Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 20.08.24 10:45, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On 8/20/24 17:35, Bastian Venthur wrote: That's what I thought too: we should somehow incorporate the popcon value. I disagree -- the users most affected by a removal are those who automate installation, and those will not be running popcon.

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
will be affected. That's what I thought too: we should somehow incorporate the popcon value. Cheers, Bastian -- Dr. Bastian Venthur https://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org

Re: Python2 idiosyncrasies in Python3 scripts

2024-08-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
.html). Hope that helps, Bastian -- Dr. Bastian Venthur https://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

2024-06-27 Thread Bastian Venthur
n opinionated Debian specific tooling? Cheers! Bastian -- Dr. Bastian Venthur https://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org

Re: popcon is stuck since 2024-05-23

2024-06-13 Thread Bastian Venthur
oject as a whole: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=bash&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2024-05-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25m-%25d&beenhere=1 Greetings -- Dr. Bastian Venthur

changing existing entries in debian/changelog

2024-05-24 Thread Bastian Venthur
adding the relevant "closes" line to the previsions version? Cheers, Bastian -- Dr. Bastian Venthur https://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org

Re: AltGr+ not working anymore on most Desktop apps in Gnome

2023-10-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 21.10.23 um 13:19 schrieb Gunnar Hjalmarsson: On 2023-10-21 10:57, Bastian Venthur wrote: Am 20.10.23 um 20:57 schrieb Gunnar Hjalmarsson: On 2023-10-20 20:18, Bastian Venthur wrote: The problem is, that the AltGr-combos don't work anymore on most desktop applications. It does work o

Re: AltGr+ not working anymore on most Desktop apps in Gnome

2023-10-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 20.10.23 um 20:57 schrieb Gunnar Hjalmarsson: On 2023-10-20 20:18, Bastian Venthur wrote: The problem is, that the AltGr-combos don't work anymore on most desktop applications. It does work on the gnome shell search and xterm but it does not work anywhere else like firefox or the

AltGr+ not working anymore on most Desktop apps in Gnome

2023-10-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
e settings the keyboard is set to US intl. with dead keys. Can anyone point me to a potential fix or relevant package? Thanks, Bastian -- Dr. Bastian Venthur https://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org

Re: Misc Developer News (#58)

2022-12-01 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 01.12.22 10:03, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: On 21.11.22 00:18, Paul Wise wrote: anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed [...] I'm having trouble assessing the severity of the situation. Is more or less everyone affected who

Re: Misc Developer News (#58)

2022-11-25 Thread Bastian Venthur
anacron.timer I'm having trouble assessing the severity of the situation. Is more or less everyone affected who uses unstable? If yes, how do we mitigate? Don't think the majority of users reads the announcement mails. Cheers, Bastian -- Dr. Bastian Venthur

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-06-29 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 28.06.22 um 22:15 schrieb julien.pu...@gmail.com: Le mardi 28 juin 2022 à 22:08 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : Wild guess: were your new uploads _*source-only*_ ? Good point! I totally forgot about that :) Thanks, Bastian -- Dr. Bastian Venthur https

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-06-28 Thread Bastian Venthur
must be something wrong. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 Looking at the bug report of the package itself, and it does not look like glibc package is made broken by it. Any idea? -- Dr. Bastian Venthur h

Bug#1012584: ITP: blag -- blog-aware, static side generator

2022-06-09 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, vent...@debian.org * Package name: blag Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Bastian Venthur * URL : https://github.com/venthur/blag * License : MIT Programming

Bug#923856: ITP: dotenv-cli -- .env configuratin loader

2019-03-06 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur * Package name: dotenv-cli Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Bastian Venthur * URL : https://github.com/venthur/dotenv-cli * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : .env configuratin

Bug#917557: O: reportbug-ng -- Easy to use alternative to Debian's classic reportbug

2018-12-28 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the reportbug-ng package. I've been asking for help maintaining it years ago without response, so I'm now orphaning it. The current popcon value is around 300, so it may be save to just get rid of it. Also reportbug gained a lot more user friendly

Bug#800531: RFP: wnpp -- dlib - general purpose, cross platform c++ library

2015-09-30 Thread Bastian Venthur
numerous other tasks. In recent years, much of the development has been focused on creating a broad set of statistical machine learning tools Please note, that this package also provides Python bindings. -- Dr. Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer

Re: Misc Developer News (#35)

2014-05-27 Thread Bastian Venthur
ine breaks into signed mails. That might have something to do with the "format=flowed"-issue in the mail headers. But as far as I know this option is disabled by default in Icedove. Cheers, Bastian - -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Devel

Bug#725163: RFP: kivy -- kivy

2013-10-02 Thread Bastian Venthur
make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps. With kivy you can implement Python applications which will run on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer

Bug#698142: general: gnome locks up (other CLI terminals still OK)

2013-01-14 Thread Bastian Venthur
, (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > -- Bastian Venthur http:/

Bug#654614: O: byzanz -- Small screencast creator

2012-01-04 Thread Bastian Venthur
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Problems with gmane and debian lists?

2011-12-23 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi all, for a couple of weeks now, Icdeove occasionally wants to download all messages from gmane as new. This happens to all lists I'm subscribed to. Does anyone not using Icedove experience the same problem? If not, it's maybe just a bug with (my) Icedove. Cheers, Bastian -

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

2010-09-23 Thread Bastian Venthur
soon as I worked out the integration of the patch into debbugs with Don. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-26 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 26.07.2010 17:21, schrieb Paul Wise: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >> Yep, that's correct. I wish xdg-email would work as expected but it does >> not so I have to take care of each and every quirk of a MUA if it wants >&g

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-26 Thread Bastian Venthur
If my summer of code project works well, debbugs' SOAP interface will offer write operations. Then we don't need a MUA to report/manipulate bugs anymore. That will make things much easier. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian De

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Bastian Venthur
e past (that said I'm not > reading half of them, so I'm not sure). could you please tell me the packages where rng fails to run the bug scripts properly so Ï can have a look at it? Please CC me, as I don't follow -devel closely. Thanks and Cheers, Bast

Re: sensible-mailer

2010-03-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
ine for mailto-urls. --attach file does not work reliable though. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Python 2.6

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Venthur
, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Python2.6 in unstable?

2009-09-28 Thread Bastian Venthur
very useful so far since most of the bindings are not built for 2.6. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Python2.6 in unstable?

2009-09-03 Thread Bastian Venthur
need for my own projects :) Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Josselin Mouette schrieb: > Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:31 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : >> My medium term solution is to make rng depend on xterm and use that >> instead of x-terminal-emulator. "xterm -e cmd" seems to return only if >> the cmd returned. > >

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Josselin Mouette schrieb: > Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:06 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : >>> The installation-reports script is quite interactive. >> Ok. > >> If no packages (or only a handfull) used this feature than asking to >> depreciate this feature would

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Frans Pop schrieb: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in >> /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. > > The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Ok. > > Why do you continue to wa

anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
ll running in the background. This makes it quite tricky to get the output of the script. I want to evaluate who is using this feature, if it turns out that no one does, maybe I can talk with the reportbug guys to depreciate it. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur

Bug#529444: O: kde-kdm-themes

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning kde-kdm-themes, since I don't use it anymore. It is a kde3 package and should die along with KDE3. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian

Bug#529442: O: kde-style-qtcurve

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning kde-style-qtcurve, since I don't use it anymore. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at

Bug#529445: O: kde-style-lipstik

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning kde-style-lipstik, since I don't use it anymore. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at

Bug#529446: O: kde-wallpapers-lineartreworked

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning kde-wallpapers-lineartreworked, since I don't use it anymore. It is also obsoleted now, since in KDE you can very easy download new wallpapers as a user within the wallpaper config. -

Bug#529443: O: kde-icons-nuvola

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning kde-icons-nuvola, since I don't use it anymore. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at

Bug#529441: O: gtk2-engines-qtcurve

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning gtk2-engines-qtcurve, since I don't use it anymore. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at

Bug#529438: O: kde-icons-crystalproject

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning kde-icons-crystalproject, since I don't use it anymore. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur

Bug#529439: O: kde-icons-nuovext

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning kde-icons-nuovext, since I don't use it anymore. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at

Bug#529433: O: gtk-qt-engine

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I'm orphaning qtk-qt-engine, since I don't use it anymore. It is also the QT3 version, and there is already a QT4 version around, so I guess this version can die along with KDE3. -- Basti

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2009-05-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org I'm orphaning crystalcursors. I'm not using it anymore and I think there are much better cursors around by now. The package has 3 normal bugs open and is quite easy to maintain. -- Basti

Re: Misc developer news (#15)

2009-04-28 Thread Bastian Venthur
Raphael Hertzog schrieb: > RFH: Removing spam from the listarchive > --- > > As you all know, Lists and the Listarchive aren't 100% Spam-free. So we > provide a 'Report as Spam' on every page in the archive. Now we set up a > system to review those nomination

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Steve McIntyre schrieb: > Alexander wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Bastian Venthur schrieb: >>> Another way to see it is that unstable is constantly flowing and >>> we're just forking a stable distribution from it from time to time. >> Sounds like what wa

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Holger Levsen schrieb: > Hi, > > On Montag, 15. Dezember 2008, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Something like that, I don't really care about the name. The important >> thing is, that unstable is never frozen, but temporarily disconnected >> from the unstable > tes

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Didier Raboud schrieb: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> currently during the freeze: >> >> unstable (frozen) > testing > stable >> >> new: >> >> unstable || unstable (frozen) > testing > stable > > That's > > http:

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Didier Raboud schrieb: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Something like that, I don't really care about the name. The important >> thing is, that unstable is never frozen, but temporarily disconnected >> from the unstable > testing > stable flow. >> >&g

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Didier Raboud schrieb: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> What I'd like to see is a solution where unstable is *never* frozen, >> maybe by replacing the current frozen unstable with something temporary >> and putting it between unstable and testing, where all the fixes go >

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
; testing > stable but that's an abuse of experimental (as a substitute for unstable), not everyone uses it to upload new packages and it still has the I'll-break-you-box-aura. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Devel

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Neil McGovern schrieb: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 08:50:46PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Stefano Zacchiroli schrieb: >>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:58:57AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >>>> Why is this important mail hidden in -devel? I wouldn't have noticed

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Bastian Venthur
Stefano Zacchiroli schrieb: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:58:57AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Why is this important mail hidden in -devel? I wouldn't have noticed it >> if I hadn't read something about this on planet-debian. >> >> Shouldn't such im

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Bastian Venthur
Why is this important mail hidden in -devel? I wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't read something about this on planet-debian. Shouldn't such important mails about voting go to -announce? Cheers, Bastian Debian Project Secretary schrieb: [...] --

Re: [RFH] #486212 reportbug-ng segfaults

2008-07-12 Thread Bastian Venthur
Adeodato Simó wrote: * Bastian Venthur [Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:39:16 +0200]: There is also no bugreport in python-qt3 indicating that someone else has this problem. FWIW several users have reported crashes in minirok, so it may as well be the same issue. Good to know that rng is not the only

Re: [RFH] #486212 reportbug-ng segfaults

2008-07-10 Thread Bastian Venthur
An, 2008 07 08 15:44 +0200, Bastian Venthur rašė: Hi, since a few feeks reportbug-ng segfaults quite often. Since I haven't made any changes in this time, I think one of the libs rng depends on is the problem. Currently it depends on python-soappy and python-qt3. I think SOAPpy is not th

[RFH] #486212 reportbug-ng segfaults

2008-07-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi, since a few feeks reportbug-ng segfaults quite often. Since I haven't made any changes in this time, I think one of the libs rng depends on is the problem. Currently it depends on python-soappy and python-qt3. I think SOAPpy is not the problem, since I played around with it a few days ago

Re: Bug#422085: Better terminal emulator patch

2007-12-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 18.12.2007 03:47 schrieb David Nusinow: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:47:39AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Why was I opposed to implement this. >> >> 2. I *personally* was very annoyed by packages with very long presubj >> text, which I doubt anyone reads anyway. S

Re: what is going on with puccini ?

2007-08-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
it never arrived there. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
and depends on no other packages. > manoj 'all the world is not gnome' srivastava Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bastian Venthur [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:34:06 +0200]: > >> That's not true. As I already told you, all you have to do is to send me >> a valid call of your mail client where the composer opens with to-, >> subject- and body prefilled. > >

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
you can use three variables (to, subject and body) to construct you own call, but again this hasn't currently a high priority for me although I'm sure I will implement it some day. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:50:15 +0200, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Or, if you prefer a GUI application with out of the box support for >> most mail clients, try reportbug-ng. > > My major problem with reportbug-ng

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 21.07.2007 18:04 schrieb Frans Pop: > On Saturday 21 July 2007 17:50, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> So where's the usage of files in /usr/share/bug documented? I wasn't >> able to find the documentation, but I'm sure I have read it somewhere. > > $ less /usr/s

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 21.07.2007 15:00 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 02:44:45PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> On 21.07.2007 13:36 schrieb Brice Goglin: >>> reportbug-ng does *not* gather all the information about the reporters >>> system... see #422085 > >

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
talled, I should indeed depend on mail-reader or provide a pseudo mail client "clipboard" or "textfile" in the list. Thanks for the tip! Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 21.07.2007 16:19 schrieb Don Armstrong: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> For me the reference how to write bug reports is described here: >> >> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html >> >> where /usr/share/bugs is not even mentioned. &

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 21.07.2007 15:02 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst: > On Saturday 21 July 2007 14:44, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Rng was by the way not intended to be a 1:1 replacement for reportbug or >> just a reportbug-with-GUI. > > This is not really supported by the naming of your program (an

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
t nicely demonstrates how some developers use to argue with others. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
you'd like to see, but I think it is a good and user friendly alternative. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
menus usually have. I don't want to waste my time and energy to please *every* user out there (that's virtually impossible), so I'd draw the line right here: If you don't want icons, fine but please don't elevate this bug to a feature. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-13 Thread Bastian Venthur
, and would be a huge improvement of usability. Besides that, from my naive-user's point of view I wonder why my menu has so many redundant entries? Maybe we could get rid of the Debian menu completely and just use the underlying system to create proper desktop files for packages not providing

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Bastian Venthur
e _calculation_ but not the label (e.g., in a case where space is at a premium) -- e.g., they'll keep "K", but change the calculation to "/ 1000", because that's "correct". Nope, it's more likely that *if* we take action, we would chose the binary suf

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Bastian Venthur
bution as we do standadising the spelling of "colo[u]r" or "standardi[sz]e" throughout the distribution. One is correct American- and the other correct British English spelling. I don't see the problem. I think there is already a l10n for package descriptions project going o

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Bastian Venthur
s. Plus, the 2^n presentation is much more common in the IT world than the 10^n presentation. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Bastian Venthur
now but it seems that people (programmers) are adapting really slow. We could do the community a favor by doing what's in our possibility and push the adoption a bit further. Cheers, Bastian PS: Next time please use your real name when posting to Debian ma

System freezes when copying large files over pptp in Etch

2007-05-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
f not, how can I get useful information to report a bug myself? I've tried strace but it doesn't seem to provide useful information in this case (just read, write, select, ... again and again when using wget to download big files). Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur

Re: [RFH] CMake and /usr/lib64/

2007-04-14 Thread Bastian Venthur
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does anybody know how to tell CMake not to use /usr/lib64 but /usr/lib >> when building a package on amd64? >> >> My quick and dirty solution to fix #417044 would be a modification in

Re: [RFH] CMake and /usr/lib64/

2007-04-13 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 12.04.2007 09:11 schrieb Michal Čihař: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:49:47 +0200 > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anybody know how to tell CMake not to use /usr/lib64 but /usr/lib >> when building a package on amd64? > > There are needed some spec

[RFH] CMake and /usr/lib64/

2007-04-11 Thread Bastian Venthur
, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Bastian Venthur
anually writing the changelog skeleton (it's faster and less error prone). But until we have verifiable numbers it's all moot. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: More stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Bastian Venthur
Joey Hess schrieb: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> I've written a bugreport (#403706) which was discussed for a long time >> until it finally was downgraded from grave to important and became a >> "documentation issue" the for release-notes. >> >>

Re: More stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade

2007-03-25 Thread Bastian Venthur
e I know from debian-user-german that many users seem to be affected by this bug. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for testers: reportbug-ng

2007-03-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
[Looks like my previous response is lost, so I'm writing it again] Am 19.03.2007 02:39 schrieb Don Armstrong: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> * Grepping information from HTML-code is unreliable and ugly. The BTS >>should support answers in machine readab

Re: Call for testers: reportbug-ng

2007-03-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 19.03.2007 01:34 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > Problems I'm currently aware of: > * Getting the version of installed packages a package depends on is >slow Which is already fixed. > * Searching for a bugs of a package does not yet check the >source-package's b

Call for testers: reportbug-ng

2007-03-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
e some people already asked, the package is not intended to emulate reportbug 1:1. In fact, it was written from scratch (although I obviously borrowed some ideas from reportbug). Target audience are users and devs (in that order). The package is available in unstable (reportbug-ng). Thanks i

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
indows-Desktop, but with our *users* in mind, it might be worth a try -- post-etch of course and when reportbug-ng is stable enough. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org --

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
onfig. I'd like to take this changes but still want to keep my own settings. So I support your Idea and hope it will make it's way into dpkg. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venth

NEW queue frozen?

2007-02-09 Thread Bastian Venthur
/explained elsewhere. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
a better understanding of this issue can fix this before etch becomes stable. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
ot bring up the interface too. >> I wonder if this is a bug in d-i or ifupdown. > > If you're not using hotplug, using "allow-hotplug" is the bug. But who has created the allow-hotplug-line? I thought hotplug is dead? Cheers, Bastia

possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
different boxes, I wonder if this is a bug in d-i or ifupdown. So am I missing something obvious or do we have a grave bug? Any hints? Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian

[RFH] migrating to cmake

2006-12-06 Thread Bastian Venthur
/rules translates to cmake. The environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS shouldn't be a problem, but how do I set the --host, --build, --prefix, --mandir and --infodir parameters? Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://ve

default ext3 options (was: Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released)

2006-11-14 Thread Bastian Venthur
y running Debian for years without needing the Debian installer -- what can we do to let those users benefit from enhancements a new Debian Installer brings? And where can I get the full list of ext3-options which are enabled now by default? Cheers, Bastian -- Bastia

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:48:10PM +0100, Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hello! >> >> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:13:14 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >>> But the DirectoryIndex problem should be fixed nevertheless. >> FWI

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 02.11.2006 20:16 schrieb sean finney: >> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:20 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >>> Auto-indexes are enabled only in /var/www/apache2-default and >>> /usr/share/apache2/icons by default, so it is not likely to leak any >>&

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
order to test wheter there is something wrong with php5 but with no results. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 05.11.2006 14:44 schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Here is what I've installed: >> # dpkg --list | grep php | cut -d " " -f -3 >> ii libapache2-mod-php5 >> ii

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 05.11.2006 14:04 schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:38:21PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On 02.11.2006 20:16 schrieb sean finney: >>> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:20 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >>>> Auto-indexes are e

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
nized when entering a certain directory, I noticed that accessing a php file directly like http://somedomain.tld/index.php The file does not get executed as expected, but the browser wants to download it (which might be a security issue). Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur

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