there Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:56:04PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > > > PRO

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:30:40PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > He has packaged the last version of bacula, and it is not uploaded > because it's not ready, then a new version was showed up... he has a > personal apt repository that users from bacula mailing list uses, and > packages (not yet

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 11 May 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "The terms arch and os represent the Architecture and Operating System > as defined and provided by config.guess." Well, config.sub is the one whose function is to provide canonical names, config.guess might not do so for one reason or another (but

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:37:35AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: : * Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : > Speaking about your mail, I think it's your opinion, mine is different. : : Sure, but you're looking through some very rosy glasses. hey, I've tried to be fair... : > Jose Luis doe

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 15:05]: > >Well, I've no idea what you mean by "manage". You can add new > >blockers to the meta bug and remove them, which is all I want to > >do. > by mail, really ? Yeah, "block xx by foo". -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UN

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1702 +0200]: > > That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. > > Non-GPL compatible applications, you mean? Yeah well. IMHO that pretty much excludes all sensible licences. > > Why don't you choose (if possible) a less "vi

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Ganesan Rajagopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 14:12]: > > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked > > >> during the last months, and it was ignored by the mainta

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-11 Thread neroden
>I have created a new page in the wiki to track info and status > > http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch I looked at the "upstream standards proposal": http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/multiarch/ It's good. I am particularly pleased by the specification: "The terms arch and os represent the Archit

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team >

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:20:29PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 13:38]: > > I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting > > to know, how other architectures behave. Also i have not seen any > > comments from doko

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/11/06, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 14:39]: > >> Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > >> results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > >> managed by email, usertags ar

Processed: closing dead old bugs

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # This bug is from 2000, and the submitter failed to give the requested > # followup information. Furthermore devfs is dead meat. > close 78282 Bug#78282: DevFS incompatabilities 'close' is deprecated; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing.

Bug#366859: ITP: libwiki-toolkit-perl -- A toolkit for building Wikis

2006-05-11 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwiki-toolkit-perl Version : 0.70 Upstream Author : The Wiki::Toolkit team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic D

Bug#366862: ITP: libwiki-toolkit-formatter-usemod-perl -- UseModWiki-style formatting for Wiki::Toolkit

2006-05-11 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwiki-toolkit-formatter-usemod-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : The Wiki::Toolkit project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/ * License : D

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 14:39]: > >> Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > >> results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > >> managed by email, usertags are. > >What can not be managed by email? > The metabug itse

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/11/06, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 11:20]: > Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > managed by email, usertags are. What

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> I am strongly against compressing PDFs > To add insult to injury, PDF 1.5 introduces ``object streams'' which > allow compressing arbitrarily long chunks of a PDF file without > giving up the random-access properties of PDF. A

Re: screenshot with package description

2006-05-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Sorry for the late answer... > 3) How would synaptic (for instance) know which packages have which > images? I suppose you would need a Packages-like file with this > information... (This will not be incorporated in the main Packages > file... not before this idea being proved as possible and usef

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Frank Küster wrote: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. [...] > As a derived work of a GPL'd work, the aggregate is covered by the GPL > license. So the aggregate, in other words the *application* would be a GPL-application, right? Which make

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >>> also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: >>> > * License : GPL v2 or later >>> >>> That will make it pr

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > * License

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Frank Küster wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > >> also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > >> > * License : GPL v2 or later > >> > >> That will make it pretty useless for

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: >> > * License : GPL v2 or later >> >> That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. > > Non-GP

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > > * License : GPL v2 or later > > That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. Non-GPL compatible applications, you mean? > Why don't y

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: > * License : GPL v2 or later That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. Why don't you choose (if possible) a less "viral" licence? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .'

Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Kari Pahula
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cxxtools Version : 1.4.1pre2 Upstream Author : Tommi Mäkitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.tntnet.org/ * License : GPL v2 or later Programming Lang: C++ Descri

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 11:20]: > Why you did this metabug thing, and not just usertagged the bugs ? The > results seems to be similar, but i don't think that a metabug can be > managed by email, usertags are. What can not be managed by email? -- Martin Michlmayr http://w

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/11/06, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 10:00]: > > One: What's the easiest way to extract the list of gcc-4.1 related bugs > > from the BTS? > > There is none I know - I asked Martin already yesterday on IRC to > provide such a way.

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the > contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before > you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily > check the CD at any time: just comp

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 10:00]: > > One: What's the easiest way to extract the list of gcc-4.1 related bugs > > from the BTS? > > There is none I know - I asked Martin already yesterday on IRC to > provide such a way. I've created the following meta bug: 366820 -- Martin

Auto-trace

2006-05-11 Thread lee . s . isbell
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Processed: gcc 4.1

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 366820 by 366821 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was blocked by: 275774 355163 355165 355189 355325 355326 355352 355396 355463 355598 355599 355663 355738 355739 355741 355744 355841 355980 355983 355986 355988 355989 355990 355992 3

Processed: track GCC 4.1 bugs; part 1/4

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 366820 by 355163 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was not blocked by any bugs. Blocking bugs added: 355163 > block 366820 by 355352 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was blocked by: 355163 Blocking bugs added: 355352 > block 3

Processed: track GCC 4.1 bugs; part 2/4

2006-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 366820 by 357961 Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch Was blocked by: 355163 355352 355396 355598 355841 355983 355989 355997 356004 356093 356109 356110 356116 356160 356228 356232 356238 356246 356248 356303 356304 356366 356370 356436 3

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Speaking about your mail, I think it's your opinion, mine is different. Sure, but you're looking through some very rosy glasses. > Jose Luis doesn't want just his name in some place, he has worked a lot > in bacula in the past, and I don't know why

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 14:20]: > > I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting > > to know, how other architectures behave. Also i have not seen any > > comments from doko yet. > I built mips and amd64, and in the mean time also powerpc and m

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:46:33AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: : : Roberto, : : Your mailer is busted. You might want to fix it- it's setting an : invalid Reply-To address. Below is the bounce (including my reply, if : you don't see it on d-d). My fault, I misplaced the msgid of the mail

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 13:38]: > I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting > to know, how other architectures behave. Also i have not seen any > comments from doko yet. I built mips and amd64, and in the mean time also powerpc and most o

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ganesan Rajagopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060511 14:12]: > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked > >> during the last months, and it was ignored by the maintainer. I'm not > >> aware of anything preventing this

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > rover, Jose Luis's sponsor and uploader of many of his packages including > bacula, you can blame me also if you want Others have pretty well addressed the rest of your message already. I'd like to expand on this point. I've be

Re: python version?

2006-05-11 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> An upload of python-defaults switching to 2.4 has been repeatedly asked >> during the last months, and it was ignored by the maintainer. I'm not >> aware of anything preventing this upload currently. > The maintainer is not ignoring it, but the t

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. No, it isn't. Maybe experimental is for that; but unstable is for software that is targetted to be moved to etch and to

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. Uh no. I find it scary that you share this same idea as the original bacula maintainer. Unstable is

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-05-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 3/9/06, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/6/06, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I think you can tell pretty clearly that Bernd has no objection at all > > to NMU's. > > yes, but please not for wishlist bugs. Again:

Bug#366820: Transition to GCC 4.1 for etch

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: general Severity: wishlist It would be great if we could move to GCC 4.1 for etch. The release managers have now given us a concrete target we have to achieve before this can happen: the majority of outstanding 4.1 specific bugs in packages have to be fixed by mid of June [1]. The RC bu

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-11 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> I am strongly against compressing PDFs To add insult to injury, PDF 1.5 introduces ``object streams'' which allow compressing arbitrarily long chunks of a PDF file without giving up the random-access properties of PDF. All current Free PDF readers grok PDF 1.5, although as far as I know no Free

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't agree, all those things are not in my opinion enough for the > hijacking. Thankfully, you're wrong. > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. It's *n

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Andi, On Wednesday, 10 May 2006, you wrote: > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team > whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. As we're heading to I know, tbm tried to build all packages on mips*. It would be intersting to know, how other architectu

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Ok, the maintainer has not fixed the bugs, has not packaged the last > version of it in time, etc, but he has done a great job anyway, and I > still don't see the point of hijacking the package. So he has done not one of the things expected of

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-11 09:13]: > I'd certainly prefer we shipped with the least bugs, rather than with > "fairly recent" software; I don't know if these goals contradict or > concur in this particular case. FWIW, the GCC 4.0.3 Status Report (2006-01-15) says, "It's in

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
> I didn't hit this problem myself yet, but it has been mentioned on > sparclinux list that 4.1 currently miscompiles the sparc kernel. Do you know if this still happens, and if so, whether someone has tracked it down? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-11 Thread Jari Aalto
Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:12:35AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: >> > The rest of the system accounts are happily running with /bin/false >> >> There is now /bin/nologin which is more secure > > I think you mean /usr/sbin/nologin, right? Please define "more sec

Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:07:27, John Goerzen wrote: : Hello, : : I intend to take over the Bacula package. I would first like to say : thanks to Jose Luis Tallon for initially packaging it for Debian and : maintaining it for these years. : : A brief history of why I intend to do this: : : * Bacul

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