Re: Britney on a break?

2007-08-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 21/08/07, Steve Langasek wrote: > Because britney had been OOMing over the past few days, so this > information within packages.qa.d.o was not being updated. Oh! Thanks for the information. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -

Re: Britney on a break?

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:35:40AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On 21/08/07, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > OK, so that's clear. But I still have one doubt. Is it that it is not > > necessary that Britney moves my packages into testing _exactly_ on the > > tenth bug-free day, or is any day _after_ that

Re: Britney on a break?

2007-08-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 21/08/07, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, so that's clear. But I still have one doubt. Is it that it is not > necessary that Britney moves my packages into testing _exactly_ on the > tenth bug-free day, or is any day _after_ that 10th day? To elaborate on my day-counting complaint, see the status of

Re: Britney on a break?

2007-08-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 21/08/07, Don Armstrong wrote: > google-sitemapgen, pkpgcounter and harvestman should be going in today. Ah, thanks! > In general, > http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED], and > clicking on "more" should tell you what is going on with a particular > package's testing migration. OK, so that's

Re: Commit hooks to notify BTS

2007-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:00:51 -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I thought some of you may be aware that I have developed some > commit hooks for Darcs and Mercurial. These hooks look for special > strings in your commit logs. You can give a string to notify the bug > of the com

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
Quoting Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You appear to be conflating a few different things here. Yes, the initial statement was intended to be separate from the paragraph after. As far as the set that's appropriate for medium-memory users, that's really a user specific thing; what c

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why does the Debian distribution need so many applications? Because the people who use Debian need different sets of applications. > It doesn't, it is nice to have them available though. It may depend > upon one perception of sluggish. I find Fedora

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
Why does the Debian distribution need so many applications? It doesn't, it is nice to have them available though. It may depend upon one perception of sluggish. I find Fedora's Gnome desktop to be sluggish on an ATHLON 2000 XP. I tried Ubuntu with XFCE and while the desktop loaded fine comm

Re: Britney on a break?

2007-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I've just observed that though some of my packages have been in > unstable for 10 days without complaints, Britney hasn't moved them > into testing. Moreover, the PTS page has stopped counting the days > my packages have spent in unstable since the 18th (

Britney on a break?

2007-08-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian developers, I've just observed that though some of my packages have been in unstable for 10 days without complaints, Britney hasn't moved them into testing. Moreover, the PTS page has stopped counting the days my packages have spent in unstable since the 18th (I think). Is there someth

Bug#438951: ITP: ski -- A simulator for the Itanium architecture

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Wienand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ian Wienand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ski Version : 1.1.3 * URL : http://ski.sourceforge.net/ License : GPL Description : A simulator for the Itanium architecture Ski is an instruction simulator designed t

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-20 Thread Paul Wise
On 8/20/07, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that the homepage of a software might change but I really think > that the homepage changes much less frequently as the version of the > package which makes the change of the homepage a managable issue in > normal package maintainance

Re: Best method or tool for determining application memory usage?

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 18:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the best method or best tool to determine the memory usage > of an application? I have been gathering rough estimates from top. "ps -C $command v" will give you a snapshot for the given command. For X clients, you also need

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I came up with nothing on Google for stem linux., and DeliLinux > looks to be turkish so I don't know if we would even be to > communicate. I should try talking with them, their desktop looks > pretty nice. I have already done a

Re: Package cache

2007-08-20 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:53:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 20-Aug-07, 11:58 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote: > > > > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to

Re: Package cache

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20-Aug-07, 11:58 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote: > > > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to > > > Debian? > > > > apt-proxy ? > > No, that builds a local mirror

Re: Bug#438753: ITP: md5deep -- Recursing file hash calculator

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Lamb
Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > This utility is similar to the famous md5sum, but has the ability to > recurse into subdirectories when calculating hashes for many files. Could this not go into moreutils? It seems a shame to create a new package for something that could be trivially implemented in

Bug#438942: ITP: scrapbook -- Iceweasel extension to save and manage Web pages

2007-08-20 Thread Jan Luebbe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: scrapbook Version : 1.2.0.8 Upstream Author : Gomita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/ * License : MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 Programming La

Best method or tool for determining application memory usage?

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
What is the best method or best tool to determine the memory usage of an application? I have been gathering rough estimates from top. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) MIA?

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:36:46 +0200 José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been unable to get a response from him for 5 months now, and his > > last upload was an RC bug fix a year ago (before that, his last upload > > was in 2005). > > > > mmm, checking at > http://qa.de

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
I had considered releasing an extra-light version as well but it seemed several other distros had that covered and it would be too much to try to maintain too many different versions. Is it needed? I suppose everyone has a different idea of what is functional as an OS on older hardware. I h

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-20 Thread Joey Hess
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > And even in this case, I still see as not harmful proceeding to fix the > packages which are not using dh_md5sums atm. I agree. > One of the reason is that no one yet showed code implementing this in > dpkg #155676 actually -- see shy jo signature.asc Description:

Re: Is Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) MIA?

2007-08-20 Thread L. Redrejo
El lun, 20-08-2007 a las 14:04 -0700, Cameron Dale escribió: > Hi, > > I've been trying to reach Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) for a while > now, and not gotten any response. Does anyone know if he's MIA? > As far as I know he is not MIA. In fact, he was at Debconf in Edinburgh and I have contact

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:47:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd opt for dpkg generating the checksums upon _extracting_ the .deb > > file. We already claim that the md5sums file isn't supposed to be any > > kind of security thing. Why bother

Md5/sha1sums for all the Release (was Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages)

2007-08-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 07:04:39PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Russ Allbery] > > While it's not the be-all and end-all of security, other OS vendors > > (Sun in particular) have found it useful to make available a central > > database of MD5 checksums of known-good versions of various binar

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
I would expect a smaller package list would help in that respect. But one of the issues people on debian-user have mentioned on low-memory (and low cpu) hardware is the long wait for apt-get and friends to run (if at all). -Kev [0] This machine has no floppy support, no network, no cdrom, no us

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
I came up with nothing on Google for stem linux., and DeliLinux looks to be turkish so I don't know if we would even be to communicate. I should try talking with them, their desktop looks pretty nice. I have already done a bit of research on what applications similar distributions are usin

Is Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) MIA?

2007-08-20 Thread Cameron Dale
Hi, I've been trying to reach Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) for a while now, and not gotten any response. Does anyone know if he's MIA? I've been unable to get a response from him for 5 months now, and his last upload was an RC bug fix a year ago (before that, his last upload was in 2005). Thanks

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:03:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Let me explain to you the why I have decided to start the project. I > have searched for a lightweight distribution and none of what is > available has been what I wanted for one reason or another. I also > have used IceWM

Re: Package cache

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Aug-07, 11:58 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian? > > apt-proxy ? No, that builds a local mirror of packages being used on a site, so that if you're

Re: Package cache

2007-08-20 Thread paddy
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote: > Hi! > > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian? apt-proxy ? Regards, Paddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package cache

2007-08-20 Thread Toni Mueller
On Sat, 18.08.2007 at 19:29:55 +0200, Gonsolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know disk space is cheap but having hundreds of megabytes wasted for > gnome pixmaps I never see or fonts i never use is annoying. I find the implications of your proposal MUCH more annoying: * Joe User has to be perm

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
I do have this ability. I am lacking in the programming skills needed for the packaging and bug fixing. I can read most code and make some small changes, but my programming skills are mainly in C# and a little Java. I know just enough C++ to be dangerous. Quoting Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROT

Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-08-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 438885 with 367764 Bug number 367764 not found. (Is it archived?) Unknown blocking bug/s: 367764. Bug#438885: Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d Was blocked by: 341413 341415 348259 348263 353660 367722 367725 367727 367729 367730 367731 3677

Processed (with 1 errors): Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-08-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 438885 Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d Changed Bug title to `Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d' from `Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d'. > owner 438885 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL P

Re: Bug#438408: #438408,ITP: libdpkg-parse-perl

2007-08-20 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Deepak Tripathi wrote: * Package name : libdpkg-parse-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Adam Jacob <|[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~holoway/DPKG-Parse-0.01/ * Lic

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread icelinux
If you do not know what applications are on which CD, or even what you need it becomes a little more difficult. I am trying to make it a little easier for these persons. I just went through all of this trying to install IceWM on an older machine, so I thought to try to make it a little easier

Re: Bug#438408: #438408,ITP: libdpkg-parse-perl

2007-08-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Deepak Tripathi wrote: >>> * Package name : libdpkg-parse-perl >>> Version : 0.01 >>> Upstream Author : Adam Jacob <|[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> |* URL : >>> http://search.cpan.org/~holoway/DPKG-Parse-0.01/ >>> * License

Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-08-20 Thread Amaya
Package: general Severity: serious As of Debian Policy Manual version 3.7.2, the use of invoke-rc.d to run init.d scripts has been made mandatory. Earlier, its use was strongly recommended. In most cases the fix should be simple, replace this: /etc/init.d/package with this:

Re: Bug#438408: #438408,ITP: libdpkg-parse-perl

2007-08-20 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Damyan Ivanov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Deepak, Please make sure you use the "X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org" pseudo-header when you file ITP bugs. See DevRef 5.1. The easiest way to do this is to use the report bug utility. Next time run "reportbug w

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:05:54 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > I was thinking about this field, and "Homepage" sounds a bit > ambiguous in my ear. Not in mine. > I would suggest changing it to "Upstream" instead. No, please. "Upstream" could be more than "Homepage", e.g. "repository", "m

Bug#438863: ITP: libclass-c3-componentised-perl -- load mix-ins or components to your C3-based class

2007-08-20 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libclass-c3-componentised-perl Version : 1.0001 Upstream Author : Matt S. Trout and the DBIx::Class team Pulled out into seperate module by Ash Berlin <[E

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
Guillem Jover wrote: > I don't think it makes sense to have different Homepage fields on the > binary stanzas, but if someone can think of a case it might be useful > I could change it to override the source stanza field. I have one. OpenOffice.orgs homepage is www.openoffice.org. Now, since 2.3,

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Will it be possible to have more than one homepage listed, comma-separated? Miry 2007/8/20, Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:49:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:17:03AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > Ok, just pushed the H

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 8/20/07, Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:49:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:17:03AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > Ok, just pushed the Homepage field support into dpkg git. Chose Homepage > > > as that was what was

Re: Homepage field

2007-08-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:49:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:17:03AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Ok, just pushed the Homepage field support into dpkg git. Chose Homepage > > as that was what was requested on 142324 and what has mostly been used > > on the ps

Bug#438834: ITP: libdigest-md5-file-perl -- Perl extension for getting MD5 sums for files and urls

2007-08-20 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdigest-md5-file-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Daniel Muey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~dmuey/ * License : same as Perl (either Artistic or

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Paul Wise wrote: I suggest that the homepage does not belong inside the package at all (because it can change separately to the package) I agree that the homepage of a software might change but I really think that the homepage changes much less frequently as the version of

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly I do not think I have the ability, patience, or time to be packaging software for Debian and dealing with bugs I cannot correct. What lets you assume you will have ability, patience, or time to maintain a separate repository if you even d