Re: DD needing a sponsor to upload

2005-02-06 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:01:47AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: >Hi, > >As I moved recently, I currently have no decent Internet connectivity. >Hence, I'm quite unable to keep an unstable system up-to-date, si I >can't build packages to upload. Several packages of mine are in need of >an upload

Re: Inconsistent naming of ethernet interfaces...

2005-02-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 06, salman h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the future, if I swap out my dual NIC with a newer > one, I'd like a way to be able to produce the new > mappings automatically. Perhaps I could do it like apt-get install udev or apt-get install guessnet -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descri

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-02-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 31 January 2005 16:16, Anthony Towns wrote: > >>1) - a community where people are pleasant to each other, where > >>disagreements are discussed politely, and where people who are unable to > >>be civil are not glorified for their behaviour. > > > > This isn't too far from the situation w

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El dom, 06-02-2005 a las 01:14 -0500, Glenn Maynard escribiÃ: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:33:53PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > It was brought up on IRC, a couple of weeks ago (my apologies, but I don't > > recall who brought it up, nor do I have a log) that it is now possible > > to strip debuggi

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:38:36 +0100, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name >rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names, >another wants usernames to start with numbers. > >May I ask for your opinion bef

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 22:33:53 -0700, Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1) It would become possible (I'm not sure if it would be *sane*) to >include debugging information for all binaries and libraries in a fairly >straightforward manner - and one which could target a directory that, like >/usr/

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: > By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable > regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The > --force-badname option will change the regexp to a hardcoded > ^[-\._A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$, allowing users to happily hang themselves. This > gives the

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:31:39 +0100, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The current --force-badname check is /^[A-Za-z_][-_A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$/. >Wouldn't it make more sense to add the "." just to the second >character class? That one wouldn't solve the "I want my usernames to start with a digi

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

2005-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Dirk Eddelbuettel | | - time (dead upstream) | | -- picked up by Tollef (no new upload yet). Thanks, Tollef! Just uploaded. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' :

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 05 février 2005 à 22:33 -0700, Joel Aelwyn a écrit : > It was brought up on IRC, a couple of weeks ago (my apologies, but I don't > recall who brought it up, nor do I have a log) that it is now possible > to strip debugging information from a binary or library, and keep the > debugging in

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:14:09AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:33:53PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > It was brought up on IRC, a couple of weeks ago (my apologies, but I don't > > recall who brought it up, nor do I have a log) that it is now possible > > to strip debugg

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:14:09AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > (Aha: the strip tool mentioned is in elfutils, which is non-free. > Blah.) objcopy(1): --only-keep-debug Strip a file, removing any sections that would be stripped by --strip-debug and leaving the debugging s

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Towns
Russell Coker wrote: On Monday 31 January 2005 16:16, Anthony Towns wrote: 1) - a community where people are pleasant to each other, where disagreements are discussed politely, and where people who are unable to be civil are not glorified for their behaviour. This isn't too far from the situation

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > The most obvious solution I can come up for this issue is to build a > separate tree with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt nostrip", at least for i386. > That means having a dedicated machine that would be used to run a buildd > for that. Unfortunately, I don't have such a machine

Re: not starting packages at boot

2005-02-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:09:42PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Now that maintainers realized that one might like a package installed, > but perhaps only plans to use it unoften, it only makes sense for not > starting at boot to be offered as a friendly configuration option, > instead of needing so

apt-deb: [was Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!]

2005-02-06 Thread Sam Watkins
a long time ago, in a thread far, far away... Michelle Konzack wrote: > What about > > dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null >Packages > > in the same directory and entering the informations > in "/etc/apt/sources.lists" ? > > After an "apt-get update" you can use "apt-get install" > to get your packa

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Petri Latvala
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable > regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The > --force-badname option will change the regexp to a hardcoded > ^[-\._A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$, allowing users to happ

Re: DD needing a sponsor to upload

2005-02-06 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:53:52PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Changes: > vcdimager (0.7.21-1) unstable; urgency=low > . >* New upstream release. >* Rebuild against libcdio3 and libiso9600-3. >* Hack ltmain.sh to build programs with rpath as .libs/lt/foobar rather >

removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I found a bug with adduser package that deluser will remove system directories like /bin (or like / as other user found). This will happen if the homedirectory is /bin of some system accounts which should be removed and the option REMOVE_HOME i

Why didn't #290810 hold eximdoc4 from sarge?

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, #290810 was filed to keep eximdoc4 from moving to sarge. However, after reaching the proper age, eximdoc4 moved to sarge despite of the bug. What did we do wrong? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questi

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:06:17 +0200, Petri Latvala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable >> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The >> --force-badname option will

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:33:35 +0100, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This Bug / Problem renders the system unusable so the severity is >critical. The (co-)maintainer see this as only wishlist and told me to >complain about this in this list. See adduser 3.60 from the experimental distributi

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josselin Mouette wrote: >> The most obvious solution I can come up for this issue is to build a >> separate tree with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt nostrip", at least for i386. >> That means having a dedicated machine that would be used to run a buildd >> for tha

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:52:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > My feeling for some time has been that we should introduce a separate > section in the archive, or a separate archive and come up with the > infrastructure to upload -dbg packages to there, with separated > debugging symbols in them (see

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Marc, Am So den 6. Feb 2005 um 18:24 schriebst Du: > See adduser 3.60 from the experimental distribution. Excerpt from the > changelog: > > | * Add a new config option NO_DEL_PATHS to deluser.conf with a > | sensible default in the delus

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:47:44 +0100, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But this is not the point of my message. I think long bevore if I should >write the Mail you told me to do. I whanted to know about the severity >as wishlist for such a grave bug (or tell it problem) is not adequate I >thin

Re: Why didn't #290810 hold eximdoc4 from sarge?

2005-02-06 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > #290810 was filed to keep eximdoc4 from moving to sarge. However, > after reaching the proper age, eximdoc4 moved to sarge despite of the > bug. > > What did we do wrong? You probably did open the bug before the dinstall run that insta

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:52:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > My feeling for some time has been that we should introduce a separate > > section in the archive, or a separate archive and come up with the > > infrastructure to upload -dbg packages to there, with separat

Bug#293903: ITP: pandalex -- a PDF parsing API

2005-02-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pandalex Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Michael Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and contributors * URL : http://stillhq.com/extracted/pandalex.tgz * License : GPL Description : a PDF parsing API Pandalex is

Re: Bug#293688: ITP: ttf-tibetan -- A Unicode OpenType font for Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi

2005-02-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A freely available Tibetan Machine Uni font from the THDL project > (http://www.thdl.org/). The font contains almost 4,000 glyphs and can generate > over 20,000 different combinations with full support for the Sanskrit > combinations found in chos skad

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-02-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:46:27PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi Joey > > > > > > > Just request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] while pointing them our message on > > > this list. > > > > Or see and follow the instructions summarised on > > http://master.debian.org/~joey/misc/webwml.html#ddp > > >

Re: Why didn't #290810 hold eximdoc4 from sarge?

2005-02-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 19:38:58 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> #290810 was filed to keep eximdoc4 from moving to sarge. However, >> after reaching the proper age, eximdoc4 moved to sarge despite of the >> bug. >> >> W

Bug#293930: ITP: aefirion -- A Class5 SoftSwitch.

2005-02-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: aefirion Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : The Aefirion Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.aefirion.org/ * License : GPL Description : A Class5 SoftSwitch. The Aefirion project aims to develop a

Re: Bug#293930: ITP: aefirion -- A Class5 SoftSwitch.

2005-02-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:49:14PM +0100, Kilian Krause wrote: > Description : A Class5 SoftSwitch. > > The Aefirion project aims to develop a > telecommunications switch that can be classified > as Class5, which means that it should eventually > be nearly NEBS compliant. It is intended to b

Re: Bug#293688: ITP: ttf-tibetan -- A Unicode OpenType font for Tibetan, Dzongkha and Ladakhi

2005-02-06 Thread t-om
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 14:55 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Do you need a sponsor? Yes I do, thank you for asking. It may take some time however before I have anything ready for examination and possible upload due to my lack of experience with Debian packaging. But I'm working on it.. -- -- To

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-06 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:14:09PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > I think this is an awful idea. This means that developers will no longer > test their packages before uploading, and we will have more bugs than > before. Why build X [0] when you don't "have to"? > > [0] No attack on Branden, but

Bug#293965: ITP: libvideo-ivtv-perl -- Perl extension for using V4l2 in the ivtv perl scripts

2005-02-06 Thread tony mancill
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libvideo-ivtv-perl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : James A. Pattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73219&package_id=83888 * Lice