Removing Python 2.2 support for ctypes

2004-10-17 Thread Ganesan R
Hi, I maintain ctypes package (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/) for Python. The version in sid is 0.6.3 while the upstream version is 0.9.1. Python 2.2 is not supported since version 0.9.0. I plan to upload 0.9.1 without the python2.2-ctypes package. Please shout if you have any o

Bug#276627: Info received (was Bug#276627: ITP: systraq -- monitor your system and warn when system files change)

2004-10-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Bug#276627: ITP: systraq -- monitor your system and warn when system files change

2004-10-17 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
Le Friday 15 October 2004 à 10:47:26, Laurent Fousse a écrit: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: systraq > Version : 0.0.20041015 > Upstream Author : Joost van Baal > * URL : http://mdcc.cx/software/ > * License : GPL > Description :

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Weimer wrote: > >> Can volatile receive critical updates which are usually not applied to > >> stable because backports are not available for some reason? > > > > Are you speaking about mozilla? ;) > > Mozilla, GnuPG, and maybe even PHP 4, depending on sarge's lifetime. > Other complex pac

Re: RFD: Draft for a volatile.d.o policy

2004-10-17 Thread Martin Schulze
John Hasler wrote: > > This also might include working on a sort of security team for v.d.o (I > > think both jobs should actually be combined in v.d.o). > > v.d.o. should be supported by the Debian security team. I don't think it > is worth doing if it can't be. One way to help make sure Debian

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: > * Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041011 18:30]: > > The goal should be that I, as a user, can add volatile to my > > sources.list and periodically do an apt-get upgrade - without risking > > to suddenly have my web browser updated to a new major release where > > it sta

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041017 11:20]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041011 18:30]: > > > The goal should be that I, as a user, can add volatile to my > > > sources.list and periodically do an apt-get upgrade - without risking > > > to suddenly have

pinging Bradley Marshall: gnokii licence violation

2004-10-17 Thread martin f krafft
I speak of #266566 and seek Mr. Bradley Marshall, who has been kindly ignoring me for 2 months now. Moreover, his package 'gnokii' seems like it's not really maintained. Are there any people interested in the package? Would someone help out in resolving #266566? I am working with the Gammu folks (

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-17 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:37:07PM -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > For what it's worth, hotplug recently had a similar issue on a test > > install for me: it actually loaded both OSS and ALSA drivers for my > > soundcard. > > likewis

Re: Bug#276627: ITP: systraq -- monitor your system and warn when system files change

2004-10-17 Thread Laurent Fousse
Hi, On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:26:50AM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Can you also document what are the differences between systraq and > checksecurity? checksecurity does _not_ send a diff of the modified > files. This feature (no diff sent) seams to be the major advantage of > systraq over wh

Re: pinging Bradley Marshall: gnokii licence violation

2004-10-17 Thread Bradley Marshall
Hi all, On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:34:27AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I speak of #266566 and seek Mr. Bradley Marshall, who has been > kindly ignoring me for 2 months now. Moreover, his package 'gnokii' > seems like it's not really maintained. I've been trying to find some time to fix this s

Re: RFD: Draft for a volatile.d.o policy

2004-10-17 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > v.d.o. should be supported by the Debian security team. I don't think it > is worth doing if it can't be. One way to help make sure Debian security > can support it is to keep it as small and simple as possible. Martin Schulze writes: > Backports.org isn't supported by the security te

Re: Debian m17n method under X with UTF-8

2004-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:50:18AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:34, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > How are you making Debian into UTF-8 and multilingual/multi-locale > > system while switching between normal gnome and Xfce? So far, I did > > not find this trivial. > > Wel

Looking for Michael Brammer (grisu) / DDTP

2004-10-17 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hello, Anyone knows what's happening to the DDTP project? The people working on this here in Brasil are unable to continue the work because of technical problems and is unable to contact grisu. Any language coordinator around who could give us a hand? Thanks, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL P

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: pinging Bradley Marshall: gnokii licence violation

2004-10-17 Thread martin f krafft
> There may be legal issues with the files but I would be very > careful about taking the views of a disgruntled developer for > granted. Certainly. In case you are interested about recent development: http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/gammu-legal/ -- Please do not CC me when replying to lis

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-10-17 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:32:38PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > I am working on creating a package for UserLinux which will configure > > several packages with sensible defaults for an authentication server. At > > the moment, that means samba, slapd, pam and nss, but will also includ

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-10-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Enrico Zini] > One of the suggestions that came out is using dpkg diversions. > > I remember diversions came out in the past, and I don't remember how > come they didn't come out again. Was there something wrong with them? I believe they are forbidden or don't work for conffiles. And we need t

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 00:26, sean finney wrote: > hey all, > > for those who weren't following the previous thread[1], i've come up with > a rough draft of a "best practices" document for database based > applications. i'd greatly appreciate input, especially from the current > maintainers of dat

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:41, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I attach a diff on the templates file, including questions for a > PostgreSQL installation.. Well, I do now. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-17 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:44:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Brian Sutherland wrote: > > Am I missing something? > > Only that dpkg-preconfigure is not guaranteed to be called, Thanks for pointing out this, Joey > and if it is > called, there is nothing really to ensure that it runs for all deb

Last call for expat maintainer before NMU

2004-10-17 Thread Raphael Bossek
This is a last try to reach Ardo, the official expat package maintainer. I intent to make NMU for expat because I have to due to latest python-4suite package I'm maintaining. A newer version of libexpat is required to fix some major bugs reported agains python-4suite. -- Raphael Bossek pgpHsWhl

Bug#276995: ITP: m17n-env -- Set up multilingual X environment

2004-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: m17n-env Version : 0.0.1-10 Upstream Author : Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://people.debian.org/~osamu/package/ License : GPL 2.0 + Description : Set up multilingual X environment This pack

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-10-17 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:38:06PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Enrico Zini] > > One of the suggestions that came out is using dpkg diversions. > > I remember diversions came out in the past, and I don't remember how > > come they didn't come out again. Was there something wrong with them?

Bug#276997: ITP: scim-imengine-uim -- UIM IM engine module for SCIM

2004-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: scim-imengine-uim Version : scim-uim-0.1.3.tar.gz Upstream Author : James Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/ License : GPL Description : UIM IM engine module for SCIM SCIM (Sm

Re: Last call for expat maintainer before NMU

2004-10-17 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Raphael Bossek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is a last try to reach Ardo, the official expat package maintainer. And your previous attempts have been what...? I'm aware there's a wishlist for the newer version. I've not been aware up to now this newer version is needed to fix bugs in other p

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-17 Thread sean finney
hey oliver, On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:41:36PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I attach a diff on the templates file, including questions for a > PostgreSQL installation.. thanks! > Bear in mind that users seeing these questions may not understand their > implications. Some of my additions are i

Cart32 Support Request

2004-10-17 Thread support
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