Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-27 Thread James Troup
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The following packages are up for adoption: Please note I said adoption, not orphaned. > * gawk > * mawk > * gawk-doc (non-free) Steve Langasek is taking these 3. > * quinn-diff Luk Claes is taking this. (Roger, I&#x

packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread James Troup
Hi, The following packages are up for adoption: * gawk * gdbm * gimp-dimage-color * gnupg-doc * gnus * mawk * p0f * quinn-diff * xloadimage * gawk-doc (non-free) -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-24 Thread James Troup
Hi, Summary === I've done some work in dak to improve the binary upload restrictions that are currently in place to hopefully reduce some of the collateral damage that resulted from the initial implementation. Binary upload restri

dak changes (names, version control, mail headers)

2006-06-11 Thread James Troup
Hi, I've just updated ftp-master.debian.org to use a new version of dak which no longer uses the silly names at all. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time now (I remember discussing it with people at least 2-3 years ago), but I never found a contiguous chunk of time to work on it

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-25 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My memory is horrible, but IIRC James Troup (ie, our keymaster..) did > some similar study at the DebConf5 KSP and ended up with a list of > people whose GPG signtures he didn't trust anymore because of whatever > trick they fell fo

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-21 Thread James Troup
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Six days ago I discovered that one of the Debian system > administrators had made a deliberate and highly unusual > configuration change which predictably broke mail from or via master > to: Err, no. Mail was _already_ bouncing, but after reaching the re

sphor (aka bugs.debian.org) going down twice due to power maintenance

2005-06-29 Thread James Troup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A UPS upgrade is being performed this week in the machine room that houses sphor.debian.org (aka bugs.debian.org) hosted at the Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. Part of this upgrade will require 2 complete power outages for that room.

Re: Suspicious reply from katie

2004-10-09 Thread James Troup
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just uploaded another version, which resulted in receiving > the attached message. Note the NEW status, and the warning. Is this > a katie bug? Or did I do something wrong? It's a James-is-a-moron problem. I broke (read: deleted) experimental's

Re: ftpmaster accepts packages that have been rejected a few days ago

2003-11-11 Thread James Troup
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had to wait almost three weeks to have the package REJECTED by > ftpmaster 20031023144719~jennifer~Moving to new~linux-atm_2.4.1-10_i386.changes 20031103144602~lisa~rejected~linux-atm_2.4.1-10_i386.changes Hmm, that doesn't even look like 2 weeks to me.

Re: some packages from incoming are not going into sid

2003-11-07 Thread James Troup
Noèl Köthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any reason why packages, which are already accepted and now are > in incoming.d.o are not moving to the archives? > > for example http://incoming.debian.org/wget_1.9-1_m68k.deb is there > since 2003-11-04. > Other packages like xmule or webmin are

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-22 Thread James Troup
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What didn't work about anonymous FTP? The queue daemon can no longer handle PGP 2.x keys; I don't know why and since a) the number of developers still using these kind of keys for uploads can be counted on the fingers of a mutilated hand, b) there are

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-03 Thread James Troup
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:36:10 +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 07:57:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: >>> So what is the single command to apt-get install all the GNU versions >>> of everything? >> >>Just create and

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-01 Thread James Troup
Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having bugs not fixed in 4 years (3 years even with a patch > provided) Don't be such a disingenuous troll. The patch for that _wishlist_ bug has been there since April. Not for 3 years. -- James

samosa (aka db.debian.org) problems

2003-07-01 Thread James Troup
Hi, As many of you will have already noticed samosa is down and has been for a while. Unfortunately the machine is in a bad way - the motherboard just beeps constantly when the machine's powered on. The local admin has taken it out of it's rack and home with him to try and fix it. However even

Re: new bug tags

2003-06-01 Thread James Troup
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sure, but the architecture tags can be used n ot only for buildd > failures? No, that's my point, IMO they shouldn't be used _at all_ for FTBFS bugs, because they'd be useless and misleading - and if these tags are available people will try to use them

Re: new bug tags

2003-06-01 Thread James Troup
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:52:02AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: >> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> > The BTS now has "lfs" (large file support) and "ipv6" tags. >> > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian

Re: fixed libstdc++5 package

2003-04-30 Thread James Troup
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Btw, looking at the reports, I see 30 submitted from i386 architectures, > one from a powerpc machine, none from other architectures, although all > architectures are affected. Conclusions? ;-) Well, duh, let's see. Several architectures' build were e

Re: Autobuilder locale setup

2003-04-23 Thread James Troup
"Adam Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: >> >> This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if >> they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset. Can the >> autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is only C >> available? >

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-04-22 Thread James Troup
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps the most important part of the build log shoulc be quoted as well: Or not. > The following central src deps are (probably) missing: > libglib1.2-dev (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2-dev (>= 1.2.10-4) Which is just that the central src deps are out

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - rose creates initial directories (actually some where missing; I can't > > > remember which onces were missing and which ones were misconfigured > > > though now). > > > > rose uses the provided config file; it'd be hard for her to "misconfigure"

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First you were encouraging us to learn to use it, now your > discouraging us from even trying Err, no I wasn't. I don't encourage people to use katie, in fact I actively discourage it. Even the README now tells people to use something else and that's

Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:11:08AM +0000, James Troup wrote: > > Err, bullshit, there's doc/*.1.sgml and --help for most of the key > > scripts. > > [1106] [snoopy:unstable:bam] ~/cvswork/dak >helena --help helena is

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that will fix the problem. *sigh* all the mail sent by the python scripts is done by utils.send_mail(); if you want to ensure they don't send any mail make that function a nop. But it's becoming increasingly clear to me that the source should proba

Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5. What is the dsync-flist used by mkchecksums, and where can I get it > from? Google search returns nothing. http://cvs.debian.org/?cvsroot=dsync -- James

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Change paths to config files in utils.py. Sigh, you don't need to do that. See /etc/katie/katie.cnf on e.g. auric. > - rose creates initial directories (actually some where missing; I can't > remember which onces were missing and which ones were misco

Re: DAK (2)

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I were to clean things up and make DAK easier to use for private > archives (eg. by isolating all Debian specific stuff, ideally into > a limited number *.conf files), would somebody be willing > to commit the changes to CVS? No one sane agrees to pre-co

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I looked at katie; it seemed to be a complicated and undocumented > mess that was a total overkill for my purpose (eg. I don't need a > database). That "complicated and undocumented mess" has been running the Debian archives successfully and without major i

Re: file format for debian/copyright

2002-12-07 Thread James Troup
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:04:40AM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis > wrote: > > copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl may fail to > > understand that GPL is only mentioned in the copyright notice, and is not > > the type of the licen

Re: Build problem on sparc [ogle, assembler error]

2002-01-15 Thread James Troup
Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this a problem with gcc? No, it's a problem with ogle. -mcpu=ultrasparc is like unconditionally compiling an i386 binary for Pentium 4's only, i.e. not a good idea. The buildd pretends it's not really an UltraSPARC for exactly this reason. -- Jame

Re: Bug in buildd for all except ix86 and sparc?

2002-01-10 Thread James Troup
Package: ax25-apps Version: 0.0.5-5 Severity: serious Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone else have this problem? Is it a "feature" or a bug? It's a bug in your package. | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/scratch/ax25-apps$ dpkg-source -x ax25-apps_0.0.5-5.dsc | dpkg-source: extracting

Re: Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread James Troup
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:20:00PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Can someone please help me with this? > > Have you identified why libkcm_karea.so is linking against libgphoto2.a > instead of against libgphoto2.so? It's a broken symlink; I seem to r

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-25 Thread James Troup
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > tags 113360 wontfix > > severity 113360 wishlist > > thanks Which means since you won't leave the bug closed, I'll mark it wontfix instead. That doesn't alter my statement in the close mail and repeated here on -devel. Since you don't seem

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-25 Thread James Troup
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apparently the package is never to be accepted into Debian, Err, no, I never said that. I said it would be processed normally and that you would not harass us into special casing you. -- James

Re: Tool to generate an override file from packages?

2001-09-23 Thread James Troup
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Any new tool that hypothetically gets written or packages isn't going > >to get put in potato either. > > Having spent four hours last night to try getting a debhelper 3 > (unsuccessfully) backported to potato makes me wince at _any_ > backporting effort.

Re: madison

2001-09-23 Thread James Troup
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sounds like all you need is for dpkg-scanpackages or apt-ftparchive to > optionally accept a list of filenames, instead of a list of directories. > I think this would be a useful enhancement. apt-ftparchive already does. -- James

Re: IA64 buildd status ?

2001-09-04 Thread James Troup
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see this status at the excuses page: Bogus dep-wait; I've given it back so the buildd will actually try it. -- James

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-03 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's how I tried it, no go. dpkg-gencontrol does not contain the > word '[Uu]ploaders' on my system either. Oh, right, yah, okay; it appears it was only dpkg-source that was patched. The dpkg-gencontrol is just a warning though, the Uploaders field still

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-03 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having a hard time getting it to work though. I tried Uploaders with > dpkg 1.9.17 and no go: > > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field Uploaders in input > data in general section of control info file It needs to be in the source section

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > I'm not proposing a particular format): >From my point of view, such information would ideally be: o not centrally controlled, but package/maintainer(s) controlled[0] o trivial

new-maintainer and delays (was Re: [some idiot troll who should have been ignored])

2000-09-13 Thread James Troup
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like quite a backlog has been created by NM being shut down > for so long. Actually, no, way less than half the current backlog are applicants from the shut down period. > But, after picking a few people to look at that are currently

Re: whence netcomics?

2000-03-12 Thread James Troup
Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody know what happened to netcomics? I'd been assuming it > was pulled from potato but left in woody, but I just looked and that > doesn't seem to be the case. The only normal or archived bug on it > doesn't say anything about pulling the

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread James Troup
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They use libssl, which begs the question why isn't libssl in non-US/non-free? Uh, because I keep forgetting. I've been meaning to do that since Guy split non-US up... I guess I'll go file a bug against ftp.debian.org. -- James

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-01 Thread James Troup
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am pretty sure that SSH was never free software. Could you show > me the license on the version that they started with? -&<-&<-&<-&<-&< This file is part of the ssh software, Copyright (c

Re: {R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

1999-10-01 Thread James Troup
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:55 +0100 1999-10-01, Philip Hands wrote: > >James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> OpenBSD have started working on the last free SSH (1.2.12 was under a > >> DFSG free license AFAICT[1]), they also, (

Re: bash package removing /bin/sh on upgrade

1999-10-01 Thread James Troup
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If somebody could come up with a better method of handling this it would be > most welcome. Don't do it (muck around with /bin/sh links). Guy made a comment in the bug report about this and AFAIK didn't do it yet in case of breakages like this. -

{R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

1999-09-30 Thread James Troup
Hi, OpenBSD have started working on the last free SSH (1.2.12 was under a DFSG free license AFAICT[1]), they also, (again AFAICT [I'm going by the CVS commits]), are ripping out the patented algrothims (IDEA, etc.). Unfortunately, I'm chronically busy with work and haven't had time to look into i

Re: Hosed potato/main/Packages...

1999-09-30 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 30 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > > > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yeah, just uploaded some new packages which fix the typo. > > > > I just hand-edited my available file. :-) > > > > > Maybe it should be trapped by dinsta

Intent to package: xplanet

1999-05-25 Thread James Troup
lib1g (>= 1:1.1.3) | Installed-Size: 50 | Maintainer: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Description: render images of the earth | xplanet is similar to xearth, where an image of the earth is rendered | into the X root window. Both mercator and orthographic projections | can be displaye

Re: dinstall can now announce packages & close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread James Troup
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, is it really a good thing to have dinstall announce the > > uploads? I often depend on the announcements to alert me to new > > versions in Incoming. In the new setup, the announcements won't > > come until

Re: libtool & rpath

1999-01-28 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:29:42PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > +case ${host} in > > > + *-pc-linux-gnu) > >^^ > > > > s/pc/

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread James Troup
"Edward John M. Brocklesby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think so - Octopi can't fly! Someone who obviously hasn't read RFC 1925... -- James "Never trust trucks"

Re: libtool & rpath

1999-01-27 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +case ${host} in > + *-pc-linux-gnu) ^^ s/pc/*/ (pc==non-i386 unfriendly) -- James "Never trust trucks"

Re: cracklib-runtime NMU

1999-01-20 Thread James Troup
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > As I mentioned in an earlier posting, there's no reason for this bug > > to be release-critical. > > This is another bug. Not being able to compile a package at all *is* > a release-critical problem and violat

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bugs against ftp.debian.org are often important - these ones are holding > up slink's release (granted, they're not the only things holding it up). No, it's not these ones. Santiago is whining (again) about other bugs. The release critical bugs for ftp.d

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than > two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Perhaps because the more you whine about it the more prone we are to ignore you? -- James

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's not discouraged, it's simply not allowed or usable. New > > maintainer don't accept PGP 5 keys; PGP 5 keys don't go in the > > Debian keyring and dinstall doesn't accept them. > > I find it strange that you would make this mistake. I've looked

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But > >> nobody > goe

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the status of gnupg? Not yet used in Debian. > Is there a Debian package available? Yes, on non-US. -- James

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread James Troup
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:23:38PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > >Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. > >> I'm currently using

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup wrote: > > > Who said [binary-only NMU's for i386] were bad? > > You did. No, I said binary-only NMUs as a whole were not ideal; I didn't say anything about binary-only NMU's for i386. Please try to

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Each day you autobuild say, 30 packages from Incoming. Building (especially auto-building) packages from Incoming is a bad idea, please don't encourage it. -- James

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a > > freshly unpacked foobar_1.1-3.dsc? > > Yes. Congratulations; you're in the minority. > > > Binary-only and normal NMU's are the same thing, > > > > No they're not. Why do you insist

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-16 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > 1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity > > Probably. Wrong. -- James

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity > 2. every NMU must be with source > 3. Porters needn't to ask maintainers for permission > 4. a NMU fixes bugs; no need to forward this to the BTS or the maintainer > > ok for all ? That would be a big

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. > I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6... 2.x; we don't accept later stuff. -- James

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > binary-only MNU hits only one arch > > normal NMU hits possible all archs=20 > > A binary-only MNU violates the GPL, end of story. FUD, FUD, FUD and more FUD. The source changes for our binary-only NMUs are _always_ sent to the BTS. Also, please get over this GPL

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup said: > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > James Troup wrote: > > > Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip waiting, while > > > a normal NMU does not? Why a

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup wrote: > > They don't compile from freshly unpacked source. > > How odd. Other maintainer must work substantially differently than I, then. If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a fr

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-14 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Moving this to debian-devel, discussion doesn't belong in the bug report. ] [ Killed the Cc: line. ] > James Troup wrote: > > There is no i386 port in as much as i386 maintainers 99.5% of the time > > _don't_ compi

Re: New maintainer for es, done right this time

1998-10-12 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Format: 1.5 > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:03:31 -0400 > Source: es > Binary: es > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.90beta1-3 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description: > es - An extensible shell bas

Re: Fix buildd@powerpc.debian.org bounces!

1998-10-11 Thread James Troup
[ Why on earth is this on devel? It's not relevant here. ] Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It provides: [ Gratuitous advertisement for smail snipped ] > The same setup should be installed on kullervo. If not, I might get > over and remove exim there in order to install Smail, too

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So you want to force all porters to join another list? HTH does one force volunteers? No, I want the list to be available if porters want to join it. > Why not contact them in their native lists? Because these lists are for users too and mass cross

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Do you think this list would be useful or that the already > > existing lists can carry the load (namely debian-devel)? > > This list is not needed and I don't consider it useful at all. (As a porter) I disagree; I've oft

Re: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work within fakeroot

1998-10-10 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Friday, October 9 1998, at 21:19:38, James Troup wrote: > > : Look at fakeroot's shlibs file. This is not a bug (or certainly not > > : the one you're claiming

Re: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work within fakeroot

1998-10-09 Thread James Troup
Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.4.0.30 > > $ dpkg-shlibdeps src/fortify; cat debian/substvars > shlibs:Depends=libc6 (>= 2.0.7u) > > $ fakeroot dpkg-shlibdeps src/fortify; cat debian/substvars > shlibs:Depends=libc6, libc6 (>= 2.0.7u) >

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-07 Thread James Troup
[ Please don't Cc me on replies to a public mailing list ] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (James A. Treacy) writes: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(James A. Treacy) writes: > > > > > Should apt have to download the dsc file for a package before it > > > knows what the source files are? > > > > Why on earth not?

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-06 Thread James Troup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(James A. Treacy) writes: > Should apt have to download the dsc file for a package before it > knows what the source files are? Why on earth not? If it's going to download the source, the .dsc file is part of the source and has to be downloaded anyway. > > > If there are pla

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about pop stars? We could have Debian sporty, Debian Ginger, Debian > Posh... *bang* -- James

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your mighty 386/25 ^ a) cut out the sarcasm, it's uncalled for. b) get your facts right, it's not a 386, it's a 386/25 equivalent[1] as I said already. > with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution and custom kern

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in gratuitous QP: > On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. > > > > Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times. Took 5 days, like, but it compiled ``properly''. -- James

Re: formal documents

1998-10-03 Thread James Troup
Kikutani Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ? Yes. [Though if there is any opportunity to meet another developer in real life and cross sign each others keys, this is the preferred method, where it's viable.] -- James

Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?

1998-10-03 Thread James Troup
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can, however, prove that one person has been told that they would > not be accepted if they applied. That person is me. Eh? You were *not* told that by the new maintainer team, so it has absolutely zero relevance. You've ``proved'' absolutely nothing

Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?

1998-10-02 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 05:36:37PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Assuming, of course, that Debian will accept them as a developer. > > Are people with legitimate packaging interests being rejected? That's a ridiculously simplistic question that I w

Intention to do a(nother) NMU of dpkg

1998-06-24 Thread James Troup
updated for glibc, reported by Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. [#13140] * debian/control (dpkg-dev): depend on perl as POSIX (not a part of perl-base) is needed by most of the perl dpkg-* scripts, noticed by Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. [#22115] -- James Troup

Re: slang, newt, whiptail

1998-06-24 Thread James Troup
Michael Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but i didn't find SOURCE OF WHIPTAIL at all, what's going on there?? You didn't look very hard. Package: whiptail Version: 0.21-8 [...] source: newt -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eh? Almost any version-number problem can be solved by a version > > suffix[1]. > > Not where 1.0 follows 3.14, for example. You clearly can, as I demonstrated in my foo

Re: Adding dependency order to emacsen add-on install/remove process

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't it true that dpkg ignores the "Depends:" lines when ordering > the configure scripts for these packages? No; it ignores the dependencies when *unpacking* the packages but if foo depends on bar, dpkg will run bar's postinst before foo's. Try it and

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The current problem can be solved by a version suffix and therefore > does not require an epoch. Eh? Almost any version-number problem can be solved by a version suffix[1]. What's your point? Are you saying we don't need epochs? Or anyone using epochs

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Jun 1998, James Troup wrote: > > > (Sorry for the AOL, but...) Well said; I wish people would get > > over their epoch-phobia already. > > And I wish people would stop suggesting a poor solution. How is it a ``poo

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If people weren't being childish about the addition of 2 characters to the > changelog, which the users generally never see, we wouldn't be having this > discussion. [...] > Use the tools provided! > (Sorry for the AOL, but...) Well said; I wish

Re: Bug-System: Why no mail to maintainer on reassign?

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Later someone will reassign that bug to the correct package, but the > maintainer of that package won't get any mail. That's simply not true. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-20 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: > > > Depends: emacs20 | xemacs20-bin > >^^ > > > > Why? We run JDE on Emacs 19.34 here in the department just fine. > > According to the requirements as listed on > http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/, to get JDE to work with [x]

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some time around Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:07:24 +1000, > Craig Sanders wrote: > > > elvis-tiny is small enough to fit on too (although that may have > > changed now that we use slang rather than ncurses - can > > elvis-tiny use slang??) and pro

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: > Package: jde [...] > Depends: emacs20 | xemacs20-bin ^^ Why? We run JDE on Emacs 19.34 here in the department just fine. > Recommends: jdk1.1-dev \begin{just checking}You realise, of course, this puts it in contrib?\e

Re: GNUPLOT [does not] break GPL

1998-06-17 Thread James Troup
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 15:37:30 $ ldd `which gnuplot` > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) > libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libc5-compat/libreadline.so.2 (0x40048000) > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4006a000) > libc.so.5 =>

Re: tempfile and dependencies

1998-06-16 Thread James Troup
Francesco Tapparo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my question is: must I add Depends: debianutils (>> 1.6), or I'm > guaranteed that will be upgraded the essential packages first? Is > this bug-fix worthy of an hamm release? Yes, no, IMO no. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-16 Thread James Troup
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't know perl, and am only going on what Ray has been telling > > me. It was my understanding that perl could be made to > > dynamically load it's gdbm part on request and that way perl need > > only recommend or (better) suggest gdbm

Away for ~ a week

1998-06-10 Thread James Troup
Hi, [ I don't like sending these semi-spam announcements, but I guess it's important that, in the unlikely event, of a security/important bug in one of my packages, people don't waste any time waiting for me to respond ] I'm off down south this afternoon for roughly a week (I hope no more),

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-09 Thread James Troup
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > severity 20250 important > severity 17381 important > severity 19218 important > severity 19991 important > severity 21812 important > merge 20250 17381 19218 19991 21812 > thanks Please note that --force-overwrite really has to be turned back on by def

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