Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthew Palmer: >> As a user, I think this is very convenient. The ability to switch >> back to a known-to-work version by tweaking a few configuration files >> is reassuring, even if you've tested the new software version on an >> indepedent machine. > > So archive bloat is not a problem for y

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:04:33AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Matthew Palmer: > > >> As a user, I think this is very convenient. The ability to switch > >> back to a known-to-work version by tweaking a few configuration files > >> is reassuring, even if you've tested the new software versio

Re: Bug#293292: ITP: btexmms -- XMMS plugin to use some (Sony) Ericsson phones as a remote control

2005-02-03 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:47:50PM +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > > * Package name: btexmms > > > > xmms plugins would be better named xmms- (btexmms for the > > source should be fine though) > > > > So xmms-btexmms would be better ? Yep. Just take a look at other xmms plugins.

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Mirrors are kind of important for a distribution > the size of Debian. Hmm.. do we have numbers on d/l on all/some mirrors? I mean debian is not that popular. So if we have a high download rate, this is mostly homegrown. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSC

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Thursday 03 February 2005 03:03, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > As a DD, you can ls /org/ftp.debian.org/queue/new on merkel, daily > > synced. Beware, there are 2826 files in there atm, so ls via grep > > or something. >

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:28:39PM +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2005 03:03, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > As a DD, you can ls /org/ftp.debian.org/queue/new on merkel, daily > > > synced. Be

upgrading mysql (Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure)

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Steve Langasek in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link > > > time reference (/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10) > > > I don't know this problem is "missing GLIBC_2.2 symbols" issue. It > > does not clear Christoph's problematic archit

Re: execturing libc

2005-02-03 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06.35, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > >> I think you meant to ask, "Why would anyone want to execute the C >> library?" > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/libc.so.6 > > Ok, this is off topic for this thread, bu

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Thursday 03 February 2005 14:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:28:39PM +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 03:03, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > > As a DD, you can

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:45:56AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > And while we are on the subject, what's with NEW not being > > > processed? Or are we again in the usual "I'll process any package > > > that I feel like processing" situation? > > > Is it not just that there's too few hands to

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op do, 03-02-2005 te 15:44 +0100, schreef Frederik Dannemare: > On Thursday 03 February 2005 14:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Increasing the rate at which new packages flow into unstable is NOT > > something that should be a priority when we're trying to get the RC > > bug count down in preparation

Re: execturing libc

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06.35, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> >>> I think you meant to ask, "Why would anyone want to execute the C >>> library?" >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:46:03PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2005-02-03 03:15:41, schrieb Sam Watkins: > > > > > 1. People (including children) will get a nasty surprise when they > > >choose to download all the comics

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Thursday 03 February 2005 16:05, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op do, 03-02-2005 te 15:44 +0100, schreef Frederik Dannemare: > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 14:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Increasing the rate at which new packages flow into unstable is > > > NOT something that should be a priorit

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 03 February 2005 16:05, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Op do, 03-02-2005 te 15:44 +0100, schreef Frederik Dannemare: >> > On Thursday 03 February 2005 14:45, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > > Increasing the rate at which new packages flow into uns

mkchroot scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Sergei I. Kononov
Hi, all. Maybe I choose wrong list, but I didn't find more suitable list for such mail. I wrote small scripts which should help to build chroot enviroment. I know already exists such things like 'makejail'. But I wrote my own version of 'how to chroot specified packages under debian'. This collect

ITP: libecw -- Library for Enhanced Compressed Wavelet(ECW) and JPEG 2000 image I/O

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Halasz
For some reason this ITP didn't get cc'd to debian devel, so here it is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293346 Regards, Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Frank Küster
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. So maybe ftp-masters shouldn't accept NEW packages, but accept new > binary packages (from existing source). This would allow me to close some > "unfortunatelly" non-critical bugs, and improve overall sarge quality. > > I'm sure that I'm no

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, as I understand myself as someone aware of the support problems of software problems, I would like to point to 2 problems: 1. the Debian Kernel is a bit different from the kernel.org Kernel; example: at work we used the Apani VPN client, which did work under all kind of RedHat/SuSE kernel,

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > > mystery nobody ever will solve. > > It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. > That is simply not true. This statement is repeated all the time but nobody ever was able to

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ok. So maybe ftp-masters shouldn't accept NEW packages, but accept new >> binary packages (from existing source). This would allow me to close some >> "unfortunatelly" non-critical bugs, and improve

Re: mkchroot scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Sergei I. Kononov in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wrote small scripts which should help to build chroot enviroment. I > know already exists such things like 'makejail'. But I wrote my own > version of 'how to chroot specified packages under debian'. What's the difference to makejail and debootstrap

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10189 March 1977, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I thought about writing something like this myself. But I didn't, >> because the logical answer would be "check out >> http://cvs.debian.org/dak/?cvsroot=dak and start working", and I won't >> be able to do that... > And it is a mess to configure

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:39:10PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its just not out of NEW atm. And now we're back to the original subject ;) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a >> > mystery nobody ever will solve. >> >> It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. >> > That is simply not true. This statement is

Re: mkchroot scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Sergei I. Kononov
On Thu, Feb 03 at 20:23:20 (+0100), Christoph Berg wrote: > What's the difference to makejail and debootstrap? 1. Created chroot enviroment use less disk space, and does not include not needed files/dirs (like: passwd, chown, chmod or files in fileutils package etc) Creates 'chroot', not another

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > Increasing the rate at which new packages flow into unstable is NOT > something that should be a priority when we're trying to get the RC bug > count down in preparation of a release. Show me that there are enough > people working on release-critical issues for sarge,

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > reply (that is what I get roughly) to the server would waste 75 hours > on waiting for the initial three-way handshake for a connect. And > another 50 hours for the round-robin sending the name of a file a

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> reply (that is what I get roughly) to the server would waste 75 hours >> on waiting for the initial three-way handshake for a connect. And >> another 50 hours f

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:39:10PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > It works and is available from dak.ganneff.de. And the packages is > used on several archives now. Its just not out of NEW atm. So, let's *guess* ... * ftp-master surely knows about the license on that one, so it's not a "

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Anthony Towns
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:39:10PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: * it's not ftp-master's business to judge on _technical_ merits of the pacakge (bad packaging practices, missing dependencies, ignores /chapter and verse/ of policy, ...), so we can safely rule that one

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op do, 03-02-2005 te 15:44 +0100, schreef Frederik Dannemare: > > > which > > > requires no imprimatur from the DPL, before you start throwing > > > packages that have never even been tested by their maintainer at us > > > faster

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:44:19PM +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > Would it be an idea (post-Sarge?) to not let packages automatically > propagate from sid to testing after X days. Instead, the responsible > maintainer would have to explicitly tag a package as 'ready for > testing' as opposed

Bug#293510: ITP: missingpy -- Python interface and libraries for Haskell

2005-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: missingpy Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : Not yet * License : GPL Description : Python interface and libraries for Haskell

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Wouter van Heyst
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:03:04PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > * it's not ftp-master's business to judge on _technical_ merits of the >pacakge (bad packaging practices, missing dependencies, ignores >/chapter and verse/ of policy, ...), so we can safely rule that one >out I ha

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:21:02AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:39:10PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > * it's not ftp-master's business to judge on _technical_ merits of the > > pacakge (bad packaging practices, missing dependencies, ignores > > /chapter and v

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 February 2005 at 14:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: | > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if | > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports | > over the next few weeks, but doing

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Anthony Towns
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:21:02AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:39:10PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > * it's not ftp-master's business to judge on _technical_ merits of the > > pacakge (bad packaging practices, missing dependencies, ign

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I know is that every time an ftpmaster processes a batch of NEW > packages, a percentage of them wind up in testing with serious bugs for > failing to declare build-dependencies, and then the release team has to > track these bugs. > > Since the te

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Brian May
> "Don" == Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Don> 2. Should Debian publish content I disagree with which is Don> DFSG free? I am going to write a DFSG script that will download photos I have taken from my website, and display them at random on the users screen. There are no p

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005, Brian May wrote: > > "Don" == Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don> 2. Should Debian publish content I disagree with which is > Don> DFSG free? > > I really think we need to draw the line somewhere. We do draw the line somewhere currently: 1) Mus