Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:59:21AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> accessible mail server. The point is that I only experience this >> problem with Alioth and SourceForge lists, where they use braindead call >> back mechanism to try and reach the

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:37:00PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Is the mailing list software on Alioth broken or misconfigured? If I > send from any host on my network other than the one which happens to be > the mail server, I get this error when I send to an Alioth list: > Aug 27 17:26:48

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe the debian website would deserve a section in which Debian > communicates on those issues. After all, I think that they are similar > in concept (but not in gravity) to recalls seen in the industry: a > broken material was released, so special commu

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:00:08PM +0200, Michelle Konzack a écrit : > Am 2006-08-25 11:46:20, schrieb Mgr. Peter Tuharsky: > > 1b, If things don't work, it's sometimes hard to get them working > > either. Example: Bug 372719. The OOo 2.0 keeps crashing for 2 months > > thank to KNOWN bug in secu

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:01:21AM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >> Michelle Konzack wrote: >> >>> Since I have no valid ID-Card (problens with France, since I am origin >>> iranish/turkish witeh illegal german adoptivp arents) I can not enter >>> the NM... nobo

Re: Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually they can, but it's recommended that a real package be given as > well. From /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.desc: > Tag: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends > Type: warning > Ref: policy 7.4 > Info: The package declares a de

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:17:42PM +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote: > At the beginning of my comments, there has been a statement from Rudy: > "We have no easy-way-to-get-it to tell people why they would want to > use Debian. Ubuntu, on the other hand, has achieved to do so, and what > they tell

Re: UNINSTALL

2006-08-28 Thread CHESTER PHILLIPS
PLEASE UNINSTALL ME FROM CALLWAVE. MY TELEPHONE NUMBER IS 405-379-2219.

Firmware poll

2006-08-28 Thread Luk Claes
-=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 6c557439-9c21-4eec-ad6c-e6384fab56a8 [ 1 ] Choice 1: Release etch on time [ 3 ] Choice 2: Do not ship sourceless firmware in main [ 2 ] Choice 3: Support hardware that requires sourceless firmware [ ] Choice 4: None of the abo

Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch hik :-) At skimme, ny mail

2006-08-28 Thread Niels Larsen
On Monday 28 August 2006 20:35, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello, world! > > As a project, Debian is heavily committed to the ideals of free software. > That's not news to anyone reading this, I'm sure, as it's something > we've constantly worked to improve, whether that be by establishing our > Social

Re: Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:01:57PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Making mail-transport-agent the empty package, and having it depend only on > exim4 (the default), should work. Of course, exim4 can't conflict with it > (but it's enough that all the others do), No, that's not enough. The exim

Re: Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 28 August 2006 18:48, Aurelien Jarno took the opportunity to say: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Following some discussion with Marco d'Itri about inetd, I'd like to > > put forward some more general thoughts on virtual package handling for > > some comments. > > > > Currently

Re: Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Roger Leigh wrote: Hi folks, Following some discussion with Marco d'Itri about inetd, I'd like to put forward some more general thoughts on virtual package handling for some comments. Currently, virtual packages (such as mail-transport-agent) cannot be specified by themselves. They can only be

Re: Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 28 August 2006 18:09, Jonas Meurer took the opportunity to say: > On 28/08/2006 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > Making mail-transport-agent the empty package, and having it depend only > > on exim4 (the default), should work. Of course, exim4 can't conflict with > > it (but it's enough that al

Re: Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 28/08/2006 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Making mail-transport-agent the empty package, and having it depend only on > exim4 (the default), should work. Of course, exim4 can't conflict with it > (but it's enough that all the others do), so if the default is changed then > the old default, the new

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:09:54PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > ciol wrote: > > The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like > > volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's > > difficult to see the links. > > The... err... issue is that thes

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread Joey Schulze
ciol wrote: > > Clamav is in volatile, php5 in backports, haven't checked squid3. ... squid3 is in *gosh* testing. > The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like > volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's > difficult to see the links. T

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-25 11:46:20, schrieb Mgr. Peter Tuharsky: > 1b, If things don't work, it's sometimes hard to get them working > either. Example: Bug 372719. The OOo 2.0 keeps crashing for 2 months > thank to KNOWN bug in security upgrade. Now tell somebody, that Debian But OOo 2.0 is not in Stable!

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-24 17:51:55, schrieb Rudy Godoy: > I do believe it's more a matter of relations with press and media than > budget. We have no easy-way-to-get-it to tell people why they would want to > use Debian. Ubuntu, on the other hand, has achieved to do so, and what they > tell that we can't? not

Re: Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 28 August 2006 14:59, Roger Leigh took the opportunity to say: > For the case of mail-transport-agent, this could be simply solved by > the creation of a mail-transport-agent-default package. This would > be an empty package, doing nothing but providing this dependency: > > Depends: ex

Policy regarding virtual packages

2006-08-28 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, Following some discussion with Marco d'Itri about inetd, I'd like to put forward some more general thoughts on virtual package handling for some comments. Currently, virtual packages (such as mail-transport-agent) cannot be specified by themselves. They can only be used in combination

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 28, Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't run a lot of servers either if you never need versions of many > > different packages more recent than a couple of years. > That's when backports and chroots comes in. Backports have dubious quality and do not get real security su

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:48:31AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Out of curiousity, if this is such a good thing why are Alioth and > SourceForge the only two services (of the dozens of mailing lists from > half dozen or more services) which use this setup? Also, why is the > error message r

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
Wouter, it seems You don't understand my point of view. I don't question development results in Debian. I, too, couldn't, because so far I haven't met any Etch installation. I read Weekly news and watch the progress. I see there's quite a development inside of Debian. As of release cycle being

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:33:00 +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote: >> Mplayer can be installed easily by adding the right line to your >> sources.list. It's all over the internet. Same goes for codecs. > > Yes, I'll try to replicate that sentence to my aunt or cousin. It will > be of great help for s

[VAC] 3 months sailing through SE Asia

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [sent to debian-devel since I'm not yet a DD] I'll be away from the Internet for 3 months. I'll be on a research vessel[1,2] sailing from Cairns, Australia. We will be stopping in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and I'll be getting off in Phuket, Thailand (or maybe Singapore) in December.

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
At the beginning of my comments, there has been a statement from Rudy: "We have no easy-way-to-get-it to tell people why they would want to use Debian. Ubuntu, on the other hand, has achieved to do so, and what they tell that we can't? nothing." and as his message continues (25.08.2006 00:51)

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:33:00AM +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote: > Wouter: > >>I don't tell the ideology is not valid; I just tell that often this is > >>in the state "Users, wait until we solve this ideologically, it may > >>take some years". Well, user dosen't have the years and need things >

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-28 12:35]: > You don't run a lot of servers either if you never need versions of many > different packages more recent than a couple of years. That's when backports and chroots comes in. yours Martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux - The

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-28 Thread Otavio Salvador
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That would be good to be add in cdbs. I think we might want to have it >> more flexible to allow it to work for CDDs too but I liked it very >> much :-D > > It does not look right to me, though.. what about buildds? And what > about people forge

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 8/28/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No offense, but that is completely non-scalable. That only works for a small number of users which does not change frequently. Anyhow, thanks to 'Dato, I seem to have been able to convince mutt to play nicer with your mail server. Yeah

Re: Update: status of inetd

2006-08-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 28, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Split out update-inetd from netbase into a new "inetd" package. No, because e.g. xinetd needs a totally different update-inetd program. It's simpler if each inetd package will ship its own update-inetd. > 3) All update-inetd users need to dep

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 28, Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >> You don't run a lot of servers if you want to update them more >> frequently. > You don't run a lot of servers either if you never need versions of many > different p

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread ciol
Martin Wuertele wrote: > Clamav is in volatile, php5 in backports, haven't checked squid3. The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's difficult to see the links. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:59:21AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > accessible mail server. The point is that I only experience this > > problem with Alioth and SourceForge lists, where they use braindead call > > back mechanism to try and reach th

Update: status of inetd

2006-08-28 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, Following the last thread on the subject, several things have happened: 1) All packages depending on netkit-inetd have had their dependencies replaced with a netkit dependency. 2) netkit now only depends upon openbsd-inetd, so netkit-inetd is now no longer used by either new insta

Re: User feedback -post installation and after-week survey?

2006-08-28 Thread ed
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:31:02 +0200 "Mgr. Peter Tuharsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howabout some form -user could be navigated to some basic webpage > where he could answer some simple questions? Not too many questions > (optimally 5-8?), preferably pre-answered (by some selection box), of >

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 28, Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoo no way! I don't want to updated my servers more than once 18-24 > months. I don't need php5, specs says php4 and php5, squid does it's job > very good and clamav from volatile rounds the package up. Then don't. The problem for people li

inet-superserver virtual package

2006-08-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 28, Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just yesterday night dato raised the issue on #d-release, and I was > telling about the virtual package, and that we could move to it now, > and worry later about a possible transition to that new update-inetd > (if it happens to exist some day

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Mgr. Peter Tuharsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-28 12:05]: > To make the picture more complete, not only desktop needs current > software. The Debian on server lacks sometimes too. > > Few examples: PHP5, bunch of Clamav-related packages for proxy and mail > interaction, Squid3. They're in E

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 8/28/06, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're speaking about distributions that are intended for daily use, not for experiments. To make it clear, Debian 3.1 Sarge and Ubuntu 6.06. If the Etch has it, that's great. However that dosen't matter answering the "Debian is at least a

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

2006-08-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
To make the picture more complete, not only desktop needs current software. The Debian on server lacks sometimes too. Few examples: PHP5, bunch of Clamav-related packages for proxy and mail interaction, Squid3. They're in Etch, however if released as official update of Debian, should do. If

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
Wouter: 1, Ubuntu places the care about the average-Joe-user at first place at worst. Debian dosen't. That's true, but this is improving. Hope I could see it soon. Really. I don't tell the ideology is not valid; I just tell that often this is in the state "Users, wait until we solve this i

User feedback -post installation and after-week survey?

2006-08-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
This has emerged from "Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas" thread. Rudy: > I think the issues you point out is the feeback what we need, and > discuss about them. I encourage you to also post to the mailing list. > > I'm trying to figure out how we can "listen" more our users needs, and > then ma

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
Rudy: There is so much to say about that, that I hardly can remember the very concrete cases, so please don't attack me on that basis. I wasn't attacking you, If you had that impression I'm sorry. No, I really hadn't. I mentioned that just preventively, not targeted at You -because I feel

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
Bruce, > Uhm, Debian's target audience is not Joe User, never has been AFAICT. > Joe isn't usually capable of determining which MTA, web server, proxy server, etc., specific implementation is best for them, assuming they are even aware of the architecture underlying the UI they see... Debian

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 27 août 2006 à 19:12 +0200, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > bzrtools > 0.9 does not put files under /usr/lib/python2.4, since it > uses python-support; and its maintainer scripts for < 0.9 did not > bytecompile the modules, so the most plausible explanation for .pyc > files in /usr/lib/python

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 28, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm an Alioth administrator. If you expect help from us, you'd better not > say that our configuration is "braindead". This is the most basic thing > that we can do to avoid spam. It is not "braindead", but "antisocial". "sender verification"

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Bruce Sass
[sorry for the duplicate, but I want to fix the threading] On Sun August 27 2006 18:55, David Nusinow wrote: > Deferring to Ubuntu for this work is the worst sort of defeatist > nonsense and I will not to bow to it. I like collaborating with the > Ubuntu people, but I refuse to compromise my own w

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > accessible mail server. The point is that I only experience this > problem with Alioth and SourceForge lists, where they use braindead call > back mechanism to try and reach the host that originated the message. I'm an Alioth administrator. If you