Re: Bug#645723: Fixed!

2011-10-20 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 06:43:01PM -0700, Jimbo Jim wrote: > Sudo su, users-admin fixed it. How did i lose sudo in first place? ---end quoted text--- Could you explain a little better what fixed it? I run this command and I get; 'Unknown id: users-admin' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Bug#645723: Fixed!

2011-10-20 Thread Jimbo Jim
Sudo su, users-admin fixed it. How did i lose sudo in first place?

Bug#646071: ITP: multiverse-core -- Java based Software Transactional Memory (STM) implementation

2011-10-20 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta * Package name: multiverse-core Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Peter Veentjer * URL : http://multiverse.codehaus.org/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java based Softwa

Work-needing packages report for Oct 21, 2011

2011-10-20 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 394 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 142 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Bug#601455: general: can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when, disabled via /etc/default/foo

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, peter green wrote: > Though there are some situations where it is nessacery. Consider vtund for > example which has seperate enable/disable flags for running in server and > client modes (with the potential for multiple seperate client instances). Thanks for this clarification. Luckily vtun

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/10/11 08:31 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 17:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >> Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: >> >>> reassign 646019 cdimage.debian.org > > WTF? Isn't this a kernel driver bug? my mistake. i had not read it carefully enough.

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 17:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reassign 646019 cdimage.debian.org WTF? Isn't this a kernel driver bug? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to any

Bug#646059: ITP: speedpad -- ncurses tool to test, train, and increase typing speed

2011-10-20 Thread John Feuerstein
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Feuerstein * Package name: speedpad Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : John Feuerstein * URL : http://feurix.org/projects/speedpad/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : ncurses tool to test,

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-20 14:05 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Colin Watson >>spectemu > > Fixed in 0.94a-13, thanks. Actually, just adding the build dependency is not the best solution in such cases, since you'll get a spurious dependency o

Processed: Re: Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 646019 cdimage.debian.org Bug #646019 [general] general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'cdimage.debian.org'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need as

Bug#646028: ITP: meiga -- Light and easy content server for your desktop

2011-10-20 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: meiga Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Enrique Ocaña González * URL : http://meiga.igalia.com/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Vala, C, Bash Description : Light and easy conten

Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Entada Scandens
Package: general Severity: normal In Debian Squeeze: If working directory of BitTorrent client (rtorrent, ktorrent, flush) located at USB-HDD, after 1−40 hours of downloading/seeding USB-HDD disconnects. In Debian Lenny: All works fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT pref

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-10-20 at 18:58 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > > Actually, I already know a lot of people whose only desktop machine > > network connection is a 3G dongle, since unlimited data with it is > > about half the price of ADSL connection. > > My pa

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Iain Lane
Hi, On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Recently the readline-dev package and its GPL2 variant > libreadline-gplv2-dev dropped their dependencies on libncurses5-dev. > […] > > In the end I found 58 such packages on i386 in unstable/experimental, > all but two of which

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Colin Watson >spectemu Fixed in 0.94a-13, thanks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Bug#601455: general: can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when, disabled via /etc/default/foo

2011-10-20 Thread peter green
Many packages seem to provide ENABLE/DISABLE variables in /etc/default/foo, providing a confusing red herring for this task --- a second method which does not work nearly as well, as you pointed out Though there are some situations where it is nessacery. Consider vtund for example which has seper

Bug#645723: general: asks for root password instead of user password

2011-10-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 19 octobre 2011 à 20:36 -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : > Jimmy Li wrote: > > Apparently, anything that needs root asks for the root password instead of > > my > > user password. Apparently, it's using su instead of sudo. > > The debian-installer will set up your system to use either su

Re: apt-listbugs

2011-10-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 18/10/2011 18:45, Alexey Salmin a écrit : There're some ideas coming into mind how to solve it: * Add "Breaks: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99)" to nvidia-graphics-drivers I won't work. As Andreas pointed out you can't add it to the package which is in the archive already. Making a dummy comm

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-10-20 00:03 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yup, binary-only. I believe the dependency is present in the binary >> that we get from upstream, and no -dev packages are used since we don't >> build the binary. > You may be missing some library build dependencies, thou

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > Actually, I already know a lot of people whose only desktop machine > network connection is a 3G dongle, since unlimited data with it is > about half the price of ADSL connection. My parents have been using USB 3G net access on their Desktop system for a

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-20 00:03 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> The two exceptions are [...] nvidia-cuda-toolkit (non-free, >> binary-only(?)). > > Yup, binary-only. I believe the dependency is present in the binary that > we get from upstream, and no -dev packages are used since we d

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-20 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/10/18 Yves-Alexis Perez : > Not sure it'd help in this case but imho this is the case only on > laptops. People installing desktop usually don't need a 3G modem (and if > they do, they can manually install it). I'm not even sure > network-manager is needed on the desktop install, but eh. Actu