Re: W3C recommendations

2003-04-17 Thread LapTop006
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 07:44:35PM -0500, Thomas Bliesener arranged a set of bits into the following: > Almost the whole Debian website meets the HTML standards except some > online documentation which seems to be a problem of debiandoc2html > (#188117). > > In a quick survey I found more package

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-17 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:13:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Maybe it should be recalled to everyone that debconf is not a place for > asking users a bunch of stupid crap (how many % of our users know what > is SNMP ?), but a place to configure the few things that cannot be > autodected. Tha

Re: New packages taking over config files from old packages, depends, order

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:47:59PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > So I made sysvinit Pre-Depend on initscripts. But that results > in the following installation problem: > # dpkg -i *.deb Pre-Depends aren't resolved by a single invocation of dpkg -i (whereas Depends are). This is why you u

Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-17 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 01:08, Colin Walters wrote: > I just installed "laptop-net", becuase it looked similar to something > I'd like to work on. You might want to look at ifupdown-roaming too http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roaming.html -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#189375: ITP: libdb3-ruby

2003-04-17 Thread akira yamada
Package: wnpp Severity wishlist BDB http://moulon.inra.fr/ruby/bdb.html> is Berkeley DB interface for Ruby. libdb3-ruby provides BDB which links to libdb-3.so. libdb-ruby is already provided. It has Bug#154727. libdb3-ruby is solution for the situation of the bug. I also intend to package libdb{2

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 08:42:40AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:31:44PM +1000, Paul Hampson wrote: > Hardly, there are many RC bugs or FTBFS bugs in those. I think the main > issue is that the PTS does not show the list of packages holding up. IT > is not as easy, since th

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030417 03:30]: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:10:58PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > > We have at least three parallel menu systems around: the Debian Menu, > > > the Gnome Foot Menu and the KDE menu. > > We have one menu system: the Debian menu. > > And we h

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 05:21:41PM +1000, Paul Hampson wrote: > Anyway, now that I've done that... back to your actual interest: > ocaml is also being recurred: > i386: libpgsql-ocaml-dev, libsdl-ocaml, libsdl-ocaml-dev, ocaml-libs > > From sources: > libpgsql-ocaml<== Unstable version bre

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:32, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:21, Chris Hanson wrote: > > I'd rather fix this properly; what you suggest is a workaround. What > > I consider a proper fix is to redefine the configuration files so that > > they can be parsed. I have learned, the

md5 checksums

2003-04-17 Thread Stephane Jourdois
Hello all, I just noticed that not all packages in sid do provide md5 checksums for the files they contains. What should be done against this ? Shall we file bugreports against all packages that we can found, or perhaps lintian should check this ? Thanks, -- /// Stephane Jourdois /"

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:01:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, i personnaly think that in some case it would be much simpler to > _remove_ the packages from testing, and let the new versions enter > testing as they can. Yes, this generally happens. It's not really a good thing though -- it

Fwd: ITP: xpi2deb -- Mozilla's xpi package converter

2003-04-17 Thread Mike Hommey
oops, forgot to Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: ITP: xpi2deb -- Mozilla's xpi package converter Date: Thursday 17 April 2003 11:47 From: Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] retitle 131404 ITP: xpi2deb -- Mozilla's x

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:33:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:01:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, i personnaly think that in some case it would be much simpler to > > _remove_ the packages from testing, and let the new versions enter > > testing as they can. >

Re: md5 checksums

2003-04-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 01:14:04PM +0200, Stephane Jourdois wrote: > I just noticed that not all packages in sid do provide md5 checksums > for the files they contains. > > What should be done against this ? Shall we file bugreports against > all packages that we can found, or perhaps lintian shou

libvorbis0a (Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age)

2003-04-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Considering the libvorbis case, what needs to happen is the remaining packages that depend on libvorbis0 be recompiled against libvorbis0a. Then, optionally, remove the packages from testing. I would have thought that libvorbis0 and dependent packages merit a removal from testing because woody

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:32, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:21, Chris Hanson wrote: > > > I'd rather fix this properly; what you suggest is a workaround. What > > > I consider a proper fix is to redefine the conf

New virtual package: festival-voice (bug#112565)

2003-04-17 Thread Matthias Urlichs
The festival speech syntesizer needs at least one voice file. I'd like to use a virtual package named "festival-voice" so that people cannot install it without one, which is a problem (see the above bug). Policy requires discussing new virtual packages on d-d... -- Matthias

harden-flaws

2003-04-17 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello Due to lack of time I have a hard time to maintain the harden-localflaws, harden-3rdflaws and harden-remoteflaws packages. Therefore I have split out theese three pacakges from the main harden source package to its own package harden-flaws. It should be easier to maintain then. So now to m

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:05:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:33:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:01:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Well, i personnaly think that in some case it would be much simpler to > > > _remove_ the packages fro

Re: libvorbis0a (Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age)

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:56:22PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Considering the libvorbis case, what needs to happen is the > remaining packages that depend on libvorbis0 be recompiled > against libvorbis0a. The only packages that still dep on libvorbis0 in unstable/i386 seem to be: bitco

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-09 23:08]: > I talked to an AMD guy a while back, and he said we could get access > to machines if he sign certain NDAs. He did not really say what kind > of access though. I sent e-mail to AMD about getting a dedicated box for Debian a day before this

Re: Bug#182212: ITP: ttf-bitstream-vera

2003-04-17 Thread Michael Fedrowitz
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:32:51PM +0100, Michael Fedrowitz wrote: Hi, > The package will be uploaded once the final fonts are released, which will > probably happen sometime next month. Well, didn't quite happen in March, but all the improvements over the beta version were very well worth the

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-17 Thread Morgon Kanter
> > OTOH, xml config files (like fontconfig's config) could be losslessly > > parsed > > through xslt processing... > > Much like any other config file can be losslessly parsed by processing > them. That's not really very helpful. However, it could be something of a "standard" for configuration

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:32, Colin Walters wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:21, Chris Hanson wrote: > > > > I'd rather fix this properly; what you suggest is a workaround. What > > > > I consider a

Managing bug reports

2003-04-17 Thread Mark Howard
Hi, version 0.7 of debbuggtk is now in the Debian repository. This is a set of tools (bugwatcher, bugviewer and buglister) to help manage Debian bug reports. This is useful because: - Bug listings can be filtered, so it should be easier to find particular reports. This includes searching titles,

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 06:47, Mike Hommey wrote: > OTOH, xml config files (like fontconfig's config) could be losslessly parsed > through xslt processing... I know, but I haven't done this because expat (AFAICS) doesn't provide a command-line tool to do XSLT, and Depend:ing on xsltproc (which use

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:17:41AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:05:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:33:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:01:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Well, i personnaly think that i

Bug#183860: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:34:36PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > Debian can't legally distribute such an info document. Because the > GFDL is incompatible with the GPL, it is prohibited to even > create an info document from GFDL'd texinfo source. See #183860. Hrm, if that's the case, we can't

Bug#189437: ITP: sleuthkit -- Tools for forensics analysis

2003-04-17 Thread Mattia Monga
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: sleuthkit Version : 1.61 Upstream Author : Brian Carrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sleuthkit.sourceforge.net/ * License : GNU GPL & IBM PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 1.

Bug#189439: ITP: autopsy -- Graphical interface to sleuthkit

2003-04-17 Thread Mattia Monga
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: autopsy Version : 1.71 Upstream Author : Brian Carrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.some.org/ * License : GPL 2 Description : Graphical interface to sleuth

Bug#183860: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs

2003-04-17 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 04:16:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:34:36PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > Debian can't legally distribute such an info document. Because the > > GFDL is incompatible with the GPL, it is prohibited to even > > create an info document from

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Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:11:52PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I CCed you the bugreport where i explain everything, but the packages are : > libpgsql-ocaml > ocamlsdl > These are the source packages. You missed: ocaml-core | 3.06.3 | unstable | all ocaml-libs | 3.06.3 | u

Re: Managing bug reports

2003-04-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > version 0.7 of debbuggtk is now in the Debian repository. This is a > set of tools (bugwatcher, bugviewer and buglister) to help manage Debian > bug reports. This is useful because: Err, it requires some non-free software, jre 1.4 that is. Too bad

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:31:21PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > Yes; you were. I'm focussing on gcc and perl and such things at the > > moment, and as of yet no one else is really able to do anything about this > > stuff while I'm busy; hopefully both those things will c

libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

2003-04-17 Thread Markus Amersdorfer
Hi! I've recently upgraded my Woody-Servers according to the latest libc6 security update (DSA-282), and it seems that services were _not_ reloaded by the post-install-script!? More detailed information: When investigating the situation, I found out the following (if I read everything right, ple

Re: >2000 packages still waiting to enter testing, > 1500 over age

2003-04-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Anthony Towns writes: > Yes; you were. I'm focussing on gcc and perl and such things at the > moment, and as of yet no one else is really able to do anything about this > stuff while I'm busy; hopefully both those things will change soon enough. and maybe python ... AFAICS there are two issues:

Re: Managing bug reports

2003-04-17 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:03:37 +, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Err, it requires some non-free software, jre 1.4 that is. Too bad. > Even worse, the blackdown people seem somewhat nonresponsive when people ask whether there's going to be a LinuxPPC port of 1.4 any time soon (or even "at all").

Bug#189455: ITP: mudnames -- Multi User Dungeon name generator daemon

2003-04-17 Thread Paul Telford
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-17 Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: mudnames Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://lightside.eresmas.com/mudnames-1.6.tar.g

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-17 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:23:06AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin > > Package: rhdb-admin > > What is wrong here? > > > rhdb-admin > > echo $? > 1 > > I assu

irrelevant

2003-04-17 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi, Did you really investigate tetex-bin? It is completely irrelevant with the current problem you claimed, I believe. It doesn't modify any conffile but only asks how to set permissions of a file and/or asks which hyphenation pattern to load. Further, The first thing it asked me was whet

Bug#189461: ITP: oilwar -- Defend your country from oil-thirsty invaders

2003-04-17 Thread keegan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: oilwar Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Jarmo Hekkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.2ndpoint.fi/projektit/oilwar.html * License : GPL Description : Defend your country from oil-thirsty invaders

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-17 Thread Colin Walters
[ forgot to CC my last message here to -devel ] On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 21:28, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) > Date: 17 Apr 2003 20:32:41 -0400 > > > reopen 189370 > > thanks > > sigh. I won't reopen i

Re: libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

2003-04-17 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:28:02 +0200, Markus Amersdorfer wrote: > I've recently upgraded my Woody-Servers according to the latest > libc6 security update (DSA-282), and it seems that services were _not_ > reloaded by the post-install-script!? > > More detailed information: > > When investigating th

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-17 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: 17 Apr 2003 21:56:00 -0400 > You don't understand Debconf. It is a cache, not a registry. I should > be able to rm -rf /var/cache/debconf/config.dat *at any time*. If I do > that, since you

Re: New virtual package: festival-voice (bug#112565)

2003-04-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > The festival speech syntesizer needs at least one voice file. I'd like to > use a virtual package named "festival-voice" so that people cannot install > it without one, which is a problem (see the above bug). > > Policy requires discussing new virtua