Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-21 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Weskey, Am Di den 22. Mai 2007 um 0:53 schrieb Wesley J. Landaker: > > If hardlinks are okay too, see the "perforate" package (I find this > > package hard to find, since the name is somewhat misleading). It's > > written in Perl. > > Well, thank

Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#425381: (Re: digikam: 0.9.2~beta1-2 uninstallable on amd64)

2007-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:10:05AM +0100, Mark Purcell wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Thus on amd64 digikam depends on libkexiv2-1 and conflicts with > > > libexiv2-0.12, but libkexiv2-1 depends on libexiv2-0.12. > > Why does it need to conflict? > The conflict was done

Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#425381: (Re: digikam: 0.9.2~beta1-2 uninstallable on amd64)

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Purcell
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Thus on amd64 digikam depends on libkexiv2-1 and conflicts with > > libexiv2-0.12, but libkexiv2-1 depends on libexiv2-0.12. > > Why does it need to conflict? Thanks Steve, The conflict was done to prevent the situation where: digikam was linked aga

Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#425381: (Re: digikam: 0.9.2~beta1-2 uninstallable on amd64)

2007-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:10:46PM +0100, Mark Purcell wrote: > You are correct, sorry for closing out your bug so quickly.. > Question for debian-devel. I'm aware of the Debian Library Packaging guide, > but > not quite sure how we should of handled this library transition, short of > waiting

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Robert Reif
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 21:49, Martin Habets wrote: FYI, 2.6.21 is rock solid on my SS20 here. Do you consider it broken just because of some cdrom issues? Or is there more? I don't have more details than this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/05/msg00305.html

Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-21 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16:13 Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:42:56PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice > > to have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or > > fdupes[2]) and turn th

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: > So you agree to a separate -offtopic list? [and] > Maybe a #debian-offtopic would help there too. Why should Debian developers spend the time setting up infrastructure for lists or IRC channels that, by definition even, have nothing to do with the Debian project? If the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:05:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The same concerns were levelled at the #debian IRC channel a while > > back, and there are certain parallels. I don't monitor that either, > > for much the same reason

[OT] disucssions about off-topicness in -user on -devel.

2007-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:02:21AM +0300, Andrei Popescu a écrit : > > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out By the way, isn't debian-devel an off-topic place for this discussion? I have nothing against the content of it, but would recommend to keep things organised. Otherwise, i

Re: apt-get

2007-05-21 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 18.05.2007, 21:34 +0200 schrieb Amir Tabatabaei: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 12:29 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > You should try using aptitude, it does what you want ;-) > > Just a friendly question: Why is this feature not added to apt-get, too? > It is so useful and the

Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#425381: (Re: digikam: 0.9.2~beta1-2 uninstallable on amd64)

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Purcell
reopen 425381 thanks Thanks Andrew, You are correct, sorry for closing out your bug so quickly.. Question for debian-devel. I'm aware of the Debian Library Packaging guide, but not quite sure how we should of handled this library transition, short of waiting for each library to be built by the

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 21 May 2007 21:49, Martin Habets wrote: > FYI, 2.6.21 is rock solid on my SS20 here. Do you consider it broken > just because of some cdrom issues? Or is there more? I don't have more details than this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/05/msg00305.html pgpfhbQ39fOPO.pgp Descr

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Martin Habets
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. I agree with this intent, as I wrot

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:44PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > The plan is to continue the existing port, dropping support for 64 bit > kernels and allowing use of SPARC v9 instructions rather than to do a I, of course, mean *32* bit kernels there. Sorry. *sigh* -- "You grabbed my hand and w

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > The same concerns were levelled at the #debian IRC channel a while > > back, and there are certain parallels. I don't monitor that either, > > for much the same reasons (though it may have improved since it moved > > From FreeNode). Lengthy off topic

Bug#425456: ITP: newlisp -- a LISP like, general purpose scripting language

2007-05-21 Thread Dmitry Chernyak
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Chernyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: newlisp Version : 9.1.3-2 Upstream Author : Lutz Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://newlisp.org/ * License : GPL and compatibles Programming Lang: C Descript

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > >> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > >> discussions on *any* list, not to creating a speci

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:44:18PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ma, 2007-05-21 at 20:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > The description for -curiosa does not suggest it to be appropiate for > > the kind of off-topic discussions going on on -user. > > Your conclusion is correct, and I'd like

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit as well as 64-bit userland. Otherwise The plan is to continue the existing port, dropping support for 64 bit kernels and allowing use of SPARC v9 instructions rather than to do a new port with 64 bit

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-05-21 at 20:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > The description for -curiosa does not suggest it to be appropiate for > the kind of off-topic discussions going on on -user. Your conclusion is correct, and I'd like to suggest a corollary: there's no Debian mailing list where advocating v

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roger Leigh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic >> discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for >> "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubr

Re: slang : sid transitions still frozen?

2007-05-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Alastair McKinstry] > I'm the maintainer of slang2. > I uploaded version 2.0.7 19 days ago, and according to http:// > ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#slang2 > its blocked by the etch freeze... All packages with udebs are frozen by default, because the archive system do not

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > > if support sparc32 sho

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:26:31PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > They don't have to take it away from the Debian lists... They can always > discuss on debian-curiosa if they so desire. Just don't let the > off-topic discussions pollute the other lists. The description for -curiosa does not s

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:02:21AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > > discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > > "off-topic" messages. For the me

Re: slang : sid transitions still frozen?

2007-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 21 May 2007 18:11, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 16:44:42 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > I'm the maintainer of slang2. > > I uploaded version 2.0.7 19 days ago, and according to > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#slang2 > > its blocked

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:51:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > > > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > > and for some contributors (yes, answering que

Re: slang : sid transitions still frozen?

2007-05-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 16:44:42 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the maintainer of slang2. > I uploaded version 2.0.7 19 days ago, and according to > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#slang2 > its blocked by the etch freeze... > > Is this still the case,

slang : sid transitions still frozen?

2007-05-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I'm the maintainer of slang2. I uploaded version 2.0.7 19 days ago, and according to http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#slang2 its blocked by the etch freeze... Is this still the case, or a false alarm? Regards Alastair McKinstry # slang2 (2.0.6-4 to 2.0.7-1) *

Bug#425409: ITP: linux-phc -- userspace interface to control the core voltage of processors

2007-05-21 Thread Armin Berres
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Armin Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: linux-phc Version : 0.2.10 Upstream Author : Fabrice Bellamy, Roman Schwarze * URL : https://www.dedigentoo.org/trac/linux-phc/ * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (C) D

Re: apt-get

2007-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:35:47PM +, The Fungi wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > [...] > > aptitude [...] does everything apt-get does... > [...] > > Well, analogies to 'apt-get source' and 'apt-get build-dep' were > still missing the last time I tried,

Re: Sid SELinux packages are now working

2007-05-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:56:49 +0200 Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Neil, > > > > Yep, I'm generating them on compile time in my packages and storing them > > > > in an auxillary file. shipping another 1k file with the package felt > > > > nicer to me than computing it on install

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > and for some contributors (yes, answering questions is also a way of > contributing, so you - the DDs - don't have

Re: Sid SELinux packages are now working

2007-05-21 Thread Erich Schubert
Hello Neil, > > > Yep, I'm generating them on compile time in my packages and storing them > > > in an auxillary file. shipping another 1k file with the package felt > > > nicer to me than computing it on install time. > > > > That's fine as long as the dependencies don't change due to local > >

Re: Sid SELinux packages are now working

2007-05-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 21 May 2007 19:08:34 +1000 Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 10:34, Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > SELinux policy modules and debian packages, which discovers the > > > relationships between modules and orders the policy load correctly,

Re: Sid SELinux packages are now working

2007-05-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 10:34, Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SELinux policy modules and debian packages, which discovers the > > relationships between modules and orders the policy load correctly, so > > that it can pull in any dependency as required. > > Yep, I'm generating th

Re: Fixing up SELinux reference policy for Debian

2007-05-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 19 May 2007 02:00, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We'd also need people to work on e.g. an exim and a tomcat policy. > > I don't use exim, or tomcat, so this is likely to take me > longer. The version I uploaded last night now fixes all the problems I > saw l

Re: Fixing up SELinux reference policy for Debian

2007-05-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 19 May 2007 02:08, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:54:00 +1000, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have not yet made this change. I have discovered additional > issues with cron; > , > > | #= initrc_t == >

Re: Bug#425050: initramfs-tools: Ask if we should update all initramfses

2007-05-21 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:47:21PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I'm not talking about installing multiple kernels. I'm talking about > setting the wanted configuration for how multiple kernels should be > handled on the installed system after the installation. And that > setting would be

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they > need to be *interspersed* with the

Re: Bug#425050: initramfs-tools: Ask if we should update all initramfses

2007-05-21 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:02:04PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > That sounds to me like addressing the wrong problem. Maybe what should > be done is that update-initramfs updates *all* the images, whatever > happens, but a copy of the kernel and initramfs images used to boot the > system as it is at