Re: Contents file is empty, where is it gone ?

2006-07-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:53:24AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Contents.gz seems empty, which sounds more like the culprit. > Ccing debian-devel; anyone know why this is the case? It is due to #376777 I believe. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato

Re: Contents file is empty, where is it gone ?

2006-07-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Junichi Uekawa skrev: auto-apt update Downloading http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian//dists/unstable Contents-amd64.gz ... Warning: "+number" syntax is deprecated, please use "-n +number" put: 0 files, 0 entries done (0 sec) FWIW, this works for me, even though I get the same warnings (which I'd

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-07-06 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:58:28PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > program X consist of a number of C files; it seems like compiling > > > every file takes around 24MB, > > Like I said, there's just too many variables. Also, I wouldn't be > > interested in figuring out how much RAM the build tak

Work-needing packages report for Jul 7, 2006

2006-07-06 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: 309 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 83 (new: 0) Total number of packages requeste

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin Bube
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:00, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> The licensing of cdrtools is/was under investigation of the Technical >> Comitee, a final decision/action is not yet found/published so far. >> >> For the public part

Bug#377153: ITP: python-pysearch -- pYsearch is a wrapper for the Yahoo! search API

2006-07-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pysearch Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Leif Hedstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pysearch.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Description : Python inte

header sanity check?

2006-07-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I just created a /usr/local/include/hi_there.h , #include'd it from a header file, and built a -dev debian package containing that header file without any sort of warnings or errors. So it's really easy to package a -dev package with a header file, that #include's a header file in a package that i

Re: A question on setting setuid bit

2006-07-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:13:30AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 07:36 +1000, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > [about suid bits] > > My personal preference would be for the maintainer to just take a stand, set > > it or not, and let people who actually know what's going on to

Re: doc compilations: build-time or pre-built?

2006-07-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > > It seems like it would be quite taxing on the autobuilders to have to pull > > > something like docbook (and its chain of dependencies) into a pbuilder > > > just > > > to recompile a manpage that doesn't change between architectures. > > > > > AIUI, the autobuilders use sbuild and don

Re: MacBook graphics support

2006-07-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > MacBook has a i945 integrated graphic device. To configure, I chose > > 'intelfb' (not imacfb driver, which seems only to garble the screen > > for me) driver for the kernel. > > > > For X, I managed to make a dual-screen setup, so that I can do > > presentation on projector and stuff. >

Contents file is empty, where is it gone ?

2006-07-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > auto-apt update > > Downloading http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian//dists/unstable > > Contents-amd64.gz ... > > Warning: "+number" syntax is deprecated, please use "-n +number" > > > > put: 0 files, 0 entries done (0 sec) > > FWIW, this works for me, even though I get the same warnings (which

Re: A question on setting setuid bit

2006-07-06 Thread LEE, Yui-wah (Clement)
Hi, Thanks for all the responses. I finally settled with the suggestion of Matt ("install" with right permission, and then use "dh_fixperms -X" to exclude these files's permissions from being reset to Debian's default values). Thanks! Clement On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Matthew Palmer wrote: > The co

protege-discussion is a closed list, please read

2006-07-06 Thread Ecartis
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Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-07-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:23:00PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:04:14PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Additionally, it puzzles me how you think a maintainer will be able to > > > accurately predic

Re: MacBook graphics support

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > MacBook has a i945 integrated graphic device. To configure, I chose > 'intelfb' (not imacfb driver, which seems only to garble the screen > for me) driver for the kernel. > > For X, I managed to make a dual-screen setup, s

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 21:47 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 21:26, Erast Benson wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:56 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > > Will the package be orphande next time? > > > > > > > > No, depending on the outcome of the licensing issues, eit

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:06:56AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > Just checking: are you already aware of Debian From > > Scratch (DFS), which > > already does this? > > http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ > > At nearly 1/2 gigabyte you can hardly call DFS a > recovery cd... Why not? But

Re: exim4 & spf: #377034 & #258210

2006-07-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 06, Alexander Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I have some objections: > 1) first reason is not true anymore. Since > 2004 SPF has a lot of testing; Which showed well that it is a bad idea. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 06 July 2006 21:26, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:56 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > Will the package be orphande next time? > > > > > > No, depending on the outcome of the licensing issues, either the > > > current maintainers still continue to maintain the pa

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
George Danchev wrote: > Could be an installer-only package (cdrtools-src or similar, like qmail-src > is) be a solution anyway ? Yes, that was discussed too. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.p

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:56 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Will the package be orphande next time? > > > > No, depending on the outcome of the licensing issues, either the current > > maintainers still continue to maintain the package, or it has to be > > removed from Debian completely. >

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 the mental interface of Daniel Baumann told: > Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > are there any activities on that project? > > The licensing of cdrtools is/was under investigation of the Technical > Comitee, a final decision/action is not yet found/published so far. > > For the p

Re: exim4

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Alexander Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > AFAIK, debian maintainers are volunteers and they became maintainers to > make Debian better. What the reason for maintainer to _reject_ > improvements? Another reason is this one: # Compiling Exim with experimental features. These are documented

Re: sim package naming

2006-07-06 Thread Jason Spiro
Alexander Petrov gmail.com> wrote: > I think naming default version 'sim-kde' is wrong, because the name is > not intuitive to a user, who just wants to have an IM installed, and > who doesn't want to bother with libraries used by the program Now that I think of it that way, I take back my previo

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Sam Morris
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:48:15 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:00, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> > are there any activities on that project? >> >> The licensing of cdrtools is/was under investigation of the Technical >> Comitee, a final decision/act

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:00, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > are there any activities on that project? > > The licensing of cdrtools is/was under investigation of the Technical > Comitee, a final decision/action is not yet found/published so far. > > For the public part of

Re: Re: exim4

2006-07-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 18:03 +0300, Alexander Vlasov a écrit : > b) default exim with spf and lot of people just enabling it in config > (rest of exim users wouldn't notice the difference) > ? > > AFAIK, debian maintainers are volunteers and they became maintainers to > make Debian better. Wha

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
> Just checking: are you already aware of Debian From > Scratch (DFS), which > already does this? > http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ At nearly 1/2 gigabyte you can hardly call DFS a recovery cd... Ottavio Caruso -- No individual replies, please! __

Re: Re: exim4

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello. Well, rebuilding a package is not a problem; I already have about ~ 70 packages rebuilt for various reasons; It's not a problem to add another one. But I'm trying to make things as comfortable as possible for all. What is better: a) default exim w/o spf and lot of people using local instal

NMU of libtest-mockobject-perl

2006-07-06 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak
I am planning to do NMU of libtest-mockobject-perl with packages from: http://perl.kofeina.net/unstable/ reasons: - package 1.00 in debian is year old - new package is 1.06 - many packages want to version > 1.01 to work properly History of bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:07:16AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Quite true, though my impression is that this is much more rare. Our > controller (HP MSA1500cs) seems to have added active/active controllers > as a recent option. That's worth knowing. > I'm not really sure if multipath-tools supp

Re: exim4 & spf: #377034 & #258210

2006-07-06 Thread Sam Morris
Take matters into your own hands. :) The following is what I used to do to run exim4 4.50 with SPF checking. I think that the same broad steps will also apply to more recent versions of the package. # apt-get install build-essential libspf2-dev fakeroot # apt-get build-dep exim4 $ apt-get sour

Bug#376959: Info received (Orphaning blam)

2006-07-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: Orphaning blam

2006-07-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 360583 O: blam -- an RSS aggregator for GNOME Bug#360583: RFA: blam -- an RSS aggregator for GNOME Changed Bug title. > Johan Svedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. > > I'm no longer maintaining

Bug#360583: Info received (Orphaning blam)

2006-07-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Orphaning blam

2006-07-06 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
retitle 360583 O: blam -- an RSS aggregator for GNOME Johan Svedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no longer maintaining blam. I've sent out a RFA[1] but it doesn't > seem like anyone has picked it up. If you are not intending to maintain the package, you should orphan it, not ask for an adopte

exim4 & spf: #377034 & #258210

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello. I filed a wishlist[1] on exim4 package asking to enable SPF[2] in exim4-daemon-heavy package, but maintainer rejected it and recommended me discuss this situation on debian-devel@, so I beg to ask your attention. Currently, debian ships two versions of exim4 -- light with absolutely minima

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* John Goerzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:39:16PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Not always true. Both paths can be active at the same time.. if supported by > > the SAN array. Then you do also load balancing between the paths.. > > Quite true, though my impression

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:39:16PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Not always true. Both paths can be active at the same time.. if supported by > the SAN array. Then you do also load balancing between the paths.. Quite true, though my impression is that this is much more rare. Our controller (HP

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:06:54PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:34:41PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Well, I do not even know what multipath _is_, nor why it is important. > > If that is representative, I suspect the people interested in > > multipath have some w

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:24, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > at the moment, we have two types of Live CD images: > > > > > > * the small one which contains only packages of standard priority, > > > * and three larger ones, each

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > > at the moment, we have two types of Live CD images: > > > > * the small one which contains only packages of standard priority, > > * and three larger ones, each of which contains one of the common > > desktop-environm

Re: A question on setting setuid bit

2006-07-06 Thread Frank Küster
Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 07:36 +1000, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > [about suid bits] >> My personal preference would be for the maintainer to just take a stand, set >> it or not, and let people who actually know what's going on to use >> dpkg-statoverri

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:06:54PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Now, when you bring up this system, Linux will assign *two* /dev/sdx > devices for each RAID LUN (basically looks like a disk). At any given > time, exactly one will be readable and useful. That is, the disk can be > probed on both c

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > are there any activities on that project? The licensing of cdrtools is/was under investigation of the Technical Comitee, a final decision/action is not yet found/published so far. For the public part of the information, read on at http://bugs.debian.org/350739 > There

Re: A question on setting setuid bit

2006-07-06 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:13:30AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > In that case, does it make sense to prompt the admin once from the > postinst script with a message such as: > "Warning: from installed with suid bit. If > this is unacceptable at your site, use dpkg-statoverride to clear this >

Bug#377021: ITP: zmakebas -- convert text files into ZX Spectrum Basic programs

2006-07-06 Thread Krystian Wlosek
Package: wnpp Owner: Krystian Wlosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: zmakebas Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Russell Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rus.members.beeb.net/zmakebas.html * License : Public domain Programming Lang:

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:17:20 -0400 "Jason Spiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: openwatcom > Version : I plan to do version 1.4 (or 1.6, if it comes out > soon) Upstream Author : an in

Re: A question on setting setuid bit

2006-07-06 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 07:36 +1000, Matthew Palmer a écrit : [about suid bits] > My personal preference would be for the maintainer to just take a stand, set > it or not, and let people who actually know what's going on to use > dpkg-statoverride to fix the problem to their satisfaction. (This

Re: doc compilations: build-time or pre-built?

2006-07-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Junichi Uekawa | Another aspect is maintenance cost. Auto* tools and docbook toolchain, | and tex toolchain may break, which means packages no longer | build. This, I believe, shouldn't really be considered a reason not to | build-depend; because it will be the users who will suffer from a | br