Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-27 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:46:48PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > - as explained in #560238, it is still not the time to make a choice Not sure what you mean here. Anyway, is there a reason that #560238 isn't blocked by #560044 given it breaks that package or are you not bothered about breaking non

Re: common maintainer mailing list for low-level burning apps and libs

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Huggins
[debburn-devel cc'd since readers there probably want to know. Hence whole mail left; please trim] On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 03:26:43PM +0200, George Danchev wrote: > Hereby I would like to propose usage of common mailing list > (debburn-devel) for all the packages involved in low-level burning and

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-16 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:15:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > source-only uploads > --- > After some discussion about this, there are two opinions within the > ftp-team about this matter. Given that other distros experience has > shown that allowing source only uploads results i

Re: Packaging a library when upstream does not build a .so

2009-03-17 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:42:37AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:17:37AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > > I would like to get to the point of uploading #519184. However I have > > one issue on which I'm unsure: the library API and ABI would be stable > > enough, but upstream

Re: To the aqualung NMUer....

2009-03-10 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:10:13PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > 1. Don't spam devel to contact just one person. For reference, who-uploads from devscripts is useful for working out who NMU'd something. Simon -- ... "Be wewy wewy careful. There be dragons here." -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNS

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 01:07:33AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I thought FD was also a vote for "release Lenny" given it didn't change > > the status quo and before the GR the release team were quit

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 02:45:29AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, despite something kinda close to advocacy for the FD option in > the second call for votes on d-d-a, FD lost convincingly to most of > the options on offer. So of any conclusions you might draw, the > simplest, safest and most

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > As the Debian culture is opposed to censorship, I believe that such posts do > not belong on Planet Debian - which is for many people the public face of > Debian. To be clear, this means that as the Debian culture is opposed to cen

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:15:58AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Instead, you seem to be saying, "how could anyone be so stupid as to use > > a non-symbolic name?" when nobody is actually being that stupid. We're > > just using the symbolic name we were told to use the last time the names > > we

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-05-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:49:20PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > I've attached the lines that I think are wrong to this message. I filed bugs today for those that are still broken. -- Simon [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] *\ "Ah, here we are - `How

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-05 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:30:45AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 05 May 2008, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Perhaps instead of sending these content-free notes that we're going to > > be unsubscribed some time, after some undisclosed number of bounces, > > listma

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-05 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:05:31AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 04 May 2008, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Executive summary: master.debian.org, where I receive debian email, > > has stronger spam filtering than lists.debian.org, as master seems > > to use some kind of "content filtering". As a

Re: Debian Project News - April 21st, 2008

2008-04-22 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:10:05PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Welcome to the first issue of the Debian Project News, the newsletter > for the Debian community! From now on we'll keep you informed about > recent events and interesting developments in and around the Debian > Community on a biw

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-14 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 06:14:26AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > I seems I'll need to clarify this as well To be honest, I'd love to see you ignore this entire thread if it means you'll spend time whipping the triggers stuff into whatever shape you think it needs to be in to go into sid. Perhaps

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-02-18 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi Andreas, On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:14:30PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Simon Huggins wrote: > >http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description > >The others are probably bugs then. Do you have a list to name and > >s

Re: How to express bullet lists

2008-02-17 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On the other hand > http://packages.debian.org/sid/ht > is perfectly formatted on the web pages. It seems to be according > to the fact that parts of the description where a line starts with > two spaces are wrapped into tags

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-28 Thread Simon Huggins
hem in the dsc. I think all Debian really needs is tools to generate a wig&pen source package and the appropriate tools to then deal with it e.g. dak and sbuild updates. -- Simon Huggins \ - Oh no. It's closed. \ - We're not pre-school toys Slinky; we can read. http

libburnia/libisofs/cdrskin in Debian.

2008-01-18 Thread Simon Huggins
The libburn packages in Debian are severely outdated and back in June I tried to poke various people to see what was going on. Sean Harshburger is nowhere to be seen despite mails, bugs and so on dating back to August 2006 so I think can be called MIA. cdrskin has been actively maintained as a st

Re: Please write useful changelogs

2008-01-16 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:26:00AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, January 16, 2008 10:13, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > please write what actually changed, what the issue was about. > > | bzip2 (1.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low > > | > > | * Synchronise with Ubuntu. Closes: #456237 > > This s

Re: Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > * Package name: extended_threading > Description : Extension of the python threading api Shouldn't the package name be something like python-extendable-threading then? i.e. have python- in it? Also you're not allowed _s. S

Re: debian-infrastructure-announce: please announce it on d-d-a

2007-11-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:19:16AM -0700, Tim Spriggs wrote: > Instead of a mailing list, why not a status/notes page? You can see machine status on db.debian.org e.g. http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ries (though it's not always updated straight away and things like #debian-devel's topic ar

Re: Bug#444021: ITP/RFP: sugar

2007-09-25 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:08:32PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Package name: sugar > Version : snapshots > Upst

Bug#430896: general: GNOME or KDE desktops should issue a warning when the user unplugs USB media without unmounting.

2007-06-29 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:49:29AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On jeu, 2007-06-28 at 06:24 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> I'm not sure if XFCE in Debian already uses > >> gnome-mount, though. > > No, and we don't really want to depends on gnome stuff, especially > >

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:18:18AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > So do we call the tech committe to force a decision? Perhaps you could try talking to the people concerned (not via a bug, perhaps on IRC or in person or private mail) first? Simon. -- [ If at first you don't succeed, destr

Re: WTF ? (Fwd: Your message to Yaird-devel awaits moderator approval)

2006-08-13 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:10:04PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > maintainer addresses HAVE to accept bug reports and mails from > non-subscribers. This setting is not correct, please fix it asap. If messages do indeed get through to the list why is this a problem? -- --( "Everybody,

Recent sid amd64 rpath oddity?

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi, On the 3rd May I built libxfce4util and generated libxfce4util2_4.3.90.1-1_amd64.deb. This is in the archive exactly as I built it. It has a couple of lintian failures that I missed and have since been fixed in our SVN. Upstream have released recently and whilst checking these packages more

Re: Packages violating policy 8.2

2006-05-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:56:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see why this could be a problem for multiarch. The library is > > only used by the binary which is the same package, so they are always > > in sync. > libfoo:i386 contains

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:41:12PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:25:28PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Fixing this wasn't very hard, but it made me consider why we let a > > maintainer decide what the alternative priority of an editor would be. > Mm -- I always

Re: mdadm 2.4.1-1 ready for tests

2006-05-17 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:11:43AM -0500, martin f krafft wrote: > Here's the changelog: > mdadm (2.4.1-1) experimental; urgency=low >* The "I'll kill that maintainer... uh, wait, it's me" release. Sorry for > the delay, here's the long awaited new upstream release, > which closes:

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:46:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I'll go look at adding the PTS to pkg-xfce now anyway. > Thanks! Except as discussed on IRC in #alioth it sends to the first package affected if many packages are

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:49:58AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > > > to the

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > to the Package Tracking System. A sample configuration file is provided > and I can help if you have troubles installing it. Are you proposing that exi

Any volunteers for ploticus in Debian?

2006-01-09 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi, Does anyone want to adopt/help with the ploticus packages in Debian? The maintainer, James Penny, is more or less MIA in that he doesn't have time for Debian work at the moment and hasn't for a while which you can see from say the bugs page. It seems sad that upstream have incorporated ideas

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-09 Thread Simon Huggins
ed fine. What did we miss? -- Simon Huggins \ If at first you don't succeed, you'll get lots of advice. \ http://www.earth.li/~huggie/htag.pl 0.0.22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:11:55AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Is there any better way I can get snapshots/betas tested by the > > majority of users? Do people think that this is the sort of thing > >

Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Marc Haber [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:40:45 +0100]: > > Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers > > themselves and their closest environment uses experimental packages. > More evidence: > http://www.perrier

[semi-troll] Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:18:42AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:21:18 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Creating system users needs to cope with the fact that users might > >have greated them before hand. > adduser copes with that. If a syste

Use volatile?

2005-08-01 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:10:04PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > As it is being currently discussed on debian-security [1], security > team has hard times supporting mozilla family of packages, because of > unfriendly upstream policy - they don't want to isolate security fixes > from a larg

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Huggins
Salut Gervase! On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:46:55PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote: > >That's unfair. I would have summarised more as "there's no problem > >doing so as long as Mozilla are reasonable in Debian's eyes". I don't >

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-27 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:03:37AM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:18:19AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > The whole question is whether Debian can accept a Debian-specific > > agreement to call Firefox "Firefox". > sure, and the consensus seems to be that there is no problem

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:20:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That there is such a hue and cry over rebranding Firefox in Debian > > indicates to me that it *is* a significant burden we would be (and are > > now) asking of our downstream users. > Se

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:03:52AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Simon Huggins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:07:16PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Indeed the most pragmatic thing to do is to keep the name. But you > > > don't fee

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:07:16PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Simon Huggins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:16:18AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Like others in this thread I disagree

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:16:18AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm here to build the best free OS, not to collect the most liberal > > trademarks. If a trademark license allows us to ship the software the > > way we want and there are no practical prob

Re: Bits from the dpkg maintainer

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi Scott, On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > It's no harder to backport dpkg-dev than it is debhelper; so I think > it really just comes down to what formats the FTP masters (and dear > katie) are prepared to accept. Are you pushing for this or just seeing what

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:22:15PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:18:28PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I think having a target date, even a target month for release, would > > help everyone and reduce the posts to -release lately where people > >

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:25:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:23:33AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > To begin with we can all go back and review: > > http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals > I reviewed it and it still all falls into two groups: > - Vot

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Huggins
hat arch. Though I say all this having never looked at the source. -- Simon Huggins \ "I have this terrible pain in all the diodes down my \ left side." - Marvin http://www.earth.li/~huggie/htag.pl 0.0.22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-06-01 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The release team has said in announcements before the second announced > release date for sarge that the whole release schedule was based on > the installer schedule. > For a casual reader of d-d-a it might not be obvious that this has

Dear Adrian Bunk, Please hold off a week or two

2005-05-30 Thread Simon Huggins
Adrian, I've noticed lately that almost every post you send is about the release; Pointing out problems with some feature or other of it or with the actions of the hard working people who are trying to get sarge out the door. Do you think you could manage to leave your critisms til next week when

Firmware handling in Debian

2005-04-02 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:12:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) Distribute the non-free firmware. Our users are happy. > > 2) Don't distribute the non-free firmware. Our users either download the > > non-free firmware from elsewhere (bad) or

Buildds automatically dep-waiting on build-depends

2005-02-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > What would help save many hours on slow systems is having a script > automatically set "Dep-Wait: libbfoo (>> 1.2-3)" for all new sourc

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-18 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:22:14AM +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > * [ 17-01-05 - 01:50 ] Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There were some packages that made it to mentors.debian.net - and there > > is still some work up there. > > http://mentors.de

xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-16 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:57:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:26:35PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > There are currently 11 orphaned xfce4-* packages in unstable, including > three that have just been rem

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-28 Thread Simon Huggins
'ello Debian On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:40:30PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > asking Google for this problem just leaded to hints of some broken X > resources but I have no real clue what might have caused the failure > of at least three important applications which I'm running on a laptop > with

Re: pinging Bradley Marshall: gnokii licence violation

2004-10-17 Thread Simon Huggins
'ello On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:49:04PM +1000, Bradley Marshall wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:34:27AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > Are there any people interested in the package? Would someone help > > out in resolving #266566? I am working with the Gammu folks > > (together with Jona

Re: buildd failure

2003-06-03 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:43:25AM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Attila SZALAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > # out of date on hppa: libzorpll, libzorpll-dev (from 2.0.5.2-1) > Hm, http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=libzorpll seems to > indicate that the hppa autobuilder never attempted

Re: Debian Wiki

2003-05-21 Thread Simon Huggins
Hiya Debian, On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 03:24:54PM -0500, michael d. ivey wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that Debian Wiki (http://wiki.debian.net) is > back online, and should stay that way. [..] Am I missing something or is there no diff/version control functionality? Does this mean there is no v

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-15 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:37:45AM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > > Updating fam makes 177 packages uninstallable on alpha: amor, ark, > > bibletime, dcoppython, eyesapplet, fifteenapplet, galeon-nautilus, ... > I can't figure out why this

Re: Debian MIA check

2003-05-14 Thread Simon Huggins
Hiya, On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:25:49AM +0200, Héctor García Álvarez wrote: > El mar, 13 de 05 de 2003 a las 18:11, Joey Hess escribió: > > Tor Slettnes > I am the maintainer for those packages and I'm not MIA for the moment. > Please check your list again. > Héctor García Álvarez <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Simon Huggins
ou want to discover update_output.txt and http://www.debian.org/devel/testing -- Simon Huggins \ "Problème délicat, résolu par notre présidente qui a \ installé Caudium" -- Laurent Rathle http://www.earth.li/~huggie/htag.pl 0.0.22