Re: Is Thorsten Sauter MIA?

2006-08-31 Thread Cameron Dale
I am still unable to contact Thorsten Sauter. Has anyone heard anything from him in the last 4 months? Anything at all? Cameron Dale said the following on 11/04/2006 4:53 PM: > I've been trying to reach Thorsten Sauter for some time now. I've sent > him a couple emails over the last month and hav

[vac] Sept 1 to Sept 17

2006-08-31 Thread Hubert Chan
Since I'm not a DD yet, I can't tell db.debian.org that I'm on vacation, so this will have to do. I'll be on vacation from September 1 to September 17. I will have occasional email access, but it is unlikely that I'll be able to upload much, or do much development, until Sept. 17. NMUs for my pa

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Bruce Sass
Hello Anthony, Thanks for the response. On Thu August 31 2006 12:17, you wrote: > Hi Bruce, just wanted to say thanks for investigating Metalink. These > are all valid concerns. For the last few months, the only big user of > Metalinks has been OpenOffice.org, and I haven't heard any complaints >

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-31 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-31 01:08:54 +0200]: > Am 2006-08-29 11:55:05, schrieb Charles Plessy: > > > Dear Michelle, > > > > to be fair with Mgr Tuharsky, I think that it is important to remind > > that the bug he is talking about in not affecting OpenOffice only, that > >

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Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Patrick Ruckstuhl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > One thing I'd definitely like to do is get aria2 > (http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) included in Debian. It's a BitTorrent and > Metalink command line client. Maybe recommending certain clients over > another and working with the authors of those

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Anthony L. Bryan
On Thu August 31 2006 00:27, Subredu Manuel wrote: >> Bruce Sass wrote: >> When a new release is made, all servers (and mirrors) are getting >> hit. First, the tier 1 (ftp..debian.org), and then the other >> mirrors. > >Would each mirror or region need a unique metalink file to ensure that >happe

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-31 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:29:46AM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > On 08/15/06 09:49:54AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Hello, > > This seems to be totally overengineered. Having MTA a provide sendmail > > which uses MTA b for remote deliveries is no common usage scenario on > > which any effort sho

Re: seeking advice on device ownership

2006-08-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 31, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can someone help me with chown-ing a device in udev (or something better)? Look at the sane package. The general idea is to generate rules like: SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", \ ATTRS{idProduct}=="2303", ATTRS{idVendor}=="067b", GROUP="chipcard"

seeking advice on device ownership

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Viehmann
tag 373595 + help thanks Hi everyone, can someone help me with chown-ing a device in udev (or something better)? I'm packaging libchipcard2 which includes a daemon (in libchipcard-tools) run under a non-root uid. As it needs to access card readers, I its user, chipcard, is automatically added to

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-31 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-29 11:55:05, schrieb Charles Plessy: > Dear Michelle, > > to be fair with Mgr Tuharsky, I think that it is important to remind > that the bug he is talking about in not affecting OpenOffice only, that > it was introduced by a security update, and that for various reasons the > fix take

Bug#385488: ITP: gpscorrelate -- correlates digital camera photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields

2006-08-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpscorrelate Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Foote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freefoote.dview.net/linux_gpscorr.html * License : GPL Programming Lan

Re: Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-31 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30 Aug 2006, at 7:23 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: First question to the developers, what are you using for deploying configuration on your servers? cfengine. Currently being used to manage configuration files on about 1,500 machines here (m

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
Michael S. Peek wrote: Kevin Buhr wrote: "Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correctly

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
Kevin Buhr wrote: "Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correctly, I should be able to do

Bug#385459: ITP: sysv-rc-bootsplash -- Bootsplash patches for rc files

2006-08-31 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sysv-rc-bootsplash Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://archive.64studio.com/pool/main/s/sysv-rc-bootsplash/ * License : GP

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 31, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco trolled again. FYI, no serious person disagrees with this > interpretation. Except every other distribution, which usually retain real lawyers to advise them about potential problems like this instead of relying on mailing lists posts

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-31 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu August 31 2006 00:27, Subredu Manuel wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > It is also not clear what will happen when a release is made and > > hundreds (thousands?) of clients hit the fastest mirror, whose > > download rate then drops, prompting all the clients to try > > switching to the new fast

Bug#385437: RFH: loop-aes

2006-08-31 Thread Max Vozeler
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi all, I'm starting a new fulltime job, which will leave me with less time to work on these packages (at least initially). The loop-AES packages (-source, -utils, -modules) usually don't require large amounts of attention, but there are a few decisions about big

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-31 Thread MJ Ray
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:26:56PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Should the ftpmasters, who have even less legal expertise, > > Judging by some of the nonsense that debian-legal is typically riddled with, It's generally quite easy to spot the

Re: Running x86-64 debian inside i386 pbuilder on AMD64

2006-08-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sander Marechal | What is the "normal" way to build amd64 .deb's on a 32-bit | debian/ubuntu? Have your normal system be a 64 bit system and run those few apps that need 32 bit support in a chroot is what I see recommended in most cases. Or just go without -- that's what I do. Not having fla

Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator

2006-08-31 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:12:04PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:24:21PM +1000, Steffen Joeris wrote: > > > * Package name: adun.app > > Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add > > a .app to the software name? Can you please give

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:15:20AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > I'd love to see a legal opinion from the SPI lawyers regarding who would be > liable if Debian did commit copyright infringment (or whatever) and someone > sued. FWIW, there's a few things I'd love to see legal opinions on too, in