catch current XkbLayout

2005-10-11 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I'm using  "Enlightenment Window Manager"  without KDE  and without Gnome. My XFree86 is configured with three keyboard layouts: Option  "XkbLayout" "es,il,us" Option  "XkbOptions"    "grp:shift_toggle" My question is : when ever the keyboard Layout change

Re: catch current XkbLayout

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Vanden Berghe
Hey, Google for XKBlib.pdf. This document explains how to register for keyboard related events. Cheers, Chris. --- gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello > > I'm using "Enlightenment Window Manager" without KDE and without > Gnome. My XFree86 is configured with three keyboard layouts: > Optio

Re: catch current XkbLayout

2005-10-11 Thread gustavo halperin
Really Thanks, I don't know how I miss it.   Thanks again   GustavoOn 10/11/05, Chris Vanden Berghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey,Google for XKBlib.pdf.  This document explains how to register forkeyboard related events.Cheers,Chris.---gustavo halperin wrote:> Hello>> I'm using  "Enlightenment W

Re: Update on GNOME 2.10 schedule

2005-10-11 Thread Miles Bader
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Use MozPlugger for that, like explained here: >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25685 > > Terrific! Thanks very much. Mozplugger even works with xpdf (which I far prefer to the gnome viewers). I was stunned (and thrilled) when all had to

Bug#333282: ITP: tcpxtract -- extracts files from network traffic based on file signatures

2005-10-11 Thread Nico Golde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tcpxtract Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Nicholas Harbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tcpxtract.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : extracts files fro

Debian Installer build problem

2005-10-11 Thread João Silva
Hi, recently i'm trying to rebuild de debian installer. The current built i'm working is 20050317. First when a i try to build the original package, it gives-me an error that doesn't have the slang1-utf8-pic. I install this library and it enters in confilcts with the libnewt-pic that is also in the

Re: applet showing the current XkbLayout

2005-10-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:00:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > I'm using enlightenment without KDE and without Gnome. My XFree86 is > configured with three keyboard layout: > Option "XkbLayout" "es,il,us" > Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shift_toggle" > My question is how I can cache when ev

using symbols generated by dh_strip --dbg-package= (was Re: Bug#333253: libcurl3-dbg: segfault when using export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/...)

2005-10-11 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:17:41AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > > Hi, hi Tino, > I want to debug a program which uses curl, so I did this: > > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libcurl.so.3.0.0 > > However, everytime I start any program now, I get a segfault. > > Is this a bug, or is it

Re: using symbols generated by dh_strip --dbg-package= (was Re: Bug#333253: libcurl3-dbg: segfault when using export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/...)

2005-10-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.10.11.1152 +0200]: > > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libcurl.so.3.0.0 No. > i really don't know. i'm pretty sure the file contains only debug > symbols so maybe another procedure is required in order to use them. gdb can load the

Re: Automatically sending test suite results from buildds to upstream

2005-10-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:51AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 02:13 +0200, Florian Ragwitz wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:07:52PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > or to include test results in the .deb files and retrieve them after > > > the build. That latt

Re: Bug#332858: ITP: cvsup -- The CVS-Optimized General-Purpose Network File Distribution System

2005-10-11 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 10 October 2005 16:45, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: --cut-- > > CVSync [1] is a possible alternative to CVSup, not compatible with it, > > but written in plain C. > > That one looks interesting, I did not find it when I was googling for > alternatives to CVSup. I would love to se

Re: apt-get wants to remove hotplug?

2005-10-11 Thread Julien BLACHE
Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also note that libgphoto2-2 (upon which much of the desktop metapackages > depend) will conflict with the new udev-0.070-3 until a NMU can be processed > as the maintainer is on vacation. libgphoto2 2.1.6-5.1 JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Li

Bug#333309: ITP: libuniversal-require-perl -- require modules from a variable

2005-10-11 Thread Stephen Quinney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libuniversal-require-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/UNIVERSAL-require-0.10/ * License

Bug#333331: ITP: khmer-to-unicode -- converts legacy Khmer encodings to Unicode

2005-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: khmer-to-unicode Version : 1.8a Upstream Author : Javier Solá <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/download/others * License : LGPL Description

Re: Debian Installer build problem

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2005-10-11 às 10:36 +0100, João Silva escreveu: > Hi, recently i'm trying to rebuild de debian installer. The current > built i'm working is 20050317. > First when a i try to build the original package, it gives-me an error > that doesn't have > the slang1-utf8-pic. I install this library a

Re: apt-get wants to remove hotplug?

2005-10-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:26:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 10, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mousedev, evdev and usbmouse here, to have a working setup for X with > usbmouse is blacklisted, so it's not supposed to be loaded. > The driver for USB mice is usb

Re: Debian Installer build problem

2005-10-11 Thread João Silva
Yes, sure i'm know that this problem is because i had removed the lib. But sure when i try to install libnewt-pic, it removes the slang-utf8-pic. On 10/11/05, Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Em Ter, 2005-10-11 às 10:36 +0100, João Silva escreveu:> Hi, recently i'm trying to rebuild de debia

Re: Debian Installer build problem

2005-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:36:27AM +0100, João Silva wrote: > Hi, recently i'm trying to rebuild de debian installer. The current built > i'm working is 20050317. > First when a i try to build the original package, it gives-me an error that > doesn't have > the slang1-utf8-pic. You *must* do eithe

Re: Debian Installer build problem

2005-10-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
João Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, sure i'm know that this problem is because i had removed > the lib. But sure when i try to install libnewt-pic, it removes the > slang-utf8-pic. Which version of installer you're trying to build? -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R -

Bug#333349: openssl: Must either version symbols or conflict with ALL libraries linked to previous version

2005-10-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Package: openssl Version: 0.9.8-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software OpenSSL does not version symbols. This means all applications that somehow end up linked to both openssl 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 segfault or behave otherwise erratically (which would be a critical bug by itself,

RFC: GTK+ icon cache

2005-10-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi list, there is an ongoing disagreement in the GNOME team about the handling of icon caches, and we (or at least, I) would appreciate more input. Let me try to sum it up. 1. The issue Desktop environment and applications are using more and more icons, for many reasons. They are put in /usr/shar

Re: RFC: GTK+ icon cache

2005-10-11 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:51:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 2. The cure > A mmap()-able cache file format was proposed, and is generated by > gtk-update-icon-cache in /usr/share/icons/$theme/icon-theme.cache files. > It helps a lot to improve speed. without saying more on this issue (i don

Re: Bug#333120: ITP: icu4j -- International Components for Unicode for Java

2005-10-11 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seo Sanghyeon wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Seo Sanghyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: icu4j > Version : 3.4 > Upstream Author : IBM > * URL : http://icu.sourceforge.net/ > * License

Re: Bug#333120: ITP: icu4j -- International Components for Unicode for Java

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:14:49PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Seo Sanghyeon wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Seo Sanghyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: icu4j > > Version : 3.4 > > Upst

Re: RFC: GTK+ icon cache

2005-10-11 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:51:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 2. The cure > A mmap()-able cache file format was proposed, and is generated by > gtk-update-icon-cache in /usr/share/icons/$theme/icon-theme.cache files. > It helps a lot to improve speed. You mean _/var_//$theme/icon-theme.cach

Re: Bug#333120: ITP: icu4j -- International Components for Unicode for Java

2005-10-11 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Koch wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:14:49PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >>Seo Sanghyeon wrote: >>>Package: wnpp >>>Severity: wishlist >>>Owner: Seo Sanghyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>* Package name: icu4j >>It's a Java package, wouldn'

Bug#333355: ITP: bmpx -- Universal audio player supporting Winamp skins

2005-10-11 Thread Mathias Weyland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bmpx Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : M. Derezynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bmpx.berlios.de/w/index.php/BMPx_Homepage * License : GPL Description : Universal audio player supporting Winamp skins

Re: Automatically sending test suite results from buildds to upstream

2005-10-11 Thread Florian Ragwitz
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:07:16AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:35:06AM +0200, Florian Ragwitz wrote: > > Therefor I'd like to automatically upload these results to > > http://smoke.pugscode.org after the packages are built on the > > buildds. > > Make your packa

Re: Automatically sending test suite results from buildds to upstream

2005-10-11 Thread Florian Ragwitz
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:09:57PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:51AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 02:13 +0200, Florian Ragwitz wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:07:52PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > > > or to include t

Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or Suggest) is configured? Testing for file contents can only tell whether it is unpacked, but that might not be enough. If there isn't, are there other people wh

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.10.11.1928 +0200]: > is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a > package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or > Suggest) is configured? Testing for file contents can only tell whether > it is unpacked,

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:28 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a > package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or > Suggest) is configured? Testing for file contents can only tell whether > it is unpacked, but that might

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Frank Küster
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.10.11.1928 +0200]: >> is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a >> package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or >> Suggest) is configured? Testing for file

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Frank Küster
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:28 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a >> package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or >> Suggest) is configured? Testing for file contents can onl

[Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the depend

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Arthur H. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-stopper for governm

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:28 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a > package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or > Suggest) is configured? Assuming your package does something reasonable with this knowledge ... > Testi

Bug#333392: ITP: rkward -- A KDE frontend to the R statistics language

2005-10-11 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Friedrichsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rkward Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Thomas Friedrichsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : GPL Description : A KDE fron

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
First, we don't play the games, but they are inventoried, and they can't be there. Second, I can, indeed, remove gnome and re-install individual packages and waste a fair amount of time. Government computers are a fairly large group and I would think that you might want to facilitate the use of

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-s

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Arthur H. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, we don't play the games, but they are inventoried, and they can't > be there. Second, I can, indeed, remove gnome and re-install individual > packages and waste a fair amount of time. Government computers are a > fairly large group and I

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:20 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > It should be an easy matter not to play the games even when they are > installed. Regardless, the "gnome" package is not necessary for the > system; it is just a meta-package that depends on all the > gnome-related packages. If you d

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This property of metapackages has always irked me. If I install gnome > and then remove gnome-games, I won't automatically benefit in the next > release from any other goodies the gnome maintainers have added to > "gnome" package. I think the question

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:51 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I think the question is: do you want all the goodies or you don't want > all the goodies? Well, the problem is, when "all the goodies" is a significant number of packages, it is tedious to have to collect them all myself. > I would n

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 20:32 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > > I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > > to remove

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 20:07 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > That is what gnome-core is for: just enough of GNOME to be usable, but > no real apps beyond EoG and gedit. Purposefully created for people who > want to use GNOME, don't want to install all packages manually, but want > some control over wha

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:33:50AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > "Arthur H. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First, we don't play the games, but they are inventoried, and they can't > > be there. Second, I can, indeed, remove gnome and re-install in

Bug#333399: ITP: libapache2-mod-cband -- An Apache 2 module for bandwidth limiting the webserver

2005-10-11 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libapache2-mod-cband Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : Lukasz Dembinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey V. Beduev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kyle Poulter <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:35PM +0200, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > > I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to re

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 21:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: > No, because people like to turn off the installation of > recommendations Or yes, because it offers more flexibility to people who have a basic idea of what they are doing. > and then file bugs when major functionality is missing > fro

ACPI problem on Sid

2005-10-11 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi all, This ain't a development question, but it can be a bug... I was wondering, could this be related to Sid or with the kernel itself? The battery meter icon in gnome goes to n/a. IBM T42, Sid 2.6.14-rc4-git latest, but I have seen this behavior before... dmesg is full of: ACPI-0213:

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:49:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 11 October 2005 21:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > No, because people like to turn off the installation of > > recommendations > > Or yes, because it offers more flexibility to people who have a basic idea > of what they are

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Frans Pop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 11 October 2005 21:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: No, because people like to turn off the installation of recommendations Or yes, because it offers more flexibility to people who have a basic idea of what they ar

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > The main things that this thread shows me, is that it is *not* immediately > clear to people not too familiar with Debian that the removal of the 'gnome' > package will not have *any* effect on what actual software is actually > ins

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I gave to an off-line communication because I thought it might be germane to the discussion. I have expanded my response a little. I have removed gnome, gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-games with no apparent side effects

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.10.11.2003 +0200]: > But this file will stay there if the user chooses to keep their changed > version. No, then it would be moved to *.dpkg-dist -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[

Re: Bug#333392: ITP: rkward -- A KDE frontend to the R statistics language

2005-10-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Thomas Friedrichsmeier gmx.de> writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thomas Friedrichsmeier users.sourceforge.net> > > * Package name: rkward > Version : 0.3.3 > Upstream Author : Thomas Friedrichsmeier users.sourceforge.net> > * URL : http://www.exam

Bug#333438: ITP: gtk2hs -- A GUI library for Haskell based on GTK

2005-10-11 Thread Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a very important package for haskell developers. * Package name: gtk2hs Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:09:55PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I > gave to an off-lin

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
[CC'ing the aptitude maintainer, mainly for the last paragraph.] * Jeroen van Wolffelaar [Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:00:22 +0200]: > The main things that this thread shows me, is that it is *not* immediately > clear to people not too familiar with Debian that the removal of the 'gnome' > package will

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
> As mentioned in [1] [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/04/msg00070.html -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingw

request for pbuilder-user-mode-linux development/tester

2005-10-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I've not been able to resurrect user-mode-linux on my system, and it doesn't run; and thus I'm looking for someone who may be interested in pbuilder-uml, and has or has an intention of having functional user-mode-linux. pbuilder-uml has been unmaintained for the past year; and I guess it wi

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:30AM +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > As mentioned in [1], we've been considering switching to Recommends > for KDE metapackges, and mention in the description about the use of > --with-recommends. > > What perhaps would be really

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Adeodato Simó wrote: > As mentioned in [1], we've been considering switching to Recommends > for KDE metapackges, and mention in the description about the use of > --with-recommends. If you do that you will make the desktop task no longer install an appropriate amount of kde[2]: [EMAIL PROT

apt-get in Sid broke sound and /etc/modules?

2005-10-11 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi, I think this is udev's fault. 1. Nothing is apparently doing what /etc/modules says. (order) 2. My sound card is now not recognized, maybe this is because hotplug is not there anymore? :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97

real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch

2005-10-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I sent a message about this earlier, but it seems to have gotten lost. > On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:38, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Disgustingly, I worked out that we could have revived real i386 support > > for etch thanks to changes in gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0 which nobody bothered > > to advertis

Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-11 Thread Kai Hendry
I suggest working from Live Kiosk from: http://www.livecd.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unsuccessful unsubscribe request

2005-10-11 Thread SmartList
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Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:30AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > [CC'ing the aptitude maintainer, mainly for the last paragraph.] > > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar [Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:00:22 +0200]: > > > The main things that this thread shows me, is that it is *not* immediately > > clear to people n

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Brian Kimball
Ben Armstrong wrote: > This property of metapackages has always irked me. If I install > gnome and then remove gnome-games, I won't automatically benefit in > the next release from any other goodies the gnome maintainers have > added to "gnome" package. Amen brother. Why aren't metapackages usi

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Burrows] > you'd have to do something like "aptitude keep ~Rdepends:^gnome$". Too arcane. (: I've occasionally wanted a simple command in aptitude for "remove the auto flag from all the depends of this package" - not only for metapackages but also for dummy upgrade packages. Another wa

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Frank Küster
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know about an "established" way, but libc6.postinst looks > interesting: > > # Only get the ones that are installed, and configured > check=$(dpkg -s $check 2> /dev/null | egrep '^Package:|^Status:' | awk '{if > ($1 ~ /^Package:/) { package=$2 }

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul E Condon] > I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all > governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) I suppose you were joking, but in all seriousness, why does _Debian_ need to add them? Let the site administrator do it, using 'equivs'. If y