On 9/13/06, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just take a look at http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ and start
working :-)
Feel free to ask any questions an [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks!!
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:
> Pan[0] is currently undergoing a major rewrite, and being the
> maintainer, I am currently considering what version of pan to
> include in etch. This mail[1] from one of the pan mailing lists sums
> up the situation quite nice
I'm not a developer and I'd just like to point a few issues to check
for the next release. I'm planning to switch to Debian when Etch
comes out but, for now, my findings are from Knoppix.
My monitor, a Viewsonic VX922, is not set correctly. Il looks OK but,
when a 1280x1024 image is downloaded
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> That raises a philosophical question:
>
> If a bug was in a prerm script in unstable for 7 days, but never
> appeared in stable or testing, should we include cruft in present and
> future prerm versions to work around it?
>
> Or, put another way: a pr
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On 09/13/2006 08:21 PM, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:46:19PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm adopting liblingua-es-numeros-perl, a Perl module for translating
>>numbers into their Spanish string represe
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On 09/13/06 20:15, Adam Cecile wrote:
[snip]
> It includes the following features :
[snip]
>- Can handle files up to 2Gb.
That's a feature?
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Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:13:03AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>This is the third time this year that patch has been incorrectly
>>>ascribed to OpenBSD.
>
>>Sorry for the misundertanding. I'll fix the lynx changelog file.
>>I just used the pat
CC: debian-devel, as I'm asking about packaging best practices.
[Agustin Martin]
> >* python-subversion.{prerm,postinst}: use pyversions, fix stupid
> > bug (Closes: #379278) in prerm. Tighten python build-dep to
> > ensure availability of pyversions.
>
> Note that some upgrades m
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:15:43AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> Martin Schulze has been told more than once that this was not an OpenBSD
>>> patch.
>> Could you please tell me why this is such a huge deal?
> hmm. I'm given to understand that you don't get annoyed when people
> are (to be genero
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>This is the third time this year that patch has been incorrectly
>>ascribed to OpenBSD.
> Sorry for the misundertanding. I'll fix the lynx changelog file.
> I just used the patch from 2.8.5-2sarge2 in stable-security.
ok. Perhaps you should r
Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:26:09AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Martin Schulze has been told more than once that this was not an OpenBSD
>> patch.
>>
>> After the second time, there is no plausible excuse.
>>
>> Do you have an excuse?
> Could y
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:32:43AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:21:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > After an upgrade and answering all of the conffile prompts, does
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins.conffiles still exist and reference these
> >
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:21:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> After an upgrade and answering all of the conffile prompts, does
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins.conffiles still exist and reference these
> files? Depending on what dpkg is really doing here, it may well be possible
> to handle
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:46:19PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm adopting liblingua-es-numeros-perl, a Perl module for translating
> numbers into their Spanish string representation. One of the first
> things I noticed is that the manpage is completely (and only) written
> in Spanish. So
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:19:02AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
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>>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:41:49 +1000
>>Source: lynx
>>Binary: lynx
>>Architecture: source i386 sparc amd64
>>Version: 2.8.5-
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:00:06 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> >I was planning on starting the wide adopting process to the group,
Fine, I had the same idea.
> >but
> >if you can help, much better.
Ack.
> I have no experience with maintaining within a group, but I will be
> happy to learn :)
J
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 23:21, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'll be taking a long vacation of Debian and free software activity
> for the next couple of months for personal reasons. Because of that,
> I'm orphaning my non-comaintained packages. I really think those
> packages shouldn
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 23:03, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:56:21PM +0200, Francesco Pedrini wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:32, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> > > I filed 2 ITA against hfsplus (#387337) and hfsutils (#387338).
> > > Expect uploads tomorrow or t
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:56:21PM +0200, Francesco Pedrini wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:32, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> >
> > I filed 2 ITA against hfsplus (#387337) and hfsutils (#387338).
> > Expect uploads tomorrow or the day after. :)
>
> D'OH!
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-d
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:32, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
>
> I filed 2 ITA against hfsplus (#387337) and hfsutils (#387338).
> Expect uploads tomorrow or the day after. :)
D'OH!
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00353.html
:P
if you need help with hfsplus please you just hav
Victor Manuel Mtz wrote:
> * Package name: Claroline
> Version : 1.7.8
> Upstream Author : Lederer Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.claroline.net
> * License : GPL
> Description : Course Management System for Online Learning
>
> Claroline
Hi,
a paper on automatic tools to assist in distribution managment will
be presented at the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2006) next week in Tokyo [1].
Managing the Complexity of Large Free and Open Source Package-Based
Software Distributions
T
On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
Hello David,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:21:18PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote:
I'll be taking a long vacation of Debian and free software activity
for the next couple of months for personal reasons. [...]
I hope that the vacation will do
Hi,
I'm adopting liblingua-es-numeros-perl, a Perl module for translating
numbers into their Spanish string representation. One of the first
things I noticed is that the manpage is completely (and only) written
in Spanish. So, besides sending any changes I do to the upstream
author (although the m
On 9/13/06, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was planning on starting the wide adopting process to the group, but
if you can help, much better. In my experience, the pkg-perl group has
helped me not appear like an irresponsable maintainer (which I am! :-P )
during my stress periods. So,
Martín Ferrari dijo [Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:26:43PM -0300]:
> On 9/12/06, David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >If you think you could adopt some of the packages, feel free to do it
> >(filling an ITA would be nice). Just talk to the Debian Perl Group
> >first, if thinking on adoptin
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:21:18PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> If you think you could adopt some of the packages, feel free to do it
> (filling an ITA would be nice). Just talk to the Debian Perl Group
> first, if thinking on adopting some of the Perl modules; talk first
> to the
On 9/12/06, David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you think you could adopt some of the packages, feel free to do it
(filling an ITA would be nice). Just talk to the Debian Perl Group
first, if thinking on adopting some of the Perl modules; talk first
to the pkg-ruby-extras groups if
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:25:54 +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> reassign 387286 grub severity 387286 grave retitle 387286 grub path
> transition is breaking kernel removals thanks
Note that grub is not breaking, nor does grub transition break
anything -- if users follow the ad
Rob Browning, the guile maintainer, has been doing a lot of hard work
trying to get guile-1.8 into Debian. Turns out there were some
critical timing bugs affecting the operation of fork in the guile
threading implementation, bugs which are too intractible to solve
immediately.
Rob has uploaded g
reassign 387286 grub
severity 387286 grave
retitle 387286 grub path transition is breaking kernel removals
thanks
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 16:28, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> The grub maintainer has not thought through all use cases,
> including yours -- changing /etc/kernel-img.conf t
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:26:09AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Martin Schulze has been told more than once that this was not an OpenBSD
> patch.
>
> After the second time, there is no plausible excuse.
>
> Do you have an excuse?
Could you please tell me why this is such a huge deal?
/* Steina
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He can fix a previous entry and cite it in next version.
Perhaps 4 months is too short a time for him to correct it.
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:18:27 +0200, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> And setting
> postinst_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
> postrm_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
> finally fixes the problem, although the absolute path is not
> recommended by the grub maintainer.
The grub maintai
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:57:08PM -0300, Caio Begotti wrote:
> > I would like to see is an (alternative) organization sliced
> > according to which cdbs rules/classes are used.
> Indeed, that could be better. I even tried to find out some kind of
> list of existing CDBS rules and variables to
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:11:11 +0200, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have to add that I changed /etc/kernel-img.conf from
,[ /etc/kernel-img.conf ]
| ...
| postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub
| postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub
`
> to
,[ /etc/kernel-img.conf ]
|
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:46:56PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
>> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> >> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:47:40 +0200
>> [...]
>> > After the second time, there is no plausible excuse.
>> > Do you have an excuse?
>>
>> Why do you ask if y
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:47:40 +0200
> [...]
>> After the second time, there is no plausible excuse.
>> Do you have an excuse?
> Why do you ask if you know there isn't?
> Hint: You could always look at the date of the actual up
Want to see something shocking?
Everyone knows it's embarressing for people to talk with their physician about
their or their partners private "issues". Well, you
don't need to be embarressed. We can offer the pill right to your door and at
about one third of the cost.
We have hundreds of thous
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:46:56PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:47:40 +0200
> [...]
> > After the second time, there is no plausible excuse.
> > Do you have an excuse?
>
> Why do you ask if you know there isn't?
Because Martin's actions are m
Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:47:40 +0200
[...]
> After the second time, there is no plausible excuse.
> Do you have an excuse?
Why do you ask if you know there isn't?
Hint: You could always look at the date of the actual update.
Maybe you just file a minor bug, that would hel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
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> Binary: lynx
> Architecture: source i386 sparc amd64
> Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1.2
> Distribution: unstable
> Urgency: high
> Maintainer:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:20:14AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
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> Binary: lynx
> Architecture: source i386
> Version: 2.8.5-2sarge2
> Distribution: stable-security
> Urgency: hi
Le mardi 12 septembre 2006 à 07:23 -0600, Joseph Smidt a écrit :
> At the risk of repeating myself, Desktop Users: For most non-server
> minded people who still want a stable OS, Debian takes too long to
> release. On top of that,many of them want a "As easy aw Windows"
> distro. I don't know that
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 07:19:31PM +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> Caio> Hmm maybe I didn't get it, Arnaud. What you meant? Also, if
> Caio> you has found some blank file in the gallery... please let me
> Caio> know.
> Indeed, often, when you are written a debian/rules with cdbs
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So to fix this within your preinst, you could check whether each file's
> md5sum matches the known md5sum from sarge, and if so remove the file. If
> the md5sum /doesn't/ match, the conffile prompt should happen as normal.
The conffile present might al
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if anyone here has some dpkg-fu handy off the top of their heads that i
> could use to further deduce what's going on i'd be happy to hear it.
DPKg
{
options "--debug=221"
}
in a file in /etc/apt/conf.d/ should do (this is untested, please check
the d
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:28:34PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > so the question is: what am i forgetting to do? i'm guessing that the
>> > problem has something to do with the original package still being
>
James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It should just be a matter of removing the files from the old package
> and letting the new ones take their place (with a backup if there are
> any user changes). A little grepping around in /var/lib/dpkg/info
> turned up this snippet for removing conffiles
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:49:16AM +0200, sean finney wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:21 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > I don't know what happens if there is a versioned Conflicts/Replaces
> > instead, and the conflicted-with package remains installed in a newer
> > version as a result. It's
Brian May wrote:
> * liferea: displays an error and terminates; the lock file must be
> manually deleted.
For the record, Lars Lindner (author of liferea) recently wrote:
But for v1.1 I rewrote the code to use libbacon (which GUniqueApp also
uses, there was a thread on this list some weeks a
hey steve,
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:21 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't know what happens if there is a versioned Conflicts/Replaces
> instead, and the conflicted-with package remains installed in a newer
> version as a result. It's certainly possible that doesn't work nearly as
> smoothly,
hey james,
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 22:27 -0400, James Vega wrote:
> It should just be a matter of removing the files from the old package
> and letting the new ones take their place (with a backup if there are
> any user changes). A little grepping around in /var/lib/dpkg/info
> turned up this snip
Hello,
I have noticed GUI programs tend to be very inconsistent in behaviour
if I accidently kill them (e.g. by shutting down the X server) or
abort them (e.g. power failure).
For example:
gnucash (not tested newest version):
* displays a message box saying the file is locked, and asks if you
w
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 08:58, Francesco Pedrini wrote:
>
> Best whishes for your life! :)
>
> I'll take care of hfsplus and tdfsb if anyone has already taken them
> :)
I can take care even of wyg :)
Thanks again.
Francesco
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Hello David,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:21:18PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> I'll be taking a long vacation of Debian and free software activity
> for the next couple of months for personal reasons. [...]
I hope that the vacation will do you good and hope you'll come back to
us (if it fee
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