Jeff, unless I'm mistaken you've taken over maintainence of the debian
packaging of quakeforge and you have fairly current packaging in the
quakeforge-current tree in their cvs. I remember that when knghtbrd
decided to remove quakeforge packages from debian, it was because of
technical problems wit
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:12:25AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jeff, unless I'm mistaken you've taken over maintainence of the debian
> packaging of quakeforge and you have fairly current packaging in the
> quakeforge-current tree in their cvs. I remember that when knghtbrd
> decided to remove quakef
Last I asked on #debian-devel, source-only uploads aren't allowed (as in, you
can't just upload the orig.tar and the diff. With auto-builders in place, is
there any reason why?
There are reasons why source-only uploads should be preferred, some being:
- The package can be compiled on boxes that
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Jonathan Hseu wrote:
> Last I asked on #debian-devel, source-only uploads aren't allowed (as in, you
> can't just upload the orig.tar and the diff. With auto-builders in place, is
> there any reason why?
They are allowed. See pine.
> There are reasons why source-only uploa
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:25:57PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:52:25PM +0100, Noel Koethe wrote:
> > > As a debian developer, I like an easier way to find and keep up with
> > > all the nice reports out there keeeping track of me. I think it would
> > > help myslef
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:26:10AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Jonathan Hseu wrote:
> > - Wouldn't the binaries be more trusted if they came from auto-builders
> > anyways?
> > So that way a maintainer can't just stick something in there that's not in
> > the
> > source code.
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:59:33AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> there are 2 ways for a package maintainer to deal with l10n-ed Debconf
> templates: either put all translations in a single file, or separate each
> language in its own template file.
> The former has a severe drawback, because when E
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:59:04AM +, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> Conversely, I would sometimes like to be able to get my arch-specific
> and arch-independant packages built by the build daemons in order to
> detect build time errors that don't show up on my own system (missing
> build deps, for exa
On Mon, 31 Dez 2001, Michael Bramer wrote:
Hello,
> > The point is to collect all informations about reports in a place that
> > is well known, easy to know for new developers (i.e. readable in the
> > developers reference) and kept up to date.
>
> yesterday I add a new status pages on request o
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:23:19AM +0100, Noel Koethe wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dez 2001, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > > The point is to collect all informations about reports in a place that
> > > is well known, easy to know for new developers (i.e. readable in the
> > > developers reference) and kept up t
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:05:05AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> a clean chroot will solve that one for you. besides, the buildd's may
> still have an un-listed build dependency, from a previous build.
It would still be nice to have the external check.
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Hi,
I would like to have some information about harden ?
Where can i find how to use and configure it ?
Thnx
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> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:23:55 +0100
> "Marc" == Marc L de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marc>
Marc> So, to be more precise: debconf asks the user for that location, and
Marc> puts it in the debconf-database at myapp/thelocation. Now, when
Marc> installing mydata.deb, it should read the
* Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20011231 10:35]:
> yesterday I add a new status pages on request of a maintainer:
> http://ddtp.debian.org/pdesc/maintainer/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your packages file is outdated. This page lists me as the maintainer
for a package of which
How does it work? Broad overview: does it install a root filesystem and
simply do a huge cp /mnt/cdrom/package /wherever then configure, or what?
Thx :)
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In Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:14:15 +0100 Josselin cum veritate scripsit :
> I don't think all these packages should be swept out. Unmaintained
> packages that don't have bunches of bugs shouldn't be a problem, for
> example.
No, it's a serious problem.
Unmaintained, unused, and untested packages are
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:08:30PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20011231 10:35]:
> > yesterday I add a new status pages on request of a maintainer:
> > http://ddtp.debian.org/pdesc/maintainer/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Your
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:09:50PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 17:02, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > This package is correct as is, and the warning is harmless; the line
> > of code involved is:
> >
> > return (c<0||c>255)? unexpected_char: icode[c];
> >
> > where c is a char ex
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Jeff, unless I'm mistaken you've taken over maintainence of the debian
> packaging of quakeforge and you have fairly current packaging in the
> quakeforge-current tree in their cvs. I remember that when knghtbrd
> decided to remove quakeforge packages from debian, it was becau
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:53:19PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:11:15PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > print Dumper($virtula1);
> >
[...]
> which is pretty much the structure you wanted.
>
>
>
> other comments:
>
> i still think you should use a field s
At (time_t)1009793105 "John H. Robinson, IV" wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:59:04AM +, Mark Brown wrote:
> >
> > Conversely, I would sometimes like to be able to get my arch-specific
> > and arch-independant packages built by the build daemons in order to
> > detect build time errors tha
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:16:03AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:02:29PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > my %virtual1 = {};
> [...]
> > $virtual1->{$user[0]}->{$fields[$_]} = $user[$_];
> [...]
> > When running the script using this module, I get this
In Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:59:04 + Mark cum veritate scripsit :
> Conversely, I would sometimes like to be able to get my arch-specific
> and arch-independant packages built by the build daemons in order to
> detect build time errors that don't show up on my own system (missing
> build deps, for e
Hi Junichi!
You wrote:
> Unmaintained, unused, and untested packages are in Debian.
> If no one uses these packages, bugs won't be filed.
> No bugs filed is not a status of well-being.
But OTOH no bugs is neither an indication that the package is not being
used.
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 08:19:24PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Are we trying to force users to use binary packages that even the
> maintainer of the package has not tried to install/run ?
We do all the time. I expect the majority of the packages on the
machine I'm typing this on have not bee
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:02:43AM -0500, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > Jeff, unless I'm mistaken you've taken over maintainence of the debian
> > packaging of quakeforge and you have fairly current packaging in the
> > quakeforge-current tree in their cvs. I remember that when knghtbrd
> > decided to
At 1:53 am, Tuesday, January 1 2002, Penguin mumbled:
> How does it work? Broad overview: does it install a root filesystem and
> simply do a huge cp /mnt/cdrom/package /wherever then configure, or what?
>
As I understand it, when you partition a drive, it mounts the too-be root
partition as /t
* Steve Kowalik
| It then un'tar's the base tarball into /target, makes Linux bootable if you
| said it could, and then reboots.
There is no base tarball for woody; it then runs debootstraps which
unpacks the .debs.
--
Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who it
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:20:14PM +1100, Penguin wrote:
| How does it work? Broad overview: does it install a root filesystem and
| simply do a huge cp /mnt/cdrom/package /wherever then configure, or what?
It depends on what you tell it to do. It does all the basic setup of
a system (partition
David Z Maze wrote:
Marc L de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MLdB> What I am trying to build are a couple of packages (let's call one of
MLdB> these mydata.deb) containing just ordinary files, related to a
MLdB> specific application. All these packages Depend on a generic
MLdB> configuration pac
Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:02:43AM -0500, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > > Jeff, unless I'm mistaken you've taken over maintainence of the
> > > debian packaging of quakeforge and you have fairly current packaging
> > > in the quakeforge-current tree in their cvs. I remember th
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:34:56PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 08:19:24PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > Are we trying to force users to use binary packages that even the
> > maintainer of the package has not tried to install/run ?
>
> We do all the time. I expect the ma
On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 05:40, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I believe that the author (Knuth) presumably thought "c should only be
> between 0 and 127, probably not even that far, and we're using c as an
> array index, where we've only allocated 256 chars for this array.
Right. Then it should be explic
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to always explicitly
> declare all char variables as signed or unsigned; otherwise, you're just
> asking for latent bugs.
IMHO, this is a peculiar statement. The type 'char' is best
On 30 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Please take a look at #99208 in the BTS, and give me some advice.
>
> The complaint is that there are a bunch of files in xpuzzles that
> needed to be marked conffiles, but were not. Then, when that was
> fixed, the result was that a whole bunch of fi
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If only the location but not the contents of the files changed from
> potato to woody, you can use the prerm to copy/move the files to the
> new location before dpkg realizes they didn't previously exist.
>
> If both the location and the contents change
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 05:40, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I believe that the author (Knuth) presumably thought "c should only be
> > between 0 and 127, probably not even that far, and we're using c as an
> > array index, where we've only
I demand that Colin Walters may or may not have written...
[snip]
> No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e.
> sizeof(char) == 1.
Yes, but who's to say that a byte is 8 bits wide? :-)
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 05:40, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I believe that the author (Knuth) presumably thought "c should only be
> > between 0 and 127, probably not even that far, and we're using c as an
> > array index, where we've only
On 31 Dec 2001, Colin Walters wrote:
> > and there's a small possibility that char could be some weird wide
> > character thing,
>
> No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e.
> sizeof(char) == 1.
I think he meant "wider than one would think"-character. A char did
Hi all,
I'm hopping that someone has some experience with audio CD recording and
can help me a bit. I can record data CDs without any problems but if I
try the audio option I get the following output
mira:/tmp# cdrecord -dev=0,0 -dummy -audio -pad t.iso
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyri
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:33:26PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Friday 28 December 2001 23:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I have been using LVM for some time, and I am eager to start working
> > with EVMS. Once I have working packages, I will be migrating some of my
> > LVM volumes to EVMS using
I'm in a strange situation, something (the last program I installed was fligh
gear) caused my /var/lib/dpkg/status file to be deleted. Meaning
apt/dpkg/dselect is unable to determin what packages are installed. I managed to
manually write in the details of debconf and dpkg so that packages would
ac
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> I'm in a strange situation, something (the last program I installed was fligh
> gear) caused my /var/lib/dpkg/status file to be deleted. Meaning
> apt/dpkg/dselect is unable to determin what packages are installed. I managed
> to
> manually write in t
On 31-Dec-01, 16:30 (CST), Peter Finderup Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31 Dec 2001, Colin Walters wrote:
> > No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e.
> > sizeof(char) == 1.
>
> I think he meant "wider than one would think"-character. A char didn't
> origin
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:33:26PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Friday 28 December 2001 23:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I have already grabbed the latest release and started work on evms
> > packages for Debian, though I haven't touched them for over a week since
> > I have been away. I should
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> It can't be larger than 255 (precisely because it is limited to a single
> byte).
>
> The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to always explicitly
> declare all char variables as signed or unsigned; otherwise, you're just
Le Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:51:20PM -0600, Colin Watson écrivait:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:43:57PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > I don't agree. In a perfect world, yes, we would have all available
> > software packaged for debian and all packages maintained. But that's
> > just not reality. It
Hi,
Le Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:50:16PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw écrivait:
> It's quite easy to say that you can find dozens of such packages. Please
> be specific, and post the name of those packages/maintainers (take it to
> -private, if you want) but I honestly don't believe that there are many
> ba
Hi,
I hereby restart my long-forgotten, yet ancient, tradition of posting
ridiculous mails to this newsgroup. Why ? I believe in the allmighty power of
self-organisation :P And have to work till 11pm 31/12/01 until 07am today
01/01/2002. I'm not looking to cause flame-wars, rants or what so eve
At 2:08 pm, Tuesday, January 1 2002, Tollef Fog Heen mumbled:
> | It then un'tar's the base tarball into /target, makes Linux bootable if you
> | said it could, and then reboots.
>
> There is no base tarball for woody; it then runs debootstraps which
> unpacks the .debs.
>
Okay, I should add th
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:51:44AM -0500, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > The stuff outside I have done. Back in March or so I designed a nice,
> > complex, and complete system for handling gamedata. It would work as
> > long as an engine using it had fs_* Cvars and config files. Unless of
> > course
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 05:09:06PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Unmaintained, unused, and untested packages are in Debian.
> If no one uses these packages, bugs won't be filed.
If no one uses the package, the bugs are not a problem! :-)
Hamish
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
[...]
> there is also a number of other libraries (for GUI), I don't think you
> have to use ms libs, you can use e.g. wxwindows, qt etc..., also, if the
> application doesn't have complicated gui the porting might be fairly
> easy... (it also depends on ho
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