Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Matthew Palmer
* Package name: ctcs
Version : 1.3.1pre1
Upstream Author : Jason T. Collins
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : hardware testing
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:47:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >
> > I'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a mathematician who knows what to
> > do with a number that reads 0.0.9, eit
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:47:36PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:29:40AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > * Michael Biebl [Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:12:59 +0200]:
> >
> > > that "dpkg --compare-versions '0.09' '=' '0.9'" yields true, which I
> > > think is rather odd, beca
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:12:59AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I have to admit that when choosing 0.09+0.1 as version number I didn't
> check with dpkg --compare-versions because then I would have discovered
> that "dpkg --compare-versions '0.09' '=' '0.9'" yields true, which I
> think is rather
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:14:43PM +, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:12:15AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > What I need as someone working on a package for which I'm not the
> > maintainer is this:
> >
> > dpkg-source -x must give me something I can immediately edit and diff
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:52:09PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written...
>
> > I've given up on this thread, but I just have to say one thing:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:38:39AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
>
I've given up on this thread, but I just have to say one thing:
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:38:39AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> `Hate patch systems' can easily apply all chunks and start
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Easily. Heh. You should be a comedian.
- Matt
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:08:00AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 00:45, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:47:01PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 20:11, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > >
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:36:18PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * John Goerzen [Wed, Aug 02 2006, 01:01:51PM]:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:47:01PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > > > to learn how we deal with this all.
> > >
> > > This is fine, but (again) you forget about your 'ap
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:47:01PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 20:11, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> > But you lose debian specific patches to be clearly separated from the
>
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:54:51PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 18:35, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:01:27PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > > > > How is that not true if one knows a given patch system and does know
> > > > > about your VCS and ne
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:31:18PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think people that are NMUing packages rarely care about this.
>
> When NMU'ing a package, I'd really appreciate to know which changes have
> which purpose and which "specificity". In part
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:01:27PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:31, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:20:26PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > > debian/patches/ as separate file, how do I know how to update/remove/etc
> >
> > There would be no debia
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: phpunit2
*cough*330301*cough*
- Matt
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:13:30AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 07:36 +1000, Matthew Palmer a écrit :
> [about suid bits]
> > My personal preference would be for the maintainer to just take a stand, set
> > it or not, and let people who actually kn
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:36:37AM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:37:52PM -0400, LEE, Yui-wah (Clement) wrote:
>
> > I am building a package in which one of the binary has
> > to have the setuid and setgid bits set. I wonder which
> > one of the following two is the more ap
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:34:02AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:37:52PM -0400, LEE, Yui-wah (Clement) wrote:
> > I am building a package in which one of the binary has
> > to have the setuid and setgid bits set. I wonder which
> > one of the following two is
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 06:50:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 06:17:20PM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
> [snip]
> > the moment you use openwatcom to compile any work-related piece
> > of software (thu
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:44:40PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >[Don suggested to use the tags _and_ the versioning information in a
> >transitional period; I'm not 100% sure what this buys us, except that I'm
> >not sure
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:12:32PM +0100, Chris Forsey wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right list, but unsure where to post as I need
> some guys with good debian experience
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], for
starters. This list is for development of Debian itself.
- M
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:30:59PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 20 mai 2006 à 19:43 -0700, Erast Benson a écrit :
> > Nexenta is absolutely rock stable OS (thanks to legendary Solaris
> > history)
>
> Solaris history is indeed legendary, but not for its stability.
Well, when you con
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:47:48AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Am 15.05.2006 um 10:32 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben:
> > CFEngine is in Debian, but has some real nasty frustrations. Puppet
> > isn't in Debian, but Jamie is working hard on the packages and I've got
> > some provisional ones built
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:49:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> in case I am in the wrong list, I beg you pardon, but I asked this
> already in debian-user without success.
Custom *packages* is probably more on-topic for debian-mentors, but I don't
think that custom packages are the right sol
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:13:57AM -0700, Erast Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 00:04 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > Why not simply Provide: sunwlxsl all of the
> > time, doesn't it provide sunwlxsl on other arches?
>
> But how? sunwlxsl is something which is only present in
> OpenSolaris-b
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:55:05PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> > On 3 Apr 2006, Adam Majer wrote:
> >
> >
> >> But the correct method of closing bugs is to send a message to
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the explanation of the fix and not in
> >> the changelog. Well, at lea
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:46:02AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:04:17AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
> > However, the code of conduct seems to
> > point out that one should not Cc someone unless they specifically ask
> > for it (a guideline that you neglected to follow,
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:03:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 30 janvier 2006 à 10:20 +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit :
> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite
&g
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:17:13AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 17:01 -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit :
> > [Josselin Mouette]
> > > Because python and ruby have similar features
> >
> > Same with perl and python.
>
> Great. I guess you're going to second the upcomi
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite
> some key parts of the system, like the init scripts or adduser, in
> python. However, if the proponent knows from the beginning the
> implementation wouldn't be
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:33:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:16, David Weinehall wrote:
>
> > Since all Ubuntu packages are recompiled against a different set of
> > libraries, the bug might not even affect the Debian package, even though
> > they share the same sou
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:40:11PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:31:44AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > All you'll get is the loud minority having a whinge then, no matter what the
> > outcome.
>
> It will certainly beat the hell out of c
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:41:49PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 07:13:31AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > By way of example, the Debian maintainer is equipped to answer questions
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, "Maintainer"
> > means "An individual or group of people primari
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:59:23PM +, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote on debian-devel@lists.debian.org:
> > [Re-adding Cc to Kurt, as he's mentioned he isn't subscribed]
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:20:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > > Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > > > The kl
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:10:54AM +0100, JanC wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How about renaming Maintainer to Debian-Maintainer in Ubuntu's binary
> > packages, and having a specific Ubuntu-Maintainer?
>
> This should probably happen in a way that all (or most
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:30:22PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:01, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > So you are saying it's the Debian Developer's job to pull changes from
> > ubuntu back? If that is an official statement, then that would be useful
> > for a d-d-a mail so w
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:51:12AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello Joey,
>
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Leaving ubuntu out of this, what puzzles me about your message, Raphael,
> > is this:
> >
> > Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > If you have some uploads pending, and would like
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:21:20AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> And on _top_ of that, we have all sorts of gratuitous autotools
> changes.
Let's not forget the random conversion of build systems -- dpatch seems to
be a favourite to rewrite perfectly functioning build systems into.
> This is roug
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:14:18PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Some things that it does say:
[...]
> - Ubuntu submits fixes for Debian bugs to the Debian BTS including a patch
> URL
If that said "sometimes" or "some people within Ubuntu", it would be
correct. Not every relevant patch ends
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:03:14PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> On 1/13/06, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Please stop trying to twist my words around. Canonical didn't contribute
> > > back. An individual who happened to work for
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > >
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:47:56PM +, Martin Meredith wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:19:42 -0500, Frans Jessop
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if
> >>all DD's worked through it on their projects?
>
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:49, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > On F
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:48:11PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:32, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > Oh, I never signed an NDA, so I've never seen the code, actually I'm not
> > > interested in the code,
[This is probably more appropriate for the debian-mentors list]
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 05:47:32PM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote:
> |dh_gencontrol
> |dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog -isp
> |-Tdebian/vexim.substvars -Pdebian/vexim dpkg-gencontrol: error: control
> |file must have at least on
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote:
> > > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all
> > > DD's worked through it on
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:54:26PM +0200, Radu Spineanu wrote:
> * Package name: xen-debiantools
> Version : 0.2
> Upstream Author : Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Considering the upstream author, have you discussed your plans to upload
this with Steve?
- Matt
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:37:28PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> does one know why xmcd isn't upgraded since 31 of May in 2003? The
> package is neither orphaned nor up for adoption, which I would do
> then.
Have you asked the maintainer, Adrian Bridgett? He's around (last made an
upload les
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:22:41PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> >Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl code
> >in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add this
> >functionality.
>
>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:45:53PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I just had a bug that I opened (#339832) closed by a changelog entry in
> a new debconf upload. This is apparently a typo, as the changelog entry
> claims that the bug it was closing was related to a Swedish translation
> update
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:22:37PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> A signature in the deb by a random developer is as trustworthy as the
> changes file and you already trust that. So we are going from snakeoil
> to snakoil. No harm done.
It's not the same, actually. A signature in a .deb nee
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:38:45AM -, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:17 AM, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:11:45PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> [...]
> >> On that score, the d
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:48:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:31:22PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > I think the final judgment in this issue is going to come down to personal
> > taste and needs more than anything else.
>
> That's fine
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:30:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:09:21AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > 3) I can verify the provenance of a particular package in my own custom
> > repos at any time (did that come from Debian? Did someone build it
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:54:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:37:05PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Personally, I think it's cryptographic snake oil, at least in so far
> > A signed deb has a seal of proce
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:08:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:33:47AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Marc Brockschmidt:
> > > Today (or last night, whatever), the dak installation on ftp-master was
> > > changed to not accept packages that include more than 3 parts
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:29:32AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> I would speculate debsigs got a name change to dpkg-sig. Can somebody
> confirm or deny?
As Mark said, it's not a name change. The FAQ on the dpkg-sig site
(http://dpkg-sig.turmzimmer.net/) has more info.
- Matt
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:50:02PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> As I'm responsible for most of dpkg-sig's code (and planned to do some
> more work in the next two months) I'd like to know if anyone cares about
> using these binary signatures or if I can invest my time into something
> tha
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:35:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:48:52PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
>
> > this URL also does _neither_ offer access to the apt
> > > (0.6.40.1-1.1) nor your patched debhelper (4.9.3elatte) as requested in my
> > > other mail.
>
> > I'm
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:31:08PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 22:19 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Or, *freedoms*. If a hardware vendor wants to profit from Linux users,
> > they need to lift the limitations on the access to knowledge about their
> > wares.
>
> Please w
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:51:31AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> The great thing about CDDL is that it is file based. So, all files which
> are licensed under CDDL-terms works exactly as GPL does. i.e. any change
> made by anybody (including propriatery distributors) *must* be contributed
> back to
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:51 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > (a) to ship packaged OpenSolaris core on "main" CD, and the rest of
> > > GPL-filtered software, will go on "Companion" CD
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:52:07PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 21:25 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > Alex Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > The issue... what issue? The http://www.sun.com/gnome issue? The
> > > numerous-our-examples issue?
> >
> > Of course,
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:31:00PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 01:14 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Alex Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Michael Banck wrote:
> > >> If so, do you plan to use Debian's mailing lists and bug
> > >> tracking system for development?
> > >
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:21:12PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> read some more GPL vs. CDDL legality stuff on our web site at
> http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/GNU/Solaris_Resources
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:32:49PM -0700, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> I don't know if Alex works for Sun, but in anyway, he has the freedom
> and option to express himself as he wishes. Your comments, only bring FUD.
So I do *not* have the freedom and option to express myself as I wish?
Int
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:07:08PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:24 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote:
> > > 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate usage.
> >
> > [...]
>
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:21:45PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote:
> 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate usage.
[...]
> There are probably very few projects that can come anywhere close to
> Nexenta OS,
> in terms of the size,
2300 << 15000, by my reckoning.
> and openness.
You keep usin
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:19:07AM +, Darren Salt wrote:
> I've noticed that several files which should be in /usr/lib/debug are in fact
> in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib. Checking via packages.d.o shows that as well as
> this, debug data is showing up in /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin and
> /usr/lib/debug/l
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:30AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> [CC'ing the aptitude maintainer, mainly for the last paragraph.]
>
> * Jeroen van Wolffelaar [Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:00:22 +0200]:
>
> > The main things that this thread shows me, is that it is *not* immediately
> > clear to people n
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:48:34PM +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> What documentation is available on the subject of creating debian
> packages ? What documents should I read before starting ? And before
> applying for NM ? I'm especially interested, for the beginning, in a
> comprehensive HowTo
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:12:38AM -, Samuel Jean wrote:
> Here it goes. I wondered about a clever way to load my iptables ruleset via
> init.d's script. Surprisingly, I didn't find any with Debian. I didn't search
> that much though.
Have a look at Shorewall -- it does similar things to what
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:45:58AM +0200, W. Borgert wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > All packages should be built by official debian buildds anyway, not on
> > developper machines with random cruft and unsecure packages installed, or
> > even
> > possibly experimental or home-
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:01:37PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Saturday 20 August 2005 02:20 pm, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > How does their extensive use of it explain why they would reimplement
> > it?
>
> Is there anyone who's used CVS extensively and HASN'T thought about
> reimpleme
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:05:43PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 8/19/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd love to see people migrating to Arch
>
> Being a long-time Arch user, let me tell you that Arch has been
> orphaned upstream.
Correction: tla, an Arch frontend, h
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:17:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> like a foundation already: a bad release manager chose a pyramidal
> model. That's the beginnings of a good inductive argument. Then we
> add the other foundation he gives: here's a bunch of well-managed
> projects, which use
[This list is typically for discussion related to the development of Debian,
not development on Debian. Nonetheless...]
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:11:45PM -0400, Parker, Matthew wrote:
> -- Technology Requirements --
>
> * Relatively quick development time
>
> * Linux-based
>
> * Allow for aut
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
(Note that this is the obsolete 1.5.x series of cyrus-imapd, not the current
2.1 cyrus packages!)
As I'm transitioning all servers under my care away from cyrus-imapd 1.5, I
have little to no further interest in maintaining these packages. I would
only recommend so
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 07:12:29AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> Since installing apt 0.6 on an otherwise up-to-date unstable (except
> for anything depending on the aspell libraries...) packages on my
> local archive are being overlooked even though this archive is listed
> before others in my a
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:34:28AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:14:32PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.19.1507 +0200]:
> > > It's rather pathetic that the Debian mentors site doesn't run the
> > > operating
> > >
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:06:28PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Unrelated question: why was mentors.debian.net delegated (historically)
> to non-DDs?
Because those were the people that decided they wanted the service, and
dedicated the time to getting it (and keeping it) operational?
- Matt
s
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:21:09PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> why is mentors.debian.net powered by Ubuntu?
Why is this question on debian-devel, instead of in the inbox of the m.d.n
maintainers?
- Matt
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:06:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> A frequently requested feature for the bug tracking system in recent years
> has been the ability to track which bugs apply to which distributions,
> so that, eg, maintainers and others can tell which bugs that have been
> fixed in uns
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:42:44 +0200, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > What's with the recent push to get every little things written
> >down into policy, so the developer no longer is req
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:12:36PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote:
> On 15/07/05, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > * Anand Kumria:
> > >
> > > > [1]: > > > http://smh
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:48:44PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote:
> * License : The Open Group Test Suite License
I'm not optimistic about this licence being DFSG-free.
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Anand Kumria:
>
> > [1]: > http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/debian-debates-support-for-ports/2005/07/12/1120934228145.html>
>
> Apparently, this is subscription only. 8-(
>
> Has this article been republished by another newspape
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:33:49PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>
> > Stop sending mail from dynamically-assigned IP addresses. Deal.
>
> Gee. There is no reliable way to know whether an IP address is static
> or not. SMTP is supposed to work from
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:13:16AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> to find their own (sometimes flawed) solution to a very common problem.
Years using Linux: 10.
Times I've absolutely needed an X-less boot when an XDM was installed: 0.
How common was that problem you were trying
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:48:49AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I do not know why you doubt that Luca will come back but as far as I know
> him from conferences I'm pretty sure that his main interest were good
> quality Debian packages
Recalling his packages in the past, I get a different opinion
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:11:05PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 07 juin 2005 à 02:12 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > Oh, you'll also note that the traditional "slow" architectures (mips,
> > mipsel, m68k, arm) aren't on this "problems" list. That's because a *lot*
> > of effort ha
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> The fact is that Ubuntu has proactively contributed a lot of code back to
> Debian, much more than most Debian derivatives have. I see no reason why
> claims that Ubuntu is not doing _enough_, or making it easy _enough_ for
> Debian
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:31:33AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> > > - Separate runlevels: 2 for multi, no net, 3 for multi no X, 4 for X, 4=5
> >
> > No way. Debian has always avoided mindlessly dictating what runlevels
> > must be used for. There's no reason to destroy this feature now. And
> >
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:23:06AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:21:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > This solves your problem fairly well, since the issue then becomes only
> > keeping d-i secure and keeping the installed system secure, not keeping
> > the system secure w
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:07:33AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * John Goerzen
>
> | If it matters, I'll add my voice to the chorus on that. Anything that
> | requires me to go off to the net to fix takes longer to fix and is
> | more annoying to deal with.
>
> Well, some people like just ha
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:56:18PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 07:49:39AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:47:30AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > proposals, but we have very limited developer resources compared to
> &
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:26:58PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> That said, I was informed today that there's a policy that when bugs are
> submitted the patch has to be put on people.ubuntu.com and linked to in
> the report rather than being included in the report, which did strike me
> as rather str
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:47:30AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> The same logic applies to many bugs as well. Would it really be better to
> have an open bug report in debbugs, than a patch on people.ubuntu.com?
I'd prefer an open bug report in debbugs with the patch included.
> I know of no re
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:56:35PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what this means, and who is trying to upload this to
> Debian without even sending me a patch first?
What it means: the Ubuntu maintainer for tla-load-dirs (sorry, don't know
who) managed to send their package in th
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:36:30PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote:
> PS: of interest to the mplayer thread: motion.c allows mpeg-1 & mpeg-2
> support for non-commercial software. AKA: GPL/LGPL'd implementations are
> allowed.
No, GPL/LGPL is not non-commercial.
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